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UCjFmkmzvMl5pwHgFVV7F5gw	Team Random ~ M, 07.11.22 ~ 2021-22 PANINI PRIZM BASKETBALL 6-BOX 1/2 CASE 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" ]	2022-07-12T01:50:50	2024-04-24T00:05:53	155	pcVPzzfkP6I	Hi everyone, Joe for jaskiescasebrakes.com. We did it. We knocked out the the team random That'll unlock pick your team three. That's coming up in the next video So basically these team randoms in pick your team three we pulled the remaining 19 teams out and We're randomizing them to you So it's a random team break kind of because we're only just randomizing your names But not the teams that list remains the same Also, if you bought a full spot, you can win a free spot Buy a full spot win a full spot. So that means that group right there in this group right here bought their full spots Let's do that randomizer first, and then we'll sign you a team So name on top gets a little buy one get one scenario after seven times one and a six one two three And seventh and final time name on top after seven Jeff congrats to you. Thanks for buying some full spots You have been rewarded With an extra spot But that keep that rooftop next to your name. So you know you won that in that randomizer All right now we can assign you a team. So let's gather all these names right here There's the team list right there. We'll sign you a team Everyone get something now. Let's roll it randomize it names just names two and a two for the hard way one two three and Four good luck after Wow Jeff's name on top as well Jeff down a Logan So here's how it shakes out for everybody And we'll put a little rooftop next your name again to let you know let everybody know That's the team you won in this team random. So Jeff you got the pistons Congrats Doug Raptors last spot mojo Brian with the calves Jeff with the thunder Jonathan with the magic Logan Lakers and Celtic Little rivalry mojo there Steven with the Nets Sean with the nuggets and the T wolves Bennett with the Sixers Jeff with the Kings That's with the spot that you won the extra spot Matthew with the Hawks Jeff with the Suns Matthew with the Wizards Adam with the Nicks Matthew with the heat and Blazers and Logan with the Jazz There you go gang Coming up in the next video will be the break itself Jasper's case race You	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcVPzzfkP6I", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCpJf6LGZ0a4n9Lj4aVt9spg	La importancia de los custom post types	Custom post types, qué son y como crearlosPresentation Slides » --- View this video and others on WordPress.TV: https://wordpress.tv/2023/11/05/la-importancia-de-los-custom-post-types/	[ "2023", "WordPress.tv" ]	2023-11-10T21:00:40	2024-02-05T08:00:25	385	pcagoNiQp0U	y diseñador web con más de 10 años de experiencia, especializado en WordPress y diseños personalizados. Nos cuenta que ha tenido el honor de trabajar con más de 100 negocios, convirtiendo sus ideas en sitios web funcionales y atractivos. Su enfoque se va a crear soluciones personalizadas, únicas y de alta calidad que reflejen la identidad de cada cliente. Lo presentamos, lo esperamos. Muy bien. Gracias. Gracias, Dani. Un fuerte aplauso. Buenas, pues ya me ha presentado. Soy Dani Rodríguez, desarrollador web con WordPress y Bookomens. Lo que haga falta, diseños especializados a medida. No utilizamos temas básicos, todo a medida. Hablaremos de custom post type, ¿vale? La importancia de los custom post type que son para que sirven como funcionan. De post types tenemos ya de serie en WordPress muchos. Tenemos entradas, tenemos páginas, menú, revisiones, media, todo esto son post types. Y luego podemos crear nuestros propios post types, que son los custom post types. ¿Para qué sirve un custom post type? Sirve para personalizar y ampliar las funciones de la web, estructurar el contenido de una forma organizada, crear taxonomías diferentes para ese custom post type. Podemos añadir campos, metacampos especiales para cada tipo de custom post type. No es lo mismo, una entrada que un servicio que una persona del equipo. El SEO, podemos hacer SEO especial para ese custom post type, para esa cosa especial. Y lo podemos mostrar diferentes. Podemos hacer diferentes tipos de layout para una cosa, para un custom post type, para otro. ¿Cuándo crear un custom post type? Cuando algún contenido no encaja en el apartado de entradas, de blog, por ejemplo, una receta. Cuando tu contenido no está sujeto en una cronología. Un directorio de recetas no tiene una fecha, no es necesario que tenga fecha, tendrá otras cosas. Cuando las categorías y etiquetas, quieres que sean diferentes para agrupar ese contenido en concreto. También para añadir campos extras, ingredientes, tiempos de cocción, preparación, etcétera. Cuando quieres mostrar el contenido diferente a las páginas o a las entradas, no es lo mismo, una entrada que una página de recetas, un custom post type de recetas. Sobre todo, muy importante, evitar el uso de temas que tengan custom post types. Si algún día ese tema nos actualiza y tengo que cambiarlo o me canso de ese tema, perderé todos los custos post type de ese tema. No utilicéis temas para restaurantes, temas para lo que sea. No. El tema tiene que ser el tema. Cada cosa en su sitio. Las ventajas de usar los custom post types, podemos crear taxonomías diferentes para el tema de SEO. Podemos posicionar mejor y editar el SEO de esa categoría en concreto. El filtraje de ese custom post type será más sencillo y cómodo. Podremos filtrar solo ese tipo de custom post type. Para el usuario final, también el contenido está mucho más que estructurado y entendible. Todo tendrá una estructura correcta. Y podemos visualizarlo de una manera diferente. Ejemplos de custom post types pueden ser, aquí tenéis muchos, productos, pueden ser tutoriales, un post card, un portfolio. Puede ser gente del equipo. Puede ser si es una página de venta de coches, coches, opones, cursos, lo que os imaginéis. Podéis hacer los custom post types que queráis. ¿Cómo crear un custom post type? Este código que veis aquí en pantalla es para crear un custom post type. Es muy sencillo. Es un código sencillo. Podéis encontrar en Google, en cualquier lado, hacha GPT. Podéis encontrar en cualquier lado. Se puede añadir en el función PHP, pero sobre todo si lo hacéis en el función PHP, hacerlo en un tema hijo. Lo suyo sería añadirlo, hacer un plugin suelo para esta función o hacer servir un code snippet. Se puede introducir en muchos lados. Tenemos una herramienta en internet muy buena que si genera TWP, que te lo crea, te crea el código. Le dices qué quieres, qué custom post type quieres y te lo crea. Te crea el código, simplemente lo copias, lo enganchas y ya funciona. Y tenemos plugins. Tenemos plugins que nos ayudan a hacer estos custom post types. Tenemos plugins como JetEngine, ACF, que seguro que suena, YETC. Hay muchos, muchos plugins que podemos hacer. Y la verdad que mi ponencia es muy corta. Me he corrido demasiado, quizá. Pero luego estaré por aquí. Si tenéis alguna duda, si tenéis comentarios que queréis que os expliquen más en profundidad, pues encantados atenderé. Gracias.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcagoNiQp0U", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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UCCmpLKiazEanMTLg4GtRBUA	Webinar- Five Tips to Bring Your Organization's Data to Life-2016-02-03	They say a picture is worth a thousand words. How are you telling your story and showing your impact? Silk.co, a free tool for nonprofits, can help with that. Silk can turn data in spreadsheets into websites, interactive charts and data visualizations, impact maps, a story canvas, or a contact database! Without using any code or requiring any tech skills. View our webinar on how to use Silk!	[ "Silk", "TechSoup", "Webinars TechSoup", "TechSoup webinars", "Data visualization", "Silk.co" ]	2016-02-05T17:43:08	2024-02-08T16:57:57	3,832	pc_OYiR129k	Welcome everyone. Welcome to our webinar. Five tips to bring your organization's story to life using Silk. Thank you so much for joining us today. I'm Susan Hope-Bart, the online training producer here at TechSoup. And I'm actually really super excited about this presentation and live demo of Silk. I know this presentation will be relevant and interactive to the important work you do. We appreciate the fact that you answered our registration questions. That helps Alex, our presenter, and TechSoup better understand your organization's needs. We're going to be viewing live demonstration of Silk and give you the opportunity to ask questions. Please know your opinion is very important to us at the end of this webinar or if you have to leave early. There will be a pop-up box with a survey. I do want to implore you to complete that survey. That helps us get better helping you. Let's take a few minutes and review our platform ReadyTalk. I'm going to give you a few tips. There's a chat box in the bottom left-hand corner of ReadyTalk. This is where you can chat questions, specifically if you're having technical problems like you can't hear anything, you're having trouble with the audio, or you have a question for our presenter. That's where you can put all of your chat. During the event, we're going to be keeling the questions. So at the end of the event, we will try to answer every one of your questions that you've chatted in. We will be collecting the questions and posting answers in a document that will attach to the webinar itself after we record it, and we post it on our website. Keep in mind if you lose your Internet connection, you can reconnect using the link that was emailed to you. You also should have received a reminder email if you registered more than an hour ago. And keep in mind that much of this session will be a live demo of Silk. If you're hearing an echo through your computer speakers or are having any issues with the audio, you can dial in using the toll-free line listed in your registration email. As I mentioned, we do record the webinar and it will be available on our website in about a week. It's also where you can view any past webinars. It's at www.techsoup.org slash community slash events dash webinars. You can also go to our YouTube channel at httpswww.youtube.com slash techsoupvideo. As I mentioned, you will receive an email in about a week with a link to this recorded presentation and any collateral materials, so like the Q&A or any PowerPoints. You can also follow along on Twitter. You can tweet us at Techsoup or by using hashtag TS webinars. Let me tell you a little bit about our presenter today. Joining us today is Alex. And Alex is the Head of Marketing and Business Development at Silk. Silk is a free data publishing and visualization platform used by dozens of news organizations, marketing teams, and nonprofits to build publish-ready databases, maps, and visualizations. Alex was formerly the Tech Editor at Business Week and he's bylined in numerous national publications and is still blogging and writing. Alex also participates in data journalism education for college media and the open data movement. I've been working with Alex over the past few weeks and talking about this presentation. It's going to be a very good presentation. You'll be able to walk away with a lot of tips for you to use this program. So I encourage everyone to click on the link that was silk.co so you can also follow along. Also on the back end here we have Ali Bisbekan and she's going to help with any technical questions or audio. I'd like to take a minute to review our objectives. Today Alex is going to be showing you how to use silk to build an online impact map, create an online story canvas, create an online interactive visualization, publish online, a simple sortable table, turn contacts into a simple online database, and also answer all of your questions. A few things about TechSoup. We're located here in San Francisco, California, and I'd like to know where you're coming from. So in the chat box go ahead and chat in the city, state, or the country that you're connecting with us. While you're doing that I'm going to talk a little bit about TechSoup. We're a 501c3 nonprofit like many of you joining us today. We work to empower organizations around the world to help them get the latest tools, skills, and resources. This helps them achieve their mission. You can see from our map here that we serve almost every country in the world. We have about 62 partner NGOs around the world. The need is global, and we have a dedicated website for countries outside of the U.S. at www.techsoup.global. This is where people outside of the U.S. would access technology donations. Wow! We have people from all over, ValkaVille, California, San Ramon, Wisconsin. Wow! And we have like 300 folks on the line. Wow! We have some people from San Francisco, Great Texas, Alabama. Welcome everyone. Fantastic. A little bit more about TechSoup. We've helped organizations get more than $5.2 billion in technology products and grants to NGOs around the world. These Tech products and grants come from more than 100 corporate and foundation partners. So before I turn this over to Alex, I do want to ask you a question. This is your live poll question. This is your opportunity to fast this finger. We'd like to know what specifically you'd like to learn today. Build an online impact map. Create an online canvas story. Create an interactive visual. Publish a simple, sortable table. Or turn contacts into a database. Answering this question will help Alex hone and customize his presentation today. And whoa! Those responses are just coming in. Wow! It looks like a couple are tied. Online story canvas. Oh, it's going too fast for me to even count. Wow! It looks like I'm going to give everyone another minute. We have about 200 responses. Let's see what we have. Wow! That's 64, 65% would like to create an online story canvas. And then that's closely followed by creating an online interactive visual. Wow! Thank you everyone. Thank you for chatting in and for answering that poll question. Excellent. Well, Alex, it looks like the presentation you've prepared is going to cover all of this very well. Very cool. I'm super excited to be here Susan. And thank you so much to TechSoup for having me on the webinar. So I'm going to turn it over to Alex, ready to go. Okay. You can hear me okay Susan? Yep. You are perfect. Awesome. So I'm going to go ahead and share my screen with everybody so you can start to see my desktop. And we'll actually walk through a live demo of how to build Silk and how to use it. And unlike other webinars that are based on PowerPoints, you're actually going to be building something, or watching me build something that's going to be live and on the Internet as you see it created that you could actually see on your mobile device, on your desktop, or anywhere. The goal of Silk is, as Susan said, to let anyone build interactive data visualizations, websites, maps, super easily without technical training. To give you an idea of some of the things that people use us for, they use us for things like web canvases about small college basketball players, corruption in Brazil, student journalists use us, lots of nonprofits use us. So for example, we have Pittsburgh Playwrights is a small nonprofit that uses us. And I'm going to show you a little bit of what Soaks look like. And I'll start with sort of one of our proudest ones, which is actually TechSoup. TechSoup uses Silk for its impact stories and maps. And this is a map that is maintained by TechSoup. It's hundreds and hundreds of impact stories around the globe. And each one of these points is a specific impact story that can then be looked at and examined. And so here they have a little bit of the text. They have an image, some of the data about the organization, and they're using Silk to build this map, but also as essentially an online database of the impact stories. So what I'm going to do now is show you this is what the database or basically spreadsheet looks like inside of Silk. And this is the same thing that we turned into a map. Now this is the power and the idea behind Silk is that we take spreadsheets or tables of data and make it easy for you to turn them into far more useful things. Now you can also build things manually with Silk. But for example, remember we were starting on this TechSoup impact stories and I turned this into a table view. Let's say we wanted to add a little bit more information to it. And maybe I wanted to, rather than build a map, I wanted to build a donut chart. This is our visualization palette. You can pick from different types of visualizations. And so now what we did basically is we built a quick donut chart. I'm going to pick let's say something continent. And that will show us the number of program member stories by continent. You can see it's 49% in North America, 34% in Europe. Now this visualization that you're seeing is actually live and on the Internet right now. So even though I don't control this Silk, I can turn it into interesting visualizations. And as you saw, anybody can do that. If you wanted to as well, you could also share this visualization, just this URL as a short link. Or you could embed it in your website. So we generate embed codes which would let you embed it in a WordPress blog, on a website, in a Medium post which is one of only a few visualization platforms that let you do that. And the super neat thing about Silk, I'm going to go back to our homepage here actually, is that some of you are probably watching this from a mobile browser. So Silk is as the whole platform 100% responsive. So what you're seeing now is the middle of my desktop, but this is roughly what it would look like on a mobile phone. So you can see the map size down, all the different pieces in it that all just fit. So it just works. And it's very nice for nonprofits or other organizations that don't have big tech budgets, don't want to think about how do I build a mobile-ready website or mobile-ready visualizations. We just do that for you. So let's take a look at some of the other Silks that have been built by other nonprofits, and then we'll go ahead and dive into the building ourselves. So this is actually a Silk of Analytics by the National Breast Cancer Foundation, and they're using us to map out, to build charts, to map different data around their videos for example, or around the comment, likes, and shares on the different videos. So you can see some of the different charting types. There was a line chart up at the top. This is a column chart. They also added videos so you can actually put playable videos embedded inside of the Silk as well. So it's not just data visualizations and text, it's also multimedia, such as videos, audio, images, slide share, live Twitter feeds. All of this can be embedded inside of Silk. And that's why it's really a data storytelling canvas. So Quebec is a bicycle empowerment program in South Africa, and they used us to build a very beautiful data story canvas. So you can see here is sort of the text part of the canvas. They embedded a picture, some more information. Then they built some charts, a simple map showing the number of bicycles distributed, and specific data down there, and a little video, and their Twitter stream. And this probably took them about 45 minutes to build. And if you actually dive back into the data just like you did with TechSoup, each of these data cards we call them contains data about this particular row or region. So this is a row on a spreadsheet. And that's a core construct of Silk. These are the column headers, and this is the data inside of the columns. And that's the way Silk works. We take what would be a row on a spreadsheet and turn it into what we call a data card. You can also construct the data cards by hand. But let's keep looking at a few of the other NGOs' Silks so that you can get a better idea. This is Arab Digital Rights Data Set. So this is something that a very cool organization in Lebanon called SMACS, or Social Media Exchange, built with us. And this is a map and visualization showing how digital rights laws are in the different Arab states in North Africa states. And so they built a map. They built a nice bulleted table. They have images, slide shares, and you can see they also use a multi-column layout. So you can do slightly more fancy things with this. It doesn't let you have sort of true web offering where you can adjust every bit in piece, but it does let you have quite a variety of ways to display your data and do it visually and in a beautiful way. Some of you may have heard of Human Rights Watch. So they used Silk for their campaign last May I was believed. I believe tracking anti-LGBT legislation around the world. And this map shows sentencing category types. And they again used the Mosaic of Country maps so you can build nice Mosaics with images and some visualizations. And this they embedded in their blog. They drove traffic through this and it drove phenomenal awareness and engagement for them around this topic which as a Human Rights Organization is something that they feel strongly about. Small organizations love us or are enjoying using us too. So this is the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company. And they created a nice little story gallery which is also a visualization type of all the playwrights with their bios. And each one of these playwrights too has their own data card with the image on it so you can add them there. And I want to point out one thing about the data cards quickly is that if you look so I highlighted the URL section. We not only take each row and turn it into a data card but each row actually becomes its own webpage that you can edit by adding images or text. This is powerful because it makes your data very transparent and exposed. And so when people are looking at the Internet of Searching they can often find data that you've created because rather than it being trapped in a row somewhere it's actually a live webpage that if they search for the URL or search for say like clean up information in Lake Champlain which this is something that Vermont Public Radio built with us they would find not only these pages in this silk which they built but also probably some of the specific location data so for different parts of Lake Champlain or different years. And a lot of public radio stations are using us because this is a really nice way for them to build these data storytelling canvases quickly and easily and actually embed the whole site as an iframe in their domain so that it basically looks like part of what they're doing. And again even with the very complicated layouts like we have on this version, on this silk you can see it's all responsive and completely works just on mobile. I'll scoot down a little further so you can see. So these were multi-column layouts. We reduced them to simplify them so that they all display beautifully on mobile. I'll take a quick pause. I've gone over a lot and asked Susan if there's any questions right now. We're also happy to share all of these different sites and information later on after the webinar. Great. Thank you. Yes, we do have a couple of questions specific to creating maps. Someone is asking if they'd love to create a map of where their patrons are but it would be very local to a specific city and state. So the neighborhoods can your mapping function be this localized? So absolutely we can. And let me see if I can pull something up quickly that would show that. We can put down to the individual levels. I'm trying to think if I have a good silk that shows that right now. So the way to think about data and silk is we're as accurate as your map data is. So if you give us a street address we could plot down directly to a street address. If you just give us a country name then we'll plot to the country name. But it's really a factor of how granular you want the data to be. If you give us six addresses on the same street we'll plot a map that shows a different address. I think that answers the question. And you'll see a little bit of that as we go ahead and build the maps. I'm not going to build them as granular as that but you'll get a bit of an idea of how it works. So the title of the webinar today is Five Things Nonprofits Can Do With Their Data. And we're going to stick pretty closely to that and we're going to build first an impact map, then some sortable tables or just one sortable table, then some data visualization. So interactive story data, interactive visualizations that you could use, and then an employee directory. And then finally, that's a sort of grouping so this is another visualization type. Finally I'm going to build a data story telling canvas. We haven't actually constructed yet and I'm going to show you how we can do that live and on the fly and how quickly you can do it. So let's go ahead and start with an impact map. And what I'm going to show you now is basically the data set that I'm going to use. So in Excel this is an impact map or this is a spreadsheet of organizations that are using open data, nonprofits using open data. I'm sorry this is – forgive me Susan, I totally forgot about this. So here's our quick party trick which we'll show you just to give you a quick flavor on Silk. This is actually the attendee list for the webinar, Anonymized. And Susan shared this with me. So I'm going to actually go and later on, if we have time, I'm going to turn that into a Silk for you which you can then look at and analyze the attendee data. But for now I'm going to go grab this data which is actually – this is the spreadsheet and it is linked and easily downloadable on the website that I am posting. And Susan you can actually share this if you want if people wanted to go look at that. The webinar is at silk-webinar-4techsoup.silk.co. Let me see if I can put that into the chat room really quickly. Where can I get my chat window open? That's probably it. Okay, and this is now out there. So this is basically the canvas that I'm working from and you can access this later and we'll probably add some things to it later as well that will give you more resources. So we'll start with building an impact map and I'm going to use this spreadsheet. What this spreadsheet is, this is actually data from an organization called the Open Data Enterprise Organization. And it's a nonprofit that tracks and maps open data to how it's used by organizations. So they built a very cool thing called the Open Data Enterprise Map. And I'll pull that up really fast so you can see it. And this map is something that they've built which is beautiful and fairly complicated and super nice. And I'm going to show you how to build something that's almost as good just from the spreadsheet and then build all these other things as well. So this is the Open Data Impact Map. Open Data for a lot of nonprofits too is a powerful thing. I highly recommend you exploring it if it's relevant to your organization. So let's go back to the spreadsheet. Now I'm going to simply grab this. I'm literally going to copy all, copy it, and make sure I have the whole thing to make sure I get all of it. So copy all, and I'm going to go into Silk. And so you remember this impact map that you're seeing here. I'm going to go and create a new Silk. And we'll call this just Test 2 for Webinar. And you remember how I copied all of that data into my clipboard. So these are the different ways that you can create pages or data cards in Silk or upload data into Silk. I'm just going to paste that data right in. And I'm going to click Import. And now what you're seeing is actually a live preview of what each data card will look like inside of Silk. I only pulled 48. The data set is closer to 900 total. But just to keep things speedy because if you have 900 data cards going up, it tends to slow down a little bit. So you can preview some of these. And you see here actually we pulled an image out of a web page. So if you go back here, you'd see Abra Latam is an organization in Chile. One of the columns, I didn't do this for all of the sites, but I had a column that's called Image. And when you look at this, you'd see this page as a URL with .jpg in it, which is basically that means there's a picture on that specific web address. So we can pull pictures in off of the Internet from some of these types of pages. We can't do it from Dropbox or Google Drive because they protect it. But it's something to think about if you want to quickly and easily take images that are in your WordPress blog and put them into a Silk. It's very easy to do it that way. As you see down here, this is actually like WRP content so we can pull those kinds of things in. So let's go back here. And I'm previewing the data. So this is basically what your spreadsheet looks like. Let me again change that. Sorry, a little error message there. Love when that happens. And just taking a look at the different things. And the gears on the side too, if for some reason you wanted to split something on commas or ignore fields, so for example like the other field, probably not going to be useful for me, I'm just going to click Ignore. When you see up here too, the data card title, this is the name of your data card or what we would use as the unique identifier for this specific row on your spreadsheet. The reason we need that is because if we do things like counting or visualizations or maps, we need each row to be unique because if they're not unique, then we get confused in the counting or the mapping. So you don't have to worry about that. We also do that automatically in the back. If you don't do that, but this is just to help you understand how Silk works. So I'm going to go ahead and click and start the import now. And this should take not too long, maybe 10, 20 seconds, or maybe less. Okay, cool. And so now if you were to go look at this website, this Silk, it's actually live and on the Internet. So in fact, I'll even quick chat this out to people so if they wanted to go and check if they can. By default, because we detected the images, we'll generate a gallery like this just so people can see it and help them get an idea around the data. So you remember that spreadsheet that we were looking at? That spreadsheet is now in Silk. Exactly the same thing. The spreadsheet of course is a lot uglier and you can't turn it into visualizations, but that's the whole point of Silk. We'll take your spreadsheet through your data and turn it into something online that you can see quickly and easily. So now let's go ahead and build that map. I'm going to go up to the Visualization palette and I'm going to pick the map icon right here which is right in the middle. And we may automatically detect the location that's appropriate. We don't in this case. Sometimes we do that which is nice, usually if the word map or location is in there. I'm going to go ahead and okay, so map location is here. I'm going to select the row value that I want to be for the map. So for example, when you go back and look at your spreadsheet and this is just basic mapping. Map software can't just look at this and say, oh, I know what I want to build the map from. You have to tell it which column, in this case the map location column, I'll make it a little bigger, has the data that you want to build the map from. It's not letting me go more than 200, so let me go up to 250 just to make it a little more visible. So you can see this is the data that I'm picking, map location column J. In Silk I'm picking for the location to be the plot, map location. And now you see all the pins start to drop in. Now we wanted to also do a color buy plot. So we had in the impact map that you saw on the home page, you saw a distribution of, or I'm sorry, you saw a color buy of the industry categories because there's a bunch of different industries that are using open data sets in their nonprofits. And so here I just clicked the color buy and I selected industry category. And now you can see that all of this has been populated. It has a nice key. And this map is now built. It's actually a public URL that you could go and explore if you wanted to, and go build your own visualization. Let's add even a little more to this. So I'm going to add a nice little filter. And I'm going to filter by region. And so now you can filter down to the specific regions. So for example, if we wanted to focus on Latin America and the Caribbean, it will automatically drop the filter down and show this as a map. Now these filters are accessible also to people on the Internet. So I'm going to just clear this filter quickly and then I'll just add it back on really fast. And I'm going to publish this map to the home page of myself. Susan, am I going too fast or is this okay? Susan I think you're showing the connection between taking a spreadsheet, a relational database, and then turning it into a map of visualization. So I think for folks to get that connection, and I like that you're showing the column headers too, so folks know what categories you're focusing on. Cool. Okay, so if I'm going too fast, please shout at me. I'm very happy to show that. So as you see, we now have it done. This is the exact same map that you would see on the page of the webinar soak that I built for you. I can go and edit this. Oops, sorry, sometimes it does that. Let me go back to the home page. Basically I forgot to click Edit Home Page. We're very careful about data. Maybe we don't want people to lose their data. So you have to be in edit mode to edit things like text or maps once you're on the home page, or once you're on a published page. So I'm going to title this map for webinar. And if I wanted to add a caption down here, Data Source with URL, I can add that pretty quickly and easily. So I basically just highlighted, I typed in the text, and then I highlighted it, and I typed in a URL, and it would put the data source right there. I'll do that again. www.techsoup.org click, and now you see it's highlighted. So you can see down there that's highlighted. So I'm going to save this page and just to quickly review this. So first part, Mission Accomplished, Impact Map Built. Now let's build a sortable table. So because we already have the data inside of Silk, we actually don't need to import it again. So I'm going to build the visualizations in a slightly different way now. And rather than go back into the Explore tab up at the top, I'm going to click on one of these plus handles in the pages. And that lets you, if you're editing a page, it lets you access all of the visualization types that you would want anyway. And so also the visualization engine. So I just clicked Visualization. So to go over the steps again, I click Edit Page, Green Plus Handle, Visualization, and now I'm going to click Table. And so it will automatically go ahead and start building the table. And I can pick whatever column headers I want for that table. I don't need to use all of them. So for example, I could pick State Country. Maybe we'll pick also Industry Category like we had. And again, we can add a nice filter. So let's say we want to filter by Region again. We'll leave that there. And if you wanted to filter any of the values in the tables, and this also works in any of the visualization types as well too, we have a very robust filter engine. So if I only wanted to show 20 of the rows because 48 rows in one page is an awful lot. And on default showing from A to Z, that will modify the table so that it will show only 20 rows on the page. So right now, okay, we're still editing the page. So I'll go ahead and edit Table, Sortable Table for Webinar. Okay, so that was the second prompting me to save because it wants me to make sure I'm saving my data. So that was the second mission from what we were trying to do. To show you the sortability, we could sort on Founding Year for example. And then it will show Reverse Order or Order. If I wanted to filter here by the Region, again we did that before. We'll do it again. Now we'll just limit down so that it's only showing North America. So you basically have now a Sortable Table that you can publish on the Internet very easily. And again, to remind you, there's a Share and Embed button. So that means other people or you can generate this table and embed it elsewhere. Or you can also share it as a short link in other places. Or you also have social features. So for example, it should generate a nice little, yeah, okay, we got it good. So we have a Facebook preview which is very nice. So for those of you that are very focused on social media, this makes it a really nice way for you to share visualizations quickly and easily without having to go and cut and paste images and worrying about things like that. And on the same sharing note, as I said before, I don't know how many of you are familiar with Medium. Medium is an absolutely beautiful blocking platform that's working very quickly. And Silk is one of two visualization platforms that has visualizations working on Medium. So right now, most people, you just have to put a static image here. On Silk, when you put visualizations on Medium, we actually have live maps and interactions. There are millions and millions of people on Medium, so this is another interesting publishing venue for you to think about. Let me go ahead and I'll close down these two windows because I don't need them anymore. And back to what we were building. So we have the table. Let me go check back to my list. I believe the third part of the mission, if I'm not incorrect, Susan was going to be visualizations, right? Susan- Correct. I'm creating online interactive visualization. Gregg- Okay. So the interactive visualizations are actually part and parcel of the storytelling canvas, and we weave them in very tightly. But you can also create them as sort of standalone pages or just standalone views as I was showing you earlier. So I'm going to go ahead and save this page. I'm going to edit it again. Now I want to build, let's build more than one visualization. Let's build a couple of them. And I'm going to click again in edit mode, as you see up here. I'm going to click on one of the green plus handles. Now where you see these three icons in a row here, you can actually click plus and create a section type. So this gives you some more variability around the layouts like you saw. So let's do something where we have three visualizations right next to each other. And rather than it be on a white background, I'll pick another dark background. So to access the same visualization engine, again click the plus handle inside of one of these dark windows. And I'm going to click visualization. And now let's go ahead and build that donut chart like I was showing you before. So this is a pretty good one. This is showing a distribution of organizations. They are called company names, but of the nonprofit organizations by the region. So here we've constructed the visualization and it's ready to go. If I wanted to add any kind of filter or something like that, then I can again add a filter like before on the visualization type. And so that makes it very easy for you to create custom views or have your users play with the views. Now I'm going to click done. And so now you'll see in a second that visualization is actually published inside of our data story canvas. Now I don't necessarily like the way this is looking filtered by industry category so I can actually get rid of that. And if I save the page, then you would see, okay so now we've built an interactive visualization that's living right in this page. Let's do another one. So I'm going to go back up to the top again, click edit. And one thing to remember too about visualization is you probably want to educate yourselves on how to use them appropriately. So for example, this is a good use of a donut chart because it has a nice tight legend on it. If we built a donut chart with a different type of data, so let's say we built one with, rather than region, it would be country. And that's just going to be like one slice per country. And I'm going to increase the number of slices you're seeing in the visualization to all. And very quickly you have a mess. It's hard to read. So with donut chart visualizations, you want generally no more than 6 or 7 slices and the rest should all be other. Every visualization type is different and has its own nuances. So let's build a different visualization type because we did a visualization type there. I strongly recommend, and I'll share this with Susan as well. I wrote a little blog post about how you can build, how to think about which visualizations for which data types. So rather than build that, we're going to build instead a vertical bar chart. And something that's very nice about vertical bar charts is they show very well on mobile because people are scrolling up and down a phone like that. So what we want to do for this too is to make it nice because right now this would be very long on our data canvas. I'm actually going to go ahead and limit this a little bit. So let's just limit down to just 10. So it's going to show the top 10 by value. And if you see also this is the distribution which means account. That's a little bit kind of like a pivot in a table, but don't worry about that right now. So I have 10. So this is a nice workable size. I'm going to configure the colors as well. So one nice thing that Sokwets you do also is if you want to add colors to chart values or change the colors in your charts, we let you pick and choose and do some nice little different color variations. Or for example, if you're doing like red states, blue states, red states can be blue. I mean red states can be red and blue states can be blue. Or if you wanted to signify danger or bad, you can use red. So this lets you make charts that are more credible. So right now if you go and look on this version of Sokwets, you would see again we made it responsive for the space. So there we've built the horizontal column chart. And it's live interactive visualization sitting right there on your page. Susan, how am I doing on time? You're fine on time. I think to slow down a little bit and show the steps because you're demonstrating these awesome visualizations. And I think folks like to see those steps that are behind it. So these are amazing. And we're getting a lot of questions about that. So in your next visualizations, the third one that you demo, just take it back down to start from the beginning so that folks see like that one, two, three step. Okay, forgive me. I get too excited and need to click on it. So there's two ways to build visualizations in Sokwets. I showed you before about how to build them in the Explorer mode. Let's go ahead and do that really quickly so you can see it. So you can always build a visualization in Explorer. And that's the tab at the top on the far right. If you click on it, it will give you access to the visualization palette which shows all the visualization types that are accessible. If you click on a visualization type, so we built donuts and bars, let's go ahead and now we'll build a vertical column chart, sorry, a horizontal column chart. So you click on the visualization type you want to build. Next, it will ask you what is the information you want to display in that visualization. So because we're looking for numbers in the charts here, we would actually select rather than a slice value or just like a view of each row, a distribution value which is a count type. So there we could count, let's select a region, okay? And you see here it shows distribution up here now, and I've selected region. So now it will build that chart showing you the different regions and the number of organizations in the different regions. And you can see that Latin American and Caribbean actually has the heaviest followed by other parts of the world. If I wanted to then change the colors on these bars, I could click configure colors which is a little thing down in the corner here. It's a little hard to see. Let me go ahead and blow up and then I'll blow down. Sorry. So you can see it a little better now. I click on that and then I click on the bubble next to the Latin America and then I can pick a different color. And then you'll see in the silk it shows up. Now if I wanted to publish this to a page, I can do that. I can publish it to my home page. And now when we go back to the home page, so you recognize this, here is the chart that we just built. Now if I wanted to go back instead and see we're still in the same visualization, and rather than publish it to the home page, I wanted to just take this as a standalone visualization type. Then you would use the share bar for that. And you could either use it as an embed code and this would be for embedding in a website, or you could publish it on Facebook by clicking the Facebook icon and it will show you the chart type there. Or you can publish it as a short link and save that to send out to people. And if they go to this link, it would show them precisely this visualization. Is that slow enough, Susan? Or does that slow down quite a bit? That was perfect. I think folks just wanted to see that the data came originally from a spreadsheet, just a simple spreadsheet. And you were able to pull it in to show it as a visualization and the different types of visualizations. So that is one way to make visualizations in the silk. The other way is to actually edit them right into the pages as we were doing before. And you saw me clicking on green plus handles, creating these sections. That's in-page data visualization adding and everything. I'm going to shrink down a little bit. And to do those edits, like I said, you click on a green plus handle anywhere you see it in the page. So for example, there should be one floating around here somewhere. Let me shrink it down a little bit more. Yeah, there we go. And there's the third column that we had. I'm going to click this green plus handle and then you get a selector box that opens up. And you can add different content types. So this allows you to add a text, add images, YouTube videos, Twitter, or to add a visualization just like you have in your visualization palette. And so here I'm going to add a quick visualization using the in-page editor. And so you saw me doing this horizontal column chart before. Let's go ahead and build that same column chart but using this editor. So the editor looks almost the same now. It's just now you're publishing something that's designed to go directly into the page. So again, I'm going to click Distribution because I want to see a count of values. And rather than do region, let's do industry category. There's going to be a bit of a wider count. So instead, I'm going to go ahead and filter down to the first five just to make the chart a little more workable for our size. And again, I'm going to configure the colors so that they're a little prettier and a little less boring because if it's all the same color, nobody really likes that. And now I'm going to click Done. And you see it says here, Editing Visualization for a Page Test to Webinar. It's telling you what's happening. Once I click Done, then rather than Explore where you're generating a visualization that sits in the standalone, this drops the visualization right into the page. If I wanted to cut that visualization and use it somewhere else, I can clip it. Click a plus bar somewhere. Down here is my clipboard, and it will drop right in. So another thing to remember about all of these elements that you see in Silk, they are all drag and drop. So every single thing that you see on these pages can be moved around and will resize to fit into the different visualization areas. So if you wanted the table to go above the map, we'll put the table up here. So I think we've gone through the three missions. Do we have time for the last two, or very quickly? Before we get to that, we do have some questions that I think are common throughout. Talking about when you use Silk to create a website or the information, what about privacy? What about selecting things that are viewable only by select folks? So Silk is binary. Either it's entirely public or it's entirely private. If you wish to make your Silk private before you publish it, it's very simple. You would go into your dashboard, then you would go to the Settings menu right here. Click Settings, and then down here you see Privacy. If you click Private, then your Silk becomes private, and it's no longer on the public Internet. And you will see up here, a padlock up here. And then can folks invite people to that site to view it? Exactly. So anyone who is invited to that site can view it. And you can do that by adding a member, and that will let you – sorry, I have to save this before it lets me get back into it. If I click Add a member, then I can add a member down here by adding their email address as the editor. And you can add as many people as you want. So if I wanted to add – it's at Soapbard at TechSoupGlobal.org, you would get an email in a minute Susan saying, hey, would you like to join my Silk? If you want to make it public again, you just click Public. And this is another interesting feature about Silk which is somewhat unique. If you're feeling – if you want to, you can actually make it so that anybody who is a Silk member can edit your Silk. So that's really neat for like – say if you have a community that wants to collaborate to build maps together, you can have everybody that's in your community come and edit your Silk, and add information, or add data, add pictures, all those kinds of things. More questions quickly, or should I go on and do the employee directory real fast? Susan I think as you upload that, a couple of specific questions about the types of Excel files that can be uploaded to use. So are there any restrictions? Gregg So the default restriction is 3,000 rows right now. We can extend that out to 5,000 or 6,000 for longer projects. We hope to make it much bigger in the near future. But for now, that's sort of the limitation. For file types that we can accept from Excel is XLS, Excel is X, CSV, you can paste the Google Sheets URL into Silk and if it's a public sheet or publicly shareable URL, that works as well. You can also cut and paste data into it. And if you're technically inclined, you can import what are called JSON files into Silk. In fact, I'll do an upload on this one rather than just to show you how that works rather than a cut and paste. So this is a little mini employee directory that I made of TechSoup personnel, sort of a random selection. And you can see Susan is one of the people on here. And I added some other folks. I also added an image from the LinkedIn page which should work, and location, and their group. And if you see here too, there's comma separation on some of the columns. So Silk can handle multiple values in a field. We call them facts, and we would call the column tags. So we can handle multiple facts in a tag set. And that lets you group things in a more dynamic way. But let's go ahead and build this really quickly. So Silk is not limited to a single spreadsheet. You can add different collections if we call them, which would be a new spreadsheet. And so I'm going to go and click Upload Spreadsheet now. And I'm going to pick one from my desktop. And it's the TechSoup Global Webinar CSV file. I'm going to click Open. Now I want to actually edit the collection name because otherwise it will get confused and start to think that this is the same collection Oh, I'm sorry. Let me cancel that. So I was on the wrong. So this is what I did wrong. Basically I should have, I don't know if it does it with CSV. It might be with Google Sheets. It may not recognize the rows at the bottom. But normally it does this pretty well. Let me try it again one more time really fast. I don't want to waste your time out here. So anyway, when we're importing, when you import data into Silk, you should be in the Dashboard mode. So this little white tab should be highlighted. That means you're here. And you'll see all of your data cards. So these are all of the organizations that we uploaded before. And these are the options down here for new collection types, which is what we were talking about, ways to get data in. So let me try that spreadsheet again really quickly and see if it should pick up the different collection types. If it doesn't, then that might be a slight bug, and you have to forgive me for that. So it's picking up that. That's not the data that I want actually. Yeah, okay, let me go ahead and just do a cut and paste again. Sorry about that. But trust me, it does work on XLS, XLS, and CSV. Hopefully that answers the question. So I'm going to grab that data. I'm going to go back in. So I copied and pasted it. It's in my clipboard again. We're going to paste that in. And we're going to create very quickly a TechSoup employee directory with 7 employees. And so you can see all the data is in here. There's Susan's picture. This is her expertise. She probably has a lot more than this, but I just sort of put something together. Now I clicked the gear button next to the expertise row. And the reason I did that is because I want to split these values on commas. So now I actually misspelled education. Forgive me. I'll have to go ahead and fix that. When you do that, Silk will recognize each one of those values as an individual data value. And you'll see why that's nice in a little bit. So let's go ahead and click import. And as that's importing, I did want to address some questions as well that we have as you're showing the import. Great. When you upload a spreadsheet, does it automatically become public? Yes, but you can quickly go and like I said, you can set the default. As soon as you upload that spreadsheet, if you basically go and change the settings to private, that's totally fine. And does Silk work as easily on an Apple platform as PC? I'm doing this on an Apple platform. Excellent. Some folks are wondering about the maps that you've created. What about if they wanted to make that interactive for the community to manipulate themselves? Yes, if there are members of Silk and you set your Silk to Silk members can edit, then they can go and they can actually edit the contents of the data cards. Great. Which is essentially the content of the maps. Great. What about exporting from Silk? You wanted to take one of the data visualizations and put it in PowerPoint. So for that, we don't have a specific capability, but if you do a quick screenshot of the PowerPoint, I mean of the visualization, it works fine. And we have people doing that all the time. And frankly, I know this sounds bad, but we built Silk to move away from PowerPoint. So we didn't really think so much about how do we create static images to put into PowerPoint. Okay. Fair enough. What about some folks are thinking, they've got multiple spreadsheets. Can Silk upload and read multiple spreadsheets at one time? Absolutely. I mean, not simultaneously, but yes, you can have multiple collections. And each collection can be a different set of information. Now, it's kind of like a spreadsheet in that you don't want to, for example, put your employee directory into the same Silk as your impact map, because each is a standalone website, has its own URL. So you have to sort of think of it as rather than I am publishing a spreadsheet, I am publishing a website. Do I want — is this the way I want users to interact with it? That said, you may want to say publish an impact story map and a corporate report or a quarterly report or a donor report in the same Silk. And that's totally doable from different spreadsheets. Great. How would you recommend that folks access support for — if they're an organization, then they'd like to use Silk versus an individual. We have some folks that are very interested in using this. So as an organization, we try to support people as best we can. We get back to them fairly quickly. It's also a pretty easy tool, so usually once people get to know it, they have no problems. So I can say like inside of TechSoup, I don't think we've gotten any support calls in the past three months, because I think you have some internal champions that are now pretty good at this stuff. We also have a full support section with videos and portfolios that are much greater depth than the stuff that I'm showing you right now. That's our beautiful error icon. We actually have a visual artist who did everything on Silk, and it's beautiful stuff. So hang on, I'll pull that up really fast so you can see it. I'm going to go to the home page, and then we have a Help button. No. And as you're showing that we are going to be supplying everyone with a link to your website so they can also get support. Folks are wondering about a resource guide as well. Meaning for this webinar? For Silk in general. Can you use it for a resource guide, or how to use it? I think how to resource guide, exactly. Yeah, so that's what this section would be. We have a full knowledge base with videos on how to make basic silks, how to do spreadsheet imports, lots of different topics. And if you can't find what you're looking for in there and you email us, we'll get back to you pretty quickly and tell you how to do what you're trying to do. And it may not be possible inside of Silk. It's not an unlimited platform. We do have some limits just to make it simple. So for example, like the visualizations and the layouts, you can't customize fonts inside the visualizations. You can't write CSS inside of the pages, or you can't alter the HTML of the pages. It's really designed for people that aren't accessing code so that does limit your customization. Great. One more quick thing. A lot of folks are asking about the cost to nonprofits and the fee associated for nonprofits. So this is free for nonprofits. The only thing we would charge for would be something like when Textures did their impact map, you see they have their logo on every page. And they also did some customization around the fonts and something to match their color palette, this nice sort of blue story bar, and the URLs. But frankly, we're not really interested in charging nonprofits much anyway. We certainly wouldn't charge small nonprofits for anything at all because we don't think it's a great way to make money off of nonprofits. We think making money off of guys like banks and lawyers and large profitable public companies is a better way to do it. So the short answer is the cost for nonprofits to start is zero. If you want to customize, we'll talk about it. I can't imagine it being more than $10 or $15 a month. Great. We've got time for one more question. Would the maps work with touch screen technology? I don't know. I mean we are using everything on this is multi-touch, but we haven't tried it. I mean if you had a multi-touch screen on the touch screen then you might, but I don't know enough to really answer that question effectively. Okay. And that's fair enough. We do have a couple of other specific questions about other programs and compatibility with Silk that we are going to answer on the back end and put in our question and answer document that we will be sending to folks probably within the week so that Alex will be able to answer some more of those questions. Our time has come to an end. We didn't get to finish everything. I know. Well, you know what? That will give us an opportunity to have a second level training on Silk because there are so many things that you can do very easily with the program. And since the program is something you can go to right now, play around in, we do encourage folks to do that. That's how I got started. So I can tell you that if I can get in there and start doing some things everybody can. We know we've covered a lot today and some of you still do have questions that we will address in our Q&A. So I wanted to make sure that we got some feedback from all of you if you would chat in the box. One thing that you learned in today's webinar and we know we covered a lot pretty quickly, but we want to know at least one thing that you learned today. So as you are chatting that in, I did want to remind folks that this entire month is we are talking about data and we have some other upcoming webinars. And those in the month of February we have. And it does look like we've got a lot of people that learned a tremendous amount. And it's true that it's right from a spreadsheet. You are correct. Everyone that's plugging in, yep, go right from a spreadsheet. And if there's an image link, Alex, correct me if I'm wrong, that's how we got those employee pictures that were right up there. That's correct. It can't be from Dropbox or Google Drive because they prevent that. But if it's published on the Internet like in Wordpress, it's very easy to do that, yes. Great. So right from a spreadsheet, all the things that you can potentially do for data visualization. So great. We are going to follow up with everyone in email. I want to thank Alex for taking the time to put this together. He's got such a wealth of information. And I'm sorry we didn't get to every single thing during this hour, but we do value your time and we appreciate you coming today. We also want to thank ReadyTalk, our platform for providing us this platform today and for all of our webinars. Yes, I see a lot of folks saying they want to silk too. So we can think about that. And we want to thank everyone, especially you, Alex, and also Ali on the back end for answering the questions for the technical support. Thank you all. Have a great day.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_OYiR129k", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCWKlx05vtSnpdSa6q47H9ng	REDSKINS RELEASE JOSH NORMAN & PAUL RICHARDSON	REDSKINS RELEASE JOSH NORMAN & PAUL RICHARDSON #Redskins #JoshNorman #NFL Business Email: ingravenvids@gmail.com **ANY Donations are appreciated : 1)Via PayPal: paypal.me/IngravenVids 2)Via Cash App: $Ingravenvids 3)Venmo: Ingravenvids Our PO Box: Ingravenvids PO Box 971236 Boca Raton,FL 33497-1236 TKIC "White Hot" Merch: https://teespring.com/tkic-white-hot-merch?pid=227&cid=6083 Get 20% OFF + Free Shipping with code "INGRAVEN20" at Manscaped.com! Get your favorite team's gear here: pollystore.ru Subscribe to our Madden channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGv2vQJgas_jIs4ceZoLszw Welcome #BaltimoreRavens #Ravens & #NFL fans to IngravenVids!! Team Keep It Clean!! Featuring ALL the latest news on the Baltimore Ravens & anything happening in the NFL. So if you LOVE football, SUBSCRIBE!! 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It's engraving here with another video and another throwback, baby another Another one bites the dust And my apologies. I couldn't bring you all this video earlier cuz I was out and about And I first saw the news. I'm like whoa Josh Norman's out of there wasn't really shocked to surprise anything But then right when I got home the Redskins went and added Paul Richardson to the list too and These are two big acquisitions That they did couple. Yeah, I know Paul Richardson was about two years ago in free agency He came from the Seattle Seahawks Speedster. He was supposed to be the downfield deep threat and of course Josh Norman, we all know he had his breakout year with the Carolina Panthers and He did all right with the Redskins, but um, it's recently he didn't live up to his uh, the standards with his contract and Like I just said, I wasn't surprised that the Redskins did this. I mean it is the time of year I do definitely respect and this I do respect the Redskins for doing it now Because with the Redskins releasing both Josh Norman and Paul Richardson now They give them a leg up on the competition And again when I say that I mean it allows both Josh Norman and Paul Richardson to be free agents immediately They don't have to wait until March 18th. I believe that's the date to enter free agency. They get to do it now but This also serves as a reminder that with the Redskins It seems to be the same old story It seems to be the same old story Redskins are a team that They'll they they will always make a few of the sort of sexy free agent signings a big splash names And I mean I think back to and I know a lot of Redskins fans can go back even further But it just reminds me of guys like, uh, clinton portis when they traded a champ barely for clinton portis um When they uh, obviously Albert Haynesworth, he's a name that I know a lot of Redskins fans are like, oh gosh Why do you have to bring that up? um, and then of course there's been other guys throughout the years um Then but yeah, donovan mcnaib. He was another one. I forgot that he was with the Redskins as a matter of fact But yeah, that was oof big yikes um, and then more recently, of course, josh norman and paul Richardson but the thing with the Redskins is like I I don't have a problem with the Redskins. I didn't have a problem with anybody But I feel like it's just it's going to continue to be the same thing the same cycle every single year until There are significant changes Significant changes and and the most significant that I mean it's not a head coach. No It's not an offense or defensive coordinator. No Mm-hmm Stan Snyder Stan Snyder That is the only way that I see any positive coming from the Redskins They can have a great draft They can make all these key free agent signings They can make a few nice trades here and there But I just feel like it's always going to be the same thing. It's going to be the same cycle rinse and repeat until ownership changes Because dan Snyder has had the team for a pretty long time now A very very long time now That's like the key ingredient to all this failure, man You see a pattern man. You can go through whatever head coach you want to go through You can have whatever quarterback, whatever offensive defensive court. You can have all of that stuff But if it's not right at the top It's going to be the same thing. Look at the browns Look at the browns the browns. Oh man Especially last year, but you can I mean forever now The browns they they brought in this player that player that they drafted this guy that guy that guy But it starts at the top man Stars at the top Now josh norman, um, he's gonna find a job. He definitely both of these guys are gonna be in the nfl So it ain't like this is these are career ending releases And you know what these guys hate to say it, but these guys might actually be a little bit happy Of course, you never want to get fired from your job, but at the same time If you get to leave that organization, even though you did make the decision to go there Both of them made the decisions to go there so But still they they're leaving now So It's like uh, all right. What's next? What's gonna be next? So but again, like I said, I do respect that the Redskins did do it now Instead of after free agency started because if they would have done an after free agency started then they would have held these guys back from maximizing their earning potential Maximizing how much money they can get in and their next contract So at least at least kudos to the Redskins for doing that. I guess they did the right thing with that, but Uh, josh norman, he can go to a cornerback in 80 team Uh, he uh, I believe he's just an outside corner. Does he play inside? I don't believe so and if he does I don't believe he does it well Um, but he can help somebody He can help somebody Um, and you can sign him you can sign both of these guys without having to give up a compensatory pick So I know y'all know about the compensatory pick formula Uh, but yeah, so again, they'll find new homes rather quickly So shout out to the Redskins for doing something kind of right uh and shout out to josh norman and paul regison On their next journey. So Redskins they they they said that jordan re could be up next Said he could be up next So we're gonna see but team keep it clean appreciate y'all. I love y'all and just like josh norman and paul regison I'm out	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCnj8s7IzXo", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCdEuOYY_UF2LNrPH4jsvIhw	Physics][IX][Motion] Solved Example 06	A problem based on the concept of distance and displacement A STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO PREPARE FOR BOARDS & COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS This session can be useful to students of high school of CBSE, ICSE, IGCSE or State Boards, as well as those who are preparing for competitive exams like NTSE, IIT JEE, NEET, KVPY, CET, Olympiads, Bank PO, CLAT, SAT, CAT, GMAT, GRE, UPSC Civil Services Examination, NDA For more such sessions, please visit: www.wiki.centumacademy.com www.centum.learnyst.com www.centumacademy.com Follow us for more interesting discussions on www.facebook.com/centumacademy www.instagram.com/centumacademy #CentumAcademy #Physics #Motion	[ "IIT", "JEE Mains", "JEE", "JEE Advanced", "KVPY", "Mathematics", "CBSE", "CBSE IX", "ICSE", "ICSE IX", "IGCSE", "NCERT", "centum academy", "Dheeraj Singh", "Kinematics", "Motion", "Motion in a straight line", "Uniform motion", "acceleration", "velocity", "NCERT Exemplar", "Physics Numericals", "Equations of Motion", "Graphical representation of motion", "v-t graph", "displacement-time graph", "velocity time graph", "motion under gravity", "v = u + at", "s = ut+ 1/2 at^2", "retardation", "deceleration", "Physics", "NTSE", "SAT", "ACT", "AP" ]	2020-11-01T18:30:02	2024-02-05T16:39:12	245	pck8xWpCgxc	Hi in this question We have to find out the numerical ratio of displacements to distance for a moving object Now let's first define the two terms distance and displacement and then we'll look up look at the options. So first thing is this distance So what is distance distance is the actual path length? So it is nothing but length length of the path length of the path traversed traversed by Any object Okay, so let's say Let's say we have an object at point a and it goes to point b Okay, now let's say this is the actual path taken by the object So it is traveling like that and finally ends up at point B. So this is the This is the sense of motion. So now this let's say the actual path length of this was X meters X meters, okay X meters. So hence this is Distance, this is distance while displacement While displacement would be the shortest distance between a and B which happens to be the straight line I'll write Yeah, like that. So this is the this is a straight line Joining a and B. So let's say This length of the shortest distance is why why meters? Okay, so this becomes my displacement, right? So clearly in this case, I'm writing again. So distance is equal to X and Displacement Displacement is equal to Y now clearly Y is less than X in terms of the total length Why because why happens to be the shortest distance between a and B? So why will be less than all the other path lengths joining a and B? So you take any other path. Let's take another path, let's say The point a B like that it goes and goes to B. Okay, so this this in all will also be More than why let's say this was Z So clearly Y is less than X and Y is less than Z So shortest distance will be shortest among all the distances between a and B So hence if you if you take the ratio now, let's take the ratio Displacement by distance Displacement by distance is nothing but Y by X or Y by Z or whatever So in this case clearly since Y is less than X. So this ratio ratio ratio of Displacement by Distance will always be less than equal to One why equal to when let's say When X is equal to Y then the ratio Ratio will be equal to one. So what do we observe? We observe that Displacement will always be less than or equal to displacement So hence our option will be B Right numerical ratio of displacements distance for a moving object is equal or less than one	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pck8xWpCgxc", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCUKg41qkUTUQXGDzklgpmlQ	Why I chose Executive Education – Michelle Walsh	Michelle Walsh, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, talks about why she chose Executive Education for her professional development needs.	[ "The University of Auckland", "University of Auckland", "UOA", "Auckland University", "Auckland", "New Zealand", "University", "management" ]	2017-10-09T00:25:07	2024-02-14T20:04:26	53	PC7-9GbEAEs	I am the process manager for the design process along with clinical and I have the most amazing opportunity to work with product development, process development, clinical quality regulatory and operations teams across the business in developing processes to better improve the products that we deliver to our customers. I did the course on influencing and persuading with Rosa and Gidi because I interact with a lot of the business partners. I need to make sure that we're all on the same page and I can get the best results for the business as possible and this allows me to help with the change management processes and get people on board. I would definitely recommend this type of course. I find that people totally underestimate the softer skills in terms of getting your job done and this really helped me in terms of getting engagement with the business.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC7-9GbEAEs", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCxVKCX36rGPO4YXBWDrW6gg	Carlos Lopes - Can Africa Claim the 21st Century?	In his address to the IIEA, Dr Lopes argues that six of the fastest economies in the world are now in Africa but despite the rapid economic growth, African economies have been slow to transform. He contends that the slow pace is compounded by a variety of domestic and international factors. He outlines how, as a continent, Africa has the fastest growing population which provides it with important human resources to accompany its development. The entry into force of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) this year may help address a number of these challenges. Dr Lopes discusses whether African countries be able to exploit these opportunities to further lead the continent on a path of development. Opening remarks by Dónal Cronin, Director, Multilateral Unit - EU, DFA About the Speaker: Dr Carlos Lopes was appointed as the African Union High Representative on the Partnership with the EU Post-2020 in July 2018. From September 2012 to October 2016 Prof. Lopes served as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Dr Lopes is a Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa, and Visiting Professor at Sciences Po., Paris. His most recent book, Africa in Transformation: Economic Development in the Age of Doubt reflects on the economic challenges facing Africa in the age of democratic doubt in Africa and beyond, identity crises, global fears and climate and sustainability. Filmed on the 5th of November 2019	[ "African Union", "European Union", "EU", "Economic Development", "International Relations", "African Continental Free Trade Area", "AfCFTA", "Department of Foreign Affairs", "Irish Aid", "Europe", "Africa", "Ireland", "IIEA" ]	2019-11-06T12:42:01	2024-02-05T07:39:20	1,469	PCnjkspYtDQ	Rwy'n cael ei wneud, maen nhw'n mynd i'r Tom Arnold. Rydyn ni'n gweithio'r cyflawn i'r hostau Dr Carlos López, rydyn ni'n cyflawni'r union afri ac yn ymddangosiaeth yn y cyflawni'r cyflawni, ac yn y EU post 2020, y post wedi'u gweithio yn y Juli 2018. Felly mae'n amlwg spesifatau a'r amlwg spesifatau. Diolch yn ddod i'r perffasio'r Ffyrdd mewn ysgolwyddon o Gweithredu Rhade, ddiddorol, ac i'n meddwl i'w amdano'r ffyrdd i'r gynhyrch sy'n meddwl i'r gwbl fan o'r ffrindiau, ddim yn gweithio i ddod i'r mynd i'w Gweithredu Rhade. Good afternoon everyone and a very warm welcome to the Institute of the International European Affairs seminar, part of the development matters lecture series that we in Irish eight are happy and more than happy to support. Thanks to AIEA for your continued fruitful collaboration on this. My name is Down overflow N, the director of a multi lateral unit in the the Development Cooperation and Africa Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Before this, I was the Irish Ambassador to Uganda and Rwanda. This Development Matter series continues to provide stimulating thoughts and ideas on issues relating to global development and Ireland's role in that. The government's new policy for international development, a better world, sets out clearly our approach and our priorities for the coming period in terms of strength and governance, climate action, gender equality, reduced humanitarian need, and also at a focus on reaching the furthest behind first. Today, therefore, we are more than happy to introduce Dr Carlos Lopez, the African Union High Representative for Partnerships with Europe. He will deliver remarks on a topic which is very close to our heart here in Ireland. Can Africa claim the 21st century? Dr Lopez was appointed as the High Representative in 2018. From 2012 to 2016, Dr Lopez served as the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Indeed, during his tenure, he welcomed the President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, to UNECA in 2014. In that same year, he was a guest of us here as well for the African Ireland Economic Forum. He is no stranger to Ireland and it's great to have you back on our shores. This is also a very timely time, isn't it, because of the changes that are afoot? We've got on the one hand a new leadership in the European Union, an attempt to rejuvenate a true partnership between Europe and Africa, and on the other hand reforms in the EU, the African Continental Free Trade Area, the abundance of opportunities that Africa presents, and also the number of challenges that are faced in that continent, not least, for example, climate change. Dr Lopez is a professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and visiting professor at the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. He's most recent book called Africa and Transformation, Economic Development in the Age of Doubt, is in the words of the former UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, a compelling rethink of traditional development models in Africa and the need to seize on transformational change to build a sustainable future for the continent. He also runs a very exciting blog called Africa Cheetah Run. Thank you, Google it. You will find it very quickly. With these few remarks, can I introduce to you please Dr Carlos Lopez. Thank you. With your permission I'm going to do it from here. Well, thank you for the commercial about Africa Cheetah Run. There is a story behind it. Africa is on a catch-up mode, so it needs to run very fast and the cheetah is the fastest animal on earth. So it's a way of saying Africa needs to run at the speed of a cheetah. But beyond the speed there is also another message that is implicit because part of the ideas about Africa rising that have dominated some of the specialized financial media, the economies, financial times, et cetera, resulted from a report produced by McKinsey which title was Lions on the Move. And this is a provocation to basically send a message that lions are about show off. Lions are very lazy, their effectiveness is very low, so they go for anything and they get very little and they are not gender sensitive. The lionesses do all the work. So we need completely to overall this idea that progress in Africa is going to be in the image of a lion which is basically about grabbing the headlines but not doing much. The cheetah is the opposite of all that I said about the lions. Narratives about Africa tend to be negative as we know. Embedded in historical simplifications and dismissiveness has become quite current including in our perceptions of Africa from a geographical point of view with projections that are used mostly in the Mercator projection giving us an idea of the landmass of the continent does not correspond to reality as we know. Africa is much bigger and therefore it is much more important for us to try to understand the complexity because of the larger than usual complexity and reality of the continent. But we also know that most of the Africa rising narrative that has resulted in some counterintuitive perceptions being finally addressed as limited for a large extent to business opportunities and giving the idea that in Africa we have new business opportunities and more voices admitting that the possibility of an African century are based in this principle or this perception. The adoption of UN millennium declaration in the year 2000 and its companion, the millennium development goals has indeed inaugurated a new era. Prescriptive structural adjustment policies were replaced by goals meaning different ways of attaining objectives or in economic jargon policy space. Around the year 2000 the millennium declaration is from the year 2000 to demonstrate a different pattern of economic behavior. For the last 18 years African countries systematically dominated the list of the top 10 fastest growing economies in the world. For 2020 the just released IMF forecasts indicate that 16 of the 30 countries with the best growth performances will be in Africa and 23 African countries will post growth of 5% or more. Economic growth resulted in Africa doubling its GDP since the year 2000 and even though growth has slowed down due to a challenging global context the continent's performance is second only to Southeast Asia. A number of socio-economic indicators have also fueled the African century narrative. By 2010 the middle class had risen to 34% of the African population up from 27% in the year 2000. Such growth in the middle class is higher than the growth rate of the population although the growth rate of the population is taking a lot of importance in terms of the overall performance. The middle class although arguably still vulnerable is viewed as the fuel to the economies of the continent and in fact two thirds of our growth is a result of internal consumption. Very much the same as in the US. In 2017 household spending has reached $1.6 trillion after crossing the $1 trillion mark in 2010. This is on par with large economies such as China in terms of percentage. By 2025 household spending is projected to reach $2.5 trillion according to estimates by McKinsey and Brookings Institution. The growth experience alone is indeed not sufficient to claim the 21st century. Africa grew quickly but transformed slowly. Therefore putting in jeopardy many of the gains so far registered. The forecasted 3.6% growth for 2020. This is the last forecast from the IMF remains way short of the 7% minimum required to double the average per capita income in let's say a decade. This is partly due to the fact that too many African economies still depend on the production and export of primary commodities. The good news is that attractive solutions are known. Translating growth into meaningful development for African countries will require an aggressive industrialization agenda. Africa is not a desert when it comes to manufacturing and industrialization. Attempts to industrialize in the 60s and the 70s by adopting the model of import substitution and mixed results. While this led to some remarkable progress it quickly showed the limits of state led production rather than state led facilitation. Manufacturing value addition as a percentage of GDP has been declining since the introduction of liberal policies promoted by the structural adjustment programs. However, since the overall economy has grown considerably, the value addition percentage hides the fact that the real production of manufactured goods has gone up significantly too. Yet the concentration of such industrial base in a few countries and sectors demonstrate that the structural transformation is still missing in action. The quest for industrialization is not, therefore, over in Africa. Domestic manufacturing in Africa has doubled between 2000 and 2010 according to the African Development Bank and continues to increase. Agro processing, south east Asia delocalization of low value added manufacturing, as well as commodity based industrialization, hold the key for a more radical transformation. So these three, agro processing, south east Asia delocalization and commodity based industrialization. For many African countries endowed with natural resources, focusing energies on exploiting and transforming that wealth can be far more promising than trying to diversify away from commodities. So basically this is called vertical diversification rather than horizontal diversification. Despite criticism of this model of industrialization, increasing the productivity of commodities, largely due to the argument that it is unlikely to promote linkages. Experiences from other resource rich countries such as Argentina, Chile, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, Norway and even close by Scotland show that such model can deliver economic development. Examples from within Africa itself demonstrate that such model can be promising in terms of developing elements of an ecosystem that promotes innovation, value addition as well as quality employment. A case in point is what Botswana has done with diamonds. On the other hand, agriculture represents also an important vehicle for resource based industrialization. Agriculture accounts for almost 65% of Africa's employment and 75% of its domestic trade. In addition, the agribusiness sector has already made some strides on the continent and it's potentially significant with estimates putting its value 1 trillion by 2030. The sector can generate significant productivity gains in rural areas with vibrant ups of agribusiness and linkages across value chains. To fully reach its potential, it will be important to improve land productivity. Africa's land productivity is stuck at 1.5 tons per hectare while countries like India land productivity has grown from 0.95 tons per hectare to 2.53 in just 50 years. This is despite the fact that agricultural land in Africa is 3 to 6 times larger than in countries like China and India, both of which, despite having much lower available agricultural land per capita, have successfully managed to secure food for their poor, while Africa continues to be the world's most food insecure region. Small scale farmers will be important players in this transformation as well as the way we treat different elements of the equation such as the way we deal with farm equipment, farming techniques, fertilizer seeds etc. Transforming African economies through a resource based industrialization will not be easy. It will require innovation skills, robust knowledge base of the industry structure and the global value chains understanding. It would also require African countries to be particularly attuned to the global training landscape, including barriers and preferences. Above all boosting intra-Africa trade remains imperative for creating the markets that are needed for successful industrialization. The entry into force of the African continental free trade area is potentially an important game changer. Africa has since this year the largest free trade area in the world by size with its 1.3 billion consumer market and by number of countries. 54. The combined consumer and business spending is expected to hit 6.7 trillion within the next 10 years. The Economic Commission for Africa expects the African free trade area to expand trade by about 52% in just 20 years. Admittedly the transition will not be without consequences, at least for some time. Experiences in countries that have undergone such transformations and adjustments show that there is a strong historical pattern of worsening income distribution between rural and urban economies during the initial stages of structural transformation, this famous Cusnets curve that economists love. As the urban population in Africa is projected to double in size to eventually reach 2.3 billion in the next 40 years, it is likely that such pattern would be further accentuated by these trends. However, we also know from historical data that absolute poverty does not necessarily worsen during such episodes, therefore reducing the risk that the strides made in fighting extreme poverty in Africa in the last two decades are unlikely to be reversed. The IMF estimates that in the last two decades poverty in Africa has been reduced from 60% to 40% of the total population. Transformation requires capital, which will need to be generated in international markets through foreign direct investments etc. Yet Africa remains marginal as a destination for foreign investors. Such reluctance is often justified by exaggerated risk perceptions, often dominated by security and governance concerns. The turn of the century witnessed some progress in relation to political governance. Despite pockets of violence, there is consensus that the nature of politics in Africa is changing. 20 changes of leaders in the last 26 months, just to give you an example. The appetite of the continent's population for political participation has increased as demonstrated by political contestation, events such as the one you have just followed in Sudan and Algeria, but many more that have taken place before. Youth, particularly those residing in urban areas, operate in political spaces in similar ways to their counterparts elsewhere in the world. They have access to information, social media. In addition conflicts have receded across the continent in terms of number of casualties, largely driven by political governance improvements across the continent as measured by the most comprehensive governance index. Despite the decline in the number of conflicts in Africa, the continent continues to be viewed as conflict-ridden. Unlike Asia, conflicts in Africa are not looked at in isolation, unfortunately. The conflicts in Mindanau do not shape the image of the Philippines. The Sabah insurgency does not shape the image of emerging Malaysia. There were about 29 piracy attacks in 2009 of the coast of Somalia as compared to 150 attacks in the Strait of Malacca between Malaysia and Singapore, but this is not the perception of most people. The Naxalite insurgency and the issue of Kashmir do not shape investors' image of rising India. South Korea remains unaffected by its proximity to its belligerent sister in the north. Indeed, despite the widespread nature of conflict in south and southeast Asia, the region is branded as dynamic rather than unstable. Perceptions therefore count. Structural transformation requires a different type of engagement that taps into the potential of the continent rather than sees it as a high-risk region or at best a charity basket case. Development aid, albeit still important in specific cases, cannot single-handedly transform African economies and may be a contributor to this image problem. Africa's youth can be an asset if also we take some of their agency and some of their energy as a transformative element of what is happening in the continent rather than seeing it just from a conflict perspective. Reaching the full potential of the continent requires political courage to ask all international partners to look beyond their perceptions. It is time for international partners' engagement to shift from policies and frameworks driven by perception to those driven by reality and a common vision for the future. The youth bulge in Africa, if managed properly, is for instance not just a fuel for African economies but for the rest of the world, especially in Europe, given ageing. A recent study by the Bertelsmann Foundation, a very reputable foundation in Germany, has shown that intra-EU migration will no longer be able to cater for the needs of the German economy. They will require an additional 146,000 workers per year from non-EU countries. This is just one example. Africa's youth is currently viewed largely as a threat rather than an opportunity with EU caving into pressure from right-wing politicians. The reality however shows that Africans are far from being the main group of non-EU migrants entering Europe. The rate of Chinese migration to Europe is for instance twice the rate of arrivals from Africa. Which is not the perception again that most people have. Those wishing to migrate also tend to be more educated in Africa. Concerns about refugees is also unjustified as Africa continues to bear the brunt of wars with 80% of the refugees of the continent remaining in Africa. A future focused engagement also requires international partners to move beyond classical development aid models. Limiting Europe's engagement with Africa to mechanisms of aid disbursement that have been in place since the 70s does not bode well for the future. Where the youth thought to be innovative it developed initiatives with no consultations with African countries and in isolation of a plethora of initiatives and mechanisms in place in Africa that Europe has put in place without proper consultations with the continent. These fragmented approaches to dealing with Africa carry obviously the risk of ineffectiveness but also a political erosion of goodwill. There is a Somali saying that goes like this. He who does not seize opportunity today will be enabled to seize tomorrow's opportunity. For the African continent its leaders and people and for international partners now is the moment to make the Africa century a reality. Thank you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCnjkspYtDQ", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC4A7_ROn-bKRIHaRxfWVaOw	I Sold My Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711!!! WHAT?!	The Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 is a grail watch for many. It was a grail watch for me. The 5711 is nearly impossible to get at retail and about two years ago, I got VERY lucky when I got a call from my local AD that he had a blue dial Patek Philippe Nautilus 5711 and it was mind if I wanted it. If you've seen my watch collection video, you've heard this whole story--which, if you haven't, I recount here (good on a second listen too!)--but what you hadn't known until today is that I did in, fact, sell my Patek Philippe 5711. Why did sell it? How much did I sell it for? It's a great story. 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So just over two years ago. And the title of that post is the unbelievable story of how I got a 5711 at retail. I never finished writing that post. And if you consider the title of this video, you're probably wondering, what happened? You're watching He Spoke Style. I'm Brian Sakawa. If you are new to this channel here at He Spoke Style, you will find all the tips, knowledge and inspiration you need to dress well, feel more confident, and unlock your potential. So everyone knows that the Blue Dial 5711 is an almost impossible watch to find at retail. It's extremely desirable. Everyone wants it. If you haven't watched my watch collection video already, and you don't know the story of how I came by a 5711 at retail, I'll just kind of recap here really quickly. So when my wife and I bought our house about two and a half years ago, there's a Patek AD just around the corner. So the first time I went in there, the owner asked me what I wanted. I told him what everyone wants. He laughed at me. I said, go ahead, put my name on the list. And by the way, I live pretty much right around the corner. Some time goes by. I stop in occasionally just to remind him that I'm interested and that I do live pretty much right around the corner. Some more time goes by like maybe two or three months. And then I'm driving and I get a phone call. He's got the watch and it's mine if I want it. There was a little agonizing going on because A, it's a lot of money. And B, we were going on our honeymoon not long after that. So long story short, I did the deal. I traded a couple of watches and paid the rest in cash. I love that watch. I wore it a lot, very versatile. And I know a lot of people are probably wondering, weren't you worried about wearing it and scratching it up and stuff like that? And honestly, no. I feel like if you don't wear your watches, regardless of the price, I think that's the wrong approach. I think you should enjoy the things you have and use them. Of course, I take care of it, but I never really had any fear when I was wearing it. So okay, yeah, I loved it. I had this crazy watch that nobody could get their hands on. So what exactly happened to prompt me to consider selling it? Well, I'll tell you. So I have the Chrono 24 app. And in that app, it has a section where you can put in your watch collection. You choose the exact watch you have, and you put in the purchase price. Then what it does is it basically tracks the market, the demand for that particular watch, as well as what they are trading or selling for on the secondary market. And then it will show you the percentage increase or decrease in value based on all of those factors. So I had put the 5711 in my collection in that app like pretty soon after I bought it. And that was kind of the last I thought of it until one day in mid 2019, when I happened to open up the app and look at how much this watch had appreciated. I knew that secondary market prices were really high for the 5711, but I guess I wasn't aware of just how kind of out of control that had gotten. Now I want you to understand that I do not buy watches as investments. I buy them because I love them. And I buy them because I want to wear them. Having said that, when I saw what that watch was going for, don't worry, you will find out the price for the first time I started to consider selling it. And here are three reasons why. As I mentioned, I had been kind of peripherally aware of the value of the 5711 on the secondary market. It had been going up and up and up. And literally from the day I bought mine, people were trying to buy it right off my wrist. It's kind of insane the hysteria around this watch. And the price that was valued on the secondary market, I thought there can't be any way that this thing goes any higher. A basically brand new steel sports watch. And like if I ever wanted to sell it, now was the time. So I checked around with some collector friends of mine and they basically share the same opinion. Second, the watch started to take on kind of a different persona and let's call it the broader watch universe because it is so ridiculously impossible for just a normal person without a huge history of spending a lot of money at an 80 to get one. There was a lot of negative energy, not directed at me personally, but just for the watch in general. So it became this sort of really ultra elite middle finger to the world. And I just didn't really like that whole connotation. I love the watch. I don't choose things based on what people think of them, but that was just a little something that I had in my mind. Third, there was a lot we could do with that money. As you'll remember, we had just moved into this house and there were definitely some improvements we wanted to make. We had probably a year or so left on our vehicle loan so we could pay those off. Any little credit card debt we had, we could just get rid of. So between the timing, the negative sentiment around the 5711, all of the things that we could do with the profit and the fact that I didn't really have any kind of sentimental attachment to the watch really kind of helped me make the decision. The craziest part about this whole story is how this deal went down. Now what I want you to know about me before we get into this part of the story is that I am not fabulously wealthy. I've worked very hard for the things that I have probably spent a little too much money on things I shouldn't have, like 5711. So what I want to say is that if you are shocked by the numbers you're going to see, I am too. This is not just another day in the life of Brian Sakala. Anyway, so understanding the timeline here is important. It's a Saturday. It's about 10 o'clock in the morning. I'm at the gym. I texted my friend, Eric Wind, of Wind Vintage. He's a vintage watch dealer. Told him the deal, told him the price, and asked if he'd be interested. It's not really his market because he's more in the vintage watch world and this is a modern watch, but he said he'd definitely help broker the sale. So just so happened that he had a client who was looking for a 5711 blue dial and he was going to reach out to him for me. Literally 30 minutes later, I'm still at the gym. Eric texts me back and says he got one yesterday, but I might have someone else that I can reach out to on Monday. So I texted another friend, really big figure in the watch world, tell him what I'm doing, what I'm selling it for, would he be interested. He definitely had some friends who'd be interested, but he didn't feel comfortable offering it to them for what I was asking. Okay, so now it's noon. I'm sitting at the pool and I reach out to a guy who's been trying to buy this thing off my wrist since I got it. Again, here's the deal. It's yours for this price. Of course, I tried to rip his eyes out a little bit. He countered. It wasn't insulting. It was actually more than a fair price. And that was it. Within a two hour time span, sitting at the pool, I sold this watch. All right. So what everyone wants to know, what did I sell it for? Let's go over the numbers. So the price of the 5711 at retail was $29,980. I traded a couple of watches and I got $5,000 for the trade, which made the final purchase price $24,880. I know it's ridiculous and a ton of money for a watch. So I sold the watch for $68,000, which gave me a total profit of $43,120. Do I miss it sometimes? But not really. Do I regret selling it? Not at all. And honestly, it was one of the best investments I ever made, even though I did not approach buying this watch as an investment. I wore it a lot. I had my fun with it. It was quite an experience and my collection continues to evolve.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcM3fhMiBpw", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCu3Ri8DI1RQLdVtU12uIp1Q	News Break \| Strata Data Conference 2012	The Cube - Strata Conference 2012 - News Break with John Furrier and Dave Vellante	null	2012-02-29T20:12:58	2024-02-05T08:44:57	968	PCbd_-0Bb7w	Okay, we're back live at Stratoconference day one. So we're in the afternoon from three o'clock Pacific all the way to seven tonight. When cocktail, we might go later. If we can get startups, we can get VCs, we can get some scientists. We'll try to grab some people in the hallway. This is siliconangle.tv's continuous coverage of Stratoconference year two. This is theCUBE, our flagship telecast where we go out to the events and talk to the smartest people we can find, extract a signal from the noise, and we don't care who they are. They could be venture capitalists, they could be entrepreneurs, they could be engineers and VP of marketing, they could be CEOs. As long as they got some signal, we want to share that with you. I'm John Furrier, the founder of siliconangle.com, and I'm here with my co-host. I'm Dave Vellante of wikibon.org. John, that was a great session we had with Jeff Kelly reviewing the big data market size. Hopefully we can have him back. And as you say, we'll have all the movers and shakers on here at Stratoconference. We'll be going all night. I want to thank our sponsors and we are very excited to be here in year two. So let's talk about the updates for the folks out there here about our sponsors. The Cube is now in its, I guess, second year, third, two and a half years. May of 2010 is when we just started the enterprise thing with wikibon and siliconangle. You guys were doing South by Southwest before that. So, you know, we've been doing some great work and people love the Cube and we've had hundreds and hundreds of guests. I think we're over 700 guests now in the Cube. 700. Experts, gurus, friends, family, entrepreneurs, journalists, writers, you name it, they're smart, they're talking to us. But Dave, we've had people, they don't understand the Cube. So we finally found a nice business model. The business model is we get sponsored by people who love the Cube, who love how we can bring the knowledge independently to you, all organic, no paid interviews, none of that conversation stuff going on here, pure independent analysis from wikibon.org or siliconangle.com teams. So we announced our last Cube event at HP in Las Vegas that the Cube is now ad supported. That means that the advertisers whose videos that you see are on the Cube, they are paying us money for those ad spots and we love those ads. They could be three minutes in length, they could be six minutes in lengths. They could be YouTube videos, they could be funny. As long as they're educational, they're classy and they exchange knowledge, we love that, they can pay for that, they get a slot and they rotate throughout the day. So you'll see ads from 1010 data, Cloud Air, no, MapR, Cloud Air, 1010 data and digital reasoning. So the ads support us. The other thing that we do with the Cube because we do eight hours a day, normally people do an hour of footage, ESPN might come in, CNBC might come in here and do 15 minutes, we do eight hours. And we take a couple of those hours and we do spotlights. And the spotlights can be supported and be a sponsorship. But the content is not paid content. We do all editorial work on that. So that's how we work, Dave, and it's been great. So tell us who the sponsors are today. Yeah, so we just heard from 1010 data and MapR, those guys are pretty interesting innovative companies. They made the Jeff Kelly list of pure plays as did Cloud Air and digital reasoning. So, and these guys are the movers and shakers that are driving the innovation in big data. In this $5 billion market study we did, yes, we had IBM, yes, we had Oracle, yes, we had HP, but the guys that are really driving the innovation are, even though they've been acquired, the Vertica's, the Green Plums, the Splunks, the Cloud Air is the 1010 data, the MapR's, the digital reasonings, et cetera. And those guys are the ones that are VC funded, they're moving fast, they got a gun to their head, right, they're competing like crazy against much, much more well-funded startups. Chris Lynch, I had him on the Cube the other day, he's the CEO of Vertica. He said, companies don't buy from startups because they want to. They buy from startups because they have to, because startups aren't doing something that's 5% or 10% or 15% better. They're doing something that's twice as good, or three times as good, or ideally 10 times better. And that's why people buy from startups. Well, let's thank those sponsors, 1010 data, Cloud Air, digital reasoning, you guys are great, thank you very much for your support. Did I miss anyone? I think we had everyone. MapR, awesome. So, Dave, let's just jump into the news. Mark Risen Hopkins, our editor, just sent me some notes. We have our team already blocking heavily on SiliconANGLE.com. You'll see a lot of flow on SiliconANGLE.com. We have all the tech news coverage. That's where the action is. That's where the innovation is. That's where the future is. However, we got some posts coming out of this show there right now. Mark Hopkins is sharing me the news. The big news of the day in the industry is that Apple is, announces the iPad event for March 7th. That's where they will unveil the iPad 3. And Dave, obviously the death of Steve Jobs this past year has been brutal to Apple, but they move on, right? And they're continuing to grow. I mean, they have record bank balance of cash. And the iPad was featured at SAP Sapphire when they talk about mobility. It's really changed the game. And analytics and big data allow for applications like stuff on the iPad to work better, business dashboards. Those kinds of new applications are coming out. What do you think about how that has changed the world? Well, I think you're right. I think the idea of the App Store for the enterprise, we saw that in a big way last year at SAP Sapphire. I think you're right about jobs that really was difficult for Apple and the industry in general. Say what you want about jobs. Obviously there's a cult following. A lot of people will point out that he wasn't the nicest guy in the world, especially earlier in his career, but built quite a legacy. And I think that my interest is, John, is how do great companies survive the death of their leader, their founder? And Apple's got many, many billions, I think they got about 30 billion in short-term cash and investments according to Google Finance. 30 billion, that is some serious coin. And they're the most valuable company in tech. And so that's a starting point, but is it enough? It totally is. Those guys are doing great. They have a great company that continue to go fast. And you mentioned Steve Jobs, Dave, and I just want to share with the viewers out there that I'm working on a project right now that came across, believe it or not, LinkedIn, in this case. And the person emailed me, it turns out, I have a real passion for Silicon Valley history, and I've been looking at talking to folks who have been recording interviews going back 10, 15 years ago with the founder of Intels, who passed away and a bunch of other pioneers in Silicon Valley. And so I'm supporting this project called the Silicon Valley History. And I got an email from a person just a couple of days ago that said that they actually have footage that's never seen before from Steve Jobs. One-on-one interview, documentary from Regis McKenna, the early days footage, some really epic early days footage of Steve Jobs, not seen by anyone and is proprietary to this person. I looked at the footage, I validated the footage, and it's worthy enough for maybe a showing in downtown Palo Alto. So we're putting together kind of a proposal. If anyone's interested in financing it, we're looking to have a big meetup and to unveil this footage of Steve Jobs. So I'm just throwing that out there as a plug for a project I'm working on. Again, this is unseen footage. I'll show Mark later. He'll drool. I looked at it. It's fantastic. And again, this is never seen before footage of Steve Jobs with basically life lessons. It's really candid. It's really unique and special. So with Regis McKenna. Regis McKenna's in there. Very famous PR person. The original marketing guy in there who was in there with all this early footage. And you can see the old footage. So what I want to do is run it as a big meetup. You have a big meetup with a couple hundred people, get some sponsors and showcase that that's kind of eye candy and as a presentation. Some other news today is the Dow closed above 13,000 for the first time since 2008. Dow milestones, I don't know what you think about this one. Sometimes we've seen Dow close at a milestone and rock it up from there. Other times we've seen it not be able to hold. What do you think is going to happen this time? I think I feel good about it. And I think a couple of things that get my attention. Obviously the financial crisis internationally seems to be managing itself out. But I'm still worried about the overall economic climate personally, again I'm not an economist. I just have that fear from what I read and what I'm thinking about. But I think the technology is not in a bubble. I think it's absolutely real deal. I think the big data market points to the fact that there's going to be a whole new generation of innovation and wealth creation around big data. Big data to me reminds me of the PC and the mainframe. Computing was locked up into glass houses and the computer revolution unleashed all kinds of new software and services and value. With big data, I think you're going to see that locked up data evolve into open data, shared data into data spaces or data factories as Abhimeta would say. And new services will be enabled. Those new services on top of big data to me is equivalent to the old software business. And from those services, new value will be created. New value in terms of top line revenue on businesses, society changing and those impact from big data will create a massive revolution and a really decades of amazing ecosystem development. Well, Tim O'Reilly said on theCUBE last year and I thought it was actually it was at Hadoop World where he said that we all know Tim as a trend spotter. You're kind of a bit of a trend spotter yourself. But Tim had said, look, I was looking at software and the big mistake that IBM made is they thought that hardware was the competitive source of advantage and it was really software and Microsoft proved that. And now he's saying with open source of commoditizing software, data is becoming the new source of competitive advantage and monetizing data is really what it's all about. And he said that years ago. And so credit to him, we're starting to see that. Well, he's been on the data privacy thing and he's been like protect your data. But I think Tim kind of lucked into it because what happened with big data was interesting because personal data was something that's been close to Tim's heart. But with cloud computing and the convergence of the networks, the convergence of networking, storage and cloud and compute created cloud computing. And with the mobility surge has been great. And we talked about this Dave. I mean, 2010 was what is Hadoop? You know, big data was kind of bad. We weren't even being talked about. 2011, big data as a new business model and the economics behind it became the theme. And then this year it's about platform maturity of big data. You're seeing the big vendors in there, $50 billion valuation by your recent report at Wikibon. And the emergence of applications is really the focus. So to me, this is the year of platform maturity and application focus. And we're going to see a massive surge of innovation in 2013. I think 2013 is the year of wealth and money from big data. The platforms are maturing now. And we're seeing the application start popping out of the woodwork from healthcare, financial to journalism. Excel partners has a big data fund, $100 million allocated. So I think this is the year of establishment. Next year is the big revenue. Well, I think, you know, we know from firsthand experience it's not easy to do project, right? I mean, it's not, you and I can't just start coding and do it. You know, it's hard for us to really get in. And so with our crowd spots application and vertical engine. So some work needs to be done there, right? Yeah, well, what we did, I mean, we have guys X cloud error coding for us. We've been playing with H base. We love H base. H base has been a fantastic architecture for us. H base is really hard to manage. You really can't, it is no real. It's hard to get the kind of mainstream developer on H base. However, that being said, abstractions and commoditizing that integration will be good. Node.excel showed that killer spreadsheet this morning. That is something that a real person can do. So I think the innovation is going to come as the platform matures, you're going to see an explosion of simplicity tools where average people, analysts, workers can actually self serve themselves with data. So to me, data's got to be more open. Data can be commoditized, but also brokered. So I think you're going to see all kinds of new business models around data. I'm excited by that. But then again, applications will drive that. So again, platform maturity. In 2012, making money in 2013 and beyond. Yeah, well, I wrote a story on, I posted on Forbes that said the $50 billion market that you guys reported is real and unhyped. I posted this morning on siliconangle.com that I personally believe that big data is as big as the PC revolution. From an impact standpoint to society, you're talking about full global impact, you got mobile devices, you have new developer models, everything is forcing this new sea change where data was once locked in, very, very narrow, owned by the operators of the data. Now you have data that's open and free, you got consumer data, you have all kinds of geodata. So you're going to see craziness of data models out there. And Bill Schmarzo actually pointed out where the data model will not be a lock-in anymore. So to me, this is the confluence of change of the business model, change of the technology, and change of the actors and the ecosystem. So I'll test that premise a little bit with you because you're saying the big data's going to be as big if not bigger than the PC wave, right? And subsequent waves have always been bigger than the previous ones. And okay, so you got that on your side, but out of the PC era came Intel, Microsoft, Compact, which of course got acquired, but Dell, and I would even argue EMC, came out of the microprocessor-based revolution with smaller disk drives. But, and then you had the internet wave and Amazon and Google came out of that. And the data wave, are we going to see companies coming out of this next wave that are as large? Could you, would you argue that Twitter is one of those companies and Facebook is one of those companies? No, not primarily. Well, they're an actor, but here's what I would say. To all the examples you mentioned, client server, TCPIP, all those key disruptive enablers, every revolution has an enabler, some technology lever. So to me, I think like TCPIP enabled Cisco, 3Com, those networking guys, the HTTP enabler, the web enabled Netscape and a bunch of others. But I think to me, the PC was not just an enabler, it was a concept, it was a revolution because computing was narrow. Glasshouse computing, and we're PC generation. So the PC brought computing to the individual. The individual now can do Excel spreadsheets, they can do business productivity, so Microsoft is born, applications are born. So to that effect, it's a combination of some disruptive enablers, but it's an absolutely changing of a complete industry. It's a creation of an industry. The PC revolution created an industry. So I think big data in my mind will create a whole new industry. It won't be the computer industry to just be, someone will come up with a name for it, I don't know what to call it. Well, but the key is then putting that data in the access of business users and individual users' hands, isn't it? Well, I think the key thing is data in the hands, but the key is the developer communities. So when you look at the open source revolution, all this stuff kind of adds to some leverage to a Zelda's trajectory going on the industry. So with all that's boiling over, open source, compute that's free, storage is getting cheaper, FusionIO with Flash, you have all the building blocks that once cost a lot of money, as they say, to build a startup, all they're out there as available resource. Data is the resource that's the problem. Data is the bottleneck. I mean, compute is sitting idle, the data is the bottleneck. So to me, I think that the change is going to be the developer community having access to the kind of raw materials in the data and having the data being available as part of the development process. And I think that will fuel a generation of a new industry and a new generation of entrepreneurs. In events like this underscore how data is changing various industries and, you know, Alex was just sitting in on how big data is changing the journalism business and be interested to hear how that...	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCbd_-0Bb7w", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q	Would you date a podcaster? Most women say no! (3-6-23)	https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/06/style/dating-men-with-podcasts.html NYT: For Ms. Roberson, it wasn’t just the content of the man’s podcast, but that he had one at all. Like many other women, she associates the form with a certain kind of man: one who is endlessly fascinated by his own opinions, loves the sound of his own voice and isn’t the least bit shy about offering unsolicited opinions on masculinity, sexuality and women. Many women have taken to social media to mock just that kind of programming and the men who make it. On TikTok, hashtags like #menwithpodcasts gather videos of (mostly) women using a beard filter to satirize the sorts of things male podcast hosts say, such as: “Why, as a man, are you born in the month of February?” or “That’s the problem with women who read.” Others have called on them to “put down the mics” and “get a job!” With the once-booming podcast industry currently on the back foot and hosts’ reputations for self-important mansplaining having long since caught up with them, is the “podcast bro” officially a persona non grata in today’s dating landscape? 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Generally speaking women don't want to date a guy who hosts a podcast or writes a blog or does stand-up comedy. Okay, because women are primarily concerned about security safety and these things detract from security and safety. One, he could totally f things up so that he gets fired, comes unemployable in his chosen field, like destroys his reputation, damages his family. Those chances are high. So in all likelihood, the blog, the podcast, the live stream is going to detract from the safety and security that she wants to build. It's going to detract from his income and money-making opportunities and from his social standing and from his relationships with his family and friends and community. Because the odds are so high that he'll say something stupid. On the other hand, in that tiny chance that he becomes successful as a podcaster, that's going to take him away from her. Right? His world's going to grow. Right? The more people he meets, right, the more connections he makes, the more chances are that he'll screw around on her. Right? Successful men, very rarely are faithful to their wives. What type of men faithful to their wives? Overwhelmingly, it's men who don't have opportunities, substantial opportunities to be unfaithful. Right? The more you have opportunities, right? These public park podcasts are perfectly palatable. Thank you very much. So the more opportunities that men have to stray, the more often men will stray. Also, for many men, probably most men, the only source of substantial female admiration they get in their lives is from their wives. And when women, they're getting to their 40s and 50s, they get pretty much tired of pumping out the admiration. So if a man, you know, takes up a blog or a podcast or a live stream, he's any good at it, he's going to get admiration outside of her. And so her power over him is going to diminish. And so if she's been washing his dirty underwear for 15 years, all right, she's probably not pumping out a whole lot of admiration, right? I noticed a ton of husbands are incredibly grateful for their wives, but they, I becoming more prevalent with sex robots become almost human in some ways. But I noticed a ton of men are incredibly grateful for their wives, but how many wives do you notice who are incredibly grateful for their husbands? All right? And that is almost none of that. It's almost always, you know, running in one direction. So she's not going to be, you know, terribly impressed with his opinions and his dispensing of his opinions on a podcast or a blog. You know, she's not going to like that. And in the case he becomes successful, but he's going to start receiving admiration from all sorts of women who are not her. And men are highly susceptible to being admired by women, particularly young attractive women, right? So his, if he's successful, his social world is going to expand. He's going to meet a lot more people. He's going to be invited to a lot more parties. His social connections are going to grow. His opportunities are going to grow. And this can happen overnight. I say this as a blogger, right? When I achieve some success, suddenly, you know, my social world just blossomed and pretty much every night for years, I was going to events, parties, gatherings, and my social world just became quite rich. And it happened very quickly. And you can quickly rise to prominence with a blog or a podcast or a live stream. If you get on a particular niche and you can, you can develop a very intense relationship with your audience. And so your world is going to spin and change and expand. And she may very well feel left behind, jealous, resentful. People are going to take what the hell was that? That was just some loud, you know, motorcycle noise in the background. So either the blogging and the podcasting and the video live streaming, it's going to diminish his economic opportunities and all likelihood and his social standing and be a disruptive influence on, you know, whatever life they build together so that, you know, he possibly gets fired, brings the family into disgrace, right? That's the most likely option. And the tiny, tiny chance that he becomes successful, that he is going to, in all likelihood, you know, grow away from her, develop his own social circle, you know, get, you know, new forms of admiration, new ways of filling him up. And women hate when their man becomes filled up with other people's admiration. That scares her because it diminishes her power. He becomes more powerful than her. He becomes less vulnerable to her charms and wiles. And you'll see this typically in couples when the man becomes more successful, the woman really, really resents it. Typical case point is Barack Obama and Michelle Obama. And so, you know, very few men with opportunities stay faithful to their wives. So just the podcasting, live streaming, blogging just creates all sorts of instability that women don't tend to like very much. Now, there can be exceptions if she respects what he's doing, right? If he is doing something that is respectable, admirable, you know, aboveboard, something that brings out the best in people rather than the worst, you know, appeals to people's better instincts rather than their worst instincts, right? If she can respect what he's doing, she can admire what he's doing. And if what he's doing gets social reinforcement in their community so that there is, you know, widespread respect and admiration for what he's doing, then she can bask in that reflected glow. But a podcast man is like a Rocky Mountain High and you try to reach for the sun and you may get burned up.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCD59jq0C2s", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCyiCIj6lt5Un84xRSvk05LQ	Stories, Supper & Sangin' at Cowan on Tuesday, November 11	Cowan Creek Mountain Music School will be holding their Stories, Supper & Sangin' on Saturday, November 11, 2023, at the Cowan Community Center.	[ "ekb", "ekbtv", "pikeville", "ekb news", "ky news", "kentucky", "news", "pike", "pike county", "pike co", "eastern kentucky", "suddenlink", "imc east kentucky broadcasting", "wxcc", "wdhr", "channel 18", "channel 16", "pike county news", "floyd county news", "knott county news", "county news", "local news" ]	2023-11-07T23:27:43	2024-04-23T03:37:35	92	pC3SmIA2hLc	At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. With 40 years of being in the hearing care industry, you'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 North Lake Drive in Prestonsburg. The Cowan Creek Mountain Music School will be holding their story supper and sang an event at the Cowan Community Center on Saturday, November 11th. So one of the reasons that we wanted to do this event is because food is such an important part of identity for people from Eastern Kentucky. In this time of year, we're often thinking a lot about our favorite dishes and our favorite traditional foods. And in the mountains, having a good meal goes along with having some good music and some good singing. And we just thought this would be a wonderful opportunity to bring everybody together. The event is a way for the community to come out, share recipes, stories, and listen to live music. All of these things are core parts of Appalachian heritage and provides a way for the community to come together over their shared tradition. We wanted to bring people together so that not only could we share food and share some of the traditional foods that help define our region and our regional cuisine, but also to remember our strength and remember our resilience and give each other comfort in the stories that we tell about our loved ones. For more information about the event, you can visit the Cow and Creek Mountain Music School Facebook page. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelcey Fadell.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC3SmIA2hLc", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC_TneqvSfh-KsIyZMlJjVsQ	Pele's body taken to stadium where memorial service will be held	#Kanal13 #likekanal13 #subscribekanal13 #warinukraine https://www.youtube.com/user/kanal13az?sub_confirmation=1 - SUBSCRIBE TO US! http://youtube.com/kanal13az/join - click here and support Kanal13 monthly for distributing more videos and independent journalism http://t.me/kanal13tv & https://bit.ly/37BVMqU https://www.youtube.com/user/kanal13az?sub_confirmation=1 https://bit.ly/2Rs6MB3 #lastminutenewsfromukraine #kanal13ukraine https://bit.ly/2V19Fdy Click here and just subscribe to Kanal13 - https://www.youtube.com/user/kanal13az?sub_confirmation=1 Kanalımıza bu linkə tıklamaqla dəstəyinizi göstərin: http://bit.ly/birmanat https://www.youtube.com/KANAL13AZ/join ATTENTION: If you woul like to contact with US please, write to +49176 75077516 WhatsApp DIQQƏT: Kanal13-də vətəndaş şikayətləri ilə bağlı yayılan videolar kanalın mövqeyini əks etdirmir, kanal bu ittihamların məzmununa görə məsuliyyət daşımır və hər hansı video materialda adı çəkilən və ya özünü qarşı tərəf kimi görən bütün hüquqi və fiziki şəxslərin mövqeyini də dərc etməyə hazırıq. Əlaqə üçün: +49176 75077516 WhatsApp **Diqqət! Diqqət! Sizdən hər hansı işlə bağlı Kanal13 adından pul istəyiblərsə təcili olaraq +49176 75077516 WhatsApp nömrəmizə yazaraq bildirin və polisə və prokurorluğa xəbər verin!!! Kanal13 olaraq Uca Millətimizə təmənnasız xidmət etməkdən qürur duyuruq!!! © Kanal13 TV istehsal etdiyi bütün video və audio məhsulları azad yayım hüququ altında yayır (free copyright and reuse allowed) və hər bir digər yayımçı Kanal13 tərəfindən istehsal edilmiş məhsulu məzmunu dəyişdirmədən, loqonu silmədən, Kanal13-ə istinad etməklə təkrar yaya bilər. Bu halda şirkətimizdən xüsusi icazə alınmasına ehtiyac yoxdur: Amma bir qeydə XÜSUSİ DİQQƏT YETİRİN: Kanal13-də yayımlanmış materialların digər YouTUbe kanallarında təkrar yayımına ancaq 48 SAATDAN SONRA İCAZƏ VERİLİR. Ümumiyyətlə isə, arzuediləndir ki, Kanal13-ə məxsus hər hansı video material youtube.com/kanal13az hesabına link verilməklə yayımlansın. Materialların qeyd edilən tələblər daxilində başqa youtube hesablarına, saytlara və ya sosial şəbəkələrə yüklənərək yayılması sərbəstdir. Qaydalar pozularsa şikayət edilə biləcəyinizi nəzərə alın! Xüsusi qeyd: Şərh bölməsində yazılan təhqir və söyüşlər silincək. Kanal13 olaraq hörmətli izləyicilərimizdən xahiş edirik ki, tənqid yazmağı təhqir yazmaqla qarışdırmasınlar və heç kimi aşağılayıcı ifadələrlə təhqir etməsinlər. ▌▌►Website: http://kanal13.tv/ http://www.facebook.com/tvkanal13 https://twitter.com/Kanal13Az https://www.instagram.com/kanal13.az Click & Subscribe to the main youtube Channel © KANAL13 [ Azərbaycanın ilk peşəkar internet televiziyası ] The First Internet TV of Azerbaijan Tags: Ukriane, Russia, Putin, Putler, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Zelenski, Kiev, Kyiv, Kadirov army, Kadirov, Kherson, Bucha, Kharkiv, Ukrainian pilots, vagners, Russian tanks, NATO, drones, Moscow, Kreml, war victims Ukraina,	[ "xeberler en son xeberler", "son xeber", "xəbərlər", "son xəbər", "aksiya", "mitinq", "kanal13", "kanal13 xeber", "tecili xeberler", "en son xeberler", "ən son xəbərlər", "son xəbərlər", "son xeberler", "günün son xəbərləri", "günün xəbərləri", "günün xeberleri", "etiraz aksiyası", "mitinq aksiya", "Ukriane", "Russia", "Putin", "Putler", "Russian invasion of Ukraine", "Zelenski", "Kiev", "Kyiv", "Kadirov army", "Kadirov", "Kherson", "Bucha", "Kharkiv", "Ukrainian pilots", "vagners", "Russian tanks", "NATO", "drones", "Moscow", "Kreml", "war victims Ukraina" ]	2023-01-02T20:45:11	2024-02-14T18:43:00	142	pCePeJv2_4Q	The Battle of Soccer legend Pelle was carried into Vila Belmiro state, Umin Santos, on Monday, January 2nd, ahead of a public wake. The casket was carried into the arena by Paul Berre, including Pelle's son, Edinho, and players from the Santos club, where he began his sporting career as a teenager in the 1950s. The open casket was played on a pier in the center of the field as crowds of fans queued outside for their chance to file a pass and pay respect to the soccer great. Pelle, who died on Thursday, December 29th, at the age of 82, after battling colon cancer, will lie at the stadium for 24 hours before a private ceremony on Tuesday, in which he will be laid to rest.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCePeJv2_4Q", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCMP5_7v48WfDKfoirLCcNgQ	President Reagan’s Meetings and Lunch with Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani of Italy on May 26, 1983	Full Title: President Reagan’s Meetings and Lunch with Prime Minister Amintore Fanfani of Italy during a Working Visit followed by their Departure Remarks at the Diplomatic Entrance on May 26, 1983 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/research/speeches/52683d Production Date: 5/26/1983 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:74627814 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/74627814	[ "Ronald Reagan", "Reagan Presidential Library", "U. S. National Archives", "Nancy Reagan", "Italy", "Amintore Fanfani", "Rose Garden", "State Dining Room", "Diplomatic Entrance" ]	2017-06-29T16:13:31	2024-02-05T06:33:26	1,068	pCSMzO9EUzc	The guest today is Prime Minister Stefani of Italy. Prime Minister Fanfani and I have had productive discussions today covering a wide range of issues. We confirmed the broad consensus that exists between our two countries on matters concerning the Middle East, western security and solidarity, international economic cooperation and world peace. President Fanfani and I have had productive discussions today covering a wide range of issues. We confirmed the broad consensus that exists between our two countries on matters concerning the Middle East, western security and solidarity, international economic cooperation and world peace. I took this occasion to thank the Prime Minister for Italy's continuing vital contribution to the Western Alliance, particularly in regard to INF on which Italy's support has been exemplary. I can say without reservation that the United States regards Italy's role in NATO as second to no other member of the alliance and our friendship as a precious asset. I can say without reservation that the United States regards Italy's role in NATO as second to no other member of the alliance and our friendship as a precious asset. amicizia costituisci un vantaggio prezioso. In recent months, Italy has been demonstrating its courage and its admirable sense of responsibility in the multinational force and observers in the Sinai, and participating in UNIFIL, and as a part of the multinational force in Lebanon. And Italy has been doing its share and more. This burden, as must be expected, has not been without cost. I express to the prime minister our deep regret over the death of Italian soldier Filippo Montesi and the wounding of several more Italians in Lebanon. These brave men stood side by side with our Marines, serving the cause of peace in that troubled country. In recent months, Italy has always demonstrated its courage and its admirable sense of responsibility in the multinational force and observers in the Sinai, and in its participation in UNIFIL, not that which component of the multinational force in Lebanon. Italy has done its part and much more. This burden, as must be expected, unfortunately, has not been without cost. I have expressed to the president of the Council our deep regret over the death of Italian soldier Filippo Montesi and the wounding of several other Italians in Lebanon. These brave men stood side by side with our Marines, serving the cause of peace in that troubled country. Italy has also been in the forefront of endeavors to promote harmony in the Horn of Africa and in seeking tangible progress to alleviate world hunger. In the important area of east-west economic relations, the prime minister and I confirmed the significance we attach to current discussions aimed at achieving a broad transatlantic consensus. As we proceed on to Williamsburg, I am most grateful to have the continuing benefit of Italy's wise counsel and advice. We Americans share the values of democracy and individual choice. Italy has also found the rebound of initiatives to promote harmony in the Horn of Africa and in the search for effective progress to alleviate world hunger. In the important area of east-west economic relations, the prime minister and I confirmed the significance we attach to current discussions aimed at achieving a broad transatlantic consensus. As we proceed on to Williamsburg, I am most grateful to have the continuing benefit of Italy's wise counsel and advice. And since Italy's spectacular liberation of General Dozier from his red brigade captors back in 1982, the general feeling around Washington has been Viva Italia. The genuinely friendly nature of our relations and Italy's tangible commitment to preserving peace and freedom caused me to repeat that sentiment today. America is proud to have Italy as a friend and as a partner in meeting with the United States. I am proud to have Italy as a friend and as a partner in meeting with the United States as a friend and as a partner in meeting with the United States. I am proud to have Italy as a friend and as a partner in meeting the challenges ahead. And I personally look forward to having the continued counsel and support of Prime Minister Fanfani and other Italian leaders. And welcome again, Mr. Prime Minister. I am proud to have Italy as a friend and as a partner in meeting the challenges ahead. And I personally look forward to having the continued counsel and support of Prime Minister Fanfani and other Italian leaders. Mr. President, at the White House, I am proud to have Italy as a friend and as a partner in meeting the challenges ahead. I am proud to have Italy as a friend and as a partner in meeting the challenges ahead. At the White House, already with Eisenhower in 1958 and then with Kennedy in 1961 and 1963, I experimented what possibilities between the United States of America and Italy exist. I thank President Reagan, who, with his courteous invitation, was able to accept the friendship that he had with the White House. Mr. President, at the White House in the past, with President Eisenhower in 1958 and then again with President Kennedy in 1961 and 1963, I had already experienced those possibilities of understanding which exist between the United States and Italy. I thank President Reagan, who, by his courteous invitation, has afforded me the opportunity to ascertain again how solidly the friendship that was so successfully promoted by Alcide de Gasperi has been maintained. In his courteous welcome, President Reagan has pointed out some important things that I would like to share with you. I would like to thank President Eisenhower, who, with his courteous invitation, was able to accept the friendship that was so successfully promoted by Alcide de Gasperi and with his courteous invitation, I would like to thank President Eisenhower, and President Reagan has pointed out some important aspects of this friendship. The Atlantic Alliance, which commits us also with respect to intermediate-range nuclear forces, ensures peace through the necessary arms balance. Our common action in the Sinai and in Beirut facilitates the settlement of difficult situations. In Geneva, Vienna, and Madrid, we are seeking just solutions to the problems of disarmament and human rights. I also wish to recall two beneficial effects of this long-standing cooperation of ours, the rise of Italy from the situation in which it found itself at the end of the Second World War and the end of the Second World War. I would like to thank President Eisenhower, who, with his courteous invitation, has pointed out some important things at the end of the Second World War amid all the destruction to the position of being one among the seven most industrialized countries in the world, and the cooperation given to the United States also by Italy in order to avoid the 1962 Cuban missile crisis become the first nuclear war. These are two effects of a common action for progress and peace. Today, on all peoples, there are two concerns. The economic crisis and the threat of a nuclear clash. The exchange of views with President Reagan allows me to consider this meeting useful to strengthen two great hopes. The hope of the economic recovery to consolidate in Williamsburg. The hope of a constructive conclusion of the negotiation currently taking place in Geneva. Today, there are two major causes for concern for all people. The economic crisis and the threat of a nuclear clash. The exchange of views with President Reagan allows me to consider today's meeting as useful in order to strengthen two great hopes. The hope for economic recovery which is to be consolidated at Williamsburg. The hope for a constructive conclusion of the negotiations currently taking place in Geneva. With the fulfillment of these two hopes, the world's economy will benefit from the recovery we all see. Peace, even today uncertain, will become finally secure. Millions of individuals will return to work. All peoples, especially those from the Third World, will resume the path to development. Funds which will be subtracted from armaments will give a decisive impetus to the Third Industrial Revolution. The horizon will rise again and again to the citizens of the United States of America and Italy that cooperation between the two countries continues to be an important factor of progress and peace. The clearing of the horizon will make the citizens of the United States and of Italy realize once again that cooperation between the two countries continues to be an important factor for peace and progress.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCSMzO9EUzc", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCA6mP3kdfPmfsq9tMhT7RWg	Never Ever Hide Someone's Lineage Intentionally \| Mufti Menk	✔️Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/theallloving 👉https://wp.me/pazrby-b1 ✔️ Our Website: https://theall-loving.com/ 📌In this short reminder by #MuftiMenk mentions how importance of one’s #biological #Identity in Islam with #Englishsubtitles. Allah chose one’s parents whether he / she likes or not as a test for him /her. One will be called with his/ her father's name on the day of #Qiyamah. So hiding #lineage is actually a major sin intentionally in Islam. As #Quran says: "Call them after their fathers. That is most just in the sight of Allah. If you know not their fathers, then call them your brothers in faith and your patrons. There is no blame on you if you make a mistake but you are accountable for what is done intentionally. Allah is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful." [Qur'an 33:5] 💓💓💓Ismail Musa Menk was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is a student of knowledge trying to disseminate the Deen in the current age. ✆Contact of Mufti Menk ☞Mufti Menk Official Website: https://goo.gl/fwJR75 ☞Facebook: https://goo.gl/451XNl ☞Twitter: https://goo.gl/58Ijqt 📌 Note: This Channel is not Mufti Menk channel or in relation with him. It simply shares reminders from his videos to preach the light of Islam. ✅ Please share this:https://youtu.be/PcvQeU8vJa8 🤚PLEASE NOTE: 🚫 This channel doesn't Support & Advocate any unlawful activity towards any individual or community. 🚫 💎This video is created by & for the “The All-Loving”. Feel free to re-upload and share.	[ "Islam", "Deen", "Mufti Menk reminders", "Mufti Menk", "Ismail ibn Musa Menk", "mufti ismail menk", "Mufti Menk lecture", "fans of Mufti Menk", "lineage", "Biological Identity", "Qiyamah", "Never Ever Hide Someone's Lineage Intentionally", "The all-loving", "the all loving" ]	2017-08-27T23:07:09	2024-04-18T17:41:00	89	PcvQeU8vJa8	اللہ آپ کو فتحان س één سے فتحہ ہے اس کیوں کہ لوementہ ایک مسلم او نہیں باتکنےthe انے Farm انہوں کو فتحہ کیا ہينے میں کھوٹ کے اور لوementہ کو فتحہ مندانیا ہے انہوں کو فتح 就ید Arabic گ bother چاہئے کے screws س gente کی ساتھ جان designs50 کیسے دے گئییada اس کی نام ہے جو آپ کا نام ہے۔ انہوں کے پاس ، اگر آپ جانتے ہیں تو آپ کی نام کو جانتے ہیں۔ جس کے بارے کے لئے گیاما کو جانتے ہیں اور میں آجتا ہوں گے سبحانہ اللہ کی مجھے آپ کو جانتے ہیں۔ اللہ کہتے ہیں اُدعوہم لِ آبائیم ورقصط وی اند اللہ اس کے نام کو جانتے ہیں کیونکہ وہ اللہ کے دین کیا ہے کہ اگر آپ کے بارے کے لئے سبحانہ جو سبحانہ حواتistling기는۔ لیکن اس اینا ایک رسائی کی لنیج ہے۔ سمجھتے ہیں ربہ آنکہ لوگ آپ بارہ کسی لنیج سے دور کیا ہے وہ ایسی بہت ساہییی کی مبنیوں ہی دور رہی ہے۔ اللہ know what he will do with such a person ایک سوچا پرسان.ażو سبحانہ حوات Interestingly اینا ت'وبا لگت۔ اینا دور سیکنگ جو اینا انتوار سریانیہ lectures انتشنш نہیں وہ تیک ہے۔ انجاما哪裡 کیا ہے؟ مرحبا سبحانہ و تعالیٰ فرمانا ہمارے جانتے ہیں مرحبا سبحانہ و تعالیٰ فرمانا ہمارے جانتے ہیں	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcvQeU8vJa8", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCeTLK-PN9ZynubJ5UIxzk-Q	ADV Webinar: Organizational Change Management in Becoming an Analytic Organization	The complexities of engaging behavioral and enterprise transformation are too often underestimated at great peril because the “soft stuff” is truly hard. Learn more about concrete steps you can take to transform your organization. Access this webinar on our website: https://www.dataversity.net/adv-webinar-organizational-change-management-in-becoming-an-analytic-organization/. Watch more Advanced Analytics webinars: https://www.dataversity.net/category/education/webinars/upcoming-webinars/advanced-analytics-upcoming-webinars.	[ "Change Management", "Advanced Analytics", "ADV Webinars", "William McKnight", "DATAVERSITY", "DATAVERSITY Webinars", "Information Management" ]	2020-09-04T00:07:41	2024-02-05T07:31:17	3,661	PchQitl4FPk	And here we go. Hello and welcome. My name is Shannon Kemp and I'm the Chief Digital Manager of DataVercity. We'd like to thank you for joining the latest installment of the Monthly DataVercity Webinar Series, Advanced Analytics with William McKnight, sponsored today by Matillion. Today, William will be discussing organizational change management and becoming an analytic organization. Just a couple of points to get us started. Due to the large number of people that attend these sessions, you will be muted during the webinar. For questions, we will be collecting them by the Q&A in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. Or if you want to share highlights or questions by Twitter, you can also do that using hashtag ADV Analytics. And if you'd like to chat with us or with each other, we certainly encourage you to do so. Just click the chat icon in the bottom middle of your screen for that feature. And if you'd like to continue the conversation after the webinar, you can follow William and each other at community.dativersity.net. As always, we will send a follow-up email within two business days, containing links to the slides, the recording of the session, and additional information requested throughout the webinar. Now let me turn it over to Sean for a brief word from our sponsor, Matillion. Sean, hello and welcome. Hey, thanks so much for having me. I appreciate everybody taking their time today. I'm getting my screen all shared up. Hopefully everybody can see that. Again, my name is Sean Johnson. I'm with the company called Matillion. I've been in data warehousing for about 20 years now, last two years or so in the cloud data warehousing space. Today, as we talk about the complex concept or topic of organizational change management, one of the things that we really kind of want to focus on is creating a technology stack that reduces some of that complexity. And this is where Matillion provides a nice solution. We are simple. We have a really easy to use, no code, low code UI. We scale based on the cloud. We offer paid as you go pricing models. And then we provide you guys really fast time to market with your products. As we look at this, in our modern data analytics ecosystem, not much has really changed. We still see a lot of various sources over here. These are going to be very complex. But we see on our right side that things are getting a little bit more consolidated. And where a tool like Matillion fits into this modern architecture is through what I call automation, of source control management. And so we'll look at source control management a little bit and how Matillion can support you through that process. Built into our tools, you're going to find tools like the Git integration, a Matillion API. What these allow you to do is create data lineage and documentation so that you can understand your analytics ecosystem and then apply appropriate change models and methods that you'd want to utilize. Oftentimes within organizations, we don't necessarily always understand the process that we follow, but using a product like Matillion and ETL development, give us insight into how that data moves within our ecosystem and the different ways that we need to manage that from a change perspective. It also allows us to kind of monetize the various changes that we're going to go through. And then what we can do is we can apply automations to those processes so that we really generate solid documentation, which creates lineages within our environment so that we fully understand our data analytics environment. Also, as part of this, you're going to end up creating what I call operational reports. These are data-driven operational reports that run off of your Git integration and your Matillion API development so that you really understand which of the data that you're bringing into your warehouse adds value to you and which doesn't add value. And then we can apply change models to that so that ultimately at the end of the day, we end up with really high quality change practice through our data warehouse development environment. And the final thing that I would kind of say about best practices inside of Matillion is we're changing every day. Change doesn't stop. And so really what we like to do at Matillion is we like to build change into our process. We release about every 12 weeks and that gets us into this kind of cyclical continuous change process so that we're always manning change within our environment. And we find that this enables our organization to stay ahead of the learning curve in a lot of cases with the various vendors that we work for. So as William kind of dives into organizational best practices for change today, I want you guys to kind of think about automation tools that you can use that underlie these practices that William's gonna discuss to really enhance what you guys are doing as a business and generate much better outcomes for you. I wanna thank you guys for your time. And with that, I'll turn it back over to Sharon. Sean, thank you so much for kicking us off. And thanks to Matillion for sponsoring. If you have questions for Sean, feel free to submit them in the Q&A section in the bottom right-hand corner of your screen as he will be joining us in the Q&A at the end of the webinar. Now let me introduce to you our speaker for the series, William McKnight. William is the president of McKnight Consulting Group. McKnight Consulting Group focuses on delivering business value and solving business problems until problems utilizing proven streamline approaches and information management. His teams have won several best practice competitions for their implementations and he has been helping companies adopt big data solutions. And with that, I will give the floor to William to get his presentation started. Hello and welcome. Thank you, Shannon. Thank you, Sean, as well. Change is a key word today. Word of the day, you might say. Sean talked a little bit about how important it is that your technical solution embrace the change that's going to happen within the technical architecture, specifically for a company like a Matillion. Changes in the source that are required to get pushed through to the various targets that that data goes through. We all know data goes through many permutations throughout the organization. And I'm gonna talk a little bit about a different kind of change, organizational change, people issues, people change. Now, this is going to be the least technical of all of the talks in this series. And this is the, I believe this is the 18th talk in the series, Advanced Analytics. By the way, you can see some of the prior sessions out on YouTube, as well as here at the university. So feel free to browse them. And I also looked out on the roadmap of what's coming up. And yes, this is going to be the least technical one. But if I were to assign importance to the topic for your success out there, I would say this is possibly the most important one. It's not as sexy as some of the others and myself. And I'm sure a lot of you enjoy the technical aspects of our projects much more than this stuff. But it is absolutely required for success. So let's get into the topic a little bit. What we want to avoid is this. What we want to avoid is attention organization, enterprise, we are now in production. So start to change, start to use what we've built here. No, and let that be a surprise, right? And they expect that that's going to cut it and get people to use this, whatever it is. No, it should not be a thud out of the tree like this. It should be something much, much more gradual. And we have to account for these issues all along the way throughout our project. This is something I've learned in my practice leading consulting groups for 20 years. And we've incorporated it into our practice with a high degree of success. I'm going to share that with you here today. And I hope that it helps you become more successful. I'm sure you're building some great technical foundations out there. I'm sure you're building some great data. But let's get those users to actually use it. Let's get those application developers to actually incorporate our data into their projects. And so I'm going to be very specific with you and give you some tactics, some techniques that I suggest be in your project plans and be on your agile backlogs. Now specifically, we're talking about trying to lead an organization into the world of analytics, the modern world of analytics, that is. Because I don't find too many people say, oh, we're not doing analytics here. But if you dig, if you dig as I do, you find that, well, it may be some fairly shallow use of analytics. So let's know that we're talking about some mature, modern uses of analytics, which probably includes artificial intelligence and machine learning, probably includes big data as well. And these types of analytics are absolutely critical to business success today. Now, this isn't the data maturity talk, but I make that point loud and clear in that talk. I believe that was last month's talk. Predict what is going to happen without intervention and actually intervene. I actually had to talk about predictive versus prescriptive analytics, and that's what I'm talking about here. Prescriptive analytics, doing something about what you're learning about. It's great to learn about what's going to happen, but you have to know what you're going to do with that information. Don't just report on what did happen and then let that be it. That's great to see the sales figures from last month, but how does that impact what we're going to do on a go-forward basis? Get business representation in determining the analytic calculations and predictive models. Again, you find this as a recurring theme in all that we do in information management and analytics. It's integrating with the business and being sure that we have that business representation in everything that we do. We're not coming up with the analytic calculations or predictive models, but the business side is. And some of us sit real close in that, but I find that most people are either implementing the technical side or the business side of it. They may sit right next to each other and be on the same team, and that's great. And we're going to get into some of the business models, how we can form to make analytics most effective within the organization. But still, we want to see that integration. Determine the analytic data that will be useful to business strategy. And I might kind of, with a wave of the hand, say, well, that's all your data. And then some, your third party data as well. And at some level, maturity probably is. But maybe the key here is determining a priority of data that you can bring under management and get in the enterprise architecture, not sitting out in silos, not sitting out in someone decided one day that it's going to be this way and nobody understands it or believes it, et cetera. Not that, but inside your leverageable data warehouse, inside your leverageable data lake, inside your leverageable operational data stores. And yeah, of course, you're going to have some data marks for good reasons outside of that. But have a true architecture might be another way of putting that bullet. Involving analytics in every initiative and business decision. That's right. Every initiative and business decision. If there's an initiative going on that does not have analytics consideration, as part of it, that is something to be improved upon. And hopefully one of the models that we talk about right here is going to help with that. Because analytics, again, needs to be part of all projects. So we have to know what those projects are. We have to have the analytic resources eventually at some point, knowing what those projects are and involving themselves and the analytics appropriately. So we have different models here. Center of excellence. Now, the difference between the center of excellence and central lies has to do with the influence of that organization. So with a center of excellence, you get more localized influence from that center into the various use cases, projects, et cetera, that's going on throughout the organization. So in a COE model, analysts are actually allocated to the units to the projects. Activities are still somewhat coordinated centrally. But the analysts are residing out there, at least for a temporary basis out there actually in the projects. And this, by the way, is the model that I like the best, especially for an organization that is of low maturity or getting started with their analytics program, getting started with their rollout. So start here and keep some elements of this, I would say, throughout your analytics journey. Now, another one is decentralized. And this is kind of problematic in my view if you go full decentralized, because sometimes I find that that's like saying, we're not really doing anything about it. We're just maybe nominally thinking about it within our project teams. But there's no central coordination or central functions in that. Then there's centralized, which I talked a little bit about, centralized though, you're not going to allocate resources. Resources are not actually reporting up through the project teams. They're centralized. And the project teams have to dip out into that centralized group to get what they need. This is effective as well. And of course, every organization is different. And you should think about your organization and what works there as you go through that. But I think that you're going to get more powerful center of excellence, more power from a center of excellence approach. And finally, you have a functional approach where you may have to do this, where you have all the analytics are driven by a functional agenda, but there's no vision of getting this to go broader within the organization. And finally, some overlay on top of all this is you might use consultants to actually do one of the above functions, which can take on quite a different persona than what it ultimately will inside of your enterprise, once you incorporate. OK, successful analytic organization transformation efforts require much more than the right analytics and good planning. And it requires a lot. It definitely requires more than good technology. That mentality is still out there about, oh, yeah, we can just buy it. We can just buy fraud detection. We just buy predictive maintenance. We can buy supply chain management. No, it's not a buy. It's a build, but you buy things to support the actual build of the various projects that you want to have within the enterprise. Good technology. Just buying it will not solve it. And I've been doing a lot of these budgets. I'm actually writing what I think will be a very good, very big paper for our industry on the true cost of modern projects with machine learning and artificial intelligence. And as we know, some of us, the professional services, the FT costs, and so on, are definitely going to be more than the technology for the most part. And that's still true today. So keep all that in mind. And I'm actually going to suggest in this presentation that we allocate a certain percentage of our budget towards these organizational change activities. So we will encounter many risks that are people related. Yeah, many risks that are people related. I can't tell you how many times I've come in to analyze a data organization, a data infrastructure, and I've found that I really like it. I think they've done a great job here. But the business side does not seem to agree, or at least they're not showing any of that. And sometimes it's the actual reverse. So either way, we've got to bring up the people side of this. Now this is a slide that I think belongs on, if not your walls, in your project artifacts and something to pull out when there seems to be an issue. Because the issues usually come back to something in regards to this, at least at some level. At some level, if leaders are not aligned with the transformation case or change, if they don't get that, you know, the projects that we work on, we data analytic professionals, the projects we work on are highly transformative to the company. I'm not talking about building a report. If we're working kind of break six stuff or working off a queue, I'm talking about the projects. Talking about leveling up our supply chain management, doing that predictive maintenance, doing that fraud detection and so on. Modern projects, leveling them up. We're all doing that stuff, but are we doing them to modern standards? And a lot of companies out there today, even with the pandemic and the shutdown, are doing those kinds of projects. They're leveling up in terms of the basic functions or taking them into artificial intelligence and so on. But the leaders are not aligned with that. There's going to be issues down the road. If departments fill they have little or no input in the process, clearly that's going to be a problem. Employees are concerned about how new processes will impact their current jobs. And this has to be handled delicately. What can I say? I do find that most people will come along eventually with the new way. As a matter of fact, you know, it really is our job to level up our organizations all the time. And that's essentially what we're doing with our jobs. We're not, you know, quote unquote, I won't say we're working ourselves out of a job, but we're leveling up the organization. We're hopefully growing into the jobs that our organizations are going to need in the future. So corporate change might be resistant. Corporate culture might be resistant to change. And that's a big problem. And that's something that, you know, we're definitely going to need to work from the top on. But good news is in the plan I'm going to give you, there is some working from the top that we do. Interruptions and day-to-day operations. Yeah, it's okay if you build that data lake out there. It's okay, just don't bother me. And oh, you don't really expect me to actually use it once you build it. That is a formula for failure right there. We are going to have to appropriately interrupt business and interrupt day-to-day operations and get some time from the stakeholders. You got other things going on. Of course, the staff itself is not adequately prepared to execute new processes and technology. You know, one thing that you'll find in my speaking, I'm motivating a lot. I'm trying to motivate us in data and technology because I really believe that we're sitting on the gold of the organization to pull a sentence from last month's talk. We are sitting on that gold and we have to be bold. We have to be assertive about that in order to get the company to understand and offer their own good, our own good, all good. Change readiness in organization impact assessments can provide OCM leaders. OCM for organizational change management, by the way. You'll hear me saying that. With additional insight into the people risk. So let's look at some of the things that we do out there. We build data warehouses. We build data lakes. We build business intelligence. We build analytics, et cetera, et cetera. At the top level, what do we want when we build this thing? We want use. We have to have use. We cannot spend millions and let it sit there. We want people to use the warehouse, not the old ways to get the data. We want people to accept that the data in the data warehouse is great. It's what they need. Not question is quality or it's completeness or any of a number of other things. Think of other uses for the data in the data warehouse. Not the first use. First use is the only use. That's not a data warehouse to come to think of it. That's not a leverageable artifact that you've built there if you think of it that way. We want the users and the business to contribute derivations, calculations, summarizations for the data warehouse, not just, oh, it's okay that you built that, that data lake, whatever. I will come and get the data off of there as quick as possible and get it out here to where I'm comfortable in my warm pond of Excel. No, that's not what we want. We have to work that side of the equation as we build our data infrastructure. Master data management, I'll be quick about this. Not everybody's doing it, but you should probably, but anyway, you'll often hear me say this as I come into a company to talk about master data management, to build a project, to do an assessment, et cetera. At the end of the day, I want people to get their master data from MDM, not other ways. I want to be the single point of this. That makes it leverageable. But if they're still gonna get data there, they're old ways, then I have failed. I want people to contribute their master data to MDM. That's the converse, right? So get and contribute their data to master data management, not the old ways. We're creating a very efficient structure here. We're creating something that we're gonna build once, use many times. Now moving on to big data. All right, now, I don't know if it's okay that I say big data anymore. I get chastised for saying big data, like I said, that's an old term, but still a lot of organizations are breaking out of their normal, if you will, alphanumeric data that fits nicely into, or could fit nicely into Excel. Breaking into big data, sensor data, clickstream data, a full log, full call detail records, et cetera, everything. So we need to extend our business analysis to include big data, it's not okay. It's not okay to sit back and say, well, nobody's asking for it. So I guess I don't need to do it. I don't need to think about it. I don't need to motivate that. No, I say you have to motivate that. You have to motivate it all. If you know it's good for the company, you have to motivate it. Even if you're busy and it's not something you can handle today, it's something you can negotiate into your plate, somebody's plate, but the business absolutely needs big data, whatever that means to you and your industry. Every industry is a little bit different. We have to get them to trust the big data collection process. It's as good as it, that it is as good as it gets. It's not something that we just threw together and we're losing pieces here and there, and it's just bad. We got to get the business to also think big and think beyond what they're doing today. Really, the death knell for a company is everybody's still doing the same thing year over year and expecting that that's gonna be competitive. That is not competitive, absolutely. Okay, response to change. Now, I'm not taking us back to, I don't know, Psychology 101 here or anything like that, I hope, but this is true. These steps are true, not just in our personal lives. They are true in our corporate lives as well. I have seen this happen. I can almost read out where people are on this now, on my projects and on your projects. Starting with denial. A lot of people, everybody goes through this for everything. Some of us go through it a lot faster than others, so. So, when you know that the end of the road is down there at the end, maybe I'm spreading the word or this isn't bad, wherever your good end of the road is, knowing that you're going to get there should help you get there. I hope that made sense while I just said, but it helps me know that when I face resistance that there's hope. There's hope to get through this because it's normal, that's people for you. We will deal with people, right? So, let's go through this. The change won't happen. Yeah, you can, I'll pick on a data lake. You can build that data lake, but I just don't think it'll be, I don't think it'll be good. I think you'll probably fail just like the last one or two and it's another fad and blah, blah, blah. That's denial. It won't affect me. Well, you might build something, but I'm going to be able to keep on going with my life. I'm not going to have to spend time right now thinking about this data, I think you called it a lake, okay, that you're building over there. So, because I don't think it's going to affect me. And okay, well, it looks like you're going to production with something here, but yeah, it won't last. It'll be short lived. Oh, now I'm angry because it's kind of creeping over into my territory. It's got data that somebody expects me to use, but I've got this clunky old way of doing it and I spend three days a month doing it, but I like it and I'm comfortable with it. And I never bothered to learn, you know, what they're doing to build what they're doing. Okay, I'm going to kind of try to stop with the role-player, I can't help it. But you go through that anger, you go through the depression about it, oh no. And then how can I stop it? Then you start bargaining, okay. You know, maybe I'll use it a little bit. You know, I'll try. Give it a, give it the old, you know, baseball try here or whatever. I'm going to give it a try and use some of that data lake. And hey, hopefully you get to, this isn't bad and I'm spreading the word. But no one individual, if everybody is stuck at denial, if you allow everybody to get stuck at denial, and that's a really rare situation by the way, but people will look around, they will look around and see where everybody else is on this journey. And they will act accordingly. So if everybody's in denial, you got a real problem. If everybody's in, it won't affect me. You got a real problem there. So from the start, there are some hills worth dying on, on these projects. And one of those hills is you have to get the users involved. We cannot do this without, without their input. And yeah, because a lot of them are going to be, unfortunately on the right side of this cat, this bell curve, where they are skeptical. They will come in, but they'll come in late. We love the ones on the left. They're going to come in and adopt early. And yeah, we can take a few innovators on. Now the good news about all this is, this bell curve as you see here, that's about how people do shape out in an organization. So you're probably not going to have all deniers, okay? But it's your job to identify who your important stakeholders are and where they are on this curve and act accordingly. And, you know, you're going to have some skeptics. You have to maybe overweight in terms of how you are treating them, but not to the complete detriment of taking care of your early adopters, okay? It's a balancing act. And I'm going to leave a ton of judgment in there as I give you all these tasks to do here on your projects. I'm going to leave a lot of judgment out there for you as well. I can't take that away. And, you know, nobody from a teaching position as I'm in here today and frequently am can take that away from you, you know, to adopt that within your organization. Okay, let's get to it. The analytic organizational OCM strategy. OCM will focus on mitigating the people risk and enabling the realization of business benefits across these five areas, five areas for you here. Training the workforce. So they're not behind when it comes to what they need to be doing to be utilizing whatever it is that we're building here in analytics, addressing the organizational implications. Yeah, there may be some job role titles or descriptions that need to change. There may be some reporting changes that have to happen. I like to, just to make a point sometimes, I shouldn't say this because it's a strategy, a consulting strategy, but I like to make a big play about how the job roles are going to change as a result of this, just to get people to realize, oh, you mean they're not over there just writing some reports? Oh, no, they're actually doing predictive maintenance. We're not going to do maintenance the old way. We're going to do it a new way. It's a wake up call. So you need those wake up calls early and often throughout the process. Engage and communicate, lots of communication. No such thing as over communication. We have to have that as part of our plan and communication from your scrum masters and so on doesn't just go down to the team. All right, it goes across the organization. I want regular touch points with key stakeholders on this at multiple levels of the organization. Speaking of that, we have stakeholder management in the upper right, which is probably the most important one on here. And I'm going to give you specific tasks in each of these five areas. Again, to put on your backlog and to put in your project plans, change readiness means that the organization is ready for change. People have exhibited the behavior that shows that they're ready. We have the artifacts in place. We have the support team lined up, et cetera. Change readiness is important to OCM. Now, OCM can be embedded or it can be standalone. So we can put some of it into projects to support that project or it can be standalone sitting aside, kind of like the center of excellence model in support of multiple projects that might be in development or might be in production, but not fully in production. You know what I mean, it's in production but it's not getting used the way that it needs to be used. Data governance often has some Venn diagram overlap with OCM, that's okay. We can have a whole talk on data governance if that's not your vote in your organization. Okay, well, let's do some things with OCM and we won't worry about that except that we need it. So let's build our data governance separately. But anyway, recommended to orient it to projects and have short-term wins. OCM is not like the data governance programs of the 90s that sat on the sideline and did their thing and expected major business results as a result of what they're doing when they're not integrated. OCM needs to be integrated. Let's just do that from the start and let's get these tasks and specific things that we need to do in the projects. All right, how much OCM to do? Well, I suggest you do an assessment and these are your metrics at a high level. Are you making process changes as a result of this project? One to five. Do you have numerous stakeholders and do you have high potential for unsupported stakeholders apparently? In this example, we do. We got that out there at a five. Is there widespread organizational implications or is it departmental rate that? Are jobs changing? Or is the organization used to change? This is really important. Is the organization used to change? Have they successfully dealt with change before? Or have you wasted millions on projects that seemingly look good but didn't get anywhere? Now these five things obviously map to the five things on the left, all right? So as we go into it, that's your mapping. Let's go into the work products. Now this is a macro look at the work products. I'm not gonna go through all of these. Again, a slide you can take off and refer to as part of your project team. And I know that I have designed, build pre-production and deployment across the top. Like as if I'm doing some kind of waterfall and not agile. When I know that most of you are doing agile, I'm doing all agile. Okay, I get all that. I get all that. But just because you're doing agile doesn't mean you're not designing, you're not building. You might be doing it in smaller increments but you're still doing all this stuff. And so whenever you're doing this stuff for your project, you just kind of read down that column and you see some of the things that you might want to do. Again, the more, back on this graph, the more out, I guess, closer to five that you have rated the respective function, the more of the things you're gonna want to do. So stakeholder management, we thought that was a problem for this project or a potential problem, right? Not a problem if we deal with it. Let's read across stakeholder analysis, do a stakeholder management plan. We evaluate and update the stakeholder management plan at pre-production. We evaluate and update the stakeholder management plan at deployment. So you're doing a lot with this stakeholder management plan. It's coming up early and often when that is the case, okay? So we need to bake all of that into projects that have a problem with stakeholders and many do. Same thing applies to all of the other rows that you see here change readiness, engage in communication, addressing organizational implications, training the workforce. So as an example, we might decide based upon our spider grasp to do this. We're gonna do stakeholder analysis. We're gonna do a stakeholder management plan. We're going to do a deployment readiness assessment, except for what you see here. And I think that what you see here is actually bare minimum, for any project of any kind of scope whatsoever. You need to be doing this. Now you might say, okay, teachers say job roles definition, not much to do there, but you should address it. You should at least acknowledge that that's a possibility. That's a tool in your toolbox. And if you don't pull it out, then you are definitely hampered in your ability to take this where it needs to be because your success as a leader doesn't end when you put it in production and declare victory then. It's later. It's after you incorporate change. It's after you actually get a ton of usage and bottom line business value from that thing. It's a tough job. Okay, stakeholder management. Let me drill in, double click on a few of the stakeholder management. I've raised that that's a pretty important one, right? Okay, identifying your stakeholders, assessing your stakeholders and influencing the stakeholders. And many times here we're talking about stakeholders that are VP level or above. And when that's the case, you influence them on an individual basis. You are not creating a one-size-fits-all plan for the CEO and the COO and et cetera, right? Okay, you have to take into account their personality and their understanding and just what it is that they're gonna be able to handle. Again, it's not a one-time event. It must be reassessed. So stakeholder dimensions. Identify your key stakeholders. And I like to say people ask me, well, you know, there's hundreds. I got hundreds of users for this, okay? Well, identify 25, okay? Identify up to 25. And let's do an exercise within the team. We don't have to tell them. We don't have to tell them we're doing this exercise on them. But let's write them according to all of this. How are they? Red, yellow, green, ROIG, red, yellow, green. How are they to the project? And maybe you don't know, figure it out. But how are they to the project? And where do we desire them to be? No, but we don't desire anybody to be red, okay? That means they're completely opposed to the project. And that can't be if they're a key stakeholder. If they're in my 25, they can't be red. We gotta give them to at least yellow, okay? I say red's the yellow, yellow's the green. What is our project role? What role do we want them to have on the project? What actions do, can they do that manifest that they have moved forward or moved to where they need to be to be a successful stakeholder? So this is an example, a little plan here. I won't read it all, but we have a description. And then we have a plan of attack scheduling. We're gonna have a meeting, a one-on-one with that person at the beginning of each release. It's gonna be one to two hours. The objective, and this is for department as apparently, is to prepare them for their role. And here we have a sample agenda that we're gonna take through with them. Yes, we're going to do this, we're going to reach out. I have done some pretty weird and wild things to make sure that my stakeholders understand their level of involvement in the project. When they are elusive, I have looked at their calendar, their schedule to see when they're bumping from meeting to meeting. And oh, I just happen to be standing in the hallway when they're going from meeting A to meeting B and with a concise message for them. Of course, that's hard to do today when we're working from home, but you'll have to get creative about it in your own way. Okay, so let's move on to something else, the communication plan. I recommend a communication plan. So you're going to have scheduled meetings, face-to-face demonstrations, presentations, all hands meeting, yes, these are all at your disposal. And you can just take this slide and do it, right? Because this is kind of all filled out as an example. And I think it's pretty good. It's targeting all the people that you need to target, the project team, the business advisors, committees, project staff, et cetera. We're trying to slide everybody into kind of those little roles there. And you can see the frequency, face-to-face meetings and events and so on. Pull this off, put it on your backlog. So who's going to do all this work? Where's it coming from? Well, okay, I said earlier that I'm going to recommend a number. Here comes a number. I'm going to recommend a number of, it's a percentage of your budget that needs to be allocated to these types of activities. Again, for any media project, unless a 10%, 10% of the budget should go towards these activities. Now, there's different ways you can get that 10%, right? You can say, when you go to the budget committee, you can say, I need 10% for OCM. Okay, that's the good way to do it. That's the upfront way to do it. And that means that you're being very assertive and moving things forward and you're getting them involved immediately. Another way to do it is to bake it in to the project. These are just project tasks that need to be done. Need to be done. And I don't find that they get questioned too much. As a matter of fact, I find my clients are much appreciative of the fact that I'm acknowledging this stuff because it's very easy to see that these things go straight to the bottom line, go straight to acceptance. And if I had to say, what are my sponsors for my projects over the years? What are they most concerned about? They're most concerned about acceptance, acceptance of the project by the powers that be within the organization. Yes, of course they're concerned that we build it, right? But they're concerned about acceptance. Now, the bigger your project, the more you're gonna need these boxes in terms of being actual people. You may need a different change management sponsor than the project sponsor. Hopefully you don't, but not all project sponsors are right to actually lead change within the organization. We might wanna think about having a different sponsor just for change management. I've done that to success. I think that's a good idea sometimes. Change management lead. I'd say project manager. Now, I would love for a project manager to be so skilled and have such an abundance of talent and time that they can do all of this stuff and that the project is small enough to where they can do that. But that's not often the case. And so oftentimes I will have a different change management lead. Yeah, maybe they do some other functions for the project too. Maybe not for huge projects. When I'm doing multi-million dollar a year projects like 10 million dollar a year projects, you better believe I'm gonna have a dedicated change management lead on that project. And he or she is gonna be responsible for a lot of this. And I might even even have more. Look at the green boxes. Communication, somebody to do that. Training, somebody to do that. Organizational alignment. Someone to do that. Mayor may not need people specifically dedicated to those roles, but the bigger the project, the more likely that I do. But the main thing is that these things get taken care of. That we do a communications plan. That we do a training plan and we execute it. And we do look at job roles and we do change them accordingly. Okay, so when I'm sharing the task, you're wondering maybe, well, where's it all gonna come from? Well, it's gonna come from these roles right here. And let's take a quick gander at the change management lead. They're doing OCM strategy. They're doing the OCM plan. They're doing OCM leadership interviews, OCM leadership strategy and operational vision. They're mobilizing, supporting and coaching the change champion network, which is basically the network of people in the company that support the project. Coordinating the overall execution of the OCM program and all the development of the architects. So in conclusion to my part, and I do welcome your questions. You got a few minutes. You wanna throw some more questions into the Q and A panel for us. OCM is essential to organizational analytics transformation. So no matter what other niche crook or cranny that you are involved in in analytics, make sure someone maybe you is involved in OCM and making sure that what you're doing actually gets accepted by the organization. Choose the applicable work products. I give you the macro set. Maybe there's more. Maybe there's more that you can think about that will help you in your goals of OCM. Certainly I'm open to that. Certainly your project should be open to whatever it takes. Don't push OCM off until the very end. That's when you get the thought out of the tree. Don't push it off till the very end. Make it a part of the journey. Start people towards their change on their change plan from the very beginning. Insert work products into plans, be that an agile backlog, be that the project plan, whatever it is you're doing. I hope you're doing agile, but insert the work products into your plans. Focus on, these are the key ones. If you forget everything else, do these things. Stakeholder analysis, job roles, training, deployment preparation and communications planning. Again, back to my bare minimum slide, okay? They're on there. Make sure that you do all that for these projects because when it comes to analytics projects, when it comes to data lake project, data science projects, all the ones that I'm involved in that you're probably involved in, from a project perspective, these are going to be highly impactful to the organization. You might as well deal with that head on now as opposed to later. You might as well start getting the organization prepared for the success of your project long term, which is the only success. Make the soft, this idea that people need to change, people need to come along with the program. Make that real and tangible. And let's not blame them for being human, right? They're going to go through the steps that I showed you. They are, some slower than others. There is a point, I suppose, at which people are not coming along and that's going to be too bad on them, but I find that most people will, if given the chance, you have the opportunity, the great opportunity to give them that chance by creating this program. To bring them in, it's a win-win. Make it a real tangible part of an action-oriented framework. All right. Shannon, that brings me to the end of the formal part of the presentation. I turn it back to you for the Q&A. William, thank you so much for another fantastic presentation. Just to answer the most commonly asked questions, just a reminder, I will send a follow-up email by end of day Monday for this webinar with links to the slides and the recording of the session. And we invite Sean to join us back in with the Q&A here. So let me just dive right in here. What will the new roles be for organizations becoming analytics-led? Well, data scientists, for example, what skills will they have? Yeah, I'll start. And I know Sean works with a lot of data scientists and new roles as well. But yes, you hit on a key one, right, data scientists. We want to see more of that. That's a maturity factor for organizations in terms of analytic maturity to have that role. That role is hopefully going to be curating upon, not curating the data, but curating the science out of the data and gleaning insights out of that data and having a bit of a free hand to go where he or she needs to go but understanding kind of the bigger goals of the organization at the same time. So data scientists is big. But when I talk about role changes, I talk about, yeah, of course, there's the big ones like we're adding data science and so on, but there's also analysts that used to go to the file cabinet and used to go to the FAP machine and used to lob telephone calls to check on payments and so on. Well, there's a new way. We're done with what we're doing, right? And so we want them to go about their job in this new way and not resist and see the benefits of doing that. So job role changes are all across the board. Certainly analytics projects are bringing in the data scientists and so on, but they're bringing in so much more. We are all needing to change as a result of the changes that are happening around us with artificial intelligence, machine learning and advanced analytics. All jobs are changing and they're changing as rapidly as ever. And they're changing to new ways of doing things. And so it might not be a title change. They were talking about here, it might just be that the roles are changing and how they do their job is changing and they need to be more informed by data. So these are things I want to capture in terms of new roles. I heard a lot of that, William. You know, as a developer, I think I was probably in an active coding role for probably close to 15 years. And a lot of times change management is an impediment to a developer's job because you have all of this processing and you have all of these hoops that you have to jump through, you know, justify why you're creating code and all of these things. And as I've progressed in my career, I've really kind of opened it up to where, you know, I try to take all of the roles within an IT organization now and make them a part of effective change management. So in other words, you're not buying into a process, you are the process. And I think as companies move towards the web and cloud data warehousing and processing faster, people are gonna realize, oh, the best way to be a part of change is to be the change itself and not really worry about what process I have to follow to get my change to the end environment. Hopefully that makes some sense. Indeed. So I've had luck using these tactics in the past that my current role, my employer has approximately zero interest in spending any money on the additional cost, strictly seen as a speed bump suggestions on how to overcome that attitude. Sorry for the chuckle there. It's not funny. But yeah, there's a lot of that as well. And I get that. And I find that, you know, the first place that, you know, somebody wants to cut on a project budget is, what's this you got here? Organizational change management? What's this thought stuff? You know, and that just gets back to what I said earlier. It has to happen. You have to bake it in. And you're trying to get success. And you can get it in one of two ways. You can either bake it in and knowing that you'll be allowed to do it, or you have to, you know, kind of beat that tree with the club a little bit to get the top down support for what it is that you're doing. And frankly, you probably gotta do a little bit of both at least to make this happen. So, you know, there's, I also use the phrase in the presentation, he'll worth dying on. And only you can decide, only you can decide if this is gonna be that he'll worth dying on for you, if you're gonna stand up for organizational change management or not. But I think you can probably see based on your question that it's a good thing for the project, possibly a very necessary thing for the project. And so I think you've got some things to do in terms of, you know, working on that person. But also I wouldn't hesitate to put, just put it or put these tasks right in there. And that's why I give you the task to make it real. And you probably won't get pushback when the tasks are encountered in the project because they're just so obviously necessary. But good luck with all that. Yeah. So I would piggyback on that. I think William's absolutely right. And I'm gonna give you an example that's not IT related, but you know, change management is about managing risk. So one industry that we have in this country that manages a ton of risks is credit card companies, right? If credit card companies didn't manage their risk in their agreement with you, they would go out of business quite quickly. So when you sign up for a credit card company, they've already kind of prepared all of those costs associated to the account that you've signed up for. I like to think of change management the same way. And I'd go back to that supervisor kind of with that and look at the way that credit card organizations manage their risk. It's the same thing that we're doing with our software. We want our software to live beyond the average self-life. To do that, we have to invest in this daily activity called change management. And if we do that, we will be successful because we budget it for it. Perfect. What is the best way to figure out who the stakeholders are in these projects? Yeah, yeah, good one, good one, very good one. Okay, so I think the first five are gonna be obvious, right? They're the people that are going to be actually using this the most. And that might be actually your first 25. But I would start by looking at the users and I would go up the chain from there, meaning their bosses and directors, VPs, and kind of use your judgment and kind of find your way by starting with the users of this. Now, don't just stop with the users, right? Look at the user organization in the org chart or the informal org chart, as the case may be. Look around that box and see, okay, who does that box interface with? Like supply chain, if I'm doing a supply chain project, okay, they're gonna interface a lot with the product management team. Okay, they're gonna interface a lot with the transportation team, et cetera, whatever it is for you. So it's quite possible that I need stakeholders in my 25. I need some from those organizations as well. I almost always need one from finance no matter what I'm doing, okay? So yeah, so start with the users, branch out, branch out, branch down from there. And it won't take long until you're at your limit in terms of how many you can actually deal with in this process, but it should be meaty. And I kind of use the 25 as a rule of thumb, but it can be whatever it needs to be for you, whatever you feel like you have the bandwidth to manage in this process and you want them to also represent. So you're gonna have some stakeholders you're gonna find are gonna be red, of course, unfortunately, and some are gonna be green. And you hope that the green ones are gonna spread the good word out to everybody else who is maybe a more minor stakeholder. Yeah, I don't have your prowess and I don't work necessarily at your level, William, but at my level, when I'm working with different solution architects across different organizations and different teams, the people that I'm really looking for, the people that are out there really kind of cheerleading all the time. Those are the people that I lean into, that I tend to push more into kind of a stakeholder role. Now, I don't have this big organizational wide kind of responsibility that you do. My projects are short, but generally I will try to find the person that speaks the most and the happiest about that work and put them at the top and use those individuals as my kind of evangelist of the project and what we're trying to accomplish. I love it. And so what if you implemented the change before proactive planning? So what if you implemented the change before proactive planning? Is that the question? That is. Okay, okay, okay, I get it. So you've already done your project, you've gone on to production and you were not proactive about this stuff. Yeah, that happens a lot. Well, you're behind the eight ball and you're just gonna have to go back and pick up some pieces here. And realize that you now have another project on your hands, it's just the organizational change management, part of the project that you neglected the first time through. And hopefully you have a good asset on your hands that you want people to use. Sometimes it's easier to show than tell, right? When you have something you can show people, hey, here's what it is that you want to do. We want you to do. So just take advantage of that situation and show, don't tell and try to get people involved as users at that point, as stakeholders at that point, as people that are getting great business value out whatever it is that you built, unfortunately at that point, you did it backwards, but it may or may not be salvageable. It probably is if the horse isn't too far out of the barn here. And so I would just get about doing those tasks and I know your budget's all spent now, right? So that's gonna be another part of the problem. If it's truly a bad situation, a red situation, then you might have to seek budget for some of these OCN tasks that you neglected in the first place. Would you kind of into almost a continuous improvement cycle? And if you think about it, you've got great lesson learned from a project and now you've got some backup material and you can use that information from what you've already done to apply a lot of these lessons and then generate a different outcome going forward. At least you got something out there. Indeed. So I think we have time to slip in one more question. Uh-oh, broken up. Shen, you got a little choppy there. Hopefully I'll hold up here. I think we've got a few minutes for one more question. What are some of the most difficult? Shen and I heard you through difficult. I think I just need one more word. Well, maybe I can poke around in the queue and I can find this. I think it's, what were some of the most difficult OCN problems William encountered? Okay. Well, one time, I built a, it was a supply chain management project with analytics. It wasn't too long ago. And this company was unfortunately in the dark ages prior to this project and we made a tremendous step forward for them. But we were talking about droves of people at this organization that were doing things in a manner in which they were used to, which is Excel spreadsheets, literally phone calls and faxes and everything. Can you hear me? Hello? Hello. Hello, Shen and I, I'm just answering the question. Okay. Sean founded on the Q&A for us. So these people were doing things with file cabinets and all these really old style ways. And I found that by trying to bring them forward so far that there was, almost I would say the word is mutiny. But the good news is, you know, from the organization standpoint, they, you know, they were all going to stay in their jobs. They were just going to do it better and level up. And so we had to spend a lot of time, maybe the word is hand-holding, training, desk side sitting and so on with every level of that organization to make sure that they came along with the project and would use it and would make the whole thing successful. And so we did and everybody did come along, but it did look bleak at first because there was a lot of people in the red, a lot of people in the denial, but by following this program and frankly that project helped to hone a lot of the things that I talk about now in organizational change, and all of the things that we do. So good thing that project came before this presentation and made it a lot better. So there's help out there, even when people are in a bad way to begin with. So my worst situation I'll say is that with a lot of people that were rebelling against the project. Sabulous. Well guys, can you hear me now? I'm so sorry about that. I don't know what happened. Yep. Okay. So that does bring us to the top of the hour and just want to say thank you to Matillion for sponsoring and thanks to all our attendees for being so engaged in everything we do. Another great presentation and just a reminder, I will send a follow-up email by end of day Monday with links to the slides and the recording. Thanks everybody and hope you all have a great day and stay safe out there. Thanks all.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PchQitl4FPk", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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بڑا جرم حرام ہے کفر نہیں ہے لیکن اگر کوئی کسی مسلمان کو مسلمان ہونے کی وجہ سے کتل کرے تو پھر کاتل کافر ہے پھر اس کی سزا اور ہے حضرتِ فاروکِ آزم کو جو بھون کا شخص حاکی گراون پر جس نے کفریہ قلبیں لکھیں اس کا حضرت امرے فاروک سے کوئی پلات کا جگڑا نہیں اس کتے کا جگڑا اس لی ہے کہ یہ کیوں خریفہِ رسول بنے انہوں نے کیوں اللہ کے نبی کا قلبہ پڑا یہ کیوں قریب ہوئے اور ان کے بقاول ماز اللہ پھر انہیں آلِ بیسِ عداوت کا موقع میلا لہذا ان کے گھرے ہوئے فلسفے پر جو وہ ہر وقت اپنی مجالس میں پیش کر رہے ہیں وہ فلسفہ یہ ہے کہ وہ حضرتِ عمر ردی اللہ تعالیٰ انہوں پر جو اس طرح کا تبررہ بولتے ہیں وہ آج کے کسی معاملہ کی وجہ سے نہیں ان کے مومن ہونے ان کے سعاد بھی ہونے ان کے خلیفہِ رسول ہونے ان کے رسولِ پاکسر سلم کا سوسر ہونے ان بنیادوں پر یہ کتے بہنکتے ہیں ان میں سے تو ایک بنیاد بھی ہو تو 295C لگتی ہے اور یہاں 295A بھی نہیں B بھی نہیں C بھی نہیں بلکہ 298A لگائی گے اور لگائی بھی گومنام بندے پر اور بیٹھ کے کچھ لوگ معاہدہ کر کے سمجھ رہے ہیں کہ یہ مسئلہ ایک مدرسہ یہ ایک گھلی کا نہیں یہ پوری عمت کا مسئلہ ہے اور پورے ملک کا مسئلہ ہے تمام اہلے سننت کا مسئلہ ہے ہم اس سلہ کو اور اس افیار کو مسترد کرتے ہیں اور ہمارا مطالبہ ہے کہ دن دہادے اگر گستاخی لکھنے والوں کو کوئی ادارہ حکومت اور یہ وہاں کے قرند پکر نہیں سکتے تو پھر سب سے پہلے انہیں سزا دی جائے انہیں کوڑے مارے جائے اس علاقے کے اس شہر کے جو انتظامیہ کے فسران ہیں ان پر لاسم ہے اگر کوڑوں سے بچنا ہے تو آج تو ہر جگہ کامرے لگے ہوئے ہیں آخر اسور ہیں ہمارے پاس شریعت میں کہ جس جگہ کوئی جرم ہو جائے اس علاقے کے لوگوں ور ایک کسیر وصی پیمانے پر باول کسامہ کے تحت وہاں پر کاروائی ہوتی ہے تو وہاں وہ کاروائی مکمل کی جائے کہ کیا یہ جو کچھ دیوار پے لکھا گیا یہ کسی کے مذہب میں اس کی اجازت ہے یا نہیں اگر اجازت ہے تو کیا وہ یہ کام کرتے بھی ہیں یا نہیں اگر کرتے ہیں اور اجازت بھی ہیں تو پھر یہ کون کہتا ہے کہ یہ کوئی جاسوس انڈیا سے آگے لکھ گیا ہے جو کچھ لکھا گیا دھاکی گرون کی دیوار پر وہ ان کی سیکڑوں کتابوں سے ہم دکھا سکتے ہیں کہ ان کے نصدیق وہ کفر یا جملہ ان کے نصدیق عبادت کا درجہ رکھتا ہے تو پھر اس کو یہ کہتا ہے کہ پتا نہیں کون تھا اور انہی کے لیڈر پھر جوٹ بول رہے ہیں کہ یہ کون تھا ان کے بکواس آج بھی رکھاڑ ہے مجلس میں آج بھی اسی لفز کے ساتھ جس کی وہاں پر چاکے کی گئی تو کیا ایجنسی اندی ہیں کہ وہ کہ دے کینی ہمیں پتا نہیں تو اس سے چور تو کہتا ہے میں نے چوری نہیں کی تو اتنا کہنے سے کیا مسئلہ ہل ہو جاتا ہے یا فیصلہ ہو جاتا ہے ہر گینز لہیں کہ کیا ان کی مجالس میں یہ نہیں کہا جا رہا اگر کہا جا رہا ہے تو پھر وہاں سے ہی تو زیاد تیار ہو رہا ہے پھر اس علاقے کے ذاکر کو پکڑو اُدھر جو ان کا ایدارہ ہے اس کے محتمم کو پکڑو اُدھر جو ان کی قیادت ہے اس میں پر چاکتے نام ساتھ پر چاکتے کیونکہ ان کی تو کتابوں میں لکھا ہے کہ نمازی پوری نہیں ہوتی جب تک حضر تمہیں فروب پر مازلہ یہ لفظ نہ بول لے جو انہوں نے دیوار پر لکھا ان کی یہ نماز ہے ان کی یہ عبادت ہے ان کا یہ دین ہے اور میں ان سے کہتا ہوں کتنے تو ملافق ہو کہ کتابوں میں لکھ لیتے ہو تکرین میں بول لیتے ہو وقت آئے تو پھر انکار کر لیتے ہو سیکھ بھی سیکھ ہے تو علانیہ بھی سیکھ ہے وہ خفیا بھی سیکھ ہیں ہندو ہندو ہے اے وہ خفیا ہندو ہے تو علانیہ بھی ہندو ہے اور اگر تمہیں شیطان ایسا دین دیا ہوا ہے جو تم نے کتابوں میں لکھا ہے اور جو تم اپنے مجلوسوں میں بولتے ہو تو پھر کمینوں سامنے بھی بولو جو تیار کرتے ہو اپنے چیلے پھر سامنے بھی اکرار کرو تاکہ اندھرے میں نہ رکھو ملک کی جنسیوں کو اور ملک کیوں کمرانوں کو ہم تو بار بار پہلے سے یہ کہتے آ رہے ہیں کہ یہ سب کچھ سلسلا جیسے وہاں قادیانیت اپنے نمبر بنا رہی ہے باتل کے دفتر کے اندر ایسے ہی لوگ بھی پورے وزیفہ خار ہیں وہاں کے اور یہ دندہ کر رہے ہیں یقینن یہ میری باتیں تلخ بہت ہوگی کچھ لوگوں کے لیے مگر جب تک ہم زندہ ہیں دھاندلی ہو اور ہم چھپ رہے ہیں تو ایسا نہیں ہوگا یعنی وہاں پر جرم کیا جن لوگوں نے ان کو کتہرے میں لانا فرض ہے حکومت کا ورنہ خاکم بدہن چوک چوک میں ایسا لکھیں گے اور کہیں گے ہمیں تو پتے نہیں یہ کون لکھ بیا ہے اور جو بود دو رہنوما اگر اس پر ہی مطمئن ہو جاتے ہیں کہ چلو جی انہوں نے تو یہ کہا ہے ہم نے نہیں کیا تو چور کب چوری مانتا ہے یہ تحرہ کام ہے ان سے منوانا اور جو انسلٹ انہوں نے کی ہے وہ دو سو پچان میں سیسے کم نہیں کیونکہ وہ ذاتِ رسولﷺ کی نسمت کی بڑھگات پہ کی گئی ہے لہذا وہاں پر حل لٹانے کی ضرورت نہیں مسلحل کرنے کی ضرورت ہے اور اگر ان لوگوں میں کوئی کمزوری ہے تو وہ ہمیں اپنا مسلح دے دیں کیونکہ ہم خود کریں گے تو کہیں گے دیکھو جی اوپر سے آکے مداخلت کر رہے ہیں اگر چی مجھ پہ تو پوبندیا ہے اور فورڈ شدول ہے لیکن آہلِ حق وہ مسلہ لیکے چلیں گے ہماری اس غیرت کے وہ حمایت کلندہ ہیں وہ لیکے چلیں گے اس مسلے کو مگر یہ ہے کہ ساف چھپتے بھی نہیں سامنے آتے بھی نہیں ایک تو میں خود آہلِ سنن سے یہ کہنا چاہتا ہوں بلاب وجہ نہیں یہ چمن کی طواحینا کچھ باغ باہیں برکوشرر سے ملے ہوئے یہ کمینے لوگ جو چھپن چھپان کی شکل میں یا اس طرح کے دیگر دندوں میں ررافز کا فند حظم کرتے ہیں آج انھیں بھی رجم کیا جا رہا ہے کہ اصل ان کی وجہ سے حسلے بڑھ رہے ہیں لوگوں کے جب یہ ہمارے وزیفہ خور ہے تو پھر ہمیں کیا کہیں گے اگر چیاد جا شہیدوں میں خون لگا کر شامل ہوئے کی وہ لوگ کوشش کر رہے ہیں مگر ان کی وجہ سے یہ پاکستان میں دن دھیھڑے ایسے کرتوث ہو رہے	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcPlvRCH3MU", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCOYjmNfEFcUPDgihxwSSReA	What is Cost structure?	In this session, I explain cost structure and profit stability. ✅For more visit: www.farhatlectures.com #cpaexam #managerialaccounting #accountingstudents	[ "cost structure", "cost structure business model canvas", "cost structure example", "cost structure business model", "cost structure definition", "cost structure refers to", "cost structure bmc", "cost structure meaning", "cost structure analysis", "cost structure lean canvas", "cost structure example business model canvas", "cost structure template", "cost structure of a company", "cost structure of a business" ]	2022-04-01T14:00:10	2024-02-05T06:15:16	448	PCnIqlEfIT0	Hello and welcome to the session in which you would look at cost structure and how would a cost structure for a company affect its profit stability? Cost structure is the relative proportion between the fixed and variable cost for a particular company. What does that mean? Each company will have cost, various types of cost. Cost can be broken down in theory, fixed and variable. Now the question is, what percentage of your cost is fixed? What percentage of your cost is variable? Is it 40% fixed, 60% variable? Is it 60% fixed, 40% variable? This is what we mean by cost structure. For example, automated companies, companies that use automation, they will have machinery, they will have equipment and they will have to invest in those companies in order to have those automated machineries. They will have a high fixed cost relative to a company that relies on labor. Why? Because labor cost is variable. If you don't need the labor, you can lay them off. It's easy. But if you don't have a business to run the machine and you paid so much for that machine, you cannot turn around and sell it. So which cost structure is better? And the answer is, there is no real answer. The answer depends on many factor. It could sometimes be, you're glad you chose fixed cost and sometimes you're going to say, well, I hope I never invested in fixed cost. It all depends on the future prospect of the company and the vision of the owners, the long-term stability, the appetite risk. How much risk are you willing to take? Now obviously, the more fixed costs you have, generally speaking, the more risk you are taking because it's harder to turn around when you have a large fixed cost. But if you have a high fixed cost, automated company, you will benefit more when sales go up and we'll see an example illustrating these concepts. So let's assume we are in the olive oil business. And to produce olive oil, you need to first pick the oil. So we have farms and we are picking olives. And this company here, this is what we're going to call the Sling company. They rely on labor and notice those are kids. But to make the point is they rely on labor. Big company, what they did, they invested in machinery and the way they picked the olives is through using a machine. Now, lean company sales is 100,000. Variable expenses is 60. Contribution margin is 40. Their contribution margin percentage is 40%. They have a fixed cost of 30. Big company, they also have sales of 100,000. Variable expenses of 30. A contribution margin of 70,000, which is a contribution margin of 70%. Fixed expenses is 60 and their profit is 10. So notice they're both making the same amount of sales and they're both making the same amount of profit. Although they have a different cost structure. Well, that's fine for now. Now, what happened if we change sales? So let's assume sales increase by 10%. What would happen? If sales increase by 10%, we're gonna see that big company will benefit more and we're gonna look at if sales decrease by 10%. We're gonna see that lean company benefit more. Let's first look at sales increasing by 10%. If sales increasing by 10%, sales is 110. Variable expenses goes up by 10%. Contribution margin is 44,000. Fixed expenses is 30, which is fixed. Net operating income equal to 14. For big company, sales increasing by 10% will yield a 17,000 profit. So notice big company benefited more when sales went up by 10%. Why? Because big company already invested in fixed expenses. So if they generate more sales, more of that sales will flow down to the operating income because they already covered their fixed cost. Now, let's reverse. Let's assume sales in a bad year went down in 10%. Well, sales went down for lean company by 10% down to 90,000. Variable expenses 54, their net operating income is 6,000. The net operating income for the big company now, if sales decrease by 10% is 3,000. Wow. Notice now lean company is making double the profit of big company. Why? Because in bad times, lean company is more protected. They can lay off the employees. They don't have to pay them. They have a less variable expense. Therefore they protect their profit much better than big company can because they bought those machines. They cannot just return them. And if they return them, they're gonna, even if they sell them, they're gonna incur additional losses and they don't want to sell them because the next season is coming up and you don't wanna get rid of your assets of your property, plant and equipment, how are you gonna operate? So that's why lean company is better during downturn. Let's also take a look from a break-even perspective and from a margin of safety perspective for lean and big company. If we look at the dollar sales to break-even, which is we'll take fixed expenses divided by contribution margin for the lean company. Now, if you don't know how to compute the break-even, please go to Farhat Lectures and look the break-even lesson because it's there. This is part of this lesson, which is the break-even point is $75,000, which means they break-even at 75. Sterling, they'll break-even at a higher. So they need more sales to break-even. So why? Because they have a higher fixed cost, that's why. Margin of safety, lean company, when we compute their margin of safety, which is current sales minus the break-even, they can lose up to $25,000 in sales before incurring a penny in losses, which is which represent 25,000 divided by 100,000, represent a 25% decrease in their sales, which is margin of safety. Also, we look at margin of safety in the previous lesson, go to farhatlectures.com if you don't know what margin of safety is. Overall, what can we say? Just kind of so we understand which one is better and which one is not, there's not really no answer. Here's what we can say. We can say that lean company in bad time, they can withstand lower sales before incurring a loss. So if you like to avoid losses, rely more on variable expenses because you can cut down on your expenses much faster. Lean is protected in bad years. Big is more vulnerable to a downturn in sales, but big can benefit more in good years. So in good years when they have a lot of sales, when it's a good season and they're selling a lot, they will benefit more because they already covered their fixed costs. And now each additional dollar, remember 70% of it, now it's gonna go down to profit. For lean company for each additional dollar in a contribution margin, only 40% goes to the bottom line. At the end of this recording, I'm gonna remind you, well, I haven't, but please go to farhatlectures.com, work multiple choice questions, invest in yourself, whether you are a student or a CPA candidate, I can help you in both situations. Good luck, study hard and of course, stay safe.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCnIqlEfIT0", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCbjHiVANFc05UqLiLlChlMA	What I Heard About Social Audio	Social Audio is a fabulous way to meet interesting people and become part of a tribe/ community. I have a "mystery" guest in this LinkedIn Live. This is a bonus episode for 20 minutes.	null	2021-10-20T00:51:12	2024-04-23T14:28:01	1,200	pCQKuI8oeCA	Hi there. Good evening. Good morning. Good afternoon wherever you are joining us from. My name is Abhijit Bhaduri and I'm your host today. I work as a leadership and talent management consultant. I'm an author. I'm the author of the book Dreamers in Unicorns. And I'm actually trying out something really experimental today. As you know that I'm a sucker for anything experimental. I'm always trying to do something different. I'm actually experimenting with this format which is short notice, short format. It takes 15 to 20 minutes of your time and then we are done. So I'm going to try this out and I'm really going to wait for you to tell me whether you like this particular format or not. And without any further ado, I of course want to tell you that I'm going to bring in a mystery guest but before that I want to just play the signature tune which I love and I've been missing playing that for you. So here goes. Okay so very clearly my mystery guest is not interested in solving the mystery of who this person is. My mystery guest is going to talk to us about the mysteries of social audio. My mystery guest, what do I refer to you as mystery? What should I call you? I see your name you've put there as mystery. It certainly is not a last name is it? Well it could be. It totally could be. So you could refer to me as mystery. I have absolutely no idea what you're saying because I can't make out anything. Can you hear me now? Oh man mystery guest your voice is all blurred and all you know so if you're doing that on purpose you're worrying me because you know because I'm trying to figure out whether you've really joined or you haven't joined. Can you say hello to all of us? A very good evening to everybody. I think your voice is getting all blurred and yeah okay. Alright so I just want to start by saying that mystery guest can you just introduce yourself tell us what you do and what is it that you're going to talk to us about because I have heard a whole lot of things about social audio. I want to figure out how does you know what makes social audio the flavor of the season and what is why has it suddenly taken off? What drives that kind of interest in social audio? Talk to me about that. So we know audio right generally conversations and the auditory senses is something that is age old that's the way human beings connect with one another. So there's nothing new there right if you go back and look at the example where mothers right start talking to their children when they're in the womb right when the babies are in the womb can you hear me? I feel like am I clear now? Am I audible Abhijit? I'm having a little bit of a difficulty. Let's see let me check it out. It's not perfect. Okay perfect so now that we've gotten that out of the way we've got our audio sorted. So like I was saying right audio has been around for the longest time right. It's how human beings communicate with one another. What's interesting is that we've seen a trend more recently where technology is finally caught up right. So for the longest time text was king right. But if you notice like a lot of people in India will also notice this in particular it's specific to the Indian subcontinent. And China is where voice messages I know have noticed in the past six odd months people have started instead of you know just sending in long wordy text they've started sending in voice messages right. The whole advent of voice assistance right so you have Siri you have Alexa. So there's just podcasting podcasting has become huge even advertising right around you know which is related to the medium of sound has grown exponentially as you can see my voice just actually triggered my Alexa at home if you could hear that in the background. But so that just goes to show right voice is here audio is here and it's to stay. I think the significant shift that we're seeing now is the move towards social right it's not no longer just audio but it is social audio right it's not only about one on one conversations but it is about where you get to really find your own tribe speak to your community. So which is why you're seeing things you know the advent of you know apps like clubhouse or cappuccino right where. Or men's are and they're just you know there's we've been looking at Facebook LinkedIn Twitter they're all kind of catching on they're like this is where you know the future is. So that's kind of the short of it as to what are the trends we're seeing in the audio space right now and why is it you know. Such a big thing and why is it going to be the future. And kind of look at what these people are saying that great people are to be heard not to be seen. But I have another observation you are right that a lot of people you know are sending voice messages and on WhatsApp I've always enjoyed doing that because when you have. A whole lot of people respond to during the festival season especially it's just so much nicer if you. You know drop a voice note and if you wish somebody happy birthday instead of just typing happy birthday with the usual cake emoji. You leave a voice note that's so much nicer. Is it so much more personal right there is so yeah you know the whole idea of tenor and tone gets completely lost. Whereas with what so you don't you can be succinct with voice you don't have to be worthy and you can still communicate and I think that's beautiful about voice also how intimate it is right. You suddenly feel like you're much closer to the person like even if you're sitting in different parts of the world is a minute you communicate with voice it kind of breaks a lot of those values. I totally relate to that because I grew up with the radio you know and I did a lot of work with the radio. And I just think that there is no substitute for the kind of relationship that you can build you know whether it is legends like Amin Sayani Saab and many of the other newsreaders. You know when they would read the news I kind of got a feeling they were talking to me that is impossible which is intriguing because you know when you are seeing the person and you are hearing the person. Is that better if you could see the face of the person or does it remove the mystery and you know is that what it is. So not to say that you know having the visual to go with it isn't of course there are benefits to it but I think it's also some of it is trade off so especially you know in society today where there's so much that is vying for your attention. You know this audio can also be super calming right it allows you to do other things simultaneously which is why we saw you know why so many people started taking to podcast right when you're on your way to work. Why is you know why are people listening to the radio right because it allows you to do and I'm not suggesting everybody can multitask but you don't have to have all your senses engaged. But when you are when you have a visual in front of you there's a lot more right. So this kind of also has a calming effect right in that sense it kind of gives you that break which is why you have like you know zoom fatigue which came out of the pandemic right like everybody was suffering from zoom fatigue and I think that's what audio does. Not to say that they are comparable in that sense right they both have their pros and cons. But you have a point that you know when I think about what Adam Grant has to say he actually says that when people have zoom fatigue and you switch off the camera and you actually listen only to the boys. So according to Adam Grant people become more attentive to the nuances you can guess that I'm even though I'm saying yes I'm feeling fine. I actually am not I'm feeling a little sad or something you can pick up those nuances of emotions in the language in the tone and manner which is impossible to replicate. The question I would say is in text when we add emojis would you say that that's a way to bring in the emotion which is missing in text. I think that's what emojis were. I mean that's primarily the point of it right you want to convey like how else do I say that my heart is like I want to send you a hug or my heart is filled with warmth right because your voice will sound that way right or that I'm this was really funny. Right because you could laugh and everybody knows that it was really funny but text is not going to help with that right and which is why emojis are so effective. But nothing I think if the comparison was between actually listening to somebody laugh and an emoji or you know the I mean we I mean you can hear it right you know which one is more effective so yeah. Yeah and and I also think that when you're looking at can make something in you know one of my big complaints about many of these formats is if it's necessarily one or two hours three hours kind of a thing you know when you look at webinars a lot of company programs I think people constantly tell you that I wish it was shorter I think which is what is the format I'm trying to experiment with. I'm trying to see if in 15 minutes we can have a sensible conversation pick up a couple of things that leave a little bit of a flavor you know after taste. And I think audio has the ability to leave an after taste in your years you know am I mixing up my metaphors. No absolutely like it's almost like a conversation right is the seed of that next conversation or of your thought process like when people talk they leave you and that's the point of audio it leaves you leave something behind. Right for you to mull over right for you to go back and say oh you know that's what was said and and the other thing with music and the auditory you know is the fact that memory. It's memorable it stays with you right it's much harder for a text to stay with you but the sound of it right when somebody narrated a story to you stays and it's great for me. So yeah absolutely definitely leave plants seed for the next. This for sure you know is going to be very interesting the first time where it is not because of a technical fault but you know the guest is chosen to keep the camera off and turned it into a sort of audio format I mean what better way to experience it. Yeah I get that but I also think that you know I enjoyed doing some of the things that you know so they're you know Shalu Sodi is saying that nothing compares to the sound of laughter just like yours just now. Thank you Shalu. Yes I was sort of really thinking about the fact that this is the magic of sound you know we can really recreate it. And I also think that I've been playing around with this this app called Mensa which I'm going to sort of leave that in the comments below and you can also get it on the screen I'm going to put that out there. What you can do is I'm sort of playing around with it trying to really learn about different aspects. At 7 o'clock I'm going to be doing a talk for about 15-20 minutes around gig workers. Yeah we are going to sort of talk about that we've got a bunch of really interesting guests. And then at 7 30 you know I'm talking about a completely different topic which is under the series called Futurism where we are really saying what is the future of influencer marketing and I'm joined by Madhavan Narayan who on Twitter has these millions of followers who know him as adversity. So Madhavan and I we are going to be talking about the future of influencer marketing. And this is that weekly show that we do on this particular we have talked about all kinds of things the future of storytelling the future of work the future of nanotechnology all kinds of things that we've talked about. And this is there's a question that we have from Ashwin who says that I wonder if the form factor of video is two dimensional. What do you think is the form factor two dimensional. I'm not sure I completely fathom the question but so what do you say it appeals to two senses. I think it what it does is it appeals to one sense so heavily right. So you're so you rely so much on with video you rely so much on the visual that a lot of the nuances of the what is being communicated gets lost. So in that sense yes I would say it is a little flat because you're indexing too much on the visual. And so whereas with audio you it's it also gets you to use your imagination for example right now right. A lot of people could be wondering right who is this person we're speaking right. And it's so I think it you're kind of thinking harder you're putting in more energy in an effort not in the effortful way but in the sense of. The connecting the dots. I don't know if that answered Ashwin's question. Perhaps you know one of the parallels I would talk about is when I first met some of these legends like Melville de Mello, I was like completely amazed because somehow then actual image you know the image in my head and what they look like in real life were two completely different things. I had pictured them to be completely different and that's what happens that you have a the voice triggers an image and that's always the element of mystery. You know and so many times I've seen that and I also think that we've got some. Srishti says that I've been listening to radio since childhood and still enjoys doing that. Yeah I think that's the magic of radio that you know you can never get tired of it but we have come to the promised end of the time. We had a little past I'm going to leave you with one last question. What is the difference you know when somebody says it's a great social audio content. What makes something great social audio content. What is your view on that. I would say when it's great social audio content is where you've been able to nurture some relationship in in whatever time that might be right you've been able to connect with the other person so I think that's the social sense of community. Yes a sense of community and you have specific takeaways right so where it's you know it's there was value there was value add to you know you walked away from it and you said either I learned something or this is triggered with hot right or this it's yeah so I would say those are the two great two pieces I would you know use to qualify something as great social audio. And I also think that you know the other piece that leaves me makes me think that social audio has the ability to create friends. You know you become friends with the voice. There are people I have met on Mensa who have become my friends. I'm now connected with them on LinkedIn and connected with them on your Instagram and we connect on Twitter and DM each other like long lost friends and these are people friends I've made on the audio platform and that's the magic of it. I mean I just think that it creates a sense of trust and authenticity so that's something that I certainly believe. Absolutely I was going to go for trust as well completely. Yeah friends you know which is the basis of community and friendship. So we are at the end of our time and I just want to say thank you so much for joining it. I'm really keen to know from the listeners and viewers if you like this format you know when my guest keeps the camera off. Are you going to solve the mystery so she says she's texting me and saying no she is not going to solve the mystery. Okay so be it but I want to know whether the listeners will be keen to have the mystery solved and either case I will see you on Mensa in the first one 7 o'clock I'm talking about gig workers join in and 7 30 we are talking under the series called Futurism where we are talking about the future of influencer marketing till the next time. Thank you so much.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCQKuI8oeCA", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC1skGNiSEu4WBZkaCqMK4Yw	American Discourse Episode 2: Mortgage & Market Mayhem - Guest: Melissa Armo	Go to www.TheStockSwoosh.com and request a free trading room trial Like me - http://Facebook.com/TheStockSwoosh e-mail me - Info@TheStockSwoosh.com Tweet me - @TheStockSwoosh Neither Swoosh nor its affiliates provide investment advisory services, nor are registered investment advisers or broker-dealers and do not purport to tell or suggest which securities or currencies you should buy or sell for yourself regarding your specific investment objectives. The independent contractors, employees or affiliates of Swoosh may hold positions in the stocks, options, currencies or industries discussed in this publication. You understand and acknowledge that there is a very high degree of risk involved in trading securities, options and/or currencies. Swoosh and all affiliates of the Swoosh assume no responsibility or liability for your trading and investment results. 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Economic and market uncertainty are a dangerous duo. Are we the divided states of America or is it just a divided Congress? Let's start the discourse. Hi, I'm Robin Byro. Welcome to American Discourse. Who else out there thought like me that after Joe Biden was inaugurated, we would have nothing but delightfully boring, slow news weeks immediately thereafter. Well, I mean for at least four years, right? Well, with a pandemic on the decline but still raging and millions of Americans out of work and an economy facing all sorts of uncertainties, it is becoming painfully clear that it just wasn't gonna be as simple as ushering in a new presidential administration. Gone are the flashy headlines and the endless parade of executive staff turnovers, circus-like chaos, daily drama, and round-the-clock turmoil. You'd think that that would signal a return to some sense of normalcy. Think again, the media hasn't known exactly what to do with themselves. They've become absolutely addicted to the daily dopamine drip of drama and so it continues, well, at least on our favorite cable news channels. But that is just a distraction because bubbling just beneath the surface are some stories that just aren't getting the traction they deserve, despite the fact that they have the potential to dramatically affect the lives of millions of everyday Americans. We are here today to cut through the diet of nonsensical news stories and click bait headlines to give you the stories that you really should be paying attention to and to arm you with the tools and information that you need to make sense of it all and survive it all because in these uncertain times, knowledge is power. Right off the bat, the biggest story that I think is not being covered anywhere is what happens when these rent moratoriums and mortgage forbearances that millions of Americans are taking advantage of expire, which guess what you guys, it's a lot sooner than you think. I could tell you that it varies from state to state, lender to lender and landlord to landlord. So a lot of Americans are probably losing sleep at night right now because of all that uncertainty of what the heck happens when the rent comes due. Now look, I've been a frequent, very harsh critic of our former president, but I did actually pause and give him credit for the protections that he put in place. But I don't think that any of us thought that the pandemic would last this long or impact our country to the extent that it has. I mean, I remember you guys telling my kids last March, okay, we're gonna stock up and stay home for about a month and then everything's gonna get back to normal. How did that work out? Yeah, we all know. So now we've got a new administration taken on the challenge. Part of that challenge has been the extension of these mortgage forbearances and rent moratoriums put in place by the former president, which is good, right? I think we can all agree on that. But here's the thing, we just can't kick the can down the road forever. If we stick it to the banks and landlords, are we setting ourselves up for another financial crisis like the one that we saw in 2008? And landlords and banks, are they seriously expecting for millions of Americans to just pay all of that back due rent all at once when these protections expire? Don't start panicking yet. I'm not here to do that to you, but we are going to be breaking this down in a few moments with an expert. Another story that has been downright perplexing is the bizarre congressional testimony going on right now about the stock market. I mean, just last week, we saw a private citizen called into testify about how he seemingly got millions of Joe Schmoes to stick it to a hedge fund and really upending the stock market by buying up stock in GameStop. He did it with nothing more than some social media posts that were gobbled up and followed by a pack of everyday small-scale private investors. And it really did, you guys. It absolutely upended the stock market. It's a crazy story. I've got a lot of questions for our guests on just what the heck is going on with all that. Lastly, before I bring on our guest, I've got to tell you right off the bat that she and I are from vastly different political ideologies. She's someone who I've debated before on mainstream media, live national television. But we have been able to agree on some issues in spite of our differences. After all, this show is American Discourse. It has discourse right there in the name. So what have I got to tell you? We aren't here just to bring you sick of fans who are here to agree with us week after week. My guests and I have been able to find common ground through civil debate because we listened to one another and heard each other out. Can Americans do the same and be truly the United States of America? And what about our elected officials in Congress? Do we have any hope of them being able to work with one another to actually do their jobs, represent their constituents, or are we too entrenched in political warfare? With all of that said, the time is upon us for the Discourse Deep Dive. Now for the audience back home, the backstory is that Melissa and I have debated each other numerous times in the media. So this should be really interesting because this is a different take. Now, Melissa, we have a lot to talk about today, but one concern that I know that we boast here is about the millions of Americans who signed mortgage forbearance agreements and rent deferments without really knowing what they were getting themselves into. I mean, we know the agreements had to happen because of the pandemic and the record unemployment levels that it caused. So I praise the federal protections that our former president put in place. And I think it was the right call for our current president to extend them. That being said, due to all of these back payments being, will they all become due all at once and when fell swoop like in one month? Now I need you to break this down for us and maybe give the people a little bit of hope so they're not gonna be so anxious at night. Well, I wish I could, Robin, but to be honest with you, this pandemic has gone on longer than anyone ever, ever could have imagined. So when President Trump, when former President Trump put in these pandemic, they pushed off the moratorium and they kept pushing off and pushing off for rents and foreclosures. I think the first initially it was 30 days and it was 60 days and it was 90 days. And then finally they said December, 2020. And now here we are and they're probably going to push them back again. The federal evictions for if you own a home for foreclosures is extended now through June of 2021. For rents, it's through the end of March. Well, we're almost into the end of March. So that's coming up and just a little bit more than 30 some days. So I think the problem is that like you said, people have signed and agreeing to pay all of this back rent and realistically, how is anyone gonna be able to do that? If someone's been at work, yeah, I mean, if someone's been out of work for 12 months or more or six months or more or four months or more, the number one concern for them is one, finding employment and two, feeding themselves and paying current housing going forward. So it's going to continue probably to be extended and the problem is like you mentioned earlier for banks and for people that are holding mortgages even if the bank isn't holding the mortgage if the landlord actually has a mortgage on a property they are not getting paid. But of course, they have to pay the loan on their mortgage with the bank or say they don't even have a mortgage on a building. They still have to pay all the costs associated, insurance, taxes, all of the costs that's associated with owning a building and being a landlord. So I gotta ask you right there in your professional opinion, are we setting ourselves up for another financial crisis like we had in 2008? If we leave landlords and banks holding the bag because wouldn't that hurt us all? You know, right now today as we're talking what's really interesting is I looked up Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, guess what? They're making brand new all-time highs today. Those stocks are rallying. You say how can that possibly be happening? The market is not even making new highs today and the banks are making new highs. Interest rates now for mortgages have slightly ticked up as well. They're still roughly around 3%, which is a good rate. But what's gonna happen is it's gonna come back around where banks end up taking back some of these properties and driving up rates and fees. Somehow the banks always end up making out. To say that it's gonna come back to hurt them, there may be a dip, but banks somehow always end up making out. So really at the end of the day, the people that are gonna be hurt is the people that can't pay, the people that end up and say that this is a problem and this is something that really that the Biden administration needs to address. They can keep pushing the can down the road, as you said, but what's gonna happen to people's credits? If someone signed an agreement that they would pay a back rent for 12 months or from whatever time they had a lease in and they keep extending it and then eventually when they stop extending it, are they gonna put something on their credit or put a judgment on their credit that they owe $25,000 worth of back rent or whatever it is that someone in the Biden administration needs to address that. They need to look into it because then that wouldn't be fair for the people either. Yeah, that's a really great point. And I remember early on in the pandemic, I logged on to my bank to pay my mortgage and I saw the little button that you could click to to get a mortgage forbearance agreement and they made it really easy. But if you didn't look at that small print on there, you didn't understand that all of that money was gonna come due all at once at the end of the 180 day term. Now, I said no thanks, but I really worried about those little guys who didn't take the time to read that small print. So the question that I gotta ask is, surely our government isn't setting citizens up for a massive increase in homelessness, are they? Well, okay, first of all, let's address two things. You're talking about signing these agreements. First of all, my advice to people is, if you can make your housing payment, make it, okay? You are better off staying current with your rent, staying current with your mortgage payment, not going into default, as enticing as it may seem for all these things that keep prompting up people to, if you're having trouble, you'd wanna skip a credit card payment. If you can keep making your payments for all of your bills, please do so. You don't wanna hurt your credit through this. It's a different story if you're out of work and you can't pay your bills. It's a completely different story, okay? But if you can, I'm saying try and make it. Before you sign any agreements or before you agree to anything, people must read the fine print. And I gotta be honest with you too. Some people don't understand it. If you don't understand what you're signing, don't sign it. Wait, ask someone that understands it. Ask, go into the bank. Just sit down with someone at the bank. Can you please explain this to me? I don't understand what this means. They have banks have reopened, like in New York here, banks were closed for a long, long time. Oh, so you're the banks were closed. Now they're open partial hours. Walk into the bank, set an appointment and talk to somebody and get all the answers because what you don't wanna do is sign some kind of agreement, be obligated then legally to something and you're not gonna be able to even meet those requirements and it creates another problem. So that's one, okay? Second of all, is it setting people up for a failure? You know, this is just the whole system right now as a disaster. This is what I'm talking about. I can guarantee you they're gonna extend the rental moratorium past March 31st. That's gonna be extended. And at this point now, if things don't get better where they don't start speeding up the vaccinations across the country, not just in certain places. I mean, all across the board where everybody can start getting it, not just the older people, by June they're gonna end up extending it through the end of 2021 or the fall of 2021 again for the foreclosures. And it's just a matter of how long can banks go without payments? And that's what I'm saying. It's so odd that you have the banks making new highs today. When you look at the fact that people have been paying. Now some of these banks, what they did is that people went in and they signed an agreement where they just stretched out the loan where they may have signed an agreement to tack the loan on. Say you had 15 years left in the mortgage or 12 and a half years left in your mortgage. Were you signed an agreement then to extend it where you're still gonna pay but you're gonna pay and the loan is out now further but you're still getting charged interest. It's not like they've stopped charging you interest. They're just stopping the payments. And that was my concern earlier where I'm saying what's gonna happen to people's credit if they can't pony up them or rent by the time they move out. I mean, I'm gonna be honest with you. Again, if people haven't worked in a year where they're gonna come up with the last year's rent in one big lump sum. No matter how much stimulus you get people no matter how much extra unemployment they give people it's just not enough. People are barely trying to get back on their feet even now. Last week we had a higher unemployment number. Week over week the claims are still nowhere near under a half a million. We ain't gonna get those numbers down. And the only way that's gonna happen is if states fully, fully open up. And even here in New York they just open up restaurants Valentine's Day at 25% capacity. And I gotta be honest with you a lot of them didn't even open up. They could have opened up. They didn't. Why? It doesn't pay for them to open up and pay the rent and to keep the lights on and pay all their employees at 25% capacity. You can't hardly get anybody in there to make any money. You know, and I'm glad you brought that up because I know that you live in Manhattan and nobody questions that a huge portion of our national income depends on New York City. So what's your roots on the ground perspective the way the housing market looks? What it's like for small businesses, retail, everything else that drives the economy where you live. Do you think it can recover once people get vaccinated? I want you to give us some hope here. I think the problem is two things right now. Fear is a major problem. People are just full on still afraid of getting it. The vaccination will help people be not so afraid. Okay, so that's part of it. Once people get vaccinated I think they're gonna kind of get out of fear. And they will want to go out and they will want to do stuff and they will want to go to restaurants. I mean, the problem is that people have gotten so sick and so sick and people have died that people are afraid. So until more people get the vaccination, again, they're saying now people are still getting it after they get vaccinated. I don't know if that's true or not but the vaccination will help the fear level. It'll take the fear level from here all the way down into here. It's not gonna take it down to zero but it's gonna bring it down. It's gonna temper the tone of what's happening across the country where people are so afraid of getting this virus to say that it's never gonna go away. It's never gonna go away and that's the concern. That's a concern. How long is it gonna take for these places to recover? I think here in New York City, I live here so I don't know what's going on in other places but when I went home to Pennsylvania things are slightly more normal there than they are here. The problem with New York is that so many of these businesses have been shuttered. They're gone. They ain't coming back. I mean, they are just gone and people are gone too. So the problem is if you had two kids, three dogs and you had two parents that lived here and they packed up and left in the summer of 2020, it's not like they bought a house someplace else. There's kids who are in school someplace else. They're not gonna just pack up and come back here now because there's a vaccine. I mean, it just doesn't work like that. So I think New York City has lost a huge amount of their tax base. That's problem number one. And problem number two is the state hasn't it's not allowing all these businesses to open up but even if they said boom, turn off the light switch or turn on the light switch and open everything up tomorrow. I'm telling you, people are still so scared to get COVID that they're not all gonna run out and that is a big problem. So I think New York City is a long way from coming back to normal. You can't, the production is not spread out. You don't have all this money and all this productivity happening in one small place which is New York City at the height like 10 million people living here are very tiny island. Our financial capital, right? They've moved, I don't know what I'm talking about. Yeah, yeah. And so I think it's a big problem now. You have these businesses like some of these commercial buildings, they're empty too. Talk about real estate. I mean, you have these major corporations. Well, it's a real problem. So I gotta tell you, I gotta move on to the next topic while I've got you here because you're our stock expert too. And I gotta tell you, I was all hyped up when I saw those redditors investing what looked to be their life savings into game stocks, game stop stock and making millionaires overnight of some everyday people. I mean, that was fun. But what little I know about the market is that once you learn about something like that it's pretty much already too late to get in on it. So I've gotta thank you. Thank you for telling me and others in your videos to stay away and not invest what you couldn't afford to lose. But I'm so confused this week as why this private citizen was called to testify before Congress. Can you help explain that to a layman like myself? Well, he was pumping up the stock on videos prior to that big jump. So they're investigating it now and they want answers as to whether or not he really created something called a pump and dump where he was in the stock already along it. And did he honestly just believe that the stock was going to go higher and buy it and just through these videos? And that's the question. I don't think that they really got the answers that they wanted at the congressional hearing. And I think that there's gonna be more investigations into this. I watched the gentleman's testimony and I have to be honest with you. I don't think he really took it seriously enough because he started out saying that he wasn't a cat. Well, obviously he's not. I saw that. I gotta talk about that congressional testimony. In your opinion, was Congress right to scrutinize the app Robinhood? Because to my understanding, they froze trading and they were only letting retail investors sell certain stocks and preventing them from buying others. So in your opinion, did they do anything wrong? Well, they said that they had liquidity issues. And quite frankly, if they can provide documentation that they did have liquidity issues then they did have a right to do what they did. Remember, some of these traders were trading on margin and so there's a clearing house where all the trades go through. If they really, in fact, didn't have enough cash, I'm talking about Robinhood, to be giving people margin to be in this position then they were in danger of going belly up. So that is the reason- Okay, now I get it. The decision. Thank you. That makes sense to me. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that makes sense to me. That was the best explanation I've heard anyone give yet on that. And look, I can look and read it on Wall Street Bets and the whole impetus, according to them, was about sinking a hedge fund that was trying to short businesses. So did it work specifically? Is that one hedge fund sunk? I don't know if they're sunk or not. I haven't read up on that recently, but prior to that, they had said that they lost about 30% of their capital, which is disastrous. And if they're not sunk, their reputation is sunk because who's gonna invest money to those people again. So I don't know what the future holds for them because if you were a person and you had money and say you were a billionaire would you invest with those people? No, you wouldn't. No. You wouldn't do that. Now, just anecdotally for our listeners, you and I have debated each other, like I said, frequently on mainstream media and we're aligned very different politically, but we've managed to find common ground on some issues and we've made friends, we've become friends and remained friends in spite of our political differences. So we've done that through constructive discourse and it gives me some hope for our country that maybe as a country, we aren't so divided that we can't hear one another out. What does constructive discourse mean to you and how do you think that you and I managed to stay friends through an insane political cycle when all you see across the country is evidence that politics is driving a wedge between families, neighbors and coworkers. Have we done it? Well, because our friendship is more important than proving either one of us right or wrong. I'll say that for one. Amen. And not only that, you're not extreme on the left and I'm not extreme on the right. So I think the problem is that the media is covering extremes, extreme right, extreme left opinions and that is the problem. And so when you have these extremes, you have these extremes, those people are never gonna find a common ground, but I don't, I mean, I could be wrong, but I don't think most of the country is extreme left or extreme right, no matter how the media portrays it. So I think if most people don't like to lie and talk about things and have regular conversation like people used to do at parties, a cocktail party. And listen. Yeah, and have a good conversation. What's wrong with having a good debate? Having a good debate is a healthy thing. I love it. Yeah. Yeah, and I really do appreciate your friendship. And the fact that you take time to listen and I take time to listen to you and hear each other out, that's what's needed in America. You bring up a great point about the extremes in either direction. That's really not where the bulk of the country is, but you're right. The media does make those look like nice sexy controversial stories. So let's talk about our elected officials. There's hope for the citizenry, right? Cause I mean, we're starting to hear each other out again just as fellow Americans. So, and we're seeing some bipartisan support for some things like the stimulus package, for example, but the legislators, they are just admired in political warfare. Do you think that we'll ever get past that? Is there any hope? It's not looking good, Robin. You want to realize it's not looking good. Why brought you on? I have a lot of hope for them right now. Congress, to be honest with you, it seems to be worthless. I mean, we're talking about people and losing their homes and paying their rent. Why don't they get that darn stimulus done? Get those $1,400 checks out to people. What are they waiting for? That's what happened in November after the election. I mean, here we are. It's March, April, June, come on. These people got to, well, I don't understand. It's like these people don't work. If I wouldn't show up to work, I wouldn't get paid. These people show up for work every day and they don't seem to do anything. And they- Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. And I love it. I love that you see that. I see that all of America really sees that, but Congress, all they're interested in is this political warfare and digging their heels in and really not representing their constituents. So thank you, Melissa. I know you're crazy busy, but these were incredibly important topics that really just aren't being covered at all in mainstream media. So thank you for bringing your expertise to the show and we hope to have you back. Thanks for having me, Robin. You know, one thing that really struck a chord with me about President Biden's inaugural address was the call for us to embrace one another as fellow human beings, not red states, not blue states, but to come together as Americans who all love our country and want to make a more perfect union. I guess perfectly imperfect, if you will. I have serious categorical political differences with my friend, Melissa, but you know what? We do both love our country. I know you guys listening at home have family, friends, coworkers and neighbors that you probably even vehemently disagree with politically. But if we want the vitriol and the hatred to stop and for us to heal and dare I be so bold and say, love our neighbors again, it's going to take each and every one of us moving a little bit outside of our respective comfort zones and hearing each other out. It doesn't stop with politics either. We found ourselves divided along socioeconomic lines, racial lines, gendered lines and even generational lines. I'm looking forward to bringing someone on the show to talk about how we've self-segregated within our own communities and how that affects the discourse. I believe that could be a really interesting topic down the road, so we'll put a pin in it. For now though, I'm gonna do some self-reflection and I really hope that you at home will do the same. You may have gotten comfortable in your own bubble of your own lives and think of ways that you can reach outside of your perceived safety zone in a way that shows genuine care and concern for people who maybe don't look like you and don't think like you because we're all in this together. This pandemic has certainly made that abundantly clear. So it is going to be up to each one of us to see ways that we can find in our own lives to heal some of these deep divisions. Okay, with that said, we've hopefully put some minds at ease about what's next for the millions of Americans who are enjoying these federal protections from evictions and foreclosures. I know I'll sleep a little better myself. So that was very interesting to learn about and especially everything that's going on with the economy. But now you guys, I've got, I just need a palette cleanser. So I've got a great story for you up next about writing a generational wrong. I always like to leave you with a good feeling. So let me tell you about this story coming out of Minnesota. Emotions were really high this month when the Minnesota Historical Society returned over a hundred acres of ancestral land to the lower Sioux community. After generations of them being separated from their ancestral land, this ruling righted the wrongs of a broken treaty from years past. Now, this was a joyous occasion to be sure, but it was not lost on any of us that these lands were the site of a brutal and deadly war. It displaced hundreds, if not thousands, of indigenous people. I can't even fathom it. And I get really bothered when our government breaks promises to the people that it governs. The thing is that nobody expected this wrong to ever be corrected. And the reality is that even these indigenous people had given up all hope. Well, hope returned this month. And the look on their faces when their ancestral lands were returned to these people was really something to behold. Moments like this restore my faith in humanity and are a step at reminding me that government really can work for the people that it governs. I don't know about you, but I needed this story during these difficult times, which is why I'm so happy to share it with you today. Well, folks, that's all the time we have for today. If you haven't done so already, please hit the subscribe button and don't keep us a secret. You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, you know the deal. Check out all the links right below. I also always look forward to hearing from you. So please message me and then listen for our mailbag segment where we will take on your questions. I am Robin Byro. Thank you so much for listening to American Discourse, a production of Discourse USA. Our producers are David Kastner and Audrey Kennedy. Until next time, breathe. 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UCCNBUsRwWl-J4di-GIZG16A	Biomedical Data Tools: Live Development Session	Tune in for a dynamic live stream on biomedical data exploration. We deep dive into EEG/ECG and other biosignals analysis. Join in as we develop Eye Trackers using webcams, turn EEG and hand gestures into 'music', challenge bots with EEG/ECG detection games and more. Engage in vibrant discussions. Ideal for experts, students, and biocurious minds! Main site: BioniChaos.com Youtube: m.youtube.com/@BioniChaos Twitch: twitch.tv/BioniChaosBioData Corrent topics: Waveform Feature Extraction and Detection - ECG/EEG Signal Abnormalities and Noise - Fuzzy Logic Explainable AI - No Black Box - Data Visualization (EEG / ECG) - Hit Rate - False Alarm Rate - Numpy, Scipy, SkFuzzy, Matplotlib, Flask - ChatGPT-4, GitHub CoPilot, Human (?) Webcam-based Eye Tracking System Calibrate the system by looking and clicking on designated points Public Biomedical Datasets: ieeg.org \| TUH-EEG MIMIC-IV \| nitrc.org Feedback is greatly appreciated!	null	2024-02-23T16:54:10	2024-04-20T04:51:57	11,480	PCbgODEGICE	Okay, hello, hello. Let's try another stream. I don't know how long or short it will be. Yesterday when we went for four hours, so hopefully it won't be as long. Hey, if you haven't checked binary chaos.com, please go check it out. There's a lot of interesting tools. Well, you might or might not find it interesting. One of the and the two more recent ones, this EEG2 music converter just loaded up. We now, by the way, recording audio, like my microphone and audio from the side separately. So later I can edit those into better videos, maybe. You know why there's not relevant ads showing up. Just have to leave it that because that's controlled by the Google gods. So this one, you can select the channel. It's a 16 channel. The data is from EEG, a neurovista device. There's a link there. You can get the data yourself too. Or just use this tool. So you can automate the volume and duration. Automating volume will obviously look at the amplitude. So when there is no a seizure, it should be lower volume. When there is a seizure, it should in theory be louder. Yeah, so this is soft at the end of the it was that 100 second recording in this case. So if you go in the beginning and put it to a hundred, you could see the whole recording. It's a seizure onset. And that's a quiet time after after the seizure ends. And auto duration will also adjust the audio play a length to the window size. So if the hundred is the longest you can get, you can see the whole data. I think default is 10 seconds. But save you around 14 seconds. So this is the seizure onset might become louder and louder on this particular channel. And it will become softer because there's no the seizure have ended. And we can look at the same thing on different channels. I don't know, 14 from memory sounded more cheery. Yeah, or maybe annoying. So you might too adjust your volume choosing on your machine when using the tool. It's available online for you to try out for free. Free as in freedom, not as in beer or GPT for subscription. So pop this in the chat for you with my streaming onto three different platforms. So if you don't like the current platform that you're watching this on, you can move on to either YouTube, Twitch, or LinkedIn, whatever you like best. LinkedIn is the worst in terms of going live. But this is where most of my traffic is. So kind of have to use it. Right. So this is this tool, yeah, to channel 14 might be too annoying. Let's look at the different channels that look different. The seizures on them are quite different. Yeah, it's obviously the longer the window size, the leggy, the leggy leggy. Yeah, it becomes have to be careful with that. But it's just because loading a lot of data in there. Yes, seven, I think it's default to have the seizure on set and then quiet after the seizure. Yeah, this one's weird one, but kind of same shape. There are eight electrodes on the left side of the head, eight on the right. I don't remember which ones which doesn't really matter for this application. It is something going on post seizure as well. Anyway, you get you get the drift. There's some description at the bottom. Yes, you might get some ads. So for that, I have to pay electricity. And then this control is for wavelet denoising that you can try out as well. So yeah, play around with it, see what you think, note you, how you went. And yeah, show you the frequency spectrum. There's an option to remove the whole spectrum or overlay it as well. You can see the different frequency components. Locked to linear frequency scale, filter order, you can make it more or less aggressive. And those parameters are pretty sure to not affect the music generation. So they actually from another tool, they just affect the view. Or maybe they are. Yeah, the music generation is a whole, yeah, it's this controls here so you can control the volume or set it to auto volume and auto duration that will adjust itself to, so it will play longer notes if you select the longer window size. Let's jump back. So there's a bunch of example VG spectrogram. You can go over this as well. So this is the same data set, the same file, same 16 channels, you can select the channels and check your spectrogram. So that should be fun. And you get another not relevant ad. It's probably targeting me. I don't know what I was searching for to get a monopoly ad. Pretty sure. Yeah, a channel ad is a bit weird. So in this case, you do not hear the sound, you just use your eyes. Look the spectrogram. There's description, the whole lot, and also the wavelet denoising, you can actually see how well or not it's performing. You can see the original and denoised signal over there and switch between them for the spectrogram view. Yeah, window size of one, it's not very useful. And yeah, this wavelet denoising doesn't actually do much in this case. It's just an example. You can try different wavelet types, see what difference does it make. And the level of like how aggressive the noise reduction is. The trending just brings the signal to around zero. That should be fun as well. So there's a bunch of uptos as well. Some of them will have to the ones at the bottom will have to get back to them. So we're kind of doing development rounds, trying to make them better. And this is why your feedback is very important. So if you try any of those, please do let me know what you think. So I can improve. Let's say ECG feature extraction as well. Can select your duration of the waveform. The heart rate, which essentially does the same because the more all of a sudden there's slightly more relevant ad, but not quite a segment range would just stuff up the detection. So that's the detection is independent to the way from generation the detector. This case is description there of how it works. But it doesn't have any of the labels just detecting them. There's no references, meaning you'll need to put some references to what type of libraries we use. So yes, it's all a work in progress. So then we have this one of the more recent ones. Yeah, we have another camera will take your face. The face is not actually needed here and will do music generation. So I've been talking about this one quite quite a bit. You can try it out. Yeah, I'm not sure what's that visual gear. And normally you have a lot of, yeah, don't want to mention it. Anyway, you have this tool as well. Go try it out. See some ads, you'll be supporting the project and learning about face and hand detection and music generation and the like. And some might actually normally leave this one during my stream because also doing lots of it can be used for various things like exercise. Yeah, I actually seen someone using it yesterday. They had a lot of fun and trying to dance to it actually, but moving too fast and on a laptop. It was not taking the signal too fast. I'm on a powerful GPU. So it's working much better. But yeah, this is all JavaScript as opposed to other tools that might have back and data processing as well. This is all JavaScript's all front end. So the speed and the quality of how this works depends on your machine, browser, memory, camera and the like. But I'm gonna just leave this one on and we'll start developing unless there's any questions. Check for questions. No, it's nothing. No, I don't think there's anything. Okay, so we have this Flask application. Yeah, when you move to another window, yeah, this is all this browser stuff that I can't a control. I think if I open it separately, might keep running. Yeah, essentially, I'm using it to take breaks, generate some music during the video. Well, I mean, if you if you call it music, most people will not. Yeah, still running. And also use it because I'm doing some funny things with my face like touching my face or whatever. So I have to kind of it's a good, what's called cell feedback feedback loop where it reminds you well, I will not to do it or especially when I'm recording video. So I know to start again, so I can edit it out in the final version. So this game, it's already available on the site. You can go try it yourself. You meant to click on ECG waveforms that do not look normal. I just don't want to say abnormal because every every time I do the text, the speech to text, never gets it right. Yeah, kind of pretty sure people now when learning English will just optimize for the bots to understand them instead of humans. So sometimes you have to talk like this, unfortunately. Right, so this is what the normal is usually looks like. There is a default noise added to it. So the bot is not doing very well. It's essentially labeling everything as not normal as abnormal. This is how it makes a decision. It's a phatological algorithm that will go into the details of it in a bit. It's detecting the number of positive peaks, negative peaks, raw, just not raw, we used to scale. We used to have raw amplitude and scale like normalized amplitude. Now we only have amplitude. So should remove that raw. But probably if we do it now, we'll stuff up something else and the app will stop working. So we'll actually get the robot to generate the code for us. Probably should have had the robot listening as well. So I don't have to repeat myself 10 times. Yeah, this is the four hour session that we did yesterday. And now I just asked it to update something simple. This HTML description. And it doesn't want to do it. Because I'm pretty sure it's forgot all the context. So I have to go tell it. This is a break. We either have to tell it to look at the specific, tell it to see above for so and so. But considering this was a very long session and there might be, there were some errors that we were getting that are currently not relevant anymore might as well start the new session. So we will just start a new session. It's still listening. I'm trying to transcribe what I say. So it, there is already the context is in again, this HTML description, we should have had another normally have like info file as well, whatever it's called on GitHub. Normally, we will ask it to generate that should have this structure for the application like the folders and files without. Anyway, and by the way, yes, so we were yesterday we reached a point where the pot was actually able to update the algorithm and make it perfectly detect normal and abnormal ECG, but only in the case where the noise is zero. So yes, we could have made some basic a filtering for the machine, but we wanted to look at exactly what the human is looking at. So if the human is getting noise, the machine will be getting noise. So in the current application, we would not be doing any noise filtering or noise reduction. Yes, we're measuring this abnormality score. And when the noise level is zero, most get this perfect, a perfect score for the robot. Yes, so this waveform gets an abnormality score of 0.4 and get a 0.8 for this 1.82 for that one. So it looks good. And this is the normal one and we get an abnormality score of 0.1, which is a big difference. So it's able to distinguish between normal and abnormal ECG quite well. And therefore the score will keep going up. And as a human, I tried keeping up with it. This game will start going faster every 50 points that you make, it will increase the speed and I can, there are videos of me reaching about 1000 points, but it's very hard. Go try this out, by the way, let me know what score you were able to reach. And it's even harder for me to maintain that score. So I get fatigued. It's too fast. I stop paying attention. But the robot keeps going to require food, shelter, I don't know what else. Anyway, but now we will, so a couple of things today we'll be trying to improve. Well, I think generally it's ready to be released. So this will be the next tool on the website. Again, I don't want to say bionicaos.com because the speech to text algorithm always gets it wrong. I need to tune one or myself. But that will be a separate project. We do have something on the website that measures speech rate and does transcription as well using a JavaScript library. We could look at that again. Let me know if interested. I can add it to the mix. It will start populating. I don't know why it wasn't listening. Clear. Might have to have them in separate windows. Yes, sorry for that some organizational stuff. Clear. Yeah, we do we do use before people people start screaming at me for not using GitHub Copa. We do use GitHub Copa. I just find it to be much worse, especially in like generic tasks. Pop this one. We have the code. Yeah, and we will have a GitHub copilot as well, helping us out. So let's start quickly. Let's do it quickly. We have this index HTML. It has a HTML description at the bottom. That's what you will see on the page as well. We hear the waveforms that being generated in JavaScript, just using simple math library, JavaScript library. There's only a bunch of them. So essentially, we have an example of two QRS variations. So they're like, then we have one with no P wave, no S wave, no T wave. And yet the two QRS variations, one of them is normal, and the other one is abnormal. Yeah, we'll have to eventually look at this again and add some more. So once we finalize the algorithm, which we don't want any like too many magic numbers in it, we told the GPT-4 yesterday to be to act like a cardiologist. And it just generated, it just generated the code, the settings for the physiological gradient. I'll go over it and say, probably should stop talking too much. There's any questions? Please let me know. This is what we're doing, these sessions for them and to be interactive. Things commented out that should be fine. It's only like 200, 200 lines of code. And before, and if you play this game and you complain about the robot cheating or something, it does not have access to the labels. Yeah, now it will be hard to convince someone. Okay, we have this for a files of code. Please confirm that you looked at it all. Can you give a quick summary of what it does? We really have a HTML description. We will eventually need to update it. Now, can you explain where the waveforms are being generated? And if the fuzzy logic algorithm has access to the essentially the labels of the different wave waveforms. So that's the fuzzy logic algorithm knows if the waveform is abnormal or not. Can you explain? Yep, just turn off the, I might just keep it on. What you prefer. The code sets up an interactive web based game called cardio quest focused on identifying abnormal ECG electrocardiogram patterns. It's a learning tool for medical professionals, students or anyone interested in ECG waveform analysis. HTML front end presents the game interface with instructions, rules, and a canvas where ECG waveforms are displayed. Waveforms, JS generates ECG waveforms, including both normal and abnormal patterns. It uses mathematical functions to simulate different ECG components, P wave, QRS complex, T wave, and introduces variations to create abnormal patterns. Game underscore logic, JS manages game mechanics, displaying waveforms on canvas, handling user inputs, clicks, scoring based on correct or incorrect identification of abnormal waveforms, and adjusting game difficulty. Python back end, app.py using flask. Processes waveform data sent from the front end. Analyzes waveforms using a fuzzy logic algorithm to determine if they're normal or abnormal. Does not have prior knowledge of waveform labels. It analyzes waveforms based on their characteristics using fuzzy logic rules. Waveforms are generated in waveforms, JS. This script creates both normal and abnormal waveforms using mathematical functions. The generation is dynamic, with random elements introduced to create variety in the waveforms. The fuzzy logic algorithm in app.py does not have direct access to the labels of the waveforms, i.e., whether they're physiologically normal or abnormal. It assesses each waveform based on its calculated features, like peak counts, amplitude, sharpness of our peak, PR and RT intervals. The decision on whether a waveform is normal or abnormal is made by the algorithm based on these features, without prior knowledge of the waveform's actual label. The game integrates front end interactivity with back end analysis, providing an educational tool for ECG waveform interpretation. The fuzzy logic algorithm plays a critical role in autonomously evaluating the waveforms, simulating a form of the eye analysis in medical diagnostics. Do you know why the thing does false detections? When there is no hand on camera, it's still detecting a hand. It measures the distance between your thumb and index finger. If it's small, it does short notes, volume up, volume down, and the other hand is more annoying. It has another musical scale that, well, to my ear, I have to change it. But let me, again, let me know. Maybe it sounds better to you. And yeah, sometimes you have these false detections that might detect the hand on my face and things like that, but that's just a media pipe algorithm. And this is all JavaScript, so yes, we could make it work better in Python, but we want it lighter. This might be, it might mute, yes, it might mute this page. Yeah, if you haven't checked by AnyCast.com, please go check it out. There's a lot of interesting stuff. Yes, it might be, it might be getting an ad or two. It's actually not too bad when it's a Victoria government or something like that. I don't know what the ad was for, by the way. So yeah, this video brought to you by, yeah. Okay, so a couple of things, couple of things in this code. So one obvious one with the noise detection. Yeah, that it obviously doesn't work when you have any noise added to the mix. So it starts detecting an absolute ridiculous number of positive and negative peaks. We can probably quickly fix it. Which part of the code is responsible for the positive and negative peak detection calculation? Yeah, so that's, I get a lot of that from co-pilot, just refuses to do anything useful. I think because this code is too large, it's like 500 lines, might be able to refactor it and remove some of the comments, make it shorter and refactor. We don't, I know, yeah, you always have people telling you to put the comments in your code. But now with LLMs, I don't think that's necessary anymore. Well, there are a couple of things. First of all, GitHub co-pilot doesn't want to modify the code, specifically the Python code, because it's too long. Maybe we can remove all the comments and commented out code. Control I, remove comments. Yeah, it will be doing this forever. Let's move on. Yeah, it did something funny, didn't it? It's still running? No. Yeah, let's use the interface. It's not great. Another good thing about a GPT-4 is that we can upload the images like this. Can you make any suggestions as to how to improve the fuzzy logic decision-making with the presence of noise in the signal? One of the problems seem to be that the number of peaks is getting too high, both for positive and negative. And sometimes it is okay to know what happened. It's still working, we're getting an error or something. No, it's still running. And three positive peaks, one negative peak, as you would expect. So it's actually working well. Same for the second case, three positive, one negative. But I don't think it's still making mistakes. So we are monitoring everything it does. We need to monitor abnormality score as well. Yes, we are. So where is that? It's still detecting all these peaks, quite a lot of them. But then the numbers for the positive peak. Yeah, here it's made a mistake. For example, it detected two negative peaks instead of one. Like a lot of positive peaks, but they're not being shown here. So this is something wrong. It's a difference between peaks detected at the indices and then we have the positive peaks and negative peaks. Those numbers should be... Yeah, I need to explain how the peak detection works. I thought sometimes that's detecting too many negative and positive peaks, but all of a sudden it's working okay. I don't know what happened to try it again. We need to show the noise level in the terminal as well. We can do it ourselves, can we? We don't have to get all the code being modified by the bot. The problem with me modifying the code is that then the bot would not know about what modifications I made. So then I'll have to share the code with it anyway. So I might as well get it to do it kind of thing. I see you've uploaded two images that seem to show the results of an ECG waveform analysis from the game, along with scores for human and fuzzy logic performance. You're asking for suggestions to improve the fuzzy logic decision making, especially regarding the issue of noise affecting the peak detection. Here are some recommendations. Improve noise handling. If noise affects peak detection, you might consider applying a more robust noise filtering method before peak detection. For instance, a band pass filter can allow only the frequency range of typical ECG signals to pass through, which can help in reducing the noise. Adapt thresholds for peak detection. If noise level is causing too many false peaks, you might need to adjust the threshold for peak detection dynamically based on the noise level. Enhance peak detection algorithm. Instead of relying solely on amplitude to detect peaks, you can use other features such as the slope of the waveform or the width of the peaks. Introduce it about. Can you give me more specific stuff to my code that you have? Well, it's code that you generated, but you know what I mean. Open source code, but specific to the current application, to the current session. Yep, no problem. Certainly. Let's dive into specifics tailored to your code. Dynamic thresholding for peak detection. Modify. Modify the detect underscore peaks function in the app.py to adapt the threshold based on the noise level. If the noise slider value is available, you can use it to scale the threshold. In the process underscore data function within app.py, the prominence for peak detection could be dynamically adjusted. For instance, if noise level is high, increase the prominence value to avoid detecting noise as peaks. In the fuzzy underscore logic underscore analysis function, you can refine the fuzzy rules based on the actual ECG characteristics. For example, you might add rules that consider the combination of interval lengths and the number of peaks to better classify the waveform. Visual feedback on peak detection. Enhance the front end to visually indicate detected peaks. Modify the game underscore logic, js to draw circles or markers at the detected peak locations on the waveform. Review the membership function shapes and ranges in app.py to ensure they accurately represent the linguistic variables for your use case. For instance, the ranges for, too few, and, too many, peaks may need to be adjusted based on the typical ECG waveform characteristics. Before sending waveform data to the fuzzy logic analyzer, implement a pre-processing step in game underscore logic, js or app.py that applies a digital filter to the ECG signal to reduce noise. Update the front end to show the current noise level. This would involve a simple addition to the game underscore logic, js to display the value of the noise slider on the canvas or as part of the game's HUD, head-up display. Log analysis results for review. Implement logging in app.py to collect data on each decision made by the fuzzy logic. Store the waveform features and the corresponding decision to analyze patterns and improve the decision-making algorithm. Modify the front end to provide instant feedback on whether the user's click was correct or incorrect. This could help in learning and also provide a sense of progression and challenge. Review and possibly refine the calculation of our peak sharpness in app.py. You may need to adjust how the width at half-maximum is calculated or the scaling factor used to derive the sharpness score. Feedback mechanism for learning. If you want to move towards a learning system, consider implementing a simple rule adjustment mechanism where the system can tweak the membership functions based on past performance. Use PR and RT intervals more effectively in app.py. Ensure that these intervals are contributing to the decision-making process in the fuzzy logic rules. For these changes, you will likely need to modify both the JavaScript code for the front-end dynamics and the Python code for back-end analysis. Each suggestion requires a careful approach, ensuring that the changes are tested and do not introduce new issues. If you need code snippets or deeper explanations for any of these suggestions, please let me know which ones you're interested in. We need to add the noise level as well into the terminal, into the bugging. At the noise level, we have it in HTML as well. It actually removes the comments. I don't know what did it do. Something is broken. Yes, once we add the noise, the back-end doesn't know about it, which is fine. Yeah, we can make sure when it's finding, actually, the positive and negative peaks finding even with a presence of noise still working okay. No, it's not. Yeah, we can make sure it's not picking up, say, consecutive points as peaks. Yeah, like here, for example, let's try getting a copilot to do it. I can make sure that the peak finder is not labeling points that are too close to one another as the peaks. Looking at this specific code made a suggestion to include the minimum distance. And the minimum distance is the minimum number of samples you want between peaks. So we need to define that. Why is it 100? We can check the length of the... Yeah, I want to check the length of the whole waveform and say divided by like four or five or something. That would be more reasonable. Can the minimum distance be the whole length of the waveform, the number of data points in the waveform divided by say six? Looks good. And print minimum distance as well. And we'll sort out the negative peaks in a sec. We have to run the application the way we want it to actually work. In case we had a minimum distance of 133, then we had a number of positive peaks at four where it should be three. And now it's three, which is correct. It's four when it should have been. Yeah, how many peaks do we... Yeah, but then they can be close together as well. So that won't work with it. Should be minimum distance or maximum distance? Yeah, three is correct. We also, because of the noise, we want it to be as certain. Yeah, that prominence value might need an adjustment. Oh yeah, the minimum distance. Yeah, maybe we... Oops. Just give it a certain magic number so we can avoid magic numbers. Keep it to something small. Yeah, 21. It's not right. So mad is the median. Median absolute deviation. Which way? Let's print this prominence value, prominence value of 15. Yeah, that's not... This looks like high enough. 17. Yeah, we might do a double or something. I mean, yeah, we do have those magic numbers, but eventually they have to make sense. So currently the prominence number is still 14. What? That's 24 multiplied by 10 for a sec. Yeah, we have two positive peaks. Prominence number 70. Yeah, we don't like magic numbers, but unfortunately, we can't get rid of them. We could get rid of them if we scale the amplitude from zero to one. Isn't the amplitude scaled? Yeah, we have scaling. Yeah, we have this scaling here. This is the absolute amplitude. Okay, we print amplitude here as well. Yes, we have 360, then 0.6. Okay, but that's correct in noise, in some noise. So we have two negative peaks. Why aren't we using prominence and negative peaks? No, we are using prominence and negative peaks for finding negative peaks. And this is scaled. It should be fine. Now the main question, one thing before we can hopefully publish this is the fact that for the only normal ECG waveform that we currently have, the score, the abnormality score is still too high. Yeah, so this one is okay. It's abnormal because it's missing one of the peaks. Six is okay. Yeah, we missed it. Yeah, for this one. And let's see, it's positive peaks, negative peaks. Now that's wrong. Well, that, how fast we just fixed it? Obviously not. Yeah, three and one. It's still abnormal. Why? So that's one, okay, 0.8. This one, okay, 0.8. This one is we have three positive peaks, one negative peak, wrong, 2.58. Our peak sharpness of 0.4. Right, now those PR intervals, they seem to be too low. Yeah, all the PR intervals, all the intervals seem to be too low. Clear. Clear. All the PR and RT intervals are too low. The numbers are too small. I remember messing around with it yesterday, and we must have stuffed something up. Can we check the gold? This is what I currently have. Based on the updated information and the code snippet provided, it seems there are some issues with the PR and RT interval calculations resulting in values that are too small. Let's address these issues. Check interval calculation logic. The calculate underscore intervals function is responsible for calculating the PR and RT intervals. Ensure that the peak detection for P, R, and T waves is accurate. If the detected peaks are not corresponding to the actual P, R, and T waves, the intervals will be incorrect. Normalization of intervals. It seems like you're normalizing the intervals by the total length of the waveform. Total underscore length equals then, waveform. This might be causing the values to be smaller than expected. Consider if this normalization is necessary or if it is being done correctly. Proper scaling factor. If you decide that normalization is required, ensure that you're using the correct scaling factor. The current normalization by the length of the waveform might not be appropriate for PR and RT intervals. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Waveform length consideration. Clear. The problem is that the calculation is wrong when there is noise, so it's okay. It's perfectly fine when the noise level is at zero. When there is noise, we did fix how we find the number of positive and negative peaks, but by not looking at to close samples, by setting a distance between samples to a minimum of 100, I think. But now the PR intervals and RT intervals, a measurement, doesn't seem to take that into account. And here is the code again. Given the details you've provided, it appears that when noise is introduced into the ECG signal, the calculation of PR and RT intervals becomes unreliable. This could be due to the noise affecting the peak detection process, leading to incorrect identification of the P, R, and T waves, which are critical for calculating these intervals. Here are some steps you can take to improve the robustness of the interval calculations in the presence of noise. Revise peak detection with noise consideration. The minimum distance parameter seems to be a fixed value, e.g. minimum underscore distance equals 10 or 100. Instead, this value should be adaptive based on the noise level. You could make minimum underscore distance proportional to the noise level, which you can pass to the process underscore data function as a parameter. Refine PR and RT interval calculations. The normalization of PR and RT intervals, PR underscore normalized and RT underscore normalized, by the total length of the waveform may not be appropriate. Typically, these intervals are measured in milliseconds, moes. If the sampling rate of the ECG is known, e.g. 300 samples per second, you can convert the number of samples between peaks to time. For example, if PR underscore interval is 30 samples, and the sampling rate is 300 samples per second, the PR interval in seconds is PR underscore interval 300. Validate peaks. After detecting peaks, implement a validation step that checks the validity of the peaks based on expected ECG characteristics, such as the expected range of intervals between peaks. This can help filter out false peaks caused by noise. Implement filtering. Apply a digital filter to the ECG signal before peak detection to reduce the impact of noise. Common filters for ECG signals include low pass filters to remove high frequency noise or a band pass filter to retain frequencies within the typical range of ECG signals. Here's a more concrete example for the process underscore data function where we use an adaptive minimum distance for peak detection. In the analyze underscore waveform route, you will then need to extract the noise level from the request and pass it to process underscore data. Please adjust the logic and parameters according to the specific characteristics of your ECG data and the nature of the noise present in the signal. Okay, the whole idea of this application is that the machine is seeing exactly the same signal as the human does, so if there is noise in it, we will provide it to the fuzzy logic algorithm as is with the noise included. We actually want to see how worse the machine performance is with increased noise. Now currently it seems to be working okay when the noise level is at zero. We want to have the noise at like a good dynamic range where it's where the performance of the algorithm worsens as we increase the noise. So we need to select a good dynamic range for the noise level, but the back end, which does all the fuzzy logic calculation, doesn't know what the noise level is. It shouldn't have any, obviously, labels of each waveform, and remember that we are processing each waveform PQRST complex one at a time, so we don't have any RR intervals. Understood. If the back end is processing EGECG waveform PQRST complex independently without considering the noise level and there are no RR intervals involved, then the PR and RT intervals would indeed be calculated on a per complex basis. Given this setup, here's how you could approach the problem. Peak detection robustness. The peak detection algorithm in process underscore data should be robust enough to handle noise without adjusting for noise level. This means that the algorithm parameters should be tuned to work under a variety of conditions. Interval calculation accuracy. Since you're dealing with single complexes, the PR and RT intervals should be calculated within each complex. Make sure that the detection of the P wave and the T wave is accurate to calculate these intervals correctly. Algorithm tuning. You might need to revisit the parameters used for peak detection, such as prominence and distance. If these are set too low, noise spikes might be detected as false peaks, but if they're set too high, real peaks might be missed. You could use a more complex algorithm that accounts for the expected morphology of EGECG peaks. Use of physiological knowledge. Incorporate physiological constraints into your peak detection logic. For example, you know that the P wave should occur before the QRS complex and the T wave should follow it. Use such knowledge to distinguish real peaks from noise. Dynamic range for noise. To set a good dynamic range for noise levels, perform tests of various noise settings and observe the performance of the fuzzy logic system. Identify at which noise level the system's performance begins to degrade significantly. This would be your upper limit for the noise range. Visual debugging. If possible, create a visual debug mode that overlays the detected peaks and intervals on the waveform. This would allow you to visually assess the impact of noise and the algorithm's performance. Signal preprocessing, even though the back end does not adjust for noise, preprocessing the signal with a band pass filter could help improve peak detection. This does not mean adjusting to the noise level, but rather ensuring the signal is as clean as possible while retaining its diagnostic features. Machine learning consideration, as an alternative to manually tuning the fuzzy logic system, consider a machine learning approach where a model is trained to detect peaks and calculate intervals. The model would learn to handle noise during the training process. Remember that any changes should be thoroughly tested to ensure they improve the system's robustness to noise without reducing its accuracy at lower noise levels. The goal is to maintain high performance across a range of conditions without specific knowledge of the noise level in the back end. Sure, I can help you refine the code. Looking at the process underscore data function, you're detecting positive peaks with skippy, signal, find underscore peaks using the calculated prominence value and minimum distance. Then you're doing the same for negative peaks. It seems like you're not detecting peaks more than once, but you're processing positive and negative peaks separately, which is necessary because they have different criteria, one is looking for maxima, the other for minima. Here are a few specific suggestions for your code. Dynamic distance for peak detection, you've hardcoded the minimum underscore distance to 10 for the positive peaks. If you want to avoid detecting peaks too close to each other due to noise, you might want to make this dynamic. Use a fraction of the expected distance between peaks in a normal ECG, which is usually determined by the heart rate. However, if you're processing single complexes at a time, you need a different approach to set this value, perhaps based on the width of a typical QRS complex. Refactoring calculate underscore intervals. This function assumes the order of peaks as p, r, t which might not be always true, especially in noisy signals. Consider validating the peak order or incorporating a check to ensure that the detected peaks make physiological sense. Dealing with noise, to make your system more robust to noise, consider implementing a preprocessing step that filters the noise. A common approach for ECG signals is to use a bandpass filter that passes frequencies typical for ECGs, roughly 0.5 to 50 hertz. Visualization, you have commented out the plotting section in the process underscore data function. Visualization can be very helpful for debugging and understanding the performance of your peak detection, especially when dealing with noise. Code duplication. Currently, you have separate but very similar blocks of code for detecting positive and negative peaks. You could create a single function that accepts parameters to detect either positive or negative peaks to reduce redundancy. Normalization. You normalize amplitude by dividing by 600, but it's not clear where this value comes from. Ensure that such constants are well documented and justified in the code. Peak redetection check. After the initial detection of peaks, you might want to check if any peak is being detected more than once. You can do this by analyzing the intervals between successive peaks and ensuring they're within a reasonable range. Here's an example of how you might refactor the peak detection to avoid duplication and to ensure peaks are not detected more than once. Make sure to test thoroughly after any refactoring. Remember that any change to the code should be justified with either physiological knowledge of the ECG, empirical evidence from your data, or both. I see the issue you're mentioning regarding the detection of peaks. In your code, you indeed have two places where you detect peaks, within the process underscore data function and within the detect underscore peaks function. If detect underscore peaks is being used elsewhere for different purposes, it's fine to have separate implementations as long as they're justified. Here's what you can do. Determine the necessity of each peak detection block. If the detect underscore peaks function is not being called anywhere else, you can remove it to avoid redundancy. If it's used for other processing steps, consider if you can unify the peak detection to use the same function to keep the code dry. Don't repeat yourself. Centralize peak detection logic. Create a single function that can handle both positive and negative peak detection. This can help avoid duplication and make the code easier to manage. Clarify the code. Comments and documentation are critical. Each function should have a dock string explaining its purpose, inputs, outputs, and any side effects. Refactor. If there are other similar blocks of code, combine them into single, well-documented functions. Improve error handling. Make sure that all potential errors are being caught and handled appropriately. For example, if no peaks are detected, how should the code behave? Here's how you might refactor the peak detection. By creating a find underscore peaks function, you avoid duplicating the logic for finding peaks, then you can also remove the separate detect underscore peaks function if it's no longer necessary. For refactoring the intervals, you can create a function that will be called within process underscore data instead of having a separate calculate underscore intervals function, unless you need to calculate intervals outside of process underscore data. Make sure to test the refactored code thoroughly to ensure it behaves as expected. Refactoring can introduce new bugs if not done carefully, so validation is key. Recording, if you want to record your music, simply start the recording feature. Once done, you can save your career. Here's an example of how you might refactor the peak detection to avoid duplication and ensure peaks are not detected more than once. Yeah, we're having a major problem that this code is too long, considering we're using another level, I'm thinking just removing all the comments. So we can manage it. So GitHub Copart can manage it. It can do it on short snippets. That's okay. Let's stuff something up. Yeah, we need the structure of the whole thing. Hey, can you remove all the comments and refactor? Yeah, the inline thing is really funny. We'll really stuff something up one way. So when there's no noise, it's working fine. Yeah, we'll get a point one, a abnormality score for the normal ECG waveform example. That's good. Yeah, we're having all sorts of issues when there's noise. None of the bots seem to be able to solve for us. Yeah, it's all the membership functions. Don't need stuff like that, do we? It's still a robot. We have the rule, the normal rule, abnormal or amplitude, potential abnormal for sharpness, abnormal based on the interval lens, and the rule for mixed indicators. So it's hard for me to, it's Copart refractoring the code. That's some funny business, but yeah, we don't look at the frequency anymore. It takes so long. Didn't actually do anything. Hey, can you delete comments and delete comments and refactor? What on earth are you importing stuff here for? It's really bizarre. We're having trouble refractoring this thing. Try it last time. Right. This is better. I don't know why I didn't want to do it for that function. We have no problem that the GPT-4 was trying to solve for us where we have the big finding in multiple places. That's what I was hoping a Copart to solve for me, but it's having trouble with the whole code because it's too long. Yes, it's freaking out when you give it a whole thing in two different places at the moment, which is not good. Well, maybe it's okay. I don't know. Hey, can you review this code again? There are a couple of things that I want you to pay attention to. First thing is the number of times that we use the sci-pi signal find peaks function. There's some reason for all of them, instead of just the two for positive and negative peaks. Now, when the signal is noisy, another problem is that when the signal is noisy, the PR interval and the RT interval are totally messed up. It's working okay when the noise is at zero level, but when there is presence of noise, the intervals are way too small, meaning they are being calculated between the different peaks being detected that are not accurate detections. These not accurate detections are not using the minimum interval between peaks that we set in the code. Can you check? Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. By the way, I'm only talking to the robot because there's no human available. All right, let's walk through the code and pinpoint areas for improvement, especially in terms of the peak detection and interval calculation under noisy conditions. You're correct at the ski-pi signal find underscore peaks function is used multiple times, potentially leading to redundant peak detections. This is happening because process underscore data and detect underscore peaks both find peaks but with different threshold criteria. This could be a design choice if different peak detections are required for different analyses, but if they're intended to be the same, they should be consolidated into a single function called to prevent redundancy and errors. Noisy signals can indeed cause incorrect peak detection, leading to incorrect interval calculations. To address this, you should increase the prominence or threshold value during peak detection to ignore small afflictuations caused by noise. Implement a noise filter prior to peak detection. A common approach in ECG analysis is to use a bandpass filter that passes frequencies typical of ECG signals but blocks out noise. Consider other features of ECG peaks, such as width, to distinguish real peaks from noise. Validate detected peaks against expected physiological ranges for heart rates, e.g., it's unlikely to have a heart rate over 200 bpm or on the 30 bpm. Unify peak detection. Merge process underscore data and detect underscore peaks into a single peak detection routine that handles both positive and negative peaks. Filtering, if not already implemented, apply a bandpass filter to the data before peak detection. Robust metrics for PR and RT interval calculations, consider additional checks to ensure they fall within a physiologically reasonable range. Debugging info. Provide more detailed logging when noise levels are high to understand how it's affecting peak detection. Dynamic thresholds. Adjust prominence and distance dynamically based on the noise level if possible. Here's a conceptual snippet that incorporates some of these ideas. For the current issue with intervals, you need to ensure the minimum distance between peaks is maintained even on the noisy conditions. This might involve dynamically adjusting the minimum underscore distance based on the noise level or ensuring that your calculate underscore intervals function is only considering peaks that are appropriately spaced apart. Here's a brief pseudo code outline to adjust the interval calculation based on noise. And remember, refactoring code is an iterative process. Make changes gradually and test extensively after each change to ensure functionality remains correct. Lastly, ensure your Flask app is prepared for production if it's going to be used in a real world setting. This involves error handling, security checks, and possibly a WSGI server like Gullicorn for deployment. Breaking down the code into separate modules is an excellent approach for maintaining clean and modular code. It enhances readability, makes it easier to debug, and facilitates unit testing for individual components. Here's how you construct your application. App.py. This will contain only the Flask application and roots. Signal underscore processing.py. This will contain functions related to signal processing such as peak detection and interval calculations. Fuzzy underscore analysis.py. This will include all the fuzzy logic related functions and analysis. Here's a simplified outline of what each file could look like. Each py file will be a module, and you can import the necessary functions in App.py where they're used. Make sure to handle the imports correctly, for example. This modular approach will make your codebase much easier to maintain and understand. It also aligns well with Python's design philosophy of having explicit and readable code. For lighter projects, you might even want to package these modules into a Python package, but for now, this structure should suffice. Remember to adjust your project structure accordingly and test each module individually to ensure that they work as expected when separated. Certainly, here is how you could split the existing script into separate modules. For the sake of clarity, I'll provide the full content for each file, but keep in mind that for the signal processing and fuzzy logic parts, the functions are lengthy, so I'll truncate the repeated parts and focus on structuring. Now, let's summarize what each module will contain. App.py is your Flask application entry point, where you define roots and use functions from other modules. Signal underscore processing.py contains all the signal processing logic, such as peak detection and interval calculations. Fuzzy underscore analysis.py contains all the fuzzy logic definitions and analysis computations. Make sure that after restructuring, you test each module individually to ensure they're working correctly. You may need to handle module imports and package structures if you move to a package-based approach. This modular code will be more maintainable, and is a step towards best practices in software development. Certainly, I will create a separate Python script for the data processing part, which we can call data underscore processing.py. This will include functions for handling the raw waveform data, detecting peaks, calculating intervals, and any other processing tasks. This file will be used by your main Flask application to process the waveform data. Remember to remove these function definitions from your app.py file to avoid duplication. You will import these functions into app.py like this. The rest of your app.py file remains the same, except you remove the function definitions that have been moved to data underscore processing.py. When you split your code into multiple files, make sure each file is in the same directory, or set up proper Python packaging if they're in different directories. This way, you can easily import functions from one file to another. Sure, we can split this script into three separate files, one for the Flask application, one for processing the ECG data, and one for handling the fuzzy logic analysis. This modular approach will enhance the maintainability and readability of the code. Here's how you can organize it. This file will contain the Flask application setup and roots. This file will include functions related to processing the ECG data. This file will handle the fuzzy logic analysis. Make sure all three files, app.py, ECG underscore processing.py, fuzzy underscore analysis.py, are in the same directory. Import functions from ECG underscore processing and fuzzy underscore analysis in app.py. You might need to adjust the imports and function calls based on your specific requirements and the structure of your project. This structure should allow your application to function as intended, with a cleaner and more organized codebase. Remember to test thoroughly to ensure that everything is integrated correctly. Absolutely, let's refactor your original script into a more modular structure. The app.py file will primarily handle the Flask setup and roots. The other functionalities, ECG data processing and fuzzy logic analysis will be transferred to separate modules, ECG underscore processing.py and fuzzy underscore analysis.py, respectively. Here's your revised app.py. In this script, process underscore data and fuzzy underscore logic underscore analysis are imported from ECG underscore processing and fuzzy underscore analysis modules, respectively. The Flask app handles the web roots and uses these modules to process the data. Next, you'll create the ECG underscore processing.py and fuzzy underscore analysis.py files, which will contain the specific functionalities extracted from your original script. You'll need to ensure that these modules are correctly referenced and that the necessary parts of the code are moved into them. This approach will help you organize your code better and make it easier to maintain and understand. Certainly. Based on the functionalities related to ECG data processing in your original script, here's how you can structure the ECG underscore processing.py module. This module will include functions for processing ECG data, calculating R peak sharpness, detecting peaks, and calculating intervals. Process underscore data function process is the raw ECG data. Calculate underscore R underscore peak underscore sharpness calculates the sharpness of the R peak. Detect underscore peaks detects peaks in the ECG waveform. Calculate underscore intervals calculates the PR and RT intervals. Make sure that this module, ECG underscore processing.py, is in the same directory as your app.py file. You might need to adjust the function definitions and parameters based on the specifics of your ECG data and the requirements of your project. Certainly. Based on the fuzzy logic analysis part of your original script, here's how the fuzzy underscore analysis.py module can be structured. This module will include functions for setting up the fuzzy logic system and performing the analysis. Fuzzy underscore logic underscore analysis sets up and runs the fuzzy logic control system. Define underscore fuzzy underscore variables creates the fuzzy variables, antecedents and consequence with their respective universes and membership functions. Define underscore rules establishes the rules for fuzzy logic system. Calculate underscore memberships computes the membership values for each category. Ensure that this module, fuzzy underscore analysis.py, is placed in the same directory as your app.py file. You might need to flesh out the define underscore fuzzy underscore variables and define underscore rules functions with the specific details from your original script, telling them to fill your application's requirements. Absolutely. To create a fuzzy underscore analysis.py script based on the fuzzy logic related parts of your original code, we'll focus on the functions and components that deal with setting up and evaluating the fuzzy logic system. This script will handle all the. Absolutely. Based on the fuzzy logic analysis part of your original script, I'll create a separate fuzzy underscore analysis.py module. This module will encapsulate all the fuzzy logic related functionalities. Yeah, obviously. Open the ID, they have the CEO leaving again or something. This site is really struggling. Surprisingly, I haven't hit the limit yet. Certainly. The fuzzy underscore analysis.py module will contain the fuzzy logic analysis functionality extracted from your original script. This module will define the fuzzy sets, rules and the fuzzy logic controller, finalizing the ECG data. Should be just a simple copy pasting task, but doesn't seem to want to do it. Just doing example of one of the variables. Yeah, I'll have to, well, we'll have to copy paste it first, but then go over it again. The rules and the membership functions and the fuzzy rules. In this module, fuzzy underscore logic underscore analysis function handles the setup and execution of the fuzzy logic control system. Calculate underscore membership's function calculates the membership values for each fuzzy variable. Make sure that this module fuzzy underscore analysis.py is in the same directory as your app.py. I'm not sure what the problem, the linter is not showing any problem, but okay, so we broke down the code into the fuzzy, the flask application being a standalone file and just 50 lines of code. Then we have our ECG processing. Surprisingly, seem to have generated the whole code. We'll have to double check, but it's about a 70 lines of code. So what is it? 120. Then we're missing another like, like 300. So it doesn't want to do the whole thing. Make sure we have the same number of functions. So obviously we have the copy of the original one. In the original one we had, okay, we did something wrong. Yeah, we had nine functions in total. And the flask application is currently calling fuzzy analysis ECG processing. So the ECG processing interior is complete. So we have a process data function, calculate our peak sharpness, detect peaks, calculate intervals. That sounds legit, except let's go from the bottom quickly. Yeah, so it's copied this one correctly. Detect peaks. We have it once here, the function and the calling of it. It could have refracted the comments and everything. It's probably did F.5 above one. That looks legit. We're returning peaks and properties. A calculate our peak sharpness quickly. There's nothing to refract. I should have just copied it as these returning sharpness core. Yes, that looks legit. And then we have the process data, which is the main a function, react prominence value. Yeah, we're printing some stuff. We don't have to do it. No, actually, we do want to do it. Don't we? How does that work when troubleshooting a different Python files? How does the printing works? We'll sort it later because we will obviously face some more problems. Now the problem is with this fuzzy analysis, a Python code that has all this missing bits in it. It has four functions that define fuzzy variables, define rules, a calculate membership and the fuzzy logic analysis. That's okay to refract it as well. Yeah, so this is our main a main bit logic. Yeah, one GPT for to just do this. We want this code. We want you to take this code. We want you to take this code and generate the whole fuzzy analysis, Python file script that works with no errors. What can do? Certainly. To create the fuzzy underscore analysis dot py script, we'll take the relevant parts from your app dot py that deal with fuzzy logic analysis. This script will define the fuzzy logic variables, sets, rules, and the control system for analysis. Here's the complete fuzzy underscore analysis dot py script based on your provided code. It still has missing bits in it. Place this fuzzy underscore analysis dot py in the same directory as your app dot py. In your app dot py, import the fuzzy underscore logic underscore analysis function from fuzzy underscore analysis import fuzzy underscore logic underscore analysis. Ensure that all required libraries numpy sk fuzzy etc are installed in your environment. This script should now handle all the fuzzy logic analysis for your application. Remember to test it thoroughly to ensure it integrates correctly with your flask app. It's better it's a bit longer, but it's not the whole thing. How many functions do we have? Okay, this is not right. Okay, the code is not complete. Can you generate a whole script required to run the file? Absolutely. I'll provide you with a complete fuzzy underscore analysis dot py script, which encompasses all necessary components for the fuzzy logic analysis based on your original code. Here's the full script fuzzy variables and sets the script defines fuzzy variables positive underscore peaks negative underscore peaks amplitude etc and their respective membership functions fuzzy rules it outlines rules that determine how the inputs influence the abnormality score control system it includes a fuzzy control system that calculates the output based on the given inputs membership calculation the get underscore membership function computes the membership values for each input place this script in the same directory as your flask app app dot py in app dot py import the function using from fuzzy underscore analysis import fuzzy underscore logic underscore analysis ensure that numpy and sk fuzzy are installed in your python environment this script should work seamlessly with your flask application handling the fuzzy logic analysis component make sure to test it thoroughly to ensure proper functionality and integration yes so we should okay let's do it ourselves the port is not helping well it's helping but not quite so we have calculated memberships and yeah we could split this fuzzy logic analysis and we don't need process data because we already have it yeah we don't need that one surprised we even still have it but we still have numpy no we do need it yeah we don't need the the flask that's part of the flask business and that should be actually it we did it by ourselves could have split the no way yeah we have two functions calculate memberships and the fuzzy logic analysis should split it further but it's a good start close that don't save such a processing fuzzy logic analysis this one is running on port locally try it out surprisingly it's still running it's calculating the scores and everything let's see if it's running for normal a no noise a reduced noise to zero see if it's still running let's let's stop normal 0.8 and that's wrong that's wrong decision of normal for a normal scg okay so we yeah refracted the code started fresh and split it up so we now have the flask application on the what are the 40 40 lines of code the ecg processing a we want to keep it to the minimum because we essentially don't want to do anything fancy we want it to be as close to what the human does as possible so we have those functions for each processing and then we have the fuzzy analysis and we have two functions in it and I suspect this is being called incorrectly here the membership functions it's not why it's a refractoring it in a funny way like that no that that function has been called internally and then we have the fuzzy logic analysis being called over there in the main file in the analyzed waveform and we spit out the results so I don't I don't actually have anything in the terminal because everything that you need should be just displayed on the front part now yes that's wrong so that waveform should have had a much lower just quickly yeah that's the original code and let's check get the amplitude there's something wrong with the amplitude number that meant to be normalized shoot that's sweet here is the division by 600 that's in process data still there number is not not right once on the abnormality score a being printed by saying something's very wrong now that's okay yeah the first thing that jumps out is that the raw amplitude should have been a normal as to be between zero and one and that's not the case I have to double check but we already streaming over two hours so it might take a break continue this next time I didn't notice any questions well now in theory we should be able to use a github gop pilot can we say bye bye to the viewers and summarize the code and the different files what do they do and how this application could be possibly useful and who the target audience might be and how do we get the cardiologist to collaborate on this or any anyone who is specializing in ecg a time series review data analysis if you got anything funny and you want to go for it just go for it but keep it relevant to the subject at hand all right let's wrap this up role serves as the main entry point for the web application it handles web requests interacts with the user through a web interface and coordinates the overall functionality key features it includes routes for displaying a homepage and analyzing ecg waveforms to ecg underscore processing dot py ecg data processing role handles the processing of ecg data this includes finding peaks calculating intervals and other preprocessing steps key features functions for peak detection our peak sharpness calculation and interval measurements three fuzzy underscore analysis dot py fuzzy logic analysis role performs fuzzy logic analysis on the processed ecg data to evaluate cardiac abnormalities key features fuzzy variables and rules set up and computing the fuzzy logic inference to determine the abnormality score this application could be a valuable tool for cardiologists medical researchers and healthcare professionals specializing in cardiac care it offers a quick automated way to analyze ecg waveforms which can be helpful in preliminary assessments or in settings where expert cardiologists aren't immediately available to enhance the application's reliability and clinical relevance collaboration with cardiologists or ecg specialists is crucial they can provide valuable insights on interpreting ecg data and refining the algorithm to align with clinical standards data validation helping in validating the accuracy of the analysis feedback offering critical feedback on the application's interface and usability in clinical settings conferences and seminars presenting the tool that medical conferences could attract the attention of potential collaborators academic partnerships collaborating with universities or research institutes specializing in cardiology professional networks leveraging professional networks like linkedin to connect with cardiologists and healthcare professionals pilot studies conducting pilot studies in clinical settings to demonstrate the tool's utility and gather feedback imagine this your app not only reads ecg's but also predicts the patient's reaction to their cardio report excited nervous surprisingly chill a little humor could lighten up a cardiologist's day so there you have it a smart efficient and potentially life-saving tool wrapped in a neat package of python scripts ready to make waves in the world of cardiac care remember the heart of this project pun intended lies in its collaborative potential bringing together tech and medical expertise for better healthcare outcomes and with that we say goodbye to our viewers keep those hearts beating and those codes running of course the heart of this project ah this is so bad that it's good wow keep those hearts beating and those codes running of course let's delve into perspective that a cardiologist or ecg specialist might offer regarding this application understanding the application one scope and functionality as a cardiologist or ecg specialist it's designed to process ecg waveforms identify key features like peaks and intervals and apply fuzzy logic for an initial assessment of potential abnormalities two ecg data processing the apt ability to process raw ecg data and extract clinically relevant metrics such as r peak sharpness positive and negative peaks and pr rt intervals is crucial these parameters are fundamental in diagnosing various cardiac conditions three fuzzy logic analysis the incorporation of fuzzy logic offers an innovative approach to interpret ecg data in real world clinical settings ecg interpretations often involve dealing with uncertainties and variations in waveforms fuzzy logic can handle such nuances potentially providing a more flexible and nuanced analysis than binary algorithms potential benefits and limitations benefits rapid preliminary analysis for quick screenings and initial assessments this tool can be quite useful especially in settings where immediate expert analysis isn't feasible educational tool it could be an excellent resource for medical students and junior doctors to understand ecg interpretations research applications the application could be valuable in research settings for large-scale ecg data analysis limitations not a replacement for expert analysis it's important to remember that such tools or supplements not substitutes for professional medical interpretation accuracy and reliability the algorithms accuracy needs to be thoroughly vetted against a wide range of ecg data including rare and complex cases ethical and legal considerations in healthcare especially with tools that might influence clinical decisions there are significant ethical and legal implications to consider future enhancements algorithm validation collaborating with healthcare institutions for clinical validation of the algorithm user feedback incorporating feedback from medical professionals to improve the user interface and functionality continual learning implementing machine learning techniques that can improve the systems accuracy over time with more data input integration with healthcare systems ensuring compatibility and integration with existing healthcare systems for seamless use final thoughts as a cardiologist or ecg specialist i find this application to be a promising step towards integrating technology in cardiac care while it shows potential its real world applicability hinges on rigorous testing validation and responsible usage within the framework of medical guidelines and ethical standards with these considerations in mind this tool could be a valuable asset in the realm of cardiac health absolutely let's adopt a skeptical cardiologist viewpoint on this application skeptical overview of the application one automated ecg analysis from a skeptical standpoint while the idea of automating ecg analysis is appealing i would be cautious about its accuracy and reliability ecg interpretation is complex and often requires nuanced judgment the machines may not replicate accurately two processing and analysis limitations data processing while the tool processes key ecg metrics there's a concern about the oversimplification of complex waveform patterns which can be crucial in diagnosing certain conditions fuzzy logic analysis the use of fuzzy logic is innovative but i'd be wary of its ability to handle the wide variability seen in real patient data there's a risk of oversimplifying or misinterpreting data leading to inaccurate conclusions three clinical application concerns diagnostic accuracy ecg interpretation requires a high degree of accuracy a tool that's even slightly off could lead to misdiagnoses with serious implications for patient care dependency risks there's a risk that less experienced clinicians might over rely on the tool potentially undermining their clinical judgment and learning recommendations for improvement extensive testing the tool needs to be tested rigorously against a vast and diverse set of ecg data including rare and complex cases that validate its accuracy clinical collaboration active involvement and continuous feedback from experienced cardiologists would be vital to refine the algorithm user training users should be trained not only on how to use the tool but also on its limitations and the importance of corroborating its findings with clinical judgment final thoughts from a skeptical perspective as a cardiologist while i appreciate the technological advancement and potential utility of this tool i remain cautious the stakes in cardiac diagnosis are extremely high any tool no matter how advanced should not replace the nuanced judgment of an experienced cardiologist it should be used judiciously always in conjunction with a thorough clinical assessment the tool is promising but it should undergo extensive validation and continuous improvement to prove its worth in the highly nuanced field of cardiac care based on the information provided and the image you've uploaded it appears that there is an issue with the raw amplitude output on the front page of your application the raw amplitude is not normalized correctly to be between zero and one even though you've mentioned dividing by 600 which is supposed to be the maximum amplitude value here's what could be going wrong incorrect calculation the calculation might not be correctly implemented in the code for normalization the code should ensure that it takes the absolute amplitude i.e. the peak to peak value and then divides by the maximum possible value 600 in your case data type issue if the amplitude value is not correctly cast to a float before division integer division might be occurring leading to incorrect normalization let's troubleshoot by revisiting the process underscore data function in your python code where the amplitude should be normalized ensure that this part of the code is indeed executed and that np underscore data contains the correct data before this calculation if the amplitude exceeds 600 due to any reason such as noise or a spike in a signal the normalized value could be greater than one which would be incorrect based on your specifications you might want to add a check to ensure the raw amplitude does not exceed the expected maximum or if it does handle it appropriately perhaps as an outlier or artifact if after this check you still encounter issues i would recommend adding debug print statements or logging to track the amplitude values at each step from the raw waveform data to the final normalization the pinpoint where the discrepancy arises as a tech savvy cardiologist with an affinity for gaming and machine learning i'd be quite intrigued by an application that marries the precision of computational analysis with the nuanced field of ecg interpretation here's my review first impressions user interface the front page is straightforward presenting key metrics such as the number of positive and negative peaks which resonate with the gamer in me it's like looking at a high score on a leaderboard but in this case it's the vital statistics of cardiac function feedback system the immediate feedback on hits false alarms great rejections and misses gives it an almost game like feel rewarding precision and penalizing inaccuracy which can drive better user engagement and learning machine learning integration the use of fuzzy logic is an intelligent choice unlike rigid binary systems it allows for a more human-like interpretation of data with varying degrees of truth this reflects the real world scenarios where ecg readings aren't always textbook perfect normalization of data the correction to the amplitude normalization issue shows responsiveness to feedback betrayed i deeply appreciate it demonstrates the robustness of the system and its ability to adapt and improve algorithmic transparency displaying the raw and normalized data provides transparency into how the system processes information which is critical for clinical trust and understanding preliminary screening for a cardiologist time is of the essence a tool that can quickly screen and triage ecgs to detect abnormalities could be a significant asset especially in high-volume or emergency settings education and training the application could serve as an excellent training tool for residents and fellows the gamified feedback can make learning ecg interpretation more interactive and engaging integration with the EHRs to be truly useful in a clinical setting the application would need to integrate seamlessly with electronic health records EHRs systems collaborative features adding a feature where clinicians could input their interpretation and compare it with the machine's analysis could foster a collaborative environment for machine learning models to learn from real world expert inputs continuous learning implementing a system where the application continually learns from its hits and misses and improves over time would be the ultimate goal this could be done through deep learning algorithms that refine their accuracy as more data is processed a welcome addition this application is a welcome addition to the tech forward cardiologists toolkit it's a step towards the future of cardiac care where machine learning and human expertise work hand in hand excitement for future developments i'm excited about the potential of this tool and eager to see how it evolves with further development especially with the incorporation of deep learning and broader data sets in conclusion as a cardiologist who's a gamer at heart i appreciate the application's blend of data science with a user engaging interface it's a progressive step towards a future where technology and medicine co-less to enhance patient care in the two ecg examples provided it appears that the addition of noise to a normal ecg waveform is causing the fuzzy logic algorithm to incorrectly classify the waveform as abnormal as a cardiologist with an interest in technology here are some reasons why this might be happening fuzzy logic systems are designed to handle uncertainty but they're only as good as the rules and membership functions that define them if the system is too sensitive to variations that mimic pathological changes noise could easily be misinterpreted as an abnormality two overfitting if the fuzzy logic system was trained or designed with a data set that didn't include examples of noise it might not be able to recognize and correctly classify noisy but normal ecgs the system might be identifying features within the noise that it has learned to associate with abnormal conditions for example a sharp spike in a noisy signal could be mistaken for a pathological qrs complex the rules set in the fuzzy logic system must account for a range of normal variations including the presence of noise if these rules are too strict or too lenient they can lead to incorrect classifications the shapes and thresholds of the membership functions determine how input data is categorized if these functions are not calibrated to account for noise they may assign higher membership values to abnormal categories in the presence of noise in ecg interpretation baseline wander or drift due to movement or breathing can create artifacts that resemble ecg abnormalities a system must be robust enough to distinguish these from true pathological changes from a cardiologist's perspective while the application of such technology is promising these examples highlight the importance of including a diverse set of data in the system's design encompassing various noise levels and artifacts this inclusion ensures the system is robust against false positives due to noise to mitigate this issue we would look at expanding the training set including noisy ecg samples and the training set to improve the system's ability to discriminate noise from true abnormalities post-processing implementing filters or signal processing techniques to clean the ecg signal before analysis clinical context integrating the ecg analysis with clinical data to improve decision-making for example a noisy signal in a clinically stable patient is less concerning than the same signal in a patient with chest pain lastly a cardiologist with a gaming background might suggest debugging the system as one would troubleshoot a game or a complex piece of software iteratively refining the system until it performs robustly in the chaotic environment of real world clinical data as a technologically savvy cardiologist with expertise in fuzzy logic system design i would approach adjustments to the membership functions and rules with the following considerations precision ensure that the membership functions for variables like positive underscore peaks negative underscore peaks amplitude r underscore peak underscore sharpness pr underscore interval an rt underscore interval accurately represent the clinical data distribution and the ambiguity inherent in ecg interpretation overlap adjust the overlap between the membership functions to allow for better handling of borderline cases this is crucial for variables like amplitude and r underscore peak underscore sharpness which can vary slightly in a normal ecg clinical validation validate the membership functions against a diverse data set and refine them based on expert feedback and clinical relevance two rule refinement sensitivity and specificity modify the rules to balance sensitivity and specificity for instance the rule underscore normal should be stringent enough to confidently classify normal ecg but also flexible to account for minor variations that are clinically insignificant complex conditions introduce additional rules to handle complex conditions that may not be well represented in the current rule set this includes conditions that have subtle ecg changes noise and artifacts incorporate rules that account for noise and artifacts as these can significantly alter the system's output three addressing noise given that noise can have a significant impact on the analysis i would add rules that help the system distinguish between pathological changes and noise induced anomalies for example if the noise underscore level variable if available is high this should influence the decision towards a likely to account for potential false positives four real world data application dynamic ranges the ranges for positive underscore peaks and negative underscore peaks might need to be extended or dynamically adjusted based on real world data variations normalization for amplitude r underscore peak underscore sharpness br underscore interval and rt underscore interval i would review whether the normalization process could be impacting the sensitivity of the system and adjust the membership functions accordingly five outcome correlation established correlation rules that link the input variables to clinical outcomes for example certain combinations of br underscore interval and rt underscore interval might be indicative of specific conditions and should be represented in the rules considering incorporating additional variables such as patient demographics medical history or other clinical findings that could refine the fuzzy logic decisions implement a feedback loop where the system's performance can be reviewed and adjusted periodically based on its accuracy and the evolving understanding of ecg interpretation as a cardiologist with expertise in fuzzy logic i would focus on ensuring the membership functions and rules are reflective of the clinical realities of ecg interpretation here's how i would adjust the membership functions and rules adjust normal to have a wider range as the number of positive peaks can vary slightly in normal ecg's due to artifacts or minor variations broaden the normal range slightly for similar reasons as positive peaks include a buffer in the high category to account for occasional spikes that are clinically insignificant modify normal to cover a broader range reflecting the variability in normal r wave morphology adjust normal to account for the wider normal range observed in healthy populations align normal with gomenati interval variations seen in clinical practice allow for slight variations in the normal rule to prevent false positives due to minor artifacts account for extreme variations that are still within a potentially normal range account for extreme variations that are still within a potentially normal range reevaluate the definition of high and low sharpness to reduce oversensitivity reevaluate the definition of high and low sharpness to reduce oversensitivity update to reflect a more nuanced approach to interval abnormalities introduce complexity to handle gases where multiple indicators suggest pathology but are not conclusive with these adjustments the system should be better calibrated to the subtleties of ecg interpretation improving its clinical applicability these changes are proposed to reflect a more conservative approach prioritizing specificity to reduce false positives and acknowledging the natural variability within normal ecg readings i understand the concern balancing sensitivity and specificity in a fuzzy logic system especially for complex physiological signals like ecg's is challenging the goal is to minimize both false positives and false negatives with alterations to the system can sometimes have unintended consequences if the adjustment said to an increase in false detections we need to recalibrate here's a more conservative approach to refining the membership functions and rules positive and negative peaks retain retain original boundaries but increase the overlap between categories to allow for a smoother transition between normal and abnormal tighten the range for high to reduce false positives due to normal physiological variations narrow the normal range to decrease the system's sensitivity to minor fluctuations adjust the normal categories to be more inclusive of borderline normal values rule normal make make the conditions for a normal reading more stringent only consider extreme amplitude deviations as likely abnormalities consider high or low sharpness as potentially abnormal only in combination with other factors focus on significant deviations in intervals before determining likely abnormality use a combination of indicators to identify possible abnormalities these changes aim to fine-tune the system to reduce false detections the system should be iteratively tested and adjusted with real ecg data and expert feedback to achieve the desired level of accuracy when deciding between fuzzy logic and other machine learning techniques like neural networks or independent component analysis ecca is important to consider the nature of the data and the problem you're trying to solve here's an overview of when and why you might use each approach for ecg analysis use case fuzzy logic is suitable when you need to model human-like reasoning that can handle uncertainty and imprecision it's particularly useful when you can define rules based on expert knowledge advantages it's transparent interpretable and can be easily modified by domain experts this is important in medicine where understanding the reasoning behind a decision is as crucial as the decision itself limitations it might not capture the full complexity of the data without extensive and meticulous rule setting it also doesn't inherently improve over time with more data use case neural networks particularly deep learning models are powerful for pattern recognition tasks like classifying complex ecg waveforms especially when large-level datasets are available advantages they can model complex nonlinear relationships and improve with more data they're great for capturing subtle patterns in high-dimensional data limitations they require large datasets to train effectively and can be seen as black boxes providing little insight into how decisions are made which can be a significant drawback in clinical settings use case ecg is used for separating a multivariate signal into additive independent non-guessian signals it can be used to filter out noise or artifacts from ecg signals before further analysis advantages effective in denoising an artifact removal without relying on large training datasets limitations it's more of a preprocessing step rather than a classification tool it doesn't classify or recognize patterns on its own data availability neural networks require more data if you have less data or expert knowledge fuzzy logic might be the way to go interpretability if the ability to interpret and explain decisions is important fuzzy logic has the edge performance if you have a lot of data and performance is the only concern neural networks might perform better complexity and resources neural networks are resource intensive and complex to train fuzzy logic systems are simpler and less resource demanding in practice a hybrid approach can sometimes offer the best of both worlds for instance you could use ecg to preprocess ecg data apply neural networks to learn complex patterns and then use fuzzy logic to interpret the network's output in a clinically meaningful way in conclusion the choice of technology depends heavily on the specific goals available data and constraints of the ecg analysis task at hand each method has its strengths and the best solution may often involve a combination of approaches tailored to the application's requirements yeah please do go check out finallykills.com if you haven't done so already there's a lot of interesting tools on it and don't forget to provide your feedback and everything we develop now will become available on the side as well see you next time bye	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCbgODEGICE", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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There's over 15,000 people of our tribe, our spiritual beings, lightworkers who show up there every year. Please don't miss it, it's phenomenal. And with that, I welcome the amazing Jerome Martin to dare to dream, just unmute yourself and say hello to everybody, Jerome. So excited to have you here. Hi Debbie, hi everybody. I'm excited to be here as well. So it's a blessing. It's like, I feel like we booked you so long ago and it's like, finally the day is here, right? Prump, prump, prump. Yeah, super excited, I've been waiting. Yeah, yeah, and I've gotten to know your work so I feel somewhat schooled at some of the, you know, advanced things. And, you know, I'll just say this because it's popping for me. I just did a testimonial for you, for your work. And that's really how I would describe what you do, Jerome, is it is now, it is the stuff that's needed right now. Forget about new age, right? It's now age, it's happening, we're in it. So can you share a little bit about the things you offer to people who come to work with you that facilitates us being here now and having the teams we need and all the great stuff you provide? Absolutely. So I provide a myriad of services and training and things like that. The training developed later, it started off with me just being able to connect to people and take them up into these light ships where I connect to your consciousness and I bring you up into these interdimensional light ships where not only the Arcturians but different members of your galactic family, you get to interact with them. And they telepathically teach you not only about yourself, a lot of times they give you your purpose but then they deliver tools to you to help you serve your purpose. So it's a really awesome experience because you get to experience multi-dimensionality but you also get to experience telepathy with beings of higher consciousness. And it's such an amazing experience. And that's how this started. It started happening for me. And then after a while of working with them, they're like, well, you can do it now too. And so I started being able to take other people up in the light ships. And I was doing that for a while and then it morphed into now you can train other people on how to do what you do. And so they sort of showed me how I can reverse engineer and then train people. And that's why I call myself an applied metaphysics instructor because I teach metaphysical science and then it's more like a personal trainer. I take you through experiences that help you build the faculties in that way you can do it on your own. And there's a bunch of other services individually but that's sort of the gist of what I've been doing. What do you call it metaphysical sciences? What is metaphysical science? So traditionally the metaphysical science is the study of the nature of reality. And if people don't really know what that is, everyone's part of astrology and how the planets and the stars, the energy affects our consciousness. That's like the most basic form to help you understand how we're programmed by these energies. But metaphysical science at its root is tapping into altered states of consciousness. And so what people know, or if I told you these things, you'd be like, oh, that's a metaphysical sciences. Metaphysical science is meditation, self-hypnosis, affirmation, prayer treatment. Those are the four core cornerstones of metaphysical science. And then you can use those to alter your states of consciousness so then you can interact with higher dimensional states. A lot of people have a hard time meditating or I can't do this, I can't visualize. Well, yeah, because none of those things you can do until you access altered states of consciousness. And when I say that, people are like, well, what is that? Altered states of consciousness is being able to at will shift your brain waves from beta, which is where if we're having an engaged conversation we're in the beta range of brain waves, being able to shift from beta into alpha through theta into gamma and being able to hold that range of brain waves while you're doing these operations. So all of the psychic abilities, whether you're doing remote viewing or Akashic records or healing or any of the stuff that I do, all operates in a high frequency or it's a lower band but in a certain brain wave state. And so you have to be able to access that and hold that in order to engage in these operations. Okay. And quantum perspectives and quantum physics, the understanding of entanglement and super position, non-locality, all of that, it can be really challenging to the conventional ideas of reality. Are there ways Jerome to bridge the gap between quantum physics and metaphysical science to find the connections to understanding the universe? Yes. And so the best way I can describe it is the metaphysical science, though it's mostly taught as principle and that's why I teach applied metaphysics is like, this is how you actually do it. The metaphysical science when you apply it is this is the way that these happen and the quantum physics is more of the science behind it. And there's a bunch of other different, we call it it's morphogenetic field science and different. There's a bunch of other high tech names for it but that's more of like the study of it and how it works. And so that's like the background of it versus this is how we actually use it. And so it's, you know, the difference between like knowing about a thing versus applying it and the gap between them is just understanding them. I mean quantum physics talks about entanglement but in metaphysical science, I just entangle to you and it's less about how it works versus we just do it. It's more of like telling time versus how the clock is built. Good explanation, thank you. And I am so curious since you responded to your first question and how you described it and you said, they were working with me. So can we go there? Can you talk about have you had direct extraterrestrial experience, close encounters, direct encounters? What has it been for you? Yes, so I started having close encounters in 2017. My life completely changed from there. I was a construction worker and I was building landfills, traveling across the United States, just were operating heavy equipment, digging big holes and I would take naps on my lunch break just in my truck. And I thought it started off as weird dreams because they started contacting me first in dream state and then through meditation, it would just start happening and then eventually I could go on my own. So it was unconscious and then sort of I'm aware of it then I could do it myself. And these dreams, how they started happening was I would be in my truck sleeping and then the dream would start as though I'm in my truck and then these blue beings at the time I didn't see them how I see you, later they developed into seeing them as ETs. I feel like they came to me as just silhouettes of light because I might have been scared if I thought there was something else because I didn't understand at the time. But in these dreams, they would circle around my truck and sometimes they were like standing through it. So they were like, you know, just phasing through matter and they would like put their hands on me and I would hear wub, wub, wub, wub, wub and then I'd be like going up this like tube of light like through space and I'd see this like what I thought at the time was a large floating city similar to like that disc behind you. But it looked like I just like, oh, a city in the sky I didn't understand. And then when I was there, these beings were, I don't know if you've ever seen the TV show where it's like American Ninja Warrior Challenge where they're like, it's like obstacle courses. They had me there and they were like, all right, look it you're gonna learn how to lift yourself up and you gotta float yourself from platform to platform. I'm like, okay, why? And I'm just like, just do it. I'm like, what a weird game that these blue lights are showing me. And so I started doing that and then and so what was crazy is this started this was happening sequentially. Like I'd have one dream where they take me through a short part and then I would wake up and like that was weird. And then I would have other dreams throughout the week and then I would have another one of these dreams. But when this dream, when the next of dream happened it lined up exactly with the other one started or with the other one ended. So it was like, you know, 10 or 15 times. And so after they showed me how to move from platform to platform, then it was like, okay here's a geometric image like a cube or you know, it was mostly cubes where they're like, okay now connect to the cube and lift the cube up. Okay, so then I had to move the cube across the platforms from one side to the other. I'm like, okay. And then in another dream, they were like, okay now you can move yourself and the cube now you float and lift the cube too and move yourself and the cube across. I'm like, this is so strange, but cool. I'm like, I don't understand. I'm like, weird dreams. And but then after that then they started coming to me during meditation. I would just be meditating and then boom I'm up on and now I realized it was a spaceship. It wasn't a city of light. Now I'm on a spaceship and the beings, you know they had features and they were telling me that they're the Arcturians and that they've been training me through my dream state to get me, they were building my light body. They're telling me that they were helping me train and develop my light body to be able to move back and forth consciously. And so them teaching me how to lift myself and then others, they were training me to be able to move myself from the third dimension up into the higher dimensions where this interdimensional technology is. So they brought me there and then they were teaching me, you know how to communicate with them telepathically. They also taught me that the ship is alive. It's a living light field. It's made of consciousness. And so you connect to the ship and the ship talks to you too. And the ship has all these different rooms where they operate all this awesome technology. One of the rooms is like looking glass technology where you go in there and you can ask questions and they just like show you up on the screen the answers. There's another room where they have med beds and different technologies where you put people in there and then they like quantum healing just like shifts and changes, things in your body real time. There's an Akashic library in there where it's like either books sometimes looks like crystals but they have all this galactic information for you to sort through. There's rooms where they work on you genetically. And when I say that, I know it might sound weird but they connect to you and they're actually activating your DNA. And so this is one of the places that I brought you where the beings come in there and they tap into you and they show you, you know about yourself and these are abilities and all this different stuff. While they're showing you and so it's interesting because they're showing you but it's like a process of remembering because after you see it then it turns on in your DNA. And so it's like a genetic room where they tap in your DNA they show you who you are and then it comes online. And so that's a couple of the rooms and there's a bunch of other ones but I could go on for days and so I'll just, you know those are the couple that I wanna talk about. And so this is going on for some time and even I told about this they thought I was going crazy and until I was able to start bringing other people you know, when, when if I talk about it and no one else can experience it it seems like well that's, you know, strange but when I can now bring other people and that's what they were showing me floating up and grabbing an object and bringing it with, you know they were teaching me on how to entangle to somebody else and bring them consciously up to the ship as well. And so I didn't realize that they were training me the whole way and I didn't understand it until I got to a certain point where it all just made sense and they're like, you can do it now too. Oh, so for instance so I've had two sessions with you so while I was having and they were two very different experiences so you were actually facilitating at the same time it's not like you were instructing me and sitting back, you know and waiting that I would report back you were actually in there with me facilitating the success of all of this to happen for me to go up to the light ship and connect with the beings I did and all of that. Is that correct? It is correct and that's why, you know I talk about applied metaphysics instructor is because all of these things it just takes guidance on this is how it works and so when I facilitate it the light ship is a it's a consciousness light field, right? So it's a ship but it's an extension of myself and everybody has one at a certain point when their energy accretes to a certain amount everyone has everyone's capable of this but so this ship is a part of my consciousness and when I bring you up in there I'm bringing you into a into a interdimensional container that is made of my energy and so the beings that are then inside once we're inside that space it's a collective field so the beings that are in there are a part of me but they're also a part of you and the space allows us to work as a collective and so when we go in there and this is super interesting too I always wondered like why me? Like I'm just a human why are they bringing me up into these ships and why am I part of this? And it wasn't until I started doing this with clients for a while that a couple of people noticed they're like when we're up there and I look at you like you look just like them and I was like oh I get it so the actor like so I'm an actor in Starseed so I have this human meat suit but my consciousness when we're in higher dimensions looks like them because I'm one of them so they were just teaching one of to them they were looking at one of them not a human and so right but like when we're up there and how I facilitate it is I connect you with them and I instruct on this is how this works and it's the quantum entanglement so the entanglement allows the telepathy to happen and so as it's happening too they might be showing you things but like some of it is some of it it's a lot at once it's like a giant download where you're just like seeing these visions or images and my job is while they're showing you my higher self is connected to yours and theirs and if you're not getting all the information how they want you to understand it they have me prompt and ask other questions to deliver the message fully that way the tool or the instruction is integrated otherwise if you just saw a thing you might not know how to take that away and apply it in your life on your mission and so there's a bunch of facets of it but that's the main reason why there needs to be a facilitator because otherwise you can be flying blind and not understand what's going on. Oh my goodness so here you are a construction worker I love these stories right you can't write them like this because it's so it makes it even more perfect it's not like you grew up dreaming of UFOs you're a construction worker you had your life going along and all of a sudden you start taking your naps in your truck and you think you're having these weird dreams but as they continue it manifests into something way grander was that a weird transition for you to go from regular construction guy to like UFO major spaceship facilitator guy like to open up to all of this was there a transition or did you just click in there? So there was a transition period the first thing that they showed me was like how to operate and stuff like that and what's interesting is that there's actually an overlay that I didn't put together for a long time and I was like how do I operate these high-tech light ships but then I realized like oh I was a heavy equipment operator so I was already using my consciousness to operate something outside of myself that was like an extension that wasn't my physical body so when you're in an excavator you have little joysticks and you're moving the joysticks but the machine is moving so you're actually using your consciousness to move a thing that isn't you it's outside of yourself and the light ship is you and it's part of you but it's the same type of thing where you're operating it with your consciousness and so I think the whole path was like training up for this moment because if I wasn't able to understand that concept it would be even more hard to understand it on a metaphysical level. Yeah, the Octurians, the Pleiadians, the Syrians, the Lyrans, the Andromedans are they all your family or have they all contacted you at some point? Yes, so all of them, okay so the second thing that we did together was we did a DNA activation and in that activation your DNA strands are each connected to a different star system and based on your genetic profile you have connections to all these different star systems believe it or not people talk about past lives or parallel realities where actually there is no past or future there's just now, now, now and so everything's actually happening simultaneously so those other realities you actually exist in 1728 simultaneous realities and so those beings that are working with you in the light ship are actually yourself there are other versions of you that are coming transdimensional through time and space and so you're actually learning from yourself and that's how the integration happens you're teaching you and so this isn't a thing that's outside of you even though it might seem that way and these beings come and they can work with you where they feel like they're completely separate but they're actually part of yourself and so the reason why that's important is when you're up on these ships sure it was the Octurians that taught me this technology so that came through them but when you're on the ship it's not just the Octurians when we go into these rooms and work with these beings it might be Pleiadians and Dromed and Syrians there's Mantis beings there's all sorts of different beings and the beings that come and work with you are specifically the ones that you incarnate as so your DNA is connected to these beings and so it's a myriad and a whole collective field of these versions of yourself and on these higher levels your soul, you know we're experiencing our incarnational memories but then you have your soul your over soul your maharic, your Rishik level and so in these higher spaces these collectives it's all you it's all you too right and so you're learning from yourself and so as much as it might seem like it's external which on one level it is because we're in duality but in a unified field it's all part of yourself and it all comes within and that's why it's different than most things. My gosh, thank you for that Yeah you know and when I had my I think it was the first experience I had with you where I met the beings what I really was grateful for is that there was a level of letting go because I think it's really easy to get in your head about this and go well, I must be I'm a healer, I must be a Pleiadian or I must be a Mantis being or I'm a this or I must be that right and I actually had zero preconceived notions and some of what showed up was really interesting I would have never dreamed of it. So it's really interesting to hear you talk about oh those are actually your incarnations those are your aspects of you you know your family so cool because anybody who knows about galactic records or Akashic records understands they don't just exist here on the earth it is galactic, it is all the places and spaces you've been and not all of us have even been physical sometimes we've been energy sometimes we've been an amoeba sometimes we've been a cloud I mean literally, these are all living energies and so it's fascinating just to consider all the things we're doing as these growing over soul aspects of our over soul being so big transition for you, I can imagine and also concurrently you're like a sports guy right? You do some kind of martial arts, is that correct? Yeah, so I was never really big in like organized or team sports growing up I skateboarded and then I've been into martial arts for you know, since I was 10 years old I'm a Black Belt and Hop Keto I'm actually gonna be getting my second degree Black Belt pretty soon I'm a licensed instructor I just don't teach my first business was a martial arts school but I don't teach regularly but I enjoy it and that's actually how my spiritual path started because the martial art that I practice is Hop Keto which means the way of neutralizing energy and so sure there's a lot of body mechanics and pressure points and stuff but learning how to breathe and use the flow of energy to redirect someone's aggression or attacks that got me into learning you're breathing and you're putting energy in certain spots to cause an effect while I started learning that way and then one of my teachers was like well look you can also use your energy to heal after certain things you can help people with the energy and that's I started I went from there then I got into Reiki and then Reiki turned into working with different angelic guides for a little bit and then I sort of put a pause to it because like that was happening and then I went back to the mundane world started doing construction and all these different things and I just sort of like let it go for a while and then my consciousness was just not having it at a certain point they're like they like shook me awake they're like, hey, like your mission like you were started, you started along the way and you're working through earth school and like you're about your, it's like giving up before graduation like you're about to graduate and then you just like didn't show up to graduation and the Archperians started coming in because they're like, hey, you made it from earth school like it's your galactic level now time to start doing this because the population as a whole they're doing the same thing everyone's waking up and they're, we're here on earth and this is earth school we've always karmic lessons to learn all this stuff in duality but we're on the cusp of shifting into those higher dimensions and we're at the level where the government's telling everybody like UFOs all these different stuff like this is like disclosure is happening and so when this started for me everyone thought like ETs like you're crazy but now that it's being disclosed like, wow, this is actually a thing and people are like they're interested more and it's more where people are searching for it and so, you know, as that happened they were preparing me and getting me ready for like hey, this is coming like we need way showers to help people, you know connect and like it's time for this galactic level of schooling of ascension for humanity and so they sort of shook me awake and like hey, you fell asleep, wake up, get back to sleep. Wow, literally you did fall asleep but good things are happening while you were asleep. Oh my gosh, amazing, what a story that is. So you mentioned spiritual multi-dimensionality. What is that? Okay, so most people are only experiencing their third dimensional body, right? So you're seeing out of your eyes and you're just seeing life for what it is and we're stuck in duality, right? So the third dimension is duality but what people don't understand, well, so this is a funny thing too, people are like, well, where are the dimensions? Are they some far off place in the universe? No, they're actually like we are where the zero point and all of them are existing around us and in the three course that I have everybody I go through this and I explain it and you'll see a diagram that shows your multi-dimensional anatomy because there's actually, we have so everyone knows about the seven chakras that are connected to your Kundalini energy and if you've seen a diagram where it shows it looks like an onion where you have the different levels, the chakras turn into like an aura but you actually have more than that. There's 15 dimensions in the 15 dimensional time matrix and so each dimension is stationed, it's connected to a chakra but it comes around you like an onion and so the way I talk about it when I teach it is if you've ever seen a Russian stacking doll how all the dolls are outside of each other and so we're stuck in this one and we haven't experienced the other ones and once we learn how to shift from duality, polarity into unity, we start being able to access we go from third dimension to fifth dimension and all of these other things happen once that happens and the biggest thing that stops us from accessing all these higher dimensions is our karma and our traumas, right? So, and this is where we start talking about shadow work and this is one of the things that we had to do when we first started everyone has experienced traumas growing up and a lot of people say like, well, I know what my traumas are like actually it don't because the things that are actually holding you back they're repressed, it's like a zip file where the images are condensed and zipped away because at the age when that happened we are not emotionally intelligent or developed in order to process adult situations so it gets locked away for hopefully some day when we can process these things and then integrate them and so that's like the chains that keep us in the third dimension and after we break those chains, we get access and that's when I started talking about the difference between single vector consciousness and multi vector consciousness. Single vector is when we're looking out of our eyes, right? This is what you see is what you get and then multi vector consciousness is when we can start engaging in these higher dimensional things it's like, sure, you're actually in your physical body but when you close your eyes you can station your consciousness in another point in time and space. Remote viewing is a good way to explain that because you're literally seeing or experiencing something else that's outside of you and you can actually and why it's called multi vector is it's not just two it can be 10. I mean, we can go up on a light ship where we're conscious of our bodies here and then we're on a light ship but then there's another being and this is happening information streams there's all these things happening simultaneously and so when we talk about multi dimensional there's these different layers but there's also different access points and learning how to access the multi vectors is part of the magic. That is so magic and that was such clear explanation. I really appreciate that about density and also these different dimensions of where we reside. Yeah, and this stuff can be so confusing I know and I recently heard a really good I think somebody said it on my show just so you'll have to listen to the show to hear but it's a great explanation of all the different aspects because now you've mentioned a number and I wanna go back to that 1728 realities dear God unravel that how do you know that Jerome? Okay, so I actually read about it from somebody that has broken down consciousness but it also makes sense because everything's in 12s when it comes to you have 12 DNA strands and so in your identity matrix there's you have 12 incarnate identities and then the next level up is the soul identity and then you have 12 sets of 12 and the next one is 12 times 12 times 12 and so as it goes up, it expands by 12 and if you take all of them from the Rishik level down to the Maharak level down to the over soul soul and incarnate if you add them all up it adds up to 1728 and so and the beings that you're experiencing in the light ships are some of those other identities because when we go up in the light ship we're going up into the Maharak level of consciousness and that shield is the ship and all of the beings from lower and down get to, you get to experience them as a collective there and that's how we have access to them. Okay. And I know in your bio you talk about CE5 facilitation which is so cool. I have done Dr. Stephen Greer's CE5 I don't know modality I guess you'd call it it's an app really. What is your CE5 usage for establishing contact? I'd love to know. And then when you come out to California maybe we could do it together. Well, so the CE5 was the experience that we had when I took you up in the light ship and you communicate with the ETs. So close encounters of the, okay so close encounters of the first kind is seeing a ship in the sky or seeing something that, you know oh my God, I saw a light or a UFO see close encounters of the second kind is that you see a ship and then there's some sort of radio distortion or something that affected you too. CE5 is then like seeing an extraterrestrial like physically close encounters of the fourth kind is being like abducted or aboard a ship and then CE5 is being on a ship and also having direct open communication which is usually telepathic where you're it's typically happens in a benevolent way because a lot of times when people are afraid they shut off, they don't want to but CE5 is where you're having direct open communication. So when you experience these beings you're having open direct communication telepathically with those beings and not only is there communication but they're upgrading and they're working on your field and they're doing all these amazing things. And so that's what CE5 is is the direct experience with these beings. So cool. And that's actually so funny. I'm so used to in my world anytime here somebody says CE5 even though of course I understand what you're talking about but for me it's always Dr. Stephen Greer. Dr. Stephen, right? Going out to Joshua Tree at midnight and sitting in the dark against the mountains where there is spacecraft activity and doing CE5 work but that's just the name of his app. It is true. It's very true what you're saying. So I understand better how you facilitate that. Have you ever had anybody that worked with you Jerome who had like a crazy experience like the most astounding amazing one that you've witnessed somebody experience yet? Yes. So one of the first ones that I ever did when I first started doing this my process actually changed because of this experience. When I first started facilitating this a friend of mine well it was a friend of an ex-partner they were in town and I was telling them like I can bring people up into spaces because he's like I don't believe in ETs. I'm like, okay, but you're not believing in a thing doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That's like saying I don't believe in trains. Well, choo choo choo there it is. You know, like it's like you're not believing it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. And so he's like, well, I'm willing to I'm willing to try it, you know, I don't believe in it. I'm like, okay, well I'm gonna take you through this process. We had to do the shadow work first. And then when I brought him up into the light ship you know, we're going through the portal and when we get there so now when I facilitate we go into there's like a receiving area, right? And then we go into the place and then the beings come in before they would just be there when you show up and he's like, I don't believe in that. And so when we get there he's like, we're having this experience. He's like, ha, ha, because he's like not he didn't think that he was going to, you know see these beings and because he started panicking he was like, ha, ha and then the beings sort of like grabbed him with their energy and they like floated them up and when they floated them up like they disconnected him from his body. And so like he's there with me and now I do it over Zoom but we're physically in person and he's like, ha, ha and then you hear where he just like is passed out and he's snoring on the floor and then they take him into the room and they put him in the med bed and they're working on him and all this different stuff. And then the girlfriend then comes back in and he's snoring on the floor and she's like, you know, like what happened? And I was like, oh like, you know he was a little bit scared of the ETs they knocked him out and took him. She's like, what do you mean I'm like, well, no, like it's fine. You know, they're just, they're working on his energy and then while I'm explaining to her he like jumps up and says what he's like, oh my God that was so amazing. I can't believe all the stuff that I was experiencing and she's like, what are you talking about? You're just snoring. He's like, yeah, I was snoring. Like, I don't know, but I was up there and he was consciously aware of what was happening in the higher dimensions but his physical body was put out because of the fear that he was feeling when he first started. And so that was one of the most memorable experiences and the guides showed me to change it a little bit and also to the people that are coming for this they are wanting to have these experiences with these ETs he was open to it, but not necessarily believing in it. So that was sort of like a shock and awe. And so I've sort of put in different safeguards in place to avoid things like that. What is he like now? I mean, that's pretty big for somebody who's a non-believer to have that level of experience. Is he changed around this whole subject? Yes, so lots of things have changed in him but one of the most important things and I keep talking about this is the shadow work before you can go and work in these higher dimensions you have to go through the shadow work process because when you're holding onto so these things that you experience it's not as much what you experienced but the emotional charge that is connected to it that we save in ourselves on our body. And so those emotional charges keep us locked in this density. So we have these low, everyone thinks like you got to raise your vibration actually the more you vibrate the more dense you are when you oscillate that's when you're less dense. So when you're going to higher dimensions you're oscillating at a higher rate. And so we're stuck here because of our vibration. And so, and it's because we're holding these dense energies on our bodies. And so the shadow work it integrates it frees up and integrates that emotional energy so that you can then raise to the higher planes and these higher vibrational beings they won't give you access. And the reason is that when you are holding trauma your whole experience you live through the lens of that trauma the partners you pick, the things that you do the things that you're afraid of are all based on your traumas. And so operating through that dirty lens of your trauma that's not really even allowed in the higher dimensions because when you're in these higher dimensions what you're experiencing and that's like manifesting real time. And so if you're looking through a dirty lens like it doesn't work. And so you have to clean that up first which then brings your oscillation higher for you even to access these places. So yeah, going through the shadow work he told me he's like, I don't remember my childhood I can't remember anything from since I was 15 and younger. And so all these things I got brought up he now remembers all of that. And then the beings taught him things helped him heal from a couple of things that he had going on with his body and also showed him his purpose. And so yeah, he's very much changed. That is like ginormous. I mean, first of all for non-believer but second of all for anybody having that experience that is a lot of big ticket items to accomplish in so short a time. Boy was his soul ready. So a friend of mine, he calls me the shock shop. He's like, you literally like some of these experiences are so, a lot of people aren't ready for these type of multi-dimensional experiences. Not that they're not ready, but they just haven't had them before. So it's like being shook and awake or it's like a thing that you, most people are like, I can't visualize or I've never been able to do that. And next thing you know, you're having full blown telepathic communication where all this stuff's happening and it sort of shocks you awake. And so that was what happened to him as well. Shock shop, love it. You talked about the med bed. So I know what a med bed is but how is that for people having this experience? Talk about that a little bit. So similarly to how I brought you up into the ship and we worked with the beings that activated the certain things and showed you those things that that's one of the rooms that we can work in. There's another room in there that is like, it's the med bed room, but it's more like a medical room. And when you go in there, the beds, they vary but they typically, it looks like an egg-shaped tanning bed and the top lifts off. And so the person goes inside that bed and then it goes on, the top goes on and then a screen will pop up above them where it's like a viewing screen. And then these different beings from your healing team come in, a lot of times it's the Pleiadians but oftentimes it's also Mantis beings or Arcturians depending on your lineage or really what needs to happen, right? So they come in based on need. And so these beings will come in and then they surround you and they start working on you. And as they're working on you, they might be using different light tools or energy fields. And it's interesting, as they're working on you, they're showing you on the screen what it is that they're doing. So they first will pull up like, they literally connect to your genetic memory which pulls up your genetic blueprint of your body and it's connected with your higher self. So it shows you like what you have going on. So they first scan your body and they show you like, okay, your spine is doing this or oh, you have this thing going on or sometimes they just show you energetic blobs because believe it or not, things that are going on with us are not even physically related. They're emotional and then they manifest as physical, right? Because everything starts off as dis-ease and then it turns into disease over time. And so a lot of times they'll show you which emotional energies are in your organs that are holding that frequency that then manifests that disease and they'll go in and they release and shift those emotions and then the thing just literally real time will go away. An example of this was during COVID, a friend of mine called me and he's like, hey, my girlfriend's dad, he has COVID and he is in the hospital and they say that he probably has less than 24 hours to live because he has pneumonia and he only has like 17% lung capacity and he's on like a respirator and they're like, we don't think he's gonna make it. And he called me and he's like, can you do with the healing on him? I'm like, I don't know because typically you have to be present. You have to participate and we go through a session. I hadn't done it yet like that where the person isn't able to do that. And so I asked my higher self, can I do it? And my higher self said, yeah. And I was like, wow, they're like bring your friend and then we'll call in the higher self. So I brought him on the ship and then I called in the higher self of this man who showed up and that's where the free will still takes place, certain people they have, their disease or their sickness, a lot of people they need to experience that because of their karma, like they're meant to have it. So if somebody is, they want it or certain people they benefit from being sick. They get a paycheck or they get, their loved ones take care of them or they get, there's a certain thing that they get from it. So they're unwilling to actually heal. And so you can't use this higher dimensional technology on anybody that will break their will, right? It comes from a unified space. And if they don't want this to happen at a sole higher self level, you can't do it anyways. So we went up there, like we called him, he showed up, put him in the med bed, everything's quantum. And so I mean, the hologram that came up that's still connected to him. So we put that in the med bed and then it started scanning him. And it turns out that what was happening with his lungs had nothing to do with COVID or anything like that. It was emotional energy. And it was funny because the person, the friend that was there, the emotional energy was towards him because he had been like, it was a conflict with the daughter and it was like resentment and there was a few other emotions that he was holding towards this person and the energy had built up and then it manifested as this disease. So we went in and we're able to identify what it was, clear it up and then we reintegrated the hologram. And he's like, oh my God, like I hope this works. I'm like, yeah, well we'll see. And he called me three hours later. He's like, you won't believe it. He just like coughed up all this stuff and he is fine now. And they released him later that day. And that's awesome considering that, they said that he's got less than 24 hours to live and he's not breathing on his own and all of that. And so it's really awesome to understand how metaphysics plays a role in healing and disease and that a lot of disease is emotional energy through created by a trauma that we are unable to process and that some of the things it isn't just like the bone's broken while there's other things in play. And so it's really cool stuff. So does regenerative detoxification also have to do with med bed or is that completely separate? So it's completely separate, but it's supplementary because what happens with metaphysical science, okay, so this person brought him up in the med bed and it cleared the energy from the lungs. But so what I'm gonna tell you about metaphysical science and how disease manifests is typically, someone will have something in their liver and say it's a tumor or a cirrhosis or these different things in their liver. Well, how that manifested was at a certain point in their life they experienced a trauma, right? And this man that could have meant his wife left him, something happened to where then he got a broken heart and emotional trauma happened, right? And so every day when he wakes up he doesn't like how he feels, right? So because you don't like how you feel because of that emotion you cope and people cope through drugs, alcohol, food sometimes, sex, adrenaline, all these different things and guess what? All of these things, they are chemicals, right? And they're unnatural chemicals that you're putting in your body. And so what's super interesting is that when you go to cope, you're unconsciously because of the emotion. So each organ is assigned to an organ. And so based on your organ systems and your emotions, whatever, so for him it was anger and something else if it was for the liver but experiencing that emotion then because you don't like how it feels you cope when you assign those toxins or when you cope you're unconsciously assigning those toxins to that organ system. And so not only is the emotional, so the emotions create that lower density spot and you're assigning those toxins and then the toxins accumulate and then they manifest as physical disease. And so we can go in and we can clear emotions and clear all these different things but if you don't start learning how your body works and learning how to get your kidneys filtering and removing the metabolic and the metals and toxins from the body then those things can happen again because that energy, it's not only the energy but the toxins being there now is a, it's like a placeholder. It's a placeholder for that emotion to come back and manifest. So not only are we clearing it energetically but we wanna go in the body and clear out the physical aspect of it as well. And so I teach regenerative detoxification because and this is something I talk a little, a small amount about on that free video course but there's ways to prepare your body not only for healing but for entering these altered states of consciousness because the metals, the toxins, the parasites all of those things play a role in the pain and suffering that we're in. And so getting rid of those really puts us in a state that we're going to stay healthy because there's people that I've worked on where we fixed a thing six months later it remanifested because we cleared the energies and they saw what's causing it but they didn't change their actions. So you can remanifest the thing because you're stuck in the cycle. You are causing this on you and there's nothing that can change that. I mean, we can clear it but if you don't take the actions to change your course correct then you're gonna remanifest that thing and that's up to the person because they have free will as well. And so I teach them hand in hand because knowing not only how it works energetically but then physically where the toxins and metals go and then the mechanism to get them out of the body it's all, it works hand in hand because we're not only on the fifth dimensional level but we're also here in the third. And so you have to use all of your tools. Right and like this man you described to us in the hospital where they thought it was COVID but you were able to through a substitute have this experience up in the light ship and you saw that it was emotion for him lungs is grief is unexpressed grief in Eastern medicine. So that makes total sense to me. And yes, liver is anger and so forth. And I have to, I just wanna say I love the way you described earlier where you said the dirty lens of your trauma. Like that is so apropos. You know, that's exactly correct because we get so stuck in this loop this repetitive loop in our lives never meaning to do that, never wanting to do that but it plays out over and over again and that's exactly correct. It is this dirty lens we've gotten so accustomed to believing and experiencing that we just think that's the way it is for me or even if we don't want it to be that is so it's great you have these tools for getting people out of that using the shadow work and finding the healing tools and the connections. You have brought up your free class and I wanna ask you about that. I know it's on your website preparing for multi-dimensionality which is so perfect for this conversation. Tell me about the class and where people can get it. Okay, so the class is on my website which is projectstarborn.com and when you go on the website it's the first thing right below the banner where you'll see where you can enroll for it. It's a free class. In that class, the first thing I talk about is the supplements that you should be taking to help your body remove the heavy metals, chemical toxins, parasites and then there's one specifically that helps make your nervous system more conductive, right? So as we are connecting to the higher realms of consciousness the more conductive we are, the easier it is. The reason why it's so easy for me to connect is because these supplements I've been taking them for years and I like to talk about it from upgrading from a landline to a satellite phone as far as the bandwidth and your ability, the quickness to connect. A lot of people are still operating on dial up and over here we have, it's not 5G but it's 5D, right? And so we're operating on completely different wavelengths and it's like Wi-Fi. You need to strengthen your Wi-Fi and your ability to connect and so removing the metals is one thing, the toxins, the parasites but also increasing your neural conductivity. Believe it or not, your brain and central nervous system is like organic fiber optic. All it does is send and receive light signals. Everything has light signals and when you communicate with beings in these higher realms everything is images, everything's just light. It's just light moving. And so we're a quantum supercomputer and understanding that it needs to be upgraded to a new operating system, that's part of it. And so I teach that part because that's like the 3D physical aspect gets you ready for that and it helps you prepare to be able to access these things at a higher rate. And so that's super important. That's the first part. The second part, and in that course too I give a links of all of like links to where to get the products that I use because they're the ones that I recommend. And then after that in the class I teach about altered states of consciousness, what those are, a few of the things we talked about here with the metaphysical science and then I go over what you can do once you access your altered state and then in that training I walk you through a guided meditative experience where I help you anchor in the energy fields that allow you to access those altered states. And I'm not sure if anyone's familiar with NLP but they're able to anchor in certain emotional states. If you wanna go up and speak you can anchor in a certain energy that you can tap into when you need it. So this is similar to that in the aspect of we're anchoring in brain waves state frequencies. So when we do a certain thing we connect and visualize and this thing happens it automatically anchors in that brain wave state. So it's a way to tap into consciousness through a similar technique and technology to where when I do this, boom, I shift my, like I go through this little process and now I'm in theta, I'm in alpha, I'm in gamma and you can just by doing that you just bring yourself there and you're able to hold it for as long as you need. And that's the doorway. Once you learn how to shift your brain waves then all the rest of it is just easy. And so that's the biggest battle is learning the brain waves. And so in that free course I show you how to get your body ready and then how to access a master shift in the brain waves that way if you do wanna engage me more you already, you have, you come in way ahead of the game and that's what's super important. Ah, that's a great idea. Very cool. So projectstarbornboren.com if you'd like that free gift it sounds amazing to me. I wanna ask you, you were featured on the show UFO Witness on Discovery Plus how did they scientifically monitor you and collect data? Okay, so on that show, I told them so on the show specifically it's about black triangles and they're talking about the Arcturians and I was connected through a friend of mine which is one of the hosts on the show and she had seen some of my work and she's like, you gotta come on the show. And when I was there I thought I was going to bring someone up into the light ship to meet them and Ben Hansen was like, no one's going on the light ship. He's like, we want you to go on the light ship and we wanna ask you questions and then you just tell us what they're communicating to you. And I was like, okay, like, and I had never done that before I typically bring people and he's like, can you do that? I'm just like, yeah, I can do that. He's like, have you ever done that? I'm like, no, but I will, you know, I can. He's like, okay. He's like, while you're doing that do you mind if I have you hooked up to biofeedback equipment? He's like, I want to monitor your heart rate and I also want to monitor your brainwaves. We wanna use EEG brainwave monitoring technology because I'll know, he's like, basically, he's like, you're saying you're going up into a spaceship. How do I know you're not making this up? He's like, because it sounds far fetched and there's lots of people telling stories out there. He's like, so I want to monitor your brainwaves because if you're going into a spaceship something should change. It shouldn't just be the same. I'm like, okay. He's like, so you're going to go on national TV and let me monitor your brainwaves while you're talking to ETs in your head pretty much. I'm like, yeah, that's fine. He's like, okay, look. And so Ben Hansen, he's an ex FBI Homeland Security. So he's always doing like, they're doing lie detectors or this type of, they're using empirical data to are you making it up or is this valid? And so he's a smart guy. And so he was like, he was like, look, I'm going to take a baseline first. He's like, we're going to hook you up to everything. And then I'm going to ask you questions to where you have to think of the answers. That way we're going to see what your brainwaves do while you're thinking, right? And when you go up in your spaceship, we'll know, you know, are you just think, like we're asking questions. Are you thinking of the answer? Cause you know a lot about ETs and spaceships or, you know, something's happening here. Like, all right, let's go. And so we did it. And I sort of just narrated as I'm going through the process. So, you know, I opened the portal I go up through the portal and when I went through the portal my heart rate dropped to like 40 and then up to like 110. So like that was the first thing was my heart rate completely shifted. And then when I'm in the ship, like I said earlier that it's like looking glass technology. There's a big holographic screen and the beings are there and I ask questions and they just show me up on the screen like images or movie clips. You know, I joke because when we use the screens and like, and they're showing you stuff it's like, this is the real YouTube, right? And so I like to joke about that. But so he was asking questions and I'm just telling them what I'm seeing. So there is no thinking, right? So he's asking questions and I'm just telling him what I'm seeing up on the screen. And when I was done, you know, after I finished he was looking at the data and he was like, well, I can't explain any of that because, you know, when I was asking you the questions and you're thinking your brainwaves were in 80 and 90 Hertz, right? Which is in the, you know, alpha or it's in beta and like, you know, there's a little bit alpha being monitor. But then when I was in the light ship connected with the beings where he's asking me the questions where I'm looking at the screens my brainwaves were in like 30 Hertz the whole time. And he's like, so your brainwaves were two thirds less active the whole time that this was happening. He's like, and so, you know, that's a, like there's empirical data and there's evidence of that shift. And so, you know, he was, he was pleasantly surprised. And so was Melissa and everybody else because, you know, it shows that there's something happening and this is what I'm talking about when you're shifting your brainwaves you have to be able to hold that brainwave state in order to engage in these things. And so, you know, that's all this has to happen at those levels of consciousness. And so learning, if you're interested in this type of stuff you got to learn how to get your brainwaves there because everyone can do this. We're all like, all humans have these abilities. Everyone thinks like, oh, they're a psychic they're a healer, they're this, they're that. Like, no, we're all of that, right? And so just learning how to tap into these energetic fields and activating your DNA is how we bring these abilities out. We actually have all of these abilities and more. And if I could do it, I was just a construction worker if I could do it, so can anybody else. You know, I give myself credit, but I know that there are people that I've trained that can now do this as well. And I have a few people that are taking people into light ships and they're facilitating the same work. And so, you know, anyone that's interested in it and is called to do this and is here for humanity and here to help the ascension process, you know, can do this as well. Wow, that's throwing down the gauntlet. And we need that. We need that right now. We need the way showers. And I love that you have this scientific data. Is the Melissa you were referring to, our friend, our now mutual friend, the producer was, oh, wow, very cool. Yeah, she was, she was the, she's one of the investigative journalists on that show. Hmm, I love it, all these connections. So did anything happen after UFO witness on Discovery Plus aired or has it aired? And meaning, did anyone reach out to you? Did anyone, did anything happen by virtue of people seeing this? Yeah, and so it wasn't like a bunch of people like banging down the door because they wanna talk to ETs. But it's interesting that, you know, even recently when I connect with people, it's all through, it's, it's synchronicity. Like I'll just be in a random place and someone start talking. And then, you know, recently one of my coaching clients, I was, I was going to an event and I went to the wrong place because I don't operate in the regular time, the time fields are messed up. I went, I saw the flyer for the event and the flyer that I had was for where it was next week. And I show up to this place and I'm like, oh, I'm here for the event. And the lady's like, oh, the drum circle's next door. I'm like, okay, so I'm in there. I'm like playing drums with people for 45 minutes and realize that I'm at the wrong event. And then at the end, I'm like, where's the guy? And she's like, what? What are you talking about? I was like, oh, so I'm just here. And then she's like, well, tell me, like, who are you? And I start telling her, you know, what I'm doing, all sorts of stuff. And she's just like, oh my God, like I just saw you on that show two days ago. And so then she was like, she's a healer and a facilitator. And so after seeing that, we connected and now I'm training her and she's while on her way. And so it happens through synchronicity where people, they see it, they've experienced it. It's another synchronicistic thing that links me to people. So it's pretty cool. Oh my God, that was such a good story. I just love the idea of you playing drums for 45 minutes before you're like, where's the guy I came to see? I came to see him. I thought I was in the completely wrong place, but it turns out that unknowingly, I was in the right place at the right time because I was there to meet her, to connect with her for my purpose. And then I made it to the other event and we all laughed about it and it turns out they're like, oh, we know her and she's part of the community anyway. So it was a cool thing. And that's why I just trust in the universe because, you know, even though I think I'm wrong, it's sometimes you're, like you said, right place or wrong time. Yeah, yeah. Right guy doing the right thing at the right time, wrong place, but it turns out to be the right place. And you got to the other place anyway. Wow. So my dear, you're gonna be a Conscious Life Expo. So excited about that. February 2024, you're inaugural. Everything, speaking, booth, panel, like your big kahuna here. What are you gonna be speaking about at Conscious Life Expo? So I'm gonna be on the panel with you about the ET origins and then I'm also going to be teaching a workshop on DNA activation. So the second session that we had together where I walked you through the process of activating the DNA strands where all of everything starts plugging in and turning on and, you know, you get access to all of those. Like, so even though the going on the ET light ship, like that's a very multi-dimensional experience and you're engaging with these beings, all this other stuff, the DNA activation in my opinion is one of the most multi-dimensional experiences you can have because you're having, there's sometimes kinesthetic response. Sometimes there's like visions, there's like all these things happening or sometimes you'll see like whole past lives. The first time that this happened for me, I saw a whole past life where I was like swimming under, just the craziest stuff. I was like swimming underwater and I was in Atlantis as like a fish guy and then I learned telekinesis because I'm like, oh, they used to swim faster and then I come out of that and now I can move stuff with my mind. And just like the experiences are insane but it's just like this explosion of yourself, your DNA turns on and you start remembering who you are. And so I'm gonna be teaching a workshop on that because I do it one-on-one but it can be done for groups of people. So I'm gonna be doing the DNA activation workshop. They're in for such a good time. I just wanna express a little gratitude to you Jerome because after, during our first session, I was at the inception of getting together my speech for Mexico City. I'm, it's amazing now on the side with you. I'm leaving in 13 days. So it's here, it's happening. But months ago when you and I first connected, I had a speech, I was, I kind of didn't have a speech. It sucked. I mean, I'm just gonna be honest and transparent. It was ghastly. And for somebody like me who's always on top of things, I was in a very weird space about it only because it is such a new subject for me to come out and own without imposter syndrome. And it was rough like mentally, emotionally because I actually wanted to cancel. I was like, I can't get up and do this. But at the same time I was excited and I was clear, the universe is giving me a beautiful, beautiful opportunity and they're at the same time, they're pointing me to the greater version of myself. Like I'm meant to do this. I totally understand it, but still I was in a very uncomfortable position about what I was about to do. And you and I had that first session where I got to me the various aspects of me, which I didn't realize that's what they were then. But I was just, I was pretty crazy about everybody I got to. It feels weird because I think one was an octopus or something but completely sentient. And each of these beings, they believed in me so much. And I didn't even go into this experience with you wanting that or thinking about that. But I remember Merlin and it may have been a liren, you don't have to re-listen to our session together. It was so powerful what they said to me and whatever happened, it was part of it was what they said part of it was a transmission also. And when I came back and I finished the session with you and you're in a super blissed out state but something happened and I started to click the wheels came together, right? They were separate before and they came together and this was happening just like a beautiful bicycle. And all of a sudden I understood, oh, I know what I need to do. And everything came online for me and I started to execute slow process. It was a very slow process but I executed all of the downloads I got exactly what I needed to do to make this work. And I just wanna say like, that was a really momentous experience for me that I needed and culminating in last Saturday I had people I invited friends over to do my presentation before I got to Mexico City and then we had a party. And these are anywhere from, somebody brought somebody very beginner like not even into this stuff. So it was a little bit, I don't know how they'll receive it but I'm gonna be me and all the way to people like this is the conversation but at different ages and colors and sizes, all these people it went so beautifully well. And when I was done because I love community and I love knowing people and letting other people know people I have a talking stick. So I passed it around so everybody could say, this is my name and I just wanted them to mention this was the takeaway I got and this is what I commit to doing because it's a very at the end action oriented experience. And everybody did that but they included how they felt so honored to be at my presentation, my inaugural homey presentation and what it meant to them to hear it. And I am sharing this with you so you understand Jerome Martin like from that moment where I was pretty much of a mess. I was a yes but I was a mess and I didn't know how to get myself out of that pocket. And then we had our session and I came back into my life and it was just this clarity and ease and then the rest of it was just for me to execute it. And it culminated in success. I'm not even there yet in Mexico City but I feel very, very comfortable about all of it. And I just want to thank the beings who met me. Thank you for your extreme generosity and your facilitation in this experience and hearing the stories you tell. I'm just so moved like people can heal people who don't even, they're not even online with you, they're in a hospital, can heal someone like me. This is an important project I want to do in other places. So it's not a one and done. And my deep thank yous, appreciation, gratitude to you for helping me. I appreciate those kind words because this is what I do it for. I do it because I love being able to help people and there are people like myself and you and we are powerhouses out here. Like we're here to serve our purpose and like you need to be on your game as best as possible. So getting the tools that help you achieve that is like the highest the high for me. And I want to take a moment now to say thank you to you as well because your media visibility course that you mentioned that you, that is one of your courses. That course has been so amazing and literally has helped me be able to even talk about this better and better. It's been really hard for me for the past several years to even talk about what it is that I do because I didn't know my message because I do this, I do this, I do this, I do this because the work is so vast but being able to figure out who I am and how to talk about it in a way that sums it all up. That has been super powerful for me because I haven't been able to translate that. And so you do such a good job at teaching people how that process works and how to connect with the places where they need to be. And I just want to say thank you for that so much because without that I wouldn't be able to even communicate the stuff the way that I do. And so I appreciate you so much too. Yeah, mutual fan club. And I'm so glad because clearly and I know everybody who's listening to you right now you're a voice that needs to be heard. So right, this is just gonna ripple out. You'll be other places and spaces. And folks I want you to let, I want to let you know that when you wanna get tickets for Conscious Life Expo so you can hear Jerome speak the ticket link will be in the show notes. Definitely check it out. So you can attend, you'll be so happy. And Jerome, this is the end. This is dare to dream. What do you next dare to dream? What are your future dreams and goals? So currently I do one-on-one training and I do sessions and all this different stuff but I'm gonna be working on a video course because I'm learning that my bandwidth or my bottleneck is actually my time, right? You can only work with so many people in a day. And so I'm gonna be translating this into video courses and also books that way people can meet me at different levels wherever they see fit. And so I wanna be able to translate this into something that is a digital version. That way it can be blasted out to, as many people as wanna see it versus people that can only fit into a ever-growing schedule. Awesome, awesome. I hope you're gonna make an app. That's what I just heard. It can app that guides you. I likely will then. Thank you so much folks. You can find him at projectstarborn.com. You can get his free class projectstarborn.com. Thank you so much for coming on the show today. Thank you so much Debbie for having me. Yeah, and we're gonna end today's show with this quote from Steve Jobs. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle as with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. Subscribe to this number one transformation conversation the weekly Dare to Dream with Debbie Dashinger. I urge you to please like this, subscribe, leave a comment. It actually helps me in the show, helps me do the work I do. It helps the algorithms with YouTube. If you're watching us on youtube.com slash Debbie Dashinger, we appreciate so much. Don't just follow, don't just listen and walk away, right? Donate money for a cup of coffee or give me some love because it makes a big difference with all the work I do and to reach way more people, which is my goal. Next week on the show is the amazing Althea Lucretia, an ET contactee who works with a ninth dimensional Pleiadian being. Althea does light language activations and ascension energy updates. Thank you all for listening. Thank you for ascending. Thank you for believing and for doing the good work. Don't just dare to dream, dare to make all your dreams into your reality.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcnRwWh8CVA", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCZbH6HekER0QsS8Mvi6HGfw	Men's Volleyball April 8th Tri match Postgame with Aldis Berzins	Head Coach Aldiz Berzins talks about the team's victory over EMU and Senior night for the Mustangs.	[ "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" ]	2017-04-09T01:26:03	2024-02-14T20:08:03	151	PC9_wdMCrPI	Yeah that was that was the match of the day and uh exactly right we uh finished third in a league with that win and so you know we'll be playing uh Juniata uh in the semi versus the number one seed although I think we'd be competitive against any of the top four teams but uh it's just nice to win and against an uh a strong team like EMU that's been nationally ranked for most of the year all the year yeah I want them to watch this interview guys that was uh it was real important that um you know everyone uh gave a good effort against Penn State Altoona and they did I mean we're I take the responsibility for the outcome because I hadn't put that line up together ever and they were a little raggedy in the first set you know not getting to know where where they were and um and uh but they went five and you go you know five sets with any team you never know how it's going to turn out and it didn't turn out in our favor but uh I really appreciated the effort and what I learned was that I am ready to use any of those guys that were out there as as players in the semis yeah yeah I think that's right you know I it was all big team effort I mean the guys that weren't playing were cheering for the guys that were out on the floor and the guys that were out on the floor never gave up I mean it was up and down you know big lead swings and uh swings the points but you know they I think you know I'm not gonna mention names but everybody played uh well enough to win in the semi and uh and so that's you know that's you know it was a good good senior night I wish you you know they would have won but that's not our last match together uh so we have you know a couple more here in the semis of the CBC well I think yeah winning going through the final four they had really high expectations at the start of the year this year and we're a different team you know this year and uh but there's still that experience from last year that you know these guys definitely feel that they can beat anybody and um you know that's that's where it starts you gotta believe it and uh then follow through on the court	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC9_wdMCrPI", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCMfSH3HULOeoeEbxHkqF21A	Finance and Constitution Committee - 9 January 2019	Published by the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body. www.parliament.scot // We do not facilitate discussions on our YouTube page but encourage you to share and comment on our videos on your own channels. // If you would like to join in our conversations please follow @ScotParl on Twitter or like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/scottishparliament	[ "Holyrood", "Scottish-Parliament", "Scottish", "MSPs", "MSP", "Edinburgh", "politics", "Parliament", "debate", "Finance", "Constitution", "Scottish Constitution", "Scotland", "Brexit", "EU", "Scottish Budget", "Budget", "pre budget scrutiny", "scotlands budget" ]	2019-01-09T16:53:41	2024-02-05T08:38:25	9,297	pcJe6oIAxpU	Good morning, and welcome to the first meeting in 2019 of the Finance and Constitution Committee, and I wish all members of the committee and, indeed, everyone who is the panelist in the room a happy new year. I could just remind everyone that everyone is usually due to put their mobile phones into a process that won't disturb proceedings. The first item on our agenda this morning is to decide whether to take a draft report the Scottish Government's budget in for 2020 and 2019 opposition in private at future meetings. From the office of budget responsibility. We are joined for our first session this morning by Dame Susan Rice, who's the chairperson of the Scottish Fisheries Commission, John Ireland, who is the chief executive, and commissioners, Professor Alistair Smith. We are also joined, for the first time as commissioners, by Professor Francis Breeden and Professor David Ulf, and we look forward to working with you in your new role, not only today but in the future. I welcome you all to the meeting and I would invite Dame Susan Rice to make an opening statement. Thank you very much. Convener, you have just taken my first three sentences of opening statement, which was to wish all of you good wishes for a healthy and prosperous new year and to introduce my colleagues, but we're very pleased to be here this morning. Thank you for having us. This is the commission's third forecast report since we became a statutory body, our second budget forecast. As before, we give an economic outlook for the next five years and forecast devolved tax receipts and social security spending, but I want to mention just a few points where we have added or enhanced what we're putting in this report. We've also expanded our focus on the fiscal consequences of our forecasts and the block grant adjustments as the fiscal framework matures and as we start to get a better sense of the likely scale of reconciliations, particularly for income tax. To start, the economic outlook for Scotland for over 2018-19 has improved since our last forecast in May and the latest forecast reflects several things that improvement reflects recent stronger economic performance in Scotland, a more positive prospect for earnings over the next couple of years and the increased public spending that was announced in the UK autumn budget. A stronger economic performance over the next two years, but after that we forecast an outlook that's more subdued, with annual economic growth expected to settle back to around 1 per cent again. As in our previous forecast, this longer-term outlook reflects continued low productivity growth compared with trends before the 2008 financial crisis. At the same time, we still anticipate that productivity growth will gently start to recover in the later years of our forecast. Brexit was front of mind as we did our work and it has been throughout our various forecasts in the past. Our economy forecast was prepared on the central assumption that the UK's exit from the EU is relatively smooth or orderly to use the technical term. This assumption encompasses a number of different possible scenarios. There isn't an orderly exit, but that could happen in a number of ways, but a no-deal Brexit is considered in our forecast to be a downside risk to the forecast and not factored into it, although probably a somewhat increasing risk. Our formal judgment was based on what we knew up to late November when our economy forecast closed. Since then, as we've had no clearer idea of what's actually going to happen, we kept an orderly exit central to our forecast. As I said, that could reflect any of a range of scenarios. Even if there is a disorderly exit, specific detail around that would also need to be developed in order to forecast it. None of those are overnight changes. As it turns out, this approach mirrors the one taken by the OBR and its UK budget forecasts in the autumn, which were published shortly before ours. Although we came to these conclusions separately, there are advantages in having the UK and Scottish budget tax forecasts prepared in a similar view of the UK-EU negotiations. Moving on, our tax and social security forecasts now play a greater role in the budget arithmetic, as more taxes and benefits are devolved. In total, we're forecasting £15.2 billion will be raised by devolved taxes in 1920. That's just over a third of the Government's budget. Our forecasts show how the Scottish Government's policy choices are affecting the Scottish budget income tax, land and buildings transaction tax, are both raising additional revenue as a result of changes announced in the budget while receipts from non-domestic rates were lower. Taxpayers inevitably respond to the incentives implicit in the tax system, and estimating the impact and scale of behavioural change is an important part of our work. In last year's forecast, we included an adjustment for behavioural responses to the introduction of the new five-band income tax. In this forecast, we've looked at the behavioural response to the freezing of the higher-rate threshold. While it's important to consider these effects, however, the magnitude is small. We reduced our income tax forecast by £13 million as a result of behavioural responses to the UK tax system. That's about 0.1 per cent of the £11.7 billion forecast for income tax revenue. Social security features again in our report, with new and expanded benefits in Scotland bringing total spending on social security to £458 million in 1920. As benefits have been devolved, the Scottish Government has introduced reforms extending entitlements, making it easier to apply increasing payment amounts. In 1920, we estimate that new and expanded social security payments will cost £90 million more than the funding received from the UK Government for those particular programmes. The Scottish Government is due to take executive competency in April 2020 for the remaining benefits that will be worth around £2.6 billion. Social security forecasting will become more important for the Scottish budget, as all these benefits have block grant adjustments and associated reconciliations. I should also add that, since we last gave evidence here, we've continued to work on access to the data that we need for our work on social security. I'm pleased to report that we've had a number of quite constructive conversations with the DWP. Agreement has been reached to allow us separate access to information and timely access that's already provided to the Scottish Government. We still have to finalise a memorandum of understanding and MOU, but the DWP is now taking our need for access to data seriously. Finally, I was pleased that, yesterday, Robert Chote and I signed a formal MOU between the commission and the OBR, reflecting the strong and collegiate working relationship that we've developed over the last several years. Thank you for listening to those comments. Thank you, Dame Susan. In your introduction, you were discussing behavioural responses. That's where we want to begin the discussion this morning. I need you to help me, enable me and perhaps some of my committee colleagues to get a better understanding of the correlation between your forecast of behavioural responses to the Scottish Government's tax policy changes and your forecast for the increase in the number of top-rate and higher-rate taxpayers. Can I give you some examples of what I mean by that? Evidently, that means lots of numbers, but I guess that's part of the game that we're involved in this morning. For example, in December, you forecast the number of additional rate taxpayers to rise by 700 between 2016-17 and 17-18, which is a year before the rate increased to 46p. However, between 17-18 and 18-19, which is the year when the rate increased, you forecast that the number of top-rate taxpayers would increase by 900 and that it would increase by a further in 900 in 18-19 and 19-20. We need to send another forecast increase of 1,200 between 19-20 and 20-21. The question that I have is—I need you to help me with—is how are you able to forecast a larger increase in the number of top-rate taxpayers after the increase in top-rate than before, given that you also forecast a behavioural response to the tax changes? There's something in there that I just don't get. I'll give you a one-sentence answer and then turn to one of my colleagues to give you a little more of the detail. The numbers of people in each of those bands will necessarily change, like shifting sands, over time irrespective of the bands themselves. If the Scottish population grows, if people come into certain types of jobs, if earnings change, people will move category, it just happens. Those changes will happen necessarily. The specific numbers are part of the forecast judgment that we bring to it, but David, do you want to— Before you do it, if you look at all those numbers put together, we're talking about top-rate taxpayers rising 13,300 more of them between 16-17 compared with 20-21. That seems to me more than just that sort of change that's going on. David? Yes, as Susan said, there are two drivers here. One is changes in the number of taxpayers who are eligible for various tax banks. If, for example, Scotland attracted back into Scotland through migration, some very high-income individuals, David would go into the top tax bank, so there's an increase in the number of taxpayers that comes about through a variety of forces—growth and population, migration—and, if you increase employment, that will bring people in more at the bottom end of the income distribution and at the bottom tax banks. The major force that's driving up the number of taxpayers is the fact that earnings increase faster than the tax threshold. If earnings go up faster than the tax threshold, you're sucking people from the lower tax bank into the higher tax bank. Because we've assumed that the top rate of tax will be frozen, the threshold will be frozen at 150,000 throughout the five years of the forecast, if you're sitting just below 150,000 and you have, say, two or three percent growth in your earnings, you will inevitably be pooled above that 150,000 threshold. For the higher-rate tax bank, we've assumed that it's frozen for 2019-20, but we've assumed that it will be uprated with inflation in the many years of the forecast. However, it's still going to be the case that, given our forecast on earnings, earnings will be rising somewhat faster than inflation, so earnings will be rising faster than the higher-rate threshold is going up in the later years of the forecast. Again, we have this force of pooling people who have had earnings just below the tax threshold into the higher tax bank. These are quite powerful forces driving up the number of taxpayers. It happens in any country where you have a progressive tax system, you inevitably pool people up through the various tax banks as the economy grows and as earnings grow in the economy. The behavioural effects that we're looking at are the decision to freeze the tax rate and the freeze the higher-rate threshold, while the UK Government has increased the threshold to 50,000. There are two components to that behavioural effect. Since we're interested in the number of taxpayers, I'll focus first of all on what we call the external margin effect. Here, people above the higher-rate threshold will end up paying more tax if they're in Scotland than if they're in the rest of the UK. That will cause some taxpayers who are resident in England to consider whether they want to move to Scotland and maybe decide not to move to Scotland, but they could equally decide some taxpayers who are resident in Scotland deciding that they want to move to the rest of the UK. When people move from Scotland to the rest of the UK or don't move from the rest of the UK to Scotland, Scotland loses the entire tax revenue that those people get. You don't need to have very many people deciding either to move from Scotland to the rest of the UK or not move from the rest of the UK to Scotland to have quite a big impact on tax revenues. Susan said that we're forecasting around £6 million of lost tax revenue because of those behavioural effects, but that can come about through a relatively small number of taxpayers either deciding to move south or not to move north. Both of those effects are included. The increase in the number of taxpayers is only relevant to the taxpayers around Scotland, so it's only that effect that will be picked up when we're looking at the number of taxpayers. The fact that somebody chooses not to move to Scotland is not going to affect the number of taxpayers in Scotland, but it will affect the lost tax revenue. There are different effects working on the behavioural effects, which won't necessarily affect the number of taxpayers. Still, the number of the issue for me is how are you able to forecast a larger increase in the number of tax rate payers after the increase in the tax rate than before? I understand all the things that you have described there, but it's that bit that I don't get. I think that it is simply with a stronger earnings profile. The fact that Dave talked about migrating from one band to the other is stronger, so the earnings profile necessarily generates a bigger transition into the higher-rate band. That's one of the important effects. The numbers are different. A large number of people hold above the threshold because of that effect—the increase in earnings—will be affected by the behavioural changes. You don't need to have very many people choosing to move south because of the higher taxes that they pay in Scotland to have a big impact on tax revenue. You lose their entire tax revenue. Final questions from me. I know that there are others who want to get in on that. That's one side of the equation, the tax issue. However, in terms of the assumptions that you made in the analysis that you carried out, what analysis was undertaken of the flip side of that in terms of issues such as free tuition, free care for the elderly, etc., in terms of your analysis of that process? The way that the analysis is done is the following. If you have people located on two sides of a border in the rest of the UK and in Scotland, there will be some people in the rest of the UK who are very committed to being in the rest of the UK for family reasons, for employment reasons and so on, and almost would never move. Equally, there will be people in Scotland who have a great attachment to being in Scotland and who have taken an awful lot to get them to decide to move out of Scotland. However, in between those bands, there will be a number of people for whom being in Scotland or being in the rest of the UK. There are pluses and minuses on both sides of that. There will be some attractions to being in Scotland and some attractions to being in the rest of the UK. Those are the people who are mobile. Those are the people who have relatively small changes in tax rates and could cause them to move from one side of the border to the other. The fact that they have seen some attractions of being in Scotland does not mean that they will not move because they may see other attractions of being in the rest of the UK. In your analysis, it was about the tax issue only. It did not include issues to do with the benefits that it gets from being in Scotland such as free tuition and free care for the elderly. We have had free tuition for years. Those factors will not change people's decision to move. The only thing that has changed is the tax change. That is what we look at when we are flattering in the behavioural effects. The continuation of a convener is that, despite the negative behavioural change, a number of additional tax rate payers goes up by 25 per cent and a number of higher tax rate payers goes up by 10 per cent by the next session. You have talked about that it is not about the migration to the rest of the UK and Scotland. It is about people moving from one band to another. With real earnings growth, whether it is 0.3 per cent or 0.5 per cent over two years between the next session, are you suggesting that there are basically 5,000 additional tax rate payers sitting within just below that band who are going to move up to that band? My question is about how confident are you that you can see those people just below that band? The data within the bands has a survey of personal income. That is only a sample of 1.5 per cent of tax payers across the UK. When that data comes to Scotland, I believe that that is aggregated. Within each band, how are you able to predict that there is that volume of people that is going to flip if the earnings predictions are correct? I think that you have hit the head pretty accurately there. The survey of personal incomes gives us a distribution. That gives us not only who belongs to which band but where in the band they are. Because it is a sample survey and because of the composite records for the additional rate, it is not perfect. In a sense, given the information that we have at the moment from the survey of personal incomes, that is as well as we can do. When we have the out-turn data, that will make things a little bit easier and will have more information. At the moment, we have to make the judgments of where people in the band are, so how likely are they likely to move up when their normal earnings increase? We have to make that on the basis of the information that the survey of personal income gives us. Adam has a supplementary point. I am trying to understand how robust those numbers are. We are all learning about the art of economic forecasting and what is robust, reliable and perhaps more near the guess end of the spectrum. I just want to know where on that spectrum those figures fit. Specifically, what you have said in your most recent forecast is that the number of additional rate taxpayers in Scotland will increase by about 30 per cent over the years between 2019 and 2023, so from 15,800 to 20,100. That is a very significant jump as a 30 per cent increase. Of course, that has massive consequences for the tax revenues that the Scottish Government receives because of the way in which income taxes are prioritised amongst the busker of devolved taxation. How robust is that forecast increase of 30 per cent additional rate taxpayers, 30 per cent increase in the number of additional rate taxpayers in Scotland over that four-year period? Do you know that there are that many people currently earning £142,000, who in a few years' time will be earning £150,000 or is it nearer—I am not being disrespectful—the guess end of the spectrum of forecasts that you are required to make? Of the types of numbers that we have been talking about, that is a relatively robust number because we have a fairly good idea of what the distribution of income is among taxpayers in Scotland through the survey of personal incomes. We can use that to reliably predict what the distribution is. The thing is that there is quite a lot of people sitting just below some of these thresholds. We know for a fact that there are quite a lot of people in Scotland currently earning £145,000 or £140,000, so you predict that within a space of four years we will be earning £150,000. You know that. We know it better than that. It is not a guess. We have a pretty good idea of what the shape of the distribution of income is in Scotland. Can I be a little bit more specific? We know that income distributions at the upper end characteristically have a very predictable shape. It is a shape that tails off quite sharply, so as you move up the income distribution, you get fewer and fewer people. If you think about that, what means when the threshold does not move up with inflation? You have relatively small number of people in the tail above the threshold, compared with the people clustered just below the threshold. When the threshold does not move with inflation, you get a surprisingly large number of people moving into the upper tax band, but it is just a feature of the shape of that tail distribution, with quite a lot of people close to the border and a relatively thin spread of people above the threshold. That is a pretty robust feature of income distributions. You are not surprised by the surprisingly large number of people. I will not be surprised if we are asking the question. First, I will pick up on some of the questions that Bruce Crawford was asking about the balance between push-and-pull factors. If you like comparing changes in income tax, convener mentioned some other factors that Professor Alf said had not changed, such as the social benefits of living in Scotland. However, there are other factors that will change, such as the affordability of housing, compared with some parts of the UK, which face a much more severe housing crisis than Scotland, albeit that there are challenges here. As well, the decisions that people make, the behavioural changes that might arise, are not just about a response directly to changes in things such as tax policy, but they are a response to what people know and what people think and feel about those things. If the fiscal commission is not in a position to try and gauge a net effect, is anybody able to produce an overall sense of how those push-and-pull factors might interact or cancel out? The situation that I described before is that people are on the side of a border who feel some attachment to one area but some attachment to another area as well. Wealthy small changes can cause them to shift from one area to another. You are absolutely right that there can be a whole variety of factors that fit into that scenario. It can be family factors, it can be employment factors, it can be schooling issues, a whole range of factors can go into those decisions. It could be social, cultural or political factors like how welcome migrants feel in a political environment. The way that we calculate this is that there are many places throughout the world where this situation arises. Think of the various states in America. You have the same language, the same currency, but you have differences between states in schooling and other areas. Similarly, in Australia and in Germany, there have been lots and lots of studies made of migration between those different states. Remember that each year about 30,000 to 40,000 people are moving in both directions across the border between Scotland and England because new opportunities are arising, new factors are shifting and changing and causing people to make those moves. That is happening throughout the world. Throughout the world, there are these views across borders. You can use evidence about where those flows are affected by tax differences to try to gauge the extent to which a small change in tax induces a somewhat larger flow of people across borders. That is the kind of information that we use in our forecasts. We use a lot of studies from many other areas that give us some sense of confidence that we have a fairly well-established estimate of what the percentage changes in the amount of tax for Lincoln that we get in Scotland for a given percentage difference in tax rates between Scotland and England? I absolutely appreciate that. I am still slightly at a loss to know whether it is possible to do that work and then to make a comparison with what the other factors might cause people to do, for example, changes in housing affordability. If there are studies out there that have looked specifically at housing affordability, we could draw on those studies to look at those effects, but we are really focusing on the effects of tax changes. That has been fairly well studied, so there are lots of studies out there on which we can draw. Let me come on to that then. Last year, when the Fiscal Commission gave evidence at about the same point in the budget process, I asked some of those questions. In relation to location issues, either where people report their location being for tax purposes, where they move to or from, or whether they might change their decisions in the future, I was told that we are not making a specific forecast on location, we are making an overall assessment of the impact, not setting out particular numbers for the impact of relocation or any other effect. This year, we have a table 3.12, which sets out numbers for 19.20 up to 23.24, suggesting the impact of immediate tax residency changes, longer-term migration effects to and from Scotland. While you acknowledge that there are more people in the most recent year report, you report 16.17 moving to Scotland than from Scotland, you are now at a point in which you are putting specific numbers on to some of those questions that, last year, you were not putting specific numbers. How have you gone about changing that methodology and what exactly has changed? It is a simple methodology. It is a question of how—as we can see from the table—the effect is quite small, but it is one that is now big enough that we think is worth the effort of doing the work on. As the differences in taxes have got bigger, it has become more material for us to think about, and that is the process element of it. Obviously, the dynamic element is a different issue. A central question that we were looking at last year was about an increase of one point in the higher rate, which is a relatively small increase spread across people. Here, we are looking at a different question. We are looking at the effect of the difference between the Scottish higher rate taxes, including national insurance contributions and the UK rate. We made a judgment this year that we needed to particularly look at the behavioural effects of that difference in rather more detail. We have used some of the things that I was talking about before, where we can say that a given percentage tax difference between two countries is a given percentage change in the taxable income in those countries. We have tried to help you by translating that into what would that mean in terms of the number of tax payers. There are some assumptions in there. You have to make some assumptions about the average earnings of the people in those groups, but one future that you will see in table 3.12 is that the response in terms of tax residency is much stronger than the effects on migration. We have made the assumption that tax residency is something that people can shift quite easily. We have assumed a higher response rate on tax residency on migration, because migration is a much bigger decision. You have to choose to buy a house and move your whole family to a different region. We have used some of the different velocities. We are coming out of other studies that we have looked at. Do you want to pin those numbers? Just finally, because some of the discussion last year was about the fact that there are some comparisons that can be made with tax differences between US states, but there are some big differences in the context and the scale of what we are talking about geographically. I wonder if it is possible for you to give us, perhaps in writing another time, an overview of the specific other jurisdictions that you have studied? I think that there are some evidence from some other European countries that mobility is much less for people at the higher end of the income scale, because they are much more physically invested in the place that they are living in. We can follow up that question in writing. Quite a good study on the Spanish system, where they have that across the regions. That is one of the strongest studies that we have looked at on Spain. I think that it would be really useful on an on-going basis to know what other places you are looking at as we look at this year by year. I have one more question on behavioural changes, Tom. It was actually on the increase in higher and additional rate pairs, if that is okay, which is a supplementary to the earlier report. It is still relating to the behavioural issue that I started off with. Thank you, convener. Good morning. It's just a very brief question to Professor Alfam. You described one of the drivers for an increase in higher and additional rate pairs in Scotland. That forecast would be that these higher and additional rate pairs potentially relocating to Scotland. I just want to clarify, would that be that they would be perhaps working on other parts of the UK but would be resident in Scotland for tax purposes? Would they be setting up businesses in Scotland, or relocating businesses in Scotland, which would drive their increase? Or are there vacancies in high-salary jobs, which are currently unfulfilled? It would be people from other parts of the UK or elsewhere who are coming to fill one as a consequence to be Scottish registered taxpayers, which would lead to this increase, as you described. It would be a mixture of all those types of factors. As I said, people will see new opportunities arising in one country that would make them want to move from another country, so it could be that there are people out there who do a job in England and are now given the opportunity to do the same job at the higher salary. In Scotland, you might get a consultant working in the NHS in England who gets a promotion to a higher-paid job in Scotland. You might get people moving for those reasons. It might be people who are working both sides of the board. Sometimes they are working in London, sometimes they are working in Scotland and they just change their residency requirements. I am keen to understand what is the balance between the creation of new, higher-paid jobs within Scotland, which could theoretically be fulfilled by anyone, including people who are currently resident in Scotland, and are there a particular category of jobs that would be performed by people elsewhere in the UK, but they would be resident in Scotland. Perhaps it could be someone living in Edinburgh who commutes to London who is working in financial services, for example, and comes back, but they were registered Scottish taxpayer, hence that is why the revenue would accrue to Scotland rather than the Treasury. Can I just say something that we have right now a fairly tight labour market in Scotland? That means that there may be new jobs or new businesses. We are not looking at this tax from that perspective, but as there are opportunities and openings, the Scottish organisation will need to pay to attract the right person to it. That has an impact here as well. We are not starting by saying how many new companies do we expect to start and how many jobs will that create? I understand that inward migration is essential for driving this increase in a higher and additional tax. Earnings growth as well? Sorry, David. In terms of the increase in the number of taxpayers, it is driven partly by increases in the number of taxpayers, but the largest part of that driver is the fact of what we talked about before. Earnings increase is sucking existing taxpayers in Scotland into that top-rate band, so that is by far the most important driver. As Susan said, we have a very tight labour market, population is not projected to grow very much here, so the growth in the number of taxpayers is a relatively small factor in terms of sucking people. It is large as a drive, the increase in our news, and the fact that the top-rate threshold is frozen, that is the big drive. We will move on to Earnings issues more generally, because you have introduced that now. Tom James, you were going to kick that session off. Okay, thanks a lot, convener, and good morning. I am interested in pay and employment rates and how that contributes to the overall tax position. Compared with the budget that was agreed in February 2018, the forecast position in relation to 1920 is deteriorated by £963 million, and the economic aspect of that is a £183 million decline. That is underpinned in terms of pay and employment by what you are saying, compared with what you gave us in December 2017, as a slight decline in pay rates and employment rates. I am interested in how that has been built up. The comparison that we are thinking of is really compared to our previous forecast. The Earnings pitch has actually improved somewhat, and that is really just the basis of the last few courses of data that have given us stronger earnings pitches. I am not quite sure which comparison we are making. To be specific, I am asking about the comparison with last December, so the position has declined from last December. We took the forecast down in the last forecast, but we brought it back up a bit, not as far as we did in December. That is really just an issue of outturns for earnings that we have seen in the last few quarters. They are very weak prior to our previous forecast, because they have got slightly stronger. It is really just responding to actual outturned data, which, admittedly, for Scotland, is a hodgepodge of different measures. The consensus of the measures is that the position has slightly improved in the last few months, but it did worse prior to our previous forecast. If you look at the OBR on those forecasts, they are forecasting stronger earnings growth and stronger employment growth. I am not asking you to comment on their forecasts, but why in Scotland have we got a picture of declining earnings growth and declining employment rate? I think that the differences are quite small. That is the overall trend in the field. We are talking about this, but the key point being that the Scottish specific numbers point to a slightly different picture than the UK-wide numbers, and that is where this is coming from. What I am interested in is trying to understand what are the drivers for those numbers. That is a more difficult one. One of the things that we have seen is that the productivity performance in Scotland over the last few years has been somewhat worse than the rest of the UK. That is probably an underlying driver. It is hard to translate directly, but you can see the link that should be there. I think that that would be one thing I would point to. You are saying that productivity is weaker, so what is causing productivity? That is a very big question. It is hard, but this is an area across all countries in the world at the moment where we are really struggling to work out why productivity performance is weak across countries. The fact that productivity performance in Scotland the last few years has been marginally worse than the rest of the UK, I am afraid. I do not know the answer to that question because we do not really know the drivers of why productivity has been so weak over the last 10 years across any country. Just going back to the pay issue, one of the comments that you made in your paper was that in relation to average hours worked. That had been falling in recent years, but you saw it as being static going ahead. What is the basis for that comment? Sorry, we will beat the question. You said in your paper published in December that in discussing paying productivity there is a comment that the average hours worked per household had been declining in recent years, but looking ahead it was going to become more static. What is the basis for that? Was the average in space for that comment? I think that one of the keys is obviously, as we have already mentioned, the labour market is tighter in one way. That tightness shows itself that hours go up, so there is more over time. People are asked to do more hours. There is less slack generally in the economy, so that would be one of the drivers of why the hours have declined so much. There may be a factor—I am not absolutely certain—that the shape of our population, comparing to the whole of the UK, is a little different. We have an increasing proportion of people in the highest age groups who are not necessarily active in employment as the people in the middle age groups, if you will. That creates some of that same effect so that the people who are employed, who are working, their services are needed and so they may be offered and may take more hours. I can come back to what Professor Branson Breeden said, because it was quite interesting. On Scottish specific numbers, you used the words, the hodgepodge of numbers available for Scotland. That seems to suggest that, in some way, the numbers that we have available to work with in Scotland are perhaps not as robust as they could be. Is that because it is an extrapolation of UK numbers? What can we do to improve that in that case? There is more than one. That was really my key point. When we look at the earnings profile in Scotland, we are drawing on about four different sources. I cannot necessarily comment on whether that data is stronger than the UK equivalent, but it is the case that, when we are making the judgment on earnings, we are not making it on the basis of one earning series or making it by looking at a range of series, which you can see in the report. If you look at table 2.7 in the main report on page 64, you can see what we have done is we summarised the sources of earnings that are available to us. You can start to see the picture coming out there of stronger earnings growth in 2018, which is reflected in our report. The data sources that you mentioned in your table, are those subsamples of the UK or the Scottish-specific samples? The bulk of them are Scottish parts of UK surveys. Some of those are boosted in Scotland in proportion to the population size. The QNAS, the final one, comes from the national account, so it is slightly different. It must make your job more difficult than that area. It is a characteristic of working with regional economies. The data is not as good as the national economy, but, as we said in September in our data statement or data needs, there are a lot of advances being made in Scottish data. Scotland is pretty well served by its economic data. There are gaps that we identified, but the picture is not as bad as it could be elsewhere. I am still struggling to reconcile all those various figures about forecast income tax receipts and forecast income tax payers. I am focusing on additional rate tax payers because they contribute so much income tax. Income tax is so important to the devolved basket of taxation. We know that the top 1 per cent of income tax payers in the UK contribute more than 28 per cent of total income tax receipts. That is why it is critical to the future prosperity of the Scottish Government's spending plans to maintain and attract ever higher numbers of additional rate tax payers. That is why that is so important. Your forecast increase in the number of additional rate tax payers is, to use Professor Smith's phrase, surprisingly large. It is good to know that you are not surprised by that surprise, but it is a very significant increase. We are talking about over the course of only a four-year period the number of additional rate tax payers going up by more than a third. However, over the same period, you are forecasting income tax receipts to go up much more modestly than that. You are forecasting income tax receipts to go up, yes, but from £11.5 million in 1920 to only just over £13 million in 2022-23. What accounts for what appears to be that variation between, on the one hand, the number of additional rate tax payers going up very significantly, but on the other, the forecast income tax receipts for Scotland going up relatively modestly when we know that additional rate tax payers contribute so much of overall income tax receipts? It is not behavioural change, because behavioural change accounts for only £6 million. It is important in thinking about the arithmetic of that to remember that we are talking about people. The additional tax payers are mainly coming from people whose incomes, because of income growth, move them from one tax payer category to another. It may be the case that the additional rate tax payers as a whole pay a high proportion of income tax revenue. For the individual who moves category, they are moving from just below the tax threshold to just above the tax threshold. Their marginal rate may go up significantly, but the actual tax bill, paid by someone who moves from just below the threshold to just above the threshold, changes relatively little. The numbers changes are driven by people who are close to the threshold and move over it. The numbers of tax payers are driven by that, whereas the tax revenues figures are driven by the average tax paid by different tax payer categories. The average tax paid by someone who moves just over the threshold does not change that much. Neil Findlay, I think that Tom's question is right. Just following on from Adam Tomkin's question, at our last meeting, David Phillips of the Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that there was a particular big risk if Scottish revenues were overestimated and the OBR underestimated UK revenues. Do you agree with that analysis and what is the current risk and risk of that likely to be over the next two or three budgets? I think that that observation was in relation to the reconciliation issue and how that forecast differences could drive the sort of reconciliation as arithmetic in a sort of particularly bad way for the Scottish budget. So I think he was just highlighting the circumstances in which that could happen. What our report does do is it looks at and there is a table in the report that looks at what we think is the current position on reconciliation and makes a forecast difference. That shows that those adverse circumstances at the moment seem to be likely, but they can change. It is just a forecast of a forecast difference. I have a question on the issue of data, particularly to average earnings. I wonder, in terms of the composition of earnings across Scotland, how much that informs how you come to your forecast on earnings. For example, there will be a concentration of high earners historically in the northeast due to oil and gas or financial services in Edinburgh, which will, to some extent, inflate average earnings across Scotland because of that small concentration of high earners. Consecretly, those sectors may be more exposed than others to particular effects, economic shocks, for example. In terms of your forecasts for average earnings, how do you come to them? What are the data sources that you have available, and how does that take account of regional variations where we have perhaps clusters of higher earners in different parts of Scotland? I guess that the approach is very much at the aggregate level. I do not think that we get into these regional issues that much when we do these sort of analyses. I think that the effects that you are talking about, that is fine for our purposes. It just means that, potentially, earnings could be more volatile because of these regional effects, but as long as our focus is obviously always on the Scotland-wide implications of those changes. It is also fair to say, Francis, that when we think about that aggregate macro picture, we are thinking about, in particular, the onshore or on gas industry. We take that into account, and we take into account the prospect for financial industries. Francis is absolutely right. We think about these at a very high aggregate level for Scotland, and we are not blind to the consequences of different sectors and how they are going to evolve over time. Just an example. Last year, in looking at land and buildings transaction tax, given the state of the oil and gas sector, we did focus specifically and had some work done on the northeast and what was happening in that area, in particular around housing prices and transactions and so forth. If we think that there really is something happening, we could go in and look more forensically. In terms of the comparison between average earnings, forecast for Scotland and for the UK, I think that there was a difference of about 0.3 per cent in favour of the rest of the UK. Is that statistically significant? In your opening remarks, you said that Brexit was at the front of your collective minds. I notice that, again in your remarks and in your report, you said that your forecasting is based on an orderly Brexit, although the forecasts for an orderly Brexit are perhaps, if I can be kind, rather fluctuating. You speak a fair bit in your report about the uncertainty around Brexit. However, have you undertaken any specific work on the range of scenarios, including a no-deal Brexit, on the impact on the tax take in Scotland? We have discussed matters of that sort extensively, but as I hinted at in my opening comments, even if there is a no-deal Brexit or a disorderly exit from Europe, that doesn't have one shape. It's not like a braver in apple and that's it. Apples come in a lot of varieties. If that is the outcome of the parliamentary vote, there will then be a period of time where the detail around what does that mean and how will that operate happens. We wouldn't be resourcing. It wouldn't make sense to imagine all of that and to do lots and lots of different forecasts at this point. We need to wait to see what some of that detail is and we would then, at the right time, remember that we also forecast in relation to your timetable in the Parliament, produce a forecast for that. We're not sitting today forecasting every possible because we don't know what those details are. We just don't have the detail. That's really the reason that we stayed with the notion of an orderly exit because that seemed the more likely thing. We don't have any detail right now that tells us that it will be other than that. You can imagine it might be, but we don't have that evidence right now. We need to wait for the evidence. I understand the difficulties in and around the lack of detail and the uncertainty. I wouldn't expect anybody in the panel to have a crystal ball. I did notice that, in paragraph 29 of your report, you started to tease out some of the underlying issues in and around Brexit. Productivity is predicted to be more in part due to Brexit. You talk about international trade, the difficulties around predicting the future economic relationship between the UK and the EU, but you specifically begin to talk about migration. I'm particularly interested in Brexit and the impact on migration. Given that there is a fairly broad agreement that we have a demographic challenge in Scotland and population growth is important to economic growth overall, bearing in mind that there has been a UK Government white paper with a proposal for a £30,000 minimum salary threshold for EU migrants, which, according to the Scottish Government, would reduce EU migration by 80 per cent. We know that all our population, predicted population growth is based on migration. I wondered whether you've given some thought—you've not done the work as yet—about how you will follow the impact on reducing migration into a tax take and into overall economic performance, as it appears to be a very alive matter. Alasdair, if you could give you some detail, I would simply say that these three factors don't relate to orderly or disorderly or no Brexit at all. These are factors that we have been considering as we've thought about Brexit in our economy forecast last year. We've discussed them in depth, and this is our judgment about the impact on migration post-Brexit, but Alasdair, do you want to give some more detail in response? First of all, I emphasise that point. Paragraph 29 of our summary refers to our existing forecast, which includes, as Susan said, an assumption that there will be an orderly exit of the UK from the EU in economic terms, which is essentially happening at the end of 2020, at the end of the transition period. That assumption puts some downside forces into our forecast, as listed there. We're assuming that there will be a negative effect in that central scenario on migration productivity and trade, which will lead to income being lower than it would be otherwise. What we haven't done, as Susan said, is look at what these effects would be if there were a disorderly Brexit. We would expect, looking at the work that other people have done on no-deal Brexit, we'd expect all of these negative effects to be bigger, and there would be some other negative effects as well, and possibly some really quite big negative short-run adjustment effects at the roundabout time of Brexit itself. We produced one forecast based on our central set of Brexit and another assumption—that's our job. If we proceed with an orderly Brexit, then as we find out more about the way migration policy, for example, develops, that will be the time for us to feed more elaborate assumptions about migration into our forecast. You must be right that if whatever form of Brexit we have generates bigger reductions in migration than the ones that we're assuming in our current forecast, then that will have further negative effects on the economy. One other thing that I draw to your attention is that we need to worry about negative effects of migration, not just because of the kind of demographic effects that you talked about, which are of course important. The age of 16 to 64 population in Scotland is at a lower proportion of the overall population than in the rest of the UK, but also of the link between migration and productivity. The flow of migrants are not into overwhelmingly low-paid jobs. A lot of migrants come with high levels of education and skill, high levels of work commitment, and there's no doubt that migration has a very positive effect on productivity. The expectation would be that reductions in migration will have negative effects, not just on direct demographic effects but negative effects on productivity as well. However, those are things that we will need to explore when we find out more about the Brexit path that we're currently embarked on as it develops or an alternative Brexit path, if that's where we end up. Those are all very important things that we will need to give careful consideration to in the future, but we have not done that yet. I'm interested in how quickly you'll be able to give consideration once some light has been shed on the path that we're about to embark upon, given that EU migrants are indeed net contributors in terms of population, presumably tax-take, if the working-age population has grew up on the very important point about productivity. It would appear to me that whatever form Brexit takes, and in particular the UK Government white paper on migration, you talk about downside risks, and I would talk about a devastating impact on our economy. All of that, being in mind our economic performance, relative to the UK, has a big impact on how we fund public services in Scotland. How quickly will you be able to change your assumptions and do some forecasts that scope out the shaping size of the challenges that we are undoubtedly about to face? It's important to be realistic about the timescale. It doesn't take long to change assumptions, but changing the forecasts as a result of a change of assumptions is a process that takes time. We have a forecasting cycle. For our next set of forecasts, we have a clearer picture of what Brexit means, and that can be fed into the forecasting cycle. There is a limit to the extent to which the length of the forecasting cycle can change, not least because it will take time for us to understand what changes we need to look at in our next set of forecasts. We may get more clarity at some point about what form Brexit is going to take. If Brexit were a no deal, there would be probably significant macroeconomic changes at the UK level in response to those, and we would need clarity about what those were in order to produce our forecasts. I don't think that one should imagine that our economic forecasts should be the front line of assessing the immediate effects of policy towards Brexit. We will work through just to stick with your example the effects of Brexit on productivity if we see significant new effects coming along for our next forecast. It's possible to imagine circumstances in which the timetable for our next forecast would change a bit, but we're not in the business of providing policy analysis for politicians making decisions about Brexit. We might wish that we were, but that's not what we do. Just to sum that up, you started by saying how quickly we can only move as quickly as the detail emerges about what that form of Brexit, whatever form it is, happens. We are restrained until some of that detail takes shape. I get the point that you have a specific job in relation to the Scottish budget, as opposed to the policy choices of Scottish politicians, but the realities in your report have started to scope out what the impact of Brexit would be. Your forecast won't be worth a job if you're not doing some sort of horizon scanning and Brexit is looming large in some shape or form. We will move as quickly as we are able to move. Obviously, this will be a tremendous change, whatever the form of Brexit, and we're well aware of that. Thank you, convener. It's just a quick step up to pick up on what Angela Constance is saying. In Dumfries and Galloway, we've got 48 per cent of Scotland's dairy farms, and the big dairy farms have Romanians, Lithuanians and folk from Poland. They're not making £30,000 a year, so there is a bit of a mix. I know that there's work being done by the Scottish Dairy Hub to look at exactly how many migrants. When we're talking about a devastating impact on Brexit and immigration, that is going to have a massive effect on productivity if there's nobody to milk the cows in Dumfries and Galloway, which contribute to the Scotland's economy. It's just to pick up on your thoughts about that, because that's something that I think it's really worth looking into. I think that's right that the agricultural sector is one that is particularly vulnerable to the effects of Brexit on migration. It's probably also one of the sectors that is most at risk from the effects of a no deal Brexit, because if we leave the EU without a deal, then it's going to be very difficult for British agriculture and fisheries to sell their products into the rest of the EU, and that's a big part of their market. That's another big Brexit effect under a no deal scenario that would be relevant for that sector. There's no question but that Brexit, in whatever form it takes, will be providing big questions for us in our next cycle of forecasts. Very briefly, I appreciate there's much of Brexit that could perhaps only be termed as nebulous. However, one clear scenario that may emerge if the UK Government's favourite policy is implemented, i.e. the withdrawal act, is the potential for a backdrop scenario to emerge if the Irish protocol is indeed invoked, which would come into effect within the forecasting period that we've been considering today, early into the next decade. Clearly, the terms of that are quite well defined, including the regulatory diversions that would occur within the UK between Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Has there been any consideration given to that in terms of informing scenarios for your forecasts in the 2020s? The short answer to that is no, we have not looked at those sorts of issues in any detail. That particular example is perhaps a good example of why it would be premature for us to do this. It's simply not clear, and it doesn't matter how careful you read the draft withdrawal agreement. It's not clear how much regulatory difference there will be between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK in a backdrop scenario, because, as I understand it, Northern Ireland will be obliged to follow EU rules in relation to goods regulation. However, the reality is that producers throughout the UK will have a very strong incentive to stick to the same rules as well. The companies that are selling cars in Northern Ireland or the supermarket chains that are selling food products in Northern Ireland are selling the same products in Northern Ireland as they are selling in the rest of the UK. They are selling the same cars in Northern Ireland as they are selling throughout the whole of the EU. Those UK producers will, in reality, be sticking to EU regulation in any event. That's just an example of the kind of thing that needs to be thought through and understood. In the first instance, it's not by us because we're not Brexit analysts, we're economic forecasters. However, it's an example of the kind of complex issue that we will need to understand the effects of much better as it evolves. In the unlikely event that the withdrawal agreement is agreed to by the UK Parliament in the coming weeks, that is clearly a concrete scenario that could emerge, the Irish protocol being invoked. If that scenario does materialise, do you imagine that the SFC is going to be considering what the implications of that would be, given that it's a concrete real scenario that's legally defined and that will have to inform at least some of your forecasts and scenario planning? My initial thought on that would be that, if the Government's withdrawal agreement does pass through Parliament and we formally exit at the end of March into a transition period in which nothing changes until, essentially nothing changes until the end of December, that's the scenario on which our current forecast is based. I'm not sure that we would feel under strong pressure to set about producing a new forecast other than on our planned timetable. It's the picture where the withdrawal agreement fails to get through Parliament and we have a disorderly Brexit at some point in the next few months. It's the one where everyone involved in economic policy making and forecasting would need to think about what needs to be done and in what order. As I said earlier, we would need to think about how much clarity we needed to have about the policy responses of both the UK and the Scottish Governments to that scenario before we thought about what the implications would be for our next round of forecasts. That's very helpful. The media position is very clear. Thank you, convener. Good morning. I've got some questions on income tax forecasts, but just before I come to that, I wonder if I can ask just a follow-up question, Professor Smith, to something that you were talking about a moment ago in relation to migration that I thought was very interesting, particularly talking about the economic contribution that was made by migrants. I wonder if you are aware if there is any difference in terms of the evidence that we have in terms of whether the economic contribution of migrants varies depending on whether they are migrants from EU countries, from non-EU countries or migrants to Scotland from other parts of the United Kingdom. The short answer to your question is no. There is a lot of work on the positive effects of migration on economic performance, but I can't off the top of my head and certainly not in the report and front and point you to evidence of those kinds of differences. It might be quite an interesting area to look at in the future if there is an argument that there will be a reduction in EU migrants, whether there might be increases in migrants from other parts of the world or indeed other parts of the United Kingdom, trying to understand if there are differences. That might be quite useful. That wasn't really what I was going to ask about, but I thought it was an interesting point to get an answer on. I really wanted to ask about the SNFC's projections for income tax forecasts, where what we have seen is quite a substantial reduction in your forecast for income tax receipts as compared to the forecast that you produced at this time last year. Obviously, we have a narrative from you as to why that has occurred, and to the extent that those reductions are offset by changes to the block grant adjustment. What is of interest to this committee is what the direct impact of all those changes is on the Scottish Government's budget for the coming year. Perhaps you could tell us what exactly is the net impact of all those changes on what we are now expecting for income tax for the coming year for the Scottish Government's budget. That is set out in table 6, just below paragraph 41 of our summary, where the top panel of that table shows our forecast for income tax for 2019-20 and the forecast for the block grant adjustment and the net difference of £182 million. That is the answer to your question. There is our forecast for the 2019-20 year about net receipts in relation to income tax. I thank you for that answer, but am I right in saying that this time last year, the figure that you were forecasting was £591 million. We are talking about a difference of roughly £400 million less than we were thinking we would have at this time last year. Yes, but both our tax forecast and the UK tax forecast and the forecast, which underlies the block grant adjustment, have changed very significantly because we have had out-turn data for 2016-17 in the intervening period. That has shifted both numbers down quite significantly, but you are right to identify that the gap between them has also reduced, so we are now forecasting less net impact on the Scottish budget. There are many moving parts that go into our tax forecast and into the OBR forecasts of UK taxes that then feed into the block grant adjustment. One issue that is perhaps worth thinking about is that the UK tax forecasts have been pushed up this year by the unexpectedly strong performance of tax receipts in 2018, which has led the OBR to increase its forecasts of UK income tax and other taxes. We do not have as detailed information about Scottish tax receipts as the OBR has about UK tax receipts, because the range of data is less. However, in the information that we have, there is not evidence that Scottish income tax receipts have gone up in the same way that UK-wide tax receipts have gone up. That may be because there is a higher proportion of high-rate taxpayers in the UK. The increase in UK income tax receipts is some evidence. I am talking very cautiously, because both in relation to the UK and Scotland, this is some early evidence. There is some evidence that UK income tax receipts have gone up, particularly at the higher end of the income distribution. There are proportionally fewer high-rate taxpayers in the Scottish income tax distribution. Currently, we think that Scottish tax receipts have probably not been subject to the same rate of increase in 2018 as UK tax receipts. That may be—I stress the word—the reason why the difference between our income tax forecast and the block grant adjustment forecast has narrowed so that the net impact on the Scottish Government's budget is now £183 million rather than a larger number. I understand that. I appreciate that everything to do with a block grant adjustment is very complicated and one has to work hard to keep on the thinking on the right lines. The advice that we got from our budget adviser was that your latest forecast implied a worsening of the net tax position of £400 million compared to your forecast this time last year. Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. You look at table 8, the income tax reconciliations figure a couple of pages on that square. For the 2018-19 budget, the net difference has changed from being plus £428 to minus £43 million. I thank you for coming to table 8. I will ask you about this next, because this is looking at the potential forecast reconciliation in the future. For last year, we are looking at a forecast reconciliation of £145 million, which will kick in in the year 2020-21. For the following year, for the year 2021-22, we are looking at a forecast reconciliation of minus £472 million. I appreciate that it is only forecast, but do I read that correctly, meaning that, if your forecasts are correct, when setting the budget for 2021-22, the Scottish Finance Minister will be there for starting with a negative of £472 million. Yes, indeed. That is going to be a... If this is the way it turned out, when we have the outturn data for 2018-19, whenever it is, mid 2020, and the budget for 2021 is being set, then yes, that is a negative number. You are quite right to say that this is a forecast of the extent to which a budget based on past forecasts will turn out not to be accurate. We should probably not get overexcited about the specific numbers. However, behind your question is, as I understand it, the observation that these are quite large numbers relative to the budget. Reconciliations are going to be a very significant issue for Scottish budget management from next year onwards. Indeed. That was the point that I was going to come on to, because we are talking about £0.5 billion, which is a very sizable chunk of money coming out of a budget and what will actually be an election year, so that could lead to an interesting political scenario at that time. I was never going to ask you what the impact that would be on the Scotland reserve, because you go on in your report in paragraphs 115 to 117 to talk about the amount of money in the Scotland reserve, and you observe in paragraph 116 that, in terms of the budget for the coming financial year, the Scottish Government is proposing to draw down £85 million from the capital reserve and £250 million from the resource reserve, and you observe that that is the maximum allowed in the fiscal framework. Given the looming black hole that may or may not materialise, how prudent it might be for the finance secretary to be drawing down the maximum from the reserve when perhaps he should be filling it up? We have set out the facts as we see them here as clearly as we can, because we do think that these are important numbers, but making judgments about the prudence of the decisions is for the cabinet secretary and for you, not for us. I think that we have covered a lot this morning. It has been interesting to hear about some of the political arguments or the economic arguments for how we can have income tax revenues being higher or lower in some areas. I am interested to hear about what would mean factors be, whether it is economic or political, in determining that the forecasts might be higher or lower in Scotland or the rest of the UK, for instance, because the forecasts that you make might not be accurate in some areas, depending on what is happening with Brexit or other wider areas. I guess that there is a general issue about forecasting. Sadly, we do the best we can with the information that we have today, but there are events looming that will almost inevitably knock the numbers off track. I am afraid that there is a lot of a forecaster who can see their forecasts almost inevitably. Is Scotland at a higher risk than the rest of the UK, specifically with some of the forecasting that you have engaged in? Obviously, in the forecasting process, the issue of the data that you start with is key. I cannot really think of a particular risk that is worse for Scotland than it is for the rest of the UK in terms of thinking about what could happen in the next few years. Some different factors, whether they crystallise as a risk or a downside risk, that is another matter, but the factors are, as we said before, that we have a higher proportion of the population in the age 64 plus group that our population is not growing, particularly the working-age population at quite the same rate as it is in the rest of the UK. There are some factors that are different with the type of labour market that I mentioned. Some of those can have positive or negative impacts, but there are some core differences in our makeup. The final question on income tax issues has come from Neil, and then we are going to retweet with Willie Macdonald. In table 3.7 of your report, you have shown revised your income tax forecast down by £275 million, and due to UK policy changes of £199 million, it is due to the increase in the personal allowance. Can you clarify what UK policies account for the remaining £76 million? Which page are you on? I can get you a page on that. The answer to the question is, but I can't put my finger on the note. Can we write to you with that one? Oh, I'm sure, yeah. We have a list that is quite detailed, but I think that's probably the best way of handling that. Yes, that'll get help. Willie LBTT About at this stage of the meeting, you're delighted to get a question on land and buildings transaction tax from me. It was simply to ask that the forecast for revenue for LBTT seemed to be going up progressively year on year, but we hear that growth in house prices is perhaps slower in Scotland, so it was just to ask why the difference is why are we getting more revenue when the growth is perhaps not there to match that. It can't just be down to the policy changes on additional development supplement. That wouldn't account for the difference. It was just to get your view and the flavour of why we're getting more revenue in LBTT over the coming years. The very simple answer is that it depends in those different bands of LBTT where the transaction activity is greatest. If you get a lot of activity at lower bands, that makes a difference, but Alasdair, you probably are a resident expert on that? No, it's just that over the period of the years we do—although house prices increases are less than they've been at some points in the past, we're still predicting that over a period of time house prices will go upwards. We also look at, as Susan said, the distribution of sales between different bands changes from time to time and putting all of those things together. We do forecast that LBTT revenue will rise over the years. That's mainly because of thresholds in bandings rather than the policy change on additional development. Yes, because the policy change is built into all of the years of our forecast. The rise over the years is basically driven by house price rises. That concludes our evidence session this morning. I thank our witnesses very much. We all know that this is a complicated area, so thank you for bearing with us and helping us to understand it more clearly. I will suspend this meeting for probably 10 minutes before we get into the next session. Okay, colleagues, we resume. For the second session this morning, we are joined by Robert Choate, who is the chairman of the Office of Budget Responsibility. Robert, you've been before us a couple of times before, so we're grateful to see you again today. Thank you for coming. I welcome you to the meeting and invite you to make a short opening statement if you wish to do so. Thank you very much indeed, convener. It's a pleasure to be back, as always. As I'm coming after Susan and her quintet, she's obviously covered quite a lot of the territory already that I would normally force you to suffer through in an opening peroration, so I'll keep just a couple of comments. One, obviously, is that, you know, the last time that we produced a forecast was now what seems distantly back in October. The big picture there was that, despite the fact that the economy had not actually been performing very differently from how one had anticipated in previous forecasts, the annual growth rate last year, fractionally lower, but largely down to the weather-based distortions earlier in the year, the fiscal outturn through 2018 was better than anticipated, and that, therefore, had led to an improvement across the forecast, supplemented by us taking a slightly more positive view about prospects for employment growth over that period. So, the underlying fiscal position had improved in that forecast more than you would have expected simply by looking at the economic position. Indeed, sufficiently so that if the Government had sat on its hands in terms of policy at the UK level, you would have seen us on course for the first time to deliver the balanced budget overall that is the Government's fiscal objective for the mid 2020s. As it happened, that windfall had already been spent in effect by the Prime Minister in the previous June with the announcement of the additional money for the NHS. The other policy measures back in the UK budget amounted to an additional giveaway in the near term, but one that, in the typical Augustinian pattern, turned into a small net tightening towards the end of the forecast. Essentially speaking, the combination of the better news in the underlying forecast and the Government's fiscal giveaway left the path of borrowing in the medium term not very different from how it had been in the previous forecast. In terms of timetable now, obviously the next forecast that we will have will be for the spring fiscal event. We don't know yet when that is going to be. The Government has obviously asked us to be prepared for something on the normal sort of timetable, which would normally be the first couple of weeks of March or there or so. We'll see where we are on that. For that forecast, we will get underway fairly soon with the first round of the economic and fiscal forecast. We go through three iterations in the run-up to the point at which we close the forecast and then only allow policy changes to affect it thereafter. As Susan mentioned in her evidence, we and the Fiscal Commission have to date based the forecast on the assumption of a relatively smooth, non-disorderly exit. Obviously, that's something that we will have to keep under review as we go through the successive iterations of this forecast as whether that is still the appropriate horse to be sitting on as we get towards the date there, and then we'll have choices to make on that. I suspect that Brexit will be coming up in questioning, so I'll probably leave some of the content for that. Let me leave it there, and I'm happy to expand on what you've got. Thank you for that opening, Robert. I'm very grateful to you. I'm going to go to James Kelly first. Okay, thanks a lot, convener, and good morning, Robert. I'm interested in the earnings and employment forecasts in terms of the SFC in relation to last year. For Scotland, they are showing weaker earnings growth and weaker employment rate growth at the weaker employment rates, whereas in relation to your forecast compared with last year, you've got an improved position in relation to earnings and employment rates. I don't expect you to comment on the SFC forecast, but just in terms of your forecast, how did you, what were the drivers that produced a more optimistic position? On the employment side, we reduced our estimate of the sustainable equilibrium level of unemployment from where it had been previously. That's something that we've done in a number of recent forecasts and has simply been a reflection of the fact that, as unemployment has fallen, quite often more rapidly than economists generally had anticipated, we have yet to see the substantive pick-up in inflationary pressure and wage pressure that you might have anticipated. On that basis, by pushing down the sustainable level of unemployment that the forecast will tend to in the long term, that gives you scope for greater employment growth over that period. That's the main reason on that side. In terms of earnings growth, obviously, you're taking into account recent outturn data, which, as you discussed in the previous session, there are different ways of measuring what's going on in earnings surveys of them directly, measures which basically look at the amount of income and divide it by the number of people and see how that's moving. We have information, a new source of information, real-time information from HMRC, which is still at this stage. Neither of us are placing huge amounts of waste on that, but it's an additional source of information as well. As I think Francis Breeden was saying over the medium term, the outlook for real earnings growth is driven by your judgments on real productivity growth. As you know, the big picture there is that we have seen much weaker real productivity growth over the period since the financial crisis, which would not surprisingly correspond to a period of weaker earnings growth. Looking forward, we took a judgment, a couple of forecasts ago, that we wouldn't expect productivity growth and therefore earnings growth to get back to the historically normal levels. It would fall some way between the performance we've seen over recent years and over the earlier decades. As I understand it, I suspect that the weaker outlook for earnings growth in the SFC's forecast relative to us over the medium term is primarily down to them taking a slightly more pessimistic view of underlying productivity growth. If you look at the overall GDP growth numbers, roughly speaking over the medium term, we have the UK economy growing by about one and a half per cent a year. The SFC has the Scottish economy growing by about one per cent a year. I think that the larger effect there is differences in population, but the difference that is accounted for by relative productivity growth is one that you would expect to feed through to a difference in the earnings profile. In terms of the way that you do your analysis, do you have any regional breakdown? We don't. We are primarily a forecaster UK-wide and we are looking at that aggregate basis. When we are producing the Scottish specific forecast, obviously the SFC is taking a more bottom-up approach based on their particular analysis of the Scottish economic determinants, whereas we would be looking more at the UK-wide picture and what the Scottish share would be and whether there are particular factors that would be moving that around. I think that one consistent reason to help to explain why the SFC's forecast for Scottish income tax would be somewhat different from our weekly and ours would be that difference in them taking account of weaker expected earnings growth in Scotland. I am also interested in your view going ahead in terms of average hours worked. To give a better context, certainly an area I represent is a concern that, because people's wage levels are low, they sometimes have to do two and three jobs and therefore are having to work longer hours. Is that something that you are seeing in your forecast that people are having to work longer hours? That is somewhere where the data over the last few quarters has been quite volatile and therefore distilling a longer-term picture out of that was difficult. I think that we would, some way back, have assumed that average hours are on a generally quite long-standing downward trend, but in the light of recent data you might assume that that is flatter for the time being, so at that level you would see that. I think that one would be slightly wary of looking too much at the quarter-on-quarter changes on that since the last forecast. It is one of the areas where we would have expected a bounce back from what looked like an erratic number back at the beginning of last year, which has turned out to be more persistent in terms of a fall again that we have anticipated. Good morning, Mr Choat. Just looking at the overall economic and fiscal picture that you paint, you say that the performance of the real economy has been less impressive relative to expectations. You revised down your projections for real GDP growth in 2018. At the same time as that, we see that there is growing employment. We are seeing wages rising faster than previously expected, and we are seeing quite substantial improvement in the public finances. How can we have positive outcomes when GDP growth has been worse than we previously expected? In terms of the calendar year GDP growth rate, it was not that much weaker than anticipated. Most people were looking at something in the 1-1.5% territory, and that has proved broadly in the right ballpark. There was the particular issue last year of a weak first quarter because of the weather, and the way in which you calculate a year-on-year growth rate, what goes on in the quarters immediately before and after the turn of the year has a disproportionate effect on the numbers than if you get a surprise in the fourth quarter of the year. There is an element of that, so I would not overstate that. We were struck, as the numbers were evolving through last year, that you were seeing most of the major tax streams, so not just one of them kicking in considerably more money than was anticipated through this period. There seemed to be something more general going on. One possibility that we raised in the forecast report that we did back in October was the possibility that not necessarily real GDP growth, but nominal GDP growth, the cash size of the economy, may have been growing more quickly than the official figures were suggesting at the time. If you are thinking about tax revenues coming in, we tax away a proportion of people's cash income and spending, not a proportion of what the statisticians choose to regard as real growth versus changes in prices. In the latest set of numbers that the ONS has produced in the last few days, it has revised up its estimate of how quickly the cash size of the economy was growing through 2017, which would be consistent with that part of the story. That said, there were a number of other features, for example, on the income tax side, where there were positive surprises in 2018-19 in the strength of those receipts that you would not expect to push through into future years and which we did not push through into future years of the forecast. Among those policy changes, such as PAYE refresh, which is trying to capture underpayment of income tax earlier, has the effect of bringing forward receipts. You get more of them in the near term, but it does not increase the strength over the longer term. Within the composition of GDP, you also had a stronger employment growth over the summer than people anticipated, so that would be an element of it as well. Adam Murdo, thank you. You just got Murdo and Adam confused, didn't you? I did. It's very difficult to do that. I did manage it. I'm afraid that I want to ask about Brexit. This forecast was published in October, which was before the publication of the withdrawal agreement. You say in this forecast that, at that point, there was no meaningful basis to predict the outcome of what were then current negotiations. Of course, there is now a meaningful basis. In particular, there is a meaningful basis to analyse the economic differences between the deal being accepted and the alternative to the deal being accepted, which is that the United Kingdom would be likely to leave the European Union on a no-deal basis. Could you help the committee to understand what the difference is from your perspective between the deal that's on the table and a no-deal Brexit? We haven't done a direct comparison of those two. We set out in a paper last year the thinking that we would go through in terms of analysing what the eventual outcome is. In terms of policy, it's important to state that, although we are required by legislation to base our forecast on current Government policy, that we and they interpret as policy that is in the Government's hands to deliver and ensure is in place there. Obviously, there is still doubt about where we are going to be at the end point. As you exactly point out, it could be on the basis of that agreement on something else, on some delay in the process or on the possibility of a no-deal exit. In terms of thinking about what the impact of a no-deal exit might be, what you have had was a useful analysis from the Bank of England towards the end of last year. They produced some assessments that were, on the one hand, pointed to some of the differences in essentially their view of the growth prospects that result from, in the long-term, greater or lesser continued engagement with the EU and closeness in terms of trading relationships, but then they also produced a couple of scenarios based on a disorderly or disruptive exit. They were very clear, although, needless to say, everybody leaps to the most interesting of the sets of numbers that they produced. They said that these are, in a sense, scenarios used for stress testing the health of the financial sector under these circumstances, not a specific forecast, particularly that their worst-case scenario was a worst-case scenario, not a central forecast of what would happen under the circumstances of no-deal. If you look at the paths that they set out there, a couple of things are striking. First of all, a disruptive exit would be a very unusual shock to hit the UK economy for which there is not good precedent in this country or indeed in other countries that economists would normally draw upon in saying, well, what are the closest examples of this that you can see in the past and draw conclusions from that. It would be a, in all probability, a simultaneous negative or damaging shock both to demand in the economy, to the willingness of consumers and businesses to spend, and simultaneously and particularly importantly to the supply capacity of the economy, the ability of the economy to produce goods and services and get them distributed. Looking back to instances where you have seen that in the past is quite hard. My colleague Charlie Bean, in evidence to your Westminster counterparts, highlighted the three-day week as one example of where you have had relatively abrupt quantity constraints on what the economy is doing there. In terms of the fiscal implications of that, there is the uncertainty around how big the initial hit is, and I think in the Bank of England's analysis there are two scenarios. As I say, this wasn't a distribution around a particular set of probabilities, it was a near-term hit of 3% or a near-term hit of 8% to GDP. There's obviously uncertainty about how big that would be, but key in terms of the fiscal implications is how persistent that effect would be. Clearly, it is much more of a concern for somebody thinking about long-term fiscal planning and long-term public expenditure if you think that that sort of shock would have a long-lasting effect. I would just move the economy down to a permanently significantly lower trend path of activity than you would otherwise expect, or whether you have a really bad six months, it goes down, it then bounces back, not all the way back to where you would have started, and that's the basis. Neither of those judgments is an easy one to base. As Susan said, it would depend a lot on exactly what the nature of the disruptions was, the nature of the mitigating measures that the UK Government was able to take, the attitude that other EU countries took, how accommodating they were of those sort of constraints as they come up. However, I think that this was interesting in the discussion with Constance about when will we know. Obviously, we would be in the process of having to produce a forecast, and if we have to do it on the basis of a no-deal outcome as a central expectation, we try to do that. What I would warn you about is that even when you start to get the out-turn data, not the forecast, but what the ONS and other people tell you about what was happening through that process, it's going to be the very, very early drafts of economic history, and the initial indications of what has happened to the economy over a one, two, three-quarter period may look very different with the passage of time. I think we'll certainly pop into the next forecast. I looked back at the range over the last 25 years of what the ONS thought happened in the first quarter of the three-day week, and the out-turn estimates, not the forecast, varied from it hit the economy by 3% to it hit the economy by 1%, and the numbers were changing on that years after the event. The caution I would have is the idea that even if we do enter into this process, you have the uncertainties around, as I say, forecasting in the near term what the hit is going to be, how persistent it would be. The other challenge would be is that I will be coming back to you in a year's time and saying, well, this is what the out-turn data is showing at the moment, but we need to be putting an enormous amount of, you know, dollop of salt on this as whether this is the same picture that the official statistics are going to be painting in a few years' time. That's helpful, thanks, and slightly anticipates what my supplementary was going to be, which is this, that you say in your forecast from October, and I quote that a disorderly Brexit, by which I assume you mean a no-deal Brexit, would have severe short-term implications for the economy, the exchange rate, asset prices, and the public finances. When you wrote that, you didn't have anything to compare a no-deal scenario with, but you now do, because we have a comprehensive 585-page withdrawal agreement, which has been in the public domain for a number of weeks now. Is there anything that you could tell us as to how much more severe the implications for the economy, the exchange rate, asset prices, and public finances a no-deal Brexit would be when compared with the withdrawal agreement? Not really, because, as I say, the degree of uncertainty around what the no-deal scenario would look like is considerable. In terms of this coming up in the last situation, it's not clear that the withdrawal agreement were that to pass through would be an outcome that lies outside the range of possibilities that is effectively incorporated in the forecast that we have at the moment. Obviously, a lot of the interest in where we end up with this affects not just the withdrawal agreement, but the end-state trade relationship that we end up with, the long-term migration policy that we end up with, will be things that will have an effect over a far longer horizon than the five years that we are looking at. I understand that, but politicians have a decision to make in the very short term. They have a decision to make about whether to back the deal that is on the table or not. You have very helpfully said that the consequences of a disorderly Brexit will be severe in the short term for the economy, the exchange rate for asset prices and for public finances. We now have something to compare that scenario with, and it would be helpful, I think, if you could assist us in understanding the magnitude of the difference between the deal that is on the table and the alternative to the deal that is on the table, which is as the law stands that we leave the European Union on 29 March with no deal. How much assistance can you give us on that very specific question? I can reiterate the point that a disruptive outcome would be a lot worse than one that is not a disruptive outcome. At the moment, the forecast is predicated hours and the SFC on a non-disruptive outcome, and the withdrawal agreement would be something that is consistent with the range of possibilities that is taken into account on that basis. The bigger uncertainty is not the difference between what either of us are assuming now and what you would assume if the withdrawal agreement went through completely. It's the difference between what we're assuming now and the wide range of different possibilities that a disruptive exit could look like. I think it is important to draw the distinction between a no deal that leads you, nonetheless, in a relatively orderly way to a sort of relatively distant trading relationship with the EU on a WTO scenario versus the sort of exit that implies severe, near-term supply constraints, the cues on motorways type scenario. That's a very different situation and, as I say, we do not have good historical precedents to be able to draw on with that. You don't know until you get there what mitigating measures it would be possible to take, what measures will be taken on the other side of the channel to put that there. The summary is that a disruptive outcome would be worse than a less disruptive outcome, and people should certainly take that into account. The other take-home message from that is that backing the deal avoids these short-term, severe economic implications that you've identified. That's very helpful. Thank you. As you know, that was not a recommendation as to how people should vote one way or the other, which is way above my pay grade. It's also very helpful that, once the deal falls next week, it makes sure that there's no going to be any situation where there's no deal. Angela, I think that you're the supplementary. I've got a few supplementaries, convener. I think that it's very interesting that a lot of the experts in front of us talk about a disruptive Brexit or a disorderly Brexit, and don't actually use the phrase, no deal Brexit. I wonder whether that's because all Brexit is on a spectrum of disruption. I thought that it was interesting that you were talking about more or less disruption. There is nothing about this process that isn't disruptive or indeed damaging. You said earlier that you spoke about reducing demand in the economy and a disruptive effect to supplying of goods and services over and on top of the potential risks to exchange rate, asset prices, public finances. I wondered if you could put some of that in human speak, what that means for ordinary people going about their daily life. Are we looking at food shortages or are we looking at three-day-week queues in the motorway? What will that mean in real life? I can do no more than point you at the sort of analysis that you would have seen out of the Bank of England and other institutions. The nature of those sorts of disruptions is not part of our remit. Exactly, the sorts of things that you're talking about are disruptions to the ability of the economy to produce goods and services, to get them distributed. That's obviously something that will clearly have impact on daily lives as well as on relatively abstract economic statistics. It's another reason why turning that into a quantitative estimate of what this is going to mean in terms of the way in which the ONS measures the amount of value added in the economy from one quarter to the next is a very difficult one. The other, of course, is that we don't know how policy would respond to those sorts of events. The Bank of England has spoken quite a lot about the challenges they would face. It's not like their response to the referendum vote when they perceived it as being a blow to people's confidence, their willingness to spend and that the Bank could therefore come in and buoy that by what they did on interest rates and other monetary support for the economy. They've pointed out that if you're hit by a shock, which is people's ability to get work, people's ability to get the products that their business is produced to their customers, that's a very different sort of economic blow and not one to which the automatic policy response is to take measures that encourage people to spend more. Looking at your executive summary in paragraph 1.16, you spoke of how the economy has already been weakened as a result of the Brexit vote or the EU referendum in terms of the pound being squeezed and the impact that has had on household incomes and consumptions and how business investment has been dampened. Could you speak a bit more about how this has already hurt our economy and the implications of that? That's the conclusion that we and I think most other people have reached. The classic problem here, of course, is that we cannot know with confidence what the world would have looked like had that vote never taken place. You can think about the way in which we've tried to quantify this effect in a couple of ways, one of which is we had a forecast prior to the referendum, assuming that the UK would remain in the, or that there would be a vote to remain in the EU, and we forecast roughly speaking that the economy would grow by about four and a half per cent between the time of the referendum and now. In the first forecast that we produced after the referendum, we reduced that to about three per cent. I think that the latest outturn data suggests that growth has been around 3.2 per cent. That's consistent. It's not a spot-the-ball competition. The numbers can be revised and looked different, but it's consistent in that picture. The other way that people try to approach this task is to, you try to identify by looking at the behaviour of other economies relative to the UK. You try to identify what you might think of as a doppelganger economy for the UK. You have a sort of, let's say, different proportions of the UK typically grows and performs 40 per cent like France, 10 per cent like Hungary or whatever basket of countries that you do to put that together, and then you can look at how that basket of countries has continued to perform after the referendum and compare it with how the UK has actually performed after the referendum, and that gives you a rough picture of what you might think that the UK would have been doing had the vote not gone that way. Now, I think I can think of two or three economists or analytical groups that have done that sort of analysis, and they tend to suggest that the economy is about one and a half to two and a half per cent smaller than it otherwise would have been, and that, again, is consistent with this picture, particularly of the relative weakness of business investment in the wake of the referendum, the fact that the boost to net trade from the fall in the exchange rate has not been as great as some people would have anticipated, but there's clearly an enormous amount of uncertainty around that, but the fact that you have numbers of that magnitude is broadly consistent, again, with the changes in our forecast picture and the fact that you had the world economy doing better than you would have anticipated in the immediate period after the referendum than was anticipated beforehand. So, in a sense, we should have outperformed pre-referendum expectations as a result purely of that better global scenario, but that didn't happen. So, it's a broad picture. It does look as though the economy is weaker than it otherwise would have been, but the precise magnitude is clouded by considerable uncertainty. So, looking at what's going to happen next, and the World Bank had some interesting analysis today about Brexit and, obviously, what's happening with China and the US and trade sanctions as well, so looking to the future in terms of what happens next, none of it looks good and you've spoke about how you assess the change in circumstances as they become apparent, but what I'm particularly interested in is the impact on the tax take and other consequences of Brexit, particularly in relation to migration. We've discussed it this morning already in terms of current UK proposals that are being consulted on in terms of their white paper. That would reduce our working-age population because EU migration could potentially reduce by 80 per cent. That will have an impact on real GDP in Scotland by 6.8 per cent by 2040 and will reduce revenues over the period by £2 billion. So, I wonder what analysis have you done today and how changes in migration and tax take will potentially inform the future work that you'll do? Before the Brexit issue came along, we already have to take some sort of account in all our forecasts of what the prospective outlook for the population is, which is, you know, crucially affected by migration flows, but it's also affected by other things as well, mortality, longevity, et cetera. Again, the big picture conclusion is over a medium to longish horizon that lower net inward migration is a net negative for the public finances, primarily because inward migrants are more likely to be of working age than the population as a whole. From time to time, we basically have to decide from the available population projections that the Office for National Statistics produces which ones we should base our forecast on. When the referendum came along, if the vote had not gone the way that it did, I think we would have been inclined on the basis of what were then recent outturn data to have moved to assuming a higher flow of net inward migration simply because it had been higher than the official projections had suggested in the past. The judgment that we took in November 2016 was to stick with the principal population projection rather than adopting one that would have gone to a higher net inward migration flows, and that, as we set out in that forecast, has an impact on weaker growth in incomes and profits and spending and therefore a weaker position on the public finances. In terms of when we get down to a firm position on what the future migration policy will be, you need to take into account not just what that means for the volume of the flows, but also the composition of them. The forecasts that we have done to date have been based on the relatively simple assumption consistent in broad terms with the available evidence that the characteristics of a net migrant in terms of their likely productivity, their likely employment prospects, are the same adjusted for wage and gender as they would be for the native domestic population. One thing that we would have to do in the event of that sort of change in migration policy is to ask ourselves whether it was sufficient that we should assume that the post-policy change net migration flow would have a different higher productivity consequence than the existing population. I suspect that if we end up going down that path, given that we're talking here about the flows in and not the stock of people in the country at the moment, the quantitative effects would probably be relatively modest, but obviously the implications of changes in migrations that you discussed earlier on, in particular areas, in particular industries, could be more significant than the aggregate picture. On a Scottish context, our population growth is entirely predicated on positive EU migration. However, I would be keen to know whether you have or whether you will do some very specific analysis on the UK Government white paper migration paper that was published just over the Christmas period. Given that, in your executive summary, you take some effort to scope out potential changes on the national living wage, which there's going to be some form of consultation on. In terms of horizon scanning, you've looked at that particular issue and I'm wondering whether you will look in detail at the specific proposals that were put forward by the UK Government on migration, both at the UK level but also at the implications for Scotland. If and when the Government adopts that and proceeds with that, we would incorporate that in the forecast. However, you've done work. As an aside, there would be lots of people who would disagree with paragraph 1.2A in terms of the implications of increasing the national living wage and what that means for employment. You've done work there on a policy that is still potentially very vague. Nobody knows whether that will or not happen. You're saying that you haven't done similar work on the migration proposals because they've not been adopted but there's an actual consultation paper out. That's a fair point. It would be fair to say that the degree of the firmness of the living wage policy was determined relatively late in the process of writing the document. So, when we had known the degree of emphasis that was placed on that, whether it would have received the same degree of coverage is an interesting issue. I think then again in terms of the likely quantitative impact over the course of our forecast horizon, we would take into account, but as I say, this issue about whether you can determine once the policy is implemented, how, with these sorts of reasons, it comes up in areas like welfare reform as well, is you can have a clear, this is the objective, how long is it going to take to implement this? How will the process actually work in practice? Will there be the people in place to ensure that this can be implemented over what period in the time horizon? We've had our fingers burnt on many occasions on assuming that welfare reforms that are announced will come in on a particular timetable when, in fact, it turns out that it takes three times longer to get there. That would be in addition to any relatively high-level statement of what a future policy might look like. We would want to drill down much more into well, actually, how is this going to be implemented in practice? Patrick Stewart Thanks very much. Good morning. Sorry to keep you on Brexit for a little while longer, but one last point on this from me anyway. We all acknowledge the scale of uncertainty and chaos that this whole mess has created, including the fact that the House of Commons appears to have majorities against all the specific paths but, as yet, no majority in favour of anything specific. However, I think that it would be incomplete only to ask you, as Adam Tomkins did, to compare the withdrawal agreement with a no-deal scenario and what the differences in forecasting would be. There is the potential for a different path to be taken whether the public are asked whether they want to think again and cancel Brexit. I obviously wouldn't ask you to comment on the merits of that path, but the possibility exists. If that path was taken, would we simply be in a position of setting aside the range of scenarios in terms of economic forecasts and public finances projections? Would we simply be setting those aside? Or would the OBR and I assume the Fiscal Commission as well say, hang on, we need to go back and work out from scratch what those forecasts are going to look like in a no-Brexit scenario? I think the idea of simply looking back at the last table that you put in a report saying this was what the effect would be going in one direction and just taking it all out again would clearly be too simplistic a way to approach this. A lot of course would depend on, you'd have to make judgments about what implications that a move in that direction would have on business and consumer behaviour, you would see pretty much swiftly what scale of reaction there was in financial markets, for example in the exchange rate, what would be happening on equity prices, etc. It wouldn't be as simply as leaf back through the document, find the last set of numbers you put in and hike them out again. It's not like that scene in Dallas where she gets out of the shower and it was all a dream. You're still located in real-time several episodes on in the drama and that you have to start writing the script from that point. How long a period would it take for that work to be done, assuming that all of the Brexit scenarios are harmful, to figure out what is the new situation that we'd be in in terms of looking at the public finances in the future? In terms of the analysis that we do, we are constrained to produce a forecast on the timetable that is dictated by the UK Government's choices about when to have fiscal events. Obviously, the choices about when to have them, as you saw last year, can be affected by the timetable as well. In a sense, we would be prisoners of the decision of the UK Government as to when to have a fiscal event and how much information there was and how robust it was at the points in advance of those events that we have to start closing the forecast down. You guessed at the beginning, Robert, that a lot of this would be about Brexit. Let me make sure that there are no other supplementaries on Brexit before I move on to another area. No, there are none others. Willie, you wanted to raise issues about digital matters. Thank you very much, Bruce. Hello, Robert. I see in paragraph 1.41 of your report that you talk about the Government's intention to introduce a new tax on large digital businesses, digital companies. It was simply an initial to ask, is there any forecast being made on the value of that and the impact on that? At this stage, on these levels, we would do no more than produce the policy costing on the basis of the measure that was announced. I think in these sorts of areas, seeing exactly how this crystallises in practice the issues around exactly which sorts of firms will be affected, what that sort of basis would be is the concrete information that you would need to come up with a relatively robust estimate in this area. But as you can appreciate, this is the sort of thing that once even when you have firm details, new taxes of this sort are always ones around—you always have a much greater degree of uncertainty around the expectations you would get from receipts from a new measure than you would do around tweaks around an existing one. Given the population of firms that would be likely to be affected by this sort of measure, that would be true in spades on this occasion. Of course, convener, it is also connected with the broader issue that we are going to be leaving the digital single market, Prime Minister stated that almost a year ago that we will be leaving that part of the market, too. Has there been any modelling from then to now about the potential impact of that? We do know that a number of IT companies and wider companies are beginning to move their operations from the UK to Europe, and there is an increasing number of them doing that. Has there been any modelling on the impact of that on the tax take? We have not done anything on that sort of sector-specific basis. What I do not know is whether the Treasury analysis that came out at the end of last year—which I think did have more sectoral analysis than, say, the banks did—how much they drilled down on to that sector particularly, but that is where I would point you to on the official side for that. It is not something that we have done more broadly. Our forecasts of corporate tax receipts are, as with most of our forecasts, done in a more top-down way than building them up from specific sectoral views. Is that something we could get a handle, a hold of, some of that kind of forecasting on there? We can certainly check if anybody back at the office is aware of other people who have done it. You might, I do not know whether people like Oxford Economics who do more sector-related macro or, in addition to a broad macro forecast, do them on a more sectoral basis. It is possible that, in the unofficial sector, somebody like that has done more of it, so if anybody is aware of it, I can certainly get back to you. Emma, do you still want to ask a question? No, I am actually okay, thank you. Okay, Tom. I just want to thank you, convener, and good morning. A similar question that I asked SFC earlier on is about average earnings. In the UK, as a whole, it is quite an imbalanced economy compared to some of our OECD fellow members, particularly with the concentration in the south-east of England. Does that create a degree of volatility in trying to calculate and forecast what average earnings will be, given that they will be inflated to some extent by particular sectors, such as financial services in the city of London? Yes, well, in terms of average earnings, one way you can do that is simply look at the overall amount of labour income divided by people, and there you have got an average. In terms of how useful this is to inform what is going on in your likely path of tax revenues, you are, of course, more interested in what might be going on in the distribution simply because you are getting wage growth at the top, delivering bigger increases in tax revenue than wage growth at the bottom. One of the striking features, if you look over the recent years of the degree of, when you are seeing people brought in at the bottom, you are not getting that much more revenues of the growth of self-employment, etc. That has been part of that story. One area where you might start to see more useful timely information in this area than we have had available to date is with the HMRC's real-time information data source, which will hopefully over time, and they are bringing more of this into public domain as they are happy with the robustness of it. As I say, I think it is a data source at the moment that both the commission and we look at but do not bet the farm on. That, I think, could give you a more granular view of what is going on with the pace of wage growth at different points in the income distribution, as I think you had in the previous session, the issue about whether some of the growth in the relative strength of income tax receipts in the rest of the UK may have been down to the fact that you were having more rapid growth at the top. That is certainly a plausible path, but that RTI data, over time, might be the best thing that we can draw. Do you have a sense of when that RTI data will start to become available? I am thinking ahead of the negotiations of the fiscal framework that will occur within the next few years, because clearly, if we block grant adjustment mechanisms, the forecast for income tax take in the rest of the UK of as it will be England in Northern Ireland in a few years' time will have a significant bearing on the money at the disposal of the Scottish Government. I think it would be keen to get an understanding, because London is such a unique city. It is effectively a city-state in itself, bolted on to a sort of above-average European economy, and I think it creates quite a distorted picture. I just wonder if that RTI information in that more granular detail will be available within the next few years to inform the deliberations that go on between the Scottish and UK Government in negotiating the fiscal framework. Over time, it will become more of a... What I am not sure about is the degree to which the regional and national breakdowns of that will be in their minds robust enough to lay particular weight on them. Therefore, I can imagine them being happier to put national aggregate numbers out before they were willing to do it at another level, but you would have to ask them. As I say, it is an area where it is telling us some interesting things at the moment, but you would be cautious about placing too much weight on it too early. I will take you back to the beginning, where James asked questions about issues to do with tax revenues and growth, etc. According to the latest forecasts, the gap between Scottish income tax revenues and income tax bj is expected to grow, albeit very slightly, in each of the subsequent years of the forecast period from 2020-21 onwards. However, that is despite the fact that the Scottish earnings are forecast to grow more slowly than OBR forecasts for the UK. Are you in a position to explain that contradiction, Robert? Well, I think that this may be down more to the... I mean, the block grant adjustment is, you know, is again way above my... You know, the choice of how to calculate that is above my pay grade. I suspect that the fact that we are taking a relatively top-down view based on, you know, more on the UK aggregates and our view of what's going on in the labour market across the UK and then drawing views about the share of receipts that apply to Scotland, whereas the Fiscal Commission are focusing more on their, you know, growing amount of forecasting at a Scotland specific level. I think that if the gap you're describing between the BGA and us is a reflective of the gap between our forecast for income tax and the Scottish Fiscal Commission's forecast of income tax, then their relatively weaker view of earnings growth and productivity growth probably underlies that. Clearly, on the income tax side at the moment, we're coming back to the earlier discussion you were having. We've got this interesting situation of the relatively large revision we've had to make of our estimate of the Scottish share as a result of the 1617 outturn data coming in considerably lower than the quote-unquote backward-looking forecast of that. Clearly, that's an area where we hope that we will have more useful information coming up for the next forecast that we produce in the spring, because we will have the 1617 SPI to compare against that outturn data. That will hopefully shed some light on some of these starting point issues, and in particular, whether the difference between the outturn data for 1617 and what we had inferred from the previous year's SPI is reflected just in the fact that there's a difference between what those two measures are showing versus whether there's a big move between the 1516 SPI and the 1617 SPI. That would shed some light on whether there are issues around people's behaviour responding in anticipation in the sort of migration and residency issues that you were discussing earlier. Given that debate you had earlier on, one thing I would caution about is that it's tempting to think of the SPI as a sort of rough stab at the true share, and then the outturn data based on the flagging of taxpayers is the right answer. We cannot be confident yet how long it's going to take for this flagging process to bed in, and therefore, whether the share that is shown up in the outturn data takes some time to settle down as the HMRC is getting to grips with whether it's got the right people flagged in the right way will remain a lingering uncertainty for some time. That's very interesting. Could you maybe expand a bit more on why that's proven to be a problem? We don't know yet whether that is a problem. As I say, there is a danger if you conclude from the outturn data for 16-17 that the SPI for 15-16 must have been wrong in some way. These are both numbers which have uncertainties around them. With the SPI you have all the uncertainties that are related to the fact that it's a sample, it's not looking at the whole population and therefore is that representative of the whole population. With the move to flagging, there is the issue about how are people picking this up, how are they choosing to define their residency and their taxpayer status and whether that's going to have to take some time to settle down, how much HMRC is going to feel it has to do to check whether people have given them the right answers. When we get the SPI for 16-17, it's obviously going to be interesting to look at whether there's simply a difference unrelated to behaviour between the post-codes that are in the SPI that you use to identify where people are as taxpayers and what people have told HMRC in the outturn data. The fact that those are different doesn't necessarily mean that people are lying or being disingenuous, that there may be differences there or people may be responding. We will have useful and interesting information when we get this, which we'll hopefully be able to shed some light on in the spring forecasters. Certainly, I know that commission colleagues will be wanting to look at over the coming year, but I would just be slightly hesitant about the view that, with the outturn data, you're absolutely clear what the share is. Again, it's an estimate. That's quite helpful. Obviously, it means that we need to take a much closer look at the SPI numbers when they come out in the spring than maybe previously we would have thought of it to do, just to make sure that they're at least both going in the right direction. Yes. As I say, looking at those differences, we'll shed some light but not clear up all the answers of what's been going on there, but it's certainly something that we will look at and I know that it's something that the commission will want to look at as well. Whether there's just basically a constant wedge between those two sources of information or whether they're moving over time in ways that we need to take account of. Okay. Is there any other colleagues who have any other supplementaries? In that case, no one else has. Robert, thank you very much for coming along this morning and giving us some of your expertise. It's been very helpful and understanding some of the work that you've been undertaking, not only has it been helpful in terms of the factual information, but you bring humor to these occasions. I remember the first time you came, you talked about the spot, the ball competition, how important that was, how relevant that was to forecasting, and now we have a shower killing with Bobby Ewing. Things I'll be able to quote all over the place for a long time to come. It's all, yes. It's humor over substances. I'm afraid that I can offer you, but there we are. We're now moving into private session. Thank you very much.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcJe6oIAxpU", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC_VskFf9nosePUtxucxirRQ	Yang Zhang, Director of 96Boards and Robert Wolff, Host of 96Boards Open Hours	Yang Zhang is the Director of Linaro's http://96boards.org with Robert Wolff host of http://96boards.org/openhours talk about the status of the 40+ 96Boards that are in development, the 96Boards standard and latest news, IoT boards, extended boards, Enterprise boards and what may happen in the future.	[ "linux", "arm", "opensource", "iot", "embedded", "servers", "networking", "digital", "home", "enterprise", "community", "development", "hacking", "developers", "engineers", "interviews", "Budapest", "Hungary", "bud17", "linaro", "Core Technologies", "tools", "Kernel", "Power Management", "Security", "Virtualization", "mobile", "android", "aosp", "leg", "lmg", "lite", "lng", "big data", "power management", "cloud", "OP-TEE" ]	2017-03-25T17:32:59	2024-04-23T02:36:49	1,156	PcNwPaMiPdQ	here in Budapest at the Lunar Connect. And these are the 96 boards, hello. Hello there, hi. My name's Yang, I'm director of 96 boards in an hour. And so there's a lot of activity going on here, the 96 boards. And who are you? Hey, Robert Wolfe from 96 boards as well, community manager handling open hours most recently. The weekly show on YouTube, people can watch. Yes, actually it's every week on Thursday. You could check the countdown at 96boards.org slash open hours. I'd suggest giving it a look, it changes every week so we have new episodes, new guests every week. So why is 96 boards the perfect solution for developing community? Well, we like to think it's perfect, but obviously there's a lot of things we could do, I think it could do much better. Or we own a very good ramping path. So right now we're looking at 40 plus of designs either in, we know that in progress or in plan. More than 40. More than 40. 96 boards. That's including these kinds and those kinds? That's actually, the board member just recorded is only talking about the main boards. We didn't even start counting the mezzanine and boards yet. So this is really exciting for us because it's one of the, the reason we started this initiative really narrow is because we want to have an open platform specification supporting the latest and greatest arm technology, SOCs. So it's all this size? Exactly, so the CE specifications, also the board made it for CE specification. This is standard size CE. In fact, we do have another form factor which is CE extended form factor as well. And this, we can see on the other side? Yeah, that's cool. Right there? Yeah. So, and that's going to allow for more stuff. It's just double the size, right? Yes, more often, yeah. So more often than not that the certain application, certain segment market, you would require different more connectors and functionalities. That's why we allow additional form factors to be supported. And we also also have 96 boards, you know, IOT addition, that's much smaller as you can see from here. And we have a line of which those are the boards which are announced. Because Linar are doing all kinds of work now with the IOT segment. Indeed. And it's useful to standardize around the IOT SOCs, right? Is mostly Cortex-M? Yeah, actually, that's an interesting question because even though you saw this board in particular, as an IOT form factor, this is actually Cortex-A device. And which is this chip? And this chip is from RDA, a particular chip is from RDA made by ordinary pay. And they start coming with extremely interesting capability and also very competitive pricing point, you know, under $10. So that's kind of like a powerful IOT chip. It is very powerful IOT device and I will say the low-end gateway device as well. So how come is 96 boards so successful in terms of convincing so many SSE makers to join this and start making these and announcing them, making them, developing them? Well, I would love to say it's easy, but it's not, right? So in the beginning, we have two partners working with us with two of the 96 boards, being High Key and Dragon Boat and Sea. I think what's interesting is how quickly and obviously thanks to my staff for the very hard work and also all the colleagues and engineers in the Nauru and around the community supporting us. But we did witness a very interesting trend, which is slightly different to, you know, you will say the last episode of the SOC and the application development based on top of which. People are now more interested in focus on the application, the features, the functionality what they wish to choose and would like to be able to have the opportunity evaluate the SOC capability before they actually commit, especially when it comes down to mass production. So it's useful to have the same kind of like base and then be able to compare. Right. So I mean, the core philosophy, if you wish, we have behind 96 board specifications about standardization and differentiation. So we do not want to actually rip off the opportunity to for SOC to differentiate itself on one another because that's the key of the success of us or our member SOC vendors. But at the same time, we will standardize, well, it doesn't make sense to differentiate. It's the feature every developer would wish to see on the proper development platform. And it makes sense for every SOC vendor to do the same thing here. In fact, that's actually in the blood of the Nauru as well. And you've been seeing 42 episodes, right? There's lots of things happening. Yeah, no, in open hours, yeah, lots of things happening. I'd also like to add a little bit to the last question is the value add of people joining 96 boards as a program. In general, you're getting a huge ecosystem and an ever quickly growing ecosystem around the 96 boards product line. So you can kind of see in front of all these, we also have these mezzanine boards. And I wanted to point these out because when a 96 boards is created, according to the specification, you end up joining an already existing ecosystem, right? And you can see all these mezzanines. I don't know if you wanted to talk a little bit about that too. Let's show one or two. Yeah, okay. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, so here we have one from Aero. This is the link sprite and it comes in a kit. You get it with several sensors. Move it around here a little bit for you. But as you can see, it plugs right into the low speed expansion header. You have an opening for the high speed expansion header in case you still want access to that. And because it was designed around the specification, you end up being able to use it with pretty much any 96 boards consumer edition board. And you can see it just kind of plugs in and can be transferred across any of these boards. The value add to any new vendor who wants to come in and build the 96 boards around what we've already created gets to basically jump right in and get to use these right away. So it's definitely a plus. And you can see all these mezzanines kind of have different functionalities and breakouts depending on what the company or maker wanted to do. So how do you convince all the SOC makers that this is the right way to go? Well, mostly we talk to them. And in fact, right now the conversation is both ways. So we have been discussing about the concept of a community accessible hardware platform which allows developers having access to the latest and greatest SOC OMCO technology, those chip manufacturer has to offer. And in fact, now more and more SOC vendors realized that they are seeing the benefit of which they are seeing actually the possibility of being able to change previous design in only approach to actually allow the small makers and all the design house can actually choosing the LCA. But after evaluating, after all the evaluation work after the comparison, they are confident about the differentiation which brought up one of the chips. I can give you a very specific example. This one particular SOC vendors came to me just about a couple of days ago and say they did a 96 board in the beginning with some doubt in his mind. But actually after a period of time what he has witnessed, which I can't call the figure or name here, but he has witnessed it's measurable SOC volume cells increase which to us is music to our ears because that's exactly what we want to do to four of our members and four of those SOC vendors. And also that's generating a lot of derivative design which has the part, clear parts of production. And that is one of the key difference between 96 boards in this crowded SBC market. So there's lots of developer boards but you're trying to make it kind of like a standard. So it's easy to add differentiation on top, right? Yeah, exactly. I mean it's that people see standardization as the other option direction in terms of differentiation when we don't. We think by resolving the linearization mission is trying to de-fragment what has been probably I would say that from the beginning of this ecosystem but what we did realize based on the lessons we have learned ourselves isn't such, we can work along encourage standardization and also encourage differentiation at the same time as just how we approach that. And I think this board is a perfect example how the NARA took that approach is we standardize the things where it doesn't make sense to repeat the investment by every single SLC in our ecosystem. We want to do it once for everybody who work with us. And then everybody can really focus on their investment and on those part of differentiation which really matters. And so that's what 96 board is about as well. And some of the chip makers think it's so cool. They are launching the 96 boards at the same time as the chip is being released, right? And they even launching the chip on the 96 boards first, right? Yeah, I mean, that's actually something again is a very, very encouraging information. Very recently we have a few boards which was announced either at the same time or right after the 96 board was announced either at the same time or right after the commercial launch of the product we're using that chip. And to the point, you know, in these Mondays our keynote, our CEO keynote, so one of the boards which we announced, and this is a new brand new chip. This chip is currently being engineered sample. It's not even commercial sample yet. It's being announced on a community available development board. Obviously, that shows the SLC vendors' confidence and also willingness to engage community. And so that actually shows that we do have, you know, we do have a lot of confidence from the SLC vendors today who understand our thinking from trying to approach the developer community and want to be part of the family and part of the effort. Part of the NARRA family. They become part of the NARRA family by supporting this. Part of the NARRA, part of the open source community. Yeah, they don't even have to be a member or club member or anything. They can just release boards. Anybody can do. Well, we do, I mean, we do have a strong recommendation that if you want to produce a 96 board, if you want to be part of the effort from the beginning with your SLC vendor, need to be part of the 96 boards group. So that is something which we are, you can see on every single board we brought up. So, but in all those 42 episodes you've done, there's still, it's still the beginning, right? There's still a lot of things people would like to see. Still the beginning, we're just getting started on this effort and based on the growth, it's something that we're gonna keep pushing really hard. And this week, in fact, we're gonna have several announcements. I've been talking with Chauvin, who's done a lot of help in producing this whole effort. And we have some really cool stuff that we're hoping to push out tomorrow during the episode that will emanate throughout the rest of this whole series. So there's lots of stuff to happen this year, 2017. It's gonna be very busy on open hours, right? Year of the 96 boards. That's what we're calling it. There's gonna be lots of episodes. That's 52 in a year. Yeah, there's gonna be lots of episodes. Lots of episodes, lots of guests. I mean, and what I like to consider or what I like to look at open hours is as a channel for the development to meet community, right? So this is the ultimate way for you, as a community member, to be heard. I mean, we're moving real fast. You can get involved. You can move with us, develop, learn, and basically just be a part of this awesome movement. So the guy from CNX Software, he asked me to ask you about software support and what's called... Is there potential that more of these will get even sooner, faster software support for like running all kinds of Linux on them? Oh, that's a very good question. I mean, obviously that we, you know, it's a strong, linear as a software organization and we strongly believe that is not going to be a good development platform without good and proper continuous software support. So that is what we believe in. And we do see two different categories from 96.blog being brought out. One, those being, obviously, past our compliance in terms of hardware and documentation features require an in-specification. And with vendor provides, all community provides software build, which are not maintained by Linara and ourselves. And there are another group of both which have very good and upstream status and have very good support in terms of not only the SOC itself, but also the periphery components of being upstream, drive-up, upstream. This cross different distribution from Android to Debian. And we are engaging with all major distros and the community behind it. So we certainly would like to see the more and more 96.blog becomes in that category, which has a good Linara support and software with upstream status. But we do realize and appreciate sometimes there are community boards which satisfy specific purpose for the specific segments. And that is a 96.blog community board. That's why how we differentiate. This has been a five, six year struggle already for Linara to try to make things easy on arm, right? Like where you should just make it boot on whatever arm you get. You just get the stuff and it just works on any. Isn't that kind of like the dream? Well, obviously that for greater Linara, we have been working very hard. It's not easy a problem to solve, but we believe we have changed the situation a lot since we started. In fact, we have contributed a lot and back to the mainline kernel. And it continues and in fact, I think we were the top number one contributor in the 4.9 kernel. So yeah, that work hasn't finished. That work, I wouldn't, you know, we continue to push forward. That's a lot work to be done. That's the more SOCs, more variety of SOCs as ever coming out on every single day. And because the bar to actually produce SOC has been much lower than previous, you won't argue. And thanks to arms and it's updated architecture. So yeah, I don't think that we have finished the job, but we have been working very hard. We have done a lot. That's a lot more to do. We are very excited. And we hope 96 board and the platform brought out that SOC enabled about this platform will be a great vehicle to allow us to continue that software engineering and make it better. So in this year, 2017, potentially it's going to be a very historic year in the 96 boards community, right? It's going to be some really exciting stuff. Everyday exciting, right? Yeah. And you have lots of discussions with all the partners here at Linear Connect. Oh, yes. And they all have like suggestions and let's do this and that, and potentially then you have a new spec, right? At some point. Right, right. So yeah, so we continue receiving a lot of attentions and a lot of comments and how to help, mostly are trying to focus on how to help us to going forward, how to actually improve the arrow we're lacking. And by one of the commitments of Leonardo and the 96 board we made it from the outset is that we committed to enable the latest and greatest arm, SOC. With that, actually XLC technology keep moving forward and very in a very rapid space at pace. We, the specification we believe is a live thing as well. So the specification evolution has always been on the 96 boards, the initiative, and has always been something which 96 board standing committee and has been managing carefully. So that's something which we have been considering. We are gathering a lot of feedback along the way. And yes, at certain point of stage we will be trying to roll them in together and at a good time also consider the compatibility as well and have the specification evolution, the process carried out. Because the arm industry is growing crazy fast and there's so much new stuff happening and new tips and there's 10 nanometers and it's tiny and it's super low power. Exactly. So much performance, more memory bandwidth, more, so many different features and some new kind of like connectors potentially and all kinds of things people want to do. Right. You're going to be enabling the cutting edge, not the, so it's important to be in a cutting edge. Yeah, right. I mean, to be honest, we are, for example, as I said, our reference hardware. So we are on the mainline kernel, right? We are on, and there's a lot of technology we are building on the bleeding, we are as bleeding edge. So that's nothing to show away from that fact. And yes, for example, there's a lot of people talk about USB type, is that exactly something we already can see in the spec. If you go back and check out the specification, we already can see the type C, but we're probably making a stronger recommendation in many cases since we believe changes goods. We believe that the specification should evolve and the same time as SOC technology evolves itself. So that's something which we committed to keep bringing out to the community. And in a managed manner, we don't want to create more fragmentation. So the compatibility is one of the key issues here. Cool, so lots of work, I guess, in the remaining days here at the LunarConnect and in the near future to get everybody to agree on the right way forward and getting huge traffic to the show that you're doing. Hopefully, yeah. I mean, you can see, walking through the event, you've been doing it for the last couple of days, everyone's really excited. I mean, with the keynotes that are happening, all the announcements on Monday, we're definitely moving forward in the right way. And some of the smartest people that I've ever known right here deciding on the right path, so definitely.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcNwPaMiPdQ", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCO9Q5_D6tItyoilmDogexng	REHABILITATION VOYAGE TO RECOVERY	ARC Identifier 13015 / Local Identifier 80-MN-4330A - Department of the Navy. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. Naval Observatory. (1942 - 09/18/1947) - - - Copied by Thomas Gideon	[ "archives.gov", "public.resource.org" ]	2010-04-15T19:03:36	2024-02-05T06:37:21	1,827	Pc4rQVH6WfI	Hospital not long ago a couple of sailors took a last look around them and said so long guys were shoving off Call them Benny and bud, but you can fill in any name you wish for they represent tens of thousands of men and What they were remembering was a chapter in their lives that would never be forgotten and here's the story It's no top secret where this combat area is for one of you will probably recognize the Marianas Road that you came over might have been better or it might have been worse In any case the road to a field hospital is always pretty rugged as if I'm telling you anything Yet what you needed for treatment you've got The man who bent down over you was an expert and from that instant you weren't just a serial number on a tag You were a million dollar patient headed for what really is the finest treatment the whole world affords From the second you reached them you were on the voyage to recovery What a man's on his back he begins to do a lot of thinking the home the girl friends but a Thousand men have a thousand thoughts One thing that you do know for certain is that you're on your way back for some that means the states Everywhere now strong and friendly hands are reaching out to help The hands of the corpsmen and the doctors and the nurses who staff the hospital ship Some of you board under your own steam But if you got it bad a Navy plane saves days or weeks in getting you to hospital For it is the special pride of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery That nothing on the earth shall be spared to set you on that recovery cruise For the Navy takes care of its own So one day you arrive at a naval hospital No sensible person loves the hospital of course, but these are modern down to the last detail They exist for just one purpose to return Americans to their shipmates or to civilian life Whole and sound in mind and body Day after day the ambulances bring in patients keeping the hospitals filled with men from every part of the naval services Sailors marines coast guard Officers and enlisted men many are wounded and some just sick the illness of others is sometimes hard to see Here for example a bud whom we met before and Benny from Brooklyn Hey No, thanks. I I got me mittens on How about drag? Oh, thanks Say that's the same brand of cigarettes me skip a smoke. Yeah I guess you didn't skip for pretty good pals, huh? Skipper got along with me. Okay. Yeah, I suppose you and your skipper just like that No, no not like that like the great rule under which they live Doctors nurses corpsmen and corwaves is pinned down in just two words to help The medical officer in charge is now your commanding officer and because medical men are forever Hunting for the secrets of illness from the skipper on down Everyone is interested in each one of you It is a fact that not many civilians outside of millionaires could afford the treatment given you it is called Rehabilitation and it means a whole lot more than just patching you up or dosing you with pills And it might be explained like this Remember when you were a kid the time you didn't feel good and mother had called in the family doctor You didn't know very much about doctors then and you didn't think very much of the whole deal You'd rather not have any Yet because the doctor was a man who really was a top notcher in his profession He began at once to study your special case mother was your nurse and corpsman nothing worse But that didn't stop mother from worrying and it didn't make you enjoy being sick either But her job she knew was to take care of you and your job You knew was to get well and get back to your pals at school as you started to get well Staying in bed became a pain in the neck. So the doctor knowing this prescribed modeling clay and books Sickness is partly in your attitude. So these things were added to the medicine. That's what we now call rehabilitation When you could get up a little while each day the doctor recommended exercise But when he said exercise he wasn't fooling she caught you when you stalled and for your own good She kept you at it when you could go outside the restlessness got tougher than ever So mother found some odd jobs that let you work it out for yourself and that helped her too You were physically fit at last and you kept up with your class and you had to thank not just the medicine Or the staying in bed, but the other things and they meant rehabilitation Yes rehabilitation, but your mother probably called it just plain common sense This is the ward medical officer. He's the most important person in the ward because he is your personal physician Through his daily visit. He will carefully guide the progress of your recovery Because of the study he does of your case He will know more about you than anyone else in the hospital as he is really your doctor You can confide in him whether the matter is strictly medical or not Books to study or a personal matter. He will direct you to the right person to help you It is part of his duty and his professional standard to see you as an individual and not just as case number so-and-so Since everybody is different you are a special case to him just as you've always been to your family doctor For he too knows that getting well is a combination of meeting your personal problems as well as your physical health Yes, that friendly morning sick call isn't the end of award officer's day or of his interest But when he spots a special problem, he begins to hunt for the answer You are his patient and behind that blue uniform is the endless curiosity that makes a man a scientist That's why a good doctor means so much Just as your doctor at home might have the cooperation of other experts the rehabilitation officer often goes over your special case With the ward medical officers this shrapnel wound is now practically healed But has left weak muscles and a stiff joint it will need special exercise Even this early rehabilitation will begin in order to make that leg as good as ever And also you'll find if you haven't already that it starts early in the morning, too Yes, the modern treatment is to start exercises while you're still in bed The part of you that isn't injured will become weak So your doctor prescribes for you and the athletic specialist takes over your physical training Among the enthusiasts here are bud and Benny and Benny of course will have something to say about it Boy, this is the life Always wanted to take my exercises laying in bed. Why didn't a skipper ever let you do that? Oh skipper was all right. I Remember one time me in the skipper. Yeah, I know I know you and the skipper were just like that No, no wise guy not like that like this is the same early morning deal You got as a kid when the family doctor recommended exercise to help you recover from fever One day you'll get the good news that you can get up and the exercises are outside They get pretty rugged now for it is these workouts that bring a man back to the place where he can keep up with the best of them You may be injured or wounded you may have rheumatic fever or a tropical disease But whatever your trouble there will be a special department or ward in the hospital for you Regardless of cost This is a swimming pool designed for something more important than fun a part of the treatment that doctors call Physical therapy you learn to use the weak muscles again and bring back their vitality Massaging sets the life flowing back into affected muscles massage light Heat and water all of these are used on the prescription of your ward medical officer Light therapy and this is the Hubbard tank for another kind of water treatment This gym equipment will probably be more familiar to you. It is to rebuild weak muscles with special exercises As you see much of this equipment resembles familiar things like bicycles and things that we associate with having a good time But now they bring us something that means a great deal more They bring us a good time with a healthy body in the future years to come If he had this shoulder wheel built and now you build your shoulder muscles with it This device is called a finger ladder where you stretch the arm and shoulder muscles to help restore control to your arm and fingers The same man who was using the finger ladder He stayed with it so faithfully that he now can tie flies Which is very fancy work indeed if you've ever tried it For all of those physical therapy treatments are to restore the part of you that needs it and with your cooperation They will But there are other things to aid your recovery like occupational therapy Good morning. Good morning, miss This sure gives me what did the doctor send me down here for burns Contractor scar tissue. Well, that's what I'm trying to get rid of. Yes. I know John and we're going to help you Now here in occupational therapy will give you various jobs to do All requiring particular motions of your hand and help you regain the use of your hand. Let me see you make a fist That's as far as it'll go Here's a tool that will help you We've built up the handle of it so that you can grasp it Now as the scar tissue on the back of your hand stretches and you're able to get make a tighter fist Then we'll give you tools with smaller handles Say that's very good gadget What's that he's working on? He's modeling a duck in clay in order to use his hands and his mind There are some of our patients who become emotionally upset and that type of activity helps speed their recovery This patient can watch himself get well as he improves his leg muscles, then we can give him harder woods to saw The patients here on the loom are working for their shoulders arms and hands We'll start you out on lightweight metal first You could also do some of this work with a large handled file and one of the men has made a plastic cast for a patient with a broken shoulder The patients working in this shop are learning to do many things in cabinet making and carpentry Many a smart patient takes advantage of his time in the hospital to improve his education and train for a better job in the future Often officers who are receiving treatment themselves help out as instructors Just lying in bed can slow a man down mentally and if that happens you've got Hospitalitis and that brother is no joke What you need Jones is something to occupy your mind Something to do while you're lying here in bed But doctor I thought I was here to rest and get well you are But rest isn't rust Only part of you is injured The rest of you and that includes your mind must be exercised my mind. Thanks doctor Well, this is a real chance for you to finish your rate training course or to do whatever studying you've been putting off The educational services officer has any number of things you can do to keep you from getting rusty Looking at the ceiling doesn't help Keep busy with a purpose at whatever you're interested in Nothing means more than that advice keep busy with a purpose with something that you like and which interests you The educational services officer has been specially trained to give you a hand with your plans for education and Training for a job if you have an interest in radio or gas engines Practical work is right here, which will teach you the trade or brush up on what you may have forgotten about it If it's automobile or airplane maintenance work kits are provided and on a lot of other subjects, too There's bound to be one that may help you discover a talent that you didn't even know you had and The educational service has something to fit your particular case. Whatever is wrong with you Here's a kind of automatic quiz program called a rating machine It tests your knowledge of the Navy by asking you a question you choose an answer and it tells you whether you're right or wrong And it's a matter of record that nobody ever got 64 dollars out of one of these things Through the Armed Forces Institute, there are actually 6,877 correspondence courses if you began one in some other part of the world This is a chance to go on or start with a new one If you are still in the ward the rating course will be delivered right to your bed You can even practice art if you have a flair for the higher things in life like this mate from Jersey City So Michelangelo here gets the core wave to pose and being a woman. She can't resist having a picture made Chin just a little higher pleased to get that refined expression just right and Being a woman. She also demands to see if he got the eyelashes exactly as they should be So our modest artist obliges with a sample of his work. The guy's no genius. He's a seagoing wolf Seriously since high schools and colleges often give credit for work done in hospitals This may be your chance to pick up that diploma or learn a trade Navigation is the science of safe movement from Ankara to Albany from Zanzibar to Zanesville on the sea or in the air Here the secrets of navigation are taught and they're valuable to know But there are other things to aid your recovery Outside sports are a part of your prescribed physical Reconditioning Rehabilitation is much more than medicine and exercise and study now comes having a good time Which also has plenty to do with getting your mind off your trouble and your feet on the road to recovery It's human nature to practically knock yourself out of the game, but mention work and that's different Chief if I'm sure from D6 Dr. Swanson hands you down for light outside detail Chief I'm a patient here me work. What's the matter with work? We're not against it here Dr. Swanson sent you down here because you need some light outside work Help you get your sea legs. You keep your ship in shape. Don't you when you're a boarder? Yes, and this is your ship right now That's right. The doctor wants you to limber up that shoulder. I think a little window washing will help that Okay, chief, but it's still work. She'll report the inside masterminds of us. Yes, sir This chore was specially picked because bud will use a rotary movement of the arm This is rehabilitation that helps him and incidentally helps the windows Outside work too is a sign for far better reasons than just to keep the hospital ship shape it means strength for your arms and for your shoulders it means new zest in every part of the body and Husky work rebuilds the endurance that was one of the things that helped you to recover Endurance so that a man can shoulder his own seabag when he returns to duty The Navy doesn't forget that liberty too is a part of getting well It is up to the doctor to decide when you're well enough for liberty and whether it will be good for you But with lesser injuries gets the word But Benny Disgusted with the world right now has to see that bus go off without him There's time allotted for the things that everybody likes traveling units movies and dances and for men who like to know What's going on in the world? War orientation Nobody has to remind you about what we're fighting for and that just because one part of the war has been taken care of there Are still jobs to do so you'll want to keep up to date Many a man with first-hand ideas of his own can come to these meetings to speak up about the war The ship or about almost anything that is what they're for It's not news to a family man that having the wife and kid visit him helps in getting well But when a man who's been sick goes out and tries to drink up the town It suddenly isn't funny at all Much of his recovery gone Then of course the Navy Chapel and the chaplain are there to take the place of your church back home The chaplain's office is always open to help you with your personal problems From your folks today. They're kind of worried about you. They haven't heard from you for a couple of months I know a chaplain. I haven't written. What's the trouble? Oh, I've been worried anything I can do to help I don't think it's in your line chaplain. You see it's about girls. I thought you had trouble afraid if I can help stop by my office Morning Bob has everything well not too good chaplain. My wife isn't well and we have some doctor bills Do you suppose the Navy relief could help us with the loan? I'm sure he could Bob Finally civilian organizations show a very real and sincere interest in helping you along the journey At times they certainly can add a touch of that certain something and very very nice Hey, Benny, you got a match? Here I got you. Hey look fellas. I got a right of letter. What do you mean you got a right of letter? We're going down the lake. I'll write you a letter later. Let's go rolling Well, look, this is really important. I'll see you later. Hello sailor say lady Yeah, would you write a letter for me? I don't generally do that sort of thing, but sure I'd be glad to Look at my pen Madam What's the name Benny Benny from Brooklyn? Well, buddy from Brooklyn to whom's it going huh? Who is it going to oh The shooley the shooley sh-h-i-r-l-e-y yeah, that's right shooley dear shooley This show is a swell joint. You were you mean it's a swell hospital, don't you? Yeah, I'm sorry. That's right hospital It certainly is beautiful here with weather all around you Well, they're all around you. Yeah, you ever you look this this weather all around you The boys are singing in the trees and the and the wind is blowing The wind is blowing through your whiskers and the wind is blowing in your whisk You got me lady you got me What's your name? Okay, Francis. Hey Francis the moon picture. That's I well could have your autograph on a picture or tanks Yeah, put it in there for you. Oh, it's swell. There's the cigarettes and some matches gosh Say we're going down the lake. Would you like to go wrong with us? Not this week brother. I Got lost in flatbush once Bye now see you next week. Bye Cross that goes in wherever men no trouble does its job by providing many personal services To make your time at the hospital easier like furnishing transportation for trips off the grounds They are prepared to help you in your private affairs such as obtaining or passing on Information to people that you are concerned about Among many other things the gray ladies often write letters for seriously ill patients If your injury or illness brings you a survey into civilian life the Navy figures you'll need help there, too So the civilian re-adjustment office was set up for this the officer will explain your rights and benefits as a veteran You'll see to it that your claim for a pension is filled out right and sent to the Veterans Administration And he will give you every bit of assistance possible in arranging your affairs So here where we saw them first are the men with all this behind them They came in sick and injured and nervous and maybe a little scared Because they didn't know just what lay ahead of them But they all wanted to get well and so they did Some are headed back to duty some to civilian life But every one of them including Barton Benny now knows what that word rehabilitation means Well, it wasn't so bad here. I got no complaints complaints. There's a swell joint. I Mean hospital so enjoyed yourself up any are you kidding? tea and crumpets with a chief Rowan on the lake with Kay Francis what? Well, I'll be glad to get back to the ship anyway. I Remember me in the skipping on knock it off any knock it off. Sure You and the skipper were just like that. No No wise guy not like that Like that It means everything that the pride and respect and the tradition of the Navy Can do for men who have given their best and it means that the Navy values Nothing more than a man's health and his life and has sailed with him on the voyage to recover	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc4rQVH6WfI", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCCd3-JX7e8uGZx00i5646jg	DTNS 3284 - The Student has become the Cheater	Cheating on exams has been constant thorn in the side of schools and the halls of higher education. But with smart phones, wearables and the internet cheating has become so ubiquitous some schools are taking drastic action to limit student access to personal technology. Will this help stem the tide or does the problem call for new ideas and approaches to testing students. Starring Sarah Lane, Scott Johnson and Roger Chang. 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I'd say oh into the Republic for Richard Stans He thought it was for some guy named Richard Stans, and he could never figure who that was With liberty and mustard for all I Remember in Catholic school one of the kids thought it was Howard be thy name like Howard the name Howard be thy name I Just call him Howard Howard knows I love misunderstood lyrics and things like that like for example. What's the is a Manfred man? Wrapped up like a noose yes There's a totally different word for all of us for the longest time until you can read the lighter notes Or you don't know I mean this this whole thing has been going on for decades. No one still really knows When do you wrap up a deuce like that doesn't make sense either It's supposed to be deuce like a deuce coop like a hot rod We mean like like rev it up like rev it up you rev up the car a Revved up like a deuce revved up like a deuce. Okay, so I thought it was wrapped up Until this very moment This is too much for me Oh Was a previous DTNS I think maybe five months ago But I was talking about like how we use certain things like what we were talking about how we use certain iconography And people mean may disassociate it after a while because they're too they're from a generation that didn't use that phrase as much And I was pointing out the Sherman commercial Uses bears to advertise their toilet paper right probably because bears, you know in the woods It's like think about it the first commercial they have they're in the woods and the toilet paper is attached to the tree Yep. No, no, it was absolutely reference to that here. It's listen to this clip. It's an 80s song. It's from the cars Too much because we're on YouTube really fast. Here you go. I Used to think that was don't let nobody pick your bum Pick your bones pick your bum I swear it still says it. What is it? What is it actually? I don't actually know Doesn't matter just you know, keep your childhood alive Scott There every once in a while I can't think of any good Examples right now, but every once in a while, I'll hear a song that I've heard, you know, since I was a child and be like, oh That's what they're saying. I finally hear it. Yeah, this happens to me with like red hot chili peppers I never know what they're saying. All right, you guys ready for the show already. We are ready cool, I am going to play the Read and then go into the music and then you take it from there, Sarah. Sounds good All right, three two Do you enjoy hearing the tech news delivered by smart informed people me too learn more about how you can support this show at Daily tech news show comm slash support This is the daily tech news for Wednesday, May 16 Tom Merritt is on vacation, but from studio feline. I'm Sarah Lane. Well like city Scott how the heck are you? I'm pretty good. I miss Tom though Don't you miss Tom a little bit of kind of miss Tom? I miss Tom a lot It's not easy filling the shoes of mr. Tom Merritts. No, but thankfully, you know We have a really good DTS group with with all of you and our community as well and also producer Roger Chang Without whom I would die Roger. Hello coming over on the east side of LA It's good. I actually have to say it's warmed up a little bit a little bit not a lot But a little bit. Yeah, you know, we have Roger and I were talking before the show. It's been Cold ish for this time of year in LA, but hey, you know, don't have to run your AC So how about that? All right, let's get into a few tech things you should know This is the patent war that will never end Apple wants one billion dollars from Samsung in damages from a very long-running patent infringement Disputes where Samsung has already been found to have infringed on three of Apple's smartphone design patents and two Utility patents and a retrial to determine what Samsung actually owes Apple Samsung Astures To decrease that amount to 28 million. Why do decrease? That's a lot lower than one billion, but good luck Yeah, Twitter is giving developers more time to adjust to its new API platform account activity After developers said the original API set to be Deprecated on June 19th would force them to stop their services This bummed out a whole lot of people and a whole lot of users the new data for those deprecated APIs or the new date Rather is Wednesday August 16th 2018. It's not really that much more time You're getting like an extra couple of months. So tweetbot Twitter if it call you guys. Is that enough for you? Is it yeah? I mean we talked the other day about fave star saying we just won't continue our business We don't have any idea what Twitter is doing right now, but I don't use fave star regularly I do use tweetbots and I would like it to continue. Yep The Trump administration has eliminated the White House's cyber coordinator role that was created during the Obama presidency According to an email sent to National Security Council staffers Tuesday and obtained by Politico This is in an effort to streamline authority The cyber coordinator led a team that worked with agencies to unify strategies on election security and digital deterrence Hmm, you know what I'll just say this about that real fast It seems like an important job, but maybe we don't know a lot about what they were doing. So I Don't know I'd like to know what this administration's plans are for cyber security Generally speaking and if they can consolidate and have other people do it great But I'd love to know what that strategy is because I think it's important. Yeah, I mean in corporate culture all the time There are certain roles that are introduced and sometimes we're like Actually didn't need that the rest of us can just do it on our own. So Hard to say but that's the news. Let's talk a little bit more about Investigations into Facebook a guardian investigation in conjunction with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation reports that Facebook allows advertisers to target users if it they if it thinks they're interested in subjects such as sexual preference Islam Liberalism among others now, this is important because religion and sexuality and political beliefs explicitly are Marked as sensitive information under new data protection laws GDPR going into effect on May 25th So we're what just a little bit over a week out sensitive categories now require special conditions Around how they can be collected and processed some of those include preventative or occupational medicine or to protect the vital interest of the data subject or if the data subject has given explicit consent So the fact that this is happening now doesn't necessarily mean that Facebook is doing anything wrong But sounds like they're gonna have to figure out their policies pretty soon. Yeah I mean, this is just another example of in this case the Danish Broadcasting Corporation They're the ones telling us about it but this is just another case of other standards Changing and those standards changing will tell Facebook what's cool or what isn't I'm sure Facebook will comply. They're in a position right now if they don't they look real bad And it's gonna hurt them more than it has although their stocks weigh up So I don't know if anything's really hurting them, but But this doesn't surprise me I mean, this is what's gonna happen different countries are gonna make different laws And they're gonna get real serious about what privacy means and the services are at the center of that whole Conversation then those services Facebook and others have to figure out how they're gonna react to that in some cases That may hurt their bottom line because the data they need to share or give will no longer be collectible Or they'll have to have explicit permission from the user I think that is all part of the evolution of this and 100% fine and in the end Probably better for all of us That Facebook is sort of forced to be a little more fluid with this and not call the shots and and and let people municipalities governments Make those decisions not Facebook. Yeah, I mean as we report on this pretty much every day It seems it can be pretty convoluted But I feel like in general having more information whether or not people are going to take advantage of the information at least if It's available and we know a little bit more about how this stuff works in the background is a good thing for all of us I agree speaking of the availability son is V Sony rather is Vita handheld gaming system I went right over there. I can't reach or I pull it up and show you We'll see physical production of games stop now. That's not The device the games themselves. They will no longer make Physical additions that and these came as a small little custom almost like SD cards But it was a Sony Sony design type cards They're not gonna make those anymore But they will continue digital distribution from here on out the American and European branch of the company told developers It plans to end Vita game car production by the end of 2018 at least 2018 fiscal which closes on March 31st 2019 Sony spokesman confirmed that production is ending in an email to kataku There's been a little bit of freak out from the gaming press which always happens not much so so actually the kataku article is pretty level-headed, but What this is what we're seeing happening is what happens to every device and every console and every gaming platform eventually the Vita is now getting pretty old It's not the spring chicken It used to be and certainly isn't the in any sort of leadership position when it comes to portable gaming The idea that they would stop physical production of games is a significant significant thing But one would probably argue and they haven't given us numbers to confirm or deny this But one would argue that digital distribution has done nothing but grow and that device has benefited from that as storage has gotten cheaper So none of this is very surprising. This happens kind of across the board as a comparison Nintendo Refuses to let the 3ds platform died despite the fact that the switch is a big success and is rather portable itself But yet they're still releasing new games. They just have new announcements of new games We're expected to see things at E3 They're specific for the 3ds platform and they have no plans to slow physical production So you'll be able to buy those games in stores But that's because on the Nintendo side people are still buying them the physical Right, like I mean if so, you know if people were buying a lot of physical, you know Vita cartridges They probably wouldn't you know stop production. They're doing it because it doesn't make sense for them anymore That's exactly right. This is a sign that they are slowing sales of At least their games if not their device probably their device to like I would expect in the next couple of years Maybe even less for them to come out and say oh and also we're gonna now stop production on The Vita all entirely that's again, not that unusual for its lifespan all consoles go through this the Xbox 360 sees production the PlayStation is usually really goes along as they can but eventually they sees production on Devices when new things come out so it's not that shocking or weird But it does speak to the the potential end date We may have for that for that device and I while I had it while it was good. I like to Vita It was cool. It had a nice place in my gaming library If I'm honest though, I haven't touched that thing in probably a year So maybe time to move on to something else Well speaking of moving on whole foods Which is now owned by Amazon launched a loyalty program that offers special discounts to Amazon Prime customers Including 10% off some hundreds of sale items and rotating weekly specials Those discounts are available now in Florida at least at Whole Foods stores in Florida And then Amazon says it'll roll out to all other stores starting this summer Now I shop at Whole Foods like three times a week So hopefully something that I buy a lot will be 10% off now Amazon previously announced free two-hour delivery from Whole Foods stores for Prime members So they really want to push Prime Yeah, you know, that's a you know I mean besides the fact that Prime just up their annual fee not that much but you know by 20 bucks And the fact that you know, I'm already in the Whole Foods ecosystem. Maybe even more so than I am Amazon That's great. I mean if I can get discounts, that's great. Yeah after they made this purchase The question wasn't whether they would integrate the Amazon Systems for lack of a better term into how you would Interact with Whole Foods the delivery stuff how Prime would interact discounts all that sort of thing And eventually maybe like their Washington store where you can walk in get what you need and walk out and and just art sort of charged by the by the Lord computer All of that stuff's coming. It was all a matter of when so never once did I go? Oh, this will be like twitch where they buy it and then let twitch operate and function and have better funding so they can grow But really it's still that the twitch plan as a you know, Amazon can buy them They can buy audible they can buy these others they can add new features because they're Amazon But they're not really gonna take it over this feels like It was just a matter of time before we started hearing about how this is really the food Brick and mortar version of what Amazon is in general and this is a huge step toward that Which I was talking to somebody the other day about I don't know Amazon buying Whole Foods And she said don't you notice that they're just out of everything now because of Jeff Bezos and I'm like no I actually don't notice that however we did Report a story or at least I did on daily tech headlines over the last couple weeks that Amazon is launching its its own proprietary Dog food brands they have their own diaper brands. That's all you know via Amazon comm But I can see this replacing a lot of the whole sort of like Whole Foods 365 own brand in a lot of stores over time Yeah, like Costco I talked to a Costco executive years ago for a company thing I was doing for a company used to work for and I was like, why do you have your own water branded water? Chili branded toilet paper, which I think is a conflict of interest those two things If you're branding your own toilet paper, I mean you might be Creating a solution nobody asked for he told me says that biggest profit center in this place And I don't know if he was supposed to tell me that or if that's inside info I'm not saying his name, but he said that's where we make the most money I'm not surprised Amazon because it's the most reoccurring purchase, right? You're going to run out and you're always gonna need more and you're gonna order it regularly Yep, and they can get it cheap slap their name on it and boom and hopefully it'll be decent dog food Is really what I'm getting to yeah exactly AT&T's over the top streaming service direct TV now is rolling out its cloud DVR feature to iOS and TV OS Users after being in testing mode since last year. This has been a long time coming people were really sick of waiting Lots of complaints from people that I know but they must be happy today the true cloud DVR as its name will offer users 20 hours of free recording support for fast-forward and rewind and the ability to store shows for up to 30 days I want to say that's on par with PlayStation view, but I don't have that stat in front of me Yeah, I think you're right pretty close beta testers had up to 100 hours of recordings So they could test the thing AT&T says later this summer users can pay an extra 10 bucks per month For more if they want to do 100 hours of shows for up to 90 days you extend that 60 days It's all it's feels on par with everybody else's DVR offerings for their for their TV stuff UTV TV everybody else It just took him so long and I don't know why it took him so long, you know I'm one of those weird people who never had a DVR. I've never had a DVR like I don't You know like replay some cool basketball shot like I don't I just don't do that And I don't know what I'm missing because I never had one and you know You guys can fight me later feedback at daily tech news show calm But I don't have direct TV now, but I do have YouTube TV, which is similar at least in that sort of you know set-top box offering and I I don't know. I'm so used to the on-demand experience that I can't imagine The idea of having to save a show for 90 days on something locally It's just like I I skipped that whole thing. This is so me everything. You're saying is me I didn't ever have I never had a Tevo now only time I get a DVR is like oh this direct TV deal We got it has a DVR. It's just built in but I'd rarely use it Maybe I'd skip commercials if I started something late, but usually I'd be caught up and I'd have to watch them anyway But I never saved anything really for later. I think I think you and I are not that uncommon I think there are a lot of people at least now who are kind of in this Netflix when I want it Hulu and I want it, you know content when I want it kind of lifestyle and The idea of saving one of these that's weird like weird to me that I would even spend the time to even bother with it So I'm a hundred percent with you. I'm sure they're gonna be listeners who write in and go. Oh, no, no How wrong you are latest he knows the best thing ever and here's 50 reasons why and I I look forward to that feedback But as for me and sounds like Sarah, it's just not our bag Yeah, well, it's it's sort of like the DVR was this really cool thing that solved a problem with you know Cable right like the only options that you had at the time. We just have so many other options now I know that people love Organizing stuff their own way and and Scott and I are certainly not telling you to stop doing that But I would love to know yeah, who is going to take advantage of this and Especially who wants to pay $10 more per month to have a hundred hours? Rather than 20, you know, I Probably watch a lot of TV and that means you and I have something in common Sources tell Bloomberg that Microsoft is planning a line of lower-cost surface tablets as soon as the second half of 2018 seems to be a direct competitor to the iPad the new tablets are said to feature 10 inch screens instead of the 12 inch screens used on the Surface Pro and will include USB-C for the first time Intel reportedly will also supply the main processor and graphics chips. I'm Interested to see what these are like because The art side of what I do I'm always using new tablets to see who's got the best new tech or whatever currently the the reigning champion in terms of latency and quality I still think is firmly with an iPad Pro and the Apple pencil and certain apps help but You know, it's it's a close It's it's not too far for me to say that the the surface studio and the surface pros of years past been pretty good They're kind of right up there if they can Provide something like that for artists. That's exciting. I don't know that the smaller size is gonna get too many of us excited But lower cost will so this is this is all good potential I don't know who their main market is still for these tablets I give if it's just existing iPad owners or people who are just on the fence about whether a tablet's worth it or not Maybe they don't care about artists, but With the surface studio, it seems like they made a real push toward that so from my perspective. This is great More competition lower cost USBC is good Across the board for me like all good Microsoft I will absolutely take a look at your next set of tablets Well, and after the success of the surface pro, you know, and then Apple came out with the iPad Pro It's like, okay There's a certain market for this that Microsoft understood and tapped into so can they drop a price and the form factor You know, I think it was $400 is is the you know the going rate at least according to this Bloomberg report and Tap into that more kind of casual consumer market, which iPad is just you know been dominated for Dominating for so much time. Yeah, and I've had sales are up, which usually means tablet sales are up Generally, that's the barometer like they do with notebooks. They tend to be the barometer for notebooks these days I am all for more competition in that space and Doing things with tablets that maybe Apple is forgetting to do we're not doing and pushing that competition I think that's great. So 100% with with Microsoft doing this I just I just hope it's not one of those products They throw out there and they change their mind six months later and pull it sometimes they do that too Very true. It's not a real thing yet. Just a report. Hey folks to get all the Get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes or less subscribe to daily tech headlines com Scott and Roger and everyone. Let's talk about cheating Oh Cheating in school specifically cheating on tests that will determine your future in secondary education and beyond This is a really interesting story coming from the BBC. So this is a UK focused story But this is about a ban on smartwatches imposed during certain tests anyway GCSE which I learned today was general certificate of secondary education. So and it's kind of like an SAT equivalent set of exams taken in England and Wales and Northern Ireland and other British territories and they're really important It's the sort of thing that they don't want you to cheat on because it determines, you know How smart you are and where you should go students are asked being asked to either keep their watches off their wrists on the desk or Keeping their watches off of their wrists because they might be hiding notes where the cheats would be where you know I don't know these you know stuff that you're not supposed to do hidden under the watch And beyond now first of all my first reaction was like, okay Well watches have been around for a long time So students have been doing this for a long time if they've just figured out that people are putting cheat notes under their watches Okay, but it sounds like there are there's sort of a whole line of smart watches that are Designed to help you get information in a clandestine way And your teacher is not supposed to know and and it just looks like a regular watch Well, if you have okay, so I'm just thinking this out loud here as I'm thinking of it But let's say I'm using I have an Apple watch and it's a series three and that means that even if my phone's not around I'm still getting LTE if I have the notes app open and Previous to this I was on a desktop hurriedly putting a bunch of Cheat notes in my notes app I could easily pop that up and just sort of angle it every once in a while it would turn on I'd see it you have it at the default notes page You see your little answer you go back to your thing like I get it I think that they probably should have little safe Block places or something for the students watches when they come in the room and put them in there If they're trying to stop cheating I totally get it, but I had no idea people were putting things under their watch For however long that's been going on that's insane to me Like what are you putting under there and how are you sneakily like going? All right, let's push that out and then take a look and then it's like I mean do you not have pockets Why does it have to go to the watch? It's really weird to me, but I don't know in high school. We were the old-fashioned way We wrote if you're gonna do that you're gonna sharp it on your palm And you know when I was researching this I was trying to think like because we're all you know We're in a generation beyond you know, we're not in school anymore So that the ways that kids cheat, you know, some of them are new to me And I don't really remember it being that big of a deal at the same time Kids didn't have smartphones. They didn't carry you know phones to school. We didn't have internet You couldn't just like look up anything on Google and and get an answer rather than knowing it in your head So Reminds me of a story that we covered on DTNS back in December France the country of France and in all of its public schools Wanted to impose a total ban on mobile phones in schools. This is was for primary students not secondary students so kids younger than high school and I mean, I'm I'm this is supposed to go into effect in it's September and That is really hard like I just think like okay. Well, you hear about schools that have Metal detectors, right because they're worried about you know kids bringing in knives or guns or you know all sorts of terrible things that happen in schools These days, but you know, are we going to get to a point where kids have to be patted down to make sure that they don't have These devices that are either going to distract them or help them cheat and not learn things Which is also sort of probably a bigger discussion about The future of schools in general I know in back when I when I finished high school graphing calculators just became a popular item and so at the time you could bring if you had calculus or trigger advanced Audrey you could bring a calculator in your test because that's how you do all the answers because you have long problems to solve People find out with graphing calculators. There's enough memory. You can actually store Crib notes in them and for a while they're not a long while but for short time Some students were basically putting them in the calculator and able to pull them back out and so, you know There was a point where the teachers had to inspect all the calculators that were being used by the students in the class before a test or an exam and what's you know fascinating is this doesn't just apply to exams Cheating in education especially a higher education because it ends up with a degree that could determine your job prospects when you graduate has become a thing and I didn't realize this until a couple of years ago, but I Knew people kids could buy essays online and turn them in right for for high school and stuff but there was a woman in Australia who was literally making an entire business of it selling them to Overseas students particularly from China Because English for many of them would would have been a second language and difficult for the master so why not just buy a test or buy an essay instead of actually Writing it yourself if you have difficulty with the language and the issue with that is that a lot of universities began to get very worried that Their reputations would be diminished because now there were passing students or giving them a grade that they didn't earn and Place who would say well you went to that particular university a little suspect We won't rate you as highly and so it's kind of a chicken-and-egg thing where a school's reputation as it falls less school It's students want to attend there unless money is being spent and tuition to keep that school afloat and so It is kind of a long standing kind of you know The cheaters want to do this and so schools have to do this and I'm wondering if we just have to Overhaul the way we do exams the way we evaluate students from a time when everything was paper pencil to now when everything's digital Yeah, also, maybe you know all the AI developments were saying in recent years And now maybe there's some things to do with AI that would push us in new directions on how real-time testing occurs How the questions are proposed so that nothing sort of predetermined or written down someplace or Something you could store keep around or whatever I kind of agree with that I think that's a great way to to sort of approach this If we get to a place you guys where the long-promised idea of having an over a sort of a heads-up display Built into small contact like iDevices or implants themselves we're gonna have to reevaluate a lot of how we do things in our lives and We're getting there like we're getting to a place where there's enough cameras around all the time is enough stuff all the time We have to think hard about this stuff Imagine students with that in their head and being able to just sort of see in their field of vision the answers They need we better figure out now how we want to start testing people instead of waiting until then and when it's you know If it's still just a static list then we're then we're screwing up. There's also the There's the angle here that if you are in school and you're not supposed to look up something on the internet You know to cheat it's because you're supposed to you know, keep it in your brain Right well We used to have to do that a lot more because we didn't have easy access to the information that we have now if you were going to Be in a job where you're not gonna have internet access then okay I guess you have to do things the old way, but I think the whole sort of retention of information that whole That's another conversation if kids always have access to the right information as long as they know the difference between right and wrong Maybe you just need to know how to use the internet better rather than committing things to memory Yeah, and I just think having robots who are smarter than us Running tests is a great idea like I don't sound scary and weird But think about how random it would be and they'd be able to mix things up And they'd be able to determine because of your last four answers what you're gonna do for the next one So they're gonna shake it up a little bit and really test you and you can't go oh shoot. Where's the notes in my watch? You know what I mean? Like I feel like that's the future, but that's so far off that I'll be lucky if my grandkids have it Well, your kids are in school still so keep us posted Scott Hey, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddits you help us pick our headlines every day in fact Just the sporting submit stories and vote on them at daily tech news show at reddit.com We also have a Facebook group at Facebook's your bag. That's cool Facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show Got a couple emails here one the first one comes from Chris who says he is a production assistant a DTS production assistant and American English speaker He's talking about Patrick Yesterday suggesting several times that Le Ronde Boutek is a great way to practice French while also getting tech news. I agree Chris says do you have any recommendations for other languages DTS is good for practicing English, but I'm interested in Spanish I also know Korean and Japanese are popular Scott Do you do you do any foreign language stuff? Do you have any apps that you like or no? I mean a group of like I said on the show a few times. I had two Korean sisters and a Korean brother You'd think that may push me in the direction of learning Korean, but I never did just all the dirty words and my brother taught me So I don't really know like I've always kind of been lacking in that department And I wish there were quicker easier ways to do it So I don't know I share I share his question. Where can this stuff be found? Well Patrick asked me yesterday How'd you learn French and I was like first of all my French is real bad So I would not call myself a native speaker or you know a fluent speaker at at all But French podcasts have been a godsend to me, especially if I'm stuck in the car anyway It's like who cares, you know the only person who's gonna notice me like practicing my French over and over You know at the stoplight next to me. It was a really good way for me Especially I used to commute to twit which was two hours a day in my car alone and that really helped So if anybody has other recommendations, we'd love to know How about J-pop and K-pop with lyric sheets and reading along? That's how you'll learn the Korean and that's how you learn Yeah tales of love and love lost another email from let's see. Do we get a name? Yes, Rod Ross and Nottingham England. Wow He wants to share his thoughts on the whole Microsoft Surface Hub thing that you and Patrick talked about yesterday So I've used various sizes of that at Microsoft HQ in the UK They have truly impressive devices very valuable for meetings The trouble Microsoft has is that people think they are just fancy toys for PowerPoint But the infinite whiteboard and the ability to immediately send that out as an email or one note drawing Would be worth it alone for some people There's video conferencing and screen sharing and it solves many of the problems faced by enterprises trying to collaborate remotely There are lots of improvements that they can make but this is the best product of its type that I've ever seen Much more so than things like interactive whiteboards if they could convince enough people to buy them They can reduce their production costs and make them more widely available But they can't do that until they achieve mass market adoption Which is why they won't because they're too expensive to start with and to be clear I do not work for Microsoft. He's good to know Ross Yeah, I mean we don't know what the surface hub to is price point does yet the first one was $9,000 So yeah, I mean it's that's that is cost prohibitive to a lot of smaller businesses anyway, but Hey, you know if Microsoft can bring the price down enough that it gets to be sort of a standard of of you know Collaborative meetings, especially because so many people work remotely now. Hey, yeah And you see your Twitter or some other company in San Francisco or something You probably got one of these in every conference room and that's and that and 9,000 bucks is a reasonable thing to expect for companies like that So sure start there. This is a corporate solution. It's a little bit like all their back end They do for for corporate as it is anyway at Microsoft I wouldn't I wouldn't look at this and go oh man if we could just get this in everyone's home Like we'll get there one day something like this will happen one day, but for now, it's fine way it is Yeah, I mean interactive whiteboards and yet most people don't need that at home unless you have a home office Or so I mean, I'd love one Me too Back here four of them together Thank you to everybody who writes in every day and helps us get smarter and learn a little bit more about Ourselves and you and technology and also thanks to Scott Johnson. It's Wednesday. You're with us every Wednesday Thanks for being here and holding down the fort and Tom's absence I always like doing the show with you Scott. Tell folks. What is up with you these days? 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He had a really fun meetup in Sydney already But he is hosting another meetup in Melbourne Tuesday, May 22nd next week 6 p.m. That's local Melbourne time at a place called Bartronica if you can make it I know he'd love to see you and you can tell him how much you love the rest of us as well We are live This show is part of the frog pants network frog pants network get more shows like this at frog pants comm Diamond Club hopes you have enjoyed this bro What is that music behind you in the new sting out like a kind of smooth jazz thing Yeah, like nice smooth jazz a little bit of sit back and just let it wash over your kind of business Love it. Love it. Yeah, the other thing was more like an action movie. This is more like, you know, hey Look at us chillin out That went great Hey Scott, I wanted to ask you do you use a podcast analytics tool that you like? No, because I've never found one that I like Fettled around a whole bunch a lot of times and I never find anything that works really well So I just use the server logs that I get from so I have I have an AWS instance setup That is just hosting my all my show files on my RSS feeds and all my album art Okay, and so I get very specific sort of Hit hit or a sort of hit stuff that says okay, this entire mp3 was downloaded So that counts as like that's a show somebody got this one was touched on but the only listen to the first five minutes It was probably the website then or was something else where they got cut off And so I don't always count those and so I've kind of got some of that going on But it's real raw server log stuff not good analytics really and yeah, I am I produced this podcast And you know, they're always saying like well, what are our numbers and I'm like well What's the number like there's downloads there's streams there's partials there's you know You know SoundCloud versus everybody else and I'm like I can put together something kind of aggregate but You know, I was considering you know, it's sort of a you know a pod tracker or or or equivalent but that's kind of different because that's sort of geared toward Advertisers who are trying to figure out like cpm rates and that's not really what we're doing. It's hard I mean, it's it's one of the holy grails to have an all-encompassing comprehensive metric of Your podcast especially if you're releasing on multiple platforms, right? It's not just downloads It might be SoundCloud might not be archive.org or it might be to I mean you need to check all these things But then you have questions. Well, if it's streaming how long do they stay for and you know, you get to your cpms and the rest and It can get kind of convoluted in some ways the data is so granular that people's eyes glaze over as Opposed to like Nielsen's which are a little a little more blunt But people like well, it's it's very simplistic But you can just throw it at someone in the elevator and they understand it, right? And you're right about it being the holy grail I've never heard anybody figure figure out the best way and like I mean even big organizations like pod track they literally track your your your downloads or your traffic by giving you a precursor mp3 file that you put in your urls for Your total podcast file. So basically what happens is It pings their mp3 to tell people to tell them that somebody's getting the show and then it routes to your server to get the show And that's how they see how many downloads you're getting and that's like rudimentary and not that accurate Yeah, and it's not any better than you just go into your server and saying oh, this is my total bandwidth download And I'm giving them a better I'm giving them better numbers because I can do it that way with better numbers because I can see when a file was Completely downloaded versus just getting it. They just see it getting hit So and all that that ties into the whole thing is like what metric do you want to use? Do you want like for example YouTube counted? Like what initially like four minutes into a stream or a video would be counted as a whole view Even though the video would be like 15 or 20 minutes long, right? And so there were questions about that and but we do have a question about titles and Amazon dares you to live without prime The student has become the cheater, which is Love that one cheating on the clock. I Like that one cheating on the clock cheat on the clock. Oh got it got it. Yeah watch got it clever showbots Yeah to pass watch it Haha, I do like the student has become the cheater cheating on the clock What do you guys lean towards I was picking I'd say student has become the cheater It's a little longer, but I like that one It's just I mean I Like that one too. Yeah, it's just gone Done Mented it's actually winning. No, it's oh look at this. There's a fight going on Fight fight fight hide but I still think it wins You know, I remember back in the late odds is that what you call them the lot odds odds I never feel comfortable saying that I know that's what they are, but it's like the odds. I Don't like I never liked it. There was there was a paper about plagiarism in university level courses and there was a an opinion piece. It says like just let people plagiarize It's not like I think I think the whole argument was there was too much emphasis on that and not enough on I Guess was just style or ability or you know, just like you know, just have let let people copy wholesale and you know Re-evaluate them on on different things instead of evaluating them on writing these long multi-page papers That may have questionable value Wait, so if between 2000 and 2010 are the odds. What do we call? 1900 through 1910 That's the the war not the roaring 20s you call it the turn of the century But well the turn of the century is the turn of the century, you know what like 1909 is part of what decade call it the 1900s typically like Usually that goes all the way up into the Great Depression like the early 20s, but then you call it the roaring 20s So covers like 1900 like to 1920 We can say the 2010s we can say the 2020s and that makes sense But it's saying the 2000s seems weird because it sounds like you're saying for all of the 2000s from here in perpetuity Tell me right. Yeah, we're not far enough along for it to kind of have its own Definition that's why it's funky mankind was not prepared for this You know, it's it's such a weird so it's such a weird thing Because for the longest time you would refer to the night all the nine nineteen hundreds like all of nineteen nine nineteen hundred to 1999 as like the 20th century back in the 20th century. Yeah, I know um, I Also, you know, there was this whole I remember my friends and I because we were you know 90s high school kids, but 80s children, you know, the 80s were a thing like, you know what the 80s are They're known for certain things, you know, it's like There's a reason for that digital stuff and a certain kind of music and whatever and then the 90s were like, what's it gonna be? And now it's like you remember it for grunge and you know hosted being a boy bands and that sort of thing I'm still like what was that next decade? Oh, dude What is it my oldest daughter she would call that her decade of growth like that's her coming of age decade and she can't tell me She has no idea Like and I don't either I think the 2000 to 2010 is nebulous to say the least I mean, I don't like it's it's like it doesn't really have a like nothing stands out to me I was like, oh, that was the you know the thing. Yeah, it doesn't have a sound you can call its own It doesn't have like a look yet that we can perceive and tell maybe maybe later We will but right now we can't look at those that those years and say that they dressed funny or something Like weird year. It's with a decade. It's like when music became less distinct and more Kind of hodgepodgey and then you were getting it all digitally and right. Yeah, it's just weird The YouTube crap like all of it changed everything and that's just weird. It's like a transition decade Thousands music wise. I just think of a lot of dance and EDM Well, there was that But you know, there was also, you know a lot of indie bands And I was getting most of my EDM in the 90s anyway, like a lot of it They didn't call it that yet that's that's what back back and they call the electronica or Depending on the subgenre would be trans it would be acid. Sure, but I'm like, you know VNV nation and Crystal method and yeah Is like they were awesome So, I don't know. I don't know what 2010s are gonna do when they look back. I feel bad for her a little bit Well, I think maybe it's because we're not a whole other decade ahead yet Right. We're getting there. So in the 20 in the roaring 2020s In yeah, once we hit 2022, you know, we'll all look back and be like, yeah Remember when we kind of couldn't define it yet. That's what it was I think, you know, it's weird for me is that this the past decade has been marked by a lot of resurgent nostalgia for previous Cultural means in a way that did not exist. I think previously for example in the 80s There were some people who would throw back to the 60s or the 50s like with hairstyle or music or dress sensibilities But like now we're in a stage where everything is up for nostalgia whether You know, it's old 80s sitcoms or we're gonna bring back something from the 90s bring back something from the 70s or bring back something from the 2000s. There's just kind of a weird like Buffet of sorts like oh, well, you know pick pick the thing that that you like the most And it's weird because the 90s unlike the 80s. I mean you had grunge, but there wasn't an identifiable visual Q in the same way that you think with the 80s or the 60s or the 50s But I think there is 90210 or you know, yeah, like all of the you know, Pearl Jam kind of stuff You know going on in Seattle back in the day. It's like it's very Iconically 90s, but you couldn't see it for a while. You had to get out of it Yeah, but I also felt a real break at the end of the 80s in the beginning of the 90s when all that stuff kicked in because It was like hair bands were up here and then suddenly nobody cared and the music scene just completely shifted popular music It just could change really quick and then things like Jurassic Park early 90s examples of movies like that 93 I guess it was You suddenly saw technology and CGI and like some of that stuff happened and it just started to define the decade quickly I thought but I Can't say that's true of the last one. I don't know what that was the last one I think we were still figuring out what I do know is that there was a huge shift from a society that was Using technology To a society that's all about technology like before you would go online to do things But now, you know in order to enhance your life and now your life kind of is Online, right? Yeah, you're not like tapping in and then tapping out. It's just always there. Yeah. Yeah Because when we get our first real smartphone to 2007 if you want to count that or if you and I will say, you know It isn't always there is DTS because I need to wrap up the live stream, but we will be back Tomorrow with Justin Robert Young and of course Sarah and me And don't forget Tom if you're in Melbourne, Australia is doing his meetup Tuesday May 22nd local time in Australia 6 p.m That's Bart, Ronica 335 Flanders Flinders Lane And you get to meet Peter Wells and Raj Deut as well Have a good time have one on us and we'll see you tomorrow	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCz-3fR7sl8", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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Sam here with Lated Sports Guards. Dripping Sunday, Monday, NFL 20 box, Immaculate Honors first off the line. Football Mixer number two, Random Team Style. There's a look again at your random results. As always, you can find these on the website under the results tab, as well as the link in chat. Thank you guys again for getting this sold out. Let's do it. Pretty much just go from like the bottom up, I would say. 22 Don Russ, and I guess mine is probably select. Start with the two boxes of Don Russ, box one. No worries. That'd be awesome. Dude, give me a Steph Curry auto out of this. Steph Curry for the Panthers. Do you imagine? I don't think so. I think Earnhardt did though. Jonathan Taylor, Elite Series. He's all hardship, right? Jameson Williams, Portrait. Kingsley, Eneg Barae. Here's Passing the Torch, Tony G and Kyle Pitts. 94 out of 199, Falcons. Falcons first on the board. Jones, yeah, hit a burrow downtown right off the bat. Kenny Pickett, Rookie. Ronnie Law and Jelani Woods to 100. Press proof. Nichols, House Hectic. John Mechie, Elite Series. It's Godwin. Sauce Gardner, Portrait. Clay Matthews, Senior. Javante Williams, Elite Series. Tom Brady, Press Proof. Red, Damian Pierce, The Rookies. Skymore Portrait, Anthony Barr, Red. Missing Nameplay is... Oh God, who is that? Isaiah Simmons? Let's go. Sam Howe? Clemson Legend. Oh yeah. JJ Watt. It's always my every son response to missing, trying to get the missing nameplate without looking at who it is is like my, my big, big challenge. Tony Romo. Dick Vermille, that's cool. Siu, 100. Uh, 600, I think was the spot? Yeah, 600 a spot. Which I mean, it gives you, it's pretty good value actually. It's like you get four boxes of iMac total, four boxes of honors total, two first off the line, two hobby for each of those, plus two prism, two obsidian, a handful of 2021 stuff. So Brock Purdy, like a 21 obsidian, 21 contenders. So you never know what might come out of those. Cracked Ice T-Law real quick. Christian Watson, Portrait. Oh yeah, we usually pretty much every Sunday, we do some sort of mixers and optic preview of Hassan Haskins to 50 on the purple. Nice one there. I think Donnie, Donnie brought up personally, pulled the sauce out of this sauce on the preview. Kenyan Green, Tom Brady, another red Tom Brady press group. For the Buccaneers. Jordy Nelson. Legend series, Trailance and Dallas Goddard. It has been Ritter Rookie, Bree's Hall Portrait. And Dak Prescott to 75. For the Cowboys. Sam Howell, it's a 49 on the Portrait Auto. Nice one there, Commanders. That's really solid. Got 45 of 49, Sam Howell. Nice, good way to start there. Great first auto of the break. Johan Dotson, Jalen Waddle and Jerry Judy. Garrett Wilson, oh absolutely Pat. That's just, that's a guarantee. Anything. Veilish Jones. And Aiden Hutchinson, red press proof rookie. Randall Cunningham. Stefan Diggs, red press proof. That'd be a nutty shield. Red Quiddy Pay. Missing name plate, Jim Tolbert. New. Trayvon Walker, red. Malik Willis, rated rookie. For the Titans. The last is Bobby Trees to 100. Robert Woods. Chance is here. The Rams, still a ram in that of course. Pike-Want Thornton, elite series. Playoff Lenny, Lombardi Lenny, I should say. Chance here, Taylor Wrapp. Christian Watson, rookie. Sonia Gibson, Jalen Waddle, Ken Anderson. Another optic preview. George Pickens, Black Pandora. For the Steelers, 18 out of 25. That's awesome. Two optic previews in two boxes, not bad. Couple nice boxes there. Awesome Pickens. Yandre Swift. Jeremiah Wushu-Koramoa. Power plus, awesome Echler. If you get LeBron versus KD in round one, that's very possible. James Cook, freeze home. And to 75, Jalen Tolbert, press proof for the Cowboys. I don't know, like the Lakers have a lot of momentum heading into the playoffs now. They're all, they're getting really healthy. Power plus T Higgins. Gun to your head right now. If you have to answer, do you think we've seen LeBron's last championship? George Pickens, Trevor Lawrence, Jonathan Ogden. What does everybody else think? Do you think right now, we have seen LeBron's last championship? Epcot saw his last championship. Bailey Zaffi, Michael Stray, Andrew Brees. Lame Mickey. That's so funny, dude. Jersey Kings, Hunter Renfrow. That's to 399. T Higgins. There's Rashad White to 500 for the Bucks. He'd pretty much have to put himself on the scene. That's what I'm saying. He might do that. Nick Chubb, nice. 10 of 25 on the auto for the Browns. On the elite series auto. 10 of 25. Bo Jackson. Bailey Zaffi. Lessie switches teams. No, yeah, I don't think there's a chance he wins on the Lakers. I think that ship has sailed. Let's do 22 illusions. See if we can get a Funkadelic. Will that be your first Funkadelic, man? Go. Let's go. 22 illusions. What's up? Half of a man. Oh, yeah. What other day during the week are you talking Thursday? Monday. Garrett Wilson. Matt Corral on the, wow, 8 of 10. Nice low numbered hit right there for the Panthers. Purple rookie endorsements. Garrett Wilson. Yannis or Luca are top five level talent. Yeah, true. True. So you want them on the Celtics you're saying? 104 net to 299. And to 50 Funkadelic, man. Aaron Rodgers. Let's go for the Packers. I've gone two weeks in a row with one illusions and my 10 box Tuesday mixers with no Funkadelic. That just made up for it. Sorry guys. Crystal Lave to 99. On behalf of Kyle. Sorry, everybody. Going to the Saints. Devo Sammin. What's up? Can I pick you up? That's to describe Aaron Rodgers pretty well. You're not wrong there. Monroe St. Brown to 399. Isaiah Spiller at Mystique to 399. I believe there's three Joe Ingalls. In the choice case. Keenan Allen. Nice one here. Scary Terry on the highlight swatches. 61 out of 75. For the Commanders. Two color patch. And J-Mo. Amazing. The fewer sticks the worse. To 199, Devante Adams. And Funkadelic, man. True Breeze. There's fewer sticks that are worse. Yeah, fair. So you got this. You got on Wednesday. You got sweet shots coming back Vaughn. That's nice. Kenny Pickett and Terry Bradshaw on the duel. Deja Vu. That's the cover right there. Terry Bradshaw and Kenny Pickett. eBay, one of one. Cover. Oh, God. There's David Montgomery to 399. And to 199. Funkadelic, man. Bresel. That was almost what's flying there. George Pickens. Jalen Tolbert. Rookie endorsements to 50. 10 of 50 on the green. This week is Contender's basketball and limited football. Come out on Wednesday. Swear if there's one more. Derek Henry. Oh, I shoot to be even worse than that, Inspire. I shoot to be even worse than that, believe me. Russell Wilson to 499 for the Broncos. And Devante Adams. Safe, boys. Yeah, true. Safe for another couple of days because I'm sure there's a 10 box Tuesday has illusions in it. All right, let's do 22 contenders now. 22 contenders. Yeah, WWE Prism comes out on Friday, too. That'll be fun. 22 prism. WWE Prism will be a lot of fun. That's always a good time. What do you think the starting price for Prism UFC is going to be with Hasbulla? Prism, you see? 300? Yeah. Probably safe. There's not really much other riffies. Very true as well. Skyler Thompson. Rookie ticket out. There's a client ever to layer to 199. Confuse me for a second. That makes sense, though, because it is a... Oh, that's right. Eminence basketball. How is Eminence basketball coming up before Flawless? That doesn't make any sense. Look at how much of that we're going to get. Guys, once the last time Eminence basketball has been out, XFL Flawless comes out next month. I wonder if it'll be XFL Cards, didn't it? Yeah. Well, the AAF had Cards. That was wild. That was a crazy time. There's Jalen Thompson. Rookie ticket out of for the Cards. There's a... Nice. Breeze Hall. Wow. Nice one there on the blue. These are like limited to about what? One or two a case maybe? We even hit one in the last one. So these are pretty short printed. Nice one there. I would say so. Get that mag for the Jets. Grab the Jets. Love it by 2020 Flawless football. That would be fun, man. 2020 Flawless is nuts. Chase Campbell. 299. Kind of walking with you there. Jordan Brooks, power players. Going to do a dice roll for the round numbers. 1, 2, 3, top, 4, 5, 6, bottom. We'll go for the 2021 as well. Going to be a 3. Going to go top. To Crystal Lave. He is very convincing. Yeah, true. And 1, 2, 3, left, 4, 5, 6, right for the notable pairings. Going to be a 4. Going to go to the right with Ray Lewis. So round numbers top and notable pairings right. There's Lewis Seen on the variation for the Vikings. All right. Yeah, teams are filling for contenders on Wednesday, which is good. There's a lot of orders flying in. Someone just bought the Pacers as a matter of fact. All right, let's do 21. Mosaic choice. 2021 Mosaic choice. Remandre Stevenson. That is the Metric. Fell in. Nice one there. Rookie Otto for the Browns. Yes, this is Seif. Do you need to know what team you've got? Nice one there. Dude, this is nasty. I'm a black gold Josh Allen. One of eight. First name last initial, Seif. You can just do it yourself right there. Isaac Q. You've got the Seahawks, Isaac. Seahawks. And I think you can probably mag this Allen. I would say black gold. Nice. Trey Lance to 80. Rookie. We've got Quentin Nelson to 80 for the Colts. Hey, Larry Arundtree for the Chargers and a Kylan Hill to 80 for the Pacers. That Allen is nasty, dude. Black gold Josh Allen. Hell yeah, man. 22 Obsidian now. 22 Obsidian. Two boxes of it. Two 100 and a green Derrick Young. Derrick Young, 29 of 50. Color match for the Seahawks there. Michael Pittman. Got two 100. Deandre Swift, the Equinox gear for the Lions. Got 20 of 25. George Pickens, nasty patch on that one. Two color for the Steelers, unbreakable. Oh yes it is, Matthew. So 199, Danny Gray. Rookie auto for the Niners. And to 175 is Skye Moore. Jersey auto for the Chiefs. Grads on that. Casey, second box of 21 Obsidian. Yeah, how do you feel about Chick-a-Hoy? How do you feel about Chick-a-Hoy? I don't know what's wrong with you people. I love Chick-a-Hoy. I don't know what's wrong with all of you people. Zemir White to 75. Regular chocolate chip crunches? I don't know what that is. Cavante Turpin, nice one there, to 100. I like the lie. As I've gotten older, the Chewie have gotten more and more disgusting. I will say that, I'm not a fan of the Chewie ones. Deandre Swift. We've got to 125, Kyle Hamilton. Oh yeah, this is a very hot button issue in here. 36 of 75, two color patch, Christian Watson. Nice one there for the Packers. 2199, that is a Pierre Strong Jr. I kind of agree with that, actually. Matthew. And 175 is Alec Pierce. We got the food talk going. The girlfriend already requested I pick up nachos from 7-Eleven on the way home. Nachos from 7-Eleven. Oh yeah. I mean, it's just chips and cheese from a cheese dispenser. I know the cheese dispenser. Oh yeah. Good old cheese dispenser. Oh yeah. All right, let's do 21 contenders now. See, okay, that's pretty funny illegal, but not true. Years later. That is kind of funny. That is pretty funny. Because I kind of do know what you mean by that. They're still good though. I don't care. I still like them. The thing's bricks. Ellerson Smith for the Giants. Rookie ticket order. Ellerson Smith. Oh, Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Oh, let's go, Brian. See, that's why me and Brian are boys. Brian knows good cookies when he sees them to the yard. We ship all cards. We ship all cards. We have the round numbers, which we had from earlier. That'll go top. So sorry, Brian knows. Bobby Brown III for the Rams. Rookie of the Year, Ron Delmore. I agree with that for us. They've made them so much worse over the last like 15 years. The ones from like 15 years ago, dude, those were like God sent. 15 years is probably the last time I had tips of work. Dazz Newsom. Rookie ticket auto for the Bears. Wow, see a cracked ice kilo. Yes, sir. I'm not sorry either for you, Brian. Brian, we stand on this hill together. We stand on this hill together. That just means they're healthy for your teeth now, illegal. Now you're just giving them you more benefits to eat them. Ray Sean Slater. Nice one there to 99 for the Chargers. Now, they're not as good anymore. They used to be like, I remember those used to be like a great treat and they must have changed the recipe. They must have cheaped out on something and they're terrible now. Gas and comedies like Zoolander. Bones, Rookie ticket auto for the Patriots. There we go. Ice one there. I agree with that Pat. Yeah, no problem, Paws. Ice one there for the Pats. Mac Jones. Mac Jones Arena. MVP contenders Kirby. There's an Andre Johnson to 99. I do. I do Austin. Those are fire. Peanut Butter Kudos bars. Man. 21 Obsidian. Mr. Aaron Rodgers. Are you just saying that? Are you just trolling me? No. It looks like you're just trolling me. I don't know. Weird stuff like that will happen. They had to look. Oh, yeah. I mean anything. If you tell me anything about Lamar, I'm going to check. I think that was in response to the Mac. Orange to 75. Probably. See? That makes sense now. Purple. Orange to 75. I think that was in response to the Mac. Orange to 75. Probably. See? That makes sense now. Purple to 100. Anything about Lamar will be taken seriously. There's Terry McLauren. Got Shuba Hubbard on the Volcanic to 100. Nice one. Here to 25. Trevor Lawrence. Two color patch. I'm very on edge about that. This is not joking. Matters. Anything about Lamar? Bunch more teams coming in for contenders on Wednesday. Got Kenny G. Kenneth Gainwell to 50. Green rookie auto for the Eagles. Probably is going to be in Jett. Running back one. Didn't they pick up somebody? They did. The Eagles. Eleo, did the Eagles pick up a free agent running back to 150? Pat Friarmuth. Rookie jersey auto. Nice one there. Ejohn. Yeah, probably. For the Steelers. Let's do both our boxes of 22 prism now. Ejohn's going before the Eagles 31st picker. Probably, yeah. Oh, that's right. That's right. He's just a matter of, yes, stay healthy. You never stay healthy, you poor guy. The Lions got David Montgomery. The Lions did. Crystal Lave, emergent rookie. Purple ice, Bailey Zappie. Nice one there. Two, 225. Here in David's price. And Devonte Wyatt. Silver Alante, Taylor. Lamar to 175. For the Ravens, I'm a hyper. David York. And Jalen Naylor. I think the Eagles should take a quarterback at 10. Tommy and Bryson are here. I'm running in here now. Trevor Lawrence to 99. Blue ice. Not in the hail of having a water bottle. There's Lewis Seen to 249 for the Vikings on the Orange. Isaiah Likley and Brian Robinson, Jr. Silver, Desmond Rutter, throwback. Blue Wave, Leroy Kelly to 149. John Mechie and Kway Wong. We're at 199 on the Blue Wave, Leroy Kelly. Silver, Dante Cole-Pepper. Devon DuBernay, purple ice to 225. Ravens, color match. Carl Laftis and Danny Gray. I'd be upset if they could be John, just let, let, what's his name, kind of steal all those touchdowns. Probably gonna happen. Boston Scott. Rod Smith to 149. There you go. For the Broncos, nice one there. Sensational signatures. Jalani Woods and Bree Saul. Like this year, dude, Alvin Kamar is gonna be the ultimate handcuffed with Jamal Williams being down there. If you take Kamar, you're gonna have to take Jamal Williams. Marquis Brown to 225. Pierce Andrew Booth, whoops. There's Olave. Orange Miles Garrett to 249. Kyer Elam and Skymore. Silver, Mari Cooper. It's gonna be A, Malcolm Rodriguez to 49 for the Lions. Nice one there. That is 13 to 49. Knoop Connor, Malik Willis. Purple, Bobby Trees to 125. David Ajaba and Jerome Ford. Silver fireworks, Russ. A red wave, Andre Johnson to 149 for the Texans. Matt Corral and Kay Dotton. Yeah, Les Design. That's true. That's actually a good point, illegal. Silver, Brilliance Jamar Chase. Orange to 249. The driver for the Packers. Jeremy Ruckert and James Cook. Kind of a second box of 22 prisms. To 21 select and then we'll finish with the honors and IMAX after. Fireworks, Chris Olave to 249. Quiddipay, Orange for the Colts. Rashad White Rookie and Kenny Pickett Rookie. Nice little run right there. Silver, Nick Bonito. Fletcher Cox on the green scope to 75. Chris Olave Rookie and Charles Cross. Najee Harris, Brilliance. Logan Hall to 175. For the Bucks. Boye Mafe, Tyler Algier. Silver, Lockdown, Jalen Ramsey. Orange, Kway Walker, Rookie to 249 for the Packers. Son Haskins and a Jalen Petrie. Silver, Peyton Manning. Purple, Tua Tagavai Loa to 125. Desmond Ritter and Greg Dualsich. I would just go, the best way to do it, Paws, is just go on eBay and just go to sold listings. Like filter it by sold and you'll be able to see kind of what the value is in certain colors, certain players, you know, what's more valuable, less valuable. Eli, 25 of 50 Silver Sensational Signatures for the Giants. Nick Chubb to 149. That is the basics of it though. Right product and right numbering. Yeah. 50 more. Very true. Yeah, eBay sold listings. That's the way to go, man. Crystal Lave, Emergent. Justin Simmons, Red Wave to 149. Hutchinson and Brian Cook. Because the best thing about eBay sold listings is that's what, like people can ask anything for cards, but that gives you a look into what people are actually paying for certain things. You know what I mean? Crystal Lave. Blue Wave Leonard Williams to 199. Nino and Maastrel. That's pretty solid actually, Inspire. Yeah, no problem, pause. Yeah, 130 point is another good website. All you do is copy your search listing from eBay. Ooh, Purple Ice Kenny Pickett. 112 out of 225. Nice one there, Pittsburgh. Rats on that one. KP, Christian Watson-Rookie and Jordan Davis. Silver Russ, there's Kyle Phillips. 67 out of 75. Green Scope Auto for the Titans. Little Schier and Traylon Burke-Srookin. Silver Aiden Hutchinson. Purple Ice, Remandre Stevenson to 225. Type I, Thornton. And Kyler Gorda. Silver Height, Micah Parsons. Hyper, Remandre Stevenson to 175. K-Bon Tibodeau and Trey McBride. Who would have made Bank? Oh yeah, you know how that goes. One box of 21, select hobby. Something in here already. It's gonna be Ann Amir-Smith-Marcette to 35 on the rookie jersey for the Vikings. White variation, nice jersey match. Dan Fouts-Silver. Paris Marshall got him so happy. He doesn't announce anymore. He stunk as an announcer. Shy Smith, Jerry Stoney. Silver Eric Stokes-Rookie. James Robinson. Jalen Camp Maroon to 149. Silver Ken-Anne Wong-Lew. Matt Ryan. Frances Smith. Silver Remandre Stevenson. Pete Werner. Scourage. There's Jalen Hurts on the light blue to 99. For the Eagles, Silver Diami Brown. Field level, Ken-Anne Wong-Lew. It's called that court side. Court side. There's Jake Funk, club level silver. Taylor Heineke. Field level, not court side. Oh, Yukon. All the way. All the way, Randy. All the way. Darius Leonard, club level to 149. Silver DJ Shark and Aaron Donald. It's Jalen Darden to 199. Blue checker. Silver Debo and Jimmy G. Silver Sensations, Devonte Adams. Silver Killa-Trav and Jalen Darden. Premier level, an auto of some sort. Blue field level checker, Penny Sewell. Nice one there to 49. For the Lions, the solid hit right there. We got a Jamal Lewis, Silver Auto for the Ravens. And Jamar Jefferson. I think there might be something big in one of these last two packs here. Kyle. Zebra. Silver Rashad Bateman. Selections, Antonio Brown, Payton Turner. Looks like a tie-dye. Micah. Kurt Warner. That's it. 17 of 25, Mack Jones. Four colored RPA. Patriots killing it right now with Mack Jones. Two 21 boxes. Yeah. Yeah. Let's go. Let's go. Sean, congrats, man. Two Mack Jones coming your way. Kyle Pitts, Premier level. All right. Let's do a regular honors hobby. Two boxes, a 22 honors hobby. So this is just again the regular. No first off or anything. We'll go to honors hobby. And then we'll do the four IMAX in a row. And then we'll finish with a two honors photo. I think that's the best way to do this. Matt Corral. Two 75. And Joe Burrow. Two 20. Six of 20. Joe Burrow. Nice. Our buyback is going to be two of five. Miles Sanders. Rookie from 2019 IMAX on the shadow box. Miles Sanders. Is it Mack Jones cut a little bit long? Sean. I'm just going to put it into a top loader bowl. Make sure it gets sent the correct way. And how about a Brock Purdy? Two of 25. Big time it there for the Niners. There you go, San Fran. Heinrich. Who is it? Heinrich. Heinrich. Nice. All right. Second box of 22 honors. 22 honors regular honors hobby. That is the honors is cool, man. I hate to admit it, but it's freaking cool, dude. Bailey Zappy. Two 75. For the Patriots. And Trayvon Walker. One of one, baby. Trayvon Walker. For the Jags. Dude, that's awesome. Holy cow. One of, because I, when I was younger, I was not a fan of honors, but now I am. Very nice. We've got three of three. Purple Ice, Aaron Jones. On a, what is that? 2017 prism. Purple Ice. Dude, that's really cool. For the Packers. And we've got a green, Chris Olave. 21 of 35. Yeah, dude, we're going pretty ham. Dude, look at that, dude. That's kind of nasty. It's a rookie Aaron Jones from 17. Oh, wow. Right on a purple ice. A little Brock Purdy as well. Yeah, Brock Purdy in there. Yeah, I heard that. Two Mack Jones out of the 220 of 21 boxes. Technically a Jersey match on the, on the Aaron Jones three of three, and he's 33. So yes. There we go. Yes, it is eBay one of one. There we go. Donald B. Krum has arrived. Yes, I have. Hello, Don. I heard the shouts. I heard the shouts of Sam, which aren't part of the two. I had to investigate. There's two of them. Oh, there's the RPA and then there was also contenders. The black old Allen to eight. Base ticket. Base ticket. Pick it. Pick it. Yes. Good break so far, man. Yeah, solid. Jeffrey Simmons, five of five. Nice one there. The siren song of Sam shouting. His last name is Krum. That's kind of cool. Pat Friar Muth, 24 of 99. Two color patch for the Steelers. We've got Matt Stafford, clearly immaculate. That is 40 of 49. That's sick. I love these, dude. Don Laceous B. Krum. We've got one of three. Jameson Williams on the cap patch. New era, baby. It's that logo. Nope, that logo right there, baby. New era. I'm not mad at this one, I'd say, right? The JMO. It's cool too. 35 of 49 is going to be a Heinz Ward for the Steelers. Player worn, Heinz. 69 of 99. Matt Corral, three colored RPA for the Panthers. Very nice. Congrats, Carolina. Kicking up a Matt Corral RPA. Box two. Our second box of imac redemption on the back here. Rashad Bateman. 61 of 99 for the Ravens. 47 of 99. Four-color patch is Gabe Davis for the Bills. Nice one there, Buffalo. Gabriel Davis. Cots and Aaron Rodgers. Clearly immaculate. 51 of 99. Player worn, A-Rod. Okay, a mortgage for those cookies for us. I know. Followed by 34 of 49. Dallas Goddard. Modern marks for the Eagles. Cool one there. A lot of teams coming off the board right now. Contenders, everybody. 22 of 49. Jahan Dotson for the Commanders. Nice one there as well. Shadowbox Jahan Dotson, J-Dot. And for the Niners. Immaculate signatures. Patches rookie gold to 10. Tyrion Davis Price. TDP going to the Niners. So in there, Henrik. Henrik, you are just anything is gravy at this point now, my friend. First off the line, we've got two iMac photos and two honors photos still. Good luck, everybody. Ready to do these patches and iMac photos go kind of crazy. There's always going to be something sick to look for in these. Michael Thomas. First off the line, exclusive 20 of 23 for the Saints. We've got six of 25. David Bell. That's nasty, dude. That's sick. That's your boy. Saints. That's your boy. I need it. This is sweet, dude. How about five of seven? Nameplate. J-Bo wins. Jamis Winston for the Saints. Ice one there. Huge. Crab legs, baby. Eat the W. That's sweet. That's really sweet. 23 of 49 is a Jalen Petrie rookie auto for the Texans. Misunderstanding. According to your buddy. We've got 15 of 25. John Mechie. Eye black, two colored RPA. Seven of 18. How about it? Jamis and Williams. Ice one there. First off the line, exclusive RPA for the Lions at J-Mo. Nice. J-Maroni. Oh, it was real. He walked out of there without paying for it, for sure. But I think they had a little deal going with Jamis and the guys stopped and didn't know about that. Gotcha. Understandable. I think Jamis was just walking out with stuff alive. Chris Godwin. Three of 23. This one's nasty for the Seahawks. Two of five. Canine. What the hell? We're going to do it twice, dude. Because we're going to go with a Tony Pollard right behind it. Four of five. Back-to-back laundry tags. Seahawks and Cowboys. That's awesome, dude. Laundry tags. Tony Pollard and Kenneth Walker. Not bad. All right. Another word. There's Calvin Austin, 58 of 99. Rookie Eye Black Jersey on. Clint Austin. David Piazz, 19 of 99. That is Vilis Jones Jr., three colored RPA. Oh, spots coming in. Thank you, everybody. And nice one here. That is going to be three of 18. Drake London. Two colored, two colored RPA for the Falcons. Drake London. Empty, empty. It's time, baby. Honors Photo. Two boxes. I like photos. These two. Quick recap. That's going to do it for Sunday. Donnie. What? This is a Donnie card. What? You'll see it in just a second. That right there. Aw. Yeah, you know, like the trash. You know, like the, I like turtles, kid. I like photos. Monro St. Brown, two, 99. Purple, Kevon Tibbeto, two, 12. We've got a Bailey Zappy. That is going to be 13 out of 15. You could recap with this Zappy. I just brought you in there for the trauma. Yeah. The PTSD. How about a one of one from Panini One. He's got an X himself. Brian Dawkins. That is cool. That's so sick, dude. From 2018 Panini One football. Brian Dawkins. I am jealous of that one. Oh yeah. Whoever has Philly. Yeah. Yeah. Got second. First off the line. Good job, Philly. Good work. That was pretty sick. Last box of the break. Let's see. Too soon, Panini. Wow. Way to kick a man while he's down, Panini. Way to just sit there and boom, boom, boom. While a man's down. There's Drake London, 275. Hey, Saquon Barkley, two, 12. We've got Kevon Tibbeto. God, that's so gross, too. Two of 15. And going to Phil Kay with the Ravens. One of one from 2018 IMAQ. Lamar Jackson. Good God, man. That's nasty. It's a four-colored patch right there. 2018. That looks like first off the line exclusive, too. With the green. That's nasty, dude. Holy cow. What a break, dude. Look at how many mags we have. I mean, including obviously the DK stuff, but... Good lord. Man, Sam, even the cards are taunting you. Yeah, I know. That's what I was saying. We're like Panini's just sitting there just going boom, boom, boom. While I'm down already. That's awesome, dude. Congrats on that one, Phil. There you go, my friend. One of one, Lamar. I've never been more hurt by a card in my life right there. All right. Let's do a quick recap, guys. We had Tony Pollard, Laundry Tag. Kenneth Walker, Laundry Tag. That is going to be Gabe Davis. Jamus Winston, five of seven. Cool one there. David Bell. Aaron Rodgers. Pat Fryermuth. Matthew Stafford. Mirosmith Marseille. Trevor Lawrence. Chuba Hubbard. Christian Watson. Kyle Hamilton. George Pickens. Deandre Swift. There's a Terry McLaurin. Duel for the Steelers. Hunter Renfrow. And Kyle Pitts. Tony Gonzalez. Passing the Twitch. No, like all jokes aside, that's a nasty card, dude. We got Drake London to 18. Jalen Petrie. Dallas Goddard. Johan Dotson. Calvin Austin. Veilish Jones. John Matchy. Tyrion Davis Price. Hines Ward. Matt Corral. Jamal Lewis. Kyle Phillips. Eli Manning. Malcolm Rodriguez. Rod Smith. Pat Fryermuth. Kenneth Gainwell. Rashon Slater. Daz Newsom. Bobby Brown. Ellerson Smith. Alec Pierce. Pierre Strong Jr. Skymore. Danny Gray. Demetric Felton. And I'm going to go for it. Demetric Felton. Louis Seen. Chance Campbell. Jalen Thompson. Skyler Thompson. Jalen Tolbert. Chris Olave. Matt Corral. Nick Chubb. Sam Howell. Matt Jones. Again, it's cut a little bit long. We've got a K-Von Tibidon case to 15, like organizing these. So many mags, dude. It's insane. I know I started in the beginning, but. Two of five, Miles Sanders. Byback from honors. We had a three of three, Aaron Jones on a purple ice rookie for the Packers. That's actually really freaking cool. Matt Jones. What happened? They pulled Devon. There's a gold Devon. Oh, man. That's cool. Yeah, that's a tough one. All right. Let's see. Next year. Got Resol on the blue short print. Oh, my Twitter got hacked. I don't use it, so it's not a big deal, but that's kind of funny. Jameson Williams, one of three on the New Era cap patch. It's probably illegal. Probably. There's a Chris Olave, 21 of 35. My buddy just asked me. He's like, I'm like promoting a Bitcoin thing apparently. Been there. Oh yeah. I can't even sign into it. It looks like that. That's a lost cause. You've got Bailey Zappie to 15. Do next, I guess. Kenny Pickett, purple ice to 225. The Steelers. We've got a Jameson Williams, seven of 18. First off the line. A Brock Purdy. That is a two of 25. Josh Allen. That is one of eight black gold for the bills. A Brian Dawkins, one of one. Panini won buyback from honors. A one of one Trayvon Walker. That's nasty from honors as well on the rookie. And a one of one Lamar Jackson, four colored RPA for the ratings. Heartbreaker, but awesome. That'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up we got nothing. 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UCv7UzpEOorHQripmWtBCXGw	Repair culture in a refugee camp context - Fixfest 2022	In this first session from Fixfest 2022 in Brussels, Ugo from The Restart Project introduces Mathew Lubari, co-founder of Community Creativity for Development (CC4D). Mathew is a South-Sudanese refugee who works to promote repair in Rhino refugee camp, Uganda. Mathew speaks about the history of his work in the camp to provide repair services, repair training, community awareness around repair and e-waste, technical support and upcyling. Learn more about Community Creativity for Development here: https://www.facebook.com/CC4D.Uganda/ -- Fixfest is a regular global gathering of repairers and tinkerers, activists, policy-makers, thinkers, educators and companies from all over the world. We meet every couple of years. Fixfest 2022 was an international gathering for community repair in Brussels. It was organised by The Restart Project in collaboration with the European Right to Repair Campaign, and Belgian partners Repair Together and Repair & Share. Learn more about Fixfest at https://fixfest.org -- Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:20 Mathew's presentation 39:41 Questions	[ "refugee", "Rhino Camp", "repair", "CC4D" ]	2022-12-05T17:05:57	2024-02-05T08:58:50	2,757	PcReXWe8wYo	So, we are running a little bit late, so we are going to go straight to the most exciting part of this session. And I am incredibly happy to be able to welcome and introduce Matthew Lubari, who is an amazing volunteer and activist in Uganda, co-founder of Community Creativity for Development, an organization operating in the Rhino Camp refugee camp in northern Uganda, where they are inventing the future of repair in frugal and creative and incredibly inspiring ways. And it's really a honor to have Matthew with us, particularly considering that until less than a month ago, it was not yet holding a passport. And it is literally a miracle that we are here with him today, and so I'd love you to give him a warm welcome. We've known Matthew for the past year in a bit, and he reached out to us, and we kind of could tell straight away that he had a lot to say, and we've learned already so much from communicating and engaging with him and his group, and I'm sure we'll learn a lot more today and throughout the weekend. So without any further ado, I'll give the floor to Matthew, and we'll just switch to his presentation, and here we go. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Hello, fixers. Hey, you guys not happy? Thank you so much. I'm so happy to be here. I'm called Matthew, the Barry, and I come from South Sudan, originally, but I live in Uganda as a refugee. I came to Uganda since 2016 when the war, which is recall the manmade problems that happened back home and forced us to come to Uganda, where we came in separate directions. Mother came in a different way. The kids, everyone came in a very different direction, and so happy that today I'm here and to share my story with you guys. Renokam refugee settlement is located in the northwest of Uganda, and it hosts about 120,000 refugees from South Sudan, Rwanda, Burundi, Deara Congo, and Central Apricot Republic. But majorly, many of the refugees are from South Sudan, where I come from. And I happen to be co-founder and at the same time the director for community creativity for development, which is located in the Renokam refugee settlement in a small village called Eden. And community creativity for development, it was formed when we realized that there was a gap in repair and reuse of electronics within the settlement. And we are a group of three co-founders, two gentlemen and one female. So it's a little bit balanced, but not fully, when we talk about gender inclusion, right? So though it's not yet balanced, but I think we are going to do the balancing. And we had been on ground since 2021, but originally the idea came up in 2019. So a year, like three years, then we became so operational, like visible on ground. The other years we were trying to put things in place so that we establish ourselves well. And the aim is to connect communities while protecting the environment from global warming. So that is the major aim of community creativity for development. We have a vision of a transform the community that is fully in control of the available, I mean, the socioeconomic well-being using the available resources, so that to protect the environment from global warming, promote openness, reduce poverty, and build peace among the community. Those are the figures and this is the aerial photography taken in 2021 of a small village in Rhino Camp, and it's called Ocea. And Rhino Camp has up to 30,000 households and up to seven zones. Of course, the biggest zone has 12,051 households and all those people, you know, have devices in their hands and those includes items for lightning and energy, communication and information, mechanical, electrical items and textiles, items, of course, the closets, the mobile phones, bicycles, and solar lanterns, which were distributed to the refugees during arrival in 2016. And we have quite a number of activities that we do. First thing is the repair of electronics that we carry on at least on a daily basis. And we quite do it in a different way that I'm going to tell you about. And we do also trainings on the repair and providing ICT mentorship, including digital competence training, where we train the refugees themselves on how they can use the smartphone to access information, how they can use a laptop to browse or play music. And this is aimed at relieving the stress that has been caused by the war so that someone can live in a stressless environment. And we do also awareness raising on a repair and reuse, including e-waste management. And we also do upcycling of some of the items, though not all, back to the story, how things started. And it started in 2017 to 2018, when I was in the Rhino-Kam refugee settlement, I managed to fluke with a zip of tools right away, you can see a screwdriver, a cutter, a toothbrush, and a scissor, which had helped me to push things on, much as power issues were there, no tools, no table, good table where you can put something, the electronic device when it, but we had to continue and at least provide services to the community. I was joined with a lady who is now a gender activist in promoting women inclusion in a repair café or in a repair culture, and she's called Edina Dower. Right here she appears in different pictures. And coming to October 2018 to 2020, we had our first repair café event, which was introduced by an organization called Rogue Agents. It's a Berlin-based organization that supports refugees in Uganda, in South Sudan, and also it supports people in post-conflict areas in Cameroon, and they were the first organization that introduced repair café in the settlement and sparked up things. But before that, I want to tell you some three things that inspired me to do repair. One is my dad. My dad is a medical personnel, but he likes fixing things. I used to watch him when I was a little kid, 12 to 14 years. He could watch him fixing his watch and his radio. He loved listening to news. Currently we don't stay together. He's back in the country, but sometimes we communicate on phone. So five years I haven't set my eyes on him. But he's doing good. Second thing was when I had my first smartphone. I placed it on a table and one of my cousins tried to play around with it and locked my phone. So I was locked out. I couldn't access anything in my phone because the security was done in a different thing. So when I took it to the technician, I asked him, can you fix for me my phone? He said, yeah, I can fix for you. It was a guy from India and while repairing, he told me to go and wait outside because he never wanted me to see how he fixed things. But I tend to stood somewhere where I can peep and see what he was doing. And I was watching closely what he was doing. How he was moving his hands while trying to fix my phone. So he asked for money and that was a lot of money for me because I didn't have a job. And that was in 2013. I was still a student. So painfully I paid the money. But it has challenged me and I went back home with that phone. I got online, did some bit of research on how to fix the same problem. I locked the phone and unlocked it. And I was happy when I unlocked it. I got challenged. I was like, no, I need to teach people how to repair. I want to make repair open. Third thing was also in 2013 in Kampala. I used my laptop in the evening, coming to the morning, tried to open it. Could not power on. Took to a technician. He tried to fix it. He failed. Instead of giving me my laptop in a good shape, he removed some parts, so sad. My hard drive disk got changed. The network adapter was taken and I was like, damn, is it how things are done? So he told me, we can't work on your computer, it's dead. So I took it to a certain place, it's called PC world. When I reached there, the first looked at the screws. And they told me, your computer someone tampered with and they opened. So we can't help work it for you because it's already opened by someone. I got angry. I stood by, I was like, just help me open it once. And he checked, so your network card got taken and your hard disk has changed. When I reached back to the very person who first opened my laptop, he almost fought me. But I never had power because I was young. So I had to let it go and my laptop just ended. So those three scenarios, you know, made me to check repair app and teach people openly how to fix things. So back to this story, well in 2018 when the first repair cafe happened and this organization rogue agents gave me one of the toolbox that kid, the black kid is called Asquatec. And Asquatec means access to skills, knowledge and network is a tool kit that comprises of mechanical tools for, I mean tools also for fixing mobile phones and other things for mending because it has needles inside where you can mend your clothes. So it's kind of having a lot of things inside. And I was given the empty tool kit with only a solar iron, multimeter and a manual, a repair manual which also comprises of how someone can build a solar charger and build solar panels. So I took this tool kit and tried to fill it up. But while trying to fill it up, it was very hard for me because I'm in a refugee camp and there's no money. So every time I wanted to repair, we go borrow the other full tool kit which was given to another hub. So we had to borrow and try to use for fixing. And also got involved in responding to research questions from different researchers, but mostly from the European countries. Being involved in these interviews, you know, it opened up my mind a lot where I was able to contribute largely. Some researchers I could tell them, you know, I don't have internet, maybe if you could provide me internet, then I can be able to be online and share with you how we do things. And of course, some respondents. An example, one of the researchers called Filippi, I don't know, might be here, but he did respond it and sent me some airtime. And some individuals as well did trust us and were able to support us when I tried to initiate establishment of the organization. I'm very proud and happy today to meet him. Mr. Ota Donanson, please, I'm so happy to see you. He has been so instrumental and he risked to support though we never met. It was just on text, but he trusted and supported a lot. Coming to the restart project, it was last year when I came to meet online with the restarters. So I was going through searching the word repairs and boom, I landed on the restart project's Facebook page, made a comment of what I'm up to, and I got a response through the Facebook page to send a concept note and a budget. When I sent, we went into these customs with Ugo, had a virtual call that was in October. And yeah, the feedback was nice. And in December, we got nominated to receive some grants to support the initiative. It was worth 5,000 US dollars and which has led to the establishment of CC4D, where you see that house. It was so great. And after that, we were able to join the restarters group. Imagine by then I was doing the repair because I got challenged in one way or the other. Some people made me to do it and to teach, but I never knew I was contributing for the planet, like preventing the planet from global warming. But when I joined the team of the restarters and with other colleagues, I was able to learn new things about how repair contributes to the planet. So incredible, whereby I was able to meet other researchers and be able to meet repair café Malmo, and I fixed it team through the repair café Malmo who were able to receive I fixed it tools, a business tool pack all the way. I think I still don't remember the location which was sent, but up to Rhinocombe refugee settlement in the village. That's why we say repair is everywhere. And I used to say repair has no boundaries, can be done by anybody at any time. So what we have so far done as an organization, we had done trainings where we trained 35 refugees, 20 males and 15 females, and we were advocating for women inclusion in repair culture because women in our side, they fear touching electronics. So we wanted to tell them that please don't fear to touch electronics, it doesn't kill. Do fix it, and we are encouraging the women technicians, and which has packed a lot and more women are interested in joining the repair or to become technicians. We also hold up to six repair café events where up to 350 items were fixed, and those includes the mobile phones, the radios, solar lights, or the solar lanterns, solar inverters, computers, bicycles, clothes and footwear. So it's sort of not a specialized one, but it's a remix, mixed of things because we never wanted to leave one part out, but at least hope in a broader way. That's why we are doing that. And we do it in our small space and sometimes we go out to other areas, though it's quite challenging to reach some of the parts due to long distance from one village to another. And we also do provide access to tools for the community. When someone wants to fix something, they come to the center and fix their thing or take the tool and return it back. We also do the collection and upcycling of electronics waste. So over there, it's quite an innovation that we tried out on making wooden electrical extension cables, which is aimed at replacing the electrical extension cables made out of plastic waste. So we are kind of shifting, like trying to eliminate the plastic waste or reduce the plastic waste. I know it's quite not easy to do that, but we try to put it up a little bit. And we collect some of the waste items from the community, though it's quite challenging for someone to give their dead electronics. The culture is different. Everyone keeps, even if it's dead, but they want just to keep it and keep seeing it there. And sometimes when upcycling those things, especially the solar lights, we rebuild them and make it work again by removing some of the components and try to put in a different board or solder them and make it work. We also had the awareness on US management to the community where we have reached over 500 community members with messages on step disposal of electronics waste whereby we encourage them to bring to our small center for safe keeping. And we also tell them the good news on repair and reuse of items. Why we need to repair the items, we give them that information and it has changed the mindset of the community. And above all, while doing this, we also create employment to the youths because those youths that we trained, we always involve them in our repair sessions and they quickly respond and when they respond, whenever we get something small for coffee or transport, we give them and everyone goes back happy at the end of the day and we are able to buy airtime and access information. But along the way we had been challenged with challenges and the biggest problem is the lack of spare parts and the high prices of the spare parts. And that is something even yesterday it's being talked about. The other thing is the quality of the products. You find the market is being flopped by poor quality products which does not last for long. You buy it, it doesn't take a year, it's broken and can't be fixed. So sad. And the limited tools that we have and sometimes the software locks, some of the community members we are not able to help them to unlock those software locks because we couldn't have the tools or the manuals, how to unlock them. And the mobility issues which has also hindered us and above all, the lack of funds has really, really put us not to expand to other areas, despite the long, the bigger population that is in Rhinocom. And the power issue as well is also one of our biggest problem in the settlement, access to reliable power, it's not there and we don't have a very good conducive storage to store lots of the items for the community. So in the last one line, that's the poor quality products and the community behaviors towards repair has been changed because of the awareness that we have done to the community. But much as we have done the awareness, there's still a huge number of electronic items that are not working and needed to be fixed. And they are still in the hands of the community members. And the repair cafe, it promotes peaceful coexistence among us, the refugees and the host communities within the refugee settlement. Because when we came, you know, there are different tribes. And there are specific tribes back home that's like there's that hatred among some of our tribes because say you caused the war or you caused this. So still when it came to the camp, they still that hatred in the minds of the refugees. But with the community repair cafes, we are able to bring all those communities together during the repairs and they were able to converse normally, yeah, without any friction. And at the end of the day, you walk together, chat and peace has been promoted. So repair cafe event, it promotes peace in conflict related areas. I'm not going to read all this because of time, but I think it might be shared online and can be, you know, someone can easily read most of the things. We have some few recommendations and it's in the sub online of supporting the repair cafe centers since it's a very good platform for the community. And we also look forward to creating more awareness raising on the repair culture. And we're also thinking of if repair could be introduced in schools. Early enough so that people grow up with the culture of the repair. Because you find there it's different that it's normally introduced at institutions, higher institutions or universities as short courses, but has the basics has not been, you know, put right away from the foundation. So we believe that when it's introduced at the early stage, it can change people's behaviors. And people can really take it up and reduce a bigger number of waste. And we have a bigger picture that we had put. We look forward to put more repair cafe events. Establish also at least a repair cafe event in a zone. But that doesn't happen if we don't join our hands together. Because one person cannot be able to lift a very huge stone. But together we believe that we can push it hard and we can achieve our goal. And these are the people or the partners that we had been working together that has been supporting us. Most of you know all this that I've been talking. And this is the smaller team that is behind CC4D. It's a young, talented team and which has various skills in fixing mobile phones, electrical items and laptops, bicycles. And we have also, they act also as photographers. The pictures that you see are also taken by the big team that you see in front. And these are our contacts in case you want to reach us, feel free to reach us and welcome support from anyone, from anywhere. Repair has no boundary and repair is everywhere. I'm so happy to be here and to share my story though has been long, but I'm happy and I welcome if there are questions. This is a team of women that we trained on repair and we call them our women technicians. So they are good at fixing now and whenever we go for repair cafes, we always call them to participate. And they are also inspiring more women to join the repair culture. Thank you so much and I welcome questions or comments. Thank you so, so much, Matthew. I will open the floor to questions with the caveat that we are obviously running already behind. So we, in for respect to all the sessions next, we postpone everything by 20 minutes. So your program mentally adapt everything by 20 minutes and shorten slightly the lunch. Okay, in a very dictatorial way, I just decided this. And so there's a few minutes for questions for Matthew or comments. You want to translate that? No, questions. Any question? My name is Carla Fransam from the municipality of Appledorn. A very interesting presentation, a completely different world for me, but very interesting to hear. And I was wondering, you also were talking about recycling, reusing e-waste. Where does it come from, the e-waste? Sorry? Where does it come from, the e-waste? Does it come from out of the camp? Yeah, from within the camp. Yeah, not from out of the camp. Yeah, not from out because we are currently operating within the camp settings. Thank you. Really great presentation. What outside of the camp, what is the repair situation in Uganda in general? Is it, is there a right to repair, community-based repair going on more broadly in Uganda? Or is this really mostly just in the camp? Thank you. The repair situation in Uganda is that mostly it's in the cities that you find the commercial repairs. But I've never seen a community repair cafe center being operated or running in Uganda. But we are the first who are doing community repair cafes which are not paid for. Hi again. My name is Louise. I work with the French Red Cross and congratulations for the project. It's very, very impressive and I have tons of questions but I'll just keep one for now. With the upcycling that you're doing and the new models that you're creating like the wooden charging stations, do you have a way or a kind of Wikipedia where you're sharing the models that you're testing outside of CC4D? Thank you. Yeah, sure. We do. And we always also publish our information online, especially how someone can make that. And we are currently doing its documentary, documenting it online on Wikifactory. So hopefully we are going to share it globally so that people can access. Hi, Matthew. This is Pudna and it's a great presentation and thanks for presenting it and exploring and sharing your information. I would like to know that have you been able to connect with the other local repair people persons in your community because Africa and Uganda is known for its innovations. And have you been able to connect with them in any way? I mean, I don't know where exactly you stay, how it's reachable or not reachable, but the knowledge is immense. I mean, we are not able to connect with many of them, but there are few of them that we are able to connect. Yeah. But most of them, you know, those are commercial fixers. And it's quite hard for them, you know, to narrow themselves back to the community and to provide repairs at a free cost. Any more questions? Just a quick one. And what's the situation on power? Do you have, presumably in the refugee camp, you have no grid power? Is it all solar, solar cells and inverters? Do you have, you know, AC power to power all of these devices or is it all DC? Power is still a problem in the refugee camp because there is no particular organization or humanitarian organization that has taken up to provide power in the settlement. So it's not reliable. So during our operations, we had our small little generator that we carry or never want to do the repairs. And we're not, we're not neat. Power repairs usually take eight hours or six hours a day, but our center remains open Monday to Friday where people bring, you know, their gadgets for fixing. But power is a very great challenge. Thank you so, so much. And feel free obviously to chat and learn more from Matthew throughout the weekend. Thanks again. And now to the next round of sessions. Thanks. Thank you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcReXWe8wYo", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCrM4z9DzdvD3bnA5E7tDtKQ	Randolph Selectboard - Special Meeting November 18, 2021 [RS]		null	2021-11-22T18:30:04	2024-02-05T06:09:24	4,690	PcLe1bqgdMs	So I'm going to call the meeting to order 532 meeting of the energy committee with the select board as a working meeting to make some plans for our town policy work going forward on this topic. I think we need to start by having a motion to approve the agenda. So moved. I don't think of her sounds like that got to it. I got a little bit before you. That's right. And then I believe we would move on to public comment, which would be about items that are not on the agenda. Not really expecting much for that. And then we can move into our, our meeting. I'm missing anything Trevor. You got it. You walk this into it. We'll stay at open meeting law jail for the moment. All right. So one of the things that I think the energy advisory committee has done is there is a little presentation prepared. I think two of the slides have some of the projects they've been working on on it. So if the board's okay with that we can do a little screen share. And it looks like everybody who's listed on that is somewhere either in the room or on zoom. You're okay to start that way or we can dig in any other way but that's what's been the sort of for you. That sounds great unless there's some objection. Yeah, let's do it. I'm just going to do a screen share here and. Okay, this will take like three minutes. Okay, everybody's got that right on the screen. Okay. Thank you. Oh, I got an introduction. And some opening remarks. The active members of the energy committee. And our Susan Mills. Who had been on the energy for a decade like I have. And we've managed to work with our two young members Jeff grout and Mary Davis on five projects in the last 15 months, including one during the worst of coven 19. And we have the advice welcome advice of Pat French direct us. The energy committee works on most projects with the R3 energy task force, which came out of Randolph winning. The third climate model community in the state of Vermont. So we had the opportunity to work with John co pans for a year. And out of that effort came the hotel possibility, the hiring of Josh Jerome, Sam Hooper's glove shop was being heated by coal. We had zero belly solar panels on it. And as you correctly identified, we are an advisory committee, but we're known for being the economic or energy, economic energy committee. And we request. The select board. The chair and Trevor work with us the last time that the select board called in the energy committee was five years ago. We were very rich for the energy committee. And we had Pete Thonen. He who was the expert at that time. So we really, really want to work with you. We have a lot of strength with her with the energy committee. And we're here tonight to start that process going. Well, no, we're here as a result of coming to the select board in at the last meeting. And if there's nothing else that I can communicate at this point in time, the importance of the legislator in 2021, 20, I got that one wrong. I'm going to fix it Susan 20, passing the global solution act. Requiring an action plan by December one. And I've gone to a significant number of meetings, and it's the best run of planning process, they have five subcommittees working. And it's also an advice from the energy action network be heard and so on. And it's the future if we're going to deal with global warming significantly, it's going to come out of that activity. You're just so you know. So, what does a select board want communicated tonight, I know from Larry because he put it out. And on the network recently, but he wanted to learn how we can be more save money on energy and get on the track of get off the track of fossil fuels and more electric vehicles. So, at this point in time, I'm going to turn it over to Mary Ann. Okay, so, um, so the next slide is, is a projects list and this is really just a brainstorming list. And what we're hoping to, to get from the select or tonight is feedback on these ideas now some of these projects or projects that have been worked on, and they'll be continued. We'll continue to work on those some of them are new ideas. And so we'd love to have your feedback. And we also, we're also wondering if there are other committees that might be working on these projects, what you know the best way to coordinate with other committees, if they, if they are working on similar projects. And how we coordinate with our funding and how we coordinate with the town in terms of funding and that sort of thing. So, if you look at them, they're basically under two categories and the first is reducing fossil fuel in the building sector. Sorry. Yeah, I don't see any images. All I see is the file I don't see anything open. I don't know if anybody else is having the same problem. It's just, it's just a projects list you don't see the list. No, I don't see the list we're only seeing something says select communications number two. And already see project brainstorm 2021. They look like their files that need to be open. Yeah. I could last the screen share maybe just showing the folder. Yeah. You see files. I don't know. We can try to screen share it real quick. And if not, if you've got a print out, it might just be working. Yeah, it works if it doesn't work. Oh, okay. Can you see it now. There you go. All right, good. Okay, so this is the brain stormed projects list that we would love your feedback on. And we basically broke it up into two very broad segments. And the first is reducing fossil fuel use in the building sector, we increase them increasing thermal efficiency. And underneath that we have weatherization. And as I'm sure you know, the committee has done weatherization work with capstone communities and other partners. And Susan and Gary could speak to that in terms of the history of our weatherization work since I'm new I'm new as of August so I think that there is probably some ARPA funding for that. So that's actually a question maybe for the select board in terms of whether or not there is ARPA funding. And then just a little piece of data that I got from the energy action network website the number of buildings and Randolph that are completely weatherized or 400. So I don't know if you want to do this if you want to just look at it. So I'm just going to go back to the sort of reading things on the window dresser's project. That's a project again, that is in progress. And Gary is probably the best person to talk about that that's basically building window inserts. And then my understanding is putting those window inserts into municipal buildings. Is that right? Yeah, that's correct. That was actually a project started two or three years ago and was set back. by COVID-19 and some reorganization within the Energy Committee but Jeff Grout and myself and a member of the Lisa from the Rotary went down to Fetford a few weeks back and learned how to make these inserts and we look at this as an opportunity to get all the public the rotary public citizens working together for a common good and we expect to do that next fall. I just want to say the insert Mary and said that the inserts were going to be in the municipal buildings there. They are not. They are for residential, especially low income residential places. Yeah. Okay, and the next, the next idea is to work on a community. And one idea is to partner with Norwich Solar. Apparently there are two and actually Brendan Mallee is here from Norwich Solar and he could answer questions about two projects that are on the Davis Road one or I guess one is on the Davis Road one is near the Davis Road. Is that right? One is in the process of being permitted. And they're interested in partnering with potentially schools or maybe municipal buildings that he can answer any questions that folks might have about that. The other thought is to work on heat pumps and increase in the number of heat pumps installed in Randolph. Currently, again, according to that to the data, there are 83. That might be something we can work on with efficiency Vermont. So, I don't know if we want to do questions like under this first section or what people want to do. Anybody can chime in. Any questions? So, some of my concerns here, okay, would be, you know, maybe this is where you can use the ARPA funds, but we have a lot of municipal buildings right now that I think could benefit from weatherization and also changeovers from the fuels they're using. And I know, for example, you know, Chandler is going to need a new boiler or going to need some significant boiler work and that's one of our biggest energy users. So, those are the kind of things I'd love to work on is how do we get some of these municipal buildings into the carbon neutral zone here. Yeah, and one thing we could start with possibly is a list of the municipal buildings that could be considered. And the town offices is another, I don't know how modern but the heating and air conditioner heating, the HVAC system is here but that might be a starting point where we could actually list all the specific buildings and see if there are improvements to each building. Well, I think when you look at what the consumption is, things like Randolph Center Garage, the Village Garage, Chandler, okay, just to start off with those, Kimbell's probably not that well insulated, I'm not sure. But if you start looking at the cost of what we're spending on, you can take care of those buildings and now that probably fuel costs are going to go up for us. I think that would be a really good place for this committee to scope for some time on. Yeah, the R3 committee went through a file list of all the all the municipal buildings and they're pretty pitiful as far as their energy use when never been any real weatherization or efforts to look at things like motors or lighting or any of those things. So, there's a lot that can be done in municipal buildings just needs somebody to pay attention. The committee needs to be working on this because that's just somebody's got to take the lead on those properties and, you know, certainly we can find out what the numbers are but I think you'll look and see how much money we're spending on on heat alone. For those five or six facilities you're going to be quite shocked when you see what the numbers are. John not looked into that three or four years ago and we have some data on that but we there's also data on the energy dashboard that we can pull in and we will gladly take that as a task. Yeah, I think one thing we could offer also is tracking that not just inventory at once but you know, regular reporting of the energy use of the key buildings and that might be something our committee could help with. Well, the reason I'm bringing this up is because you're exactly right we talked about it in our three when I was on the budget committee probably seven or eight years ago we talked about it and here we are still going nowhere is in my opinion. He's a baseline. Let's get on it. Well there that's what that's what this committee should be working on go somebody needs to be doing the analysis figure out what's going to cost how do we change over can we make heat pumps work in those buildings or you know doing they need to be you know pellets type situation like Sam like Sam Hooper put in I mean those are the kind of things I think we need to be moving forward to here and right now if we're going to have to make an investment in some form of heating system to fix Chandler I think now's time to start looking at that. Yeah, that's good. And that's really one of the keys that we wanted to address at this meeting is what are the key. I don't know two three or four energy projects that that are the priorities for the town if you have any now and this is that's an excellent example I mean that's something we can jump on and start tracking and I think that's the key is to track it. I don't know if it's month to month or here I would think month to month energy bills would be the way to start and I don't know if anybody has that data now or if that's something we can. I think bills and all these buildings for years I got to believe we've got the numbers. Okay, so I don't know if you're tracking it's going to be the solution I think the solution is to figure out what we're going to do to change those things. Yeah, but you got to know what you're using now in order to know how far we can reduce it to so I get that but we have the data we've been paying oil bills and all these buildings for years. I think you know, having the data and that sort of thing having the list is great but we have always run up against, you know, inertia at the town level as far as doing anything about energy in these buildings. So I think what we really need is to have some kind of effort to designate someone to be responsible for getting the energy conservation measures put in somebody who was actually able to take responsibility for that. It sounds to me like we need some sort of an overall energy on it, you know, just like what people do for their homes seems like we need something like that townwide for the municipal buildings, where then someone can come back to us and they can say, here are all the places you can improve. And this kind of improvement will cost you this much money and the solution and the solution will save you this much of money and so we can start to work our way down the list starting with the lowest hanging fruit and the stuff which is going to have the biggest bang for our buck and then kind of just tick them off as we have the funds to invest in these improvements. And Vermont does that very job and we can easily bring them into the equation. That'd be great. The town has to have the will to pursue them. I'm hoping that this activity is going to help that. That is just meeting this discussion. Yeah, I know I agree and I would like to see that happen. I'd like to see us, you know, have this sort of a list in front of us and then we can say to ourselves, well, we budget for the year we can say how much money are we willing to budget for, you know, what are the energy improvements in the next year and then go down our list and say, okay, we can afford this one this one and this one. Next one will be next year, you know, some, you know, we, you know, I don't know exactly what those will be but to engage in that kind of a process where we can prioritize. So Trevor, do there's ARPA funds qualify for any of this kind of stuff. I think there's the potential for maybe some of the programmatic elements that we've talked about, such as the weatherization and that's an idea that the treaty had submitted separately too. There might be some programmatic dollars infrastructure based dollars I think we have to dig into a little bit. It's one of the things that the ARPA subcommittee could identify. Maybe how one other subcommittee that's in play then ties into these larger efforts related to energy, because that's, that's the group that's going to dig into what's allowed in how they do think if I remember I saw that there might be some programmatic capabilities there to take advantage of. I think that would be kind of official. And we, and we can pull usage data from those energy bills and just upstairs. Who would do that. We have to coordinate access through the manager's office it might be given our current short handed status it might have we might have to see who to do that. We have to pull each individual bill and compile them based on what's kept upstairs, and we can maybe reach out to the separate providers and see in a given year what the usage wasn't shortcut some of the, the grant work. So you'll initiate that. If that's what comes out of tonight. We can, we can initiate that yeah. I do admire that the energy committee's done this several times before. And then whatever's recommended doesn't get carried forward so it's very important that the town is committed to energy efficiency and meeting the standards that the state is setting. One of the conclusions I've come to is that I think we need a staff person, or we're going to need a staff person if we're going to within the next five or 10 years make. Anywhere's near the progress that we're supposed to be making for organizing help. Using in a sustainability coordinator model like some other communities have added or. Yeah, I'm thinking Hartford added one I think somebody that somebody else. Yeah. Well, yeah, Harvard push these issues for Hartford hired. Jeff Martin three years ago. And he has moved on and work for six towns, but he's how in to two rivers out of Quiche. And so he is responsible for those six towns and they pay his check, but two rivers out of Quiche is just hired Steve. Steve Bauer Bauer, who is with who we actually Marianne contact with already. Yes, I mean right now it's my understanding that Steve Bauer is our point person on energy projects through to reverse whether it's too late if the town was interested in joining up with the other six towns who are using. They have no idea that that those six towns, as Gary said are sharing with this one person to do that kind of work. So that model is out there too. Yeah, that's a good point that there could be a possibility of sharing an energy manager with other communities as well. Not just Randolph but then other communities could share the cost of that manager. There's 30 towns in two rivers out of Quiche so the Steve Bauer will be shared by 30 cats. Well, that's too many. Steve actually has a very different job description than Jeff Martin. So I think you'll you'll find that they're. They're working in different realms with within T-Roc. Well, I do like the idea of the potential of sharing somebody who, you know, works with this on a regular basis knows how this works knows the right people to talk to knows where funds tend to be. It's not hard to imagine that somebody who we were only use on a part time basis. In terms of the energy they bring to us. I think certainly worth looking into. But we can follow up and I'm one of the two coordinators with two rivers out of Quiche so that would be easier to talk to them about. Gary, are you familiar with any of the municipal energy audits that efficiency Vermont has done because it seems like before we jump into having a shared or even our own municipal sustainability coordinator. It seems like the easiest first step we could take to me is to actually either contract with energy efficiency Vermont or some other entity to at least get an audit done. We've talked about, about Trevor working with the staff to crunch the numbers of what are our baseline energy uses has been in the various municipal buildings but we can access that that and fairly short order it just seems like we should jump to the next level is getting an editor energy audit done and much like we do with capital planning and much like we do for our roads. Let's identify the biggest problems and set a timeline and a plan in place for dealing with them. Three years ago efficiency Vermont did that exact thing for our school system here in Randolph and that talks to Lane Millington about that whole approach and I say we talked to efficiency Vermont. I'm still concerned about follow them. And I would like to see if we can get the town or the town government to endorse the idea of pursuing these these energy efficiency measures. Once we once we identify the right ones to do first. This is stuff that that has been around for a long time it's been, it's been obvious in a number of buildings that huge amounts of dollars would be saved by, you know doing the weatherization or changing the energy efficiency of the building so we need to get over this little little problem we have which is that it's, you know, it's kind of not my problem. I would like to get the town to endorse the very idea of doing energy efficiency in its own buildings. Well, there are people who are capable of making that calculation we did it several years ago with a weatherization program and it was with homeowners and this organization I can't remember what it says. They would come up, you know with their energy bills or electrical bills and all the same. And then they said, we recommend you do this this and this, and it will cost this much, and we can get you a low cost loan, and you will say this much in the future. That skill is available. I would second your thoughts Mark that get it getting a commitment from the town in the form of somebody actually responsible for or following through with these actions rather than relying on the energy committee to try to navigate all of this on their own. I think that's very important. I also agree with that and I'm kind of asked Trevor to chime in here and sort of give us a better sense of you know if we really want to make this something that our town is going to move forward on. It does seem like it makes sense there to be, you know, you know, some sort of, you know, staff member that makes sure that it keeps going you know that having the volunteers of the energy committee where there's turnover you know it's and we're talking about a multi year project that can provide continuity and focus, you know what would be the best way for our municipal government to make sure that things don't get dropped along the way that we do keep focused on this and make the, you know the investments that we really ought to be making. Two pieces to it one is the actual project planning and identify to find which projects in which order and what the cost is. And then committing as a community as a whole is where it doesn't just fall back on the town but it also falls back on the voters as well. There are resources needed to get these things done the resources need to be there. And from a staff perspective, it would be, it's would be one of a number of areas of need where we could use a body to help us do either things we want to commit to, or that we've already committed to. So the sustainability coordinator idea is one that would help us advance that we could use somebody to help us with some of the ordinance enforcement stuff we're still wrestling over. We're a full time or a part time recreation person to help support those programs. So we're talking about staff and want to make sure we're moving that holistically as well as the conversation so I think it's got to tie into some of those larger budget elements. It's really comes down to getting these things done is about resources both financial and, and, and the people and if we have both of those we can get it done. I don't see that being a problem the challenge would be if we don't have the the financial resources to do it, or ask to deal with people that's going to be a really heavy lift. We're trying to lift a lot of other things right now too. Well one of the things about the energy coordinator position that were such a position is that that person could also be responsible for, you know, getting the funding to do these things. So the federal grants of line for whatever is available to support this activity. It's not just making sure it gets gets done, but making sure it gets funded. And then the back end of making sure they're the finance department resources to help us with the grant management the reporting the reimbursements. Right structures. So it's showing up not just adding capacity but also showing up existing capacity so that we can successfully navigate whatever we do. I met with Stuart blood is from that for last evening. One of the member towns that Jeff Martin from T rock services and you know he sees he's actually helping them with energy audits and developing procedures and budgets to allow them to selectively choose, you know, the best impact for their towns individually. So that kind of position brings a lot of power and a lot of value to the process. Well, sitting next to me happens to be a person who does energy audits. I I'm not saying you should do it. No, I don't know if I, you know, I mean I can certainly work with people to do that right at this point and I'll be glad to. I do have some systems and programs that could could definitely aid with that that we use at work but I. Yeah, it's it's definitely I mean yeah that that's what I do and that's what we do at work so we can. When I knows, keep in mind when you're thinking about the cost to put this together or to support the whole concept that when we save energy in a building it's significant amounts of dollars as well so this can definitely pay for itself over a fairly short time and you know as a town we have a long time to think about this so we have a long amortization to deal with and we can we can do some serious things to save money. One, one other data point to consider is I just read an article last night when Jeff Martin was at Hartford and doing the work there. He had actually already within I think the first 10 months of his appointment. He implemented enough energy savings within the town to pay for his salary in year one. So, you know that kind of that kind of position can save real money for the town and put us on the path of much more resilient. Exactly, and there's pay for performance type contracts where that person we might be able to find an entity that would do that, the energy audits and get paid by with a portion of what they say, which is a fairly common way to do that without a large upfront cost for the town. But you know there's options for payment structures but yeah I mean if we're not really paying attention to that and not really tracking it. The rule of thumb is probably 10 to 20% of your energy spend is going to be very low hanging fruit and very quickly rectified so it's definitely cost effective. It's going to be very surprising if it wasn't. And typically for the town I'd say you know it's the fuel for the buildings, and number two is probably maybe number one I don't know is the vehicles is the fleet cost for fuel. We haven't even started talking about electrification of the vehicles yet. So, but I would think that between the buildings in the in the fleet that's a huge portion of the kind of brand off energy costs. And with money to pay for staff is always a big hurdle. So if it's possible for us to have people start with the promise of getting paid with what they save us. That sounds like something will be hard to refuse. Yeah, well, really love to learn more about that. And maybe there's somebody from T wrote Gary that we can engage with directly to flesh flesh that out. And as, as far as other towns with within the area. You know, perhaps Bethel Brookline and Brookfield and bravery are also interested in that kind of a resource being available to them, which, you know, spread the closet. He's a Stephen Bauer. He's an energy planner with two rivers on it. I mean, how much time and energy is going to be devoted to patient. I have no idea. He's got 30 towns to deal with. So, I'm not sure. I think the idea of having a quad three or four town collaborative coordinator makes a lot of sense. I don't think Steven's capable of doing that. From his position at you. Yeah, it could be the Randolph towns brain tree in Brookfield, which is our common way of working. That that's consistent with the R3. So. So my understanding, we're talking about two different things or two, two things together. One is helping the town of Randolph. Save energy, save money, and also helping the people in the town. Amen. They're. Attempt to do the same thing. That's where we get into the big, the large progress. There are specific actions that we can take and then report back to the select board on our next meeting to keep this alive. Is there somebody who couldn't reach out to three rivers and find out about the possibility of what kind of support they can give what kind of independent contractors are out there. And then my partner with other communities. What, what those different options look like and, and bring us some, something that we can act on at our December meeting is that. Yeah, I can do that. And I'll have our next energy committee meeting. Together and then we'll get back to the town with where we go. If we're going to give consideration to an energy coordinator position, it seems like the next couple of months is the time to do it and to do it in collaboration with rain tree and Brookfields select boards so that you know this could be something that can be discussed in town meeting because it is going to be a significant commitment if we do it collaboratively even on the part of each of the three towns. I'm comfortable with moving that process along and I think we should try and expedite it. The town meeting is marked so we got like four or five months here. Yeah. My point is we're in the budget we're going into the budgeting cycle right now. So if money is going to be set aside. You know, we'll be working on budget and on capital budgeting over the next couple of months, and that'll be presented at town meeting this is the time to give us some serious thought. I'm pleased to do that because of the budget by by member of the select board in vessel was doing the very same thing now. So, and him involved as well. In what capacity here. He's a member of the select board. And what capacity does a member of the select board and Beth will play into the process here. I think there's there's a cooperation between three towns, why not cooperation between four, right. That's that was keenly interested. At least the select board members. I think that's a great idea should outreach to those towns be done by the Randolph select board or the Randolph town manager. Should that be handled I couldn't imagine energy committee to do the outreach to the select boards of the other towns. Oh, I do but I can but I, you know, I'd rather that the town manager do it but if he doesn't want to do it, I can do it. Yeah, I think it makes sense Gary for a town representative to do that kind of outreach, if, if, if we're going to possibly discuss sharing a resource, and that should be from a town official. Nice to have some meat on the bone before we approach them and with an idea though as well. I can make conceptual sort of introductions. But at some point there's going to have to be a level of detail if we're going to move into warrant for town meeting. It's not the town meeting they keep in mind is the end of January when that warning has to be set is less than two and a half months to have something on about or incorporate into a budget at a time where some of our finance resources are, are a little bit under. So I just moving to ship or moving to fleet. To keep that in mind. I've placed Jeff Martin's email address into the chat. I'm sure somebody wants to do so I'll reach to him. He'd be willing to provide more information about what he does specifically for those six towns. Should we bring him into a future meeting. Maybe we should meet with key rock. In a future meeting, including. Jeff Martin. I have a pretty good relationship through some of my other my freelance writing pursuits and so on. With Kevin Geiger, who's now the director of planning for T-Ror, and I haven't met Steven or Jeff, but I'm aware of their work to some degree. I'd be happy to at least reach out to them and learn more about what Jeff is doing for the six towns and get their counsel on this idea of having a multi town shared energy coordinator. And see if they can cite any other models in the region that we might look to, but I do agree with Trevor. We need to hang a little bit more meat on the bones of this idea before we can really move it forward. And I think T-Ror could help us with that. So, Tom, I know I probably speak for everybody on this call that would be grateful for that effort that you made there. I think that would be extremely helpful. I'm talking to Kevin almost every week about I've been writing a lot about housing issues, particularly in the Upper Valley and Kevin's my go to person on on those issues. So, I can start with a phone call to him and and I will bet he'll hand me off to back to Bauer or Martin, but at least we can get their perspective from a regional planning standpoint about how to collectively move forward. So, I'll offer to offer to do that and I can report back to both the energy committee and the select board over the course of the next week or two, just what I find out. Well, that'd be great because I, you know, other communities have done this that we should be learning from their experience and not reinventing. So, I do know that Stephen Bauer is working with at least one community in the Woodstock area, which would be Woodstock, which is revising its town plan over the course of the next six months or so they're hoping to present a revised town to the community in the early spring and and Stephen is working very closely with the Economic Development Committee and Sustainable Woodstock on revising their energy plan which hasn't been touched in years. So, there's an example of what he's doing. But yeah, I'll take that on for sure. Great. Sounds to me like we have a good start here for the process of looking at townwide efficiency not time like but you know, within the town, municipally owned properties to get started. So what we might do in terms of staffing, and then having a process for prioritizing projects, and figuring out what makes us to do moving forward. We also heard from folks to tonight that there's some some solar power potential opportunities that we should be exploring and I'd love to hear more about those. I wanted to add Larry and to pick up on something that that Pat spoke to a little while ago. I know we don't want to get going in too many different directions at once, but we've spoken mostly about the municipal energy issues tonight, and how we can address those inefficiencies but we can get about what we can do for the general public to and so I'm thinking for example, I mean I'm just brainstorming off the top of my head here but we get an energy coordinator in place. Can we do an energy fair or some kind of public education program that that tells our people who live in the community what is a heat pump. What do wood pellets, furnaces work, what do they cost, what kind of rebates are available for them I can tell you because I'm looking into it $7,000 right now from the efficiency of Vermont to install a wood. The Energy Task Force has done several of those over the over the years. Right, right. And we can do another one. Yeah, yeah. I just, I don't I don't want to see residential. I mean, right now we've got to focus on the incredible energy drain we have dealing with our municipal buildings, but longer term big picture let's let's, you know, let's keep a focus on residential energy improvements in energy usage to see us bite off more than we can do we got to take things in, you know, reasonable steps but we've had three programs on weatherization over, I don't know, six or seven years and compared to other times we've done extremely well, but it's a drop in that bucket, compared to the knee, a drop in the bucket. Yeah, yeah. And all that stuff is really important but what I what I really like about working on municipal projects and making that a more immediate priority is just that we have a lot of control over that. We're going to do this and we can educate folks out in the community but it's it's hard to make folks do stuff. Absolutely. I hear you. But that's a role that the energy committee and task force can do because we've done it before we have these educational programs. Yeah, a lot easier to do that outreach Larry when when when the when the town itself is is behind and implementing similar improvements in their buildings as well. Yeah, I agree and we can, you know, publicize what we're doing at the town, why you know for our municipal buildings and and use them as an example of what you know you can do. Exactly. That's terrific. You know, hello everybody my name's William here. I moved to town about one year ago so I don't quite know everybody yet. And as a new homeowner I'm kind of looking into getting some, you know, energy improvements on my house. And the biggest hurdle for me has not been information, but about who I can actually talk to to get quotes and actually get somebody here to tell me, I don't have much money I can save. And so having a better list of those resources would actually have been much more valuable for me as somebody newer to town. William call up efficiency Vermont, and they will provide the people to do the work, who they have approved that they have an approved list. Exactly. Yeah, absolutely. I've looked through that list and kind of the problem I've been running into is everybody I've called doesn't work and Randall for his book solid. So, you know, to go back to some of the earlier conversation, you know, you're talking about the town leading the way. For me, you know, if I saw the town got new heat pumps from so and so that would be the first person I'd call. I just kind of want to throw that out there. That might be a good way to help people in the community is just by, like you said, leading the way putting up some resources. Here's who we use to see it in action. You know that might be very good. Barry, I was I was looking at that very list that you're referencing yesterday with respect to with pellet boilers and the two nearest contractors to Randall for in Montpelier and Barry and the next nearest ones in Bristol. I didn't call them to find out what their workload is right like now, like right now but if they're like any other plumber electrical contractor or builder in the state of Vermont right now. You know, they're inundated with work. They're short and to make it worse their short staff. So they're building costs are going up all the costs are going up. They don't have a number of employees to service their accounts and and their book six months eight months 10 months out so William I hear your frustration but you're not alone. It's just the way it is right now. I mean, use about peel your construction and who are excellent excellent and they are also capable of making the calculation on how much you're going to save as a result of doing the job. Another close one very competent is building energy and they're out of white river junction. That's the problem. Yeah. So, you know, in in any problem there is also great opportunity so it sounds as though there's an opportunity here for the energy committee and Randall to try to work towards developing more local contractors that might be interested in doing this type of work. Weatherization and he pump installation represents an enormous backlog of work for any one company that wants to take it on. We just need to find a way to develop that backlog so it makes it more attractive for a contractor to seriously engage in this area. And if we can do the outreach to pull the people in that are willing to do weatherization on their homes, then you create that kind of a backlog and you create that that attractiveness for a contractor to get more deeply involved in Oh, we know those contractors. Well, they don't exist right now that's the problem. They do exist. It's just that they're booked with work, but we work with them in the past successfully. The problem is, you have to get into queue. Oh, we have to create our own local queue. I can't hire anybody here telling you it's been a struggle in my business, you know, I need 35 people to do what I do and I could only find 11 and five of those were high school kids that were years old. So we have a major labor right now and that's what's going on with all the contract. I mean, harmony electric took no new customers, Tim took no new customers from March. I don't even know if he's taking new customers now. And he couldn't even serve his, you know, existing customers to the degree you wanted to. I had to do backflips to find somebody to install an EV charger in my garage. It's crazy right now. Yeah, I'd like to, I'd like to jump in here and say that I think we're getting a little off our topic. Yeah, we are to bring us back to focus and I think we've made some good progress. And I just, it's 630 now we've been we've been here for an hour. I think I would we have someone I I'm pretty sure was here to speak about solar power and some opportunities for the town and I thought we might be able to give that person a chance to talk before we look at wrapping up our time together. Larry, I just have one other question this reference to the six town project that Steven bowler is working on. Who knows a little bit more about that I don't want to call him cold and not know anything about it. What, what, what is he doing. Jeff Martin. Okay. Yeah, I believe it's Jeff Martin, who you want to contact. Okay. It's not safe. Our also works for T Rob. Jeff Martin works with the six. Jeff Martin works with the six. Okay, our works with the 30 towns. All right. So Jeff has a much more discreet or if you will. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, I'll get, I'll get on those calls right away. Yeah, Steve Rower though is the contact person for Randolph in terms of energy issues. If you can't reach Jeff, you can you can reach Steven. Yeah, yeah. And so the person that's here from Norwich solar is Brendan Malley. And he can, he can explain the two projects that are in one, one has been permitted permitted and one is in the process of being permitted in Randolph. Yep. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. And so I just wanted to say at the start that the balance of the discussion is great because solar alone is not the solution. And we don't promote it as such. But, but it is an important element of what can be done. Very similar to the discussion of the, the town buildings. It represents an opportunity. You can make a specific decision where a town or a school district can make a single decision that makes an impact for a long period of time. So the, the basic idea is that community solar in the state of Vermont is designed so that as many people as possible can participate in. And so the way it works is that that we create local solar arrays. And, and we partner with entities, towns, schools, businesses, individuals who might not be in a position to make that long term financial investment. But they can make a decision with the energy dollars they already spend. And the majority of those energy dollars get funneled through our utility and out to buy energy that gets imported into our state. Our state produces the lowest amount of most amount of in-state generation of any state in the country. And so what we have here at Randolph right now are currently two Vermont 500 kilowatt community solar arrays. One is in permitting. We discussed that earlier this year. It's the Davis Road project. And the other has an issued permit, which is on the Gifford barn. And those projects are seeking those community partners who have bills that they pay for the utility. And we'd like to use that and connect with solar and make the local generation renewable energy possible. So that's what we're working out doing. So Randolph has right now one and hopefully two projects that will be available to partner with local entities. How does the money, or how does the, do they buy shares in the project? Is that how the, and then get credit for the solar generator of a certain portion of the array? So the way, the way that these community solar projects work is, is that we don't ask the town or the school to purchase the share in the array. You ask the town or the school to commit their energy bill to the array. So it's a call that it's a net meter and credit arrangement. So what happens is that the town or the school or other entity agrees to be served with credits from the array. They get those credits at a discount. So there are some energy savings that are not enormous but make a big difference over time with no upfront investment. So making that commitment takes what you would spend on your monthly electric bill. Like I said, which typically just gets shipped out of state for important power and uses that those resources to allow the building of local renewables. And the local renewables help us meet our in-state renewable goals. It's, it is complicated. It's important to mention that it's, that can be complicated because the renewable energy credits typically go from the project to the utility green power because the utility has a regulated entity has what they call tier two requirements. So they have to meet these requirements for in-state generation. So the Rex renewable energy credits stay in the state and they get retired here. So it's really a partnership model. As opposed to asking any one entity to do everything, which is find a place to build it, pay the money to build it and have all the benefits. The partnership model allows the each entity to do what they can. And the thing that the town can do or schools can do with the upfront cost is to sign up to be what we call the customer or the off paper, to use those credits. And that allows that helps us meet our in-state goals for renewable generation. I have two questions. One is, would the electric bill, would it somehow reduce the entity's electric bill? So it doesn't reduce the, it's doesn't reduce the bill, but the credits are at a discount. In the simplest fashion, the full rate reduces $100 worth of credits and the partner customer would pay, say, $93, $100 worth of credits to figure out. So it kind of provides energy savings. And second question is, since these are in Randolph, would these count on our scorecard for solar generation in the town of Randolph for the amount of solar generation? They do. So when towns have goals for the amount of renewable energy that they are able to put together in their town, these community solar rays count for them. Great. I'll make sure I understand a little bit better. So basically a private investor or a set of investors are constructing the solar array and the town committing essentially to be buying its power from the net meter credit that this array generates. You know, the community solar model means that you're buying, you're paying for the credit. So not the power itself, right. The value of this net metering program is that you might not be able to put your solar on your parking lot or on your school or in the middle of the town. The array is located and we do all that work to find a good place for it. And it produces that energy and the credits show up on the bill of the town or school and the town or school makes that commitment to buy those credits that it is from. This is a different approach than the community solar program we did here five, six years ago. And Susan and I bought four chairs and I don't know what it cost. And Susan did something similar. And that but that's a private one. And you had to pay for it. And I had to pay for it. In this case, just as an example, just as an example. If you have a town building that had $1,000 a month of an electric bill and that town building signed a solar net meter and credit agreement with an array here in town. The goal would be to have approximately $1,000 a month of net meter and credits show up on the bill. And, and they would offset the monies owed to GMP. And in turn, you would owe the array owner. Those for those credits at a discount. So say, you know, $930 instead of $1,000. How would we be GMP isn't purchasing fossil fuel generator power with those wrecks. The way the wrecks are treated is that the, the array by its CPG it's certificate of public good from the state of Vermont, and it's GIA generator interconnection agreement with GMP. So those wrecks are produced by the array. They are, they go to GMP and GMP uses them to meet their tier two in state requirement for renewable energy generation. So, that's been trying to jump in for a little while here. I just wanted to cut in on his via. Am I correct in thinking that Norris solar is working with RACDC. Yeah, so RACDC has signed a solar net meter and credit agreement for some of its building with Norris technologies and is served by solar here in Vermont. So there would be a customer. They're a customer you can talk exactly exactly and that's. And we have a, I know separately we've come to the town I believe the LED dynamics building the solar on the roof, but they don't own that solar. So they have a net mirroring credit agreement. So they get the credits produced by the solar at a discount. So that's one way to have have that store renewable energy generation be here without asking led dynamics to use some of their valuable resources to pay for this. This is interesting. And I think there's it's possible if this would make sense for the town. We've heard we've heard enough tonight to, at least in my mind, want to have you back at a board meeting where we can put this under, you know, our agenda as an item that we're going to discuss and so that other folks can know that we're considering something like this. Could you be willing to come back at another select board meeting next month maybe or in January. Of course, thank you for happy to do it. And I can just as, as Pat mentioned, this is a not a new thing so talking to towns that have met me in credit agreements, or talking to nonprofits that have them as super easy. There are lots of books and we're free to have we have experience with it and had it for years and can describe the experience. And I think your website explains this also. It's not what you said tonight sounds very familiar to me and I think I got the information from your website. We try we try but sometimes, you know, writing because it's pretty complicated but that would be a good idea I think to talk to entities that are doing it now but also spend a little time on their website. Because at least for me it's easier to see the figures right in front of me and how that works. So, you know, I'm aware of everybody's time I just wanted to say the main points are that solar arrays that are permitted or in permitting in physically located in your town are often hard to come up. So this is a, this is a special opportunity and our are really the goals that we all share here. And a big picture which is, we would like to move to a version of Vermont where more of the power that we use is generated in Vermont and is renewable. So those are broad goals, right. So you could say a mission, and that's great mountain towers goal as well. Okay, so it sounds like we have clear action items that we can move forward on as a result of our time together. I really appreciate everybody coming together so that we can do this. Is there anything else that folks are itching to get off their chest before we return. Just a quick question. I missed the first part of this meeting and I haven't met others in the past. But given the passage of the recent infrastructure bill I know there's a lot of funding in there for electric vehicle chargers. And I'm kind of curious if the town Energy Committee here has thought about trying to take advantage of that as soon as possible just as a way to kind of lay infrastructure for the future. And I think that in the future for when the fleet gets changed over, but, you know, yeah, has that been discussed that three years ago when the first offering came out. And we spoke with the hospital. We spoke spoke with the different hospital and Pat Moulton at the college, and they applied for it. They didn't get the town or Randolph to apply for it. And the other two could have turned down, but if the town of Randolph had applied for it, they would have got it. I'll offer here this is not solar related but our technologies has an EV marketplace, and we have a grant currently to install DC fast chargers in six Vermont towns with exactly for that purpose which is, you know, if the chargers aren't there. And folks won't come to the town with their EV cars and folks in the towns don't have the resources they need to buy cars, but if they are in the town they bring people to the town. They do bring. So it's right at the beginning I should say this is the first version of this grant it was a grant that we work with the state on, and it pays for the installation of what are called DC fast chargers. Level three, level three chargers. So they're expensive. Right. This is somewhere between 50 and $150,000 for an installation. So, but it's a significant resource that lets people visitors come to the town and charge their cars quickly like to get about 75% of a charge in less than an hour. Randolph to take advantage of soon. I'm not sure so I have, I've had other questions like this from other towns so these six towns are the first ones, but it is a promising avenue and I hope there's more opportunity and if I hear of it. I will certainly bring it to my own town. And that does the same thing as well. And they're just short drive north of us. So, yeah, I'm just really curious about the infrastructure bill, because I know there's like 30 billion or something for DC fast chargers. So, this is obviously what half that money has to take to end up in your town. So, you know, this grant is from money from, you know, a year ago. And so what we don't know yet is the path that money will take between the federal legislation and Randolph. I'm just curious here Larry didn't we have this conversation about locating electric chargers in the village we already applied for that grant opportunity I thought. Now it never happened. John Copan tried to make it happen, but it didn't happen. There is a level to charge of being installed by the coffee shop. Yeah, I thought we'd already been going down this path before we got what was available to us at the time. But Jerry Ward facilitated the one by the coffee shop. I know that we had these conversations at a select board meeting because we talked about the matching grant money. So I know it never happened. Ever happened. It doesn't. So it didn't happen. All right, well that's where I thought. I know we have some of the parking right up in the center and so I'm not sure what where that went but, well that well that's the date. So you're talking about the one here. Randolph or the one down and exit. We talked about different locations around the town to locate these and one of them is by the municipal offices and we talked about. Oh yeah. Yeah. So what happened there. Why, I'm not sure why. I'll give you the answer offline. All right. The ball was dropped. The ball got dropped in the application process. All right. Let's not drop that ball again. Any other questions or comments before we go. The quick comment. I think this has been a great meeting. I'm really hopeful after listening to what everyone has had to say. I agree with you totally, John. I think, I think it's a new day here. Can we review action items or is somebody writing down the actual action items from the meeting. I don't know who's going to talk to who for energy auditing does not go in your notes. There could we maybe do just a real quick review of Gary you're going to talk to two rivers about was it two rivers and did the free energy audit for the municipal town. I think those are the only two. Somebody's going to pull the baseline data or energy uses that'll probably be town staff. Counts staff is going to reach out on some of the coordinator models both from a single town to a share, maybe make some initial outreach to the extent we can with the information we've got. I think we need to dig into some of the weatherization type of models where we get to the part where we benefit. We need to dig into some of the weatherization type of models where we get to the part where we benefit the residents in addition to the town. There's a larger need for planning for these projects once they're identified, both the money and the timing. And then there was some talk about a resource listing and contacts event, just connecting with efficiency of Vermont, making them more easily available to new residents like Willem or anybody else who's interested, those were the five things that I wrote as takeaways from this, that amount. Sounds good. Sounds good. And we're going to hear more about community solar future meeting. Yeah. I think that sounds great. Great. I want to thank everybody for being here tonight. It was a fruitful discussion. And have a wonderful thanks to you all.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcLe1bqgdMs", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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Hope you had your cup of coffee. Alright, I think someone has added something here. Okay, that's very interesting. And there's written, I like to eat slate pencils as a child, but it wouldn't go. Then I started opposing every urge with the Word of God and I was delivered. Glory to my Master. He empowered me. I'm free. Amen. I have one of my relatives has a similar testimony. So she was very anxious as a child and she used to bite her fingernails. So, you know, she's as close to me in my age, but she would continuously bite her fingernails. And there was a period of time that, you know, she was just seeking the Lord for something else. And she was just, she had kept herself for a couple of days, was fasting and praying and was just in the presence of the Lord. And after that point of time, she never experienced the urge to bite her nails. And she said she, that was not been one of the prayers that she had, but just the presence of God took away whatever anxiety that she felt, you know, that would make her bite her nails and now she doesn't bite her nails anymore. Yeah. So amazing. Thank you, Anita. That's a lovely testimony. Yeah. Good. Okay. So we were looking at the third point of healing and deliverance coming as a result of certain things we need to do through our active resistance. And we did look at how we need to resist the devil. The second action point that we need to look at is found in 1st Peter 113. It says, therefore, gird up the loins of your mind. Be sober, rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now, you know what this gird up the loins, gird up the loins means, I think, especially for those who, you know, who, who don't belong to the Indian culture, you know, in India and a lot in the south. We people wear long robes and this was this this actually came by because even warriors in in the times of the Bible, you know, they would have long. What do you say they don't they have they have robes that that they would use and they would have to, you know, they would have to tie it up with bring it up and tie it so that they could run. And you cannot run with a flowing rope that's there. So you gird it, you actually bring it out and you gird it. And if you see, you know, especially in South Indian movies, you will find that, you know, as soon as the hero wants to fight someone, the first thing that he will do is he will pull up his lungi. It's called a lungi pull up his lungi and he will tie it and then he goes to fight. So gird up your loins means in a sense of being prepared, being prepared to do the fighting. So we hear it saying gird up the loins of your mind. That means be prepared, get ready, become watchful, be there to fight whatever is coming with the enemy. And it says be sober and rest your hopefully upon the grace that is to be bought. So how you gird up your loins is being prepared to ensure that you resist the enemy and being in a place of sobriety sobriety means being able to stand in what God wants you to do. So these are those two action points that the more that you get to a place of offense. Okay, it's not defense. It's offense where you're going ahead of the attack of the temptation of the need to think those thoughts of the need to open that door to habitual sin is you're going into that action step going to that offense and being prepared to fight so that you're And through doing so your healing comes by. So what we've just presented here are three specific pointers for our healing and deliverance. The first we spoke of was what happens as a result of our regular consecration, our regular sanctification, our healing and deliverance that comes just with the presence of God. Just with the anointing of God. And we looked at how we can actively resist. Now we also want to bring about some things we can do by praying or by bringing coming together in Jesus name. Now there are a couple of points that if you would look down in the notes you would see around 14 points that are there. Now even as we're going to go through this, remember this is not like an equation or a formula that you have to do it step by step or one after the other. And it's not even necessary that you need to do all of them. But the idea, the understanding is to apply the situation wherever in whatever situation you are applied to a person that may be involved. These points is why we focus on this is to keep the house tidy and the house clean. So we need, like we said, it is important for us to engage in that place where we are bringing about healing and deliverance for yourself. Especially when you know that maybe certain areas that need to be washed out, that need to be completely cleansed, that slightly gets open to the enemy. So we do these points and if we're looking down at the points that are one to 14 points, we're just going to be looking at the first four points today and we will take the rest up next week. But the first 10 points are things that we do as we engage in prayer and the last four points are ones that require changes in us, that require transformation in the way that we live our lives so that our healing can be maintained on and on. And after these points, there's also a time of prayer that we can engage in at this point of time so that we apply what we are learning and we receive our healing right here and now as we go through our prayer. So even as maybe I'm praying or someone else is probably praying that there are some prayers that have been noted down in the notes if someone's praying, you can use your own words also to pray. Okay, so let's review the first four points and we can take each one, we can even pray as long. There are sample prayers that are given here which can be used and of course you're more than welcome to say it in your own language or maybe let's review this. The first point that we're looking at is to come to a place of repentance. Okay, now we all know that repentance is like a turning away from the life that is the life of that area in your life that is ruled by sin to an area that is characterized by submission and obedience to God. So, and even as your certain areas come to your mind, remember that the Holy Spirit, maybe as we're talking and as we're sharing right now, the Holy Spirit is the one who brings a convicts us of some areas that we may be in sin and convicts us to a place of repentance. So, repentance is what we know is a sincere turning away and that is in your minds, in your hearts, you're turning away from yourself to God and this involves a change of your heart, a change of mind which leads to some kind of an action. It is the turning away from us from a sinful cause to God. So, a person, someone who is truly repentant, definitely recognize that God is the most important factor one in the life of the individual. So, recognizing what is wrong and turning away from it and you're also and when you're doing that, you are also choosing to turn to God and His ways. Okay, so as we see in Isaiah 55-6-8, these are what's written on in your notes. Okay, just to just to quickly read that out. Speak the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake His ways and the unrighteous man His thoughts. Let Him return to the Lord and He will have mercy on Him and to our God for He will abundantly pardon. So, knowing that there is an area of sin in our lives and we come to a place of returning to the Lord because when we do that, we know that we have mercy from Him and from Him will come pardon. Okay, so I just want to take maybe a minute or two of just some quietness for you to put down or write down any thoughts that you may, any kind of wrong thoughts or any patterns of habitual thoughts that you engage in or things that you keep believing about yourself. That is in true contrast to God's Word. Okay, or also think of some things that you have said about yourself, you know, words of defeat, words of death, words of shame, words of hate towards yourself. If there's anything that you can remember that you've said, you know, even things like, and I'm not going to do, I'm not going to be anyone, I can't do this, you know, I will never succeed in this, those words, those kind of statements that you make where you say never always ever, you know, that. So, just spend some time to think if there is something like that you've engaged in and, you know, take a pen and a paper and write that down, or if there is any kind of a habitual sin that you are engaging in right now, whatever it may be, it could be something that the Spirit convicts you about, put that down, or it can be even your involvement in any kind of practices, any occult practices, any kind of false practices that you know is not in line with God's Word and whatever it can mean something as believing in a superstition or it could be, you know, reading a horoscope or looking at the stars or, you know, maybe some things that may not, you may have not even thought of as occultic or as evil or even, you know, chanting some kind of a, maybe a word or a prayer or something that you've probably been used to. Anything, anything that you feel you've involved something that's false or something that's occultic, put that down. Let's take a minute to do that, just giving you all, and this you do it on your own, you don't, don't please put it up on the chat. This is something that is just between you and God because we are receiving our healing and deliverance. So just take around 30 seconds to do that and I'd like to pray together with you all as we submit this and repent and confess what we have been engaged in. Okay, 30 seconds. Okay, let's just take time to just pray and I think even as I'm praying, you know, I'll probably give some space in between so that you could wherever you are just take some time to pray on your own, confessing specifically, you know, specify what is it that that that you are you're confessing be specific about your confession also and you know those thoughts that you are aware of or those words that you're aware of. So specify that even as I'm praying, probably leave a few seconds of gap so that you could do that. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you that we can come to you at your throne of grace right now. Father, we come in confession, Lord. Lord, we confess and we repent of every thought that we have engaged in that has been outside of your thoughts for us. Lord, we know we read that the thoughts you have for us is far more glorious than the thoughts we think about ourselves. We come to you and confess and repent of every negative thought of every thought that has been filled with self pity with self loading with self condemnation. We come to you and ask you Lord to forgive us for engaging in us engaging in that. Father, we pray Lord very specifically for thoughts that that harm ourselves, harm our spirits, harm our souls. Lord, the thoughts that we think of about who we are Father and all of this we recognize a sin. We confess and we repent that Lord. I'm just going to give you a couple of seconds to do this in your own words specifically to confess and repent on the thoughts that are specific to you. So take this time to make that confession and repent. Lord, we confess and we repent of all the words that we've spoken against ourselves, those prophecies that we have said over ourselves, those negative, those harmful prophecies that we declare of ourselves. The way that we've inflicted ourselves with wrong words and commenced. Father, which we may have heard as a result of our past that continues to play in our minds. Father, I come against all of that Father and we confess it Lord right now in Jesus name. We confess and we bring before you Lord our hearts and say we are sorry for how loosely we have used those words against ourselves. And right now just words that are coming to my mind are failure, you know certain words that people may have called you that have been derogatory, you know, and there could be words like dumb, idiot, stupid, all of that that we've heard and that we play over ourselves. Lord, we confess this, we repent. I'd like you to take some time to specifically bring the words that you have spoken over your life and ask the Lord or come to the Lord with repentance confessing. Lord, we come to you and confess Lord and repent over the sins that we participate in over that which we know keeps us away from you. Father, whether it be the sin in the mind, in our thoughts, in our words or in our deeds, we come to you and we truly repent. We confess that we have hurt you, that we have pained your heart from engaging in things that have kept us away from you. We confess and we repent. Lord, we confess any form of gossip that we have engaged in, slander, malice, pornography, any kind of sexual addictions, thoughts that have been defiling, acts that have been defiling to our own bodies and our own minds, pictures, images that we've replayed in our minds. We pray, we confess and we repent. We turn away from our ways, we look to you. I'd like you to take some time yourself to specify any specific sin that the Holy Spirit is convicting you in. Lord, we confess and we repent over practices we've engaged in. Even if we've done it inadvertently without our knowledge, without our understanding, we confess and repent. If there are articles in our homes that we've kept, if there are practices we've engaged in in the past, if we've gone trusting in superstitions, in old wives' tales, Lord, we repent, Lord, we confess that we have done that which is displacing to you. When we have looked at hope to something else other than you, thinking they will save us, Lord, we repent. Lord, when we've kept objects as good luck charms or some things that we carry around, instead of our faith and our devotion to you, Father, we confess and we repent. Take this time to specify anything, any practice or any kind of a false religion you've engaged in and repent and come to a place of confession. Okay, we move on to the second point that we look in after we confess and repent. It is to ask the Lord for forgiveness. We know that when we ask Him, He is quick to forgive us and we read in so many scripture around us that all that we need to do is believe and confess and ask for forgiveness and He has mercy on us. The way that He demonstrates His love to us is by taking away the sin, whatever we've confessed today in this last five minutes, He's taken away that sin and redeemed us. So we come to a place of asking for forgiveness and asking that the blood of Jesus cleanses us from whatever we have confessed and we have repented of. We see it in scripture. It says, when we walk in the light, 1 John 1, 7 and verse 9 says, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Okay, so let's just take this time to ask for forgiveness. We spend some time repenting and confessing. Now we will just come. I know I'm just breaking it up just so that we can be in the presence of God and through the healing even as we are doing this. Okay, let's just pray once again. Heavenly Father, we thank you that your word says when we confess, you are faithful. You are just to forgive us. You desire, Lord, to give us forgiveness and Lord, we confess and we've repented of things that we've engaged in thoughts that we've had, words we've spoken, deeds we've done, false things we've believed in, held on to his anchor. Father, we pray, we ask for your forgiveness. Lord, we believe that you died for us to take away our sin and we come to you knowing that what we have placed on the cross, Father, you have redeemed us. You have given us. You have exchanged it, Lord, for our life and for our freedom and for our joy. Forgive us, Lord. We want to be in right standing with you. We pray for the empowering of your Holy Spirit to Lord, to not just forgive ourselves, but to receive this forgiveness from you. You have gladly given it to us, Lord. You hold nothing back, Master. We thank you. We thank you that you have bought us to a place of rightness with you. You have clothed us with your righteousness even as we've confessed and repented. You have taken away our sins as far as the east is from the west. So far have you removed our inequities from us. We praise you. We thank you for forgiving us. Jesus' name. Amen. The third thing we understand and we look at is now it is a believing and receiving what Christ did for us on the cross. Now this is the only one and only reason why you and I can be made free and be made whole and be made well, you know, just because of what he did for us on the cross. And we continue in this journey knowing that because of the cross, we do not have to be, do not have to succumb to the place of sin. If when we look at Isaiah chapter 53 verses four and six and I and I just want to read that out, it says surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. Verse six, all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the inequity of us all. Now because of what he did on the cross, all that we just confessed and repented and spoke about right now is something that he has borne for us. He has carried for us and he was stricken. He was smitten. He was afflicted on the cross. So because of that work for us, we are let free or we have our freedom because he took the inequity of it all. And Ephesians one seven also says in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. It's not the intensity or the or the level of what we've done that forgiveness gets needed to us, but because of what of the shed blood of the land because of the shed blood of Jesus. And it is only because of that that you and I have redemption. You and I have freedom for that. So let's again just take some time to pray and come to a place of declaring what he has done for us on the cross and declaring that we have been cleaned and washed and redeemed by the blood of Jesus. Knowing that it is only because of what he did on the cross that we have been made complete made whole that that whatever he suffered and whatever he went through brought about our healing and our wholeness. Okay, and we will what we will also do is to declare some areas that you need healing and deliverance for. Okay, so you can take this time to speak and pray over those areas and declare the work of the finished cross over your life. Okay, so let's let's just take some time to pray. Thank you, Heavenly Father. We thank you for the cross. We thank you. We thank you. Lord, we believe that on the cross you took away every one of our sins. You suffered. You were afflicted. You were smitten. You were bruised. You took every burden and curse of our sins upon yourself so that we could be set free. We believe what you did on the cross bought our wholeness. We believe what you did on the cross made us free, gave us joy, brought about our wellness and our wholeness. Lord, we we know that we because of what who we believe in because of what you did for us on the cross because of our redemption Lord. We stand washed. We stand cleaned. We stand sanctified. We stand consecrated. You have made us holy because of what you have done on the cross. You have washed and cleansed our thoughts. You have washed and cleansed our words, our mouths. You have washed and cleansed our attitudes, our deeds, our behavior. You have purchased the price of it all and we stand declaring that what we have in you and because of the cross has bought us our freedom. So you can take some time to specify some areas of your life that you want healing and deliverance and stand in belief of what Christ has done for you. Lord, I just come against and just let in my spirit to pray for a few things. Lord, we just come against strife that is in relationships that creates a lack of peace in our hearts. Father, you came to give us freedom, to give us joy. Lord, to build your togetherness and your unity, Lord, in our homes. Lord, I pray, Master, we believe that you have taken away everything that keeps us bondaged to places of strife and disunity and disharmony. We exchange your joy for all that comes against us. You can take time again to pray or if any of you feel led to pray for something that the Holy Spirit is putting in your hearts, you could unmute and pray something that God's put in your heart, some specific area that may not necessarily apply to you, but you sense that applies to somebody maybe in the room, somebody in the call. Please unmute yourselves and you can pray for somebody else. You don't have to call out the name if you know who that is for. You could just call out what the issue is and pray. Exercise what God's given you and pray. Lord, we just come against anyone who experiences mistrust towards somebody else that there is this feeling of doubts and paranoia that keeps engaging them. Father, we know that you have bought about healing in these areas, a place where they're not able to delegate to somebody else but takes on extra pressure by taking on more things, fearing that it wouldn't be done well or fearing that they cannot trust another individual Lord, we release your healing power and your deliverance from a mindset or an attitude such as this that may create again hardships in that relationship. Lord, we pray God, Lord, because of the work of what you've done for us, Lord, what you've done for us on the cross that you will release your peace, your shalom, your faith over this individual. Lord, I come against thoughts that are repetitive. Lord, we come against Lord those obsessive thoughts that keep lingering over and over again that does not allow us to focus on the things of God. Lord, to whoever this may apply to, Father, I pray, Lord, by the freedom you have given this individual on the cross, Lord, I ask that they be healed, delivered from obstructive thoughts, from thoughts that are repetitive and obsessive. Lord, we break these chains because of what you've done for us, Lord. They are called free every bondage, every chain. Lord, we break right now in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, we'll go on to the last point here, which is to be able to release forgiveness. In your journey, we know that there can be people who have hurt. They've caused you some pain and some things that stay deep within. They may be people who you're still living with and are those who you may be seeing over and over day after day. But our healing also comes when we release forgiveness to not just ourselves, but also to those around. Matthew 6.12 says, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespass. So we will take some time to receive healing, not just for what has happened to you because of the experience you've gone through that has hurt you, but also to release forgiveness to someone else, to that person who has hurt you. And also receive healing for any disappointment and rejection that you've had for those who, for any kind of expectations that have gone unmet. Okay, so I'm just going to lead us again through the prayer. The prayer is there on the notes and I'm going to refer to that because there are a couple of things there. So if you want you could also do that alongside with me or just close your eyes and just be in the presence of God and ask the Lord to bring forth to you people in your life who have hurt you. And I'd suggest right now maybe in that paper and pen, write those names down. Whoever the Holy Spirit is bringing to your mind, write those names down and submit to the Lord and ask that He gives you the power to forgive and that you will be able to release forgiveness to them in turn, whether they have hurt you intentionally or unintentionally. Let's just take time to pray. Lord Jesus, we just come to you and we thank you because you have brought us to this moment where just you and us are here, each of us in our own spaces. Lord we pray that you will release your healing over those events that we've gone through in our lifetimes. Those experiences that have been unexpected that have been sudden. Lord that we may not even have had a choice over. Lord we pray God for your healing. Lord we just call upon your healing over those who've been abused as children, over those who've been violated as young adults, those who've been bullied as young people, those who've been made fun of, been teased for their abilities, for their looks, for their status, for their stature. Lord we ask that you release your healing right now. Lord we pray for those homes who've grown up through negative experiences, where there have been wrong models, where there's been compromises in the way a family has been led. Lord if there have been anyone who've been victims of violence, Lord of divorce and separation, children who've come out of single parenting, who've come out of significant economic crisis. Lord for where there has been physical ill health, where they've grown up in homes or been in homes where there has been mental health concerns. Lord we release your healing, where people would have grown up in environments where there have been constant fights and quarrels, physical violence, grown up in homes where there's been poverty. Lord there's been lack. Father we release your healing over each one of us. Like you to take some time to specify anything that has hurt you and brought you pain. Specify it and receive your healing right now. Lord we come to you and we pray that we will release those who we've held captive in anger, in bitterness, in pain, in our hurt, those who we haven't released, those people who've hurt us and said, done things to us. Lord we release them from our own clutch father. We do not want to hold on to them. They have no power over us. We release the bitterness, the anger, the pain, the struggles, the fear. We feel towards them. We release it and we declare and we ask that you give us the power to forgive so that we can extend mercy to them as you have extended mercy to us. Lord when we consider what you've done for us Lord for how you've forgiven us, how much more are we in places to release our brothers or our sisters who've sinned against us. Teach us Lord to release. You can take some time to specify or mention people whom you would specifically like to release. Lord we also take this time to receive healing for disappointments or rejections we have felt because of expectations that haven't been met. Lord we would have walked into places and relationships thinking of a lot, expecting a lot but been rejected and hurt over and over again. Lord this has caused us emotional pain and hurt. We receive your healing in these areas. And Lord that we will look to you only to be satisfied. You will be the fount which fulfills all our thirst and our hunger and we would look to know other Father. Lord we also release forgiveness to those who've hurt us, to those who have not stood according to their promises or stood according to their words. We release them. We take them away. We unbind them Lord from our minds and from our hurts and from our pains. We release and ask that the love of God fill us so that we can love them in return. I'm speaking specially to homes where in marriages where there's been a lot of expectations that you've had walking into marriage or expectations you've had of your children. Just to find out and to come to a place that a lot of them go unmet. I call to those of you who are in that space today to release them, forgive them, have your healing, ask the Lord to heal you, to take away that rejection and pain you felt and commit to seeking the Lord as your provider for everything. If there are people you would like to release and call out as you pray, please go ahead, take the time to do that. Lord we come to you Father and ask that you will heal us from things Lord that we have engaged in, from mistakes we've made, from choices that we've made that has brought us into wrong consequences too. Father we pray that you will heal us from those Lord. Lord from places we've been in our foolishness, in our immaturity where we have not sought you at the right time and done and chosen the wrong things. We pray for your forgiveness, we pray for your healing. Lord we also pray that we will learn and we will be in a place to forgive ourselves for the mistakes we've made, for the choices we've made. Lord we know that we are in you, that we are sanctified by you, that we are righteous in you. And Lord when you look at us as your precious children, Lord may we not condemn ourselves. Lord we pray that we will stand in the boldness knowing that we are washed and cleansed and redeemed by you, that we are loved by you, we are chosen by you, we are called your own. And if you look at us with such pride and such joy, Father maybe never make the mistake to look at ourselves otherwise, but to look at ourselves through your word. Thank you for the worth that you have built in us. Thank you for the value that you have purchased for us. Thank you for the cross that brings about our healing, that brings about our deliverance, our wholeness. We are ever grateful to you, Heavenly Father. We speak in joy and we thank you. Just like to spend a minute just to thank God, just come to a place of gratitude and thank God before we close. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Thank you for the cross. Thank you for your love. Thank you for healing us. Thank you, Lord, for taking away everything, Lord, that is not of you. Thank you for bringing us to a place of wholeness and freedom in you. Holy Spirit, we just give you praise. We give you glory. We thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Do you be all glory? Do you be all power? Do you be all honour in Jesus' name? We pray. Amen. Amen. Alright, thank you so much for joining in today. I truly hope that just through this time of prayer that each of us have been blessed and walk in freedom. We all have freedom and let's walk in that. God bless. We'll meet you next week. God bless. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you so much. Thank you. Bye-bye.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcbvVlN8GgA", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCorhgRXYd6C5JiNADJgJ_LQ	MICCAI 22: Capturing Shape Information with Multi-Scale Topological Loss Terms for 3D Reconstruction	This is a brief presentation of our upcoming MICCAI 22 paper. The speaker is Dominik Waibel, the first author of this paper. Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01703 GitHub: https://github.com/marrlab/SHAPR_torch Demo: https://shapr.topology.rocks/ Abstract: Reconstructing 3D objects from 2D images is both challenging for our brains and machine learning algorithms. To support this spatial reasoning task, contextual information about the overall shape of an object is critical. However, such information is not captured by established loss terms (e.g. Dice loss). We propose to complement geometrical shape information by including multi-scale topological features, such as connected components, cycles, and voids, in the reconstruction loss. Our method uses cubical complexes to calculate topological features of 3D volume data and employs an optimal transport distance to guide the reconstruction process. This topology-aware loss is fully differentiable, computationally efficient, and can be added to any neural network. We demonstrate the utility of our loss by incorporating it into SHAPR, a model for predicting the 3D cell shape of individual cells based on 2D microscopy images. Using a hybrid loss that leverages both geometrical and topological information of single objects to assess their shape, we find that topological information substantially improves the quality of reconstructions, thus highlighting its ability to extract more relevant features from image datasets.	null	2022-08-24T11:45:13	2024-04-23T17:01:13	211	pCfRuTtyt1w	Hello. Today I want to show you how we can capture shape information with multi-skilled topological loss terms for 3D reconstruction. My name is Dominik Weibel. I'm a PhD student at the Helmholtz Center in Munich in Germany. Geometrical loss terms such as the dyes of binary cross entropy do not capture contextual information. However, that information might be relevant in a spatial reasoning task, for example, that could be used for speeding up 3D imaging, as that is prohibitively time-consuming as it requires stacking of 2D images. Geometrical loss terms compare a model's 3D prediction with the 3D ground truth, for example, on the basis of a binary cross entropy or dyes loss. We want to integrate contextual information with the topological loss term. Therefore, we extract topological features from the 3D prediction using a cubicle complex, and then we can extract features on multiple scales such as connected components, cycles, or voids. The same we do for the 3D ground truth, and then we can compare these two feature distributions using the Wasserstein Distance Symmetric from Optimal Transport. That allows us to incorporate topological information and add these two losses together. The topological loss is very stable, computationally efficient, maybe added to any neural network, and is invariant to spatial transformations. To prove the usefulness of the novel topological loss, we integrated into a model called Shaper. That Shaper model is designed to perform a spatial reasoning task solving the inverse problem of 3D shape prediction from 2D images. Here we use 2D microscopy images to predict the 3D cell shape. Our two-step training approach includes a first supervised training step, and then a discriminator is added for a second adversarial training step. We perform two experiments, one using the topological loss and one not using the topological loss. In the first row, you can see the results without the topological loss, and in the second row, the results with the topological loss, and third row, the ground truth. For two data sets, one red blood cell, and one containing nuclei. Visually, you can see that the surface of the red blood cell in the second row is much smoother as compared to not using the topological loss. But also quantitatively, the model looks really promising. For example, for the relative surface area error, and we get much lower values for when using the topological loss, and same for the surface roughness. This would have not been possible without the amazing team at the Institute of AI for Health. I thank Matthias Meijer and Scott Edwil for providing the second nuclei data set, Bastian Rieck for providing the idea and the topological loss, and Karsten Mares, my PhD supervisor. Please find the paper as a publication at Michael. To briefly summarize, we've used the Shaper model to perform experiments showing how well our topological loss is enhancing a spatial reasoning task, which is based on a cubical complex, and then extracting the topological features, and results clearly improve visually and quantitatively.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCfRuTtyt1w", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCrM4z9DzdvD3bnA5E7tDtKQ	Racial Disparities Advisory Panel - 8/14/2018		null	2018-08-17T17:22:18	2024-02-05T06:10:16	6,054	PCJhALF71rs	Do we I said that'd be pretty funny police officers car gets a ticket by another police officer that'd be awesome Yeah, he was pissed So I don't think we have introductions, but I think we all like know each other because it's a small group Sure oh Yeah, we should introduce ourselves however good point for the camera Because we're not the only people Why don't we start with major Jonas Looking there yeah I'm David here with your training general's office found Stevens have a Nike tribe James Pepper Department of State's attorneys and chairs ACLU Vermont It's on that thread and long road chair Lisa Menard Department of Corrections Rick got your criminal justice training council Monica Weber Department of Corrections and Gary Scott state That was easy Mmm Minutes did everyone have a chance? I sent them out like I kind of compulsively I'm sorry Thank you, yes, we really do have to say a real thank you Yeah, no I Just like personally love I had one clarification though on page it's in the dialogue when we were asking questions of Karen Richards from And I was Synopsized to saying that DSP will often submit our investigation results to the Human Rights Commission And I don't think I said that because we don't do that So just for clarification, so we need to amend that Okay, where you tell me where we are Yes Is Can that just be struck yes, and that we and that would be fine so we can just do that. Yep great Let's do it Okay All favor I All posed Abstaining we're striking that sentence and then otherwise any other addenda Anything else that somebody might have to say about the minutes because we're gonna post these now So I just want to make sure that they're actually people feel that they accurately represent what went on at the meeting I've already gotten guff that they weren't posted, you know Five minutes after we were done So well, I I didn't feel that doesn't feel comfortable to me I mean we have to approve the minutes. It's just sort of put them off, you know I mean before we decided So anything else no anyone want to move that we just approved them Great second All in favor I I all posed And there are no abstentions all officially abstains, so wasn't okay. You can abstain grand It passes minutes are approved and that so David we need to I know So we have to strike that one. We have to strike and then post them online Are you I have that motion noted, but James obviously has the actual Oh I have you have the I have you sent them to me, so I'll strike it Okay, and then I'll send it to you. Okay, and then you can with you know the love of God and so on there won't be another internet crisis and Don't put down swirls Yeah Did you send an email with the minutes to the panel I did I think I might not have been on that distribution We weren't we can check that later, but oh, I'm sorry. I'm really terribly. Sorry. I thought it's probably my fault. I You were not It was a personal I didn't think so, okay It was because Julia was here. That's right. So you were you were just Yes So I'm yes, I will I'll strike in I will send it to you. I'll figure out the list again because obviously my brain is Announcements we sort of had started with that just informally What? Okay talked about Who's not here? We've already done that Um We let's see Rebecca Turner is also not able to make it this evening. She had child care problems She was hoping to Send Someone in her place, but it was fairly last minute. So not certain the fact can happen Sheila Linton is on vacation Said to me I may call in don't bet on it I'm not betting on it So that's that's the other Another announcement I Wrote as many of them down. It's hard when they come in at the last minute You know, you got it. You got an email at like two o'clock in the afternoon and you're driving And you can't look at your hand Didn't I think that's it The other thing I want to say and this is slightly this may be a little awkward I There was and you may all know this there was an open letter that was sent to me By the former chair and vice chair of this panel There was a an open letter That was the subject of which was the report Which the panel you will recall at a meeting what three meetings ago Voted to withdraw. I wrote the letter that was asked of me to Tim Ash and Mitzi Johnson Formally withdrawing the report the open letter was Angry about this I Responded I did not respond as an open letter because Frankly, I just felt like We voted on this We have already dealt with it and I didn't feel like I wanted it to just become broad again So I responded What I'm telling you this for is to let you know that if anyone wants to see it in terms of transparency transparency Please email me Don't just tell me right now because like I'm like already Worried about staying awake driving back to Putney tonight So if you tell me right now, I will not remember but if you email me I will be more than happy to forward both the open letter and my response to it to you Are there does anyone have any questions about that? I just felt like I needed to bring that up I did not want to spend a whole lot of time on that We have such little time as it is That I didn't feel like it was something that I wanted to make a real agenda item Okay, so that you should know that no that that's what that's What went on? This was probably I Don't know what was it a month ago at this point probably yeah about a month ago, but this happened so And I wrote immediately back Ways forward I wanted to spend a little time talking about that because that came up last time not quite at the end but close to the end and Actually, you chief don had raised a really good point that's that it's in the minutes You were concerned about whether we would submit a report on a rolling basis Or whether we would wait until we had a complete document I don't know if you remember saying that but you it was a good point Yeah, the gist was more or less because we were working only on six a we were going to do six a submit it We'll wait till we're done with whatever we're going to do within the submit it So that was the only question right in case people didn't remember and I Think that that's a good conversation For us to have now. I'm sort of sorry. There aren't more people here to have it But I think I don't think we really have time to wait for a larger group of people I asked at that moment that we have that discussion in a later date because I think it was like I don't know 20 of eight or something like that and everybody was getting a little, you know Karen gave such a marvelous Presentation that everybody was just kind of drooling quietly and I think that we needed to go home So I said can we do this later? So let's do it. Now. I I want to just put forth some stuff. I am not I want to start off by saying this is a Suggestion I'm making I am facilitating. I am not a dictator. I am just the chair I am just putting forth an idea about how we might go forward here And I'm hoping other people will have other ideas or people will look at me and go a time. That's absolutely ridiculous Stop talking But I just wanted to put this forth this is a suggestion my sense is that we can make notes about anything at all on this Includes, I mean we started with 6a because we decided I believe it was Judge Gerson who actually said why don't we just go with the way the statute is written and start with 6a 6a My sense is that we can make notes about anything at all on this but not submitted until to the legislature until It's a complete document and everyone's happy with it or as I said last time equally miserable With it and I I'm frankly more comfortable with everybody being equally miserable There is again, no need to rush as we discussed at our meeting in June When several people pointed out that the legislature was not imminently expecting anything from us And that gives us actually some leeway has anyone heard anything that contradicts that I actually spent some time looking at that and Didn't find anything that said that you know We had something to produce by January 1st or anything of that nature. In fact, it's biennial So we've got even more time than that not that we should bore ourselves necessarily But on the other hand, I don't think we need to you know Stay up all night There's also I would suggest no need not to get going Some of our best thoughts probably deserve to be captured although I'm sure that we'll want to tinker with them So clearly what I'm doing is suggesting here that we write as we go I know that there's that that had some problems before I was on the panel But I'm also thinking that Again, as I had just said that there are some really interesting thoughts that people are probably going to have that really should be captured I'm still focused on I remember Judge Geerson saying last time that One of the one of the things we might do is piggyback on as it were with what the Human Rights Commission is doing because they're already talking about needing more people and And We were also having a conversation where I don't remember who said how many racial Complaints are there a year and it was a handful And everybody got very quiet, I think we were all kind of a little light. Oh, now what what do we do? And there were some people who didn't buy that Also, however There were some good thoughts there I thought when he said that why don't we start with that and he said it in a very commonsensical way It was really quite lovely I Figure why not we can write that we can start with that So again as I say I Suggest that we start writing as we go the statute itself gives us a rough outline to follow And it seems reasonable to follow that to me at least from now. I mean why not it's there Somebody did the work. Let's piggyback on it The important point is how this process should take place I'm certainly willing I'd love to write God I'd love to write I don't know why I'd love right I'm an academic. I can't help it. I'd love to write and I'm thinking if you if you want that I will write and I will send it out Just the way that we just did with the minutes. I will write I will send it out and and by God we need people to like go Aton, this is done or I don't think Don actually said that I think he said because I'm not going to get it right Um, it's like a rolling draft a rolling draft. Yes, exactly a rolling draft Which I would be my suggestion About a way forward with this I Have this in boldface here because I think it's probably the most important point I wrote down with this no one will be submitting anything without a vote and Further without ample commentary long before a vote is taken Let me repeat that because I think it bears repeating No one will be submitting anything without a vote and Further without ample competent commentary long before a vote is taken All right, it's not going anywhere except in this room and in your email files to put in your spam folder Whatever makes you happy The other matter to bear in mind is that writing has not been graven and stoned for rather a while now in history And that nothing that is written is immune to change It just allows us to preserve some of our best thinking and I just think that that's worth doing I think it's efficient and I'm all for being efficient And that seems to me to be worthwhile anyway That's what I wanted to say in terms of way forward and then just open it up to a broader discussion about how people feel about that or anything else that may come to mind about ways forward I'll put them in my two cents. I think that Having a living document that's ongoing like you said a rolling draft living document Whatever is is a smart way to go, but I think you also have to look at You can either wait forever or you can do something for two years and you know All of a sudden two years a long time, right? So I think wherever it makes logical sense to submit something like if you're going to submit something to a legislative body They're going to want something complete because they don't want to keep going back to the till They want to do it one time fix it move on to the next So I think if we're going to them for something I think we should make sure we have everything that we want them to be able to address at one time just For testimony for all kind of things I think if it's a policy within the juvenile justice system or the Vermont State Police or Corrections or something. I think that could be a rolling thing as something is accomplished I think maybe we could then see how to roll that policy change out or Or how it fits in like with this new panel for systemic racism and the new Executive director and what they're working on what we're working on and how we can take The information given to us by the Human Rights Commission and kind of hone that so we we have the information So I think it doesn't have to be either or I think it can be as it makes logical sense to move forward on a Policy or legislation or something. I think we can do that And still continue to work on it and then they can tweak it if we need to I don't know that's my sense But that's just my opinion good Do we want to have a timeline? That might not be a bad idea because Lord knows I think you can sit with this for years That's the point right right you're making this interest and I'm what we're doing as a panel, right? You know what nothing's come out of there to your soul. What are they doing? Why are they doing? David we are required to Produce something By January of 2020 correct because the first Document was due on January 28 January But on the flip side by withdrawing it Is there any ramifications to that because technically they submitted some but it was withdrawn so technically they didn't get anything so Is there a legal? Deadline we've already missed or Or I don't know that's that's that's where these guys I mean, yeah, we missed the deadline, but it's not like at this point The next deadline is the only definite next deadline is the 20-20 deadline. I think it's up to us to decide Okay, that's still seems like a long time from now or maybe it I'm not suggest. I don't know. I know. I'm just I'm sorry. I yeah, I'm just thinking I Think from a legislative standpoint, that's not a long time because I mean when you start they start January and in April I mean then they're done till the next year. I mean there. I mean and this this panel for the the Racial systemic racial panel is being picked as as we speak Yes, I mean there the applications have already been required to be submitted So they're going to be reviewing those they're going to let I mean the governor's going to point those or somebody's going to point The people on the panel and then they have to get the executive director So I think it doesn't it just make logical sense if we're doing something legislatively To wait to that person gets in and see how this panel shakes out in our comparison to what we're doing So we're not overlapping so I don't think 2020 is unreasonable from a legislative standpoint Maybe from a policy, but I love it depends on what they play on doing with the report Yeah, we might be looking at that line of 2020, but they want stuff by November of 2019 So they begin crafting legislation, right? Yeah, so November of 29 A year from now That way they can get stuff rolling into the 2020 legislative session Should we say that for a timeline? Yeah It's Timeline for filing yes, we need to start the process for vetting it here significantly before God, I hope Yeah, but November 2019 then This is all going so easily That's good. Yeah, no, I am I'm just checking because everybody's like we're all like it agreeing and everything just feels easy and I'm like Having a moment Oh Sure, I'm sorry Chief Superior Good evening, so I was just gonna pick up on this idea. I obviously can't relate Draft yes, but I think what we need to keep in mind is that even though it's a draft Last one at finish we don't want to Come back Yes, let's go back Reconsider Yes Okay Do we need to take a vote on November 19 the 2019 or do we know I think we're there Target day, okay That was easy As I say and if anybody who I'm willing to write but I enjoy it. I don't know why some people But he's really trouble Yeah Okay Please it's like cooking for some people like to cook I'd rather die. Um, and I I'm Writing I know it is extreme, but I cook Kitchen No, but writing I love so I will I'm more than willing to do it once we get some stuff down and I will start scribbling things out and it will look No, probably not initially, but you know, we'll we'll work on it and get it to that point Okay, great So can I just want to make sure I'm clear. Are we starting with tackling 6a? Yes. Okay, what I thought Um, because We are now moving ahead To our next moment on the agenda, which is in fact the discussion because I had we after Karen Richard spoke like we were all I that was wonderful. We were all like Huh, I mean it was just it was so marvelously Full And everybody had she had such wonderful ideas and we you know, it was kind of like Okay, now we need to like make something out of this and nobody knew what to do at that point except go home It was great But then we were going to spend this meeting actually coming up with Some real ideas based on what she said Judge griffin had that I keep going back to him because you had that idea about Oh, you're looking at me like I did not have an idea You have this really great idea about because she had said they were looking at getting more people to deal with some of the like Particularly racial stuff, but even though there isn't there wasn't a huge call for it There were like a handful of cases But they still needed those extra people and you were saying maybe we could piggyback onto that Rather than come up with something that's radically new and different Right I made some I made some notes because you asked us to look at that great if I hand them out I would love it so we can kind of look at them just at least Could I I figured these gives a some starting point it does around if you want I'll pass us. So yeah Unless there's more than 15 people that are there they're coming It's just to start at least the conversation anyway Wow, you took really good math Um, well, it's based on the minutes too. I mean so I just uh Well, no, I just figured it's a starting point to see Because you wanted to work on how this fit and how she fit into 6a or how that right into 6a So I tried to take the minutes and their conversation and and mold it into what we could do to help it fit into 6a Based on our discussion Just to keep everybody current The Section talks about parties involved in handling current complaints starting in july 1 the council Is handling law enforcement regulations the complaints will go there from a certification perspective as well as wherever they make Okay great Thank you So I didn't know if you wanted to start with discussing and then build something on this or you guys have some other Outlined or other people have other things they want to start or I'm still reading. Okay You know number two is interesting. I had um Ann Schroeder, I don't know if you all remember her. She's uh, she was here member of the public last time And she wrote me an email of last week Saying wouldn't it be nice if a lot of the The social justice organizations had links on their websites and she did the research I it was great. She like went and she's like there are no links to The human rights commission And wouldn't it be nice to have those links put in so that people can have A far more direct access to to what's going on and she asked me if What she should do and I said I think you should talk to those people But just so you know, but that that came up around your second point here and your recommendations Well, and also the hrc said they needed to do better outreach and marketing as well So it's kind of fits into that whole piece right They just don't have staff to do it right Which moves into three to three, right? Yeah Because when they said investigators the reason why I put one to two is because they said they normally handle 16 per investigator They know we know for sure. She said 10 cases per year were related to racial discrimination complaints Right, and they she did say we know that one to two cases per year were related to racial profiling So that's 12, right, but under the work discrimination There was no indication of if it was Race-based or if it was just in general with work discrimination so You can easily either Get the 16 right there so you can justify to a legislative body one position for that Or there's also housing complaints, which there wasn't identified as If it was racial or not, so I'm not sure how this is encompassing But I mean you could with the data she gave us you could justify a recommendation for at least one If not maybe two investigators to handle racial Case loads we could ask her about that and ask her to clarify. I mean that would be easy to do Yeah, that would so I mean that's where I came up with the And then I figured they don't have anybody for education and outreach or training Which they said they desperately need which would help maybe funnel people to the hrc And then with it, I think what they're lacking In my opinion from the discussion was the caseload coordination and mediation Because I think because there's so many agencies that can receive complaints I think you need to funnel them all to one agency and then have them keep track of it And then farm it out to the proper people So you can follow up on it and then see what the results are So it's like a project manager for cases coming in Because there's all of these the attorney general says they get certain ones that And then the human rights get certain one and then if they don't take it It goes to EOC or HUD or So I think there needs to be or the state police because you said you handle your own So I think there needs to be Because she said that they had very good data collection It's just a matter of putting the data in a usable format. So I think If they already have The ability to handle legal issues and mediate they already have the ability to Have the database is already there with proper capturing of data What they need is management like Like facilitate somebody doing the project management to say and then if it needs mediation Maybe that person could help do that and then further on down where it says the data collection as an oversight Maybe that the data that's collected could then be given to the new panel Unracial Disparities to not only oversee the HRC's Handling of what they're doing but also gives them an avenue to deal with the non-legal Issues of how to change Where they're coming from so if they're all coming from one department they can start focusing education in that department Where because I think what HRC and AG's office said they only handle the legal aspect the other stuff isn't So that's where the systemic racism panel can help pull the load. I don't this is just suggestion. Yeah, that's great Thank you. Just a suggestion So you're sort of envisioning one spot shot Yeah, you have to and then that drops out to these Various silos of agencies and then they can either stay in that side. Well, that's what 6a is telling us 8 8 8 if you look at 6a 6a says that it is a common Uh reporting Right, so you kind of want to funnel that into one area so somebody can keep track of it because if people are saying Oh, no, that's we have more complaints than that But nobody's capturing that or so you have to have one focal point as a funnel in and then Feed out but then you get feedback back in saying, okay What's the status of this? What'd you do? It might be just simple as saying We're still working on it or oh, we've closed that or we referred that back to HR so you so that HRC can because there's some I think there's a responsibility of HRC to work with a human Resources department within the state because they're handling all employee issues so They have to be involved because There's a legal reason for the HR departments or whether it be a state police or whether it be With the state agency HRC isn't just going to do their own thing HR has to be involved because they're an employee So I think there has to be some coordination between these different departments who are dealing with these complaints So they cannot they can oversight each other, you know what I'm saying? So there's some Check and balance there and data collection because without data We're right back where we started it's gonna be interesting to see how they the data collection happens. I think because if I read that order properly that Position is going to be very heavily Reliant upon the collection of data Across the executive branch. Oh you talking about the new the new yeah So I mean this kind of fits in well That's why I did it that way because I figured that position Is going to do like what the Vermont state police is already doing right? They're going to create these pick while my in my vision They're going to create these panels that are going to do the work and dig into the details And then they're going to report back and say okay What do we find and how do they put the big picture together because you're working on bsp stuff HRC is working on theirs. So how does this? Executive director along with that panel put it all together and say, how do we how do we corral it or how do we Manage it. I'm only assuming that because you got one person. They can't deal with all the state government They just so they're going to have to build these coalitions right or panels like this one Or you know in different departments to be able to do it. I mean Because other ones. Yeah, no, but I'm saying there's a data analyst, right? I mean their point is saying where's the breakdown and how do we fix it? Whereas and you guys are getting in that we're getting into the details of Of collecting that data, but I think you have to have hrc If we're going to have a focal point If you funnel everybody so they all get the same message any complaints for racial disparities goes to the human rights commission That's an easy thing to put out there and hammer Any complaint dealing with racial issues go to the hrc hrc hrc and then once they start getting that message That hrc is responsible to like oh this deals with hud Oh, this deals with vsp because otherwise you're going to have vsp saying oh if you have any problems We have a complaint officer or we have HR or you got somebody else on correction saying well talk to your resource And the school is going to say talk to your guidance counselor. I mean, so That's what we're having now, right? Everybody's reporting to everywhere So but hrc is only getting a piece of it Okay, right and I didn't we say that hrc made the logical sense to because I would have a process they have the legal authority already plus But major Jonas is looking I'm processing this as we talk so I I I support I get where you're looking for I think that that would make sense. There are some Issues just thinking about vsp with regard to our complaint process because it is currently governed by State law that our internal affairs which is kind of outdated language for professional standards process for complaints is confidential by statute and Only with permission from the citizens advisory board that we have just called the state police advisory commission Can we release information publicly about that So we have the commission has given permission to release information about internal affairs complaints We do Rarely, but and we do give a report At any time about our numbers our general numbers of types of complaints and outcomes whether there were findings or not Those are all just general numbers. They're not specifics. So it might be That somebody goes direct to the internal affairs division in the files of formal complaint Or they walk into a barracks and they make a complaint and then There's a policy that every member who receives any complaint Alleging a violation of one of our codes of conduct if you're broken into three parts based on severity Must report that of the chain of plan if you don't report receiving information about a complaint Then that is a So The point is that there are certain things about vsp's current complaint process that are confidential by statute And so we have to kind of work around Some of those things, but I but I get what you're getting at. There's a clearing house for Where I think we could have I mean Piggyback off that and the same thing is that we have a system where there is an area where it comes in But it may not always be caught there because it's caught at the agency But at the end of the year these agencies have to give finalized reports back into that clearing house So, you know, this may be this may numbers came in, but this is the actual numbers when you took Well, that's why That's why this is a good discussion because I mean this isn't sat in stone It's just a suggestion a talking point comes Maybe vsp's excluded or maybe there's a no no or maybe there's a statistical data that can be funneled So there's some track trackability to the data Act 56 changed that landscape a little bit because the vsp are now required by law to report everything that the other agency has to report to the council There's still that confidentiality piece in the handle of their own everybody handles their own first category b offenses It gets made as a report to us simply so we can track second subsequent offenses which come into the jurisdiction of the council at that point The criminal investigations vsp or is open open air about that Which is our category a category b is the gross professional misconduct bias enforcement You know using your authority to gain personal advantage of sort of stuff And everybody takes care of their own first offenses Part of the reason that was done was because the vsp have a pretty robust Process as do a number of others who are handling those things appropriately And on the second offenses the vsp are typically letting people go at that point Anyway, so the report still gets made the council And the category c Are the offenses against the council processes which we handle Light about your training hours or fail to make reports. They're supposed to make or something like that. Those are council processes so The current law states that we have to accept complaints Regardless of the source in addition to accept the reports we have to accept complaints and then funnel it to the appropriate agency And that's not unusual four or five times a year. I get a call from people complaining about an office They don't know how to sit down So we funnel it towards the appropriate agency And then it's kind of circular the report then it comes back to the council And act 56 also requires us to maintain a registry And all of our actions are taken In full view of the public We do the registry the information on the registry depends on the action taken by the council But that's all public and whoever the executive director is You just go and look at this and gather all the information like off of that or we could Just aggregate send it up and it's all public anybody on the planet can pull up or watch like they look out I guess my question is is that we're not talking so much about the internal departments Feeding the hrc That's not where I was going because most of the complaints are either going to come from the public Like if there's racial profiling they might not want to go to the brahma state police because that's the people they're complaining about They might want to go to hrc and then hrc would then funnel it down to Vsp to then look into the what happened right and then you could follow your processes if it's within state government I don't know if they would come to the department or the where they're working Or if they would go to hrc I'm just saying what happens now if the hrc gets a complaint about Whatever in in this thing that you're talking about they're pushing it to you maybe Right, or maybe not. I don't know. So they've already given that I'm making a complaint because I feel comfortable doing so Now somebody else knows that I'm making a complaint outside of Either ones I'm complaining about Uh, and then it goes through that process within that department, right? So Or whatever whatever, yeah, but somebody's keeping track that there's like actually a the complaint made just like hud If somebody's complaining about their housing Would they go to the housing unit? Maybe if they do that's a different process, but if they at least come to the centralized one They then push it to hud and say Investigate it get back to me And with not maybe not with specifics, but what what was your findings? There's a number of ways that complaints themselves in a way like right so Someone might not feel comfortable going to the sp. We're making a complaint. However They are challenging the search of their vehicle and through that motion to dismiss they Made statements to show that they are concerned that there was Unconstitutional policing that was happening that involved racial profiling or I'm off the search and then when we learn of that type of Thing then that could constitute opening an internal investigation. But so complaints sort of present themselves in different ways. It's not always Formal some people don't always people always feel comfortable making a formal complaint and yet The basis of a complaint comes surfaces. There are other names I'm channeling Sheila that could be that agency reporting back Yeah Because I'm I'm wondering I I just remember last time she she seemed And there's no way to know this I Really, but she seemed to be uncomfortable with The notion that someone who would be a that the complainant would actually feel comfortable complaining And that in fact the numbers that we were given that Karen gave us were Were low But she seemed to feel that there were a lot more people It was far under reported Right It should Instincts they're saying This kind of complaint, right But I think the major is correct too Complaint is a very broad term And it's going to come in different ways that some aspect of it may start out in Public End up in their process or any other agency's Term process so right they could take a path that is public in one sense, but And more specific That's why I was saying according to 6a it says Institute of public complaint process. So So I'm just saying there's going to like you're all saying is there's multiple ways people can complain Somebody might just want to go to the supervisor and say hey joe's give me a problem We take care of it or just don't make a big deal about but can we you know, that doesn't need to rise to You know, okay. No, you got to go through hrc. No, I mean that's I think if we provide an avenue for the public To be able to to be able to Make a formal complaint That's what our job here not that we're circumventing any other processes that other departments have I'm just saying is we have to provide a a common vehicle For someone and market that like if you want this is available. You don't have to use it, but this is available I think that's where we're trying to strive, right? I mean It don't have to be set in stone. I think because everybody's going to deal with their issues But there has to be some accountability because I'm thinking if you're going to legislators they're going to want to know What are you going to do, right? How are you going to track it? How are you going to remediate it and how much is it going to cost and how much is it going to cost so I I think You know, that's that's kind of what we got to present them with Something that's really difficult. I know that right now. I think taren is the only one who really goes around the state and does A lot of the implicit bias training and things like that so people, you know, I think she said she is she's two investigators so I think You know both, you know talking about the positions in hrc and then also the marketing is critical because you know And a lot of this might come down to the appropriations that are given to hrc or staff But if karen's the only one who can go out and goes around the state and does that, you know There's going to have to be some Either mass marketing campaigns or staff iron uh training the trainers sorts of meetings because otherwise You know part of the problem Part of the reason why there might be under reporting is that could blink mean simply not know And I also see where this new panel Racial systemic racial disparities panel and the executive director that's part of their role Is making sure because part of it says cultural and other educational yes opportunities to educate state departments on racial Disparity issues, so I think there's going to be a overlap there or hand-in-hand or something that's got to do with um, because there's funding To a point for that. I don't know much. I know they Allocated 75,000, but I don't know if that's for the executive director position or overall stuff I don't know I think it's for the position I don't know, but So I think there's going to be other training opportunities, but I just don't know how it relates. We don't know how it's going to relate to human rights commission So we're going on with your suggestion I think I mean i'm just summing up now That we're really going to go with If We don't need to come up with a brand new Give hrc the resources that they need to actually to handle what we think is probably a bigger Docket of cases Right then what they're already handling We're going to need either hrc or the other commission that's coming together to be funded to Market and educate the public about the complaint system I mean a big picture. I think that we Are coming to a place where we are saying we want to use hrc as the Place where all of these complaints People are educated that they can bring these complaints initially if they don't want to go directly to the agency That the complaint is about or against and then to me it seems like it's a matter of them figuring out Okay, how is hrc going to handle these complaints? Is there going to be some funneling to the specific agencies to handle that the complaints internally throughout through whatever their own system is but it definitely Seems like we have a sense that using hrc that way avoids having to create some whole new agency And gives us a framework to start with that already exists Right, right. So so my question then I think we're all agreement that potentially hrc is the mechanism But do we just leave it at that and let them handle their own devices or do we provide them guidance like saying We need you to capture the data so we can report on or we need to have in other words Does every investigator handle Uh Racial issues or do you have some people that have qualified backgrounds to be able to maybe help that area? Um, I don't know. I do we just give them a blank saying hrc is yours Or do we and we give you we recommend giving you the resources you need or do we get down into a little more into the weeds and our recommendation to say You know, this is what maybe you should do I'm asking I need to have Karen back at some point we get into like the details of so if we use hrc as our major sort of clearing house Well, how would that work for you? You know, I'd assume you get fully staffed and whatever How would you then handle these complaints if they involve a specific agency? Would you just do the investigation or would you sometimes fall, you know Whether it be instances where it would be appropriate to file a complaint to the agency that sort of thing I think we would need to make sure that some of these statutorily defined processes We know we're like that that's almost like you've given right like these kinds of cases need to be referred out To the statutorily defined and I'm more like the best Yeah, yeah, no, that's the only reason why I'm asking the question about the details is because In her comments in the minutes she said in an ideal world I would need like six or eight So if you give her like if we say we can justify based on racial profiling or racial issues alone, which is what we're dealing with It might only deal with one maybe two investigators, but she says I need six or eight So my question is would then she just Then take her existing cases And put those Now it relieves some of her workload from the other people, but there's no priority or any consideration given to the racial Issue with in which we're dealing with I'm only or it's not our issue I don't know because say you get she needs six we give her we somehow get the legislation give her two Does that mean we're still a year out before any just because any cases with Racial disparities come up That's where people were saying they get frustrated and they drop it and they don't want to deal with it because it's just Forever and they just get sick of it and say forget it That was part of the discussion. I think Sheila was bringing up was that people just get frustrated and say forget It's not worth it Right, right by then they find another reason to get rid of you Oh, but that may be again going back to to marketing This is how long the process takes I mean, you're not going to walk in the door and walk out the door the same day Having issues all you can't possibly investigate something I believe wholeheartedly and fully So maybe it goes in part to that to say it's going to take this long So people know going in There's a quick question if anyone remembers how long as much longer is Karen in her position? I mean, tell me is if she's going to be available Oh, right not a long time Whoever comes in behind her This is going to have her Knowledge But also if you read the minutes if you read the minutes from her testimony She said if they have lack of resources they drop a lot of cases unless they are legally able to Know they're going to have a case So there are a lot of things that just get Dismissed because they don't have the resources. It's in the minutes. Yeah, so if they don't have the resources And we only give them two more. I don't know if we've solved the problem I mean we've helped but I don't think we've solved what we're trying to do. That's that's my only concern Um, unless they can be fully funded Anyway, just I don't want to beat it to that but I'm just trying to bring up little points from the testimony. So Yeah, so what I'm thinking is if she's retired we could just we could use her as a consultant Yes Should we start writing something and then give that to her Detail should I thank you major this is so glad you made it Should should I start writing something down like that that we can actually put in front of her and say Great What else Exactly, I love you Thank you. I love you too. That was great. This is really great. Let's have a hug moment Personal space, right? Yeah So each agency themselves Yeah, what is it? I think is my understanding and kind of hearing about it is it sort of can go all over the place There isn't a streamline process So I think that's another part of this too as we're sort of like having these agencies now have a war You and I had a really good discussion about this About data and about meeting reports From different agencies in the executive branch And how they did this And I didn't ask I didn't ask you because you weren't here but um We had a discussion about this that was a little ex parte but you know About meeting reports that would in fact talk about data collection Around issues of complaints and so on and so forth the discrimination, etc Um, and that we actually needed that as a group to look at To get a sense of exactly what What Gary's bringing up, okay, is that something? Are you do you feel a little overwhelmed? I mean, I'm not sure my office like has that in one place, but given how many Assistant AGs we have placed around state agencies right state government I do think it's data that we could over a period of some time not data, but information About processes that we could gather it may take at least several weeks to get that all together, but I still can do it I yeah, and I think we should ask the same maybe Great can happen with local and Sheriff's office, yes All of the like do you have a formalized process what it or is it So we can kind of hear because I think the judge just made a good point because that's kind of that that was documents We're talking about so we look at the formalized process for complaints. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they're doing out because they're mandated by a lot That's coming to you. Well, they have that internal investigation policy that That we created as a model We're talking about Is everyone talking about Complaints that might come from a citizen outside the agency as well as Complaints by employees So thank you for asking I was thinking the same good thing And I think it's going to be scattered so I think that's going to help sort of shape this overall Image and we're kind of looking at because that will help sort of define Holly's investigation sort of take shape because there's going to be different Standards when it comes to unions and this and that well the statute says public complaint process public So that's true. That's what we have to concentrate on is a public complaint process So not so much internal insurmountable, but because that has whatever that process is now So it's more or less So when we're talking about Getting a sense of how All these different state agencies handle complaints Or if they have a formalized process we're talking about complaints from members of the public about so like For a public defender office, it would mean If I guess a client of ours thought that he or she was Was being discriminated in some way Based on race or ethnicity what the question is what would their process be for Bringing that to someone's attention and making a formal complaint Well, that's that's why I'm reading the statute because that's why that's why we have to not lose sight of If we're following the statute, we have to follow it's for the public now Could somebody in a department be part of the public? I don't that's a different question, but we have to at least Well, frankly, I mean, I think if we are if we are Are educating the public more about how to make Complaints, you know based on allegations of Discrimination based on race by a state agency We are inevitably also Giving that information to you know, if there's an employee if I feel like I'm being discriminated You know by my boss like I'm going to go to the HRC now So I think from the criminal justice system When you bring up a client they could be complaining about you Complaining about the way they were treated by the court staff. Yeah, they could Over hear something the state's attorney has said and Right talking to you. They could obviously be complaining about the judge And the judge's reaction to something that they feel in the court process People with the attorney may Have the same reaction But the judicial process of course has confidentiality But major Jonas's point earlier really made me think, you know From My perspective, I think that when we see something when we think that we see racial bias in a case What you describe is exactly what we do. We usually address it by challenging it within the criminal case But this conversation is making me recognize like I would never really even have thought about Yes, I can address this in the criminal case, but also There's this bigger issue that maybe I should be taking To the human rights commission or some broader it, you know making some more sort of formal complaint not just in this criminal case specific to this You know this officer's conduct in this case, but really To his or her department or agency or whatever. I think that's really what the goal of this is is to see that bigger picture as well People are also being like regardless of the merits of your claims Right. See, yes. There's a broader concept that needs to be reported beyond right Then how would we capture that if somebody is Has absolutely no interest whatsoever in bringing to They don't have any faith in our department. Let's say they the LA were discriminated against and they really don't care about our Process they have no faith in our process and so they Hire an attorney and they sue our department and Which they're rightfully able to do and then we're engaging this thing could go on for years and involves attorneys And we Would hopefully also open a parallel internal process for that, but if somebody has no interest whatsoever in The complaint because they don't have any faith in the system working to answer their complaints So they're going after in a different way. That's their product to do We still want to We still want to capture those as complaints because they're technically I would hope yeah Well that answers the she answered that because Karen had said that they often will uh recommend or push things to either legal aid or uh legal counsel so in you know private counsel and they normally at that point Are done with it, but I think if it comes through the human rights commission They can at least track it say it went to private illegal aid and then maybe at the end try to find out What the disposition was not not so much the merits of it, but just What happened was it dismissed? Was it not found? I mean just to know because I can I can picture my head and and I don't even work in corrections But you have no idea how many calls I get in letters from prisoners saying from native standpoint That they're not being treated fairly and and that's outside of the right to me to help them because they're they're not accepting of the corrections and sometimes they try everything Just because they have a lot of time on their hands and they're trying everything for somebody to help them do something And I have to bet those things, you know myself, but that's outside of any of these processes But I could take that and say hey this person's getting Feels like he's being mistreated For say go to the human rights commission or talk to parole and then I'll be an interested party But I mean at least there's a formal avenue For them to do that. I mean because somebody could get overwhelmed with all those complaints I mean, you know, I mean, I mean you could get complaints about everything all the time But I uh anyway I think there has to be trackability to get data because otherwise we don't It's hard to make It's hard to make judgments on where to fix problems If we don't capture it like is it all coming from housing? Is it all coming from the court system or Okay, 10 percent's going from coming from corrections, but 15 percent's coming from bsp and You know, 80 percent's coming from housing. So then you would say to yourself Maybe I better start educating HUD a little more or housing a little more Because that might reduce the percentage of people complaining. So it gives you somewhere to focus your Your outreach, right and your marketing and your education. I mean, but if you don't have that data then Well, that's why we were we were talking about needing these Documents for that lack of a better word would be to try to get that data more Under our belts. So we would have a sense of How the complaint process would be influenced by in fact those data All It's going to go What we mean Right Yep, because I Sheila was also concerned when we were talking about the permit foch a case and she was all upset about you know, but Well, people don't even understand what that means and then and then beyond that That doesn't mean something didn't happen just because it doesn't rise to that standard And she was trying to point out there And I remember feeling a certain amount of resistance about that and then I went home and thought about it and I think the resistance was I really just want there to be some sort of standard that makes the simple or Simple and scare quotes But yeah, what do you do when you have a situation where And I certainly know this happens where somebody is just clearly got a racial bug and You you know it you know it the way you know how to tie your shoe in the morning And there is absolutely no way That you can actually prove that given the way The judicial system is set up. You just can't do it and I know that's where where Sheila was going with that That may or may not be something we can handle. I don't know It I would be sad if we can't but I also understand that There are certain things that just can't get covered But I certainly know what she's talking about. I mean I I've had professors who I just had a professor. I someone I know just told me. Oh, yeah Someone I had in graduate school who I could not get more than a d from you may not know this But in graduate school you do not get d's That's just not how life works. You don't even get c's you get a's and b's and you get a b or more and So I you know I remember this guy just did not like me and he he couldn't stand it So I was having dinner with this man the other night. He went well, you know, he's an open racist, don't you? It had never occurred to me that he really was and he said well, that's why he's never given one of his black students anything more than a d Well, I can't prove that But in those cases no, but see that's where the information regardless of the outcomes come But if you if you have those interviews and you can capture that data somewhere Then doesn't mean at that point you can go back to the school and educate and say Let me pick uh, you can do a student roster by the say the What their race is and you can prove that out if they all have d's then obviously there's a bias there that you can maybe address But I'm just saying is Doesn't matter about whether like in this case same with legal aid or legal if it comes in hrc and you say I put farmed that out to legal If if 60 percent are going to legal or private then you know, maybe I need to work on How to educate around that Or it gives you some you may not need to know if it was valid or not But because you every case is different but You might be able to say where do I focus the outreach and education because it's all going to legal or private Or it's all going to HUD or it's all I just think that capturing at least Where the complaint's coming from where does it go and then as much data as you can get That might document what that implicit bias may or may not have been just to give you some sense of Can I do anything further outside of this process for for Education or looking into something right in your example, there are some mechanisms that you could check just because They were there's records data So I don't know. I don't want to be dead. I just want to focus I want to focus us to a point of where do we go from here To write something up for 6a and I know we're not going to solve all the details today, but I'm saying is we're Well, but I think you you guys had a really great idea here between the two of you Which is we need to get this to Karen and have her comment on it But that would be a really useful thing would be to To get that to her and say this is This is where Don has started. This is where I take my name off just from the panel just use it from the panel Okay, I'll take I mean I'm just these are just suggestions. Yeah but Okay, and but to put that forward to her and just to get some feedback and then And then come back with that And having the agencies report and having that law enforcement agencies have to have a formalized process right that was part of this As well, right? So we know those things are starting to come together in some ways. So some of those recommendations are already being Exactly You could frame it in such a way I think this is an excellent summary of what she presented. I do too at least this is the way The panel has perceived it and right does she agree that this actor reflects Indeed her comments and we're using it as a first step in this process So I'll send you want me to send you this since I would love it if you would Then you can tweak it and do a re want and add maybe the data reporting or some other reports or something else or Sure, um, I can just email it to you if you yeah, we don't need to retype it. I just sent it to you That would be lovely. Thank you. Okay That was a lot anything else That we need to do right now I'll just make the point that I know that it's not part of the charge that we did this but 6a says institute Or how to institute a public complaint process through this procedure is advised across all systems of state government We're talking about the clearing house and having hrc. We kind of do the point of contact But one thing that I always worry about is that we all have different our different entities have different ways of Framing up what is a complaint and categorizing it and so we've all done a good job, let's say of Okay, well the sp has these You know types of codes of conduct and corrections has their own system set up to receive a complaint in front in your you know A complaint about discrimination based on race or ethnicity Is called something different in your system than it is in ours perhaps and so how do we know I'm afraid that there isn't continuity from the different parts of the system So we wouldn't necessarily know what you know, it's a complaint and bsp is it a complaint in other Entities in the system. How do we speak the same language or know that we are So that we're really able to track if we were to internally if we were to report Let's say there was like at the end of the year we reported Cades allegations of racial profiling allegations of you know You know discrimination based on status Citizenship status those types of things. So how would how do we all speak the same language or our systems? Speak the same language. So we even know That we're tracking the same things or categories of things Um, I think that we're having when we hear from state agencies That's going to give us numbers or no numbers. So that's going to send one path. And I think we get numbers We can dig into that question. But then okay, we see you have These numbers here then we can ask a question or someone asked a question What is that? Can you give us a sort of broad base and what that looks like in your agency? You know, because I my guess is I think we'll see probably little to no numbers somewhere Because of no formalized process and nothing's been captured. So that's gonna sort of trigger that and then the agencies that do report We kind of ask them. What is that? What does that look like in your agency and they can explain it to us? As you say it, I'm just thinking how difficult this is I think about For example an inmate who may have been put in segregation and they file a grievance the grievance is going to be Categorized as an appeal of being in segregation But if I'm reading it if it's coming to me and it says I was put in segregation because of my race It's not coming in under that heading. It would then be Sent to somebody to investigate for that purpose. But unless you know, Monica Have we changed the headings enough or are they that subtle to be able to capture that? I think we would capture when we read it versus being titled that way. Yeah, I think it is going to be difficult I think what we're all talking about. I mean and it's up to the panel's side. I'm not officially a member But it sounds like what you're asking is a lot of qualitative research that I'm not really sure the panel is You know prepared or resourced to Conduct and it it seems to me like what you want to do is get a very sort of high level What do we have? What do we know now and just kind of think about it at that point versus trying to work out in the Comparison stuff because I think that would come Kind of later on in a recommendation Well, I'm also thinking in my head too from an IT standpoint Is that we use a lot of cross-reference tables when we deal with different entities where you have one standardized thing And then those agencies have to report based on your standardization But I but I'm also thinking right now Based on hrc. We're only talking 16 cases a year now that could expand dramatically But I'm saying is we're talking about a very small number of Of data that each department. I don't know how many Vsp gets from a racial standpoint, but they're saying two they were saying what a one to two ones at two They were saying one to About pro finally how many Right, so I'm saying is it may not be a task an overwhelming task on Each department that might say I need to be able to put this in a standardized reporting format If you're talking about five people or if you're talking maybe even 20 That might take somebody a week. I don't know what the big My question is is this a decision to make now or is this a decision to make Or a recommendation that that needs to be worked out later Yeah Thinking about what the charge and what the recommendation of the panel is is how to institute a public complaint process And then the recommendation, you know, sort of like how many You know staff do we want one of the other things that needs to be worked out It could all be part of the recommendation versus maybe really hard for this group to work all of that out I don't think we can and I think especially with the new Systemic I keep going to the systemic racial panel. They're charged with the same thing of collecting data So there has to there's going to be an An overwhelming push To standardize all over the reporting Right, so we can't do it before they'd be one of those things that collaborative. I think it's got to be collaborative They're gonna be a year behind us. Yeah, that's 75,000. It's gonna feel You know the other thought I had when I was listening to you was also You know that there isn't the standardization and maybe Is that good I mean does that in fact reflect A certain kind of reality That Do you know what I mean that in fact there are different The discrimination takes these different forms. It's protean And then It Can just become it takes different forms It's just Yeah amorphous in a way. It doesn't have a shape. You are going to be a good writer But I would somebody asked me to define something But um, but that if that's in fact the case Then we're gonna have that's going to be a problem To come up with what we're trying to come up with because in fact The fact that it has all these different manifestations is in fact racism itself And so I just I'm sort of suddenly going where you're going which wasn't where I was going initially and now I'm confused I mean good Every system has a different consequence Judges And I think you still need to capture like you're saying the perceived Even if it's not reality, there's still a perception that they're being discriminated against racially when that may not even be the case Um, but at least the perception is their own reality of that What regardless of the outcome so there's still that thing too is where they really discriminated against or was it perceived because their own and really That's a hard one Yeah, because everybody if they've always been discriminated against everything to them is the discriminated factor Uh, if they haven't then they may say well, maybe or no, I think it's experience But right I can't I mean it's kind of like you're you're um Um, what do I call him? Um, I've decided it's a him. Um You have a you have a certain person who Works in the middle of nowhere who is probably a horrible horrible racist, but we won't know because there are no black people And how do we find this person and you and I were like Hmm And I think that may be where this goes too I mean and that then gets back to what you were saying, which is this is getting a little bit further than the panel can do It's just I'm just listening and Sort of making an observation And trying to so that you don't get too far deep down into trying to solve problems that down the rabbit hole Keep us on track So I will I will get this off to Karen Richards with um with a bit of a you know Little note attached as well and saying we would like as you were saying Is this accurate? A and b this is a first step for us. And so we really do need to know Some feedback from you on this As a way to start And I will take don stevens off of it. Yeah, and um But I really would like to say publicly. Thank you. This is wonderful I think it is My apologies thought we were all working on it. We are but it's just but it but it's really wonderful No, but I just oh, thank you. But like I said, it's kind of you know make it come for the panel because I will I will um Okay, it is 735 because because it always is um And Well, I yeah, I know it's always 735 somewhere Uh, we were hoping to get to Again chief don's submission um reducing racial disparity in the criminal justice system You remember that document I know I've got it. It's pretty thick. Um Actually started to summarize it a little bit, but uh, I figured I stopped Do you want to at least get a go on it because we've tabled this twice We are in no hurry. That's true I'm just asking Also say that I haven't read it and I'm wondering if we can maybe For next time well table it now, but also for next time narrow Yes, this focus of what we want to look for in it. Then I'm wondering and if you have read it So maybe you can give us some direction chief, but We are right now focusing on six a and how to come up with a public complaint process So maybe if there is a section specific to that in the report, we could focus on trying to make that Yeah, I have just uh, I can give you just an outline that I Had I mean it's nothing major, but I just started work on something if you want um It's just kind of basically the good thing about this is that because we were trying not to reinvent the wheel I don't know if you like that or I can work on something a little This is just kind of a quick outline over Um But the the thing with that was that their their main goal was is that things build upon Other issues so in other words, where do you route it out at each stop because like say you get unfairly Arrested well if you're poor you don't have money to pay for a lawyer to get you out So then you're likely to not get bail because you can't post it. So now you're incarcerated. So Now you run into other issues. So it just compounds on top of each other. So Is how do you create? Areas to put checks and balances in each part of the process like arrest Court Corrections Per roll like where do you put checks and balances so it doesn't keep building on itself so you can recognize it So, I mean this is just a quick Uh Thing I mean I just started working on so don't take this by any means as any Gospel it just kind of had an outline on the back of it to some of the different things So you'd have to look at it to see if any of those fit, but The book I think I said you guys Oh, it's a pretty long and they said we had the rights to copy it. So 74 pages Yeah, but it you don't have you can skim it. I mean if it's something specific to 6a I think it's got to this has got to do with more of the training piece or how do you put something in place for to recognize that compounding Bias that you may not even know what's happening Or whatever At the table Great, yeah, because there is probation So we're not overwhelmed all of us with 74 pages Yeah Then I would suggest I don't do anything We're great. Yeah, really That was a smart Okay, sorry, uh, let's do that. Um Read your own section. Okay for the next time if I understood. Yes read the section most applicable What happens if you have like we do you say there were seven we have three sections, right? Right But yeah, we're waiting I looked at them Yeah, I should say there's a lot in them to consider dense I kept going back and forth and going Which sounds kind of silly, but you should already section one though. Yes, right Did you already say that? But and then and we were and we were narrowing our charge to 6a b and c right So if anything that fits into both a b and c great, right make note of it Yeah, I make note of it. I think because it might hit either one of those I don't think we're doing anything more than a b and c, right? I think that's what we vote right now. Yeah And they have pictures I like the idea when they said let's not reinvent the wheel if we don't have to I mean if there's some good stuff in it And the and this is a national Organization who deals with this. I mean so they've got some experience And they said they'd be willing to consult. I don't know what that would cost, but I mean I have I have contact people Do you want to talk to them too? Would you do the sentencing project? It was interesting because I remember while I was reading it just thinking Because it had so many that there were questions In each section that should be asked Yeah, yes, and my I was just sort of going of course who would be asking this and how would they be remunerated I think they break that down by the departments. I think in the in the specific area I viewed it as like a training document. Yeah, these are the questions you ask Perhaps even when you're hiring when you're hiring There was there was a lot to consider. Yeah, it really was So yeah, yeah, no I'm just trying to provide the information. No, it's great. I don't think we really need to get More specific about it. I think we're all smart enough to know what relates to us Yeah, yes, okay Great, um So we'll do that for next time. Okay, we'll start off with that for next time. Okay, um Wow Scheduling of next meeting them We are by statute to meet No more than 10 times a year I believe I believe that's what I really Does technically say that but I also I do get things wrong, but Don't worry about it. I mean, okay. I'm not worried about it. Who's gonna get in trouble next month The promise is not to prosecute I mean, I think yeah, that won't be fine. Okay, we'll be fine. Okay. Yeah So the 11th of september is the second tuesday of the month, which is what we do So I'm just putting that out now the 11th of september. I don't believe it's a Holiday last time I said there's no holiday on the 14th of august and well, it's not a holiday but There is kind of an important thing going on and I managed to miss it. So anyway, I'm So I'm like a little reluctant to sort of go oh the 11th of september and I mean it has sadness, of course, but Life does go on and uh Where it'll be here again, it'll be here. Yeah And Walker our wonderful person who's been working on this stuff. She's lovely. She's great. Thank you. I will thank you So she actually looked at all the possibilities for like three months out in june And this was the only available spot for six to eight p.m This date. I mean sorry in september also so that's where we are But she'll look again now for october november december and Yeah, we'll try again unless there's an objection. It seemed like people really like waterbury I don't know if that's actually a consensus, but waterbury library The waterbury library it was love in any of the rooms. So we'll try for that as the first I'd like a chef first prayer from I will I can predict So, okay so Six to eight p.m on the 11th of september You might find a way on your writing to Yes, Karen. Yes, suddenly ask we understand you're Leaving hrc. Yes Would you be available To consult with us? She's on our fair and partial policing subcommittee And she told us that she was retiring in october I said you're welcome to stay on the committee and she's very sensitive making sure she doesn't step on toes of her replacement So I think that that's a subject that has to be published pretty carefully. Well, that's what I'm saying. We might as well I didn't hear. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. She's she doesn't she wants to be careful just she doesn't step on the toes of her replacement Got it. Okay So my point was yes, she's not available. So you need to get her in motion now Yeah, and if that's case we can always push this off again. I mean if we had to right Right. I yeah Given that she's Well, and she may have an answer for your question Right, I will I'll put that together This week To her So, okay, so the 11th of september 6 to 8 p.m Here in the milne Milne Um That will go on the ag's website Yes, and we'll put it on the library website also even though I'm not sure if anybody ever checks it, but we'll put it there and the minutes will go up ASAP as soon as I take out that Sentence the nature Jonas wants out And I'll put that up and I'll do that this week too Um Public commentary Okay, uh New business Okay Adjournment Pardon Whoa all in favor all against all standing. Okay. Bye everybody	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCJhALF71rs", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCSA_E1V04jnqlQWqkC1bpTA	ArtResin 101: Step 2 - Measure	https://www.artresin.com Welcome to our new series, ArtResin 101 - the ultimate guide on how to use clear ArtResin Epoxy Resin! So you've watched Step 1 ... - your tools are gathered - your work surface is prepped - your artwork is taped, propped, level and you're ready to go ... The next important step is to properly measure your ArtResin: HOW MUCH RESIN DO I NEED? - to determine how much clear ArtResin Epoxy Resin you'll need for your project, use our Usage Calculator: https://www.artresin.com/pages/calculator WATERBATH: ArtResin's ideal working temperature is 72-77F or 22-25C. Some people, especially those in cold winter climates, like to warm their unopened bottles of resin and hardener in a warm ( not hot ) waterbath for about 10 minutes or so. TIP - It's critical that not even a single water drop comes into contact with either resin or hardener, or your mixture may end up cloudy. Warming ArtResin has the added advantage of reducing bubbles and also increases the viscosity ( makes it thinner ). Just be aware that warming the resin also reduces the working time by about 10-15 minutes. MEASURING: With gloves on, pour by volume equal amounts of at least room temperature or warmer resin and hardener into a measuring jug. TIP: Remember to replace the proper cap on each bottle after you're done pouring ... black for resin and white for hardener. You'll know if you put the wrong caps back on because they won't come off again! Now, you're ready for step 3 ... Mixing Your ArtResin! https://youtu.be/kTlwMcmEe_0	[ "ArtResin", "Epoxy Resin", "clear", "clearer", "non-yellowing", "safe", "varnish", "thick", "resin", "epoxy", "art", "photography", "wood", "artists", "best", "favorite", "artresin 101", "how to artresin", "how to apply artresin", "how to use artresin" ]	2018-04-12T18:29:03	2024-02-15T16:05:32	63	pcyItNA_x7c	In this video, we demonstrate how to properly measure your art resin. To determine how much art resin you'll need, use our Resin Coverage Calculator at artresin.com. It's a good idea to warm the resin and hardener up in a water bath before measuring it out to reduce bubbles. Just make sure not to get any water in it as it will turn the mixture cloudy. With gloves on, pour by volume precisely equal amounts of resin and hardener into a mixing container. Remember to replace the proper cap on each bottle once you're done pouring. Black for resin, white for hardener. Now you're ready for step 3.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcyItNA_x7c", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCrM4z9DzdvD3bnA5E7tDtKQ	Vermont State House - H.232 Promoting Land and Home Ownership and Economic Opportunity 4/21/2021		null	2021-04-29T16:22:19	2024-02-05T06:09:32	3,122	Pch8iCOXcYc	All right, welcome back. We have, we've been joined today by Stephanie Seguino, who's here talk about S-232. It kind of fits hand and glove a little bit with the noted differences between what we just heard about H-273. So I would just go right ahead and say Stephanie, welcome to General Housing and Military Affairs. Just introduce yourself and who you're affiliated with and the microphone is yours. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm Stephanie Seguino, I'm a professor of economics at the University of Vermont. I teach macroeconomics, which is a lot related to national economic policy. And I also teach on race and gender inequality. The bill I know is about not only limited access to land ownership, but also housing. And so I'm going to talk about the housing component of this, although there certainly is a lot to say nationally with regard to exclusion of people of color from land ownership as well as expropriation of land. I wanna just preface it by saying that I'll provide some national data and some Vermont data, but the Vermont data has been more limited. My experience, many of you may know that I do research on racial profiling by the police in Vermont and what we see nationally exists here in Vermont. And so although it would be great to have Vermont specific data in reality, many of the national trends are likely to exist here as well. I wanna just start out by talking why I think that the issue of home ownership is fundamental. And quite frankly, that relates to land ownership as well. And that is for most families in the United States, housing equity is one of the most important components of their wealth portfolio. It's a vehicle for getting loans. So to generate the collateral to get loans for sending your kids to college, just starting a new business and also to transmit wealth to intergenerationally. And it is especially important for folks of color to have access to housing because that is one of the more important mechanisms for wealth generation as compared to, let's say white families and specifically. And so I have some statistics here for you. For blacks in the United States, housing is 63% of their net worth compared to 38.5% for whites. And one of the reasons for that is for many whites, we have very unequal distribution of wealth and income in the United States. And for many people, their wealth comes not just from home equity, but ownership of stocks and bonds and other financial assets. And the inequality that we see in the United States, we look at the top 10, 20% is predominantly white. And that's why you see this difference in the role of house of home equity in terms of the wealth portfolio. Looking at Vermont, what you can see is that Vermont has, that whites in Vermont are actually very similar to the national average of roughly 72% own their homes and therefore build equity, build a wealth portfolio through their homes compared to only 24% of blacks in Vermont. And this is significantly below the national average where black home ownership rates are roughly 42%. So in that sense, Vermont actually fares much worse than other states. Some recent data from Mayor Weinberger when he did his state of the city address a few days ago was to note that out of 6,000 owner-occupied homes in Burlington, only 17 are black dome. Now, just for those of you not aware of the statistics, blacks are roughly 7% to 8% of Burlington's population. So we would expect absent the impact of race that blacks would also own 7% to 6%, I'm sorry, roughly 7% to 8% of homes in Burlington. But in fact, they are just 0.3% of home owners. And this is just some data for you on wealth and why one of the issues around home ownership and wealth inequality is that wealth in the United States is very unequally distributed as is income. So although blacks have roughly 60% of the income of whites, their wealth relative to white median family wealth is roughly 7%. And I have a note here that you can see that this gap is large in part due to federal policy practices in the 20th century. And I will talk much more about that as I go through these data. So I'm going to talk about a brief history, if you will, of what has led to housing discrimination and ultimately wealth inequality in the United States. And in particular, I'm going to talk about several vehicles through which this occurred. And I'm going to just say a few things here and I'll go through some of these in a bit more detail. Much of what we see in terms of housing discrimination in the United States is largely a function of government policy. There is personal discrimination, if you will, institutional discrimination, but the role of government in the United States has been pivotal in leading us to the wealth inequality and exclusion of blacks and Hispanics in particular from land ownership as well as housing ownership. And I'm going to talk for a few minutes about the FHA, the Federal Housing Authority and its role in redlining. The GI Bill, which was a major component of lack of access to housing, urban renewal and highways, I'm not going to say too much about, but I'll answer a question if you have about it as well as exclusionary zoning. So those four are actually housing inequality and discrimination driven by government policy. And then there are other components of that, which is restrictive covenants and steering, block busting. And mob violence as well in the United States. And so we think of that as more happening at a personal level, if you will, or in these institutions other than government. And I'll talk briefly about those. So with regard to redlining, the FHA began a process of, which was established in 1934, began a process of regulating the terms interest rates and mortgage terms after the banking crisis of the 1930s. And what the FHA did was essentially say that it would begin to ensure mortgages to qualified lenders. And this protected mortgage lenders from default. So it incentivizes lenders to loan to particular households. And when government guarantees these loans, it means that they also come at a lower interest rate because that lowers the risk to banks to lend to those households, knowing that the government will cover that risk. And of course, that was what I just said the slide here that if the borrower fails to make their payment, the FHA would cover the unpaid balance. And so what happened as a result of the establishment of the FHA and these guidelines is that the FHA surveyed various neighborhoods, especially in larger cities, but smaller as well, and graded the neighborhoods based on a color coding system in which green was best, that is higher income, for example, and white. There were neighborhoods that were designated blue for still desirable, yellow for definitely declining. And what that meant was that those neighborhoods were neighborhoods that were integrating. And finally, red line neighborhoods were those that were considered hazardous and they were the neighborhoods that were predominantly people of color. And so what happened, as you can see this map on the left is from Macon, Georgia, and it was an example of the FHA maps that banks used in order to allocate mortgage lending. And you can see the predominantly the red areas were largely neighborhoods of color. And those are the neighborhoods that were excluded from loans. And it is interesting today that this residential segregation of this kind that we see still persists. So the FHA, I wanna continue to emphasize this because I think it is fundamentally related to the bill that you're taking testimony on. And that is the role of government in creating the inequality that we see today in terms of wealth inequality and lack of access to land and housing. Another component of this historically was what we know euphemistically as the GI Bill. It was called the Servicemen's Readjustment Act. When servicemen were coming back from World War II, there was a concern that they would face a lack of housing. And so the GI Bill funded higher education. It also funded unemployment benefits and housing. And in many cases, black servicemembers were either met with resistance in accessing these benefits or denied altogether. So this was a major moment in US history. There have been several moments, but this was another major moment in which the government leveraged access to housing for a particular racial group. And that is white people and excluded people of color, but in particular, black members of our society. So those are some of the, I mentioned urban renewal and highways. Those projects were often designed to further segregate neighborhoods of color from white neighborhoods. So you go to New Orleans or other places, you will see that the highways divide these neighborhoods from white neighborhoods where the employment is, where the amenities are and so forth. And if any of you familiar with Biden's infrastructure bill, one of the components of his infrastructure bill is to reconnect these neighborhoods that had been divided by urban renewal in particular. So in addition to the role of government, there was also of course the role of the real estate industry during that period of time or community groups, white community groups in particular, which developed racially restrictive covenants that were covenants that were part of the deed that owners would sign in which it would prohibit them from selling their home, leasing their home or renting their property to particular groups of people, including African-Americans. And so what this was one of the mechanisms of residential segregation, people of color who wanted access to amenities and good schools and so forth were prohibited from moving into their neighborhoods. And for many years, these were legally enforceable contracts. And it was not the terribly distant future in which these were ruled as unconstitutional or a violation of equal protection. And the racial covenants that, sorry, the restrictive covenants really began in the 1920s with the Great Migration Northwards North. And so we often in this state think of racism as being a Southern phenomenon, but this was deeply a Northern phenomenon to create these racial covenants, which is not to say that they don't exist, did not exist in the South. They certainly did. Another mechanism that was used, and quite frankly is still used today, is steering by real estate agents and developers. And the mechanism for this is fairly straightforward. And that is that they guide prospective buyers to certain neighborhoods based on their race. This is illegal under the Fair Housing Act of 1968, but it still happens. And I'll just share with you that when I was first on the job market in 1995 looking for a home, I was offered an academic position in North Carolina. And when I was looking for housing, in fact, the chair of the economics department took me to a neighborhood and assured me that people of color would not be shown homes in that neighborhood. So this is prevalent today. I don't have any information on its occurrence in Vermont, but I will provide you some Vermont data which will help you understand some things about Vermont. Blockbusting was a method that had been used in the past as well. And it was often engaged in by real estate brokers who would manipulate white homeowners from selling their homes at a lower price by convincing them that racial minorities were about to move into their neighborhood. And why would they leave? It wasn't necessarily that they didn't want to live with people of color, but because home values would decline as the neighborhood became more diverse. And so this is an example of what a real estate agent would do. They might hire a black woman to walk through the neighborhood with a carriage perhaps, and then the agent would place a real estate agent's card in mailbox and encourage that folks to contact him if they would like to sell. And so again, this was a mechanism. This was actually a profit-driven mechanism. These real estate brokers would buy low and sell high. So in many cases, when black families and Hispanic families gained access to these neighborhoods, they actually paid a significant premium as a result of these practices. So what I was describing to you in many ways is 20th century housing discrimination, which was the attempt was to address that through the Fair Housing Act in the United States in 1968. But many communities have responded to this in a variety of ways. And so we see what I would say as slightly more disguised mechanisms of discrimination. They nevertheless continue to exist. One of those is zoning and in particular exclusionary zoning. So in the post-1917 period, many communities hired planning professionals that would develop zoning laws that were legally defensible, but were exclusionary, that were meant to exclude various sorts of people. In particular, what was often used was to require that neighborhoods consist exclusively of single family units, or that there'd be a minimum lot size, for example. So this was really not only a racial mechanism to include people, but also socioeconomic. And I live here in Burlington and I live in the Hill section, which is largely zoned for single family houses. And it's not surprising that it's one of the least diverse neighborhoods in Burlington. And I might add that exclusionary zoning was in particular used in the northeast of the United States. Well, one of the things that this is sort of a byproduct. When I talk about the segregation tax, it is a byproduct of housing discrimination. And it is a factor that has led to wealth disparity in the United States. So it's not so much a policy, but a result of the other policies. The segregation tax that people of color pay is related to the fact that homes appreciate more slowly in segregated or racially changing neighborhoods. And in particular, once more than 10% of a neighbor, once neighbors are black, the evidence has shown us that home values decline. And this is largely because of the unwillingness of white people to live in diverse neighborhoods. And so we can see that is often why blockbusting worked was that the anticipation that if people of color moved into the neighborhood, that home values would plummet. And so white families would sign on to, we'd call real estate agent to sell their homes if they thought the neighborhood was changing for fear of the value of their home declining. But so what this means is that houses that are identical in quality in white neighborhoods versus diverse neighborhoods are actually have very different values because of white prejudice with regard to integration. And so we call this gap in values, the segregation tax that is paid for by black homeowners and Hispanic homeowners. This doesn't really give you the full array of the impact of the racialized housing practices that we've had in the United States. For example, there's been a great deal of exclusion of people of color from owning a home for a variety of different reasons, discriminatory reasons. And because of that, they fail to get the benefit, for example, of the mortgage interest rate tax deduction or the property interest rate tax deduction. So if we were to calculate the full breadth of the segregation tax, it would actually be much higher than what it is. Something that has come to my attention more recently that I had not been aware of and is getting increasing attention. This is an article in the New York Times but you will see that there are actually numerous articles and a lot more research on this later. And that is the role of home appraisals in devaluing the homes that are owned by people of color. In this particular example, the homeowner's house was appraised and because its value was too low, he conducted an experiment in which he had his white neighbor welcome the appraisal agent and removed any evidence that there was a black family living there, such as photographs and so forth. And the value of the home increased by roughly 25%. I shouldn't say the value, the appraised value increased by roughly 25%. So again, this is another mechanism by which we get wealth inequality in the United States. Another aspect of assessing, if you will, the impact of racism on access to housing and home ownership is through housing audits. And so I wanna just tell you about these because I do have some data for you with regard to Vermont. Housing audits oftentimes, it can depend on whether you're looking at actual owning a home or rental housing. But what housing audits are, and I will just add that we do this in jobs as well now, in which you match pairs of people, a person of color and a white person. The pair is equally qualified for the housing in terms of their credit scores and so forth. And they're also trained to have wear the same kind of clothing, speak the same way, have many of the same characteristics. So they're matched pairs and the only difference is meant to be their race when they go to acquire about an advertised housing unit. So they each apply either for rental housing or wanna be shown a house or make a bid for a house. And what they find is that minority auditors are given significantly less favorable treatment than their equally qualified teammates. What is I think striking about this is that this is one of the few pieces of data that we do have Vermont. This is a study that came out in 2011 by Vermont Legal Aid in which they did two types of housing audits. They did telephone response audits so they would call in response to an ad and they also did in-person visits. And the study is in the notes to this PowerPoint which I'll share with you all. And it looks not only at race, but also native language and some other things like disabilities. So it's I think well worth looking at. And what they find is basically 30 to 40% of the, in these 30 to 40% of paired tests that there was discrimination against the tester of color and there was preference shown towards white testers. So Vermont is not immune to some of these practices. I would say that one of the areas that I have looked for, I'm on the racial equity advisory panel and have brought this issue up. And I think it's one that Vermont should monitor more heavily and that is lending discrimination. Their banks are required to keep data on their loan applications. And nationally the data tell us that when you look at equally qualified white and black applicants, black applicants tend to be turned down for loans at a much higher rate than white applicants. And they're much more likely not to be given a reason for which their loan is denied. This in the 2011 study, I did find however, that Vermont is one of the few states in the country in which black applicants actually have a higher approval rating for loans than do white applicants. And as you can see here, that's 96% of Vermont black applicants have their loans approved compared to 90% for whites. Idaho, Hawaii and Manhattan also have higher black rates. This was 10 years ago. I think that the great recession may have had an impact. I do not think we monitor this and I think this is fundamentally important, especially in this bill for the work of this entity. I think this is important work for them to undertake as a part of the process of ensuring equitable access to land and housing. We also know however, that even if blacks have maybe as likely to get approval loans, that they also pay higher interest rates. And I might just add, this is on car loans as well as housing loans and so forth. But in any case, 20% of loans to blacks are considered higher priced as defined by government as compared to 7% of loans to non-Hispanic whites. And the definition of higher price I've shown here, which means that annual percentage rates are significantly higher than the average prime rate. So what that does is of course, is it discourages black home ownership. And lastly, I wanna just refer to what happened during the Great Recession as a more recent event of housing discrimination. Prior to the Great Recession, from what I've just said, you can understand that blacks and Hispanics were super excluded from access to quality housing and home ownership. But in the run-up to the period prior to the Great Recession, they were super included as people who were targeted for predatory lending. And by that, I mean deceptive lending practices such as undisclosed balloon payments, adjustable mortgage interest rates that jumped dramatically after a year or two and so forth. And there is, I think it's widely accepted amongst economists that not only financial institutions, but in particular government board responsibility for the decimation, in fact, of home ownership amongst families of color because of their failure to regulate the financial institutions that were doing the lending. So all of this comes to my last point, which is that government policies not necessarily individuals with personal racial animus, but government policies were instrumental in leading to the inequality in land and home ownership that we experienced today in the United States and certainly as well as Vermont. And so I think that the bills that have been addressed, both H-232 and H-273 are bills that could move us from harm of government policies where there has been a pattern in practice of racially discriminatory policies to one of repair. And I very much in support of both of these bills, I would like to make just a few brief comments on them, which is that I appreciate their attention to diverse membership in terms of representation of BIPOC folks on the boards. But I have been doing this work a long time and I wanna just say that that can easily turn into tokenism if there are not also commitments to actual impact. And that may be goals in terms of percentages of lending or set-asides, but that ultimately if these bills are to be effective in the goals that you've articulated, what is important is not simply representation of BIPOC folks, but actually creating goals that these entities will be responsible for accountable for achieving in the work that they do. Thank you, I'll stop sharing my screen. On your last point, thank you, Stephanie. On your last point regarding tokenism, it's kind of an important word in a lot of what we do. We don't usually use it, but that idea of, I guess I would ask you to talk a little bit more about that because when we're talking about changes in the way we do things, we're being asked to center BIPOC in the work that we're doing and much of the work that we're doing, if we do it right, really won't be known for some time, because you're changing a culture as long, you're not just assigning people to a task force or to a committee to hand out grants or anything like that. It is an attempt to start a cultural change. Which requires sustainability and everything else. But can you just return to that word again and just, because it's jarring, it's a jarring word. And it makes an impact on how we think about our work like we can't just say, oh, look what we did. Isn't that great? Yeah. I'm gonna just share with you my experience from being an administration at UVM in trying to advance issues around equity and inclusion and a number of organizations that I've been part of in watching this work. What I find is that if you appoint one or two people of color to a large body, that small number of people bears an inordinate burden of changing the climate and culture and it can be intimidating. So I think that you need a critical mass of people of color in any group in order to protect those who might speak up or who might feel intimidated from not speaking up. And I'm wondering if I should have used that word. I think when I use that word, I'm really reflecting my experience at the University of Vermont, which has commissions on racial equity, a whole bunch of diversity stuff, but it actually is tokenistic. I would say that UVM has made virtually zero progress in the 25 years that I've been there, but they have a diversity and equity, vice provost and so on and so forth. So I see that in other organizations in which by virtue of having selected a person of color or two to be on their boards or whatever, that they feel that they've done the work, but it is very hard for a person of color and I'll just say somebody who's African-American and what is otherwise an all white board to withstand the resistance within the group. And so you either need to have a critical mass of people, you need to have a critical mass of people for those voices to actually be heard. But also, I think it also takes, one of the issues with that is also that people tend to look therefore at the people of color who are on these boards to carry the water for the group. And the reality is that everybody has to be all in on these goals. And so that's why I say that what you really, the way you have to measure your success is not representation around who's making decisions, but what's the impact of those decisions? I hear you on the fact that some of this work is long term and that impacts are not easy to measure in the short period of time, but there do need to be measured, you do need to be able in some way to say that your board or your entity is making progress. And it can't be simply that you have greater diverse representation in terms of decision-making. No, it's a, there's more to that too. I mean, just the support of boards for, I mean, if you hire executive director, a person of color, and then don't support them when they tell you from their perspective where the organization needs to change, there's all of that too, just from, you hire somebody and then not support them is that worse than not hiring them in the first place, I think, is a constant worry at least institutionally. A couple of questions here, Representative Murphy, then Kalaki. Thank you, Chair Stevens. I really appreciated this presentation and just would ask Stephanie, if this is something you could offer your slide group to our committee assistant so that we can have it on our document page to refer back to. There was a lot in it and it was really of great value because you referenced Burlington, you brought it closer to home than some of what we get the opportunity to review. So thank you. I'd be happy to, sure. Representative Kalaki. Thank you, Chair, and hello, Stephanie. Hi. I've followed you and loved your work for a long time and you've done a great work. So thank you for all of this. I'm interested that your work has really been centered about the disparities for African-Americans in our communities and in a number of different ways, the traffic stop study and all the different things you've done, which I appreciate. Are there similar studies that we can also look at to see about the Latinx experience or the Asian experience or the indigenous experience so that we understand throughout the state what the systemic issues are? You know, that's a great question. And so first of all, I wanted to just say that I think that's important to do. And there are several challenges. So let me just say a couple of things. I think that the Vermont Legal Aid Study that I referenced includes other racial groups. Okay, great. And that's worth looking at. Thank you. Nationally, a number of scholars have been working on wealth inequality and have done some major studies of cities like Boston and LA and so forth. And I think they're microcosms of the rest of the country. And most of the stuff I've seen on wealth inequality is both Hispanics as well as blacks. So I'm just gonna say a few things here about the complexity of the data. I'm teaching a course right now on the political economy of race. And so we've literally just talked about it as uppermost in my mind. When you look at Asians, sometimes they refer to the data as bipolar data in the sense or it's actually bimodal is the correct term. And that is because you have a number of Asians who are very poor and low income. So Nepalese, Bhutanese, Vietnamese, Cambodians, Laotians. And then you have Asians who are very wealthy relatively speaking, Japanese, South Koreans to some extent Chinese and Indians. And so grouping Asians is deeply problematic. And I think if we were to do that for Vermont, we would, you know, the numbers we would get would belie the diversity within the Asian group. And so it's just something to be careful of. I would just say, you know, we need to keep that in mind. And then the problem in Vermont is the small numbers of, you know, racial, you know, non-white racial groups. So even if we wanted to disaggregate in Vermont among stations, we would have a small sample size problem. So I'm not saying we shouldn't do it, but just to kind of, so we're all beginning to be educated around the data. The other thing I would say about this is that we know in the United States and certainly in most of the United States, not all, but most anti-black racism is the most severe form of racism that we see. So I've done some, I was an expert witness in a murder case in Houston and was asked to analyze their traffic stop data there. And I thought that I would see really bad numbers for Hispanics. And in fact, even in Texas, the anti-black racism is much worse than Hispanic racism. So for me, that's why using blacks and whites kind of bookends the degree of racism here. Vermont is complex as well in Hispanics because of the, the percentage is actually very small. So the small numbers problem is really substantial. So I would just say that that's my spiel on the data. And I think we have to find our way around that, John, in terms of getting more granularity. So when we talk about Asians in Burlington, we're really talking about Boudinese and Nepalese. That's what I was wondering because at the refugee resettlement and the concentration of the folks who came from the refugee camps in Nepal, coming here from Bhutan and Nepal. Exactly. Concentrated effort. And so I was surprised in the mayor's home ownership thing if we didn't have any data looking at those specific communities. But I hear what you're saying and I appreciate that. That's why I asked the question. Sure. Representative Bloomly. Yes. Hello, constituents, Sigrino. Hi there. Nice to see you. Nice to see you and thanks so much for, I mean, this is very tight to you packed a lot into that and it's very helpful in understanding kind of the 2021 century experience. I think, I really agree with the point that you made about tokenism and for that reason, there's a part of 232 at the end that requires reporting on what VHCB is learning, about the barriers to land and home ownership and what it is doing. And then representatives from VHCB came to talk with us. I don't even know when I have no sense of time anymore, but and talked about the fact that that is going to be a part of their reporting from here on in, which was great to hear whether the bill went through or not, so it's a point well taken and I wanted to let you know that there was a willing embrace of that by VHCB, not to say that that, I mean, doesn't indicate that we've set any particular benchmarks, but my sense is that that should evolve as things move forward. So anyway, thank you. If I could just respond to that, I was really pleased to see that. I did read that at the, I think it was at the very end of the bill and I thought that that was very good. I think if you can add any specificity to that language, it might be helpful, but it certainly is a start. I really appreciated that that was included there. Representative Murphy. Thank you. I neglected to just bring forward a point that had struck me when you were speaking of some of the exclusive zoning restrictions. I was on our development review board for a dozen years and here in Fairfax, we do have different densities depending on the part of the community. We have a village center and then expanding out. And so I never looked at it as being with an intent to restrict ownership. That was really trying to build larger property sizes for what we prefer that we like to see the land and Vermont. But I think it is really important when you just get a different perspective of, can that goal be achieved a different way or is that being restrictive for, but just making us think. So I would argue that it's minimum lot size in that sense isn't necessarily restrictive through intention. And in some ways has to exist to maintain the goal of having open land if that's the desire of the body. But it's interesting to keep that in the back of your mind though. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I would say this in Burlington, I don't know much about other cities, but I do know Burlington has inclusionary zoning. And it's been interesting to me, I've seen a map of where the inclusionary zoning housing has been built and it's largely not been in the Hill section of Burlington. But it is a great tool. It's actually, I think a very important tool to use. And so I would just say one thing, Representative Murphy, if I can in response to what you said. There's a person who you may have seen in the news lately, he's written a book called How to Be an Anti-Racist, Ibrahim Kendi. And he gave a talk last year, and it's one that I repeat to my students, which is that the issue of racism and racial inequality is not, it should not be limited to intent. It has to be to impact. So most people, you know, most people carrying out, you know, various policies of their organizations have no intent to discriminate. But we, I think, I guess if there's anything I feel that it is incumbent upon our institutions to take responsibility for the impact of our policies. And so I, you know, I was in the school board in Burlington, we developed this mechanism in which we look through everything through our equity lens. So we were in advance evaluating the impact of the policies we had. And so that means you have to have some goals with regard to impact, and you can assess that way. And that I think helps us leave aside the issue of intent because there are many good people who don't have racist intentions, but because of past practices and cultural norms and so forth, the results have negative effects that we can overcome. Yeah. No, I think that's really important. And I think that goes to the perspective and really trying to look at it from a different viewpoint and the equity lens is a wonderful tool for that. So thank you. And I want to point out too, when it comes to exclusionary zoning, sometimes it's the plus one, right? It's not the zoning and it's on the face of it. It's the loans and the mortgages that, you know, and I think I mentioned this book much earlier on and I think Stephanie took some of her, I noticed, I recognized the picture of Macon from the color of law of this idea that, you know, Levittown, which was created to be affordable housing for veterans after World War II, except African-Americans. And that was in the title of their, you know, that was in the Covenants. So that plus one, which really, you know, I think it addresses something that when you don't know about it, we just think, oh, look, this is Levittown. This was great. This was for veterans. And it becomes part of our culture without knowing why it was so exclusionary. And I, but I, Stephanie, you've used a lot of national stuff because that's what's mostly available, but what struck me today more than anything else is the minuscule number of black American homeowners in Burlington. And I don't think it's enough to say, why is that? Because I think the answer might be because of all of this, but that's shocking to me. And it really gives the picture of the work that we've done earlier this year, not specifically for black Americans, but just about different ethnicities and how they've been treated throughout the years. But that is, I mean, I don't live in Burlington. I know it's close to Vermont, but what's the reaction within Burlington to something like that? Has there been something? I mean, I know that this legislation and other things that have happened in Burlington, this is one of the reasons why this legislation is in front of us, both of these bills. What do Burlingtonians and other Vermonters, but what do Burlingtonians think about that fact? I think that Burlington is in a particular moment in its history. And it's struggling even with the race data. There is a real political divide in terms of those who think that use of force on black citizens is four times greater than their share of the city's population. I mean, the numbers are just extraordinary. And even there, I don't really see an outcry among some, and of course, some are very disturbed. So I think this city is in the process of a kind of a racial awakening and that the data are fundamentally important. And to your point, Representative Stevens, I think that this data on home ownership by blacks in Burlington is a wake-up call. So, but it's in the process of being absorbed by a community. And I will say that Burlington is no different than the rest of the state in which a lot of white people think very highly of us. And we have a hard time absorbing this information because it's not consistent with our good perception of ourselves. And so I think Representative Stevens, that some of us, that number really hit us. And for others, it's just business as usual. And we're just, as you know, there's a lot going on in Burlington around race. And we're just in that process of trying to educate a lot of people in the city and hopefully move forward. And I know I made light of the classic Burlington joke, but I bring it out only because those of us who don't live in Burlington may think that it's only a Burlington problem. And I, while the numbers may be lower in each of the different counties, I think it's important for us to acknowledge that it's not a Burlington only or Chittenden County only problem. Right, you know, I actually probably should contact the nearest office, but I think because they have property data, they are able to come up with that number, but it seems to me, so should Brattleboro be able to, so should Rutland. So some of the larger towns and that means looking not maybe only on black home ownership but Hispanics and so on and so forth. So I think it would be a great service if some entity would seek out that data from individual municipalities so that we had a picture, as you said, to show that this isn't just a Burlington phenomenon because I'm very doubtful that it is just a Burlington phenomenon. All right, thank you so much. I appreciate the presentation and certainly if you can share those slides with us so that we can keep them for our record, excuse me, that would be great. Thank you for your time. You're very welcome, thank you very much. All right, and we'll, no, I think this was really good stuff, thank you. Thank you all, it was nice to talk to you. All right, committee, I'm gonna ask you to stick around for a minute after we go off the air. And Ron, I think we can just go, well, before we go off the air, just that was pretty eye-opening stuff. And I think I just wanna give a context to the testimony that we're taking. We are spending a lot of time on these bills and much like the testimony we took this morning, it's testimony that's not necessarily specifically related to the testimony this morning wasn't specifically related to a bill as this was. And we have one more set of witnesses tomorrow on 232. But the reason I'm spending so much time with this right now is that this is clearly an element of our work that I have to admit I haven't dealt with personally in this committee. We've always treated it as a class issue. Poor people are poor people and the housing is created for poor people and people have been living in poverty wherever they are. And that's not necessarily incorrect, but there's also elements that we ignore when we don't take into account the different facets of the individual remoters who are being affected by the policies that we're promulgating and that we do. We do our, and I know that we do, when it comes to housing, we do our best and we think we do our best. And yet we end up in a situation which we just heard about in Burlington. So it's just, I'm just trying to give us a background. This is the frustration of only having two-year bienniums. This is background for work that again, even those of us who've been on the committee for a couple of terms or more, haven't done this deep a dive on this kind of information. So that's really where I'm coming from and making sure that we hear this testimony so that it informs our work moving forward.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pch8iCOXcYc", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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UCEnLsvcq1eFkSFFAIqBDgUw	DCU MPS \| Weekly Vlog #22 ~ Andrew Gibbons	Watch Andrew Gibbons in this weeks weekly vlog which contains a lot of food reviewing	[ "dcu", "dublin", "city", "university", "mps", "media", "production", "society", "college", "societies", "dcufm", "dcutv" ]	2019-06-16T19:10:51	2024-04-23T16:47:03	642	PcKA1XCZLUg	Oh, my name is Andrew Gibbons and I am your creative director for DCU TV this year, which is so goddamn exciting for me. I can't wait for it. I'm gonna be starting next year and hopefully I'm good at it. You never know, it could be awful. This vlog could be awful. Yeah, so I have the weekly vlog this week, which I was so excited for, but then I realized that I have literally the most mundane week of all time. To celebrate. Last week I went, which was really cool, I went to London. And I went to go see the Kpop group, yes I know, Kpop group, BTS. And next week I'm at a wedding. So this week's been like my in-between week. So I'm gonna try and make it as fun as possible. I'm probably gonna give you all a big tour, well I am gonna give you a tour of Wexford. I forgot to film an intro, so this is my intro now. So most of the stuff I've done, I've done it already. Ki-Ki. But I have longer hair usually, that's how you'll realize it. Like there was no point in me lying. I'm like, oh yeah, I'm gonna go to Wexford when my hair is gonna be drastically longer in other videos. So that was a lot of fun, had a great time doing that. And it actually made me kind of like Wexford Tenmore, which is weird. In the place I just advertised, we got some really nice pancakes there. I got some, I got some Nutella. And my pancakes spread all over, it was a great time. But in classic Andrews given fashion, of course I had an embarrassing moment. I was pouring out my tea, and it was really good tea, like it was great lion's tea. And the waitress was right beside me, chatting away to the customers and they were sharing a laugh, they were the ha ha there, and maybe they were the ha ha at me too, because I spilled my tea everywhere. And it went everywhere, all over the table. I spilled off the table onto the floor, and hmm, I had to pee all over. Hello friends. You're probably wondering why I'm lying on the ground so seductively. Well, it's actually because, heh, a strange car entered my house, and I don't know who it is. So I have closed all the curtains. I'm currently lying on the ground over dramatically, to pretend I don't exist. But while I was lying down on the ground, a certain memory struck me. Ooh, it's sore lying on the ground. But a certain memory struck me, and I remember that I finished a leave and start today. Holy hell am I right. So history is my last exam, and I brought three things into today's exam. A black hoodie, a pair of sunglasses, a pencil, and of course my other essentials like pens and eyelers. But there were three main things. Because I had a plan. I had a plan after what I was going to do when I left. So the exam finishes, everyone's balling of course, because they didn't think it was going to end well or whatever. But I was going to lie at the end of their tunnel. I handed up my exam booklet to the examiner, my later ball, and he's like, later Gibby. After everyone's gathered, I have to go work at the door. Goer, door. And then I just go, that's, I'm open on this door. And I was like, what? Like I was like near the door. But everyone trusted in me. So without even a moment of hesitation, everyone splits. Just like the waves, different motions. Everyone splits apart. And I walk through that crowd. Any retention arises. I put on my top, hood goes over my head. I bust up those sunglasses. And then I kick open that door. Everyone, all the teachers look at me. I am the apple of everyone's eye at the moment. I get my little pencil. I drop it. And I go, later bitches, keep the pencil. Exactly the main, like it was a dream scenario. Like they were the last words I ever spoke at the student of CBS, Wexford. And that was never going to beat that. So no matter how cool you think you are, there's a picture bra outside the house. They're really going up. It's quite terrifying. Oh, they're sad enough. Okay, so at the moment we're heading towards the rest of the takeaway, the premiere, to get one of Wexford's absolute delicacies that doesn't seem to be available anywhere is a whistle. Now, some of you may have heard me ramble on and on about whistles, but you've never seen us before. So I'm about to show you. Okay, back at it again with our food review every time. Take two. Anyway, back at it again. Okay. You ready? Yeah. Okay. So, back at it again with our food review everybody. So we purchased the whistle in one of the best takeaways in our world, which is the premiere. And that's what I'm about to show you up. Okay, this is our content, the content view of the packaging, of course, and this is what I love about it. So you have, it's really, so excuse the blistery bag. So you can here choose. Okay, so if you're getting battered or crumped. Now, we both decided to go for battered because first of all, it's a more unhealthy option and it just takes better and better in my opinion. So let's just dig into this. Okay, so I'm just going to break the middle and show you what's inside. Okay, so in the middle, there is paleo and some herbs and then just batter it around. So I'm just going to give it a little. Amazing. Every time. If you want to take someone who's come to Wexford because, if you don't, you are missing out, sorely. Hello friends. This is probably going to be my final one. My final video to vlog. As you can see again, here is all of the income. To have it messy actually. This will be my final one probably of the vlog. And I just want to say that being a part of MPS and first year has probably been the best thing I've ever done. First year has been the best year of my life and MPS has been such a huge part of that. And to be able to be a part of the subcommittee next year, I feel such like it's a big honour and it's such a lovely opportunity to be able to get. And so I can't wait to do it. Everyone's leaving MPS this year. I'm going to miss you so much. And just everyone's leaving this year. I'm going off to new and wonderful things in the rest of your life. I'm going to miss you so much. But these are such amazing people. And you're going to amazing in anything you do. Maybe, I don't know, I don't know why I'm being like this. Maybe it's because the end of my vlog and I'm being savvy. I've just made a time for this vlog. And it's been a while since I've done anything like this. I went MPS with Summer and all everything. I'll just kind of maybe remind how much I love MPS. And how excited I am to get back and do my stuff next year. Even though I had quite a mundane week for the vlog. Sorry, the sound happened. I got scared. Even though I had quite a mundane week for the vlog. Even though I had quite a mundane week for the vlog. It's so much fun doing it. I love doing it. And I can't wait to be creative director next year. It's something that I'm so looking forward to. Unbelievable. And I hope I do MPS bro. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. Proud. So, from the bottom of my heart, MPS, everyone I know, my friends, you have been some of the most amazing people to me. And I hope you have had just a good year with me. I mean, nothing from the bottom of my heart. So, that's it from me. Bye vlog.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcKA1XCZLUg", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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UCMfSH3HULOeoeEbxHkqF21A	First Minister's Questions - 14 December 2017	Read the full transcript of First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament Official Report: https://goo.gl/XEpfcX	[ "Holyrood", "Scottish-Parliament", "Scottish", "MSPs", "MSP", "Edinburgh", "politics", "Parliament", "debate" ]	2017-12-14T13:10:44	2024-02-05T08:38:38	2,381	PcNbmW6L4go	When inflation is rising and living standards are under a lot of pressure, it is not right to increase income tax for those who are on the basic rate. Does the First Minister agree with that statement? The First Minister will set out the details of the budget later this afternoon. That will cover both our tax proposals and our spending proposals. We will seek to protect our vital public services from the cuts being imposed by the Tories. We will make sure that we protect those on low and middle incomes and, of course, we will invest in business and the economy. I can tell the chamber today that 70 per cent of tax payers in Scotland, 83 per cent of all adults in Scotland will pay no more income tax after this budget than they do now. Ruth Davidson. We look forward to the details of that later on, but I was asking. I am not quite sure—I can tell by the face—that that flourish will have the result that it was looking for. The reason that I asked the question and the statement at the beginning was because those were the direct words of the First Minister herself just this year in May. I was not asking her to reveal her budget, although we are pleased for any details that are forthcoming. I was asking her whether she agreed with herself that all people who currently only pay the basic rate of income tax, which is 2.2 million people in this country, should not have to pay more, because that was the promise that she made. Just now, has she not just told at least some of them that she is breaking that promise? The First Minister. I would encourage Ruth Davidson to listen carefully to the announcements that will be made in just a couple of hours' time by the finance secretary. In the budget, of course, we will be balancing a number of different priorities. Of course, as the Opposition is fond of telling me that we are a minority Government, we require to build consensus around our budget proposals. Of course, we also have to deal with one of the most challenging economic and fiscal contexts that any Government in the lifetime of this Parliament has ever faced. As we heard confirmed just this morning on the radio by the Fraser of Allander Institute, our day-to-day spending is being cut in real terms by more than £200 million in real terms next year. Over the next two years, Tory cuts will take £500 million in real terms out of the spending that this Parliament has available for our nurses, doctors, teachers and our police officers, as is a bit rich in light of that for the Tories to come to this chamber and lecture anybody about tax and public spending. On top of that, of course, as we found out just last week, every household across not just Scotland but the UK will be facing a bill of £1400 to pay for the Tories' Brexit obsession. The bill just to rip the UK and Scotland against our will out of the European Union. In light of all that, the proposals that we put forward this afternoon will be responsible, they will be balanced, they will protect our vital public services from Tory cuts, they will protect the majority of tax payers and they will invest in business and the economy. In all that, they will stand in stark contrast to anything that the Tories are doing. Ruth Davidson The First Minister has just revealed that there will be tax cuts in this budget, so perhaps the First Minister should listen to what Scotland's small businesses are saying about that. This week, the Federation of Small Business gave her a blunt warning. It revealed that three-fifths of Scotland's small businesses do not want any change in income taxes rates. They do not want them to go up. Two-thirds believe that income tax increases would damage the economy. We are not talking about multimillion-pound corporations here. Those are small and medium-sized firms that are the lifeblood of the economy and support 1.2 million Scottish jobs. The First Minister has just told them that there will be tax rises that they do not want. Who should be trust when we know that they are talking about when it comes to growing the economy? Scotland's small business owners, who are warning against the very tax rises that the First Minister has just revealed, are the finance secretary who wants to push them up? The First Minister I met the Federation of Small Businesses just last week. Of course, one of the many things that they said to me was how highly they value the small business bonus, the most generous small business rate scheme anywhere in the UK. I do not think that I am revealing too much—the finance secretary started to look at me with that worried expression in his face—but I do not think that I am revealing too much when I say that the small business bonus scheme will be protected in the budget this afternoon. That, of course, lifts 100,000 small businesses out of business rates altogether, another way in which this budget will invest in business and in growing our economy. I think that there will be a lot of interest to Ruth Davidson and others when the finance secretary gets his feet this afternoon to outline how this Scottish Government will protect people the length and breadth of our country from the cuts that are being imposed on us by Ruth Davidson's party. Ruth Davidson Time and time again, ahead of elections, the Scottish National Party Government made promises to people on tax. It was only in May of this year that the First Minister was absolutely clear. It is not right, she said, for any person on the basic rate to pay more. That is 2.2 million people in this country that would be protected. She has just stood up and said that some of them are going to take a hit. That is a simple matter of trust. Promises were made, she has failed to meet them, so how can Scottish workers ever trust her again? The First Minister I suggest that Ruth Davidson listens carefully to the budget this afternoon, because when Derek Mackay stands up here and outlines his budget proposals, much of what Ruth Davidson has been saying over the past weeks will be seen to be complete and utter nonsense. We will set out fair, balanced, progressive budget proposals that protect our public services from more than £200 million in real terms of cuts being imposed by the Tories. That is a fact that the Tories do not like hearing, so let me repeat it. Our spending is being cut by more than £200 million in real terms next year, and the proposals that we put forward this afternoon will set out how we protect our NHS, our education system and other vital public services from that, while protecting the vast majority of taxpayers and investing in business and the economy. Of course, I am not sure how bothered Ruth Davidson really is by all of this, because no sooner have the Tories slumped back into third place in Scottish politics than we have Ruth Davidson setting out her escape plan when she plans to jump ship to Westminster. Richard Leonard Every time we raise Scotland's housing crisis with this Government, it spins out the same line. We will build 50,000 affordable homes and 35,000 homes for social rent by the end of this Parliament. This week, new housing statistics revealed that, in fact, the Government is way off course from meeting its targets. Can the First Minister explain today how those vital homes will be built? The First Minister We have set the target, and we will meet that target to build 50,000 affordable homes over the life of this Parliament. I know that Richard Leonard was not in the last Parliament, so he might not know this, but in the last Parliament, we had a target of 35,000 affordable homes over the lifetime of the Parliament. Over the course of that Parliament, we had to listen to Labour MSP after Labour MSP periodically tells us that we had no chance of meeting that target. You know what? We met that target in the last Parliament, and we will meet the new target in this Parliament. Of course, the Finance Secretary will set out funding plans to support that target in his budget this afternoon. The announcement that he makes in this budget will be part of an overall funding commitment of £3 billion over this Parliament to build 50,000 affordable homes. That is the record of this Government. Richard Leonard is the latest leader of the party that, when it was last in office, managed to build the grand total of six council houses. Richard Leonard I seem to recall that there was a redefinition of the target in the last session of the Scottish Parliament. The shortage of affordable housing is a key cause of homelessness, so we should be thankful for the important work that is being done by the homelessness prevention and strategy group, which has fought for Government funding to help rough sleepers this winter. However, as long as the supply of affordable housing is stalling and as long as this Government cuts local authority budgets that provide housing support, temporary accommodation, which provide funding for women's aid and refugees, the strategy group is fighting an uphill battle to prevent homelessness. Listen to the director of Shelter Scotland, Graeme Brown, who earlier this week said and I quote, "...some people think homelessness in Scotland is getting better and can be fixed overnight. Sadly, over the last year, things got worse. Does the First Minister agree with the director of Shelter Scotland that last year things got worse?" The First Minister This Government is increasing funding for affordable housing, and as I said, over this Parliament we will invest £3 billion, a record sum, to deliver 50,000 affordable homes. It is exactly because I am, like Shelter, so concerned about the rise in rough sleeping in particular that I announced in the programme for government the establishment of the homelessness strategy group that Richard Leonard has just spoken about. Of course, within the first few weeks of that group being established, it had already made its first recommendations to help to tackle rough sleeping this winter. The Government accepted all those recommendations and provided additional funding to help to meet those recommendations. We will consider on a continuing basis any further recommendations that that group brings forward. Of course, the reason rough sleeping is increasing are the welfare cuts being imposed on Scotland by the Tory Government. I again appeal to Richard Leonard. You have Labour MSPs right now shaking their heads at the notion that welfare cuts are leading to an increase in rough sleeping. That, frankly, is a fact. I would again call on Richard Leonard to join with those of us on these benches in calling for the devolution of all welfare powers to this Parliament so that we can put a stop to these cuts at source. Richard Leonard. We will see how committed you are to stopping these cuts this afternoon when you announce your budget. I want to share the experiences of a young woman in Edinburgh, Hannie Bell, who turned to the charity crisis for help. She is a recovering drug addict and a survivor of domestic abuse. She became homeless, and this week marked one whole year of being stuck in unsuitable temporary accommodation. In that accommodation she is faced with, and I quote her directly, people smoke coming through the cracks in the walls and floors, sleeping in sheets that look like Swiss cheese from cigarette burns, blood spatter on the walls of the bathroom from people injecting heroin. What Hannie Bell and thousands like her need is an affordable home and the local authority services that will get her back on her feet. Hannie Bell does not have a choice, but First Minister, you do. Will you choose to use the powers of the Parliament to invest in lifeline council services and end Scotland's homelessness crisis once and for all? We will see in just a couple of hours the choices that this Government is making to protect Scotland from the cuts that are being imposed by the Westminster Tory Government. The experience that he has just outlined of Hannie Bell is completely unacceptable. That is why the homelessness strategy group that we have already spoken about has, as its remit, not just tackling rough sleeping but tackling the use and looking to improve the use of temporary accommodation. It is also why, in the programme for government, we announced an increase in funding to tackle alcohol and drug addiction and why we are establishing a £50 million fund to help to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. Those and other measures will be outlined in our budget this afternoon. Richard Leonard sees the choices that we are making. I hope that he will stay consistent with what he has been saying in this chamber and back the choices that we are making in this budget, because they are the right choices for the people of this country. We have a couple of constituency supplementaries. The first is from Elaine Smith. Thank you. The family of a 91-year-old constituent that has asked me to raise her extremely distressing health and care issue, which has wider implications. The elderly deaf and blind woman who has a stoma bag was discharged from hospital with insufficient care, only one daily district nurse visit, and at times no assistance available via the home care alarm. On several occasions, she suffered the indignity, distress and discomfort of a burst stoma bag with her family believing that her life is at risk. If that is happening to one elderly vulnerable person, many others will also be suffering as a result of funding cuts and lack of adequate stoma care. Does the First Minister think that that is acceptable, and if not, what will she do about it? What Elaine Smith has just said—no, I do not think that that is at all acceptable. Can I say to Elaine Smith that if she can provide the details of her constituents' case to the health secretary this afternoon, the health secretary will immediately look into that and then, of course, correspond with the member who can feed that back to her constituents. I hope that she finds that response helpful as a way of taking that forward. Bob Doris First Minister, a constituent of mine is close to securing a training placement with a commercial airline. However, due to being HIV-positive, the Civil Aviation Authority will not issue the required medical certification, citing European Aviation Safety Agency rules. I understand that a deviation from those rules can be permitted. If my constituents to stay in the USA, Canada, New Zealand or Australia or indeed have contracted HIV as an existing commercial pilot, there would be no issues. Can I ask whether the First Minister agrees with me this situation amounts to discrimination? Can the Scottish Government make representations to the CAA to seek to end this injustice and therefore allow my constituent to pursue their dreams? The First Minister I am not aware of the full details of the case. However, I am very clear that any employment policies or regulations in this area must be based on the most up-to-date facts about HIV, not on outdated information or misconceptions. I understand that the Civil Aviation Authority has already said that they support a rule change in this area and are working with the European Aviation Safety Agency to reassess the regulation. I will write to the CAA to make clear my support for this rule change. We can all play a part in making life better for those living with HIV, and we should all continue to work to eradicate the stigma around the virus and tackle the false myths and prejudices that unfortunately still surround it. 3. Patrick Harvie Maybe at this time of year everybody wants to unwrap their Christmas present a wee bit early, and the budget is no different. However, there are many, many thousands of people in Scotland who want to know if there is anything in store for them. I am talking about the people working to deliver our vital public services in every community in Scotland. They have seen their wages cut year after year in real terms, and they want to know whether their pay will again be cut this year or whether there is the hope of at least an inflation-based increase. Does the First Minister agree with Graham Smith of the STUC, who has made the case not only for this budget but for the longer term, that the pay settlement must begin the process of restoring the lost value in people's wages and that it must be fully funded by the Scottish Government across our public services? The Scottish Government has already committed to lifting the 1 per cent public sector pay cap. Indeed, we remain the only Government in the UK that has made that commitment. Alongside the budget this afternoon, the finance secretary will also publish the public sector pay policy, which will include further details of the approach that we will take. As I have said previously, we want to see fair pay settlements for our public sector workers that recognise the rising cost of living and pay settlements that are affordable. That will be what we set out this afternoon. I am sure that Patrick Harvie will understand when I say that he will have to wait just a little bit longer to unwrap the full details. Patrick Harvie One area in which we do not have to wait any longer—one thing that we know will not be in the budget this afternoon—is a tax giveaway to the aviation industry. The SNP policy to halve and then scrap air departure tax was kicked down the road by at least one year, ostensibly for technical reasons. A consultation and economic assessment were planned. The results were published last week and they were so unhelpful to the Government that I can almost sympathise. Can the First Minister confirm that the consultation responses were overwhelmingly hostile to the Government's policy, showing 96 per cent opposition when all the responses were counted? Can she explain why one of the central economic arguments that the bulk of the tax cut would benefit the wealthiest in society was entirely ignored by the economic assessment? The First Minister Patrick Harvie and I have had exchanges in the chamber in the past. Of course, we want to have balanced policies across the whole range of policy areas, policies that help to boost our economy as well as protect our public services, and that is the approach that this Government will take. Of course, as Patrick Harvie has said, this will not feature in the budget this afternoon, not ostensibly for technical reasons, but actually for technical reasons. We will continue to discuss these issues with the UK Government and report back to this Parliament in due course. There are a few more supplementaries. The first is from Liam McArthur. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Last week, I warned the Government that the growing disparity in pay between Orkney ferries crew and their counterparts in CalMac, who are funded directly by ministers risked industrial action on Orkney's lifeline internal ferry services. This week, the RMT has confirmed that its members have now voted to take such action. The consequences for the island communities, who are utterly reliant on those services, could be disastrous. I ask the First Minister, even at the Isle of Inthour, to ensure that her finance secretary comes to the chamber this afternoon with a budget that honours both his and his Government's commitment, as well as the will of this Parliament, that delivers fair funding for Orkney and Shetland's internal ferry services. First Minister? Firstly, of course, those are services that right now are run by the councils, not by CalMac, not by the Scottish Government. The finance secretary, of course, will continue to engage with those councils, as he has done before now, about what the future might hold for those services. Of course, we are open to constructive discussions in the future on that. Of course, Liam McArthur and his colleagues ask us to put something like this into the budget, but we still refuse to say that they would back the budget even if there was a provision such as this in it. We will continue to have these discussions and look to do the right thing by our island communities. Mark Ruskell Thank you, Presiding Officer. An investigation that was screened on BBC One this week showed how hundreds of tonnes of dead salmon are being shipped across Scotland in lorries, leaking waste onto the roadside. Any farming system where over a quarter of the livestock are diseased and die before they reach the market has a massive problem, First Minister. Will the First Minister put in place a moratorium on fish farm expansion until this Parliament's rural economy and environment committees have included their inquiries into the sector? The First Minister I am happy to ask the Environment Secretary to have discussions with the member on that. I understand the concerns that people have about fish farming, and I know that some of the revelations in the documentary add to those concerns. I know that those are issues of concern to the Environment Secretary and she should be happy to discuss them further with the member. Daniel Johnson An independent report detailing today's newspapers predicts that Scotland will need an additional 500 classrooms by 2020 in our secondary schools. In South Edinburgh, that is no surprise, as despite two new secondary schools, local forecast show will be hundreds of places short within the next two to three years. Will today's budget commit the funds that are needed to build the extra classrooms that we need to meet the shortfall in South Edinburgh and across Scotland, given the increased capital at the Scottish Government's disposal? The First Minister Of course, it is for individual local authorities to plan their education provision based on their assessments of need now and in the future. I point out to the member that, since the Government took office, more than 700 new or refurbished schools are now in existence across the country. We now have 86 per cent of young people learning in schools that are classed as in good or satisfactory condition, a considerable increase since we took office. We will continue to discuss those issues on an on-going basis with councils, because it is absolutely essential that we have the right education provision where there are growing numbers of young people. I know that Edinburgh is one such case. Christine Grahame To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government understands by the term regulatory alignment and what that means for commerce between Scotland and Northern Ireland. We are seeking clarification from the UK Government on precisely what it means by regulatory alignment and what the impact would be for Scotland. The Irish Government has been clear that it would facilitate free movement of people, goods and services across the border to Northern Ireland. On that basis, we would understand the agreement to create equivalent rules to those of the European single market. Of course, if a differential deal is to be available to one part of the UK, it should also be available to others. It would be entirely wrong and unfair for Scotland to be placed at a competitive disadvantage, something that we have made very clear to the UK Government. Christine Grahame I thank the First Minister for her answer. According to a House of Commons report, UK ministers will have to import 19,000 EU rules and regulations on the statute book as a consequence of withdrawing from the European Union. Does regulatory alignment mean keeping most, if not all, 19,000 rules and regulations? Given that fundamental to the leaf campaign was cutting EU red tape, does the First Minister agree with me that that must be the biggest political fudge, since records began? Indeed, speaking of fudge, will the fudge regulation still be enforced and be one of those 19,000? The First Minister I think that, knowing the Tories, the fudge regulations will definitely be safe from a cull. Christine Grahame talks about the claims made by the leaf campaign. Of course, it was a leaf campaign that told us that Brexit would deliver £350 million a week extra for the national health service. We are still waiting for that. Instead, we find out that we are going to face an almost £50 billion bill just to leave the European Union. Of course, this issue of regulatory alignment is important. The legislative consequences of Brexit will be a major undertaking. It is just one part of the massive effort that will need to be put in place to get, if the UK Government continues on this course, a deal that will be worse than the one that we already have as part of the EU. If it is the case that there is going to have to be alignment, it underlines even further the importance of the UK as a whole staying within the single market and the customs union. That would be the least damaging outcome for our economy. I hope that we see people in the House of Commons coming together, as many of them did last night to defeat the Government on one particular amendment, although no Scottish Tory MPs were able to stand up to the Government last night. I hope that people will come together to keep the UK in the single market and in the customs union. The First Minister will be aware of the detail of the joint report by the UK Government and the EU last Friday, saying that the basic principles of regulatory alignment must be upheld in all circumstances irrespective of the nature of any future agreement. Can she tell us what her Government's understanding is of the nature of that commitment and in particular how that commitment is liable in all circumstances to be enforced? Presumably, it is a commitment that the UK Government will have to abide by and to hear David Davis at the weekend, almost trying to wrigol out of those commitments before the European Council had even had the opportunity to endorse them. Everything that needs to be said about the lack of trust that many on the European side of those negotiations have in the UK Government. It is important, as those negotiations progress as they will, that people can trust the commitments that the UK Government gives on the evidence of the weekend. That is perhaps doubtful. However, the most important thing is that, as those negotiations now proceed, they are in the interests of the economy and of people right across the UK. I wish that we were staying in the European Union, but given that the UK is leaving the European Union, I want to see a state in the single market and in the customs union. I hope that that is something that Labour at Westminster will eventually get round to supporting as well. To ask the First Minister for what reason the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy has been abandoned. SSLN has been replaced with more detailed and comprehensive information. SSLN gave us a national picture of children's progress in literacy and numeracy, but did not provide any detailed information for local authorities and schools about the progress of individual children. The achievement of CFE levels data that we now publish is a much more comprehensive data collection. For the first time ever under CFE, it gives us the attainment levels of every child in Scotland at key stages in primary and secondary and provides detailed data at all levels of the system to help us to identify what works in raising attainment and closing the attainment gap. First Minister, every educational expert in the land is telling the Scottish Government that it needs to improve the quality of the dataset that can measure the progress in our schools. They make the point that the Scottish Government's assertion that things will get better can only hold water if standardised assessment is standardised across the country and less dependent on the wide variations in teacher judgments across different local authorities. Does the First Minister not agree that parents have a right to expect the use of data that is reliable and respected for having a good track record and that the decision to abandon SSLN at this point in time in favour of experimental data was ill-advised? First Minister? No, I do not agree with that. SSLN was important, but I know as First Minister that the information provided was nowhere near detailed enough to allow us to target actions on improving performance and closing the attainment gap. The data that we now publish, as I have just said, is much more comprehensive. I also disagree with Liz Smith about teacher judgment. The International Council of Education Advisers said that we should provide a consistent support framework to teachers and then trust in their professionalism. That is exactly what we are doing. In terms of the data, this year's CFE levels data is more robust than last year's due to the quality assurance and moderation work that has been done in schools across Scotland. Next year, that consistency and reliability will be further enhanced by the use of standardised assessments in all schools. I repeat that this is the most important point. The CFE levels data gives us the attainment levels of every child in Scotland at key stages and primary and secondary and provides detailed data at all levels. That helps us to target action to raise attainment and close the attainment gap. That is what is most important about all of this. Iain Gray The truth is, Presiding Officer, that educationalists and the First Minister's own statisticians have told her clearly that the literacy and numeracy survey was statistically valid to track national progress and that the new attainment data that she is using simply is not nor ever will be. If that is really her priority, why won't she measure national progress properly by simply reintroducing the literacy and numeracy survey, or is she afraid of what it might show? The data that we are now publishing will tell all of us much, much more about the performance, not just of Scottish education generally, but of every child in the Scottish education system than we have ever had before. As First Minister and I know that this is a view of the education secretary, when we are looking at the actions that we need to take to improve attainment in our schools, we want to have that comprehensive, robust data. SSLN did not give us that data. As I have said previously in this chamber, SSLN sometimes was based on samples in some schools of as little as 12 pupils. We need comprehensive data, and that is what the CFE-levels data will give us, and that is important. Rhoda Grant To ask the First Minister what contingencies the Scottish Government has put in place to deal with the effects of extreme winter weather on rural and remote areas. We recognise the serious impact that extreme winter weather can have on rural and remote communities. A dedicated resilience operation actively monitors all weather and flood alerts and can be activated at any time, any day of the year. Indeed, last week, during Storm Caroline, the Deputy First Minister convened the resilience committee to ensure that all appropriate support was in place. We also work closely with emergency services, local authorities, health boards, power companies and others to ensure that we understand any challenges that are happening on the ground across Scotland and that they can respond and co-ordinate appropriately at the local level when any kind of emergency occurs. Rhoda Grant Already this winter, constituents have contacted me with concerns about how the weather is impacting on health services. One gentleman reached in Vernes and was waiting for his appointment at Dragmore hospital when he was contacted by stagecoach to say that his bus home had been cancelled due to bad weather. It cost him £200 to get home by taxi that night. Constituents and cathers are really concerned due to recent service changes forcing more of them to come to Vernes to access health services. Already this winter, the county has been cut off due to landslides on the rail line and roads closed due to accidents. Sadly, that is a common occurrence. What is the First Minister doing to make sure that my constituents do not face further trauma while accessing services this winter? First, in relation to the specific constituent case that Rhoda Grant outlined, again, if she wants to provide us with details, we are very happy to look into that. We cannot take away altogether the impacts of bad weather during the winter. I think that everybody understands that, but we have to work to make sure that everybody is pulling together to mitigate those impacts as much as possible. That is what we do. That is what is done at local level through resilience partnerships, which fully involve NHS colleagues. It is what we co-ordinate at national level through our resilience committee. In terms of some of the wider issues in relation to health in the Highlands, I understand the issues and concerns that have been raised there, particularly about the number of outpatient visits that local people have to travel to Rhaigmoor in Vernes. For some, that is 100 miles away. That is why NHS Highlands has been working to develop long-term sustainable services across the Caithness area and are reviewing the wider provision of hospital and adult community services. Those are important issues that we will continue to work with others on. However, as I said at the outset of my answer, if there are particular constituency cases that Rhoda Grant wishes the health secretary or other relevant ministers to look into, please pass the details of them. To ask the First Minister what discussions the Scottish Government has had with Police Scotland regarding tackling domestic abuse over the festive period. On Sunday 10 December, Police Scotland launched its anti-domestic abuse campaign. The campaign will run over the festive period, when, sadly, reports of domestic abuse increase by around a quarter. The campaign makes clear that Police Scotland will take all necessary action to deal with perpetrators of domestic abuse. I hope that the member and the chamber will, like the Scottish Government, fully support this important and necessary campaign. I thank the First Minister for that answer, and I welcome her comments, particularly in the context of the Scottish Borders, where there has been a 40 per cent increase in the reported incidents of domestic abuse since 2008 and where more must be done to protect and support victims. That should be our utmost priority. According to the Scottish Government's own figures, over 12,000 people were convicted of a crime with a domestic abuse aggravator in 2015-16, many of whom were given a short sentence. Given the utterly devastating impact of some domestic abuse, does the First Minister agree with me that abolishing prison sentences of less than a year, allowing perpetrators to escape with little if any punishment or rehabilitation, is an appalling way to treat victims whose lives have been tortured by abuse, and that any Government genuinely serious about eradicating domestic abuse would not adopt such a policy? No, I do not agree with that, because I do not really agree with the premise on which that question was based. In the interests of consensus on an issue where we should all try to come together and agree, I do think that Michelle Ballantyne is right to say that protecting and supporting victims should be our absolute top priority. I know that she is particularly interested in the Scottish Borders. I hope that she will agree with me that the Scottish Borders domestic abuse advocacy service is a great example of innovative partnership work. If an increase in reports of domestic abuse through the advocacy service or through the police shows an increased level of confidence in victims to come forward and report incidents, that is something that we should welcome. Of course, the Scottish Government funding of that service and the Scottish Borders has totaled 585,000 since its launch in 2012. Now, let me get to perhaps the less consensual part of my answer. Michelle Ballantyne said that we were abolishing short sentences. That is not actually the case. We are looking to create a presumption against short sentences. There are many people working in the criminal justice field who think that that is the right thing to do to reduce re-offending. Of course, deciding on the sentence in any individual case is always a matter for the judge who hears that case. It is not a matter for me as First Minister and it is not a matter for the Scottish Government or indeed any politician in this chamber. Having a situation where ultimately the decision on sentencing rests with judges is absolutely the right and proper one. Thank you very much. That concludes First Minister's questions. We are going to move on to Members' Business. It is a very busy Members' Business on bank closures, but we will just take a few moments for Members to change seats.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcNbmW6L4go", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCxVKCX36rGPO4YXBWDrW6gg	Prof. Mary Kaldor on Subterranean Politics in Europe	About the Speech: Prof. Kaldor presented the findings of an international study that she recently led into 'subterranean politics', studying new political parties and public protest movements in Europe. The results of the study reveal a common frustration with formal politics and how it is practiced, and a desire for a profound reimagining of democracy. It also finds that Europe as a political community or a public space only exists for a small minority and concludes that solving the economic crisis will not be a solution to the deeper crisis in Europe. About the Speaker: Prof. Kaldor is Professor of Global Governance and Director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics (LSE). Her study on subterranean politics began in 2011 and is based on contextual case studies covering Germany, Hungary, Spain, Italy and London as well as two trans-European case studies.	[ "Mary Kaldor", "subterranean politics", "global governance", "civil society", "human security research unit", "london school of economics", "contextual studies", "trans - european", "iiea", "politics", "economics", "reimagining of democracy", "keynote", "crisis", "euro" ]	2013-07-23T16:14:36	2024-02-05T07:39:30	1,523	PcGSk9XQLmk	Thank you very much for inviting me again. As you rightly said, I sort of have two areas of work. One is about war and conflict and security policies and the other is about civil society and social movements. I was going to start with a point. There's a very nice book by Auric Beck that has just come out called German Europe. In the book he says, Monetary union without political union wasn't a mistake. Now everybody is saying we should never have established a monetary union without a political union. It was deliberate. The idea was to create material interests in political cooperation. And I think that's actually a very important point because maybe if we do have a hope, it's people being very scared about what would happen if monetary union collapsed. It was, if you like, according to him, an extension of the Monet method. And the Monet method, as many of you will remember, was we're going to create Europe by economic cooperation of various kinds, steel, coal, agriculture, and eventually the politics will follow. And it was based on the assumption of what was known at the time as the permissive consensus, namely that we trusted our elites and they could go ahead and do what they liked. And actually politics was really neglected and that, I think, is the problem today, that the permissive consensus is evaporating. And the question is actually, are the material interests in political cooperation strong enough to preserve and extend the European Union? What I want to talk today about is some research that we undertook at my unit last year. And the aim was to try and uncover a new political basis for European Union. And, well, in a minute I'll tell you what we concluded. But then I want to reflect a little about the problems of political legitimacy and the ways in which we maybe do need to reconceptualise Europe if we are to have a hope of generating a new political basis for the European Union. So we called the study Subterranean Politics and we used the term because we weren't quite sure what we were looking for. And we used the term to refer to a range of new and interesting phenomenon outside the political mainstream. And I didn't want to use the term civil society, partly because people tend to associate civil society with NGOs. And we tended to think about NGOs and I'll come back to that later as actually part of the elite as institutionalised politics. But also we wanted to be able to include new political parties which are usually considered outside of civil society like the power party, like the five star movement in Italy. And we didn't want to use the term social movements also because we wanted to look at political parties but also because there's such a big scholarly literature about social movements in civil society that there's a whole theoretical apparatus about how you go about studying these phenomenon and we wanted in a way to start afresh. So what we did was we had seven field teams across Europe at looking at the emergence of Subterranean politics in different cultural contexts. And we had four country teams looking at Germany, Spain, Italy and Hungary. We had one global city which was London. Actually we started off with a UK study and then we realised London was so different from the rest of the UK that we decided it was going to be a city study. And we had two trans-European studies. One looking at grassroots activism, the other looking focusing on movements against austerity. So what I'm going to tell you really is what came out of those studies and I just want to really make five points and then I'll come back to the issues of political legitimacy. The first point which our chair mentioned was bubbling up or resonance also. Actually what we observed in Europe was not necessarily bigger or more extensive or more organised or more transnational than in the past. I mean I've been running this Global Civil Society programme at LSE and we've tracked things like the movement against the war in Iraq, climate change, the World Social Forum and in many ways they were just as big. But what was interesting about the events of 2012 was the way they hit the mainstream. And I'll just give you a few little examples of that. One is that in Germany for example those people who were protesting were known as Wutberger, angry citizens. But actually it wasn't a term invented by the people themselves. It was invented by the press. And Wutberger became the new word of the year in the official German language society, the Gesellschaft für die Deutscher Sprache. And similarly, Indignados, which was the name given to the Spanish protesters, was not invented by the Spanish protesters. They called themselves the 15th of May movement. It was invented by the press explicitly referring, and some of you maybe have read this because it's really wonderful, a pamphlet by Stefan Hessell who was a French World War II resistance hearer. Also one of the drafters of the Declaration of Human Rights in his 90s who wrote a passionate pamphlet called Andignébu, Be Indignant. It's actually translated into English as Time for Outrage, but I think it sounds better in Andignébu. And so the press called them Indignados, the people who got indignant, which was actually an invented noun apparently. So that's one example. The other example I was going to give you was Occupy in London. Actually it was quite small, it was about 100 people, and most of them had either been in climate change camps as we discovered when we interviewed them, or they'd been sitting outside Parliament Square for 10 years protesting against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of you may remember that you saw them when you went, but nobody took any notice of them at all. But when they moved into the square mile and set up camp, suddenly they became a focus of mainstream interest. They caused a crisis in the Church of England which could not be a more establishment organisation with no less than three officials, I think, resigning because there was an argument about whether they should be allowed to stay or not. Bankers passed by and gave them money and even, which most activists wouldn't even dream of, they got invited to write an article in the Financial Times. So this is to give you... So what I really think is the first point I really wanted to stress, and of course it's reflected in also the rise of new parties, political parties like the Pirate Party in Germany, the five-star movement in Italy, is that what was really significant was the way it was bubbling up, the way it resonated. I have no idea whether it's bigger or lesser, but people took it seriously in a way they hadn't before. The second point I wanted to make is that these demonstrations were all about politics. They're often treated as demonstrations against austerity, but they were fundamentally all about politics and that was true of absolutely everybody we interviewed. And perhaps the best proof of that is the fact that so much was going on in Germany, which wasn't suffering from austerity policies, and yet they had the demonstrations against the infrastructure projects in Frankfurt and Stuttgart, they had a march against the European Central Bank, they had activists' synonymous, they had a whole range of campaigns which we found in our German study and of course they had the Pirate Party. Also if you look at the slogans, so the Spanish slogans were things like a caro in every neighbourhood. They think this is democracy, but it isn't. They were all very political, they were all about trust and I think the final point I wanted to make on this in relation to the politics is of course that if this view that there's no trust in government, that it's really about restoring political legitimacy is very much confirmed by Eurobarometer figures which are quite shocking actually at the ones we cite in our study are from last year, this year even worse. I'm afraid I've still got last years. So overall in Europe only 24% trust their government. And of our country studies this range from 32% in Germany to 12% in Italy. And for political parties it's even worse. Overall only 14% of people in Europe trust political parties and the high is Germany at 15 and the low is Italy at 9 which is quite staggering actually. So and this kind of lack of trust we found whether you were talking about left or right it was fundamental sort of sense that we know we can trust our governments that motivated these different movements. A third point I wanted to make is and this is not true for all movements it's not true for the right wing populist movements but for many of the other movements there's a preoccupation with democracy but a huge feeling of loss of faith in representative democracy. A sense they think they represent us but they don't is this Spanish slogan I mentioned. And this sense that democracy has to be about more than voting that it has to be about participating and particularly in the squares the emphasis was on doing democracy themselves what we call prefigurative action imagining how democracy ought to be and with quite complicated assemblies, debates all this hand language which you may have seen to express approval how you conduct meetings all of this was very very important in the squares and was one of the reasons attracting people to the squares and I took one quote from a German who was involved in one of the occupations and he said it was videos of the Spanish assemblies on YouTube that motivated him to join and he said, my heart was beating I couldn't understand a word of what they were saying but I thought awesome they meet in a public square and they talk to each other so I thought that was a kind of very nice sense of what people felt now the fourth point I wanted to make is about the role of internet and Facebook I'm going to say this rather briefly for time reasons but basically all of these demonstrations, parties make use of social media and social media has hugely facilitated their mobilisation, Twitter, Facebook but what we thought was interesting was not simply the fact that I don't know, the Spanish assemblies were started by a group of bloggers what's really interesting is what it means for political culture and we put quite a lot in our report and it's something we want to look at further that if you engage through Facebook and the internet you actually think about politics in a rather different way and there's a lot of emphasis among the activists on things like horizontality, replaceability, leaderlessness I'm not sure how serious all of them are I mean some people complained that leaderlessness actually means there are leaders that you don't know who the leaders are but at the same time what is very interesting is the sense people have where you can go in and do your bit and then leave it to somebody else to take over that you... we called it the two point nought culture because the idea is that the earlier internet culture was about reading and searching and the new two point nought culture is about editing and writing so you can go in and participate and then somebody else can take over from you and this idea that you can participate a bit and it doesn't matter who you are and you can be anonymous is creating something very different and more extensive than before and I don't really know what the long term consequences will be I think another aspect of that is that for all activists which I found very interesting internet freedom is a key issue and process is a key issue for all of them what they're concerned about is building this new democratic process and they're less concerned about outcomes a lot of politicians criticise the activists for not having a set of demands and they feel that misses the point because the point is actually how you reach an agreement how you reach a decision not what that decision is and so process and how you involve people is absolutely key, especially for the panel and now the final conclusion that I want to talk about a little bit more was the one that was most disappointing for us is that among these sorts of people the people who participate in subterranean politics Europe by and large was invisible what do I mean by that? well of course we went out searching for Europe and that's why we ended up calling it subterranean politics because what we found was that among what you might call the elite NGOs, trade unions, intellectuals politicians who travel around Europe you can find dozens of appeals for a new Europe the manifesto of appalled economists and not the road to Europe there are so many and we actually have a subter... if you google subterranean politics you'll find our website which has a list of all these appeals but actually they're rather a minority and the appeals don't seem to have any resonance in the same way that subterranean politics does but among subterranean politics among the people that we interviewed Europe was simply not present we designed questions you know, what level of government do you think decisions ought to be taken which were designed to elicit a European response and Europe never came up and there were only a few exceptional cases the Greek demonstrations where things were blamed on the troika which was the European Central Bank the European Commission and the IMF and the demonstration against the European Central Bank in Frankfurt but by and large Europe was simply not there when we explicitly asked people what they thought about Europe we found differences that were both generational and geographical so older generation of activists by and large were rather pro-Europe and they saw Europe as very important in overcoming the legacy of 20th century wars and for them it was really important the younger generation, interestingly including UK young people took Europe for granted they said, you know, we travel around Europe with students in different universities we use the Euro, not in Britain but elsewhere we're part of the easy jet culture so they felt European but for them the European Union by and large was irrelevant to that feeling it was, if you ask them explicitly, they saw it as a neoliberal bureaucracy and you saw that there was also a geographical difference by and large Southern Europeans and Eastern Europeans were more pro-Europe than people from France, Germany, Britain and particularly countries which had gone through a transition to democracy tended to be more pro-Europe now it's not that the activists were not internationalists on the contrary they were very internationalists I mean one of my favourite stories comes from the Barcelona Plaza de Catalunya which divided itself into three bits there was an Egyptian bit which discussed democracy there was an Icelandic bit which discussed the economy and there was a Palestinian bit that discussed justice and on the marches you saw no Spanish flags but you saw Egyptian, Icelandic and Palestinian flags so there was a lot of solidarity it wasn't that there wasn't solidarity but there just wasn't any interest in the European Union which was really a quite striking finding so now let me conclude because I know I was only meant to talk for 20 minutes I think the first point to make is that I do think the current crisis is fundamentally a political crisis I think the activists arrived to perceive it as a political crisis and I think it's about the collapse of the legitimacy of nation states which is extremely disturbing why do I think there has been this collapse in legitimacy well I think it's two reasons one has to do with globalisation which is that decisions that are supposed to be taken at a national level are actually taken in Brussels in the headquarters of multinational corporations in New York, in Washington and so however much politicians promise to do things they're actually confined by international agreements of various sorts and so it's extremely difficult you vote for a politician to change things and actually their potential for change is increasingly limited but I don't think that's the only reason so however perfect your democracy is nationally I mean if democracy is about the ability to change the decisions that affect your life and those decisions are not taken nationally then it doesn't going to mean that it's democracy but I also think we're coming to the end of a phase of history where the nation state was the dominant political form and there's a kind of sclerosis of the nation state it's got stuck in certain processes and ways of being and partly that stuckness is illustrated by the intermeshing of elites political, financial, media that make it very very difficult for ordinary people to penetrate that elite partly it's the sort of routines of bureaucracies and partly I think it's the technology of elections with all the emphasis on polls and focus groups politicians are focused on that tiny middle floating voter which means that parties are often not very distinct and it's very difficult to have a real, genuine public debate about things and that's why I do think the protesters' emphasis on process is so incredibly important that we do need different political processes so what does that mean? I mean if I'm right where are new sources of legitimacy for political authority to be derived from and could the European Union offer that alternative? Well certainly at the moment it doesn't and I think one of the things that came out is that the old narrative that people of my generation believe in that the EU was a peace project never again would there be a war in Europe never again would Europe become imperialist that narrative just doesn't resonate with the young so I think what we need is to think about how could the European Union become a kind of institution that actually protects democracy at local levels from the storms of globalisation makes it more possible for people because at the moment what the European Union is doing isn't exactly the opposite what the euro has done is removed the one mechanism of protection which is exchange rates but it hasn't offered another form of protection and so the question is how could it actually become a different sort of institution that does actually allow people to take control of their lives so I'm less interested in how do you democratise Europe though that would be good but more what sort of institution should Europe become if we see it not as a new nation state but as a kind of model of global governance a way of dealing with globalisation so that people can take reclaimed democracy and I think if you think of it that way then what it has to be is an institution that on the one hand taxis global bads like financial speculation like climate change carbon like multinationals who escape taxes and on the other hand promotes global goods like renewable energy health and education youth employment something of that sort so that the whole aim of it is not to be a bigger and better nation state which is what the United States is but rather to be a layer of political authority that could allow us to take back democracy not only at national levels but maybe at city levels and regional levels so is there a way that this could be achieved well of course I'm feeling very very doubtful I think this gap between the elites and subterranean politics is very difficult to bridge and I think we need a change in both I think Europe needs to become more visible to activists and activists actually do even though I do think process is important they do need to have they do need to be putting forward some alternatives they do need some policies and the elites have to introduce some of the changes that could resonate with the activists so not just the activists resonating with the mainstream but the elites resonating with the activists like atobin tax for example well will this happen who knows I mean I'm rather doubtful but I do think that's the way to go	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcGSk9XQLmk", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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I've read this in forever DJ chart dual Jersey to 1 90 to 299 for the AFC South Jalen waddle in the Jersey card at 299 for the AFC East Clinton port is Jersey auto to 199 for the NFC East and we got a yeah Here we go rookie Senator Lockhart to 99 Anthony Schwartz for the AFC North Locker six-patch auto book there. There you go. AFC North Anthony Schwartz Yeah, lockers are sick. They get really cool the lower the lower number. They are Yeah, I mean grading 101 doesn't normally hurt them though Like it can it can help just to have it like slabbed really Jalen Jordan rookie Jersey to 75 NFC South depends on the card though, of course depends on the product and all that Jamar Chase rookie jumbo Jersey to 299 AFC North and AFC South Jersey auto James Robinson to 49 with a Mills mafia AFC South There's no new Niko Collins those mills Niko Collins is doing that. Sorry nasty Niko not Mills mafia, but nasty Niko Rookie Jersey auto AFC South. Yeah, that one now and definitely. 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D'Amie Brown 71 of 99 six-way relic rookie auto book Jersey card to 299 NFC South Brian Burns Down a dirty game used Trevor Lawrence rookie jumbo Jersey to 299 AFC South And AFC North signature routes Jersey auto Tyler Boyd 21 of 199 and we've got almond raw St. Brown signature locker 73 of 99 nice NFC north of the nice almond raw. What do you mean Jess? Oh? Yeah, no, I I Would hope it's not getting shipped you have an address on the You know already email us right Yeah, three lockers so far which usually was like Or so, oh, we got something coming up here. What is this? Relic book I think ooh can be cool hot routes Jersey to 299 terror McLauren for the NFC East I like the look of that. Oh, there's a redemption too. We're gonna To always looks like is this is a Jerome bed as goal line grafters you out on a 49 AFC north and then redemption now So two autos in this box is base signatures gold Kyler Murray NFC West Oh Golden play I forgot what gold a playbook is. 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I think we had the Tony earlier as well TJ Hawkinson Jersey card to 149 NFC north and Wouldn't know it another Jalen waddle this time dual patch rookie book to 49 Lotta waddle Lotta waddle A redemption now is Aaron Rogers base signatures gold NFC north Hey, I saw was saying it was gonna heat up. You're right NFC north It's kind of how they were last year like one half of going in the other half of it NFC north just like that to and a nausea Harris rookie auto number to 49 for the AFC north Darkness retreat Rogers probably gonna be a blank card. No autograph. Sorry NFC Just black just as hello darkness Jersey card to 299 Chris Cooley NFC East down to dirty game used NFC Southpatch terrace Marshall jr. It's a 99 NFC e Sturkey auto Kenneth gain while 15 of 25 Almost had a touchdown on Super Bowl and Rashad Bateman to 199 three of 199 RPA book AFC north again All rookie receivers are all right. Let's see some QB's We've had that QB redemptions. Yeah, good ones to Kyler and Rogers. Oh, I just need like a Lawrence Mac fields Someone around that caliber DJ Chark Jersey AFC south of 299 Simi Fajoco to 299 RPA book for the NFC East Sean Wade AFC East rookie auto to 99 It's a three-auto book right here three auto box. Excuse me. We're out of box and a signature rooms Kaderious Tony Jersey auto to 199 NFC East Tony Three autos now. All right, here we go last one something big time NFC East Jersey to 75 Dallas Goddard down and dirty game used That's a cool one a game worn Chris long as a Patriots AFC East to 299. That's pretty awesome. Nice card there and a Quincy Roche rookie auto for the Giant that's NFC ease that is a giant score. He was a Mid-season move there rookie auto and last card of the night is a Zach Wilson to 149 rookie Jersey auto book for the AFC East There's a QB There he is That'll do it. We do have a lot of points around him off here, and then we'll go through a recap All right, 2,500 points around to everybody here two and six eight times Remember some top get some one two three four five six seven and eight AFC East Nice good chuck of points there 2,500 She had a playbook normally is not that many when you pull points at a playbook and normally you get more points guys per case So that's honestly not to chair. Will you get one? That's 2,500. All right, Alex here We had Chris long AFC East there Dallas Goddard DJ Chark Teres Marshall, Jr. Chris Cooley TJ Hawkinson Calvin Redley Chris Johnson Michael Hardman, Jr. CD lamb Michael Pittman, Jr. Terry McLauren Brian Burns Trevor Lawrence Michael Thomas Rashad Bateman Kaderious Tony Brian Burns Nico Collins Kyle Pitts a Callan Mod 2-2 Atwell Jalen Darden Jamar Chase DJ Chark Jalen waddle Devonte Parker Champ Bailey is all our relics and the down and dirties are game-worn. We got autos Quincy Rochette Sean Wade Kaderious Tony Kenneth Gainwell Najee Harris Dwayne Eskridge Teres Marshall, Jr. NFC West redemption Colin Murray Bay signatures gold Jerome Bettis Tyler Boyd Noah Fance a Cam Acres the 10 Robert Woods Earl Campbell James Robinson Clinton Portis and a Deontay Johnson all of our books now So this was a this is just a dual patchbook here. No auto Chuba Hubbard Armory, which is a relic book as well Devonte Smith We got Elijah Moore. So RPA books here Elijah Moore Nico Collins signature locker Anthony Schwartz 2-2 Atwell Simi Fajoco Rashad Bateman signature lockers St. Brown. There you go for the NFC North there D'Ammie Brown signature locker Dead Spitz Patrick Pat Freymuth a 25 Jalen waddle dual patchbook for the AFC East just relics there Jalen waddle RPA book Jamar Chase RPA book and a Zach Wilson RPA book a couple mags Redemption here Aaron Rodgers Bay signatures gold redemption NFC North and Jalen waddle rookie auto 2 of 10 for the AFC East Solid case there nothing massive, but definitely some nice stuff for some spots there Thank you again everybody	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC4VSBA3T-Y", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCq-ZvpCLekNUJpD3iem0zDQ	"3 LEGENDARY SUPER SAIYANS" \| Dragonball FighterZ 3v3 Party Mode	What is it like to play with 3 Brolys on one team, well today we are going to find out by playing Dragonball fighterz 3v3 mode. We also tried 3 vegetas and just free formed it up in dbfz 3v3 mode. Some call it dragonball fighterz party mode. Support This Channel: https://www.patreon.com/Dotodoya Join The Discord: https://discord.gg/cvEDsVQ Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/DotoDoya_boy?lang=en Follow me on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/dotodoya If you enjoyed the video make sure to hit the like button and subscribe! Feel free to share the video with anybody else you feel would enjoy it!	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Yeah, just expect your sub counter to go down. Hey everybody, Dottodoi here with a very quick disclaimer. What you're about to watch is me and some friends playing some three versus three party mode in Dragon Ball Fighters, much like my old three gen use on one team video, which a lot of you seem to enjoy. And some of you were asking for a video like that one, so I wanted to do it again. With that being said, there are problems with the three versus three mode, such as trying to get everybody in the lobby to connect to each other even remotely well. So you're going to see a lot of stuttering in this video because it was jumping between, you know, four frames of lag to 12 frames of lag. And there's going to be a lot of stuttering involved with that. So I did want to let you know at the very top of this video here that this isn't going to be the smoothest video you ever watch or the highest quality on this channel. But again, some of you really wanted to see some more party mode, and I also really enjoy the mode and playing with my friends. So in the end, I decided to release a video of it anyway. And I hope you don't mind the quality too much. Thank you so much. James, start us off. Start us off, James. Terrible. Good work. Who was that? Thanks for bringing me in. Excellent. What am I doing? Wasting our bar. You're doing fine, sweetheart. Yeah, you didn't waste the bar, though. But for your confidence sake, I didn't want to say. Hey, that's not me. You tagged me in as an assist for a second time and maybe not hit anything. You're ready, sweetheart. I'm ready, sweetheart. Just a touch of def combo. Look at all that damage you're not doing. I didn't do much. Oh, I wasn't running. Oh, I feel like McGuire always goes up against Goku blue. I feel like McGuire always crouches in the corner. Oh, yeah. Fuck. That may have been the crappiest combo I've ever seen in my entirety of this career. Forgot to move. That may have been the worst English sentence I would have ever said. Oh, yeah. The problem, dude. Oh, what the heck? I'll find a way out of this. These guys are gone. That's not going to take me a life. Oh my god. How are you supposed to hit Krillin? Like that. Yeah, I'm literally doing nothing but hit so little except for that. Oh, second guy is James. Never mind. You just called me in for an assist. Like everybody else does for some reason. He called me in for an assist and then he missed. They got your blue house, Krillin. Oh my god. So they called me in for real instead of just an assist. Called anybody in at all. I was panicking. Look, that's the third time I've been called in as an assist and I've just completely been misused. James, punch him. There you go. Bring him down. Yeah, now kill him. Do a little banish, do a little combo. Okay, that wasn't a combo. That's the slowest shit I've ever seen in my life. Oh, I hit him that time. Yeah, tag me in. Oh, wait. Tag him in, James. Tag me in. Not now, though. What? Tag me in. You armored through. Yeah, I'm trying. Oh, why did you tag me in? There comes a touch of death. We're going to be out of Willie's Wanked, if you know what I mean. I don't know what you mean there. A choice convo age. And it's up to James. All right, James. The man who's never played rolling in his life. Thank god you tagged me in. I think I died too early. Banish. Level three. All right. Yeah. Good work, James. And I had two more of that, and you should be good. Yeah. Watch out for the level three, though. All right, watch out for the five to start the dislevel. There it is. Run. You're going to want to run. Run towards him. Run towards him. Or Banish. Oh, no, no, convo. I would have saved that for a combo, but. Oh, no, no, convo. Step back, Clint. You got it, man. Just make something up on the fly. A good convo. That's a slow one. Is that the slow one? How did you make that up so fast? Damn, I stayed in a fucking error for a long ass time, huh? Oh, let's get it. Let's get it. Banish. Okay. All right. Well, that's not a real convo, but a real tape. Tape together. We're taking it. With glow. Tape together with convo. Yeah, that's how shit that convo was. Wow, that was a very risky grab. Every level three, that's parking opponent. God, he knows it. Wow, what a fucking moron. Level three? No. All you have to do is click the like button. Here it comes. The most games. You have one hour to dodge this. What the hell? I will take my award now, sir. I will take my award now. The single carry of this game. What was that? This looks like you're thinking to. The single. Oh, my God. We're taking about a thousand percent of the screen. The single best player in its craft team. What a rivalry. James's magnificent, magnificent technique is switching his friends into convo is to kill them so he could be the last one. I can't use my level three spark to get my friends are still alive. You are wailing to call you in. Yeah, you popped me in the middle. I called you in. Correct. I love it. Up B. I'm going to smash that motherfucker. My foot. Yes. Oh, and I'm back, boys. Be called in as an assistant. Here you go, Declan. Oh, that's not good. Oh, God. I wasn't ready. That's all you want to say. That's all you want to say. I was still laughing at Gwaiir. I was still laughing at Gwaiir. Overhead, Declan. Overhead. I was still laughing at Gwaiir. Which one are you? I'm in, bitch. Yeah. Was there something about Gohan you didn't like? Damn it. The frame. I remember this man reacts. Oh. Did you get hurt? What the hell? I was like that move. Quarter circle forward. I know that me. You're cycling. We both know I don't know what that means. Damn it. Gwaiir loves getting his ass beat. So much. He does it for a career. I'll be in. Tag me in. Not me. It is you. Are you monkey? Come on. Do the monkey run. All right. We should get three bars and do that again. Why do you do that? You could have vanished and switched Goku in. James really loves to do that. Call me in as an assist. Yeah, there I am. Yeah. Don't touch me. Oh, I hate that move. Not only was it. Let's kill him. Let's let's do the move. I'm not going to kill him. I don't want to waste my time. Kill him with a hit. Oh, that's so much amount. No. Do it again. Do it again. James James. James. Do it again. I wasn't paying attention. Why not? Damn it. Done. Hey, do it one more time. One more time for the postman. Oh, that would have worked. All right. Quick. Take your away. Call me and hit him. And do it again. There you go. Wow. That's actually pretty cheap. The pressure. That was a lot of stuff. Bring him down. Bring him down. All right. Three bars. We need three bars. Let's finish this Goku blue in style. That was your way. Declan, what are you? I'm out. The other guy. James, get in there. Are you idiot? All right, Declan, go. Are you holding a grudge? No, I would never. What? I was two feet in the air. I forgot. That can be an attachment. Yeah, I will be a lot of LT for James. I tricked him again. I'm trying to get three bars so desperately. Oh, you just don't want sauce and focus on the victory. Gaur, sauce him. Double three. Die, die. Oh, I don't hear. Just keep last up back. Get him. Die, though. Always do garbage. This is the Dattel doi having hearing stories about. All right, go. All right, what are you going to do? Are you going to do this? Oh my God. They look very similar to my bully. That's keyblast them. See? You see? There you go. It says something on. Hello? I'm out of the call. Kick him out of the Dattel doi discord that we are currently using in the description below. Wow. That was actually a really excellent plug, Gaur. Hey, I'm actually using strings. Would you like to plug something? Going to discord. We talk sometimes. Jesus thumbnail. Three vegetas. Three vegetas. They're profusals. I'm not making the thumbnail. Yeah. I was going to say that's a lot of work. I'm not going to do that for a shit's sake. It james blows bubbles in his chocolate milk. That's why I'm going to play with him. That's the only way to drink chocolate milk. Down on the cup. That's different. Give me. I think it's a school. Give me the bubbly. Give me the bubbly. The lunch lady blows the bubbles in my chocolate milk. Hey, lunch lady. Give me the bubbly. Yo, give me that bubbly. He's a big kid, Dachlan. Grow up. Whatever. James is still blowing bubbles in his milk at 21. What were you deflecting at bad thoughts? Oh, there I am. Yeah. Assistive again. Yes. Help me. Yeah. Sorry, he used both of your assists. Give him the rising knee. Yeah, that's the rising feet. Give him the rising knee. Yeah. Rising feet. Give him the rising knee. Do it again. That's not me. Rising knee. Rising knee. Rising knee. I don't know how to play any character that's not Trunks, and I know Trunks barely. Okay, switch me in there. He's going to do the... Oh, why? He has a telepark? Yeah. Didn't you know that? No. I'm tossing it. I would have been a little bit surprised. Like, surprised if that was going to tag anybody in. This guy thought that you just wanted it. God, you're getting spanked. God. Man. Why isn't it me? God damn it. I didn't know that's what you were. James, don't bring me back up. What the fuck was that? Why did you spend all that money? What is that? I was trying to think. Wait, what? It didn't work. Here we are. I'm going to get called in as an assist. But I'll beat it. Oh, the frames. Get down and beat it. Get him for the... James, you got to sit. I literally called in Maguire. That's more than James. Finally. It probably hasn't been sent. Literally. Get ready. You're ready. Maguire is literally the only one who knows how to play Vegeta. Barely. All he does is I'll beat him. You mean I play Vegeta? I dabble. I wish you wouldn't touch my food like that. I'll do it again. Oh, no. I went right over. I was going to get my oatmeal punched. What? Oh, it's invincible. It's invincible. What? Switch it. It's on now. Go there. What? What? I'm going to tell you don't dabble as much as you want to. I dabble. I dabble. I dabble. I'm sorry. I dabble. I dabble if you live. I'm scared. I'm so scared. Oh, you can't. I'm so scared. Why did you do that? He just ran it for the hills. Let's go. I dabble. So why would you do that? You still have sparking. You'll be fine. What the fuck was that, Vegeta? I did the final flash. Thanks for calling me in to kill me, James. Oh, wait. It's Daglin. Oh, wait. It's the same fucking person. Not going to have a chance for that one was dead as fuck. Keep over eight. Oh, no. He knows this. What? Counter was a doogan. What the hell is that? What? Not the... Why didn't you do a big bang attack? Okay. I'll be right. I liked it. All right. I just got to deal with a Kid Boo, Android 21, and sparking. Why? Oh, right now. Right ago, man. And now he destroys the world. Thank you, Daglin. That was a flummox and a shame. You let Kid Boo win and now we die. So where are you dead? I hope it's Goku. Okay. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to call McGuire in. Right? Then I'm going to go for a down low. Then I'm going to go for a too slow. All right. What next? What after that? I'm letting this down. Thank you, God. Oh, thank you, God. I'm just switching to fucking calling me in. That was the worst. I thought you two were actually going to get Comma to do that. Yeah. Good, Comma. Huh? I feel like I'm being used for my... I feel like my 12 frames are really... McGuire, go ahead. Thank God. Reflect that. Run up on that boy. Oh, that's a wrap. What? Seven frames? I'm out of here. Hey, that's me. Whoa, that was weird. Oh, my God, seven frames. You guys sure love music by assist from very far. I did a flip right over. I don't know what that was. Come on, you want that? Come on. You want to bring a deck, Len? Yeah, man. She was the other way. I completely understand. Oh, nice. Now, James, I know you saw it coming. You just love spending meter. I guess that was... Oh, God. Oh, my goodness. He's dead. No. Is he dead? Quite alive. That was truck's loss rate. He's dead. No, that's... I think of level one. I mean, if you didn't flash your crotch there... Go, Jace. Where did Jace go? I might. I'm eating my cereal. I can't. Damn it. Where did this come from? Just sitting in bed. I can't. I can't, Cap. Go, James. Oh, thank you. Oh. It's there to toast. He was jumping. I need three bars. I need three bars to get a better body. I don't know. I think you have the perfect body. Three bars, huh? Well, why don't I weigh two? Sorry I brought it up, man. Could have at least hit him with the bars. I really wanted to, Declan. I really wanted to hit him. Oh, he's trying to kid Vucama. You in seven frames of lag. Vinices are down like a block. Turns out just clicking up V is not the most viable strat. Neither is wasting bars when they're on the floor. Up to you, James. Ah, nine and seven frames. There you go. There you go. I really do need that boy's body, so... There you go. Well, somebody's body. Maybe not his anymore. Mike, my sword. No. I'll miss you, bro. No, I'll miss you. You're just going to drop it. Here you go, Declan. I'm sorry. Don't be obvious with it yet. Wow, I can't believe that didn't go worse. Just use sparking. Okay, I will. I don't know any cool Guineas sparking combos, but... Just use it. How about that? Wow, that was in a combo. Well, love of God. There you go. I'm trying. At least he's dying. I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. I'm out. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. He didn't even take his body. Andrei is going to go for level three. I don't know his body. Wow. Damn it. I don't know why you listen to me. I'm retarded. That's me. I helped. Wow. Hmm. Captain. Keep it. Just don't drop it. Nice. Nice. Hype Bozo says. Okay, he's going to go for the automatic sparking, Declan. I told you. I literally told you. Oh, no. That hits. I stabbed myself. And it's not perhaps James with two health. Perhaps stab me. We lost. Perhaps stab everybody. No. We lost. Wait. You almost have three meters, James. You almost have three bars. One level three from Trunks. That is. What the fuck? James, wait. It's still possible. This comeback is still very much. Dead. What? I don't. Fuck. You did everything. I clicked. Why? I clicked. I, he vanished. So I did it the wrong way. Cracked like an egg. I did. You can hear him privately. You'll be cracking. Do you also want to do the outro, James? I crack like egg. No, the outro. Thank you. Bye bye now. Thank you. Thank you for watching this video. Please join the discord. Hey, bye. And subscribe to the YouTube channel. I don't want to go that far. Yeah. Oh, look, I'll leave it to you. And let us know if you want more of these videos. 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UCtqzN78IJnYSP8fppbBv-CQ	Maharishikaa \| Family fights, spiritual decision making & disturbed Kundalini	Having attended a few Satsangs with the Maharishikaa, a distraught Augustinas Antanaitis - dealing with a disturbed kundalini and family fights - asks Her for advice on spiritual decision making and how to deal with the complex and tormenting relationship which he has with his sister, a relationship fraught with painful memories, expectations and an inability to let go. In this dynamic exchange, Maharishikaa, with her immense compassion explains the different nuances of the dynamic between seekers and their family members. #Maharishikaa #FamilyFights #KundaliniDisturbance Aaryaa Maharishikaa Preeti Maiyaa, is a revolutionary female mystic who fearlessly dares to demystify spirituality in her unrelenting call to realize Self, and act from Source. 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She's a little bit older than me. I don't say I don't love her. I love her. It's fine, but From the childhood always it was like I felt like my free will is like Violated she was always worrying about me like What what people say idiot you idiot what people say about you like Insecurity all the time and that insecurity she was putting on me all the time and was resisting I was hating her like this, but there is a boundary we can't cross like if we cross a little bit we just fight like so we I tried Apologize that that tries everything. She's very proud. She will never like I tried for my side, but they felt like It doesn't work something is wrong a few months ago. I just told her I don't want to have anything with you I don't want to know how you feel how you live I just want to cut you from life totally and when you speak about surrender practice if I try to Be within me. I Don't want her anywhere close to me. She she should not exist Otherwise the influence will be there like it's so deep within me am I did? Writing to cut the relationship to tell the her the truth about how I think so the question is Is it like in in some mahabarate read like oh the sisters you always should listen your sisters like older You know brothers, I feel no it's wireless my free will I I want to laugh I don't want to be measured like in my expressions. So The more you are in surrender to the truth To the to the answer guru you go then with the impulse of the truth Not with the noise of the ego Which means you have to train yourself To ask always is this action this urge to action. Is it? Rising from the truth or is it coming from that loud noise of the ego? That is your sadhana your practice if you undertake that practice As often as possible because you have this major Kundalini disturbance. It's not a small thing So you can't mess around lifelong, you know, it will put you in your place each time so If you start to take up that sadhana Gradually what happens is that you start to tune into yourself to the guru to the to the Atman and the right man the soul within and as you tune into that You also tune into the soul of the other because it's the same thing So those barriers between you and the other they dissolve and if It is somebody who is essentially not Supportive of your system, they will just disappear They won't be around you. Thank you No, but that first you have to do the practice God is not around until you do the practice you forgot that part right the second part is nice But the first part is the challenge the other thing is If you start to look at everybody in the world as yours Then why is your sister different from her? Of course, I understand a woman-male relationship is one thing and sister brother But you can also have a hundred other sisters. No, but what is what what is so different does she have some special? I don't know it's from my early childhood. I felt like authority of her mother says something. That's okay I can listen I can do but when she says it's she's strong like She might say anything but tomorrow she might also say something to you if you're lucky Then she might say something as powerful My point is that you are looking at her as your sister and your the blood connection and this and that why? Why in any case you don't owe anything to your sister? Spiritually seen the only thing you owe to anyone is to your parents to ensure that they are physically taken care of not even their emotional Needs because there's no end to the emotional needs of parents, but that they have comfortable physical care that is very crucial and do your your Care to the children your parents and to your children not to your siblings So if you if you don't want to deal with her first you have to deal with Your master within because otherwise she's going to be around to keep on torturing you You can't get rid of her just because you make a decision doesn't work that way Where is the bending? Where is the surrender? You know what I mean That's the point that's the key you won't be left in peace not just by your sister, but by anything in life Until that ego starts to bend down or rather you start to bend and stop listening to the ego and go with the truth This idea of being powerful, you know That you get every once in a while You know what I mean if you don't move in the direction of surrender that That movement of the Shakti will become more and more challenging You don't have any time to lose It's not like maybe her or how they they don't have that thing so that they can take that time But not you how old are you? Yes, I mean You're not a baby anymore. So No, you know what I mean Even if you decide you don't want to deal with your sister she'll turn up again Until you bend to the truth Do you know the difference between the truth impulse and the ego? noise I can say I'm successful to see that Yeah, I know so then You don't go with the truth always, right? some, you know some What is English this word called like in it? like I'm like a dog in Russia all the time was caged in his life and now he's just freedom He just wants you know to get a little bit loose. Why were you caged? What do you mean? How are you differently caged from her or her or him or I can't stand this when somebody is just with other people Just trying to get from their support against you. I I can't stand this but you're a 31 year old What is this big thing about your sister? It's not now it was from but now it's time to let it go. No, it's a past story, right? Yes, yes, what do you want to hold on to it and put pampers on it and comb its hair and And feed it food every day just leave it it's past tense Either you psychologize your whole life and keep on looking at all the things that went wrong or You spiritualize your life, and then it's just this moment that counts Augustinas yes, it's your name Nars Augustina. Yeah So either you can go back and look into the past and my mother did this and my sister did that and this one Every single person sitting in this room will have that many traumas as you Everyone will have because it is always relative to a person's situation. There was Bengali girl She had a huge trauma and she just couldn't get over it and the trauma was that her mother When she used to make breakfast is to give the older sister the bigger egg It's a true story and she's gone through her whole life traumatized You know, I'm not I'm not comparing your trauma to that but I'm saying It's relative, you know, some people will have a trauma because they they lost their arm or leg And the same kilos of trauma the other one will have because they got the smaller egg It's real trauma. She was going through so Either you leave that just leave it behind From this moment on nothing to discuss or think about the sister sister is sister. Okay all good Who are you is the question? So I'm not responsible like harmically something responsible for your no, no, that's good. Thank you. Thank you. I Just want to express myself without Measure like oh am I looking good in front of the people of the judging me? I don't want this I just want to be free now be free then right now. Okay, just be free Because anyways, whatever you say somebody or the other is going to think you're strange That is how life is So then I Don't actually very much care about what others says, but that one person I don't know how but that one person It's over now. No, we already decided Whenever that that discussion comes keep quiet no talk. Yes. Yes. How are you? Oh, you're fine. Oh really nice Can I get you something to eat to drink? No. Okay silence. No talk Why do you need to discuss anything with her? It's about inheritance. Oh, you're getting more than me. How sad That's it. There's nothing to talk about further than that with someone who causes you distress like that. There's no discussion No discussion. No talk How do you feel? How do I feel you did this to me when we were three years old? So now I do this. It's all nonsense Life is very short if you're going to focus on the traumas of 20 years back and try to continuously try to To clear it up. You you won't be able to live this moment Then in 20 years you'll go back to clear this moment because you would be traumatized because you were not living in this moment It's just waste of time. Yeah, I understand fully understand. Yes Fully gather the strength Don't be afraid Don't get into discussions with people who hurt you. It doesn't make any sense But don't be rude. Don't be nasty silence. No opening the mouth Head down in surrender to the truth and silence unless the truth tells you to say something which it won't do Pull together the strength to do that But that the truth within me told me that I should say the truth of her how I feel I don't think your truth within you speaks to you. This is your ego The truth doesn't speak. It's an impulse. It doesn't have any need for you to speak to anybody because it doesn't have any needs It is a cosmic impulse. It's not a a voice of need. Oh My truth told me my soul told me to go to the Bahamas. No, it doesn't tell you to do things It's a it's a cosmic impulse. It's binary in nature. It's only yes or no Positive or negative and once you start feeling it like a small baby. You start acting from it except because you're socialized You don't do things like P on the floor or something, you know So it's not a voice telling you Augustinas now tell her how you feel How what does one achieve by talking like that? I didn't say I don't want to talk to you again Whatever you said, what is the truth how you feel? Okay, and now do you feel different after telling actually feel little release Little come back to build up again This is not the way to deal with that situation because she will feel hurt if you tell her that because she doesn't understand You you might express anything to the other but that doesn't mean that they understand what you're saying They don't understand most of the time Even if you talk to even if you ask someone to you buy an apple. He doesn't understand what you're saying Even if you speak the same language, it's a very difficult thing for two human beings to communicate with each other So what's the point of telling her you have hurt me and I didn't feel this and you traumatized me and You think she's gonna like that. I think the answer is no I just need apology simple What you need is inconsequential to anybody in this world to anyone in this room what you need nobody cares and Definitely not your sister. So how do you? Assume that you have the right to get an apology from her and how do you assume to get it in the first place? First we would like to talk. We are not enemies Some of some of time we are very close to each other. You talk or you don't talk if you talk That's what will happen. If you don't talk, there'll be peace. I'm not saying not to talk at all How are you? Oh, the weather is very nice today. Hmm. It's very sunny. Isn't it like people and villages? Have you noticed how they talk to each other? They don't go into deep emotional discussions They they meet each other and say hmm. Sun is very hot today You can see it in every village in the world every village They only talk like that whether it's Tamil Nadu or it's in Pondicherry Or it's in Switzerland or it's in America. It's in Australia in the village. It's First they talk about the weather Then they talk about their cars. Ah, nice. What is this something you that if it's women They talk about maybe the the the fruits that they just collected from a secret place Which the other ones don't know wild things or mushrooms They collected or something and then they talk about the weather obviously which is amazing thing to talk about because we all depend on that Talk about the weather with her Tell her a makeup is very nice and Keep it at that. There's nothing more to discuss. You want an apology from somebody. Why? Why should she give you an apology? Tell me because reason There is if I feel within myself If I get the polish I might just hug her is everything, but that's you. It's fine But it's you she doesn't want that she doesn't want that The world doesn't want what you want It's the other way around. Yeah, no, it's better to be centered to be quiet to talk about the weather to talk about how beautiful she looks and The moment she starts telling you something about yourself head down Move in with the truth. That's it This is how one has to live in this life with everyone that's What deep talks do you want to have with your sister? It's ridiculous One shouldn't have deep talks with anybody actually One should have deep communion with the soul and then all the talks become sweetness Just about the weather and about you see the beauty in the other one then You see the sweetness in the other and then the whole talk goes to that Yes, you can have deep philosophical discussions with somebody who is attuned with you You are attached to her How can you be attached to her and no self doesn't work Some part of me was always like keeping her as a mother, you know, like she was a little older than me I loved her all the time even now but If you don't do it life makes you do it You have to make that decision not to get into those discussions with her But to respect her for who she is and her beauty and her and her that there's a soul in there like there is within you If you can't see that then it's your fault not hers You have to change Why why do you want her to change? She has to apologize to me, but why? Why then we can speak again, but she doesn't want to apologize to you then we don't speak exactly what i'm telling you It's fine with me. It's fine when you don't speak then she'll start speaking right You're attached to this idea of how she should be. She's not like that She is not like that period Don't be attached to how people have to be with you. You'll be attached to the source be in that state I'm not here to to present you psychological possibilities of therapy with her That's not what happens in a place like this. This is an individual thing you and the soul You and the source the more you bend the more she will change Or she will move out of your situation Yeah One thing I just finished quickly. Okay. Take your time. There is if someone wants to interrupt this Discourse then you have to put your hand up and ask to take another one and otherwise We will be discovering all the facets of augustina's system. Sorry, i'm torturing your distribution You have the right to speak. It's an open satsang. You can ask anything you want So please feel free feel free since you want freedom. Here it is now feel free and speak I felt when I started spiritual process There are some rules I have to follow like I felt within myself I don't feel good when I talk about behind other people's backs She's doing that and this commenting commenting. It's it's like a disease, but I love her. It's it's Well, why don't you love her? What is the difference finally between your sister and any of the beautiful women sitting here as sisters? Even if not other things it should better be that but okay karmic. I don't know. Maybe some karmic thing Who knows everything is a karmic thing? Everyone is connected to each other karmically on this planet everyone I would like to hug everybody. It's no problem. You don't have to hug somebody to feel connected. That's kumbaya If you want to feel deep connection with the other you don't have to hug them for that Because that is only a connection on a material physical level and in fact it sometimes negates the other levels of connection that there can be I understand that you're a hagi type, but still Kundalini disturbance after that I don't know much hagi Why you know why because technically the kundalini Shakti is trying to teach you something And what it's trying to teach you is that when too much of hagi hagi stuff goes on The energies get equalized between two people and when those energies get equalized the one who's building up tapas Shakti Loses it to the other person who has not built it up. That is all right in a Egalitarian, I mean if you're in France then that would be okay because it's egalité and fraternité and liberté and all that But it is not the way necessarily to be in a spiritual Community because finally that equalizing goes on and then some people They take up a lot of tapas and others don't do anything And this equalizing is not good for the one who hasn't done anything because they receive energy, but they're unable to hold it So hugging is not a bad thing, but it's all right if you don't hug all the time everyone and And I'm sorry. I'm not that like physically. I'm hugging within my heart. It's oh now it's changed to the heart No, I'm not lying. I'm Agustin as I have to tell you something When I say this then you say yes, you're doing that already Then I say, oh, okay, then everything is fine. Then you come up with something else Then I say, ah, then you should do this. Then you say I'm doing that already But it's not like that Let me try to explain to you so you can maybe feel free of this strange connection with your sister Nobody in this world goes into a Communication with another or should go into a communication with another when it causes so much pain It is not okay to do that to yourself So sometimes it's painful to say no It needs discipline because everybody likes to gossip with people that they are familiar with And almost everybody has fights with their siblings. It's because of this reason If you're on the same spiritual path, you can discuss about your journey or about your experience As little as possible. It's always better. But that is different. She's not on the same path as you She doesn't even understand what you have in your body If you don't take the discipline not to speak to her Unnecessarily You will always be hurt by her And you'll be sitting here and crying after 10 years also Be a man stand up and say no enough is enough now That's what men are they can make strong decisions I did it Two months ago There you go once more you're saying I did it but you haven't done it Because you're here sitting and and crying about it. I'm not saying you shouldn't cry. That's not what I mean But you are crying about it So you haven't done it Now you can do it It's a strong internal Tough decision to make I will not engage in Any conversations that go beyond the weather her makeup If she has children how lovely they are What she cooked for breakfast or what her husband cooked for if she's a tough sort Normally, it's the men who do that nowadays fully fine. All good. All good. I like that. It's it's nice It's okay sharing But the point is that there's no talk about anything else But Are you ready to Just be tough My of course. Yes. I just needed your I felt that way I was not Courageous enough, you know, maybe maybe I blame myself a little bit for what I said like that Like people say we have to keep relations with your siblings. You must this is your karmic duty that nonsense What's deepened in within me and you just A spiritual seeker doesn't have to keep relations with anybody a spiritual seeker has a Duty towards the parents for their material comfort Because you can't satisfy parents emotional needs. It's not possible Their needs are always more than what you can do But their material comfort. Are they okay? Do they have enough? Do they have a proper roof? Are they comfortable? Do they have enough of whatever they need? That is a dharmic duty But not if the if there's a complaint you don't talk to me enough or you don't love me enough and I'll know It's good You don't owe that to anyone. You only are in surrender all the time and the truth will tell you what you have to do And what you have to undertake and to the siblings. No No It's the parents duty to take care of the siblings. They're not your children Your children. Yes very very strongly so Your partner. Yes Siblings often interfere With the partnership of their other sibling and they cause trouble between the partners Siblings unless they are very sensitive and very transformed keep them at a nice distance weather beauty makeup Cooking Which movie did you see and don't go into the details of the movie because you won't agree Got it. It's a it's a decision It's a a spiritual seeker has to take strong decisions Otherwise they're there wavering always between all kinds of things. No And you'll see it will be better in the long run for both of you Yes	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCJE2jWzRaY", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCJXltguGSVIZAcbIglaZ-mA	Breaking down Manny Machado's move to San Diego: Intentional Walk	Jack Curry discusses Manny Machado's reported deal with the Padres for 10 years, $300 million, and why the Yankees were smart to utilize their resources elsewhere. Subscribe for daily sports videos! YES' social media pages: YouTube: youtube.com/YESnetwork Facebook: facebook.com/YESnetwork Twitter: twitter.com/YESnetwork Instagram: instagram.com/YESnetwork	[ "mlb", "baseball", "new york yankees", "yankees", "video", "highlight", "reel", "viral", "injury", "fight", "brawl", "ejection", "swing", "mechanics", "delivery", "review", "home run", "grand slam", "walkoff", "derek jeter", "babe ruth", "mickey mantle", "gleyber torres", "miguel andujar", "aaron judge", "luis severino", "masahiro tanaka", "cc sabathia", "james paxton", "aroldis chapman", "dellin betances", "prospect", "aaron hicks", "interview", "all star game", "bryce harper", "manny machado", "spring training", "Florida" ]	2019-02-21T00:06:47	2024-02-07T17:09:39	90	pC19GyDlbNk	Welcome to Intentional Walk. I'm Jack Curry. I'm walking from third base to home today because the topic is Manny Machado, the new $300 million dollar man. He agrees to a 10-year deal with the San Diego Padres. It hasn't officially been announced yet, but reports are that it will be announced shortly. The beginning of the off-season, the belief was that Manny Machado's preference was to play for the Yankees. But the Yankees' preference was never to sign Machado. Yes, they did have a meeting with him. Yes, they did have dinner with him. But the Yankees had strong voices in their organization advocating against signing Machado. Listen, he's an elite player, 26 years old. His career is on a Hall of Fame trajectory. He would help any team instantly. But when the Yankees looked at the length and the amount that he would be seeking, and he got 10 years, $300 million dollars, it didn't fit in to what they're trying to do with their organization. We've seen what they have done in the middle infield and adding Tula Witzke and LaMeju. And then you look at third base where they value Miguel Andujar and they think he will improve dramatically on defense. And then you look at shortstop. They are going to get Didi Gregorius back at some point this season. And they would eventually like to sign him to an extension. So Manny Machado goes to the Padres. He does not go to the Yankees. Today's song of the day, we're going to go with Joe Jackson. I'm the man. Manny is the man in San Diego, not in New York.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC19GyDlbNk", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCkY5L8JYwx7BT0cOXYZX_dw	World Cup; Morocco's Performance Finals, Argetina VS France	Welcome To The Breakfast Monday Thomas, Sports Analyst, Joined Us To Discuss ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 #TheBreakfast	[ "News", "Politics", "Nigeria", "Africa", "Plus TV Africa", "Plus TV", "Plus", "Plus TV Nigeria", "Plus Television", "Plus TV News", "Top News", "news", "trending", "trending news", "today's news", "current news", "entertainment", "sports", "business" ]	2022-12-16T11:47:32	2024-02-05T06:25:09	648	PChXt8xlULo	Well we're back with the breakfast in plus TV Africa and Monday Thomas joins us this morning. We'll be looking at the World Cup. Monday it's good to have you join us complement of the season. But just before we get to you know the finals of the World Cup and we're looking at Argentina and France in that particular game. Let's quickly run through Morocco's performance. How would you rate that especially when it felt like it was you know Africa against the world? Fantastic performance. I mean no superlatives, no words can actually describe the feeling of every African of Morocco that certainly put Africa in the world map. They were heroes although then lost in the semi-finals against the defending champions. Of course it was going to be a difficult task but if you want me to rate their performance as more than excellent it is a world cup where Africa came to the party. It's not just about Morocco. I think every African nation was ready. Every African nation who featured at the World Cup was ready but you know the World Cup is a big stage and you get to play against very deep openings. And now with this performance there's certainly more to come from the African contingents for the next World Cup which is in four years time the 2026 World Cup. I'm hearing that there is a potential 11 slots for African nations. African nations because of what Morocco did at this adhesion. Crashing out in the semi-finals I know they don't want to play in the third place but in the third place it can make history as the first African nation to win a third place in the World Cup. It's certainly a cracking experience from the African point of view but there is one very unforgiving statement that was made by Sofya Bufal. He came out to say that the win was for Arab world and Morocco and as well as Muslims. The coach Waleed Rigra came out to say that hey you just have to forgive him maybe he's just uh over excited that certainly the win is for Africa. So some people might have taken so much of things because of what he said so I'm just here to say hey Morocco is Africa whether they are black or white. All right um for me I see Morocco is Africa they are also Arabs as well and nothing I don't have a problem but um you know it's both ways you know I mean they took part in Arab World Cup and Arab Cup rather FIFA organizes Algeria won the first one. They are an Arab country which is who are on the African continent um you know and though they have blacks but I I mean presidents I don't have a problem with it but but but why why is it that that um you know I mean you said Morocco played so well they played fantastic and we've seen a pattern amongst African countries you know Sylligal for instance when they played against the the first match of the of the World Cup they lost that game against I think Netherlands but they played well you know they played well so what is it about African countries that we we seem to play well but there's no end product because if I'm going by what you said and by the analysis out there by what I saw of the match Morocco played better than France so what's the problem with Africa you know Ghana the same thing too played so well couldn't go past the quarterfinals Sylligal played so well couldn't go past the quarterfinals Nigeria in France 98 and the US in 94 out of a very good team played so well couldn't go anywhere what's the problem with African football all right permit me to give a little bit for football let's just talk about life in general all right there are always two things involved right life or death in football there are two things involved position and penetration and sometimes the team cannot have both we saw Morocco in that game against the French side they had possession but the French were the ones with the pretty treasure Morocco were terminating while France were Morocco were dominating while France were terminating so in football more than two things can be true and because you play I almost tell people there's a difference between playing good football and playing the best football coffee the best football is getting the result good football is just for entertainment but I know there's some countries who play good football and also go ahead to play the best football shout out to Brazil but in this tournament they were not able to get the best football working for them so for Africa it's an eye opener for the next edition but just like you hinted that that's African split to all the Netherlands against Senegal Senegal were doing greatly but not greatly until the 90 minutes I'm pretty sure you saw what anyone mainly did in that game mixed calculations and two goals were scored in the space of four minutes and that's how Senegal lost they don't maintain concentration now this is what happened to Morocco they did excellently well if you take a look at this tournament that was the first time they conceded by an opposition team an opposition player and they conceded so early this is the pattern of Morocco and how they were playing this welcome they will keep you at bay up until the 30 minutes 30 minutes when they know that oh they've mastered your tactics but this is what happened to France France knew that if they get the first goal they're going to destabilize the tactics of the Moroccans they got the first goal as early as the fourth minutes now Morocco wanted to play they wanted to win they wanted to get an equalizer so that they can go back to their own negative kind of football of course it doesn't matter if the planning is football as long as they get the results doesn't matter to anybody so now France scored first and that was the end of Morocco Morocco came out to see how they can equalize and guess what Killian Bapé a player we'll call it Timan was flying the flanks I'll see if there is no tomorrow and then it was able to force a second go by Kodomwane scoring just 44 seconds Morocco were the only team that would have won this mission stop I beg your pardon this woke up from Africa but just that four minutes of playing against the defending champions you can just say that they did get the chance to read the tactics I mean it was very obvious any football analysts will know the Moroccans and how they are playing and how they can destabilize it just sort them the first goal and then you get the you get them started so but let's you know quickly get to the game we'll definitely have a thought please being played Croatia and of course Morocco we're playing thought please and of course getting to the finals Argentina and France what are your expectations but really we'll stay with France and Argentina and we see the composition mostly Messi is actually there you know for Argentina I've always been very sad as young child growing up Messi always helping Nigeria and making me feel sad every other time but of course he's right there fantastic player you also have Bapé Dembele amongst others what exactly should we expect and what do you think would turn out Messi expect fireworks they expect a cracker it's going to be a game that will put us on the edge of our seats for 90 minutes they say it's the king versus the heir I mean Kilian Bapé versus Lionel Messi but at the end of the day I think one is just going to prevail over the other and that's how cruel football can be I mean it's not that we cannot have two winners in football and this is very always very heartbreaking when we can't have two winners because there's two players they are great actors when it comes to football but I think it's a game where Argentina can win but it's not going to be very easy you're playing against France the world champions and they'll be looking to defend it being the first country to win it back to back in 60 years so they have this motivation to break his to make history and also break the genes in 60 years so Argentina is going to take them a flash of brilliance for Messi if they can get through but when he comes to the front side they have the likes of Usman Dembele the goal Kilian Bapé they've got a very underrated striker but he's very potent I'm talking about all in the jury I'm also hearing like Kilian that Karim Benzema could come in for that particular game so it's going to be a difficult game for Argentina but I'm tipping them to win because I'm a Messi fan but I've got to face reality that all the paper France are a better team all right all right maybe the the idea the thought that Messi could end his walk-up career on a high with winning this walk-up could inspire the hearts and spirits of Argentines to kill themselves on the field at the end of the day for the banter Cristiano Ronaldo Messi Messi is still the best player for me I mean I'm up to say you have to go there you have to go there and make some people angry this morning because Cristiano Ronaldo is not leading any World Cup finals I mean Messi is leading two World Cup finals so let's just see what happens but Cristiano Ronaldo without a doubt one of the greatest thank you very much thank you I mean I'm looking out for Antoine Griezmann because I feel Griezmann has been the key and the best player for France in this World Cup and some people don't agree with that but I'm looking for his his play also looking for the other guy the guy in Argentina who plays for Lettico Madrid the one who is always you know hacking people down so he protects Messi we have to go now looking for out for the ball and gentlemen we have to go a plane in in the midfield but thank you very much for your time Monday Thomas then look for having you after the World Cup a severe prediction will come for him it's obviously a messy fan I don't have this mercy here no that's the size of it we need to go now and our fingers crossed for you know inching closer the 2023 of course we're anticipating the end of the World Cup let's see how all of that pans out follow us on Facebook Twitter and Instagram and do subscribe to our YouTube channel we are plus TV Africa and plus TV Africa lifestyle my name is messy book which on the newsroom at nine o'clock for the news brief have a fantastic morning my name is Kofi Bartel also see you next week have a nice weekend	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PChXt8xlULo", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCtqzN78IJnYSP8fppbBv-CQ	Maharishikaa \| The Aghori and the Practice of Aghora Sadhanaa	Maharishikaa answers Lino on the practices of the Aghori, transporting us into the secret, unknown and often misunderstood world of the Aghora Sadhanaa. She evokes the atmosphere of the cremation grounds and the reality of death that confronts the Aghoris in every moment, bringing them closer to Self Realisation. The parallelism of Life and death is uncovered. #Maharishikaa #AghoriSaadhanaa #Tantra There are various opportunities upcoming to be in the PRESENCE of Maharishikaa. 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Please support this noble cause by donating generously. Click the link in the description box below. Namaskar. In the last days I was really fascinated by the aguris. So on the one side they somehow break the disgust by eating feces and doing all the stuff with their skulls and with their bodies. And on the other side they are somehow the bridge between the material and the spiritual. Spiritually seeing what purpose do they serve by doing their sadhana. The agori sadhana is a very ancient system, agora, of understanding the meaning of life by training to get rid of a lot of the values and systems that society has imposed. So agoras generally have a very long training period and their training takes place at the cremation and burial grounds. They are taught not to fear death. They are put through experiences that show them the ephemeral nature of life itself. They are taught to break any sort of constructs that society may have taught them. So what they do as part of their training, they live in the cremation grounds. They smear their bodies with the ash of burnt bodies, dead bodies. They eat the flesh of dead bodies. Their cup is a skull. They use bones for many of their rituals and also animals. They tread the fine line between life and death all the time. They explore life through death. That is what they do. And it is a very challenging and very hard and very harsh sadhana because living in a cremation ground means you're continuously faced with the fact of your own death. And in the light of that, in the face of your own death, life just takes on a different meaning. If in this very moment, as you sit here, you were aware entirely that you could die any moment. And then in the next moment, again, you're aware of it and you're just aware of it all the time because you're confronted with that death every moment. Your entire approach and attitude to life, society, money, sex, interpersonal relationships, power, everything changes. It's a tough and challenging sadhana. In fact, the aghoris are even known as part of their ritual training to even have sexual relations with a dead body. So it is going into an aspect of existence in an extreme way confronting yourself with death all the time. It also takes the form of a training in getting rid of attachment to any aesthetics. Aghori babas can just go on the road and eat a piece of dog poop. They can just do that for them. It is the same as eating a piece of vegetable or something. They've trained themselves to cut out any sort of sensual aesthetics. And why is this sadhana in practice? It is considered to be the fast course to self-realization, in some cases to enlightenment. It's meant for the very, very tough. One of the toughest sadhanas, one of the toughest spiritual practices on the planet. And I can tell you that another very tough spiritual practice is what is taught here. It is equivalent on one level to that practice because you are required in every single moment to be present here and now, here and now, here and now, here and now. And so that being present here and now is very similar to being confronted with death because you have nothing more than this moment. And in this moment, you are able to live in the truth, just like when you're confronted with death, you have only this moment. And that is what pushes you to living in the truth. So the agori sadhana is a sadhana that takes the seeker away from the ego impositions of society to the realization of self through methods and means that are not at all acceptable by society. It's a continuous walking of a tight rope between life and death and being continuously confronted in each moment, each moment, in each moment. This moment, this moment, this moment, this moment, this moment, this moment, and they see death and you see life. It's about being in this moment. An agori who does not stay in this moment during the sadhana can be gripped by such a fear that they can just die from a heart attack or from a stroke or something. Because that sadhana is so tough, imagine being in a crematorium or in a burial ground in the middle of the night with dogs howling around and strange people and fires burning and this feeling of ghosts all around and having to hold tough and strong in that space. If you lose this moment, you fall into fear and you fall into fear, then you get gripped so badly because look at the place you're in. So it's a tough sadhana, but it's a sadhana that brings you to this moment and keeps you in this moment and makes you aware of what ego is. I thought it was more about undergoing all this training in order to serve the dead people by burning them in the correct way or something like that. Agori sadhana is a spiritual practice. It goes against the norms of society, of religion, of culture, of history. It even goes against most spiritual traditions. They are the wild ones, the wild ones. We have announced the winter schedule for presence with Maharishika on our website. Please visit maharishika.org slash winter schedule 2022.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcrWWFyt9JM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCwlZZGmE1e_6PI2e-HOPOQw	Abolitionist Human Rights (fifth annual Kay Everett Memorial Lecture)	Delivered by Karen Engle, The University of Texas at Austin Karen Engle is Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies and of Women's and Gender Studies. She teaches courses and specialized seminars in public international law, international human rights law, and legal theory. Professor Engle writes on the interaction between social movements and law, particularly in the fields of international human rights law, international criminal law, and Latin American law. She is author of numerous scholarly articles and of The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law (Stanford University Press, 2020) as well as The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (Duke University Press, 2010), which received the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Human Rights. She is co-editor of Power, Participation and Private Regulatory Initiatives: Human Rights under Supply Chain Capitalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture (Routledge, 1995). Professor Engle received a Bellagio Residency Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 2009 and an assignment as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Bogotá in 2010. In 2016-17, she was the Deborah Lunder and Alan Ezekowitz Founders’ Circle Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has taught at a number of universities around the world and, most recently, was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in 2018. Professor Engle received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a B.A. with honors from Baylor University. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Jerre S. Williams on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and then served as a post-doctoral Ford Fellow in Public International Law at Harvard Law School. She was Professor of Law at the University of Utah prior to joining the University of Texas in 2002.	[ "SOAS University of London" ]	2022-07-15T15:48:52	2024-02-05T06:13:13	2,435	pC-3krhJ78I	Well, I'm not going to be able to live up to that. But I very much appreciate the introduction, Scott. And who would have known all those years ago in those huge classrooms like this that we would cross paths only a few years later in this way? So I began by saying good afternoon. And it's a real privilege to be here with you today. I always enjoy speaking at SOAS. And I'm very much grateful to Scott for this particular invitation, and as well as many others that he has sent along the way. And thanks so much to Wilson Solicitors for your part in it as well. To Dr. Samia Bono, who I understand is responsible for publicizing the event and getting you all here and who I look forward to being in conversation with. And also, I just want to thank Dr. Vanya Homsich for the hospitality and camaraderie and welcoming me here. And there are many others, so it's really great to see old friends here and look forward to meeting new ones. I am especially honored to be here tonight to speak in memory of Kay Everett, someone I really wish I'd had the opportunity to know. The collaboration that makes possible this lecture and the student prize and congratulations is a really beautiful way to keep her memory and commitment to social justice alive. And I'm proud to be a part of it. The title of my talk this evening is Abolitionist Human Rights. And it's a topic that I wish I could have engaged Kay Everett on. As you know, we've already heard a bit about her. But also, she was an important critic of immigration detention in the UK. So I did a little bit of research and saw her testimony about it to parliament. She co-convened the Detention Committee of the Immigration Law Practitioners Association. She addressed the European Law Academy Conference in Strasbourg, although I can't find that, but I would love to, on human rights in the detention of asylum seekers. I don't know whether she might have considered herself an abolitionist or might today. But at least in the United States, many of those who oppose immigration detention have begun to work with prison and police abolitionists, seeing the similarities in their causes and in the structures they're fighting, including those that criminalize and racialize the immigrants on whose behalf Kay advocated. So although I'll not speak explicitly about immigration detention tonight, I hope we'll all keep it in the back of our minds and I welcome your thoughts on it. So the broad question I'd like to pose for you this afternoon is about the commensurability of movements for prison and police abolition with human rights law movements and discourse. And it starts with a paradox. While some of the most vocal abolitionists have long considered human rights to be central to their aims, most human rights advocates have not prioritized or even supported prisoner police abolition. The two groups, of course, agree on many matters. They all oppose the death penalty, mass incarceration, and police abuse. Yet they view the causes and responses to these issues quite differently. While abolitionists refuse the ideologies and practices of the carceral state, human rights advocates often depend upon them to back up their anti-impunity rallying cry. Indeed, human rights advocates have had tremendous success in defining anti-impunity in criminal punishment terms. Not only by helping to establish new international criminal institutions, but by embedding a carceral response to human rights violations in human rights institutions, international, and regional. I really appreciate the opportunity to get your feedback today. And I'm looking forward to the Q&A. As I'm at the beginning of a new book project that will consider the significant chasm between abolition on one hand and human rights law and practice on the other. I'm starting with the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, or the ECTHR, in part because many countries in Europe and the Council of Europe as a whole, and you can help me decide whether the UK falls into that, or in what ways, have achieved penal reforms that would be inconceivable in my own country, which has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The ECTHR has played a role in and even instigated some of these reforms. At the same time, the Court itself has been swept up in the carceral wave of human rights, which I date to the 1990s, and it's done so often following the recommendations of UN bodies. Even as the Court insists both that it has a limited mandate and that it's not a criminal court, it consistently finds that states have a positive obligation to respond criminally to human rights violations. These rulings in these rulings, which Judge Francois Tolkens calls the Court's deployment of human rights as a shield, as a sword, have increased over time and threatened to undo some of its own achievements regarding penal reform. At the same time, they often facilitate the Court's claims to address and take seriously certain human rights violations, thereby providing it with an alibi for not calling for structural change. Now, I'm exploring the case law and advocacy that both led to and has resulted from some of this case law through a lens that some of you in the room might share, which is prison and police abolition. I suspect that many of you are at least thinking about the latter and perhaps the backlash to it in relation to the new police crime sentencing and Courts Act in the UK. Now, I could spend time trying to convince you to be abolitionists, but that's actually much less my aim today than urging human rights advocates to acknowledge the ways in which human rights often impede abolition and getting abolitionists to recognize that human rights law and even movements and discourse might not be as liberatory as they imagine. So I'll make this intervention in the following way. First, I'll consider broadly the relationship between human rights and abolition movements and what I think might be some of the synergies and dissonances between them. I'll then turn to two areas where I think the ECTHR has been the most anti-abolitionist and yet the least critiqued and that is, in those cases involving gender, sexual and racial based violence and relatedly in those calling for active policing responses. Along the way, I'll present some abolitionist critiques by many of those whose interests the courts claims to protect. And although you know much more than I about the new UK policing law and debates about its compatibility with human rights, human rights law, domestic, regional and international, I hope you'll find the discussion relevant to those debates as well. So let me begin then with the first part, the relationship between human rights and abolitionist movements. As I mentioned at the start, abolitionists often stake their claims in or at least see themselves as aligned with human rights. Ironically, this is true even in the United States where human rights carry little legal weight. Angela Davis, for instance, has long framed abolition as a human rights issue, including by relying in her 2003 book, Our Prison's Obsolete on Human Rights Watch Reports from the 1990s on prison conditions in the US. The more recent movement for black lives has in many ways followed in those footsteps, including by bringing complaints to the UN about racist police violence as one means of supporting their calls for police abolition. Now, the reasons for some of this reliance on human rights in the US is I think specifically related to the fact that abolition is a part of the black radical tradition in the US that has long turned to human rights, even or especially over civil rights, to bring the world's attention to deep structural legacies of slavery. Thus, it's not surprising that historian Ben Weber has recently called for a new human rights paradigm to support his call for prison abolition, one grounded in quote, the anti-carceral internationalism of the imprisoned black radical tradition. He does not, however, note that the other human rights paradigms are not only not abolitionist, but arguably undermine it. Others have picked up on the call each for slightly different reasons. So Jonathan Simon in the US, for Jonathan Simon in the US, abolition will be more likely to succeed if grounded in human dignity than if it's based in economic efficiency. For David Scott here in the UK, abolitionists should quote, promote human rights as part of their counter-hegemonic strategy. Again, neither thinker sees the real impediments to abolition that I contend are posed by human rights institutions. But let's think about the synergies. Why might abolitionism, why might abolitionists find human rights to be of assistance in their aims? Well, for several decades, human rights law and movements focus largely on due process rights of the accused, prison conditions, and even on getting people out of prison. So as early as 1968, for instance, Amnesty International, which had begun in 1961 to write for letter-writing campaigns to free political prisoners, Amnesty officially expanded in 1968 its mandate to cover the treatment of all prisoners, political, and what it called ordinary. In doing so, it used the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as prohibition on torture, cruel and inhumane punishment, and arbitrary arrest and detention. And while Amnesty might have found the criminal punishment systems of some states more suspect than others, it actually saw all countries as capable of abusing their penal power. At a doctrinal level, abolitionists and council of Europe countries might also see human rights law as aligned with their aims. The European Convention on Human Rights enshrines the rights of the accused, particularly in Article III's prohibition on torture, Article V's right to liberty and security, Article VI's right to a fair trial, and Article VII's prescription of punishment without law. Indeed, many scholars and practitioners have referenced these provisions and the court's jurisprudence interpreting them as evidencing the shield as opposed to the sword function of human rights. More than that, especially when compared to the United States, the Council of Europe and the ECTHR have engaged in or precipitated a number of penal reforms. So the Council of Europe considers itself to have been a pioneer for the abolition of capital punishment, and the ECTHR has abolished de jure, irreducible life sentences, though not life sentences in general, and relatedly has emphasized that everyone is entitled to the opportunity for rehabilitation or the right to hope. In addition, the court has protected a broad range of civil, political, and even economic and social protections of prisoners during confinement. One might even argue that certain of these reforms are what well-known U.S. abolitionist scholar and activist Ruth Wilson Gilmour calls non-reformist reforms. And by that, she means those reforms that rather than supporting the carceral state, aim to, as she puts it, quote, at the end of the day unravel rather than widen the net of social control through criminalization. Indeed, and one of the only pieces to address had on the question whether abolition and human rights are compatible, Isabel Renzuli finds some glimpse of abolitionism in ECTHR rulings on prison overcrowding. Specifically, she gives the example of judgments that require a decrease in reliance on the prison system, she says, through the adoption of, quote, alternative measures to incarceration and reducing the use of pretrial detention. And additionally, while a far cry from promoting police abolition, the court has attempted to curtail police brutality through cases that proliferate the case law. It's found many states responsible for excessive use of force by police in violation of articles two and three. It has also found violations of articles fives prohibition on arbitrary deprivation of liberty when police have unlawfully detained or arrested individuals, subjected detainees to unwarranted or disproportional levels of compulsion and duress, and failed to properly inform detainees of the reason for their detention. The court has found some of these actions to violate article 14's prohibition on discrimination as well, given the enormous amount of policing that affects the rights of racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities. Through these cases, the court implicitly, at least, suggests a variety of reforms that need to be taken by police, which the Council of Europe has detailed now in a handbook for police officers and other law enforcement officials. But what about the dissonances? In promoting the use of human rights or applauding these reforms, many abolitionists have missed that the very same court they lawed also calls for increased prosecution, sentences, and policing. As such, these reforms, as I've already suggested, seem to function as an alibi for an increasingly criminalized approach to human rights. Human rights advocates who have noted and generally critiqued what I've elsewhere called the turn to criminal law in human rights, or anti-impunity, have seen the tension between the shield functions and the sword function, found in these cases. Lawrence Laverson and Natasha Mavranakola refer to the deployment of this function as, quote, coercive human rights. In the relevant jurisprudence, the court has used some of the same provisions of the European Convention that support the rights of the suspected, accused, and convicted, as well as those that are used to hold states accountable if often criminally for police violence. They've done so to require states to enact or interpret criminal legislation to cover certain conduct, to find states accountable for not investigating, prosecuting, or punishing human rights violations, including by limiting, they've limited prosecutorial discretion in that way, and to find sentences to be too lenient, or, quote, manifestly disproportionate to the harm. Now, for the most part, the scholars who have usefully mapped the application of coercive human rights have not brought an explicit abolitionist lens to their work. And I hope to fill that lacuna with this project as well as to bring that abolitionist lens to two aspects of the jurisprudence of which they've been less critical. One is the ways that the groups seen as vulnerable or historically subordinated are often used to justify criminal sanctions. And relatedly, the court's calls for increased policing, especially for some of those same critiques. So I'll now go into more detail in each of these as I look at the anti-abolitionist jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights. And both of what I just mentioned end up being major assumptions that the court makes or drivers of the jurisprudence. So the first is that certain groups are especially deserving of or in need of criminal law. So part of the court's jurisdiction, in fact, or jurisprudence, in fact, that part which is often seen as its most progressive, suggests that those who are vulnerable or are part of historically subordinated groups are particularly deserving or in need of criminal law. Indeed, the court has made over 500 references to vulnerability in the merits of Article III cases alone to describe children, victims of sexual and domestic violence, and members of the LGBTQIA plus community. While acknowledging that being deemed vulnerable, quote, does not always prove to be empowering, Karina Harry, though a critic, of course, of human rights in general, ultimately supports the vulnerability designation because it quote acts as a magnifying glass, making ill treatment look bigger and enabling the court more easily to apply more or more stringent criminal law. And she supports that because of the gravity of the crime. And like the court and most who support the jurisprudence, Harry does not claim a retributive rationale here, but rather assumes a deterrence rationale. Who could oppose an approach that will protect victims? One area in which the court has used vulnerability to increase the positive obligations of states to investigate, prosecute, and punish is domestic violence. In OPAS versus Turkey in 2009, the court handed down its landmark case finding that domestic violence resulting in death constituted not only violations of Article II and III, but also of Article 14. In doing so, it applied and affirmed multiple regional and international findings and policies, including of the Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women or CEDA. The court considered that the victims were particularly vulnerable in that case, which was key to its finding that the state failed in protecting them, both at the policing and the charging stages. It also used the discourse of vulnerability to find the state accountable, notwithstanding that the victims had earlier dropped their complaints against the perpetrator. Later cases, consider the victims of domestic violence are per se vulnerable and requiring of state protection. Now, while in OPAS, the court considered that the law and the books have properly applied would have protected the victim. In other cases, the court has found the legal framework wanting. In a 2019 case against Russia, the court found the state liable for violations of Articles 3 and 14 pointing specifically to the Russian law's failure to include domestic violence as quote, either a separate offense or an aggravating element of other offenses. And as such, it definitely fell short of the state's positive obligation and then the court sort of summarizing a fair amount of case law to quote, establish and apply effectively a system punishing all forms of domestic violence. Now these cases have been lauded by many feminists and human rights advocates more broadly. As what many have labeled carceral feminism has taken hold, it has become nearly common sense, including in human rights, not only that violence against women should be addressed as a human rights issue, which is obviously a good thing, but that the harms should be attended to criminally and they just go hand in hand for many. And that position, I contend, is problematic for a variety of reasons, including that it neglects the thought and activism of many feminists around the world who have played important roles in abolition activism and scholarship often rooted in anti-racist and anti-colonial struggles. Those feminists have long confronted the need to create abolitionist responses to domestic violence as well as to rape and sexual violence. Noting the amnesia about anti-carceral feminism, which maybe is putting the label, setting the label and making the label in hindsight, French feminist Francoise Verge discusses debates among the women's liberation movement or the MLF in France in the 1970s about how to respond to violence against women. And she reminds us that nearly all refused the appeal to criminal law. They disagreed about a number of things, but they agreed that criminal law was not the right place to turn. In fact, they said doing so would, quote, admit the collective failure of the MLF as repressive laws only reinforced and upheld rape and violence. Relatedly, some feminists opposed a law against violence against women during the same period for pretending, for quote, pretending that respect for women will be measured in the number of years behind bars handed down in trials. Verge laments both the failure of an organized abolitionist feminist movement to emerge in France in those years and the move toward carceralism beginning in the 1980s. Yet abolitionist, anti-racist and anti-colonial feminists continue to make important arguments against incarceration as the answer to violence, including gender-based violence. With regard to domestic violence survivors, British writer and activist Lola Olufemi explains, quote, the most pressing issues for survivors is not that their abusers go to prison, but that there is a safety net for them to fall on, back on, that enables them to leave abusive situations. They need refuges, roots to economic stability and adequate welfare support, she says. And regarding perpetrators, she adds, quote, putting an offender in jail does nothing to reshape the logic of sexual and gendered violence, nor does it signal that the act itself was an injustice. Now this critique has actually began to gain some traction among a broader group of feminists in opposition to the Police Crime Sentencing and Courts Act and to the bill that preceded it. And so some of you might be aware of this, but in an open letter opposing the bill, because it would lead to more and longer incarceration of women, particularly immigrant women and women of color, a number of feminist organizations also signed an open letter criticizing the parts of the bill that increased punishment for violence against women. And it was pretty clear that that was put in there to try to gain support and it didn't work. So they called on the bill's authors to, quote, address the underlying causes of violence against women and girls, and specifically contended, quote, we urgently need a shift from the punitive approach championed by the bill towards restorative and transformative justice that will actually make women safer. In fact, abolitionists have long considered a variety of alternatives from addressing economic and political causes of violence to alternative mechanisms such as transformative justice. Now, largely at the behest of advocates, the ECTHR has also required increased criminalization or punishment for racially motivated violence. The landmark case here is Nachova versus Bulgaria from 2005, which required that Bulgarian law distinguish with regard to police violence cases of excessive use of force from those cases of racist killing. In a later 2014 case, Obdu versus Bulgaria, the court used recommendations of the committee on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination to find that states must make racially motivated violence a separate legal offense. So I'm building in some of the other institutions that have many of the same understandings. The court has followed the ICERD and the Civil and Political Covenant by requiring states to criminalize hate speech, nowwithstanding the convention's Article 10 on the right to freedom of expression. And it's done so in a series of decisions finding hate speech against the Roma or Muslims or both, all in Eastern or Central Europe to violate Article 8's right to private life or Article 9's right to religious freedom sometimes in conjunction with Article 14. And in addition, the court has required states to criminalize homophobic hate speech when it accompanies violence, ensuring that the violence not be treated, quote, on an equal footing with cases involving no such overtones, because otherwise the resultant indifference would, quote, be tantamount to official acquiescence to or connivance with hate crimes. Recently, in Sabola versus Croatia, the court found a sentence against the perpetrator of violence against a lesbian to be manifestly disproportionate to the crime because it hadn't considered a hate crime element as an aggravating factor for the offense. And demonstrating how much this view has become common sense within European and UN human rights law and advocacy, the court cited for support a number of other human rights bodies. Notably, a number of local, European, and international LGBTQ organizations intervened in the case, supporting, I mean, they ultimately prevailed in their interventions. In its submission, while Zagreb Pride pointed to the quote institutionalized and social violence against LGBT persons in Croatia, trying to bring the structural in, it merely assumed that harsher sentences would constitute that effective and effective response to that structural violence. In fact, LGBTQ plus advocacy organizations have broadly lauded this and related decisions. And in doing so, they've done it with little regard for much of the work of abolitionists, especially queer abolitionists who have for years specifically opposed using hate crimes to expand punishment. As UK queer abolitionist scholar and activist Lambeau recently put it, quote, the problem with hate crime legislation is that it offers a false promise. It takes the symbolic aspect of recognizing harm and channels it into a punitive response, tougher sentencing, that does little to stop violence and instead shores up the powers of the carceral state. In fact, Lambeau calls attention to the many LGBT organizations, and she says specifically in the US, Canada, and Britain. Particularly, she says white dominated and class-privileged ones, who she says, quote, are increasingly complicit in the forces of prison expansion, not only because they call for increased penalties under hate crimes law, but she gives a variety of other ways in which they're complicit, including, quote, contributing to gentrification of poor working class and immigrant neighborhoods and supporting quality of life ordinances that drive queer and trans youth from public spaces. If many anti-discrimination advocates have fought hard to make the state accountable for so-called private acts of violence, which is what makes much of the court's jurisprudence path-breaking, those who fight anti-black racism, homophobia and transphobia often remind us that the state is part of the problem. So the next assumption and really move of the court is to say that many of these same groups deserve more active policing. So many of the court's decisions, including a number I've already discussed, fought the police for inaction or insufficient action, especially in the cases of groups that the court sees as marginal or vulnerable. This lack of police action sits, of course, in tension with the many cases the court hears in which the police have overreacted or overacted, including against many of those same groups. It should raise the question whether, especially given all that we know about police abuse nearly everywhere in the world, the court should be calling for more policing. A police abolitionist perspective, of course, would aim its sight on defunding the police with the goal of redistributing resources and abolishing policing as we know it. Now, at a general level, one could argue that human rights penalty necessarily calls for more policing. Indeed, I've argued in the context of the inter-American court's anti-impunity jurisprudence that arrest and detention of alleged perpetrators, even when wrongfully done, can provide an expedient way for some states to indicate that they're responding to criticisms of their perpetuation of impunity. And my Tia Pinto, who is here, and Laura Lazarus both offer examples of how the ECTHR's jurisprudence has played out in practice under the UK's Modern Slavery Act. As Lazarus explains, quote, the case law puts considerable pressure on law enforcement agencies to act preemptively in order to avoid being held liable, which feeds into a risk averse operational culture within policing. Now, other cases call more specifically for increased or more active police presence, faulting police for inaction. And again, the court's most likely to condemn what it often refers to as the passivity of the police in cases of groups it considers vulnerable or marginalized, and again, often from the very groups most likely to be targeted by police. In nearly all of the domestic violence cases that I've discussed, the court has condemned what it references as the passivity of the police, which generally means the failure of the police to arrest or even criminally investigate claims of domestic violence. Sometimes that lack of action has occurred at the request of victims. In an illustrative case against Georgia, the court, again, suggesting deterrence, found that such passivity, quote, created a climate conducive to a further proliferation of violence committed against women. Even while recognizing in some cases how ill-equipped and improperly trained the police are to deal with domestic violence, the court has paid little attention to alternative actual or potential state responses. So as I've already talked about a bit, an increasing number of feminists, especially but not only abolitionists, have begun to question the dominant response to domestic violence of increased criminalization, but they've also focused on policing. So recognizing the many ways that it's failed to achieve desired results, they call for rethinking and attending to the structures that drive domestic violence. Many also note that victims or survivors of domestic violence have ended up being incarcerated as a result of increased police response, particularly when mandatory arrest laws are in place, and that's more likely to happen to survivors from historically oppressed groups. US black abolitionist Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Miners, Beth Richie and Nina Evans have a new book entitled Abolition Feminism Now, and there they questioned the wisdom of calling upon police to respond to sexual violence more broadly, given that it's the second most commonly reported police misconduct in the US, and then they add with regard to domestic violence that police households are quote more likely to experience domestic violence than the general population. Suddenly they say our simple stories fall apart. The solution's become less clear. Who do you call when the police officer is the rapist? What do you do when calling the cops on your abuser brings violence, not relief to your door? These and similar concerns have led a number of feminist abolitionists of color to call for anti-police brutality organizers to quote be concerned with and invested in developing responses to violence that are not law enforcement based. So they're basically calling on abolitionists to say like, well, not just abolitionists but anti-police brutality advocates to say we need to realize that, again, trying criminally police is not the answer. And what might appear to be case law protecting protesters, something the UK might need right now, the court has condemned police in action and failing to protect them, yet in failing to protect the protesters, yet it's done so in a way that increases police power. So in a case against Georgia, for instance, 2000 police officers had been deployed to protect participants in an LGBT public rally. Counter protesters committed acts of violence against those in the rally which the court attributed to the officer's passivity. Specifically, the court faulted the government for deploying quote unarmed and unprotected police patrol officers instead of quote equipping them with appropriate riot gear and in order to be able to discharge their police functions. Now it's striking that the court reaches this conclusion because if you read the case, there's also a finding that at least some of the police were complicit in the violence by aiding the counter protesters. So armed and riot gear, arms and riot gear in those circumstances would likely make the situation worse and one can imagine the state then using the case actually to call for greater funding for police a definite anti-abolitionist move. So I'll conclude now by coming back to where I began. Whether you're a human rights advocate and abolitionist, both, maybe neither. I hope that I've at least convinced you that to take seriously the racialized and gendered inequalities that over criminalization produces and reproduces means that criminal law should not be the principal enforcer of human rights. I also hope that I've made you wary of the potential of the current state of human rights to pursue or even simply just not to impede abolitionist aims. Importantly, some of the same abolitionists who call for basing abolition in human rights also make clear that individual litigation is not the way to achieve abolition. That might mean that abolitionists should simply not engage with the court. But my call is broader here, which is that at a minimum, anti-racist, feminist and queer advocates should not use the court to call upon policing and carceralism to respond to the issues they address. To the extent that we might imagine the ECTHR as an abolitionist or at least not as an anti-abolitionist force, it would need to do more than merely fortify the traditional shield of human rights. It would need to promote non-reformist reforms that point toward abolition rather than those that function as an alibi for human rights penalty or coercive overreach or otherwise support the very structures that need to be dismantled. More specifically, it would need to respond to violence, including gender and race-based violence, public and private, in ways that do not rely upon increased police action or criminal sanction. The ECTHR is far from among human rights institutions in its turn to criminal law. As the used commune of human rights has developed, the court has borrowed, as I've demonstrated along the way, from other institutional bodies that made the turn arguably more consciously. Those bodies are responding to the language and tactics of human rights advocates who often see ending a culture of impunity through increased investigation, prosecution and punishment as central to their mission. Perhaps the European court could break away from these other bodies and much of the human rights come in since today. But in order to do so, it would need to rid itself of certain assumptions and refrain from a number of rhetorical and doctrinal moves that it currently deploys. The court might even embrace its status as a human rights court, not a criminal court, as its status, the status it often insists on. Unlike other regional human rights systems, the European court asserts that it cannot demand structural changes, and so that's one of the ways in which it often limits its remedies. But my argument is that that claim belies the radical ways in which it is called upon the state to do just that, demand structural change through coercive human rights. So what if the court were to assert the obligation of states to provide reparative rather than carceral remedies for political, economic and social inequality? Such remedies might still rely on states, but they seem to be a good place to begin the everyday work of abolition. So thank you very much.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC-3krhJ78I", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCO9Q5_D6tItyoilmDogexng	Southwest Xeriscapes - Texas - Margaret Walker	Southwest Xeriscapes - Texas - Margaret Walker - New Mexico State University - - Video furnished by Media Productions, New Mexico State University. Noncommercial use only. Southwest Yard and Garden proudly presents Xeriscapes of the Southwest, showcasing appropriate gardening techniques in the challenging environment of the American Southwest. Join host Curtis Smith as he discusses the Seven Principles of Xeriscape while he tours exemplary gardens of the region. Tour a "wind-tolerant" garden just outside of Amarillo.	[ "nmsu.edu", "public.resource.org" ]	2010-09-26T06:17:34	2024-02-05T06:36:51	197	PcYfGpyG7J0	The following is a production of New Mexico State University. Margaret Walker's zero-escape is successful in spite of the Texas Panhandle winds. Hi Margaret, I understand you can't grow a garden in the middle of the Panhandle where the wind's just always blowing. Hi, well actually you can. And if you would like to come along I'll show you how. Let's take a look at it. Okay. Margaret, this is a beautiful garden here. Thank you. Even to the point of having water. We've got a waterfall here. Well actually that's how this garden came about. A few years ago my husband built the waterfall and we needed to do something to landscape it. So that's kind of what got us started. Waterfall, cattails. And the cattails weren't planned. In fact last summer we wondered what they were because we didn't plan them there. They just happened. Happened on their own. Yes. Oh and Echinacea. I see a lot of Echinacea here. The Echinacea I had a couple of years, the leaves were black and I kind of almost gave up on it. And then just it came back from seed and has done well since. It's gotten its roots established and now it's happy here. It looks like there's no wind here at all. Well actually it may look like that now but there is a lot of wind. I see a lot of mulch. It's right here. Staying in place. The wind actually these drip lines that we have throughout the garden were in the spring were covered with a heavy layer of mulch. And they're right on the surface now. And now they're right on the surface. Well the mulch is important for water conservation when you've got wind and so is the drip system. Extremely. Those are important. I think those are the two major keys to having a garden where the wind really blows is that you have the moisture and you can keep it watered with the drip. And notice your fence though is a permeable fence. So we decided that we wanted a fence that we could see out. So we went ahead and went with the rod iron rather than the solid fence. And you do get good views and your prevailing wind really isn't from the fence direction is it? No actually. Most of the time, a lot of the time our wind comes from the southwest but this year we've had winds that came from the east. Now that would come right through the fence then. Yeah. So it's just, you never know. But the house for the most part blocks your wind. Somewhat. That's an important thing. You can find ways to block it but then a permeable fence is better than a solid fence. That's what I understand. Because you'll have winds swirling back and creating a problem if it's solid. This is a clever and artistic use of a clay container. But it also protects these small plants from the wind. And the placement of plants near and in between rocks also helps them thrive and win new conditions. Well this is beautiful. And you've proven that you can grow a beautiful garden right here in the middle of the Texas Bandhandle. Well thanks. Thank you. The preceding was a production of New Mexico State University. The views and opinions in this program are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the NMSU Board of Regents.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcYfGpyG7J0", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCAQfQqunzE8frH3ukEbgOhA	Written Agreement 1 \| Teaching of Social Studies & Islamiat in Early Years of Edu \| EDU306_Topic173	EDU306 - Teaching of Social Studies and Islamiat in Early Years of Education, Topic173: Written Agreement - 1, By Dr. Zafar Cheema @thevirtualuniversityofpakistan	[ "Virtual University of Pakistan", "VU Topic Based Videos", "VU TBVs", "VU Lecture", "VU Course", "University Course", "VU", "EDU306", "EDU306 Teaching of Social Studies and Islamiat in Early Years of Education", "Reaction of Sahabah(R.A)", "Written Agreement" ]	2023-12-11T06:09:38	2024-02-08T20:23:50	292	PC88bkMM4x0	اس کے ساتھ ساتھ اگلہ نکتا یہ تھا اب جونکہ بہت سارے مسلمان بہت سارے لوگ مسلمان ہو کر مققہ سے مدینہ کی جانے بھیجرت کر رہے تھے اور مدینہ مسلمانوں کا تقریبا گڑ بن چکا تھا اس سارے سلسلے کو روکنے کے لیے کفار نے ایک اور تلخ شرط بھی رکھی اب جتنے لوگ اسلام قبول کر کے مققہ سے مدینہ گئے تھے ان میں سے بہت کے عزیز ابھی تک مققہ ہی میں تھے اور یہ انسانی فترت ہے کہ عزیزوں سے ملنے کے لیے انسان رکھ جاتا ہے اس کا جی چاہتا ہے یہ ایک فترتی بات ہے لیکن کفار ایسا ہر گز نہیں چاہتا تھے اب انہوں نے کیا کیا یہ شرط لگائی کہ مسلمان کسی بھی ایسے آدمی کو فورس نہیں کریں گے جو مدینہ جانا چاہے کہ ہاں ٹھیک ہے تم ہمارے ساتھ مدینہ آجاؤ بلکہ ہر صورت میں وہ شخص مققہ ہی میں رہے گا گویا اور بہت سمپل بردس کن کسی مققہ ہی میں بھی مدینہ کیا جاتا ہے وہ مققہ ہی میں رہے گا اگر مسلمان کسی مققہ ہی میں رہے گا انہوں نے مققہ ہی نہیں کرتا ہے اب یہ تصویز کدوسا روح ہے کہ مققہ سے کسی کو لجا نہیں سکتے اور مققہ میں اگر مدینہ کا کوئی مسلمان رکنا چاہتا ہے تو وہ کسی مقققہ ہی نہیں کرتا ہے انہوں نے مقققہ ہی میں رہے گا دوسی طرف تصویر کدوسا روح ہے یہی وہ باتیں ہیں یہی وہ چیزیں ہیں جن کی وجہ سے بہت سے صحابہ کو یہ مہدہ اچھا بھی نہیں لگا کہ دیکھنے میں ایسے لگتا ہے جیسے سارا کچھ کفار کے حق میں جا رہا ہے اور مقققہ ہی مقققہ ہی مقققہ ہی میں رہے گا اور اگر مقققہ ہی مقققہ ہی میں رہے گا اور مققققہ ہی مقققہ ہی میں روحہا ہے وہ ایک ہی مقققیک کیا اور ایک حال میں جو دورا ہی نہیں ہے دوسی طرف کفار نے یہ کہا اگر کوئی بھی مسلمان یا غير مسلمان مدینہ چلا جائے تو یہ حکومتِ مدینہ کی زمداری ہوگی کہ اس کو واپس مکہ بھیجا جائے اس کو مدینہ میں رہنے کی اجازت نہ دی جائے لیکن ساتھ ہی ساتھ یہ شرط بھی رکھتی ہے کہ اگر مدینہ سے کوئی مکہ میں آتا ہے تو اس کو واپس نہیں بلایا جائے گا اور نہ ہی کوفار اس کو واپس مدینہ بھیجیں گے یہ بظاہر تو ایسے نظر آتا ہے کہ جیسے یہ سرہ سر مسلمانوں کے مفادات کے خلاف پاتھ تھی لیکن حقیقت یہ ہے کہ جب ہم اس کے پاس منظر میں دیکھیں گے اور اس کے анالیسس اس کا تجزیہ کریں گے تو ہمیں نظر آئے گا کہ یہ سارا کچھ مسلمانوں ہی کے فائدے میں تھا اس لیے اس کو فتح کا نام دیا ربی جلیل نے	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC88bkMM4x0", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCyiCIj6lt5Un84xRSvk05LQ	Andy's Pizza Opens in Williamson	Those looking for a slice of pizza won't have to look far as Andy's Pizza & More is now open in Williamson.	[ "ekb", "ekbtv", "pikeville", "ekb news", "ky news", "kentucky", "news", "pike", "pike county", "pike co", "eastern kentucky", "suddenlink", "imc east kentucky broadcasting", "wxcc", "wdhr", "channel 18", "channel 16", "pike county news", "floyd county news", "knott county news", "county news", "local news" ]	2021-08-26T18:59:30	2024-04-23T03:38:16	108	PCDOn8HjZTY	Those looking for a slice of pizza won't have to look far, as Andy's pizza and more is now open in Williamson. I always like pizza, so I'm out on the road working, you stop and get pizza. I worked with some friends of mine that had pizza places down in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and a good friend of mine in Cottageville, South Carolina. So decided the good Lord put it on my heart to open a pizza place. After returning home, Andy says he's blessed to help out the local economy after his experience as a kid. Williamson back in the 70s, I can remember when I was a kid, we had lock stock and barrel on it room. There was a lot of restaurants, town was thriving, and I really feel that they're trying to rejuvenate town, you know, with the trail systems, everything they're trying to do. And as a consumer myself, I think it's best to have more things in town and people have more choices. You don't have to eat the same thing every day. With pizza, burgers and fries, customers won't have to look far for something different. It's a New York style pizza. We make it fresh every day, fresh sauce, make homemade sauce. We have probably some of the best cheese on the market. We offer wings, subs, salads, burgers, fries. We do home cut fries. If everyone hasn't tried our food and our pizza, especially, just come in and give it a try. It's different. It's a, like I said, New York style pizza. It's just, we really believe that it's a good pizza. And just come in and give us a try. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Chorjol.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCDOn8HjZTY", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCGaVdbSav8xWuFWTadK6loA	The Weirdest Post-Chemo Symptoms	Hey! You're in the description! Well done. Weird thing going on in my life right now is that I'm on the Dropout.tv show Dimension 20 (which I am a big fan of.) You can watch the first episode here on YouTube, but the rest of them are behind their paywall! It's one of my favorite subscriptions though, so you should consider it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pT1OhH3F1Y ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://eepurl.com/Bgi9b And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info Learn more about our project to help Partners in Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone: https://www.pih.org/hankandjohn If you're able to donate $2,000 or more to this effort, please join our matching fund: https://pih.org/hankandjohnmatch If you're in Canada, you can donate here: https://pihcanada.org/hankandjohn John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com	null	2023-09-01T16:56:35	2024-02-05T06:34:09	425	PCYKpj56Ss8	Good morning, John. It is one of the days. For you, it's Friday. For me, it could be any of the major ones, any of the major seven of the days. So there's this young guy. I started following on TikTok after I got cancer, because he was talking about his cancer story. And he's still posting videos, but he also died? So that's- And the videos aren't like, I'm dead. And they're just like his normal content. There is like, funny videos. So I don't know whether he's scheduled to knowing he was going to be dead or not knowing that. But either way, it makes you think. So I knew that there was going to be a bunch of side effects to cancer and chemotherapy, but I did not realize that there would be a bunch of side effects to stopping chemotherapy and cancer. I don't know if that's the right way to say it. One of the side effects of not having cancer anymore is kind of a bonus. I'm a universal donor, O-negative. So I always feel guilty whenever I'm not donating, but I don't have to have that one anymore because they will no longer let me donate my blood. So freedom. I'm free of that one. People told me that this would happen when you lose your head because of chemo and then it grows back. You basically like re-roll your whole head. Like it's that you're Dungeons and Dragons character, you're rolling for charisma and for strength and stuff. That happens for all the hair. Now you don't get to choose what you roll, but you do re-roll. So if you had curly hair, you might have straight hair, if you had a straight hair, curly hair, if you were bald, you might get hair again. If you had hair, you might be bald, but we'll lose their gray hair. They'll gain gray hair. They will become ginger. Like this is not like lining up with how I understand these things are supposed to work. And I haven't found any research talking about how it works because it doesn't seem like it matters that much. I mean, compared to with all the rest of what you go through, it is fairly trivial. Having re-rolled my head, I now appear to have less head hair. I'm more bald, I think. I'm going to be more bald than I was. Now it might be important for me to say here that I have traditionally been the kind of guy who could like get on a first name basis with like all of his facial hairs. I've been mostly okay with this. I've attempted to do the goatee thing two times. Outcomes, not fantastic, but now I might kind of be able to grow a beard. Now I'm talking a big game here and I don't know what's going to happen, but you might be looking at me and you're thinking, oh my god, that doesn't look like hand green. That looks like nerdy Jason Statham. You weren't thinking that. No one was thinking that. I find myself staring at beards like I was at a housewarming party and I got like really quite close to a friend of mine who's more like a former colleague than a friend. And I was like, oh, I'm just looking at how your beard hair grows in. Does I don't know how that works? Like do you have longer or more or darker or thicker hair than me? Like what's it going to be like if all of this hair grows in? Am I shaving correctly? I'm not really. I think I went too high. I'm over here like a 43 year old man asking like teen boy questions. Like is it normal for it to be itchy? I've never personally been super worried about my facial hair situation, but this does make me concerned because I know that there are a lot of guys who work really hard to try and get facial hair and I'm worried that if they find out Kimo can do that, they will find a way to start getting Kimo. And I just don't want to see Kimo beard trending on TikTok. I think that we all kind of get to keep posting after we're gone. Not like on TikTok necessarily, but in a way, right? You know all the words I'm saying right now are words that some person that we've forgotten came up with like culture and thus I am made up of millions of tiny little influences from people that I don't know about. I can never know about. We'll never know about. Like me making words and having thoughts is kind of them all still posting. What a thing to get to be a part of. Another weird side effect of getting done with Kimo therapy is ocular migraines, which have not been fun, where I see like a little light show before I start getting nauseous and my head starts to throb, but they don't last very long for me. So that's something, I guess, to be grateful for. And then of course the last of the most interesting side effects are all psychological. We've got you know health anxiety and I thought, I thought, I honestly did that my work anxiety would help distract me from my health anxiety, but it turns out at least so far that's not how it's worked. Like I get work anxiety and the feeling of the anxiety triggers my health anxiety. Why does it work that way y'all? And also I didn't think that this would happen to me, but I have a little tinge of the survivor guilt. I feel like I don't have any like space to talk about cancer because it didn't hurt me enough. And I know that that's irrational, but so are a lot of my thoughts these days and we're just working through them. And then of course there's like the most me specific side effect, which is that like despite feeling you know tremendously necessary for the last many years, I was able to just stop and go do what I needed to do. And that comes down to a lot of help from a lot of people. It comes down of course to you, John, but also of course there's lots of stuff that you didn't know. And there are many people who are able to sort of make it work and keep everything not just like working, but moving forward. And that felt really good. Taking a step back from me, slowing down a little bit, you know I think it would have happened eventually, but I did get my hand forced a little bit. And so we did it and it turned out it was entirely doable. So despite the fact that I felt like I was needed for everything, I wasn't. And that's great news and also a lesson to learn. I mean it's not surprising that I would be fascinated by the idea of videos still coming out after you're gone. Like what is it trying to do? What's it trying to say? Is it trying to say like even though I know I'm not going to be here, I still care what people are going to think about me after I'm gone? Or is it saying this isn't about me? I want to make people laugh whether I'm here to see it or not. I want people to leave comments whether I'm there to respond to them or not. Maybe it's a way of saying like the things that we make aren't really about us. And it's interesting to ask like what would you make if you knew people would watch it, but you wouldn't be there to see how they felt about it. That's very different from how I imagine creation. Oh and having thought through what this video is going to look like just for clarity, I'm not dead. I didn't like make a bunch of videos, edit them, and then die and then schedule them. Like it seems like especially because in the beginning I didn't know what day it was, that maybe that's what I was implying. No, I'm alive. I just legitimately didn't know what day it was. John, I'll see you on Tuesday.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCYKpj56Ss8", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCdW1zR19oxD3JAPmkYWdU5g	5 November 2019: Public Lecture (Henry VIII's Gangster )	Henry VIII's Gangster Public Lecture by Dr Robert Hutchinson FSA This recording took place at the Society's apartments in Burlington House, Piccadilly. The Society of Antiquaries has recorded this content, with permission of the speaker(s), and made it available on YouTube and through it's website at www.sal.org.uk.	[ "SAL", "Society of Antiquaries", "History", "Antiquarian", "Art History", "Art", "Archaeology", "SocAntiquaries", "Cardinal Reginald", "Francis of France", "James V of Scotland", "Cardinal Mark Grimani", "Cardinal David Beaton", "Lorenzo Campeggio", "John Lord Russell", "Cardinal Niccolo Ardingehlli", "Pope Paul III", "Francesco Donato Doge of Venice", "Sir William Paget", "Treason trials in England", "Treason trials in Wales", "Execution", "Hung drawn and quartered", "Henry VIII invaded France", "Tudor", "England", "UK" ]	2019-11-28T11:52:11	2024-02-05T06:08:42	2,493	PChuIjXHkpk	Gwyl angen iawn, mae gennym i allan i ni'n gweithio. Felly mae gennym i chi i gynnwys arall, mae gennym i chi i chi i gynnwys ar gyfer y llunau am y gweithio, mae gennym i chi'i gweithio, wrth gwrs, y newydd Robert Harris, y nodl, y ddechrau, mae'n mynd i'r llunau'r llunau. Mae'r llunau'r llunau'r llunau pa'r hynny. Mae gennym i chi, mae'r llunau'r llunau'r llunau. Mae'r llunau'r llunau'r llunau yn y gweithio, ..on mynd i wych yn cyflwyno cymaint. Mae ydych chi'n llyfrgyngau ffordd yn gyfwysig... ..y cym machwyr o'r cyffredig sydd wedi hynny... ..y hoffa'r cyfrwng cymaint. Mae'r llyfrgyngau i'r cywysig yn cymwyno cymaint. Mae'r llyfrgyngau i'r cyfrwng cymwyno cymwysig... ..y hoffa'r llyfrgyngau i chi ymwysig. Mae'r llyfrgyngau i chi i gael i'n wasbydd. Yn clygu'n ddod i fod ychydig. Ond y bach yn ymweliad gagwyddeni gwaith yn y bwysig ymweliad, ond hefyd Haynray yn ddefnyddio'r gynhyrch. Roedd ymddir ein gwell pan o Haynray's saffaars, o dda i fwy ffwrdd ar оed yn gyfrifio'r tynnebolau trath研au a oed yn EU. Yn 1930-1944 yn chassis ymweliad. Yn amlwg debyd ar hynny wedi'i gwirio amddangos i hefyd, ac nid dweud y bynnag y ffawr achos iddynt yn rwyth â'r ofa ar ychwr. a we'll talk about some of that later on. Henry, of course, has been defined recently much more by his marriages and rather trite television dramas than by whom he truly was. I think it's time to reassess England's most famous monarch as a man merely rather than being a mere showbiz character which he has become. Happily, his embryo civil service, has left us thousands of documents that reveal the minutiae of his life and much more can be found elsewhere in, for example, the archives of the Vatican and the city-state of Venice. If one is brave enough to stray far from the well-beaten path of his six marriages, we can construct a fuller, much more rounded picture of this autocratic king. New research has uncovered much more about his physical and mental condition in his last years and just how ruthless he became in eliminating his enemies. On the 9th of May, 1514, the chapter of the most noble order of the garter, meeting for their annual feast in Windsor, confronted a disagreeable item on their agenda. Three of the 24 night companions had been executed for high treason. Should their names besmirch the register of members or should they be scratched out as they deserve? Some maintain that the beautifully illustrated book would be named ugly by these erasers, so the chapter sought the phlamic wisdom of Henry VIII who had given them the volume six weeks, six years, I'm sorry, before. The register should remain untouched, he decreed. Say for the derisif Latin phrase va proditor, fae on you traitor being inserted above the malefactor's name. Entrys for Thomas Cromwell, elected at garter 1915-37, but executed for treason in July 1540, were among the first to phase, and there is Cromwell's name with the prototype written on the top. His name appears several times in the register, and it's quite interesting, one of those erasions, a prototype which stroked out obviously by a supporter of Cromwell. So the Tudors were always a threatened dynasty because of their tenuous and legally fragile claim to the throne of England. This was based on the dissent of Henry's formidable grandmother, maybe but Margaret Beaufort, from John of Gaunt, the fourth son of Edward III. And this rampant insecurity was the chief motivator behind the king's determination to neutralise any opposition of any kind to his rule. And it was shared and suffered by future Tudor monarchs. In Henry's case, there were also psychological factors driving the autocratic rule. His self-obsessive behaviour comfortably fits into the classic profile of an individual suffering from grandiose and narcissistic behaviour disorder, characterised by exaggerating feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a chronic lack of empathy towards others. When boxed into a corner, he would lash out violently. Ladies and gentlemen, you might well recognise that some of today's readers may well suffer from this disorder. In Henry's case, the short conviction that he ruled with divine approval intensified the symptoms immeasurably. When God's deputy on earth was on his knees praying, he always knew that God listened. In later years, I believe he was also afflicted by Cushing syndrome, a rare endocrine abnormality caused by excessive levels of the hormone cortisol, probably caused by the traumatic head injury suffered whilst jousting in 1536. Henry became paranoid, if not psychotic, deeply suspicious of all those around him, even those he loved. Henry regarded treason as the most heinious of crimes, and a raft of new penal measures was introduced that punished those who challenged the King's ecclesiastical supremacy after the Great Blue Row, always entitlement to the crown. Up to his reign, treason was defined by an act of 1351 that described the crimes plotting them on its death, waging war upon him, or aiding and abetting his enemies. In passing, I should mention that the statute still remains on the statute book, much amended, and recently there's been quite a lot debate about his application to returning jihadists. The last time it was deployed was during the trial of William Joyce, the Lord Horhor, in 1945. After Henry's new legislation, the law now judged miscreants to be traitors, simply if they didn't follow his pet addictions in religious institutions and beliefs, refused to support his latest choice of wife, or the changing status of his offspring. From 1532 to the King's death in early 1547, there were 970 treason trials in England and Wales, resulting in 336 executions when they condemned face the horrible traitors' death of being hanged, drawn and courted. 216 of these were executed after the northern rebellions of 1536-37 and a further 15 for their involvement in the Yorkshire conspiracy of 1541. The Tudors invented propaganda, in its modern sense, and we would recognise as propaganda. They utilised the power of the printing press. They used drama, spectacle and pageantry to manipulate Henry's subjects' minds. Now they would create laws which ruled not only what people thought of what people said. Defaming the monarch by a written or spoken word became a capital offence, such as branding him a heretic, schismatic, tyrant, infidel or usurper. 64 executed if another 10 died in prison in 1532-40 for uttering felonious words. These included disparaging comments on the King's love life, that his ability to procreate criticism of his ministers or policies or spreading rumour about popular dissatisfaction or unrest. So if we lived today under the mailed ffest of Henry's laws, I would be guilty of high treason for flagrantly writing the rather unflattering statements about the oldest part of my new book. If you read those perilous words aloud or lent my book to a friend, so would you. You would be liable for that one-way trip to the scaffold. Luckily for everyone today, here today and indeed my book sales, and the expurentive measures were repealed in 1547. One class of traitor escaped Henry's vengeance but never his wrath. Those renegades who defected to the papal cause and escaped to Europe. The King always demoulded their immediate extradition and when these moves failed, as mostly they did, I was happy to order these fugitives abduction for murder. Chief amongst them was carpal regional Paul, whom Henry castigated as England's arch traitor. Paul fought tooth and nail to defend Holy Mother Church and became a magnet to the disaffected. He had told Henry your butchers and butcheries and horrible executions have made England the slaughterhouse of innocence. As the King massacred his kith and kin in 1539 and 1541, he wanted to sympathise. When Paul was dispatched to France in 1537 to seek support for the pilgrimage of grace rebellion, Henry demanded his arrest and repatriation. But Francis I of France, you can see why his subjects call him old long nose. Francis I in France found himself in a difficult position between the proverbial rock and hard place and one hand he's got a monarch demanding that he fulfills his treaty obligations on the other hand he has the pope bearing down on him telling telling him not to touch a hair of Paul's head. So Francis merely banished the Cardinal to the Spanish low countries. Henry was incensed and sought to secretly appoint some fellows to kidnap the Cardinal adding we would be very glad to have Paul trust up and conveyed to Calais which was then the last English stronghold on the European mainland. His chief minister Thomas Cromwell also launched a covert operation sending Sir Thomas Parma and four accomplices into Flanders to assassinate him with handguns. But Paul escaped Henry's vengeance despite the reward of 100,000 crowns upon his head alive or dead. Now in today's money that's just over 15 million pounds and as a point of comparison you'll see even the CIA only have a price price money of 7.7 million for leaving jihadists being captured being recaptured with guilt. About 130 lesser clergy or laymen with allegiance to the religion of their forefathers fled England between 1534 and 1546 and Henry's feverish attempt to lay hands on them is a sorry tale of frustration diplomatic fiasco but sometimes farcical mishap. Aside from Paul there was one traitor that fed Henry's neuroses more than any other the so-called Blanche Rose who was hiding in France and his non-declun Blanche Rose is the clue for the Henry's illogies as it suggested that he claimed to be a long lost member of the House of York. The White Rose threat to the Tudor crown believed finally neutralized when the king destroyed Paul's extended family. But in reality this man of mystery was one of Henry's subjects called Dick Housia the son of a cobbler or tailor who had spent eight years in a stinking Parisian prison after his release the king sought his arrest and repatriation but the French procrastinated claiming that he was born in Orléans even though you could barely string together a few words of their own tongue. Their fare rungled on for some years with Henry's ever more irasable demands for the return of this detestable traitor and murder meeting with the blank wall of French obduracy. A final demand for his expedition was included in the ultimatum delivered as a planute to war with France in June 1543. So diplomacy has failed Henry to his fury as brother monarchs refused to fulfil their cheap treating obligations and to hand over those traitors and rebels who had escaped his retribution excuse me and we're now busy plotting against him on the continent of Europe it was time for more direct action. Henry's frequent forays into the clandestine world of kidnapping blackmail and assassination have not perceived the attention they deserve. For example he apparently planned to kidnap his nephew James of Fizz of Scotland to compel him to acknowledge English suzerinty over Scotland. He also tried to abduct Cardinal Mark Grimani, the papal negate of Scotland, who's ship narrowly escaped anwish on the high seas and who later evaded another kidnap attempt by fleeing Glasgow in dawn in disguise. In May 1546 another of the King's bednoirs Cardinal David Buter, the self-appointed Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was assassinated in his castle in St Andrews. Henry had agreed to fund the murder provided that he was not implicated publicly as his involvement in the conspiracy stressed with sublime hypocrisy was not meet for a king. In a dawn, the 29th of May, 17 assassins broke into the castle's gatehouse. They killed the porter and held his body down into the ditch. The noise brought Beaton out, Beaton out of his chamber and he was promptly hacked to death. His mutilated corpse was thrown out of a window and left hanging in midair tied hand and foot by a pair of sheets as an object lesson to others who might consider messing with Henry Tudor. A string of further assassination attempts was also mounted against Pol when all proved unsuccessful. A compelling solution appeared in 1544 while the English were sieging the French port and the stronghold of Benoit. A dashing Italian mercenary colonel appeared one day in their trenches and had the temerity the scoff just how badly the siege was being conducted. He made no effort to hide his contempt at the amateurish efforts of the English troops. Kneed deep in foul mud and water with French cannonballs whistling about their ears, the English found him a thoroughly irksome visitor, particularly his well-dressed, clean, handsome and worse still a notable foreigner. The William Padgett, Secretary of State, told John Lord Russell, his Italian, which was called Ludovico di Llami, was a subject to the Bishop of Rome who had previously served the French government. He was a nephew of the gouty Cardinal Lorenzio Cappegio, who with Woolsey had resided over the Aborted Tribunal at Blackfriars on Henry's Divorce from Catherine of Aragon back in 1529 and he certainly wasn't Henry's favourite Cardinal. Russell thoroughly mistrusted Italian mercenaries declaring neither he nor any other Italian should have tarried there in the trenches and seen our doings for I know well their natures and treasons. Despite that black mark put up by my uncle, Henry recruited to Llami ostensibly to hire mercenaries illegally in Venice, but in reality to murder pole. He was the king's gangster, the perfect criminal type, vain, violent, plausible. He was brash, swaggering, bursting with Italian charm and brio and utterly, utterly ruthless. In January 1545 Llami arrived in Venice on a generous monthly salary of 50 grams or about 6,000 pounds a month in today's money. That year the three Venetian magistrates commissioned four religious paintings to decorate their headquarters in this palazio just up from the Rialto Bridge. One was the slaughter of the innocents depicting the new testament story of the massacre of the infants by Herod soldiers. The arch-nake picture now in the academia in Venice shows a tall bearded figure non-shortly watching the murder and mayhem going on around him. Next to him stands a retainer holding a shield with a coat of arms. This heraldry belongs to the Llami family and his eloquent dress resembles that worn by the assassin later when he was arrested. This must be Henry's gangster. If so, this painting must be considered the most expensive wanted poster in the history of criminology. In Rome, Cardinal Nicolae Nicolae Ardingheli, the newly appointed prefect of the apostolic Siccantora and heavily involved in the Holy See's secret services, feared the Llami's presence in Italy. He probably climbed and paid for the unsuccessful attempt to assassinate him in Italy that much staged by a mercenary captain called Sincondo backed by a team of 12 desperados. On the 5th of May, Ardingheli summoned Francesco Venier, the Venetian ambassador to the Vatican, for a confidential chat over a glass or two of good Italian vino. He revealed that Henry kept a number of persons in its pay in diverse places for some purpose which must be considered sinister, his character being such as it is. One of them was the Llami whom the Vatican demanded should be expelled immediately from Venice lest it appears that he enjoys the Dome Jane's favor. The Venetian ambassador was worried about the implication of this. He feared that Henry would retaliate against the quite large community of Venetian merchants in London and knowing his repatiousness could happily confiscate their valuable investments in England. Queryrously, he suggested, might it not be more prudent to proceed somewhat moderately with Henry? A cart more rustly swept aside such caution, his holiness does not require the scenery to do as he would do if he could hold a Dlami who is his rebel and has committed so many crimes. Instead, the pope merely required his expulsion lest through the scenery's protection he may find an opportunity for perpetuating some enormous outrage. The Venetian knew very well what Ardingheli was talking about. He had heard whispers in the Vatican corridors that the Dlami was plotting some mischief and it has some treacherous design against Cardinal Paul attending the church council at Trento. Three days later, the ambassador found himself leaning before 77-year-old Pope Paul III who was anxious to learn of what firm action was planned by the city-state against Henry's assassin. He disclosed that Dlami and his accomplices were planning a terrible crime and the latest intelligence indicated they were only awaiting Henry's commission to be delivered by a gentleman of his privy chamber who was expected in Venice during the next 12 days. We see this villain close at hand, said the pope. He is our rebel and on many counts would deserve a thousand deaths. We perceive that the King of England who is a heretic has no other enmity in Italy other than ours and in several quarters he's plotting I know not what mischief. Should any disturbance arise it would be unfitting for it to have originated in Venice. Paul added the council is sitting in Trento. We do not know what direction Henry's thoughts may take. There is a particular case of Cardinal Paul whom these refruffians may have been ordered to kidnap or take some other sinister action against. The new doger just appointed Francesco Donato and the city's council of ten were then honoured by a visit by the papal noncio who reinforced the pope's demands with some warmth. They responded by summoning the army or questioning in the Dupal prison but the bird had flown. He had departed Venice reportedly on the King's business and the scenery were allowed to discover that he'd gone to Trento. Whatever his mission was it went unfulfilled. Paul remained alive and well and went on and married the first rain to become the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury. By August 1545 the army was back in Venice and had his own personal scores to settle. He was involved in a running battle with the permission might watch in which one guard was badly wounded and the penalty for this trial was death. Heaven's half of the English ambassador explained it was all a dreadful mistake as the army had mistaken the watch for a gang of his enemies. Venetians meekly but meekly believed this lived by explanation and were prepared to overlook the matter to please Henry, whom they held in great reverence. They also valued their alliance with England. However it was then revealed that the army had hired assassins to murder an army officer in Treviso. They had stabbed and slashed at him two or three times with swords which he survived before they crambered back over the city walls to escape. While assailant was captured later rather stupidly hiding in the army's house in Venice the assassin was now a wanted man with a price of £100 on his head. Presently he called at Harville's official residence and explained that the attempted murder was only an act of hot-blooded vengeance for the victim's theft of a mercenary fee. Harville couldn't reassure him on his safety so he roamed post haste to England via Brussels and on to Henry's court where he spent a few months carefully building the persona of a faithful servant wrongfully accused. So William Padger, the Secretary of State, now thoroughly approved of him writing admirably of his vengeful wit and that he was naturally disposed to work mysterious. He added chillingly such a man at such a time is to be cherished. Henry, who was now nearing his end, required that the Venetians grant his agents a five-year safe conduct but this was rejected by the Council of Ten for the peace of Venice. Five days later they reversed their decision for His Majesty's gratification and by reason of our ancient friendship with him. In November 1546 the Italian merchant banker, Matthew Bernardo, was killed brutally in a pine forest near Ravenna. He had been stabbed 18 times. A letter was found in his blood-stained doublet that had been given by an army to the Cuthreds. His intimate comrades. A warrant for the bankers arrested had only been issued by the Venetian authorities after allegations that he'd divulged state secrets and had been involved in treacherous and treasonous negotiations with the France. So the motive for this killing, this murder, remains unclear. Was Delamine involved in his own secret treacherous dealings with the French? Did he fear that Bernardo knew too much about his own conspiracies? So did he have to silence him before he could plan? Delamine wrote to Henry after hearing that his master was so ill that the doctors had no hope of his living and his sorrow was turned to joy by a subsequent report that the rumour was quite false and he subsequently thanked the king for his continued munificence. This letter was probably triggered by Harville's growing suspicions about his sinister activities. Three weeks before the ambassador dispatched a messenger to London to deliver by word of mouth warnings about Delamine's proceedings which the king should know. He begged Padgett to keep Sassling's secret for all I have written of him has been disclosed to him and he has moved against me. The assassin wrote on, wrote again to Padgett on 11 December from Venice including a casual reference to his latest escapade. If perchance you hear anything of the death of Matthew Bernardo, which seems to touch my honour either privately or as the king's servant, tell them who malign me that I've always proved myself studious of my master's honour and my own. Five days later the Venetians established beyond reasonable doubt that Delamine had ordered the bankers' murder. Again fear of Henry's displeasure stayed their hand in wreaking justice upon a felon now regarded as being as odious to the state as words can express. If the king opposed his execution for this fresh outrage you should immediately recall it from Venice so that all cause of scandal and disturbance may be removed. In London Padgett told the Venetian ambassador that Delamine was no longer in favour and he was certain that his iniquities which caused him to be in such disgrace when the entire court would greatly displeas the king. Henry's death in the early hours of the 28th of January 1547 changed everything. Delamine's commission was immediately cancelled. He fled Venice that month and headed for the Duchy of Milan riding fast on hired horses without servants. Seeking the protection of large crowds he attended a glittering entertainment but made no effort to look into his figures other than wearing a mask. His taste for showing fine clothes became his downfall as it was reported that everyone stared at him. He was recognised and immediately imprisoned in Milan Castle. The Venetians were determined to repatriate Delamine as soon as possible and such was his reputation that they sent 200 cavalry at an escort to prevent any any rescue attempt. On the journey back it was ordered that he remained handcuffed and should he refuse to eat the food should be forced down on his throat after of course first testing it for poison to prevent his suicide. On suddenly the 1547 the prisoner was condemned to death on Saturday next when he should be taken between the two pillars in the Piazza San Marco where on a lofty scaffold his head should be severed but they didn't work that long to execute him. The rector of a near of Birbniw by Church was permitted to hear Delamine's confession and provide spiritual comfort until his hour of death. Early the next morning the prisoner was brought out of his cell in the Ducal prison and under heady guard walked a short distance along the broad waterfront to the place of execution and his head was severed from his body between those two pillars. The status-conscious city of Venice noted his passing in the official obituary role of a nobleman who had died that month. 12th of May Louis Vicky of Delamine beheaded by order of the most illustrious council of 10. The world was finally rid of Henry's gangsta. As I said at the beginning our view of Henry VIII has been defined more by his six marriages and those often inaccurate television dramas rather than by who truly was. I still treasure a memory of one shot in one series of a Boeing 747 jumbo flying over the Siege of Beloyne. My book, Hayley VIII, The Decline of Fall of a Tyrant covers the last seven years of his reign and reveals a geriatric king crippled by osteomiliters. One could smell the stench of his legs two rooms away and requiring a primitive lift to hoist him up to the first floor royal apartments as well as a kind of sedan chair to lift him around. The dashing athletic Renaissance prince had disappeared long before. He now weighed 178 kilograms or if you're like me 28 stone with a body mass index of 52 kilograms per square meter well off today's national health service scale. Time was running out for him to achieve his childhood dreams of personal vala defeating the despised French and finally fulfilling the ancient English claim to the crown of France. But he had become a vulnerable and lonely old man. A 1542 Whitehall inventory of royal possessions reveals Henry's hidden helplessness. Three warping ourselves all fitted with whistles at the top are listed as our two leather trunks or loud halers used for shouting and the king was rarely alone but now needed to summon help in an emergency by blasts on its whistles or bellowing through his shouting trunk. He dreaded falling down and now required considerable help in getting him back on his feet. Despite his doctor's pleas despite eight weeks in bed he's still incestuous on evading France in 1544. And he proudly led his host out of Calais behind the bravely flying green and white Tudor battle inside towards Beloy where English troops were already digging siege works. Our proud burst of almost tropical intensity at Marquith 20 miles from Calais on the 25th of July was a salutary lesson and a defining moment. Standing around in a quagmire of mud wearing soaking wet clothes is one thing but watching your expensive armor rust about you is something quite different. You must have suddenly realised at last that he was medically unfit for a prolonged arduous campaigning far from home in all the weathers. His cherished dreams of battlefield heroics evaporated like incense in the Vatican in the grim realisation of his age and infirmities. The grand strategy for capturing Paris in concert in Charles V the Holy Roman Emperor was unilaterally abandoned and instead Henry was content to capture Beloy. Under papal pressure his ally made a separate peace with France, leaving Henry to fight on alone. The costs of war bankrupted England exacerbated by his reckless borrowing at high interest rates from the Antwerp bankers and his fraudulent devaluation of the coinage. He would take his successors more than two decades to rebuild the Tudor economy. His decline continued. Henry never enjoyed papal work and from 1545 he gave up signing state papers. His failing eyesight meant that he bought wire-fraining spectacles from generally tempers at a time. Clearly he loses them as regularly as I do. Instead of signing state papers a wooden block with the royal signature carved in rainds letters was impressed on documents and the imprint inked in. Of course there were safeguards against misuse. Documents signed with this dry stamp were listed every month for Henry's approval but after a year he even stopped examining this ledger. The King had handed over the levers of power to those around him. So how should we remember Henry VIII? He established the Royal Navy and his diplomacy placed his dominions firmly at the centre of European politics instead of being regarded as a remote group of rain swept islands on the edge of the known world. Knowing his fondness and jealousy of his sovereignty I think the European Union would be complete anathoba to Henry VIII. His warships laid the maritime foundations for the creation of the British Empire. Because of that insecurity of the Tudor dynasty, because of the fear that the dynasty could be destroyed, a heart beat away, Henry became a rampant part of the country. And he reformed the medical profession. He outlawed quacks the impact of religion and superstition and firmly placed it in the realms of science. His regulatory regime led the foundations of a modern healthcare system. Remember Henry VIII when he next visited your doctor or local hospital. But his dreams were thought even down to the grandiose monument he planned for himself in St George's Chapel Windsor, which was still unfinished in his death despite being worked on since the beginning of his reign. His last remnant is a sarcophagus which he'd earlier filched for walls his tomb and was reused more than 250 years later by a parsimonious government for now since the monument of the creative support of Europe. Despite what we regard today as his genocide of the civilian habitants of Scotland and northern France and the harsh totalitarian regime he inflicted on his hard tax subjects, one can still feel a scintilla of sympathy for the pain-wracked old overgun. The Tudor dynasty was to continue for another 56 years many more to die as Henry's offspring, likely a father, fellen on to the crown of England. Thank you very much indeed ladies and gentlemen.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PChuIjXHkpk", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCApKWe9YYSzSsZ0m5mLhl7g	Stuart McCall talks about new signings and pre-season	City manager Stuart McCall spoke about the start to pre-season and the new arrivals that have joined the club over the summer.	[ "Stuart McCall", "Stuart McCall Bradford City", "Stuart McCall Manager", "Bradford City", "Bradford City FC", "Bradford City Football Club", "Stuart McCall Scotland", "Scotland National Team", "Football", "Footballer", "Football Manager", "Football Coach", "Pre-Season" ]	2017-07-06T14:58:06	2024-04-23T01:06:31	211	pcdFLbUi1Ug	Dwi'n cael gafodwch yn edrych cyntaf, y prysau a'r treinig o'n gwahanol, gan byddi'n ddrygu i fyngi rydyn ni'n ddynnu a y trofi'r gweithio i adroddiant i'r pwysau? Oherwydd roedd, dyma'n bod yn olygu. Mae yna ddwymes chi'n gwirio i fynd i'n gwael, oedd ffau cael cael ei beth. Dw i wneud yn siarad ddynnu o'r pwysau i fynd i fi fel cael ei ddwyme. Am beth, mae pawb yn cael ei ddim yn cael eu clwy. Rwy'n credu, dwi'n ddorol, dwi'n ei dod i'r cyffredinol, ond mae'n ddod i'r cyffredinol, ond mae'n ei wneud gwylio. Mae'n holl i'r cyffredinol, ond mae'n gweithio'n cael ei hunai. Yn gyffredinol, yn gweithio ar y blynedd, dyma'n cyntaf, ac yn ble chyesnod, byddoch chi'n gwneud askogau'u ddechrau'i adeithes? Rydw i ddim yn y gweithio mewn cyffredinol i mi gael eu lleiaf, yn ydyn ni'n ag yn glennu. A'n credu'n ei gwnaeth, ac requirement ar gyfer. Maen nhw rhowb hwnnw'n ddigon i'w ddiddordeb, a lamin o'r rhaid os y puedo a'i'n ddiddordeb yn Cymru, wedi gwybod rhaid am y cyfgau sydd. Felly rydym yn gyfrifio'r ales ar gyfer iddyn syniad mai'n gwybodol ffordd yn ychydigu'n meddwl. Rhywethaf yn gweithio'r pwysig o attend. felly gynllunio fel y bydd yr hyn yn mynd i'r rhai ddechrau'r bydd, fel y dylai gofio. Fy llwyddo, gallu llwyddo, mae'r hyn yn eisiau ddysgu i gusodd ar gweithio'r chewanthau'r gweithio. Wnaeddech chi ar gyfer y cw歌f감이 sydd dechrau fel hyn ac i wych, mae gennym ei enw i d Colaen, ac da'i gwybodaethau og ddim yn gwneud. Oherwydd gennym eu serio, yn ei ei arbennodd. ac yn fwy o'n ysgrifennu i'w gwneud hynny. Felly mae'n gwneud arall, cwrs, nid oes 5 eich cynnig. 5 oedd y dyweddig yn ei ddyliadau. Nid oes yn cael ei ddweud y rhai ddechrau? Yn ni'n cael ei ddatblygu. Felly oes yn y dweud yna, yn y ddweud yn bobl yng nglyniad. Rwy'n ddweud yn cyntaf o'r ladd. Felly, mae'n ddweud yn gweithio'r ladd. Felly, mae'n ddweud yn gweithio'r ladd. Mae'r Deirydd iawn yn cyfnod i'r ysgolion maen nhw'n fynd i ddweud hynny meter, ac mae'n rhaglu swydd yn gwaith mewn newydd. Ond yna'n gallu meddwl i mil iawn o'r pryd yn ddill yn ein blaid, mwy fyddwch i hynny i argyfligio. Ac mae'r ddill yn gof yn gofynnu, mae'r gofynnuio yn gofynnu i gael gwneud yw'r brif, mae'r ddill wedi'r brif iawn i'r ysgolion. Dai'r bod ni'n ei gadw i'r cyfnwys i'w'r trydydu gyd wedi'i gweld cyffredinol. felly mae'n gwybod o'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r byw. Ond mae'n gwybod i'r ffordd o'r ffordd. A'i gwybod yn dweud â'r ffordd. Mae'n dweud â'r ffordd o'r ffordd o'r ffordd. Ond a'i gwybod yw ddod yn fwy ffordd, nad yna lle mae'n gwybod i'r ffrasgfa ymlaen i'r llyfridd. Rwy'n mynd i'n gweithio'r ymddangos yma hwn. Ymddangos i'r ffordd o'r ffordd. ac yn llwg ffordd yn y cael eu gwaith. Ond yn gweithio, mae'n gwybod yn ddweud. Rhyw bach o'r ffordd o'r ffordd yma yn y quen o'r lastio. Maen nhw'n gweithio'r ystod o'r tîm, ond maen nhw'n gweithio y gallwn. Yn hynny'n gweithio'r gweithio, ond mae'n gweithio'r ffordd o'r lastio.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcdFLbUi1Ug", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCkY5L8JYwx7BT0cOXYZX_dw	“Defender Of The Faith”: Pastor Kumuyi's Biography Launched In Lagos \| NEWS	The General Overseers of the Redeemed Christian church of God and Deeper Life Christian Ministry have been encouraged to not relent in suggesting ways of making Nigeria better, to government leaders. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 #News #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", "news", "trending", "channels news", "arise tv", "legit news", "tvc news", "BBC", "CNN", "BBC news", "CNN news", "latest news", "breaking news", "buhari", "osinbajo", "Destiny Momoh", "channels", "tvc", "al jazeera", "news central" ]	2021-09-20T10:38:21	2024-02-05T06:26:38	189	PC1PTw3b9tI	And the general of the Sierra of the Redim, the Christian Church of God, and deeper life Christian ministry have been encouraged to not relent in suggesting ways of making Nigeria better to government leaders. The charge was given by Professor Dagbo Asadu in his keynote address at the Lunge of the Biography of Pastor William Kumuyi, plus to the Africa Lagos State Government House correspondent Love Ikuku Oye Dokon tells us more about it. Business, industry and religious leaders are gathered here in Lagos to honor the founder and general superintendent of deeper Christian life ministry, Pastor William Kumuyi. The guardroom presents a window for the guest speaker, Professor Dagbo Asadu, to drop home one of the names of Nigeria, respected men who will speak truth to Powell. He charges Pastor Kumuyi and the general of the Sierra of the Redim Christian Church of God, Pastor Inak Adeboye, to sit down with government officials and guide them as prophets. All ministers of God should speak out now as things are going upside down in Nigeria. You are comfortable here, people are not comfortable in Benwe, they're not comfortable in Southern Kaduna, they're not comfortable in other plans, all our church leaders must speak out. I look forward to Baba addressing a WordPress conference seated beside him with Baba Adeboye and let them call people and say enough is enough. Professor Asadu decries corruption and stresses the need for leaders and citizens to work in integrity. We must have integrity wherever we are. We are all agents of God. Transparency makes the leaders to be responsible and accountable to the public that vote them into power. Openness and accountability are essential for people to have trust in their leaders at all levels. Legal State Gov. Baba Jidesawonlu is here and in his remark acknowledges the voice of advice from the guest speaker. Vice President Yemi Ushibangio would rather play down on that, but at least four tasks may need to take seriously. Those who succeed in their endeavours, whatever those endeavours may be, all society three taxes, three forms of tax. The first is income tax, personal income tax, and if you own a company, corporation tax or company tax, the second is social tax. He commenced those who pulled the autobiography of Pastor Komuyeh together and is happy that he has been celebrated while alive. From Victoria Island Lagos, love Ikuku Uyedukum, reporting for Plus TV, Africa.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC1PTw3b9tI", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCKFpzEc1o4Lx6AmawVNUaHQ	Applied Behavior Analysis	Here's a quick intro to Applied Behavior Analysis. --------------- Discussion is encouraged and we might even jump in from time to time. Civility and respect are required, blatant and dogmatic agreement is not. However, if your comments are out of line, we will delete them. ---------------	[ "Applied Behavior Analysis", "PSychcore", "Behavior Beast", "ABA" ]	2016-10-12T18:22:38	2024-02-05T06:35:40	240	PCggdI_C38c	some of you might wonder why I'm up in a tree for that you're gonna have to watch a lot of freaking videos to really understand but largely speaking it's because this is the behavior beast series and where else do you find beasts but in trees maybe I don't know anyway it's probably a bad joke but whatever it's my joke and it was like quarter inch of space there folks that was that was well that was well-aligned I guess is the term so the white book babe analysis I just look brief I just look for a place to throw this and I couldn't let go I just couldn't do it I couldn't let it slide out of my hands it's that important no it's actually pretty good but whoa I about fellow my bacon which has nothing to do with sir never mind bad philosophy jokes huh by behavior analysis what you want to know I mean you can look at our definition which tells you a little bit about it I could give you a little bit of a story so I suppose I'm not gonna give you all the details because they're in like 75 different places written really well so I'm just gonna tell you that experimental analysis of behavior was around since the early 1900s and then in the 1950s in the early 60s people started applying those principles to everyday problems to be like oh my gosh we have this understanding of behavior so why don't we apply this understanding of behavior and these principles that we've discovered in the laboratory discovered that's an interesting word discovered in the laboratory to everyday problems there was some nursing stuff going on there was some stuff with well terms that I probably not gonna use on YouTube very often but again you can look up this stuff but by the early by the mid 1960s with a lot of different researchers and I'm not I really don't want to get into names I you'll find out over time that I don't like getting into researchers names it's too easy to screw up but anyway people like Bijou Bijou sorry Alan you know I don't know Michael there's a few big names here started doing some really applied work and the field eventually started to grow and people got interested in solving applied problems using these technologies and these these procedures that have been discovered discovered in the laboratory so through skinners early work and Watson stuff and whoa and Pavlop stuff and all sorts of different things we eventually figured out that you could solve everyday problems like how to climb a tree right so if somebody doesn't know how to climb a tree you could teach him right I suppose that that's a problem but or not my kids don't know how to climb trees and I don't either which is why a weird how you let you figure out how it got in the tree that's pretty strong so anyway so we started solving everyday problems with these with behavior analysis and the end result being that in 1968 the field was officially formalized there was the founding of the job of Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and of course the canonical paper written by Bayer Wolf and Risley which we'll talk about it another time but really Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and and apply behavior analysis in general 1968 that's where it's at that's when the program started that's when we hit the gas and kind of the field went nuts it wasn't like it was brand new that year wasn't just apparitions came out of nowhere it gently and slowly developed out of the work that Skinner and other researchers were doing in the laboratory and just that realization that we might be able to use these to to solve everyday problems and at that social significance that social value of solving a problem that's a problem for everyone or at least for one person is what makes our field genuinely unique I think at least in psychology it really is about the individual it's not just about a group of people or the average response it's about your response it's about how the heck you get out of a tree so anyway oh that was a lot higher than it looks because notice it's not even up to my boobs well maybe yeah kind of up to my boobs anyway so there you go folks see you later that was enough on applied behavior analysis take care	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCggdI_C38c", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCWKlx05vtSnpdSa6q47H9ng	RAVENS SIGN PARKER EHINGER	RAVENS SIGN PARKER EHINGER Want to support the channel? Thanks a lot! Here are a few ways to help: PayPal: paypal.me/IngravenVids Cash App: $Ingravenvids Venmo: Ingravenvids Merch Store : https://teespring.com/team-keepitclean-20-merch?pid=227&cid=2665 Merch Store(Purple) : https://teespring.com/team-keepitclean-purple-reign?pid=227&cid=2664 Use Code "TKIC" for FREE shipping & Code "INGRAVEN" for $10 OFF Business Email: ingravenvids@gmail.com Questions From Subs Email: Teamkeepitclean@gmail.com Want to send us something?: Ingravenvids PO Box 971236 Boca Raton,FL 33497-1236 Wanna connect via social media? : Just look up "IngravenVids" on Twitter, IG, and FB! Get your personalized facemasks here: http://www.mysecretdwelling.com/ #BaltimoreRavens #Ravens #NFL	[ "RAVENS SIGN PARKER EHINGER", "RAVENS PARKER EHINGER", "PARKER EHINGER", "RAVENS SIGN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN", "RAVENS ANDRE SMITH OPTS OUT", "ANDRE SMITH OPTS OUT 2020 SEASON" ]	2020-07-28T20:39:20	2024-02-07T17:11:46	290	PcdaqIPvM6o	so you two team keep it clean as you all know um earlier today was announced that andre smith he opted out of the 2020 nfl season um so it was suggested and it was also announced that the ravens were expected to sign parker ehinger ehinger my apologies for messing up your last name but it was announced that the ravens were expected to sign him but they hadn't done anything official yet but the ravens did just announce it that they have signed parker ehinger i messed up everybody's name i messed up my own name too but anyway they it's announced that they signed him sort of to replace andre smith and what parker can do no it's not a sexy name it's not a sexy signing or whatever um but it's a depth guy somebody who's on a team last year somebody who can move around the offensive line last year somebody who just brings in depth and that's what the ravens need that's what a lot of teams are really going to be struggling with this season because of all these players that are going to be opting out now i believe the deadline is actually saturday the deadline to opt out is actually this coming saturday i believe um so you will see a lot more names a lot more people a lot more opt outs um so there's they are players that are sitting waiting and like hey i'm ready so some of those players that you see in free agency that have been there for a while that you're surprised like wow how are they still in free agency now would be the time where i think they would really definitely they would definitely get picked up if they're still looking to play and if they're going to play in this season amidst everything uh going on um but the ravens went ahead they moved swiftly they said hey we lost one okay let's get one to replace it and they did it right away so it's been a very busy day for the ravens very busy day for the ravens and i i know that there's been other ravens news uh like the um the brie lin and the gust edwards news we did videos on both just haven't dropped them yet they're sitting there posted up but we just haven't dropped them yet so i probably dropped those later on but i know there's been like there's been a lot of videos it's been a lot of videos it's been a very busy day it's just been a lot going on in the nfl today on this tuesday um but i i appreciate y'all for watching them i appreciate y'all for supporting them i i appreciate y'all for just everything being positive man because i know some people could be like oh man why so many videos but it's just so much that's going on and i said it in another video if i could i would just do a live stream just do an all day live stream that would be the perfect way just doing all day live stream and we could literally cover everything that's going on as it happens in a live stream but anyway that's that so parker is uh sorted a new swing man he's a swing man he may be over here he may be over there but he's just a backup guy he's a just in case guy so ravens offensive linemen um they they're pretty healthy they got good track records on their health getting ronnie stanley uh bradley boseman or bradley boseman he had he had a couple of hiccups like two years ago but last year he's pretty good um mass scorer but even like we have some depth but we just need more like man we got mass scorer and um undrafted rookie free patrick mccarrie we got mass scorer and patrick mccarrie boseman there's fluker there's powers there's tyree philips there's like we we got some guys but we just needed more we need more veteran presence there at at on the offensive line because you you can never have enough and especially on a season like this man veteran presence is everything it's everything because a rookie this year is looking at the inner field like what is this what did i get myself into this is not what i signed up for and this is actually nothing that anybody signed up for but the players that are sticking around they they're gonna make a way and it feels gonna make a way and they're gonna make this thing happen and that's not a disney players that are opting out because hey again health over wealth health over everything that's the most important so again shout out to any players that are opting out and they like hey they could they could have the opportunity to make a lot more money playing but if they don't feel comfortable hey i'm i'm all for it i support it if you don't feel comfortable playing cool no harm no foul so shout out to them and shout out to y'all so anyway team keep it clean appreciate y'all thank you all and shout out to the newest raven mr parker but it's not peter all right on that note i need to get out of here so i'm 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UC0Sm7lWLx1DD4wNJSuLL7kg	Supply And Demand Weekly Forex Market Analysis \| Fundamentals & Technicals (Including Gold)	#forex #gold #fundamentalanalysis Join the supply and demand technical and fundamental analysis Discord coaching group! https://www.trading180.com Access The FREE Forex Fundamental Analysis Course! Go To https://www.trading180.com/fundamentalanalysis101 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SUPPORT AND RESISTANCE & SUPPLY AND DEMAND??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JagHCOJXWVQ FOREX TRAINING COURSE - HOW TO DRAW DEMAND ZONES IN 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z_dqIQRmso WHY SUPPLY AND DEMAND TRADING IS THE GENESIS OF ALL TECHNICAL STRATEGIES! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrqnEcvVH1I How To Trade Any Market Using Supply & Demand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4WDCwLTHkg Forex Masterclass - Fundamental Analysis Strategy In Under 60 Minutes!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nev1d1wK_bw&t=4s TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - WEEKLY FOREX MARKET ANALYSIS WELCOME 1:01 - FOREX FUNDAMENTAL AND RISK SENTIMENT ANALYSIS 2:32 - FOREX SUPPLY AND DEMAND TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Disclaimer: This video is for general information only and is not intended to provide trading or investment advice or personal recommendations. Any information relating to the past performance of an investment does not necessarily guarantee future performance. Trading180 including its analysts shall not be responsible for any loss that you incur, either directly or indirectly, arising from any investment based on any information in this video. Please remember spot forex trading carries significant risks and may not be suitable for all investors. Losses can exceed your deposits.	[ "weekly forex market analysis", "demand and supply price action", "forex DEMAND and SUPPLY zone strategy", "How to trade supply and demand zones in forex", "what is the best supply and demand strategy", "supply and demand weekly analysis", "demand and supply market analysis", "supply and demand market analysis", "forex supply and demand zones", "supply and demand forex trading strategy", "demand and supply chart analysis", "demand and supply forex trading strategy", "Trading180" ]	2021-06-13T11:04:09	2024-02-05T07:39:49	1,944	PCbYoEk-qnk	Hi, my name is Leon Rowe, currency trader and trading coach at Trading180.com and welcome to this week's supply and demand forex and gold fundamental and technical analysis. So one welcome to you if you're new or a returning watcher and please don't forget to like, subscribe and share with your fellow trading colleagues if the information I provide every week is of use to you. So our trade process at Trading180 is to really apply fundamental analysis to establish our directional bias and then to apply technical analysis so supply and demand strategies to time trade entries, establish profit targets and risk management. So here we use the best of both worlds both FA fundamental analysis and TA to really combine those to make the best trading decisions. So let's get into the weekly analysis as far as the week ahead fundamentals and the news drivers potentially that may push price in our directions. So week ahead let's zoom in policy makers are going to be a busy week so policy makers in the US and Japan will be deciding on monetary policy in the coming week. That's always a big market mover and I say always but it tends to be all eyes are watching that because monetary policy is really what drives currency price. While minutes from the central banks in Australia and India will also be in the spotlight. Other important releases to follow include US and China industrial output and retail sales Canada and UK inflation data that's going to be important, Japan's trade balance and inflation again very important, Australia employment figures again another important driver employment has a direct effect on and is a sign of a growing GDP or whether the economy is still struggling and India consumer and whole cell prices. So for the majors Australia, Canada, the US and Japan we definitely have some potential market moving news so getting into the technical analysis and starting off on the dollar index and dollar index is just a measure of dollar strengths worth keeping your eye on to understand overall US dollar strength or weakness against other currencies and then we go to if we want to trade the dollar whether we're long or short we want to look at whether the Dow Jones dollar index is in a for example supply zone and then look for short trade confluences on this index with for example the dollar yen dollar Swiss dollar CAD etc so also as well quickly just before we get into the fundamentals there is a course as well just how to draw a supply and demand zones called the supply and demand zone trading free forex trading course on YouTube and it's really a beginner's course on how to draw supply and demand zones so let's get into it now so dollar index fundamentally from a directional bias perspective there are some positive signs around the dollar US initial jobless claims declined for a sixth consecutive week so applications for the US state unemployment insurance fell for a sixth straight week consistent with further improvement in a labor market and a robust economic growth so the US is the US's economy is pointing in the right direction but the US also has another problem and the Fed have another problem with consumer prices so consumer prices in the US top forecast stoking inflation concerns so prices paid by US consumers rose in May by more than forecast extending a month's long buildup in inflation that risk becoming more established as the economy strengthens and the problem with this is and I say this to the guys in my private group as well the problem that the Federal Reserve have and as well as the ECB as well the European Central Bank and other central banks around the world is inflation going higher than their 2% target sooner than the economy recovers they really want the economy to recover first and then inflation to kind of follow because if inflation gets out of hand before the economy really gets going they can't they don't really want to raise interest rates because it raising interest rates can hurt the recovery can hurt businesses borrowing lending so they really want to try not to raise interest rates before the economy and businesses have had a chance to really grow and get growing so that's a major problem for the for the central banks and again if you want to really understand inflation and interest rates once you get it it clicks you can really understand and read these these fundamental articles and really understand them on what's going on potentially in the future but you will never be able to really understand where the smart and what the smart money is thinking or where they think prices are potentially going in the future if you don't understand interest rates and inflation and to call yourself a forex trader and not understand inflation interest rates in GDP how could you really say that right you're not you're just a technical trader but if you do want to understand really the core principles of fundamental analysis and how to combine them and see what fundamentals have on the effect of fundamentals have on price go to and do a search trading 180 forex fundamental analysis trading course beginner and intermediate traders on youtube and that will really kind of clarify the things that i'm saying if you're not too sure anyway it's getting back to the dollar the dollar at the moment is a bit middle of the road there is again still negative sentiment but maybe in the short term with some positive news you could see prices go into the upside my bias at the moment is still probably more short dollar for for several reasons but it's not really a currency i'm looking to trade anyway it's not really on my list of currencies to trade at the moment simply because there are better trades and clearer divergences out there so we've got a bit of a bit of a messy chart at the moment but this in fact what i'll do is i'll just clear that lower level and all this really here is all demand right here so we are caught between two kind of supply and demand zones wide ones and again what you can do and what we do is when you find yourself in an area of wide demand what you want to do is look to kind of break that down and see where those support and resistance levels are major support and resistance levels are within that supply and demand zone and what you can see here within that demand zone there you can see that there's been levels of support support as well so those are the areas within the larger supply and demand zones that you want to get involved in for example you've also got a bit of support and resistance in and around this area here so again it separates and it gives you a bit of an area to look for if you're looking for any kind of short trades within these zones and also as well what you can do and what i do is once prices come up into a zone right here go down into a lower time frame and look for some entries right that's pretty much what we're doing it's a bit more sophisticated than that actually a lot more sophisticated than that but just as from a youtube video perspective that's basically the premise of what of how to kind of trade these zones anyways so dollar for me i'm a bit middle of the road but if you do want to be a buyer of the dollar you think there is some positive news and positive data coming out towards the dollar and and the federal reserve is is is going to get a bit more hawkish meaning that they're probably talking about tapering bonds and increasing the strength of the dollar which i think they kind of have to or forced to at the moment or at least consider talking about then you want to look for long trade look for a pull back into a demand zone and look for any kind of confluences again not necessarily trading the dxy but buying the the dollar yen dollar swiss dollar cad and all the dollar pairs and vice versa with trading the the dollar to the short side right you're looking for areas in supply where you see basically the dollar strength start to go to the downside and then look for sell trades on the dollar yen and other dollar crosses anyways moving on to the dollar yen and dollar yen so far we did prices did kind of waver around this this area here i will draw this this demand zone it's not the best demand zone in the world but it is there and dollar yen has been making high highs high lows out of the two the dollar for me is is probably the one i would choose to buy although the japanese yen in a risk off environment risk off meaning that when there is fear uncertainty in the market money tends to flow into a safe haven currency like the japanese yen so if you are buying a dollar yen one of the things you've got to look for is either negative dollar news or risk off environment where there is a potential for example outbreaks of corona virus etc just a risk off sentiment and then the dollar the yen sorry should want to increase in value so again this isn't really a pair that i'm potentially looking at but if you do want to get long i would probably say i wouldn't necessarily say this is the best demand zone even though there is an opportunity there for me long trades will probably look to be established anywhere around this 108 zone 10798 area i think for me that's a nice fresh area of demand this area of demand down here 108 is okay as well level's been touched once um so once is okay twice is um is is all right as well the best areas really to look for a touch of of demand they know in fact i'm wrong about that because here was the demand zone he's the he was the original demand zone so this in fact was the first touch right here and then that's the second touch so um the more times the level is touched the weaker it becomes um just due to you know this being um the the bargain this starts to become less of a bargain and it starts to become very very common uh because all technical traders can see this level and this is where where um the market tends to be manipulated so for me 108's if prices can come down to the 108's actually i would consider being a buyer down at the 108's uh for the us dollar versus the japanese yen um but again for buying the japanese yen look for um any kind of risk off trade sentiment before looking at getting shorter supply zones um dollar swiss pretty similar uh dollar swiss and again this level did manage to you know hold this demand zone here we've had another touch at this level positive news out around the dollar right here um the swiss national bank uh thomas jordan the governor has come out and said that um he thinks that the swiss is highly valued so it is expensive and you can see pretty much what's been happening the dollar's been getting weaker whereas the swiss franc has been getting stronger so um that is a problem for for the for central banks when they want actually a depreciated currency they want a weaker currency um so they might actually start to intervene is the rumor potentially not necessarily right now and right this week but it's always in the background and uh if they do start to become a bit more dovish and a bit more vocal about intervening then you could see prices uh start to rise um uh from a from a um buying the dollar and selling the swiss franc perspective but if you do believe again that the swiss franc is a buy based off of maybe some sort of risk off sentiment then if prices come up into this zone you do have again a bit of a level here you can see an intraday level there you also have a bit of a daily level just above it to look for any kind of short trades moving on to the dollar cad dollar cad really hasn't moved uh that much in the past a few weeks since uh really april or here sorry may uh prices have only moved um what's that i'd say somewhere in the region of highs and lows i mean about 200 pips low volatility in the market um i'm entering into that range right so the top of the range is right here potentially we could see a bit of a sell-off personally i would prefer prices came up to this one two three area before looking at getting short again if i'm looking to buy or sell any one of these i think the canadian dollar is the one i would really look to want to buy i think they are ahead of the the the us when it comes to the economic recovery although this area down at the lows does look like a decent area to look for potential buys let me just uh one second there we are yeah this demand zone at the lows looks decent for a potential buy it has been several times to be fair but i'm more thinking about a bit of a stop hunt below the the markets if you're looking for a buy which is basically be on the scope of this video but um yeah my buyers will probably be more towards the uh the downside so any pullbacks into fresh areas of supply are going to be uh selling opportunities uh new zealand dollar us dollar and uh the uh the new zealand dollar has been a bit weak but we do have uh new zealand um gdp coming out this week which could be the catalyst potentially for some upside potential if the data comes out as um as positive right so uh yeah i think one second let me just draw this probably a bit further down here um yeah decent for a long trade i do like the location don't like the level again for those of you who are in the private mentoring group really looking for you want to you want to kind of look for a stop hunt around this area if you are entering into long trades on the uh dollar um so the new zealand dollar japan um all over the place today uh the denizen dollar uh us dollar all right if you are looking for short trades potentially you think that the dollar uh the us dollar is going to get stronger than this is the uh zone to get involved in or this area here again if you want to break down the zones uh you really want to look for one of the things you look for um to kind of break down the zone is where support and resistance of your support and resistance is within those zones so if you don't see any of your support and resistance within this zone then that's one of the confluences that you can't really use until you see something here i think there probably is something around uh the hide right here so that end that area would be where i'd probably be looking for some sort of your support there resistance there so around this one uh so 0.724 area is where if you are looking for short trades to look for any kind of short trades there moving on to the pound dollar pound dollar um prices did actually end up holding this week this uh 142 1.42 1.24 250 uh area ended up being a bit of a cap uh at the moment we have we are really in the highs of the uh the range this being an expensive area right back in uh February right expensive and then when prices come back to this area we've seen that it is a bit expensive but if i was going to be a buyer or seller i'd be looking to be a buyer of this at the moment down to that area of demand uh one of the reasons really is because um the financial institutions potentially are going long as well so even uk's horror movie of a reopening has pound bulls buying so pound drop and delayed reopening temp lightly temporary uh namura says and money market see bank of england raising rates in early 2023 so the economic gloom is lifting so fast in the uk that even the skeptics are warming to the pound never mind the risk of reopening delay yeah so positive news potentially around the um the pound again there are um headwinds there are um uh concerns obviously about a potential um you know not a full reopening um of the economy here in the uk but there is um again uh fuels and i'll read the next paragraph or already up more than four percent this year from this year's low in january amid one of the world's fastest vaccine rollout programs that that trade has been an absolute beast by the way vaccine rollout um sterling is winning fresh backing as the faster than expected recovery right so gdp speculation that the bank of england is about to take a hawkish turn so you're buying the rumor selling the fact that they're about to so you want to try what banks are doing is positioning themselves uh potentially to buy the pound and if this rumor starts to take shape then they're really ahead of the curve so abn amro a long time bear just revised its revised up its pound forecast as a city group uh um ink uh bulls predict further gains to with the mora international plc and society general i say seeing the pound erasing all its post Brexit losses by the year rent so that is lots of banks looking to you know buy into potentially the pound and not necessarily always the pound but there are other currency pairs like the pound yen and the pound switch which are swiss which i am actually very bullish on but in the case of the pound dollar i think i'd be again more of a buyer if prices can come down here temporarily i think that is a really good zone to look for the 140s area to look for a long trade um and uh yeah so positive for the uh for the uh for the pound but is the pound dollar the best you know is the pound the best uh currency to buy the dollar against probably not but i think there is a much more upside potential in this um in this move so for me pound dollar buy uh also as well if you do want to get short you know basically for some pullbacks into that supply zone before looking to get short euro dollar quite and the euro dollar and really before we get into the euro dollar i just wanted to remind you guys that the the expiring demand uh course uh enrollment reopens on July the 5th right which is 22 days away from now and lots of things you get from my private mentoring you get access to the fundamental analysis spreadsheet where we can see um the currency strength from weaknesses divergences and convergence trades also as well get exclusive access to the discord group as well as uh hundreds and hundreds of videos in our trading videos daily videos where you uh where we get um i post every single day um videos regarding trade setups fundamental analysis um and really really top quality education you can pretty much see all of the videos you know in in the uh that i'm scrolling through at the moment again hundreds of videos uh daily videos that you get uh regarding supply and demand anyways let's get back to the euro dollar and the euro worst fears of enduring pain for the euro area workers are subsiding so european fears that a pandemic will lead to a legacy of disfigurement across the labor market are starting to see more of a bad dream than a reality meaning that um the economy is slowly starting to recover um when it comes to uh the the jobs and unemployment so uh a lot of banks in fact are bullish on the euro dollar overall long term and they think as the uh dollar um and the euro starts to catch up with the dollar um with the u.s economy uh from in from in an economic perspective you should start to see some higher uh euro uh prices euro dollar exchange rates so any pullback should be seeing seeing if you believe in a narrative again this is not trading advice not financial advisor but if your fundamental analysis tells you to point in that direction then this you know any kind of pullback should be looked at as buying opportunities i do like these zones right now potentially for a buy um that being my bias if you are looking for any kind of sell trades you're looking at um really this zone right here i i this this area this area is okay but it's been touched several times so i do think again the more times it's been touched when you think about supply there supply was there this is the third touch again you really want to look for um uh fresh attaches of supply those the best areas so one uh 1.23 but again if prices do come up here the question is why is the dollar a bargain why is the u.s dollar a bargain against the uh against europe but also getting again into a bit more euro news fundamentals the ecb is said to differ on bond buying uh need within the summer market so um again getting into understanding where the central bank is uh when it comes to uh bond buying and reducing and tapering and and bond bonds are basically government debt government bonds are government debt and the european central bank as long as as well as uh other central banks are supporting the economy by buying basic government debt now um they're a bit they're a bit um at odds with regards to tapering or whether they should continue to buy um government debt and support the economy and um the the more that they again support the economy and and bond buy um the the more that they can't really look to raise rates so they need to taper first and then look to start to raise rates so once they start talking about tapering meaning that reducing their bond purchases then that would be actually very positive for the uh ecb or should be positive for ecb price or hawkish um but also as well it can't keep buying bonds forever because the more they keep money printing to buy bonds then there's an inflation risk which again ecb officials warn of yeah despite extending the stimulus because stimulus causes inflation right because it devalues the currency so again they're in a bit of a spot they're in a bit of a hard rock and a hard place um and uh on how to manage the economy but again the talk really should be start to see that the european central bank are um read anything regarding tapering or their change in stance on uh on on on bond buying then uh the euro area or the euro should want to be a potential buyer continue its upward trend anyways moving on towards the euro yen euro yen and um euros coming euro yen is coming down to a really nice uh place a really nice place i really want to get involved in at the moment so prices can come down for example to uh just a bit lower potentially to this area here i do want to be a potential buyer we do have uh supply sorry demand there and a bit of a bit more continued supply in fact coming down here but again my bias is really to the upside um and pullbacks represent buying opportunities so again euro um we're putting a bit more bullish on the euro than i am on the japanese yen so now as prices come down into this you know demand zone um it's time to look for potential buy trades so again for me it's a confluence you've got resistance resistance bit of support around here so there's one two three fifty area i think if prices do come down into that zone for me uh look for potential buy opportunities if an opportunity presents itself buy and the right opportunity presents itself um so yeah that's that's where my uh my mindset is that again if you get some risk off sentiment come into the market and pull back into a supply zone then looking for sell trades um buying the japanese yen uh ozzy dollar ozzy dollar for me potential buys uh even though the australian dollar um there's better trades to buy the australian dollar um against i wouldn't necessarily look for um um the us dollar but there are there are decent opportunities and i think if prices do come down to this this this 0.765 area it's it gets seen as okay i guess in fact i think i might have to uh end up i think this is probably where demand zone is so you need a bit more of a deeper pull back before looking at getting long for those of you who are in the private members group there is an intraday um uh cpr zone guys you guys can definitely see it which is basically here right that's where the zone is all right cpr zone right there but from a daily uh perspective you're looking at a portfolio pull back into yeah this 0.7623 area to look for any kind of uh long trades if you want to get long you don't necessarily have to looking for short trades i think for me my bias would be again maybe up into the 0.786 areas uh around here would be a really nice area to look for short trades i'm not really too keen on this uh this this supply zone here um but again my bias probably more buying australian dollars than the um than the australian dollar but it's not really a pair i'm i'm currently interested in uh ozzy yen a pair that i am interested in and uh looking for potentially for buy trades so any pullbacks this week um or in next coming weeks for me uh are going to be buying opportunities whether it's the end of here or around here again the australian dollar in a risk on environment is really the one to buy and the japanese yen in a risk on environment is the one to sell so um looking for uh some some some long trades and waiting for uh any kind of pullback on the daily and then getting involved potentially on the intraday but if you do want to get short on this uh currency pay i would say look for pullback into this zone here before looking at any kind of short trades again you need probably some sentiment uh drivers to really uh want to short the uh ozzy yen and finally gold and gold has uh benefited from the uh from a dollar weakness and fears around uh dollar inflation right getting out of hand and again the narrative really is if you start to see um if if the fed if inflation still starts to rise which it looks like it is and if it isn't temporary like the like the federal reserve are saying then you're going to see gold continue to go to the upside because in what is inflation inflation is um is devaluation right and um as as uh inflation is telling you that um the rate at which your currency is being devalued every year or every month for example so higher inflation means higher devaluation which means that your purchase in power of your currency is less and less and to hedge against inflation traders buy gold which is basically what's been happening here you know traders have been buying gold so any pullbacks into a demand zone um i think nearest demand zone at the moment although this this is a bit of demand it's not really the way that i would kind of draw it unless we make higher highs right and then a pullback into that zone would be desirable so for me i think the best area of prices can go back into this 18 13 you want to be long gold which is basically short against the dollar then that's the uh that's probably the best zone at the moment to look for any kind of long trades from a daily um uh demand zone perspective if you are looking for any kind of short trades then uh these supply zones would be what you are looking for and um there is a fundamental article which says that gold has the weekly loss as dollar and yields rebounds of gold fur was treasury yields climbed from three month low and dollar strength in the metal erased some short lived gains that were made in the wake of a us inflation report so i mean so this is only really kind of a short term um uh report but um i think the bigger picture is more to do with again inflation concerns again if inflation starts to next inflation cpi figures for the us actually come out lower then i think gold should you know it should strengthen the narrative that inflation uh is is is um high inflation is temporary and then you should just ask to see gold want to uh sell off a little bit as well as the dollar and any kind of dollar trades actually go higher so uh that's it for this week uh hope you guys enjoyed the content again don't forget to like subscribe and share with your fellow colleagues and uh hope you have it we'll have a great trading week and take care	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCbYoEk-qnk", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCJ9v1a6TH9iN1Gl5TqEvzRw	2022 Panini Capstone Baseball Box Break for Heather B	Live Group Breaks and Case Breaks! Check us out at http://www.laytonsportscards.com Our new Discord has launched! If you are a Youtube Member or Twitch Subscriber, connect your Youtube OR Twitch to your Discord account to gain access to all channels! If you DON'T, you will not be able to see all channels and chats. https://discord.gg/rwcWdxZQt5 Amazing Breaks at Great prices! One of the Biggest Breaking Operations in the World! BREAK SCHEDULE: https://laytonsportscards.com/pages/break-schedule PERSONAL BOX BREAKS: https://laytonsportscards.com/collections/personal-boxes RANDOM RESULTS (Found under "Quick Links" at bottom of our website! : https://laytonsportscards.com/blogs/results Follow Us: INSTAGRAM @LaytonSportsCards TWITTER @LaytonSports - https://twitter.com/LaytonSports FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/LaytonSportsCards YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/user/LaytonSportsCards TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/laytonsportscards Multistreaming with https://restream.io/	[ "sportscards", "sports", "cards", "baseball", "autographs", "auto", "box", "break", "boxbreak", "casebreak", "case", "laytonsportscards", "cut auto", "one of one", "1 of 1", "panini", "football", "basketball", "case break", "box break", "sports collectibles", "live group break", "live case break", "live box break", "sick hit", "patch card", "jerseys", "memorabilia", "football cards", "basketball cards", "hockey cards", "baseball cards", "topps", "panini football", "panini basketball", "leaf trading cards", "logoman", "group break", "upper deck", "Hockey" ]	2023-02-11T01:12:24	2024-04-23T23:32:09	308	pCo_1tBkECQ	Everybody forced here ripping a box of 20 at 22 capstone baseball hobby for Heather B. Thank you Heather Let's see what you got So Lane and Lane and Sean at the Burbank show right now, and there's this There's a young man That was doing an impression of me and it's pretty fantastic I'm not gonna show it because obviously It's a private video, but There's a pretty good impression. All right. These are basically just like there's like a Xenopharmus. There's a red mania got a Brendan Donovan rookie and A Jeremy Pena say a gold foil there Jeremy Pena and Bregman Summit, I didn't know I didn't know I was famous as famous enough to have people that people at shows come up and do impressions of me No, your Lucius Fox rookie red artist proof to 35 Freddy Freeman Five nights at Freddy's MJ Melendez rookie red and Big Bang Nick Castellanos He was making fun of me Mateo Alonso Nemo and deja vu Jacob de Grom and Roger Clemens 23 numbers Vaughn seriously That's it. That's a bit much into the unretire some of those Ran Gavin sheets red mookie. We got gold rookie Bryce elder And a Velo Nicoludo But I don't even know How to sing I honestly don't I Just know that part red rookie Jaren. I never never even played the games John Gray dual jersey card new new age materials play five nights at Freddy's. Yeah, is it good? I don't know Jake Myers red Corey Seeger and a new age Ozzy Alps I'm guessing it's got to be decent They made like five of them. Yeah, so it's got to be good It's a pretty big franchise Anderson India Connor Wong and a deja vu wander and Tatis That is what you do. Yeah, that's what that's what Tony does what we all do Tuesday through Saturday this week Connor seabold red. We got Kyle Muller rookie dual jersey Wander red and a big bang Cody Bellinger That's what it was what last week Suarez Adames Velo Dylan Cease His cards are wildly shiny wicked shiny kid TJ Friedel rookie gold Stanton Zerpa and a new age Royce Lewis Torque Kwan Yvonne Rodriguez Summit autograph Nice Yvonne Rodriguez Veerling Allen new age Julio Rodriguez now Nice good pack there Good names Strider summit to 25 Clayton Kershaw summit Kershaw base It's a it's a we my time is all thrown off. It's very strange, right? Yeah And a Colton Welker crown rookie Otto to 99 Lewis Hap and a crest Bryce Harper And that'll do it. Thanks again, Heather. We'll get these out to you	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCo_1tBkECQ", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCJ9v1a6TH9iN1Gl5TqEvzRw	Dual Case MLB 2023 Bowman Chrome Baseball Hobby & HTA Choice #19	Live Group Breaks and Case Breaks! Check us out at http://www.laytonsportscards.com Our new Discord has launched! If you are a Youtube Member or Twitch Subscriber, connect your Youtube OR Twitch to your Discord account to gain access to all channels! If you DON'T, you will not be able to see all channels and chats. https://discord.gg/rwcWdxZQt5 Amazing Breaks at Great prices! One of the Biggest Breaking Operations in the World! BREAK SCHEDULE: https://laytonsportscards.com/pages/break-schedule PERSONAL BOX BREAKS: https://laytonsportscards.com/collections/personal-boxes RANDOM RESULTS (Found under "Quick Links" at bottom of our website! : https://laytonsportscards.com/blogs/results Follow Us: INSTAGRAM @LaytonSportsCards TWITTER @LaytonSports - https://twitter.com/LaytonSports FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/LaytonSportsCards YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/user/LaytonSportsCards TWITCH https://www.twitch.tv/laytonsportscards Multistreaming with https://restream.io/	[ "sportscards", "sports", "cards", "baseball", "autographs", "auto", "box", "break", "boxbreak", "casebreak", "case", "laytonsportscards", "cut auto", "one of one", "1 of 1", "panini", "football", "basketball", "case break", "box break", "sports collectibles", "live group break", "live case break", "live box break", "sick hit", "patch card", "jerseys", "memorabilia", "football cards", "basketball cards", "hockey cards", "baseball cards", "topps", "panini football", "panini basketball", "leaf trading cards", "logoman", "group break", "upper deck", "Hockey" ]	2024-01-11T23:15:19	2024-04-23T23:29:12	2,880	PCjcf4CgmoM	What's going on everybody got Kyle and Shawn here with Lane sports cards, and we are ripping dual case MLB This one is 2023 Bowman Chrome hobby and choice number 19 pick your team style I got Anton H with the Astros Guardians Brad R has the Mets and Yankees David C has the Padres Don S Has the D-backs Duke F with the White Sox Isuke M has the Royals got Hendrick B with the Brewers Joe T has the Mariners John W has the Angels Jonathan R with the Phillies Jordan and Rockies Joshua S Cardinals Costa K has the Blue Jays Pirates Larry S with the Marlins Mike F has the Twins Milan has the Reds We got Mitch D with the Cubs and the Rangers Patrick Z has the Tigers Peter M has the Nationals Ralph P has the Red Sox Robert C with the Braves Scott P with the Orioles Sean R with the Rays and the Giants Sean C with the A's and Sage H with the Dodgers Alrighty alrighty guys good luck on this one. Let's do it. Okay, sir They stink too that the Red Sox stink too, so there's no breaking news. Do we get show hey? No, no brain and Joseph and Jacob all grabbing mixer spots there Very close to fooling that first one Or the first two already fooled the third one. I should say Got two to go on the third one six to go in the fourth and one to go on our first five boxer sapphire So definitely check those out guys get some sapphire go today. Alrighty. Let's start with our Hot case Good luck everybody What's up Shane overrated Tighten it up overrated. Hopefully you're practicing true true true The late night Should be should be Every hanging out though so far today. Yeet good night a break. It's a lot of Bowman today I got some chrome some sapphire and the Bowman's best college football. 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Let's go iconic under Henderson Roger Garry us and Victor I think we can make that happen. That's the last Super Bowl we were in right there In a minute 84. What the hell it was There's a came to link to your Jones. Was that shula? Yeah, that was shula earlier I thought we were gonna go every year after damn Reynolds rookie year. Yeah, we're gonna sniff it There's a junior marine first um out of there for the royals I just need you to get a couple kills shame Help us out. It's the couple. All righty here box number five We shall I should have got to win last night with that Didn't happen last night No You travesty because of prism spots crab Travis beat A rb cases Who's that Devon process spencer jones yankies Who's the best can to replace save and I saw I made like a poster earlier on us banners basically every good college football coach they put on This is a Nobel was gonna play everyone kiffins coming. Yeah Xavier ours. It's 150 I think even sound like a six-year deal recently though. Yeah A couple million to buy him out nothing crazy. Yeah, I don't care anymore. Bye. They'll spend a couple million. Oh, yeah There's a loot gold first base out of their tigers Oh arbitration. Okay. I got you. I got you. Yeah, I saw a few a few trades or deals going on Ethan saw a thing. I saw you actually coming in that in fanatics There's definitely a few deals going on for sure To our dine whoreham the purple shimmer to 250 Color match Barrakes with the cheetah print. What are we doing dude? Oh Nancy here Yeah, like a cheetah. No, that's like Our mom's where that There's a gold man a claim. I saw in there rookie for the rats. Oh gold rookie Okay, I'm calling you Yeah, hit that like button Appreciate that one time for the one time. I always appreciate hitting the like button one time I'm in on it It came to leaks fencer jones. They say we can't have music over here, but they didn't say we can't have shots Yeah, love in francisco for say we can't beat box Got him. Got him. Got him. Hey, it's a gold auto. It's going to be joey orteez nice gold speckle there for the oats Oh joey orteez Hell yeah, so dope The gold chambers are dope. It's iconic Riley. They are that's fire, man and the mini down. I like the mini down Here's a morale rookie nice one negative 499 Montgomery and Rodriguez Alrighty guys box number six We'll get some bowman draft and sapphire mixers going next pull your mic closer Okay, hello Roger jay's paying on 12 million. They got the money man. They were ready to spend it on al-tani They got the money. Good luck here box six Some extra cards on this one cheese Let's go thick pack Rainer arias first base Is it turned on? Yes, it is turned on Does anybody else get anything else not hear me Azaro Montez iconic of debbers first yo and you Vargas Dodgers It's an aqua another man of claim for the reds. Let me go reds Yeah, I'm a claim and Sean's eating it chris. I know crystal clear, baby You wanted it. You got it. There's an auto louise guanipa. Nice one there first for the braves Juanipa go braves Iconic baby you got a shimmer Gavin cross Keep her moving here second half. Hey, let's go. Let's go raise spend some money There's a felon cellist in first base. We'll take that eat. We'll take it We can get it. They don't like to spend it off and buy the cannons We'll take it where we can get it Blue to 150s davis and a los Santos Sebastian and wall cops Iconic judgy Michael Harris that came to the league rookie. All right. All right. Those mixers are feeling quick guys got one five boxer and one Three box mixer left. There's a anthony piguero first purple to 250 Oh Did they shame nice That must be why jake was wearing the the shame jersey a scion shame jersey There's a corbin carol. Nice one there on the image variation. Nice one d-backs Oh carol letting the flow go. Nice one there d-backs Rimer and berry. Alrighty guys box seven over halfway on this one. Good luck. Good luck Bunch of bowman's best view as well today guys Bunch of bowman's best view you got five cases p y t stop what's going on mark start grabbing spots there How are you sir? What are we doing mark? How's how's historic edwardsville today edwardsville How's historic edwardsville today cold? I'm guessing cold cold. I'm guessing Give us give us a weather report. I can do racing and some money today. I like it I might be the most they've ever spent on a day and a day randy nine million Give shame a few. I'm in front of my aya first the Yankees Start flowing in. Yeah, I'm sure they will. I gotta gotta get those people figured out Randy Bob Andy you say Oh, Randy Bob Andy, there's a man of a clean rookie and Vladimir rested to Yoda 250 Dylan Carlson really for 2.3 that ain't bad. I ain't bad at all There's an auto going to be Dario la Verde for the angels. That's not bad at all 2.3 million That's bobby wit. There's angel sepada on the shimmer first Appreciate everybody grabbing spots today Get some sapphire going here next bowman best view a lot of bowman today between football and baseball I've been really liking the bowman's best view so i'm in on a couple cases This is my Cal Garcia 499. I'm down to rip them We got five of them today Stuff's fire it is iconic trout. There's an Invicta Jordan Beck Benjamin Gutierrez Six to go on our fourth mixer guys all three of the first ones sold out. That's awesome Six to go on our fourth mixer. I believe around the same number on our second five boxer bowman too So not a lot of baseball left There's a gold nice one white socks to 50s and be christian man up True gold first of one of 50 got the first one there Samuel moon yelts Alex Bregman and cam call you to 250 another reds another numbered red I believe that's Milan with the reds Alrighty here guys. We'll get box eight going eat box eat Good luck. Good luck Appreciate you guys filling this one up Getting us started on time Wish there was some football today, but I guess we should probably get used to it now I guess the uh No more regular season just the playoffs here We need baseball back Rasmussen. Nice. Nice Yeah, I'm not for some baseball. There's always something on at least in baseball season Always something at least Nick your work. There's a first Darnishi Valdez process holiday You'll see the line Wemby, huh? Wemby's legit iconic Casas Cheerio and Espinoza Ludwig Wemby $4.99 Paul Goldie for the Cardinals JCM There's an auto. It's gonna be for the twins. It's gonna be Omari Daniel first base out of their twin signed it huge Big ol auto on that one Here's a fuchsia shimmer to Mar Johnson to $1.99 Pirates and a wall cop Yeah, we got that Tuesday. Yeah, it was on Tuesday. It wasn't too bad, but It's a little bit of it. Yeah, it was way worse on the west coast and northwest of florida Not so much over here in central florida There's a 99 bobby wit On the green. I'll be It was pretty not only driving into work, but after that it was it was pretty chill the most of the day There's an iconic Jeremy Pena and Alice Ramirez on the Invicta Getting already done pretty good on the way in but There's an it came to leak Francisco Alvarez redemption Fairly ever see these it is chrome auto relic of jordan alvarez You go astros nice one there. That's not expected On the jersey auto jordan very nice one there Congrats to the strokes We'll see you brison that advice and don't see a lot of uh redemptions in here Sign their whole team for 20 million. I'm in on that. There's Xavier Isaac to 99 for the race I was about to say the guys you're talking about is like good bit of our uh rotation our best bat I'm in on it. All right. Good luck here guys. Number nine Bella checks were wrong with the patriots. What do you mean? Absolutely What are your thoughts? Uh, he did good. Oh, no, he was okay Offer contract to blake snell. Oh, man. Oh, man I don't need blake snell coming in to chop a can and beating us a couple times here I don't need that I don't need that It's the first hazy scullies Hey, good luck male. We've seen a couple color for you Yeah, let's see if we can get that going rice harper Get a little done. Oh, it's no lage of green Refractor to 499 still showing me talking right there. I turn my hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello There's a jack panada base auto jack panada manual bonilla Hmm, well, it's certainly on and it's showing that it's using it. There's a shimmer first Raymond Bola Axial applause one Benjamin. It's better now Okay Okay I'll accept that from a fishing auto. I like it. I like you doing some sleuth work for us I'll accept better now. There's a jock peterson 499 or sorry to 99 99 on the green jock peterson game Gonzalez goshy devin That's interesting interesting Iconic Riley green Rainer Arias first Jacob brimer the mice do like to mess with me They do like to mess with me So it came to league masataka. I don't know. We had to reset it or something There's a chase east at first for the Mets base auto Ariel Castro Brian Acuna It's a mixed reviews here and Braylor Guerrero a nice one their race to 75 on the um On the yellow and orange Yo injury Vargas. Yeah, that's why uh Yeah, ready box 10 that was me turning on and off. I was tapping to turn it off. I can do a normal tap It's what Orlando sounds like Probably Box I'm a 10 now Rainer Arias first like him in the bathroom. Oh man Hmm interesting. There's an iconic Corbin Carroll to 125 wander Aqua lava. There's a yo injury Vargas. Oh, there's a red red way to five That's gonna go to the Mets nice one there. Diego mascara Red wave to five nice one there Mets Take that on the red wave There's an iconic Adley and another goal. It is gonna be Elijah green. Go away to 50 Elijah green Drew Gilbert, Jesus Galiz What's up, Sam? Would you do the mic dude? Sam, why'd you mess the mic up man? It's not cool Come on It's not cool, man There's a Gabriel Gonzalez on the speckle Mariners to 290 not Zavala There's a Christian MacCaro on the ascension plus Christian MacCaro fell in Celestin Sounds like it It's what the it's what the chats telling me. It's what the chats telling me. There's a came to the lead Gunner Henderson Rookie refractor. Yeah, I don't know man I don't know what's going on first auto is going to be axial plus On the first base auto Brady house It's possible It's possible. There's a say Oscar Hernandez say Oscar Hernandez to um 499 on the refractor. That's Dodgers now Did just get traded Alrighty here guys box number 11 Box number 11. What is next for Belichick? Mm-hmm. I'd probably just be chilling Yeah, I think well, I'd probably just be chilling. I look money. Yeah most definitely does box 11 Espinosa Thank you Rob, Chris, Jesse, Steve, Taylor, and Joseph taking spots some Goodwin spots definitive bowman draft mixers Are awesome Bobby Witt iconic. There's a Desson Brown to 499 only WBC insert Desson Brown, there's Sebastian Walcott first What's up, George? How you doing brother George? Welcome Desson Brown is a blue j Blue j prospect Yes Thank you Chris taking a few spots in our mixer number four same with Jesse Steve grabbing one in five boxer Some Goodwin's filled up awesome guys Killing it today Yeah, all of our bowman mixers are filled up in the five box sapphire second one has 14 That's our last sapphire today. So will Warren first auto Yankees Celestine and Sarmiento and now we got Green Tarmar Johnson Yassir Mercedes There's a jump sock shim to 499 first refractor Pirates Naila Santos Pregman, there's an Invicta Reggie Crawford. It came to the lead Corbin Carroll Acevedo jet the Met Come on super own super. There's an Emanuel Terraro in the first auto pirates He signs that whole card and a speckle first blaze jordan 299 and we got one more box of hobby and we'll do some choice Good luck here guys Come on super Come on solace ming bong The FedEx guy was staying out there in the hurricane. He's like, uh, dude, what are you doing? I gotta get it done Jason Dominguez Process Meryl Like everybody fuchsia is gonna be Ezekiel Tovar rookie for the Rockies to 399 Jet the Met There's a Luis Almeida to 499 os on the refractor. There's an auto aerial Castro 20s Base auto you'll see galon Yoswell, Paraza and nice got a first shimmer Ethan solace Nice one there Padre is a one per box on the east not numbered Nice little solid shimmer back creeping First Raymond Mola Tell you about the first time you met Shawn. Oh boy. There's a gold. That's gonna be Wander for the uh race the 50 Michael Arroyo Carter young There's a one-pin show in victor. That sounds like Shawn. That's kind of how he rolls Dude that actually kind of happens It's kind of how Shawn rolls Yeah There's a Volpe it came to the league refractor Kaba and cross Two more packs of the hobby then we'll do the choice I did get an altercation. Oh nice way to end it blue to 150 blue Lava's Brandon my yeah Here we go Yankees. We'll get Mag on that very nice That's a way to end the choice there or the hobby We go Yankees nice my yeah blue And tonight now we got a Kunya this one there for the breaks Alrighty that'll do it for the choice nice way to end it there with the my yeah Or the hobby I'm gonna get the choice going now Let's do it. Let's do it. Good luck everybody Get some bonus draft mixers going next One jumbo in two sapphires Good luck here do some choice Somebody else. Yeah That'll happen my bad My bad Okay, disco Here we go. Let's go. Let's go disco This first up we got bj cook on the first for the eights eat bj cook We have a base auto yawender Rivera Yawender Rivera for the nationals and purple on the back It is going to be similar bear say the 250 there first for the uh blue jays First purple the 250 box two Good luck here guys. Let's see super I got red and orange Well gold act we got one benjamin first base auto guardians One benjamin We have a choice to 150 and it's going to be bj cook again for the eights Say one for the eights to 150 on the choice and it's a 499 on the back. We got louis guanipa Nice one there breaks And they're top prospects in this one. Thank you peter taking some teams in bowman's best you Same with charles grabbing some teams appreciate y'all. We got five cases Five cases all py t stuff. You guys got a team in mind for bowman's best. You've been a really fun product Box three Come on Some nice color here First up we have a one cornel for a d backs First base auto got a first base daniel guillarty for the brew crew And speckles going to be hindry chevely to 299 first auto 20s Hendry chevely's got a crazy auto He's got a wild one box four Purple in the back first up we have for the potrace first auto spins kaufman spins kaufman Yeah, it seems like in recent years a lot of them don't end up playing for the right or the a's There's a haunts montero first base there's a couple of uh a couple blue jays a couple of uh A couple of braves that were former a's prospects the 250 we got a anderson dale asantos First for the o's on the purple Yeah, a's always seem to have some good uh some good picks at least A good pick numbers and then They end up working out. They've had some good ones in the past The first ronald ronald's hernandez first bowman for the uh marlins There's a greens a 99 that's going to go to the dodgers. Jesus gliss green lava first bowman auto And on the back we have another one for the twins the 499 ariel castro 499 yeah Chapman and oleson the first ones that come to mind We're both a's at one point First base auto is going to be mckelton mara's race Another base auto is going to be pateen williams for the blue jays And speckle is going to be another blue jays zuluata to uh 299 speckle auto Thank you, uh, alexander taking ucla This spot's coming in for bowman's best appreciate that guys Fox seven say first geordie vargas Rockets to 150 got jacob melton on the choice for the astros And on the back to 499 we got our first refractor of dario berrero dario berrero Thank you clayton taking the all of their school spot in one of those Bowman spots are coming in appreciate that guys some football Fox eight first base auto loot gold tigers tigers We got a gold wave that one's going to be as well the wasario dodgers It's gold the 50 there and right behind it as they refractor auto one uh 499 can be as well the wasario Right back to the dodgers there Two of the same guy Sorry Yeah, I forgot about that uh sodar strong too. Yeah, monsee. We met monsee out at the calli show Carlos de la cruz It's weird. There's two max monsees. Yeah Carlos de la cruz there fillies Got a base vincent parazo parazo base for the mets And so 299 we got an anthony peguero. We are on our way to the peguero rainbow right now Nice peguero there for the marlins box 10 a first base auto hintry chavili for the twins Got a base auto paul macintosh for the marlins Now guys last bowman sapphire of the day that second five boxers are down to 14 Get that going like two hours or so. There's a green 299 going to be carlos rodriguez for the brew crew Pitching prospect on the true green Fox 11 You got a base auto right back to the brew crew abner your rebate base Looks like another our astro astro is going to be luke barryhill First bowman base auto for the astros and for the mets on the uh back to the 299 chase east step Be for shimmery the 299 mets and last box Can I say your last name or not? Box number 12 you gotta say it yeah Eat the step Yep, see He's a dolphin fan What's it must be? It has to be Last box here of the dual case I'd like to hang out with beast mode You know really? Yeah, it might be fun done fun time. I remember seeing him in a bar rescue one time He was letting his whole family run it It's a base ante Perez on the first rockies And fix it up And base auto is going to be gordon grassefo for the cardinals see when he was on bear grills No, I didn't oh man And last card is going to be blue lava. It's going to be uh brian betancourt Only back for the rockies blue lava to 150 Alrighty there guys that will do it for the dual case mlb bowman chrome hobby and choice Number 19 do a quick recap here Thank you erin taking a few teams and texans and prism and a flawless collegiate spot And clayton grabbing colorado in that first bowman's best All right guys, we'll do some numbers and autos here then we'll be on to our first mixer got the uh Rebox mixers two boxes of sapphire and one box of jumbo get four of those going here next To 150 we had de los Santos isaac yoshida benjamin autos We had uh to 150 bj cook to 125 domingas to 99 jock peterson akunia Turmar isaac bobby bobby 75 brella guerrero to 75 gonzalez and erinado to 50 elijah green Matt mclean rookie and wander We had our autos bass autos uh graceffo pares barry hill or ebay macintosh chavilly perazo delacruz loop gold um vargas paton williams tomares hernandez hey no problem no no problem ill sorry to get the Dono auto but did have some nice color there Montero uh coughman guillarte corneal benjamin revero bj cook castro terraro Warren plaza eastep and panada We had bass autos amar daniel laverde guanipa gold uh maren torres guillarte coyado gerardo galán sanches the 499 guanipa aerial castro gerio barrero and osario to 150 we had jacob melton uh to 99 carlos rodríguez and galiz gold to 50 had osario um orteez manna 25 we had anti peguero and red to five is the ego mascara so when they're met the five we had the uh yordan alvarez auto relic to 299 uh eastep peguero zulueta coyado chavilly to 250 uh de los santos reverse peguero and to 150 vetancourt and on the back to 150 we had for the yankees brandon mayella blue lava it's brando mayella and it goes now brando mayella all righty there guys that will do it for dual case um bowman chrome hobby and choice and we'll get some um we'll get some mixers going next	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCjcf4CgmoM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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UCfjFBgHkjKkzkQm92dzfvrw	How I Got To 5% Body Fat Eating Over 3,000 Calories A Day!	Thanks for watching my video and have a great day! Become a channel member and gain early access to my newest videos! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfjFBgHkjKkzkQm92dzfvrw/join Follow me on social media here! https://linktr.ee/jacobmcdonald	[ "how to lose weight", "how to diet properly", "how to get to 5% body fat", "5 percent body fat diet", "truth about cutting weight", "truth about dieting", "truth about losing fat", "fat loss transformation", "natural bodybuilding advice", "how to get shredded", "body fat indicator", "how to get six pack abs", "how to diet to get abs", "8 pack or 6 pack", "how to get lean easiky", "best advice to get leaner", "best advice to get shredded", "the truth about getting shredded", "truth about getting lean", "natty", "nfl" ]	2020-11-18T20:57:53	2024-02-08T16:58:34	540	Pc1AsGl_uO0	Wow, yeah, I swear to God I'm with it. I don't see nobody in my lane It's quite go get it like me. Oh Please don't me waste of my time with that business. All right guys. What's happening? Welcome back. Welcome back to the channel and welcome back to another bodybuilding prep Q&A type video I don't know how long this one's gonna go for but the last one went for fucking ages I just couldn't stop speaking I've been waiting to make these videos for a fair while. I spent the last two weeks post-show Feeling like absolute shit because I'd felt like I'd thrown away all of the work that I did to get to 5% body fat By binging for 11 days straight What I've done since then is actually bring it back I've brought my physique back from the dead and we're back honestly probably at about six or seven percent body fat right now And I feel fucking great about it because to lose that condition that you put so much effort in for so many weeks so easily Oh, it's depression. It is literally I Mean if you don't if that doesn't affect you negatively like really seriously negatively then you are an extremely strong Mentally then you're an extremely mentally strong person I feel like I'm mentally strong, but I wasn't that strong, but I was strong enough to bring it back Anyways guys today's video the question is how I got to five percent body fat Eating over 3,000 calories per day and I was I ate over 3,000 calories per day every single day of my bodybuilding prep until the last week of each of them of each of the shows so You know food was fuel I saw food as fuel my Expenditure was really really high and so before I get into anything I think I've just answered the question for those of you who want the question want the answer straight up instead of watching the whole video How did I get to five percent body fat? Whilst consuming over 3,000 calories per day when a lot of people say that's impossible Cardio it was calories burnt if you're burning more calories per day than you take in you're gonna get leaner So why are these guys on? 1800 calories to get to five percent body fat It's because they're fucking sitting on the couch all day except for their gym workout Guys food is fuel if you're at five percent body fat You can be consuming over 3,000 calories and burning all of that every single day and maintain five percent body fat Yes, your joints are gonna feel a little bit shit at times Yes, your strength is gonna be down But if it's your goal to be at five percent body fat whilst eating a decent amount of calories It's fucking possible and I'm here to tell you how I did it. So this cardio expenditure Wasn't always the case guys. In fact in the last six months my mentality has shifted. It really has it shifted from Only wanting to exercise only wanting to walk or run To burn calories rather than actually enjoying the walk or run for what it is and Getting you know the the the added effect of burning calories as well That's how my mentality changed throughout this So I'm going out there just enjoying cardio for what it is But at the end of the day looking at my Fitbit and going fuck I've burnt four and a half thousand calories today And that's how it happened. So as far as the forms of cardio that I did I was playing rugby So I had two trainings a week plus the game now that didn't last for the entire time So that was just at the start. I also attended the NZIS which is the New Zealand Institute of Sport five days a week We did cardio three days a week and two weight trainings I also did weight training five to six times a week for 45 minutes to an hour I also did an hour's cardio in the morning every single morning. So you can see quite easily That if I if you know if my calories weren't as high as what they were Not that I knew how many calories I was taking in I wasn't tracking anything But if they weren't if I wasn't taking in the amount of food that I did You know, I'd be I'd be fucking dying throughout these sessions especially with the fact that I was Very lean. Okay. So weight training was tough. Now if I didn't take those calories in my performance would drop It's whether it's placebo or not my performance would drop over time So my calories needed to be high and they fueled my body You know my body didn't flatten out completely throughout this, you know I had carbs always running through my system when you go with a low carbohydrate diet for a long period of time You know a week two weeks three weeks Performance suffers man. It really does but if you You know You can get through it. It's certainly possible But as a natural bodybuilder with no added testosterone, it's not easy. Anyways, so loads of cardio and Basically, that's the answer. Like I said, the cardio ramped up over time. So I first started Making sure that I hit 10,000 steps per day Then I began doing 15,000 steps per day You know when when rugby came into it I was doing 20,000 steps per day take rugby out back down to 15 bring the NZIS in man I was up at 25,000 steps someday like my cardio output was crazy and that's why you know I got to 5% body fat without this show even if I wasn't doing a bodybuilding show I firmly believe that with what I was doing and the way I was feeling and a good mindset I would have got lean anyway, and that's pretty cool That's pretty cool. So you don't need Now what you don't need to go 1800 calories and starve yourself You don't need to go completely low carb and you don't need to have a bodybuilding show in mind to get to 5% body fat So my calories burnt, you know on an average day was over 4,000 So that meant that for me to effectively put on body fat I had to consume over 4,000 calories per day and I did some days. I'm not gonna lie I fucking did I'd come home after a big day and a big training session And I would just feel flat and depleted and know that I had to get up the next morning and do it again I would eat 400 grams of carbohydrates I would because my glycogen stores need them and I need them and I'd wake up the next morning with veins up my stomach Thinking well that wasn't too bad You know what I mean? It wasn't that bad. Okay, so you can As long as you're consistent, it's all good Obviously 25,000 steps per day is a fuckload and it's not sustainable. It's not so cardio eventually has to come down Or you have to take breaks So, you know it isn't sustainable But if that was to happen and I wasn't tracking anything and I knew that my cardio was coming down Well, I'd reduce my carbohydrates. I'd reduce my food intake. I'd continue looking in the mirror Continue looking at certain lines, you know certain Striations and if they start going away, I know I'm putting on a bit of body fat and I'll just rain it back, you know, it's We've all got two eyes guys. Let's use them. You know to me. I love my analytics. I love my stats. I'm not gonna lie But we've all got two eyes So 5% body fat look overall is not a normal range of body fat. You do feel you do feel it You feel it. In fact, I probably didn't feel it until I got to about six to five five and a half percent to six percent body fat And then when you do wake up in the morning, it doesn't matter if you have a coffee It doesn't matter if you smash back carbohydrates A couple of hours after getting up you sort of feel that fatigue coming on and it's frustrating But you know, you've got to push through it's frustrating The only thing you can do is fuel up as much as you can but not too much because obviously there's there's a fine line When you're at five percent body fat and you want to maintain or get leaner. There is a real fine line As far as how many calories, you know, you can take in I mean if you're if your calorie expenditure goes down by a slight bit and you up your calories by a slight bit You can you can tell, you know, you can see you can see it in the mirror doesn't take too long but it's all about being consistent and Everything's possible. So that's how I got to five percent body fat Whilst eating over 3,000 calories per day. In fact, some days I would have eaten over 4,000 But it's only because I needed it, you know, and this goes back to Michael Phelps an Olympic athlete training hours and hours a day Lean as fuck. In fact, he was probably leaner Then I was on stage and he ate 10,000 calories a day Okay Because he needed them and I'll leave you with that So I hope you've enjoyed this video. There's a few more to come in this series and I'm enjoying them This is a subject that I I love, you know bodybuilding nutrition, especially and the ability to change your body's composition through Through a strategy and this was mine. So, yeah, I hope you enjoyed the video and I will see you in the next one peace out	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc1AsGl_uO0", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC98CzaYuFNAA_gOINFB0e4Q	Maciej Dziergwa - How to become an Agile company - case study	Maciej Dziergwa - How to become an Agile company - case study [EuroPython 2014] [23 July 2014] The STX Next story has the classic arc of “zero to hero.” During the last 9 years, STX Next has grown from a small business with a handful of developers, to one of the biggest Python companies in Europe, and a leading proponent of agile and scrum methodologies. We feel that now is the best moment to share our experiences in implementing effective, agile development processes in a company of nearly 100 developers. Maciej Dziergwa will be discussing how he’s grown his business, what challenges there are today in python development, and how he plans to take his company to the next level. Especially we want to spread our ideas of building de-localized teams/frequently changing teams/teams with young members that learn rapidly making synergy effect. Join us during our Business Day on 23th July 2014! Remember that 2+2 can be much more than 4...	[ "EuroPython2014" ]	2014-09-22T06:52:55	2024-02-07T22:31:56	1,350	PC5-i7KYVf4	The third and last speaker of this session is going to be Maciej Giergwer He's the CEO of STXnext, a software company from Poland Over the past nine years, Maciej has grown STXnext to the size of 100 Python developers He's maintaining a team of Python superheroes in Poznan and other cities in Poland and Today he is going to tell us how he wants to take his company to the next level his talk is going to be about business development about agile and about team development If the superheroes in Maciej's company have one superpower then in my opinion This is changing the rules of mathematics In the abstract of the talk it said that Two plus two can be much more than four Let's find out why welcome how to become an agile company Maciej Giergwer Thank you very much It would be quick talk because we have only 20-25 minutes, so I will be talking quite fast Hopefully we'll have some time for questions at the end So we have Agenda we have seven points So we don't have to go into details more about me my history So I was Python developer like most of you for a couple of years I started in 2004 and in fact I was Plon developer I started I came to Python as a Plon developer and then learned Python based on it but quite fast I noticed that I'm also good in management, so I get extra studies courses in to learn management, so the key Key course was MBA in 2009, but later I noticed that we have to go into agile way So I also took some certificates Agile certificates on Scrum Master and Certify Fight Scrum Product Downer I'm still learning a lot so Future is in front of me. So it was just my quick history So you know who I am from where I Am and That I was Python developer for a couple of couple of years And I think I still know something about Python and how to program but today I don't program anymore today. I manage and I'm very big fan of agile and I'm going to tell you a little bit and not about agile process in software development But how I built a stakes next how I grow it and How I want to do it in future and I want to do it in agile way. That's why we thought I'm talking about agile enterprise agile company not at not agile software development according to Business directory definition of agile enterprises. That's This kind of company is first of all flexible That is that it's able to respond Rapid respond to unacceptable challenges and today's world is a lot is full of unexpected challenges events Opportunities and agile company have to respond to it quite fast It's build on policies and processes that facilitate speed and change Then it's characterized with diffused authority and flat organization structure Is close trusted based relationship with their customers and suppliers. So this is what Definition about agile enterprises Then of course we have agile software development that is also crucial in context of agile company We know about most of you probably know that what is agile that it's iterative incremental and evolutionary So company can be also like this. It's Based on efficient and face-to-face communication a very short Foodback feedback loop and adoption cycle. So it's It was definition This is agile manifesto probably a lot of you if not all Know it that agile manifesto value everything what is on the left So Individuals and Interactions working software customer cooperation and responding to change and what we are trying to do in a stakes We do it internally in the teams We do scram Kanban scram, but so different Implementation of agile, but we also try to do it on company level and I will share with you some Nice stories. That's that we had we started a long time ago. Let's take started a long time ago in 2005 And we were almost agile at that time Why because there have been only five developers so there were there were no structure at all So we can also say it was very flat structure and this is agile one client very short feedback loop Very efficient face-to-face communication of course five people sitting in one room Almost in one desk so there was no problem in communication at all It's easy to communicate, but we also struggled with some problems So we had no policies no process processes no quality assurance and we have a lot of problems with With quality most of all then couple years past 2008 The new investor came to our component gave us opportunity to work for very big projects for banks Biggest banks in Poland We grew up to ten people it took us as you can see three years to grow from five to ten Still there was there were no structures or almost agile, but we already had five clients And we were able to take decisions very quickly The other challenges and problems occurred so we had no policies again still no processes no quality assurance But we also started to face communication problems because there have been already ten people and everybody was doing everything so Unfortunately without speciality specialization we we also Came to in some places to pure execute poor execution and then I discovered Agile I Read a lot of about it. I attended some conferences courses And what I found in agile the most important thing about agile is is that it's based on on a couple of things so In agile you Plan to inspect and adapt and this is how you can define agile in very very simple way with Very one one picture and this is how I was trying to build a stakes next through many years in different areas The first area the first problem was time tracking and how we how we implemented this Agile cycle adaptation so First the problem was employees didn't report worked Hours so we were not able to build it properly to the client So I introduced company rule to report work hours in the excel sheet for Reporting so we are able then to to build clients on it, but of course employees didn't follow that rule So we created an app an app for reporting working hours, and we created that you Reminder so it was some kind of adaptation cycle We found that people didn't report ours because they forget it about it So we try to solve this with application so it was better, but some people still didn't follow that rule So we create policy that we pay only for reported Walk hours, and it's really worked then So we are very we also introduced flexible work hours, so we said well you can work in flexible way But we will pay you only for the hours you report it and Additionally, we always have the policy that we pay overtime overtime worked hours But to be able to to say that you have been working over time You have to report these hours to then at the end of the month you say well I spent 10 hours more than I expected so you will get extra bonus for it And now everybody reports work hours and no more complaints about it Just it's not that simple it took us a couple of years to him to you know to implement it to To find what is working what not what is not working, but reminders are useful But to change people behavior to change something it takes time, and you also always have to find a good motivator To it and yeah, this one was quite quite good today We have 120 employees and everybody is reporting hours very accurately each day so this is this is quite nice and I didn't hurt since since Long time, but anybody's complaining about it. So in the past they complained a lot The next agile thing agile Way in the company is communication. So we started you remember in 2005 with and five with phone communication and different agreements, so nobody was knew what's going on in the in the company nobody people then clients Denied that they agreed to something on the four people complained so we introduce email and chat communication that is Improved something so it was traceable. So there were a history in log So if we agreed about some specifications some feature with the client on the chat Then or email that you could always go back to it and confirm after a couple of weeks that it was agreed But it was not enough we have been growing so it was difficult to To know what's going on so we implemented we used Sorry existing ticket tracking system that time. I think it was track We had a flat or bugzilla or both. I think Jira was not there yet So we had a flash list of tasks problem with many projects people teams It was much better than Emails vent chat, but still when company was growing. We're not able to take good overview of projects So what is nice? recently couple years ago what we implemented this Board agile board so scum Kanban board per team Per projects and this is it is visible on the TV screen in every room So we have a team in rooms. You will see it later on the picture and we have on this TV We have team scram boards or agile boards But really shows a team where they are what we are doing and I can step into into any team in a room I can see what's going on the project and that everything is under control The problem is the problem was then when we have to also improve that we had the same scram a scram board for all teams for each team so it was let's say backlog in progress to test and Delivered or to production to deploy and closed The problem is that our team are unique So each team is different each team works for different clients different project and they also implement different agile a process And it was a problem because not all the teams some teams are doing scram Some the other teams are doing Kanban the other teams are doing something different So what do we created in our app in our internal app because we created it on our own I think it was it was implemented in Pyramid We created custom is able scram Kanban boards with with colors So we have user stories with colors and each team can map their process very very agile process on their screen So right now we have the same tool, but each team Can see something different can see different Different scram and it also took us a couple of years to came to the point where we are now that each team can customize They they scram board or agile board Today your needs to vary Process and they work in agreements But all of them have a T-screen or TV screen or most of them in their rooms and they can visualize work They can see it all the time What is in my opinion the most important part of agile of scram? Retrospectives and retrospectives according to Wikipedia are meeting head by the project team at the end of project Or process to discuss what was successful what could be improved and how to Incorporate to success and improvement in future. So it's all about improvement continuous improvement some kind of kaizen Approach and what I found out this I decided to implement retrospectives on the company level so We do every quarter company retrospective so all team leaders gather in one room and do a retrospective On the company level so we have every quarter team representatives We talk about improvements in the company in the processes on different levels on communication level And examples on improvements from the last couple of retrospectives you can see here. So our people team leaders the representatives Communicated to me found out on their retrospectives that what we would like to change in the company is Simplifying reporting time in the app. It was one thing the other thing I mentioned before but they want the ping-pong table And they've got it at the end that they would like scrum in all projects or teams. It was not like that in All the time today. We have agile in all the teams that they want Separate room for one-on-one meetings That they want anti-stress balls that they want more line on the staircase that they want tea cups with STX Superheroes you can see this tip tea cups on our booth. I think downstairs So you will see how nice tea cups we have and this is the idea from our employees And they want better scramble. We of course implemented that way we can customize scramble. It was also from inside a company The other agile think Feature of agile company is open communication What I understand on from company point of view is open communication. So open space is not open communication What I believe that a team to become a real team that That team dynamics will be in place is that team is gathered in one place So we our work organization office organizations like this that one team is in one room In most cases, we are able to locate entire team in one room Then really incredible things going on when people spent together Eight hours they can solve all the problems. They can create Nice things that are very innovative. They help each other and they also joke each other They challenge that each other they motivate each other. So this is what I understand by open communication And this is I think is most important And it applies to all our teams then we have of course conference room That is available for all teams that they can communicate Outside very team with with client with or they can do retrospective outside very room what is What is the nice thing and I find it that improves a lot communication our lunches with colleagues and what we have and we always had in aesthetics Since our the beginning is that people lunch together in the lunch room in our office So they don't usually go outside But the food is coming to our company and they spent 15 20 minutes together eating Eating together really builds very good strong relationship. And so this is a very unique thing that happens There we have one-on-one room people means of course we have Regular things like group chat skype jagger and so on why one one why one plus one can be more It's because we believe in teams and we delegate the responsibility very allowed To a lot of responsibility to team and team leaders our teams are self-organizing very collocated entire team in one room We have at least one woman woman in a per team and this is also I think quite unique about us We have all I think we have also one team Compout only from women. So this is nice. We have always one non-technical person in the team And team builds very on agreement having this all in place We our when our team usually are most much more efficient when team on clients site We also use agile in non-technical projects a scramble than Kanban world. So we implemented some extra features. So Something like Kanban lanes to scramble And what we managed for example with this kind of scramble is our marketing department and communication So we have different communication to Facebook LinkedIn and we manage this process and this It's process more than a project just with our regular scramble and Kanban Board and then I can easily go into this this kind of board and see what is the progress in our communication on in other things in a company today Companies More than 115 people We are divided in a row into around 15 teams We have locations in three cities in Poland Pwap, Osnaniye Wrocław. We are also opening a new office in Wood we also have an office in Austin in Texas. By the way Probably are not familiar because we are from Europe me me also Austin is small Small silicon wallies of small California and now really a lot of innovative teams are located not in California But in Austin and it's much more cheaper. So It's wise to know I didn't know When I came there, I this is what I learned and we have system 16 clients in most of them are in the United States and United Kingdom we have also crime in Netherlands and of course you have some clients usually these are banks in Poland What how estates is going to be? Tomorrow I don't know but what I know is that we are going to follow all the time and edge I process so we'll be planning doing inspecting and adapting all the time We will see what future what future will come and now if you have any questions, I will be happy to answer them Okay, first question, please here Okay, so why was time tracking introduced as a an agile practice The time tracking was is Key setting point for us because we need to have it because this is how we build our clients based off on time and material What do we need to as an agile we improved our time tracking process inside company and we improved it in agile way But this is not part of of scram or agile itself. This is the business requirement and we found a way thanks to agile and Retrospective and adoption how to make is less painful as as possible So it's not part of scram But without good time tracking you cannot run business very well because otherwise you don't know how to you know For example count velocity per hour. This is some we can do some extra measurements With it, but many reasons for time tracking is building invoicing clients You can always find me in our stakes next both the downstairs I will be there for the next one or two hours. Unfortunately, I have to leave today afternoon Yeah, and one more thing We have we are organizing probably if you know European battle so you are invited today at four o'clock there will be another Competition so just join us downstairs. You will see what also nice things you are doing	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC5-i7KYVf4", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC-mConRSkyYyFrvMH3zQNMQ	what i got for christmas 2018 \| week in my life christmas vlogmas edition \| Kenzie Elizabeth	welcome to my what i got for christmas 2018 video! i combined my last 4 days of vlogmas into one vlog for a big christmas vlog! i show you what i got for christmas, take you christmas shopping with me, do a drive with me, show you what i gave for christmas and more! hope you enjoy xo LISTEN TO MY PODCAST: https://goo.gl/Xc5gh5 FRIENDS: lana - https://www.instagram.com/xolanacho/ ryan connearney - https://www.instagram.com/ryanconnearney/ ian - https://www.instagram.com/ianmagruder/ joe - https://www.instagram.com/joerobles/ yana - https://www.instagram.com/yanated/ molly - https://www.instagram.com/mollybails/ morgan - https://www.instagram.com/morgan.yates/ my wallpaper: https://www.etsy.com/listing/587985209/removable-wallpaper-the-stones-simply?ref=hp_rv Disclaimer: All opinions are my own. This is not a sponsored video. 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Be sure to subscribe so you don’t miss out on any new videos! ILYSM! what i got for christmas 2018 \| week in my life christmas vlogmas edition \| Kenzie Elizabeth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCo79S3LBeU Kenzie Elizabeth https://www.youtube.com/UC-mConRSkyYyFrvMH3zQNMQ	[ "what i got for christmas 2018 \| week in my life christmas edition", "week in my life", "vlogmas", "what i got for christmas 2018 \| week in my life christmas vlogmas editionw", "what i gave for christmas", "what i got for christmas 2018", "what i got for christmas", "christmas haul", "texas vloggers", "Kenzie elizabeth", "vlogs", "kenzie", "routines", "kenzee elizabeth" ]	2018-12-25T23:24:18	2024-02-05T20:50:21	1,421	pCo79S3LBeU	Come on Coco, let's go outside, let's go outside. Ooh! Guys, yesterday was me and Coco's three-year anniversary. Yeah, it was Coco. Morning everyone, it is, what is today? It's Saturday. It's Saturday. So today, I have two friends from Houston and they're a photographer and a makeup artist and so we're shooting. They're coming over in like an hour and a half. I need to upload Vlogmas, make some breakfast. I'm at my dad's Dallas house, so I'm in Dallas for the next few days. Coco, what are you doing? Update on the Kiehl's overnight thing. Did nothing, we don't think, right? Nothing. We think even my legs smooth somehow because I woke up and my legs were smooth but like my face, nothing. So, oh good girl, Coco. So. Time to make some coffee. Cute mug guys, you can get it linked down below. Yeah. When your friends and your parents are ignoring you. So if you use anything like over that spectrum, probably like systematic theology and like. Got my coffee. Isn't this mug just so cute, guys? We have our cute little matching mug, isn't it? Wow, my dad made Sinalatte. Love it. What a great guy. I've come to this decision, I wanna make an Instagram, that's just screenshots of, no, sorry, I'm putting a video. That's just screenshots of text from my friends but they're all anonymous. So it's just really funny. If anyone has a good Instagram name, leave it down below. But it's just gonna be hilarious. So I'm really excited for it. You're gonna be the star, Sydney. Okay. You go, okay, and then you're like, and the star. I'm gonna be the star. My Christmas card from Megan and Finley came in. It's so cute. Oh my gosh, Larry, Coco. Made some bagels. Guys, okay, so we're in my dining room, right? This table. Sydney chooses to sit there. Good morning, everyone. So good to see you. Guys, look who's here. So we shot, was it actually? Almost exactly a year ago. Dang, we shot in Dallas last year. They're so cute. I'm gonna have their Instagrams linked down below. We had so much fun, so I'm so excited. It is round two. Round two. I think this is gonna be our tradition. Yeah, they're from Houston. So if you guys are in the Houston area, check them out. But we just have some looks laid out, and we're gonna start doing some makeup. We have some plans, and I have some plans. You are the only person, I was telling Sydney this, you're the only person that I like doing my makeup. I mean, I know I already told you that, but like, and I'm not like picky with anything in my life, but for some reason, people when they do my makeup, I just don't like it. I don't. I just, I feel like when you put makeup on, a lot of people just tend to cover everything. Yeah, I'm like whatever. So this jacket, it's from Dolls Kill. They sent it to me a while ago. I've worn it, I think I've worn it in a vlog before, but it's so cool. We actually shot in the sunshade. I'm actually super excited about what it's like. Yeah, it's so different. This is cute if we do a really simple, either really dramatic or really simple, like I wore like white, it's denim, and it's like very clean. Yeah, I think that with a simple look, and like the white backdrop. Yeah, that's fun. And then yes, we have all this. We're gonna go searching makeup and stuff over there. They're so kind, and they brought me a Starbucks. It's so cute. I don't know if you guys are aware. Are you guys familiar with JoJo? Yes. Okay, so she re-released all of her. She doesn't play this. Oh yeah, oh, don't you worry. That's all I've been playing. Like that's literally all I've been playing. Yeah, we were playing it on the way, I was right here. It like, I grew up on that. Also guys, so Yana is in LA right now, right? And I just showed this video that is breaking the internet. Look at her right now. This is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. Stop. And then this one's even better. This is the first time I've seen a James Parrot, Charles Parrot. I know nothing about, I've, you know what's crazy? I said this in, I think every vlogmas so far. I've never had anything more fee. Isn't that so weird? That's so weird. You know, like the rush is nothing. No, nothing. I bought my like sisters and stuff, but wow. I can't wait. Oh my gosh. We're gonna have to tie him in the looks that I do on the thing. Yeah, I love this. I think it'll fly. Cocoa is me. No, actually. Oh my gosh, look at her face. Oh, Cocoa. Wait, I have to Instagram. Cocoa. Cocoa's having a really tough day. She's exhausted. My first makeup look. Now my eyes are watering. Oh my gosh. Just look up, just look up. No, I'm gonna be like walking around like this. We're doing like a cute little sporty one in a game, game room. My eyes are so sensitive that putting on fake eyelashes is so difficult. We finally got them all on. We finally got them all on and now it's like this. So just curled my hair in like five minutes and we're about to shoot the first look. Which would be very exciting. Your eyes look amazing. Thank you. I feel good about this. If they didn't stop, like crying. Okay, so we just finished the first look, which was like a sporty look. My dad has all these up here. He's gonna think these are really cool. I wasn't even thinking about that. But any time I think about the eyelashes, my eyes, I'm not thinking about it, I'm not thinking about it. Okay, so we are changing, while I'm changing into the next look, we're gonna do the same jacket as, I think that's kind of fun. Like, you know, like a denim on denim white look. Really simple, make my hair really messy. We're gonna do a makeshift studio in the garage. So I'll show you guys how we do that because that's gonna be, that's gonna be something else that's gonna be good though. Okay, so we are gonna take a white roll. Where'd the white roll go? Where'd the white roll? We're gonna, on all of this like workout equipment, we're gonna put it over this and somehow make it work. With some decorations on it, it's gonna be really cool. Well, we did it. We did it. We did it. She's back in the makeup chair, but now this one's dark. She's fighting the sleep. Here is our last look. This is my favorite look. I don't think I've ever had blue eyeshadow on before. I'm shaking from caffeine. And I can feel on here, this jacket is from Dolls Kill. This turtleneck is actually brandy. I've no idea where these hoops are from, but we're gonna go shoot in our little makeshift studio in the garage. See you there. Here is the jacket. It's really cool. Oh, so it has a loop where you can wrap around your body. Yeah, you can like actually like, it's really cool. Yeah, it's cute. It is really cool. So I really like this. I feel so cool. I mean it. Look at that. I mean it's all so good. Guys, now the next day, I didn't really vlog much after the shoot yesterday. I did a bunch of shopping and whatever. I'm gonna combine all of these vlogs. Today is Sunday. It is December 23rd. Still not done with my Christmas shopping. I am both one really good at gifts and I never procrastinate. Normally my gifts are like done immediately or I'm like shopping the day I get to Texas so I don't have to travel with them. But I ordered my niece, basically whatever she wanted, but I got her a bunch of like costume stuff because that's what she wanted for Christmas and they accidentally got delivered to my Los Angeles house, not the Dallas one. So now I'm gonna come home to a bunch of princess costumes for four year olds. So I need to go and just get her a bunch of other stuff so she at least has stuff to open for Christmas. You need to get my sister in law stuff. My sister in law. My sister, my sister, my brother in law. My both sets of parents. Basically everyone that I need to shop for, I have to do that today. My sister is having a last minute graduation party as well so I have to go to McKinney, some of the city right now for that. Anyways, I filmed a drag with me today. Guys, literally I have an hour and a half of footage. So there's so much to edit. So yeah, I have a lot to do. I'm kind of on a time crunch and waiting for my little brother so we can go. I'm dragging in with me. He's definitely not gonna be in the vlog. But yeah, so that's where we're at today. That's awesome. Also, for everyone who's been asking about that jacket that I've been wearing in my past vlogs, this is so bright. It's from Revolve. It's not available anymore. If you check on my secret Facebook page, you've been trying to link a bunch of stuff and we can't find that jacket anywhere. So as soon as I find out, I'll put it on my Instagram story or something. I want to be able to link it to you guys. I really do. But we just can't find it anywhere. And I think I honestly got it on sale randomly because it's just been in my office for a long time. So I don't even remember when I bought it. But I love it too. I'm so sorry. Cooper, hi, oh, you're so perfect. Perfect angel. This is my, oh, okay. This is really my real life angel, but she's just completely ignoring me. My dad has two TVs in the same living room just to watch two different games. Guys. Santa cute, Santa cute. Guys, I'm dying. So you guys know me and my leprechaun. She's gonna match me and my sister has fun. This is so cute. So I have this and then I have some little fake makeup for her and then a book, Gashila's books. And I grew up reading this book, but I'm so happy. This is perfect. We are at Cain's getting food. We're late to this and I still have like three stores that we need to go to. So I gotta figure that one out. Cody, do you like Cain's or Chick-fil-A better? Chick-fil-A? I like Cain's better, I think, honestly. I love Chick-fil-A. You guys are not familiar. Are you stop chatting me as I'm vlogging? Yeah, you are. He's trying to be cool. Cain's is so good. Awesome, guys. Look, look how cute she is. Oh my gosh, I love you, Coco. Cody, did you know it was our three-year anniversary two days ago? Three years of Coco being in the fam. Okay, well, I'm getting my little brother some Cain's because I'm an angel. Right, Cody? Okay, good. Can I just have two box combos, please? What do you want to drink? Yes, one with a sweet tea and then one with a Dr. Pepper. Can we have extra Cain sauce? Cool, thank you. Kiko's, Cody, did you hear that? Yo, yo, yo. He goes, yo, yo, yo. What a fun guy, that's so fun. Ken's in the leg. Aw. A girl just snapped out of time saying that he watches my videos all the time. Do you use this to get girls? Use what? Do you do it? You're snapchatting girls, Cody? Yo, yo, yo. That's how I'm gonna start my videos now. Yo, yo, yo. Kogo is so freaking cute right now. You know what, your dog's just having an exceptionally good time. Get her, yo. Well, thank you so much for having a night. That was definitely our yo, yo, yo guy. Okay, so now we're stopping at Ipik. I'm gonna get my parents some tickets because that's what they want. And then I have to get shoes so I need to work out tomorrow. This is a mess. We're running into Ipik to get some gift cards. I'm the escalator person today, guys. Okay, I got my tickets. Okay, so I'm not buying a new pair of tennis shoes today, I guess, because trying to go by Nike to even get in that parking lot, there was like 20 cars on every single side. It was so bad. Anyways, now I'm just stopping in some random like bed bath and beyond, because I can't find the Ugg blankets anywhere and that's what I wanna get my mom, or my stepdad, my mom. So, I think they're here. My family is like a huge Steelers fan, so I just found some of this stuff, but the blankets are not here, which sucks. Guys, okay, so my vlog camera actually died. I'm leaving my mom's now. I had my sister's grad party. Cody's getting in the car, but we're heading back to Dallas, because we're staying there tonight. I basically just hung out with my niece the whole time. It was fun. Do you have an oxygen? Are you connected to your mic? That's it. It's blue to you. I'll check. Okay. I'm gonna go see my mom. I didn't tell the show, but it wasn't a match. She was the one telling me, she was the one telling me. You guys are gonna kill me. I'm doing the exact same thing again today. Hi, can I just have an iced chai, please? Still not done Christmas shopping. That's how you know this has just been the worst month of my life, but anyways. Merry Christmas Eve, everyone. I'm getting a chai, and then I'm going back to North Park and hopefully finishing. And I also need to get myself shoes, so it's not all Christmas shopping. It's probably gonna be like really hectic. Thank you. Guys, I need this. This is so funny. I should have my buy this. Okay, so I got my dad some Prada clone. My stepmom some really nice pajamas. Two hours later, I finally finished, guys. Oh my gosh. Finally done. I actually, I was only gonna get myself one pair of shoes, like new workout shoes, but then I saw another pair, so then I got two. So I'll give you guys a haul. I'm gonna show you guys just the shoes I got for myself right now. So I got these Adidas. Why am I blanking on the name? I know the name of these, whatever. I needed just like new everyday sneakers, and I wear my Fila ones all the time, and I just love sneakers, but I've like really not been spending money lately. I've been like better about it, but whatever. So I got those, and then I got a new pair of Nike's just to work out, and these are just Nike freeze, and they're like really light, and super cute. Just got ready. We're heading to church. It doesn't feel like Christmas at all. It's like 70 degrees out. I just threw this on. I have this sweater from Brandy and this. Guys, I just did so much online shopping too, and the IMGA jackets are on sale actually. By the time they might be still on sale for like Boxing Day, but I'm princess Polly. The red one was like $40, so I just bought like a billion of them. I hope none of my friends are watching this. Okay, here's my look. Walking in the church. It is completely out of focus. There's coffee here. That's all I need. Cute. Oh, hazelnut. Amazing. This is the best. My dad wants to be in the vlog. You don't want to. Merry Christmas. Yes, you do, you just ask. I don't want to. Okay, whatever. Okay, I just got coffee with my dad. Cody doesn't want to drink coffee, so he keeps asking me to step by step of putting creamer in a cup. No, you just put the cream in. You really don't need sugar. You don't need sugar. He already put it in, a lot. Okay, then stir it up. And look at it. He doesn't want creamer. We're at water market dollars right now. Look at my grandpa. Your cool leather jacket. Looking cool. As soon as I start recording, he goes as always. Cody, you're dropping the coffee spilling everywhere. Oh my God. Here's my little only thing I asked for this Christmas. I wonder what it is. I'm so happy. Guys, I didn't think that they were getting me this, but I literally almost primed it, so it would be here on Christmas for myself. Thank God I didn't do that. My dad got Maddie. Hi, merch. Actually, wanted that though. She asked for it, so. Not this specific one, but yeah. Guys, Texas Treasures is like my favorite store because it has all this Texas, just everything's Texas. No. That's so cute. He also just got me my own merch. Thank you. Yeah, I can. What, done? You wanted me to buy them, so. That's great. That is amazing. I got some, what am I trying? Oh yeah, perfume sampler. I love the perfume samplers because you have so many options and there's the juicy one. This is my guilty pleasure and to have coffee that is like a coffee creamer that is that big. Also, guys. Isn't that cool? You can make the whole taste. I did that for no reason. What the heck? I have like 17 coffee makers. I literally have never seen this before in my life. Apparently this is where the coffee. What is this? I'm actually drinking coffee at one of my mugs. Maddie, you're so sweet. I've already borne this in my bag before. I'm just coming out to get it. How do you even know you've borne that? It was like six months ago. Oh, I'm sorry, Maddie. It's a great mug though, right? Cannot. I was wondering what this was in the garage. I thought it was for the, one of the. Well, I just saw a big thing wrapped. I thought it, I was gonna say for like one of the kids and then I realized everyone's 16, so. I knew it was gonna be that. I knew it was gonna be that. Seth, do you have anything to say to the ladies? That was a good answer. That was a really good answer. Ryan, do you have anything to combat that? So, Merry Christmas everyone. I didn't even do anything. You already stayed there? No, you stayed in my hoodie. So it's Christmas morning. We're doing Christmas with my dads and then we're going to my mom's. I can't sit back because I'm on the back of the place. I didn't know I was gonna be in my Apple Pen. What a good surprise, dad. I almost bought that for myself too. Seth, tell me about this shirt. Uh-huh. In the yacht club, that's very you. Yeah, that's great. You can wear your Rolex there too. There you go. Oh my gosh, look how cute. That's the best way to get a picture of them all. You're so cute, guys. Who'd be like to be the? We have five dogs here right now. Harley, my angel. She slept with me last night. Kobe's an angel. Kofo, Kobe looks great. This hair cut, Lucy, where's Cooper? Cooper's back there somewhere. But, I don't know where my coffee went. So this coffee mug, dad. These are my favorite coffee mugs and they don't sell them at all anymore. I can't find them anywhere. Well, no, cause they'll just break on the way back but cause I grew up I would always drink coffee every single day out of these mugs. Why won't you be in it? Just cause you don't make a bug? I look so bad, yeah. And I'm sick. And my eyes. And I'm sick. So my sister, sorry, is, I was just telling her like, well, first off, run away to my mom's but it's not that you're a bad driver because like it's, you're not bad. Just you were the worst driver to drive with. She rides the back of everyone's car. Like you're going 80 and you're like this close to the car. It's just so scary. Like I need to take like some, some like relaxing tea. No. No, just like any over here. Okay. Just absolutely so terrifying. The worst driver. Hi coconut. Coco's just being so cute. Yeah. So we're on our way to do Christmas at our moms. We like split them. We always do like Christmas Eve, Christmas morning and then Christmas day. So parents to the war. So I feel like that's pretty obvious by this vlog but we have Maddie's car packed. Coco, are we having a good Christmas? To the rim. Yeah. Yeah, literally to the rim. Oh my gosh. Do you see how like we're literally, how fast are you going? It's 60 and like it's 35 on this road. It's definitely 45. 40. Can I do the rest or right? Whatever. I mean literally they look like the house money. Hi. How cute are you? You're so cute. My iPad pro. Maddie wants to be vlog now because she said and I quote, I look so good right now. Are you going to tell them about your boyfriend right now? Like all the drama? Yeah, so basically like we're dating but he doesn't know we're dating. Yeah. And she's also apparently dating his brother and he doesn't know they're dating either. I don't even know if his brother knows me. It's cool. It just gets like a little bit awkward. So she's just in like a really awkward position right now. It's hard to play both of them, you know? Yeah. Especially when they don't know, you know? Like they're not in the loop. So best of luck with that Maddie. Like really, you're so strong. Yeah, those are awesome. She got this today. Looks great. And then I'm getting a red purse that Mom and it's right there. That's going to match perfectly. Oh good. So I can wear my light pink one. I'm now last minute wrapping presents. So I have the first one wrapped. This is for my step sister and a brother-in-law but it's cute. It's a Morphe palette actually. So as I have mentioned and shown you guys, this is going to be so loud. These little jacket, it's so cute. Check out my Instagram because I'll be posting with her with this for sure. One little thing, all right. I don't mean on the phone, than today's curfews. Okay, so I am just going to end the vlog. I am going to keep doing Christmas and stuff tonight but I'll show you guys what I got and we have a lot of family coming over tonight and honestly I just want to get this vlog up because if I don't post it now, I don't wake up till really late or tomorrow morning. I already told you guys it was going out tonight. So I hope you guys enjoyed. I hope you guys are having the best Christmas day with your families. Join whatever, let me know what you guys got or what you're doing in the comments down below. I love you guys so much and there's still going to be so many videos coming up in the next week. I have so much to add it. Love you guys so much and I'll see you soon. Bye.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCo79S3LBeU", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCYcdUvf2OMAlFTIxZv2eduA	5 levels of a relationship with The Holy Spirit	Pastor Vlad released a new book "BREAK FREE", available on iBooks, Amazon, Kindle, Audible and everywhere books are sold. For more information: http://www.hungrygen.com/breakfreebook Stay connected with Pastor Vlad Instagram http://www.instagram.com/vladhungrygen Facebook http://www.facebook.com/vladhungrygen Twitter http://www.twitter.com/vladhungrygen Subscribe to his blog: http://www.hungrygen.com/blog Invite Pastor Vlad to speak http://www.hungrygen.com/invite #holyspirit #pastorvlad #hungrygen	[ "healing miracles supernatural today", "motivational speech", "youth drama", "vladimir pasco generation savchuk", "hungry generation pasco", "exorcism demons", "hungry generation", "good news church", "vasily parkhotyuk", "vladimir savchuk", "pasco", "wa", "miracles sermons fire", "ukrainian church", "russian church in usa", "holy spirit", "worship", "exorcism", "how to be free from drugs", "stories of changed life", "inspiriting messages", "relationship" ]	2016-10-12T01:55:40	2024-02-05T17:34:42	1,106	pCGU2k15nrc	I'm going to give you just five levels of relationship with the Holy Spirit, based on the relationship that Jesus had with the Holy Spirit. The first degree of our relationship with the Holy Spirit, where all of us start, is when we get born. When we get born, you can write down born again. When we get born again, this is where our relationship with the Holy Spirit begins. Now actually the Holy Spirit is with us before we get born again, to bring us to Jesus Christ. But the relationship with Him begins when we get born again. Just like Jesus was born by the Holy Spirit, you and I, when we get saved, we get born by the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit begins to live in us, can somebody say amen? So the Holy Spirit begins to live in us. One of the reasons Jesus lived a supernatural life was because he had a supernatural birth. When he came to Nicodemus and he said, Nicodemus told him, he says, Jesus, I've noticed that you are, you do incredible things. The miracles are amazing. The teachings are amazing. When you teach, demons come out. Awesome. And Jesus almost interrupts the whole thing and says, unless you're born of water and spirit, you cannot see the kingdom of heaven. You're almost like Jesus. Didn't you just hear what he said? Jesus was trying to explain to Nicodemus, the reason my life is so supernatural, because my birth was supernatural. See, salvation is not getting a ticket to heaven when you die. Salvation is an entrance into a kingdom of God when you live. Salvation is when the Holy Spirit gives me a new birth to qualify me for a supernatural life. Salvation is not just a little insurance card in the glove box of my theological preferences. When I die, so in case there is heaven, that I don't go into hell. Salvation, Jesus says, he says, unless you're born of water, which is physical birth and the spirit, which is supernatural birth, salvation, he says, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Jesus wasn't talking about heaven in heaven. He was talking about the kingdom now that you and I can walk into. Your supernatural birth when you get saved is what opens the door for the supernatural life that you have with the Holy Spirit. Jesus did not model to us what God can do on earth. He modeled to us what a man submitted to the Holy Spirit can do on earth. Some people think, well, Jesus walked on water, that was God. Well, why did he say we can do what he did and more? We can't be God. No matter how hard we humble ourselves, submit ourselves to God, we'll never be God. But we can be like Jesus, because he demonstrated on earth what a man like you and I who submits himself to the Holy Spirit can achieve on this earth. When you get born again by the Holy Spirit, this is where your relationship with the Holy Spirit begins. Number two is when we get filled with the Holy Spirit. Filled with the Holy Spirit is Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit when he was water baptized and John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan. The Holy Spirit came upon Jesus. We don't see Jesus actually speaking in tongues here, but we see a Holy Spirit coming upon Jesus. It's very interesting to see that Jesus was not filled in the Holy Spirit praying at home. He was in a service where John the Baptist, who had a smaller ministry than Jesus, who did not have miracles in his ministry, who was Baptist? That he was baptized, if you're not saying Baptist is a denomination. And Jesus goes to, let me just say it to you plainly, it's like this, Jesus the charismatic, because he had miracles, the gifts. He goes into a service that was not like his service that he's going to have, and the Holy Spirit touches him there. We must understand one thing. For us to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit, you have to learn to honor that people God uses, even those you don't disagree with. Even those who may not be reaching the fullest potential in the kingdom of God. Jesus didn't go to John and say, hmm, John, your diet is bad. You're eating locus. What kind of madness is that? John, your dress code is terrible. You're dressed up like, what is this? Jesus didn't come to John and say, John, you don't heal people. John, you don't cast out demons. John, your ministry is not good enough. See, this is what most of us do, and that's why the Holy Spirit cannot use us. No. Because we know what we're called to do, and so we think that our job is to go put everybody down, but Jesus comes to John and says, John, can you baptize me? John says, no, no, no, no, Jesus, you, you are greater. Are you so great? I'm not even worthy to tie your shoelaces, not even, no, I can't baptize you. Jesus says, I know, John, I know I'm greater. You know you're greater. High five, that's good. You need to baptize me. Wow. Wow. Most of us, we would never do that. We would come to John and say, John, I need to meet with you for coffee afterwards. There's a lot of things you need to change. There's nothing wrong with having your ministry greater than John's, but the Holy Spirit did not come on Jesus when he was praying. The Holy Spirit came upon Jesus when he went to John and said, John, baptize me. Sometimes I get personally attacked because they say things like, why are you following other ministers? First of all, I don't follow other ministers, I follow Jesus, but why do I listen to other ministers? I always do listen to other ministers. I preach, I meet with other pastors in town who are not like us, met this Friday with a wonderful pastor from New Vintage a few weeks ago from Bethel Church pastor, C3 pastor, whose ministries are different than even where we are going to be. I listen to podcasts, read the books and people say, why do you always do that? And you encourage us to do that because there is a degree of the presence of the Holy Spirit that will not be available to you if you don't respect other people that God is using that is different than you. If you're only able to listen and respect those that just literally tickles you, it's just like you. You're still with God, but there is a limitation there. See the spirit of Pharisees is this, the spirit of Pharisees says, I honor Moses, Moses is the man of God. Jesus don't understand him, but oh God used me to be a prophet for tomorrow. See when Moses was alive, everybody hated him and know everybody started loving Moses when Moses died. We love prophets that are dead, kill the prophets that are alive and hope and wish to be prophets tomorrow. We're all like that. You come to churches and say, Catherine Coleman was a mighty woman of God, Vlad Smith-Wigsworth, mighty man of God, except he was rejected from most cosmetic churches because you know what Smith-Wigsworth did? Who raised 32 people from the dead? He brought dead person on a stage and told them to walk. Parents with kids ran and they said, this is nonsense. You know what Smith-Wigsworth did? He walked in the kitchen and people dropped on the floor by the power of God and people said, this is crazy. This is not good. But when Smith-Wigsworth died, everybody said, Smith-Wigsworth, mighty man of God. We always do that. And so Jesus doesn't want us to be like that. He wants us to be like he was. He came to John and he didn't honor John when John was dead. He says, John, God is moving through you. Baptize me. Let's be students of the Holy Spirit, not scholars of the Holy Spirit. Can somebody shout, amen? The level three. When Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit, level three is Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit. After you get filled, you have to be led by the Holy Spirit as the Holy Spirit begins to give you promptings. Now it's interesting, Jesus wasn't led by the Holy Spirit into a crusade or a service. He was led by the Holy Spirit to fast and to pray. When I was younger, I remember I even fasted and said, Lord, I want to hear your voice until God started to speak. And I said, Lord, please, a little bit less of your voice now. Don't speak to me as much. Because see, when I thought is that when God will speak to me, he will tell me which real estate to buy in Tracities, which has gold mine. I thought when he will speak to me, he will right away point out at the age of 16, who my wife is going to be. I wanted God to tell me, you know, what is going to be, what I'm going to do like in, you know, 15 years or 20 years down the road. But when God started to speak to me, he said, Lord, could you apologize to your mom for not cleaning up your room for three days in a row? And I said, Lord, no, don't don't talk to me about this stuff. Talk to me about deep things of the spirit, the mysteries of the kingdom of God, that the whole console of God. God says, yes, this is my console. Pick up a vacuum and vacuum that room that your mom be telling you to vacuum for so long. I don't want to hear that about Lord. It's not about hearing God. It's about hearing God that makes all the difference. Amen. And many times the Holy Spirit does not start speaking with, this person needs to be healed, this person needs to be healed. He will start speaking to you about things that involve your self-denial. You get in your knees, you say, Lord, speak to me. And he says, you know what? It's been six months. For some, it's been six years. You haven't fasted. You should start fasting. He said, I'll rebuke this in Jesus' name. God, speak to thy servant because they're serving here with thee. God leads, sometimes starts leading you into wilderness before he leads you to a mountaintop. And don't rebuke it and don't shut it down. If it aligns with the word of God, it might be the Holy Spirit leading you and you need to be obedient to that. Amen. The fourth step is when Jesus was in the wilderness, he overcame Satan in the wilderness in Matthew and Luke chapter four, verse four. Now you may say, there was Holy Spirit wasn't mentioned there. You're saying that the Holy Spirit, how does that help me to know the Holy Spirit? Listen to this very carefully. It will help you so much. The Holy Spirit was not mentioned in the wilderness temptation of Jesus. Yet he was there. Why? When you don't feel the Holy Spirit, you have to stand on what the Holy Spirit said in his word. That's where you find the Holy Spirit. And that is how Jesus overcame. Jesus overcame Satan and his hardest times is when you don't feel the Spirit, you can find him in his word. Jesus who felt the Holy Spirit come upon him, Jesus who felt the Holy Spirit lead him into the wilderness, and then he goes into the wilderness and there is no more mention of the Holy Spirit. And Jesus doesn't get distracted and say, God, you left me. He doesn't say, Holy Spirit, where are you? Where are you? Holy Spirit, help me. The Bible says Jesus begins to quote the scriptures Holy Spirit wrote. See, God's Spirit will always lead you to a place that only his word will get you through. God will never lead you. God will not give you so much of his presence that makes you unnecessary to rely on the Word of God. The Holy Spirit wrote the Word of God and when you cannot feel him in worship, you find him in the scriptures. When you cannot feel him during a sermon, you find him in the Word of God because he hides himself in his word when you don't see him, don't feel him, or don't experience him in your wilderness. And that is how you overcome. Can somebody shout, Amen. I cannot tell you how many times in my personal life I sense the leading of the Holy Spirit to give up, for example, the account comes to my mind is last year when I gave a vehicle away. It was the second vehicle within about four months. And I felt so great. I knew he was God leading me until the next day. I recognized that I don't have money. I had $150 left on my checking's account. The second day, both of us didn't have cars, me and my wife, and I did not want to go and get it from a dealer on the payment. So I said, great, I'm just going to call a few of my guys that I know who have dealerships. And I'm going to tell them that I have a problem. Hopefully, God will speak to them like he spoke to me to give a car. God will speak to them to give me a car. Simple solution, give and you receive. I'm like, I gave on Sunday, I'm going to get it back on Tuesday. That's going to be the fastest harvest ever received on this planet. And I will experience that. I called one guy on Monday, I called another guy on Tuesday, I called third guy on Wednesday. They all wanted to sell me a particular car for about 45 to $60,000. I was like, sorry, somebody else is calling me. I got to go. I was like, $60,000? And this is where by Thursday, I started getting depressed. And I said, Lord, you didn't speak to me about giving a car. Why did I give a car in the first place? My dad told me it was a stupid idea. I should have not done it. I should have listened to my father. And I said, God, nobody is giving me a car. And this is where I started to Holy Spirit. That presence, Lord, that I felt when I decided that, where is that presence? And I got on my knees. I turned on my favorite music and I started to create those same feelings and they were not there. And for two weeks, I'm not exaggerating, two weeks after three o'clock, I come home. I laid in the bonus room over there and cried my eyes. I said, God, where are you? Why did you forsake me? And God didn't speak. Nothing. The only way I got through that point is I realized, God leads me. What only what he says in his word will get me through. I started to rely on the fact God will never forsake me. I started to rely on the fact that God never promised to give me a car back. And I didn't give it to get a car back. I gave it because I felt leading of the Spirit. And I wanted to bless the people. God started to deal with my motives. And I came out of that. I said, Lord, now I'm going to go find another way. Gonna find a car and everything. But I didn't do it to get a car. God started to clean up with his word, my motives and my things. And eventually I have a car better than I had before. My wife has a car better than I know she had before. But it's not about the cars. It's about going through a season where only God's word, only God's word begins to clean you up, begins to change things inside. And it's not going to be what you feel. It's what you feed on in that season that will get you through. Somebody shout, amen. Are you with me? So the five, number five is you get empowered by the Holy Spirit. So after you go through some things and the Holy Spirit helps you with using his word, he empowers you. After Jesus came out of the wilderness, we see that Jesus was empowered. And the anointing of the Holy Spirit, he started to touch the life of Jesus. And Jesus started to minister with the power of the Holy Spirit. Now, without the Holy Spirit's anointing, Jesus wouldn't be able to accomplish anything that he accomplished in this world. Without the Holy Spirit, you cannot fulfill your calling. Now Jesus' calling was to die for the world. Your calling is to raise up your family. Your calling is to be a good husband. Your calling is maybe a businessman. Maybe you're in this room today. Your calling is to raise your grandchildren. Your calling might be to preach, to lead a home group. When I tell you something, without the Holy Spirit, you cannot fulfill your calling the way God wants it to be fulfilled. Put the Holy Spirit aside and says, I don't have time for you. I don't understand. You're confusing. You're kind of crazy and all the crazy people going to talk about the Holy Spirit. I want to stay. I just want to believe there is a God. Don't know who Allah, Buddha, there is one. And I'm going to stick with that. And that's it. But you say, I don't want nothing to do with the Holy Spirit. Saul, one day did that. He disobeyed the Holy Spirit by dishonoring his mentor. And the Holy Spirit withdrew from him. And something happened. The Bible says, deem and started to attack him. Brian, I want you to turn off all the lights in this sanctuary, including the lights on the top. Quickly. One, two, and three. All of them. Everywhere. In the side lights as well. Have you noticed the moment the lights were turned off? Like in a split second actually. The darkness came in. Anybody noticed that? Nobody invited the darkness. I only asked them to turn off the lights. I didn't invite the darkness. Where did the darkness come from? It's always been here, huh? Absence of light created right away the darkness. Turn on the lights, please. You don't have to invite the darkness. It will always come. You only have to invite the light. When you reject the light, you invite the darkness. That's how it works. When we reject the Holy Spirit, the darkness is always there. When you say, I don't want the Holy Spirit. I don't have time for the Holy Spirit. I ignore the Holy Spirit. That's exactly what happens. The light gets turned off. The demons of pornography, they quickly appear. The demons of drinking, they quickly appear. All kinds of addictions of depression, they quickly appear. The demonic is always there and it's waiting for you to switch off the switch. That's why your relationship with the Holy Spirit is not a luxury for us. It's not just, well, my life is good, but the Holy Spirit will be greater. This is life with the Holy Spirit. And without it, we are exposed to the darkness. I am and so are you. The best of us will see the worst in us when we reject the relationship with the presence of Jesus, the Holy Spirit, because somebody say amen.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCGU2k15nrc", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCu3Ri8DI1RQLdVtU12uIp1Q	Praveen Asthana, Dell \| Part One \| Dell Storage Forum 2012	The Cube - Dell Storage Forum 2012 - Praveen Asthana, Dell, Part 1, with Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman	[ "The Cube", "Dell Storage Forum 2012", "Praveen Asthana", "Dell", "Part 1", "with Dave Vellante", "Stu Miniman", "SiliconANGLE" ]	2012-06-11T19:12:53	2024-02-05T08:44:51	1,158	PCCoIIiOCDk	Okay, we're back. This is Dave Vellante. I'm with Stu Miniman with Wikibon.org, and this is The Cube, SiliconANGLE.tv's continuous coverage of Dell Storage Forum. We're live in Boston with Praveen Astana, who is the vice president of Enterprise Solutions and Strategy at Dell. Praveen, welcome to The Cube. Thanks very much for making time out of your busy schedule. Dell Storage Forum is rocking a second year in a row for us in the Converged Dell Storage Forum. I know there were some pockets previously, but I'm really starting to come together for you guys. You're mentioning off-camera that you've been with Dell for eight years and the storage group for five years, so you've seen this transformation occur first-hand. How does that feel? Can you describe what it was like five, six years ago at Dell and sort of what it's like today in storage? It feels great, first of all, to see where storage has come at Dell. When I joined Dell, we were primarily a reseller, so we basically sold other people's storage. Now we make our own storage, we have our own IP, and we're addressing customers' needs. I can tell you that when I started at Dell, storage was the last on the agenda when we did the ops reviews with Michael Dell and Kevin Rollins. Today it's first on the agenda. Really? It's really changed in terms of the importance that Dell is giving to storage. How did it change the nature of the conversations that you have with customers? Well, customers really started taking us very seriously because storage is actually probably the most, you know, addresses the most important part of their infrastructure, which is their data. It's a lifeblood of many customers right now, is data which they use to make better business decisions. So we look at, you know, a joke we have is that we look at the storage business like the bank vault and the server like the ATM. One is more important than the other. So Praveen, we're talking about convergence. If I look at from the services side, converged infrastructure has been put together by, you know, the vars, the integrators, and by the service teams for many years. So can you tell us really what's the journey been for Dell from kind of, you know, putting all the pieces together from just the services part to like what you have with the VSTART today, where you've got all the pieces and you're integrating them? Yeah. So when we talked to customers, what they told us was, look, we're tired of having to integrate and assemble the stuff that vendors make. Why don't you guys do this and give it to us? And we thought about it and said, you know, actually we have the technology, if you will. I hate that quote from the $6 million man, that TV series, right? Yeah. We can rebuild it stronger, faster, better. We have the capabilities from a supply chain perspective, manufacturing perspective as well as an optimization perspective to build what the customers want. What do customers want? Customers today more and more are buying VMs. Used to be they would buy servers and storage and networking. Today they're buying VMs. They're saying, I want 100 VMs or 1,000 VMs. Well, to create that VM and make it useful, you need to have not just a server but also the storage, networking, and the management. And we have years of experience with virtualization. We're the number one reseller. We've been the number one reseller of VMware for quite some time. And so we have looked at our hundreds of thousands of customers who have bought virtualization or millions actually who have bought virtualization from us and figured out what it is it takes to optimize. So we know how to do the optimization. And so when we create a VSTART for 100 VMs or 500 VMs, we've optimized that infrastructure for the customer. Far better than they could do themselves, save them a lot of time, a lot of money. Okay. And not just VMware, Microsoft, I believe is part of the VSTART package. Absolutely. Yeah. And that's a very important point, which is that we offer choice to our customers. So it's both Microsoft and VMware, both partners of us, and we offer VSTARTs for both. So what are those discussions with Michael Dell and Kevin Rawlins like? Obviously, you can't give us the too much inside baseball, but what are you guys talking about? Yeah, back then and now, I mean, Dell's still, I mean, Dell's a $60 billion company with a $20 billion market cap. And that's a big part of the reason for the transformation is, look, we've got to own more of our own IP. It can't happen fast enough for investors, obviously, but as I was saying at the top of the show, Dell has more cash on the balance sheet than any other storage company. I guess with the exception of Oracle, but really Oracle's not a storage company, but let's throw them in the mix. So you can virtually compete with anybody in the acquisition game. So the strategy is to increase your intellectual property ownership and increase margins and obviously cash flow and profits, right? So talk about that a little bit. What's that high-level strategy? Well, I think it's always best to start with the customer, honestly, because if you can win with the customer, you can win in the end with your financials and all that stuff. And we noticed that. I'll go back to storage again as a great example, and I'll address that point directly. But when we entered the storage business with our own IP, I actually came up with three words that I thought would really describe what we were trying to do from a philosophy perspective. It was simple, capable, affordable. When you think about that, storage at that time, storage networks were the opposite of simple, capable, affordable. They were hard, they were expensive, and they were capable, but you had to really have a lot of skills to be able to utilize that. So we said simple, capable, affordable, and we looked around and we found a company that embodied that, and that was Ecologic. And we bought Ecologic, and that product was extremely successful for us because it hit that philosophy that if you change the game for customers, change the economic to storage, make it easy, you can win. And that's what propelled that growth. So now we extend that to the rest of the data center, saying, how can we make the rest of the data center simple, capable, and affordable also? And that has driven a lot of our acquisition strategy is finding the right technologies that can actually help us create a solution that will not, you know, we don't want to add another Me Too product. We want to address the fundamental need that the customer has. So if you talk about, for example, convergence in cloud, well, we know that customers, when they want to talk about convergence infrastructure, they don't want to be locked in. They still want to have choice. And so we acquired a company called Scalant, which allows management in heterogeneous fashion. That's really been very, you know, resonated with customers. When we talk about cloud, what customers want to do is connect their off-premise cloud with what's on-premise, who bought a company called Boomi that allows for applications to be connected on-premise and off-premise. So I think our strategy in terms of what we are buying, what we will buy in the future, is not driven so much by a margin profile or a financial metric like that. It's how do we win in the marketplace? And with basic philosophies like simple, capable, affordable. So if you were getting simple, capable, and affordable from your previous relationships, let's say whether they be OEM or reseller, are you suggesting that you might not have gone down this path? If we were, the answer would be yes. There would be no reason to do that if that was the only thing that we wanted to do. But if you look at the way technology is evolving, more and more, if you do not own the various parts, you're not able to engineer the best solution for the customer. So as an example, networking, why did we go into networking? We had great relationships with Brokehead and Juniper, and they have a good coverage. However, we found that unless we own the networking operating system, we are not able to create a converged infrastructure or even to create the best offering for virtualization because one part of the legs of that three-legged stool, you cannot change at all. So academically, the answer to my question would have been yes. But practically speaking, you're saying you would not have been able to accomplish simple, capable, and affordable without basically owning your own destiny and being able to do that integration. That's right. And so we've been commenting that Dell, I think uniquely when it comes to acquisitions, focuses more on integration or maybe it just succeeds more, I don't know. But can you talk about that focus on integration? Because it seems like it's unique in the industry. A lot of companies buy companies and they'll just sort of leave them alone and they'll do very well. And integration is sort of an afterthought. It's a GUI. Why is Dell so focused on that? Well, I think it starts with, if we go back to what I said, it's purposeful acquisition. It was an acquisition just to get, you know, address a new market segment or to change your financial profile. It was an acquisition to say, how can we create a better solution overall? And so clearly integration was part of the roadmap of making that happen. But, you know, this is a balancing act because you cannot buy a company and just say, okay, we're going to absorb you in a few months. You cannot also just leave them to be independent. You have to balance how you bring it in. And we have actually a pretty disciplined and balanced approach of doing that. One of the best I've seen in the industry. And I agree with you. I mean, I've been in the industry for a long time and I've seen many companies, you know, large companies, buy other companies that just disappear. You have no idea what happened to that. Dell has a couple of things going for it. First, we don't do many acquisitions. We do a few. We do ones that are absorbable. We do quite a few acquisitions, but okay. We've done quite a few lately. But in general, I think that, you know, if you count the number of acquisitions we've done, it hasn't been as many as other companies have. So Praveen, when we look at kind of the deployment. This is something that tends to not be talked about as much. If it's simple and it's automated, you know, magically it's just going to go in there. But we know that there's a lot of services. And we're here at Dell talking about the channel a lot. So can you talk to, you know, what is the balance and the touch points and the handshakes between Dell's services and the channel partners when it comes to deploying Converged Infrastructure? Sure. Well, you know, specifically about Converged Infrastructure, just about any infrastructure, there is a lot of things that have to be done to get that infrastructure optimized and useful for the customer. And what I mean by that is it's not simply a matter of plugging it in and turning the button on and saying, okay, you're ready to go. It's a question of, okay, how do we now tune it for your application? How do we build on what you have to make your whole infrastructure easier? And so what we find is that you can characterize the number of the tasks that have to happen as very mundane tasks like cabling and, you know, just hooking stuff up and making sure you allocate lones and things like that to much more sophisticated tasks where you're actually putting a lot of value at. So what we are trying to do for our channel partners is, hey, maybe we'll integrate the mundane tasks in the infrastructure so you can focus on more of the value-added tasks for the customer. Yeah, no, that's a great point because it's not just, even if customers are saying they want to deploy VMs, you know, VMs are not created equal. From a workload standpoint, things change, customer environments. Are you doing anything to kind of harvest that field expertise that you get and all the deployments that you've done to kind of help iterate and learn? Yeah, we are. We're very much trying to learn from our customer deployments and then, you know, take that knowledge base to create reference architectures, known good states that we can, you know, have a customer start with. What we have found in many cases is that the customer does not want a fixed configuration. They want to have some flexibility. But they want to start with their reference point or a known good state. Yeah, so do you have any data point for us? You know, NetApp just put out a press release saying they've got 1,000 customers and then they've got over 20 kind of templated, really well understood, you know, applications that they can use. And obviously NetApp's pitching that this is a flexible environment. So, you know, they've got 20 applications. EMC, when they launched their VSpecs, kind of had five initial use cases. You know, how many different environments is Dell pushing conversion to? I don't know the answer to actually that question. But I think we can, you know, we're building up our database on that. But I think that the key thing here is that we look at major applications like VDI, or workloads, or big, small, medium, large configurations. So there's like an infinite number of configurations that you can have. I think the key point is for us is just to, you know, for the mid-market to start with something that is optimized for them. Right. Yeah, it's always that balance between you want to have it as homogeneous as possible because that simplifies and I can do automation around it. And, but I still want to have flexibility. So how do you, you know, do you say yes to every customer environment? Or how do you keep that balance so that you understand what a customer has? Because, you know, to be honest, I think about from a services standpoint, so much time is wasted to try to figure out, okay, what does this customer really have? And convergence is supposed to simplify that. Yeah. You know, I think that in many ways, all of us in the industry are early in the convergence game. And so we're figuring out exactly what the boundaries are between what's acceptable as a fixed configuration and what is a, you know, completely variable configuration. We're just sorting out the boundaries. When we first came out with VSTARTS, for example, a lot of customers said, you know, I really like that idea. I really like it at all, but can I just have this tweak to it? I just want these CNAs and not those CNAs. I want this different. And, you know, we would accommodate that because we have the right kind of manufacturing infrastructure that can enable that to happen. But now some customers are saying, you know, I don't really want to mess with that. If it's going to give me 100 BMS, I'll just take that. So part of it is an education on the customer that a fixed config is okay. And so I think that we're in this journey. I wouldn't say that we fully understand what the parameters are in the whole industry. Sorry, it's interrupt. So, Praveen, I wanted to ask you, I saw an interesting note next to your name and the schedule. And it was HTML5. And I said, hmm, interesting. You know, usually storage guys don't talk about that. Was that a typo on our guys? Or do you have something to say about HTML5? I mean, we got the Apple Worldwide Developer Conferences going on this week. And are you guys doing stuff in next-generation languages and interfaces? Well, yeah, I mean, so I'm not an expert in HTML5, so I'm not sure why that was there next to my name. But I can tell you that obviously we have a very, you know, strong client business. And we're doing a number of things to make that end-user productivity better. So HTML5 is one of the languages that clearly, you know, can help with some of this whole idea of device independence. And, you know, being able to do applications in different ways. So there's a number of things we're doing there. In general, if you think about end-user computing and end-user virtualization, we're doing a lot. Recently, we bought a company called Wise, which puts us now as number one in really end-user virtual computing. Tarkin Maynard here? See, he might be here, yeah. He's been on theCUBE a number of times. He's quite a character. He is. So we, you know, we understand quite well that the endpoint can be nice and sexy, but the real action is in the backend. The real action is with the service, storage, networking, management, security, and services. And so that's the sort of infrastructure we're putting in so that even if you were misguided enough to buy an Apple tablet, we would be the backend for it. It's a gift. So, okay, and then the other, so this is, HTML5 was a list of topics that, you know, there were sort of things that, you know, we might want to think about. The other was IT strategic value. Now, that's something that five or eight years ago, if I were a CIO, I probably wouldn't be having a discussion with Dell about my strategic value. Are you having those discussions today? About Dell strategic value or IT strategic value? Well, IT strategic value and with Dell fix. Yeah, we're absolutely having that discussion today. So the CIO has, you know, it's transforming themselves from being, let's say, the chief infrastructure officer, which is what they've been for many years, to actually being the chief innovation or chief information officer. They want to, the CIO really wants to be part of the group of executives in the company that's helping drive the business forward, not just the manager, like the facilities manager. They really want to change and that's all over the world. I was in Japan last year in December in Korea and I was getting the same feedback for a lot of CIOs, which is that we don't want to just be handling plumbing. We want to help increase revenues. How can you help us do that? And, you know, we understand that there's a couple of ways you can do that. One is that you actually reduce the amount of time and effort that the IT departments are spending on maintenance because they spend 75% of the time on keeping the lights on. And so that leaves very little time to develop new applications that can help drive the business forward. So, by making infrastructure more efficient, easier to manage, you can shift the balance of effort towards...	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCCoIIiOCDk", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCiLnjs7b0ohzJibcKBqjK0g	VLOG: I got a new dog?! Biggest tip for small creators & test driving a Tesla	In today's vlog we go shopping at The Domain here in Austin, TX! Ryan test drives a tesla because he is looking into what car to get in the new year! 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Name: Sonali (Sun-all-e) Age: 23 Ethnicity: Indian College: University of Central Florida Class of 2019 Major: Radio/ Television Sorority: Alumna of Kappa Delta	[ "makeup", "fashion", "sonali", "so_narly", "indian", "college", "week in my life", "post grad", "austin", "texas", "university of central florida", "UCF", "instagram", "influencer", "Moving States", "Moving Vlogs", "Couple vlogs", "SXSW", "South By South West", "#Skims", "#Brown Girl" ]	2020-08-18T22:20:04	2024-02-14T18:37:37	1,570	PcaW-hQ6_yE	Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Snolli, welcome to my channel if you are new and if you are, go ahead and hit that subscribe button down below. Today we're starting the blog off by going to the Domain, which is an outdoor shopping center north of Austin. Last night I randomly got the urge to look into getting some new Lululemon leggings and just maybe some biker shorts too, I don't know what they really have. I can't remember the last time I got Lululemons, but I feel like it might have been in college, like early on in college, like they last so long, but unfortunately some of my leggings have like holes at the knees. I don't know how that happened, but sometimes when I'm filming or my freelance videography, I get down on my knees a lot, especially when I'm taking photos and stuff, so that could be it. Maybe the concrete did that, so I kind of want to ask them if I will get a discount, if I like give them my old leggings, because I feel like I remember hearing something about that, but I could be wrong. But I'm not sure what to do with my leggings if they don't take them, because it's not like I can sell them at Plato's Closet because there are holes in my leggings. I do have a couple of other ones that either are too big for me, which is a good thing, and they fall off when I'm trying to run, especially when I went to the Orange Theory. I always made the mistake of wearing these one pair that like would not stay up. So we're gonna start off by going to Lululemons, getting my leggings, and I think Ryan needs to drop a golf club off to the PGA Superstore, which is up there at the domain. I'm excited to be vlogging again, because I feel like I just have not had the time to vlog. If you guys have watched my previous vlogs, you know that I had like huge projects do this week kind of. I mean, sorority recruitment is starting next week, and I'm basically helping out a couple of sororities on UT's campus with their recruitment videos. So that has been consuming a lot of my time, which I'm so grateful for, but I'm also so excited to get them done with, have them sent in, and kind of just be done with it. Don't mind the mess in the back, it is currently laundry day, but this shirt I just got from Avicii Dolls, and I'm so excited. I'm going to be doing like a try on haul with them on my IG stories, and then I think these shorts are just from like Forever 21, and then I'm wearing my white Air Force ones. I swear sometimes like when I forget my mask and they give me a disposable mask, I like cherish it now. Then you know, we're going to go into the PGA Superstore and get my Voki Wedge re-grip. The grip on it, it gets like really greasy and slimy. I'm going to use it for like two seconds, so I need a different grip. This is the matte black raw finish. For all my boy followers, maybe you'll appreciate this. This is a good one, it's the F grind too. 52. Let's go in. Except for the grip, so. All right, let's fix it then. Which one do you get? The red and gray, this one. The red and black, because you're Georgia. Or this white, it's cool. Let's see this one. We're going to wait here for his club to get re-gripped. So we're going to do a little cutting while we wait. So I can gas myself if I should get some, but I kind of want to look more into the shorts than leggings. And I thought I was going to get leggings, but I also heard the biker shorts are really cool, so I think I might check it out, but I'm not that keen. I'm sorry to come back. So we're in Tesla now, and I've been thinking about getting the Model Y or the Model 3 when I turn to my BMW. So we're going to test drive it right now. Okay, so we just got a tutorial on how to use this Tesla really briefly. What's the model? This is the Model 3. I'm considering either the Model 3 or the Model Y, because the Model Y is a little bigger. But I'm actually kind of realizing this is actually a pretty good size. I don't know. I don't need the Model Y. This is pretty comfortable compared to mine. So right now I drive a BMW 530E, which is a hybrid BMW, which is why I want to go full electric instead of hybrid now. And he's leasing that car and it ends in February? It ends in February. I can either, I have an owner's choice, so I can either keep it or turn it back in. But I think I'm going to turn it back in because I really want to go full electric. And I think these are just sweet cars because obviously this Detroit when you sat was pretty cool. I like this giant iPad, I will say. So cool. This says you can split where you want the air to come out of. And these come out of these little vents right here. It's so cool. Yeah, there's definitely like a lot to learn once you, if you do get this car, you know. Yeah, it's kind of like a busy screen. It's super cool. Yeah. Yeah, the mirrors and everything. Like I feel like that's something I would be so flustered like, especially if I'm new and I was on the highway and you didn't move my mirrors really quick. Well, you have your driver's setting. So when you get in with your key or your phone, it's going to know that you're in the car. So it'll just go straight to your settings with the mirrors and everything. I guess, but so. But yeah, like if my mom was borrowing this car for maybe kind of, she would lose her mind. Yes. Let's see one more. Okay, ready? You want to try? Yeah. I'm going to put in autopilot now and see how it does on this car. Chair on the side. I'm going to send a text. I need Sophie to come here. So right next to her, this is the Y. The Y is a little bit more expensive. But this bigger, I feel like this one, this fit right. I feel like it fits pretty well in here. What do you think? I don't think it feels much different. The only thing I don't like about Tesla is that the whole roof and like even this part is like, let so much light in. And whenever I'm in the car in the passenger seat, I have a really bad tendency of falling asleep. I literally just fell asleep for like 10 minutes. On a test drive. Yeah, on a test drive. So I don't know what's wrong with me, but I just love falling asleep in cars. So I think it's going to be a hundred times worse, right? It's a Tesla. We're arriving at this place called Matty's is a restaurant. And I use this place for shoots quite a bit. I actually haven't shot here in so long, but I have a senior shoot tomorrow and they wanted to shoot at Matty's. So I just want to go check it out, see if like it's still kind of like open and usable. Looks like it is. I think they closed at one on Sunday. So there's still kind of like a couple of cars out here. But on Mondays, they're closed the whole day. And you can just like come here and just it's just so pretty. Take a look. Look at these stunning trees. It's such a cool spot to take photos. Like especially if you want like those nature, beautiful like sunlight coming through your photos. I really like this place. And they have these really cute twinkle lights over there, which makes for a really good bokeh in the back of your photos. So looks good to me. Looks usable. I'm excited for my shoot tomorrow. We just got home and as much as I want to take a Sunday afternoon nap, there's so much to do like this laundry. So I think I'm going to make myself a matcha ice latte. I really wanted something like refreshing like Sprite Zero because I found out that doesn't have carbs. So we actually just placed in the Amazon fresh order on the way home. And I bought some Sprite Zero. So I might make like a little mocktail tonight, but we'll see. Right now I'm going to get some matcha. This is the matcha I've been using lately. I'm pretty sure I got it off of Amazon. I put heavy whipping cream in the frother and then I do like two tablespoons of this matcha powder because I like it really, really matcha-y and just I need all the energy I can get right now. I just finished my matcha. I put on JC Murray's vlog. I love her vlogs are very aesthetic and now I'm going to do some laundry. Just give me a look. Oil the blacks and now I'm just waiting on the colors to dry. So I thought I would do a little Lululemon haul while we wait. This is like the only thing I bought. I don't know why, but for some reason like I literally just went ham on set active. Like I literally bought two new pairs or two new sets and then one other bra to match with leggings I already have. And for some reason when I walked in the Lululemon store, I think it might have been that like there was just such a long line outside and I felt bad like spending like a lot of time looking and trying on stuff. So I just got so flustered that I was like, I don't even want them anymore. I feel like it's just so much easier to buy them online and like just like hit order. Does that make sense? I don't know. So I didn't get any leggings and I just like don't think they were really what I was looking for. And then I didn't see the, what's it called? Biker shorts that I wanted. That's why I like went into Lululemon. I didn't see them in black. So I was like, okay, I give up. But then I was like, I kind of like want to buy something just because like I was here. I waited for so long and I needed a like nice hat that I could do my freelance stuff in. It is so hot here. Y'all like it's disgusting. And I was just telling Ryan, I was like, I think this is like the hottest we've ever experienced only because we haven't been outside for a while. So today was really, really hot. And then I have a black hat that I got from like Walmart or something. But what's the material of the hat from Walmart, Ryan? Not like athletic stuff, what? Cotton. So it says it's water repellent and easy to wipe. The interior is like a mesh fabric. So I feel like this is going to be really nice for just being outside. And I just wanted like a really cool like black hat. I don't know, it looks weird on me right now. But oh, maybe I need to loosen it. I think I just tightened it. Look, cute. Oh, don't bet it. Okay. But yeah, so this is what I got from Lululemon. I wish I had like the like Lululemon brand tag thing. I guess it has it really little. But yeah, so I just got a hat. I'm definitely going to use this a lot because my friend Sarah has been telling me to wear sunscreen covering my face because she has her esthetician license. So she's been giving me all the advice to like lighten my dark spots and she was like, you need to cover your face. Ooh, I have a life update to share with y'all. Let me go get it real quick. Sophie is back and she has a new face. I don't know if you guys like remember what she looked like, but basically she got all her teeth pulled out and she had the worst underbite. And now her tongue just sticks out, which is honestly so cute. At first I was like really scared of what she would look like. And when she first got them out, she looked really weird because I think we just weren't used to it. But now she looks so cute with her tongue sticking out all the time. What do you think? Do you like not having teeth? No. Oh, a lot of people have asked me like how she eats and we feed her those like Caesar pre-packaged wet food. So she doesn't really have a hard time eating because it's not like dry food or anything. But yeah, she got her teeth pulled and it's weird because like at first we were just like, no, that's like a part of her. Her underbite is Sophie. But now we look back at pictures and we're like, ew, that was so, sorry Sophie didn't look so good. So I'm glad that Sophie is just healthy and back with us because I missed her a lot. But also I forgot what it's like to take care of a dog because you have to take them out like a good amount of times during the day. And I'm always like super busy or I'm just like so zoned into editing sometimes and I'm like, oh, okay, we have to take her out, you know? But it's okay. I love her. And I love her little tongue even though she looks me. It's gross. Ryan just left to go golfing and I saw that I had a package outside and it is from all of in June. I'm so hyped because I got a package from them like a couple of weeks ago. It was their Manny Kit and I have been painting my nails non-stop lately. Like every single week I'll make it a point to paint my nails because they have like these really cool tools sort of help you paint your nails like really perfectly or even if you're like not that good at painting your nails they just help so much. So I've been really liking to use their tools and after I've been using a couple of their nail polishes and like just trying out their products I have become obsessed. So I DM'd them back and said, oh my god, like I would love to work with you guys please send me a good email to send my media kit too because I've actually done a good bit of reaching out to brands and it's been really working out. Like if you guys are small creators don't ever be scared to reach out to a brand because I heard this quote the other day. I think it was from the four card podcast. I don't know if you guys know about four. It's like F-O-H-R but they're like one of those influencer agency kind of things and basically someone asked him like oh is it better to reach out to brands or just wait for them to come to you and he was saying that there's so many influencers out there it's hard for these agencies to find you. Like you're literally just like a fish in the pond pretty much like how are they gonna find you so it's always great to reach out to brands so if you're a small influencer I highly encourage you to find one brand this week to reach out to and just see what they say like the worst answer you can get is no. Okay but back to Eleven June I'm so excited because I really wanted like more of their products and they just sent me more. Yay I got a white poppy and another one this is super cool ooh it's not white it's nude even better I love that. This is the tool I was talking about how it helps you to paint your nails. Something about the ergonomics like helps you paint with your non-dominant hand so I would really recommend checking this little tool out it's a universal tool so it basically slides on to any nail polish lid and this is another tool that I've been really liking it's just literally a little brush like a little makeup brush so I've been cleaning up my cuticles because I never really paint inside the line but that has been making such a big difference when I do my manicures at home so I'm so excited this is so funny because I literally just reached out to them I think on Friday so they're probably going to be like um you already like receive our packages but I thought it was just a one-time thing definitely go check this brand out this is obviously not sponsored just gifted but like I've said I've tried out a couple of their nail polishes and they last a really really long time like I was doing dishes and everything and they still didn't really chip so I'm really excited to add these to my collection but I was actually going to start doing a try on haul for my IG stories I got sent some stuff from Beachy Dolls and that's another brand I actually reached out to on my own and they literally replied within one day and I was shook because they're like kind of an up-and-coming really big brand like they're already big but I was really surprised that they didn't take like two weeks to answer so I reached out to them because I wanted to work with more fashion brands and this brand has always been on my list of brands to work with that's also another tip I recommend is to make a list of brands you want to work with like just set a goal maybe say like by the end of this year I want at least like two of these brands to work with me sometimes it sounds so stupid to like say oh you got to manifest it but it's worth a shot okay so I think I might do that on my IG stories right now I have some time before I have to go to my shoot tonight I'm filming a gender reveal and I actually did a gender reveal two weeks ago or one week ago I can't remember and they actually referred me to their friends that who was pregnant so that definitely worked out but I'm gonna go film my IG stories before I run out of time I got a couple pieces from V2 dolls and I wanted to share them with you guys so first up is this cotton tied IT it already comes pretty oversized but I got it in the size large um but it's kind of like that vintage band T kind of vibe and I'm loving it so we have the echo high rise vintage denim and I'm a sucker for the trend that is straight like jeans it is so flattering I feel like and these just have that extra flair with the cuts of the knees and it's also super high-waisted so that's always a win it has to be my favorite thing I got from this haul this is the Alicia polka dot leggings and bra set y'all know I'm obsessed with my neutrals so I'm loving this color but these leggings are actually super duper comfortable they're not like restricting or anything not too tight just perfect next up is the little little pocketed jumpsuit and I feel like this is gonna be perfect when I'm able to photograph events again especially if they're a little bit nicer it does have the pockets which is always a win hence the name and then it has this like mesh cutout on the side which is super cool this next piece is the beach walk striped twist jumpsuit and I'm only five three but I feel like it makes me look super thin and tall and also for my big chested girls out there this is actually a button instead of one of those metal clasps that always come undone so you'll be safe throughout the night up is a satin tie jumpsuit I don't know if you guys can tell like the material is super cool very breathable especially for those summer days and I'm obsessed with jumpsuits recently because you literally just pick out one piece and your whole outfit's done I just finished filming my beachy dolls haul I just have to go post it now I always like for some reason save the videos and then like post it with all like the captions and stuff not that I feel like I will add any captions I'll probably just tag beachy dolls but I finished and I probably answered the clips already but if you guys saw anything you liked and want to go check out the site I do have a discount code it's the nollie 24 20% off also I forgot to show you my new Facebook marketplace find probably because I wasn't super excited about it because it looked a lot lighter on the picture that was online so when I picked it up I was like this is really dark but it's okay because I think I'm gonna paint it white let me just show you so Ryan had those from college from his like house in college and I saw these online and this wooden part was a lot lighter in the picture but I was just thinking I could just go ahead and paint the wood white and then it would look a lot better because I feel like this is just too dark our apartment's so bright an area especially if you watched our apartment tour a lot of the decor is just not anything black or dark like that I thought it would be fun to try on some of my jeans that were not very comfortable about like a couple of months ago I was thinking about these the other day and I was wondering if I could fit better into them because I'm not sure if you guys are keeping up with my health journey but I'm currently doing low carb and I lost like a couple of pounds and I wonder if it's like the inches on my body or just like water weight so let's see if these jeans fit oh I think they're a little tight still still got some waste to go but okay they zip don't mind my athletic top that I'm wearing but I feel like they fit well obviously they fit a lot better because the one time I remember I wore them I was like very uncomfortable because I just had eaten brunch and I feel like my lower tummy was just like sticking out a lot ooh yes also the last time I wore these a lot of people were asking me where they are from and they're from amazon which is crazy so I'll definitely go ahead and link them down below hopefully they're still online because I got these like my senior year of college flair on these pants are astronomical and I also have these in black they're just really really stretchy honestly I'm 5'3 for reference and they're kind of long on me but I honestly like that when the flair goes like on top of like the heels or like the flat forms they look really cute with flat forms so yay I'm so happy I tried them on it definitely gives me a lot of motivation when I can feel and see my progress I'm about to head to my video gig and I'm wearing my Lululemon hat with my little athleisure outfit honestly this shirt was thrifted but it's Calvin Klein and then my leggings my sister gave to me they're from Old Navy and then I'm wearing my Mizuno sneakers I'm pretty sure that's dog poop on my shoe if you guys are wondering so I just got home from my shoot Ryan is watching some movie in the back but our Amazon Fresh delivery came and look at this beautiful sight this is all I want in life really like the lemon lacroix and Ryan likes the pumple mousse and I also like the lemon cello one it kind of tastes like vanilla coke but like not but I definitely like the lemon the best it is the next day I planned to vlog after my shower but it didn't happen I was super into the Desperate Housewives episodes that we were watching last night like it was getting so good so I totally forgot to vlog but last night I was gonna vlog me trying this ice cream because as you guys know I'm doing low carb right now and this is the Enlightened Keto collection this has one gram of net carbs half a cup okay but that's still pretty good this is a mint chocolate chunk ice cream I didn't vlog this but if you follow me on Instagram you guys would have seen but there's a low carb ice cream shop here in Austin I was shook when I found out and I was even more shook when I tried it because it was actually pretty good like it definitely tastes like a frosty not super sugary but the consistency of the ice cream is really really good it's like a soft serve ice cream and actually you can go still watch those stories because I put it under my low carb highlight but yeah I just wanted to try this for you guys because I know a lot of you have been asking me a couple of questions about being low carb and I definitely want to share like snacks and meal ideas in the future with you guys I have not been the best at like actually cooking full meals even today I baked this chicken I got from Trader Joe's I thought it was like chicken thighs just like marinated but it ended up being a whole damn chicken I was like what the I did not realize that it was a whole chicken it's so weird but it was really good I just baked that and had a little bit of that and now I have it for like the next four days because it's a whole chicken you know that's a lot of food and later tonight I don't know why I'm rambling but later tonight I have a shoot and it says it's gonna like rain a little bit so hopefully it clears up because Austin weather is super unpredictable so it could rain but it could just say that it's gonna rain and not rain so I'm kind of just like waiting to hear what they want to do okay I'm gonna go microwave this because it's taking way too long to get soft taste test time it's definitely not bad it kind of tastes like lotion I don't know it's kind of weird I would definitely like to try other flavors because I feel like this doesn't it's not like that flavorful also I tried to bake cinnamon rolls was it yesterday? I don't think it was yesterday but it probably was the day before and they did not turn out good and they were keto cinnamon rolls so I think I gave up on like making baking at least sweet treats for like the keto diet because I'm just like it's just not gonna turn out as good as you know normal cinnamon rolls so that's why I wanted to like get this ice cream to see if like this would be better you know because first of all baking is hard enough but like using almond flour instead of real flour it just like makes it a lot more difficult I think I'm gonna end the vlog here I feel like it's super long I hope you guys enjoyed it and I really want to vlog more often especially because all of my big projects are pretty much done I have like two more little videos that I have to do but my freelance stuff is gonna slow down in the next week so hopefully I can focus more on my youtube channel if you guys made it to the end of this video please comment down below whether you read blogs or not I do have a blog but I have not posted on it in a really long time and I'm not very consistent on it I'll be honest because I think I'm more of like a visual creator I'm not amazing with my words so I think I definitely struggle with that but I have all these pictures that I want to post somewhere instead of Instagram because you know Instagram could like shut down any day so I kind of want to start blogging again and plus I pay for you know using the website and like my hosting and everything so do you guys read blogs should I start that back up I also want to start linking a lot of my outfits for you guys so also comment if you guys use like to know it and if you actually shop from the app so I will see y'all in my next video bye	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcaW-hQ6_yE", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCVcp4FkHcV-YGI7F-MsY-YQ	HealthyLiving 1	Nurse Susan Fekety and Dr. Peter Knight give tips on avoid the dietary pitfalls of summer eating.	[ "lobster salad", "healthy eating", "Healthy Living Health Care", "Susan Fekety", "Peter Knight", "grilling", "healthy grilling" ]	2013-06-15T05:34:59	2024-02-05T07:12:04	311	pc9DeUQQ4BU	We're here at Healthy Living Health Care in Falmouth, Maine. We are with Peter Knight, who is a naturopathic doctor, and Susan Feckety, who is a woman's health specialist. They are going to talk to us about wonderful, healthy meals we can have for the summer and show us some recipes. So Susan, we live in Maine. There's all this wonderful, beautiful produce and food here and it's Maine food. It's in our backyard. And there's parties and festivals and summer vacations and company coming up. Everybody wants to be in Maine in the summer. So what kind of good food do you recommend? I'm a big fan of tot and your own when you've got an event that you're going to be going to. In my world, summer in Maine is second only to the holidays for the biological train rack of bad food. What I see is the traditional lobster meal that we have in Maine. It's going to be lobster, white potatoes, probably French fries and coleslaw. So lobster is a beautiful protein. It's a wonderful food if treated well. Coleslaw is not so much. They don't have so much to offer. Coleslaw is a good food. It's a cabbage and that's a vegetable. So I'll take that over the French fries. But what I'd like to tell you a little bit about is what I think of as a more balancing meal. So I've made a lobster salad, which is a very portable thing to take or something beautiful to serve in alternative to your typical clan bake kind of meal that contains things that are really good for you, much less hidden sugar, hidden starch that's going to disrupt the hormone system, plus loaded with antioxidants. Now you're going to show us this food. Exactly. So it's really quite easy to do and I'm looking forward to having this for my lunch today. So I have a lobster, a beautiful bed of organic romaine lettuce, which is a wonderful farmers market item or you can learn how to grow that yourself. I've got tomatoes on here for lycopene, which is a very powerful and healthy antioxidant plus it's colorful. You'll see that I've got steamed, lightly steamed broccoli here and broccoli is a particularly fabulous food for women because it contains a couple of elements that are really good for helping women balance estrogen, particularly at the perimenopause time of life when nurturing your estrogen is a really important thing that you want to do. One thing too you'll notice, I mean a lot of people make lobster salad, you go to a restaurant and you're going to get a lobster salad and it's going to be chunks of lobster in a mayonnaise dressing. That is a fairly hazardous food as far as I'm thinking because usually that's very inflammatory fat, not the good kind of fat that we really want to emphasize. So the dressing that I'm going to be making is going to include pieces of this beautiful avocado stirred up. I might steal some of Dr. Knight's olive oil and lemon juice, which you get to make with this wonderful fun little squeezer thing. This is a delightful thing actually for kids to operate. And that is a very simple, versatile dressing that really brings out the wonderful flavor instead of hiding it and masking it in a big pile of mayonnaise. So Peter, it's grilling season. What can you tell us for some good healthy tips about how to prepare our food safely? Unfortunately the grilling of meats has been associated with the production of compounds that actually increase the risk of cancer. Eating a well done, charbroiled, quarter pound hamburger actually has the equivalent of those compounds of smoking six cigarettes. The good news is that there are simple things that you can do in your grilling process to help to decrease the production of those and minimize your risk. The first thing that I think of as being very important is the choice of meat. The inner cuts of meat are going to have a much lower production of those compounds and they also drip less fat onto the coals or onto the gas elements so you don't get those flare ups that I know we like the smell of, but they're not good for you. The second piece is actually the heating temperature. Really high heat will cause more production of those compounds. So cooking things at lower temperatures and using indirect heating where you're not cooking right over the coals will also decrease the production of those compounds. Using other alternatives such as seafood and vegetables will also decrease the production. There's minimal production from seafood and vegetables almost none. So grilling things such as portobello mushrooms or asparagus are a great alternative and taste delicious when grilled. And the final thing that you can do is actually in the choice of adding things to the food that you're grilling, adding garlic to a hamburger patty will actually reduce the production of the compounds by almost 60%. You can make a marinade using herbs such as rosemary and thyme and garlic with olive oil and put that on your piece of meat and that will also greatly reduce the production of the compounds too. And so actually on our website I actually have a list of some recipes for the marinades and other healthy grilling suggestions and that's at www.mehealthyliving.com in our blog section. Peter, these are wonderful tips. We'll check out your website and we really appreciate it. Happy grilling this summer. Thank you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc9DeUQQ4BU", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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Claim the discount at the following link by using 'READING' https://tpe.teachable.com/p/learning-to-see	[ "Photography", "photography education", "photography ideas", "photographer" ]	2022-10-31T16:15:09	2024-02-05T06:21:19	694	pCV90sFEniM	How's it? Today we're going to look at an architectural photographer whose images are now considered to be part of the history of modern architecture in the United States. Now if all of that sounds a little bit, well dull then stick with me because we're going to see that architectural photography actually has some real lessons that can be employed in your photography no matter what genre that you use. As a spotty teenager I amongst other things wanted to be an architect. There was something about it that just really kind of that appealed to me probably it was the the structure in terms of like there are actual structures about how you you do things and that you know it seemed to invite me in but my maths was so appalling that photography beckoned instead because their bar for entry was let's say considerably lower right so they I went and took up you know a camera instead and over the years the love of architecture has always stayed with me in fact to this day I still photograph predominantly architectural forms shape what have you but in a very more relaxed abstract way than Ezra Stoller Ezra Stoller's photography is precise it is gorgeous it it understands exactly what the architect is trying to convey and about how they want people to experience their buildings now at this point in a lot of videos about a specific photographer you could then start looking at their biography and this is a great example of why I feel certain sections in photography make it difficult for people with just a passing interest to get excited about a particular photographer and I'm going to read you an excerpt from Ezra Stoller's website Ezra Stoller was born in Chicago in 1915 grew up in New York and studied architecture NYU as a student he began photographing buildings and there's a spelling mistake there that's why stumbled buildings models and sculpture in 1938 he graduated with a bfa in industrial design in 1940 1941 Stoller worked with a photographer Paul Strand in the office of emergency management and it goes on like this for a number of paragraphs how is that going to excite you about finding out more about this photographer whose images I find fascinating from a technical perspective from that aesthetic perspective but also giving us an insight into the world of the modernist building and I'm going to use the word modernist it may not be the correct term specifically for all of these stars of architecture but bear with me okay and if you really take umbrage let me know in the comments so Stoller was lucky enough to inhabit a world that was always inhabited by people like Frank Lloyd Wright and Volta Gropius and people who were creating buildings that were so radically different to what was the current norm and Stoller to his credit I feel photographs them sympathetically probably because of his background you know that he started off photographing the architectural models when he was a student and this is sort of you know carried on these guys from the models to to the buildings themselves it's worth bearing in mind when you think about this kind of architecture that the houses were designed not just as the house and all the interior was just like whatever right the same with the building stuff everything was designed so when you look at Stoller's work he is photographing not just the house itself but you know the the the details inside the house the way that the whole thing is designed specifically and not in a sterile kind of dispassionate way but in a way that invites you the viewer if you like this kind of architecture to say wouldn't you love this wouldn't you love to live in this house or work in this environment or visit this wonderful terminal the JFK photographs that speak to a world that was moving forward the era the jet age was upon us doesn't this seem exciting don't these photographs capture the very the essence the zim in the zip in the zam of of that building in new york that was acting as a gateway to the modern age this is a prime example of how in your photography you need to be mindful you need to be connected you need to be engaged with the thing that you're photographing to realize that it isn't just a collection of abstract shapes but there's often especially in the case of architectural photography a purpose behind it is to showcase not just the architect's vision in a very sterile way but to make it something that people want to look at to enjoy that's why books such as this as restorer exist because they are wonderful images that have an aesthetic quality to them that i certainly find absolutely engaging earlier i used that quote about you know how ezra stoller is like the the you know an icon in the history of the modern american architecture scene and i really enjoy all of his photography didn't just do architecture he also did some other you know some more industrial design kind of images as well that also appeal to me but it's interesting to see what happens when a photographer who is so skilled so proficient that one particular thing strays off of that path and i'm talking about the images from machu Picchu there is something about these photographs that i just can't quite put my finger on that they are completely well bland i think this is this the the danger with a lot of you know great photographers is that sometimes they are great in one particular area and in ezra's case of architectural slash industrial design photography and this doesn't translate into something else and in this case it's those images of machu Picchu these images are that exception to the rules that says you know sort of the good photographers are proficient at any sort of genre so if you are struggling with something and it's not quite panning out whatever then you know take heart in the fact that somebody who is even as successful you know as ezra stoller just wasn't happening now there is an elephant in the room when we talk about ezra stoller there is another voice because stoller was the east coast kid you know it's all new york and jfk and stuff like that but then you have julius shulman who's all california was all west coast doing similar images but kind of i don't know making them feel a little bit more juge a little bit more modern there's the people tend to focus certain the images that in my mind that pop out are these ideas of people actually inhabiting these places and in many respects they have more of a kind of a madmen sort of vibe about them probably because you can see these people there is a paragraph on stoller's website that says that many modern buildings are recognized and remembered by the pictures that ezra stoller had taken and i think this is a wonderful idea about how you know you can't carry a building around with you you can't just go off and say look i brought the empire state building with me isn't that nice right you just you can't do that but you can of course create images and just as much as the celebrity photographers have created iconic photographs of people that have stayed with us so when we think about those people that's the image that is burnt into our minds i think it's wonderful that we have stoller and shulman to thank for capturing these iconic buildings of creating them in a way you know an image in the way that can stay inside our minds so rather than having just drab run-of-the-mill documented images of these these buildings and these homes and these offices and these spaces he's created something that has that power to stay with us in our photography it's often tricky to know where our influencers are coming from and i wondered why i was interested in architecture and then subsequent architectural photography and then you know ideas about graphics and and geometric shapes and forms in photography and it was only when i returned to the uk after many years away and i went to ikea in melton keens where i'd grown up or nearby melton keens as a child in the in the late 70s then it dawned on me that this new town that was built from basically a collection of small villages and had loads of modernist and brutalist buildings dumped on it had shaped the way that i saw buildings it was like a penny dropped it was it was like wow okay this is where it comes from so if you are struggling for ideas about where to find your voice about to find what really moves you in photography watch this video that i've got over here when it talks about you know finding the why within you and once you get back to that why then you're going to reconnect with your photography thank you ever so much for watching and i will see you again soon	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCV90sFEniM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCSYvZEhPjU62PKTqQtQvRGg	Inequality Conference - Invited 1 1/3	Redistribution, inequality, and growth Andrew Berg More about the conference: http://www1.wider.unu.edu/inequalityconf More about UNU-WIDER: http://www.wider.unu.edu	[ "2017" ]	2014-10-10T11:13:28	2024-04-18T18:09:10	1,920	PccFKQvRNuw	It's a great pleasure and honor to be at this conference and have a chance to present. I look forward to learning a lot today and tomorrow. Before I even get to this slide, let me start by saying that the presentation I'm about to give is a contrast. I hope a useful contrast from the keynote we just heard. Most of the way through Marcelo Neri's wonderful presentation, I was thinking to myself, we don't really need my paper, the Brazilians have figured it out. And then at the very end, when he said, well, maybe we should worry less about inequality because growth is slowing down and the tax burden is so high. And I kind of thought, okay, well, that's what my paper is about, so that's useful. And thank you for that. We take a big picture look at these issues in the sense that we step back and look at what the cross-country evidence has to say. You know, in my own work, I find that when I work on the cross-country evidence, I wish I could look at the details more closely because it's, you know, ultimately the big picture when you look closely, the pieces are blurry. On the other hand, sometimes when you look at the details, you do want to see how it fits together or what the broad patterns are, and that's the spirit that we've been doing this work. So this line of work started many years ago with my colleagues at the IMF, Jonathan Ostry and then Jeremy Zettelmeyer, when we were looking not at inequality, but at the sources of sustained growth. And it actually came very initially out of the idea that we might, we were thinking in terms of crisis prediction, being the IMF, and we thought maybe if we could predict when growth spells were going to end, we might have a handle on when certain sorts of crises would come. So we wrote a paper that came out a couple of years ago on sources of sustained growth, and in that project one of the surprises was the salience of income inequality as a predictor of weakness of growth spells, that's to say the hazard that growth spells would end. And then Jonathan Ostry and I drilled down on that, or really went, ran with that particular result in a 2011 paper where we talked about the role of inequality in sustained, or of equality really in sustaining growth spells. So that's part of a literature that has, a big literature obviously, that has talked about the role of inequality, the role of inequality in growth, and I'll review it briefly a little later. But that has come on and since the 2012 crisis, and since of course the rise and the discussion about the rise and inequality, especially in advanced countries this topic has come to the fore. Now, we would tend to say that there is a tentative consensus that inequality indeed is associated with slower and more durable growth, at least over the long horizons in a sort of cross-country sense. When we finished the last paper, our 2011 paper, it was very hard to write the conclusion. This was supposed to be a policy, it was a staff discussion note, it's a policy oriented note, and we were trying to draw policy conclusions, and we drew some policy conclusions, but there was a key problem with drawing conclusions, which is kind of precisely what we really heard about at the end with respect to Brazil, which is that it's not clear really what is, what's driving the relationship between inequality and growth, and in particular there's a theory, the fiscal, there's a theory that one of the reasons inequality may lead to lower growth is precisely that countries try and do something about it. So the story would be that Brazil's high inequality at a sort of longer horizon has led to low growth exactly because it led to a consensus in favor of redistribution, which indeed has a lower growth. Now, by no means making that claim about Brazil, I'm just using that example to illustrate the argument. And that's in the literature, and that sort of makes it very hard to draw any conclusions about the policy implications, or at least some of the policy implications, about the fact that high inequality may cause lower growth. And another way to put that is there's very deeply embedded in the economics profession this view about the trade off between equality and efficiency. There's a book by Arthur Oaken from I think 1978 that was Brookings' best-selling book ever, at least until a few years ago, called The Big Trade Off. And Thomas Sargent in his, the Nobel Prize winner in his speech to the graduates, listed 12 things economists know, or eight things economists know, but it wasn't a very big number. And one of them was that there's a trade off between equality and growth, or some such trade off. So for all these reasons we wanted to analyze simultaneously the relationship between inequality, redistribution, and growth. So one relatively narrow objective was to see if controlling for redistribution we still see the same effects of inequality on growth. And the other was to try and get a handle on sort of the Oaken trade off, and does it exist in the data. So we look at the effects, when I say growth we mean two different things. We look at the average rate of mean per capita real growth over five year periods. And I'm going to usually call those panel growth or growth regressions. And we look at the duration of growth spells, which is how many, if we define growth spells in a certain way, these are sort of episodes of reasonably high growth, and you can sort of define when they come to an end, and you can ask about the risks that they will come to end and the determinants of those risks. We use a, it says recently compiled, the paper was in 2009, it's recent in some sense. A recently compiled cross country data set by Professor Sold that's based on the WID data, mainly, that distinguishes between net and market inequality and allows therefore for the direct calculation of redistribution, which we define simply as the difference between the market and net genie in a country. So it's not redistribution defined in terms of spending or tax rates or any effort at redistribution. It's just what seems to show up in the data in this sense. And I'll talk about that obviously, the limitations of that in particular. Seeing Nora in the audience is always scary when I present this kind of thing because I know what she's thinking, I think. But anyway, I'll talk about that. One of our main conclusions is that lower net inequality does seem to drive both faster and more durable growth for a given level of redistribution. So we recover our old results and now we have done it also in a growth panel as opposed to just duration. And we find redistribution in general, we find little evidence of a negative effect of redistribution on growth. In extreme cases, which I will define, of course, there is some evidence that there can be a direct negative effect of redistribution, but the combined direct and indirect effects of redistribution are on average pro-growth. And by indirect effect, I mean the effect of redistribution on inequality and thereby growth. So this graph may help, or it may not, but it may help to define terms a little more carefully. Of course, I'm using Gini coefficients, which most of you know, but vary between, it says, 0 and 100 or 0 and 1, where 1 is completely unequal and 0 is complete equality. Market equality is inequality of factor incomes before taxes and before transfers. And then we have redistribution, well net inequality is inequality of income after taxes and transfers, again measured as a Gini coefficient. And the difference between market, am I able to point in some way? I guess I can use this. The difference between market and net, of course, is redistribution. So we're going to look at several of these channels in this paper, but not all of them. In fact, there's many arrows that we could have drawn that we haven't, and we don't look too much at those. But one reason we think it's important to look simultaneously at redistribution and inequality is that there's a body of evidence and thought that suggests that redistribution is a function of inequality. That's this line A. It's the so-called Meltzer-Richard effect, which is that more unequal countries tend to redistribute more, at least that's the claim of some people in the literature. And then there's the potential direct effect of redistribution on growth. This is kind of the Arthur Oaken effect, the fact that high tax burdens can lower incentives to invest and that there may be labor supply effects of redistribution and so on. And then there's the direct effect of inequality on growth. There's various channels. And then the indirect or the total effect of redistribution would be the effect of redistribution on inequality and thereby on growth. Now, maybe the most interesting lines in this chart are the ones I haven't drawn. For example, redistribution could affect market inequality. Now, when I talk about the regressions, for some purposes that's not a major problem for us in terms of running our regressions, but for interpretation of some of the results, it's just going to be a maintained hypothesis, which I will talk about. Another is from growth to either inequality or redistribution. And we make some effort to isolate causality in the direction of these arrows, D&E, but it's always a challenge in these kind of exercises and it's a caution. So let me briefly review the evidence. I don't know if this is redundant or it's just going to be contradicted in the next presentation, but we'll find out. But there's a number of reasons why inequality could promote growth. Of course, it provides incentives. And we know, in fact, well, we know that at some point too little inequality can't be pro-growth. I mean, and so some of these channels must exist and it's just a question of this relative strength. But anyway, there's many old stories about that. There's a Caldor kind of story that rich people save more and invest more and so inequality could promote savings and investment. Barrow has an argument that this obviously depends on how rich the country is, but in relatively poor countries a higher level of inequality allows more people past the hump where they would have enough income to start a business, basically to generate some capital and get a business to the minimum required scale. And then as far as the evidence goes, obviously the literature is divided. There is some evidence that inequality promotes higher growth. We tend to see that the way we read it is that if you look at the variation within relatively short time periods within countries, you can get positive effects, negative effects, or no effects or nonlinear effects. It's a bit of a mess. So we tend to think that you do have to look at longer horizons and cross-country differences to get... Anyway, this support of evidence is from the short horizon, typically. So then there's reasons why inequality itself could promote growth. Obviously, it helps support, stay healthy, and accumulate human capital education and so on, because you might, of loosely speaking or broadly speaking, capital market imperfections that we know exist. It can support political and economic stability that promotes growth, perhaps through higher investment and so on. Danny Roderick has an old paper about the 80s crisis arguing that if you look at the terms of trade shocks and the global shocks that took so many countries onto a lost decade in the late 70s, early 80s, the punishment was a lot worse than the crime in terms of the size of the shock. It was small relative to the lost GDP and that if you try to understand who suffered so much and who didn't, it was sort of the unequal countries that had trouble adjusting to the shock and lost their way. In fact, Jeff Sachs, while I was student with Jeff Sachs, we wrote a paper on the debt crisis arguing that that was sort of a way of understanding which countries got into the debt crisis most in the 80s, following that same idea. And there's substantial empirical evidence supporting the idea that the quality can support growth. Now, we don't focus as much on this last and this next channel in the paper, and I won't talk about it so much here, but the evidence on whether market inequality does lead through political channels, does lead to more redistribution is mixed, I would say, and I'll come to that when we talk about the data. So then on redistribution, whether it will help or hurt growth, in a way there's relatively little on this topic, it seems to me, depending on how you phrase the question, but at the aggregate kind of level, there's not that much about it. Of course, there's a million papers on, there's a lot of papers on the effects of, say, taxes and sort of micro papers on labor supply effects of different specific policies and this huge literature on labor supply effects of things, but putting it together is harder. After all, redistribution, anyway, so it's, but there's, of course, the Oaken idea. There's some papers arguing that redistributive policies could help growth themselves, but those papers, in a way, combine the effects of redistribution itself and the effects of redistribution on equality and on growth. They don't necessarily distinguish that so much. I mean, the main, I think in the Beninbu paper, there's an idea of social insurance associated with redistribution. If you know that you can take chances and your failures will be alleviated but that may encourage innovation, which is sort of a direct channel from redistribution to innovation and growth. Anyway, we conclude that it's an empirical question and that it could go, that we shouldn't be so sure, as Sergeant is, about what the overall aggregate effects are. So the data. Now, most papers in the growth equality literature have kind of not paid that much attention to redistribution or really to the definition of equality in terms of is it market equality, is it net inequality that's being measured? And that's partly because the data sets sometimes often kind of contain, like the WID contains that information, but it doesn't make it, it's a hard problem to deal with. Sometimes people make kind of crude efforts to make an adjustment factor for the difference between market and net inequality and so on to make them comparable. But it's, you know, there's definition, in this crowd I guess I don't need to go through this, but there's lots of different ways you can measure inequality and the surveys in the cross country data sets vary in all these dimensions. This makes it hard to interpret growth regressions in, should we think in terms of market equality, market inequality, net inequality, and where is redistribution in these coefficients? It's also very hard to measure redistribution directly in general. Measures of redistribution, like the size of subsidies and transfers in the budget or the size of the government or the size of the tax take, those things are kind of correlated with our measure, pretty highly correlated with our measure, but the correlation coefficient sort of varies from 0.5 to 0.7. And most papers that, and so when you put something like the tax rate or something like that on the right-hand side, it's hard to know how to interpret that as a redistributive, as a measure of redistribution. Bronko Milanovic has a paper in 2000 looking at the question of whether unequal countries redistribute more and he actually measures redistribution directly kind of like we do, or I should say the other way around, we do it kind of like he did. He uses data for, you know, the data is hard to find so he does it just for the OECD and he finds relatively strong evidence in favor of this effect, this effect that unequal countries do tend to redistribute more. He once he measures redistribution correctly or more accurately. So we use this Solt standardized World Income Inequality Database that came out in 2009, he's been updating it. And briefly he takes, you know, the best, he takes the survey data that's out there and he uses an essentially regression-based method to try and create, you know, he categorizes every survey into one of, I think, 21 categories in terms of unit of account, you know, is it household, is it individual, is it net, is it gross, is it disposable income, is it consumption. And then he looks for the statistical relationships between these 21 categories and tries to kind of boil it down into one net and one market inequality measure for each country. Now in doing so, he does make use of, you know, there's some imputation and there's using these regressions to infer how to compare these different surveys. But the result is we get a large sample in principle comparable across countries in time of net and market inequality, which is what we need because for our techniques we need a big sample. For our regression techniques we need a big sample. So we see it as not perfect but the best for our purposes. We do quite a lot of sensitivity to try and see how, you know, different sub-samples affect the results and so on. And I'll show you some of that. I'll show you some of that. So just some stylized facts that we'll spend a lot of time on. The left panel is for the whole sample then OECD and non-OECD and OECD. So global median net inequality has been very stable but it's been declining. Market inequality has been rising in the OECD and declining in the rest. And the gap, of course, one important fact is that the gap between net and market is much higher. That's to say between, for example, this line much higher in industrial countries than in developing countries as we know that developing countries have less scope to redistribute. We heard from Brazil that it can be done. So anyway, that's just some of the patterns in the data. This is just a picture. This picture shows the inequality of market income on the horizontal axis and of net income on the vertical. So if a country doesn't redistribute the point will be along this line. And you can see here for the OECD that there's actually a relatively weak relationship between market inequality and net inequality. In other words, most of the difference across countries in market inequality on average is undone by the taxes and transfers of the fiscal system. Now that's true. This is a snapshot. We know that of the increase in the last 10 or 20 years a smaller than sort of typical fraction has been undone by redistribution. But anyway, that's... And if you look statistically at these relationships they hold up... This holds up in the OECD. It holds up in the non-OECD although it's weaker but it's statistically significant. I don't think I'm going to show that but that's just a regression of that picture. So we're just looking at the raw data. Here I'm just graphing the genie of net income on the horizontal axis with growth over the subsequent 10 years. Mean real per capita GDP growth. And you can see a fairly strong negative relationship. Now I don't know if those of you who've looked at, say, Barrow's book, you know, he shows a lot of pictures like this you can look at this two ways. Either it's a total cloud and, you know, there's just a bit of a slope or you can say, wow, that's clearly, you know, a strong relationship. But this is, as these things go, it's pretty good, it seems to me. You know, it's not as good as investment but some of the things we think about like good institutions or something don't necessarily do that great in these pictures either. And then for redistribution we see essentially no relationship or if anything a slightly positive relationship between redistribution in genie points and growth over the subsequent 10 years. Now this is for spells. I'll define spells later when I get to the results if I have time but we're looking at the net genie at the beginning of the spell on the horizontal axis and this is the length of the subsequent spell. And so they vary, you know, there's some that are 40, 50 years long and presumably get truncated at the end of the sample. Many of them do get truncated. Many have kept going. And you can see something of a negative relationship. For redistribution, here you do see a bit of a negative relationship but it seems to be driven by these high redistribution a small number of observations. So what do we do? Our basic, I said we have these two sets of results. One is kind of traditional growth, panel growth regressions where we put the five-year average mean per capita growth rate on the left. We put initial income on the right. So column one is our baseline. We put initial income on the right. We put net inequality contemporaneously and redistribution contemporaneously. And then we use system GMM which means essentially that we're using lagged variables as instruments. And I'll come back to that. And what is our basic result is that net inequality has a significant negative effect on growth and redistribution has sort of no effect. I mean, it looks, the sign is positive but it's highly insignificant. Now, what we do, we don't, we're not really interested in the definitive growth regression here which not that it exists but so we added progressively various variables just to see how these results hold up. So we added investment in population growth and then investment population growth in education to put in the basic factors and then we kind of threw in a bunch of other stuff. You know, debt, political institutions and so on. And for, for, for our purposes here the main point is that inequality really holds up strongly in this business and that redistribution is never significant. And in fact, the difference between those two is significant. We can estimate redistribution precisely enough that we can say that the coefficients are not equal. So that's our core, that's our, this is our core sort of test of the Okan hypothesis. We thought we would get a negative coefficient on redistribution because of, you know, redistribution being bad for growth a negative coefficient on inequality and we would see which one was more negative. That's kind of a test of the trade off. But in fact, we didn't find any negative coefficient really on redistribution, at least in these regressions. So there's no evidence of a trade off here. See how I'm doing on my list of conclusions. So I'm on to the fifth one. Yeah, so the results are just not consistent with the notion that there's this big trade off that's really salient in the data. I guess I'm done with this. Okay, so these are these results graphically. This is the effect of, the first column shows the effect of increasing the net genie from 37 which is like the U.S. to Morocco, which is like 40. We didn't pick these with any, except because they fit the numbers. And that reduces growth by 0.5 percentage points from 5 to 4.5 percent holding everything else constant. Five minutes, okay. And then the direct effect of redistribution is almost zero. And then this total effect combines the direct effect of redistribution with the resulting effect on inequality. Now, in terms of this issue I raised at the beginning about distinct, well, about causality, to estimate the direct effects, we don't really care what the relationship is between inequality and redistribution. Once we've got them both in the regression, we can estimate the direct effects. It's true that for this last column where we want to say what the effect is of redistribution, we are maintaining the hypothesis that market inequality is not affected by redistribution. Now, we know that can't be right. We can't be wrong about redistribution. I want to make one point, which is that redistribution in principle should, for example, lower the labor supply at the top and the bottom, because you tax the rich and give to the poor, you can reduce labor supply at both ends. What the effect is on the relative wages is not clear. It's kind of a second-order effect, so to speak. So it's not obvious anyway that redistribution as a general matter should have a big effect, but we have effects. I don't have time to talk too much about the GMM issue, how we really isolate causality and whether that works, but we do subject to a number of diagnoses and we find that our results, for example, are robust to weak instrumentation, you know, and I can maybe come back to that. We get the same results even if we assume that our instruments, our lagged instruments are not strongly related to the variables of distribution. So about the data. So there's various ways you can use this sold data. You can use every observation or you can apply some screens to try and get the highest quality data. Our baseline throws out a bunch of countries that sold things are relatively unreliable. It also only keeps a redistribution measurement if there's actually an actual series on some net inequality concept and some gross inequality concept for that country in question, so that you're not just using other country information to infer redistribution. Now we have various restricted samples, including one, for example, in which we keep only the five-year only an observation, which is a five-year average, if there's a net and a gross a net and a market measurement in that five-year period for that country. So we lose almost half the observations doing that and then we also put some other restrictions from in terms of throwing out questionable countries. And our results hold, essentially. Sometimes we lose... The result that inequality is significant and negative, that redistribution is not significant, the difference is usually significant, those hold even in these restricted samples. Now I don't have much time, I guess, to talk about spells. I have two minutes. Spells... I'm not going to say how we define growth spells, but we basically there's some interesting results on nonlinearities. As I hinted at the beginning, it's obvious that there must be a nonlinear relationship in all these variables. At some level, if inequality is zero, then increasing inequality is very likely to be pro-growth, and you think about China in 1980, for example, or the transition countries. In those previous regressions, we explored nonlinearities, looking if it mattered whether you already had higher or low inequality, and we found nothing in the data. It must be there, but it wasn't in our... Within the range we observed in the data, it was not there. In this growth sample, we did find that once you redistributed more than 75% of the sample, you started to see negative effects on the duration of growth. And so we divide into redistribution in the top 25% of the distribution of redistribution, that's to say the countries that redistribute the most, it can be adverse to the duration of growth. In this table, the number should be understood as like an odds ratio. So 1.06 here means that if you have a higher genie by one point, there's a 6% higher risk that the spell will end in the next period. So here, if you redistribute and you're already redistributing a lot, there is a 9.8% chance that the spell will... More, there's a higher chance that the spell will end. So we... We find... Yes, for redistribution, there is evidence of a nonlinear relationship. So we find that for countries below the 75th percentile, there's no negative effect. For countries above the 75th percentile, there may be one. And it's about equal to the magnitude of the effect of inequality. So even if you're above the 75th percentile, if you redistribute more, you know, that may not help growth. It doesn't seem like it hurts growth. And, of course, it may have its own merits on its own. And this is just a picture showing who's above the 75th percentile. You can see the UK and Australia are above. Canada's just below and so on. Now, the spell's results are more sensitive to the sample sizes. You're just asking more of the data. These spells, you have to measure the beginning. You need more data to get any kind of results with spells. So let me just conclude. My main conclusions already gave. Let me talk about caveats for one minute. Clearly, we don't want to overinterpret these results. They're just regressions. They're cross-country regressions. I think we haven't had a chance to talk about it. I think we made good effort to isolate causality, but we can't claim that it's iron-clad. It's very hard to do, that's for sure. And also, these are not controlled experiments. So we don't, you know, one of my colleagues at the IMF pointed out that countries may sort of be doing the amount of redistribution that they appropriately can do. We're not saying that Benin should go redistribute like Denmark. They don't have the institutions to redistribute like Denmark. So, you know, obviously it's dependent on the capacities of the country. It's dependent on the specificities of the case. And there's a number of caveats on those lines. We're just saying that this kind of if there were really a strong effect that redistribution, that Oaken was right and we should be afraid about redistribution, and that should be sort of the dominant thing in the data, we should see it, and we don't. So on average and across countries in time, government's efforts to redistribute do not seem to have led to bad growth outcomes, except possibly when they were extra. And I'll stop there. Thank you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PccFKQvRNuw", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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UCCPX4RfQsBcpKHk71ZM7m2Q	The Building	Since 2014, José Aragüez has led the international project, "The Building", which has yielded two symposia—at Columbia GSAPP and the Architectural Association in London—and a theory seminar at Cornell University. The results of this work have culminated in a new book from Lars Müller Publishers, which will be the topic of discussion at this event. Over the last few decades, architectural history and theory have done a remarkable and necessary job of expanding their limits and audiences. The flip side of this expansion, however, has been a marked displacement of the object, and with it ultimately a certain neglect of architectural thinking proper. On the other end of the spectrum, discussions centered firmly round design process and outcome have often proved self-referential (e.g. those around “autonomy”) or restricted to the spheres of practice and studio teaching alone. This project constructs a bridge between these two tendencies by mobilizing a topic—“the building”—that typically belongs in the latter while seeking the former’s expansion. If the dominant approach driving architectural history and theory today concerns identifying novel subject matter, here instead the challenge involves taking up one of the discipline’s oldest themes and reconfiguring it through the intellectual tools now at our disposal. Forty-three contributors based in Europe and the US, including deans and academic leaders, architects, historians, theorists, philosophers, and doctoral candidates, offer poignant explorations of key architectural structures conceived across Asia and the West from the late 1980s to the present. In exploring these structures through a number of questions both intra- and metadisciplinary—like sameness, value, iconography, objecthood, the urban subject, boredom, and digital technologies—this volume suggests ways in which buildings can trigger conceptual frameworks whose influence extends beyond architecture into other domains of knowledge and practice. Such domains include cultural and intellectual history, philosophy, literary theory, the city, the arts, and design at large. By way of the building, therefore, this book illustrates the distinct capacity of architectural thinking to engender far-reaching concepts and, more generally, discourse—while the serendipitous encounters between diverse case studies from Europe, Asia, and the US unveil unexpected synergies and tensions that open up new research territories in design culture. Speakers José Aragüez, Adjunct Professor, Columbia GSAPP Stan Allen, Professor, Princeton University Amale Andraos, Dean, Columbia GSAPP Bernard Tschumi, Professor and Dean Emeritus, Columbia GSAPP Moderated by Jorge Otero-Pailos, Professor and Director of Historic Preservation, Columbia GSAPP	[ "Book Launch", "Columbia University", "Columbia GSAPP", "GSAPP", "Architecture", "The Building", "Symposium", "José Aragüez", "Stan Allen", "Amale Andraos", "Bernard Tschumi", "Jorge Otero-Pailos" ]	2017-04-10T20:32:24	2024-02-05T07:09:23	6,322	PcqbKVB4niM	Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you all for coming to this book launch and discussion around this book, The Building. And though it's a book, it's The Building. It's a project that was really started by Jose Adawit, who is a member of our faculty here at adjunct professor of design, also a graduate of the AAD program and currently finishing his PhD at Princeton. The project began in 2014 as two symposia held here at Columbia University and at the Architectural Association. And these two events brought together a number of historians, theorists, architects, PhD candidates, both from Europe and the United States to really think about the question of whether a building could be considered a form of knowledge, and if so, in which way. And so each participant that came to those symposia was asked to pick a building and to discuss it along those lines. As a result of the symposia, the project was developed into a book that was published in November 2016 by Lars Müller. And many of the figures that attended the symposium, but others also participated in the volume. And the volume was really cast with a very particular idea to spur architectural thinking into a new level within the humanities and social sciences. And Jose can talk a little bit more about what his ambitions were there. But some of the people that contributed to the book were Penelope Dean, Stan Allen, John McMurray, Peg Rawls, Sylvia Levin, Amanda Risser-Lawrence, Vera Bulman, Enrique Walker, Michael Meredith, Cynthia Davidson, Joan Ockman, Mary McLeod, Mario Carpo, Alejandro Saerapolo, Andrew Benjamin, Dora Epstein-Jones, K. Michael Hayes, Philip Ersprung, and others. Because I could just spend all afternoon writing the list. Quite an amazing list. Basically, the top minds and the top architects in the world today brought together around this reconsideration of the building. Amal Andraos, our dean, contributed to the book. She's going to be speaking today, together with everyone that was invited, had to be a dean. That was a prerequisite for the invitation. Dean Stan Allen and Bernard Schuming. And they're going to be joined in conversation by Jose Arauiz. And I'm going to have the pleasure of moderating the discussion. So they're going to expand a little bit on their contribution to the book as a way to get us thinking about this book. And it's important. And I'll be very happy to take your questions as we go. We're going to first hear from them. They're going to give brief presentations of about 10 minutes each. And then we're going to gather together over here for a conversation. So without further ado, I want to first introduce Jose Arauiz, who's really behind this whole, I can't call it a book. It's really this whole enterprise. So Jose, welcome. All right. Well, thank you very much, Jorge, for your kind introduction and for agreeing to moderate today. I have to say, I'm also very grateful to Amal, Stan, and Bernard, not only for participating in today's event, for contributing to the book, but actually even more importantly, probably for supporting this project from the beginning. So probably without them, we would have no the building today. Thanks, Paul and Laila, from Events for Coordinating. And thank you, everybody, for coming. All right. Well, Jorge already said a few of the things that I was going to mention at the beginning. For those of you not familiar with the entire sequence, the building is basically a four-year discursive project, which we started in 2014 with the organization of two symposia, one at the Digital Association, second one at the AA, continued in the fall of 2015 with the seminar I taught on the topic, and then with the production of the book between 2015 and 2016. And then lastly, throughout 2017, we're doing a number of lectures and panel discussion events basically across the country, across the US in the spring, and then across Europe in the fall. Not so much to only assess the results of the project, but actually, more importantly, to keep fostering the conversation about the project's agenda. So basically, the initial diagnosis was rather simple, and it was undeniably tied to my biography. I was studying my PhD a few years ago. And as I was becoming more and more fascinated by the intellectual expansion that I was being exposed to, at the same time, it became more and more apparent to me that there wasn't a lot of discussion about architectural design within a scholar circles in architecture. So maybe it was just me. So I kind of shared this view with other colleagues, faculty, and so on. And everybody kind of agreed. So that meant that there was a kind of repressed quality to the issue, perhaps. Let's bring it to the surface. Let's gather historians, theorists, PhD candidates, along with architects themselves, to kind of discuss that which is supposed to establish the common ground for everybody, which is architectural thinking as a form of knowledge with the building as the object, the excellence of architectural thinking. So I've brought a few pictures to show you guys about the two symposities. Which was the one at DAA, sort of a classical, same-year format with the people like John MacMorrow, with Tom Weaver, Adrian Forte, you see there, Mario Carpo, Marino Laturi, Mark Cassin's, Brett Steele. So pretty much everybody that made it. It was very lively, kind of, again, old style, heated debates around the issue. Second one at Columbia, slightly more larger conference-like with Enrique, with Stan, with Amanda, Jorge, Michael Meredith, Bernard, who happened to be in the audience just as his Lerner Hall was being presented by Aaron White, who may be in the audience today, I don't know. Joan Aukman, presenting Frank Gehry's Louis Vuitton building, Sylvia Leibin, Zara Polo, and so on and so forth, Michael Young. And then I think I'm putting also three of the, three pictures of some of the events that have happened after the publication of the book. So this is with Andrea Tavares at the Lisbon Architectural Biennale. And last December, this will be large, just last month in the city. And this was just a few weeks ago at MIT with Ana Miljaki, Rafi Sigl, Amanda Rizzo Lorenz, Michael Hayes. So we get to the meat of the presentation. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to very briefly articulate the kind of main aspects of the theoretical amateur of the project. But I'm not going to elaborate on any of them because this is basically a 45 to a minute to an hour lecture which I'm gonna compress into 15 minutes. That means that some of the prepositions are going to basically come across as more controversial than they really are. So maybe that's a good thing for discussion afterwards. But again, I'm just going to briefly articulate them. So first, that the building is a necessary condition for a contribution to knowledge in architecture. That means that, of course, we can write about and discuss about many other things, bills and rental agreements, investors, animal species, and a number of other things. But those things will be relevant to architecture only so far as they relate to a building of some sort or a group of buildings. Whether the building is in the foreground or in the background. Now, the necessary condition that is to say that which needs to be there for something to be the case would be different if the target were urbanism, product design, furniture design, exhibition design, and so on and so forth. Now, this distinction between disciplines is in no way an attempt to assert boundaries or to retreat or to withdraw into one's own autonomy or interior, but actually, it's the exact opposite. And in other words, interdisciplinary processes are rooted in difference. So typically, we tend to emphasize the zones, the areas in common, the overlaps between different fields, between different disciplines. But I would like to suggest that actually, in order for us to be able to fully comprehend interdisciplinary processes and the result, we actually have to first comprehensively account for the differences that underpin each and every one of those fields. So in other words, interdisciplinary processes are rooted in difference. Now, as a result of the theoretical turn of the 1960s, which again, I'm not gonna explain at all, but some of you may be familiar with, architectural history and theory started to import concepts, terms, and theoretical frameworks from fields outside of architecture. So there was this tendency to import from the outside that is still, in my view, very much present today. Now, in parallel to that trend, to that tendency, but starting a little bit later around the mid-1970s, the architectural object grew more and more unstable as it began to appear in more and more geysers. So something that you might call the building as tendency. So the building as the verification of power structures, the building as the locus of phenomenological content, the building as a vehicle for the study of the phenomenology of perception, the building as something else. Now, in no way, these two trends are bad. So in no way am I being critical of those. On the contrary actually, thanks to those two trends that we enjoy today an increasing sophistication of not only architectural history and theory actually, but architecture as a whole. Now, the issue here in my view is that the flip side of those trends is that the architectural object itself appears more often as a medium through which to tap into concerns and issues that strictly speaking belong to other domains of knowledge and practice, if not as altogether absent, rather than as itself a realm of research. As a realm of research in its own right. So starting out from that diagnosis, the main goal of this project is basically, again, not to overturn those, but to balance out, to balance them out a little bit. So that defines the twofold agenda that we were after. One was to discuss what it means for a building to embody a historically significant contribution in terms of a design aspect, a design move, or a concept relevant to the reading of buildings in general. So in other words, to not only have the building as, but also the building as a realm of research. And then secondly, to venture ways in which buildings can trigger terms, concepts, and even more ambitiously theoretical frameworks that potentially could be applicable outside the boundaries of architecture. So in other words, that the tendency to import could begin to coexist with architecture's capacity to export outside. Now, a number of other things that I would like to say, again, by way of just propositions to put on the table, is to say that a building is not formed. Or at the very least, the building is not only formed. That means that a return to the building or not a return actually, but an emphasis on the building is not an emphasis on form. I think I would like to suggest that at the very least, a building is some combination of form and program. Some combination of a three-dimensional material organization made up of a number of elements and relationships, so what we tend to call form, that is capable of housing a number of or the site of human activities or human-related activities. So even if the human is not there, such as in storage buildings or infrastructural buildings. So that means, again, I'm kind of holding back. I'm not elaborating. But that may suggest, for example, social by definition. So a building is not only formed now. The other question I think that's important to bring up here, especially in architecture, is this distinction between discursive and representational knowledge. Now, if this was electron and metaphysics and this was school of philosophy or whatever, this distinction would be a little bit reductive. But I think for architectural purposes it's going to be potentially helpful, which is to say, well, discursive knowledge is the kind of knowledge that involves premises, narratives, judgments, assessments, concepts, ideas, conclusions, inferences, as channeled through thought and expressed through language. Channeled through thought and expressed through language versus representational knowledge, which is the kind that we mobilize constantly in architecture because of the nature of design. And that is the one that involves drawings, images, models, and so on. So in so far as the building as a book is not a building, the building is a book, then, of course, it concerns discursive knowledge. Now, at the same time, many of the authors in the book, if not the vast majority of them basically, they mobilize representational knowledge in order to be able to produce discursive knowledge. So that's the kind of mechanics for this transition between one and the other or the kind of interplay between the two. So we begin to see that one could suggest that an architectural thinking is the practice of producing discursive knowledge through the analysis, discussion, and conceptualization of aspects that belong, that define two inextricably related regimes. On the one hand, the regime of design, the design process, which we might call, you will, architectural design thinking as a subset of architectural thinking. And then on the other hand, the regime of the outcome of such a process, that is to say the regime of the building. So in slightly broader times, then, turns out that architectural thinking is a distinct domain, a distinct, clearly unique domain of discursive knowledge whose attributes reach well beyond form and aesthetics. Again, an emphasis on the building is not an emphasis on form and aesthetics by any stretch of the imagination. And one could argue that many of those attributes actually are relatable to at least ontology, technology, and several modes of logic and phenomenology. Again, I'm not elaborating on any of this, but maybe later on in the discussion we can say something more. No. Another important distinction to make in my view is this one between specificity and autonomy. Again, unfortunately I cannot elaborate, but basically the bottom line is that an emphasis on architectural thinking is in no way an emphasis on autonomy because by definition, architectural thinking is not autonomous, right? At least in the way we've come to understand the term autonomy in architecture, let's say within the past 40 years through the Italian sort of trend on the American one. However, it is obvious enough, I think that architectural thinking is a specific domain of knowledge, right? In so far as the production, the design process, as well as the outcome of such a process, the building, features a number of particularities, right? A number of specific features and traits that make them fundamentally different from a novel, a music, sorry, a piece of music, piece of literature, right? A number of other things that you can create, right? Notwithstanding the analogies that you can then establish between the different medians. So you could argue then that while autonomy is definitely grounded in specificity, specificity does not imply autonomy, right? So basically what this project tries to do, the building is to capitalize on architectural specificity and non-autonomy, this combination, in order to produce this phrase, which is perhaps the key phrase of the entire project, architectural specific yet generalizable knowledge, right? That is to say the kind of knowledge that is specifically rooted in architectural thinking and yet at the same time could have potential and impact outside of the boundaries of the discipline. So to talk a little bit about the structure of the book fairly quickly, the main section comprises brief texts on 30 case studies built or designed within the last 25 years that were grouped under these six labels, elements, host, content, context, reference and technology, which are at once undeniably tied to architecture, right? But at the same time I understand elemental enough to be relevant to fields outside of architecture, right? Now, second section, longer critical essays by five authors reflecting on this question of the building as a form of knowledge, partly through reflections on the project's agenda and the materials, the rest of the materials within the book, right? So part of the idea with these words to kind of keep the conversation going throughout the pages of the book, not only restricted to the symposia themselves. And then thirdly, a very important section on where five authors reflect on the importance of this renewed interest in the building in the context of architectural education today. All right, so first part of the presentation, second part of the presentation I wanna run very quickly through this. I'm gonna share with you guys five examples from the book where you'll see how authors spoke to the first part of the agenda and then five other examples where a number of other contributors spoke to the second part of the agenda, right? So Penelope, I think, for example, talking about Fujimoto's Any House, she says a number of things but the one that I would highlight is the fact that for her this building is related to other losses round plan and what it does is that it basically dismantles the round plan by evacuating the wall and then creating what she calls platform plan, right? So that is the way in which she argues how this building actually materializes this addition to a particular lineage within design. Because in these cases from the ADA, discussing Ensemble Studios travel house, for those of you who don't know this project, basically the idea is to dig a hole in the earth, then fill it up with hay, then pour in the concrete, remove the earth around, then have a calf eat away at the hay to get the interior of the building. So basically the idea is that instead of designing a building, what you do is you prescribe the construction process in such a way that you escape the strict rules of representation, right? So in concrete projects what you usually get is a cast that is introduced to eliminate uncertainty, right? To try to control exactly the appearance of the project, right? Here the opposite is the case. The cast is introduced with a kind of intentional roughness to have a kind of unpredictability in terms of the result. That's the specific contribution of this building, right? John McMorrow writing about MBRDB's Expo 2000 pavilion, he argues that this building enacts and modification of the so-called 1909 theorem, which you see on the left is a huge steel structure supporting different suburban plots, as identified by Ram Kujas in Delirious New York, and he argues, John McMorrow argues that while the delirious version of the 1909 theorem privileged the semantic and environmental autonomy of every level, of every plan, here what they do is that they benefit from the surpluses and excesses of the different floors to actually turn the building into an operative mechanism, right? So the heat given off of one floor is used to cool the next, and then the water flows through, right? So basically it reconnects environmentally what previously used to be autonomous, right? So in that manner it kind of materializes a principle of inter-connection through separation and integration, right? This one you guys are familiar with, related all the way back to the Amazon Domino paradigm, and the idea is that this is also a case of a free plan where plates, facades, and structural elements are independent from one another, and here the contribution is that we're formally used to have these mass solid columns, then here they are burst into this hollow set of tubes basically which are able to house the vertical flows of the building, right? So another specific contribution in terms of design placed within a particular historical lineage, right? And then lastly, Mark Rousseau from Etihad arguing that contribution of Santa's Rolex Center lies in what he calls the management of thresholds, right, the management of thresholds, right? Luminous, acoustic, energetic, distributional, a number of different ways through which this project basically merges together zones for verbal exchange with zones for total silence while doing away with the necessity for vertical dividers for the most part, right? I mean, they are replaced with 18 artistic pretension, a floating screed and a carpet which creates these long topographical horizons, right? Which effectively divide up the different soundscapes within the building, right? And then lastly, the for the most ambitious part of the agenda, wasting which these buildings could trigger terms or concepts which could impact fields outside of architecture, taking Stan Allen's piece on Masini and Tunio's moussak. He argues that the project's accomplishment is not so much to resolve contradictions or make deductive statements as it is to suspend and dissolve apparent oppositions, right? So if you actually extract the last bit, the suspend and dissolve apparent oppositions, that is a statement that resonates with reality situations and discursive problems way beyond architecture, right? Specifically, if we were to develop it into something more of a longer reflection or a theoretical framework, right? Statement born into the analysis of a building that could potentially have an impact outside, right? Similarly, I think Santiago from GSD, writing about the typical suburban American house, he argues that there are a number of formal features in these otherwise completely anodyne houses, which for him represent a totally new way of organizing a set of things, right? So not only rooms, but also people, information and well, anything you can possibly imagine, items, right? And he calls this model, this organizational model, super urban, like since super urban space. And for him, this could have actually epistemological consequences, right? So in other words, again, it's an organizational model which is specifically architectural as born into a building, but then could be expanded into more of a way of understanding reality more generally outside of architecture, right? Third, a beautiful concept in my view, architectural sameness put forward by Amanda Risa Lorenz. She says that, you know, asking the question, how can we talk about architectural sameness in our field over the last five or 10 years? There's been a search of terms around copies, quote quotations, dupli textures, derivatives, allusions and so on, but she argues that we lack a theoretical framework to differentiate between these related and yet non-identical terms, right? Now, if we think of sameness, the idea of sameness, it turns out that it resonates directly with fields such as photography, for example, or art history, right? And even all the way to metaphysics, right? Where they have been discussing identity and difference for millennia, basically, right? So again, an ocean born into architecture which could have an impact beyond. Interestingly also, idea of architectural iconolatry as opposed to iconicity put forward by Alejandra Buquilla from the ADA, she says that OMA's Dubai Renaissance is a building which has the property of being capable of absorbing and then projecting any meaning, right? As opposed to just a reduced set, right? So it does function as an icon as against what Rem says, it is an icon in many different ways, but it has that particular property. In other words, iconolatry is basically, for her, the quality of, you know, when a building's very conditioned as an icon, is defined by its unstable semantic identity, right? By its unstable semantic identity, right? Its capacity to absorb and project many meanings. Now, furthermore, she says that this is a specific condition of 21st century capitalism in architecture, right? This idea of iconolatry has seen unstable meanings for a building, right? So again, for folks interested in questions of meaning or representation beyond architecture, this notion of iconolatry just taps directly into their concerns. And then last but not least, Andru Benjamin, he's a philosopher, actually, that's why there's no images there, and this one is a little more complicated, but basically, he loved that probably, hopefully. The idea that, basically, a building is always two buildings, right? A building is always the result of a set of networks that precede its conception and its construction, but at the same time, it is the naturalization of a set of internal networks, right? As in purely disciplinary, such as program, communication, construction, and so on, right? So he wants to say that the latter set of networks, the ones that are internal to the building, can be thought of as a countermeasure, as he posted, which is a way of othering the global, right? A way of reconceptualizing the set of networks that precede the building, right? Never as in standing counter to the global, that's why I have issues with the counter bit. He says, never as in standing counter to the global, you can't do that, he says, but as in reconceptualizing, right? As in establishing some kind of communication to challenge what precedes or what creates the real possibility for the design of buildings. Okay, so getting to the end now, just wanted to share with you guys, these are some 60 notions, concepts that are featured and that appeared in the book and that have a strictly to do with architectural thinking. If you actually look at them closely and analyze what they mean, you realize that it is a very sophisticated domain, right? Like I think it is very sophisticated, right? It sounds as though a zooming in, you know, a kind of emphasis on specificity is a kind of narrowing down, but it turns out that in a certain sense, it is the exact opposite, right? But there is so much there, right? So much so that you can totally envision picking out a number of these or even just one and develop again a system of thought that could impact not only like, you know, fields within the humanities and the social sciences, but actually, you know, computer sciences or the culture of Silicon Valley, which are already beginning to use terms that have an architectural charge, right? So, and that's the way in which this project, as I show you to end a number of pages from the book, the idea that growing actually discursive capacities from within and then ignite its potential to expand its limits and audiences is the way in which we can bridge the gap in our view between history and theory on the one hand and studio culture and practice on the other hand. And for that to be the case, as Laura Epstein-Johns puts it in the book, the history and theory project would have to be extended, actually, as opposed to contracted, which is the opposite of what it seems like again. This is a retreat to the building, but it's actually the opposite. So, in that somewhat paradoxical note, I'm going to end leaving Bernard's beautiful image here and thank you for listening and... It's always a pleasure to be back at Columbia and you don't wanna thank Amal and Jose and, you know, in a much larger sense, Bernard, as well. It's a pleasure to share the stage with these old friends and colleagues. So, yeah, I didn't want so much to reiterate my original contribution to the book, but really respond to the sort of larger project of the book that Jose has just laid out there. And I wanna say that I was very, very sympathetic to this project from the very first time that Jose contacted me about participating in the conferences and I was supportive of the book. At the time, the project seemed to offer a kind of refreshing corrective, this idea of returning to concrete things in the world as opposed to what can at times seem to be our field sort of endless preoccupation with discourse and dancing around the object of architecture by way of text, media, sociology, politics, or activism. At the same time, I think that Dora Epstein-Jones spoke for a lot of us in her piece in the book. When she asked the question, what exactly has happened in our discipline that it has become radical and strange for architects to talk about buildings? And this is a passage that was cited by Jose's introduction, it briefly flashed by in his slides, but I think it's worth repeating. She writes, how strange is it to hold a series of conferences and to work with such fervor to produce an ambitious book on buildings in architecture? What turn of events brought us to this moment? What disciplinary weirdness must have transpired to force the center to snap back into our attention and to require of all things a weighty discussion? Now, the published version of her text is slightly different, but like Jose, I like this earlier version of the text, because I think the way in which she articulates this problem in terms of center and periphery is quite intelligent. For a long time, it seemed plausible that you could revitalize that, which was at the center of our discipline, the building, by reference to things at the margin, to reference by text, journals, exhibitions, whole series of related disciplines, from philosophy to politics to sociology to landscape to media, energy and environmental studies. But I think precisely the disciplinary weirdness that Dora Epstein-Jones is pointing to is that what was once at the center is now with a margin, so buildings are somehow now with a margin and all of those other things are at the center of our discipline. So hence the, I think, necessary and useful corrective of this project to put the building back at the center of discussion. Okay, so, but what I wanna do today is push back a little bit on that and say, is it really so easy to just simply put the building back into the center of the discussion? And the implied opposition, I think motivating the project between discourse and the building I think needs to be opened up a little bit. What I wanna suggest in very, very simple terms is there are a lot of things in the world that qualifies architecture that can't be circumscribed within the somewhat limited term of the building. And that we serve the discipline better by being attentive to the expanded field of architectural possibilities rather than narrowly focusing on the building as the ultimate object of architecture. Now it's interesting because Jose and I had discussions along this line sort of early in the project actually and one result of that, I'm trying to find the laser pointer, well, I don't need it, there was a typographical convention that was proposed early on with a lower case T and an upper case B, so it wouldn't be so much the building but just the building. Wasn't ultimately picked up but I thought it was a clever way to navigate this question of the singularity of the building. Now, in reference to my colleagues, two canonical projects, I don't think either one of these are buildings. I don't think there's anybody in the audience who would say they're not architecture though. So this is sort of my starting point. Now, I also want to say this is not necessarily a recent phenomenon. This is not something that actually happened since the 60s. If we go back to the source, if we go back to Vitruvius, how many of Vitruvius's 10 books on architecture really deal with buildings? Well, bear with me a little bit. Let's go through the 10 books, okay? Book one is about the education of the architect and the city. Book two is about the dwelling house and materials. Book three is about temples and proportions. Book four is about the orders. Book five is actually about public buildings, treasuries, prisons, theaters, baths, et cetera. Maybe the only book really dedicated to buildings. Book six goes back to houses and villas. Book seven goes back to materials. Book eight is about water. It's about how to find water. It's about leveling devices that use water but also about aqueducts and wells. Book nine is entirely devoted to astrology. I'm waiting for the NAAB criterion on astrology. Book 10 is devoted to machines and implements. Hoisting machines, water clocks, catapults and siege engines. So we know, for example, that in the Renaissance, fortifications was a major part of the expertise of the architect and including things like catapults and siege engines and my favorite, the tortoise where many soldiers with the armaments become a kind of single mechanized body. So what I really want to just do today, very briefly, is to argue that, and I think it's historically accurate to say, that the building is actually a relatively small subset of what might largely be called architecture. So I've put together a few images and proposed a few categories, hopefully for the discussion, architectural objects that are not buildings. Call this a kind of partial and necessarily incomplete taxonomy of architecture beyond the building. From my own perspective, of course, one place you have to start is landscape. This is Aspland's Woodland Cemetery. And of course, landscape gets more interesting when it starts intersecting with infrastructure. So building like Weissman-Fredi's Olympic Sculpture Park. This is a building that was talked about in the conference. Again, I'm not really sure you would call Yokohama Port Terminal a building. It's a piece of urban infrastructure and an artificial landscape. Now, I talked about Menciatunyon in my presentation. This is a more recently finished project of theirs. The project is this. It's the Museum of the Royal Collections in Madrid. Again, it's not something you could sort of draw a line around and say this is the building. It's the kind of reconstruction of a piece of urban infrastructure to create a platform and house the collection. And of course, there are many examples of urban infrastructure. Nervi's Port Authority garage terminal here off the George Washington Bridge, pieces of urban infrastructure. The category that David Billington from Princeton refers to as structural design. This is Nervi. And of course, there are fantastic examples of engineering design that certainly utilize all of the components of architectural knowledge that Jose was talking about. But again, not sure you would strictly speaking describe this as a building. And I think that's something we can talk about as the discussion goes forward. And then of course, you have moments like this where you say, okay, if Mies intervenes within one of these structures and creates a kind of secondary enclosure, does that bring it more into the realm of architecture as opposed to engineering? But still, again, I'm not sure we would call this a building. Or those sort of intersections of infrastructural pieces with building. So the Crystal Bridge project here, there's a very important category that becomes very much, I think, a part of contemporary discussions through things like biennials of the pavilion. A pavilion as a kind of experimental test bed for architects, sometimes permanent, sometimes temporary, very often temporary. And one of my favorite examples, of course, is Mendes de Rochas, Brazilian pavilion in Osaka. Buildings which are permeable, that are simply sort of creation of artificial environments, Cedric Crisis Aviary and the Climatron at the Missouri Botanical Garden. There's another phenomenon that happens in the later part of the 20th century when a building gets so big that it can't be understood as a kind of singular building. So I think for me, the paradigm of that is the Astrodome, this vast interior space where the interior then takes on the characteristics of an exterior. Or to put that in more of an architectural context, Artigasch's Faculty of Architecture in San Paolo. When you visit this building, there is no distinction between inside and outside. The exterior space simply flows into the inside and it creates a series of platforms that house the school of architecture. But it's very difficult to say, again, what's inside, what's outside, where does the building begin, where does the building end? Or to, let's say, move a little bit more into the realm of kind of popular culture, Charles de Gaulle Airport or the Bonaventure Hotel, these interior worlds where it's really more about the articulation of the organization of the space within the interior than it is about the object that we would identify as the building. The problem of the sort of monument versus the fields, you knew the fields was coming when you invited me. You think, I think of the famous Adolf Los, quote, that the only part of architecture that belongs to art is the tomb and the monument. And the way that somebody like Peter Eisenman, I think, is trying to push back against the singularity of the monument by the dissolution of the monument into a kind of endless field. Or buildings that operate through that sort of field like, endless field like interior. An ancient example like the court of a mosque or a recent example, relatively recent example, like the Palace of the Assembly by La Couricier. In both cases it seems to me it's much more about the kind of field like condition of the interior than it is the building itself as a kind of object with an inside and an outside. I also thought of Aldo Rossi's concept of urban artifacts, things that persist over a very long period of time in the city. His famous analysis of the Plaza Rajonid in Padua, and then can absorb a whole different series of programs over time. So the building becomes a kind of scaffold for series of different programs over time based on its formal specificity. And of course the idea that as architects we not only design single buildings, we design urban assemblages. And that sort of choreography of the many pieces is at least as much a part of the architect's expertise as it is the design of a single building. And then finally, it seems to me very interesting the design of the void itself. Of course the classic example of this, the Palais Royale in Paris, which I'm quite certain that Raymond Abraham had in mind for his Lael project. In the 60s, 70s, 70s this was, 80s even, maybe early 80s. Thank you, thank you, 70. And a building that was mentioned in the conference, Monet's Diagonal. When again, when a building gets to be so big that it can't simply be understood as one building, but as a kind of fragment of the city itself, this famous example in Seoul, Korea, or a kind of hybrid, the Climente de France in Algiers, built from, I have to check my notes, 54 to 57, Fernand Pouillon, which it seems to me is a kind of hybrid between the mega form and the urban void. So really that's my contribution. I mean, it's certainly not a complete list, but I just wanted to show a few examples, projects that I like, that I thought could kind of open up this discussion and suggest in a way that what Jose calls architectural knowledge has actually always been a fairly mixed and contaminated form of knowledge that encompasses many things that are dedicated to being concrete, real constructions in the world, but not necessarily simply singular buildings. So thank you. Thank you Jose, thank you Stan. Since I'm under the pedagogical sort of rubric a little bit and my contribution was actually inspired by a student project and I always have faith that students often bring us some of the most interesting questions. So in the interest of time, I will read from my text, but I think it will echo very much also some of the questions that Stan is posing. So in a recent review, well, not so recent anymore, I have thesis projects at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning, notice I am noting another school. I had the pleasure of sitting in on the presentation of one beautiful project which triggered for me the sense not only of how far architectural education in the United States leading coastal schools in particular had shifted from what some still might term a traditional core, but also how much further it's still needed to go and how many possibilities and territories remain to be explored for architecture and for architectural thinking, discourse and practice. The project designed by Nam Joom Kim and entitled Storehouse of the Earth was meant to enlist architecture to simultaneously register the melting of glass shears by collecting and making visible large amounts of recorded data, while also preserving large swath of ice from melting. This is the glass here. Taking inspiration from the monitoring infrastructure which has developed in the last century to measure, compile and disseminate standardized data on glass here fluctuations across the world, as well as the recent deployment of large-scale blankets to protect ice from rising temperatures such as for their own glass here in the Alps. So here you can see the big cover. The project seemed to productively move away from the usual probing of architecture's disciplinary boundaries to focus instead on the problem of the building to ask what constitutes a building today, what form it could take, how or what it could perform, for whom or what it should shelter and at what scale, and what new inside-outside boundary it might draw in the age of climate change and the Anthropocene. Building on the long legacy of architecture as infrastructure, the project consisted of an ensemble of different buildings, each one designed to stand alone as well as to interact with the other structures as they perform together this double act of recording and preserving. Amongst the various buildings, connecting pipes and systems, two structures stood out. On the one hand of the ensemble was a sphere designed as an underground library for the gradual collection of seeds, a process which would occur as the ice melted above ground and which would be revealed together with the uncovered spherical archive as the ice melted. And on the other side of the ensemble, a large sheet of canvas-like fabric stretched horizontally across an ice-rich eight kilometer long and designed to protect the ice below from the rising temperatures as it mitigated the process of the melting. The project's interest could be registered on multiple levels. While somewhat underdeveloped as a student thesis, it nevertheless was able, as student projects often are, to pose more important questions and point to more radical positions than any real building could aspire to. In many ways where the project opened up was a renewed questioning of the relationship between architecture and building. Between building and architecture, at once questioning its past evolution, critiquing its current state and imagining new possibilities for its transformation in the future. To trace the relationship between architecture and building, the project first succeeded through its presentation as performance as well as through the performance of its striking architectural representations. The large section and plan drawings as well as the representation of time through narrative video projected onto a cast model to convince the audience, us, that the ensemble of proposed interventions were undeniably at once building an architecture. So the discursive part turns the building into architecture. Enlisting a wide range of precedents from the endless archive that has become architectural history, each structured echoed a past architectural proposition while also enacting a new infrastructural purpose. The Seed Collection building was moved away from its status as pure engineering by layering the narrative of time, the ice melting onto its formerly abstracted sphere, rendered in the manner of Boulez, fantastic architectural projections, typical of our contemporary condition of mash-up of architectural references. More interestingly even was the monumental sheet of fabric stretched over the glass year to protect it, echoing the large-scaled environmental interventions of Christo and Jean Claude, such as the wrapped coast in particular, the glacier blanket turned the artist's fabric coverings into a roof for the earth, operating at the scale of the land to become an entirely stealth skin able to create a new interiority for the ice and rocks below and a new boundary between the earth and the heating atmosphere around and beyond it. Even as both structures commanded their simultaneous status as building and as architecture through the series of formal narrative and historical tropes they enlisted, they remained unsettling for both architecture and building. Throughout the entire presentation and across all of the drawing boards, the narrative videos or the model was a radical absence of human life. These structures were not designed to shelter humans nor were they designed at a human scale or to register the scale of human occupation whether in space or in time. Instead they were conceived at one end to house one of the smallest form of organic life, the seed, and on the other designed to shelter one of the largest-faced changing geological territory, the glacier. As a project polemically posed the charged questions of why we should build today, what and for whom, how and at what scale, it displaced the anthropocentric nature of both building and architecture even as it imagined itself designed to render the survival of the human species possible. Rather than take building as a stable entity and as a stabilizer of architecture's disciplinary boundaries, the project stabilized instead an understanding of architecture as shelter and as environment with buildings being one possible scale of environment and questioned at what spatial and more importantly temporal scale we needed to think and operate today. Moving beyond the bigness fever that has seen all iconic buildings of our recent past bloat in both scale and size, storehouse of the earth enlisted all the knowledge ushered by this extra large scale as well as by the infrastructural and technological complexity it has commanded to propose through the design of new types of buildings with other new scale sites, forms and programs, a new architecture with radically altered spatial and temporal geological scale at once shifting the relationship between a human centric inside outside to one between the earth and the atmosphere as a new condition of climate change. At a time when architecture and by extension architectural education has moved even beyond its expanded field to find itself not only liberated from contingent and anachronistic disciplinary edges but also newly empowered as a form of knowledge whose analytical drawing and design skills render it a synthetic discipline able to engage the world in new and important ways. It seems that the building has remained in contrast utterly conservative as it continues to exist in architects discourse and imagination as a decontextualized monolithic synthetic and detached anthropocentric object all too often used to recast architecture back into its reactionary ways. Like the millions of balls that were designed to be dropped one summer, a few summers ago onto the surface of a California reservoir to create a protective layer against evaporation. The glacier blanket radicalizes the building for today undermining all its expected parameters from the question of its time, scale, site, technology, materiality to that of its purpose or subject to open up new possibilities for architecture as a multi-layered wrapper able to take on multiple forms and perform at multiple scales to shelter the earth and create a new kind of human less interiority. It is an important invitation to rethink and radicalize the building again neither as pretext for interpretation nor as frame to stabilize architecture but as a purposeful actor whose altered parameters can transform and ensrange both building and architecture anew. So I mean this project was just interesting for me because it was during many of the things that I think Stan was mentioning, it wasn't really a building, the subject of it wasn't humans, it wasn't the scale of it wasn't human. But it was finding a new purpose for building so that on the one hand I thought its program was quite interesting in terms of what should buildings house today and to kind of re-engage with the question of building as infrastructure in new ways. But also at the presentation it was a presentation and so the discursive side, the drawings, I mean as Reinhold Martin says, architects don't build as much as they draw so that hinge between the building and the discourse is quite critical and without it I think you don't really get to architecture and I think the project did that to a certain extent as well. And just kind of thinking a little bit about I do think that architects have been using buildings to look at the world. I think the kind of the list of concepts that you articulated, I mean from Jameson who was able to articulate let's say postmodernism as a result of spatial reflection, et cetera, in the Portman building or even Ram Kulhas' project on the city that it really built on using. So in some ways it does seem to me that the reason why I think architectural discourse and theory is so strong at this time it's because of our ability to think architecturally through certain problems and so maybe this project is an invitation to rethink the building with the same excitement as we do the contemporary condition. Anyway, so this was my kind of contribution in terms of I guess not taking for granted what a building is, which I, you know, echoing stands continuing to probe representation but also continuing to probe the relationship between architecture and building as not immediately knowable, let's say. So thank you. Thank you. So thank you all for really provocative presentations and what a great way to really begin to expand on this book and open up some of the questions that it raises. I suppose that we could start sort of, well, as we lined up, I'm gonna hope that you will speak now. That's actually the first functional use of that scarf. I've always seen it as a decorative thing, but now I know. No, that was really great. But let me ask you, I'm sorry, by asking you a question that you launched us with this idea that building's a form of knowledge, the basic idea. True or false? Architecture is a form of knowledge. Buildings are not. I mean, they're plenty of buildings, they're good buildings, they're bad buildings and make quite a distinction between architecture and building. Either the building is a manifesto and that's quite an interesting one. The, I even think it is interesting that I used to say architecture is a form of knowledge, but you say architectural thinking is a form of knowledge, which is not quite the same, but we're getting into details. The issue is really, the one that I would want first to address is the one of import-export. You take it into consideration when you bring autonomy and specificity. And indeed, we have seen, throughout the recent history of architecture, I'm talking now simply not to go too far about the 70s, the 80s, when there were people who were saying that architecture is architecture and it's only within architecture that we are going to find anything worth knowing about architecture. And there were those who were thinking that no, architecture belonged to a larger whole that could communicate with other disciplines and other fields of knowledge, rather, and that that's intertextuality between architecture, theater, cinema, literature, science, chaos, theory, et cetera, et cetera, was something which was totally appropriate. The problem was that those two camps were militant about their view and instead of using common sense, would simply take it as an opportunity to assess or to assert, rather, their stylistic difference. Some called themselves post-modernists when they were actually dealing with a lot of collages and others met. In reality, it was never that simple. We all know that architecture can never be alone for a very simple reason. It is, by definition, part of culture to start with. The words that we use as architects are the same words as we use in society. Talk about the pyramid of power or the labyrinth of sensation or the columns of whatever, the doors of wisdom, et cetera. The number of architectural metaphors that are being used in everyday life is the first form of import that society has taken from architecture. So architecture is, in a sense, already part of society. Simultaneously, I can turn it the other way around and say that typology would never have existed without the natural sciences, rather, dealing with classification of species in organic science or you can make other examples. So in other words, that type of exchange always exists and this is good. And I will always, I remember one time in Barcelona being chanted out of the lecture hall because I was showing examples of La Villette in making film parallels and people at the back of the audience say architecture is architecture, architecture is architecture. Not cinema, not theater, not whatever. You must not confuse everything. So it's not a question of confusion. It's a question simply that intelligence and knowledge inevitably tends to intersect. If you take engineering, you cannot do good architecture without some understanding of engineering and it's another science and in another discipline. So that's one issue. The other issue is, of course, that you could very well consider that they were indeed excesses at a certain moment in time when the borrowing from other disciplines became a sort of disguise and certainly you can take it from sociology in the 60s to, from Derrida to Delors during a certain period to other phenomena. But those, I think, are completely secondary ones. The reason why, when I showed these first images of burning the books, I really get worried when architects stop bring that discourse about architecture, is architecture, building is building and stop talking and stop writing. The most important moment in architecture thinking has been when architects themselves took their pen and wrote about architecture. The plan libre is a concept, but it goes also with the writing of Le Corbusier at the time when Louis Caen talks about servant and serving spaces. These are architectural concepts, but he also turns them into an argument and into a manifesto. So we must do that. So on this subject of the relationship between architecture and building, which you raise, you know, you began by saying, no, the building's not a form of knowledge. It's architecture as a form of knowledge, and then it was sort of your launching salvo. I wanted to turn to Stan and have you reflect a little bit on that question because you had us think about building as a subset of architecture was the way you described it. And so, I mean, obviously every great architect had to deal with this question of the relationship between architecture and building precisely because they don't go out with a hammer and put the frames together. But could you tell us a little, how do you respond to Bernard's conceptualization of the distinction? Yeah, I mean, I don't think we're too far apart. I mean, first of all, that was a brilliant performance, by the way, it's like the advice that they give to young writers, show, don't tell, right? And you sort of performed the lecture, which was great. So, yeah, I was thinking about, when Bernard was talking, I think it's Pevesner in his big history of European architecture who starts off, he says Lincoln Cathedral is architecture, a bicycle shed is a building. Now, it's kind of an odd place to start, right? Because if Lincoln Cathedral is a Gothic construction that's a product of anonymous master builders, it's not really architecture in the sense that we've come to think of since Alberti and the definition of architecture as a liberal art, which is, I think, sort of where this distinction comes from. And I think there's also, I mean, we're today probably reluctant, I mean, I think if we designed a bicycle shed we would probably call it architecture today. Paul Lewis gave his students a bicycle shed to design in a studio recently at Princeton and there were some pretty sophisticated architectural versions of bicycle sheds. So that's not a very easy way to make that distinction either. But I'm certainly in agreement with Bernard it's more probably to say architecture is a form of knowledge than the building is a form of knowledge. I mean, if you're a writer, you don't say the book is a form of knowledge, right? It's more that the practice of writing is a form of knowledge, right? And, you know, again, I just want to argue for... if architecture is a form of knowledge, it's a form of knowledge that encompasses many, many different things. It encompasses technical expertise, it encompasses drawing expertise, it encompasses a knowledge of building, and one way in which it can be expressed is in the form of buildings. And, you know, again, I'm totally sympathetic with Jose that it's worthwhile to sort of remind everyone that the concrete form of building as a kind of thing in the world is, you know, it's worthwhile refocusing attention on that, but, you know, I just want to underscore that point that it's only part of that sort of broad scope of what constitutes architectural knowledge. So, you know, this is sort of, I imagine, daunting for everyone in the room to think of so much knowledge, you know? Rest assured, you don't need it all to get your degree before you graduate. And that was good. I was going to ask you about that, because, you know, you raise the NAB standards, right, of how much knowledge do you actually... And one of the things that I found very interesting in all of the presentations was that the traditional, one would imagine, when you see a bicycle shed or a cathedral, is a discrete object. And it has, you know, more like a big sculpture, let's say, even. And none of the projects that you showed were that. Even the Athens Museum, which is one of my favorite buildings, precisely because it's not complete unless you're actually looking at the Parthenon somehow, that it's really... The building doesn't quite end where it does. But Amal, you raised a question in terms of... Where this... The dilation of the boundaries, you shifted us from space to time, and you talked about how the building is having a temporal depth, and that that, in your mind, had shifted somehow today, that the practice today in terms of how we think of the building's relation, temporality, is different now. And could you talk a little bit more about that? Yeah, I think that... I guess, well, I should say that, you know, and it's a conversation that we've had, and I think in your own work, it is quite interesting, which is architects used to be concerned with time, and then with the kind of acceleration, and the architect, you know, architecture as image, you know, there's a kind of frozen moment where these buildings are consumed as images. But in fact, what's interesting, what I thought was interesting in this project and triggered sort of other ideas is, you yourself, Jorge, always say, a building is only one moment in which all the pieces are together, right? I mean, the Parthenon is dispersed as a disassembled body across museums, and yet we still have it as an idea, as a kind of singular building, but time has dispersed it, and today we're thinking about questions of embodied energy. The building is one moment where all these pieces are assembled in a certain way, but in fact, to trace that, you know, what the parts, where have they been, and where are they going, I think is bringing a new dimension, whether it's as a result of environmental concern or as a result of trying to think, you know, across scale or the scale of climate change, so I think time re-engaging with this question of time is quite interesting and, you know, to rethink the building today. To, for me, I don't take the building as granted. I guess that was, so it's not, yes, there's a relationship of architecture to building, which, you know, without discourse, without representation, without writing, you know, that doesn't, you know, architecture, building is not architecture, but I think this may be an important time to rethink the building, and, you know, your examples were very much that, but also to expand the definition of building or to question what should we build for, or for whom, I mean, we had a fantastic conversation yesterday in Bernard's seminar, you know, of the new Herzog and the Maroon sort of icon, you know, I forget the name, but the kind of the old and the new, and, you know, it's a residential tower, you know, the essay that talks about Oma's revolving tower saying iconology today is shifting meaning. How is it shifting meaning? It's a luxury tower. Like it's a pretty stable, late capitalist meaning. Like it's not, you know, so it's not, in my mind, you can't project multiple meanings. Yeah, Herzog and the Maroon want us to project multiple meanings and the facade is incredibly beautiful, but it's a very stable meaning. So are there other places where we can perform building? Are there other territories? Are there other, you know, subjects of buildings that we should care for species? You know, take the bicycle, extend it to the seed, you know, so that's one idea, I think. And then the other is, I guess what I love about the manifesto of the building, for me, if it's a rappel à l'ordre, it doesn't work. If it's a manifesto to bridge, again, discourse and practice, then yes, that's where we need to go. I think we need to re-stitch that gap and recreate that feedback loop. And would you, maybe since you're guilty, we will not, we don't want you to confess anything, that's for later. But is there, in your exploration of the subject and your frustration, you know, because you began with a frustration and I think that's really interesting to recognize one's frustrations because when you do, you sort of understand your desire also. And I think that there is a part of it in this that there is a desire for the building or that building is a channel for desire of some sort and you're recognizing that that desire not being satisfied in some way. Now you told us that that frustration came from what historians and theorists have done. But in the presentations today, there was a lot of frustration also on the state of things. And so could you comment, having gone through the book, what are the sort of frustrations that you've seen and the authors that you've worked with? What can we have a sort of theory of the building as a type of frustration? In other words, that this is not a satisfaction of that frustration and a sort of, but this sort of cultivating of it because it seems like all of the, there was, I don't, you know, maybe you disagree but I'll just start to put it in those terms. Since you began with that frustration. I was expecting to get psychoanalyzed today. It's on. It's on? Okay. Yes, so that frustration is true and it came exactly because this relationship between discourse and design, just as Amal was saying in the last bit of her reflection, wasn't fully realized in my view and I wanted to grow its potential as much as we could, right, basically. I was looking at other disciplines at the time and saw that this relationship between one of their main, let's say, object of study, whether it is the sign in semiology or the human psyche in psychoanalysis and then the power that that object of study had to actually grow into something much larger was greater than what we were achieving within architecture, right? So in a certain sense, there was a kind of interdisciplinary intention already by establishing this comparison at the beginning. Now, that's one issue. The other issue is in terms of the frustration within the pages of the book, the second part of your question. I think hearing your presentation today, what I realize is that the key perhaps problematic term is object, right? Because one tends to associate object with a kind of self-contained condition, right? This idea of objecthood that actually Sylvain Levin picks up on in her essay. Now, I should say in my defense, I guess, that the proposition I suggested actually did not contain this self-contained quality for a building, right? So in a certain sense, I was proposing an expanded definition of the building, right? So this is disappointing because I'm not feeding the controversy any further, right? But basically, I would agree very much with both Amal and Stan that many other categories and types of buildings they were proposing actually do fall within the category of a building as proposed in the book, right? So something like a set of elements in three dimensions, materially constructed, right? The houses set of human activities or human-related activities necessarily. So except for perhaps the Urban Project, which I think calls upon a different set of specificities to it, which to me fall more on the side of urban thinking and perhaps the landscape one, which is also perhaps a slightly different issue. All other examples, to me, are actually fall within the category of building as suggested in the book. So it's the object that perhaps shouldn't be there. That's one thing. And then very quickly, it is true we did not account for the issue of time in these reflections on building. It really makes me think whether time, whether just an instant or an eternity, actually half or could have an impact on this theory of what a building is, right? With a good conditional understanding. It's missing them. Bernard, you wanted to respond? It's not a response. It's actually extending your question to Jorge. It's since, okay, there is architecture which takes the form of built architecture, which takes the form of buildings. You sort of vaguely know what it is. But when you write about buildings, it's something else or about architecture. There are many, many ways to do so. And so my question to you is, how does the writing in the book, the building, differs from the writing that I will find either in regular architectural magazine, architectural record, any architectural magazine that you can think of which have very formulaic articles, how they present, like when you go to architecture, they ask programs about doing architectural criticism and they tell you how to structure the piece. There are also a certain type of writing that you will find in log, for example, the more academic form of writing. How do you see a new approach to architectural thinking which has to be to go through the medium also of writing? How do you see it developing? The reason why I asked the question, and probably that's the reason why I showed my second set of slides, the one about the two buildings which are, I was very flattered, which are mentioned in the book. My interest in those buildings were fundamentally different from the interest of the two writers. Nothing wrong with that. But what interests me is how do you determine the angle to the story, as a journalist would say, in terms of achieving what you're trying to achieve? Yeah, well, I mean, that's a very difficult question. I mean, for me to kind of improvise now on the flight, but what I would say is that the main difference is methodological, I would argue. There are two types of pieces in the book if we don't consider the longer essays because those are like a different animal. One has more to do with what you would find in mediums like Locke, for example, speculative reflections on the building but still sort of subconsciously tied to design, in a sense, versus a more sort of scholarly approach to the writing of buildings which does not necessarily take that into account and uses a number of, let's say, argumentative tricks and sort of connections of different thoughts, which belong very specifically to, you know, what scholars tend to do in their writings, which I think is a separate thing. So I was particularly more interested in the latter than the former because the former we see in mediums like Locke, for example. The latter we don't see that often because even though there are exceptions, of course, and there are some cases out there, it is not so common for scholars to write about contemporary architecture precisely because of the very definition of history. I mean, we are told you should not write about anything that's at least 25 years old because otherwise you lose your historical perspective. So part of the interest with this project, methodologically from the outset, was to actually have historians write about contemporary architecture, hence the definition of the time frame. So that's when you begin to see certain things happening in the writing itself which are not so common. When you get people like John Ockman or Sylvia or Mary or incredibly brilliant thinkers and historians forced in a way, quote unquote, forced to write about contemporary architecture. Yeah, but I probably meant something the way the best parallel that I can make is in the arts. Think of Clement Greenberg versus Rosalind Krauss. They talk about different things, but above all, they don't write in the same way. They have a very clear slant about what they are going to write about and how. And that's where suddenly there is an ideological dimension to the writing. In other words, a selection of subject matter, what belongs to the subject matter and what is thrown away. So that's why I'm asking you as someone who is a producer of thought how you're going to make this distinction or is that part of the intent? Can I step in here? I don't see frustration in this book. I mean, I think that's actually one of the kind of interesting things that I think when you present the project, you present it as a reaction to certain trends in the discipline and we've got to push back on that. And I have to say as a participant in the conference I was a little bit nervous, right? Do I really want to be part of this? What could be seen as almost a kind of reaction, right? And you go to the conference, you read the book. I don't think you feel that at all. I think what you see is here is a really interesting cross-section of projects and practices that trigger a whole series of ideas and interpretations and map out a whole series of new possibilities. So again, I think the project, I mean, in a funny way, if Bernard was saying, well, the building speaks for itself, in some ways the book speaks for itself, simply in the diversity of projects that are looked at, the different kinds of interpretations, even the last slide you showed, the concepts that have been produced out of the essays themselves. So I think there's another... I mean, if I've been a little bit critical kind of pushing back on the concept, I would say where I'm 100% behind the project is to say that I think too often there's this idea that the building is the outcome of a whole series of ideas, processes, and concepts, and the building stands as the illustration of those ideas. It seems to me that part of what's motivating this project is the idea that actually start from the building, don't worry what were the author's intentions, what was its genealogy, so on, start from the building, how can that trigger a new series of ideas, concepts, projects that are future-oriented, not backward-oriented. Because the other thing that seems to me about that is that's what we all do as architects, right? That when you showed the Fujimoto project and said it's a response across time to Lose's idea of the round plan, Fujimoto is in conversation with Lose. So architects are in conversation with the past not only through writing, but through what we do in our buildings. And I think to that extent, the book is sort of enabling of that kind of ongoing disciplinary conversation. Is it a one-way conversation? Because Lose is not writing back, is he? No, but I mean, look. He's the perfect client. We could say, for example, I mean differently because of Peter Eisenman's readings of Taranti. So it's destabilizing that object. Yes, it's a one-way conversation. But that's a perfect segue because I wanted to ask Amal about the notion of stabilization. You just brought up this question of destabilization of the past. And you talked about the building as a frame for stabilizing architecture or as a pretext for interpreting architecture. And you were critical of that, that the building should not be used as a frame for stabilizing architecture. Could you tell us a little bit more about what you mean? Yeah, sure. I think that it's exactly what Stan is talking about. The nervousness of, you don't want the building to be a return to the core, rappel alorve, enough of this expansion. I think you want to continue to probe the building so that you can continue to probe architecture and it's a kind of ongoing conversation. So I think in the sense of the ongoing conversation, the book really invites us for this ongoing conversation. There's this idea that let's not stabilize anything, but let's engage in a conversation. Let's re-engage in writing. And I think, Bernard, I'm more interested in your writings and Ram's writing and Stan's writing. As architects writing, then I have to read Rosalind Krauss or Claremont Greenberg. I think that the book, yes, of course we should invite historians. Please be interested again in us. Contemporary practitioners and historians today, at least the new generation will tell you, we want to do our thing here, but so why not have architects write as architects? And I think that because it is a specific form of knowledge and a specific form of design, thinking that can also translate in the kinds of concepts that list these words because it does seem to me that a lot of... You mentioned John McMurray or Benelope Dean. I haven't read the essays, but I'm imagining they're giving us tools to advance architecture through the reading of architecture, through writing it. And I think that invitation is... So it's not about stabilizing, it's about actually continuing to dig in and engage in dialogue and exchange, right? Bernard, do you want to respond to that? I thought it was great that it's a big book that's called The Building, and it made me think of Victor Hugo, that somehow the book will kill the building and whether this is the last, you know, finally, right? The sort of... Right? So back to you for a second, and then I want to open it up to questions, so if you have some, please raise your hand, because I thought it was really wonderful the way in which you tried to navigate this anxiety about the rappel à l'ordre, you know, that there is a... Even the idea of bringing it up, right? It seemed to... One has to preface it by all these disclaimers, right? We're not doing this and we're not doing that, and please be aware that we... Right? So you did say, though, that you saw the building as a realm of research. And so now research happens in the archive and it happens in the library. So tell us how do you see, just in very simple terms, the building as a realm of research? Is it because you said there's new theoretical frameworks? You gave us some old ones, typology, and so on and so forth, right? For looking at buildings, for researching buildings, coming out of this book, do you see clearly some new frameworks for researching the building, like lenses through which we should be looking and researching buildings, or is that still something that's in formation? No, I mean, I would say it's very much information up to this point. It is true that I haven't actually analysed the building... Sorry, the book beginning to... From this particular point of view, it's one that you're asking me now. But in terms of realm of research, what I had in mind is a kind of focus on the building as an identifiable reality, basically. That's what I meant by a realm of research in its own right, regardless of your methodology, whether you access it through archival materials or through any other means, through drawings or through discourses or through representation, the idea was to focus on the building as an identifiable object of study. That's when, again, one has to be careful with the use of the term object, object as in a material reality existing out there with very clear contours versus here just the building as an object of study, regardless of its contours being closed off or open. So that was just the intention there, versus, let's say, approaching a number of different realities within architecture which are very important and relevant that do not necessarily consider the building as the main focus of research. That was basically the approach. That's in terms of the methodology now. The emphasis was on the conceptual side of things, obviously. So basically what Stan was talking about just earlier, the idea that buildings can trigger concepts and interpretive frameworks that could have an impact outside. That was the specific lens. Are there questions? There's one in the background over there. Do you want to ask it? Just speak loud. I'll try to get to your question. So it's more of a comment that you want to elicit. Okay, so let's hear. That's a question for Stan, I think. Maybe. If I understand the question and I tend to agree with you as, again, as a kind of, I think less as a concern for practicing architects but more as a concern for sort of scholars and historians that there is in fact very, very little attention to how architecture is actually made. For most scholars and historians, it's kind of black box. There's a set of drawings and there's a building, there's an object, but what are the discussions in an office? How are the different technologies of drawing and representation involved in making architecture? So, yeah, I mean, to the degree that your question kind of implies a kind of anthropology of design practice, that seems to me really rich and interesting for scholars, but I don't see it having a big impact on architects as practitioners. Maybe we need to be more self-aware about, you know, how the conditions that we make our work is affecting the work, but it seems to be more a question for scholars or historians. There are other thoughts or questions in the audience? It made me think of when you talk about objects and you talked about the humanities, one of the things that has been going on in the humanities is this turn towards objects, this sort of rediscovery, oh yes, there are objects. One of the... You presented this in the West Coast already at Syarq? Not a Syarq, but in LA. In LA, you're going to... So, I'll be curious, for example, to think about object-oriented ontology, for example. You know, at Syarq there's a lot of interest in that, the sense that objects are agents in a field, the sort of legacy of Latour. The question or the comment made me think of this, you know, the sort of impact of sociology in architecture, sort of. And now the return, because you were interested in the letter that architecture sends back to sociology. What would that letter say? I mean, when you go to LA, I would imagine you'll get an audience with a lot of people really sort of steeped in that. We'll be seeing your discussion about the object through that lens. Well, a couple of things. I think it makes me think of the fact that that's the part of the project which is not completely fulfilled, in a way. In other words, that is how this project is just a project proposal. If it was able to exactly answer that question, then the project would be fulfilled. So we have to see exactly how buildings can trigger these epistemological frameworks or discursive frameworks such that they can be impactful for, for example, sociology, that is to be seen. Now, in terms of triple O, I think they would like the fact that in a way buildings in this book are seen as discursive agents. So as having their own voice, let's say, within discourse and as in our, you know, us trying to basically exploit the potential for buildings to do that, actually. Now, I'm not sure if they would be very comfortable with the other agents doing the exploiting or the igniting being the human himself, right? Because they basically would like for everything to be, you know, limited to the domain of objects themselves. So I can anticipate an interesting discussion as to the two sides of the equation. In other words, can mean the literal way in which they want to see it would be something like, well, buildings by themselves can actually, you know, generate something like a discursive domain with a capacity to impact other fields. Now, is that possible without the human interpretation or without the human agency, without the human intellect? Well, I'm afraid we're out of time, but I do want to... One last thought. I just want to pursue something that you initiated, Stan. When you mentioned PEVS and the bicycle shed, one way to look at it, of course, is simply to say that a cathedral without a concept is not architecture. A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture. But that's not really the point that I want to make. PEVS, John Somerson, Siegfried Gideon, Reina Banham, Kenneth Frampton, Anthony Vittle, each had a major impact and influence on architecture. Books do play a role, right? And so the question is, how come there's no Somerson, Gideon, Banham, Frampton, Vittle at this time around? Well, on that note, although it's hard to stop there, maybe you don't see them, but I think there are some really forceful voices in discourse. But that might be the subject of the next conversation. The good thing is there's a number of other conversations happening that you're organizing around the book, around the world. This is very much a world tour to open up this discourse. And so it's not very often that you get these three extraordinary figures together to discuss their work and to discuss the book. So I want to thank you all for participating in this panel, but also you, Jose, for making it all possible and for giving us the spur to launch this conversation. So thank you all.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcqbKVB4niM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCl9E4Zxa8CVr2LBLD0_TaNg	Trainer hits opponent in the face with a stick, a breakdown	#JMBaseball #seatgeekcodeJOMBOY SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEWSLETTER: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/t/3D96AF9DDCC13BEB BUY MERCH! https://shop.jomboymedia.com/collections/jomboy-essentials LEAVE BREAKDOWN SUGGESTIONS HERE: http://bit.ly/BreakdownSuggestions FB: https://www.facebook.com/JomboyMedia/ TW: http://www.twitter.com/jomboymedia IG: http://www.instagram.com/JomboyMedia Jomboy Media P.O. Box 524607 Bronx, NY 10452	[ "a breakdown", "mlb", "jomboy videos", "jomboy", "jake sucks", "talkin yanks", "jomboy podcast", "tv podcast", "just talkin podcast", "mlb breakdowns", "Talkin yanks", "jomboy jake radio" ]	2021-11-18T20:25:01	2024-02-05T06:17:38	151	pcAoTllwOFM	Love this breakdown. It's got a complete story Ark. It's brought to you by draft Kings download draft Kings Use the promo code John boy when you do it's the number one sportsbook app So we got the red wings and the capitals tied up at to Larkin's gonna grab the puck here He's gonna try to get it up the boards. They're gonna chop their sticks around his stick It's snapped in half. He needs a new one. Oh, no my stick Coosie comes up the boards dodges the hit Oh, oh something hits him in the face. He's down bad. What could that have been? What could that have been? Well the trainer that guy male pattern balding back there is Grabbing a stick right there to give to Larkin because he needs a new stick He can't see what's happening on the ice in front of him because he's got a bunch of tall athletes And also he's back behind the glass and now the stick is coming out and he still has no eyes on the ice He just knows that his players coming gonna need a new stick so Cousin the off whatever his name is here. He is Cousinets off Cousie will go Cousie Cousie is skating and he just takes a stick right to the teeth Just like right to the smile BAM Right to the face trainer hits him right to the face. He goes down hard. He's like what the hell was that? I'm not happy about that. He's gonna feel around. It's like Okay, now the game continues it stays tied two to two they're gonna go into overtime Right and both players that were part of this first part of the game are part of the OT So here he is coming out in OT checking on his teeth still like all right. There's still kind of stinging They're still kind of hurting. Oh cool. That doesn't feel good. Meanwhile The Red Wings are gonna pass the puck over to Larkin using the very stick The very stick that hit Cousie in the face He's gonna use the screen from the defender and just flip it behind his legs for the winning goal They celebrate the stick that hit Cousie in the mouth is the stick that helps win the game And he's just skating away thinking my god That sucked that stick I hate that stick man. I tell you that stick draft Kings Number one sportsbook app use promo code John boy when you do sign up bet on the hockey better on the hockey I'm John boy. I'm gonna need you to bet on the hockey leave a comment below Would you rather get hit in the face with a stick or score the winning goal with the stick?	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcAoTllwOFM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC7noUdfWp-ukXUlAsJnSm-Q	Improve cross-team collaboration with Camel K	This video shows how Camel K automates interactions between different teams in an organisation to augment productivity. Camel K integrates external cloud services and internal services by acting as a super Kafka connector, streaming interactions in and out of Kafka topics. The demo uses a mix of no-code configurable Camel K blocks and Camel K routes to fit both the regular Kubernetes user profile and the traditional Camel developer one.	[ "Apache Camel", "Camel", "Camel K", "Kubernetes", "OpenShift", "Apache Kafka", "Kafka", "event driven", "event-driven", "integration", "micro-services", "microservices", "Google Drive", "Google Sheets", "cloud services", "EIP", "Enterprise Integration Patterns", "Quarkus", "Red Hat", "Red Hat Developer" ]	2021-11-30T16:35:11	2024-02-07T17:07:29	1,146	PCDTSiUJ8og	Hello and welcome to this CamelK demo. We want to show today an example use case implemented with this technology. In this scenario, we'd like to see an automated way of having some cross-functional collaboration between various teams. In this particular case, a strategy team has some questions and concerns that they need to have answered. All the teams in the company can help them so that they can then make decisions for the future of the company. Typically, this team, they would get together into a video link and then they will open a Google Sheets document and all those questions and concerns they can type them in and assign the departments they believe can help them. So what we want from CamelK is somehow build a platform that is able to automatically collect all the feedback from all the teams in the organization and make automatic updates on that Google Sheets. So first, we need some preparations to get this working. So of course, we need a Kubernetes environment ready and then we want to deploy a CamelK platform and this typically involves deploying the CamelK operator who will do all the work. And we have deployed as well a Kafka platform that essentially will carry all the information and all the interactions between the different teams. We need as well to prepare API access to Google Sheets so that we can grab all the data from the spreadsheet and we can make the updates. Also, we have prepared a mail server and with that we will simulate the interactions between the teams and also access to Google Drive because we want to upload some reports as we will see in a moment. So this is the overview of the platform. So we can see at the center the Kafka platform and we have a couple of Kafka topics there that will essentially carry all that information. And all around we see these CamelK pieces that essentially will be streaming in and out from the Kafka platform. The questions and answers from Google Sheets to the different teams collect all those responses and then make the updates. And simultaneously we have as well a fifth CamelK implementation that will replay those streams to produce a report that will reflect all those interactions cross-functional happening in the organization rendered in a PDF document that will get uploaded to Google Drive so that perhaps the top management can inspect and see how well the departments are working. So let's get started with all this. In our first stint of the entire data flow our mission is to use a CamelK building block. We will use a CamelK binding and it will capture the data in Google Sheets and then send that over Kafka in a topic. So let's look at that. So the first thing of course we'd like to pretend that we are one of those team members in the strategy team and this is the spreadsheet we want to work with. And some of our colleagues have already entered some questions so we can see here they say after our recent company's acquisition how will we integrate their systems with ours? So we'd like for example to enter our own question here and we say are we still having problems hiring developers? And we can assign these to the developers development team. All right so the next thing then is that what we want to do is to automate this and so we define a CamelK binding. So a CamelK binding is a resource that CamelK understands where we can just simply configure a data source and a target. So as our data source we indicate that we want to use the Google Sheets source. We have here anonymized the sensitive fields and we define a Kafka topic as a destination. So here's where we are going to place all those questions. So now we can look at our platform and we see that we have a Kafka cluster running and we have our CamelK operator ready to observe resources and then create integrations when needed. So we can jump to our command line and then just simply create that CamelK binding. So we say apply CamelK binding stage one sheets to Kafka. So we need to hit enter and immediately we can see that a port has been spawned. So this is the integration and now it's up and running. So it's probably has already captured the data in sheets and put it into Kafka. So now we can jump to the next stage. Now we need to define a second integration that will consume Kafka events from the topic and send them to different emails to the different teams to distribute the questions. So if we look at the source code of that definition, this just requires one single file and we can see that we define a source with the Kafka connector defining the topic that we want to consume. And so this is the routine logic and basically we extract the correct piece of information to check the team that this event has to go to. And depending on the team, then we use one email address or another. And eventually then we send that via email using the SMTP protocol configured here to send it to our platform server. Right, so with that, then we just look at our mail server, sorry, our client that is connected to the server and we see that we have three different inboxes with one per team and basically at the moment, they're empty. So let's just try to execute that. So we have our first stage already running in OpenShift and from the command line, then we can say Camel run and we say stage two and we just need to specify a dependency for the JSON manipulation. So we say Jackson and we hit enter. So when we hit enter, we see that the operator has instantly spawned the integration and the pod is now running. So if we check our inbox, we should soon then get our emails and effectively we get the alert and each team has received one email. So that's one question per team. So there you go. So we delivered the Kafka events and the questions to the different teams. And with that, we have done this stage and then we can just jump to the following one. Next, we want to build a third stage with Camel K that will implement the collection of all the email responses from the different departments and stream those into a second topic in Kafka called answers. So this building block does not require any implementation. It can also be a cabinet binding. Therefore, pure configuration. So let's look at that. So this is the platform where we have already stage one and stage two running and what we want to do is to deploy stage three. So let's look at that. Our cabinet binding is here and we pick up the mail source as the source cabinet so that it will be collecting all those responses by email. We define a meat way action that will transform the mail format response into a JSON structure. And then we'll use the Kafka definition to place that email into the answers topic. So let's then just upload that resource into the environment and the operator should pick that up immediately. So we say OC, apply, minus F, cabinet binding stage three. We hit enter and the operator, let's see. Okay, so it has now created the third element and that is now ready and running and waiting for email responses. And what I'd like to do as well is also deploy our fourth stage that will consume those events we just placed in the topic and will extract some routine information and then with that information, you will know where in the spreadsheet to place those responses. So in this case, we need to implement some code so we will just define a camel K file. So if we look at that definition, this is the stage four, one source file is enough. All we need to do is just define a couple of camel routes. So the first one, as you can see, we are using the Kafka component from camel and we are consuming events from answers. We extract the information from the subject in the email that knows the role that has to be updated in the spreadsheet. Then we do some cleaning on the body of the reply just to eliminate some verbose information and then we make the Google API invocation. So I've anonymized there the token, the access token and basically all we need to do is just to comply with the API specification from Google. And then we use this time an HTTP call to do the update. So if we go now again to the environment, we can say camel, sorry camel, as we use the camel client and we say run stage four and when we pass the dependency camel Jackson for those JSON manipulation. So when we hit enter, immediately the operator again reacts and we have already our integration running there. Okay, so if we look back again at the flow, then we have enabled the integration that will pick up all the responses from the different departments and then updates the Google Sheets documents. So all is left for us to do is to see that in action. So actually we can go to our spreadsheet. We see that the cells are empty. And if we go to our inboxes, we see that we have the three questions from the three different departments. So we will pretend that we are someone from architecture and that we pick up that email that says after our recent company's acquisition, how will we integrate their systems with ours? So someone can go there and reply and say we will be using camel K to build all our integrations. And then send that as a reply. And if our data flows are all working, then we should see immediately our spreadsheet being updated and it just has happened on screen. So we have our first response is in. Now we can pretend we are someone from development that again picks up that message and sees that strategy is asking, are we still having problems hiring developers? Because typically skills are difficult to find. So we say this is less of a problem with camel K because as we know with camel K we can build camel bindings that just require pure configuration. And these any Kubernetes user can do without any camel knowledge. So we send that response. And again, in no time that should be updated in our spreadsheet and we see that there on the third cell. And finally, if we are someone from operations we can reply to this question from strategy that says have we figured out how will we improve our long running batch processes at night? And we can say our plan is to use Kafka streams to build event driven applications and send that as a reply. And there you go. So we have all our responses fully automated and responded in our spreadsheet, which is the goal that we set at the beginning. So if we look back, we have completed our four main stages that fully automate this system that allows this automatic interaction between the different functional teams in the organization. And then we have a fifth and final integration flow for the video today, as we can see on screen. We want to take advantage of Kafka's ability to replay the streams. So in this case, what we want is camel K to consume from both streams that contain all those interactions between the different teams to crunch that and produce a report that will reflect all those cross-functional interactions in the organization and render that into a PDF document that we will upload to Google Drive. So in this case, there's some more logic than usual to do there. So this would be more appropriate for an experienced camel developer. So if we look at the source of that, then this is stage five, still is a single file definition, but we have a small Java helper somewhere there. But in essence, we can see that we have one consumers from the Kafka questions and we have a second consumer from the Kafka answers. We extract the necessary information from there and then we implement what we call in camel a couple of aggregators. And the aggregators basically, they correlate the events to produce a combination of that. So that's what we need. And out of it, then we have all the info that we need and we just render that as PDF with the Java help. And then we upload to Google Drive using the camel component for Google Drive. These parameters here are anonymized once more and all is left to do is just to go and upload these to Google Drive. So this is the folder where actually it will end up. And at the moment, all that we have there is the spreadsheet, but if we go and launch this integration, then we say camel run, the name of the integration stage five, we pass the Java helper and the definition that we have just seen with some of the dependencies. So we launched that and it says integration created and that is going to do the job and if everything goes according to plan in, it gets all the events from Kafka, produces that report, connects to Google API and uploads the report in here. And as we can see, it just did. So we have a report here as a PDF document on screen. We can pretend that we are someone interested on that document and then we open the document and we can see all the interactions that we have seen during the demo with the questions from strategy and the different answers from the different teams as we replied to them from the mail client. And well, and this is it basically. This is all I wanted to show today on the demo. So thank you very much for your patience and listening to this. Bye.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCDTSiUJ8og", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCtu8MkufmVgxS8_Ocl7mMig	Women Empowerment: Paving the Way for Sustainable Natural Resource Management in Nepal	FAO's gender policy recognizes that addressing gender inequalities and promoting women's empowerment is a significant element of its intervention. BRCRN – a joint project of FAO and Government of Nepal that aims for gender equality and women empowerment and their meaningful participation for Sustainable Natural Resource Management (SNRM) in Nepal through its project activities. Subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=FAOoftheUN Follow FAO on social media! * Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/UNFAO * Instagram - https://instagram.com/fao * LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/fao * TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@fao * Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/fao/ * Weibo - https://www.weibo.com/unfao © FAO: http://www.fao.org #SDGs #Agenda2030 #GlobalGoals	[ "fao", "united nations", "food and agriculture organization of the united nations", "fao.org", "Agenda2030", "#Agenda2030", "GlobalGoals", "#GlobalGoals", "SDGs", "#SDGs", "Support sustainable climate change adaptation", "Gender equality", "Meaningful participation", "Promoting best practices", "Climate-smart practices", "Resilience", "Women champion", "Leaving no one behind" ]	2023-03-27T07:48:20	2024-02-05T08:17:59	139	PcFGw1YP9Rg	Women play a critical role in the sustainable use and management of natural resources. In the Churia Hills of Nepal, women are key to protecting the forests that sustain livelihoods and maintain healthy ecosystems. But the area is vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, such as extreme rainfall and flash flooding. The river and forest ecosystems are also under pressure because of unsustainable land use, deforestation and forest degradation. Empowering women in natural resource management is an integral part of the building a resilient Churia region in Nepal, BRCRN project, led by FAO, with the financial support of the Green Climate Fund. One of the ways used to address gender inequality is through art. Twenty-three women from community-based organizations took part in an event called My Life Journey in Siraha district, which is part of the project target area and home to the Batahari River system. Through art, the women expressed their life stories identifying gender-based discrimination and gender-based violence. Youth volunteers work with rural women who are unused to holding a pen and paper. They showed the women how to draw houses, trees and forests as a way to tell their stories and the challenges they faced because of climate change. Although hesitant at first, the women were soon able to depict their life journeys, illustrating the challenges and struggles they face in their communities and in the context of climate change. By promoting gender equality and women's empowerment, the project seeks to achieve more sustainable and equitable natural resource management in the river system.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcFGw1YP9Rg", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCkY5L8JYwx7BT0cOXYZX_dw	The Search For Social Justice In Nigeria: "There Should Be Consequences For Actions"\|THE ADVOCATE NG	Welcome to the Advocate On PlusTV Africa where a panel of 5 discusses five thought-provoking topics in an atmosphere of seriousness, decisiveness, and laughter. Here, we call a spade a spade. And Like we say here, no holds barred. It was Sheikh Uthman Dan Fodio who said that a Kingdom can endure unbelief, but it cannot endure with injustice. This saying puts in great perspective the important role of social justice in any society, and we saw it in a great display in the Derek Chauvin trial given how the verdict has served to shape the conversation around racism in America. Unfortunately, this is one tool that Nigeria has not been able to properly deploy towards building a just and equitable society that has for too long, eluded us. Advocates: Ejemai Olayemi Raymond Nkannebe Comfort Booth Oluwakayode Iposu Omoniyi Animasaun ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 #TheAdvocate	[ "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", "social justice", "wealth", "resources", "nigeria in peace", "channels", "tvc", "bbc", "cnn", "arise news", "arise tv", "al jazeera", "news central", "AIT", "Silverbird", "Buhari", "osinbajo", "Buhari must go" ]	2021-05-09T17:00:16	2024-02-05T06:27:31	544	pC1oDcwIxY4	George Floyd, Nigeria, and the elusive search for social justice. A fortnight ago, a 12-man jury in the state of Minneapolis, United States of America, entered the guilty verdict on all three counts slammed against Derek Chauvin, a police officer, inducted in the killing of Mr. George Floyd while in the cause of duty, in what many critics say was underpinned by racism. Of course, the share eruption of global outrage against the incident last year, even in the middle of the pandemic, leading to the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, and many other countries around the world contextualize what it meant for race relations in the United States and the world at large, hence the global outcry for justice. That justifiable demand was no doubt hidden in that verdict of the jury, which leaves the convicted officer with a punishment of at least 40 years in prison, according to Minneapolis law. The celebration that greeted the verdict in the United States, both amongst Black and white communities, speaks volumes of the role of justice in uniting and melding societies around the common cause. In this instance, race equality. It was shake with Mandanfordio, who said that a kingdom can endure unbelief, but it cannot endure injustice. This saying puts in great perspective the important role of social justice in any society, and we saw it in a great display in the Derek Chauvin trial, given how the verdict has served to shape the conversation around racism in America. Unfortunately, this is one tool that Nigeria has not been able to properly deploy towards building a just and equitable society that has for too long eluded us. Nigeria has had many instances of police brutality and the extrajudicial killing of Nigerians by law enforcement agencies would lead to unknown consequences for those involved. A particular case that parallels the circumstances of the George Floyd incident is the gruesome murder of six young Nigerians in the Farah capital territory, Abuja, in the year 2005, by operatives of the Nigerian police, in what is now popularly referred to as the Apocis killing. Many years after, the senior officers inducted in the horrific incident have all been freed. And a few years ago, one of them, Ibrahim Danjouma, was elevated to the rank of commissioner of police. And who can forget the case of retired police officer James Umafor, of the notorious Okuzu Sass, whose reputation for ordering the clean of suspects in the custody of the now disbanded police department became a public knowledge last year. Despite the public outcry in the wake of the answers protest, it is an indictment of a criminal justice system that he remains at large. These two instances, and many others that aggregated to fuel the campaign against police brutality last year, are ugly reminders of how we have been unable to deploy the instrument of justice to build a just and equitable society, as the Americans have done with the George Floyd case. The alluring world of a national multiple race, unity and faith, peace and progress. While these are noble ideas, it is doubtful if they can be attained in an atmosphere of social and economic injustice, which has been the other of the day in the over 60 years of our claims to nationhood. To turn a new leaf, therefore, we must take another look at our corporate approach to the very important value of justice. The reason is not how to seek. For as Prof Wole Schroenker once said, justice is the first condition of our humanity. And I did say our nationhood. To serve with hearts and minds. One nation bound in freedom, peace and unity. I'm sticking up on there. We don't want no peace. We want equal rights and justice. It's actually for the mental. You can get peace without just justice. Absolutely. And everybody wants to have this feeling that if it comes to my turn, I'm going to get the same justice. And unfortunately, in our society, if you take a case to the court, there's a Yoruba saying that says, ah, can you cut the dory? That means if you take your fellow person to the court, you will never be friends with them already. They're telling you don't go to court. Then you feel spited, and there's no place for you to take your course to. But I don't know where we're going to head towards in terms of justice. I don't have any solution in mind. I think the first place you start is the police. And like I always told people that, you cannot. If you keep complaining about the police, it won't get us anywhere. All right. Because the police themselves, they are handicapped. Number one, I was watching a movie recently where almost everything that happened was played out because they had a camera. Even the Judge Floyd thing, you had a camera. You had the people who were recorded. And there was an outcry. And that was a place where you had a system. Now, look at it. Even in a country like USA, where you have a system, a structure, Judge Floyd was not the first person to be killed in 2019 or 2020. 2020, it won't be the last. It won't be the last. Many people were killed last time. There was this guy, this video of a guy that was jogging. And two white guys were. You know, what has happened to him? So you see, even in that case where you have everything, there's still a bit of injustice. Let alone our country where we have nobody calm. The people are underpaid. The policeman on the street is angry. He needs to, I mean, everything. The salary of the judiciary, I think the last time I read has not been reviewed. Exactly, about 12 years. So how then do you get justice? So it's not about just asking for it. It's about pushing. Let's first push for these people to get what they need. They need justice before they can give us justice. Because if the National Assembly, look, I'm like the budget for themselves, the executives get their pay, they travel. But just my salary and even my uniform that I wear as a police officer, it's so tattered. And I don't have money to buy it. I wear slippers. All these things will come up to injustice. We're human beings. I agree that the justice system has a lot that needs to be done. And we are here, again, talking about it. All motion and no movement. So how do we move from no motion to no movement? Maybe we should employ graduates as police officers. OK, but you see, even if you employ the graduates. But they are graduate police officers. Yes, a lot of them. Sorry, I'm not even looking at the issue. I want to look at the issue in a larger context. I want to take it outside the scope of police brutality and all of that. I'm looking at it in the larger context of the Nigerian states and how injustice has been actually, when you look at all that's happened in the country, it ties to the question of injustice. You understand? What are the judiciary? What are the secrets we are facing in the country? Some people have argued that while we have banditry, terrorism, and all but not, it's because so many persons have been denied justice. Over a long time ago, and justice doesn't have to be... A lot of those six boys are still flowing. So certainly we cannot go to bed and sleep with our eyes closed. The families feel that they are being shortchanged by the Nigerians. Will you pray for that country if you are the family members? Of course, what will you give them? Nothing but negative words. Also note that when there is no consequence, people will do as they like. So yes, impunity comes when there is no consequence. So one of the big issues for us here is that there's too much impunity. And impunity is the reason some people have been able to even get a hold on power and retain that hold on power. And they would not want to stop it. Because if you do, they become the relevant. In the way of wrapping up, I think to the extent that there should be consequences for actions, the institution that has been set up under the constitution to address feelings of injustice is the judiciary. So I think it has to come back to them because they are the only organ who have the mandate of resolving dispute between private citizens and between governments and private citizens. Give them what they want to know. Unfortunately, thank you. Unfortunately, the judiciary, for it to be able to function optimally, it has to be independent, not only independent, truly independent to be able to function. If you watch the George Floyd trial, you appreciate the judicial process. You see judicial process in action. And I don't know if some of you watched it. So I think if we actually have to solve this problem, we have to, to invest more in our judiciary, make it more independent and primed to resolve issues that come to it. Confort is talking about marriages and divorce after the break. Don't go anywhere.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC1oDcwIxY4", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCv-RT1Jys89aSKu9jbzPziw	Iranian Cyber Operations Background	This lecture is one of three modules in the lecture set “The Global Cyber Threat Environment” that focuses on Iran’s cyber threat. This lecture highlights two pillars of Iranian cyber strategy: ensuring regime survival through surveillance and information disruption, and creating a well-trained cyber workforce able to engage in both offensive and defensive cyber operations. This video was developed in 2018 by Augusta University through a grant funded by the National Security Agency (NSA). The video is licensed as part of the course "The Global Cyber Threat Environment" with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.	[ "cybersecurity" ]	2018-07-28T13:34:29	2024-04-23T17:00:33	754	pC7kp7eat08	The global cyber threat environment, module 11, Iranian cyber operations background, objectives. Once you have completed the readings, lecture, activity, and assessment, you will be able to describe the effect that Stuxnet had on Iran's offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. Take the two main pillars of Iran's cyber strategy. Welcome to the global cyber threat environment, module 11. This lecture highlights two main pillars of Iranian cyber strategy, ensuring regime survival through surveillance and information disruption, and creating a well-trained cyber workforce able to engage in both offensive and defensive cyber operations. Iran's focus on developing sophisticated surveillance technologies was born from events during the country's 2009 presidential election. Fed up with arch-conservative policies of President Ahmadinejad, Iranian citizens voted in record numbers, and most polling suggested that a reformist candidate, Mir Hussein Musavi, had won. A few days after the voting, however, the Iranian government announced that Ahmadinejad was victorious by a landslide of 63% of the vote. Many Iranian citizens immediately determined that the election had been rigged, and within a few days, tens of thousands of Iranian youth took to the streets in protest. Government police met them ferociously, prompting the largest public protests the Iranian Republic had experienced since its founding three decades earlier, protests that were banned by the Iranian government. The government eventually regained control of the country, but only after kidnapping, torture and murder of many protest organizers. The Iranian government later researched the event to determine how the protests had spread so quickly. The answer? Nearly one million Iranian citizens had access to smartphones, enabling many to quickly record and share on sites like Facebook and Twitter, videos of protestors being shot or taken to jail by secret police. As a result, the government banned such social media sites. To avoid a repeat performance in the 2013 Iranian presidential election, government officials blocked access to virtual private networks as well so that citizens could not circumvent government firewalls to access the social media sites. This 2009 Green Revolution highlights the logic behind one of the two main pillars of Iranian cyber defense strategy – to ensure regime survival through widespread surveillance and blocking of information deemed subversive. One year later, the effects of Stuxnet, one of history's most powerful cyber weapons, prompted the development of the second pillar of Iranian cyber defense strategy, creating a well-trained cyber workforce for both offensive and defensive cyber operations. The Stuxnet computer worm was designed to affect specific types of industrial control systems manufactured by the Siemens company. The worm was introduced into a nuclear facility in Natan's, Iran, which housed giant centrifuges producing highly concentrated uranium used for nuclear weapon production. After working itself into the industrial systems controlling the centrifuges, the Stuxnet worm could vary the speed of the centrifuges while sending signals to Iranian controllers that they were spinning normally. Most uranium centrifuges must run at highly precise rates. The varying speeds exploded many of the centrifuges, and they had to be replaced. Initially, Iranian scientists believed that operator error or faulty design was to blame. Finally, in 2010, independent cybersecurity analyst investigating the situation determined that the centrifuges had been disrupted by a sophisticated computer worm. No individual or country has ever officially taken responsibility for producing Stuxnet. But the New York Times has reported that, based on its complexity and the likely expense involved in creating it, Stuxnet was almost certainly engineered by a technologically advanced nation state such as the United States. After Stuxnet, the year 2011 and 2012 saw additional malware intrusions into Iranian networks. The Duke malware discovered in 2011 is believed to be related to the Stuxnet worm. It exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and likely was engineered to spy on computer systems. The flame malware discovered in 2012 likely also was engineered for spying, but it was much more sophisticated with abilities to capture audio recordings, keyboard activity, and network traffic and possibly even grab contact information from nearby Bluetooth-enabled devices. The flame malware infected computer systems throughout the Middle East, but Iran suffered the most. In response to these malware intrusions, the supreme leader of Iran ordered the creation of a supreme council of cyberspace to pull the country's cyber talent and stem the damage from the onslaught of malicious attacks. Iran's leadership, determined to prevent future attacks on Iranian critical infrastructure, has likely invested billions of dollars into training a cyber workforce and building cyber defenses. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, is an organization of elite military personnel with the capability to conduct various types of special warfare tactics, both on ground and in the cyber world. Although initial training in computer science and malware takes place within Iran's universities, the IRGC cultivates selected individuals into highly skilled offensive and defensive cyber warriors. Reports are that the IRGC cyber warfare program employs nearly 2,400 people. In addition to the IRGC program, Iran has created a Mahir Center for Information Security that operates as part of its Information Technologies Ministry. The Mahir Center defends Iranian governmental and military networks and conducts research into malware engineering, possibly for use in future attacks. In an offensive move, Iran launched multiple network reconnaissance campaigns to gain proprietary information about the critical infrastructure systems of more than a dozen countries. These efforts targeted oil and gas production, major defense contractors, airports, telecommunications, and even U.S. military installations. In August 2012, Iran initiated a massive counterattack against Saudi Arabia. Using the Shenoon virus, which was partially reverse engineered from the flame malware, Iran corrupted more than 30,000 computers in the Saudi oil company, or a Ramco. A month later, Iran slightly disrupted multiple U.S. banks and even the New York Stock Exchange via distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks. In 2013, Iranian hackers attempted to shut down a large flood control dam in New York state. The FBI has stated that the hackers were working on behalf of the IRGC, and the attack on a dam may have been in retaliation for the United States' suspected role in Stuxnet. The hackers purportedly attempted to access the dam's industrial control system, but could not do so because the system had been disconnected from the internet for routine maintenance. The attempt was unsuccessful, but demonstrates the move that Iran is making from a regional to a global cyber power. Although executing revenge attacks has been somewhat impressive in terms of ingenuity, none have seemed to require an exceptional degree of sophistication. However, experts are now concerned that Iran may develop its offensive cyber capability quickly and markedly. In January 2016, the United States, along with the international community, reached a deal with Iran on its nuclear program. As part of the deal, the majority of previous economic sanctions on Iran were lifted, including its ability to export oil and import advanced technologies. Because the country had already conducted damaging cyber attacks during the sanctions period, and with the effects of decades-long economic sanctions quickly dissipating, Iran will likely be a cyber force to be reckoned with in the near future. Quiz Question 1 – True or False Defeating the United States in an all-out cyber war is the goal of Iran's government. A. True B. False The answer is B. False Quiz Question 2 – True or False The Stuxnet worm specifically targeted computers associated with the Iranian Ministry of Interior. A. True B. False The answer is B. False Activity, whom do you think was behind the creation of the Stuxnet worm? Consider all the domains of knowledge one would have to know to create a worm as sophisticated as Stuxnet and write them down. For instance, what type of programmable logic controllers was used in the Natanz nuclear facility? What type of centrifuges was believed to be used? Include in your summary how you think the worm's creators managed to jump the air grab supposedly protecting the computers at the Natanz facility. After you have finished your list, estimate how many man hours it must have taken to create the code for Stuxnet.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC7kp7eat08", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCSljO84JCPeaefyHe-8voIg	Mrs. Jumana \| Cancer Survivor \| Testimonial \| Manipal Hospitals India	Mrs. Jumana, a cancer survivor, shares her diagnosis story & how she ended up choosing Manipal Hospitals, Old Airport Road, for her treatment. She extended her gratitude to Dr. Shabber Zaveri, Consultant - Surgical Oncology, for making her journey achievable. #ManipalHospitalsOldAirportRoad #YourManipal #LifesOn #Healthcare #Cancer #CancerSurvivor Best Hospital in India: Manipal Hospitals is one of the top multi-specialty hospital in India located at all major cities like Bangalore, Delhi, Vijayawada, Goa, Salem, Jaipur, Mangalore. It provides world-class 24/7 Emergency services. Our top surgeons are experts in offering the best treatment for Heart, Brain, Cancer, Eye, Kidney, Joint & all major surgeries at affordable costs. Health Check up packages are also available. To know more visit our website: https://www.manipalhospitals.com/	[ "Hospital", "Manipal Hospitals", "Healthcare", "Multi speciality hospitals", "India" ]	2021-09-06T06:09:54	2024-02-05T08:29:32	260	Pc1vPFhQGPE	This is Jumana Husev Chinnekamwala. The word cancer sounds like the end of the world, but it is not. I was detected with cancer around three and a half years back. I went to different hospitals initially, but was not completely satisfied. And then my husband coaxed me to go to Dr. Shabbar Zaveri, only for a second opinion. Since my husband insisted quite a bit, you know, that I come there and just show him, I went and the whole scenario completely, completely changed for me. Because Shabbar was so warm, so to the point that all the other hospitals did not explain my problem, my disease, my shock, which I underwent initially to me like the way Shabbar did. And with so much of confidence that I absolutely was sure that I was not going anywhere except for Manipal and except for Dr. Shabbar Zaveri. He is a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous doctor. The journey at Manipal was extremely, extremely comfortable. The whole journey to my survival today has been absolutely fabulous. Do not ignore your body. Your body is the best place which will guide you and let you know when there is something going wrong. I detected my problem myself. I felt that there was something amiss and that's how I actually got around getting myself tested and just because I did it at the right time, I had the chance of survival. I could not have completed this without the support of my family. My husband had sleepless nights just researching because I'm pretty much the first in my full khandan who has undergone something like that. So initially it just came as a major, major shock to us. My kids who are my strongest point, my younger son comes to me and says, mom, are you going to live? And I'm like, yes, mom's a fighter and she is going to survive this. So yeah, my elder son has been like this biggest rock in my life, making sure that every moment was comfortable for mama. He just grew up suddenly. My parents, my dad, my mom, my dad believed that you're going to be absolutely okay. Without my family, I would have never been able to get this far. My doctor told me, you are going to get back to work as soon as you're going to be okay. And it was surprising that the third day of my surgery, I put my drain pipes into my purse, put my purse on my shoulder and went to work from day three. All through my radiation, I have worked through. That's what I feel. I feel we women are so strong that if we decide up here that we want to survive, we will do it. So it's all about this inner strength of women and the power which we carry and we spread. So as women, I would say, if you decide, you can go get it.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc1vPFhQGPE", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCJZv4d5rbIKd4QHMPkcABCw	How flexbox and grid are like owning different types of shoes	We have two layout tools, Flexbox and Grid, in CSS... but, why? Shouldn't one be enough? #css #flexbox #cssgrid -- Come hang out with other dev's in my Discord Community 💬 https://discord.gg/nTYCvrK Keep up to date with everything I'm up to ✉ https://www.kevinpowell.co/newsletter Come hang out with me live every Monday on Twitch! 📺 https://www.twitch.tv/kevinpowellcss --- Help support my channel 👨‍🎓 Get a course: https://www.kevinpowell.co/courses 👕 Buy a shirt: https://teespring.com/stores/making-the-internet-awesome 💖 Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kevinpowell --- My editor: VS Code - https://code.visualstudio.com/ --- I'm on some other places on the internet too! If you'd like a behind the scenes and previews of what's coming up on my YouTube channel, make sure to follow me on Instagram and Twitter. Twitter: https://twitter.com/KevinJPowell Codepen: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/ Github: https://github.com/kevin-powell --- And whatever you do, don't forget to keep on making your corner of the internet just a little bit more awesome!	[ "Kevin Powell", "css", "front-end", "frontend", "html", "web development", "css layout", "flexbox", "grid" ]	2023-10-25T13:00:22	2024-02-05T08:41:06	38	PcINEK4rkp0	tools? Well, why do we have 500 different types of pliers for you know, pulling stuff out, right? You have your needle nose pliers, you have bulky pliers, you have bigger pliers, smaller pliers, you have a million types of pliers for basically pulling on stuff. So like, having two layout tools, isn't that crazy? Is it how many pairs of shoes do you have in different types of shoes? Do you have you probably have dress shoes and outdoor shoes and running shoes and hiking shoes? And we have all these specialized shoes for walking and basically, right? And like, they're just something that we put on our feet. We have two layout tools because each one has a strength and that's it. Each one has its own little niche within the realm of	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcINEK4rkp0", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCb0gJMA6_O21ITwi7t66yIQ	Intuition	Trust your intuition. #intuition #trustyourintuition #mentorship #freedom #empowerment #fyp #selfawareness #relationshipadvice #motivational #intuitive #fyp	[ "Communicator", "Communication", "Masterclass", "Leadership", "Hillsong", "Christianity", "Pastor", "Preacher", "Preaching", "Education", "Entrepreneur", "CEO", "mentoring", "coaching", "tedx", "bethel" ]	2022-12-13T11:00:24	2024-02-15T16:16:00	21	pcmYvgq-Bxo	You know, maybe the reason why you don't trust your intuition more than you do is because you still think some outside authority knows better than you do, knows better than your intuition does and they don't trust your intuition more.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcmYvgq-Bxo", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCxanKgYNy_Vxf8mSsxIW3qA	SCP-775 \| Hungry Ticks (SCP Orientation) #shorts	This video is derived from https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-775 and released under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0. Contributor: Sophia Light #scp #scporientation #scpfoundation	[ "scp", "scp foundation", "scp orientation", "scporientation", "foundation", "class", "keter", "safe", "euclid", "reading", "SCP Orientation", "scp read", "scp reading", "scp readings", "scp file", "scp files", "scp wiki", "scps", "scp creatures", "scpwiki", "anomaly", "audio", "spc", "spc foundation", "anom", "asmr", "scp asmr" ]	2022-09-05T10:00:14	2024-02-05T07:34:05	61	PC4AcSArvKE	SCP-775 appears to be a form of arachnid of the order Ixodida, more commonly known as the tick. It is of a significantly larger size, with most unengorged adults reaching a size comparable with a US nickel. Coloration varies between black, red, yellow, gray, and various shades of each. Youths possess eight legs, while juveniles possess only six. SCP-775 is capable of making small leaps, and travels very rapidly along solid surfaces. SCP-775 shares the trait of a flexible body structure, but is much more robust than the common tick, capable of surviving crushing, cutting, or tearing, with little to no damage, and capable of flattening out to slide through 0.25 centimeter gaps.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC4AcSArvKE", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCkY5L8JYwx7BT0cOXYZX_dw	Taraba Gov'ship Poll: Candidates Commend INEC For Prompt Distribution Of Election Materials	The governorship candidates of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) All Progressives Congress (APC)and New Nigeria, peoples Party(NNPP)in Taraba State have commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for improving electoral process by distributing election materials in time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 #News #NewsOnPlusTvAfrica	[ "News", "Politics", "Nigeria", "Africa", "Plus TV Africa", "Plus TV", "Plus", "Plus TV Nigeria", "Plus Television", "Plus TV News", "Top News", "news", "trending", "trending news", "today's news", "current news", "entertainment", "sports", "business" ]	2023-03-20T10:00:16	2024-02-05T06:24:52	112	pcc_gPWihYk	The governorship candidates of the People's Democratic Party PDP or Progressive Congress APC and UNIJP's party NMPP in Tarabah State have commanded the Independent National Electro-Commissioned INEC for improving electoral process by distributing election materials in time. They made the commendations shortly after casting their votes at various polling units. Today is the D-Day, voting has commenced already and as you have rightly said I came here within a second. I've been able to get accredited and then I've also voted. I can say that INEC has really improved under the exercise and today's voting process is how I'll score it as very excellent and I just pray that it will continue like that till the election is over. The process looks okay so far so good I have not, I cannot point out really the area of that except for the household and the resources. We are informed here that what happened is probably just the same and the party... Hello hope you enjoyed the news please do subscribe to our youtube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcc_gPWihYk", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCTPDxhZ5d8nZgZFLTITA5LA	World Day against Trafficking in Persons - Message from Deputy DG Laura Thompson		null	2020-07-29T21:15:56	2024-02-05T08:20:58	156	PCghJbh8EIg	This year is the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, and its historic protocol to prevent, suppress, and punish trafficking in persons, especially women and children. We are halfway through a very difficult year for everyone, and our contemporary challenges have had a severe impact on people's vulnerability to trafficking and exploitation. IOM was implementing counter-trafficking interventions in accordance with human rights principles long before the Palermo Protocol gave us the clearly defined parameters that we know today. And likewise, our interventions have evolved over time as new forms of trafficking have emerged. We have learned, as have governments, that it is imperative to partner with the private sector, trade unions, supply chain auditors, and recruitment agencies to put in place practices to reduce the risks of trafficking and exploitation. As we embark upon a new decade, the world is now confronted with perhaps our biggest challenge to counter trafficking, that of a pandemic that has in addition brought severe restrictions to mobility, impacted livelihoods, and limited access to vulnerable people. COVID-19 has brought devastating impact upon the household security and health of billions of people all over the world, which inevitably heightens vulnerability and risk of exploitation, whether it is job seekers taking hazardous journeys, families relying on child labor for survival, or the marriage of young daughters in a desperate attempt to relieve economic strain. Now, as we have always done, the anti-trafficking community must evolve and adapt to this new crisis, finding innovative ways to identify trends, to screen for vulnerabilities, to support states while advocating for human rights and the prevention of abuse, and to seek safe and viable options for those who will remain on the move. Let's move into this direction together. As united, we are stronger.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCghJbh8EIg", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCl61FygpQRrpphc_GKSWLJw	Post-pandemic economic recovery and energy innovation \| Ernest Moniz \| Global Energy Dialogues	In the new online Global Energy Dialogues, thought leaders in energy and the environment will explore the role of energy innovation in the post-COVID economic recovery and the dual challenge of expanding energy access in developing economies while greatly reducing energy’s environmental impacts. Our first guest is former U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz. The series, hosted by the co-directors of Stanford’s Precourt Institute for Energy, Arun Majumdar and Sally Benson, will run every other Tuesday starting June 9, 2020 usually from 8:30–10:00 a.m. PT.	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Unemployment rates have exceeded that of the Great Recession, and in some states it has approached those found during the Great Depression. This economic challenge must be addressed immediately. Since energy use is the foundation of all modern economies, can the energy sector play a role in short-term recovery process? And if so, how? We will explore this issue in our conversation. Now, there are mid to long-term issues that cannot be ignored. With the growth of global population and economy, there will be an increasing demand for affordable and secure energy. At the same time, rising concentrations of carbon dioxide and pollution in the atmosphere pose a threat of another kind. Unabated emissions are driving the world to a point where decadal to century scale climate disruption could place the world in economic and health crises even more challenging than the current pandemic. We must address this dual challenge of energy access and climate change in the immortal words of Reverend Martin Luther King with the fierce urgency of now. Does the current pandemic offer a rare opportunity to re-evaluate our approach and define a new normal? So just to get the audience going, we're going to launch a poll in a quiz. In a pre-pandemic business as usual scenario. Please note, pre-pandemic business as usual scenario. How many years do we have left before the world exceeds the CO2 emissions budget to keep the global average temperature rise below 2°C with a 50% probability? Is it less than 10 years? 10 to 20 years? 20 to 30 years? Or more than 30 years? So we're going to give 30 seconds before we close this poll for all of you to respond and then we will reveal the answers at the end of the opening remarks. Right. So let me continue. Putting people back to work by rebuilding a new clean energy infrastructure can go a long way towards these goals. What does the energy system of the future look like? What kind of jobs are needed? How fast can we move? And how can we help the world accelerate the transition to a cleaner, modern energy infrastructure that supports both economic development and a healthier world? This is the new normal we want to explore in the series. So joining us today for this conversation is the Honorable Ernest Moniz, the 13th U.S. Secretary of Energy from 2013 to 2017. He was the founding director of the MIT Energy Initiative and is currently the CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. He's also currently the CEO of a nonprofit called Energy Futures Initiatives, where he leads a team of experts providing policymakers, industry leaders, NGOs and other leaders with analytically based unbiased policy options to advance a cleaner, safer, more affordable and more secure energy. We really cannot think of no one better to kick off our global energy dialogues. He has recently argued in an op-ed and in Congress that rebuilding a new and clean energy infrastructure could and should play a role to preserve existing jobs and create new ones, ones that are better than the previous jobs, and ones that would help us prepare for the future. After Sally and I finish our conversation, we will have a student from the Stanford Energy Club continue the dialogue. They are representing the thoughts, ideas and questions of other energy clubs around the country. And finally, Sally and I will hold an open Q&A session. So let me hand over to Sally now. Well, good morning or good afternoon or good evening, no matter where you are in the world, we're delighted to have you here with us. What I'd like to do is reveal the first poll so if we could pull that up so that we can all take a look. So the question was in a pre-pandemic business as usual scenario, how many years do we have left before the world exceeds the CO2 emissions budget to keep the global average temperature below two degrees C with a 50% probability? Okay, so we've got answers less than 10 years, okay, that was the majority, 10 to 20 next, 20 to 30 next, and then finally one degree C. So the answer is 20 to 30 years. So clearly, you're all very concerned about the urgency of this issue and rightly so. But yeah, so a little bit longer than the average there. So as I'd like to just jump right into our discussion with Secretary Moniz, so thank you again for being here. I'd like to start off with that COVID-19 has shown us just how vulnerable we are to global economic disruptions. And as Arun mentioned earlier, many have made parallels to climate change, making the case that we need to accelerate getting to net zero emissions. You have thought about this a lot. So what will it take to accelerate the pace to net zero, and what is the right pace of change, and what does this new clean energy system look like? Thanks Arun and Sally. First of all, let me thank you for giving me a virtual visit back to my alma mater for this for this discussion. And also let me say that in terms of the COVID and climate parallel, I think I would also emphasize that both present a tremendous need for what you would call risk management. And frankly, we have shown that we're not doing very well in that in either case. You know, in terms of the COVID, this is the sixth epidemic pandemic in this century. And we have not actually moved to respond very well. So on the climate side, I think one of the things we need to conclude and draw as a lesson is that first of all, we better listen to the science. And second of all, we better take much more seriously our approach to risk management. Now, in terms of the pathway, I think it's and the time for change, you asked about what's the right pace of change, the right pace of change is fast and now, and we are not exactly doing that. So we need to pick up the pace dramatically. Now, the pathway to net zero saved by mid century and I believe that that is certainly for the industrialized countries at least the kind of goal that we need to succeed at in terms of the pathways. The pathway starts with efficiency energy efficiency, and then with decarbonizing electricity, where we have in fact made a lot of progress in terms of efficiency. I would just note that the, if you take only the appliance standards equipment standards that were put in place in the Obama administration to get a scale. We're talking about nearly three gigatons of CO2 by 2030, and we're talking about over half a trillion dollars of energy savings. So in other words, that's the and that's not even counting. Let's say in the transportation sector cafe standards and the like. So this is a very, very big deal and something to which of course we all can can contribute quite quite directly on electricity. So worth noting that in the United States, the electricity sector, which we've always thought is the lead horse in getting to to a low carbon economy. We are beyond 25%. So we're making some good progress. And many of our largest utilities are beyond 40% in terms of CO2 emissions reductions. So this is a critical sector. We are seeing leadership in this sector. We are seeing the opportunities for electrifying other sectors as a pathway for the for the economy as a whole. However, let's talk even about electricity, and I'm going to be very blunt. We see lots of statements about electricity decarbonization by 2030 based upon wind solar and batteries. I'm sorry. This is what I term magical thinking. It cannot happen in that way and in that time scale. For example, in terms of the wind and solar approach, we did as you're sitting there at Stanford, we did a deep dive in terms of California's approach to deep decarbonization. And one needs to look at the data. One finds that wind. It's terrific when it blows, but what about the nine and 10 days in a row when there was no wind solar. It's not surprising. It shouldn't be surprising that the solar resource is twice as much in the summer as in the winter. So all we're saying is that there are large variabilities. These will be critical components of getting electricity to zero carbon. But we need, frankly, an assault across the board on all approaches. So renewables and batteries, yes, but we need storage for longer time periods in a few hours. We need to really push on carbon capture and sequestration. It's not universally popular, but we need it. Frankly, we found in California that nearly 20% of their goal in 2030 probably has to come from CCS in the electricity and the industrial sectors. We need to start getting hydrogen really deployed. We need to have negative carbon technologies deployed. What we need, in my view, is this decade to be the decade of all out innovation and deployment. With that, we can, I think, decarbonize electricity, certainly by 2040 maybe maybe a bit earlier, which would be great. But then to remember that we also have all those other sectors, transportation, industry, buildings, agriculture. And I'll just make two points there without going into the specifics to say that as I already noted with the CCS in electricity, the number of those technology directions, CCS, carbon dioxide removal, hydrogen, those will also be critical tools for the economy. Why decarbonization that we are going to need. So really pushing on that is important. And finally, I may have gone on too long and it's a respond to your question. But finally, to say that net zero. Is the right goal, let's say from mid century deserves having an emphasis on the word net. The word net means that it's practically a tautology that we will need significant negative carbon technologies. This is a place where we have barely scratched the surface, certainly in terms of getting scalable solutions. And I don't mean by this only direct air capture, I mean other approaches, biological approaches, for example, mineralization, accelerated mineralization, etc, etc. That this is a now feeding back. This is a good example where if we don't make the all out innovation push in this decade to get a whole portfolio of negative carbon technologies available. I don't see how we make net zero in 2050. And certainly by definition, we cannot get to the negative net emissions economy that we want to have later later in this century. So I think that's kind of the, it's the right goal. We got a lot of work to do. Let's roll up our sleeves. Let's get on the innovation and the deployment. Get that train moving right now so that by the 30s we have a lot more tools at our disposal to manage to manage to meet our goals. Okay, well, thank you. Thank you very much for that very comprehensive answer. What I'd like to do now is quickly launch another poll, which will tee up to be the next, the next topic. So how many Americans are employed by the energy sector and energy efficiency sectors. And if you could answer quickly, you've got, let's say less than like 25 seconds from now, and then we'll quickly reveal the answer that will pave the way to a deeper discussion on that topic. All right, so a wide range of answers again, two and a half million 4.2 million 5.7 million and 7.1 million. Actually, those are terrific answers. So if we look at the energy and energy efficiency industry, that's about 5.7 million. And if we include the auto industry that will add another two and a half million. So depending upon how you were thinking of that question, I'd say you well did really well. Okay, let's let's close the poll and turn this over to everyone. Thank you, Sally. And thank you, Ernie. I mean, this is a university so we have to use polls and quizzes. That's what we do. Let's only just following up on your on the numbers that you gave and the idea that the next decade is going to be critical for energy innovation, as well as for deployment. Let's take stock of that in the context of the economic recovery that we have to introduce now. So let's take stock of that. The 5.7 million people in employed in the energy and energy efficiency sector, 37% of which are in construction, 13% are manufacturing. And these sectors did not regain the job losses in the 1999 Great Recession, and they are at high risk right now. And you have argued, as you just did that, you know, energy innovations and energy recovery are are pretty are intricately, you know, involved in this so you have formed something called an energy jobs coalition with the AFL CIO, and have proposed six priority areas. So let me take the first three you said number one, energy efficiency and climate resilience. Number two, energy infrastructure, and number three, incentives so clean energy technology investments. So I was wondering if you could connect the dots between this energy innovation the next decade thing on one hand, and our economic recovery that we need to go through right now. One question Arun. One of the activities that we have carried out at the energy futures initiative, in fact, has been an annual US energy and employment report. I might I might say that some of those numbers that are out there the 5.7 million for example, you cannot derive from the conventional Bureau of Labor statistics numbers it's worth, it's worth indicating that because for example, an energy efficiency job does not exist in the in the official way of organizing the workforce, because for example, while there are 2.4 million energy efficiency jobs, about half of those are scored as construction jobs for for as as as one as one example. So so it's big, but I think for the purpose of your question. It's even more interesting to note that over the last five years. The job growth in the energy in these energy sectors that you described has been over 12%. Of course, that's during what I would call and I think you would agree is the very early stages of the energy transition that we are going going through to to low carbon. That 12 plus percent is is is an interesting number when compared to the economy wide number of 6% job creation. So one of our arguments is that, frankly, the energy transition is a high leverage situation for job creation. And boy, do we need job creation over these next this next year or two. You mentioned the larger unemployment claims. We all understand that those jobs are not just all going to snap back. The stock market might snap back, but the jobs will not so easily snap back. So, so our argument is let's combine. Let's put these threads together and start that big push we need in this decade in this energy transition, heading towards where we want to go anyway, you know, Wayne Gretzky go with a pucks going to be but doing it in a way that will have tremendous job implications right now. So we think that's that's extremely important now. You mentioned the our partnership with labor well, it's a natural development in a certain sense, given our focus on jobs. In fact, I want I'd like to say that we can discuss this more later if you wish, but one of the things at the energy futures initiative that we have put forward is our framework for thinking about these issues is what we call the green real deal. The green real deal starts by the adopting the fundamental principle of the Green New Deal. And that is that we must pursue our low carbon future and social equity together. I think that that's the case, a because it's the right thing to do, but be also because if we don't address the social equity issues that includes this jobs these jobs issues. We're going to have headwinds for that for that transition. We're going to make tailwinds and tailwinds come from getting broad coalitions together, labor and industry, finance groups and environmental groups, the Democrat and Republican, we could go on and on, in terms of the kind of coalition we need. But that that social equity dimension must always be in the foreground. So that's why we have emphasized very strongly the question around jobs and good jobs and why we've gone into partnership with the AFL CIO to both support the low carbon transition and make sure that that jobs are part of this. Now, in that energy jobs coalition as you mentioned, we kind of have six pillars, the first one around energy efficiency and and climate resilience. And there, just to take an example, one example of what we think we should push on right now to satisfy those multiple objectives. Modernization and efficiency upgrades of the enormous number of public buildings we have across the country in both urban and rural settings. One reason why that is a very interesting direction is not only for the energy issues, but also because to the extent to which we remain concerned about the virus. About rebounds in the virus. About returning to situations where isolation is even more important. Well, think about it. Public buildings typically don't have people in them for large parts of the day. Perfect time, perfect opportunity to do these major modernization and efficiency upgrades. So that's just an example of how both the long term and the short term issues can come together. I'll give another example of long term and short term. I mentioned earlier that developing carbon capture and sequestration is is very important. And it is and we need to move on it quickly. And by the way, one reason for moving on it quickly is because today there are with strong bipartisan support major tax incentives, as long as the project start, no later than 2023. Not very far away. In other words, again, there's a short term impetus for something that will have long term implications. But think of it in terms of the jobs. Well, as everyone knows, it's it's it's very volatile. But we are in a situation where the oil sector, for example, has been heavily impacted by the demand reduction that results from the COVID virus. Now the reality is that sector was under substantial pressure before the virus. In the United States, we all know that the entire shale production based upon debt accumulation, as opposed to cash flow was being looked upon poorly by the financial financial sector. The oil sector we understand will be having a secular change throughout this energy transition. So what's the connection to carbon capture and sequestration. The skill set is largely the same. The geographies will be largely the same. So in other words, as we have transitions in the oil sector will also have transitions in the CCS sector, which can solve our carbon and our jobs issues if managed properly. Here's the couple of examples in terms of how these longer term and short term issues fit in. Now we also mentioned energy infrastructure. That was our second pillar that that you referred to. And clearly there are major issues like grid modernization where we could have a tremendous focus on getting real, certainly on the pilot scale and larger projects are going, we can address the, the national need for a charging infrastructure for electric vehicles for hydrogen, etc. But let me give you another example, and in the same spirit of this short term and long term. I think the very interesting development of community solar projects. Especially living in dense urban environments, you don't have a lot of rooftops, for example, but community solar where you find patches of ground of land that can support megawatt or five megawatts of solar and be bought into by citizens in different living environments is a very interesting developing direction. Let's again talk about the issues of the virus. Well, you know, while entries into homes for putting up rooftop systems may be still uncertain in many people's minds, building a nice community solar project, perhaps close to a disadvantaged neighborhood. And we've seen that I've seen that personally in Detroit, for example, employing local labor is a way again where we we check so many boxes at once, we need to think creatively along along these lines, and coven may may may focus our minds on that. The third pillar, I think we've already touched upon is that about innovation. And it just that there, I think we could do more for example, I think we could have a real focus on rapid prototyping of new energy technologies. And that could be done with new arrangements with our DOE national laboratories. You know, it can be also technology transfer inwards in the sense of providing the capacity for entrepreneurs to move much more quickly into the prototyping stage that can that can lead to further capital accumulation for those projects. In fact, one very specific one and I, I mentioned it since a room we know your special fondness for RPE. Well, maybe there really should be some follow on RPE grants that go to this prototyping stage. For example, there's so much that we can do and unleash in what I think, again, needs to be this decade of really juiced up innovation. I think this has started something called a scale up program, which is precisely what you're talking about. But let me hand over to Sally, and I know you have some follow up on this. You know, I've had one more actually I wrote sorry before handing it over just, I would say in that that thing as well. I think so many of these projects along their development scale could really use some help in the front end engineering design period. So those gaps in the feed studies in the prototypes. Again, I think are something that we could see some frankly stimulus like support for. Yeah, I mean, you're right that, you know, we always think of R&D as upfront and then later on the industry R&D is all throughout it's not just right up front. I mean, that's the research part but the the D part continues. And I think you need the R&D support all throughout the process of scale up as well. Yes. Sally. Yeah, so so actually you had a six part six part plan with your energy jobs coalition. And the way I think of these are a little bit more that not the what so much but the how. So these included laying the groundwork for clean energy industries of the future clean energy tax incentives, and very importantly, workforce development, which gets to the equity issues you talked about. And then also how does the whole package fit together. Well, I'm laying the groundwork. The point is that in some of those areas we've already discussed, like CCS, like hydrogen like technology enhanced. Carbon removal, multiple pathways that we should be thinking about these not just as kind of, you know, new products, new processes, etc. These are new industries. I kind of alluded to that in this idea of how the CCS and the oil industries share many of the same techniques. And it's literally like building another industry, which would have enormous job job creation implications. So I think it's more thinking in that way. And I think when one thinks that way. There might be going about things in a different way than we are now. Again, I think I would say a good example is, is hydrogen. I can't say for sure and I think you cannot either that hydrogen plus carbon free electricity will be the backbones of the very low carbon or net zero economy in 2050 but I think it's a, it's an interesting candidate, certainly to do that because hydrogen will then replace in many some of the fuels requirements that we have in industry and in, and in, in, in transportation. But I think what we should be thinking about right now is, what can we be doing through policy and through support to build the hydrogen market across the economy. Not just the question of any in California I'm, I'm in no way suggesting that it isn't a good thing but you know putting up a few hydrogen filling stations for the very few fuel fuel cell vehicles that are there is not what I would call having a an integrative view of building a hydrogen economy. And this for example one of the things that we've recommended for example, is starting out by, by focusing on a set geographically distributed set of hydrogen hubs, where you start and you incentivize the supply and the use of hydrogen in so many different ways across the economy. You know, in a certain sense, hydrogen could play the role of natural gas today of an extremely flexible fuel. In fact, one might jokingly I suppose call hydrogen as carbon free methane, but, but, but again the idea of focusing on building the market structures is what I would call building an industry of the future. So I think that's very important on the on the tax incentives on the on the incentives. We've already mentioned the CCS incentives, etc. But I would say the incentives incentives take many forms, one that I would strongly advocate for and have advocated for, and we think could be part of a future stimulus package. And I think one of the advantages of building an industry out of the COVID hole COVID economic hole would be take advantage of the $40 billion left of DOE loan authorities. We worry about building energy infrastructure a lot of the things we've already talked about. There's $40 billion that can be deployed at very, very low interest rates of course now interest rates are low anyway, but, but there are. There is value. Nevertheless, even now with having the certification if you like, from a program like that. And also I think I'm at least not confident that that interest rates will stay across the economy, the place, the place where they are now. So that's there, however, there's a problem. The credit support for those loans through appropriations was very narrowly defined in terms of some renewables technologies. Let's open that up. In fact, let's open it up and do another of my favorites that we made a little progress on in 2016, when I was still secretary. We really need to get a major push on clean energy on Indian land. Where we still have in this country. A lot of people without significant electricity availability. Let's use that kind of a program, but with credit support to do that. So again, we can pursue this low carbon and the social equity agendas in parallel. And, and I think that's the winner. That's what that's what's going to get us home in a time scale that we that that we need. Last pillar was workforce development. And there, I want to say that the number one issue of workforce development and I believe my, my partners in, in, in labor and the FLC IO, etc would strongly support this. The number one workforce development issue is create jobs create the jobs will have the workforce development. For example, when we made the announcement of the partnership the FLC IO, President Trump of the FLC IO emphasized that the labor unions in the United States, despite we all know that they their their footprint has has shrunk in the last decades, really since the 80s. But still, after the military, they do more job training than anybody else. They have well established apprenticeship apprenticeship programs. Why invent new wheels. Support those programs to go forward, the way they have proved themselves to be very, very effective. So that's just one example of workforce development as I say, it really all goes back. Get those good jobs out there. And, and, and the workforce development will happen. Sure, it could use a little more push from the from the from the government. But first priority get the jobs and the workforce will follow. Okay, well, terrific. You know, clearly we need a comprehensive strategy if we're going to achieve our goals to accelerate decarbonization and getting to net zero in time. I want to switch directions now and let's let's go beyond the US and talk about global issues and the US role and leadership. In particular, you were instrumental in launching mission innovation at the Paris agreement. And how is that going? And are we on track to double R&D funding for clean energy. And, you know, just briefly what what would you consider some of the highest priority R&D means that perhaps you haven't mentioned so far. Well, I probably have mentioned the highest priority ones so far. But, but first let me let me just maybe give a brief statement about mission innovation what it is since I'm sure not all of the those who are tuned in are aware. In 2015 at the Paris COP meeting that of course produced the Paris agreement. By definition, on the last day of the COP meeting. Another event occurred, and I will say only partly tongue and cheek, which may prove in the long term to be more important. The, and that is that on the first day of the Paris meeting, when the national leaders were in fact present that included President Obama, that 20 countries at that time announced a commitment to at least to try to double their clean energy R&D efforts within the United States. A big lift, obviously, but, but recognizing that we needed this big innovation push that I said, well, now we need to start it now. Clearly, we're not on track for that doubling in five years. However, it's interesting that in the United States in the pre COVID world. And now I don't know what's going to happen obviously, particularly as we have trillions of dollars, necessarily added to the to the deficit. But it's been interesting in the last several years. If you look at the data in just the right way. You might say that we were on a doubling pace in 10 years. And what's very encouraging to me is that, while the administration consistently proposed reducing those R&D budgets, very substantially, the Congress in a bipartisan way would have nothing to do with it. And in fact, increased the budget substantially. RPE would be one example of, I think in the last several years a room correct me but it's probably been about a 60% increase perhaps in the budget that at ballpark. Roughly, but right. Yeah. So, so I think the, I think it's important to emphasize, certainly in the US context that there is a very strong bipartisan foundation for this innovation push, going back to the international arena. It's been spotty in terms of different countries, making progress towards the goal, and some, some, some really not. But I would say that there are other elements of a very, very positive outcomes. One of the ones that I really liked was a very early on in mission innovation, Canada and Mexico are both members of mission innovation, as was as the United States of course. And so very early on, already starting in 2016. There was the movement to have some trilateral some North American initiatives. And it was interesting that that Mexico took the lead. There was a support from in particular the Berkeley laboratory, but took the lead in holding a initial workshop on looking at accelerating the pace of introducing new materials for energy through high throughput means combined with machine learning. And that really kind of took off and Canada got got very, very much involved in it. So I think the idea is and there are others. Certainly the US is involved with Saudi Arabia in leading a CCS initiative, for example. And it's been certainly in that sense, positive, positive outcomes, in addition to at least some increase in the, in the, in the innovation budgets, in terms of other areas that are ripe for that. I would add what I've already mentioned, the negative carbon technologies. This is clearly something that everybody has to have a strong interest in. Only because as I said it's the only way to get to a net negative economy later in the century. But I think it is going to be essential, starting much earlier than that. It provides tremendous additional optionality and flexibility for what will still be the lead requirement of mitigating mitigating emissions, but that is a ripe area for mission innovation to to take up and I at least will keep proselytizing for that. But I want to emphasize that mission innovation, when it was announced in beginning of the Paris meeting in 2015 did have a second feature. And that was a explicit. It's funny it's not it's not an alliance maybe called an association with venture capital. And in fact, when the national leaders took the stage in Paris, after they did their leaders thing. Bill Gates was called to the stage to represent a number of individuals wealthy very wealthy individuals for many continents who were who were there to say, look, when you countries. Open up the innovation pipeline with those increased investments and those coordinated investments, we're going to be ready to pick up the products and invest in them and take risk and get them out there. And I believe you know it took a little while to get going, but I believe it's going. Certainly Gates himself has headed up the starting the breakthrough, the breakthrough coalition. But I sense more generally, and I'm not saying it's all causal to mission innovation, but I am but I am sensing a return to clean tech 2.0 in the in the innovation world. What is happening at the early stage the venture stage, but it's also going now through new groups. Frankly, I'm part of one looking at the growth capital stage. What happens when these when these technologies they go through the prototyping. They established themselves in an early with an early commercial foothold. We need another zero or two at the end of the at the end of the string of dollars in the growth capital stage. I'm seeing all of that now I think coming forward. And if we make this big innovation push in this decade. I think it's going to unleash tremendous amounts of capital all across all across the innovation chain and come 2030 we're going to be seeing the fruits of that. We're building to start scaling in serious ways. Some of these new technologies. Yeah, yeah, that's terrific. I couldn't agree with you more. I think it's never been so exciting, you know, the innovation ecosystem. You know, we are immersed in it at Stanford and I know at MIT there's a very active entrepreneurship culture. So I'm going to turn it over to a room now, and he will take it from here. And this is kind of the last question before we hand off to the students so just to kind of step back from the moment historical moment we are living through. I mean, this is the global pandemic of 1918 and 19, plus potentially a very large economic crisis, all coming at the same time and of course interconnected. And my question to you is, looking back in history on similar kind of crises, whether it was the pandemic, the Great Depression, World War two post World War one. I would ask the question, are the lessons learned in terms of new organizations that were created new ways of doing things. For example, as you pointed out, after the Great Depression, there was the Civilian Conservation Corps, rural electricity electrification and the Tennessee Valley Authority, Montevill Power, that happened at that time that has led to a huge amount of growth. Post the Great Recession, there was ARPA-E that was created. But if you look back at World War two where, you know, people realize that this is a pretty crummy world that we're living in. Millions of people have died, lots of the global economies and shambles, but we are all in this together. I mean, it is a global issue and various global organizations got created like WHO, as well as World Bank, IMF, and many other United Nations, etc. So if you were to suggest something now, given this and taking a pause, what would be the new organizations that we need globally or domestically? What kind of governance should we be introducing? Can you give us your thoughts on that? That's a tough one. First of all, let me go back to the Great Depression. You said it, but I would just add the word hydro explicitly. And we are still, of course, major parts of our country are still benefiting from the very, very large carbon-free, quotes source. In fact, hydro has remained our biggest renewable until just recently when wind just kind of nosed in front. And also on the Great Recession, and of course you were part of the 2009 DOE team, you mentioned ARPA-E, you know, I think that's, you could have mentioned a few other things as well, you know, Arun, besides your organization. For example, but I actually, I want to say that there was, again, a very, very serious, of course, push on clean energy there. ARPA-E was part of it, but another very important thing I thought was kickstarting the energy frontier research centers, six of them, mostly at universities, looking at the hard problems for, hard science problems for energy technology, but also the loan program I referred to earlier really got kickstarted at that time as well. And it's had a number of, I mean, many successes in my view, but probably the most prominent one being at a time when debt was very hard to come by to really kicking off the utility-scale solar business in this country, which is now, I don't know how many, it must be 75 or 80 now, utility-scale solar installations in the country. So the Great Depression, the Great Recession have had tremendous impact on what effectively is the clean energy transition that we need today. And so for the reasons we said earlier, including the jobs, etc., this is the time to really push forward. Now, on terms of, and also I would add the mentioned in the Great Depression, electrification of essentially every home in the country, more or less, a bit less actually, as we said earlier, but tremendous increase in rural electrification. I would just add again, and I would put it partly in that social equity basket, as we move out now, addressing rural needs is really important. We all know about the issues of broadband access needed there. Again, COVID showed the inequities that can come with the kind of arrangements we've had to make during COVID. Some people just don't have the access to, and that's both urban and rural, to the necessary equipment and internet, etc., to take advantage of. So we have a lot to do there. On institutions, well, one institution, and I have to give credit to my colleague, Melanie Kendredine, who has proposed that maybe we need either a department of rural development. We have HUD for urban development, maybe we need right now rural development, either separately or as a newly enhanced part of agriculture. That would be an example of an institutional change that, for the United States, that would be very, very important. Now, globally, clearly after World War II, United States took the lead in establishing all kinds of unique institutions, financial institutions, also in the security space, NATO. I think, unfortunately, people today, even today, forget how unique NATO is in terms of an alliance of countries that would move pretty much in the same way together for collective security. Unfortunately, I think today we would all probably think that we've seen some weakening of those of those institutions. And I think probably the first answer to your question is to reestablish the strength of those institutions as a foundation for what we do going forward. Certainly, to get the clean energy transition to happen globally. And you said it, it's right. COVID and climate are two issues that if you don't solve them everywhere, you don't really solve them anywhere. And for that to happen, boy, we are going to need some real change in the financial structures. And if these organizations are weakened, that will impact very, very directly our ability to move Africa, Southeast Asia, other parts of the world into the robust clean energy economy that we need. As far as new institutions, globally, I'm not sure that we need to go there. But certainly, we need to increase our collaboration to go there. Again, if we take, if we take Africa, another of these linkages that's not thought about. I might say that I'm truth and advertising. I'm a co-chair of something called the Global Commission to End Energy Poverty, which together with the CEO of the Rockefeller Foundation who was supporting the initiative, Raj Shah, and the CEO of the African Development Bank. One of these connections that has become very clear to this working group. Not that it's not that it shouldn't have been understood before but with the COVID situation. When you have a serious public health system, absolutely needed if you're going to be able to control pandemics earlier, early, without reliable electricity. So, Ernie, I think we have, we have only limited time left and so maybe if you could just answer and then we'll move because we do want to give students some time. I don't want to interrupt. I was just saying that in Africa, that's a situation that needs to be corrected on the energy side and on the health side. Thank you, Ernie. And we have now we'll let's hand over to the student. Juliana is going to come on board and we have actually quite a few questions lined up for you from the from the audience. So, sorry, I go once alone. No, no, no, this is great. This is absolutely terrific and you get us on the set us on the right tone. Juliana. Yes, thank you very much for the introduction Professor Majumdar and thank you Secretary Moniz for being here to kick off the entire dialogue series today. So as Professor Majumdar mentioned, this portion of the dialogue will be a chance for Secretary Moniz and also our future guests of honor to answer some pre submitted student questions. And in the spirit of the session being part of the global energy dialogues, these questions are coming not only from students from all 50 states and US territories, but also energy clubs all across the globe. That in the interest of time we'll keep it to just one maybe two questions. And so our first question are probably most highly asked question was, in the context of advancing a more sustainable national and global economy. What are some of the underrated and underdressed problems that you'd like to see more young people consider incorporating into their future career paths. Well, I think the first thing to emphasize and and hopefully your set of students who are plugged in right now reflect this. Often we think about, you know, innovation in technology as being kind of the answer and it is absolutely central to the answer. And what I want to emphasize is that innovation in just about every discipline is going to be needed to to address the issues we're talking about. We're going to need innovation in business models. We're seeing that already in many ways and transportation for example, but only scratching the surface. We need innovation in in policy and regulation. We need innovation and understanding and understanding social structures. So, I think, I think this is a problem to be addressed that we need to have students in a completely multidisciplinary way, understanding that they all have important parts of the solution. So, in terms of the question, I just almost repeat what I just said that for example, I don't think we have nearly enough research right now in the social sciences to address the kind of transition that we need an energy so that's one very very broad arena. Within within the technology space, something I've already alluded to several times I would repeat. And I think that this is to phrase it most broadly. How do we not just stop them at least the vast majority of emissions mitigate. How do we fix the atmosphere. How do we fix the ocean that we have in both cases managed to to use a technical term screw up. Because I think that that, you know, thinking big about these kinds of problems is is is really important. And carbon technologies are just one, one of one of that set of set of activities. That's definitely helpful reminder, especially as students a lot of time it's very easy to get stuck in the release focus very much on the day to day of every little brick that we're working on but certainly zooming out every once And you're a chemical engineer right so you're actually you know I'd like to make a plug here, I may to all the students and frankly all the others as well all the non students. I recommend that you go to YouTube and look at the 12 and a half minute commencement speech given virtually by Admiral Bill McRaven at MIT couple weeks ago. You know, Adam McRaven. He is the former head of he was a Navy SEAL former head of Special Operations, including during the during the period when some have been modern was brought to justice, shall we say. But he gives a very impassioned speech about the graduating students he was talking to MIT students but more broadly, as the heroes from your ranks will come the heroes that we need. He emphasizes that there's no Captain America or Wonder Woman, you have to be your own heroes. And besides being smart, he emphasizes moral courage, humility, perseverance, integrity, compassion. And I think you you'd be well served to look at it and it kind of that's what we need from this group of of of students because you're the ones that got you're the ones are going to have to do this. actionable device. Thank you for that. And zooming out for one final student question. Very generally, what is the best piece of advice you've ever received or what is one piece of advice you'd give to your younger self at the very start of your career. Um, I think I was lucky in the sense that the advice I would give myself beginning of my career was advice I followed, not knowing that it was good advice, maybe but I followed it instinctively. And that was that I really have a passion for what you want to do to solve an important problem. And you, and you got to have fun doing it. And when you have those the prospect of those two things coming together. Don't be cautious. Go after it. And, and I, I won't go into it but I very respectfully, I chose not to follow the advice of my PhD advisor in terms of where I went. In my career, I've probably changed careers in a certain sense four times. And I think, you know, it's just a question of following your, your instinct, your nose, and don't let, don't stay in a silo. You have, you'll have plenty of help staying in a silo. If that's your choice. Take your own initiative to get out of the silo and look more broadly and have fun. That's my advice. Excellent. So those are unfortunately all the questions that we have time for today, but on behalf of all the students in the global energy community, we're certainly glad that your own career path has led you to where you are today, and to this dialogue with us as well. And your and your colleagues. Thank you very much. Thank you, Juliana. So let's go on to the questions from the audience and they have been filtered and compressed and, you know, assembled in categories. So I think Sally, you want to go ahead. Sure. So you haven't mentioned nuclear power yet. So, so it's probably not a surprise we have a question about that. So the question is what is the probability and timing for new nuclear technology to become a big part of the energy future. Thank you for that. Actually, that was just an oversight. In fact, I should have included advanced nuclear in those industries of the future that we have to that we have to build, build and invent. So I think that the, the trend towards the smaller modular reactors is in fact very, very promising. Clearly, we don't know yet if, if, if they will succeed and in meeting economic tests, but there are various reasons to believe that they have first of all excellent safety and these are, by the way, I'm thinking about, you know, molten salt, high temperature gas, so called generation for reactors, although there is also, there are also interesting developments in light water reactors for small modular reactors. And I might add also micro reactors in the megawatts region, one to five megawatts, which can have very interesting applications. For example, in Canada, there's a very strong move towards certifying and deploying some of these so called micro reactors at things like remote mining sites, which could have a enormous impact in removing and removing greenhouse gas emissions. So I think the, I think we're on a path where I believe we will probably see some deployment maybe of light water reactors before the end of this decade, small, smaller ones and the gen four 2030 and maybe a little bit beyond. However, here, this also couples back to the earlier statement about some of the new approaches we need. We really need a major public-private partnership here for these technologies to get over the hump, or over the valley if you prefer, either way, that we have never seen so much innovation in nuclear fission in my view. But we've got to have some of those get across the finish line to at least being able to build one or two reactors to know what the techno economic performance is. And I say that in particular because one of the economic advantages of the small modular reactors or the micro reactors is that they could be they could be built on a manufacturing line in a plant and have much better kind of quality control and dedicated workforce than you have for these on site on site constructions. I want to add one more thing in word nuclear. We shouldn't forget and I truth and advertising I'm involved with one of these companies on the board, but I think there's also interesting promise in the fusion domain with novel, novel concepts. And we may not be so far from having the ability to at least have a significant scale prototype test of a of a of a fusion device. So nuclear has got a lot of promise still, I believe, for a low carbon future. I think just a really quick follow up. Does the US lead or or or where else. The US has got a lot of activity there I think we are, we are certainly up at the front of the pack, if not ahead but there is also work in in Europe UK there's working a lot of work in China. And, frankly, China does have the ability. It seems to fast track things a bit more than than than we do. So I think we need to pursue that. And in fact, since you raise that the global issue. The reality is, we also have national security issues to confront with our unfortunately kind of vanishing nuclear supply chain. We have, without being a major player in the international nuclear commerce. We will lose our ability to enforce non proliferation norms through our bilateral cooperative agreements. And domestically. It is a fact that today, other than living off of our do we stockpiles of enriched uranium. We do not have the capability to meet national security needs. We do not have the long term for naval propulsion submarines and aircraft carriers, or for elements of the nuclear weapons program. So, we really have to have to pay attention to our nuclear technology supply chain. Thank you. There's a question from the audience and this is about your comment on hydrogen. I think, I mean, we all agree that, you know, to get to carbon free fuel. Hydrogen would be, you know, a huge opportunity. There's a lot of R&D going on in hydrogen, reducing the cost of hydrogen production carbon free hydrogen production, whether it is electrolysis whether it is methane pyrolysis or steam methane reforming with carbon capture. What about hydrogen infrastructure to move it around. What about hydrogen storage, because we know that pipelines, you know there's a hydrogen embrittlement. There's a lot of problems with nimby issues with pipelines and permitting, etc. So, give us an idea of how do we address the infrastructure issues and hydrogen, both storage and transport, and long distance as well. In a cost effective way that to really bring this hydrogen economy together. That's really, really very, very, very important. The first in terms of the cost reduction of hydrogen production. I certainly agree with you and electrolyzer cost for example I've got a long way to go and they'll get there probably in a decade or so, although I think as you well know, both of you. And for splitting water for hydrogen, it will require, most of all, extremely inexpensive zero carbon electricity as as really an enormous cost driver for the electrolysis route at least. And I would say that is actually a less expensive way of producing low carbon hydrogen. And that's the kind of thing that we should be using as a bridge to build the hydrogen markets, especially in some parts of the country. It's not overtaken completely by, by, by other other other methods but, but we need to move now and we need to, as I said earlier establish those markets. Now in terms of the infrastructure. There is both R&D you mentioned the storage challenges, but also, I think on the, the transportation of hydrogen. So the central questions open. And this, these are the kinds of things we want to go on. For example, I think a lot of people automatically think about hydrogen in a pipe, but it could be that hydrogen is transported in a liquid. And then, you know, and then freed from the liquid at the more or less the point of use, for example. There's all kinds of molecules being discussed as the transport mechanism for for hydrogen. So I think that this is the case where there's lots of individual technologies and an enormous amount of systems analysis and systems technology that remains to be developed and settled on. And the thing is, in the end, what we can't afford is to have, you know, a cacophony of, we're going to need some standards for how this is done in order for it to be economy wide and economical. And that's the kind of thing that we need to pursue, in addition to things like the materials research for, for, for storage. So Sally has the last question, Sally, go ahead. Okay, so we've heard a lot of discussion that, you know, our new normal, you know, people are not commuting, people are staying at home, people aren't flying. So again, this is a question from the audience. You know, have you seen any signals that the pandemic and our economic response to it will accelerate a shift towards sustainability and our energy system. I think there's, there's, as, as the question says, I mean, as big open questions as to the extent to which remote working, for example, will become more of a norm, I think there's no doubt that there will be some element of that. I think today, I think I've seen estimates that today, approximately 50% of the workforce in the United States is working remotely using zoom, I guess, or whatever, whatever technology they choose. And I doubt we'll end up there. And that's a long, it's a long, it's a big distance between zero and 50%. And I think we will see a substantial shift there. I think that that will be associated, obviously, with likely with some fundamental impact on the airline, airline industry. I mean, good, frankly, good estimates of, of the, of the carbon impact of various scenarios that might emerge in terms of revised social structures. But I also note that there may be some other things that I've seen less talked about. I did say the COVID, while it while it has obviously had the contagion to be truly classified as a pandemic. It is the sixth major event of this century, starting with SARS in 2002. And then SARS and mayors and H1N1 and then you know, you go Ebola, Ebola twice or three times now, I don't know, etc. The point being that I think many of us have always viewed public transportation as part of the sustainability solution. Now, I don't know to what extent the public is going to be shy of traveling in kind of compressed environments, shall we say, I don't know, maybe that maybe there is a even greater shift towards some of the micro mobility devices etc. So I think there are some very fundamental questions here about a social organization that we don't know the answer to yet, but, but I think we should be open arms to see what what makes the most sense. And then just to make sure that it goes in the direction of reinforcing the sustainability that we that we want to reinforcing the urban design that we need to see changed in my in in my view in the in the future. So these are these are big questions and I think it would be foolish. I think it would be foolish to make a prediction as to how it will look, but very important to explore the options and the flexibilities and the way in which low carbon will be part of the solution no matter what it is. I'm just going to ask a really quick follow up on peak emissions, you know, I think a lot of people have the dream that, you know, 2020 could represent the year for peak emissions in the context that, you know, we've already had this big disruption we've learned that we can live somewhat differently. I don't what do you think when do we reach peak emissions and could it be now. I assume you by the way you mean peak before the virus. Exactly. Yes, yes, the pre pre virus peak. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think that the, the industrialized countries. I think may have reached that point, especially that the comeback from from the economic hole we're in right now may not be to the same place that we were before I don't mean in terms of. I mean the economy will recover but I mean, maybe it may recover, for example, with some of these things we just mentioned, lowering overall overall emissions, and that we can sustain a downward downward trend. And to do that for the United States, I'll just say again industrialized United States. We clearly have to see the utility sector continue to be the lead and to be very, very aggressive on that. Many of the major utilities have adopted their own net zero goals but that's 2050. I think it's very important to see what's going to happen now to 2030 etc. And now it is, it is true that the virus has probably accelerated the closure of some additional coal plants. And so, you know the utility sector may may may be there. I think one of the issues is the still unresolved. This is a stream of consciousness but the unresolved issue of. What was I going to say the. Okay, I'll forget that statement. The he was the of the the some some unresolved issue. Oh, I'm sorry I know of cafe standards. That is, as I mentioned earlier for California but more generally, going back to the more stringent cafe standards. And as well for heavy vehicles. That's another important issue for the 2030 timeframe in term in terms of peak. Now in terms of other parts of the world. If I just flip all the way. The emerging economies are complicated by flip to the least developed countries. There is no doubt that that they will have increased emissions. And we'll need to have increased emissions, realistically, for a while. But of course they don't contribute a large amount to the overall and in this far as I'm concerned the industrialized country should work a little harder. We have some economic development, but at the same time, I think we're being penny wise and pound foolish in not doing a lot more to support the developing economies in employing a lot more renewables and and and other other low carbon have other low carbon opportunities. We've got to solve the, we can do that for electricity. But the heating and especially the cooking problems remain. So I think we have solutions out there. I think frankly, it's, we need to really get on with it and understand that it is a good investment to help that economic development in the least emissions trajectory as as possible. Certainly, I'll be to be straightforward. We know that China, for example, in as part of its belt and road is prepared to support the building of a lot of new coal plants southeast Asia. Why aren't we in there? Why don't we at least have gas plants gas plus renewables. It makes a huge difference as opposed to locking in now new coal plants in those in those countries, but we have not just not shown frankly the collective ability to to raise that in our, in our in our in our policy thinking. Anyway, I think that's certainly we have only two minutes left and so I know this conversation can go on for a very, very long time and they've been very good questions that have been posed by the audience and I don't think we'll be able to get to all of them and we apologize to the audience for not being able to get to it. But maybe we could just run I think you should have your students answer all of them. Yeah, there are actually the set of questions have been amazing and I've been following it in the Q&A and only a few of them have made it to the kind of the filtered stage. But let us first of all, thank you so much for taking the time and joining us today. It is your alma mater, a great kickoff to the Stanford Global Energy Dialogue, and we are so thankful to you to get a start here on this, and we are going to do this every two weeks, and then two weeks from now we'll have the 12th secretary of Stephen Chu, who is at Stanford to talk with us to have this dialogue with us, and we will continue with chat holiday and collect honorable and so and so forth we'll have it every two weeks in the Tuesday morning. So again, thank you all for joining us. Going back to your earlier question alone, you should ask Steve Chu how we spent all that money in 2009. I certainly will. And frankly, this is a very important issue. What were the lessons learned from that, right, the things that we should be doubling down on that went well. And what are the things that we should not be doing, based on the lessons learned in 2009 2010 on the Recovery Act. So, thank you again, and thanks to you and Sally for doing this here. Thank you all to all the audience for joining us and come join us again on June 23, 830 the morning California time.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCeWTJ1X8w8", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC_3Lza_tjzG7gWz5_xCMYCw	Rabies: Eliminating a deadly threat in Machakos, Kenya	The ILRI-led One Health Centre in Africa (OHRECA) in partnership with the Machakos County government, the Zoonotic Disease Unit (ZDU) and Vétérinaires Sans Frontières-Germany (VSF-G) are conducting a rabies vaccination campaign using a One Health approach in Machakos County as part of an effort to eliminate rabies in Kenya by 2030. World Rabies Day that takes place each year on September 28, the anniversary of the death of Louis Pasteur who, with his colleagues, developed the first efficacious rabies vaccine.	[ "ilri", "research", "livestock" ]	2022-11-02T14:13:54	2024-02-05T07:47:18	441	pCjnuCA5anI	Banaangu alikua na hitua chaos manzi handonda, alikua mutumuzuri sana, aliniwa mwa kwa 1985, alini tunza vizuri sana, sasa wakati banaangu alia ga dunia, lishi maisha mangumu sana. Simeswa anga 1985, alipatana naka umba kadoko kwanjia, aka chukua, aka leta nyumbani. Aka niyambia, uyo umba alimu uma kwa hamukono maali. Sasa atuli bimali sana miye simi tatu, aka hanza kukombleni kitua, kitua kila wakati. Osipitalitu ka henda aka pima, diyondakita limu jaka muangalia, aka munjaribu na maji, kwa tabu. Ka muambia ajaribu kukunya iyo maji, aka hanza kuhongopa maji, aka sema awesi kunya maji. Uyondakita limu jaka, nika maami ona sainsi sana Rebis. Manda kitali wakati wambia, sasa ikifika apu, atatumi penda awa, aiki musaidiya. Tuli po rudi sana kumina muangalia tukapata amaia ga dunia. Rebis is a zoonotic disease, is spread by animals and so specific dogs, whether they are roaming around or if these dogs have their owners, once they buy someone, if they are infected they will spread the disease to that particular person. And if no intervention is given within the shortest time possible, then we always say Rebis is a very fatal disease. Rarely do we have people surviving from Rebis positive dog, which has beaten someone. We should care because we use dogs for many purposes and we can do away without them. For example we use them for security purposes, we use them as our pets. And by so doing it means we are at a high risk of being infected once they have the disease within them. The situation of Rebis in the Machakos County, I would say we get most of our patients, they have dog bites. So I would say most of them present in the peripheral hospital, that is the Spencer and Health Centre. And those who present in the level 4 and the level 5 hospital, you find that those ones have already developed complications. But what it means to the county, it means that we are not doing enough of community awareness under dog bites, how to prevent it, especially in terms of vaccinating our dogs. So as a county we need to focus more on the prevention of Rebis in the community. In Rebis control, when we talk about mass dog vaccination, we need to cover 70% of our dog population. That is feriki. The meteorologicality has been proved that when 70% of the dog population is covered, then we are safe. And that's the only time that we can say that any dog bite will not resort to Rebis in the population. For this project we have got a partnership right from inception towards implementation. We have got Illry as one of the primary partners. And the county government of Machakos to the Directorate of Veterinary Services Machakos County as co-implementers of this project. And I'm glad that ORECA project is a driving initiative to bring together the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Veterinary Services in Machakos County, as well as other relevant stakeholders to see to it that this project of Rebis control has been embraced. It has been owned by Machakos County government and the people themselves who are the beneficiaries really impressed this project as something that is going to promote their health. The biggest takeaway for me from the dog bite training was the importance of surveillance after managing the patient, the importance of follow-up and the importance of working together the medical team and the vet team. So now after the training we are able to follow up and also inform the community to prevent the father's pride of the bites from the community. The second biggest takeaway was RIG, the administration of Rebis immunoglobulin and also how it is given. We used to give it poorly. But after the training we are able to know which patient requires RIG that is Rebis immunoglobulin and how it is supposed to be administered. I would want to extend my gratitude to the elderly organisation for the training that they offer to our staff. I can say as of now in matters of treating of Rebis disease in our county that is for the level 4 and the level 5. Our staff are very confident in terms of treating and even to the public health awareness creation health education has already started so we appreciate that support. We also need to increase funding to the directorate so that we can purchase enough resources to control Rebis. The other thing that we can do is to increase the number of partners who can support us in Rebis control in the county. One health is a model that is becoming very popular where we bring in all the prayers when it comes to disease control. It's not only in Rebis but in all infectious diseases. We look at all the stakeholders who are concerned for consultation and collaboration. At the end of the day if we have health animals then we are sure that the health of human beings is guaranteed.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCjnuCA5anI", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCwvntSIlWk39gKN75ilEIWw	500 student capacity classrooms at Rutgers University 🤯 \| What do they teach here? #usvisa #tour		null	2023-07-28T13:30:31	2024-02-07T17:22:47	26	pcEnx92sDjM	I'm in Rutgers University today. This is a typical classroom in Rutgers where typical classroom size can be from about 50 to 500, I'm told. What's a 500 strength class? What's that class? What's that class? What do they teach? It's not necessarily for one specific class but like they some classes Oh seven hours. Seven hours, okay.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcEnx92sDjM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCJr76B0ZPGNGEHvZHCenSdg	Au-Tea Time - Autism Q&A Livestream #1	We talk all about Autistic imposter syndrome, exercise, mental health, support in third-world countries, and MUCH MORE! Every week on Friday at 5:30pm BST! - LIKE & SUB if you found this helpful 💙 See my Instagram or Website for DAILY blogs and to get in touch about speaking, 1:1 personal consultancy, interviews, and much more!	[ "Thomas Henley", "the autism show", "aspergers growth", "thoughty auti podcast", "thomas henley autism show", "autism advocate", "autism advocates uk", "autism show 2021", "autism show webinar", "autism youtube", "aspergers youtube", "autism awareness", "actually autistic", "Autie Time", "Autea Time" ]	2023-03-11T06:43:33	2024-04-23T13:35:47	3,832	PCdIRF1rh6w	Hello! Welcome to the first Aughty Chat. Yes, so I'm going to be streaming on two different platforms which I haven't done before. Just because I feel like, for me, I don't really get involved in, like, the YouTube world a lot. Like, I'm wanting to set up some sort of regular, regular sort of live stream. So I'm going to try and get one out every, every Friday. So it'd be a place for, for you guys to, to come in, to ask some questions, etc. Hi Alyssa. Thank you for joining. Hi Kieran. Social Wave. Wow. As opposed to me actually being a bit proactive and, like, actually sorting out the, the live stream, like, scheduling thing actually has worked to some degree. So thank you all for joining so quickly. Cool. So, yeah. Basically, the idea around Aughty Chat is, you know, I don't tend to get very involved in terms of, I guess, I guess, like, comments and stuff. Because it's, it's, it's quite hard because my, my schedule at the moment is that I am pretty saying, you know, like a real a day or actually two reels a day and a post. And I'm trying to, trying to stay as active in terms of, like, talking to, to everybody and, and responding to comments and things like that. But it's, it's, it's being very difficult. So perhaps maybe I can have a little bit more engagement with everybody if I do, like, a weekly, weekly sort of live stream and stuff. Hello from Thailand. Hello. I used to be in Thailand for a year in Chiang Mai. I was doing a part of the university thing. Hello. Draw Beauty from San Francisco. Evolving lies. Your page is amazing. Thank you very much. Hello from the US, from Mina. Very cool. Hi says as well and no tricks. Wow. Everyone's here. Beautiful. Hi, see Minky Ladder on YouTube. I am to say I am live streaming on two places because I've been told that that's a good thing to do for small creators and stuff. So I will be responding to each of them. So if you don't see, like, a question going out on one side and I'm answering a question that that's, that's because of the multi thingy. So we already had a question so far, but I just want to put it out in. So put it out in the world, put it out on the stream. If you want to ask questions, this is the best place to do it. And I will be asking questions from, you know, YouTube and Instagram. So please go ahead. Hi, see Minky Ladder. You're a small creator too. Well, good luck. It's hard, especially on YouTube, definitely. Yeah, so this is going to be a bit of an experimental thing because I haven't been live streaming in two places at once before. So we'll see how that goes. I've got a comment from Dan Dee. You're such an impressive guy, really good and interesting content. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Hello from BeautifulLingweeds and ADHD. Oh, yeah. How are you doing? Shenzo, appreciate the content man. Thank you very much. Stalin, hi, Tom. Hi from Ireland as well. So we're going internationally now. See, see, Minky Lad says, got 135 subscribers in 25 days. That's pretty good. Like if you're starting off from bottom. Very, very good. See who else is joining on Instagram. Hello from Finland. Wow. This is literally like an international hub at the moment. Crazy stuff. So yeah, please send in some questions. Whatever you want to talk about. Mostly autism related or personal questions. You're very welcome to ask them or contribute your thoughts as well on certain things. Bally Red says, hi, Tom. You've been so helpful for myself and my 16 year old son. Thank you. You are very welcome. I'm glad. Hey, so we've got a first question here from NoTricks, who's someone that I'm going to be podcasting with very soon on Monday. It's going to be great. What is the hardest part of your day to day life as an influencer, especially from a mental health point of view? Very good question. It's hard. It is. And to be honest, I am sort of balancing sort of full one time job, part time job with my gym goals and with, you know, Instagram and creating content and the podcast. So there is a lot to kind of juggle. And I am not always the best when it comes to organizing things. So it actually it's, you know, for the past two or three months, it's been quite sort of up and down, trying to find my feet, trying to sort out all the legal stuff for my business that I'm trying to do. I think mostly it's, it's, I don't know, you'll probably relate to this like the situation where you, you know, everyone has their preferred methods of communication. And, you know, even for even for someone who doesn't do all the influencer content creation stuff, you have people who are like texting you on Facebook Messenger, and you have someone texting you on Instagram or TikTok or Snapchat if you have it. And you've got some people texting and some people using WhatsApp and using all types of different communication channels. It's so hard to just like manage them all. And, you know, you could you could go and find an app that kind of concentrates them down into like one Apple one stream or something like that. But that is presents its own difficulties, because then you get loads of, you know, your inbox is pretty much just full and blowing. And, you know, if you do do content creation, and it sort of influence you type stuff, that can be an added thing. So you got to manage the personal life, you got to manage the online stuff. So, yeah, it can be quite hard. I think it's really setting yourself time to do each of them and not going over it. I do have a tendency of working late into the night if I'm passionate about something, or if I want to get something done. So, you know, you just you just got to find that balance and sometimes the actual process of finding that balance is really hard. And especially with if you see monkey, it's it's it's hard. And it, you know, especially if you're starting off, if you wanting to be a creator on any platform, particularly YouTube, it's going to be tough, you know, you're going to put in a lot of work and you're not going to get you're not going to see those those kind of big numbers and big results. It's a very cumulative thing. And it's very based on consistency. And sometimes the act of just trying to upkeep that consistency is so hard. But it's so important. It's like the biggest thing when it comes to growing. So that can be really tough. And you just you just got to learn over time, you got to work on yourself, do all that kind of stuff. So I got a question on Instagram from Austin Henshaw. Hello, Austin, you're an Instagram as well. Are you a you do a watching crazy? What are your strength and hypertrophy or size based goals? I'd be willing to help with hypertrophy programming. Um, you know what, to be honest, it's I mean, most of the time, my fitness and exercise and stuff, it's primarily being focused on my mental health. Because, you know, if the doctors say, you know, if you could take a pill that does the same or all the same benefits as exercise, it would be the most like popular pill out there, everyone would be on it. And that's kind of the truth. And, you know, I do have quite a filled routine and filled schedule. Like I'm exercising probably about 12 hours a week, about six days a week. So it kind of feels like a lot to if you haven't got like properly into it and stuff and it can be quite difficult to keep up with everything. But I think I think over time, you kind of get used to it and you kind of you learn to enjoy it, which it just I know for a lot of people when there's been speaking to my family about it, it just seems just completely farfetched. You're like, no, I'm not going to be one of those people who get up and go to the gym and like to go to the gym and feel bad about not going to the gym. You will, it's just it's a habit. You know, you start off and it's tough and it's hard and over time you just like it. So to your question, Austin, I don't really have any particular goal. I just want to get better every day, make tiny increments and the amount of weight that I lifted, whether it's like urge for you or strong focus, I think you can kind of is it's a mix of the two. And I just focus on improving. So thanks for that, Austin. I'm going to scroll down. It says says says, I won't stay long as I have a quiz night, but great questions so far. No worries says I appreciate you joining and enjoy your quiz. I'm terrible at quizzes. Worst person to have on a quiz team. Yeah, absolutely awful. Please save this translation. What do you mean? Hello from Shaft to California. Another new place in US. Question message from Anthony. Hi, bro. Newly autistic guy here. If you just you developed autism. Yeah, I know. And just a joke. I recently lost my fancy. Alright, I feel bad for saying the joke there. Your videos have been really helpful thing for me. So I just wanted to say thank you. You're very welcome. It fills my heart with joy to know that I am helping people. That's my goal with all this kind of stuff. I want to do more of it. So I got to turn it into a business at some point to keep my my life and my food and everything like that. But that is the focus. Social medias. Hey, why definitely says one from CT parks. I'm waiting at the appointment for an autism diagnosis. What can you tell me about the process? Um, depends where you live. If you're living in the UK, it's either free or relatively cheap, but a very long wait time. And if that doesn't go well, you gotta wait longer. You know, if if you don't have a very good diagnostician, they don't really understand that making a small amount of eye contact is normal for an autistic person or making or even just an autistic person making a normal amount of normal amount of eye contact for neurotypical standards. You know, it doesn't mean that an autistic is you know, they can be over factors like masking and things like that. So some professionals, they know about it, they have a good sort of experiential influence, you know, they talk to people, they, they have some involvement in the autistic community, they're an ally. You know, that all of those kind of factors play in so it can be very variable. And it can also vary a lot country to country. Place to place. I hope that answered your question. I know it can be can be quite hard. The actual diagnosis. It's a bit strange. I've done one post post having a diagnosis at 10 was very weird. Still showed extreme signs of work. I still showed strong signs of autism, even though that was like, hey, they're not going to pick it up this time. But yeah, they did. It was obvious. But it's me says says thank you for your work. You're very welcome. Thank you for joining the live. Could you make a live recording please from Moogilove? Yeah, I mean, I'm going to save these ones. I'm not going to go about an edit tool and re upload it and stuff. I'm just going to leave it. So if you wanting to catch up with live streams or you wanted to replay them or you wanted to click them, you are very, very welcome to if you if you want to use it that way. All good. I will I will definitely save them. If I remember, sometimes if you if you click the wrong thing, your finger slips, and you click the X or you click you click done, you cannot save it, which is really, really annoying a lot of the time. Delme from Brazil. Nice, nice to have you here. Very, very and Moldova as well. I have three ac ac you in says Republican Moldova here. I have a three year old daughter of autism. I am stressed regarding her and our future. Very understandable. You know, it can be a hard hard world for us. I say that the most most of the issues that perhaps we face during childhood because of other people. You know, it can be very hard, but I think just just being engaged with the community, learning more about it, supporting them as best you can understanding sort of the aspects around mental health that make them up and sort of being aware of them. I think that's always the best way to go, but it very much depends on the individual, I think. Yes, Cat Lily, thank you for joining her on YouTube. Yeah, I'm streaming on two places. I've been told that that's something that I should do. So we're going with it. I'm trying hard to keep an eye on both both streams. Very strange. And yeah, if you want to follow my Instagram, it's at Thomas and the UK, you can you can watch on there if you want. Or you can watch on YouTube, which is 40 or D podcast. You guys Instagram. Gary Matanus, Jr. says, I get it, I stretch a few times day every day. It's something I can control and it helps me feel the way it makes me feel as prices. Stretching is really good. It's a proper proprioceptive stim, like definitely for me, when I get stressed, I tend to stretch and move a lot. And I find that that stretching can really help solve with that. I don't know. I don't know if you guys have experienced it like this this sort of feeling of tension that you have in your body, kind of like ants crawling on your bones. I don't know if it's related to anxiety. I don't know if it's related to like depression or related to like, maybe hyposensitivity in terms of autism. I'm not sure, but stretching exercise that that seems to do it for me in terms of that kind of physical ickiness that you can get sometimes. Seamunkeylad. Was he the one that made the next commander video? Yeah, it was me. I made that one. It was a while ago, though. It was very poorly edited. Question from StallionSK. What's about girls on the spectrum? Should they exercise too? Of course. Exercise is not just a man thing. Like, I saw this this amazing sort of collation of like the benefits of strength training. Because I was like, most people, they're very big advocates of like cardio and sort of, you know, that sort of moderate to light intensity kind of cardio work. But I was so, you know, I feel so much better. And I hardly do any cardio. I gym like six days a week, which it's a lot. And it does really make me feel tired. And it does give me more energy afterwards and the day after. And I just feel calmer and I breathe my mood. So I was looking at like the statistics on it and, you know, there are a lot of benefits to it. Like, I think there was some part that was saying that for every one point on this strength scale that you go up, there's like a like it reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease. There's a guy who runs a podcast. He's called Andrew Huberman, which you might have known about. He's from like Stanford University. He makes a lot of exercise and physiology videos and stuff. And he was saying that, you know, when you exercise, you build up these, you build up a lot of lactate in your muscles. The acid is the actual thing that causes the burn. The lactate's the thing that sort of buffers it and removes it or, you know, makes it less acidic. And that hormone, because it kind of acts outside the body, it actually like influences your brain and your heart and all these other kind of things. So there is some like real benefits to like strength training. And, you know, a lot of people, they say that, oh, I'm too old to do this. And, you know, you know, at a certain age, you're going to have to stop gymming. It's not actually true. You can continue to maintain much more muscle than you think into your later years and sort of, I guess, reduce the risk of falling and maintaining mobility and things like that. So it's really interesting. Yeah, Cat Lily says that they stretch, but they have a hard time exercising because of pots, postural of hypotensive stuff. Yeah, I've heard of that before. I think it's one thing that can be sort of related to waters and pots, as well as like something that's like a Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Yeah, but to be honest, my balance is not very good when I'm not thinking about it. But I did use to compete in Taekwondo, so I worked on my balance quite a lot. I don't know if that's sort of the same thing that you can actually work on it, but for me definitely, like, practicing coordination, things like that. It really has helped a lot. Were you ever scared to go to the gym? Yes, of course. I get scared a lot of the time, especially on the way there, but it's just one of those sticking points. And sometimes you've just got to push past it, and for beginners you've got to ease yourself into it. Don't do it too much, don't tell yourself that you're going to work for like an hour. Just give yourself like 30 minutes that you just do regularly for like a couple of weeks or a month or something, and then just scale it up as you feel comfortable. Headphones, mobile. Avoid the eye contact with the mobile, avoid the noise of your headphones. That tends to work for me, but I know that it can be very variable person to person. I'm just realising that I'm very far behind on the Instagram questions. Sorry about this. I did experience a speech delay. It's me, so it's only a little one, I think. Not too much of one. To be honest, like, things related to autistic children, it's not really my area of interest or speciality. I mean, I have word to watch autistic children, but it's not. It's not something that I want to or desire to focus on too much, which I know can be a bit annoying, but there are some really great sort of advocates and people out there who you do focus on that. So I would definitely go to them. Everything ought to sound cutty to have you as a guest on our podcast. Hey, me too. It's going to be grand. Let's have a look. Swimming helps a lot, exercise in general. Yep, definitely. Callum, 12 gauge. How are you doing? Thank you very much. Callum and 12 gauge were part of the group special that I did on the podcast, which was the neurodivergent crew podcast. Long one, but if you like the long podcasts and stuff like that, I definitely give it a listen or give it a watch even. I have about four guests on that one. Talked about different aspects of neurodiversity, things like that. So that was really great and I learned a lot about, particularly from Notrix about DID, got to talk with 12 gauge about dyslexia, got to talk with FMA about late diagnosed autism, got to talk with Dreadnought about ADHD and some other things. It was a really great stream. Stream, podcast. Ethan says, hello Thomas, greetings from Mexico City. Nice to see you. I don't think I've met anyone from Mexico yet, so we are picking up and no, I'm not from London. I'm actually the opposite side of the country to London. My accent's not very typical for the region that I'm in. People tend to be able to have more of a strong Yorkshire accent, whereas I think because I have sort of done YouTube for a while and things like that, I've sort of melded my voice. I don't know. I've practised and sort of, I've done voice coaching and stuff and tried to, you know, get better at speaking of some reason that just pushes me more towards sounding like I'm from London a little bit. But if you're actually from the UK, you'll be able to tell the difference. Harry gets a sort of a bit of a sort of middle-class kind of area as well. It tends to be, tends to be a bit sort of less Yorkshire-y in general than that that I've experienced. Andy, Andy Mama here. Absolutely feel a lot of relief from stretching tension, release cracking knuckles too, yeah. I am the sucker for cracking the old knuckles and everything else. I went, I won't put you through that that awful sound because I know some people don't like it, but yeah. So people talking about the Special Olympics, very cool. Swimming, nice. Advice for Artistics in Third World Countries. You know, that's a hard one because I don't have experience living in a third world country. I don't know what Thailand would be classed to. Is it a late second world country or something? I'm not too sure. I know that particularly the level of autism awareness and acceptance can be a bit lower in those sort of relatively underdeveloped countries and compared to places like the UK and places in Europe and things like that. So I think there's, you know, the advice would probably be try to get involved and talk to people who are not from, who are from those sort of developed countries because you'll typically see advocates and people online from those places and sort of ask advice and learn from them and not particularly looking at sort of the advice that some GPs may give in certain countries because there can be variable sort of stigmas and attitudes that can influence it. But it's very dependent and you can also find some people who do advocacy in those kind of third world countries as well. So you can search people out and I would try and mix and match and try and find some terms on Google. Connect them with autism and just see if you can find anyone who really sort of does work like that, you know, depending on the country that you're in. You'll have to discern a little bit, you have to sort of pick apart and see what their kind of philosophies are and, you know, whether they're neurodiversity inclusive and, you know, whether they have sort of, you know, well thought out strategies or therapies. I mean, to be honest, even in the UK it's hard to find mental health support. So that can be really tough. See you later, says thank you for joining. Okay, I was diagnosed, Samaka says I was diagnosed last summer but I feel like an imposter saying I have autism. I wonder if it's a common thing for autistic adults. Yeah, it's very, very common imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome can be really hard and I was diagnosed when I was 10 and I still get that and I want to gain even even though I create content. It's a lot to do with around sort of individual ideas of autism, the influence from other people, perhaps like things related to the, related to stigma. A lot of people may have ideas about autism that kind of, you know, they have a picture of an autistic person in their mind and they feel somewhat intrusive of putting themselves into that label because they don't know if they're autistic enough or you don't know if you explain display enough of the traits. You know, there can be a whole host of things. It can be stuff to do with, you know, stigmas around people who are women, you know, women particularly not being included within sort of the stereotype of white autistic cis man. It can also be, you know, as I said, related to race as well. There can be some aspects where minorities don't really feel as connected because there's there's sort of difference in maybe their culture or maybe people are putting some stereotypes on them. They're like, well, it's more common in white men or, you know, all that kind of thing and it can feel sometimes that, especially if you haven't met or talked to other autistic people who are also within that process, it can be quite hard to sort of accept, I guess, but if you have been diagnosed, I would go with that. If you haven't and you're looking and you're sort of in the self-diagnosis category, I would talk to as many people as you can. I would follow as many people as you can. I would talk to other people who are self-diagnosed and, you know, quite a lot of the time you don't have to fit in every single box or category. It doesn't need to be the case that you took every single box to be autistic. Everyone's very different. Every autistic person's very different. So, I would always try and be kind to yourself and not try to think so much about perhaps what other people may think of you for calling yourself autistic. It's something for you. It's something a part of your identity. You've got to work through it and learn about it in your own space and time. Some people, they might be a bit negatively reactive towards it but it's just the way things go and I get it as well. Even though I can say it's my diagnosis, some people just don't that really. Yeah, it can be tough. No one from Mariana on Instagram and then I'll have a look at some of the YouTube stuff. Mariana says thank you for the lovely informative reels. You're very welcome. I was transitioning from childhood to adulthood, childhood to teenagehood to adulthood, which was the most challenging period apart. Childhood was great. I love childhood. I was just blissfully unaware of everything. I didn't know that I was different. I didn't feel like I was different. I thought everyone was the same as me and I was just kind of chilling and no real cares or worries in the world. Other than perhaps feeling a bit iffy about big social situations and sensory stuff. Teenagehood, definitely the hardest part, mostly due to secondary school. That sort of teenage brain have become more aware of everything and more critical and you know high chances of developing mental health and things like that. So the majority of it was difficulties with bullying things along of that nature. It can be really hard but then I guess the transition to adulthood possibly fairly hard because even in teenagehood I was still given a set plan or a set schedule or set kind of thing to do during the day. I had times where I was around people to socialize. I had times that I didn't. So it's all kind of planned for me whereas when you're going to adulthood you have to form those friendships yourself. You have to build that community around yourself. You have to build those connections and groups around yourself and that's the hard bit. There's aspects of food and care and executive functioning and stuff but I think that's the biggest thing because if you're already predisposed to mental health if you have had mental health in teenagehood can be just the breaking point for a lot of people. So it's good to good to research and it's good to try and find stuff because a lot of people because a lot of people they struggle to find the things. If they know that it's there they'll do it like obviously we're gonna do it if we know that it's there but we just oftentimes we don't know it's there so it requires a lot of self-research and looking into things. Very very annoying it would be great if it was just all part of the program. Everyone just went for it and it was all good but it's you know we're not at a stage in autism awareness acceptance and education where that's possible at the moment but it is changing and particularly with my workplace we do a lot of work with that sort of transition from teenagehood to adulthood and it can be very difficult but it's definitely done. It can be done and I know a lot of people who have successfully done it. So I'm going to go over to YouTube a little bit, ask some questions. Cat Lily's talking about their experience with sort of tilting, being dizzy with pots yeah that makes sense. A lot of oxygen not being received by your brain, chronic fatigue. That sounds really tough I'm sorry to hear that. See Monkey's saying that they are self-diagnosed as well. Good for you, great. That sounded very sarcastic, I'm not being sarcastic. Khalid says, change her life. I went from walking all over the city to spending most of my time in bed. I can be really destructive for your mental health. You know when you have a physical condition and stuff definitely. We've got a question from Kevin which I'm going to address and I'm going to go switch back over to the Instagram. Is being a therapist or a social worker a good career for someone that has aspergers? I want to do this but people say that people with aspergers like skills to be a therapist. I think that autistic people can be exceptional therapists and social workers specifically for other autistic people because we have a more natural inclination to understanding the autistic brain obviously. I think yeah that you do have to do a lot of work on yourself if you're going to be supporting other people particularly around understanding the emotional world. Developing emotional awareness related to like a lexifier and stuff. Perhaps a bit related to cognitive empathy. Being able to notice and pick up on people's needs and emotions. And also the flow of conversation but to be honest a lot of autistic people tell me that in situations where they know the social context or the social boundaries of something and what they're expected to do and how it goes and they've had practice they often find it a lot easier than just general conversations. So I yeah definitely sure like I would encourage it. Please do become a therapist or a social worker if you're autistic. Massive that could really change a lot of people's lives. Definitely. Hey at university I often have to present to my clinical supervisor about my patients although I know what I mention I easily get confused and miss out information. Is this an autistic thing? I hesitate to say it's more something related possibly related to ADHD or something related to that. Perhaps stuff to do with certain learning differences like dyslexia possibly. Not very not very clear on exactly all of that so I'm not going to say one way or another like definitely. By definitely looking to things like like the learning differences possibly learning a bit more about ADHD that could be something to do but it could could be an I think that autistic people experience there's a lot of crossover between autism and ADHD so yeah it could be. But then then that that there's the sort of the perhaps the memory of the the instance and I struggle with the memory on the instance like the short-term memory. Long-term memory is great short-term memory is poor so yeah. Kyle says recently moved to a new province realized they are autistic haven't been diagnosed yet but nearly sure and have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. Yeah I definitely consider if you go to my page and you check out the people that I follow there'll be some really good advocates really good people that you can just have a look through. If you like the look of any of the content that they're doing definitely do it. Go go and follow them and you know good thing about Instagram is that once you start following people who have like certain hashtags and certain post tags you get recommended more people so there is a wealth of experiential and actual scientific information on on this on the Instagram platform. Also perhaps on YouTube as well if you're looking for that sort of scientific informative angle go with Dr. Megan Neff from Neera Divergent Insights. Really really great person to learn from even yeah especially for me as well. Is it necessary to get diagnosed as this might be perceived not in a bad way by society and might affect an individual's employment and personal life. I think for a lot of cases diagnosis you know to get that sort of legal protection as a protected group can be very useful but for personal growth personal understanding that everybody needs those needs or wants those supports and the medical system is set up so that we you know it's set up so that so that we can get diagnosed when there's an issue when it's a problem so if you're not having a problem there's no issues but you just want to understand yourself quite hard to convince the one to go for a diagnosis so I you know I think there could be good things and bad things and you know it's particularly on the legal workplace kind of front could be very useful but then again I've heard that even in the US one of the reasonable adjustments is that they find some way to let you go which is absurd I don't know if the same in the UK do need to look into that. Mother says I got diagnosed in Pakistan any advocates out there I'm not sure and if anyone's an advocate there please try them up I don't know anyone in particular that's that's from there but um yeah Devrat Devan hi bro how are you I am good I do remember you definitely thank you for joining Kyle um sharing some things uh I don't I don't know if we want to talk about that on on the the the live stream but please feel free to message me um sounds like a really tough time for you and I I empathize cool I think um so yeah uh any more questions because we've got about 15 minutes left 18 minutes left whatever um you guys on youtube please um please send some some some messages uh some questions and stuff really cool that you guys are um connecting and all that and um you guys on the instagram as well like thank you so much for everyone who's joined already and supported and asked questions it's it's been really really helpful um and yeah do you think I should do more of these let me know let me know please the live streams um I'm thinking of making it a regular thing perhaps on a friday because I thought to myself that I would find live streams really hard because you know with videos with podcasts there's always that editing process you know I what I say is just not you know I can chop and edit I can I can put it out and with live streams you don't really get that it just goes out um and actually to be honest I find it quite relaxing just the fact that I just don't need to edit and stuff um so I probably might do a bit more I'm thinking of possibly obviously I'm gonna be trying to stream on on youtube and um stream on instagram a lot more um just for the time being because I am a small creator and perhaps if I was to go to another platform to do stuff it's kind of a bit of a like it's it's a bit hard I mean maybe when I get a bit bigger I might you know want to sort of move over to like perhaps something like twitch I could do some longer live streams like I think one of the other creators that I that I talked to or tnl they are doing twitch live streams of um stardew valley which I was like I'd really love to do something like that I just have like some time in the evening where I can just sit and chill and play and actually play video games and not feel like um somehow undercutting my productivity yeah sounds it sounds really talk to I I have an obsession with work I have to do stuff all the time and be productive and the thing is I've tried not doing that and I've tried being like hey look I'm just gonna do what I want and I just find that every single time I do that I just don't feel satisfied I don't feel um what's the word I don't feel good doing that stuff I like to to to be productive and do things and it makes me feel happy it beats my mood I'm like hey I'll say that I'm gonna do this today um so I'm gonna do it um and then I do it and then I feel great about myself pow great um so yeah uh we've got a comment from cat lily thank you so much for asking some questions and stuff I really appreciate it besides exercise what's one of the main things that have helped you um there's been a lot of things having a good family structure my family's been very supportive it's not something that anyone can really take from but it is something that you know it's it's it's important to me my family's important to me they support me a lot so yeah that's that's that's a big support for me um other things that actually I've done um if I happen to say it I mean it's it's obviously you know it's not a big deal um it's something that I've been on for a while but medication has been great for me um I've been on meds since I was 14 they've helped me through a lot of rough times we've balanced them you know we've tried and find the right ones can't say that that they haven't had a massive impact on my life um talking therapies typically you'd say that those things are going to be great those things are going to be good but actually finding someone who really gets it is really hard and finding therapy even just finding therapists who are autistic super super hard finding therapists who aren't autistic who do autism specialization very very hard still but even even then if they don't really have the knowledge of like the community and they're not like an ally or anything they're not really up to date with kind of what what we talk about what we advocate for still can be really difficult um and if you're just going through perhaps like the UK general general health systems um you're going to be put with people who who can be actually bad for you and if you find a good one who's really open and willing to to grow and learn that's great but you still have to teach them if you go for private therapy that's your money to teach them about you and autism and in general so that's that's tough um so i think i think a lot of it for me is setting goals around the things that i struggle with trying to fill my day with as many things that i'm good at trying to make my work about it trying to make my hobbies about it as much as i can has helped a lot you know playing to my strengths uh and i do that within within my workplace as well positive positive real small adjustments yeah positive reasonable adjustments those have been really beneficial you know building a workload around the things that help me um and i'm good at and i can do really well and it doesn't take all of my energy that's brilliant um yeah i mean other other things that i could test is the community massive resource of experiences knowledge absolutely brilliant and free and you can just a lot of people that you know the smaller smaller sort of creators they're very happy to talk to you and a lot of the the bigger creators they offer coaching and the other things like that and i would all heartedly say yes go for it not because i'm trying to be a coach because i'm not a coach yet but if you want to you can email me no just okay uh you can but there are there are people out there who who do some really great work um i know i know that the neurodivergent insights megan nath they do psychotherapy and things like that they are you know if i was to look for a psychotherapist i would go for that go for go for megan nath uh someone someone lie megan nath uh definitely um uh yeah i think i think for the negative side of things making small improvements over time on the things that you struggle with first highlighting them first visualizing what your life what you want your life to look like and going for that and and and learning about different things related to autism finding that some things are apparent in you learning about it finding ways to you know overcome things like alexa thymia finding ways to better communicate with neurotypicals um all of those things there's there's so many things that you can do and it can be very overwhelming so i i would just follow a lot of people and if you see something that interests you um just go for that um go for that research think about your life make notes about your experiences and and learn from them and and grow using them that's that's how i did it and it took me a long time i'm not gonna lie used to be very introverted very shy very um i mean i i've not got the best confidence in the world but i used to be very very not very confident at all outside and inside now it's just a little bit inside outside i'm pretty confident um so i hope that helps i know it's obviously i can't give a total recount of everything that's helped me in my life um it would be be very very long um but uh on that i am actually i'm trying to develop a a course on emotional social development stuff which won't be out anytime soon so yeah i mean follow me to keep updated with that kind of thing but i am working on something um definitely uh selana marie says great great role model thank you can i ask how and when is the best time to discuss with a nine-year-old who is autistic and help him understand and see that he's valued um i think it depends you know um i would tell i would tell them i would sit them down in a place after they feel comfortable and you know take them out to do the things that they enjoy make make sure that they're in a good headspace they feel well and i guess just just frame it frame it in a way that it's not necessarily a good or a bad thing they're just different and there's different ways that they see the world and perceive the world and behave and you know that could be classified as as as being autistic or you know you don't necessarily have to say autistic you could just say that they're a bit different they're a bit neurodiverse you know there's a lot of ways that you can frame it i think that one of the pivotal points in my life in terms of me feeling validated and me feeling understood was around when i was diagnosed and my parents told me which was about 10 years old and i still remember it very vividly and it was it was a great experience i cried but i i didn't cry because i was sad i cried because i was happy because i'd noticed things that were different i'd noticed that i was kind of on a different level different wavelength over people so you know that that can be incredibly incredibly important i'm just gonna plug my i know we've only got like seven minutes left but i'm running very low on battery so we're gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna uh i've got my little skull shaped thing that that my partner got me i'm gonna we're gonna put that in put that in there use it as a stand here we go oh yeah that's not that's not that's not working too well okay there we go sorted i think yeah it's a it's a bit lopsided but i'm sure i'm sure it'll be okay right seeing a lot of content you've created you've changed my life for the better thanks dude i'm so happy very very happy about that i'm glad that i can help you um and thank you for coming to support me and and everything like that it really means a lot do you feel like you have to do that to validate yourself um i'm assuming you're talking about the productivity aspect of things you know um i think it can be can be related to validation going to be very productive the thing is is that i will always have had extremely high standards for myself and so i'm always trying to meet those standards and you know it's at some point you can say that oh it might not be too good and i might might sort of be seeking validation and being productive and stuff but it makes me feel good um and it doesn't affect my mental health poorly usually things like this uh talking in videos podcasts they usually meant my mental health better um and and and quite often it's i enjoy those sort of interactions and content and stuff so it really depends everyone's got their own limit and everyone's got their own likes and dislikes and just like i said it's you feel your day you feel your life with the things that you like the things that you're good at you know if you're good at something and you like something that's related to work brilliant do that if it's not equally so do that um definitely you know i understand what you mean though okay it can be but we're in a time where it's like hussle culture you know you've got it we've got to be on the grind like we got to succeed and outperform your opponents so yeah i get what you mean um but to be honest it's more for me it's not it's not for other people um as in like i'm not doing productive things for other people it's well i am in a sense but going on going off topic going on a bit of a train for that um kyle again uh i feel like i have to do that to validate myself and i'm with you there my mom always said always do more than expected now well i would i would hesitate to base your goals and your actions in life based on whatever people want you to do or expect of you because that can lead you down some really bad paths especially if you have um expectations that are imposed on you that are not realistic for an autistic person in the short term or the long term um everyone's different you know um you want you it's got to be an internal thing you've got to want to do it if you don't want to do it it's just going to be a choice going to be hard it's going to be boring it's going to be stressful and you're not going to feel good after it so now to a certain extent taking in information from people learning from people that's brill that's great um but at a certain point you really got to think about what you want you know thanks kyle um see monkey like oh i'm sorry i i did not see your message i hope it is it hope it is in sync um it says that there is a warning that my stream's current bit rate is lower than recommended um i will try and adjust that for next time definitely we're gonna um maybe i'll go for a higher it's not codec um a different but bit rate maybe i'll try it hopefully a bit more fixed is it fixed now he's letting me know um autistic lotty how you doing i had that i went a good job and have a great life until i unmasked and like to work one to one or in small groups um i don't have that high standard anymore except it has given me energy and joy brilliant so that's another thing you know you like the small groups you like the one to one that gives you joy that does well for you you don't need to go out in big groups of people and go out on on the town and do all that kind of stuff um if you don't want to so yeah i think we've got two minutes now and um you know i really want to highlight to anybody who hasn't checked out my podcast to to go over there i i am really struggling at the moment um oh i haven't been for a long time asking for like ratings and stuff so if if you've got some spare time you know head ahead over to there you know maybe listen to an episode listen to part of an episode or just you know give me a rating that would be really appreciated no need for like long comments or anything like that just a star rating would be brill um Spotify apple right kind of place whichever one you prefer would much appreciate um hi robin thank you for for um commenting what is the iridescent thing in the background that's something new that's uh it's it's pretty cool but we're gonna we're gonna wrap up um soon uh but i'll show you my my cool new lights um it's basically just a metal pole with i don't know if instagram can see it you guys can't see it can you this is like a metal pole with leds strips on the inside uh looks very sort of basic but you know when you assemble it and stuff it that's pretty good i got it from this place called met mankind also met uh went to to leads at one point or york i can't remember which one and i got one of them and it's pretty cool and i love it it's it's not for me actually because i don't see it it's behind me it's for it's for people watching it i just think it adds a bit of color to my background um you know perhaps making it a bit a bit more pleasing to the own eyes um i've got i've also got a a new thing which it's a wall light it's it's one of those cheap neon wall lights on air and shoot no it's okay good um so i'm gonna have that up at some point which should be cool so i'm trying i'm trying to spruce it up a little bit i i realize it's a very plain white background so we're doing some work uh cool so um yeah i mean thank you for everybody who has uh podcasts is on youtube or Spotify uh youtube and Spotify if you want um so you can follow on youtube if you're on instagram uh it's the 4080 podcast or slash thomas henley on youtube um you can find the video versions over on youtube and if you if you prefer to listen to podcasts you can find the um podcasts on Spotify or on apple or google and all of those places definitely uh the places to go uh you can find all that in my bio in my link tree um you've got my link tree the link in my bio it'll come up with like this sort of branch of different places that you can look at and you can find some of my merch on there as well which i did in um sort of collaboration with this place called born anxious uh which is really great sort of uh label-less sensory friendly clothing brilliant stuff you can see it on there it's about like a strong powerful autistic one very divergent squad got some joggers got some hoodies got some t-shirts so if you fancy a go head over i i wear them pretty much all the time the joggers um very cool so yeah um not really sure how to win this but thank you all for listening and for anybody who has stayed through the entire thing please send a heart in the chat let me know let me know so i can i can praise thine thyself um just to start of interest it'd be cool let's have a look but if not it's okay it's an hour it's it's friday when the children relax i hope you guys are doing well um and i will be doing another live stream next week around the same time um if you've got any questions got anything like that head over to my dms give me a dm if you want obviously the best place to contact me is by my email thank you mariana uh you've been here since the start thank you um really appreciate it um what was i saying so here we go this is this is me trying to end up things and i've already gone like three minutes over my time i said i do yes next next week five five thirty bst there will be a story about it where you can remind yourself again if you want and um yeah thank you for watching i'm going to end the streams multiple streams and um yeah thank you thank you for tuning in youtube and for tuning in instagram see you guys later take care	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCdIRF1rh6w", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCZbH6HekER0QsS8Mvi6HGfw	2017 Women's Soccer Season Preview	Women's Soccer head coach Tati Korba talks about the team's goals for the 2017 season and their keys to success. The team open's the season on Friday, September 1 by hosting Methodist at 2pm.	[ "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" ]	2017-08-29T16:35:46	2024-02-14T20:08:02	202	pCUR98XGG18	We're asking them to really commit to the program at a deeper level than they ever have and I think that from there you can do so much more. We've been breaking things down technically and tactically to a pretty low level and then kind of building from there to be sure we're all on the same page and looking at some functional training along the way. But I think that with the talent that this program has, which obviously is in place and something that I was fortunate enough to inherit and walk into, with some cultural changes and some adaptations, I think along with some different things that we'd like to try on the field makes us feel like their willingness to buy into all of that, it's exciting to think about what we could accomplish this season. So basically I think our pre-season this year has been focused on getting everyone together as a team. There was a lot of incoming freshmen. We have a big team this year and I think basically just being able to work together and just getting that team chemistry along before the season starts. We have a small army as we like to call it, but Tati's put in this like two team kind of process and you know a roster is going to come out two times a week. So you know competitions up every day, you know trying to get on that dressing list for that Wednesday game and then that Saturday game. So you know it's been, it's tough every day. And I think that's part of the buy-in that's important. We don't want anyone to get complacent. We don't want anyone to feel overly comfortable that they feel as though they have a spot lockdown. I think you know clearly people are going to make mistakes and that's okay. We don't want them to be paralyzed. But I think what's important is that they constantly feel like they have to show up every day and earn their spot and get better and just keep pushing each other which is you know hopefully going to bring the best out on everybody. I think our goal this year, like it is every year to get back to the NCAA championship and see how far we can go with that. First of all just everyone needs to buy into the program with the new coach. But also you know to win conference, I feel like that's an obvious goal every year. But also to do well out of conference, see if we can test ourselves against some tougher competition and then obviously make the NCAA tournament. Well historically you know fortunately Stevenson has done well in conference and always seems to be in a top two or three position and you know we want to be there again. Ultimately our goal is to win the conference. We need to be competitive in every game in order to do that. Both conference and non-conference so I think one of our goals is going to be to take something away from every single game and continue to grow and get better the next game and better the next game again. You know hopefully we're starting a new tradition of you know more consistency in terms of being in the NCAA tournament. I think a lot of exciting things you know we're trying people in different positions these girls are bought in they're a great group to work with us like I said there's a lot of energy they're a fun group and you know I think we're just kind of at the at the jumping off point in terms of of what we can do. I think it'll be really really exciting to see just how far we've come and how much we've developed over the season.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCUR98XGG18", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC52c9qC4SgnvxusSQrMF2UQ	Christian Apologetics \| Lecture 14: BC212-CA-20230920	This is a lecture video from APC Bible College. Classes are offered On-Campus, Online and via the E-Learning portal. Please visit: https://apcbiblecollege.org for more information. APC Bible College is a ministry of All Peoples Church & World Outreach, Bangalore, India. Watch our online Sunday Church service live stream every Sunday at 10:30am (Indian Time, GMT+5:30). Spirit filled, anointed worship, Word and ministry for healing, miracles and deliverance. YOUTUBE: / allpeopleschurchb... LIVE SERVICES: https://apcwo.org/live Our other websites and free resources: CHURCH: https://apcwo.org FREE SERMONS: https://apcwo.org/resources/sermons FREE BOOKS: https://apcwo.org/books/english DAILY DEVOTIONALS: https://apcwo.org/resources/daily-dev... 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We just gone through in our first lecture on the canon of scripture, how the scriptures came together, how it put together for us. Any questions from anyone on that? You may have gone through this information earlier, but any questions? All right, so the next thing we want to understand is about translation and how are these translations done and what are the difference between all these different English versions, English translation and English versions of the Bible. So let's talk about that a little bit, share the video. So when we look at so many different translations, first of all, people will look at the translations, different versions, sometimes even for us as believers. Some translations or some versions of the English Bible don't seem to say the same thing, they don't seem to convey the same thing in the English language. So why is there this difference? And that's going to be very confusing. The second problem is also that in some versions there would be certain texts that are missing. So why is that? Why is that? King James, new King James have these verses and certain texts, the most recent ones will not have it and so on or why would they put it in the footnote separately? What are the significance? So both to answer about these questions, we need to understand how and why there are so many English versions of the Bible. So basically there are two things, one is there are two important texts we must understand when so many translations of the Bible are being done, usually most of them and I'm not saying all of these because there are some instances where a single individual has worked on the translation. But usually there's a group of translators, people are well versed in Hebrew, other group and somebody, a group or well versed in Greek and so on, who will there be a team of people working together on the translation. So the translators, whether it's an individual or a group have to decide on two things. First they have to decide on what which set of manuscripts are they going to use or how are they going to use these manuscripts. So before they're older than the New Testament, how are they going to work with these manuscripts? Second they have to decide on what way of it is the translation philosophy. I mean who are they translating for and what are they trying to achieve through their translation in the English language. So the translators think about these two things. Now when we talk about manuscripts, broadly speaking, there are two sets of manuscript families. One is referred to as the majority text, the other one is the neutral or Egyptian text. So what is the difference? The majority text, that translation approach is the translators are going to include what is found in the majority of the manuscripts. They're going to work with them. The neutral or the Egyptian heirs, we are going to include what was in the oldest, that is the date of the manuscript, what was in the closest, the oldest of the manuscript and depending on so was it close to where it came from, where the things happen. So one is looking at the majority text. That means then is this text found in the majority of the manuscripts? Another is looking at the time and the location. Is it, what is text that is closest to the original and is it from that part of the work? Because manuscripts maybe started with Hebrew and Greek and then there were other regional languages into which these manuscripts were translated. You'll find up here, Syriac, Coptic, Latin and Aramaic in Greek, of course. So there were regional languages into which these manuscripts were translated. So you want to know are these really close to the original and to the location in which the actual writing took place. So you will find that in certain Bibles they will say MSS, the majority of the text, the majority text has this or does not have this. So that means they're saying, look, we are doing, we're using this neutrals type of work and this is not found in majority text. This is informing us that it is there in the oldest version but it's not in the majority text, things like that. The translators have made a choice what set of manuscripts they could use but they're also cross-referencing and telling us that, hey, this is found in the oldest text but it's not found in the majority text, not every text, every manuscript does not contain this portion. So on that basis you will find that if somebody is using the majority text, you will find that they may omit something that was found in the oldest text but it's not found in the majority text. So they may omit that but they will let you know, they'll put a note saying, okay, it's not found in the majority text so we have left it out. So that's the reason you have certain portions of scripture left out based on the different types of manuscripts they're using or that's why you'll have footnotes that say this is found here but it's not found in that majority text. We have included it but we're letting you know it's not found in the majority text, things like that. So it's good to read the footnote and so you understand, okay, the translators have made some decision here on what to include but not include but remember that this is also, this is on a very small portion of text. It's not like the Bible is filled at these things here and there you'll find certain footnotes that say this is what has happened. Another important criteria that is the translation philosophy that determines how something is translated. So in translation philosophy there are at least five major categories. The first one is what is referred to as formal equivalent segments, we are going to do word forward. So if that word is in Greek or Hebrew, we will translate it into the corresponding words in English and in order to make the sentence read well, we will introduce some words but if we introduce some words which we will try not to do but if we have to, if we have to, we will put that in italics. In other words, otherwise we are going to stay with the original text. So this is formal equivalence, it's a word for word translation and you have, you know, the English standard version, King James, the American standard variable, these fall into that category. Then there is functionally thought for thought. So here the translator is not doing a word forward translation. They say, okay, we are going to understand what the writer was thinking and we're going to tell you in English what the writer was thinking. So this is usually, there is a little interpretive process involved where the translators are saying, this is what the writer was thinking and I'm telling you what the writer was thinking in English. The goal is, we want to make it easier for you to understand, read and understand, easy to understand, that's the goal. So being thought for thought translation and some of these, yeah, you're living translation and we comment this category, but understand that in thought for thought, there is an interpretive process that's happening by the translators. They are understanding what was written, they are then saying, here's what the writer was thinking and telling it to you. Now there's another approach which is trying to go in between they're trying to say, well, we want to do word for word and at the same time we want to do thought for thought, means we be translating word for word at the same time we're translating it in a way that we will tell you what the writer was thinking when he was using that word. So this is an optimum equals word for word and thought for thought. So you have some Bibles that come into that category also known as optimum then there is meaning for meaning. So now we're going one level higher which is not just word for word, it's not thought for thought, but it's meaning for meaning. This is what he meant, so I'm telling you what he meant. So, for example, the fashion translation is trying to do that here and it is very helpful because they're kind of not only interpreting but they're also explaining. So in thought for thought, we are doing a little bit of interpretation in meaning for meaning, we are interpreting and explaining a little bit and they're communicating it to the listener in the English language meaning for meaning and finally there is a paraphrase. The paraphrase is more like let me give you a summary of what was being said. So it's not word for word, not necessarily thought for thought meaning for meaning, it's like okay I will tell you in my words in very easy to understand English a summary of what was being said. So we're going another level away from the original text but there is a reason why all of this is happening. So the motivation in these translations is we want to help the reader understand and we want to help the reader. We want to make it easy for them to understand and so if you look at this little chart here it's very useful. So on the left side if you think this is the original text whether Hebrew or Greek or Arabic here and here's the whole range of translations. The word for word is okay this word is there in Greek. I will give you the equivalent the word in English or words for that word a single word if it needs more words in English and only in order to make things easier I will introduce in additional words identify that if I put it there. So you have interlinear which is basically exactly word for word they don't they don't even put it into English sentence just this word this word right here interlinear and then you have new American simplified the English standard version the revised standard version King James new King James. So these Bibles are in this word for word translation process then slowly are moving into thoughtful thought right the Hoffman Christian standard Bible the Neuro wise standard version the new American Bible Jerusalem Bible international version and the new today's international version some new things to wish thought for thought right so now there's a little more interpretive process then as you come in here meaning for meaning get into these versions new living translation and and so on passion translation so on and then you come on the other end of the spectrum which is the message Bible the living Bible message Bible contemporary English version our paraphrase that means we're giving you a sense of it what they said what was being said that's kind of a summary of what would be said now the motivation behind these translations is in the paraphrase we just want to make it simple as simple as possible for the reader and make it as simple as possible make it easy for them to read make it you know very engaging put it in contemporary language and even use you know even include illustrations that are from modern day so put it in in a way that a modern day user can understand whereas and so then you have thought for thought meaning for meaning is okay let's help the reader understand give you know this is what the thought this was meaning in word for word the goal is hey we want to stay close to the original text we let the reader to the work of understanding interpreting and you know deciding how to work with the text but our goal is to be close to the original structure and form of the text right so that's the reason why we have this whole range of scripture and you know so obviously the question is so that helps understand you know by there could be variations in how that same verse is reading differently in different versions because in a word for word translation they've just given you the literal words but as in the thought for thought a meaningful meaning there's been some interpretation that has already taken place so they have kind of changed it to say this is what we think the writer is saying or this is the meaning of what he was saying so it may come on differently and in a paraphrase it's really further up it's like okay we're giving a summary so so when you read you know these different versions of the by English Bible it looks so different because of the way in which they have worked on the original text to make it easy for the modern reader but this leads us to the question I was going to mention which is you know it's okay which is the right version to use well it really depends on what the the goal is if you're you know if you're really if you're if somebody's a new believer they just want to get an idea of what what is the Bible what is a new testament or what is the Bible then you would and if they don't want to get into some heavy studying on that then you know we would say okay why don't you start with some easy to read paraphrase or if they're able to handle if anything is just good and they able to handle it we can say okay why don't you do and thought for thought like an idea or something you know but for those of us who are who want to study you want to get in you know weekend we will go into the Hebrew the Greek ourselves and we want to do a word for it then yeah then for us yeah a word for words is very very useful right you're getting closer to the original text so you know this is what it is so usually I'll share with you how I approach this so when I'm studying I will you I will study usually with the new king James and I will look up the Hebrew the Greek for what I'm studying and then I will also try to read across this range across the spectrum you know and and of course today because we have software we can do that very very easily so I'll click on a verse and I'll say I'm going to read this verse and all the other other versions so I will see how this was one verse is has been translated in many different versions so it gives me a broader understanding it also helps me how to communicate this to a modern audience so I'll go into the Hebrew and Greek because I want to understand because that one Hebrew word can have a Greek word can have multiple meanings as I want to understand that and so it gives me good grip on this was what was said and now how do I communicate all of that to the audience today so reading other versions and looking at you know other words other ways of saying it helps so then I will quickly read through all the other versions and it's so easy to do these days because of you know we have software to help us I can read through all the other versions and so okay this is how I can communicate the thought what was what is originally stated this is how I can present it to the audience so it kind of gives you a good grip it also gives you a lot of confidence when you're speaking because you've studied right from the original text so you'll know that this is what the original text said you know I'm not speaking based on a paraphrase but I'm not even speaking based on a meaningful meaning rendering I have gone to the original text I've read the Hebrew I've read the Greek I've seen what those words mean so I mean you can speak with a lot of authority a lot of confidence you're coming from that level and then of course you're communicating it in a very simple manner so it makes it easy for people to understand so for those of us who are going to be preaching teaching ministering in English I would say you know make take advantage of all of the versions that are there you know it's it's such a big blessing we start from a study of the Hebrew the Greek words and then take advantage of all the modern translations so that it helps us communicate to the modern audience right so you have all of these things let me pause and let me see if there are any questions here okay so Chaiya's question is Torah and the Bible yeah so the first five books it's it's just a name given to that collection right the collection of the first five books Torah and it was a name given by the Jewish people the Hebrews we don't use it like you know when we say we don't say turn to the Torah no we don't say we don't use that it was just used by the Jewish people so we as believers we say Old Testament use New Testament right and the first five books of Moses are part of the Old Testament the the term Bible refers to the whole collection of Old and New Testament these 66 books okay so there's no problem the word Torah I say something they use we don't use it and we don't only hear about any you know we don't say please turn to the Torah we don't say you just say we refer to the name the book the body poem turn there yeah translation transliteration so another question here is there was a difference in the terms translation transliteration so as I understand it translation you know it's an attempt to go from one language to the other while trying to stay as close to the original text that's the goal of the translator transliteration is it's giving you a little bit more liberty that means I'm not doing a word for word or literal translation but I there's a more freedom I am translating but I am also interpreting it to the to the reader in translation making it easy for my reading so I think that would be the you know in general speaking this is what we would understand the difference between translation translation but again depending on the context and who's saying this we can we can it may mean something different Ren what about using e-sword yeah like we mentioned in our first year class on I mean nutex we shared you know different software tools that we could use a recommended e-sword which is something I use of course there are a lot of other tools and some people are more comfortable with other tools like the blue letter bible or logo or software or some people even use the online bible gateway so a lot of other tools online software tools that people use so yeah we could use any one of these to study to look up study you can free commentaries and so on just another question also in scriptures there's a lot of difference in the meaning yeah it's true an example you shall be my witness it translates to us as we have to be a testimony he probably means the same thing but it comes to be it means the word martyrs meaning being a martyr how do we understand this from the original language it was written yeah so you know so let's say let's take an example right um the example here the Greek word you shall be my witness the word witness like in the Greek is is martyr or somebody who's you know who gives his life as we understand gives their life or the gospel but also means somebody who's testifying to speaking up for you testifying to giving evidence to something that you have witnessed so the translator has to decide how do I put this in English and how do we how do we you know how do we put it in English now I can't say you shall be my martyrs or should I say you shall be my martyrs or should I say you will give evidence to be a witness so it will then depend on the context right because a Greek word could have multiple meanings so you would the translator would say okay the right way to do this is you shall be my witness so that's the English word that corresponds to the Greek word martyr because that's the right in the context that's what Jesus is saying you are witnesses of these things you're going to give evidence to these things right so um in the study the Greek word then we understand oh the word martyrs is used which literally means martyr we understand that Jesus is saying give evidence to and that's also one of the meanings of the word martyrs but we also understand the word martyrs me couldn't mean martyr so studying the Greek or going back to the original text in Hebrew Greek kind of opens up our understanding of that verse and it's okay we know in the original context of how it was spoken this is what it meant that needs to give evidence to believe this but we also know in the usage of the word the meanings could be brought that the reader listeners understood it much more than what the way it was translated so we can bring that out in our preaching and teaching and say hey if you were a listener and you heard Jesus saying you will be my martyrs for the listener listening to what Jesus was saying they would have understood it in an inclusive sense meaning hey he's telling me I should give witness to and I may even have to give my life up for him that's how the listener what I understood it but that doesn't come out in the English translation the English translation says my witness which is one aspect of the meaning the meaning that is taken in the context of what was being said but it does leave out the other aspect of that the Greek word but when we go and study the Greek we understand the broader meaning and then that helps us in our preaching and teaching and explaining of the scripture so that's that's a benefit of going back and study right but that's also the limitation of translation now the amplified Bible trying to work around that by you know using the pattern this is saying this word also means these these these these things right a classic example is in the Greek word partly toss king James muting just translate that's comforter but hey comforter is only one of the seven meanings of the word partly toss so the amplified Bible will put all the other six words partly does comforter but pattern this is intercessor advocate strength in a counselor you know all the other meanings so the amplified Bible is trying to tell us that the Greek word actually has more than one meaning and it means all this right so but then it makes it the amplifier even it's it's it's because very big to read but it's very useful so that's the advantage of going back and looking at the Hebrew and the Greek and saying hey this word could also mean these things and then in the years of the listener they understood it like that and so we can bring it out today and preach all right next question yes so um the the the we saw this just recently I mean just double pages back a child the word Bible right it's given their own page um page 53 I think it is yeah page 53 the meaning of the the books so Bible singular the book Biblia the books so the meaning of the word Bible is the book the book so it's a holy Bible the holy book um could you please refer us to some commentaries that we can use so commentaries are there are four many different commentaries my suggestion would be uh don't read too many commentaries David one or two and the ones I would recommend because like to use I'm not 100% sure of the spelling let me just check it uh David to use at IKM so David because a comment is something I would recommend simply because he comes from a spirit field of perspective so the problem with the commentaries is as with any commentary it's the the commentators perspective so if the commentator is a spirit field any coastal you know by you know that type so obviously the commentaries will come from that perspective if the commentator is an evangelical somebody who doesn't believe you know in the gifts of the spirit and so on so they will come from that perspective so David physics commentary you you will find it within eastward so when you download eastward you could also download the commentary to find it or I think his commentaries are also part of blue letter Bible so yeah this is such for David physics commentary you'll find that I mean if you are if you're using eastward it's there available for free if you are not using eastward you can I think his commentaries also available on the blue letter Bible so that's one I would recommend but again remember that any commentary is is a communication of the person doing the commentary his understanding and so on so don't just take everything you need in the commentary you've got to do your study you've got to do your analysis and don't don't swallow everything read in the commentary yeah hi anything else um Soran is asking are commentaries similar to paraphrase no so commentaries are not translations commentaries are or almost like you could say short summons on based on the text right so that means the person writing the commentary is giving you some maybe an understanding of the text that their explanation or sometimes they may include some background information they may include some cross references they may basically commentaries are explanations of text but there's not only include explanation they could include background information they can include cross referencing they can include what other people have said on the text so commentaries are helping you understand the text so they are different um paraphrase it's uh it's it's a lot of there would be a lot more information more like summons based on the text they're helping us understand the text and the chapter and the book and so yeah okay anything else so in lesson number nine in this lesson we have um try to you know understand some things not necessarily everything but some important things about the bible I'll just quickly close with a few comments here that um there are the last two pages if we just go ahead and share it and we finish this chapter and move into the next so in closing some of the amazing things about the bible is its unity and so this is really amazing that especially in some important details these 66 books are written by 40 different authors across different cultures and different continents they all said the same thing you know example in terms of the origin of the universe the existence of god the nature of god they all said the same thing you know they're writing the same thing that's amazing and especially talk about the triune god the godhead the father the son the holy spirit they're all saying the same thing so the unity of these 66 books is amazing um the historical and archaeological accuracy that means when the bible is talking about places people events these things are you know are historic historically proven and there are also many of these things that archaeologically prove meaning you know some of these old historical cities you can go to say yeah this was the city was where it happened so the bible is not like a you know a legend or a story or a fable there is it's in many ways these things actually happened right so that's another thing very important very interesting there is prophecy that's been fulfilled um amazing prophecies some prophecies that had almost no chance of being fulfilled for example all the prophecies concerning Jesus about 300 of them the possibility that one human person living at one particular time would fulfill all of those prophecies was the chance was one in tenderness to 157 somebody calculated this so in other words it's like hey this is impossible humanly speech that one person could fulfill all these prophecies in his life living on earth but it happened unlike that there are many other amazing prophecies that were fulfilled it's indestructibility so many people have been sent away beginning some people are trying to destroy it but the bible is just increased i like no other book on the earth and it's christ centredness that means the bible is focused on one person the messiah and pointing to jesus the power of the teachings of the bible are powerful they're also timeless so some people say the bible is outdated it's not outdated you open it and read it and it's speaking to us today you know it was written thousands of years ago but it's speaking to us today it's still so relevant and it transforms lives people's lives are changed as between the scriptures right so the bible is so powerful and so amazing now i like this you know this is taken from the giddians giddians bible they typically put this in and most of their new testimonies it's beautiful prose talking about how the bible what the bible is to us today okay so we'll stop we'll pause for that we'll get now into okay let me just introduce what we're going to do in the next lesson so the next few lessons would be focusing about the person of jesus and what we want to do is we want to help understand ourselves why jesus christ is unique why do we say there's no one else like jesus and there's so many religions so many you know gurus or people living religious leaders so on so forth but what makes jesus different why is he unique and then we also want to talk about the credibility of his resurrection that means now we are saying that jesus christ rose from the dead how do we know that's credible because we were not there this happened 2000 years ago how can we defend or explain to somebody who questions the resurrection of jesus so we'll talk about that and then we want to talk about how do we communicate jesus to other religions to people especially from the hindu's and the muslims so the next few lessons i'm going to focus on the person of jesus christ his uniqueness his resurrection the message we present and how do we communicate the message of jesus to people of other religions we'll talk about that then after that we'll get into questions on social issues and then after that we'll talk about suffering you know questions around suffering so that's kind of the direction we're going now in the weeks to come right any questions we'll be close today all right i hope you're everyone's learning something you're getting questions answered and these things are useful as you prepare to talk to other people and share with other people and you know help other people come to explore jesus explore the christian faith okay let's close for today i just request somebody to pray and then we will dismiss but somebody has to practice father god thank you lord thank you for this time that you've given us lot father to know how to understand and read from the scripture's lord what you have for us today lord thank you lord for this time lord father even as this time whatever that you have taught us lord help us to put it into practice lord help each of us lord from where we are lord to begin lord and also lord to understand more of you lord jesus from the scripture's lord so that we be a blessing to others and also lord our life will be a meaningful one on our pieces help us lord bless each one of us present here lord in jesus mighty matchlessly thank you everyone enjoy the rest of your day god bless bye now	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC_cwtsF06A", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCKyTokYo0nK2OA-az-sDijA	Children Mining Diamonds in Liberia	From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in Special English.More and more children in Liberia are leaving school to work in diamond mines. Fifteen-year-old Mike Coleman dropped out of school several months ago. He left to search for diamonds in western Liberia to help his parents.The country's Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy says that Liberian diamond mines employ at least 1,500 children. Nora Quae is the head of a Junior High School in western Liberia. She says that more than 200 students, half of the school, dropped out this year to work in the mines. Liberia's unemployment rate is nearly 85 percent. The World Bank estimates that 95 percent of the country's population lives on less than $2 a day. Work in the diamond mines is difficult and dangerous. But the possibility of earning $50 for each diamond is too good for many people to turn down. Employing anyone under the age of 18 in diamond mines is illegal. But many mine operators are willing to hire children who are small enough to fit into the narrow tunnels and tight spaces of mines. Thomas Wleh heads the Liberia Mining Entity in western Liberia. He says a worker's age does not matter to mine owners. And he says the operators do not force children to work for them. But Mr. Wleh says the Ministry of Education should put measures in place to keep students in school. The United Nations Security Council helped ban the mining and export of so-called blood diamonds in Liberia in 2001 during the country's civil war. But the United Nations ended the ban in 2007. The diamond mines are again operating, increasing the demand for young workers.For VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presutti. (Adapted from a radio program broadcast 21Feb2013	[ "captioned", "subtitled", "videos", "voa", "learning", "special", "english", "report", "development", "agriculture", "food", "health", "medicine", "higher", "education", "international", "students", "elementary", "secondary", "tertiary", "university", "college", "economics", "finance", "american", "business", "communication", "culture", "download", "history", "foreign", "controlled", "language", "learn", "mp3", "music", "news", "plain", "radio", "simplified", "simple", "speech", "linguistics", "teach", "teacher", "esl", "efl", "teaching", "texts", "transcripts", "TV", "u.s.", "united", "states", "voice", "of", "america", "Liberia", "diamond mining", "children" ]	2013-03-12T14:40:28	2024-02-05T06:28:08	178	PcNM7HCgtWA	From VOA Learning English, this is the Education Report in Special English. More and more children in Liberia are leaving school to work in diamond mines. 15-year-old Mike Coleman dropped out of school several months ago. He left to search for diamonds in Western Liberia to help his parents. The country's Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy says that Liberian diamond mines employ at least 1,500 children. Nora Kwai is the head of a junior high school in Western Liberia. She says that more than 200 students, half of the school dropped out this year to work in the mines. Liberia's unemployment rate is nearly 85%. The World Bank estimates that 95% of the country's population lives on less than $2 a day. Work in the diamond mines is difficult and dangerous, but the possibility of earning $50 for each diamond is too good for many people to turn down. Employing anyone under the age of 18 in diamond mines is illegal, but many mine operators are willing to hire children who are small enough to fit into the narrow tunnels and tight spaces of mines. Thomas Wallay heads the Liberia Mining Entity in Western Liberia. He says a worker's age does not matter to mine owners. And he says the operators do not force children to work for them. But Mr. Wallay says the Ministry of Education should put measures in place to keep students in school. The United Nations Security Council helped ban the mining and export of so-called blood diamonds in Liberia in 2001 during the country's civil war. But the United Nations ended the ban in 2007. The diamond mines are again operating, increasing the demand for young workers. For VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presuti.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcNM7HCgtWA", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
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Ok. अजिस को हम ग रहार करते है? इसके ऐकाटिक॥ शातियों इसके बात देकि हम देक बाते है, किसके अगवगग फोसर कि पदार्ठों को गरहर करते है. यहाप न हम देक पाहते है, यहाप डूस्तो हम कहते है, कि जब हमारे भोजन में सातियों देखो, जैखो, जैज़ें कि स�なら � foo jee aap sabho disposable देखो, कि कस स्दाल थफते में the putta habla ask कच्र लों कि थने कहाते है kosh loong itne khaate hai किकहाए क prosperity की मोड़ अगर अद़ है human finances ke keep on eating a lot अपनो य्सान बबहाक कर, then the stomach same fat तुवतक लों का से, फच्छ doll and can't walk जॉ क्या क्अकन कहतें की यक वोटा होगे है। इसका मतलप इसको अदिक इस में क्या हुआ है। इस में पोसक प्दार्तों क Presents are now in this. क्या होगे है। अदिकता होगे है. तबिलकुल आफ़ा है। इसका मतलप इस में अदिकता होगे है। अगी, मत्लब जो कम खारा है, और इसके बाद देखो, यही पर एक बैक्ती है, जो बिल्कुल अएसा है, मत्लब इस्वन दोस तो क्या है, इस्वन कहते हैं, कि कमी हो गये पोषक पदार्तों की, दुबला पतला है, कहते हैं, हमारे अंदिया में, हमारे अंदिया में, बहुत � दु तो नहीं � Energy, एक और लोगा 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तुस्तो है में काईईगतूर। गेंगा रोग में क्या होता है, हमारी ताड़ाइद गंठी होती है, वो बड़ जाती है, इमपोटेंट है. इसके बा दुश तो दिखिया आगे, जी हा भहीया कौपोशन दिया हूँए, अगजब ठयलमिक बुरड़ में आगजब ठयलमिक भ्ी, पमजे ना? अर खमी से गज़िमा होता है, और बरने से अगजब ठयलमिक भौईकर होता है, यह उस दिन बात मुजन आई ती समजि, पर भी बदाडानी पी है ताभ नहीं से, अगे दुस्तु चली एक भाद नी है यहा देखो जब थाई रोक्षिन हरमों कम होगा तो आयोदीन कम होगा और जानते हो आयोदीन की कमी से ही गेंगा होता है आआ अ थाई रोक्षिन कमी से होता है ना तीनो ब्रिदिया सेक्सुल असके बाद फिजिकल अगे अगे यार लेनू जी आपके कोशन का में उतर दूंगा आखरी में पहले जो में करने आप आप कर लूना फिर में आपका अंसर दूंगा ना एंजाएम और हरमों में क्या अंतर इस में बडी बात नहीं है डोंडवरी बताएगे सब कुछ तो पहाडी लोगों में जी खमी होती है और पहाडी लोगों तो क्या होटा है गुःटल भीज़ीज देखने को अदिक मिलता है अद को हम दिक्हा देरे बहुत ही कपनि नाक तोस्तो भिरमारी होती है, और यह आपकी बिमारी होती दियान देना तो पुरे चेहरे को पुरा सिस्टम ही क्या होगा जोस तो बजल जाएगा अब यहापर 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UC1NF71EwP41VdjAU1iXdLkw	Ayushman Bharat योजना के तहत देशभर में 3 करोड़ 60 लाख मरीजों का मुफ्त इलाज हो चुका है : PM Modi	PM Modi launched various development projects pertaining to healthcare infrastructure, education and roadways in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur. Remarking on the developments that have happened over the past years in Himachal Pradesh, the PM said it is the vote of the people which are solely responsible for all the developments. 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 #HimachalDevelopment #ModiInHimachal #NationalHighway #MedicalDevicePark #HydroEngineeringCollege	[ "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", "modi in himachal", "national highway", "medical device park", "hydro engineering college" ]	2022-10-05T09:17:17	2024-04-23T01:11:19	120	Pcb0tTmnLXo	साद्यो केंद्र्दर् का प्रयास है कि गरीब और मद्दंवर का इलाज उस पर खर्च कम से कम हो के इलाज भी बहतर मिले और इसके लिए उसको दूर तक जाना भी न पडे इसलिए आज एमस मेटिकल कोलेच जिला अस्पतालो में देज भर में तीन करोड साथ्र लाग गरीब मरीजो का मुप्त इलाज हो जुका है और इस मैं से देड लाख तो लाबार थी ये मेरे हीमाचल के मेरे परिवार जन है देश में इन सबी साज्यो के इलाज पर सरकार अब तक प्टाली साथार अगर आइश्मान भारात योजना ना होती तो इसका करीब दो गुना यहनी लगबाग नबभे हजार करोड पीए इन जो मरीज लोगते वून परिवारोगो अपने जेब से देना परता यहनी इतनी बडी बचत भी गरीब अर मद्दिमवर के परिवार को बहत्रिन इलाग के साथ मिली है	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcb0tTmnLXo", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC1NF71EwP41VdjAU1iXdLkw	PM Modi pays tribute to Baba Saheb Ambedkar at Parliament House	PM Modi pays tribute to Baba Saheb Ambedkar at Parliament House 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 #babasahebambedkar #babasaheb #parliamenthouse #MahaparinirvanDiwas	[ "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 narendra modi speech latest", "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", "baba saheb", "parliament house", "baba saheb ambedkar", "Mahaparinirvan Diwas" ]	2022-12-06T03:10:40	2024-04-23T01:11:11	570	PcWuuJOpmKM	अग देश्वर में जो पुनेतितिती के ये जो कारिक्रम है, वो रखे गै है, और असे में सर सत्फी ये पुनेतिती है, और इस के लिए तमाम तयार्यां पहले से कर लिए गै है, के किस्वरा से आज उने श्रद्धानजली दिजाए कि, और प्रदान मंत्री नरेद्र मोदी य और देश के सम्विदान को जिस करा से उनोने बनाया उसको याध किया जारे है, और याप देख सकते है कि, उप्राष्ट्र पती जद्दीब दंगर भी यहाप पहुट चुके है, प्रदान मंत्री नरेद्र मोदी के साथ बार तलाप करते हुए, और संसक भवन की ये सीथी सब है, महा पुर निर वान दिवस के रुक मैं आप दिखतात्ते ताहाँ पाए इजन है, बाबा साथ की पुने तिथी पर स्झें को मनाने का पीछे बवत आम महत्वो है, अगरव्स की जुस तरहा से महां परी निर्वान या नहीं परी निर्वान का मतला मुत्तु के पश्चात निर्वान तमाम उन कर्मों की वज़े से जुख कर मिनसान जीवन में आके करता जिसर से भाभा साब आमभेट कर नें जो वनचित थे जो अछुथ ते उनके उठान के � समान माना जाता है शले आमाय सत रिषी कुमाड रुगाया आमाय समवाद आता रिषी आजका दिन कापी एहम पुनेतिती के गर बात की जाए तो से महां परी निर्वान दिवस के रुप में आजाता है अच्टोर के बाबसाहाप की तुल्ना महात्मबूध से दिषी जी जी आपको मेरे सभाल मिला है मैं सभाल दुबार पुछ मैं आपको मेरे आबाज आरी है जी भिल्कोल जिस है कि आप जानते हैं कि आजी के दिन बाबसाहाप दुक्तर भीम्राव आमबेगदर का पर मिर्वाड हूँ आच्टा और आली सम्वर के अवसर वर बाबसाहाप के तमाम पनयाई और पुरा देश उने सब्दानजली अरविज करता है और इसी क्रभ मैं आज आम जानते है के सबदानजली देने के लिए एक अत्रित हो रहा है अभी आम देख रहे है कि यहांपर परचर में रिबक्ष के निता और सब्टापक्ष के निता आना श्रू हो गए है रहा है कुची समें बाद यहांपर लुख सब आद्दीखष प्दान मंठ्भी अप्राष्टपती राश्टपती पुवछचेगे बावा सब के नियाई है रिषी आपको रोकना चाूंगा यहापर प्रदान मंत्री नरेन्र मोदी अर उप्रश्ट्पती जग्धीप दंकार यहापर पुश्चुके और भी अभी रास्ट्पती कभी आप अपन इंटद़ार क्या जारा है कि द्रोपती मुर्मो जैसे यहापर पुशेंगी तो यहाप यहाप यहापर श्डद्धा सुमन भी अरपिट क्ये जाएंगे रिषी मैं आप से यह जान जाता हूँ कि जिस तरा से आज तमाम कारिक्रम आयोजित क्याई हैं कितना बड़ा आज का दिन हैं क्योगी कहीनागे जो उनके विचार हैं बड़ के रास्टे से कही आमन के और बर सकते हैं और अपने अदिकारों के लिए संगरष कर सकते हैं उनोने जो नारा दियाता शिक्षित बनो संगतित हो और संगरष करों का नारा पूरी दून्या में आज इस भाज का एक अभी बी मुँत साहभेटा है एक प्रमान है कि कैसे हम शान्टिकृर मुल्क के रोक पे पूरी दून्या में या ये सामटिकृर करते हैं कि हम हर हाल में इक शान्टिकृर मुल्क है और भाभा साब केアनिया है इस में हम देग रही है कि ahoraक पती मुर्वू इस मैं यह पल होते हैं कि अब जब देखते हैं कि हम अपने सी सुनिट्टस्कों के साज पूरे देश की होड़े जब अपने महांमानव कप्रभी आरंबेडखर को सतान्सली देखते हैं तो यह पुरी तबीरे कबा बंपी हैं कि हम कैसे अपने राष्ट के निरमाड में अप एक एक वोकर और कैसे अपने सिथांकों विचारों को जड़ करते हैं और यह पूरा का पूरा द्रष्च हैं जुस में कि यह सथापाखष विपाखष और उनके अनियाई अपने वोकर उने यह यह नमन कर रहे हैं और वोकर और द्रष्च हैं अप खेल सकते हैं कि हम एक मजबुत राष्ट हैं और बावा साभ पी अईन वाई हैं बिलकुल हम दिखते हैं गि लिपकषी डल भी यह भी आँद वाप बजुड़े खुरव मेरे मरने के बाद भी मुझे अच्छे कामों के लिए याद क्या जै और महां परी निर्वान नीजो शब्द हैं यह ती का परिचाया बिलकुल महां परिन्वान अगर भावान बुत्द के बाज इसी के लिए देश में प्रिवुक में लाया जाता हैं तो वो दोप्रद भीम्राव आमबेट कर के लिए लाया जाता है किकि यह यह एसा जिन है, जो उनो ने परी निर्वान प्राप्ति क्या जो उनो प्रीषी ब्रिप्चु के बाज जब उने अंके अन्याए अप तुरा देश वहाँ प्रिव्वान वो दोप बाज गरुवमानता यह निक एक एसा महाणा ओव उस ने वेज्श में जरम लिया और शोषितो, बजचितो के लिए खाम प्या और साती शाद प्छ निमाड में जो उे नमुल योगदान दिया अर वो भी ग्यान की ज़रीए, कलम के ज़रीए, तिस में कही भी हिंसा कर तोई इस्थान नहीं सा, और किसी भी तरीके के विचारो में कोई उतेलेना नहीं ती, वो शान्तिपृ सरीके से वुद्द के मार्ख में, अवह भी भी उआखपी और किसी आजुगान के दरी ज़री प्रजान रहा अगर नहीं आगये बड़ाया जानते है कि वो नहीं के फोड़ा पृद जीवन है एक समरपिच जीवन दास, आम उत्रृन वापतर बदिँे बाबस परबिए से नसाम रषी के थोगा तो चीग牛 and other animals came & lived the tragedy of India. बाबसाद के तोगा वो और शाष्ठर की नित्या मजी गिप में ऑाब साँस के दोरान गो उत्ते वारव वारप्र साज़ के तोरान के तरान कोरोंते आगा नहीं. बाद्चका कर्क्रम राश्पती लेभाबा साब आमुद्कर को शिद्धार्ष्टी लिए भी दी, उप्राष्पती लेए वी दी, और तमाम जो सांसर बाद्ची गने बन मानने है, वो वहापर श्द्धार्ष्टी सबहा में मौजुत है, और ये जो आच्ट्ट्वी पूने � वहापर अबी श्द्भाथ ही सबह चल्डी और थो सब तमाम गन्माने है, वो श्द्भाथ ही दे लग्या। और इसे कि साथ यहां वक छोटे से ब्रेख का, ब्रेख कि उस पर खबरे अवर बी हैं, कही मजाए बन एग धीटी बियूस के साथ जल लोड्टें.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcWuuJOpmKM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC-8ID1fxMapLBg5hpfnOs8Q	Howlround Book Launch: In the Intersection—Emerson College—Nov 1, 2012	To celebrate the publication of In the Intersection: Partnerships in the New Play Sector, join HowlRound / The Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College for a conversation with: Diane Ragsdale, Author Robert Brustein, Founder, Yale Repertory Theatre & A.R.T. David Dower, Director of Artistic Programs, ArtsEmerson Rob Orchard, Executive Director, ArtsEmerson hosted by Polly Carl, Director, HowlRound / The Center for the Theater Commons at Emerson College. Purchase or download the book here— http://swag.howlround.com/ This event was livestreamed on HowlRound TV on Thursday, November 1 at 3pm PDT / 5pm CDT / 6pm EDT / 22:00 GMT http://howlround.com/live-on-newplay-tv-book-launch-of-in-the-intersection-partnerships-in-the-new-play-sector-on Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/Sqb0/	[ "HowlRound", "In the Intersection", "Theatre (TV Genre)", "Emerson College" ]	2014-11-12T00:22:22	2024-02-05T17:29:46	3,582	PCrH5lmRauQ	NewbillieTV, ready, Vijay? We're good. We're live. So welcome everyone to our launch of this report in the intersection. Coppings are outside. I'm Polly Carl and I'm the director of the Center for Theater Comments here at Emerson College and very fortunate to be here with people who have been critically involved in the conversation that surround this report and participate in this report. And so I'm going to let you all introduce yourselves. I'm going to say just a couple of things. One quick little housekeeping thing, which is we are going to be out of here on the nose at 7 p.m. So I'm going to cut off any conversation because a reversal has to come in. But then we're going to go out to the lobby and we'll all be hanging around and whatever needs to continue can continue. So I just want you to know that I'm going to be obsessively pushing us right out the door at 7. All right. So Diane, you want to introduce yourself? We'll do that first. Sure. I'm Diane Ragsdale. I'm currently a PhD student, doctoral student at Erasmus University, studying cultural economics and doing research on the American theater and the evolving relationship between the commercial and nonprofit theater over about 50 years specifically. And formerly I was at Mellon and before that worked at a number of arts organizations and I had the great privilege to attend the meeting and write up the document. I'm Bob Rustin and I founded the Yale Repertory Theater in 1966 and with Rob Orchard, we founded the American Repertory Theater in 1970 and 1980. Since then I've been teaching at Suffolk University and also writing was left. And in fact we have a play that we're working on with Art Samerson called King of the Schnorrers which is going to get a reading under Robert and the Office of the Arts at Emerson College and we are the really proud and honored host of this kind of theater program. And I'm David Darin and I'm the director of artistic programs at Art Samerson and one of the founders of the Theater Commons and moderated the event that this report is released about. Just to note we were, all of us were at that event except for Rob and Rob, you just say what you did in 74 and 2000 and how you were involved in those two meetings. So this is the third meeting of three that we're discussing here but maybe just a minute. Yeah, there was a, the first meeting was in 1974 at Princeton University. I tried to find the right analogy for it. It was like a middle school dance. Your first middle school dance where you get into a room and wonder why am I here? Who are these people? I need to find my own corner. It was very awkward and the two realms really didn't dance much at that meeting. And then the, 26 years later in 2000 there was a convening at Harvard. Bob, you departed. You weren't there. And the two parties had gone to the senior prom, they got married, they were raising families and they were dealing with framboanches teenagers. And then this final session or the third of the convenings between the not-for-profit and the commercial theater was held in Washington DC in November of 2011. And at that point the question was should we keep this relationship going and we need a marriage counselor to try to find the truth. And we're done. And we're done. So now we're off to marriage counseling. So a couple things. The conversation tonight had kind of broken up into just talking a little bit about his door sizing at the background, how we came to the meeting, talk a little bit about shifting definitions of success, a little about how the commercial sector is involved and then sort of where the meeting ended. We're not going to cover it all. It's really comprehensive reports so I encourage you to actually read the whole thing. It's pretty amazing a conversation and for my 15 or more years making theater it's one of the most honest and sort of heartfelt conversations and Diane really captured it perfectly. So just to know we're not even going to really scratch the surface in the next 15 minutes. David, would you start off, and I know Diane, you can chime in here too, but can you just talk about how this gathering came about in DC, why did it seem in your mind like it was the right time to revisit this issue and 12 years had passed? Would you put that in context a little bit? Sure. A couple of pieces to this. How it came about in many ways starts with Diane Ragsdale. I had the great fortune of working with the support of the Mellon Foundation on a study that I did on the state of new plays and the introduction for new plays called the Gates of Opportunity. And in that process started to be a regular conversation with the Mellon Foundation and their goals around support for the new play sector and ultimately was able to launch this thing called the American Voices New Play Institute at Arena State. And one of the things that we were supported in doing was regular convening of the field around issues of importance to the new plays in the U.S. And in the first year we had done three and those were primarily, well the first was focused on diversity, diversity in new plays and then African American playwrights wanted to meet to talk about what stories were allowed to tell these days and then devising companies wanted to meet to talk about how the new play infrastructure was actually related to their challenges and whether they fit it or not and how it served and didn't. And so what started to happen was that we would listen to a group of people who were asking questions to try to support that investigation. And I was doing this work with Jamie Galoon and with Jay Matthew who are also part of the Center for Theater Commons here now. And at the same time Mellon and Diane I think your interest in this issue was starting to turn into serious interest like maybe you were going to spend your Ph.D. years. And so Mellon convened a conversation, very tiny conversation right at the same time that I was starting to think about maybe we should convene one in the Institute. We had five resident playwrights and one of the things that was really challenging for them was understanding the role for some of them. They were entering this set of conversations around relationships with commercial producers, their agents were pushing them in that direction. The theater we were all working in at Arena was starting to do more and more of this work and it was increasingly bizarre results. And so it seemed from our standpoint that it was the right time to actually sit down and talk about these questions just very personally from what it was that was going on in our place. Diane at the same time organized this very small, very powerful lunch at the Mellon Foundation. Really quietly off the record but that was the moment where Gregory Mosher and Rocco Lambson and Rocco you know he's now the chairman of the NEA but he was a commercial producer for many years prior to taking that job and still he'll return to it when he comes out. And as we find out, a longer history with this issue than probably anybody. And he had written a series of editorials and Gregory Mosher had attacked him as being wrong around this issue. Rocco was calling danger danger back in the eighties. And Gregory wrote an editorial back saying no you're wrong and they had a public argument about this. So we get to this luncheon after all these years of these two sides having been staked out like you know the two sides of the you know Hadfields and McCoy's and Mosher very quietly started the meeting by saying I just have to say back then I didn't see it but you were right. And I'm here to say you were right and let's start from there. And that was like holy crow it's time to have a real conversation. And he brought the article he put on the table and said I just want to say you were right. And so that meeting was really powerful and it was clear that something else needed to bubble up from that amount of energy so we tried to recreate that moment but with a wider circle of people here and then they started off sharing their stories about how you know what they had said at the time and where they thought it had gone. They said a tone of generosity and authenticity there by sharing their own personal you know the process and their own concerns and discomforts about their own opinions and how they changed not just about the behavior but about for themselves how their thinking had evolved. So that's kind of where it came from and the second thing that was happening and I will throw this in there because it's important about who we are we also had a fellowship program there where we were training new producers we were running a producers fellowship program through this institute and one of the producers in that fellowship program his focus was on commercial work and so he wanted to produce a convening on this intersection we had all this evidence at arena that the results are all over the place and the energy goes scattered in many different directions and this thing had happened which really said ok well let's do it through the institute let's do it at arena let's focus it on new place and so that was what we did. Diane can you talk a little bit about I mean two things you know one I just think it would be interesting for people to hear a little bit about your methodology putting this together because it's a pretty rigorous methodology I had the pleasure of being one of the people at work with Diane to edit the piece and I think I changed the period once and I got like a you know 700 word email back saying that period was over here so it's really very rigorous it was a really rigorous editing process but if you could talk about that and also just as the person who tried to sit back in that meeting objectively can you talk a little bit about just what surprised you as you both sat there but also went back through all that material. Sure well from a methodological standpoint I mean there are a couple of things that were top of mind as I was putting it together remember we had some initial emails to say well what what kind of report is this going to be because there you know there are many ways you can document something and I at the time that the convening happened the decision was made to close the meeting in part because there was it was acknowledged that it was going to be important for people to be able to talk candidly about their concerns to the degree that they've had from it and everyone felt that if the press were sitting there hanging on every word or if it was even a performance for 250 people it would be very difficult for people to speak candidly however the choice to close the meeting was controversial and in part because the institute had a historic precedent for opening up all of its meetings but also because this is a rather sensational topic for some some people don't actually it's not on anybody but some people's radar at all but for some press it was a rather controversial topic and there was a sense that people should be allowed to know what was happening with that in mind I felt that it was really important to let the participants speak for themselves and to share as kind of straightforwardly as possible the arc of that meeting trying only to kind of coalesce certain parts under themes in order to help the reader kind of tease out what were the major points that were made but without kind of coming in with a big slant or judgment on what happened because I wanted both the participants to feel as though their story were accurately told but I also wanted readers there were people who were questioning you know whether I should even document and I remember that but people were like well why should Diane Ragsdale be trusted to tell the story and you know it's true I mean why should anyone be trusted to tell a story in some ways and so I didn't want to betray that and so in large part when you read the report and you guys were there it follows quite closely the actual arc of the meeting in the hope is that it will bring readers into the room and really be able to understand that these 25 people were wrestling with these issues I mean these are complex issues and they can't be sort of simply sort of just pick up the report and go well it's clear that these deals are bad and we just shouldn't do that or I think it's fine you know which is kind of the tender of the 2000 meeting like well you know we need the money and it's probably not going to do much harm so let's just let the sleeping dogs lie it's more complex than that and I think as you read the report you see you really get a sense of individuals struggling with these issues both moral and legal issues I think that come up so that has a lot to do with why it's structured the way it is why you sort of read a lot of the first person sort of account and as I sat there and listened I think I went up to Polly at one point during the meeting and said is it just me or I wonder if everyone realizes how what they're saying because I was struck by the fact that people were speaking quite candidly about you know things like their relationship to money and how their own personal values had changed over time and how this affected their choices and a recognition of the disconnect between how they were perhaps behaving now their practices now and what they believed in when they got into the theater in the first place and that seemed to me to be the real step forward from the last meeting which is that in 2000 it seemed as though there was not space for people to say you know actually I'm worried about this and the sense of will these deals corrupt nonprofits I think nobody thinks that these are individuals I don't think everybody is thinking these are individuals that are just so greedy that they're just going to do things that are unethical you know just because they don't have a good sense or the morals to do otherwise I think I don't think that's the issue but I think that the corruption which the group seemed to sort of arrive at was this very thing that Franco really had put his finger on a long time ago which is the thing that's going to get corrupted is your definition of success and if you can't as a nonprofit theater hold up an alternative value system and an alternative definition of success in Broadway becomes the way you define success in the nonprofit sector and all of the things we associate with Broadway New York Times Reviews, celebrities, Tony Awards, etc then you've kind of lost your center and that's the thing that gets corrupted and that's the thing that I think this room acknowledged has been corrupted and yet in 2000 I think the sense of is there corruption that was kind of like now there's not changed the subject so to me that was kind of like when I stood back that was the thing to me that seemed really meaningful about this meeting was that sense of yeah that has changed and perhaps these deals haven't caused that change I mean you could say but it seems to be part of that shift yeah I mean to that and you know I wonder about just to think a little bit more about the trajectory of when it all started and where we are now you're quoted in the book as saying I'm going to just read this brief quote the geography of the American theater which we're neglecting to talk about is from idealism, obscurity, passion, commitment to a certain modicum of fame to being accepted and going after the next piece that's going to get you even more accepted it happens to individuals, it happens to playwrights and you're really referencing a shift in sort of where the idealism of the beginnings of the regional theater movement and not in the private theater movement to this moment where our definitions are starting to slide about why we're involved and you could talk more about that kind of historical shift well there are reasons for it of course and they're always partly economic not entirely economic but but this movement was really started as an alternative to Broadway and not as an extension to Broadway and the last thing in the world we expected it to be was to be a kind of a tryout grounds for Broadway musicals and Broadway plays we were going to create our own theater which established the commonality and the family and the collective nature of theater as opposed to the pickup cast and the star driven and sometimes commercially driven quality of the New York theater and that first TCG conference is something I wrote about in the times and my title was Broadway and the non-profit theater A Misaligned and from the very beginning I really and to this day I see this as a mismarriage as a mismating something that really changes the nature of of both movements now our movement essentially was really built on the notion of company I cannot emphasize this enough even though there are maybe no more than one or two or three companies left in the country but it was the notion of company that that was what that gave us our particular quality and difference from the commercial theater and we didn't invent this idea if you look at history all the great theaters were companies let's just start with Shakespeare Shakespeare's had the Lord Chamberlain's company a collection of actors and playwrights and let us assume designers as well prop people who had their audience and were familiar with their audience their audience was familiar with them and they were deeply engaged in evolving productions out of their company with their playwrights I'm teaching a script breakdown of Hamlet now it's at Suffolk where I am at the moment and I was very interested in these 12 lines that Hamlet wrote you know he said can you do 12 lines or so that I'll write for you and then he gives, I was interested in what the 12 lines were in the play The Murder of Gonzaga and I began to get an idea from the fact that he addresses the actors and you know that famous speech speak the speech I pray that as I wrote it trippingly on the tongue and do not mouth it as some plays do or else I'd rather just as leave the town cry as spoke by lines and do not saw the edge and let those clowns speak no more than a sit down this is a playwright talking to the actors of the company it's not just Hamlet talking to the player king it's Shakespeare talking to his fellow actors saying you're screwing up my play and you give me a little too much Fran Boyance you know don't offend lines I wrote the lines I intend to hear them as they were written every playwright has this in play now this is a comedy from Cez and from there we go to a succession of companies for example the Moscow Art Theatre Company and Stanislavski and Chekhov and then we go to the Berlin Ensemble and Bertolt Brecht who's both a director and a playwright and the interesting thing about most of these theaters especially as we get into the modern period is that they have training units so the Moscow Art Theatre has a school which is training all the theater so young blood will come in and Nina will not be played by a 75 year old woman who once had the role for the last 50 years but rather by a newly trained young woman who can play that part and the old Nina will go on to play Madame Marcadne so there was a kind of organic quality going on in this kind of theater where we had a collective that the actors knew each other's plays knew had shortcuts in rehearsal had a connection with the playwright could indeed suggest changes in the plays even though Shakespeare didn't like that but most playwrights do respond to that according to how they would play it best or looking at the consistency of their own characters so you have a training ground and you have a collective company and you have an audience which is part of that family you get an audience that comes to your theater not to see a hit or a flop but comes to see a succession of plays which if the the artistic director is very good has related those plays one to the other to make some kind of statement so it's not whether this play is successful or that play is successful but you come to see actors mutating changing, transforming from part to part and it even changes the whole nature of the acting so that instead of just doing versions of yourself as the acting studio would have us do which is great for the movies you transform you are unrecognizable ideally from one part to the other and I admit that one of the one of the lapses and fallbacks of this kind of situation is the problem that you see an actor over and over again you get tired of him, you get tired of her but if the actor is any good you will not recognize him and you will not recognize him and my best example is Meryl Streep on the stage of the Yale Repertory Theatre doing a play called The Idiots Karamazov by a fellow student named Christopher Durant another fellow student named Alvin Lerato and she was in her third year and she was completely unrecognizable she had a ward on her nose she had a grey hair she was in a wheelchair and she was playing Constance Garten at the Ancient Translatorix as it was called and she was saying to the audience go home, go home, go home and it was a wonderful evolution of a young woman into an old woman and that was the ideal for this kind of theatre so I longed for that and I don't see it anymore and I noticed that each major theatre began to dissolve and become commercial once it sent a piece of the company to New York with a play and that was the end of the company it happened with the long walk it happened with the Guthrie it happened with any number of theatres around the country and if we can get back to a situation where companies will be supported economically by the culture and by the National Endowment for the Arts by the Mellon Foundation which by the way is one of the most if not the most enlightened arts foundations in the country not in the world and Diane Ragsdale has been a fantastic force in that foundation but what we need is economic support because ultimately everything you see that's going wrong if you think it's going wrong with the non-profit theatre is going wrong for economic reasons I don't care about the company idea I think those ideals have been reinvented by a younger generation and you see that now in some of these smaller ensemble companies that are devoted to that kind of collective ideal that are staying together that do know that shorthand that are capable of transforming and that's an encouraging sign for me it may not be the case in the larger institutional structures but it is bubbling up through some of these younger ensemble companies and I think the word misalliance is a right one because if you go back and you look at some fundamentals that relate to the for-profit and the not-for-profit world I mean why do we have these two worlds I mean why is there a theatre that exists in the not-for-profit world and a theatre that exists in the for-profit world and there are advantages for the not-for-profits because they have tax advantages they can receive contributions and the government has given anointed these groups as not-for-profit that's a motive thing they're organized not-for-profit and they're given these various tax advantages because the government is saying that they are providing a service to the public that could not be provided if they were structured for the purposes of making a profit not only in culture but it exists in human services in health and in education so the misalliance is a fundamental one between the not-for-profit world and the for-profit world it is built into their structure the for-profit world exists with one measure of success only and I'm criticizing it it's pure, it's simple it's clean and it's there to make a profit so a production that goes through the for-profit commercial channel exists as long as it's making a profit and the producer, the commercial producer has a fiduciary responsibility to shepherd that production along and to make choices that maximize the profit and as soon as it stops making a profit it closes clear and simple the measure of success is much more complicated and that I think is what began to be part of an interesting discussion in Washington so this intersection is really a crossroad alright and the crossroad is full of potential for collision you can't deny the basic fundamental foundational aspects of this one is a marketplace and it's transactional and totally aligned with money and the other has a larger ideal to it and that's where I think we constantly have to ask ourselves those of us who are involved in leadership roles and institutions in the not-for-profit world how are we distinct from the for-profit world what is the service to the public that we are providing and what are our ideals and what is the ethical nature on which we are operating and we have a mission and we need to constantly and I think it might be important for organizations who articulate as they do their mission statement but what's their value statement what's their ethical statement and more importantly how do they measure success and then I think you are in a position to understand but we are relying upon each other there is a lot of synergy between these two worlds inevitably everybody wants the work to originate from the not-for-profit world or originate solely in the commercial Broadway world isn't it wonderful if it just has a life and everybody gets a chance to see it and younger artists and risks can be taken and there is a natural kind of very constructive and positive relationship between the flow of work that comes in maybe in the not-for-profit world where they are annotated to this where they can embrace younger talent in the commercial world there was a lot of discussion in this report that I agree people were incredibly frank and beautifully articulated about the need that the commercial world has to I mean it's a far team I don't want to put it in those major and minor terms it's not they are totally different but there needs to be there needs to be there needs to be a healthy relationship and that's what they were struggling to find but a lot of it gets corrupted by transactions and materials and I say if the commercial theaters producers want there to be a relationship with the not-for-profit world then every time a play emerges in a successful situation in the commercial world that that commercial producer has an obligation to acknowledge and to compensate every other theater that had anything to do with developing that play and if producers did that they would change the whole atmosphere between the two worlds I think this sort of crowding out of the cultural value of not-for-profits that resonates for me because not-for-profit it's easy to just turn that into well as long as we're not making money maybe we're doing okay but it's really are you continuing to fulfill your social mission David I wonder if you would remember that point with the discussion of coming into the intersection what the commercial producers want and what the non-profits want I remember you were having that conversation at the time where some of the collisions because the two come in with different purposes well I mean yes the commercial and I'm someone who thinks the the terms of engagement are off and they are corrupted and they are dangerous and they're hot and yet we're all in one ecology and so for me the whole purpose of this conversation was how can we be responsible respectful maintain our value sets and tech as we move through this intersection how do we do this with integrity and recognizing that that's not our primary concern right now in the way that we're behaving so in this word behavior actually became an issue people saying well you say it's a behavior there you're already implying that there's something wrong with it it's not a behavior it's a business relationship or whatever they're all trying to say it's not behavior but as the commercial producers are approaching this intersection they are trying to get for as little money as possible as good an idea of how the play is going to succeed in the world in the marketplace and what needs to happen to succeed in the marketplace as cheaply as possible they get that from an audience reaction they can't do it in a studio people have to actually buy tickets and so they have to have an audience that's buying tickets for them to know what they're learning but what they're going when they go through that intersection out the other side is for the commercial success of this for themselves for the artists who made it they're going for this very long life that returns money for a really long time in big numbers and they're legally obligated to do it that's exactly right and it's clean it's clear it's really everybody who knows that's what's going on and it's fine everybody signed up for it and hoping that it succeeds nobody goes into it uncomfortable because it's really clear you're trying to get through and in that intersection when they're in the regional theaters in the non-profit world they're trying to get through that as clearly as cheaply as possible information at the lowest cost the most information at the lowest cost and on the other side you have the non-profit organization which it's trajectory it's not financial success it's a long term conversation with the community and the artist that it makes work with and they're trying to find how is the extension of this relationship between our stage and our community overtime how are we going to keep that vibe how are we going to make that a vibrant artistic space how are we going to stay relevant to the world how are we going to make it sound financially and they're moving through so here comes the commercial producer going right down that up and the non-profit producer is going along this way and they're trying to have this trajectory that's related to their community to the artist that they're working with and to I have to read this quote because it's so on my mind and the sustainability of that and the institution of the infrastructure and Zelda Zelda when non-profit status was conferred on theaters there was a big debate on Capitol Hill and there was testimony requested for why should it be extended to theaters it already existed in certain realms it did not exist in the theater but Zelda who founded arena stage once we made the choice to produce our plays not to recoup an investment but to recoup some corner of the universe for our understanding and enlargement we entered the same world as the university the museum, the church and became like them an instrument of civilization right so here comes this car going that way that's trying to recoup some corner of the universe as an instrument of our civilization and they need to sustain that and worry they're trying to do this thing that has nothing to do with that thing and somewhere in the middle they come into that intersection together and how does everybody get through that in a way that has integrity that they get where they're going financially and the kind of success, global success artists need that success it's nobody saying they don't or just can merit it people can have it and this other thing going that way a sustained effort to recoup some corner of the universe and David it seems to me, do you think this is accurate that what you see is that that longer term ambition of the non-profit can get derailed because right there then suddenly the measures of success are short term and did it sell out did we get the broad way if I can propose the fact that the non-profits don't put their head in the sand they're really interested in ending up in the black and we work very hard to raise money and to attract audiences and impossible to get money from commercial producers but you don't get it by having them hand you a project and saying would you try this out and because they're going to be around nosing around wanting to have some impact on it and some influence on it so if you get a project from a commercial producer and that commercial producer wants to have a say that you've got to drop it it's no longer yours but if you put on a show and it's successful let's say and broadway gets interested in it and Rob was brilliant with this you don't make an agreement with the broadway producer before you put the show on you make the agreement after the show and to take this example with Big River which was misrepresented in the globe because it said that was the first move to broadway we really moved to broadway we didn't move that show to broadway we did that show and Rocco Landisman had given us the original play it was an adaptation of Huckleberry Finn by a former student of mine named Bill Haukman Rocco Landisman was a former student of mine at the same time so this was Pham coming back and let's do this play and then Rocco said oh by the way I think it would be good as a musical I said fine let me ask some of the people I know who write music and I asked James Taylor and I asked Carl Simon and I asked her sister Lily Simon and none of them could do it and he said I know a composer named Roger Miller I said I never heard of him he said well listen to this and he played in a gang bang me and I liked it very much I said okay he went out there got six songs and he brought them back and Roger Miller wrote the music for our musical and then we had Desmakinoff who was with La Jolla Theatre at the time the artistic director directing it Heidi Landisman, former wife of Rocco was doing the set she was a great set designer and then it moved to La Jolla with a completely different cast because we still had our company doing other plays that cast then went to Broadway it was La Jolla production that went to Broadway but Rob had wrangled an agreement with the Rocco who was producing that to the effect that we got a certain royalty we I think got as much as $300,000 from that production without ever signing over our lives for it and it's also true of actors the actors want to go to Broadway God bless them if the playwrights want to go to Broadway God bless them the fact is that they are trained for non-profit theatre if they function in non-profit theatre Meryl comes back Christopher Walken comes back Sigourney Weaver comes back they all come back to their roots and they're happy to be there and so they can spread themselves the same thing with the playwrights our first year at Yale our second year at Yale we had a playwrights program which we wangled out of RCA they've formally been giving it for television that's what's happening at Yale on those days we were training for theatre so we got RCA to give us money for something called Writing for the Camper and we called Sam Shepard David Mammoth when they were kids Barbara Garson Megan Terry, John Ware Lanford Wilson and we had an incredible group of playwrights there and they would begin to write plays for us we got a lot of plays out of Sam Shepard a lot of plays out of David Mammoth and so on and this was this was a loyalty that they owed to us and they gave to us at the same time that they were doing Glenn Garrigan on Broadway so that can work but it won't work if you make agreements beforehand to let the commercial producer have a part in the production so there's a following on this just to make sure it's clear these distinctions because what's happening now and what is partly the disturbing piece of this is that the rights to a project are actually owned by the commercial producer at the outset and the commercial producer goes to the non-profit and they say I have the rights to project S let's call it Ray because that's one of the big ones I have the rights to this project and I'm not sure this is exactly the way Ray went but so let's pick one that it is Little Mary, Little Miss Sunshine I have the rights to the movie Little Miss Sunshine and I want to make a Broadway musical out of it and it would be a lot cheaper for me if you, La Jolla, produced the first production of Little Miss Sunshine and I would give you the money that it costs you to produce this play because it's going to cost you less than it would cost me to do it myself and I'm going to give you a certain amount however they work that out I'm going to hold the rights and so we're going to hire now the director but I'm going to tell you who the director is because that's the director I want to work with and I'm not sure that maybe it doesn't even matter to the commercial producer it doesn't need to matter who the director is who the director is that the non-profit wants they own the rights so they get to keep saying we like those actors, we don't like those actors we like that set, we don't like that set we like the production schedule we don't like the production schedule we like the marketing materials we don't like the marketing materials and over and over and over and over those things that are supposed to be the conversation with their community about recouping some corn in the universe they've handed over all that responsibility to the commercial producer what was really interesting in the conversation in the meeting was that the commercial producers were saying yes but we're artists too and you and the non-profit world won't let us be artists you make us the money bags, you make us the bad guys but we are coming to you with the best projects you wouldn't do this project if you didn't pick this you didn't get the rights to it there would be no next to normal if there hadn't been David's go years and hundreds and hundreds of thousands dollars so they don't see themselves as the money bags just write the check and disappear, they're invested artistically and they feel they have an artistic voice in the developmental process and the non-profit producers are saying and for good reason no actually we have a responsibility this 501c3 we're the stewards of that and it's going this way for a different purpose that we have to make those artistic decisions and then the money doesn't, you don't get the money and you don't get the opportunity and where where it gets tweaked is in the right end there when the artistic director of the non-profit says okay we will do this project together but since the commercial producers holding the rights and the commercial producers paying for it and the long future, financial future goes that way they control that all of the artists who are involved are really reporting to the producer not to the artistic director of the non-profit there is no way for Molly Smith to stand there in arena and say I actually don't like the choices you're making about the script now and I would like another script conference because I think it's rewriters thrown up the rest she cannot say that, she can say it nobody has to listen to her and that's everybody, I happen to be working at arena that's I use Molly not Molly's not some outlier this is just what happens that's why I think the big problem comes the producers are coming with the rights, the commercial producers are coming with the rights to the projects and then they are buying the tax exemption of the non-profit in order to do the thing more cheaply and then they're driving on through and making their success with it and often they're kicking back a percentage like relationships that do create some return but the cars come in going this way then it goes that way and in the middle they've used non-profit exemptions for which there's a very specific purpose which is to recoup a corner of the universe. I want to just jump in with one last question related to this and then we'll have like a couple minutes of conversation then we can continue it out Oscar is just in terms of this question of the pressures on the non-profit and why they make these deals so Oscar is just who's the artistic director at the public theater in New York he said during our gathering we should be clear that this cultural shift and by cultural shift he's referring to the sort of more transactional nature of the culture we should be clear that this cultural shift is not something that could be changed by a heroic chairman of the NEA this is happening across the world and there's a distinction that I just want to make really clear there is the addiction there is the drug there is the fact that of course the Tony Awards are fun and the acclaim and all that that temptation is a personal temptation that each of us has got to wrestle with it's our job to wrestle with it but there's also the question of the money and following it which is different it's not about how tempting it is it's about the fact that those of us who are charged with running institutions are charged with making those institutions succeed and be healthy because if they aren't no artist are going to get paid and no art is going to happen and I just wonder if you can respond to that you know, consistently from the artistic directors in that meeting was the unbelievable pressure to continue to perpetuate these incredibly large institutions that it's not just about temptation but it's really about the survival of the institution that's true, I mean but it's always been about that I mean it's never been easy yes, there have been times when there's more money coming from the government and when the foundation and there was a different coalition of funding sources in place and they shifted and they changed and nonprofit organizations are very nimble in that regard it's always that pressure it's true that our culture is more transactional now and the marketplace is a heavier influence but the other part of the money which gets back to I just like to make a recommendation because I think there's been a lot of talk about this there are things that can be done and I hinted at it before and Big River is a good example because yes, we were able to negotiate a percentage of the weekly process on that but you know what, La Jolla really should have had some of that too because the producer was only willing to give away that percent and a half that percent and a quarter to us because we negotiated it and then it went to La Jolla and it morphed, it got six more songs became a full-fledged musical and it went to New York and it was unfair it was just simply unfair and so if in this world we have for the not-for-profit institutional theater it's the same thing that the playwrights have the playwrights have which stipulates certain limitations and rules about how the commercial theater has a relationship and transacts a relationship with the writer give you the same thing if some other guild is invented and presents the not-for-profit theater world and every time a play that's read or written before finds its way into that commercial world that there is a rule that you take that percent and a half or that percent and a quarter and you divvy it up among theaters that had a seminal influence on the development of that writer or the development of that play and then the boards and the leaderships of these not-for-profit theaters can relax because it's going to be fair it's going to happen after that particular corner of the commodity of that particular project and then the energy flows much more possibly back up between the two realms there is a model for that which was the August Wilson's play August Wilson used to move his plays from the L. Repertory Theater on the Lloyd Richard St. to Goodman Theater and then to another theater on its way to Broadway and I imagine that all those theaters to some extent, maybe I'm wrong in that movement but that was a form of theater which I called Mac Theater after McDonald's I didn't like it, it just seemed to me to sell out by the theaters to a popular playwright a very good playwright but a popular one and you were not really doing your own work you were doing shared work as it were and you were losing your sense of your own identity as a theater in this transaction this topic of nonprofit co-productions came up with the meeting as well and it was interesting that the artistic directors were almost equally as concerned about that practice and so we tend to think oh this is just about commercial nonprofit partnerships but actually anytime I mean people go to work for nonprofit theaters because they want to make the work they want to make the work there they don't necessarily want to have a piece come in from another theater but it's already been 95% produced and then just kind of gets trucked in to the next theater and the next theater I think that's another interesting issue to be grappled with but building on something you said David about you were sort of describing these counter purposes I think it's also important to acknowledge that these deals get put together in different ways but not all of the commercial producers are coming in already with a date set on Broadway controlling everything there are some who seem to be more sincerely trying to build partnerships and we will have a little more give and take with the nonprofit partners and I think that's really interesting in my research I'm really trying to understand how the different ways these deals get put together affects how the process the artistic process, creative process and the product and one thing that one of the commercial producers Michael David said a few times was that the most adulterating aspect was when you went into these partnerships already having set a date on Broadway to his mind that's the thing that adulterates the relationship right because you kind of you're definitely trying to hit that hole as opposed to the Big River model which listening to the story at the meeting it seems there was this sincere idea gosh maybe we've got something here but we need to go work it out somewhere first and they worked with the nonprofit that was sincerely interested in the product as well the play and then gosh that went pretty well we should probably keep working on it though let's go to another one and it was after that second production that they determined to go to Broadway likewise I think we're all familiar with the success of August Osage County which we talked about today that was a great example of a nonprofit sincerely building a work that it passionately believed in and after its success regionally a determination being made that it could transfer I don't even know if it transferred with commercial support or if it transferred on its own it did but in that case it's really it seems pure right and so I think this is also the thing that I think we have to another reason that the meeting is worthwhile and I think continuing to look at this issue is worthwhile is because it does seem to matter how they get put together and at what point the partnership happens and at what point enhancement money comes in or not at what point you decide you're going to book a space you know I would say the example of next to normal is a really instructive one and an important one for me in my understanding of this because that show had been produced at second stage with commercial support and it was hoped that it would go to Broadway and it wasn't ready to go to Broadway and it would have just sort of go away and maybe been done in the regional theaters eventually but and we were interested in the show we liked the show and knew it was needed work and we called about the show and that call went to David Stone who had the rights and David Stone was also interested in developing the show and so a deal was struck around our production to continue to develop that show toward his goals but we came into it wanting to work on the show and we made the production he enhanced the production to the extent that it was outside of our capacity as a nonprofit to pay the salaries that needed to be paid to the company that had made it to re-orchestrate but there were all kinds of things that were bigger than what we could do it's small musical but we but he paid for those we paid for the things that we would normally pay for and then the show left us and we did it as part of our relationship to our audience and it went on to another success and we actually earned some money and we earned some money but that seems like that I think we made it through the intersection everybody intact in that one You know one thing I want to, Rob you were sort of putting forward this idea of a shared maybe more equitable share of the loyalties from these deals but one thing that did come up in this meeting is that to some degree it seems that enhancement enhancement money has been going up you know the amounts of enhancement paid it seems to be going up and really it's gone from like 100,000 50,000 you know back in the 80s to some of these deals now multi-million dollar, million, two million dollar deals maybe some of you know Wasn't it like a 12 million dollar deal that fell apart? I mean the amount of enhancement paid to the nonprofit and at one point in the meeting it's brought up somebody says well I think David you asked what's causing that number to go up is that just increased production costs and they say yeah that's part of it some of it might just be nonprofits that are getting sort of more aggressive in making their deals but also perhaps increased reliance on this money to cover operating right so it's not just covering the additional costs that the nonprofit needs to cover in order to do a musical let's say as a person will play but really a dependence on having to hit a certain line in the budget every year and I think that's an area that is worth paying attention to right at the point when there's a line item in the budget that says X amount from enhancement or commercial deals meaning that you really going to have to have those relationships year after year that to me you know I wonder whether that could create an unhealthy dependence and even so I don't even hear about your sort of proposal to share these royalties I wonder would there be a risk do you think that some theaters might actually get kind of dependent on that revenue and it's not a theoretical risk it's actually happening and theaters are finding ways to mask enhancement because they're embarrassed about getting it so they say they can actually say I'm not getting any enhancement money none of that money is flowing through my books but oh by the way we know that the producer is paying this whole echelon cost out of his own office and then they have enhancement is a very very dangerous thing and then you have the measure of success being this Broadway conduit and you have board members who make their money in transactional culture and they're going to want it and it just feeds on it and then you get board members investing in the production spirit that the theater is doing that they go on Broadway and then you get artistic directors who independently of their institutions are working on commercial projects and are raising money from their board members for those commercial projects it is mind blowing there was a period historic presidents two glorious periods of for non-profit theater and they had to do with the time when there was money for non-profit theater the most obvious one was recently the non-profit movie in the 60s and the emergence of the national down for the arts as a major force in funding them and the reason it emerged was a simple thing it was spotting the Russians got into space before we did and the government panicked and for some reason began to support the arts and the humanities and education and all those things that don't get normally supported and for a period there and science right and Nixon and for a period there this endowment was going up and up and up they were giving us money for company work they were endowing company work for us the other precedent before that was the federal theater and that too was government sponsored it lasted only four years it was led by the most extraordinary figures in all American theater history and that was Holly Flanagan Davis and she created almost 400 theaters in this country of all types they had black theaters they had Jewish theaters they had Latino theaters they had the mercury theater and housing which is a company doing classical work it lasted four years they thought it was communist just like you know with Serrano and April Thawthorpe the congress put their thumbs down on it and brought Holly up to testify on the communist nature of her undertakings and they asked her if Christopher Marlowe was a communist and she said let it be known that Christopher Marlowe was the greatest playwright after Shakespeare over the years period there also was the group theater the group theater was a company of great actors who also trained they trained under Lee Strasberg who was one of the directors of the theater and they had Stella Adler they had Luther Adler they had Jayle Wood-Romberg they had Malaya Kazan they had Cliffidote Dets they had Francho Tone they had an extraordinary company Francis Farmer it was a commercial company they didn't have a non-profit company stand and Clureman in his book The Fervent Years laments and regrets the fact that they were a non-commercial operation forced to function under a commercial umbrella as a result it only lasted nine years and all of their people ultimately went to Hollywood like Francho Tone and not Malaya Kazan who then came back to Broadway became a director Stella Adler remained as an actress or theater actress Luther Adler remained a theater actor as well as a movie actor they came back to do what they were trained to do but there was that commercial component that ruined them they couldn't balance their budget so money remains the issue and money has to be provided by the government I don't know if it'll ever happen but it's the only way our theaters are going to survive and on that note we're going to move outside I wanted to make sure that we're respectful of the artists so just to couple things we'll move outside and continue the conversation out there we are selling books just so you know that this is a report that we felt everyone should have access to so you can download it for free on iTunes you can download it for 99 cents on Kindle I am not a very good marketer in that regard that said it helps us if you buy the book it was an enormously expensive study to put together and just in terms of all the work that went into it and all of we have some like little haul-around mugs all of those things that money just goes directly to artists' pockets to do research on the field so just to say that it helps us but if you can't afford it you can have it for free and you can download it you can download the mug you can download it on the wall so we're going to head out and the show that's rehearsing in here is Whistler in the Dark's production of Tales from Avid directed by Mae Payton Normally would	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCrH5lmRauQ", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCNOfzGXD_C9YMYmnefmPH0g	Interblockchain Communication & Interchain Topology by Christopher Goes (Devcon5)	Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on IPFS and more. https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/5/interblockchain-communication-and-interchain-topology The interblockchain community protocol will facilitate permissionless interoperation between smart contracts on Ethereum 1.0/1.x & Ethereum 2.0, Cosmos zones, Polkadot parachains, Bitcoin & more. The first half of this talk presents the protocol construction, notes security properties & consensus requirements, explains the message channel interface exposed to smart contracts & modules, and discusses special techniques for bridging Nakamoto proof-of-work consensus blockchains such as Ethereum 1.0/1.x to chains with finality. The second half embarks on a speculative exploration of what the future topology of interconnected blockchains might look like: what economic constraints might shape cross-chain design choices, what kinds of applications might most benefit from cross-chain logic, and what shared ecosystem standards might most effectively facilitate positive-sum interoperation, with particular attention to integration into the Ethereum 2.0 specification process. Speaker(s): Christopher Goes Skill level: Intermediate Track: Consensus layer Keywords: interchain, interblockchain, technical Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/ Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/ Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers. Devcon 5 was held in Osaka, Japan on Oct 8 - 11, 2019. Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation, with the support of our sponsors. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/	[ "blockchain", "smart contracts", "distributed ledger", "ethereum" ]	2019-12-08T15:32:22	2024-02-05T16:02:38	860	pCg1NxCh6cM	I'm Chris, I work for Tenement Research and I'm going to talk a bit about, and I'll explain what the terms mean, don't worry, interblockchain communication and the topology of the interchange. The polycentric interchange is already here. Let's unpack this. In the past few years, we've seen what I like to call a Cambrian explosion of blockchains. It's continuing, even more, several new protocols were announced at this event. One hypothesis says that these blockchains will be selected out and slowly converged to a few single ledgers, which handle all of the state transitions, all of the currency transactions, all of the future complex decentralized financial protocols, etc. Perhaps. But another hypothesis says that the interchange will continue to branch outwards, that new protocols will continue to be built, which can specialize on different sorts of use cases, that new assets will continue to come into existence, that assets and protocols will perhaps dissociate somewhat, where an asset can retain its logical identity while living on a different and perhaps improved protocol. That's what I mean by the interchange. This set of ledgers fulfilling a set of different use cases, why might we want this? There are a lot of advantages to having separate blockchains as opposed to a few single ones. One advantage is versatility. Different protocols can focus on different use cases. They can optimize their state machines, optimize their educational materials, focus their community, focus their onboarding, focus their user experience on solving certain specific problems really well, as opposed to solving a lot of problems not so great. This applies not only to the case of simply building a protocol, but also to the case of governing it over time. If a single protocol has to cater to a wide diversity of use cases, all of the interests of different users who probably want different things, and for whom the protocol moving in different directions would be better or worse at different times, have a hard time agreeing on how to change a protocol over time. That becomes much easier if a use case is more focused, if they can choose to focus their particular protocol on solving one particular problem, and if they need a new problem, build a new protocol. Another thing which I think is really important and sometimes under-emphasized is minimizing exit costs of distributed ledgers. Right now, many of us, I think, would consider the exit costs of centralized platforms, particularly those which control information to be too high. But one of the reasons the exit costs of Facebook or Twitter or Google Suite are so high is that there's no possible interoperability. If someone builds a web client which allows you to access your Gmail data, Google will sue them or shut it down or prevent API access. I think we should have the same concern and the same desire to minimize exit costs for ledgers. And that means continued asset interoperability. So hard forks can be contentious when they necessarily diverge, when it's not possible for users to continue to use both protocols at once. But if hard forks could instead be reconstructed under a new mechanism where two different versions of a protocol can continue over time, then people could use one version, retain their asset, other people could choose to switch the new version and retain the same logical continuity moving their assets to and from the original protocol. But in order to do all of this, we need a way for these different blockchains and the interchange to talk to one another. This way or a way that we've been developing is IBC interblockchain communication. IBC is a messaging protocol for the interchange, a general messaging protocol. Let's go back in time. A few decades to the early internet when some similar problems were being solved, different machines and often different sort of localized clusters and machines existed in different places around the world, particularly in ARPANET, in CERN, in universities in the United States and in Europe and later across the world. And those computers needed a way to talk to each other. This was obvious. Many people built protocols to allow these computers to talk to each other and some of them I listed on this slide. So we'll have a quick quiz. Raise your hand and keep it up if you've heard of XNS. Not too many. Apple Talk. A few. ChaosNet. IPX, SPX. IP should be just about everyone. If you came to this conference, you bought a ticket using the internet protocol, almost certainly. Why? Why were what, four? Four of these protocols and there were tons more, which I didn't bother to list. Why were four of these protocols unsuccessful in connecting all of the computers while one was? I think there are a few reasons. One is that the internet protocol was quite general. It wasn't specific to a manufacturer or specific to somewhat closed hardware like Apple Talk. It didn't rely on particular network cards. It wasn't encumbered by patents. It was something where anyone could read the open source protocol standard or what was open source in that time and implement their own hardware which supported it. Protocols like some of these and especially IP are non-contentious. The internet protocol has a monopoly. There are other internet protocols, but it's a beneficial monopoly or a benevolent monopoly because using the internet protocol doesn't prevent anyone from supporting other protocols. It doesn't lock them into a particular token, a particular infrastructure. They just speak this particular language at the edge where they connect to other computers. We need something similar for blockchains. What does this mean? In the context of blockchain interoperability, how do we build this kind of protocol which can fulfill this non-contentious global standard requirement? One, it needs to be modular. This communications protocol needs to abstract over the different methods for verifying state of other blockchains. It needs to create a standard such that blockchains can check the other blockchains sent messages. Two, it needs to be local. This stands in contrast to a lot of sharding protocols, which are interesting. All the different problems. But sharding protocols tend to require a global topological view. They require that one entity in the set of chains, usually a root chain or root shard, it's called different things, but one entity in the set of chains has a view at all times of what the other shards are, what they're doing, it knows some sort of assignment, and it can reason about the security properties of that system because it knows what the topology is. For IBC, we don't want to require this. We want to allow the topology to exist amorphously as something that no chain in the system, no chain in the interchain has to know or reason about in order to use the protocol safely. That's what we mean by locality. And finally, this messaging protocol that we create needs to be composable. People need to be able to reason about the security properties of simply sending messages and receiving messages just like you could reason about how you send and receive in TCPIP, and then using those properties they need to be able to reason about the gestalt properties of complex systems which use those simple components. That's what we mean by composability. To do this, we've built a layered protocol similar to the OSI model of IP. The first set of layers is called the tau, or I like to call it the tau of IBC, transport, authentication, and ordering. The tau of IBC handles getting data physically using off-chain processes we call relayers from one blockchain to another, one ledger to another. It handles authentication, creating a standard for how different ledgers can authenticate summaries of each other's consensus processes and use those summaries to check that particular packets were sent or received or not. And it handles ordering, getting packets when desired to the destination in order and exactly in order. I'll have to summarize briefly over this protocol stack, so I think I will just use a picture. Consider an IBC packet between two chains. In the protocol as written at the moment, we have this entity called a module which you can understand as being an independent unit of execution running on a ledger. So this will map to different particular abstractions and different blockchains. In the case of Ethereum, it will map to a smart contract. In the case of the Cosmos SDK, we call it just a module. In the case of Substrate, I think it's also called modules or packages or something. But the concept is the same. So a module on blockchain A will send an IBC packet. That's number one. It will head to number two, the IBC module, which will interpret that packet to determine how to route it. The IBC module will then store it in state. The consensus algorithm of blockchain A, that's three, will then commit that transaction, commit to a state route. A relayer, that's number five, will watch blockchain A figure out that an outgoing packet has been sent, then send it onwards in an incoming transaction to blockchain B. When the transaction is accepted on blockchain B, that's number seven. The packet will be routed to the IBC module number eight on blockchain B. And the IBC module on blockchain B will parse that packet to decipher it, determine where it needs to go, and send it on to module B. So all of the packet send, packet receive, timeout handling, all of the basic primitives we build on IBC follow this structure. And the key part that I would emphasize is that it's quite generic. The blockchains and modules need to have the ability to verify each other state. But otherwise, the trust model between these two modules, module A and module B, is similar to the trust model between two Ethereum smart contracts. Module A doesn't need to reason about any of the other modules running on blockchain A. Module B doesn't need to reason about any of the other modules running on blockchain B or blockchain A. They can simply, once they establish this secure communications channel between each other, send and receive packets and reason about this local system. Everything contained on this diagram is sufficient. The understanding of it is sufficient to reason about the security of IBC. What needs to come next? We're calling the application layer. This is a little analogous to ERC standards in Ethereum, standards for call data. We've built IBC to be payload agnostic such that when packets are relayed, sent around, verified, handled in timeouts by the protocol, the protocol implementations don't need to understand what the data in those packets mean. That only needs to be understood at the edges. It needs to be understood by the modules, sending or receiving these packets, dealing with how they should be interpreted and what the semantics of particular packet data are. In order to standardize this across the ecosystem, again in a non-contentious fashion, we will need a set of application layer packet encoding and semantic standards. Some of these can probably build off. Some of the work with Ethereum is done with ERC standards for call data between contracts. We hope to collaborate as much as possible. Some of them will probably be different, opening up different use cases in things like cross-chain account abstraction, which someone recently submitted a pull request for to the IBC spec repository, which allows an account on one chain to control the actions, to send transactions on behalf of an account on another chain through IBC. Simple packets, of course, like token transfers similar to ERC-20. The semantics are a little bit different because you're actually transferring tokens between two blackchains, so you need to account for supply, but the call data is similar. More complex use cases we expect will emerge over time, including things that look like sharding but are architecturally a little different. If you have mutually comprehensible VMs on two different chains, you can relay code between them through IBC, and you could use this alongside an algorithm for determining how to relay code over time, maybe some sort of load bouncing. You could use this to create protocols which look like sharding, but they still have this local security reasoning. You only need to reason about the blackchains you're directly talking to over IBC. No one needs to reason about the topology of the whole network. All of this work is online. You can find it at github.com. We recently released Candidate 4 of the IBC spec. I would stress that it's not done. We are waiting on a few auditors to get back to us, and of course welcome any feedback or questions trying to test with several possible blockchains, which aim to utilize IBC, but it is definitely in a state where you can read it and understand what we're trying to achieve with this protocol, why it fulfills the design criteria of modularity, locality, and composability, and how you can get involved and help. So please do. You found a star. Thank you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCg1NxCh6cM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCb9okJF6NGPDUGgAQxu3TcA	PTM Modulation	Mrs. Dipali Wadkar Assistant Professor Walchand Institute of Technology Solapur	[ "PWM Modulation using IC555", "PPM Modulation using IC 555" ]	2020-02-12T06:38:34	2024-02-08T20:37:19	700	pcCXiT1E-zA	Hello everyone, welcome to this video lecture, myself Dipali Vadkar, working as assistant professor at WIT, Swollapur. In this session, we will study pulse time modulation. At the end of this video lecture, student will be able to describe working of pulse width modulator using IC-TRIPLE-5 circuit. Also student will be able to explain the working of PPM modulator using IC-TRIPLE-5 circuit. Purl's time modulation that is the PTM, it is the class of signaling techniques that encodes the sample values of analog signal onto time axis of digital signal. There are two types of PTM, first is a pulse width modulation that is the PWM and second is pulse position modulation that is the PPM. Let us see what is the PWM or pulse width modulation, it is pulse width modulation it is defined as the process of wearing the width of signal pulse in accordance with the modulating signal variations. So, in the pulse width modulation the width of train of pulses changes according to the modulating signal. So, here the amplitude and position of this train of pulses remains constant only there is a change in width. Now, first we will see the PWM modulator its block diagram. In this modulator basically the comparator is used, the one input of the comparator it is nothing but modulating signal X of t or continuous time signal which is to be modulated and another input to this comparator that is the sawtooth generator comparator compares both this input and it gives the output that is the variable width of train of pulses that is the PWM pulse width modulated signal. This is the circuit diagram for PWM modulator using IC555 here the clock signal is applied at the pin number 2 of this IC555. Another input to this circuit that is nothing but X of t continuous time signal or modulating signal and we get the output that is the PWM at the pin number 3 of this IC. So, let us see in detail the circuit this circuit basically consists two parts one is a differentiator and another is a IC555. So, here the this circuit is for differentiator circuit here this register R1 is connected to the VCC that is the positive supply. This differentiator differentiates the input clock signal and this differentiator generate positive and negative spikes at its output but here one diode is connected so this diode bypass this positive spikes means it pass the positive spike and it avoids the negative spike. So, we get the negative spikes at the output which is here across this these two points. So, the output of this differentiator that is nothing but negative spikes and its frequency is same as that of the frequency of clock signal. What is the frequency of clock signal? So, here the clock signal is adjusted exactly at the sampling frequency. So, distance between these all clocks it is nothing but sampling period that is nothing but TS. Now, these negative H trigger pulses are given to the IC555. Let us see the IC555 circuit here the IC555 circuit this negative H trigger pulse from differentiator introduced to pin number 2 and the modulating signal to pin number 5 and we get the output we get the output at the pin number 3 of this IC. In this circuit the first clock signal is applied input to the differentiator then this differentiator circuit generate a positive and negative spikes out of that positive spikes bypass through this diode D1 and the output here the negative spike. This out negative spikes that is the negative H trigger is applied to the pin number 2 of IC555. When this negative H trigger is applied to the pin number 2 then at that time here the output of this IC is becomes high. Now, due to this the capacitor which is present here this C2 capacitor this capacitor start charging. Now, when this capacitor charging here another input it is nothing but modulating signal this input is applied to the control pin of IC555. Now, here two inputs one is a modulating signal which is this X of t and another is the charging of this charging voltage of this capacitor charging and discharging voltage of the capacitor. Now, when the voltage across this capacitor C2 becomes equal to the input voltage or control voltage at that time the output of this IC changes means it states changes to low voltage. So, the starting H is decided by the trigger pulse and the ending H or lagging H of this pulse is decided by the modulating signal or input signal. So, we can say that the width of this pulse is depend upon modulating signal. So, this process is continuous and we get the variable width pulses train of pulses at the output of this IC that is the at the pin number 3 and this pulses are nothing but pulse width modulated output. Now, next is a pulse position modulation it is the analog modulating scheme in which the amplitude and width of pulses are constant while the position of each pulse varies according to the instantaneous value of message signal. So, in the pulse position modulation the position of all these pulses varies according to the amplitude of modulating signal. Let us see the block diagram for PPM modulator. In this PPM modulator again comparator is used to input to the comparator modulating signal and sort of signal. So, here at the comparator we get the PWM signal that is the pulse width modulated signal. So, this pulse width modulated signal is applied to the monostable multivibrator again this multivibrator is using the IC555 here and the at the output of monostable multivibrator we get the PPM output that is the pulse position modulated signal. Let us see the circuit diagram for PPM modulator. In the PPM modulator here again two parts one is a differentiator circuit another is the IC555 circuit, but here the control voltage is connected to the wind capacitor and which is connected to the ground. So, here the input for this circuit this input is only PWM signal and this pulse width modulated signal is given to the differentiator. Then here the differentiator consist R1-C1 capacitor this R1 is connected to the VCC. When we give the train of pulses to the differentiator then differentiator generate the negative spikes that is the negative edge trigger. Now this negative edge trigger applied at the P number 2 the output of this IC is at the P number 3. Now when this negative edge trigger is given to the IC we have seen it is working in the last slide. Now the question what will be the output of IC555 when trigger pulse is given pause the video for a while and think. So when we give the negative edge trigger at that time the output of this IC555 that output becomes high. So here first the input that is the PWM signal that is that wave is here and at the ending edge of this pulse there is a negative edge trigger and when the negative edge trigger is applied to the IC this is the output across this IC555. So the output becomes high. Output remains high for a particular time period. So this time period is a constant here and that time period is depend upon the value of this C2 and R2. So in pulse position modulation this pulse remains high for a particular time period. That time period is a constant and its amplitude this amplitude is equal to the amplitude of input signal the amplitude of PWM signal. Now this process is continuous and at the output we get a train of pulses, width is constant amplitude is constant but its position changes. So in this way we give the PWM signal input to the differentiator. The differentiator generate a negative edge trigger pulses when the negative edge trigger pulses given to the IC555 then the IC555 its output becomes high and this output remains constant for a constant time period and this time period is depend upon R2 C2 and after that time period the output of this IC becomes low. So in this way at the P number 3 of this IC555 we get a pulse position modulation output. These are the references. Thank you.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcCXiT1E-zA", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCcxyEcpXchqTttADFl5WHKg	Winthrop-University Hospital - 2015 Women's Choice Award - Heart Care	Best Hospitals for Heart Care: Winthrop-University Hospital has earned the 2015 Women's Choice Award as one of America's Best Hospitals for Heart Care	[ "Heart Health", "winthrop hospital", "Cardiology (Medical Specialty)" ]	2015-09-18T20:57:00	2024-02-05T07:35:09	42	pcFzTjZrmgg	Hi, I'm Delia Passi, founder of the Women's Choice Award and former publisher of Working Mother magazine. I am pleased to recognize this hospital for earning the Women's Choice Award for America's Best Hospitals for Heart Care. Considering that heart disease is the number one killer of women, the time is now to find the best in heart care. The Women's Choice Award simplifies healthcare decisions by identifying hospitals that meet the highest standard of clinical care and patient experience. Congratulations Winthrop University Hospital for earning the 2015 Women's Choice Award as one of America's best hospitals for heart care.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcFzTjZrmgg", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UCH_hHwkXLnSvpBFG2fd12yA	Santa Cruz City Council 3/12/19		[ "CTV", "Santa", "Cruz", "County", "Community", "Television", "SantaCruzTV", "CTVSantaCruz", "Video", "Nonprofit", "Organization", "Media", "Film", "Access", "Public", "Art", "SantaCruz", "Santa Cruz", "SC", "California", "West Coast" ]	2019-03-19T23:07:39	2024-02-05T07:35:24	34,756	pCYE0ihHwqQ	All right, it says good afternoon on my script, but it's good morning. So good morning, welcome to our 10.45 a.m., public portion of closed litigation session of the March 12, 2019 meeting of the Santa Cruz City Council. In this part of the meeting, the council will receive public testimony. Thereafter, the council members will move to the courtyard conference room for the closed session. I would like to ask our clerk to please call the roll. Thank you, Mayor. Council members, Cron. Here. Leverett. Here. Meyers is currently absent. Brown. Here. Matthews. Here. Vice Mayor Cummings. Here. And Mayor Watkins. Here. At this time, I'd like to see if there are any members of the public who would like to speak to any of the items listed on closed session. If you could, please come up to my left and we'll have two minutes. Good morning, council. My name is Ted Rosseter, and like you, I'm a representative of others. As an SEIU bargaining team member, I have to think about all the 400 or 455 people that I'm standing here for. Admin staff, city clerk, finance, HR, IT, library staff, PD rangers, records and property, parks and rec, sanitation, garbage truck drivers, landfill workers, maintenance workers, street maintenance workers, parking office, parking enforcement, water treatment, water distribution, water meter shop, wastewater treatment plant, corp yard, public works, and many more that I'm sure I'm forgetting. You know the people who are the lowest paid in the city, that's SEIU. We're often overlooked, undervalued, and underappreciated. These are the people that are feeling the squeeze the most. I'm here for the employees who've got to work a second or even a third job while being a full-time city employee. I'm here for the people who are homeless or nearly homeless working for the city. I'm here for the people who come to work with broken bones because they can't afford to go unpaid because of an accident outside of work that will take weeks or months to heal working for the city. I'm here for everyone who's given more than the job requires. The people who know that they make the city of Santa Cruz more than just another city, they give it a heart and a soul, making it a community. I'm here to tell you that your community is hurting. It needs you now. It needs you to tell the city, the bargaining team, that we're losing time, money, experience, morale, good people, and opportunities. Tell them to help us now. Give us what we need, what we've asked for. We're looking for your leadership to them to help us make a deal. Thank you. Thank you. My name's Ken Bear. I've worked for the city of Santa Cruz for 14 years now, lived in Santa Cruz for 49. While working here, I've seen employees time and again take pay cuts, pay a portion of the city's contribution to CalPERS, and taken furloughs to help the city through tough times. When times are good, the city, we don't fully regain what we've given up. This dysfunctional relationship has driven some of my coworkers from their homes. It started with the lower paid part-time employees that had to give up other work because management's demands for city worker to come first and give... Sorry, I'm not very good at public speaking. The dysfunctional relationship has driven some of my coworkers from their homes. It started with the lower paid part-time workers that had to give up other work because management demands city work comes first without giving any security in the form of regular hours. They did this because they thought sometime in the future, the city would do the right thing. I will continue on, but I want you to think about this. Is this the city council that will finally do the right thing by the lower paid city workers? As you can imagine, it can be quite embarrassing for a person that doesn't have a home to talk about it in public, and that's why he's not here today. For the first time since working here, I work with a full-time employee that is living in their car. He and his dog try not to infringe on the public. He maintains his vehicle and makes sure he doesn't spend too much time in one spot. He does have a choice. He can continue living out of his car or he can rent a garden shed. That's all they can afford. Thank you. I want to invite you to feel free to submit your remarks if you'd like, and we could take them back to closed session if you'd like. Thank you. Hello, my name is Renee Belling. I've worked for the city for 30 years. I'm a library employee, and I've been on the bargaining team for several times. Three years ago during bargaining with the city, we once again tried to get SEIU 521 service workers to be able to pay the same as management for parking downtown. When the city absolutely refused to do that, we said that it was only fair for everyone to pay the same price for parking downtown. We were called hypocrites since we get back $10 a month for parking from a special fund. Now management pays $39 a month for the city annual park anywhere permit. That's a total of $468 a year. They receive a 200 monthly car allowance for a total of 2,400 a year. Most make upwards of $150,000 and some over $200,000. City employees are paying $45 this year for a total of $540, and it only applies to whichever parking garage they have the permit for. Next year, it will be $55 a month for a total of $660. $65 a month in 2021 for a total of $780 a year, and in 2022 it will be $75 a month for a total of 900. Most city employees who are paying this amount makes $40,000 or less a year net. The city is now giving downtown parking businesses free parking for their employees, giving downtown businesses free parking for their employees, and for contractors who are working with the city. The city also makes contractors who work with the city pay their employees the city's living wage. That also applies to any business with employees that are located in the city of Santa Cruz, because it is so expensive to live in Santa Cruz. The city refuses to pay their own employees that same living wage, and they make those employees that don't make that living wage pay full price for parking downtown. Somehow, I don't think we're the hypocrites. And you're welcome also if you weren't able to complete. Thank you, and I'll ask if you could, please, if you will, lower your signs so folks behind you can see. Thank you, okay. Morning Mayor Watkins, council members. My name is Neil Christen. I am a city employee and I'm on the negotiating team. I'm here today to speak on behalf of my service employee colleagues and to respectfully request your collective leadership and authorizing your negotiating team to move beyond the limitations of the current city proposal. Although we recognize and commend the improvement in both the initial offer and negotiating conditions, unfortunately, the current city proposal once again does not make any firm commitment to close the now quantified and significant wage gap. The current proposal would barely cover the projected increase in inflation and would not immediately address the most pressing issues that impact our colleagues. The looming wage gap, a recruitment and retention crisis in conjunction with the rapidly increasing cost of living in our area. In reference to the significance of the growing wage gap, your lead negotiator accurately acknowledged that it took multiple contracts over many years to arrive at this current arrangement. And as I agree, I urgently ask you to adopt a position of prioritizing the investment in your most valuable asset, your employees. I am asking you to move to break a long cycle of suboptimal contracts and a distasteful history of service employees fighting to make up for major concessions that were given up when the city experienced a fiscal crisis during the recession. Over the past few years, we have seen economics conditions improve, steady increases in the city's unrestricted fund, and a sustained high rate of discretionary spending. Your service employees now ask that you prioritize a long overdue fiscal commitment to your employees and the important services they provide to our community. We, your service employees are passionate in the commitment to the scope of our current proposal and that it begins to address the growing wage gap. Recruitment and retention crisis and the rising costs of living, which collectively and adversely impact our professional and personal lives and inevitably the services that we provide. Our members remain committed to continue to fight, to earn a contract that immediately sets us on a path of economic recovery. Thank you. Thank you. Morning council, my name is John Silas. I am also on the city's, on the SEIU's bargaining team. Two weeks ago, I assisted with suppressing a fire that broke out in the encampment behind Ross. A fire that started in a homeless individual's tent that was destroying everything that that man possessed in the world. My fellow Rangers, police officers, and I approached the fire, unknown what combustibles were inside or around the tent and began to evacuate others. We struggled to save as much as we could while the fire department was in route. We risked our health, well-being, and lives to do everything we could to help this man. It didn't matter that he was homeless. We sacrificed our own safety to help a member of this community. Last week, again, while at the Ross camp, I observed a vehicle collision that resulted in a vehicle immediately bursting into flames. I ran through that camp with my fire extinguisher, not knowing if anyone was still in the vehicle. I, again, without hesitation, put my well-being and safety on the side to save life and property, to suppress that vehicle fire. I love this community and everyone in it, housed or houseless, wealthy or poor. I'm a service employee and I'm one of the many that helps keep the city clean, running, and safe. Sadly, reflecting back on these recent events, instead of the pride I should have felt as the fire battalion chief placed a junior firefighter sticker on my Ranger jacket, I wondered if anyone in the city management would even care if I took a position in Paul Otto or San Jose, like so many of my colleagues before me did. Or if I'm just a number that is replaceable. And I'm sad to say that many of your service workers feel this way, that the city continually looks at us as replaceable. As we struggle to make ends meet, one unexpected financial strain away from catastrophe. We are forced out of the city's workforce in this community to seek outside employment because we are not paid competitively and at a livable wage. It's time to retain your skilled trained workforce. I plead that the council show leadership and authorize a fair contract today. We are ready to get this deal done, and I hope the council is as well. Thank you. Mayor and city council, I'm here on behalf of my wife, who is at a class right now, but she filed a police report on a hit and run while she was at a exercise class over by the old roller rink on Seabright Avenue. And she went in and did her exercise, came out and her vehicle, which was parked on Seabright Street, had been hit, sideswiped, and there were scratches and dents in both the front driver side door and the passenger side door, and the mirror was all pushed back and dislocated. So Susan spent 30 years teaching and we put two kids through college and we did everything that we could to contribute to this community. And all I'm asking is that you consider the report when you go in the closed session and think about it. And I know these folks back here have really legitimate concerns, but when you consider this, just think about the fact that she worked hard all her life and for the first time in her life at 72 years old, she bought her first new car. And while it meant a lot to her, I just hope that you'll consider that case. So thank you very much. And if you have any questions or want clarification, I can answer those, but I don't know if that's appropriate here. So thank you. All right. I don't believe we have any other additional public comments. So at this time, I will adjourn the meeting to the courtyard conference room where the council will go into its closed session. I just have an announcement. The two anticipated litigation items on your closed session agenda under item C relate to one, the Verizon encroachment permit that was on your February 26th agenda. That was an encroachment permit for a design permit that was approved by the city. And that was out on Morrissey Boulevard. The second significant exposure to litigation item relates to the homeless encampment behind the Ross building. Thank you. I city attorney Condard. Just a point of order. Tony, why are you announcing those now and why weren't they in the agenda previous? I mean, we're in public session now so they could have been here. I'm doing it for the minutes to just affirm that we have complied with the Brown Act with respect to significant exposure to litigation items. Brown Act requires that there be an announcement. If the circumstances are known or a threat of litigation has been made. Because folks who might have wanted to speak on this may have come and they saw it in our agenda earlier. So, okay. At this time we'll adjourn to our courtyard conference room. All right. Well, good afternoon everybody. Welcome to our 1 30 PM session of the March 12th, 2019 meeting of the city council. I'll go ahead and ask that our clerk please call the roll. Thank you mayor. Council member is Cron. Here. Clever. Here. Myers. Here. Brown. Here. Matthews is currently absent. Vice mayor Cummings. Here. And Mayor Watkins. Here. And we'll go ahead and lead us to the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of Allegiance. The floor is yours to stand. The nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So now is the time for the introduction of new employees. If we could please have our public works director, Mark Dettel, introduce his new employee. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. It's my pleasure to introduce my new employee, Traiu Ari Niko Ballisterio. How'd I do, okay? Very well. All right. He's a new facility maintenance assistant, working in our parking division. He was born in Los Angeles and his family, and he moved up to Santa Cruz when he was very young. So he's lived here most of his life. Currently lives downtown. He lives in town with his family and his dog. He's a little dog called, well, not little. He's got a dog named Hachi. He's worked downtown for, in the downtown 7-11 for about 10 years, doing the night shift clerk. So familiar with our downtown area. He held a night shift job, many part-time, full-time positions throughout Santa Cruz and beyond. So we're very happy to have him in the parking facilities group. He attended Santa Cruz Community Schools, and he wanted to give a special shout out to his teacher, Gary Sarge Fitzgibbon. Fitzgibbon. It's given. When he's not working, what he does for fun, he likes to go camping. He's got a camper, and he goes to national parks, does photography, and likes to capture the memories with his ventures with him and his dog. So please join me in welcoming Trey Yu to our team. Okay, so we could now invite Lee Butler to introduce his new employees. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council Member. Today, I'm very pleased to introduce to you Kimberly Dory. She joined us as a code enforcement specialist, and she was born and raised in Sacramento, California. She received her bachelor's degree in criminal justice from California State University, Chico. Prior to joining the city, she worked for three and a half years with the County of Sacramento as a code enforcement and rental housing inspector, and she's got a series of certifications and courses that she's taken at the basic intermediate and advanced level through the California Association of Code Enforcement Officers. So her background and experience aligned her well with our needs here in the department. And in her spare time, she is passionate about helping animals, and she enjoys volunteering at her local shelters. So please join me in welcoming Kimberly. Welcome. Welcome, Kimberly. All I said, Mark Dettle, our Director of Public Works, come up for a 40-year service pin recognition. What one of the privileges of having this job is you occasionally you get to recognize long-term employees and 40 years is a long time. I want you to think about it. Um, my hats off to Luis Escobar. He started with the city, March 12th, 1979, 40 years ago today, through a work experience program administered through Santa Cruz High. He worked in the parking division where he worked on the parking meters for school credit. In fact, he told me before the meeting, he worked in the basement right over here. That used to be connected to PD, and that's where he worked on the parking meters. When he was still in high school, he then became a service maintenance worker in the courtyard garage, working the swing shift from 4 p.m. to midnight. I don't think we can do that anymore, but we're the high school student, but back then the rules were different, I guess. His responsibility was filling up the refuse trucks and other fleet vehicles with gasoline and checking the fluid levels. He was then promoted to a service maintenance worker two, where he serviced the vehicles and then hired as an equipment maintenance, excuse me, equipment mechanic one, and later promoted to equipment mechanic two, leading to another promotion in 1995 as his current position as lead mechanic. In 40 years, I'm sure you've seen a lot of changes in the type of equipment and what we do, but it's one of our employees that just keeps getting the work done and keeps our vehicles on the road, and my hat's off to you for all that dedication, and I have a ceremony, the pin with actually a nice diamond in it, it looks like a diamond for 40 years to congratulate you. Thank you. It's been a long journey. I have seen a lot of changes, a lot of people come and go, but I'm fortunate that I was able to be here this long, but anyways, thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all your years of service. So at this time, I'd like to have a moment for Mayor's Proclamation honoring Carol Scourge's retirement, and if we could please ask Tony Elliott, our director of Parks and Rec to come on up, along with Carol, there she is. Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council, Tony Elliott, Parks and Recreation Director. In March 1987, I was eagerly anticipating my fourth birthday, I was really excited, and at that same time, at that same time, it gets better, it gets better, it gets better. It gets better. At that same time, Carol Scourge began really her first steps in her career and what would become a legacy here with Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation. As you all know, Carol recently announced her retirement, will be March 22nd of this year, after a remarkable and impactful tenure with the city of Santa Cruz. Carol started as Recreation Superintendent and has spent 32 years dedicating her energy, knowledge and passion to serve the residents of Santa Cruz. During her tenure, she's overseen many of the most iconic events in the city, ranging from Clam Chowder to Woody's at the Wharf, Junior Guards, a number of events and activities that really kind of define traditions here in the city. Carol served as the city's liaison through sister cities and is really a consummate and spirited advocate in all ways for the city of Santa Cruz. In 1989, after the earthquake, she served on the streetscape project on Pacific Avenue Mall. Over time has helped develop new parks, facilities such as Depot Park. In 2018, she served as the interim director of Parks and Recreation. And I think Carol may be best known for her energy, her competitiveness, her spirit of inclusion, just kind of that fire that true Rec professionals have. But really, her impact goes far beyond the walls of City Hall and the walls of the Parks and Recreation Department. And it's really reflected in her service to the community through programs, through events, and through her service through boards and different activities through the community as well. So Carol's personality, her passion for recreation are really undeniable and her legacy will live far beyond her days reporting to the office. So on behalf of the entire Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation team, it's my honor with everybody back here from the Parks and Rec crew to honor, to thank and acknowledge Carol Scourage for her 32 years of service to Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation. Thank you. So I really would like everyone to sit down and really get comfortable. Yeah. If you need to get water, please feel free to do that. The restrooms are outside the door because I am going to take this opportunity in all sincerity. First off, I really feel it's really unfair that Louise got up here before me. I feel like a slouch at 32 years. Like, and he got a diamond. And if I would have known that, I would have done eight more years. I'm telling you, I would have. But I guess it's too late. Tony's already signed the PAF. So that's the way it goes. But really, it kind of seems like yesterday that I, the Donetsch YouMaker, brought me up here to honor my 25 years. And now here it's 32. And so I just really want to take the opportunity to thank the council members over the years. They've just been really awesome and supportive and really helped mentor me along and provided me guidance and support. People that have been here for a long time, been on the council many times. People that have been on the commission. I just appreciate so much. I appreciate Martine who helped me through the interim time and of course all through the years of his guidance and support. I appreciate that so much. And really thanks so much all the different people and all the departments throughout the city. I just have had such great, wonderful working relationships and people have been such a team and it's really been my honor to work with so many people throughout the city organization. And probably then most of all, I really want to thank the Parks and Recreation team who are absolutely awesome and has been such a pleasure to work with them. Hardworking, like many city employees, but they really put their time, passion and effort into it and have really been such a help and support to me and to the whole department over the years. They couldn't be here today but I just really wanted to thank my sons and my 97 year old father who will be here on the 28th and if you don't have that on your calendar you better put it on there because that's when we're really gonna have fun and really celebrate. But I'd like to thank them for my sons for going to so many events over the years for so many dedications and being there with a smile and going along with it. And I can always remember bringing my youngest to a historical preservation commission because I didn't have childcare and he's going under the benches and things are going on and the architect's up talking and he said, who's making all that? Oh, it's my son, Joey. He's so cute. He'll be fine, don't worry about him. But anyway, thank you for this honor. I appreciate it so much. It's been my pleasure to serve the city. It's always been an honor and it's really just, it's nice to walk away and think of all the great things that have been accomplished over the years through our department and then also to know that there'll be 32 and more years ahead of great things that will happen for the city and the Parks and Recreation Department. Thank you for this honor. I appreciate it very much. You're not done yet, Carol. Sorry. Dean? You can talk about you now. I just, you know, it's my honor to be mayor at this time when you're retiring so I'm able to sign your proclamation. I've been on the council for two years and you have always approached me incredibly open as I know you probably have to every council member and interested in coming up with solutions and have been 100% committed to our city. And that has never been questioned. You could see that through and through. I want to thank you so much for your years of work. It's been an honor to get to know you over these past few years and it's my honor to have the proclamation in your name and honor. So I'll read a few and then I'm sure other council members may want to say a few words. And there's a couple I want to point out. So whereas over the course of Carol Scourge is 32 years with the Parks and Recreation Department, she has delivered an unparalleled spirit of dedicated service to the community and an unwavering sense of competitiveness and endless supply of positive energy and a character that never ceases to encourage, involve, challenge and bring out the best in all people around her. And I now therefore, Martin Watkins, the mayor of City of Santa Cruz, do hereby proclaim March 12th, 2019, as Carol Scourge Day in the City of Santa Cruz. And I encourage all citizens and co-workers to join me in expressing our heartfelt appreciation for you, Carol, your work, your 32 years of dedicated service and exemplary service and numerous contribution to the Parks and Recreation Department and to the City of Santa Cruz and we're wishing you're very best in retirement. Thank you, Mayor Watkins. And if there's any council members who want to say a few words. Carol, turn around. We're still not done with you yet, Carol. Carol, I just wanted to recognize you specifically. I was chair of the Parks and Rec Commission during your interim director period. And I just want to thank you. I know that was a really heavy lift. And just in general, just thank you for all your years of service. I think I've known you for at least 20 plus years. I'll miss seeing you walking down to West Cliff and doing your afternoon walk. But I also want to thank you for your help in helping to save the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, which is another dear project of mine. We almost closed our doors and it was because of your help with the city staff to help us not only renovate the building in very important ways, but also just work together as partners to keep that really important institution that provides environmental education for 10,000 kids. Every year. So I really appreciate your work on that as well as a member of the board of the Natural History Museum. So thanks and have fun. I would also like to just say personally to Carol, I think I first interacted with you when you staffed the vision Santa Cruz. And my gosh, that was, what a big project early in your career to work on that, but recovering from the earthquake. And then there's nothing in Santa Cruz that you haven't touched in the P&R department. I think of the sister cities, the beach programs, all the stuff at Harvey West. I mean, all the leagues, the corporations. I look at that Parks and Rec catalog that comes out. What is it three times a year now? And you think, what the city delivers in terms of facilities and programs that enrich the lives of everyone here? And I know you've touched all of it and that we are all in your debt for that. Thank you. Thank you, Carol. Thank you so much. Just want to say really today, one day, Carol Scourge Day. Woody's on the wharf. How many of those have we had? I thought those were Carol Scourge Days. I thought the clam chatter cookoff was Carol Scourge Day. I really thought every day I took my daughters to the park. It was Carol Scourge Day. Thank you, Carol. Thank you, Carol. Okay, let's see if we can get some more. I just want to say, yeah, I just echo the comments of my colleagues. Your commitment, your passion for our city and our Parks and Rec programs is clear. And I would just add that your passion is also contagious in the workplace. So beyond the array of programs that you have been involved with and responsible for overseeing and saving in some cases, you know, just being around you, we feel it. And so I just really want to appreciate that and wish you well in your retirement and hope to keep seeing you around. Thank you, Carol. Yeah, I'm gonna go now. Okay, you can go now. You can go. So we have another opportunity to honor a retirement today. So we have the Small Business Development Center Activities Mayor's Proclamation honoring Theresa Tome's retirement. So please come on up. And, thank you. She would be promoting her programs. I didn't know I was getting the proclamation. That's why you have a promotional piece. Thank you. Surprise. Hi. Mayor Watkins and counsel, I just, it was my intent to come here today to thank you for your support of the Small Business Development Center over the years. Ever since Bonnie Lipscomb came on as your Economic Development Director previously redevelopment, she immediately reached out to me and being familiar with the SBDC from her previous employment. We entered into a partnership for which I am so grateful. We rely heavily on your support to provide match to the federal dollars we receive from the SBA. And I really, truly could not do what we do without your support. I brought this piece to show you our county-wide statistics for 2018 that we served over 350 clients. We helped those clients increase their sales by $15 million. So that's a, I'm proud of your city's investment in that increase in tax and other revenue for the city. We helped our clients get over $5 million in loans and we also presented 34 seminars and did some special programs like the retail reset, which you'll see on one side. And some of the businesses we served under that program which I developed last year were included because of your funding. So your funding went into direct services to help restaurants and retailers work out some challenges and increase their sales last year and I included one narrative of a success story from Humble Sea Brewery, but we do have many. So I just want to say thank you so much to Bonnie and her staff, Rebecca Unit, Amanda Rotella and Marty Ackerman and others who've just been really great supporters. Because of that, we've been able to hold seminars continually at the library and thanks to the library staff as well. They've been great. And just now we just presented my last seminar but the second of this year's Brown Bag series and now we're having them at Next Space. So we're calling them Tuesday Tech Talks, quick as I love alliteration. And we had a full house and again, the city sponsorship is always noted on all the flyers and the PowerPoints and I just, I come to you most sincerely with my thanks. I have a great team of advisors including Keith Holtoway who I just saw sneak into the room with my rearview mirror and Keith is instrumental in helping all of your businesses succeed. It's still challenging. It's a challenging environment for small business and we need to continue to support them. And my office will continue to work with the local lenders to make sure that they have the capital that they need to start and to grow. And my successor will be here before you shortly, I'm sure, and he's going to be great. His name is Brandon Napoli and he knows the area well. His father was actually the tennis coach up at UCSC. So he loves Santa Cruz and it was his dream to as he put it come home. So I'm really happy and really confident that things will keep going well, especially with your support. So thank you for this surprise proclamation, I think. And, but mostly it's just really been my honor to work with all of you over the years. Thank you. Well, thank you so much for the presentation and for allowing us to honor you in your retirement. Thank you. And today, in addition to the work that you do in supporting our cities, I know you do a lot of work in supporting education as well. And most recently saw you at the, Your Future's Our Business Luncheon and getting the next generation of future business owners engaged as well. So I appreciate all your work in that regard too. I'll just read a couple if I may. So whereas under Theresa Tome's leadership, over $8 million of funding is received annually by SBDC clients in the community. And SBDC was named Organization of the Year in 2005 by the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce. Theresa Tome was named a community hero for 2003 by United Way, recently awarded the Star of California SBDC program at the nationwide SBDC conference and has been honored not once but twice as Woman of the Year by the Aptos Chamber of Commerce in 2016 and then by the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce for her impactful leadership and years of support to the Santa Cruz County businesses. So it's my honor as Mayor of the City of Santa Cruz to hear by proclaim March 12th as Theresa Tome Day to share with Carol Scourge Day and encourage all of our participants and our citizens and business owners in expressing our heartfelt appreciation for your years of service and exemplary leadership and contributions to our community. So thank you so much. Thank you. My next step, I'll be going to Italy for a while and I think I'm gonna stop into Cestri Lavante and say hi to all of our sister city ears. So that concludes our presentations this afternoon. I have a few announcements and then we'll go right into our meeting. So today's meeting is broadcasted live on community television channel 25 and streaming on the city's website at cityofsantaacruz.com. Lynn Dunn is our technician for both this afternoon and evening session and I wanna thank him for his work. He's here longer than we are. All city council members can be emailed at citycouncilatcityofsantaacruz.com and if you'd like to communicate with us about an agenda item, we'd like to receive your email by Monday at 5 p.m. before our council meeting and this provides us with an opportunity to review your email and include it with the rest of our agenda packet. Please do bear in mind that all items of correspondence with the city and the city council constitutes public records and are generally subject to disclosure upon request by any member of the public. Accordingly, if you have sensitive or private information that you do not wish to be made public, you should not include that information in your correspondence. Our rules of decorum are on the window ledge to my left and it's my job to keep the meeting running without disruption and I ask that you respect your fellow citizens when you are inside and outside of the council chambers. So at this time, I'd like to ask if there are any council members with a statement of disqualification today. Okay, seeing none. And are there any additions or deletions to our agenda today? I'll just briefly make an announcement about oral communications. Oral communications is an opportunity for members of the community to speak with us about items that are not on our agenda. And oral communications will occur at or around 7 p.m. in the evening. I'll turn it over to our city attorney to report on the session. Thank you, Mayor Watkins. Members of the city council. Four categories of closed session discussion this afternoon, or this morning rather, that occurred in the courtyard conference room. Item A was liability claims, the claim of Susan Tomley-Shallenberger. That is also an item on this afternoon's consent agenda. Item eight. Second, item B was a conference with labor negotiators. The conference met with its chief negotiators concerning all bargaining groups, SEIU Local 521, OE-3, supervisors and mid managers, and fire management association. There was no reportable action on that item. There were two items of significant exposure to litigation. Item one, concerned exposure to litigation in connection with the Ross encampment out by the Gateway Plaza. That is also an open session discussion for this evening. Second item was threatened litigation by Verizon in connection with the encroachment permit matter that was on your February 26th agenda. On that item, council directed that the encroachment permit issue be agendized for further consideration at the next regular meeting on March 26th. Lastly, there was a conference with legal counsel on existing litigation, and that was the Hatch-Pomerance versus City of Santa Cruz case. Council received a report from legal counsel. There was no reportable action on that item. Thank you. All right, now I'll ask that our city manager provide us with a report. Yes, thank you. I wanted to just give a brief update on the rental housing task force and the work that the Consensus and Collaboration Program at Sacramento State University is doing for the city in this regard. So first, Dave Seppos from CCP, as are known, is conducting background research and has thus far interviewed in person all council members to get initial understanding of their perspectives or your perspectives on rental housing issues and tenant landlord relations and your goals for the proposed stakeholder group. There's some minor follow-up that's required with a few council members on topics that could not be finished during their initial discussions. Secondly, Mr. Seppos has asked for feedback from each council member on community stakeholders who he may interview as a means to hear from a broad cross-section of the community with diverse perspectives. He is compiling this list from the council member's responses and from his own background research. Third, as he's neutral with associated autonomy to do his work, CCP will choose an interview up to 20 interviews based on recommendations collected and best professional judgment. Following community member interviews, Mr. Seppos will prepare a report that outlines the assessment process, including interview participants, questions and timeframe, findings from the interviews, analysis of the findings and recommendations about a task force, including potentially a recommendation that the task force not be convened. If Mr. Seppos recommends a task force to be convened, he will provide recommendations on the proposed design for the process, including but not limited to methods to select and convene the group roles and rules for members, selected official staff and consultants and public engagement suggestions as well. So that's where we're at with that process. I'm gonna be happy to answer any questions with respect to that. Do any council members have questions on that? Vice Mayor Cummings. Did Dave Seppos provide a timeline for when he's expecting to come back with any recommendations? There is a timeframe in the proposal lead, do you have it off the top of your head? I'll speed. So there is a timeframe in the overall proposal. I think part of it is gonna depend on how quickly he can convene and get a hold of all of those stakeholders, arranging 20 separate interviews and then pulling everything together. I don't know what ended up off the top of my head, the specific timeframe for the overall process. We were tossing around two months or so as a possibility and somewhere in that timeframe, I think is what we would be looking at. We can at our next update provide you the specific timeframe, which will be more accurate at that point just because some of those interviews, hopefully we'll have had an opportunity to be scheduled. Thank you. Any other questions from Kyle? Okay, thank you. Okay, so at this time we'll move along to our consent agenda. And these are items four through 13 on the agenda. All items will be acted upon in one motion unless an item is pulled by a council member for further discussion. So are there any council members who'd like to pull an item at this time for further discussion? Council member Brown. I like to pull item six and 11. Are there any council members who have additional items to pull or comments? I would like to pull item seven and nine. Additional, okay. Are there any council members who wish to comment on any items other than item six, seven, nine or 11? Is there any member of the public who would like to request an item be pulled or to speak to any item on our consent agenda with exception to the items that have been pulled, which are items six, seven, nine and 11. Now would be the time to do so. All right, then I'll entertain a motion for the remainder. I'll move the consent agenda. I'll second it. Motion by council member Brown, seconded by council member Myers. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Okay, we'll go ahead and move right along to our first pulled item, which is item number six and council member Brown. So I believe there are members of the public who would like to speak on this item, which is part of the reason that I pulled it. And so I think I'd like to hear from them before I make a couple of statements about where we're at. Please come and we'll be given two minutes. Good afternoon, mayor and city council, Bruce Van Allen from Santa Cruz. As I told you last time, a previous council agreed to funding a tenant legal services program in the amount of $15,000 about a year and a half ago. It didn't come together right away, partly due to finding the right non-profit sponsor and things like that. But the main obstacle was really that getting enough legal advice time in that budget turned out to be very challenging. And so we are actually asking for the release of the original $15,000. The group now has its insurance and non-profit sponsor and everything and ready to go. And we would like to get an additional $15,000 for this pilot project so that we can pay serious attorney time if it's needed. We just found when we did scenarios with attorneys about intaking people with issues and then how they are filtered down to where the attorney actually has to get involved. We discovered that we would have very little time, actual attorney time ready. We could hand them leaflets and, you know, you know your rights types of literature, but that wouldn't really suffice in a contentious situation. So we would like to request the additional $15,000 as well. Thank you very much. Yeah. Hi, Cynthia Berger with Santa Cruz Tenants Association. What this program would offer is education for landlord's tenants and non-landlord tenant people about landlord tenant laws and rights. We wouldn't be lawyers because we don't have enough money to hire a lawyer, but I've had a hotline for five years. Got over 1,000 calls and I do know, you know, and Job Hershfield also, you know, we've taught a lot of know your rights classes. I've gotten many calls from landlords over the years. So I've provided free assistance to landlords about their rights. Oh, my voice is all shaky. And so I understand that there's been some communications from people who are concerned because possibly some of the folks who worked on measure and would be involved in this, but I have a proven track record. I've had no complaints. I've had no lawsuits in the past five years and many landlords have consulted me and I've helped them to learn their rights. So that's a large part of what a program without a lawyer does. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is Jessica Tweet at Ingersoll. I was brought on originally to be the part-time project coordinator for Tenant Sanctuary. I've been doing a lot of the legwork trying to get up and running with the initial funding that were granted. What we budgeted with the initial 15,000 is enough to get us started with the office space and our materials as well as phone, internet and money for a part-time project coordinator and a part-time attorney. But we're finding that with the changing nature of rental housing laws in the last few years, a lot of tenants are left misinformed and we're very much aware of the gap in legal aid between tenants and landlords. So our initial 15,000 could cover maybe four hours a week of a lawyer, not to represent tenants, but to do advising to our counselors. We believe that an additional 15,000 could help us fund a more regular and meaningful president of a lawyer to guide our volunteers, especially with this rental housing task force and the potential for more change to rental housing laws. Again, I just wanna say it's kind of astonishing the lack of legal aid we have for tenants and Santa Cruz and we would just like to start the conversation about healing that gap with the bridge. We're mostly a volunteer-based program, but we do believe advice from a certified tenant lawyer could make a difference in our program. So thank you. Darius Mohsenine, I'm a landlord in town. I think I represent a lot of the other landlords based on some of the communication we've had on social media. I would say nearly the vast majority of not all landlords in this town are absolutely for some organization to provide as a tenant ombudsman. Many of you probably know how many times I've been before, right here at this podium over the past several years, advocating for echo housing or a project sentinel, very mature, very established organizations with a large footprint across multiple cities in the Bay Area. Yes, this was approved last year, but that was pre-toxic Measure M campaign. And what we've learned in a year is just the very principles as part of this organization are the same ones that are labeling us landlords as white supremacists and greedy and even with images of a guillotine that chop our heads off on social media. It's a bad look for the city to now fund that same group. And if you have the 15K, give it to CRLA, Rural Legal, Senior Legal, they're already doing these services. I'm sure they could possibly use the money. But, and then in addition, we also have this task force that's convening. And there's no urgency for this services with this group of folks given their background and their track record in so far as waiting and see what the recommendation is from the task force as far as a viable, effective tenant rights and landlords as well. And let me just say, if they're sincere about inclusion, I don't see any landlords on their roster or part of their organization. So again, I just ask you to table this, wait for perhaps a recommendation from the task force when that comes or consider funding existing organizations, CRLA, Senior Legal, to provide these same kinds of services. And I might not, thank you. Thank you, thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to address the council on this item? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and return it back for action and deliberation. Council Member Brown? And then Council Member Matt? So I just want to make a couple of brief comments. First with respect to the concern about the recipient, the proposed recipient of this appropriation. It's also true that yes, we approved this long ago for this group, but I think it's also worth noting that at the time we did do a request for proposals, we cast a wide net, we asked all of the usual suspects about their interest in performing these services. Some of them did not really have the capacity, others are restricted due to their own policies around their operations, primarily through the, CRLA through the federal government, restricted on who they can and cannot serve. And so this was widely agreed to within the community as the best way forward for such a program at the time. It was a unanimous support by this council. So with that, I would just say, and a recognition that the budget is in question in terms of the services that can be provided, I would like to move that we amend the fiscal year 2019 budget to include this appropriation and increase it to $30,000 for tenant legal services with the caveat that we're defining this as time limited and subject to revision based on task force, stakeholder recommendations and evidence of effectiveness if we do decide on future funding allocations for future budget years. Second that. Okay, so that's a motion by Councilman Brown, seconded by Vice Mayor Cummings. Councilor Mathews, did you? Yeah, I did support and continue to support the idea of some funding for tenant legal services. This funding was approved in 2017, I believe not for this particular group, but for this function. And since then, there's been some big gaps in time. Obviously, the 2018 year politically created a changed landscape. I'm looking at the March 2018 description of the program for tenants and some of that now seems outdated. And I also saw, to my mind, kind of a lack of clarity of what kind of choices would have to be made. It was a very modest budget. I looked at that 15,000 and thought, boy, for all the things that are spelled out in this program, that doesn't do it. So I did have a lot of questions. It wasn't clear who the new fiscal sponsor was. So, and I could go through a lot of things where I thought this proposal just needs serious work at the very least. Are the parties mentioned, whom I know, to be employees? Are they the advisory board, et cetera? There was a lot that just simply wasn't clear in this. There's a talk about providing professional quality legal services. And then another part it talks about, we're unable to give legal advice, we only give information, et cetera, so just a clarity on what's to be expected from the service and to what extent there are agreements in place with some of the other entities mentioned as potential legal partners, senior legal, CRLA, maybe other volunteer attorneys. And again, admittedly, there was only one response to the initial request for proposals, we know that there are other established organizations regionally that do provide a range of tenant services. And I am concerned again with the heavy weighting in terms of the description of services and advisory group that doesn't include any representation of landlord or housing operator experience. So I would be much more comfortable. And then again, I just raised a question, I don't know what the motion is intended, but the 15,000 was only for a 24 month period. And what's been put out to us is that's not enough to do the work. So is it intended that the 30,000 would be for a, I said 24 month, 24 week, that it would be 30,000 for a 24 week period again. So doubling the amount, but still only for half a year. So there's just a lot that's unclear. And when I compare this with some of the applications we get for community programs or something like that, it's much more explicit what's the range of services to be provided. So for that reason, I would at the very least want to support putting this on hold and asking that it be brought back for significant updating and refinement. And that's at the very least. And I think another preference would be to re-advertise to again, a broader circle and see what comes forward in terms of others who might be interested. But I can't support the motion as it's expressed right today for all the reasons that I've put forth. No supercruiting. I support the motion on the floor. I just wanted to clarify a question that was asked about CRLA and why they did not bid on this or are they already too busy or? We have Casey Heemard actually, she, if you. Thank you. Casey Heemard from the city manager's office. We never heard from CRLA about why they did not apply but I understand that they are not able to represent undocumented members of our community. So. Thank you. Council member Chase at the time and myself, she was mayor, mayor Chase and myself sat in a room with the directing attorney from CRLA who at that time told us they were not able to bid because of this constraint. And therefore we're participating with the tenant sanctuary group to put this other proposal forward in likewise senior legal services. Council member Myers. Casey, I just have a couple more questions. So again, sort of looking at the proposal, I was just curious in this situation, would this be typically approved with sort of the form city contract? So in other words, is that what we would be doing in terms of putting this together? So when we went through this process, we did use the form city contract. When we were, we actually did go through the process and they signed a contract, which was our form city contract. Unfortunately, they were not able to meet all the terms because insurance was one of the requirements, so. Okay, and that, but that's been remedied now with the new fiscal sponsor? Yes, the organization let us know in late December that they had a new fiscal sponsor that was able to provide insurance. And what is that fiscal sponsor? I believe. They even let me know that it's the hub for sustainable living. Okay. And I had a couple of comments. One around the mention in the March 19th program proposal about tracking data to yield stats of interest to the city. I think we all know we're in sort of an interesting time with regards to how we move through stabilizing the renters in our community and also going through our rental housing task force. And I would like to see more detail on what that is, specifically because that statement is unclear to me and it obviously may have bearing in where we go with things. So I don't know if we can get CCP to look at some of these things before we finalize this, but I think it's important to make sure we understand what that is just in terms of possible, just to make sure that we have enough confidentiality, expectation and some other things with the in current environment we're in right now. I just think it's very important that if we are tracking data we understand what that data will be used for, how it's, what are the questions that lead to the data, what is it that exactly might be coming out of it. So that would be one question I had or one clarification I'd like. And then finally on again looking at the budget and realizing that yes it's not a robust budget for potentially the amount of work that would be ahead. I wanted to make sure that the proposal or the scope of work I guess is what I would wanna call it in terms of what the deliverables will be. I noticed in conformate in correspondence with both UCSC and Cabrillo that they do have legal housing offices and I do wanna make sure that we understand whether students can be referred to any of those legal services at either of those campuses if they are coming through one of our hotlines. At least that's what I understand and communications from the university and we can confirm that. But in terms of understanding how we manage a small budget with potentially lots of requests, I just wanna make sure that if there are services through the university or through Cabrillo College that we're clarifying that as part of the scope of work as well. And those are my, I guess those are my two main questions and I don't know if you have anything in response to that or if we can include that in the scope of work or how this will work. If that's what the council directs, we can include, we can easily include that. As to the specifics on what the organization intend to do with that, I'm sure they'd be happy to speak to that as well. I'll just, I don't have any questions, but thank you Casey. I know that we as subcommittee members of the housing blueprint had discussed this option and recognized that there were challenges that occurred to be able to move forward with the services that we anticipated earlier. And I felt comfortable now that those are available to fall through with the 15,000. And then also I recognize that it's a different time and we've also moved in a direction of having a community process. And so my thought was to accompany this proposal or this budget adjustment to include a time of like maybe a four to six months to revisit it through the potential stakeholder group that will be vetted and then allow for it to be a temporary service, but for potential modification in the future based on the processes that we'll have in place. And at that time, potentially looking at the service, the scope of the service, the alignment to the intention of the group, as well as potential budgetary adjustments if necessary. Council Member Brown and then Vice Mayor coming. Yeah, so that was included in the motion that I just proposed my motion with the difference being a $30,000 allocation, but with the caveat that we're defining those services as time limited and subject to revision based on the task force and our stakeholder recommendations for future funding allocations. Should they be proposed? Would you be open to increasing the 15 to 30 once you have that process into at the stakeholder? After the time has. I'm assuming we can get that up and running to allow them to utilize the money within the six month timeframe. I was saying if maybe you would, I would be supportive of the 15,000 and then once that is going through, if at a certain point over four or six months or whatever the time duration be, that we then look at increasing it or making any adjustments in terms of scope at that time. I'm just saying what I'm hearing the group say is that they can't really do much with 15,000. So having access to that $30,000 for the four to six month timeframe is important. So if we don't approve it now and they, that can't demonstrate success based upon the 15,000, then we're kind of back where we started. So I'd prefer that we allocate the money now and include that the revised scope of work come within this time period and any progress reports as appropriate. I think that in the absence of not having protections in place for tenants and while we're waiting on this process to actually ensue, it's important that we provide some form of protections. Well, at a minimum services where tenants and landlords can go to within our community and the people who run those services are familiar with our rental housing environment and our housing environment. And I think that one thing that we've mentioned a number of times in the past is the necessity to collect data on things and so I think that this is a good opportunity. The previous city council approved of this. I think that it would be good for our community, especially some of our more vulnerable populations to have these kinds of protections in place and allow for this group to move forward, see how effective their services are given the finances that we'd be able to provide them. And then also when we revisit the advice of the task force and we begin to consider this further, we can then assess whether or not we may want to continue these services and increase funding or whether the funding is adequate to the point where we may need to decrease it. But I think that we should move forward with having some form of organization or group that's able to provide tenants and landlords with advice in our community. The room. I have a quick question, which I'm trying to see if we can get us to address your concern, Mayor Watkins, about distribution of the funding. So is it possible, I'm not sure exactly who to direct this question to move to allocate the $30,000 and to release 15,000 of it with the anticipation that the additional 15,000 would be released pending additional information, flushing out of the scope of work and answering some of these questions for the council, but that the commitment is to the 30,000 should we get that scope of work and have those questions answered to our satisfaction? And I would be supportive of that. I'm assuming that is possible. Those are just the two contingencies on a contract, right? Are you looking into that, Martín Bernal? I'm sorry, no, I was just distracted with another item. Tina was here, she could probably answer that question. Would that be possible in terms of having... She is here. Oh, there you are. Maybe Tina, can you answer that? Could you repeat? Don't worry about it. Maybe Casey heard us. Did you hear us, Casey? No, I'm teasing. Okay, do you want to repeat the proposal? So the question was the terms of a contract like this could we make an appropriation of $30,000 with an initial release of 15,000, ask the recipient organization to provide us with an updated scope of work and answers to some of the questions that have been raised here by council members and have that additional $15,000 allocation be contingent upon receiving that revised scope of work? Absolutely, that can happen both mechanically and in appropriation. You would appropriate the money and then we could do purchase order or set up a contract, yes. So then that would be amendment, amend my own motion, I guess, is that? That would be great. Do you accept the amendment? I accept. Okay, councilor, I just have one more amendment. Again, it's difficult because there's not a contract sort of here. So I'm just trying to figure out how all these pieces fit together. But I'm wondering, Sandy, if you would accept an amendment to also, within the scope of work or in the contract to express the need to keep data, number one, to consult with the city on the data to be collected and also that data remain confidential. Absolutely, yes. I think that was an expectation in the beginning. Okay, any further discussion? Okay, so we had a motion by council member Brown, seconded by vice mayor Cummings for the discussion. I just continue to think the scope of service and budget need more work and I honestly would be comfortable putting this off for one meeting in order to refine that. This just seems both overly broad and somewhat dated and somewhat unclear, a combination of things. So I mean, it'll clearly pass, but I think it would be probably helpful to parties on all sides to have a greater sense of clarity about what are the expectations and for what amount of money. So I guess even to include a condition that an updated scope of work and budget be prepared to the satisfaction of staff reflecting the questions that have been raised here. And I would also strongly suggest clarity on the parties involved in their roles and would very much like to see involvement, as I mentioned, of someone who represents a property management position from, and even could be a nonprofit housing provider, but I've personally found some of the nonprofit housing providers very helpful in exactly this kind of a situation. Their commitment is to good rental housing for people who need affordable housing, but they have a sense of what are the realistic managements to make that a well-managed property and worked with a bunch of the local nonprofit providers. And I think that would, again, that would be a beneficial addition to the core group. So I'm just gonna put those comments on the floor. I think suggesting a more updated and refined scope of services budget and timeline would be helpful for all involved. Council Member Brown and then Council Member Myers. I believe that's what I just did with respect to the question of involving, so I think that's covered in the motion that I made. The involvement of a non, representative of a nonprofit affordable housing provider, I would ask the organization, if you have those contacts would be willing to consider that it seems like a good idea to me. So I don't, that's, if you would like to have that formalized in the motion to ask that they do that, come back to us with an update about that. That's fine with me as well. I would just say just to remind us all that the city engages in making contracts with all manner of contractors and the city council doesn't even see those requests for up to $100,000. I mean, this is, as we saw with the golf course, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of contracts ending up to a million dollars and we never even saw it. So for this amount of money, I don't think it's unreasonable to make that allocation contingent upon the updated scope of work and some additional information right now. And in some cases we wouldn't even be seeing this and the staff would just do it. So just want to remind us of that. Okay. Yeah, I just, I'm really interested in this succeeding. I think it's a really important thing to put in place. And that's really where my questions are coming from. I'm not trying to penny pinch or anything else. I just think that based on what the environment is right now, I think it's really important that if we are doing this, that you have as much at your disposal to succeed. And so I think that's where I'm coming from. I'm not trying to deny this or debate it, but I just want to make sure that it works for the whole community. And so I think clarification around scope and other things like that are really important. And so I'll leave it at that, but I am interested in this succeeding and that's a lot of where my questions are coming from. And I think, I mean, I'll just add that. I think this will be further refined as other iterations move forward over time, especially as the stakeholder process ensues. So, okay, at this point, I'll go ahead and make sure that we have a capturing of the motion with more or less the comments. Okay, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Okay, so the next item on our agenda is item number seven. And I believe- Mayor, I would ask when there is a refinement of the scope of services, et cetera, if that could be forwarded to us, that'd be great. Thank you. Okay, item number seven, I believe was pulled by Council Member Krohn. Okay. And item number seven. Seven. So the question I had, we're paying, it looks like this has to do with what residential security deposits. We're at 0.01% right now. And just a few people I ran this by, I mean, your money market right now is much higher than that. Very few people are keeping money in the bank just at that savings account. And then I ran across this security deposit interest rates from San Francisco. And it looks like they're paying 2.7% on the money that landlords are holding in security deposits, what they give back to their tenants once they leave. And I'm wondering why our rate, if we, you know, how we can bump this up, it doesn't really, it's meaningless right now. Okay, we have Assistant City Manager, Tina Schull. Hello, thank you. Good afternoon. I appreciate, I know you sent me an email, but I couldn't find it, so thank you. And I tried again, so I apologize. It's always tough on council meetings days, you have so much going on. Yes, so what this pertains to is that there is a chapter in the municipal code that requires landlords that are holding security deposits to actually calculate and accrue interest on behalf of the tenant. And then when that reaches $50, they have to pay the tenant. And so Council Member Crohn's question is, is what is, where was the rate derived? And annually we come before the city council to update that annual rate. And the process for doing so is outlined in chapter 21.02. It appears in 21.0210 subpart B. And it says that the minimum rate of simple interest shall be established from time to time by resolution based on the recommendation of the Santa Cruz County Treasurer Tax Collector as follows. The Santa Cruz County Treasurer Tax Collector shall contact a minimum of three major banking or savings alone institutions to determine the average interest rate that currently is being paid on savings passbook accounts. The Treasurer Tax Collector shall compute the average of these rates as a recommended interest rate to be paid on security deposits in the following calendar year. So in essence at the county, the Treasurer Tax Collector does this work. The Board of Supervisors takes it up and then per this ordinance, we just bring that same rate to you. So the Board of Supervisors took up this item, I believe on December 4th of 2018. And Edith Driscoll, the Auditor-Controller Tax Collector surveyed six banks, Bank of the West, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Union Bank and Co-America and averaged it being 0.01%. So that is where that comes from and that has been our process. Now, Council Member Crohn points out that San Francisco had an interest rate of 2.7%. So I looked into it a little bit this morning so I could address this question. And 2.7% this year is up from 1.2% last year and then it was slightly lower in prior years. But the cause of the difference is just there's a difference in the basis for the calculation. So per Chapter 49 of the San Francisco administrative code, this is the basis for the calculation. For March 1st, 2015 and each year thereafter, the rent board shall calculate the rent according to the annual average of the 90-day AA financial-commercial paper interest rate. Rounded to the nearest 10th for the immediate preceding calendar year as published by the Federal Reserve. So they calculate it in a totally different way than the way we have it calculated here in our county. Now, I don't have current analysis about the pros and cons or why that approach was taken and if it's a appropriate approach, I don't know that. But that's why you have the difference. It's literally just the math is being done differently. Thank you, Mayor. Is there any member of the public who would like to address the council on item number seven on our consent agenda? Please come forward and you'll have two minutes. I just thought I'd share with you how I deal with a tenant deposits. First of all, in about 30 years and over several hundred tenants, I've only had like three actually asked for it. And what I tell them is, I'll tell you what, if I have to calculate the interest given the formula, I'm gonna give you the interest. But you calculate the interest and you show me your work, I'll give you three times it. Because it's a very complicated process with all the different changes from year to year. One took me up on that by the way. But I also might add that for my security deposits, I just keep them in a checking account. There is no interest that I receive. And I don't know where you get 2.7% interest except on maybe a five-year CD. So I think that's a little excessive, quite frankly. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any other member of the public who'd like to address the council on this topic? Okay, seeing none, we'll return it back for action and deliberation. Councilor Mathews. I'll move that we proceed with the proposal as written. We have a motion by Councilor Mathews. Is there a second? I'll second. Okay, second by Councilor Meyers. Any for the discussion? I'm not gonna support it because I just think that Mr. Mohissen just made my point that very few people even know they can get their deposit back. It's kind of ridiculously low. And I'm not sure everybody's keeping their deposits in a checking account for their tenants. And I think that they are actually, there's capital there and they should be paying tenants back what they're getting to. And 0.01% might even have an interest rate on security deposits. Council Member Clever. Just with what Tina shared with us. Thank you for that, Tina. Would you say that it would be worth our while to look at the formula that San Francisco uses and then see what it would look like if we applied it into our infrastructure? As much as I wish I was a finance director, I'm not in this moment, but I can certainly have that conversation with Marcus. As I stated, I just, I don't even know the pros or cons or why that was selected over ours. Ours has been on the books since about 97. And I believe all the jurisdictions in the county. So I can certainly do just inquiry and say let's learn a bit more about this, maybe do an FYI back to council. Yeah. And would you need a motion or an action by council since that would take staff time? I wouldn't appreciate that. Thank you. So I'd like to make a friendly amendment to direct staff to come back, what, 30 days somewhere in there? Something like that. 30 days with an analysis of the difference between our calculation structure and that of San Francisco's for deliberation and potential action to revise our infrastructure. Well, I'm happy to incorporate it if we just get it back for information and then take it from there. As opposed to what? I'm sorry, what would be the other, what would be the alternative? Well, that we don't necessarily schedule it for deliberation in action. We'll get an FYI, we'll have the information, then we decide if we want to. If we want to take what we want to do with it. I think there's some advantage to consistency countywide, for example. Mr. Condati? The action ultimately would be an amendment to your existing municipal code provision that provides for the current standard. Okay. So we have a motion by council member Matthews, the seconded by council member Myers with the recommendation as presented and a friendly amendment that was incorporated into the motion. It was incorporated into the motion to have an FYI be returned to the council on the pros and cons of different structures in regards to the percentage. Is that about some, okay, that's enough. Any further discussion? Council member Myers? I'm not sure why San Francisco is the one we want to look at. So I just feel like we're opening up a box here and I'm not real clear why we're selecting San Francisco as our comparing cities. So if there's a way to maybe, I don't know how to handle that, but I just, to just maybe look at all options in regards to how jurisdictions look at this. By county or something, I don't know. I just, yeah, that's inclusive. Okay. Then I will just to get the language right. Ask staff to come back in a month or so with information comparing our security deposit rebate with that exists in San Francisco or other relevant communities without going to a ton of trouble. Okay. Okay, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. That passes with council member Brown, Matthews, vice mayor Cummings, council member Glover, council member Myers and myself in support and council member Cron voting against. So the next agenda item from consent that was pulled is item number nine. And I believe that was. Thank you, mayor. Yes. This has to do with the resolution amending the city Santa Cruz personal compliment and classification. I just a couple of questions about the parks and rec, taking out the aquatic instruction and pool lifeguard, and pool manager positions. And I was just wondering if maybe our parks and rec director could speak to what the status of the of the Harvey West pool is right now. I'm assuming that's where these folks were assigned to when we had those categories filled. Correct. Yep. Yeah. For the record again, Tony Elliott, Parks and Recreation Director. When the Parks and Recreation Department seized operations of Harvey West pool, in 2000, well partially in 2004, but then fully in 2008 and entered, excuse me, into a contract with the Jim Booth Swim School to provide services at Harvey West pool. We basically took all of our staff, all of our operations away from the pool off of the pool since Jim Booth was providing that service. So since 2008, it's been in the process of providing that service. So since 2008, it has been essentially privately run through a contract that we hold with Jim Booth. As such, these positions that are on here have not been filled in about 10 years over 10 years, which is where the request to essentially vacate or delete these classifications comes from since they've not been utilized in over 10 years. In terms of next steps for the pool, something that we're constantly looking at, we provided an information report that I'd be happy to recirculate to the city council. We sent this information report to the council in November of 2018. And again, happy to send that background. We could get into the numbers of what it takes to operate the pool. Again, it's all in this report, but what we're looking at really a few different options in terms of the pool where we're heading with this, we can continue our partnership with Jim Booth, great partnership, but in the spirit of regionalism and partnering with other agencies, we've had discussions recently with the county in terms of what they're doing at Simpkin Swim Center, what we're doing at our pool, and how we can best kind of compliment to serve generally the sort of market that's within the county so that we're not duplicating efforts and being inefficient in some way. So some conversations ongoing there with the county. So would the county help support the Harvey West pool or? Don't know. Don't know. Yeah, in those conversations really are sort of in their infancy, but conversations that we're having and that's regarding the pool or any other amenities. So pickleball is a hot topic and we're talking about pickleball courts. Do we build them? Does the county build them? And how do we work together to make sure that we're not duplicating efforts within a really tight sort of geographic area? Well, I like to hear about working together. That's a good thing. The numbers I saw was 800,000 to keep the pool open the year round and then 400,000 maybe in admission fees and payments and stuff. So it'd be around 400,000 in that report that you circulated that it would take for the city to keep that pool open year round. That's correct. And that's an estimate really based on the numbers, the revenues and expenditures that we had in 04. So kind of extrapolating that and sort of forecasting what it would look like to open the pool up similar to the hours and days that we had in 04. Probably in the ballpark of 800,000 versus 400,000. And just to ensure that Mr. Condati, we're not going too far off on the topic of the pool. Okay, just making sure. But if I may, if we were to open the pool up again, then we could potentially reintroduce these classifications as needed. Correct. Okay, thanks for the question. Okay, is there any member of the community who'd like to address the council on this item? Yeah, we turn it back. I would like to make a motion that would go ahead and amend the classification compensation plans and the FYI 2019 budget personal compliment by approving anticipated classification and position changes and eliminating obsolete classifications except for the aquatic instructor, coach, the pool lifeguard and the pool manager. And I would like to defer that action and refer it to our Parks and Rec Commission for the purposes of obtaining their advice on the closure of the Harvey West pool and report back to the council. Second. So that was a motion by Council Member Crohn, seconded by Council Member Brown. For the discussion, Council Member Matthews. I am actually going to be voting against that because I think this gets into the whole issue of the parks master plan, what we are spending, what we anticipate needing to spend on the whole spectrum of parks facilities. And we did, I believe, ask that question in the budget session last year. And we got a number back on that. So I think calling out one Parks and Rec facility where the positions haven't been filled in 10 years really fails to look at the big picture of what all our demands are and our resources. So I don't support that. Other discussion? Okay, Council Member Brown. I'll be supporting it. One, the deferral on those positions is simply, it's not actually, there's no fiscal impact to us at this time. It is simply leaving them in place should we have a further conversation about opening the Harvey West pool under different circumstances. I believe there was at the time some support by members of this council. I believe there is continued support for that and that the issue ought to be revisited. So that's why I'm supporting the motion. I will support the motion as well. I definitely have expressed interest in wanting to reopen the Harvey West pool and would be happy to defer these classifications in the interim, so. Okay, Council Member Matthews. I would like to just ask the Parks Director, so this suggests that the reopening of the Harvey West pool be returned to Parks and Rec Commission in isolation, independent of all the other recreation and facility demands. I'm sorry, will you state that one? That's a motion, yes. Yeah, that's how I understand it. Yeah, so we can look at that independently. Okay. I mean, I'll just, if I may add, I think as it makes sense to your partnership with the county, as it makes sense to the planning to the previous memo and work and interest expressed by the Council to explore the reopening of the pool, I don't think it has to be sort of the standalone isolation item, but I mean, an area of interest for folks. That's what the motion says. And I'll just say personally, I'd be much more interested in having the time spent on collaborative facilities and programs with the county on pools and whatever else is out there. I mean, that to me sounds like a good place to put your energy for the future. Okay, Martín Bernal. Well, the other issue, of course, is the finances. And so that's the other place where you can obviously look at this too is in the context of the budget. Obviously, I mean, the commission can weigh in, but ultimately we'll have to figure out how to pay for it. And so that would mean likely carving out other places in the budget to make room for it. So that would be what the council would have to do unless you want the Parks and Rec Commission to maybe carve it out of what they see in the parks budget. Councilmember Cron, would you be open to modifying your motion to be inclusive of best next steps that feel appropriate but with the same intention of understanding what it would take to reopen the Harvey West pool? Outside of simply just having it return to the Parks and Rec Commission. Well, I mean, I think the city manager makes a good point that if they get it now, they can look at it before our budget session takes place in May and give us an opinion and advice. I've been hearing about the pool for many years and it's not something that's going away and I would like to, as you mentioned, revisit it. I think it's a good idea and I also think that empowering commissions is a good thing also. With the desired outcome, kind of hearing the desired outcome, I think Parks and Recreation, we can do some work on this and bring kind of a variety of scenarios back to the city council, which may include a partnership with the county, Jim Booth Swim School, kind of looking at the financial impact as well and review all of those different options with Parks Commission and then bring that back to the council. So really it could be kind of a menu of different options for the council. Fantastic, that sounds great. That would be a motion. I'd be quite prepared to support if you care to change your motion. I would assume that that kind of work would go on because that's what enlightened me when I received an email from our Parks and Rec director that said, oh, maybe there can be some partnership with the county on getting that pool open. So that's why I'm making this motion. So I'm assuming the Parks and Rec Commission under the direction of what the director just said is going to look at all those options. So if I'm hearing, I think everybody is on the same page in regards to the movement. All right, sounds good. All those. Could I just have the motion restated? I better not make the motion again, but we can bring back several options for the commission and council to consider. Okay, so with the information coming from the Parks and Rec department with a menu of options and partnerships that will be brought before the Parks and Rec Commission for our consideration at the council. Okay, all right. Is everybody feeling clear? And just to clarify, that would include not including the positions and the deletions as well. It would include differing that those positions still being deleted at this time. Okay. Okay, so that was motion by Council Member Krohn, seconded by Council Member Brown. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. Thank you, Tom. So Council Member Brown, I believe you polled item number 11. So I just wanted to bring this one up because while I understand the need to approve this contract amendment potentially to get this work done, I am really interested in, before we do that, sending some kind of formal communication to county environmental health, asking for a response from them, justifying the time delays and substantial cost requirements that we see laid out in this agenda report. I'm told that the Third District Supervisor's office is willing to be supportive of the council in trying to get some answers from county environmental health. And so I'd like to defer approving the contract amendment pending a response from county environmental health. Chris Schneider, Assistant Director of Public Works. The contract amendment is really time critical. We have to get this work done so that we can get the plan set and out to bid. It requires approvals from county environmental health of what we call the work plan, which is in progress. Since the staff report was written, we've met with the Regional Transportation Commission and county environmental health. And so they are on board. They have tentatively agreed with the schedule we need to move forward without losing our grant funding for the project. So cost is still an issue, but however, at least we have some confirmation that they'll play ball with us in order to get the project ready and out to bid. Councilor Brown. I'm just gonna say, we've had that every time we've approved these amendments from what I understand. So I mean, it's just on, what's to say they're not gonna do that again? I mean, what's to say they're not gonna come back to us and say, oh, we couldn't get the bid to get, I mean, oh, we've found that there's some additional costs associated with this soil testing for arsenic. It just, with no explanation. I mean, I just don't understand why we can't ask them to say they need to justify the extra cost for us to pay for it. The costs are for our consulting team to do the soil sampling. The tensing, et cetera. I agree, we're very frustrated with this as well. However, we feel like it's moving forward at least in the right direction for the time being. If any hiccup comes up, it'll be soon in the next two to three weeks and we would be more than happy to bring it back for more action. If I may, would it make sense to ask for future consideration that they provide a justification so that if this were to return that that is sort of contingent on that? Or would that meet your needs, potentially knowing that this is sort of time sensitive today? I mean, something, yeah. I mean, I guess I can live with that. I'm not happy about it, but I could live with that. I do feel that some kind of formal communication has to go to them because we could, I worry that this is gonna, they say, oh yeah, we're staying care of now, but the experience is not borne that out. Okay, Councilman Matthews and then Councilman. Well, this just leapt off the page in me. I mean, the frustration of the additional requirements and the time delays both, which sounds like it's so frustrating. So it's good to hear that little progress has been made. I think given that it's very time sensitive, I think we need to approve the motion as presented but also include direction for communication from the mayor appreciating that some progress has been made, but emphasizing again, urgency, fill in the words to have more reasonable, justifiable requirements and a timely response cooperation with us to get the project done. So I'd be here, I'm happy to make that kind of a motion. Okay, let's, so long as it's clear that we want some kind of response from them. So why don't we go ahead and pause? Let me just make sure there's nobody from the community who'd like to address this on this item. This is item number 11. Okay, seeing none. Council Member Cron and then we'll go ahead and return if you're interested in making the motion. Assistant Director Public Works Snyder, do you think that, I mean, have they tried to justify this at all to you or is this the appropriate thing? Would it be appropriate for us to be writing a letter from the mayor and council saying, hey, you know, what's up? This is like too much time and expensive. I'm not sure how to answer that. Sorry. Publicly? Yeah. Politically, that's your choice to, you know, decide if you want to write a letter. Will it help us? I'm not sure. We seem to have an agreement now at least moving forward. Interest of county environmental health is to protect the public. And that's a very broad category and reason and how you do that and how you interpret the results of the sampling, how much sampling you require and how often is what is driving this expense. They only have one person that covers the county that does these reviews. They've agreed to make this their highest priority review and our consultant has also agreed to make the additional testing high priority. So I think that's where it's moving in the right direction. This also will inform future rail trail segments that we build. So some of the work that's taking place now will also assist later. It's not just focused on segment seven, which we're hopefully gonna get out to bid at least on phase one soon. We wouldn't want them to drag their feet because we're pushing them and then all of a sudden they, oh, so I don't know. I would like to do the letter, it seems like appropriate thing, but if what Chris says, I don't know. I see it has taken a very active role in meeting this now. And I think that's made a big difference. The directors have talked and their subordinates are in the room, they heard it, they were told, this is your priority. So let's get it done. That's what I was gonna suggest is that we copy the RTC on our correspondence and really in the letter say, it's important that we go forward with this both in terms of the demands and the time, the delays and it appears we're making progress. This is a priority, not just for the city, but for the whole county. So do you, do you wanna make that a motion? Okay, yeah. I'll move that we go forward this with direction for the mayor to write a letter to the county environmental health, copying supervisors and RTC and any other parties that might be appropriate. That was a motion by council member Matthews. Is there a second? Second, asking for response about the timeline, the time delays and costs. Related to the demands and the delays, our desire to cooperate and achieve a priority project. So motion by council member Matthews, seconded by council member Brown. You brief state the motion again, specifically what the letter should say. To the RTC with copies, to the county environmental health copies to RTC and other appropriate parties stating our concern for demands of work to be done and time delays, appreciation that progress is being made and that we hope for their continued priority attention to this project that has county-wide interest. That do it close enough? Yeah, if we could just make sure that other parties includes the third district supervisor's office. It's specifically just so they don't get a lot of them. I would say all supervisors. And that we would appreciate hearing a response from them. Okay, thank you. So motion by council member Matthews, seconded by council member Brown. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. So that then concludes the consent agenda portion of our agenda today. And we'll move right along to our public hearings. So next on our agenda is item number 14 and that's the public hearing for 1720 Westcliff. And it's appealed of the planning commission's approval of a coastal permit. And I believe that we have a, we'll need to entertain a motion to continue this item at this time. Is that correct? I'll move the motion to continue the 1720 Westcliff drive appeal to the March 26, 2019 council meeting. Okay. So that was a motion by council member Meyers, seconded by vice mayor Cummings. All those in favor, there's no public comment. I'm ensuring no. We'll return back. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes with council member Brown, Matthews vice mayor Cummings, council member Cron, council member Meyers and myself voting in favor and council member Glover is absent. Okay. So we have a student delegation send off from Shingu, Japan and that I believe we'll be coming around four o'clock and we will go ahead and postpone that agenda item until their arrival and that is item number 15. So we'll move right along. Did I skip 13? Did I skip 13? More straight water maybe. That was on the consent agenda. Oh, that was consent. Yeah. That's right. No, no, no problem. Okay, so then our next agenda item is a general business item, which is the mid-year review part three, study session on capital investment program, the CIP. And do we have Tracy Cole here from finance to present to us on this item? Not quite yet. You're calling. We're calling. Actually. Why don't we take a, we'll take a five minute break. We'll take a five minute recess and we'll return in five minutes with maybe Tracy here. Thank you, Mayor Watkins. I'm Marcus Pimentel, your finance director. I'm here with Tracy Cole, our budget analyst, principal management analyst. So we'll power through. This is our part three of our mid-year review and it's more of a refresher, a recap of things that are going on in local government and what's happened in the past and what we're looking forward to. And it's all setting us up for the upcoming budget hearings and community outreach and ultimately the budget option for our fiscal 2020 year. We're starting with a little bit of why now. So this is part three. So why are we here now? We're not asking you for action. This is more of an informational session. With last year's budget adoption and included the capital improvement program. We have a robust capital improvement program everywhere except the general fund which has a very, very small trinkle of, I don't know why that word popped into my head, but a very small sliver of funds for the general fund. Last year was the first year we had some general fund funding and it came out of, thankfully, out of Measure S. The voters approved the Measure S sales tax increase. We used that first year's allocation to fund as much of the CIP program as we could. So we're here today to, it's just an informational item just to recap where we've been in the last two meetings and a little bit about our CIP program. This is in preparation for upcoming May. We'll be releasing our budget in April. We'll have some more reference materials. We have the last two presentations are now online in our fiscal 2020 online budgets page. We'll be scheduling some CUMI engagement and certainly we'll have the May 8th budget hearing day for all of you. Just said all that. So we're recapping our focuses on the CIP program. We're gonna end with a little bit of future, like how do we, what do we do with the CIP? When you hear me say $300 million of unfunded need before considering anything new that emerged since last May, that's as of last May. So there are a lot of new topics. There's housing issues. There's other capital projects that have been discussed about as of last May, we're at 300 million. So we know that number's bigger. What do we do about that? No clear solutions now other than we need to keep pushing towards what could we do? So I just saw a recap of what we talked about in our first and second study sessions. Right now we are in the local government is not in a boom cycle. We're actually looking at general fund deficit forecast coming up for the next 40 years. The state is again gonna double the pension payments. Looking to backfill for the state pension investment shortfalls that CalPERS is seeing. The decreasing tax spaces, we'll touch on those a little bit in a couple of slides later about our sales tax, utilities tax, gas tax, all of those are declining or staying very, very flat. The projected economic slowdown in one of our prior presentations we talked about that we're currently in the second longest period of US economic expansion and that can't sustain itself. And then unreasonably low reserve levels. There is no disaster contingency and our general fund reserve is only at about 10%. Hey, so we talked about the state's investment shortfall in the pension system. If you take a look at the pink and the red lines on this graph, these are the bars where the general fund benefit costs should be and what we've been anticipating. And then the blue bars on top of that, that represents the CalPERS investment shortfall. So as you can see those shortfall amounts are increasing even more than what our general fund benefit costs should be. Let's go for it, yeah. So this graph represents where CalPERS should be if they had invested and earned in just the midpoint of the market. They could have been fully funded with a surplus of $65.3 billion had they just invested their investments at the midpoint of the market. I think we all understand this graph. We've seen a few times sales tax, tangible items now, such as video games, CDs, things like that, they're now downloads and so we're not getting those tax revenues on these thanks to technology. Also the aging baby boomers, they're shifting their spending to non-taxable healthcare items and services. And the law is still playing catch up before online sales. Gas tax, as wonderful as ride sharing and fuel efficient electric cars are that does decrease our revenues for gas tax and the franchise and utility tax are decreasing thanks to online streaming and cell phones. And lastly, we are not alone. The city of Santa Cruz last year we adopted a 2019 balanced budget but other cities have not been so fortunate when we did our fiscal comparison study last year, the presentation last year, which is out on our website by the way. A lot of the cities that we compare ourselves to they adopted their budgets with a deficit. And so I can just recap and now we're moving forward. This is an informational item more focused on our unfunded need. Again, we had $300 million of CAPR projects we couldn't fund and weren't unable to fund as of last year. And so we wanted to focus on well, what is that 300 million? We're examples of that and that's where we'll spend most of our energy. We're gonna start with just a little refresher what the CIP document is, how to read it. It's a little bit different from the rest of our budget but certainly has a lot of informational materials. Of course, I meant to say our award winning budget. Forget about that. But within our CIP it starts with some opening information. There's a little two page narrative that gives us some technical information about how to read a document, what it contains in there. We open up the CIP part of the budget with the climate action plan. So these are projects that are incorporated in the CIP they're not separate of, they're part of the CIP program but the Cities Climate Action Committee looks through all the different CIP programs and provides recommendations and then groups those projects as far as which ones are supporting the climate action plan. So it's not a separate listing of, it's just we pull out of the CIP those projects that support the climate action plan. So in one place you can get a quick shot of all the things we're doing that are supportive of that plan. Also contained in the budget document is what I've been talking about, that $300 million list. Last year's list was partially reduced by about $1.5 million, again thanks to Measure S. So we had in the general fund, we identified three different tiers of projects that were all at a level that needed an investment in fiscal year 2019, but we weren't likely seeing how to get to an investment in 2019. So we grouped those into three different categories, staff did analysis of looking at the risk factors, the economic need, the efficiencies of doing a project now versus waiting as well as the alignment with the city council goals in the work plan and it came up with composite ranking that grouped projects into three different categories and that first grouping was presented to council adopted and when and if a Measure S ever passed, we were gonna be able to fund it some portion of it and thankfully again with Measure S passing, the priority level one projects were funded last year, but we didn't, we're unable to get to priority two or priority three projects. So those projects added to our unfunded list. So just information. Within the narrative section, there's a table in there that can, sorry, we'll work better with, I don't like to bash our profession, but sometimes it's too easy to. We fall to tables too quickly, tables, headers, we love them, but there's a table in there that groups the projects by types and you can look at all the different funds that have CIP projects and get a sense of where they get their money from and the types of projects that are within those funds. So there's a table in the report much bigger than this, easier to read, there's just a picture of it. Now breaks down that information and you can see all the different funds and the typical projects that are in those funds and the typical funding sources. So when you flip over a few more pages and you actually get down to the project level, you can see a narrative about each individual project that has fiscal amounts, a headline about what the project is, and then a narrative usually about a paragraph of what the project will do. Included in the program is actual costs from prior year from two years ago, the current years where we're trending, where we think this year's gonna end, as well as projecting out next year's proposed budget and then the following two years possible budgets. Again, the council adopts next year's budget only the next 12 months. So May 28th, the council will be considering next year's budget that will be only fiscal year 20, even though our CIP plan looks further out. We wanna understand what's coming down the pipeline. So in the CIP program, you can see what's coming down the pipeline. Last year's program had a three year and we've expanded it to five years now. So when you see the 2020, you'll see two more years added on cause we wanna keep peering further out. Our ultimate goal is to get to a 10 year and then maybe even, hey, why not a 20 year? But at least have one place where we can see those big projects with big investment things coming at us. We get down to the tough part of our conversation is the $300 million list. So what we wanna do is just go through a few slides and highlight some of the, there's a long list in the program, but we wanna highlight a few of them and talk about them. In addition to what's in the unfunded list, every year there's something new and just, I think it was yesterday, we got heads up about a possible sinkhole on Capitol Road, not a possible asynchole and we just were uncertain as to whose responsibility it might be, it looks like it might be the county, but there's always one unknown unexpected project that comes up every year or two. So in addition to the unfunded list, these are just different picture images of things that we would like to get to, certainly Harvard West, ball field lighting, civic auditorium, we've been talking about that for a long time. There's some solar panel projects that make financial sense, but we just, we haven't had the capacity to be able to do them. Those are examples of things, anything, certainly long west cliff drive, there's a lot of need there, most certainly. We start with one of our unfunded projects, the civic auditorium now. I took a little liberty and did a little Google searching when we found this old picture from 2015 and what the civic could be. Again, this isn't a plan of, it's coming, this is just, this was an artist rendering of what it could be. In the unfunded list, we have $2 million set aside as possible starting money for the CIP. Again, there's no money to do it, we just think there's $2 million there that we might need for starting money, modest improvements, but if we were to look at reasonably the full scope of the project, it's probably a 20 million plus project depending on the level of investment that's required. So what I'm distinguishing there is we have $0 now. The unfunded list is only showing $2 million, but in reality what the committee might want is probably a 20 million net worth project. The wharf is another one of those examples, no money now, within the unfunded list there's a million dollars there or as a placeholder and we really think that what the committee might want is possibly an over $20 million project. So even then, in the unfunded list when I said $300 million, we've already seen there's at least another $38 million that could be added to that if we look at the full possible value of just these two projects alone. So there's a lot of need there. The fire department, there's always a need for more training apparatus in our community. There's a need for co-located, co-used training facility. Again, to defer more to the fire department, talk a little bit about this, this is one that's been identified as a possible project that there's a need for and there's a need to have more training and we like to keep our staff local instead of sending them far away to do training that they take an engine away off duty, they take staff on duty away from our community. So we love to be able to do that training in a place that's a little bit more reachable and closer to home. So we wouldn't have our staff so far away with an active engine. Right now there's zero allocated and there's a placeholder for $2 million of what that project could be. Another example of our unfunded list is the Pogonik Clubhouse renovation. Not knowing what the price tag would be, there's different visions of what might be out there or leave it alone. I mean, there's a whole gamut of things, but there's zero funded now and there's a $5 million placeholder for that. Again, without any articulating what that $5 million would get you, it's just identifying that there is a need there and there's a community, when and if we're ready to have that conversation, we'll have to understand what the scope of that might be. Moving into our scenic trails, there's segment nine that's on our unfunded list. There's portions of segment eight and nine that are in the active budget. So right now we do have some funding portions for segment eight and nine, but there's a bigger section for the segment nine trail that isn't still on our unfunded list. We'd love to move that to a funded level, but we don't yet have the roadmap in place, but staff are working on it. Mentioned solar PV projects. You can look up, well, maybe not look out your back window, but if you had X-ray vision and could see through the annex building, you could see the solar PV that we have here in the parking lot here. There are other installations that make a lot of sense financially for the city. For example, a Corp yard expanding at the Corp yard would make a lot of financial sense. We just haven't been able to commit the budget authority to doing that. PV, there are certainly some other opportunities throughout the city in different locations as well. Right now we have $1.6 million of possible projects out there that all things being equal, we'd like to move forward with, but just with the funding, the lack of funding and the funding prioritization, they haven't made that recommended cut in our recommended funding level. West Cliff Drive, $4 million is a placeholder, zero funded. We have moved some money into the 2019 priority level. One of the bigger priority level of projects was about $500,000, $450,000 for West Cliff Drive work, but certainly to remediate that whole section, it's a much stronger investment. So we know that price tag is there. We know the need is there, but we don't have the ability to move that forward just yet. And those, one of the many, many different pressure points that we have of how do we get to some of these big projects that we should do, would like to do, and just don't have the ability to do. Stormgrain, there's any number of stormgrain projects that have been on the list since I've been here. And we've been able to make progress on some of them, but certainly not to the level that we like. This is just kind of an image of our intersection on Water Street of what happens when a stormgrain fails, and what it should look like when things are dry and sunny, but when the systems are working, they're fast, they're immediate, and they do have big costs, and we certainly, they impact transportation, they impact property, we'd like to be able to address them all. But the Stormgrain Fund and the General Fund both have an inefficient ability to do everything that's needed. Ocean Street improvements, this has been a long time project concept to work on the gateway of people coming into our community along Ocean Street. There's a lot of great ideas that have been discussed and researched, but no funding, and upwards of $6 million possible allocation. Right now there's no funding for it. Again, it's just another example that's on our list. And then railing out some other ones, there's some big ones that have a lot of components to them. Certainly our active transportation plan, if you look at the whole thing, it can total up to 135 million, plus or minus street overlaying reconstruction and facilities master plan. These are complex concept projects that are a combination of a whole bunch of roads and facilities, but we know that's a level of the need that's out there that shows the trend line. There's a lot of need that we don't have the ability to move forward with. We're in a community of 150 year old, 152 now I think. We have a lot of need. A lot of our infrastructure, a lot of our facilities are 75, 80, 50 years old. They're worthy of some considerable investments and we just don't have the ability to invest in those facilities. I'm gonna pause there and just see if there's any, if that made any sense or not sense, but if that resonated with some of the bigger projects that are on the list. Councilor Mayes. Just on the stormwater items, is there, do we use Measure E funds for any of that or is that just stormwater as related to water quality? We've used some stormwater, but there's not enough funding available. Yeah, it's not a lot. The general fund's been the one moving those projects forward. And so it's, it's, pausing to see if there's any other comments on that. That's good. Thank you. Councilor McCurn. Two questions. The climate action plan projects, I didn't understand what that was. Was that the list that you had up on the screen? Yes, within the CFP budget, there's a listing of all different projects that are pulled out and said, these are the projects that are meet and support the climate action plan. So it's a, it's a reprint, essentially of projects that meet the plans. Which one was projects again? What's that? What were those projects again? There's a whole, there's 30 or 40 of them, their own. There's charging stations, it's right there. CIP page number four of our 2019 budget document. My other question was, maybe it's for Chris, it's how do we pay for stormwater, you know, systems do we have, is that a tax? Is that come out of the general fund? Or there, could there be like an area, you know, a neighborhood area that might initiate that? Chris Snyder, Assistant Director of Public Works. There's the Clean Beach Fund, which is really a small fund. It's mostly for stormwater quality. And, you know, since like funding, monitoring Cal Beach, things like that. We have a stormwater fund that addresses maintenance and projects for the San Lorenzo River and Brant's 40 Creek, which shows up on people's property tax bills. And that, again, is sufficient, or not even sufficient, but really covers what happens on San Lorenzo River and part of Brant's 40 Creek. In other parts then, the rest of adding storm drains has been really the general funds task. And that's why it doesn't happen very often. Every couple of years we do fund a storm drain project, Curtis Street storm drain phase one was a year or so ago. We have the, a storm drain project in this year's budget, which has moved to the top priority that actually we're opening bids on today, along with the sewer project. And, you know, hopefully there'll be an opportunity to do more. Can we create a storm drain district? Do we have any of those in the city? We haven't done an assessment district for storm drains in the long time. The last one was, I think, the Harvey West area that include transportation and storm water. They're expensive to initiate. You have to get property owners to agree, et cetera, but it is possible. There was some movement last year to make storm water an enterprise fund and the law changed a little bit, but nobody's gone far enough that we're aware of to know whether it really applies or not or whether it'll get challenged. We don't wanna be the guinea pig, but we continue to look and see who else has tried it. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. So at this time, we'll go ahead and ask that Marcus maybe pause the presentation and we can take a moment to acknowledge and have a proper send off for our student delegation on their way to Shingu, Japan. So we'll return to item number 15. So this is our city council and sister cities official send off for the student delegation to our sister city of Shingu, Japan. And I'm pleased to introduce Gail McCollum, our co-chair of the Santa Cruz sister cities committee for Shingu, Japan, the subcommittees. So if Gail wants to please come forward, is she outside? When she comes in. Gail, please come forward. Thank you so much for being here. Konnichiwa, good afternoon everybody. It's so exciting to be here. I'm Gail McCollum. I'm the chair of the Shingu subcommittee for the sister cities. And I'm thrilled to introduce to you our delegates that will be going to Shingu, Japan. We've had a relationship with Shingu, Japan for 45 years and for almost that many years we've been trading teenagers back and forth between Shingu and Santa Cruz. So Mayor Watkins, I wanted to let you know before we present, if you'll help me present the certificates to the delegates that we're gonna be going over to Japan on March 28th and we'll be returning on April 7th. So it's coming up really soon and we're super excited. They've also been taking classes in culture and language so they're getting really prepared to go. So if you would like to join me to present the Mayoral Certificates to the delegates there's been a request that you use this. All right, excuse me. So Isabella Tarazas, here's your certificate. Manrubia, yeah, okay, do it again. We have Grant Smith, congratulations. Mateo Livingstone, Tris Lasky. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Is that Bateman? Okay, where's he going? I don't know where this is going. Thank you so much. You hear me, I'm a teacher, can you hear me? Yeah. So this is Moeco and she is from Shingu. She's 26 years old, is that right? Yes. And she's been living here for almost two months getting great ideas to take back home to Shingu and so she's gonna be leaving soon and then she'll be greeting us when we get there in just a couple of weeks. So she speaks excellent English, by the way. Yes, you do. And so I just wanted you to meet her and see her and know that she's been here for a while just enjoying our city. Do you wanna say something? Oh. Thank you for having me here for internship. When I was junior high school student like them I came to Santa Cruz for one week and home stay. So this is my second time. So I'm so happy to hear. Thank you so much. Thank you. I hope you enjoyed your stay in Santa Cruz. Yes, I enjoyed so much. Thank you. Great, thank you. Can the students come up with pictures around the diocese? That would be okay. Please, please, absolutely. And you can take a seat or stand behind a member. And we'll get a photo. Yes. Or. Yeah. We have the city council. We wish you the best to have an incredible trip and experience and safe travels and we'll see you when you return. Hi. So I'll just thank you, Marcus and Tracy for pausing your presentation for us to send off our delegates. We'll go ahead and return back to item number 16 which is our presentation and study session on our capital improvement. So where we left off is just if there were any questions about the types of projects in our own funded list. And Council Member Brown. Yeah, while we were on storm drain I had another question related to the unfunded list because I've had requests from neighbors to follow up on this related to the Travis and storm drain project which continues to be way down the list as in not in the priority areas at all. My understanding is an ongoing issue that has been discussed for many, many years, many decades now and the neighbors were under the impression and have in fact been told you're up next, you're up next for many years now. I have, I can provide some additional specifics on that but I think Mr. Schneider may have already seen some of this if you got the emails that I was getting. So I'd just like to know where that's at, why we are not funding the Travis and storm drain when we've said we were gonna do it all this time. Is there, oh yeah. Chris Schneider, Assistant Director of Public Works. We've never promised anybody a storm drain until we know it's in the budget, an approved budget. The project has been, there's been a little design money dedicated in previous years but never enough to construct the project. I think in this forthcoming five-year CIP, you'll be seeing it out about 2022, I believe. And it competes with the other areas that need storm drains and it's something that's been seriously lacking in the city of Santa Cruz for a long time. Councilor Meyers? Yeah. Councilor Meyers. The unfunded CIP projects are always daunting. I wanted to follow up on a question about a storm drain, not assessment districts, as an enterprise fund because I think you alluded to that. Is there any progress on that? We haven't seen any movement. I don't know if anybody else has been there. I was under the impression that there was a statewide movement. Yeah, but I think the concern is being challenged by primarily taxpayer organizations, yeah, that are opposed to that. And I'm sure there's some, there'd be needed some effort to establish the enterprise fund and to do that. I don't know how much work is involved in doing that and what kind of outreach is needed to establish that. I actually have a question. Now there's no permitting state legislation, is that? That is a storm, oh, maybe I should ask something. I think there was some state legislation, but I think there's a question as to its validity and whether it requires any vote or approval or not. But there was some legislation, I can't recall it off my head right now, exactly what it was that intended to provide some flexibility there, but it's been, I think, caught up with legal issues. So I'm not aware of any jurisdiction that's actually implemented at this time. And then, Council Member Myers, did you have something to wait? No, no, no, okay. Do you have a different, no. I do have a question, just, I'm sorry. But if Council Member Matthews is done. Okay, Council Member Myers. I just want to, I just, I know you guys, especially in public works, do a lot of grants. And so I'm just curious sort of Marcus and, you know, a department's perspective with all the various bond, obviously bonds that get passed by the voters. A lot of that is capital money. And just curious how we assess the use of those kinds of things for some of these unfunded capital projects, because some of the funding is quite significant. So I'm just curious if there is, I know there's a city policy around grants, but I was just curious as we look at the CIP, if there's any kind of consideration of how we may hit some of these, either water bonds or park bonds. There was the transportation bond, 1E, Measure 1E that got passed years ago. So I'm just curious, how do you look at that? And is there a threading of the needle that you try, we try to do it all with regards to sort of getting a project as Chris knows the term, you know, as competitive as possible with all the funding and everything else. How does that weigh into our sort of capital thinking? Now it is. Well, we're very active in going after grants and actually getting grants. We've got a good track record. You're primarily for transportation. None that I'm aware of for storm drains, unfortunately. Sometimes environmental restoration. We've been looking for some, for like Pogonip Creek for environmental restoration of some of the waterways, but even those are really difficult and not often around. Sometimes these grants take too much of a local match to be worth it and that we don't have the money to match the grant. Transportation generally has been good. It's been in the 10 to 20% match or none at all. And you'll see, I think we've given you updates before, but of all the different grants, transportation grants we've gotten. Council Member Brown? I'll just say, I mean, I just want to add for the conversation, to the conversation that, I mean, the correspondence I've received said that for many decades now, there is flash flooding down Trevathin as water collects from neighboring streets. Down Trevathin, in a river, sometimes on both sides of the street, sometimes including the street, causes damage to cars, onto properties into garages. Sometimes sandbagging helps, sometimes it doesn't. Recently ran at a community meeting regarding AEDUs. I ran into Lynn Robinson, who had been working on this when she was on the council. And people have said that Public Works workers who are working on storm drain repairs and other neighborhoods have said Trevathin is next. So I'm not disputing that, you would never say that, but somebody's saying it and there is the impression in the community that they've been waiting for a long time. It is a significant impact. It was exacerbated beginning in 1996, just to talk about how long they've been talking about it when speed bumps were put in there. So this seems to be a significant problem and I'm just wondering how do we get it to, I mean, I know you said it could be next, but it sounds like they've been hearing that for a while. So I'm just, what would need to happen for that to get moved up the priority list from the list of 300 million with no priority color or number attached to it? Let's see. I can tell you how much money we need. 200,000. Yeah, 200. So I don't know what other projects would have to get off the list in order to fund that. That's the issue. Ladera court is, which we went out to open bids on today is a similar situation. The street floods, there's damage, water enters people's garages. We have pictures of people on there, stand up paddle boards. So we're very aware of trivathen. I've been out there when it was raining a lot. So we know it's a high priority, but all the ones we're hitting are high priorities. So. Okay, I have some other comments when we're ready to close this item out. That's the key priority. How I really would like to know how the priorities are set because we've got several storm drains, Chestnut Bay, Ladera, trivathen, Curtis Grant. Right, so Curtis Street, phase one, we did, as I said, about a year or two ago. It's working well. There's a second phase that we may need, but we've, we're holding off on asking money for that because we may not ultimately need it. The project we're doing now, the reason that we're doing it now is because we also have a sewer project that has to be replaced, that's in the exact same area. Slight difference, but essentially the exact same area. So we're able to combine the projects together. There's more bang for the buck. So we'll be able to get that one done. So we look at different things and we may look at a paving project and see if we know we're gonna pave the next year, we don't wanna, or we've just paved, we don't wanna cut the street open. Now, Trevethan can be done as a standalone project and it's just a question, again, of the funding. So again, I don't understand what the priority is. How do you know, then what's the next one we address? I think Trevethan is one of the next ones to address. This is, which, Steve, which one's this? LaDera. LaDera. So we'll hand out some pictures of LaDera. I don't wanna beat the dead horse that Council Member Brown was, but I've got another one from a former council member, probably about 12 years ago. He said that I drove all over the neighborhood and the streets and observed all the runoffs, he's speaking about Trevethan. Second, to go south on Trevethan. But I studied it a lot and realized there's relatively a low cost fix from either the second or third house from Soquel on the west side of the street. There could be a new storm drain. The pipe would only have to go about a hundred feet and connect up to an existing storm drain. Is that, I mean, does that make any sense? That's why it's only 200,000. Because, you know, it's $50 to $100 per lineal foot for storm drains, the manholes, the street repair, the catch basins that are installed. So, yeah, it's not a big project. 200,000 is not a big project. Any suggestions on what to tell the public and like, because they always ask me how do they know when, who's in line for what, like street paving, same thing, but how do we know who's in line for the next storm drain project? That's based on the budget process that we provide to you every year. And we've been doing a three year program and it will show the subsequent years for a variety of different projects. Fortunately, the storm drain projects compete with other general funded projects, building maintenance, general funded and other activities as well. In general, what has happened is during the budget process, there's a limited amount of general fund allocated for CIP, if any. And then the council just looks at all the list of all the various and then takes and figures out which ones to put at the top of the list and then includes them in the budget. And in the last go round, we had the sales tax measure and so we, as part of the budget process and as part of that agreement prioritized, as Marcus pointed out, some of those projects so that we could also promise to the voters that have passed, we would be able to fund some of these projects. And so those were prioritized in that process of establishing the measure and putting it before the voters. So we did that process as well and that did pass. And so those projects are moving forward. Council Member Brown and then Council Member Mathews. So Council Member Brown. So the Water Department has given us a long-term financing plan, I guess, to help us understand how it's going to pay for the $200 million needed in water system improvements over the coming decade. And I'm just wondering, because with public works, there's so many different parts and different funding sources, it's very challenging to figure out what pots of money can go for what and storm drain is just one of them. I mean, we have transportation need 200 million out of 300 million is for transportation for this big, big CIP list. And so I'm just wondering, does public works have such a long-term plan? I've never seen one. It would be really helpful to have something like that for us to understand how all these funding sources fit together. So that's one question and kind of comment. And then I also want to try to figure out a way to move forward on considering storm drain either it's standalone district or augmenting the clean beaches of the Measure E funds or something so that we can get some of those storm drain improvements happening without them always being held up by general fund constraints. So that's a comment for hopefully motion making, but I want to see, do we have a, is there a long-term financing plan? Let me just jump into it. Explain this to us. Their nature of their two organizations, Public Works is a whole group of different operations for the wastewater sewer, different enterprise funds. Water is one unique fund who has a dedicated funding source and they can leverage that as they need in the future. So they have more ability to plan out a master plan as it's a matter of coming to council and working on fee increases. The bulk of the Public Works products that we're talking about don't have a funding source identified for them. They're when and if state money becomes available, when and if do we increase local taxes? So it's harder to develop a long-term plan unless you actually have reasonable sense of what the funding is. We can set a priority in place and maybe that's what you're looking for. Like hypothetically, if we had $100 million, what would you do? That's an interesting idea, but I think what's missing in the Public Works arena is they don't have that dependable funding source for many of these projects as the water fund does because it's a one-to-one fund that has water rates that can fund every one of those projects. So it's just different animals. It makes it a lot more challenging to. And maybe I'll just add that when we have our budget hearing and process, that's when I think some of this discussion can ensue in terms of where our priorities are as our budget direction. This is good warm-up. And yeah, so just sort of reorienting us to what we're having and receiving today, which is just simply a study session on our capital improvement program. Yeah, so I have a note to self to revisit this, but I just wanted to bring it up because if there was such a thing, then it would be helpful to see, but I can defer that to our budget hearing time when Public Works is on the agenda. We have longer-term plans for enterprise funds like the water department, so wastewater, refuse, parking. But for streets, facilities, all those things that the funding sources aren't there to really develop a full plan. Now for paving, we do have a computerized program that gives us lists of projects based on condition, et cetera. But then when we get that long-term plan, every year we have to compare it to, oh, where's the water department doing their projects? Where's wastewater going in? Where's PG&E tearing up the streets? So there's a lot of coordination even when you get the list that you have to go through and make sure you're not in conflict with something else. Sometimes we can also share it with a different project like one of the ATP projects, for instance, we may be doing crossing improvements where we're gonna pave the street, so we may include the two together at the same time, things like that. So yeah, it's tricky and it's interesting. All right, go ahead. So just finishing up our recap as well. We've been recapping over and over again. We're just in a different economic cycle. The economy is doing well, local government isn't. We're seeing an erosion of our summer revenue basis. Our core costs are going up beyond our control. We spend a lot of time talking about our CIP program. It's a large number. I mean, when you get to $300 million, it becomes too big of a number to comprehend, but you start breaking down down to parts to get a sense of all the different areas of need. And this was a perfect example of the conflict that comes between project A versus project B or any one of the projects A through triple Z that are waiting in line and we're looking for funding. So we'll have some more activities coming up. We'll have community engagement. We will certainly have a strong day on May 8th with our budget hearings. We'll have a budget adoption scheduled from May 28th and 90s study session. And we look forward to some active questions, comments and direction. Finishing with what can we do, it is harder in this space. We don't have a defined, we can just follow this path and we'll be cured. But we do recognize that $300 million will have to be taken part by part over time. We can't address that in any one, two, three or four years. Essentially, our entire city budget is around $300 million. So essentially, if we stopped all operations and did nothing for a year and everybody took a war call a day, we'd be able to tackle that list. But that's the order of magnitude that we're at. It's just not sustainable. So we do need different solutions in place. We need probably some legislative actions. Could use some, certainly discussions about local funding or collaborative funding methodologies. There's more effort we might need from this group, from the community, from your leadership about what areas should we pursue, whether it's an in-price fund, storm grains, those are interesting ideas. But it's, direction would be helpful about where we invest our limited resources and where we put that priority. That's always there, but that comes with, you gotta pay it back and you gotta pay it back with interest. So there's a lot of complications that come with funding projects. Okay, well, I know we've had some questions at this point. And I wanna thank you both for your presentation. So this will be an ongoing conversation as we enter into budget hearings. If there aren't any further questions, we'll go ahead and move right along. And is this a public comment? Is there any member of the public who would like to address the council on item number 16, which is a study session on capital improvement programs? Okay, seeing none, we'll go ahead and return to council. And it looks like we have no action to take today, but thank you for the information so that we're better informed moving forward. And we'll go ahead and move along to our next agenda item, which is agenda item number 17, which is the 2018 general plan and housing element annual progress report. And we have Catherine Donovan as our senior planner of advanced planning. Technical difficulties. Airwalking is at the step away for a sec, so she asked if we can, for me to run the meeting. So whenever you're ready, we can go ahead. Good afternoon, I'm Catherine Donovan, senior planner in the advanced planning division. And with me is Sarah Fleming, our principal planner for advanced planning. And we're bringing before you our annual general plan and housing element reports. They're two separate but kind of co-joined reports. These reports are required annually to the state. The housing element report used to be required only of charter cities, but was also required for much of our state grant funding. So we always did it anyway. There's been recent legislation that has changed many things about the housing element report. And one of them is that now all cities, both charter and non-charter are required. The general plan report is not required of charter cities. However, again, grant funding. So we do that anyway. And these reports are intended to give both the local legislature and the state legislature an idea of where cities are in complying with their general plan goals and policies and their housing element requirements, particularly as they relate to meeting state housing guidelines, popularly known as RINA, the Regional Housing Needs Allocation. So in this report period, there are a number of new requirements in the housing element report. And it used to be this nice report that had, I think four different tables that easily fit on one eight and a half by 11 page. And if you looked at what you got sent in your packet, I did my best, but you probably needed a microscope to read it. We do have a summary table in this presentation and I can provide that to you if it would be helpful. And so that new format comes directly from the State Department of Housing and Community Development better known as HCD. And since that is the report format they provide, we are required to do that. And that's why you got that very unwieldy package. In it, the new requirements have to do with much more substantial reporting on our applications. It used to be we basically only reported on affordable housing projects and on building, excuse me, building permits issued. We now report on planning permit applications submitted, planning permit approvals, the building permit issued and building permits finaled. And then we also report on projects that use density bonus, which we had one project and projects that used the AB35 streamlining process, which we did not have any that use that process. So the report this year was substantially larger and more complex, but I think the upside of that is it also gives us a much better snapshot of where we are in time. I'm gonna start with our annual general report. As you could see in that report, the general plan includes a city-wide implementation project process, lots of goals and policies for all of our different departments. And we've just highlighted some of the things that have been important in 2018. Our parks master plan was submitted in 2017 and then revised in October of 2017. And we're now in the process of updating the mitigated negative declaration, the CEQA document that goes with it. And that should come online relatively quickly. We also had the Pacific Laurel and Front Street project that received its planning approvals this year and has submitted its building permit application, but it hasn't been approved yet, hasn't been issued. We also have our wayfinding project underway. The design was completed in 2018 and they're going out with an RFP for the manufacturing and installation in this year. Moving on, as you heard earlier, we're moving on the rail trail project and on our climate action project in particular, we wanted to highlight that there are carbon fund, we continue to collect funds for that and do city projects to reduce our output of pollution. Our bike plan, our Measure D transportation funding, we continue to utilize those funds to look into alternative transportation projects. A complete update of that was presented to the Transportation Commission. And then we have our new project this year was the jump bike project, which has been really phenomenally successful. And finally we have our street smart traffic campaign to try to get to zero traffic accidents with pedestrians and bicycles. And so that is pretty much the general plan report. The housing alert report is based on our regional housing needs allocation. This is a, it's a statewide problem. The HCD looks statewide, they get numbers from the Department of Finance projecting how much housing is needed for that period. They work, they allocate it out regionally and then each regional organization comes up with the allocation for the individual jurisdictions. So our regional association is the Ambag Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments and they allocate our RENA. It's for a period of 2015 to 2023. Normally it's an eight year period but they squeezed in an extra year there because they're trying to align us with a couple of other planning, region wide planning projects. And they, the RENA is based on building permits issued, which is normally when we talk about housing, we talk about how many housing units have been completed because those, as far as we're concerned, those are real numbers. Those are houses that people are moving into whereas building permits issued, being issued doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna be completed. But HCD wants the issued permits so that's what we provide. And for this period, our total number is 747 units. This table was in your report. This shows where we are in our, towards meeting our RENA in this period. We're a little, it's a nine year period for us this time. We're just short of halfway through. We've already met our moderate and above moderate. We're doing well on our low income, we're at 75%. But as you can see, and I have said this before, the very low is just really, really hard to meet those numbers. When we had redevelopment, we did much better but without the redevelopment funds, it's very difficult. And as you can see in this report, the six units that were provided this year, those were all in one project and that was the Water Street Affordable Project. And that's usually how we get those very low when we have an actual dedicated affordable project. Occasionally, you'll see in 2016, there was one unit and I believe that was one unit of affordable housing that was in a project by Habitat for Humanity and they had an ADU that was very low. So we continue to advocate for those projects in every way that we can, but without a funding source, it's very difficult to get those going. This is what I mentioned earlier, this is the summary table of that very long, very small table A2. So this just gives you the numbers that were provided this year in terms of applications approved by planning, building permits issued and building permits finaled. And you'll notice there after we have the gross total, there's the demo and duplicates. And that's because there were 24 units that were demolished and replaced with another unit and there were an additional 24 that moved through more than one category. So they're counted as both an application approved and a permit issued or a permit issued and a permit finaled. So to make the numbers real, we subtracted that 24 and what we are adding in this pipeline is 469 units. Now, as I said before, units finaled, those are real. Units, applications approved and permits issued doesn't necessarily mean that we'll get 100% of those units. So take that 469 with a slight grain of salt. And one of the things you invariably ask us is how we're doing compared to other local jurisdictions. So we're giving this to you right up front. And this is data that we got from HCD and it's based on the housing element reports that were submitted in past years since the 2018 report has not yet been submitted. We only have the numbers up to 2017. And Scotts Valley has not submitted these reports so we were not able to get that data for Scotts Valley. You can see that we are doing extremely well in our total numbers compared to other jurisdictions. And the only place where we're not doing as well and somebody else is doing significantly better than us is the County of Santa Cruz has done, I won't say they've done well, but they've done better than we have with their very low income housing. And that has to do with, again, the dissolution of redevelopment because the funds that they were able to utilize prior to what we like to refer to as the state snatchback of redevelopment funds have come to fruition. We still have some funding to be utilized. The Pacific Station project has some funding set aside for that, they were able to use their funding more quickly and so they've already been able to get some of those units and that's where the 42 units and the 13.2% we checked with them to make sure that was correct. And so that's the end of our presentation. If you have any questions, be happy to try and answer them. Thank you. Council members have any questions? Council Member Cronin? Thank you for the presentation. The 42 units is at one complex in the county? I know it's more than one, I am not sure if it's two or three. It could even be more. And when you showed that other table, 449, those were projects in the units in the pipeline? This one here, the development pipeline? Yeah. Yeah, those are units that have either an approved planning entitlement, a building permit issued or the last column or the building permits are final. And when we say moderate, what is that? It's between 80 to 120. 80 to 120, yeah. Median income and then so above moderate is just market rate. Right. So if you add this 444 number has not yet been added to the 337 number that's in on page 17.3, right? It was in 337 units. We've, that's why we're at 108% of our arena number for above moderate. They would have been counted because, well the applications approved would not be counted. So the 287 are not counted. They count them issued. So they're counting the 90, 63. They might be counting those if the building permit was approved prior to 2015, because if it was approved prior to 15, there are some that the building permit was approved in like 2007 and they just finished them. So my point I guess is that if we added that to what we have here, this is gonna be like off the chart. As we got, we're at 108% now. We're gonna be over 200% if this all gets. It's kind of apples and oranges. So the, I think what you're talking about is this chart. Yeah. And this chart includes everything that had a building permit issued up through 2018. So most of the units on this chart that are permits, all the permits issued, the 90 or the 150 permits issued are included on this chart. The 302 units, none of them are included on the other chart. The 65, some of them, probably most of them are. Right, just, and then if you look at our very low and add those seven, those are all on this already? No, well, the six are one is not. The application's approved one, that one is not. And the Water Street project only had six very low, which is what, from 30 to 50% of the median? It's below 50. Anything below 50? Right. And then it had 53 units that were low. The Water Street had a total of 41. Okay, so I'm looking at, okay, so 41 and low is 50 to 80% of the median, or what? Yes, 50 to 80. Okay, thank you, Mayor. And just one more thing on the Water Street project. They're using section eight there, but we don't, there's no guarantee at what level those section eight will go, because they'll be by individual. So we don't get to count those as low as they probably will be. So in terms of how many very low units are going to actually be there, there's probably more, but we can't count them. So are there, are there questions? Yeah, thank you for the report. And thank you for finding a way to get the information into a space that was, we could actually read it with a magnifying glass, at least, better than nothing. Appreciate it. So I, and also appreciate the decision, what I understand from the staff report, to kind of reevaluate how ADUs are categorized from, based on the assumption, previous assumptions, that that would be affordable by design. It's not in your report, but that's its terminology that we see a lot in the moderate income category, but recognizing that reality may not, that suggests otherwise based on your sample, informal rental price survey, I think. So I appreciate that. I'm wondering if, so, but that didn't change any of the previous numbers, it just reflects a new way of categorizing. And so, and that will continue over time. Will there be some kind of ongoing evaluation of what had used to be considered moderate, but maybe no longer is? There won't be a reevaluation in terms of our, our housing limit reports and our meeting arena numbers. HCD does not require that. So if it was considered, I don't know if you could read the small print, but on the page that had the arena report, they did it by deed restricted and non-deed restricted. So if when it was issued its building permit, it was considered a non-deed restricted unit that was affordable for some other good reason that we actually have to explain to them. They allow you to, they don't make you go back and take it out. In terms of the way we keep track, we have a list of, we keep a list of all of our ADUs and we track the affordability on those and we track the actual affordability of an agreement. So if there was an agreement that requires that it be affordable at some particular level, then we count that as an affordable ADU, but we don't have that other affordability by design factor. They were actually when we first were getting a lot of ADUs, they were actually at the low income level and over the years as we keep doing these reports and looking at what they're renting for, the rents continue to go up. So if there aren't any additional questions, I'll go ahead and open it up to public comment. So we're on item number 17, which is the 2018 general plan and housing element annual progress report. If you're interested in addressing the council, please come forward and you'll have two minutes. Thank you, Mayor and council members. I'm Ron Pomerance. I'm wondering where Housing Choice Vouchers fits into this profile you've laid out today. How many Housing Choice Voucher recipients are in the city and are they reflected at all in your numbers here today? And there's project-based vouchers is another way the city can tap into very low and low income folks to live in the city. So if I can hear some discussion on that, I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any additional members of the public who'd like to address this on this item? So seeing them, we'll return back to council. I don't know if you have the answer to the question that was asked. I do. Okay. If the project has, section eight vouchers come in two varieties, one is the project-based in which the project has an actual contract that stays with the project for a long term and the other is, I've forgotten the term, but it's non- housing choice. And the housing choice we don't include in the RENA, the project-based we do. Okay. Thank you. Okay. So now would be the time for action and emotion. To the floor. Councilor Brown and then Councilor McDonough. Well, again, thank you for the work that you have done bringing us this report, very informative. And daunting in some ways when we see the, how far we have to go in achieving meeting our goals in terms of low and very low, and we know we're sorely needed in our community. So with that, I'd like to move that we approve the staff report and provide additional direction to send the general plan and housing element annual reports to the planning commission for review. And that the planning commission, this is a bit off topic from the housing element portion that we've been focused on here, but that the planning commission also be asked to review the general plan corridor policies, policies for a golf club drive, the golf club drive area with an understanding that the general plan and our zoning maybe do not match up with respect to those two areas. So I'd like to, at the same time that we approve it, direct that the planning commission take a look at this and send us any recommendations should they have any. Okay, so we have a motion by Councilor Brown. Second. Second by Vice Mayor Cummings. For the discussion, Council Member Mathew. I'd just like to ask the planning director, where does that golf club drive issue sit? That's been around for decades. Good afternoon, Council. Lee Butler, planning director. And yes, the current general plan calls for up to 400 units. There have been conversations with the property owners. Out there they have been organizing and seeking to start taking the next steps towards putting a development proposal together. Really, it would be an area plan or a specific plan that they would be looking at as is called for in the general plan. I believe the general plan calls for an area plan. So they would be looking at preparing the information related to that. I also heard in Council Member Brown's motion, the corridor and golf club drive and was there? Just those two. Okay, and so certainly we have a certified housing element and in relation to Council Member Brown's comments about the relationship between the zoning and the general plan, the general plan calls for us to along the corridors revise our zoning districts such that we facilitate growth in the areas that provide close access to transit, to jobs, and so forth. And so that is one of the founding principles of our general plan and that is how we've got a certified housing element. And so that is a pretty broad set of direction there and any additional specificity would be appreciated if the Council is looking for us to provide any information to the Planning Commission or have a discussion with the Planning Commission having some direction on what that is intended to accomplish or the direction that you'd be looking to have that conversation ultimately achieve would be helpful. But if you want to go. For right now, that part of the direction is consistent with what they would be on their word program anyway, correct? So we have as part of the Housing Blueprint Subcommittee recommendations that came on June 12th of last year, recommendation and direction from the Council to proceed with the rezoning of Ocean Street. We do not have a specific direction from the Council to look at the other corridors. So we have that in our work program. We have been getting other items in our work program, the tenant or excuse me, the rental housing task force and so forth, for example. And so we were scheduled to actually begin that initial outreach and initial conversations about the Ocean Street rezoning effort early this year that with the other priorities, we haven't been able to accomplish that yet. So yes, it is in the future work plan as far as Ocean Street as next on the list and then prior to proceeding with other corridors, we would come back to Council and discuss those. I know it's been a hot button item in the community and with just the direction on one right now, we would be looking for additional direction from Council before we proceed with the others. I think I'll also add that we will be beginning a process around strategic planning and having more sort of kind of direction for you all once that process ensues. So I think we will have an opportunity to revisit some of the interests or priorities. And if I am also hearing you correctly, if we were to add an additional direction, would that then require the removal of something else from your current workload? Certainly there are workload implications for any additional times that we go back to the planning commission. I think having additional direction on what the intent of that is, I mean, there's nothing that's being put forward on Golf Club Drive right now. There are some initial inquiries and the group of property owners or at least a subset of the group of property owners has met with us to discuss next steps and how they might proceed. But they have not come forward with anything concrete. My understanding is they've been doing that for many years. I don't know about how many property owners have been interested in that. So while there has been a meeting with some of those property owners and they have shown some interest, frankly, it could be years before they bring stuff forward or it could be months. I don't know. They haven't given me a specific timeframe on what their plans are. But certainly we've got general plan policies that we would be looking to guide that work when the property owners choose to proceed. Okay, Councilor McBrown. My request is simply to refer the report to the Planning Commission and just as we've seen it for review and in addition to call out requests that they consider as part of that, review of the general plan corridor policies. So I'm not sure how I would get more specific than that to specifically look for different things within the corridor policies. Or this is just a matter of asking the Planning Commission to weigh in for our future considerations. Not asking for a whole bunch of additional staff time as far as I can tell. Councilor Matthews and then Councilor McBrown. I think the recommendation for us is to accept the general plan housing element and submit them to the California State Office, not to the Planning Commission. I'm just, so that and also refer this to the Planning Commission and also to not saying don't approve it. Okay, so both. Yeah, it's just additional recommendation. Submit is fine. On the motion to accept the general plan housing element and the annual progress report. Submit the reports to the California Office of Planning and Research and Department of Housing and Community Development. And refer to the Planning Commission for review the general plan corridor policies and policies for the golf drive area. Do we separate those? Sure. Okay, Councilor McBrown. Well, I also wanted to say I don't see why this is vague. And you said the hot button issue corridor plan. Well, it's because golf club drive is not that well known yet and that's going to be a really hot button issue. So I think it's very appropriate that the Planning Commission take a look at both of these. There's 400 units per acre. Yeah, I don't see the community embracing that. Okay. Okay. Did you want to split the question? I just assumed split. I think they're two different things. We'll go ahead and split the motion. Is it okay? Okay, we'll split the motion. The first motion will be to essentially move forward with the recommendation as presented in our agenda packet. So all those in favor, please say no. Are you? Aye. Aye. Aye. Okay, any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. And then the second element of the motion would be to submit the plan to the Planning Commission to weigh in on. Senator, go ahead and read. Yeah, go ahead. Refer the general plan and housing element annual report to the Planning Commission for their review and that the Planning Commission also be asked to review the general plan corridor policies and policies for the golf club drive area. The second. So that was already seconded by the next one. And there again, my question, I guess it's to the planning director is how does this fit in with other things on your current list of projects? And to the mayor, I think, what will be the opportunity for us as a council to say, here's the whole list of big planning issues we need to confront and what as a council are. Thank you. Asking for direction from both the planning director and the mayor about how does this one specific direction fit into the list of big planning projects and issues that we may want to consider and prioritize looking at the whole list. So I don't, I don't just, I'll say, I don't disagree that these are big issues, but where do they fit into the whole picture? Sure. So we have a very full workload. We've got things that have been lined up for years that are identified in the journal plan that we are, that are in our queue to complete. We also have specific direction from the council from the June 12th housing blueprint subcommittee. We may have additional direction I'm expecting as this council moves forward with the work plan. They will have items. So it really is going to depend on what comes out of the review as the motion is suggesting that a review of those policies occurs. Well, a review of those policies could result in a whole range of additional suggestions. They would be suggestions that the planning commission then would bring to that. The planning commission would suggest and we would then present to the council with the council being the policymaking body. They would then consider what of those suggestions from the planning commission. They, the council as a body wants the staff to act on and then depending on those, that's what's going to affect the prioritization between the housing blueprint, the journal plan items that are already called out, the housing blueprint subcommittee recommendations and then the priorities that the council calls for as part of their next prioritization session. So if I could just finish that question then we'll move on. Do you feel comfortable with the workload demands of this direction compared to is it a doable level of review with planning and then sending their recommendations back to us? I'm just trying to get a grip on what we're doing rather than just like every meeting, putting new things on your list and everything drops down. I very much appreciate that because that is exactly what happens, frankly. Doing this in and of itself is not a substantial amount of workload, frankly, because our direction is the policy. The policy of the general plan, there's not much involved with sending this to the planning commission and saying, this is the policy. We don't have any direction from the council as part of this motion to say, review these policies to establish how we can facilitate additional development along the corridors. And so that's where I think when I was getting at additional direction, that's what I think would be helpful. Just saying a review of the policies doesn't point us with as much specificity as I think could be helpful, but if it's just review the policies then I think we would just collect those policies, put them in front of the planning commission and ask them to comment on it and whatever comments they provide, we would then provide a response to those in the presentation that we bring those to council with. Council member Brown. That's my goal. My goal in doing this is not to initiate a whole bunch of additional work for the planning department, if that's not necessary. It's kind of why I wanted to leave it without a request that they make any formal recommendations. It's possible they'll review it, say okay, we've reviewed it and we accept the report too. It's possible they may say we would recommend that you consider rethinking the corridors policies. I mean, I don't know what might come out of that but I would like to leave it to the planning commission to just, should they be inclined to take that seriously and look at it, make a report that we could then put in the mix of our decision making for future. I mean, I'd like to hear from, I guess I'm just saying, I'd like to hear from the planning commission as we make decisions, if we make decisions at all, about what we're going to do in particular with respect to those two areas for development. Well, it's really not an ask for, to bring more work your way, unless it's productive and helpful to you to do that. I think that there'll be a lot of opportunity for us to really revisit where we are in terms of the work that we've outlined through the subcommittee that was adopted in terms of the housing blueprint and areas of interest based on upcoming interest by the community or potential for development or what have you. So personally, I would prefer to put that conversation on pause after we have a strategic planning process type ensue and have some familiarity for our new council members to understand where we're at with some of our intentions set prior. So, but recognizing absolutely to Councilor Matthews point, these are going to be hot issues, absolutely. We could hear it and figure it out from there, but without kind of more particularly specificity for me and intention on behalf of the entire council on where we're hoping to head with things, I'd like to wait on that conversation personally, but I'm one of seven, so we could go ahead and take the vote if you like. Councilor McCormick? Just I was going to say, let's call a question. Okay. Do you have a second for the question being called? Are you calling the question? Okay. I just had one comment. With respect to this question of workload, what I would ask is what we could do is if, depending on what it turned out to be, that we would assess what would be impacted and what we would not do or what would be affected and we'd bring that back to you so that you have a good sense of what it means with respect to workload, which I think is a good practice to have in any case, but... I assume that would happen. No, not really. I think the question's been called. Okay. Okay. I think we can make it more valid. The question's been called at this point. Okay. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? No. I'm a no. I don't know what we're doing, so I'm going to vote no. Not quite clear on the request, so... Well, I voted yes with the understanding that, as the city manager said, there'd be a quick review of where this fits into the overall workload before plunging in deep. Okay, so that passes with Council Member Brown, Matthews, Vice Mayor Cummings, Crown, Glover, voting yes. Council Member Myers and myself voting no. But who's plunging in deep? I don't get it. The Planning Commission wants to plunge in deep. That's up to them. That's a good thing, I think. Well, as usual. Okay. Yes. I would like to bring up one more item before we move on. And it relates very directly to this issue of the general plan and housing element. Last night, I went to the district meeting of the League of California Cities. The speaker was Jason Rine. He was the Assistant Legislative Director for the League of California Cities on Housing and Land Use Policy Discussions. He gave a great presentation. I will share the PowerPoints with you, and I would actually hope he could come and speak sometime in this area. And as you all know, housing, here's our western city, housing is the topic of the day. We got an alert from the League of California Cities yesterday asking for city support for SB5, which is a measure for local state sustainable investment incentive program. And it's aimed at creating a local and state partnership to provide up to $2 billion annually for approved projects. It's basically trying to recreate some of the tax increment capacity that we lost with redevelopment. So without reading all of it, I hope that you guys know about this, you're nodding your heads. So this is gonna be heard before the Senate Governance and Finance Committee on Wednesday the 20th. They're asking for letters from cities as soon as possible. And basically the talking points are the elimination of redevelopment. In 2001, created a huge deficit in community revitalization resources throughout California, including an annual loss of a billion dollars in funding for low and moderate income housing. SB5 provides opportunities to access additional tax increment for affordable housing, infrastructure that affects our CIP discussion, and economic development projects. It asks us to describe how our city suffered from the loss of redevelopment related to housing and how loss of redevelopment has affected our city and how we would benefit from a renewed state investment. So I'm giving you a recap here. So what I would ask, this is I think directly relevant to this housing discussion, our previous CIP discussion, and a theme that comes up regularly for us is how can we look for additional state legislative support to help us meet some of our needs. And so what I would do is ask that we find an urgency. We just, and I talked to the city attorney about this because we just got this alert yesterday and the deadline occurs on March 20th. I'd ask that we make a finding of urgency and authorize a letter of support on this measure. Seconded. Is that a motion? Seconded. So motion by Council Member Matthews. Seconded by Council Member Myers. One really quick comment. The PowerPoint, actually we, Deanna Sessoms from the League of Cities sent it to us this morning at 9.15 a.m. So we all have it and it is really... It's dense and it's really informative. So take time to look it over. Yeah. Okay, so we have a motion and a second. All those in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. Thank you for bringing that forward. So at this time we will move along to item number 18, which is Homeland Security Investigations Raid on Seabright Neighborhood on February 15th. And I'd like to call up our community liaison, Peter, who will make a brief announcement regarding his availability to help with interpretation. I'm sorry. Oh, sorry, sorry. Oh, Peter, please, yes. So Peter will be available to assist with interpretation both during the item and if a member of the public needs assistance during public comment. So. Hello City Councils and also people of the audience. And if by any chance there are people who are Hispanic and want assistance, please let me know. And we have a chance to translate this whole scene simultaneously. So just talk to me and I'll be right there in the corner to be able to translate. Yeah, just I think most of you have met me before and guess I have to do a new face or... But anyway, I was hired by the city about four months ago to be the community liaison. And I feel like I want to be the ears and voice of the community, but also both ways, a communication bridge between the city and the people. And I would say, I guess he has worked because during this event, several members of the community called me and were very concerned. But we'll talk about that further on. Thanks. Thank you, Peter. Thank you very much. Okay. So I know that this was an item that was brought forward by three council members, I think, and communication with staff. You're welcome to introduce the item. We could jump right into public comment. Do you want to tag team it? Go ahead, sure. Okay. So I believe I was the one that made the motion at the previous council meeting. This came after a violent and threatening experience with the Immigration and Custom Enforcement when they came into Santa Cruz under the guise of a warrant or service of a warrant around criminal charges, but then proceeded to terrorize not only a family in our local neighborhoods, but also the surrounding community that experienced a no knock raid, I believe, at four o'clock in the morning with flash bang grenades, guns drawn on children as young as 10, I believe, as well as the removal of the individuals from their home without the warrant present or being presented to them. Also to find out later that the warrant did not have their names on it for the people that were in lack of a better term, abducted. And the adults then were taken forcefully from the house with black bags over their heads so they couldn't see where they were being taken and then were transferred to what we now know to be the sheriff station over in the Live Oak area for interrogation where according to reports, their interrogation questioning was made up predominantly about 75% by their estimation to be pertaining to their immigration status. So it's terribly disconcerting, especially as Santa Cruz has gone on the record to say that we are a sanctuary city and we need to be figuring out ways that we can not only talk the talk and say that we're a sanctuary city, but create policies or guidelines or standard operating procedures so that we can adequately resist federal terror and so that we can make it so that the people that are within our community that are valuable to the diversity of our community and have been here for generations feel safe and secure in their homes and in living their lives. Any additional comments from it? I just want to, I think you did a good job. Thank you, Councilmember Glover. I wanted to thank the Sniders and the Mendozes for inviting three of us into their homes as well as all the neighbors. I've really found we had some productive conversations and I think we need, this is really a big deal and I think that the city council is taking it very seriously. I think our police chief is taking it very seriously and we're open to suggestions in where the neighbors want to lead and I do want to say that there was representation from Congressmember Panetta's office at the second meeting we had. He immediately gave that information back to Washington DC and they did send a letter to Homeland Security or HSI Homeland Security Investigations so we're in the outcome of that right now. I don't know what exactly that letter said. He didn't send us a copy but they are very aware of the situation and I just want to make that clear. So thank you all for coming today too. Okay, Councilmember Brown. I would just add that my appreciation for the neighbors for speaking up about this inviting us to be part of the conversation and to really get us moving in I think the right direction to try to address this more formally. People have asked well what is the purpose of a community conversation? Is it just to covetch and to vent? Are you asking for something out of this? And for me I really feel like it's kind of all of the above. It's very difficult and troubling that it's so difficult for a local jurisdiction to have any ability to stop this kind of action from taking place in our community even when we express that we explicitly do not want to participate as the chief of police declined to participate in the Santa Cruz police department declined to participate. We are on record as a sanctuary city and yet this still happens. It is quite frustrating but I think that having the opportunity for us to come together to raise our voices and to also as part of that community conversation together think through what we can do moving forward to support our immigrant community. So whether that's additional resources and community volunteer resources and perhaps other resources for rapid response, those kinds of ideas I think come forward and are improved upon when we have the conversation together. So that's one of my goals at least for holding such a community meeting. And so I just wanted to add that into the mix and again reiterate that I want to take my lead at least from the community and what you'd like to see happen in structuring it. And I just want to acknowledge that we do have our law enforcement here. Did you have any additional insights that you'd like to share with us or the community in regards to this item or what took place that day, if appropriate? Yeah, I didn't mean to speak for you, but it just happened. Mayor, council members and Mandy Mills, police chief and we two are concerned about what took place. Having said that, it was interesting to hear the community members tell us and maybe clarify some of the points that may have taken place there. Really the only way to find out what actually took place is to have an investigation by the federal government into their own agency to find out what was exactly done and why it was done. And so I would certainly take any questions that you might have if you need me to. Questions, council member? Well, I think you expressed to us in some communication that you did follow the city's direction in terms of our sanctuary city policy and declining to become involved. So if you care to summarize that for the general public that that might be of interest. The city policy is that as soon as practical after an event that we would notify the elected officials and the city leadership that a Homeland Security enforcement activity took place, that was done so shortly after this particular event. As you probably know, we were notified ahead of time and give credit to my staff. They asked some very tough questions of Homeland Security as to why this was taking place in the manner that they had described it was going to take place. And that is why we chose not to participate in this particular event. And it became pretty clear that it did not match the high ideals of this community and did not match what our policy and direction was. And so that is why we chose to decline to be involved in any way, shape or form. As you know, we did have one sergeant standing by about two blocks away from the event in order to be able to coordinate medical services for community members and or agents should somebody be injured during an incident. Certainly has its upside and its downside not being involved. We don't know what took place. That's if we're not there, we can't testify to what took place. We wouldn't have body worn camera recordings of what took place by not being there. But at the same time, not being there also sends a message to this community that what we will and we won't do. And so that is why we chose the path that we chose. Okay, if there aren't any further questions so we can go ahead and open it up to public comment. I received requests from two organizations who'd like to speak on behalf of their membership. So I'd like to invite Maryam from your Allied Response Team to speak and you'll be given four minutes. Can you hear me okay? You can move this down. I'm a little short. Hi, Mayor Watkins and council members. My name is Maryam Gaforio. I'm a volunteer with your Allied Rapid Response or YAR. We're an all volunteer run organization and we run a 24 seven bilingual hotline that community members can call if they see ICE, DHS or other repressive forces or if they're impacted by a raid. We dispatch community members that have been trained in legal observation and de-escalation to support callers and we also provide support to impacted families in the aftermath of a raid. On Friday, February 15th, we had responders on the ground within less than 10 minutes of receiving an alert that there was a raid taking place. And I want to take this opportunity to share some of the facts from the Homeland Security raid that happened on Friday, February 15th. The first relevant fact is that the people targeted in the raid were not named in any warrant and were not deemed to be a danger to the public in any way. This speaks to the absolute disproportionality of the level of force and terror wielded in the raid. The military presentation of these raids at 4 a.m. is timed for maximal impact on the psyche of the local community and the broader Latinx community, both undocumented and documented. The agencies involved have multi-billion dollar budgets and expansive powers and the idea that they cannot find a more efficient, less terror-soaked way to find people wanted for questioning is ludicrous on its face. The spectacle of force and the trauma that radiates outward from these incursions would be so simple to avoid that it is obvious that the trauma causes a conscious choice in these raids and not an unfortunate side effect. The second relevant fact is that it does not matter whether the Department of Homeland Security, whether what they did was legal according to federal law or not, it was absolutely inhumane, a violation of universal human rights to go into a neighborhood with this much force, refuse to ID themselves from those who asked, throw flashbang grenades, put hoods over people's heads and keep people in custody from 4 a.m. until afternoon with no food or water. This meets the definition of spate-sponsored violence and given that actions taken by DHS are most probably legal and given that they are most clearly immoral, we'd like to know what the city council will do to remedy the wound that has been created in the community and YAR has some suggestions. At the federal level, our representatives need to push for an investigation into this to hold accountable and expel from office the people responsible for this raid from the appointees who signed off on it to the aggressive officers that knocked in the door and set off concussion grenades around an 11-year-old girl. We ask the city council encourage our representatives to investigate this. At the local level, we would like the city council to set up a sanctuary fund so that targeted individuals can access resources in the wake of an emergency like this for living expenses, counseling, and home repair. Santa Cruz has gone almost as far as it can with legal resistance and we now call on the council to take the next step into fiscal assistance. This is what we are requesting from you as our elected officials, but we also know that your power is limited and we can't only rely on you to get what the change that we want. So we're also calling on our fellow members of the Santa Cruz community to become more active. It won't be just the actions of our elected officials that shift the tide of violent racist policies and actions, even if they do everything they can, the bulk of the work will remain in our hands. From Martin Luther King to Cesar Chavez to Emma Goldman, it's always been true that the people were the ultimate power that changed the course of history. Now is our time to not simply reference those leaders, but to honor them and our fellow human beings by acting. So please join with us and each other to build activated empowered communities that can defend and care for all of us. And if you wanna learn more, we're doing trainings on legal observation and civil disobedience in the upcoming months. So please email rapidresponse.sc at riseup.net for more information. Thank you very much. And next I'll invite up Vicki Winters representing San, Sanctuary Santa Cruz. Hello everyone, my name is Vicki Winters. I'm here represent, today representing Sanctuary Santa Cruz. And just waiting for the slide to come up. You mind going ahead and pausing her time? I see it over here. Just to let you know about our organization. We'll go ahead and pause your time. You'll be given four minutes, but we wanna make sure that we're fully prepared. Do you think that would be the... It's up to you. If you would like, we could... I have it in a handout form that I could give to you, but so I can just start. Why don't we go ahead and pause for a moment and we could either have IT come and then... Oh, okay, perfect. We'll restart your time. Okay, sorry. Technology, that would be easier, but it's always harder. There, yay, thank you. So as I said, I represent Sanctuary Santa Cruz, which is a coalition of organizations whose goal is to make Santa Cruz a welcoming place for all residents. So we support the right of all immigrants to whatever their status, to all the benefits enjoyed by other residents. And we oppose all deportations of the presence of immigration authorities in our community. And we support the right of all people to manage their own personal information so that no one is forced to disclose their immigration status. And as we've gotten a letter from the neighbors and you've heard about the overwhelming disproportionate use of force, just some elements I wanna highlight out of there that I've heard is that HSI agents were in the community doing surveillance several days before the raid, which is concerning to me, and that there is a lieutenant on the police force that meets with DHS representatives. And I'm just wondering how that cooperation takes place, is that a regular contact? And then I just wanna point out the overview, pull back a little bit and see that this is the second time that we've had this type of HSI raid in our community and a similar narrative that it was only criminal enforcement while at the same time then later it comes out that immigration enforcement was involved. And then if you look deeper, this has happened in the past three February. So it's just an odd pattern that every year we have this reminder that we are basically the city cannot keep out these forces. And I wanna give you some background. I feel like a lot of us who aren't directly impacted by the immigration enforcement don't really understand how it works. And I want you to know that Homeland Security investigations is ICE. It is not separate from ICE as kind of a narrative that was emerging that Homeland Security does separate things from ICE. They are part of ICE, they're under its direct authority and immigration enforcement is part of its mandate. They conduct immigration enforcement whenever they are out in the community. And criminalization of immigrants is ICE policy. It's our, this administration's policy. I mean, we see it over and over again. The association of immigrants with crime. It happens with every rally, with every speech of our president and it's baked into the structure of the Department of Homeland Security where we brought immigration which is just kind of a bureaucratic paperwork type of thing. We brought it into this agency that is to do with criminal enforcement and threats to our homeland. And then this administration has amped up that narrative to dial it to 11. And then we've also seen in recent days actually that how the demonization of immigrants is part of the organizational culture of ICE and HSI. The deputy special agent in charge of the San Francisco office of Homeland Security investigations who may well have been involved in the planning or execution of this raid is now being investigated for some of his social media posts that are spreading conspiracy theories about immigrants. And also it has emerged in national media reports over the past few days and weeks that ICE and HSI is now targeting activists and journalists including US citizens for anti-Trump activities and for some of the human rights attorneys that are helping migrants at the border. So it's very concerning that this agency is doing surveillance in our community. So ICE is a federal agency. What can city officials do? You know, you're welcome to submit your slides. Your time is up at this point but feel free to submit your slides and we can review those. Okay. Thank you. And I would encourage you to look at the matching funds available in the Vera Institute Safe Network. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, so now would be an opportunity for us to hear from the community. If you're interested in addressing the council on this item, please line up as you are to my left and you'll be given two minutes. My name is Jane Doyle and I'm here as a member of the Community Action Board. I'm also part of Sanctuary Santa Cruz and I support everything that was said. You know, I'm going to make a slightly different suggestion to add into it as when I'm done. I want to talk about what sanctuary means and it means it's a social concept and it means a place of safety and protection. And many years ago, I was living in a different city and I always thought of my home as my sanctuary. I never felt unafraid there. Until one night I was home alone and I heard a sound at the back of the house so I walked back there and standing in my back room was a man I'd never seen before and he lunged for me and tried to grab me and I screamed and that made him stop and he turned around and ran out. I never, I lived there for three more years. I never felt safe. I was an adult. I wasn't a small child. I spoke the language and I was still terrified and I carried that fear with me every time I was alone in that house and that is part of what really bothers me about what's happening in Santa Cruz because we are a sanctuary city but we're not. In reality, we're not. We have a climate of fear in this city, in particular neighborhoods, although as has been indicated and you all know it spreads all over the city depending on what's going on and I think that we need to address that. I understand how difficult it is for chief mills and Sheriff Hart and the people who work for them to say no to the feds. They made that point over and over. I mean, the feds have made that point. However, I really do think that there are ways that we can possibly, it's at the end. Yes, your time is up but if you do have written remarks that you'd like to submit, we can review those here. I will have to send it to you. I wasn't prepared. Okay, thank you. So next speaker and you'll have up to two minutes as well. Good evening, my name is Regina Langhatt. I'm a professor at UC Santa Cruz in the psychology department and also the lead author on a policy brief from the Society for Community Research and Action which is a division of the American Psychological Association. In this policy brief, we review 30 years of psychological research on the effects of raids, deportation and forced family separation. After raids, targeted communities become fearful and mistrust public institutions. Many stop using social, health and public services, children withdraw from school. Civic engagement decreases and with it, social isolation increases which has negative physical and mental health effects even years later. The negative psychosocial effects on children are even greater. Taking into consideration media reports after the sea bright raid, the city's current ordinance and the literature, I make the following six recommendations. One, law enforcement should develop a protocol so if someone is brought in for questioning, officers ascertain how long the person has already been detained to ensure access to food every few hours and water hourly and to ensure civil rights are not being violated. Two, the city should have a protocol to check the legality of warrants locally. Three, have law enforcement call at least one city council member in the event of a raid rather than only emailing the council as it is listed in the ordinance. This will convey the information more quickly. Four, provide tangible support and emotional resources for targeted communities including mental health and healing services and services that build community trust. And five, create a department dedicated to supporting immigrant community members. This department could direct individuals to appropriate resources and listen and respond to the challenges experienced by immigrants. And finally, develop an overarching community health equity plan that prioritizes equal access to mental health and wellbeing, education, healthcare, and civic engagement opportunities for all community members regardless of their status. Thank you for your attention. Thank you. Hi, I'm Michael Gasera. I'm a member of Sanctuary Santa Cruz. I wanna talk about messaging and message control, message discipline. We are talking about what, we've heard the word terror a few times and we understand now that ICE and HSI are basically terrorist organizations. And when we deal with terrorist organizations, we have to be very careful about how we spread their message. The easiest thing to do is to say things like, well, as we understand it, this was a criminal case. But this can go very badly wrong. And let me cite one example from our neighboring sister city to the south. Where the raid that happened in February, 2018, mentioned briefly by Vicky, involved a family being stopped on their way to school just outside the border of Watsonville. A city council member contacting Watsonville PD and getting basically ICE's rumor and mounted to a rumor. It ended up being a lie that this was actually, I won't repeat what I said because I would then be doing what I said we shouldn't be doing. She in turn spread this to Facebook. Where it was seen by possibly hundreds of people before she realized her mistake and took it down. But the damage had been done. This was in fact not true at all of the man who had been detained. This was not a criminal case of the type that she was asserting. So I'm not talking about censorship, but I think we need to be careful about how we pass on the message that ICE and HSI want us to pass on. They have a big budget for this, right? We should be coming up with alternative narratives for what's going on. And that includes community, city officials and police. Thanks. Thank you. Good afternoon again. I'm Ron Pomerance. I'm here on behalf of the ACLU of Santa Cruz County. And I'll read our statement to you. Every resident of our city is entitled to be safe and secure. We can never sacrifice anyone's civil rights and liberties. Coercion and intimidation and threats must never, never be tolerated. The actions of the Federal Homeland Security's Investigations on February 15th of this year in our city appeared more like a military operation than a civil matter, which has not only unnecessarily violated the safety and security of the neighborhood, but most likely violated the family civil liberties and rights. Using flash bang grenades and a battering ram, ransacking a home with children at four in the morning on specious grounds to serve a warrant, strikes us as falling well outside the norm of honoring our constitutionality of protected and cherished rights. We request that the city council and or the city manager direct the police chief along with the city attorney to further investigate this matter by all means necessary. If the investigation warrants number one, request the police chief to write and implement policies to assure that the Santa Cruz police department will attempt to inhibit such operations in the future and two, send letters from the city council to our county, state and federal representatives to make them aware of what transpired and to request their assistance demanding that HSI respect everyone's safety and civil rights. We will work with you. Thank you for your time and thoughtful consideration signed by Peter Galbloom, our chair. Thank you. Thank you. My name is Dave Willis and I don't agree like the chief said that there was nothing they could do or something. I feel like if the chief knows ahead of time or our department knows, then they can be there and stand there and observe what these people are doing. If those people come in here and they telling the chief, well, we're here for this reason, this week we gonna do and they lying to him, I feel like that what was done is straight up a crime. Who puts hoods over people's heads? They do that in Guatemala, South Salvador, not here in America. Just that alone can traumatize you forever for life. I feel like we have a city lawyer, then each act that those people did, we need to file charges on them people for each charge like you would do for a citizen. And if you can't do nothing about it, at least you letting them know something. I feel like this, there was a place called Germany. We're close because people said, well, first they came for them and then they came for them and then one day they came for me. We're there, we're that close. You all are our government. You don't let nobody come in and push you around. You stand up for us, you stand up for America. We don't play, we don't play that here. We have a legal department, do something legally. Maybe nothing happens after, but at least you doing something and they like gonna think it over. Chief, you gotta stand there and you observe if you ain't taking part. I see officers walking around all the time. Therefore you got time to stand there and watch what these people do. And if you let them come in here and lie to you and you accept what they say again. Thank you. Hi, my name is Hannah Rogers. I work for Community Action Board. So I'm here on their behalf this afternoon. We just wanted as an organization to thank you for putting this on the council agenda. To my knowledge, it's a bit unprecedented and we really appreciate actually wanting to do something about it and generating some concrete action items like, you know, taking action with our federal representatives. And we also wanted to mention as far as these community conversations going forward, we absolutely as an organization want to be a part of those. Helping envision a way where we can actually create a city, a true sanctuary city or county rather where people can feel safe to live their daily lives. And hopefully this envisioning process with you all through the community conversations can lead to some concrete actions. And speaking of concrete actions, we just wanted to update you all and the public that some of our legal immigration services have expanded to North County. So we do have the Santa Cruz County Immigration Project which is based out of Watsonville and do some recent increase in grant funding. We're able to expand our legal services to the day worker center in Live Oak as well as the Davenport Resource Service Center in the very northern part of our county. We also have been able to expand to do a little bit more extensive case management for families who are vulnerable to detention. So that's before and after a family member has been detained. So we really just wanted to make the public aware of those services since it's a little bit of support we can provide the community at this point. So thank you. Hello, my name is Elise Kazby and I'm a local activist. I just wanted to say some political comments. I think it's really important for us to come to terms with who DHS is. I myself need to come up to speed on DHS. DHS, and my understanding was founded under the George W. Bush administration. The problem with that administration is that they managed to look extremely civil and extremely kind of mainstream. That was almost 20 years ago and now we have Trump. The reason I'm talking about this is that if you had certain bodies of knowledge, like if you had a well-informed background on certain issues, you understood certain things. Like there were never any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. And the reason I'm bringing this up and I just hope people will give me a pass here is it is very important and it is because we have been veering toward a fascist state at least since 2000 with the Bush coup of the presidency. Those of us who are deeply interested in voting rights who are deeply knowledgeable compared to some people, maybe not experts. I'm not trying to uphold myself as a PhD scholar. But the coup, the George W. Bush coup of 2000 was just that. And when you look into the history of his father and the establishment of the CIA, which is another extremely suspect organization which has led to destabilization of countries around the world. So the reason I'm bringing this in is because I do think that these things are interrelated. Fascism is an ethical mode of reasoning. Some people just believe you have to have a strong hand, the fatherland, et cetera. But we need to always remember that even though this might be a so-called legitimate form, we have to fight it. Thank you, Mayor and City Council. My name's Harry Snyder. I live at 510 Wyndham Street around the corner from the incident. I want to, I don't represent the community. I don't think any single person can, but the community is very concerned about three things. One, whatever can be done for the family that was involved and their immediate neighbors should be done. We're very concerned about that. That should not be left out of this discussion. Two, we all believe in the rule of law and we want laws enforced and we want to make that clear. But we also want to avoid excessive use of force in our neighborhood, creating fear, trauma, and uncertainty. And so the request, and I want to shout out to Councilmember Glover, Crohn, and Sandy Brown who've all been at our house. My son-in-law Raymond Mendoza could not be here today. He's coaching his daughters, my granddaughters, cross-country bicycle team. And so he had to beg out. But we also appreciate Chief Welch who came to the meeting at the second meeting we had and described to us, and I don't want to take any liberties with what you said, so I'm glad you're here. How extreme the violence was for a paper warrant, which was something I'd never heard before. So it's because of that verification of what we in experts saw and heard that we feel that we're asking for these three things, that the Council express a denunciation of the events that the mayor is authorized to write a letter to the representatives identified, the federal representatives, and that three, a community conversation be held. All of these are interim steps. Thank you. Thank you. Hi there, my name is Miriam Stombler and I'm here as a sea-bright neighbor and a friend of a family and a retired government attorney. And I'm also here as a member of the Santa Cruz County Child Care Safety Plan Coalition. This is unfortunately an important time to let you know that we help families prepare free of charge safety plans for their children in case of an unfortunate event like this. You've heard testimony today at the earlier hearing about the extreme human suffering inflicted by this raid and we need to keep that foremost in our minds because if nothing else, we are all humans and we are members of a shared community. Our government is supposed to protect us, not terrorize us. And there is no hyperbole that you're hearing here. The people in our group have spoken with members of the Federal Public Defender's Office who are horrified about this event. They said the manner in which Homeland Security executed the search warrant was unprecedented and clearly indefensible on the face of the warrant, which was for what the chief described as paper crimes. Rather than protecting officers in the public, which is typically foremost importance in executing a warrant, this was done in a manner that only increased the risk that someone would be hurt. And indeed, this family was deeply harmed by this. Deploying 12 vehicles and dozens of officers for a 4 a.m. raid when a simple knock on the door would have sufficed is simply unconscionable. And as a lawyer and a taxpayer, I'm incensed that our public resources are being squandered and abused in this way. There appears to be, thank you. There appears to be no legitimate law enforcement rationale for this conduct so we can only conclude that it was done specifically to terrorize and intimidate this family and this community. We will not be intimidated and we are relying on you to amplify our voices and our outrage and to demand accountability from law enforcement. Thank you. Good evening, I'm Sally Arnold. I'm a Santa Cruz resident and there's not much I can add to what everybody else has said. They've given you many specific suggestions that I think would be wise to take up. I'm a person of great privilege in this community. I'm a citizen, I'm educated, I'm white. I have economic privilege and I am frightened. If we let this happen with DHS on an immigrant family, when will it be the sheriff? When will it be the police? When will it be my house? When will it be your house? I mean, it's an immigrant issue for sure, but it's a bigger issue. It's an issue of violent police oppression. And if you let it go with this time and it's gonna keep happening, I'm terrified, we have a bear cat in this community. What's that for? We have to really think about this in a larger context. It's about law enforcement violence and we need the current, our local law enforcement's trying to walk a line between the feds and taking care of our community. That's a hard line, I appreciate it, but frankly, everybody's getting tired with this brush. And I feel like as leaders of the community, we need you to stand up and we need you to do absolutely everything that you can, recognizing that what you can do is limited when it's right now the feds, but it's not always gonna be the feds if we don't draw a line right now. So thank you for taking the time to hear about this and I really hope you will think about this in a larger context. Are there any additional members of the public who would like to address us at this time? Okay, seeing none. We'll go ahead and return to the Council for Discussion, Action and Deliberation. That's remember Glover. Yeah, sorry. Thank you Mayor and thank you to everyone that came out to speak and share your perspectives as well as to share what it is you'd like to see us do and action steps that we can take. I'm sure that we'll have a lot of conversation about this or maybe not and it'll be really straightforward and cut and dry, but with that, I'd like to make a motion. I'd like to make a motion to instruct staff to return or let me rephrase this. I'd like to make a motion to request the Mayor to write a letter co-signed by the City Council to the state ICE agencies and offices as well as the federal government and our federal representatives to push for an investigation into the raid and to expel those that were involved or knowing in the process of what happened. Then I'd additionally like to make a motion to instruct staff to return on April 9th, 2019 with the following, which would be a report on the allocating of fiscal resources for the assistance of setting up a sanctuary fund that will address living expenses and home repair for those impacted by this and past and or future raids to provide tangible support and emotional resources to the affected and the development of a community health equity plan to explore the matching funds from the Vera Institute Safe Network and matching funds. Also for the police department and our police chief to develop a set of protocols that identify the length of detention as well as the access individuals have had to have access to food and water, to also have a protocol that is to check warrants when they come in for raids in our community to check their validity and the ability to be exercised so we're not caught off guard like this last time, to amend the sanctuary ordinance to direct staff to call the council directly when the raid is about to take place so that we can act more efficiently and more quickly and to establish a community conversation that includes the city manager's office, the police chief, city council, sheriff Jim Hart, the community action board, the sanctuary organization, ER, the affected community members, and others that should be selected by the affected community members. So we have a motion by council member Glover. Is there a second? I will second it. Okay, second by council member Cron. Any council member Matthews? I'd like to just speak on process. We had an agenda item submitted, co-signed by council member Glover and I was prepared to deal with that and then this is a whole list of new things and it's really difficult to process. Some of them I think I could readily agree with and others are just, I'm not prepared and it makes it difficult, particularly when it's the item that has been brought forth within the last few days and now we're asked to deal with something different. So, I'm sorry. I was just commenting that council member Glover's motion contains a lot of items that were never mentioned in the agenda report that he himself prepared just a few days ago and it's hard to having prepared myself to deal with the agenda item that we were given. There's so many items there. I'm frankly not prepared to act on them. I'll just add and then I'll go ahead and respond. I think one of the things I wanted to mention is there's been an ongoing effort since the first instance that took place that's been regional and there's been representation from the Watsonville city manager's office, the city council, education, cab, Monarch services, immigration projects, legal services, community ventures, looking at DACA support and other types of financial aid and we've found and acknowledged that this has been way, this is a regional challenge and outside the city's boundaries and having that partnership and ability to work regionally with these partners and services and how to respond as best as we can is in place and I do believe that there was a meeting following this instance and I'm not quite sure if we received notice of that meeting, I know of it because of the education relationship that I have and there's the appointments that I believe include Council Member Crone and Council Member Glover to attend those. So in terms of an existing infrastructure, really looking at how do we regionally respond and come together as a community to address, to not only hopefully come up with policies to prevent but also come up with strategies for support, many of which I think encompass a lot of the elements that are in the policy brief and some elements that were mentioned in I think your policy proposal. So I just wanna be mindful of existing movements that are happening and how we can maintain our relationship or potentially expand that relationship. So it's just, I think that was just my, that's sort of my first kind of comment because I think a lot of this could be really enhanced by that partnership. Okay, Council Member Crone. Absolutely, thank you. So I just wanna clarify, just so that there's no misunderstanding, the only action items that we would take from my motion would be be under the area right here, which would be authorize the mayor or request that the mayor send a letter but also add that it would be co-signed by the city council to the state offices, the federal government as well as our representatives listed here and then the other one is the establishment of the community conversation which is C. The other ones are requesting for the staff to come back on April 9th with an analysis and a report which could include some of the things that the mayor just mentioned because up until right now, I don't know about anyone else but this is the first time I've heard about them. So I think it would be great for the community to know what's going on county-wide. It'll also give us the opportunity to get a full understanding of what we can do fiscally to support some of the things. And with regards to the motion itself, one of the main reasons that I personally wanted to put this on the agenda was to hear what the community needed and wanted to change. These are all great but we put these in an agenda report and we're not trying to speak for the community. So after being able to hear some of the very specific requests, some could say demands because of the urgency of what's going on from the community, those have been worked into the motion but to be requested to return on April 9th so that we can take action on that and give you plenty of time to review and prepare. So everyone else? Council Member Brown, Vice Mayor Cummings. So I too am wanting to be responsive to the suggestions and requests made by the community and think that having a start, get us towards that, having that conversation is a good idea. I would like more time to digest all of that before, for example, saying bring us an ordinance for April 9th or an ordinance amendment but some kind of report so we can continue this conversation, keep it moving. At the same time, I don't want to delay moving forward on having this community conversation and getting those letters out to our federal representatives and to DHS. So I'm just hoping we can find a way to make sure that happens and I wanted to ask staff if April, for the other piece that Council Member Glover suggests is April 9th realistic to come back? I mean, you could ask, I can also just say one of the things that's been really challenging for me in trying to set the agendas for upcoming meetings is having short turnarounds in terms of report backs and what happens is often items that were scheduled, whether it be informative or policy directive have to go. So I have a lot of hesitation on that personally and would prefer to have the process ensue and then have it come back at a time that made the most sense given that we could take specific action as you mentioned prior and I'll let Martin Bernal expand if you'd like. Yeah, did you pass out the list? I didn't see it, so. I have it here, I can send it to Bonnie if you wouldn't mind. That'd be helpful. I think we'd have to look at the scope a little better, to be honest. We can certainly look at the list and then see what are the items that we can bring back by the 9th and just get a little bit more definition. There was some, like the ordinance, I can't recall whether you suggested having the ordinances come back or just an analysis of the ordinances changes and that sort of thing. Yeah, it was a, sorry. So maybe if you give me that list, I'll be helpful, I can look at it a little bit better. Nice to meet you. First I want to start by saying that in no way do I support what happened on that evening and I'm really glad that we're addressing this in a timely manner and that we're trying to, have a conversation around this because obviously this is not something that we can have as it's something that's ongoing without having people in our community feel like they're protected. One thing, I think that the list that was just brought forward, I do also have some concerns with timing and the different issues and how we can prioritize certain things that were brought forward. For example, trying to reach out to, reaching out to our federal representatives and trying to set up supports. It's just, I'll just reiterate what other folks said. It just seems like a lot for me at this point in time. Not that I don't support anything that the things were brought forward. I think one thing that needs to, the conversation that needs to be had in addition to what was brought forward is what do we see the role of our local law enforcement playing in these types of scenarios. One thing that was brought up from this conversation is the fact that because we have asked our police force to stand down and not support any types of activities like these, we lose an opportunity for our local police force to actually be able to document what's happening and to be involved in the process. In addition, the more that we don't allow, and I was actually gonna ask a question of Chief Mills at one point which was what is the federal government's obligation to inform us about these types of activities because one of the things I get concerned about is that if the more that we increase and tell local law enforcement that we don't want them involved with that city or county whether or not that then creates an opportunity for these types of law enforcement agencies to take people further out of our county where we'll have less oversight of what's actually going on where the people are, how long are they being detained, what kind of conditions they're under. And so in addition to what was brought forward, I would also want to have an opportunity where we can have a discussion around how we should see our local law enforcement involved in these types of activities with specific regards to being able to document what actually is happening so that we have record of what's going on. Council Member Mays. First of all, I just wanna say I'm really sorry for what your family's gone through and you're right, this should not be happening in Santa Cruz. So I appreciate you coming here today. I know it must be a really hard time for you. So in addition, I would just, I'm supportive of really diving into this as a community and making sure we get this right. I also appreciate Council Member Glover for bringing this to our agenda. And there's so much, there's a variety of some really great ideas, policy objectives, as well as a multi-layered need to communicate federal, state, to our elected officials. I would suggest we also should be potentially communicating to the governor and the attorney general as well. This is a big project, we wanna get it right. We wanna make sure that we provide the breadth of policy that we should put in place for our community. I'm just wondering, Council Member Glover, if you would potentially entertain, convening a council subcommittee that maybe could sort of sort through a lot of this maybe with staff so that we are assured to get both the regional efforts. I just heard a lot of, there's a lot of great resource in our community, it sounds like. And it is a regional, it's a regional need. And I think our neighbors to the south and to the north and even down into Monterey County, I think there's a lot of good work being done. I'm wondering if you would entertain potentially a council subcommittee working on this and bringing some of these things back in association with staff that might expand the ability to get more conversations going, learn more and potentially get this information to us in a way that's very comprehensive. Council Member Glover. I would be open to adding that to the motion for the establishment of a subcommittee. I'm just, and I'd love to be selected to be on that subcommittee as well. I'm just a little concerned about the time associated with it. I know that the community and the individuals and the families and the neighbors would like to see action as opposed to just analysis and study. So if we can have a solid timeline associated with that that isn't three to six months, but is one to two months as far as that subcommittee turnaround to come back with recommendations as well as the structure of the community conversation, then I'd be happy to add that to the motion. Yeah, my intent would be that it would be a short, with some of these immediate actions, especially the correspondence needs, but looking at sort of some of the ordinances and things like that. But no, not something taking months to do, certainly as rapid a response as possible. Yeah, I'd accept that a friendly amendment if that's what it is. Okay. So council member Matthews Brown and then vice mayor. I see the correspondence as something that can happen. Pronto. In terms of item C, the community conversation, I read that to read that we would ask that our federal representatives take the lead in that, which I strongly support. Working with these other community partners and others that weren't listed here, but have kind of come up and the schools played a big role in the past and definitely they end a very productive one. Health agencies played a really big role. We do have a county Latino Affairs Commission. The city has two appointees to that. I mean, I think we can get a lot of people who have an active interest in this and would want to be part of that conversation. So I hope that that would be the direction there, that the community conversation lead comes from our federal representative's office and that we actively as a city participate but take a more regional approach and the countywide group that you mentioned would also, I would think take a lead in that as well. Okay, council member Brown. So I also like the idea of having a subcommittee work and I think two months is realistic, particularly given it's gonna take some time to have this community conversation. More ideas may come out of that, probably not by April 9th, would we have all of the good, the benefit of that conversation as well. But with respect to the item C and the community conversation, I understand council member Matthew's your point. I'm just wondering if, to the extent that that leads to potential delays, like if we have to put in a formal request to congress member Panetta's office, have it go back to Washington and see if they really want to take the lead on this. I don't want to delay this, I would like to say that we're willing to kind of host it but we'd like for them to get on board and take a leadership role so that it moves along, I guess I just, I don't want to lose that by saying, well, we'll send in and out and request that they do this and then what if they don't? Yeah, I mean, they have a district office, we have a close relationship, I think let's shoot for that and be as helpful as we can. Okay, council member Cronin, anything you'd like to say? Yeah, I would think that I don't have a lot of faith that it's gonna take a short period of time in working through council member Panetta's office, although I would like to and I think they've been effective so far. I think it would be something that the subcommittee could also incorporate into their work and push that process along and make sure this community conversation actually happens and work with the congress member's office locally or Washington and who we're gonna invite and that we definitely don't leave out the neighbors because I think that's very important for them to be represented at this meeting. I know it also stirred some stuff at Galt School where some of the kids go and so there's that issue as well that I would want represented, but I agree with the subcommittee and I'm happy to serve too if I wanna nominate people or how the mayor wants to. Okay, vice mayor, did you have additional comments? Yeah, I was just gonna suggest that in that letter that we express the urgency given what's happened in our community because we really wanna make sure that this is not something that's delayed and that we actually get a response because our community's been very negatively impacted by these events and so that's just one thing that I was gonna suggest with the letter that's being addressed. The other point and issue and I guess this is a question for city attorney is whether or not there's the ability for the city to look into this event and the potential use of excessive force by the Homeland Security agents. I would say that if that's the council direction I would be happy to do that but I can't really say in advance what the results of that would be or how successful that effort would be because I don't know in advance if I can obtain pertinent evidence that we would have to use in order to analyze that to provide a legal opinion on it. So I'm not confident that I would be able to provide you with a comprehensive report that would be a valuable piece of information for you to have but if that's the council's direction then we'd certainly do our best to put that together. Okay, okay. So one of the things that I'll just, if I could add one of the great things about this community is having had attended some of the meetings in the past is how incredibly dedicated our community partners are. So I do really want to emphasize how important it is for us to mobilize all of the different resources that we have and just the incredible services that they're providing to support those that are most vulnerable in our community. And then I also will just add that I think we should definitely work with our community liaison, Peter and most recently I met with our Mexico Consulate in general, Mr. Carlos Martinez and hearing all the different services that they're providing to our region and access and his interest in partnering. I think he could be a big partner in the community conversation as well. So there's a lot we already have in place. There's more that we can do. And I am supportive of the idea of having a subcommittee really dive into a little bit deeper. For the purposes of this item moving forward now is it the general consensus of the council to form the subcommittee and then have the committee return or is there specific things that you would like to have move forward at this time and then have other elements come back at a future time? Okay, Council Member Matthews and then Council Member Glover. It makes most sense to me to form the subcommittee and have them look at the ideas that have been presented and come forward with recommendations for priorities. Council Member Glover. I'd be happy to structure the motion so that we can move on the actionable item like the letter specifically since we have a general or very specific idea of where we can send that and then the establishment of a subcommittee to address the following to analyze the feasibility, fiscal impacts and implementation of the community conversation, the fiscal resources to be applied to community support, the law enforcement protocol development and the amendment to the sanctuary ordinance. Okay. And just say and other ideas that were presented from the, there were some ideas that came from the community. And more input from the community. And also if we could have in there, if that's, oh, the community conversation is a separate item, isn't it? I mean, it could be included in the subcommittee work because then put it together. It's down to the very bottom. It's that last one. That was a little bit different than the language here. I mean, we can take these representatives also because I noticed that it doesn't have the liaison listed there. It has a whole bunch of people that aren't listed. Yeah. So perhaps the subcommittee could look at that. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Okay, okay. And then in terms of clarity for the investigation and expel those who were involved if appropriate or if, I mean, I'm just in terms of what that means or how that would be articulated. I'm not clear. Well, what we heard from the community was that they wanted there to be accountability for the individuals and officials slash leaders and management that were involved in not only the authorization of it, but also the officers that participated in it. I'm not sure how that, I mean, even if it's just a statement saying that we want to see that happen from the city and that people need to take accountability for the impact they've had on our community, that could be substantial and just the symbolic statement of it, but just going off of what the request from the community were. One of the things, and then I'll, and one of the things that was in the general report was the expression of dismay and denunciation of the approach and the heavy-handed tactics. And I think that to me, I think encompasses that more so than that would in terms of languaging. I agree, I agree. I was comfortable with the language here expressing great concerns with the oppressive approach used. And I would tweak a little bit, requesting federal investigation and greater oversight those two things. I think it's a little overreaching for us to tell them to expel, and we want to get the intention behind accountability and especially that. I could accept that. That might come out in the community conversation too. That kind of action, I think. Okay, so then if that's the case, are you then suggesting that that be just rolled into the community, I mean the council subcommittee to explore what the contents of the letter would be? No. No. Although we can do that. No, okay, okay. The letter is straightforward. So I think we're clear, okay. We could get that out soon, yeah. But could we change the language? I think the language, if we could, if you're comfortable, which I think I heard you say, it would be essentially what was written in the agenda report under AMB for the components of the language for the letter. That includes investigation. Right, as long as it includes investigation. And I think, right. Okay. Wonderful. Mayor, I have three quick questions for the police chief just before we vote. Okay. Go ahead. Chief Mills, these are questions that came up again and again, I just wanted to let people get, possibly respond to it. Is it common not to have people named on a warrant and then the warrant that was served even though you didn't have the names of the individuals that were then detained and whose house it was? The search warrants are served on the property. Oh. So you may not name the person in the warrant. Okay. And does the lieutenant in the Santa Cruz police meet with DHS reps often, every once in a while? No, we do not. And the last question is, why can't PD tell electeds about the raid before it happens? Several reasons. One is operational security. They wouldn't tell us then if they were going to do a raid. They are under no obligation legally. I don't believe to do that. I believe it is their policy that they do, but they can subvert that policy under the auspices of operational security. Okay. Thank you. And I also want to thank you for joining us at the meeting in the neighborhood and listening to folks and sharing your own thoughts on it. I really appreciate it. It was my pleasure. Chief Mills, I apologize. Vice Mayor Cummings had a question earlier. Yeah, I just asked her. I think you answered it, but just to reiterate. So there's no federal obligation for Homeland Security to notify us when they're coming in our community. I was told by the Special Agent in Charge at a meeting with Cal Chiefs that it is their policy to do so. But again, under operational security, they wouldn't do that. Like for instance, when they were doing surveillance ahead of the raid, we were not informed of that. And if they're doing an immigration stop or another type of investigation, they don't necessarily inform us of that. It would be if they're gonna do a large event such as the raid that took place because what we don't want is for us to get a radio calls all of a sudden of gunfire in a neighborhood, you know, the explosive devices or the diversionary devices that were being thrown. And then we go rushing in, there's a bunch of people standing there with rifles that may or may not be in uniforms that we would recognize. So that's the purpose of them notifying us. One more question. Do you see any benefit to us having our local police involved in these types of events for the purposes of documenting what's happening? I think that becomes a balancing issue that council needs to weigh and give us direction on to be there, to be able to witness what took place is one thing that way you have somebody locally that can testify to that. But the counter to that is if we are there then does that make us complicit in the event? And I would want to be very careful not to do that. You know, one of the things that we have, I have as well as many other chiefs have argued with DHS about is their use of the word police on their uniforms. And they refuse to change that. Well, so many people think that is the police doing these things when it's actually not the police at all. It's a law enforcement, but a federal law enforcement. A little bit different than the police. Let me put that in the letter too. Sorry. I actually was gonna ask if we could include in the letter language around Homeland Security. Our communities desire to have Homeland Security identify themselves when they're conducting these types of raids. Oh, near. Apparatus? Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean, so that they're not labeling themselves as either police or coming into the community with unidentifiable clothing so that when they're entering these premises, people can know that they're from a federal institution and that they're not just random people running in with guns into their house. All right. Okay, thank you. So at this point, we have a motion, I believe by Council Member Glover, seconded by Council Member Crone. I think we're clear on the motion. No, we're not clear. We're combining the two. Is that what the end result was? The end result was to have the letter move forward with the input in. So was it the staff recommended one, the initial one, plus a subcommittee? And plus a subcommittee. Made a subcommittee that would then do the others. Okay, so all those in favor? I think somebody mentioned Council Member Myers, the Governor and the Attorney General will be included in that list also. Okay. That would be in addition to the other representatives. With copies too, the letter copies too. Is that what you're thinking? Yeah, just CC'd. Sure, also, okay. Accepted. Okay, okay, okay. If I could just comment, there are some nuances that maybe offline, I could help write with. I think that it could maybe bring some clarity to what took place and maybe get the right representatives here that I'd be happy to work with you on that. Thank you very much. That would be very helpful. Okay, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. Mayor, before we move on. Okay, so at this point, oh. Before we move on, just one more thing, or two more things under this agenda item. So something that was mentioned during the community statements was the request for a structuring of a body or commission or something that would address the protections of immigrants in Santa Cruz. I understand that there's a county model with cab and other ones, but I wanted to pass this around. I've been contacted by many community members concerned about the issues of racism, bigotry, discrimination and persecution. So we working with them came up with a proposal for the establishment of a Human Rights Commission here in Santa Cruz, which would address the causes and problems resulting from prejudice, ignorance, bigotry and discrimination within the city of Santa Cruz. The Human Rights Commission will function pursuant to the guidelines set forth by Santa Cruz City Council policy. The HRC members will consist of representatives and unbiased members of the community that can effectively advocate and show a commitment to the advancements of human and civil rights. Just to skip forward a little bit, the commission will be made up of subcommittees and the subcommittees will focus on protection against race-based discrimination, protection on homelessness, population rights, documented population, undocumented population rights, committee on the protection of the rights of people with disabilities, committee on the protection of the rights of environmental sustainability, the justice-impacted children and the education system. So I'd love to direct staff to work with the subcommittee to develop the feasibility around the establishment of the commission. I'm gonna go ahead and pause you first so I can actually see our city attorney stepping in. It sounds to me like that is a topic that should be brought back to the council as an agenda item, and then the council can discuss giving that specific direction. Okay, could I see that as part of this item? But that would certainly be something that you could ask to be brought back. So in compliance with the Brown Act, it isn't appropriate to have this discussion at this time. Absolutely. So then could I move to add this for discussion on the April 9th agenda? You can do that at the meeting calendar which is our next agenda item. Oh, okay, well, I'll wait then. Okay, so we'll go ahead and close that agenda item and now we're on to the agenda item number 19th which is the meeting calendar and it'll ask if our city clerk has any additions or changes. Just the March 19th study session which you all know about but other than that. Okay, so now it would be the time if you'd wanted to make that motion. Absolutely, so thank you, Mayor. I'd like to make a motion that we return on the April 9th agenda to discuss the creation or formation of a human rights commission and whether to instruct the subcommittee or other staff members to work on coming back with a report at a future date. Okay, so there's a motion by council member Glover. Is there a second? Let me wait for a second. Sure. Yeah, no problem. Okay, is there a second for that motion? Well, I was gonna ask a question about it. Second. Seeing no second. Second. Okay, so there's a motion by council member Glover. There's a second by council member Crone. I, with the meeting calendar, it's general protocol that, and there's a informational memo. I don't know if that's going out to this council but I know that was crafted by our city attorney that these requests go through the mayor prior to them being requested at the city calendar and agendizing items by city calendar really does tie my hands in terms of how I can operate the balance of other agenda items. So I personally don't support that process but it is an avenue in which the council can move forward on agendizing items. So it's not about the content for me, it's about the process. So I won't be supportive of that. Vice mayor. I think it would be good to, like everything that's in this and I think that it's a lot of things that we definitely should be addressing with our community and getting more community involvement. I do however, I know that a lot of what was mentioned in the previous proposal, we decided to form the subcommittee under the knowledge of knowing that it generally will push other things off of our agenda and that we should be working with the mayor and with the staff to look at how we can best put this on the calendar so we can dedicate meaningful time and not push other things off. I'm in support of this, but I think that it would be good if we bring this to a gender review and we can work with council member level to find a time that would be suitable for putting it on our calendar. Okay, council member Brown. Yeah, I agree. I'm absolutely supportive of this. It makes me a little nervous to think about doing another potentially very large ask immediately. So the extent that we can figure out a way to fit this into the agenda in a timely manner, I feel good about that over just saying absolutely on the April 9th, but I don't want to lose track of it either. So I would like to see it come to us. Council member Matthews and then council member Knight. I'm just gonna chime in. I also am very curious about exploring this. I'm just wondering, yeah, if it is a strategic planning, kind of a strategic planning discussion for us. I think some of our commissions actually deserve maybe some broader exploration. So maybe this gets packaged into that process where there may be some commissions that are reoriented slightly based on today's more pressing needs. So I'm not supportive of it, but I'd like to either see it in our strategic planning discussion as a committee, as a council, or using the agenda process if possible. Council member Matthews and then vice mayor. Yeah, there's not a thought on here that I disagree with, but establishing a whole new commission is, as I think newer council members will learn a big commitment in terms of the staff's time, agendizing, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And I think it would be worth sitting down and thinking, how do we incorporate these principles in some of our existing commissions, our existing programs, working with our community partners? I mean, for example, our community programs. To me, it's like climate action. I mean, it's a principle that we all have, but how to achieve this most effectively given the extraordinary expectations and workload we are putting on our staff with what we know will be an increasingly limited budget. And that's the challenge, I think. Okay, and then, okay. I just have one question for the city manager. I was just, sorry. I was just curious about the timing of the strategic planning meeting because I know this has come up a number of times today and I think that it would be really great for all of us to just have a sense of when that might be happening. Well, I certainly would like to get together with the mayor and the vice mayor as soon as possible too. We started the conversations and I think we just have been focused on other items, but I think it does make a lot of sense to refocus on getting that scheduled and getting the process put in place so that we can move forward with that. I think the idea, at least to get that process going so that you have something in place here moving forward. And if I can, I'll just add that. I do believe that there has been some progress that there will be an item coming forward. So before us is the meeting calendar. We have a motion. Yeah, I was just, I'm just great to get a temperature read of the group and in the desire to respect your wishes and the process so that we can make sure that you have enough time to coordinate with agenda stuff. I'd like to withdraw my motion and then I'll write an agenda report and submit it. Okay. Sometime later. So we, then do we need a motion to approve the meeting calendar? Before we leave, I have another item for the meeting calendar. I would like to make a motion to agendize for our March 19th meeting to schedule a discussion on moving our March 26th official meeting date to April 2nd. Okay. So we have a withdrawal of the first motion. We have a second motion to agendize on March 19th a discussion about changing the meeting calendar to cancel the March 26th meeting and schedule at April 2nd. I'll move it to April 2nd. Okay. I won't be able to attend, I'm out of town. Okay. I prefer to stick to the schedule that we've built our calendars around. I agree. Okay. So, is there a second? I have a conflict with the second as well. Okay. So that dies for a second. What's the date? Okay. So if there could be a motion to approve the meeting calendar. You don't need one. You don't need one. Nope. Okay. So we will reconvene at 7 p.m. for oral communications, which will take place from 7 to 7.30 before our evening item. All right. Good evening, everybody. Welcome. I'd like to get your attention. Okay. Thank you. So I want to welcome you to our 7 p.m. session of the March 12th, 2019 meeting of the city council. And I'd like to ask our clerk to please call the roll. Thank you, mayor. Council member is Cron. Here. Glover. Here. Meyers. Here. Brown. Here. Matthews. Here. Vice mayor coming. Here. Before we begin this evening session, I'd like to announce that we have overflow seating available at the civic auditorium. So if you would like to sit at the civic auditorium for overflow, please do so and go in that direction. So right now is an opportunity for oral communications. And oral communications is the opportunity for members of the community to speak to the council on items that are not listed on today's agenda. Are there any members of the public who are interested in speaking to the council on items that are not on today's agenda? By a show of hands? Okay, okay. So we'll go ahead and have you come forward. You'll be given two minutes. Oral communications will conclude at 7.35 so that we can bring our, if not before, so that we'll begin our evening session item. So please. Hello, mayor and council members. I, my name is Ted Rosseter and I'm here on behalf of SEIU to say thank you for listening to our message about why it's so critical to invest in employees that keep the city running. With your input, we saw a movement and an increase at the table that has made it possible to reach a tentative agreement. This is a strong step forward for city employees and we are looking forward to working with you on implementing the classification and compensation study. We're all in agreement. We all want the city to thrive and with all of us working together at will. Thank you on behalf of all of our workers. Thank you. It's been good. Honorable mayor and council members, my name is Sue Powell and I live on Wilkes Circle near Woodrow Avenue. I moved to the circles in 1983 over 35 years ago. I am here in response to the proposed demolition of Errett Circle Church and the construction of townhomes on the property. My neighbors on Wilkes Circle and I wrote a letter about our concerns and we are circulating the letter in the community. We started gathering signatures last week and in three days we gathered over 50 signatures and this is just a start. There is tremendous community opposition to the proposed demolition of the church. Our message is clear. We do not want this community center to be taken away from us and we do not want this site so fundamental to the city's history to be destroyed and built with townhomes. We recognize the importance of creating more housing in Santa Cruz but a housing project that destroys the historic fabric of a community and that does not respect historic cultural and ethnic diversity in a neighborhood is not the solution. The Errett Circle Church is an important and dramatic landmark and the site has been a center for a great diversity of activities for over 125 years. We want this site preserved. From our review of both the California Register of Historical Resources and the National Register of Historic Places we believe that the Errett Circle Church meets the criteria for historic designation and we would like to work with the owners to nominate the church for such preservation. In addition, we would like to work with the new property owners to help create a sustainable church commercial partnership to preserve the building as a community center. Thank you. Thank you. My name is John Sears. I've lived in the circles for 42 years and I went to the community outreach meeting and I've polled my neighbors the consensus of opinion is that the meeting was inadequate given the planning department policy and I don't want to repeat what Sue said but I think it's ironic that the co-housing project may mean the destruction of a neighborhood which functioned in the very way that they're trying to replicate. I've been trying to gather the history from the time the Tabernacle burned down 1935 until the church was built and after and I found a reference that the city actually rented the property from the church and had a playground there and so it's been a continuous neighborhood asset and in a neighborhood that is ahead of the curve in terms of tiny homes and density. So I look forward to working with you on this and to this best resolution and I want to apologize to Joni Mitchell but it doesn't always need to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Let's say a paradise, be thankful for what we got. Thank you. I said to council, my name is Curtis Relaford and I'd like permission to speak and when I ask you that mayor, you say to speak to you, you're facilitating but when your members say a question when I'm doing my speech, it distracts what I really wanted to say. So that last time I was here, I appreciated Ms. Mathis to leave the job to the mayor to facilitate me because that's who I'm giving this respect for. I'm here to speak up for justice and my rights. My rights is valuable too. I came here from Louisiana. I never spoke up for myself. I came to Santa Cruz, California 33 years ago and I came here and learned so much to get me to this particular place in my life to speak up for my rights. I've been promoting peace, love, compassion around here. Community gatherings, people shaking hands, hugging, don't know each other from Adam and I'm bringing that. I'm bringing it loud because ain't nobody downtown talking about love, compassion, empathy for all people. There's not too many people doing that. I'm doing it and I'm having some good resorts. Gang bangers going back to school. People getting out of prison and I'm taking them under the wing and they going back to their families. They getting their kids back. They getting their wife back. These are the resorts I'm getting. Also with an amount of stack of tickets that I'm just working them off. Community service. That's what I'm doing, community service. If I'm not supposed to be here, please tell me if I'm not allowed in Santa Cruz too. I'm not allowed in Louisiana. I'm not allowed in Los Angeles. I'm not allowed anywhere where I go to be me. I'm not trying to be white. I'm not trying to be no other race. I'm being me. Santa Cruz City Council, I would like to speak briefly about what I think is a omission from our cultural memory. In 1877, two men accused of murder were lynched at the Water Street Bridge. This was one of thousands of barely documented lynchings of Mexicans that occurred across the Western United States as a country and as a state and as a city. We are just now coming to terms with our racial history. The Equal Justice Initiative has made great strides in the sense and they've erected plaques and monuments all across the country to commemorate lynchings. Almost none of these memorialize the lynchings of Mexicans. This picture was taken the morning after the lynching. Children are gathered around the tree or the bodies and will later bid on pieces of the ropes. This image isn't but should be iconic in our understanding of our local history. It is crude, it's vulgar and it's unpleasant but so is the history that it represents. To omit it from our recognition would be to sugarcoat our history of racial violence. I believe that a historical marker is an important step towards reconciliation both for Santa Cruz and for the wider west coast of the United States. I would like to or I have submitted to the council alongside a list of educational sources on this topic, a petition that was signed in the space of about two hours by over 150 people. Members of the Santa Cruz community almost all high school students. As a community dedicated to social justice, I think Santa Cruz could be a real leader in this reconciliation. Thank you. Before you begin, I wanna remind folks that if you have signs to please not hold them so they're blocking somebody's vision who's sitting behind you. Thank you very much. Okay, go ahead. Hello everyone, I'm just gonna be quickly reading the petition she was just talking about. We the undersigned request the Santa Cruz City Council move forward erecting a historical marker on Water Street Bridge, memorializing the violent lynching of Jose Chimales and Francisco Arias in 1877. We ask that the marker include both the historic image of the two men's bodies hanging from the tree and a bilingual description of the event and its importance. This event is an important part of Santa Cruz's history and lacking recognition of this downtown lynching is a significant admission. We the undersigned believe that is indicative of a wider reluctance to acknowledge our racial history. The lynching has been researched and written about by local historians, Jeffrey Dunn and Sandy Leiden, but it still lacks wider public recognition. The Equal Justice Initiative, a nonprofit organization in Alabama has worked to put up plaques at southern lynching sites. The organization says despite the lasting legacy of racial terrorism and injustice in this country, there is an astonishing absence of efforts to acknowledge, discuss or address lynching. As a community committed to social justice and equality, we too should be part of this important historical conversation. Thank you. Thank you. Hello council, my name is Elise Kasby and many of you know I'm a local activist. The reason I'm speaking at public comment tonight is that I just want to kind of call attention to a couple things that are happening in our city. I think there has been an old guard that has been in office for quite some time. When I say the old guard, I'm talking about mainstream Democrats who are actually somewhat conservative in especially fiscal ways, who might be better representative they were registered as Republicans but they're not, they're Democrats. So why do I talk about that? The part of the reason is is because I feel like the country and the world in general are in dire need of a paradigm shift that we need to make a quantum leap as people in the world in order to meet the incredible challenges that we have to meet the challenges of climate change and the extinction that's happening right now around the planet to increase democracy. And I think for example, if we just look at that one thing for when I went to a little tourist tour in Sacramento, I found out that the number of representatives there and this was just a few years back was the same as it was 100 years ago. That's ridiculous, our population is. And if I hadn't taken that tour I never would have found that out. So why am I bringing this up? I'm very dismayed that the progressive members in council are being, I feel, hassled a bit over issues that are matters of procedure such as getting things on the agenda. I'm not clear exactly why that happened and I don't wanna point blame. I just wanna ask that, yeah, it's a political position to be on the city council and but still I hope that there are some neutral procedures and I don't want people accusing people of bullying unless that's really happening. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hi, good afternoon. My name is Valerie Corral and I wanna bring to your attention that something quite extraordinary happened today at the Board of Supervisors. This morning there was an ordinance put in place after 12 days to include the equity grant which is primarily meaning, and I think that you may already know about this $10 million that is offered from the BCC and we were given 30 days every city in the state of California was given 30 days to have in place an ordinance. Well, it's an amazing opportunity for this city council to do the same thing and to adopt the measures that the Board of Supervisors adopted. It's possible. The language is already written. Alan Hopper, who is an advisor and attorney has been in the past and attorney to WAM offered some language and I'll get that language to you and he also offered to help craft that if necessary. But for more than two and a half decades in this community we have partnered with Santa Cruz, WAM has partnered with Santa Cruz City and County and we've been at the forefront of access to medical marijuana and it was a socially conscious and action that led us to this and we persisted in a vacuum. So the laws that define compassionate access at that time and that have come about over these last two and a half decades need adjustment, they need improvement, especially in light of the new regulations from Prop 64. Equity, it's an equity loan and equity refers to disproportionately affected communities, people of color, women, cannabis drug offenders, people of low income, those who lack access to revenue as a woman who's been arrested three times and works for cannabis and who works with financially disenfranchised community members have experienced some hard schooling. We have no lobbyists in Sacramento, we have no money to write laws and I'm here to lobby you. So please do this, I'll help you do it, I'll email you what you need to do and you can do it. Thank you. We'll have both. Thank you. Members of the community and city council, why are we not in the civic auditorium? Why are people standing outside? This has repeatedly been requested. Yes, I blame the mayor. He could have scheduled it. But I blame the four progressives on this council who could have insisted on it. Why aren't they doing it? Why are speakers, and I appreciate value for how it's not been cut off as every other speaker I have seen throughout the afternoon be cut off, why are they not resisting these cut-offs that the mayor is engaged in? Have a rent control proposal that not only gets presented but gets passed as it would have been passed because they're afraid of being recalled. No, that's not what we expect from people who we vote for. Fine limits, two minutes per speaker. People cannot get their speeches in within two minutes. These four, it is their responsibility to address this issue. Both sessions, having things on the agenda. Any attorney today presented suddenly new information about a closed item. I requested this item be put ahead two weeks. We didn't know about it. No member of the four person progressive except for Mr. Cron objected and then no one removed to put it ahead two weeks. Open agenda formation sessions where you the public can be present at the formation of agendas. So you can be a part of it, and not simply be here a passive audience waiting for them to fulfill the staff's agenda which we know is hopefully not the agenda of the council majority, at least on issues that are coming up later tonight. Thank you. Good afternoon, or good evening city council. I understand there's this whole topic of divisiveness or everything going on. I mean, it made the front page of the good time so it must be big. While this is happening though, there is something that we can agree on and this agreement is in regards to improving transit. How can the city of Santa Cruz show its street smarts if the streets themselves are not even safe? Laurel and Felix is considered a school crossing yet Laurel Street itself is treated like a highway. It's dim at night, every time it rains, people can barely see other people. It's unsafe to cross that street just to even get off the bus stop. I've been hit nearly countless times and I get this little nice pocket flashlight here and you know, it doesn't do justice and like it's ridiculous and we do have housing as an issue but transportation and housing do tie together hand in hand more than you think and all I ask here today is that there needs to be a focus on advocacy for safer streets and better marketing for our current public transportation services. Street smarts meet Metro smarts. Thank you. Are there any other members of the community who'd like to address the council on items that are not on tonight's agenda or on today's agenda? I'm Abby. I'm here to speak about something that is not really on your agenda, although kind of it's gonna be mainly about rent control, that's caused eviction. I agree with Robert. We should have this over at the not city hall at the Civic. So I wrote a couple people in Seattle and Portland in regards to their situation there as far as homelessness and I wanna read what one of them wrote. And I was surprised at their response. This is from Nick Jones, who's a legislative assistant with Seattle's council member Sawant. What he said in Seattle, we are constantly hearing about how the main issue is drug abuse, mental health, or people from outside the city flocking here because of our quote unquote free services. These all scapegoat the issue because at the core of the problem is relying on the for-profit housing market to provide affordable housing for people. To many of the powers that have influence in city hall like big developers and the landlord lobby, this assessment is unacceptable. In Santa Cruz, cause I wrote him about Santa Cruz saying what was said in the report last time we were here. And so he responded. In Santa Cruz it could be helpful to look at to what percentage of residents are currently rent burden spending more than 30% of income on rent and what the average cost of apartments in the area costs. And he also says all serious studies about the root cause of homelessness point to unbelievable dearth of truly affordable housing. It's clear the main thing pushing people into homelessness is housing prices and evictions. So please, we need just cause eviction. I could at least finish my sentence. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I think you'll be our last speaker. Before you begin, I just wanna ensure that there's nobody else who's here to speak on oral communications items that are not on today's agenda. Are you here? How would I just think about it? I don't think there's someone else in the back. Okay. So if you could please line to my left and then. She's heading there. Same old. No, no, I'm sorry. Of course not, not you. If those that are in the audience that are interested in speaking on oral communications items that are not. That was a line. I'm sorry. Yeah, no, I wasn't clear as well. So thank you very much. Okay. Please begin. Good evening. I'm Scott Graham. I'd like to speak tonight about things that have happened in the past that have closed off this government. At one time, there used to be green cards over here and any member of the public has filled one out and take an item off the consent agenda to talk about it. Now we have to go to a council member and beg them to take something off. I'd like to see that restored. Another thing is the minutes of the council meetings back when Emma was the city clerk, not only said who spoke at the meetings, but a brief synapses of what they said, what their issue was. And now it's just a list of people that spoke. Has nothing, you have no idea what they said. You'd have to go and watch the video. The other thing is this agenda meeting, why is it secret? Why is it closed off? In Berkeley, it's a public event. The public is allowed to come to those meetings and they actually put their two cents in. So I'd like to see more openness in this government so that the public gets more access to what's going on and gets more input into what's going on. Thank you. Hi, my name is Sherry Sherry Peterson. I want to speak about the bus service. I was walking down, it was my borrowed walker, the second walker I've broken, and walking down mission and there's only a bus every two hours down mission. So to get to your doctor appointment, you either have to walk along mission like this far from the semis and cars going 50 and it's really terrifying. I was praying the whole time, you know, going to my doctor, but I just wish that mission needs to have three buses an hour and I wish he could restore that. I wish every bus stop would have like a solar light on it. So females that are stuck at the bus stop when it's dark could like have a light. If some lunatic is sitting next to you, you don't want to sit there and be afraid. I don't like being out at night myself. I only come out to talk to you to try and get your attention about homelessness, basically, but this bus is a problem. And I think if they had an overnight bus that ran all night and a lot of drivers agree with me, if there was a 71, if there was a 35, then people could at least spend the night on the bus. I have a friend that's 86 and she has to ride the Dearborn over by Gilroy three times a week because she can't afford to stay in a motel every night, but she's under wits and two, we're all in our wits end and we're looking for solutions. And I'm asking you, I'm begging you to deepen your heart and look for solutions. Thank you. And before you begin, I believe you'll be our last member of the community who's interested in speaking to us on items not on today's agenda. Okay, go right ahead. Thank you for allowing me to speak. My name is Steve Rohr. I think I might be a little bit of a minority as far as my opinion here. I want to ensure that as voters and citizens of Santa Cruz that we're all represented and that no one should feel intimidated and I do feel intimidated because I heard people speaking, I disagreed with them. By the way, I think in America we're allowed to disagree, right? Is that okay? By the way, when you disagree, it doesn't mean you hate anyone. But I heard a gentleman talking about rent control. Well, we, overwhelmingly as citizens of this city voted down rent control and yet we still got rent control. I want to tell you my story. I do have some property in Santa Cruz. The way I got that was to drive an hour. Every day, get up at four in the morning and drive for an hour, work in construction which I'm still doing. I've been doing it for 42 years. That's how I was able to afford my first house. Nobody gave it to me. I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. I have health issues due to construction. My body's wearing out. I still work in construction. And yes, we do have some rental properties. We rent the rooms to students in one property for a fraction of what the university charges for a room. And yet people are telling us that we're supposed to drop our rent or we can't even increase it with the cost of inflation. So I want to represent people that have worked their tail off their whole life. And now we've got people that were not willing to sacrifice many of them. I don't know, any renters, I have two rental properties in the house I live in. One of the renters sacrifices to drive an hour each way to afford to live here. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thanks for your speech. Okay. So that will conclude oral communications. So at this time we have one item on our agenda tonight. Before we go ahead and jump into the item, I would like to just remind folks of our council norms and my role as mayor and presiding officer of the meeting. So the council adopted some norms and I'll just briefly review those to be respectful, to engage in open and honest communication, to be truthful and honest, to address difficult issues, to seek to find areas of common ground, be open to different perspectives, to give the benefit of the doubt, roll out model good leadership and be considerate of each other's time. Everybody who is here has an opportunity to, or will have an opportunity to address the council. I ask that you allow that person to speak to the council when they are given the opportunity without interruption as they will allow for you to do the same. It's my job to maintain decorum in our council chambers. If I observe an individual disrupting the council meeting, I will ask that you please stop and give you a warning. If it is repeated, then I will ask that you please leave the council chambers so that we can move forward with our discussion and our processes. So I appreciate and thank you in advance for adhering to our rules of decorum and hopefully allow for us to have a thoughtful policy a discussion and experience this evening. And then I'll just go ahead and at this point, turn it over to our city staff who will be presenting the item. Thank you, Mayor Watkins, council members, members of the community, good evening. I'm Tina Scholl, the assistant city manager and to my left is Susie O'Hara, the assistant to the city manager. And we are heading up the presentation team for you tonight. Similar to your meeting two weeks ago, we have quite a lineup of additional speakers as well. We have fire chief, Jason Hayduk, we have planning and community development director, Steve Butler, economic development director, Bonnie Lipscomb. We have our city attorney, Tony Condati, and we also have some special guests. Dr. Leff is here from the county, our county health officer, as well as Mr. Brent Adams. We'll be speaking to tonight. We also have our parks and recreation director, Tony Elliott, for questions. So we have another full night of presentation for you. A lot of speakers. Okay, so similar to last time, we have a discussion agenda for you so you can track on how the evening will go. We'll first review the motions from your last council meeting, which largely drove the content for tonight's meeting. You'll hear an update on the city county joint action plan operations. There will be staff analysis and response to the motion from the last city council meeting. And then finally we'll summarize with some staff recommendations and considerations for council direction. So then first looking to your last council meeting two weeks ago, we received a set of direction from the city council that we have here. And just so you could track, you can understand the coding on the side. You'll see motion carried to and either check marks or diamonds. The diamonds are substantive items that are being brought forth tonight for your consideration and discussion with work product associated with them. The first being returning with a list of possible city-owned locations for encampments and safe parking locations. The second one is returning with ordinance language for both transitional encampment permitting and safe parking programs. The next one down is talking about the motion carried to direct staff to provide additional information on how this motion's incorporated into the project charter around encampments. You might recall at your last meeting we presented two project charters, one around hours in public facilities and council gave direction to work on that so that works ongoing. And then we also presented one on transitional encampments. At the time of the meeting, council didn't accept that work plan but we're curious to know how another set of action would fit in with that project charter as outlined by staff. And then the final action item, that's the diamond below is directing us to return with a revised shelter crisis declaration. We have that for you. And so then you'll see items that are check marks and those are items that have been completed or are substantially underway. The first one is directing city staff to share information with the county and that has been done. There was a two by two meeting that occurred since your last meeting, your meeting tonight and there was a robust discussion there and all of this was conveyed. The second check mark is removing the closure date at the gateway camp. That was your direction and that's been done. The third is providing signage at the camp about alternatives and that has been done. The fourth check mark directing staff to communicate with county partners that we are committed to the closure. Again, that was done largely communicated in the two by two meeting as well as staff to staff interactions between the city and the county. And then finally, the council did direct work on the project charter process for public facilities analysis and that work will be ongoing. That's not immediate work to return. But we'd just like to summarize for you so you can see how your action tonight is responsive to the council direction of the last meeting as well as the things that have been accomplished. So with that, we will turn to our first segment of the agenda and I will ask Susie O'Hara to provide an update on the joint action plan. Thank you, Tina and good evening. And I'm sure going into the night we'll recheck in on the timing. So I'm gonna be starting the conversation around an update of the joint action plan and then also kind of finishing the conversation trying to wrap up. There's gonna be a lot of information coming at you this evening, a lot of different speakers really trying to distill really a huge amount of information into what would be appropriate next steps. So with regard to the joint action plan I wanted to talk about two kind of specific areas. Current conditions at the camp as well as our engagement with the camp residents and really trying to understand kind of fundamentally who is out there? What are their needs and how best to serve folks that are out there? So with regard to conditions Fire Chief Hayduk will be talking more about this but I have been out there every week multiple times a week, really getting into the camp, having conversations with folks in terms of outreach and engagement and understanding what opportunities they may have for shelter provision but also having a lot of firsthand contact with the conditions at the camp. I just want to reiterate that it is significantly challenging out there in terms of health and safety considerations. The Fire Chief will talk about that more but I also wanted to reflect on that. So just to orient you to the left side of the screen here we've had 80 contacts with residents, 25 shuttle vouchers distributed and 12 residents that have taken us up on the offer of transporting folks to the winter shelter programs at either the VFW or Laurel Street. Last week, Megan Bunchenai also met with the camp council so there really is a self-governed group of folks that are in living at the camp. I see a few folks actually outside and I know that they had planned on coming and speaking as well. We conducted a meeting with five individuals last week, last Friday, to really understand what brought them to the camp, what their hopes are for maintaining the camp and the conditions there and then what services and what kind of shelter models might make sense for folks. And then also their interest in collaborating with the city and the county to really develop a stronger sense of partnership and coordination with our jurisdictions. So that was really an important information for us to take in and we will be meeting with them again on this Friday. So with regard to shelter provision, this was also mentioned at last meeting but to reiterate the Laurel Street program opened on the 13th of February. There are 40 beds at that site. They are not all full so we are really focused on getting more people into that shelter. 1220 River Street, we are moving forward with a contract with the Salvation Army to provide 60 individual tent sites at 1220 River Street and that will be, we are intending to open that on April 17th with board direction on the 16th of April so that contract will be with the county board of supervisors. The armory and the use of that facility is still being vetted by the county. We did report on that last meeting and those discussions are ongoing. In addition to that, as we really try to grapple with we have this state funding that's come to our region, the LOI process for emergency shelter provision, that process is complete. There are several programs that are funded for that and that was really to try to bolster our emergency shelter programming. So the AFC Safe Parking Program is part of that portfolio, 1220 River Street, the extension of the North and South County winter shelter programs to June 30th as well as support for the Polly Loft and their ongoing operations. So that process is finished and in addition to that the Heap and Cash RFP award announcements are expected very soon as early as next week and with those two processes done we'll really have a much better understanding as to the capacity that our local nonprofits have to meet these expectations, quite frankly these really high expectations we have to enhance our sheltering and homeless programming capacity. So we'll be able to report more out on that as well in the coming weeks. With regard to the encampment and neighborhood management a lot of this stuff we talked about to reiterate we have commenced the 24-7 Gateway Encampment Security. We are in ongoing conversations with Gateway neighbors, Gateway Encampment neighbors to ensure that that security is the most effective as it can be and we will be working with them moving forward. We have moved the footprint, the tent footprint of the encampment back. I did want to comment that the footprint yes is impacted by where the tent sites is, are. I think the footprint is more impacted by the day use quite frankly. We have a lot of people hanging around on the levee that it kind of pushes the activities out onto the levee pathway and so it's not just necessarily the tents that are impactful. The downtown streets team is cleaning Falker Street five to seven days a week. The mobile command unit has been placed in the Ross parking lot and that is intermittent and the syringe kiosk has been installed and it's quite heavily used. I think it was at capacity and needed to be somewhat on an emergency basis needed the syringes to be removed last week on the eighth. So with that bit of context I'm gonna turn it over to the fire chief to give you a little bit more information about the current conditions. Mayor, council, Jason Heide, fire chief for the city of Santa Cruz and I'm gonna talk a little bit about this. If you have questions, please let me know. One of the main directives that came out at the last council meeting was maximizing coordination efforts between the city and the county. And we've been having ongoing meetings within the city planning our efforts down at the camp as well as meeting with the county outside of the two by two meetings to discuss what we are doing to support the camp to mitigate any hazards that we find there. And finally what we came up with is a web EOC and what that is is an electronic platform that allows us to put our actions onto a web-based program so that we can both see it. So the county can see it, the city can see it, fire department, parks and rec, health services so that we can see when HP HP was there. We can see when the last time services were delivered significant incidents occurred down there. So it's a common platform that we can coordinate our efforts but more importantly, we can be aware of what the other agencies are doing. So I think that one accomplishment really hits home to what you asked of us as far as coordinating efforts and maximizing those. It provides situational awareness and real-time information. One portion of it that will be up and running soon is the shelter portion. And what that is is it has a list of shelters and more importantly what their current availability is and what their capacity is and what the different nuances is will they allow pets, will they allow couples? So that is something that someone in the field on a mobile device can look at and say we have shelter available for you right now. Do you want it? And so we'll be able to track that. And I think that's very important because the information flow has been challenging between all the non-governmental agencies, the faith-based agencies, the county and the city. This is a platform where we can put all that information in and we can access it in real time. Ongoing maintenance of the camp facilities as far as refuse the restrooms and sharps disposals, that's been a coordinated effort. Parks and Rec has taken the brunt of doing that. They've done a really good job. We need to do a better job as far as the amount of debris and some of the garbage that we have there because of the impacts to the community as far as health hazards. And I'll hit on that when I talk about the County Health Officer Assessment. Next this week we wanna do a site survey for the layout of the tents themselves for life safety and mainly for access. We've had a number of incidents. I talked about access for medical calls in that area. We also had a fire and we've had a few other incidents where access into that area is very challenging. And then the general layout doesn't allow for any safe spacing between the tents. And so we're going to engage with the council that's there and come up with what we think would be a better solution to how people are arranged down there for their own safety. In addition to that, we will be doing increased clean out. There's a lot of stuff there that's not necessarily just for living. It's not just for people who are sleeping in a tent. There's a lot of other stuff there and we wanna get that out. Calls for service continue. I know that we've had a decrease in the amount of law calls and medical calls in the last few weeks. And I don't have a reason for that but it is a continual source for fire law and medical. And the last, the County Health Officer, Dr. Leff, who's here, in our discussions with the county, we were concerned not only just with my concerns about fire and medical and law enforcement but we're also concerned about county public safety health. And that was, that's one of the reasons why we have a sharps disposal chaos down there to limit the spread of the disease. They did an assessment of the camp and despite our best intentions of raising up the tents off of the ground with pallets that created habitat for rats. And they are a vector for disease within a population that's living in close quarters. And despite our best efforts to provide restroom facilities and hand washing stations, it still has huge potential, not only for the occupants of the camp but spreading beyond the camp as far as a public safety hazard for disease spread. The County Health Officer, is he gonna speak tonight? Okay, I'll let him speak to that but that is a real concern not only for the inhabitants of the camp and the potential impact to them but the impact to the community that they're in because of the concentration of people and either overwhelming the sanitation that we've supplied or not using it correctly. So I'll let Dr. Leff speak more to that unless you have any other questions. Yep. Thank you. I'm Arnold Leff. I'm the County Health Officer. I also function as the city's health officer. And you all received the letter that I wrote a few days ago outlining a number of recommendations. Most of the recommendations are in process, the three major ones being to decrease the density of that camp as soon as it can be done since the significant density really is a public health danger. The road and control issue has just been spoken to and I know that your parks director, Mr. Elliott and our County's vector control are working together to find someone who can start to decrease the road and population at the camp. And then the other issue which is dear to my heart is the issue of syringes. We have a large percentage of the people at the camp are injecting drug users and require from 300 to 600 syringes a day. And as a result, one of my recommendations is to allow us to provide those syringes. Currently, we have some individuals who get syringes at our facilities and bring them down to the camp. I would hope that the council would continue to support that and actually encourage those syringes to be available. That's a huge potential public health issue. As you know, approximately a year and a half ago, we had a very serious hepatitis A outbreak. Now we've immunized thousands of people against hepatitis A and I'm hoping that some of the people at the camp have been immunized. We are also bringing our medical staff to the encampment to vaccinate folks for influenza and hepatitis A when they're interested in doing that. So I'm here mainly to let you know that we are concerned, obviously, the camp at some point needs to be closed in the interim. Any decrease in density would be helpful and the need to deal with the rodent problem and the syringe problem you're in process of doing. And we are in process of doing as well. So I am open to any questions you might have. Okay, Council Member Glover and then Council Member Crum. Thank you, Dr. Leff. Just wanted to clarify just so that there's a clear understanding within the community. You had estimated 300 or 600 syringes per day. That's for the entire camp. And that's an estimate. We are presuming that and based on a survey that our homeless persons health project did, we're assuming about 50% of that camp is doing injecting, is injecting drugs. We've distributed a huge amount of nalaxone, which is Narcan, which is an overdose prevention substance, but we're still concerned because if people are reusing syringes or using friends syringes, two major catastrophes happen, maybe three. One is you can spread hepatitis A, which when you spread hepatitis A, approximately 20% of it winds up in a community outside that nexus group. The second thing that happens is that you get wound infections. And those wound infections can be very, very serious because they can eventually go to the heart and cause what we call endocarditis or an infection of the heart. And Dominican is seeing, unfortunately, a recurrence or a resurgence, I should say, of valvular heart disease, secondary to injection drugs. And the third major catastrophe, which is related to that, is that it costs tens of millions of dollars. To deal with what dirty syringes bring to people that do not have clean syringes. Just the Amaline Clinic, the 282 patients at the Amaline Clinic cost the California, cost our alliance, our MediCal program, $52 million in 2018, 282 patients. And the top 10, we're half of that. So the reality is we need to deal with the syringe program. We need medically assisted treatment, which the county is doing our best to bump up and get to people so they can get medically assisted treatment on demand when they need it. But in the interim for the encampment, rodent control, decreased density, and allow for as many syringes that are needed. Thank you, there's one more question. In your professional experience and opinion, what is the most cost effective and proven way to help people transition off of intravenous drug use? Well, I think there's no one way. I think there's a number of way. Medically assisted treatment with Suboxone, methadone treatment, which is a longer term rehab, and then there's residential treatment for those that it's appropriate for. So, and there's a number of other things, but we can do it. Resources, we're hoping are gonna come in. Some resources are beginning to come, resources are beginning to come in to deal with that population group, but they're a very, very vulnerable population, not only with substance use, but also mental illness. Thank you, Dr. Leff. Questions, I think, was there a question here? And then- Yes, my question, thank you. You already asked. Oh yes, okay, Councilor McBrown. Sorry. Hi, Dr. Leff, thank you for being here. I used to sit up here with you years ago. Yeah, I remember. I was just wondering if you can tell us off the top of your head, how many bed spaces there are available for residential treatment in Santa Cruz County? If not, we can get it, but I just wanna get at the, related to the potential need and interest, do we have sufficient bed spaces in your assessment? Because a lot of people tell us, well, we just need treatment, not all of this other stuff, and it's a little harder, it's a little trickier than that. It's more complicated and resource intensive. So- Yeah, I don't know that I know the beds today. I do know that we, the county, have participated in a state and federal program to get MediCal to pay for residential drug treatment. And that program has just begun, really. It's sort of beginning to get going. Once that happens, you're going to see Janice is projecting to double the number of residential beds that they have for substance use treatment. But I could tell you we're going to need a significant amount more. Any other questions? Thank you for being here tonight, Dr. You're very welcome. Yeah. Thank you so much, Dr. Love. Okay, so with that, we're now going to shift on to the next aspect of the presentation. Of course, we can come back for questions. So this is a brief presentation on the first deliverable that we returned back to the city council. And this was a revised shelter crisis declaration. And this was in your packet in total. So this is already, it was published on Thursday with the rest of the agenda report. So just as a reminder for the council and members of the audience who maybe didn't watch the last discussion, but under the California government code, local governments can declare shelter crises or a shelter crisis. If it finds that you can see this in red font, a significant number of persons are without the ability to obtain shelter resulting in a threat to their life and safety. And by declaring this, that local government sets in effect a few very helpful mechanisms. The first is it provides immunity from liability for ordinary negligence. So knowing that you have to move with due haste to try to resolve the issue, it does provide some protection. If not, everything goes perfectly according to plan. Of course, this does not protect against malfeasance or gross negligence, things like that. But it provides us a sense that we're trying to do our best under probably not optimal circumstances. The second and more significantly is that it allows suspension of state, local statutes, regulations or ordinances, prescribing standards of housing, health or safety when those existing standards would provide an impediment or some sort of barrier to whatever emergency sheltering plan you're trying to put forward. It also allows the local governing body to put forth alternate health and safety codes. So this is the value in doing this. We did some analysis of this last year the council has an adopted shelter crisis declaration on the books that was adopted by resolution in January of 2018. And in the discussion we had with you with your last meeting, there was talks that although it's in place and it has been helpful, in fact, that allowed us to access some of that $10 million in state funding, we felt it could be strengthened. We felt that in two prominent ways it could be a better instrument. And you can see those in the blue box on the right of the slide. First is that contrary to the existing shelter crisis declaration, the one before you tonight doesn't have any reference to any specific proposal or plan or navigation center or any sort of model. It just talks about it uses a language actually drawn from the government code about temporary bridge shelter, which could have a broad array of uses. So we feel like this is as much more flexibility and broader flexibility for whatever steps the city might find itself taking. And secondarily, the shelter crisis declaration, the revised one provides much more precise references to code and statutes that we're missing. And so rather than having any ambiguity, it just made sense just to strengthen that. So you've seen the document in your packet and we could discuss it further, but those were the two, it's an entirely different document, but those are the two major changes that were made that are before you this evening. And I can take questions now or we can take them as we move on. Okay, seeing none, okay. All right, so then now if I could invite up, I guess I'll introduce her first. Sabani Lipscomb is our director of economic development and she's taking on a fairly hefty portion of the presentation tonight. So the second substantive action that council directed was for staff to bring back a list of city-owned properties that could serve as a transitional encampment or safe parking program location. And so Bonnie went through a very substantive analysis. In your packet that was published on Thursday, there's a series of maps and we have access to those if you wish to see those. Bonnie has a slightly different take in her analysis. So she's gonna walk the city council through a series of slides through that analysis. Thanks Bonnie. Thank you right now. Good afternoon, mayor and members of council. So the map you see before you is very similar to the one that you have in the packet. We have a few refinements. I won't go into some of the details of those. They're basically from our assessor's parcel map and looking and refining some of the city ownership. Just some of those when parcels change, it takes a while before they're updated. And so this map is actually accurate for city ownership. And just to orient you to the overview in the upper left-hand corner, you have the property that we own outside the city. And that includes mostly property that is for watershed purposes. You also have the Loch Lomond Recreation Area up in this upper left-hand corner of your screen. And then some watershed areas and then we also have our Sky Park property. And just wanted to mention most of those other than in that area north of the city, we also own some property in Live Oak, again for water-related purposes. And then the majority of our remaining property is within the city limits. And that includes a couple of annex properties, one for water use and one for Dimeo Lane. So overall, we have 550 parcels in the broader Santa Cruz area when we actually start narrowing down the filter based on some initial feedback we had from Council. We have 287 parcels that are actually 5,000 square feet or above. And we did feel like that was a significant number. Just looking at, as we're looking at transitional encampment potential sites and for safe parking, looking specifically at sort of a minimum square foot size. So these sites would be sites that could accommodate potentially up to 50 people per site. And so this was some of the initial feedback we had from Council. And so this is the map that you see before you. If we expand that to, or increase that size to 10,000 square feet, which is slightly smaller than the 1220 River site where we previously had the shelter that site was, the usable area was around 12,500. I think the actual total parcel size was about 1,700 square feet, but some of that was sloped. And that's an important consideration because when you look at a lot of our property, many of the parcels, particularly when you get outside our core area in Santa Cruz have slopes or have other elements to them that make them not usable. So again, just looking at the overall map, what you see before you, the green area are our parks and open spaces, the purple area are our water facilities, the blue are our parking lots and sort of that golden orange are all of our other miscellaneous city properties. And I should say before I go further, I do wanna just thank and appreciate actually Rich Westfall in the city ITs department for creating all the base maps. And then for David McCormick, who is our asset property manager, who spent quite a bit of time really looking at the details and checking accuracy as far as parcel data to make sure that we have the correct information and help put this presentation together. So I just wanted to acknowledge them. Okay, so going in a little more closely now, just looking at the parcels within the city limits. And one of the reasons why we did that is we also largely control the permitting and the use within the city limits. And then also major reasons of just access being transportation and for a few other reasons which we'll go into in a little more detail. So looking within the main city boundaries, we have 323 parcels. We have roughly 215 parcels that are 5,000 square feet or larger. The only difference on this map is just drawing your attention to the upper part of the screen where you see the red dotted circle. That's actually a water-owned property on Ocean Street extension. And I have it circled and we looked at this one a little more closely. It's a fairly large site as it turns out quite a bit of it sloped. It is, what we thought had some real potential initially is we could look a little more closely because of the slope of the site. We think it may not be a site that we could consider for long-term, but it is worth a little more analysis. It is close similar to the 1220 River Street of the Concernist near a major water supply intake, so there is some concern for that. We would have to require carefully controlled conditions relative to sanitation, runoff, et cetera, and as I mentioned, the slope. So while we initially thought the site had some great potential, as we looked more closely at it, we realized that it didn't. So most of the other sites are, and we go to the next slide, I believe. Yeah, so we also removed and realized as we were looking at these sites, and where you see the exes are actually sites where we have critical facilities, and so those are water facilities, treatment plants, other areas that are very sensitive to use. Many of them already are gated in some way to restrict public access to them, and as we looked more closely, we actually went through all of them and looked more closely at them, and that's where we eliminated most of the water property sites. There are a couple remaining, and we'll show you those shortly, and that's why I went over the one that we didn't eliminate initially, but it did have some concerns over it. And then to just go a little deeper on that, as you can see, we have these sites. Some are, as I mentioned, are gated because they're sensitive to water and tank. We have pumps, tanks, storage facilities on site, and obviously our water treatment plant, which is very sensitive. So we have some health and safety concerns from providing access to these sites, some concerns about potential damage to property, just operational impacts. We restrict public access to these areas for a reason, and then also a lot of these areas, they're used. They're fully, as you can see, on the treatment plant area, there's just not room to have compatible use with those. And then we also, as just sort of the initial lens, also looked at many of the properties we own, and those are many of the properties that were in sort of that golden rod, that golden yellow area, are properties that have existing uses on them. So from our Loud and Nelson Civic facilities to some of our existing shelters, properties that we lease to other entities, to our wharf, which has active uses on it. So overall, some of the disqualifying concerns, we didn't eliminate parks from this initially, but we did look at compatible uses. We looked at leases that we have with private entities to run some of our public facilities. We looked at operational impacts, available space after the overall use were being used, again, existing lease terms, and some of the other impacts, both community and economic as well. And then finally, we also looked at the physical constraints. Many of these parcels, as you can see, have physical challenges to being able to use them, whether they're overall health and safety concerns. The terrain, as you can see in the bottom one, is just too sloped without actually doing serious grading. And some just because of access, you just can't get them to be able to do any of this site work. Security and access being able to get access both for services, for social services, and also just for access to for security and our police and fire to be able to get in if there are a fire does restrict some of these sites. And then of course, in our city, we do have many of these sites that are prone to flooding, particularly when you look around the river corridor. So for example, with the tannery project, when we built that, we actually built it intentionally so that you had a garage on the ground floor and all the housing was after the first floor and we have had to evacuate that site in times of flooding. So we looked at that lens as well. So just to orient you where we are really looking for, we think the sites that have the most suitability or is in the area that you see outlined by that center blue square. And so we really focus on this area after taking a broad look at all of the property we own, both inside and outside the city, we realize that almost all of the sites that really have the parameters that we think we need to be able to have a transitional encampment and also a safe parking program are going to be in our larger sort of core area. And those reasons and the benefit of really locating in these core locations is accessibility, access to transit. And I'll show you a close up of our transit map closely. In a second, utility, access to utilities, refuse service against security and police services, nearby social services, habitat impacts. And I'll go into that in just another minute. And just also keeping our individuals and part of our community as part of our community rather than putting them outside our city limits. This one, just to show you, this is that same area from the previous side that's in the blue box, but it is overlaid with a GIS layer that shows all of our topography. And you see those in the brown sort of topo lines, as well as some of our sensitive habitat area. And then in the blue cross section on the bottom is also our coastal zone. So we also looked at it from where do these fall in some of these sensitive habitat areas and different areas and sloping terrain from the topo that we really need to be concerned about whether or not we can actually site anything there. So again, those most viable public properties within this sort of concentrated sort of core area are accessible, have access to public transit. We can bring in potable water, electricity, have minimal environmental impacts or sensitive habitat and are compatible also with surrounding, the surrounding environment and the land use. So this map that I'm not gonna repeat the sort of the points on the right, they're the same, but I did want to show as we take off the topo layers you can actually see in the, and I'm not sure if you can see it from this distance, but the brown areas are actually public metro transit sops, which the majority of those are really in the core of the city. And so one of the things that we really wanted to look at is make sure that we had within a half mile for most of these stops access to public transit. So finally, just getting to the city owned property within this core area, we did identify an initial six sites. And I will say that no site is ideal. There's physical constraints, environmental concerns, coastal concerns and almost every site there are some concerns. There are some benefits to the site and if you would like to go into those later, we're happy to go into some of those as well as the approximate size of each of those sites, but I'll name them just quickly. We do have one, I can actually go to the next slide. Yeah, thanks. One site, which is a water property site to, and again I wanna say this is an initial pass, looking at these sites. We need to get direction from you of what we've presented tonight of the parameters, if those make sense to you, if some of them don't make sense to you, if there's different things you want us to look at, we really would like that feedback. But specifically the sites from our first pass that we've looked at that we think are appropriate to do a deeper dive and go into more closely the suitability for these sites include one water property that's off of High Street, that's actually between the two churches off High, and this was a former reservoir site, the tanks have been removed. It could potentially be a good safe parking site, it's a site that's about 12,000 square feet, the usable area is about 8,000 square feet, it's worth a deeper look at that site. We have a site that's the Wharf Corp yard that is in the lower part of your screen, it's roughly two acres. Some challenges on this site is that we have just the title is clouded, we need to look at that and make sure we actually have site control with that site. We have a parking lot, we have two parking lots, one is located fairly close to the police station back behind Washington Street, it's north of Depot Park. Obviously there's some challenges with being anywhere near the park with that sort of concentrated use that we would need to look further at, but that is one site that again has about 8,700 square feet to look at. And then we have parking lot, and that's called parking lot 24 for those of you who are looking more closely at our parking map. And then we have parking lot 17, which is adjacent to the river, that is a linear site, it's actually about 12,000 square feet, it has some potential, that again has some challenges, it is located adjacent to the Kaiser Arena. So there's some compatibility uses, we also have a use agreement for handicapped spaces during game events, so we need to look at the time usage of that. And then finally the last two sites are park sites to look at more closely. In the past, looking at circling there up there is the San Lorenzo Park and there would be some analysis on I think the upper Benchlands area that Susie might want to go into more detail on that. And then the final site to look at is the site off of East Cliff, a portion of the lower side of Jesse Street Marsh. So those are the initial six sites, again none of them, all of them have constraints. They are the sites that the city owns that we think from the initial pass are most suitable, but that doesn't mean that we believe we should go forward with any of these sites at this time, but we are looking for some more feedback from you on those. Thank you. All right, thank you very much Bonnie. And so next for the next portion, and this is also the third deliverable for council tonight, I'm going to invite the Planning and Community Development Director Lee Butler to return to talk about the transitional encampment and safe parking ordinances to walk through some of the basics of how they might work and operate. Thank you Tina and good evening mayor and council members. So this, as Tina mentioned at the beginning is responsive to the council direction from the 26th of last month. And the ordinance is modeled, the draft ordinance that's before you is modeled primarily from an ordinance that was developed in Seattle that went through several versions to get to the place where it is currently in effect there in Seattle. And what this ordinance would do is it would facilitate the establishment of transitional encampments and safe parking areas. And those are really safe places for people experiencing homelessness to sleep, to store their belongings and to access for them to access facilities and services. It could take the form of individual tents. It could be cars or RVs. It could be larger group tents, for example, the sprung structures with the hard sides. It could be some variation through the emergency shelter crisis, the council could subsequently adopt different building health and safety standards. And so there could be alternatives that include things like sheds that can or tiny homes that can accommodate individuals. And so really the definition is somewhat flexible because what there is a demand for is to be determined. And so the ordinance could allow for any one of those or a combination of those on specific sites. And it's broken up into two separate and distinct portions. The first is long-term uses and those are associated with religious organizations. And the second is temporary uses on certain properties. And so I'll talk a little bit about each of those here. So the first is long-term uses associated with religious organizations. This is properties that are owned or controlled by a religious organization or if a religious organization is operating and it's the primary use on a property then regardless of the zoning district then a transitional encampment or safe parking place could be allowed on that site without any permits. It would be allowed by right. There are some approvals that would be required and I'll get to those in just a minute. And so I'll go through some of the specifications that the ordinance identifies. First is that parking on the site for the example for the religious use could be displaced. And the use itself, the encampment would not require any parking. We have in the draft ordinance a maximum of 50 occupants at any one location. And there are various fire safety, health and sanitation standards that would need to be met on the site. The provision of water the provision of restroom facilities and so forth. Cooking facilities would not be required. They may or may not be provided and there's some specifications if they are provided. Unaccompanied minors, those under 18 would not be allowed on the site unless they have a parent or guardian there. And then when I spoke to the approvals that are necessary there would be a required approval of an operations plan. So how that use is going to deal with potential complaints that they get from the surrounding community, how they're going to manage their restroom facilities, how they're going to refer people to services, what they're going to do if someone under 18 comes to the camp and requests to take up residence there. So a whole set of standard operating procedures. And then there is a provision that would allow for termination of the use by the city manager which would be appealed to the city council which is appealable to the city council I should say. And those criteria are included in the religious organization section. Moving on to the temporary uses on public or private properties. The distinction between the primary distinction between these are the first one that I'll call out is those affiliated with religious institutions that is a long-term use as it is structured in this draft ordinance. These temporary uses are just that temporary. They would be allowed for up to one year initially and they would have an extension for an additional year. And I should add that the ordinances, this is just kind of a summary of them. The ordinances contain additional information both the religious assembly ones as well as these public and private properties outside of religious assembly uses. So I'm happy to answer other questions on the details but this is kind of a broad overview. So temporary one-year term extension for an additional year, they would have to vacate that site for an entire year in order to establish it again on that premises if it went for a two-year timeframe. There are zoning districts that are specified in the draft ordinance and those are most of the commercial zoning districts as well as parks and public facilities. I will note a couple of things here. This does not include some of the beach commercial districts nor does it include the downtown districts. And so that's something for the council to consider. Of course, the council has flexibility to provide direction on any of the topics that we're talking about this evening. And then in addition to the zoning district criteria, there is a 25-foot setback from residential, a quarter-mile locational criteria from transit and a half-mile locational criteria from other encampments or safe parking areas. So both proximity to transit and separation from one another. The uses here cannot displace other primary uses while those uses are required. And so I mentioned in the religious assembly ordinance draft that a camp or safe parking area could locate in a parking lot, for example, and they wouldn't have an issue with the displacement of that parking. In this ordinance, it's set up such that it could not displace a required use. And so an example of that would be if there's a restaurant that's open from, let's say 10 in the morning until six in the evening, the camp couldn't operate in required parking areas for that restaurant during the time that that restaurant is open. It could operate outside of those times or if the restaurant has excess parking, then it could operate in those areas. And so that's a distinction between the two ordinances that I wanted to call out to your attention. There are, we were working very fast over the past couple of weeks trying to get this to you. And two things came to my attention after this ordinance was drafted and went out in your packet and that's under the considering adding, or excuse me, consider adding bullet here. And the first is that we included in the religious assembly section that no parking is required for the encampment itself. And we don't really have a use, a parking requirement in the zoning ordinance that aligns with this. And the council may want to consider adding that provision that no parking would be required for this use in and of itself. And second, we realized as we started doing some of the locational analysis that some of the public properties that are under consideration are not within those specified zoning districts. And so the council may want to consider adding a provision that says for public property that could be, these could be allowed through this process in any zoning district. So a couple of things for the council to consider that were not included as part of your packet. Apologies for that as we were trying to get everything together in a hurry. As far as the process goes, the ordinance requires an outreach meeting before the application is submitted. That would be noticed to individuals within 500 feet, both owners and occupants of the selected site. It requires that a community advisory committee be established to help address any issues that may arise from the operations of the camp and bring those back to the management so that those can be addressed. And then it has operational standards built in. The operational standards and the operational plan must be approved by the city manager. So there are a set of standards that would have to be adhered to that the city manager would develop. And then each location would have to develop a plan that shows adherence to that. Similar to the religious assembly, there would be a maximum of 50 occupants, again, no accompanied minors. And the process here would be an administrative use permit. There is no hearing associated with an administrative use permit. It can be approved administratively. However, those are appealable to the planning commission and city council. So as this ordinance is written, that's the process that it would go through. Two other things that I would add here. One, we do have a map of the specified zoning districts here. If the council is interested in that, we can pull that up and show you the distribution of those. Again, with them being commercial areas, they are distributed throughout much of the community, but not the entirety of the community. And certainly the council has the flexibility to change which districts these could be allowed in. And then finally, in terms of the process for you all to consider this evening, you ask that we bring it back as expeditiously as possible a couple of weeks ago. And that's why we're here tonight. We have two options that you could follow. One would be the referral of this ordinance to the planning commission. Changes to the zoning ordinance require that the planning commission provides a recommendation to the council and then it would come back to the council, so that would be the council's first reading. And then second, the council has the opportunity to pursue an urgency ordinance. That would require five votes of the council, but that could allow for the ordinance to take effect immediately. And then we could come back with the regular process of going through the planning commission and the city council. So thank you. Can you speak to the thing that you just passed? I will, yeah. I'll do it, yeah. So yeah, thank you, Leigh on that. You're welcome, thank you. Okay, and so to Leigh's final point about, we have a question over here. Good question, Leigh, how much is it to appeal to appeal the use termination criteria and the administrative use permit? So it's roughly $600 is an appeal cost for applications is the current cost. So that is the same price it would be for going to planning commission, also appealable to city council. The zoning administrator does have the ability, according to the code, to refer items directly to the planning commission. And so there is that opportunity that these such requests to be sent to the planning commission first. Certainly there is also an opportunity should the council choose to do so, to build in as part of the code provisions here. If the council wanted to hear all of these directly, they could say that they could directly, the ordinance be drafted such that these permits do not go through the standard temporary, temporary administrative use permit process that would go to the zoning administrator and the planning commission council. You could say, bring these directly to the council and we could build those provisions into the code such that it aligns with the other locations where the process would otherwise be called for. And then I just have a quick question. So for clarification, this is the sort of the overlay of staff and I appreciate you within the short timeframe informing informed by the Seattle ordinance but to the original proposal by council member Glover, Crone and Brown, is that where we're at? So it's the sort of the Seattle kind of reconciliation there. Okay. That's correct. And as I mentioned, there are some differences between those, the zoning districts, for example, but the council, it's their purview to make changes as they see fit. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay, I just have a question. Question? Council member Meyers and then council member Meyers. Just one quick question. We were just handed out. It's titled an interim urgency, emergency ordinance. I'm just curious in the staff report, it refers to it as an interim urgency ordinance. It's the same thing. It's the same thing. We just use a different word. Thank you. And I can talk through that or I can wait until there's questions. Well, council member Matthews and then council member Brown. I had just one question on the religious organizations. It says allowed by right, no permitting. That seems like a stretch to me personally. And then it says the operations plan must be approved. Use termination criteria. How do you terminate something that you don't have a permit for? So the way the ordinance is set up is that there are operational standards that would need to be approved. And if you want to go back, let's see one slide. So the operations plan must be approved. So that is essentially the only approval. It is administrative approval. If it's the council's will, we could certainly set up a process for that. And again, I believe this is something that was similar to what Seattle had developed. And it's also sort of stemming from, we have provisions in our current code and our current camping ordinance to allow for a minimal number of RVs to be located on a church facility. And so this would expand that significantly. And should the council choose to do so, you could require, for example, the same use permit process, administrative use permit. It wouldn't be a temporary use permit. It would be just a straight up administrative use permit because it could be ongoing. And again, the council could say if it's their desire that they would want that referred directly to the council and we could draft the code to respond to that. I'll just say the current allowance for church parking is what three cars? I think it's three vehicles. And up to 50 occupants is a big leap. Very significant difference. And also people in all the best intentions can propose operations plans and they can get approved and they can just like not pan out the way people hoped. And so I mean, my feeling is there has to be some kind of permitting and a little more structure to that. And we'll have a chance to discuss that. So at this point, if there's any other questions for Lee and council member Brown and then I'll let, we'll move on to the conclusion of the presentation. So I'm trying to get a better understanding of when we talk about zoning districts for public property, where those are, what those are. I mean, I have a kind of an abstract sense of that but you did mention that it's possible to look at a map. Is that, can that happen now pretty easily? Sure, we can do that. Let me say two things. It's on the server under. While they're working on that, I will say that the, one of the things that we recognized after drafting this was with it applying to both public and private property and starting to look at some of the properties that were under consideration. Some of the public properties have, for example, residential designations and those aren't on that list. They have the Warfjord down south of Depot Park that was pointed out by Bonnie. That actually has multiple zoning district designations including a like beach tourist residential commercial designation that isn't on that list. And yes. Is this the one? Specifically identified, the latest one, that'll do it. Yeah, so this, thank you. This is the, just the zoning districts that were identified and you can see, they generally mirror our commercial areas as well as the parks and public facilities. Again, the council can expand that out. And certainly we would want the council to strongly consider whether or not for public properties, it would be any designation. We of course wouldn't want the council to say, this is the, we found the perfect public property and now we need to go back and amend the ordinance and wait on that. So that may be something the council would want to consider is not having zoning requirements on the public properties and then for private properties that's up to your discretion as well. Any other questions? Okay, just a quick one. I am guessing that by private properties you would include property owned by non-profit organizations. That's correct. There is not a distinction between non-profit or just a business use or a vacant site. All those are potential locations and as structured it would be confined by the zoning designations. Okay, thank you very much, Lee, for walking through it. Quite complex and as you heard, I mean, we really had to move very quickly and I just really an excellent work product, especially considering this is less than a handful of work days pulling this together. And so I did just want to clarify a couple of procedural pathways that council may take related to this. Lee did talk about this, but you have the actual ordinance, a regular ordinance that was part of your agenda packet. What we sent around right now was a version adapted that could serve as an in-term emergency or urgency ordinance and that's when Lee said that if council wished to adopt that two night, that could happen with a vote of five members of the council. You could do that or you could do the other one or just the other one. So as Lee said, because this would amend Title 24, this requires a hearing at the Planning Commission. So all council could do tonight with a regular ordinance would be to refer that to the Planning Commission, which would then agendize it, duly take it up, have it public hearing and then return it to you with recommendations for potentially a first reading. And then as you know with ordinances, you have a first reading and typically two weeks later, a second reading unless you modify it substantially. And then if you would finally adopt it, it's effective 30 days later. So it does build in different timelines. So that's why pursuant to the conversation at the last meeting talking about how quickly could this move forward and could a declaration of an emergency, expedite things, we presented these dual pathways. So you could consider that. Okay, and now we are moving on to the next portion of the staff presentation tonight. And here you will hear very in-depth from Suzy O'Hara, again our assistant to the city manager, talking about policy and process around transitional encampments. All right, well thank you. So obviously a ton of information in front of you and then also really a sense with our current situation in our community, we're at a crisis moment here with regard to homelessness. We're trying to really balance the sense of urgency around what to do with the gateway encampment, how to expend the substantial amount of money that's coming from the state in the most effective way. How do we balance that sense of urgency with a process for which we can get to community acceptance and buy in around solutions. And so those questions really came up in my mind since the last meeting and how I went about kind of educating myself as to process and what other cities have done that have seen success with transitional encampments has lead me to presenting these slides here this evening. So just to reiterate, conditions at the gateway encampment require immediate action. There's an urgent need to close the camp. We heard from our fire chief as well as our public health officer around the conditions out there. That is reiterated with residents at the encampment as well. There's a lot of concerns that I've heard from camp residents as to those conditions and really fearful about what that means in terms of their health and safety as well. However, long-term success around homeless solutions requires data-driven study of feasible options, community engagement and acceptance and a socially equitable approach. And I'm gonna be talking about that process. Good governance takes time to understand our needs, evaluate options and build community acceptance. And I really are approached to implementing the city County Joint Action Plan and bringing these immediate short-term alternatives and also thinking of long-term alternative shelter modeling and homelessness programs in general really must balance that sense of urgency and good governance. And with that, as I mentioned at the beginning of this slide, I really did dig deeper into what other cities have done to try to do both of those things, balance urgency and good governance. So in my analysis, since the last time we met, we've actually, I've done a lot of work and I wanted to share with you kind of what I've learned. And those process steps included meeting with interested in community members, including the gateway encampment residents, which I alluded to earlier in the presentation, to discuss needs and understanding how those needs match up with our alternative shelter model ideas that are coming to council and before you right now. Learn more, have a deeper understanding of transitional encampments with regard to siding and operational standards and then go even deeper. So I did mention at the last meeting that I met with the city of Portland, really did wanna reach out firsthand to the city of Eugene and I had an opportunity to do that last week and take a deeper dive into the process for which Seattle has gone about really thinking about alternative shelter models in innovative ways, but also in a very practiced and regimented fashion as well. So getting to those process steps, meeting the first one, meeting with interested community members, including the gateway encampment residents. So on March 8th, I and Megan Bunch, who's come on to help with all work with regard to the homeless situation, held this engagement meeting with a camp council. Five people from different backgrounds, we met for about an hour last week, really did give me a strong sense of understanding of a few things. One, there's consistent opinion that the conditions at the camp have become pretty untenable from the perspective of a lot of people coming in. So if you think about kind of the populations in different ways, the council that we met with really did identify as a community, as a family, of really wanting to have structure and accountability around the camp and really were endeavoring to try to self manage in some way, but have been completely overwhelmed by the number of people that have come in and the conditions that are present. A lot of illicit activity and drug use and what I heard from them was that they don't find that acceptable either and want to have an opportunity to help the city and the county think about different models that would be most effective for the community that they've built there. So in addition to that, Megan and I met with Curtis who's here tonight last week to talk about some of his aspirations for what he would like to bring to our discussions around alternative shelter models and what I took from that conversation is there's a lot of interest in behalf of our community to help build these programs together. I think there's an investment on behalf of this core group of folks that I met with at the camp and other people that are invested in successful outcomes and really thinking about community building from the perspective of our shared space and shared values and thinking about how best to build community in that way. So that was a really important conversation as well. I will note, based on those conversations, there's a lot of interest in supportive and structured, in a supportive instructor, sorry, structured transitional encampment, tongue twister, but what I heard from this camp council is that there's a strong interest in accountability and they want to have that also be part of the program. And so we will continue to conduct these engagement meetings and what I did learn last week was a strong interest in collaborating and partnering to conduct this outreach and engage with more folks in the encampment as well, which has been a struggle for Megan and I to think about when we roll through there, getting people to come out and talk to us is somewhat challenging. And so really being able to rely on the community there to help us engage with folks is gonna be very important. So second on the list, learn more about transitional encampments and this is really from the perspective of citing and operational standards and then also what other communities have done to build their programs and really learn through that process of community engagement and buy-in as they've developed like for instance, the city of Seattle as they develop these ordinances that are now in place. So on March 1st and 6th and 11th, I met with Brent Adams who's here tonight who has been a strong proponent of sanctuary camps and now transitional encampments to really understand program model, citing performance metrics. And I've invited him tonight to talk about those things. And so I'm gonna yield the microphone to Mr. Adams who's here up in the front. And he'll take a few minutes to go through his slides and really trying to orient the council to what really we're talking about as it relates to transitional encampments. Mayor, council, thank you, Vice Mayor. Some of you who've been following along might realize how landmark this is. I wanna thank Drew Glover and the Sinies, Chris Cron and Susie Brown, especially Susie for really doing this deep dive and Lee, great work on this. Also, very proud of this city government for taking this on. So I'm not gonna give an anecdote but I've been traveling to the transitional encampments for many years since 2012. And the reason I become an inherent of them is because I watched them as sort of, maybe renegade looking encampments on church properties. And I had kept going year after year to watch them built up to the point where they're actually part of the city structure of Seattle and Eugene now. And you'll see them year after year getting bigger to the point where they had to move around every three months. And now finally they can stay on city property year round. So just watching every year the ordinance changes and watch the beneficial nature to the point where now those 10 camps are beginning to become tiny house villages. And it's just, I've been completely committed watching people grow and then watching the data as people move out of these programs. So of course, a lot of what I'm doing here is a little bit redundant but it's actually from kind of what I see the nonprofits up there doing. This is not necessarily all part of the ordinance or what you're deciding on but it's kind of what we see, what we brought together as the sanctuary camp model. What are the most successful programs up there and how are those programs designed from the operator standpoint? So as I see it, transitional encampment is the city or county permitted nonprofit operated community of soft-shelled or rigid structures on private or public land with food preparation and meeting spaces and an in-camp government structure and community outreach program. Now the hallmarks and these are a little mind blowing for me and which is why I'm so committed to them. People transition to better circumstances at a higher rate out of these transitional encampments and I'm happy to show data a little bit later. Most cost efficient sheltering model and I really wanna help you to ask yourself about the bang for the buck. What are we paying for when we, even when programs are putting people on the pathway to housing, what is the cost breakdown per person, especially when you take a program wide and how many people actually did get into housing. So we should really be that critical now. No increase in crime wherever they're located. That's really controversial but the way that happens is it creates community within the population as well as it strengthens the larger community and that's really one of the ways that crime is not increased and actually decreases. Also promotes interpersonal healing for all the residents inside. So there are some quotes from the permanent encampment and valuation report from the city of Seattle, dated June 28th of 2017. Here's a quote, Seattle police department has been collecting data and information about the levels of crime that occur around the permanent encampments. This data shows that there is no significant increase in crime and that is really, that's ridiculously important to put a pin in. So the agreements, again, this is for the people who are in the encampment, the residents, we call them rules. One of the most common is that these camps have allowed the residents with the encampment to engage in volunteer service rather than hiring out or paying, having paid staff for all of the elements. Every resident would do 10 hours of service per week within the program. Think downtown streets team only maybe cheaper with an encampment model. So imagine people walking around the neighborhood with a orange vest and a flashlight, a clipboard or a garbage cleaner upper. And so that actually communicates to the neighborhood that these people are taking care of the neighborhood. That's how, and also people staff the front gate, keep things clean in the kitchen and really keep the place tidy and well-operating. Of course, no drug alcohol use, no weapons, no violence, no theft. Those are, that can be a zero, those are often no zero tolerance elements, no aggressive behavior, all the way down to the end. And people must participate in a case management program. Here a little quote here, residents hold each other accountable for individual actions. A grievance procedure is used to resolve conflicts. Some suggested resident criteria, and this is really important to my mind, a three tier admittance for access to this. For instance, some of these encampments that we've seen locally, people move from out of the area when they hear it or they see it on the news. It should always be stated that for a transitional encampment, it's for the people who are here if we're gonna engage in this sort of thing, we're not trying to put the welcome mat for people to come from out of the area. In fact, that's one of the reasons that some of these encampments have failed in years past. For instance, in Placerville because it went out on the news that there's this camp. So you really wanna take care of the population who are local here. Of one month trial period, here we have one month, six months, three months. By that three month, you're really trying to help people transition into a better space. If requested, residents must comply with the background check or your analysis. That's not normally a factor, but if you're having problems with drug alcohol within the encamp, that's a really strong conversation to have. Basic infrastructure, a lot of these things are in the thing before you, a camp management plan. I'll scale all the way down to tents on platforms with rain shedding. Now, this is the most basic shelter concept. Of course, it's our camping tent, but that's not really good enough over time. You need it up on a platform with something that's gonna shed water away from it. So water and sun really are never affecting it. You could have a much longer life. Food preparation, that's really important. In fact, in all communities, in all our houses, our homes are located around the hearth. People sharing food with one another. That's one of the most healing community things that can happen. We wanna make sure that people are able to share food, that if we have ABT cards, or people wanna bring food into the space, that's not off to the corner, that's right fixed in the middle. Of course, meeting areas, because there's one of the requirements for most of these transit encampments up north are regular in-camp meetings. Also front desk, that's critical. People shouldn't be able to just kinda waltz in. There's a 24-hour gate there with usually a volunteer. They're 24 hours a day to make sure that people can't just come in or somebody with a camera. During business hours, people can come in with a guide and take a tour. Next slide. So the operator, that's in this case a nonprofit or a church in-camp governance. So the nonprofit or faith community, whoever's going to apply for this permit would, in a transitional encampment, affirms the agreements that we just listed ahead of earlier. Affirm the agreement enforcement. How do you enforce rules? Do you, and a lot of that is, some of those are really easy. For instance, if you have like a handle of vodka or a syringe, that's gonna flag and the nonprofit's gonna have to have a meeting with this person. But if it's violence or theft or something like that, that's a zero tolerance moment. They have tasks to be addressed immediately. The nonprofit can work with the camp residents in this manner. Also all the way down provides onsite manager, including that could be a camp resident, but always there's always management happening 24 hours a day. There's always a responsible person on duty. It's never just kind of opened to the whims of people. Encampment community meetings. Now this is really important where people have some say in their community. When you hear a lot of these transitional comments are kind of like it's self-managed. They're not really self-managed to the point where they can just move it down the street or these in-camp meetings are usually consensus-based. For instance, in most community houses, we do have weekly meetings, monthly meetings. This is really to talk about social issues or how to deal with problems within the camp and also allows them to have a representation so they can bring it to some of the, this community advisor community or the city or how to interact with the nonprofit. The Casework program, this is really key in actually the success hallmarks is that people are there, but how do you benefit them? How do they move from one place to another when they're moving to a better space when they exit the encampment? So target goals and this could, this would actually be a professional staff, some of these encampments use college interns to help manage this, but we're focusing on housing, sobriety, education, employment opportunities and mental and physical health, but it really gets people working towards attainable goals. That's really important. Also improving the circumstances when it's time for them to move out of the encampment. Operator responsibilities is the nonprofit responsibilities. Lee mentioned community outreach meetings and community advisory committee. Before you site locate any of this into a neighbor, you just don't want to plunk this down on a city property without meeting with the neighborhood first. So I think that's actually in the plan that you're looking at, but it's really important to bring the community in, to have them and also see clearly what's being proposed, but there would also be individuals from the neighborhood around who are from stakeholder groups in the advisory community. So you have, it's like a bicameral government governance that there are meetings within the camp, meetings outside of the camp and sometimes you get together and have a larger meeting. All the way down data collection. This is really important in fact to show efficacy and this is one of the reasons I'm most committed to this because we're watching people move out of homelessness through these. So you have entrance data coming in, exit data and then data about case management. Here's another quote. The governance management model creates shared power and decision making structure where residents participate in the adoption and enforcement of policy, assist with security and property maintenance and share the experience and expertise with their peers. There's a mentoring that can go on. Here's some data. This is from, you'll see to the right there source reports from the Eugene city manager's office, 2017. Also from a city of Washington, they have a permitted campment evaluation that came out in 2017. This is about data that they produced in 2016. I think this is really critical. In fact, when we look at that, so you'll see the blue and the red there, Seattle and Eugene. So those are different sets of data. Eugene only has the exit data but Seattle has some intake data there. I think it's really, really critical to note that people are, they're coming in from the street or from the shelter. Those are the large numbers there under Seattle intake and they're exiting in the next column largely to permanent housing and transitional housing. They're not going back into a shelter or largely back onto the street. So highly beneficial here. Also Eugene, look, they're exiting largely into permanent housing. Also down to the right here. So I'm talking about bang for the buck for a program like this. It says cost per person exited from the program. And this is, these are yearly totals. So it only costs 2,300 essentially per person. And the city of Seattle, it was paying about 85% of those budgets. And then the next one is the cost per person exiting to permanent, permanent, permanent supported housing, permanent housing. So the number of people that year who exited to housing divided by the cost of the program. And I think that's a really good bang for the buck. When you think about the cost of programs and how many people are actually moving into housing. We talk about permanent supported housing, housing first quite a bit that programs want to put people on the pathway to housing. Here's a real good example of a program that is doing that and that the cost is in line. And it's a little, you know, with something that's a little more sane. Last slide. So it's really important to, if we're going to do this, this is a novel approach, of course. It's a little controversial, but I've seen dozens of these up in the Northwest. So I'm wondering how can we have something so effervescent and perfect in Santa Cruz? One way is through community acceptance. Of course, it's through these resident and neighborhood outreach meetings. Of course, I direct the storage program operated by the warming center. And we had some neighborhood meetings, some meetings with the neighborhood tenants, lots of meetings with the landlord prior to citing that. And that's really why we've been so successful. So in a camp like this, you really want to have the neighborhood engaged. Also the community advisory community that we mentioned earlier, that the neighborhood stakeholders become a little bit responsible for the success also. Hallmarks, let's revisit those. People transition to better circumstances at a higher rate. We've seen that now. It's most cost-effective sheltering model, especially when you're talking about large shelters. No increase in crime wherever they're located. It creates community within as it strengthens the larger community and promotes interpersonal healing. So what we're proposing is a pilot camp to start with. Of course, there's a longer track that's being proposed, a permitted, how to get something that's a permitted and a certified transitional encampment. But what about first a pilot camp project to show the beneficial nature that can produce data right from the beginning? Now Seattle and Eugene had some timelines of acceptance. They started small. They could only be in a space for nine months. And finally, they can be there all year round. They could only be in certain areas of the city. Now they can be in any area of the city. So they really built from something small. But do you want to do that in Santa Cruz also? Start with the pilot project. So this is a very innovative approach. So let's be cautious and measured and start with some community input. Have some of these community meetings. And thanks for the time. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Brad. I really appreciate it. So as you can imagine in these conversations I had with Brent over the last couple of weeks, really thought provoking around process and how did these communities that have made a significant investment into really innovating around alternative shelter models. How long did that take? How did they engage with their community? And then how did they end up with these ordinances that we're reflecting on today? So kind of the second and third step of this process and to include more voices in the conversation was to dig in deeper with transitional encampments with regard to the city of Seattle and King County and then also having a conversation with a council member in Eugene, which I had a couple, I guess, two Fridays ago. Brent mentioned the King County evaluation. I did go deeper into that and really looked at what were their recommendations as to process? And so mind you, it's been 10 years that the city of Seattle has been going through this process with I think three or four iterations of their ordinance to get to a place that works in their community from the perspective of really seeing effective programs that the community can touch, feel, learn and listen and have data to support their success. And once those programs were up and running, really being able to model those programs in other parts of the community. So what I gleaned from that research was, as Brent is mentioning, pilot first, be very small scale at the beginning and really the city of Seattle leaned heavily on their faith-based community. They had a number of faith-based organizations that were interested in helping with that. Having those proponents, having people that were really spearheading that process made a big difference for them in terms of siting and operational capacity. They also built community understanding and acceptance before making any sweeping policy changes. So had community task force really focused on how do we as a community really engage the entire network of stakeholders around solutions. Those processes took years, years, figuring out how best to move forward with transitional encampments and other alternative shelter models. And then really develop clear and measurable performance metrics for clients and neighborhood compatibility. So if you think about those four bullet points, the top two really focused on the homeless individuals that are at the camp thinking of how best to serve them so they can by virtue of what the camp is supposed to do transition out of the camp into a better living situation. And then also looking at from a public safety kind of neighborhood compatibility perspective, how do, is there positive encampment neighborhood interactions and then really focused on crime and safety. And then lastly, I just wanted to mention I did have a conversation with a council member in the city of Eugene. What I did not know when I reached out to him is that he was the council member who's really spearheaded many of these efforts with the city of Eugene. Same exact information as King County, city of Seattle, pilot first, small scale, a quote that he gave me which I thought was really interesting that I wanted to share with you is to go slow to go fast, really think about developing a program for which you can educate yourself on how that program might fit and then once you have some success, build from there. So in addition to that, in thinking about, okay, so I've come to the conclusion that it makes a lot of sense to pilot and this is based on my engagement with the gateway encampment and also in discussions with Brent, how do we balance this kind of potentially, urgently moving forward with a program that really meets the needs that the council is trying to meet in terms of innovating and moving forward swiftly in a time of crisis with how do we actually build a sustainable program that really gets to larger questions in our community about compatibility? And I did find a study that was conducted for the city of Oakland. They were back in 2014, 2015 dealing with significant issues around unsanctioned encampments and did contract with the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley to develop a study for which they were looking at alternatives to unsanctioned encampments. Highly recommend you read this study. It is exactly what we're experiencing right now and I really drew upon it to think about process for which we can get to community acceptance and those process steps include conducting a needs assessment. So this is across your house and unhoused populations, evaluate policy alternatives based on specific criteria, thinking effectiveness, social equity and implementation feasibility and then developing short to long-term solutions to improve the status quo and I'm gonna go through those. So that first step, conduct a needs assessment. So we really, I mean I have seen through my unique experience out at the encampment and I know many have those same experiences. We need to understand our population. The gateway encampment is one specific population. It does serve as generally speaking what we see across our community. We need to understand the basic needs of the individuals we're trying to serve better. So the number of unsheltered homeless population. We also need to understand what our current sheltering portfolio looks like and how it fits into the continuum of care. We wanna quantify the resources that we as a city currently expend on managing unsanctioned campments in our street homeless population. Getting deeper into understanding the needs of the unsheltered population according to many of these things here from security to utilities to social services, privacy, stability. When you have an opportunity to quantify and actually discuss those issues you can get a better understanding of what people's needs are and how best to serve them. And then also understanding the needs of our house community as well. That's equally important in terms of the neighbors and businesses and folks that are living within our community that are impacted by its unsanctioned encampments specifically. We wanna evaluate policy alternatives based on specific criteria and that is really the degree to which the policy in question addresses the immediate problems associated with these encampments comprehensively across both in short and long-term solutions. You need to look at how you're preempting complaints from your house residents, the use of city staff time. You also need to look that whether you're not just simply offloading this burden onto a different jurisdiction. Are you meeting public health standards for outdoor spaces? Are you meeting health and safety needs for and long-term housing needs for the marginalized residents that you're focused on? Equity. So this in terms of social equity is really looking at measuring the differential consequences of a policy on different stakeholders or constituents. In other words, is this intervention likely to have a disproportionate impact either positive or negative in any particular group in Santa Cruz? And you need to focus on everybody who's impacted. The unsheltered population, your house residents, your business and property owners in Santa Cruz and city staff. And I pulled this quote out of the report because I think it's a really important way to think about it. So the issue of homeless encampments inherently encompasses a trade-off between some individuals right to live where they choose here in Santa Cruz with others' rights to be free of nuisance to the extent that the cost of such freedoms does not hurt the others. And we get down to the third, the implementation feasibility and that's the city's capacity to implement each alternative according to its original design. And it's really important to think about this within the context of, yes, we have significant influx of state funding. Yes, we're particularly in a crisis right now with this gateway encampment, but are the programs that we're considering actually gonna be feasible for the long-term? And you wanna think about kind of how the systems work together, that relative measure of fiscal feasibility. What is our long-term fiscal strategy for funding these programs likely buy in from the homeless individuals that you're focused on and then these group dynamics between encampment groups and service providers and city staff, those connections need to be maintained throughout this entire process. Last process step, develop short to medium and long-term solutions. Generally speaking, your short-term, better coordination. Let's not duplicate efforts. Let's make sure that all of the partners that are involved are working together and as Chief Hayduth demonstrated, I think we're moving towards that right now with the web EOC model and our ongoing conversations on the two-by-two, increase public awareness and build a pilot, medium-term, develop new stakeholder relationships and identify champions. This is a regional statewide nationwide crisis and the city is not going to solve these issues on our own. We must engage with partnership. We must lean on other jurisdictions and other nonprofit and faith-based organizations to help us with this. And so in thinking about long-term strategies, it's really important to think about that. And then also long-term, consider new citywide policies to lower barriers for innovation and sustainable approaches. Long-term process for which, yes, let's tackle thinking about ordinances and changes to our mini-codes to think about how to lower those barriers for innovation. But that's really long-term after we think about these short and medium-term and how we're trying to be really pragmatic about building some shared understanding and knowledge, building off success and engaging with our community partners. I think that's it. I'm gonna turn over to Tina. We're almost done. So I just wanna have a few key takeaways before I move on to the staff recommendations. And really thinking Susie for that research, both in person at the encampment, you heard over multiple days, multiple stakeholders, talking to folks in other communities, exhaustive research, reading things. I mean, she has really put a lot on the line to deliver this information. So I do wanna recognize her. But through this, I received an education around what it takes to realize success in this area because we have two things facing Santa Cruz. One, we have this intractable long-term problem of solving homelessness, which no one has done anywhere in America yet. And you spoke to this. And then we also have this urgency of dealing with the encampment. And I think to resolve both at one blow or one set of policies is likely not the best solution for the city of Santa Cruz, not in the inclusive way, not thinking about all the partnerships, all the people that wanna have a voice in this conversation either. So reflecting on that, I was really struck by this sense of we need a balanced approach, highlighting ideas and going, what is it, go slow to go fast? That really struck me as well. And so these are, I think, really good lessons we can take away from this. The socially equitable approach of recognizing that everyone has a role in our community and everyone should be at the table, not just thinking about one group or another. And then finally, just a note about process and slowing down. We have really have been hurtling very quickly over the past three council meetings to the exclusion of a lot of other things. And knowing that things are a priority, also it does come into sacrifice for really in depth research. We've done not the community outreach, not withstanding the excellent work of the encampment. It was some already engaged people, but we haven't even had any opportunity to talk with others or have a broader community conversation. And that's worrying when we're talking about major changes for our community. And so we would ask for that consideration as the city moves forward. Let's pace out the work. Let's focus on actionable solutions, things that we can tackle and take things in a sequence. And we're very motivated or very dedicated to this work, as you can see up here. And then other staff that are watching it and participated. And so we want to honor this work and we want to do it well. We don't want to crash and burn. So those are some just parting thoughts I want to say with thanks again to Susie. And so then marching through some staff recommendations. So you have recommendations that appeared on the report that was published on Thursday. And we have a refinement on that we'd like to suggest. The first being that knowing the urgency of the health and safety, the crisis, the inconceivable conditions down at the encampment. We do recommend trying to push toward another deadline for closure. And that being to coincide with April 17th, which is when 1220 River Street is slated to open. And then knowing that to hit that target something else has to happen. We've talked before that we need to find alternatives for the individuals who are sleeping at the encampment. And notwithstanding 1220 River opening very aggressively it having capacity of 60, we still think we need around 40. And so we have to do something to meet that need. And looking and you heard through the extensive research and other presentations that we think there's a couple of avenues council could think about there. One being a small scale pilot program of either a transitional encampment or a safe sleeping in storage site, which is basically a very basic desk to dawn program that Suzie spoke about in your last council meeting, which is just literally a place you can come, be safe at night and we can store your possessions for you during the day. But we have to create some additional capacity in within the system with inner city in order for us to be able to successfully close the encampment. Also the third bullet here, we presented at the last meeting the transitional encampment project charter. A lot of thought went into that, a lot of process. And I feel like the values in there in the process was solidified with this additional work you've done looking at Eugene and Seattle and that report out of UC Berkeley and the Goldman School of Public Policy. So we think that we should, that should be brought forward as maybe a good pathway in a model and also consider including safe parking. And then the fourth bullet, something that another thing that emerged in our research was that some communities have done shelter feasibility evaluations to really look at what are the needs of our community. So we have a better way to project what we think we will need because right now we can look at the hard numbers. Well, the 2017 point in time count said there were 1,204 people homeless in the city of Santa Cruz. The survey data yielded that about 78, 80% of those were unsheltered, therefore about 963 people are unsheltered. But that hard number doesn't tell the full story. Not only is it not really achievable, but also it doesn't tell the whole story of where the need is and what that might look like. So something we found that's very interesting is pursuing the idea of a shelter feasibility evaluation. And then also an unsanctioned encampment management plan. And I will note this was a feature of the city county joint action plan saying that we need to be able to think in the future and how are we gonna resolve the next encampment that comes up. So we don't have another gateway encampment situation where we find ourselves in this very, very difficult situation and people living in very difficult conditions. So we think that this work should continue. And then I'll find, or two more, immediately support the association of faith communities safe parking program by identifying a city parking lot to be included in the satellite program. So they've asked us for this. Currently they have a rotation of, I forget how many churches around the county. Do you recall? So it's the new program. So they have an indoor shelter satellite program that's I think about a dozen churches. The safe parking program I think is up to 15 churches and they have asked both the city and the county to support that satellite program with one parking lot each. For how many vehicles? The program is anywhere between two and five vehicles depending on the space. And then finally adopting the revised shelter crisis declaration. So to square this full slide of recommendations with what I just said about slowing down to go fast and being thoughtful and deliberate, we think our efforts are best focused on trying to resolve the 40 additional beds we need. And so we'd ask for that space and in your direction on how to best go about that. So with that, I think we will conclude our staff presentation with great thanks to Susie and to all the other speakers. And thank you, Brian, as well. Thank you. Thank you so much for your comprehensive presentation. And our city attorney, Tony Condati for drafting all of the ordinances with my apologies. Thank you all for your work on this. We very much so acknowledge it was short time and turn around and appreciate your comprehensive report and work. At this time, I had originally asked that council member Glover hold his presentation but I'm wondering if we could do that after public comment first originally proposed. Knowing that you'd still be able to get that in. Yeah, it's mainly, I mean, the purpose of it is to educate the community before public comment because of how we had it structured from your email. So this way it'll provide, it's a short presentation and give us some information and then we can go from there because I'm sure we all have a lot of presentation in our mind now. So if it's okay with you, just a quick. No, definitely. We'll go ahead and move forward as originally planned, being mindful of the time and interest in public comment. City manager, Bernal, would you pass me the clicker? Oh, she has it there, right? Back computer. Wonderful, so good evening everyone and thank you for being here and thank you to the staff for that amazing compilation presentation such a short turnaround. Lee, great, Susie, amazing. Brent, thank you for the input. The city attorney, everybody involved, city manager's office really, really impressive and see what you can do with that speed is amazing. So I'm just gonna talk really quickly about the safe parking and transitional and caments and how we can consider them. I identified four additional locations outside of the ones that were recommended by staff just to be able to talk about briefly as well as give some background as to what's been going on in Santa Cruz. They're just for the record so that people know this is not the first time that there's been the conversation of safe parking programs in Santa Cruz in general. It's actually been a topic of conversation for years now so it's nice to see that we're actually taking steps to move on it. For many parking and camping programs are the only way to keep a family unit together. I think that's really important to acknowledge because we do have families that are experiencing homelessness, especially in the absence of affordable housing which we direly lack here in Santa Cruz. Without access to legal parking programs, vulnerable people are subject to fines and criminalization. Those fines can impact their credit scores and then damage their ability to move into housing after the stint of experiencing homelessness is over. And this is a great opportunity to make a considerable impact on the population of people living unsheltered in Santa Cruz. So we just heard Assistant City Manager Shull just cite this number so just so everyone knows that as a 2017 there were an estimated 963 people sleeping without shelter in Santa Cruz on any given night. We know that those counts are under representative of the actual quantity of people in Santa Cruz because it's a point in time count which takes place over a very short period of time on one day of the year. So it's important for us to acknowledge that. Of the people in the entire county which is about 2,200 people experiencing homelessness, 30% of them are sleeping in their vehicles at night. This includes students and people that are working homeless. Also out of all of the individuals in the county there are 129 families. So like I mentioned before, the ability to keep families together, mothers, children, parental structures and support systems so they're not being separated because I don't know about you but I'm very much against separating children from their families. Also made up 403 individuals out of those 129 families. So just a quick overview of what safe parking programs are. We heard that briefly before but they're programs that allow for overnight parking to motor vehicles. They usually and typically have a transitional focus that transition people into stable housing and services. Also access to resources and stabilizing the people whose lives have been destabilized by our economic structure. In providing accommodations for those living in the cars, those without housing are given the ability to avoid those steep fines and criminalization like I mentioned before. It also helps the community by reducing the impact on an already burdened law enforcement system. There's a big complaint within community I hear a lot that they don't get responses timely enough from law enforcement. If we can ease their impact from having to deal with parking citations and other kinds of things, we can make it so they can respond to other issues within your communities. Also providing a foundation by which those in difficult situations can attain a permanent employment housing and access to resources which I think we can all agree we wanna be able to offer to people experiencing homelessness. So just an example of some safe parking programs in other cities, here's a list of them that are somewhat close to us just to put it in reference on the west coast of the United States. In Eugene, Oregon, we talked about that before but last year 81 individuals were helped in at least 27 families with 81 children were able to transition out of homelessness or at least be supported by the program. You can check that out with the same Vincent DePaul Society of Lane County in San Diego. It's funded by the city and also Dreams for Change who has managed the multiple safe parking sites since 2009. Without direct oversight from the government the program operates on a relatively light crew achieving much with very little, offers the same similar things to Eugene and also has helped 2,650 people thus far with safe sleeping. And then in Santa Barbara, it's been going on since about 2004 working with nonprofits, churches and businesses providing sanitary facilities, camper screening, placement for its participants in addition to job placement assistance has a shelter for about 150 people a night you can check that out with the Santa Barbara report. So some commonalities between all of the different programs is they incorporate case management to facilitate the moving onto better housing situations the implementation and inclusion of trash disposal services and dumping solutions because I know that's been a concern that's been mentioned by people that have come out in opposition to parking programs also set hours, some programs are open and used by the participants at specific times like a dust till dawn program others may be established more permanently if they're on faith-based communities and then keeping records. Now this is something that is up for discussion but it is something that is used to help to keep track of who's coming in and out of the facilities. So where can they go? We just heard a wonderful presentation from our staff and thank you again to the planning and economic development department for putting together those amazing maps. It allowed for my team and I to dig through some of them to identify some potential locations. Now this one was interesting this is 1214 River Street. The issue here is now after reading the ordinance and some of the language specifications it is in rather close proximity less than half a mile from 1220 River Street in fact it's the next parcel over. I haven't had a chance to talk to staff about what this site actually is used for. It looks like a storage yard for vehicles or something. I've seen shaking heads. This is why I wanted to present it today so we could talk about what it could potentially be used for or hear why it wouldn't work. My estimate based off of the size of those cars it could house maybe eight to 10 vehicles depending on how the structure is set up. Then Broadway and Frederick. Now I noticed on the revised map that y'all provided this strip that was orange in my map wasn't orange in your map. So I don't know what the transition is. This is a strip walkway and parking lot next to the Santa Cruz Bible Church on Frederick Street. So if I were to pull out from this image you would see that the Santa Cruz Bible Church has a huge parking lot. It completely for the most part is empty from every time I drive past on Frederick Street it's predominantly empty. So that could propose to be used either for that strip which to my understanding from the map I got with city owned obscure city owned property which could do maybe eight vehicles but if we partner with the faith communities as was mentioned in the staff report about and the recommendations of leaning heavily quote on our faith communities then that could be a fantastic facility not to mention I've been in that church before and that big building that you see there in the top portion of the image that is a huge hall that is totally potential for shelter space. So the issue there which I wanna address just so that people know that I'm aware and thinking about it is its proximity to Iranagulch. It's very close to Iranagulch basically right across a ravine and then in a neighborhood and close to Galt school as a potential drawback. This is another location on Frederick Street just up the street. So if for some reason the Santa Cruz Bible Church didn't wanna go for it. There's also our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church with this amazing parking lot that just sits there empty for most of the week. It has a pretty existing parking lot. We could partner with the faith community and the only con that I was able to identify is its neighborhood proximity and proximity to schools that could be another eight to 15 vehicles. And then this one I couldn't see into and so maybe the staff can let me know about the terrain that's back there. I was able to see along the highway if we go into the street view. This is off of Lee Street and there's at least room for a few tents there along the freeway with some erected fencing and or some mesh to protect the individuals that are camping there. Could have up to 20 tents from the space on Google Maps. Matter on the layout of the facility. The issue there again is proximity to neighborhoods and would require a neighborhood outreach as well as some pretty open communication and problem solving with the people that live there. All in all, if we were to go on the maximum amount of all of those different locations we would be able to identify at least 75 beds where people could sleep and or park their vehicles and stay overnight just on these four sites. And then the proposed structure which has been talked about before interviews before placement, participant agreements, case management, combined crews of limited paid staff and volunteers to manage the cost associated with the implementation of the parking programs. Also making sure there's a lot of public input and review. It's located in the city on city on property and or select property and then may really focusing on the transitional focus. So I know that I wanna thank the mayor for the opportunity to speak but before I transition the public comment I do want to just say that I was encouraged but also dismayed by the language that I received and some of the correspondence that I got with regards to this. On one side of the spectrum and there were people that were really supportive but on the other side it's what I could only really describe as darkness essentially. Not only was there a consistent sentiment that if people can't afford deliver them they should leave but it was really disturbing to hear people saying that they need to register their life history, get fenced into a pen and then tagged with ankle bracelets. So that's really, really scary to hear. And then also an individual, a gentleman wrote to me and said it might be time to quote a culling of the herd. So we just heard a agenda item before this with regards to immigration reform and ICE and the abduction of people and we are at a pivotal moment right now in our history both as a city and as a country and we need to realize that the words that we use are dangerous and powerful if they're used in the wrong way and if we're using these terms to dehumanize people we have to realize that we're not talking about cattle we're not talking about livestock we're talking about people that need our support and are relying on us to figure out solutions so that we can give them the space and their own agency to empower themselves and rejoin our community as productive members of society. So thank you mayor for the opportunity for the presentation. Okay. So at this time I will open it up to public comment. Before I do I just want to acknowledge that the last council meeting we had we went into late in the evening and it was brought to my attention that it felt very undemocratic that having us decide really substantive policy near 1 a.m. was inaccessible for folks whether they were observing from home or here in the council chambers and as both Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi have said or observed that the means are the end in democracy and I want to just really highlight I know that's open to interpretation and perspective why this item is brought here in council chambers as opposed to the civic. If we were to hold the session in the civic we would not be able to have the video streaming so folks who regularly watch our council meetings would not be able to access the council meetings. People who have other commitments at home or for other reasons aren't able to come here. So I want to just sort of provide that as a understanding of my decision to hold it here with overflow in the civic to provide more access for folks who are at home. And I want to also try something a little bit different and I want to invite up anybody who wants to self-select as wanting to just briefly share their thoughts and comments with the council and you'll be given one minute to present whatever you want to share briefly and if you want to wait until after we have our group presentations then I will open it up for those who want to speak and stay for the two minutes. So if there's any member of the community here that wants to address the council briefly and recognizing that we're now at 9.30 I will allow you to come forward and you will be given one minute once we are concluding with the folks who are interested in speaking briefly to the council for the one minute time I will then acknowledge these organizations who reached out to me in advance for their presentations and then we'll reopen the opportunity for public comment for two minutes for folks who want to stick around and speak to us at the two minute mark. Council Member Matthews. This is just an honest question. Now what point do you anticipate us trying to get to our discussion? I will and we have about a half hour of public presentations from organizations so I wouldn't anticipate probably for another hour and a half depending on how many people want to address the council. So if you're interested in just speaking to the council for public comment for one minute I want you to please stand to my left and I will start with you and once we are concluded with those folks then we'll go ahead and open it up to group organizations. Please feel free. You'll be given one minute. Hi, my name is Jesse Balzel. I'm a Santa Cruz resident. I am a PhD student in Marine Ecology and Biological Oceanography. I've had several years of experience working in the fields of ecology and environmental science and tonight I'm somewhat of a disappointed voter. I think that it's disappointing that a group of self-styled progressives would mimic Donald Trump's emergency declaration and call for potentially environmentally destructive land grab. I say land grab because this is for all intents and purposes what's being proposed and from what I've heard a residential development. Concentration in hundreds if not thousands of transient people on public lands is incompatible with recreation and it's incompatible with biological diversity. A large and continuous human presence in our parks and our nature spaces will destroy native flora and displaced wildlife. Thank you. And please feel free. You can leave your comments with us. You may not because this is the one minute at a time and if you were interested in staying it would be the two minutes so I apologize but you were welcome to leave your comments with us and we will be able to review them if you're interested in that. Okay, what do I... You will give with our clerk. Thank you very much. So again, this is for folks who just briefly want to use the one minute opportunity. Thank you. Hi, my name is Kim and I want to applaud the council for going with the safe parking program because I know how oppressive it is to be criminalized for sleeping in your vehicle. There's literally no place to sleep in Santa Cruz in a vehicle without getting a ticket and I experienced that firsthand as a homeless person. Concerning the Ross camp, I really feel that the gravel... I went down there, I took a walk down there to Ross camp and there were park rangers that were contemplating dropping some gravel all in that area that would like significantly reduce the health hazard or the health problems that are incurring from the mud that's there from this long-term encampment. They did not ever drop the gravel that day that was going to secure the porta-potties and it really needs to be entirely covered with gravel for the safety of the members there. So I wanted to bring that issue up. It's a very practical thing that the council can move on right away. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Hi, for the sake of time, we'll jump right in. Councilor Mayer, thanks. I am afraid and scared that the city of Seattle is actually used as the model for what we want to do to this town. It's been an absolute disaster up there for the last five years. The Puget Sound Business Journal reports that are approximately one billion dollars. I'm gonna just go ahead. I wanna just remind those that are present here this evening that when somebody is at the podium that they have the opportunity to address the council without interruption and I will stop the time if that happens to you but everybody has a right to address the council whether or not we agree with each other's perspectives. So please allow everybody to speak to the council without disruption. Sir, go right ahead. Thank you, I appreciate it. The crime rates in Seattle are now two and a half times that of LA, four times that of New York. The homeless situation is completely out of control. The drug and addiction problem is completely out of control. This is a potential environmental disaster for our city and as a member of the community and a parent ideal on the west side with an ongoing issue of crime break-ins, the addiction that the doctors spoke of need to be fed. Those addictions are fed through a lot of property crime and why understand there needs to be some compassion associated with this situation. It's a complex one and I appreciate all the work and thought that's gone into it. Expanding these sites, you don't need to be an epidemiologist to understand that you're also exposed. Thank you. You get my point. Thank you. And you'll be given one minute. Good evening, Mayor, Council. Thank you for the opportunity. Suzie, thank you for all the work you put in. I am simply here to urge you to go slow to go fast. This is a long-term issue. Let's take our time. Let's do it right. Get the community engagement. That's the other way. Give people a chance to speak up. Get people engaged besides the folks in the camps. Those that need a chance to get out and are willing to counsel folks that are complaining that the other people aren't letting them do their job, support them, give them a way out. Transitional encampment with precautions. That's great, but let's not rush into it, please. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Council, my name is Coral Brune. I live at the Tannery, which is next to the Ross camp, which I'd like to address three points. Congestion, the very humanity. I'll just go through half of my list of things. I enjoyed the presentations tonight. I learned a lot. Traffic businesses, houses, tents, and not a lot of extra space adding more to this congestion. So that's an obvious situation, more to some than to others. I've talked to some of the persons there and people are suffering. And that is on people's minds a lot. Some of my friends have skills to partially help the situation. If funds are available, they can teach skills to building simple housing structures for the houseless. The surrounding neighborhood that seems to be impoverished by the association of having a type of community, such as homeless, would do themselves a favor to have positive attitudes so that more solutions can be creatively managed in the situation. A few living in the Ross state they know. And please do feel free if you want to email your comments to us as well. I will. Thank you. So next time I'm hoping the public can speak first so it's not this late at night. That'd be wonderful. We're the taxpayers. Number two, it looks like there's a lot of professionals here that are making a lot of money off homelessness. I'm sorry to say. I hope your intentions are good. There's professional homeless people here. Advocates that are getting paid. Listen, the number one thing is we've gotta think about our children. We just had a guy tell us that at least half these people are heroin addicts. And now you want to introduce them into the community, into neighborhoods, right next to schools. Come on people. God bless you. Pray and ask God to give you wisdom, okay? Cause we're all gonna answer for the way we take care of our children. They're the most helpless people in our community. Okay? And now you're gonna introduce heroin addicts into neighborhoods, residential neighborhoods. Come on. Do you have any common sense? God bless you. Okay. I believe that that concludes any member here who's interested in addressing the council. Okay, we have one more. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, so we're still on the one minute time. If this is the one minute, this is the, I'll just remind folks, this is an opportunity for individuals to address the council who want to do so expedited. And you'll be given one minute. And then once that concludes, we'll go ahead and open it up to presentations and then to a public comment for two minutes. So we're still on the one minute if that's true. Thank you. Yeah, I'm Nancy. And I've been listening with such excitement to tonight's conversation. It feels inclusive of people who have been for so long considered outsiders who could not be part of our community. And I've been looking at and studying along with Brent and Stacey Falls as well. The sanctuary camp model for years now. And as the cities of Seattle said, the encampments have met and exceeded the contracted performance measures. Now that includes a whole lot because much is required of those camps. And one of the things that I want to point out that thrilled me most about them is the feeling among residents that they themselves become providers of help for themselves and other people. Thank you. Hello, my name is Linda Kover. I live at the tannery. I'll be brief. I really appreciate you're going forward with what you're doing. You've really covered a lot in a short while. However, I really need you to address the camp as it is right now. And one of the things I'm asking for is to define the camp by the levy with a fence. And there's an area with the bathrooms and the garbage can be placed if those tents were not there. And it's just a few tents that could be moved so that that walkway can be open. And I know you pushed it back some. It's absolutely not enough. And just define that with a fence and not a portable fence because that doesn't work at all. And one last thing is that the encampments you're talking about, they're out. Thank you. Please do feel free to if you want to leave your comment. Yeah, thank you. Okay. All right. Next speaker. Hi, my name is Luba Kaplan-Skya. I'm a fourth year student at UC Santa Cruz and I just wanted to offer possibly a solution to the safe parking. There's a competition every single year called Cruise Hacks and there was an app. I'm not affiliated with it at all. It's called Vroom, V-R-O-O-M. And it's sort of like an Airbnb for residents to rent out their parking spaces that are at their houses for really cheap rates, $3, $4 a night. It might seem not very appeasing for people but the founders of Airbnb also struggled to make the concept normal to allow strangers in your house. Perhaps we could also allow strangers to park in our parking lots and you post your driver's license and you basically get to help with this problem. And I'd also love to encourage our fellow community members to come up with ideas and solutions to this. I really appreciate City Council for all these proposed solutions. I've seen a lot today but I would love for us to come up, not only voice our concerns and opinions which are extremely valuable but also really creatively tap into our wonderful, incredible minds and think of solutions. Thank you. All right. So I think that concludes the interest of the, oh, I'm sorry, I keep, I apologize. I have a question for a few minutes. Yeah, and so- My name's Manuel Prado. I have you, I, yes, I have you. Yes, you'll have your four minutes. So we'll do presentations after we have the folks that just really briefly want to share their comments for one minute. Okay. I just want to applaud the council and the staff for this comprehensive approach and applaud you especially for the quickness by which you've been able to move. This is the first, we've been looking at homelessness for two decades, what have you. And this is the first re-initiating of a comprehensive address since we approved and built the shelters on River Street. Thank you very much. Go forward. Thank you. My name is Travis Coleman. I'm a teacher in Santa Cruz. Thank you very much for the time and energy and effort you have put into this. I strongly support and hope that you are successful in finding a new location where you can create a camp that can offer better support for our community. I also would just offer that as kind of a follow-up to the woman who spoke two people ago, I would gladly offer my driveway to someone who needed a safe place to stay overnight. And I suspect that many other homeowners in Santa Cruz would do the same. So if we can find a way to, exploit is not the right word, but to take advantage of that generosity in our communities, I think that we might be able to come up with other solutions as well to provide more people with safe places to stay. Okay. So I believe that concludes any interested member of the community who wanted to briefly address the council. At this time, I will now go ahead and acknowledge the folks that reached out to myself and our city clerk in advance requesting extra time on behalf of their organization and membership. So if Carol Walker could come forward on behalf of the Tannery and Coastal Watershed Council and Falker and Price Streets. Carol? Hi, you'll be given four minutes, Carol. No, I don't think I need it. Hi, Mayor Watkins, council members and all present. I'm Carol Walker. I speak tonight for River Neighbors and Coastal Watershed Council, which represents residents at the Tannery, Price, Falker and Grant Streets. Since the Ross encampment began and escalated beyond control, our residential neighborhoods have experienced undue and unwarranted harassment, threats to our lives, physical assaults, trespassing, loitering, car break-ins, vandalism, trash, drug paraphernalia and human waste, deposited on our properties, interference with auto traffic and endless convoy of heavy laden to push carts along the streets with persons stopping to dress and undress in public and depositing unwanted items on the sidewalks, a constant flow of pedestrian traffic all hours of the day and night that brings with it all of the above along with unbearable noise from outbursts of anger and frustrations, altercations, electronic equipment, all of which have taken a toll on our personal lives, emotional stamina, sense of community, financial costs to repair all of this and most importantly, the health and safety of us, our children and the San Lorenzo River habitat. Mayor Watkins, I implore you and your fellow council members to heed our pleas for help. We do need action now, not next week, not next council meeting now. I think we all realize that the Ross camp can't stay where it is, but while you're deciding how to proceed, we are stuck in an unacceptable situation. Until the camp is closed, we need protection for our neighborhoods that have been directly affected by the city, allowing this camp to escalate beyond reason or any level of tolerance. The three actions we are asking for now are a safe public river walk in an effort to help protect the river habitat and allow for clear and safe public access to the river walk that is currently being held hostage by this encampment. We ask that you move the boundary fence off of and away from the levy. Diagrams are in the packets that you received earlier this week. Protect river neighbors, provide 24 hour protection for Falker, Price and Grant Streets and the Tannery campus and all those who wish to return to the river walk. We desperately need safe neighborhoods as long as this camp remains. Camp community and management create a 24 hour camp management system with managers who will develop and enforce codes of conduct and rules in order to protect camp residents and the surrounding neighborhoods. The camp's current status as being unsanctioned yet allowed means no management which has led to the current out of control situation. Please know though that we are truly grateful and appreciative of the efforts made so far by the police department and the city for helping to maintain a level of safety for us but it's not enough as all of the above is still happening. Our heartfelt thanks and gratitude go to the downtown streets team who are picking up the trash left on our streets. It does not go unnoticed. You will likely hear from many individuals tonight who are included in this group who will express their own concerns. Please listen with compassion and understanding. I hope that you will feel compelled to act now. After 31 years on Falker Street, I now live in fear. I can't tell you how deeply this has affected me. Please don't do this to another neighborhood. Thank you. Before we get started, if I could ask you, please in the sunglasses to not speak during the, no, no, no, this is not the time for us. I'm gonna go ahead and ask you to please sit down and not be distracting and if you don't want to then we can go ahead and ask that you leave the chambers. You can go ahead and leave the chambers if you're not interested in not being quite there. Okay. This other guy do get in here. I don't know. Okay. You can go ahead. I'm just saying or not, I'm just saying or not. Okay. Mr. Ph.D. Okay. We have a chance, we will, okay. We'll go ahead and ask that you, excuse me. Excuse me. Please sit down and if not, I will ask you, you've been warned, next time there's an outburst, I will ask you to leave the chambers. Okay. And if you're interested in speaking after our presentations then you can have your minutes as others have in this chamber as well. Okay. So now we have the next presentation which is from Robert Norris representing Huff and you'll be given four minutes. Turn. One minute. On the door. Oh well. Two good. Okay. We can come back to him. So we'll go ahead and move forward then with Manuel Prado on behalf of the West Side Neighbors and you'll be given four minutes. All right. Well, thank you very much. Particularly the last woman that spoke. My heart goes out for her. To her, excuse me. No one deserves to live in fear like that. I wanna address a couple of points. The first is, yeah, we keep mentioning Seattle as a success story. Seattle spends a billion dollars a year on their homeless. They've got 11,000 people. So I don't know, that's what roughly $90,000 per. I don't know if we have that tax base. Now, if you take it a step further and you sort of look, you say, all right, well, have they had any success? The property crime rate in Seattle is two and a half times that of Los Angeles. Four and a half times that of New York. To me, that does not sound like a model that we would wanna follow. Now, if you follow the research, recently 63% of those people in Seattle refused lodging. The primary reason was because there are too many rules. Another perspective here is that 40 to 50% of the people in San Francisco and Vancouver that are homeless claim they're there because of the generous offerings they have for homeless people. So most of all, I just wanna really make clear here that what we're trying to do through compassion here is actually the cruelest measure we could possibly take. Anyone here that has ever dealt with some of the addiction problem knows that what we're talking about here is actually considered enabling. We're making the problem worse. The problem is there from a drug addiction problem as well as mental health. We heard Dr. Leff say that over 50% were injecting drugs. 39% of these people have mental health problems. They need help. We need to provide them professional assistance. We don't need to provide them a way to perpetuate this lifestyle. It's not helping them in any way. Could I please have quiet back there? Yes. Thank you. So the other point that I just wanna make is the reason I'm here today is I'm a father. And the reason more people in my position aren't here today is because they're putting those kids to bed right now and they're taking care of them. They're looking out for the safety of those children. I'm fortunate enough that I could find somebody in my life that can fill in for me while I come to take care of this matter that really, really matters to myself and the rest of my community. My kids don't get to vote. No kids around here get to vote. But what we're talking about is a measure that is going to remove the safe places for them to play. Lastly, I'd just like to ask that we all respect the democracy that we're so lucky to have here. I'm sure everybody abhors what's going on at a federal level. But let's look at what's going on right here. What we're talking about, this state of emergency, it's ridiculous. I ask you to please go by the same measures that everybody else has to go by here. Let's vote on these things. Let's have hearings, let's research it. Thank you for your time. So we'll go back to the next presentation, which is Robert Norris, representing Huff. Members of the community and the city council. What's going on here is actually all about closing the Ross camp. It's not really about providing and dealing with the issues at the Ross camp, which could be dealt with tonight by establishing an emergency camp ground somewhere else for the overflow that's in the Ross camp, which is admittedly, it's overly crowded. It's got its problems. But that's not the interest of either the staff or the council, at least certainly a significant portion of it. Urgency procedures need to be passed tonight that allow accessible rather than theoretical alternatives for survival camp grounds, safe parking areas, shelters, and of course housing. I remember the toxic veto, the progressive majority gave to rent control in January and the Matthews minority. I remember the rent task farce passed earlier, which doesn't even begin to look at the real issues of landlord profit, rent raises, citizen flight, and cost of living, which are the real issues around these things. Having no substance to any real move to sustain what housing exists, we need to recognize the likelihood of growing homelessness and the simple undeniable reality of people sleeping on the sidewalks in the parks and wherever they must. In a Sunday Sentinel article, Mayor Watkins has shown here determination to meet this dispersal and deportation guidelines of March 15th when the council repudiated, which they reputed by a majority last meeting. Now, of course, we have the new April guideline, which is of course unilaterally proposed by the real brains and energy behind this. And I'm afraid the brains don't really amount to a real commitment to the welfare of the majority of homeless people in this community, Suzy O'Hara and Sheena Tull, sorry, Tina Schull. Sorry about that. I can understand why that's happening, but I have to point it out, not without any personal animus toward these two, but because what they are saying is a mythology, that housing exists, that these proposed solutions are actually gonna provide enough, even for the Ross camp, to say nothing of the rest of Santa Cruz. Now, last Wednesday, Attorney Anthony Prince of the California Homeless Union began training the homeless community on how to implement the federal Martin versus Boise decision. How can we, those of us who are homeless and those who are housed and interested, stand up to the city's run-em-out-of-town juggernaut? City Manager Martin Bernal's P&R panhandling team has repeatedly presented a false narrative of accessible alternatives, but these missing shelter survival camps or housing alternatives don't exist. Their hopes, their theories, they just aren't there and they haven't been there. We've seen time and time again, these promises have evaporated when the deadline showed up. The attorney's legal workshop discussed how local poor people outside can respond, what tactics can be used when threatened with destruction of their tents and given directions to move along to nowhere. How can a homeless woman cited for blocking the sidewalk, being in a park after dark, or being in a closed area respond? Now, more than ever, community members need to be on the alert for clusters of police cars harassing a lone individual, which is happening with some regularity. Video documentation is important. Personal presence can be helpful. Organizations like Huff, which I represent, Conscience in Action and Food Not Bombs are good points of contact. Donation should be going to unhoused folks directly, not to secondary non-profits whose administrative costs and membership restrictions act as barriers. The key weapon is the injunction. That's a court order. If you're interested in this, contact Huff at four, two, three, Huff, H-U-F-F. Thank you. Thank you. All right, we have Phil Posner from Conscience in Action. First of all, I too wanna thank the mayor for allowing me to speak and the staff, the tremendous amount of work that you did put into your suggestions. I was gonna respond, mayor, to your article as did Robert a second ago. But I'm so devastated by the reality of the difficulty of this situation. I'm not gonna talk about what I thought I was gonna talk about. I really wanna talk about empathy. I'm only telling you that because it happens that my doctorate is an empathy. The specific thesis is how does empathy influence ethical behavior? And you cannot talk about empathy without talking about human suffering what that lady is going through. But what also Robert refers to is the suffering of homeless people who have no roof over their head. My heart goes out to you. But my heart also goes out as does all of our hearts to the people who have no roof over their head who have to sleep on the street, who have to pee someplace because there's no other place to do it. I think the problems are incredibly difficult. But Maxine, you scared me with your article as Robert suggested too by suggesting that we're gonna close the camp down. Where do you think those people are going to go? Are they just gonna go to someone's driveway which was a beautiful nice suggestion? Are they going to go to other places in our city that are gonna cost us more money? I hate to say it. I too find the camp unsavory, et cetera. But I don't think you have an alternative yet to move anybody from that camp until you have places for people to go to. But when you do, absolutely do it. But in the meantime, think about human suffering because Mayor, in your article, I got the feeling that you'd really, I don't wanna say, it's not fair. I gotta believe you know what human suffering is. What it means not to have a roof over your head. All I can do is please for all of us to show empathy for each other for the suffering that so many people have to endure and do the best that we can. Thank you. Is there Greg Benson here? Representing, I don't know if that's... Greg Benson? Okay, okay. So then our last presentation will be from Abby Samuels representing the freedom sleepers. Hi, I'm Abby. I'm here to talk about truth, not alternative facts, which seem to be presented in the last meeting. Also, I wanna thank Bonnie and Lee for looking for a place. I really appreciate that. Average, I wanna talk about, whoops, there we go. Oh, this is my old presentation. Shoot. The average age of, this is all wrong. Can I stop it and get the right presentation? Sir. Okay. So the average age is 50 years old, but they died, but the new one I have is more current. It's 47 years versus 77. The people that have died, 50 years old, 57, 68, which is beyond the 50 years old. At 55 people have died. We don't hear, most of these deaths are unreported. Now all of a sudden they're getting reported in the media. I wanna talk about health and safety. If you cared, you wouldn't be kicking people out from the rain from the doorways. You wouldn't be reporting deaths. You would be reporting the deaths of every single person who died. You wouldn't allow people who are homeless, people that are disabled to be homeless. You wouldn't allow seniors to be homeless. You wouldn't kick people out of the street after they just got out of the hospital, which actually will be illegal July 1st, 2019. Dr. Lef did not say to close the camp. He said to eventually close the camp. He never said it needed to be closed. He did talk though about harm reduction. By the way, there's rats all over West Cliff and the post office, are you gonna close West Cliff? They're all over Santa Cruz. I wanna talk about point in time census that was done by the fire chief. We counted 210 each tent having one to four people. The fire chief says 60 to 70% are occupied during the evening. So I did a 208 tents divided by 60% comes out to 145.6, but we estimate that there's at least 200 people sleeping there every night, probably closer to 280. I hope that you get enough, before you move them out, have enough shelter for 200, not for 100, based on a not a true fact. Let's talk about the strict rules in Seattle. It was mentioned in the last presentation that they have zero tolerance for drugs and alcohol use possessions and violence. It's true for violence and possession of arms. It is not true that they have very strict rules. They did a survey, which it looks like we're about to do a survey. So that was good in order to decide what to do in Seattle. I just looked on the web and I can find many low barrier shelters, which means people that use are allowed into the shelter. So there's a campus housing alliance, 100 low barrier beds, queen and shelter, which is supposed to open up soon, and that means drug and alcohol are not banned. As you say, you're looking for a different transitional place for the people at Camp Ross, you have to look for low barrier. The navigation center, that's from their website, drugs and alcohol are discouraged, but they don't just allow it. In fact, they have harm reduction approaches and they have minimum rules. So that means they allow drugs. I spoke to two different people, Bradford Gerber of the Low-Income Housing Institute in tiny homes, and as well as Nick Jones, who's a legislative assistant with council member Sawant from Seattle. And that's what someone else will talk about that. Thank you. So now, we have, if I could get a sense of how many folks here are interested in addressing the council, you'll be given two minutes. Okay, so please line up to my left and you'll have up to two minutes to speak. Good evening, Madam Mayor. I'm not gonna talk long. I'm the representative for the encampment. I understand how people feel. I feel the same way they do. Sometimes it gets rough, but everybody over there is not bad. So look in the mirror next time you wanna point fingers with people first. It's easy to solve. Come talk to us. We'll give you the manpower to create places for us to go. You just find the places that's away from people. We don't wanna be there anymore than you want us there. You know, people drive by and throw shit, excuse my language, but you know, that's immature people that I don't deal with in real life. I'm dealing, supposedly dealing with mature adults who have ideas of things for their future and for their children. All you have to do is come and talk to us and you can end this. Get ideas from the people that you're trying to move around on how to move them around. You have no problem. Oh, your time. Your time. Federal law though. We're not going anywhere. So don't print. Your time is up. Go ahead. No. Hi. Hello everyone. My name's Alicia Kool. I help put together the Ross camp council, what you know as the camp council. The camp council has expressed to me numerous times that they would like a encampment that respects their privacy and their dignity. It's not that they're requesting a spot that has no rules at all. The thing is that they want a spot that's low barrier, a place that treats them like residents, something that's perhaps not short term. I spoke in length with Lisa, who is the chair of Dignity Village in Oregon. She says that the key to their success has been a low barrier model. It's not that they straight allow drugs type of thing, but what they do is they have a no illegal substances outside of your tent policy or outside of your spot. So if they see somebody who's intoxicated, they send them home, just like you would do in another situation. They don't say mandatory alcohol and drug testing or program to live there. That's the concern that I have with the model being proposed is like you heard the doctor say, 50% of the people at the Ross camp have that problem. We all know that people are not going to go into a drug program unless they're ready to. So forcing them to do that as part of a housing requirement is not going to be successful. What it's going to do is disband the Ross camp and put all those people who can't go into this other encampment back on the streets. What's going to happen as well is you're going to lose the solidarity that we have with the Ross camp and the council that I've helped establish there. If we don't move them to a low barrier option, which they want to go to, my work will have been, it's done. Like they're all going to disband. I have no more council. We have no more way to communicate with you. These are important issues. We can just assume that everybody at the Ross camp can go into a high barrier encampment. Sorry, you already went. Nope. Yep. Okay. Our next speaker. No. The jury Mandarin is going to happen again. Okay. Go ahead. Your turn. Hello. My name is Mike Dealey. So ladies, gentlemen, non-gendered and transgender people, it is no secret that as a nation, we spend far too much on our military budget. A couple of days ago, President Trump asked to increase the military budget to $750 billion. There's been a lot of fear mongering in our nation on the macro scale and the micro scale, thinking we need authority to create a safe environment. I'm asking you today to consider what Dwight D Eisenhower said. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross, unquote. And in this city, as a city staff mentioned earlier, we must consider long-term fiscal solutions. How many people in this room know that our military budget, our police budget, is $30 million a year? Give me half of that, give me 15 million, and we won't have homelessness to steal. We won't have a drug addiction because these are problems of despair, and these are economic refugees to our system that is at a peak in economic inequality in century. So let us consider, when we spend 30 million a year on our police force alone, is that really making us safer? What if we had 15 million of that to do other things over a period of 10 years? That's $150 million. With amazing people in this town, all the terrific organizers, volunteers, social service experts, could it be possible to eradicate homelessness? Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Okay. Hey, how are y'all doing? I've met one or two of you before, but most of you know. I, you don't need to know my name. I'm an outsider to Santa Cruz, I just got here. And I just thought I'd poke my head in because this stuff actually does concern me. I do sleep outside. I'm not really, really, really struggling like some of the desperate people you guys are supposed to be dealing with. But it's not easy out there, especially when you're always looking for who around you is not trustworthy. I just wanna congratulate you all because it just seems like you guys are just really frugal. And I know that that's a great thing to be, especially with rising income inequality and the fact that the environment is kind of being devastated on a daily basis and environmental resources are drying up by the, I don't really know a number for that. You guys, potentially some of you might end up in one of these one day, which is really cool that you're able to stand that because to me, it kinda looks like farewell to Manzanar. You've got the walls in the back and it looks like even barbed wire in the very back. I don't know if I could live under those conditions. Maybe you can, which maybe that makes you a better person than me. However, I would say that in case you or someone you know or your kids or the kids of Santa Cruz County end up having to live in one of these for any length of time, you might make it a little more human because I don't think I would stay in there if I had any other choice. So in case people are desperate, you might get some, but otherwise I might have to try somewhere else. I'm here, Phillip. I mean, it's probably gonna be a repeat of the last time I was here. We were here two weeks ago with the same thing and then we, no emergency, right? But now we got an emergency. I still don't kinda get it. Camp Ross is the only real health emergency. If you close it, then there's no emergency. So declaring an emergency can only be because you want to have authority to have little camps all over town. And money can be had, it must be spent and declaring a shelter emergency does that. Let's not fool ourselves. There's no definition of emergency shelter crisis or what goal is acceptable. You're just saying that it is. That's on you, but the taxpayers, the renters, the businesses that pay the bills have actual property rights, should have a bit more say than those who contribute near nothing except their problems and have no property rights except those that you are willing to give away. Historically, California only shelters 25% of the homeless and that way a long time. So to declare the status quo in emergency is it's a kind of joke, you know? Anyway, California's behind the nation in this but also has two times the national problem. We have 11.6 times the national problem but still has 20%, a vastly higher percentage of our share of the national problem for our size. We're doing plenty for our share of the state's homeless. Maybe too much. It's possible we're attracting homeless. I see no admission that something is wrong with Santa Cruz to have so many more homeless than mostly everywhere else. There are pockets of extreme homeless here and there but we're right at the top of the list. I see no plan to change that. All I see is a shelter, shelter, shelter in perpetuity. And we should, I also see that there's NGOs lining up to get a piece of the money available. I may have a solution for you for a transitional encampment. Actually, I'm becoming kind of a fan of them. I've read all of Brad's material and looked at a lot of things online but there's actually a property on DuBois Street. 105 between the next 111 vacant lot, one acre fenced, one ingress, Hegress, Harvey West, close to the Coral Street Shelter and an area not unknown to a lot of homeless folks. It's been vacant since about three years and here's the interesting part that can be, it's currently being leased for 5,000 a month by Metro and their lease expires at the end of this year. For three years, I mean, for who knows how long this could have been used as a potential, really a pretty good, I think a very ideal location for both safe parking as well as, you know, a pilot transitional encampment. Again, in an industrial area, close to the services that homeless use. Something to think about. Thank you. I just wanna say that there's a lot of feelings flowing around this room. You guys have important decisions to make. This is a controversy issue. You know, we have heard from people both sides of the spectrum. I heard, you know, the wars, they're powerful and then I think they're more powerful when they get repeated by a council member. I asked, hoping that the city council made the best decision, was best for this community and then let's don't let the feelings get on the way and let's have a clear mind, clear thinking and let's come up with the best decision, you know, best choice for everybody and if tonight is not the best time to decide, you know, maybe hold it on and hold it for tomorrow and then your minds are clear, the feelings move out of the way and then come up with a best decision. Thank you. Thank you, council, for doing this very hard work. Susie, you're like Wonder Woman. I love you. My kids found needles in Harvey West Park over 10 years ago. This has been an issue for decades. First, I would say expand funding for our existing rehab facilities like Janice and Alto. I'm sure there are more, but I don't know about them. I would aim for, with the pilot program, doing both a low barrier facility as well as a zero tolerance facility so that you can separate the two groups into people who want help with their addictions and then people who just want help housing their children. And I haven't heard much about any long term low income housing. I think some of that $10 million could be earmarked to purchase land that then could be built upon if you guys work with the county and the different regulations. I'd like to see more structures like the one that just is going up on Water Street, the one down on Cathcart and Pacific. These are all five to six story buildings that are housing many, many people. I think some of them are not affordable, but if we could aim for something of that size and get the residents of the city to just stop complaining, we are growing. We are a city, we're not a town anymore, and we need to admit that and move with the times and provide housing for people. And as far as getting the homeless people involved in their own community improvement, if they're gonna be using these pilot programs, get them involved along the lines of Habitat for Humanity where they do sweat equity to be there the 10 hours a week volunteering, good ideas. Thank you, thank you. Elise Kazby, local activist. I started out as a young professional in the mental health field. I was in one of the most forward states in the Union, Massachusetts before the Reagan cuts. I'm saying this because I have been investigating homelessness. I've taken sociology courses, I have a BA. I've studied a lot of things that pertain to social activism and so forth. And I would say I've been in shelters here. I'm not ready to speak about that. I'm not ready to speak about my journey right now, but I will say that please don't insult homeless people by thinking that in three or four months, the most well-intentioned, intelligent investigations which only amount to an hour here or there per week are going to really help you to understand the challenge of homelessness. And I just wanna start with the fact that most of the people sitting on this council I would classify as neoliberals. Under neoliberalism, we have had a complete lack of housing that has been willfully and deliberately not solved. In Santa Cruz, we don't even talk about low income housing because we can barely address so-called affordable housing. Let alone actual just housing for well-to-do rich people. Okay, so as somebody who experienced homelessness because of domestic violence and because also at a certain point the agencies were just so poor and I was harmed by mental health providers, I wouldn't trust any of you. I'm sorry, except maybe Drew and maybe Sandy and Cruz a little bit because they are progressives who are not liberals. So I just wanna say we need in-depth research. Suzy, thank you. Thank you, Tina. It's a good start, long way to go, evidence-based and we're just getting started. Thank you. I too am also a member of this community of Santa Cruz and I do care about this community that I live in. Dealing with syringes and needles and where I go at locations, I've picked them up all around in the mountains, at the beaches, on the west, on the east. Doesn't matter what location about where the needles, I'm picking them up on my time. Not your time, but voluntarily my time. That's how much I care about your kids and your lives as well as you guys deal with mine. By the invasion of privacy and having a home, I too am also houseless. I have children here. I've raised those children. And as a father, I do care and also putting out the music that I play out in the public just to see fathers and their kids what I used to do. It's very hard and difficult for me to be happy as well. Just as you elders along, I've been gaining the knowledge and input by each and every one of you individuals. But what's been taken away is that heart broken love with children, the ones that I've had, the ones that I've helped create, just as you as yourselves and myself as well, living a life. If we still have a heart, it's still ticking. We're not dogs, we're not animals, we're human beings. How can we do that? By being picked on or by being invaded of our privacy. Please help us out. Stop pushing us in a location where you want us as cattle. 1220, that's a prison. I've tried to before. I got kicked out the second week, volunteering with downtown street teams in the alley. That's where it led me, going back into the battlefield here in Santa Cruz, leading elders who are older than each and every one of you individuals cleaning up our community. I was at home and I was listening to a lot about Seattle and how you're modeling some things after Seattle and their successes. There's an article that another gentleman actually referenced some of the data in this article. It's an autumn 2018, very comprehensive article in a national urban magazine called City Journal. They cite something very different from what you guys are citing about Seattle. They've had a huge increase in homelessness, crime and addiction and that has exploded in the last five years. And like the gentleman said, they spend a billion dollars a year in homelessness efforts. They cite, and I'm just gonna cite some excerpts from it. So they cite three myths. One is that many homeless are holding down jobs when in fact only 7.5% report working full time. The second myth is that homeless are native to Seattle when in fact more than half are from outside the city limits. The third myth is that homeless want help but there aren't enough services when in fact 63% of street homeless refuse shelter. The article states that the city's compassion campaign has evolved into permissiveness, enablement, crime and disorder. Citing an array of horrors including theft, drugs, fighting, rape, murder, explosions, prostitution, needles and feces. Yet prosecutors have dropped thousands of misdemeanor cases and police are directed not to arrest people for homelessness related offenses including theft, destruction of property and drug crimes all of which we see lots of here. It also states that compassion without limits is a road to disaster. Cities must stop seeding their parks, schools and sidewalks to homeless encampments. Data from Houston shows local leaders have reduced homelessness by 60% by providing service and enforcing a zero tolerance policy for street camping, panhandling and trespassing and property crimes. Who stands to gain? The big winners are the social services. They're the ones who stand to gain from homeless. Thank you, thank you. Okay. And is there any other members here who are interested in addressing the council that haven't already spoken? Okay. Hi, OS Y Salinas resident, President Salinas Munner County Homeless Union. So I'm about 40 miles south of you. I'm just really pleased and impressed that this is even an agenda item. And I appreciate that. The last three council meetings have been very invigorating. So thank you for at least forwarding the conversation that I've not seen in this whole region. I do have some disappointments, I guess. You know, this, if you close out the Ross camp, there's got to be a lot of people in this camp. There's got to be a place for people to be. We have Martin Rivers Boise, which means that anywhere on public space, you already can't do anything about it. So you need to open up more space than just this 40. It's a good start, it's a very good start, but we're going to need, what do we do with the rest of the 95% of people who aren't going to be able to access that? You can get arrested for leaving your dog outside, but it's okay to strip people of all their bedding and let them sleep out in the cold all night. And that's legal. That's not right. So I hope that you're doing something better than this. I'd like to see a majority say yes on this sanctuary camp, please. You know, it needs to happen. And you just need to just grow up. You know, the maturity factor of this naysay node camp because it's not perfect. People aren't perfect. Nobody's going to fit a mold. And you know, we just have to diversify, I suppose, and realize that people are different. You can't just put them in a box. You know, I mean, you got all this open space. If you want to do it better, you know, people in trash organize space and people could set up an encampment, you just need to be able to pass people over so that in that way they can have some consistency in their life or routine, be able to be somewhere. If they can't be there, we'll then open up more space where they can be plenty of space throughout the city. And if not that, then it's back to the sidewalks back in downtown, the Elkhofs. It's going to be somewhere. I didn't really prepare to say anything, so thanks for letting me have a moment. I just wanted to say that while exploring solutions, we need to acknowledge that these humans are part of our community, whether they're drug abusers or not. I have encountered quite a few comments on Nextdoor and here tonight as well that suggest otherwise. So I hope that people will be open-minded to that. And I would also like to say that the vulnerable members of our community extend beyond children to those who suffer from mental illness, physical insecurity, disability, trauma, abuse, and many other reasons. I believe it's naive to think that just because one is grown that they are capable of caring for themselves and we need to expand beyond that mindset to find a feasible solution long-term. Thank you. Hello, my name is Travis and I've been homeless in Santa Cruz County for about 17 years now. Also part of the Food Not Bombs program for the last five to six years. I'm a sober individual. I do not do drugs or alcohol. And I'm also worried about the dirty needle problem myself. I was wondering if there would be any type of way we could set up a volunteer program of giving out containers so people could collect these dirty needles and return them not for any type of benefit, but for the benefit of the community that we're living in. Because I've definitely been finding a lot of more needles that we've been seeing for the last two to three years that I've been here. And I'm an independent homeless person. I don't approve of camps and walled spaces and working communities where people don't know how to feed themselves and don't know where to shop. But I do definitely agree on people having more faith in the long-term people that have tried to be better people in this community and are trying to protect the families of this community and be part of the community rather than destroying the community. We need some superheroes to start taking care of these bad boys from a bad boy lane. And I don't know who that's gonna be yet, but it can't just be the security guards and the police and those people. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Okay. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. Well, you made a good start. I'm happy to see that you actually are thinking about homelessness for over 30 seconds. It's given me some hope for a minute here. And I just really wish that you get a sanctuary camp tonight for the overflow at Ross to complete all of the people over there. Start feeding at Coral Street immediately, get some stuff from Costco or whatever, get food to the people. I see people digging out of the trash every day. I walk around with oranges in my sack every day to give people, give people sacks of bread or whatever. And it's really upsetting. I'd like to also bring some things to Civic and be a good place to put people. You can rent half the places downtown or empty. You could, all those commercial buildings, you could put 50 people there, 40 people there, 30 people there and fill up all those empty places. There's a lot of places we can put people. How about the university? How about the farm over there in the village? Why don't they offer a place to put the camp, the camp that we don't want or whatever? I like the woman's idea of separating the camps of people that just want to be alone and with their children and people that want to run them up. They could be in separate camps and at the university, they could say, oh, we're gonna surround them, they're gonna be self-policed, whatever, but it starts to think about other than, these are seven places the city owns. Well, how about the university? How about the depot over there that you took 130 people that were in the homeless garden project and told them they had to get out because you were buying the depot and moving it back and now it's empty for how many years? Has it been empty? Why can't you fill it with homeless people? Why can't you think of other solutions? Why can't you think of the Betz Hall? Why can't you think of other solutions? Please, I'm begging you. Good evening, I'm Scott Graham. There's a lot of people out there that think that if we do something with a Ross camp that that'll solve the homeless issue. Well, that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's another 800 to maybe 2,000 people camped out all over town and all over the county that this little bit you're gonna do for the people of the Ross camp aren't even being affected by it. So it's a major issue. So I would recommend you declare a crisis. This is a crisis. There's thousands of people. There's not just the Ross camp. And as far as the concern people have with needles, why not put a deposit on them where people can collect them and turn them in for five cents or 10 cents or something? You see these homeless people all over town carrying these giant bags full of cans. There'd be a lot of people who would go out and look for needles and they'd clean the needles out of everywhere that where people are throwing them now and we can get rid of the needles that way. And then also I thought the county was a partner in this. So why aren't the county parking lots included in this study? The biggest parking lots in the city limits are not part of this study. Let's call on the county to say, hey, you'll put a little skin in the game. Thank you. And I believe that you'll be our last speaker. Hello, everybody. My name is Isaac Morris. I support what the people were trying to do because I think it's, now this condition, I've been in San Cruz for 13 years and I've seen what the rent is going up. I've seen this condition get worse and worse and the problem has never really been solved and dealt with. And I really think it's really need to show love and compassion to people because at the end of the day, we're just human beings. Everybody is entitled to affordable housing and shelter and it shouldn't be this and that. We need to really practice that and have compassion because as a youth myself, I think it's important that we do be aware of these conditions. They do affect families. They do affect mothers and all that. And we need to have a place for people to sleep because if not, they don't get after asleep. They're not able to function carefully. They're not able to make right decisions. They're not able to get back to the community. So it's important to look at these issues but also look at it effective way, how we can make this issue and people that are involved, especially in the community that it works together when it's not a pick or this and that that we all get together and starts off in a solution. Because if not, if you look at 10 years from now, Santa Cruz might turn into Carmel or might turn into another place and it's gonna keep getting worse. We can't, we could put money into it but we have to solve the solution. Because anybody can put money into something but if you don't solve the solution, it's the same thing repeating itself again. And I don't think people want to do with that. They want a solution so people can have, just be human beings. Thank you. Don't see any other folks interested in addressing the council so we'll go ahead and close public comment at this time. I'll go ahead and return back to the council for action and deliberation but I will give us maybe about four minutes or so just to take a quick stretch break, run to the restroom and then we'll return back. Council members, so we're good to go at this point. So we'll go ahead and return back now to council deliberation and action. There's a lot of items before us. I'll go ahead and open it up to see if any council member wants to kick it up by some air coming. Sure. I should have, I had a question for Lee. So I think it was you and I actually now, yeah, I think you're the appropriate person to address with this. But I know that it was mentioned at one point during the presentation that the beds at the Salvation Army are not full and that was at some point, was that Susie? Okay. It was mentioned that the beds at the Salvation Army haven't been, aren't completely full and I was just wondering what are some of the barriers that people are addressing or attributing to not wanting to go there? Yeah, so the VFW is actually full. The program that's not full is the Laurel Street program. And it's, you know, what we have found with our engagement with the Gateway encampment what is that, I would say the majority of the women that we have talked with, their kind of comments back to us are predominantly not around concerns as to proximity to other sleepers and things that we would typically think about in terms of barriers with that kind of shelter model. It's what we're mostly hearing is that they have other plans. They're going back to their home communities. They have other housing plans in mind and they're just not interested in engaging. Okay, so now's the time for the council to have action and deliberation. We've heard from the community, so please allow this process to take place without interruption. Are you, are we asking, are you done? I'm also prepared to make a motion at any point. Well, I had a couple of questions and then we'll go ahead and then I'll return to you. One of which was asked. I was just curious also, Suzy or Tina, do you have any idea how many people are using the services over at HSC in terms of showers and other things in combination with being a resident in the camp? So I'm just curious if services there are being accessed or not? Just if you have a sense of that. I don't have a sense of that specifically if people at the Gateway encampment are crossing over and obtaining the hygiene services there, I don't have that data. Okay. And then you mentioned the armory was still under discussion. Do we have any idea how long that's going to take? Is that something the county's moving quickly on or do we have any ideas on that? Yeah, the county is engaging very actively with Assembly Member Stone's office who has taken this up and I know that there are conversations happening with the Department of the Military. We are still trying to suss out some questions of renovation and schedules and also talking to them about the fees. You might, I think we mentioned this a couple of weeks ago that the statewide fee schedule, they charge $880 a day. And that is what we did pay when for 20 years that site hosted the Winter Shelter and we were looking for some relief on that. So that's the two threads of the conversation but we don't have anything definitive as of now. But we are, I mean there is a lot of urgency and work going on about it. So I know we keep saying we keep hoping to hear but we do hope we have some imminent answers within a week or two. And then lastly, I guess I'd just like to make a request that working through the two by two, if it's possible we could also look at county locations. That I think we should try to build that partnership that way as well. Thank you. Questions? Yeah. Oh, he's so, Vice Mayor, coming. I had a couple other questions too. I just wanted to start also by thanking you all for the hard work that you've done to bring us all this information. It was a really very well done study on all these sites and with a limited amount of time. And so I just wanna say thank you for all the work that you did around this, all staff. Thank you very much. And I had a question, Council Member Glover brought up a couple sites, including the Santa Cruz Bible Church, Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church. And I was just wondering if any of those, because he identified that they had some space potentially available. I was just wondering if any of those people or if any of those institutions had reached out to the city in terms of being operators when some of the bids went out for safe parking programs. No. And I was also curious if some of the other institutions that did reach out about safe parking programs, whether or not they'd asked to have 10, 20, 50, what was kind of the range and numbers of cars that they were willing to and able to support. So the program that is funded through the LOI process, so that's the emergency shelter LOI process. It's part of the heap and cash kind of portfolio funding that we're getting from the county. The one successful applicant was the Association of Faith Communities. And their program that they are being funded for is a satellite program where it's kind of spread around the community on a small scale. So you're getting, say, up to 50 or 60 spaces, but at a dozen or more locations. And it's really the intentionality around that is to kind of get to what we had talked about earlier, having it small scale and somewhat manageable at each individual site. And the reason why I believe, and I can't speak for them directly, but what my understanding is, keeping that small scale allows for the individual churches that are participating to help manage the programs when you get to a much greater scale, which they've also considered at a parcel in Mid County, that the staffing requirements, the security requirements grow and scale. And so what they elected to really consider as kind of their first, say, foray into this program is thinking about more of that small scale satellite program that actually quite mimics their indoor shelter model as well. Can I just briefly add something before, and I'll go back to it. I just want to also bring to your awareness that the Star of the Sea Church is a alternative school site. So there are students there on an everyday basis. I know in the presentation it mentioned that Galt is also surrounding there is an alternative school that is actually functioned out of the Star of the Sea Church, just sort of as an FYI. Rita, I had another question on that topic. If that'd be on this safe parking program. We do have already in our ordinance the ability for individual churches to host three or so individuals in their cars in safe parking. Do you have any idea how many churches are doing that? I don't believe there's currently a kind of a sanction program with churches. I believe that this association of faith community program is the first kind of program that's trying to bring together those efforts in a coordinated way. Right now individual churches could, but not part of a program. Right, and I do believe that our existing code does allow for churches to host vehicles on their property. But we don't have a handle on how many are doing it, but it sounds to me as though the association of faith communities anticipates reaching out to interested churches and actually developing that as a program. Is that, they're actually ready to launch or imminently launching. So they actually already have the host of churches that have signed up. They've gone through a, quite frankly, perhaps multi-year, at least multi-month process to engage with our local churches. I know there's been varying levels of interest in participating, but they have been successful in bringing in a number of churches to support the program. And so really the question that they had for the city and the county is whether we would consider providing a lot as well. And if I could just pursue the questioning. Just with safe parking, I think the individuals are across such a spectrum. I am the working poor living in my camper or someone transient dealing drugs, et cetera, being the kind of problems that we hear about. And so could you describe the intake program to the extent you know it for that safe parking program? Sure. And what I will reflect on is what I've heard from the association of faith communities in terms of how they characterize the demographic that they're serving. So this is a fairly high barrier program in that folks that are in the program really do need to have, be able to adhere to the rules of each individual church that hosts and be pretty self-sufficient. And so much like their satellite program within the church facilities, this demographic of folks are folks that are able to adhere to rules and behavioral norms. And the way they characterize it is it's a pretty self-selecting group. I do understand from the perspective of intake that there is going to be a strong alliance with the county office of education as to identifying families with children for this program. I don't know at what numbers, but I know that there's intentionality of really trying to focus on families with children with this program. Thank you. Okay, okay. Council Member Glover and then Vice Mayor, come up. Great. I didn't think so. I'm sorry, I thought you had it. I did. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Susie, just from your experience and the research that you've done and just as an estimation, because I appreciate bullet number two, urgently develop and improve a small scale pilot program for either of the suggested encampment structures either safe sleeping or the transitional encampments. What in your mind does urgently pertain to because we want to, as you mentioned, and I totally respect in that analysis of wanting to be intentional in the implementation of it since we've been able to move so quickly over the last three meetings to get to this point, which was my goal. Now we can really start talking about the best ways to implement it. So what do you think about that? And then also the feasibility of establishing as one council member, was a community member mentioned, setting up two different styles of the camp, one low barrier and one sanctuary style closer to what Brent suggested in his proposal. So with regard to urgent, I think the qualifying factor would be identifying a site by next week. Quite frankly, I think we have to have a site that we are ready to move forward with. And so having a conversation around some of the sites that we've identified, the sites that you've identified really narrowing in on the intentionality around that so we can return with the utmost urgency, I would say, if we can fit it in next week, that would make sense and move forward with a site. I also do believe that it would be beneficial this week, perhaps tomorrow or the next day to put out a call for interest for hosting at a non-profit and or a faith-based site. While we did this evaluation really thinking about site control and city-owned properties, it does make sense to at least query our community about whether there's interest in hosting a site. I mean, as I mentioned, with the city of Seattle, that faith-based community really did shepherd that process. So in terms of urgency, I think if we had a site available, we could stand up a program within the timeframe that we're talking about. Second question, I'm sorry, I forgot. The feasibility of establishing the community member's suggestion of creating two separate barrier camps to be able to segregate the population and identify which ones are interested in immediate transition into a transitional encampment with the higher rule requirements as opposed to people that are just interested in going for a place to sleep but not having such high barriers as far as rules to be able to identify the different populations. Yeah, so in terms of feasibility, it's all about citing an operator capacity and as we add on to kind of this small-scale approach, new sites require an additional conversation about where those should be and then really engaging with our operator and nonprofit partners to understand their capacity to meet those needs. I will say, functionally separating out those populations appears to make sense. It will be very challenging citing in a transitional encampment that allows drug and alcohol use. I think just from the perspective of trying to make this happen and already dealing with a very difficult conversation about even one that requires these kind of norms and behavioral norms to adhere to. I will mention in my research, there are a number of cities who kind of dabbled with the idea of co-mingling or even hosting what I would refer to as kind of wet shelter and have not seen much success with that. It does manifest in the issues that come along with drug use and alcohol use with regard to really taxing the neighborhood and also contributing to illicit and illegal behavior. Just one more question. And then Council Member Brown. Thank you. So we heard from the community and wanting there to be the process of communication and public input with regards to the ordinances and the structures around there with the timeline that's proposed with April 17th as well as the urgent development of the small-scale pilot programs, what would your recommendation be with regards to addressing the issue of adopting and or conducting community input around the ordinance languages? I think it would be beneficial for the Council to consider that transitional encampment process, project charter and thinking about really the tail end of that process after you have engaged with the community, built kind of this buy-in and community acceptance and then also should the Council move in this direction have real live data to support success of a transitional encampment or another alternative shelter model? It's at that time to really think about how best to and I don't have the wording in front of me really look at those widespread policy changes that can reduce the barriers for innovation and actually think about how we can capitalize on the success of the pilot and think about it in a larger context. So I would suggest at the tail end of this project charter process that we would have that conversation about the ordinances. Council Member Brown and then Council Member Matthew. I think one of my questions was answered with respect to wet shelters, although I do think it's worth acknowledging that if we are not going to consider some alternative spaces that are a low barrier in that way, perhaps we wouldn't call them wet but more tolerant that we are not addressing all of the population at the gateway encampment. I mean, that just has to be said. So, you know, I do hope that we can have that conversation and figure out what to do about that because I don't think it's at least not for me. I'm not willing to say that we're going to close or you know, completely shut down the gross camp if we don't have those alternatives. It's really important that we recognize reality. I just want to say that. But so, and I also just want to say that there are so many people have come, I just have to say it now while I have an opportunity. There's so many people who have said to us, you know, kind of repeating this line that, you know, can be spread through our ever increasing and ever aggressive social media outlets that by doing anything tonight, declaring a shelter emergency or, you know, looking at transitional encampments that we are doing something that is entirely out of left field and it's going to invite a whole bunch of people. It's going to enable. It's, you know, the sky is going to fall essentially, but we actually declared on January 23rd, 2018 a shelter emergency. It is currently in place. So, it is not the case that we are doing something out of the blue and taking up this mantle of shelter emergency all of a sudden. It's happening. We're operating under a shelter emergency and we are in fact making a decision tonight about expanding or revising it as an alternative to the homelessness emergency that was proposed two weeks ago that many came out and said they didn't want us to do. So, I just have to be clear. I mean, I think we all need to acknowledge that. I wish more people would who were writing into us with some what I would consider to be a, you know, basis of misinformation there. And so with that, I will stop there and I will ask the question just to clarify. I think I'm getting an answer, but if you could just say it so that we're clear, you are asking us, although it's not in the staff, there is no site in the staff recommendation, you would like us to identify a site tonight. Or at the very latest next week, and I do have slides that we can kind of go through as it relates to the site, but I did want to make one comment back on the issue of wet shelter. So, it is actually quite a nuanced barrier in that, for instance, what I think folks might even consider somewhat high barrier salvation army programs. There are plenty of folks with substance use disorder that are using that program. They hand over their paraphernalia and whatever else they might be bringing and it goes into an amnesty box. So, there is a distinction between using on site and being in a position of having a substance use disorder. And so I think the distinction being, are we allowing substance use on site, on the premises, or are we focused on harm reduction and ensuring that behavioral norms are being adhered to? There are plenty of people in our community that have substance use disorder that can adhere to those rules. All right, so, oh, I'm sorry. Yeah, I did have another question. So, when you say urgently develop and approve a small scale pilot program, your thought is that you would come back at our next meeting with a proposal for both a site and operator for that, is that correct? So, I think for the purposes of next week coming back and having a conversation on site selection, we'll know more about operator capacity and where that fits in hopefully by next week, but I wouldn't necessarily say that for sure. So, now is the time for us to take action. And we have a number of recommendations that were in our report, some of which were agendized as priority to consider and by three council members. So, we have a chance to take action on that this evening, as well as other input from the staff and other ideas that have been brought forward. I'll just say how grateful I was to see your process, analysis and literature and proposal to look at a long-term strategy. And being on a council for now two years, it's music to my ears to be quite honest with you because I feel it's so critical that we continue to think about a project plan that addresses absolutely the immediate needs, some of the interim needs, as well as some of the long-term strategies. And I know they're out there, but to really talk about what that means for Santa Cruz, especially from the evaluation type policy that or the criteria that you proposed. I will just sort of affirm that having heard some of the conditions that are existing at our current encampment, I have concerns about the health and human safety. I know there was a recent fire there. There's been a number of, I believe, some deaths and some ODs and some public health considerations that have been brought to my attention from our police department and our fire department that is very, very concerning. And I also recognize that we have a lot to do to get to the place where I know we want to be as a community in terms of our community process and outreach and ultimately to meet the needs of our various subpopulations. I was reminded recently in education that we have over 3,000 students and children and families living in our county who are experiencing homelessness. So we have a huge issue that has many, many subpopulations from transition age youth, children, adults, struggling in many different ways. And those that are on the brink of homelessness that require some prevention. So I do affirm my commitment to a holistic approach and I think that this staff analysis that is inclusive of that helps get us there. It's starting with some data and feasibility. So in an interest of trying to continue to move forward, I'm hopeful that we can start to move in the direction of making some decisions one way or another. I will acknowledge Vice Mayor Cummings because he mentioned he has a motion he'd like to submit and then we'll go ahead and see if others want to see it. So I'm prepared to make the following motion that is aligned with the staff recommendations that we see before us with a few minor shifts. And so, and I can pass this over to Bonnie. So in case she doesn't want to. So they can help. Can we put it up on the, do you have a viewer screen? Oh, you have multiple. Oh, great. Good. You want to put it up so other, the audience can see it. That was weird. So many of these points fit within the staff recommendations that was just presented above a couple of the points that were in those staff recommendations weren't included. So I'm just going to add those in as well. But update and reaffirm the council adopted City County Joint Action Plan by opening a 60 bed non-profit managed encampment at 1220 River Street on or before April 17th, 2019. Open a small scale, no more than 40 bed, six months pilot transitional encampment, and or safe sleeping and storage site on or before April 17th, 2019. Closing the gateway encampment to coincide with the opening of 1220 River Street program and pilot transitional encampment or safe sleeping and storage site. So just having the closure be contingent upon those two sites being open. Provide a minimum of one week notice to gateway encampment sleepers and day users as to closure date. Move to direct staff to return to council on or before April 9th, 2019 with a siting and operator recommendations for the pilot program. Move to implement the project scope of the transitional encampment charter per the suggested timeline incorporating safe parking to ensure a deliberate and inclusive community process. Move to table discussion on transitional encampment and safe parking ordinance amendments until that subject is contemplated in the project charter scope. Move staff to identify one city parking lot for the utilization of the association of faith community safe parking program to host up to five vehicles per night return to city council on March 26th, 2019 for approval. Include new research and project charter including conducting a shelter feasibility evaluation and unsanctioned encampment management plan and finally adopt the revised shelter crisis declaration. I'll second that. So we have a motion by vice mayor coming second by councilor Matthews. And I think if we could also add expand search for county locations, both public and private. Okay, council member Glover, council member Myers, council member Hal. Thank you. Why I'm ambivalent about the April 17th deadline. I'm looking for used vice mayor Cummings if you could clarify. Is there a reason only a one week notice to the gateway encampment sleepers and all day users of the closure date? That's minimum. Minimum, but I mean, is there a reason why that's so short of a minimum of one week? Why not a minimum of two weeks or a minimum of a month? I know that there was concern actually with the previous date that was set and given the fact that there may be constraints around us being able to open both of those sites by that date. There was some sentiments expressed that we don't want to post a date, for example, tomorrow of April 17th and then get close to that date and have to post another date and to continually be posting different dates. And so I said at a minimum of a week so that they would have at least seven days to be able to decide where they're gonna go and begin to pack up their encampments. I'm completely flexible with adding more time to that if necessary. I was wondering the logic around it, but thank you for that. And then the other thing was a question about the process if we table the discussion on transitional encampment and safe parking program ordinances until it fits within the charter scope, what's the timeline associated with that? I know as you said it was towards the end, but what does that look like and then how will that impact our ability to open up additional sites or to partner with nonprofits that want to move on establishing one of these programs at their facilities? Yeah, so I think I'm gonna have to have a little bit more of a comprehensive conversation with the planning director on this, but we have looked into how to move forward with the pilot and there is a process for which we can add some language to the shelter declaration to provide additional flexibility as to pilot programs and Lee can enhance this as well. So that process would be available for additional sites should we want to move forward ahead of when the ordinances are being considered. Thank you. Pass that out. And if I can add one thing to your point, Council Member Glover about what about other opportunities? Just we have other shelter plans like in the hopper so to speak. So the heap in cash, we should be getting those results like next week. And part of that is getting that next 100 bed or plus facility. So I think that we'll be able to come back to you and actually per the joint action plan, the initial one you adopted on February 12th, I believe we're supposed to come back to you in April to give you an update about whether or not we can meet that July one deadline. Because if you recall the additional shelter capacity that was added that you reference, Susie goes through June 30th. So the VFW does not close on April 15th. The Salvation Army does not close on April 15th as it normally would. It's going to go all the way to June. Now what's the plan as of July one? So we're going to be coming back to you without larger scale and that's more of a county wide look at least a North County look at what's going on. So that's also concurrent track. And just one last question. If you don't mind me. Thank you. I don't know if you have the information fire chief. Hey, Duke. And I'm always afraid I'm going to miss belly, miss, miss, pronounce your name. Hi, Duke. There we go. Can you confirm that the deaths in the camp were caused by overdoses? Or it's my understanding from speaking with camp residents in the council, they had to do with exposure to the weather and age and ailments. So to my knowledge, there's been four deaths since the camp has opened up. One of them was definitively a overdose. Three of them, we won't have the toxicology reports back for two to three months and that's through the county coroner. They did not appear outright to be an overdose, but there could have been concurrent drug use. And some of the subjects did have medical histories outside of a substance use, whether or not they were with exposure or because it was a secondary infection. We won't know that for a couple of months. So I can say that one for sure, there have been overdoses at the camp with the distribution of Narcan to the camp population. We're not getting activated like we would for some other places that did not have access to Narcan. One of the challenges with Narcan is the half-life of Narcan is much shorter than the half-life of an opiate. So you may have a short-term solution to that problem, but depending on what type of opiate you're using, whether it's heroin or fentanyl, that Narcan can wear off and then the person goes into respiratory rest again later on. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. And then I can't remember where I, I think I can't remember. I think I can't remember where I was, I think I can't remember where I was. I think I can't remember. I think I can't remember. I think I can't remember. I think I can't remember. I think I can't remember about the council member Myers. Just another numbers related, rationale for numbers related question for the maker of the motion with respect to the no more than 40 bed pilot. So the ordinances as drafted say up to 50 beds. And so I'm just wondering why 40 was used rather than 50. And then also with respect to the safe parking program, oh, but making a city parking lot available, the rationale for five, why not, you know, maybe seven or 10, a higher number if they could be accommodated. Just wondering what happened. So this is fitting within the safe parking program that's been established and the funding through with the county. And so that's why this rationale has been used for this small number. And with the no more than 40 beds, I'd be happy to increase that if somebody would want to make a friendly amendment to that. Okay, were you done? I would make the friendly amendment for consistency safe stick with 50 bed for the pilot. And then I just in response to the preference for smaller number of vehicles and fitting with the program, that's for onsite at churches. But if we're talking, I guess I'm wondering because we're talking about offering a city parking lot, which may have greater capacity if the program is willing to operate with a greater number than I'd just like to know that. It's actually less about site and more about operational kind of standards in terms of the amount of staff that they have available to monitor the sites and the kind of the ability to get around to all the different sites and actually interact with the people that are in the RVs and vehicles. So in trying to keep it small scale is really shifting that responsibility to the churches. And I think that in consideration of the city and the county property, it's adding an additional layer of staffing requirement that they would have to do. I just wanted to know that there was a rationale for that. Council member. Thank you. Suzy, I know we had issues with the 1220 when it was up and running. Do you have a sense of how it might run this time? I mean, people said it was too expensive or it was difficult for people to go in and out a lot of times because there'd be a shuttle. There was a lot of criticism from the folks who stayed there. I'm not saying we shouldn't do it. There's certain people who will go there and be I think relatively safe and secure. How's it gonna be? How do you envision it being run any differently than last time? I think it'll be run in a very similar way. And I think that while there are challenges at the beginning of the program, that is true for any program that you initiate in terms of as you're establishing a community and building community, that you'll run into issues with folks who may or may not agree with the behavioral norms that you're expecting. I think towards the middle, towards the end of the program, there was in large part community acceptance and appreciation for the program model and so I think we also have a better understanding with our community of folks experiencing homelessness as to what that program would look like and there will be less kind of misunderstanding as to how people can fit in. So I expect that there will be a high level of utilization and there will be people that don't fit into the program. What I will remark on is that while we're having some challenges filling the beds at the Laurel Street program, the VFW has been consistently full through the winter shelter season, which is pretty different than we've had seen in previous years. So really, previous years you'll see the population or the capacity kind of ebb and flow based on weather. So really cold, really rainy days, you'll see it at full capacity. Otherwise people start flooding out into the community. We have not seen that this year by virtue of changing it to a reservation system, doing the shuttle service. And so if that model is translated to a model where you actually have an individual tent, I think that will be attractive to a whole nother demographic of folks who might not necessarily wanna access the typical shelters. Thank you. The count in the current Ross Gateway camp, how has that been done? I've done it, my own cursory ones and I've come up with more than 100. So I'm just wondering how y'all did that. Yeah, it's a very, very challenging subject trying to figure out how many people are sleeping there versus how many people are utilizing that space during the day as well. And so most recent conversations have really moved towards having the community, the camp council really helping us to determine who there is sleeping and who of those folks that are sleeping are interested in engaging with the city and the council on shelter alternatives. So this week we are gonna be presenting a survey and the camp council has offered to help us engage. We really need that help in kind of developing a more cooperative process. So in addition to that, what Chief Hayduk talked about was actually getting that site survey done so we can ensure that we are engaging with people in each individual tent. There are tents that are being used for storage. I can personally attest to that. So it is very challenging. I think every day is a different situation. I've been out there on warm and clear days where there are hundreds of people there. And I've been there on rainy and cold days where everybody's in their tent and it's impossible to know how many people are there. So it's gonna take some additional time but I do think what we also are hearing from the camp council and the residents is there is a significant difference in the number of people sleeping there versus the people that stay during the day. Okay, and thank you. The moving to the table of the discussion, what's the timeline on that? The timeline that the project charter scope, the project charter people are gonna get back to the council and because I don't support that on the Facebook right here. Yeah, so I don't have the project charter in front of me and Lee can maybe contemplate that a little bit further but as it stands, I think that they're really the intentionality was to do a significant amount of engagement with stakeholders across the community first. Go ahead. The project charter anticipated coming back to the council in the August timeframe. I will say for the amount of outreach that is involved with that as well as the consultation with, for example, the Parks and Recreation Commission and or the Planning Commission and others, that is a very aggressive timeline. Usually something of this sort we would take an extended amount of time. We have some of the drafts that Tony put together and we can use those as a starting point but really we want to engage the community and figure out what is right for us and how can we make this ordinance fit our situation? When is the Laurel Street, excuse me, and the BFW closing? So they have been funded through June 30th. And we're talking August here and so what's gonna be that interim and if we're sort of muzzling another transitional encampment, how are we gonna compensate? So as Tina mentioned, the question of alternative shelter capacity is really wrapped up in this heaping cash RFP process. So we had intended on coming back to council in April as to the feasibility of opening an interim year round shelter for up to 100 beds. That proposal, which is part of the joint action plan is really intended to replace the beds at the BFW and the Laurel Street program. We'll also know more about that process could have attracted many other different operators, nonprofits that are interested in providing shelter in our community. We also propose so we do not know what the outcome of that process is as of yet. Hopefully we'll know pretty soon. Once we have that information, then we can do a gap analysis and much like you're talking about see if there's additional things that we need to explore but really the intentionality is to go from kind of what we have right now on an emergency basis to this interim year round shelter. And then I also wanted to mention in addition to what Lee was talking about for us to collect six months of pilot program data actually gets us out to October. So I do think in addition to concerns about the urgency of how quickly we can turn something around with regard to engagement, we also wanna make sure that we're looking at data from this pilot and really capitalizing on the fact that we are taking the time to engage not only with our community of homeless individuals but with our neighborhoods as well and thinking about outcomes from the client perspective and the neighborhood perspective. So that would actually push us out to October and so it's just something to consider. I just have a brief comment. I feel that with the transitional encampments language it's been often referred to as one of many options I struggle with trying to understand how that is the presumed policy that we're gonna pursue if that would just be one of other options. Do you know what I mean? I think, because what I heard from sort of the other part of the presentation in terms of the process is really understanding that scope, what's available, what's possible, getting community readiness, understanding sort of what would work well and where and how and the data to support and evaluate, et cetera. So it's hard for me to reconcile if we're presuming the solution before we're actually going through the process. And you're talking about the charter there. I'm talking about the transitional encampment which includes the charter as the process. Yeah, so with regard to the pilot transitional encampment or safe sleeping and storage program and the outreach that we are conducting at the encampment, there is a strong affinity to move into a structured encampment program from folks that we're hearing. I think where we have challenges with our continuum of care with regard to sheltering is, for lack of a better word, really the barriers that we people experience with even indoor facilities, dormitory style facilities. And so what we're hearing is kind of these questions around, do we have access to a greater level of privacy? And also the community building, that's part of this kind of self-government model is something that I think would be very attractive to the gateway encampment residents. And then ultimately just diversifying our portfolio is gonna be critically important. And we just don't have that kind of program now. So it would also benefit our greater homeless population as well. I mean, I'll just briefly say, I think come July 1st, we'll have a whole bunch of need in terms of planning and strategy to go into place because a lot of our shelter space will go offline. So I am interested in going through a process to get a better understanding of what's feasible, what our needs are, how to meet those needs. Similar to as was described, that to me makes a really great sense. And I think we could adequately do that within the timeframe. I'm a little bit hesitant in terms of putting kind of the cart before the horse in this regard personally. Okay, Council Member Myers? I'm wondering, Council Member Cummings, if you, the motion includes a lot in it. So there's parts of it that I definitely would like to support, but other parts I'm wondering if we could potentially, would you be amenable to, specifically to the Shelter Crisis Declaration? Can we, can I make a substitute motion that we deal with that as a standalone? Or? I think we could divide the question. I think we should go through each of them. And okay, that's what we want. Okay. Are we at that stage where we're prepared to do that? Okay. Okay. Is that, okay, so we'll go through the motion. Can I ask a question? I didn't catch the second to last bullet on your motion. That's not up here. Can you restate that for staff's benefit and for the public's benefit? That was from the staff recommendation to include new research and projects harder, including conducting a shelter feasibility, evaluation and unsanctioned encampment management plan. Okay, thank you. Add a friendly amendment to the motion to include within that needs assessment the policy alternatives and short intermediate and long-term solutions. And then to add that discussion to the scope of the two by two committee for consideration, which is essentially outlined in much of the presentation. Okay. One more before we go through. Okay, first we'll go Councilor Matthews and then Councilor. And we did add also expand the search for county locations, both public and private. And that was friendly meant by Councilor Myers. Okay, I just want to make sure the intent I'm so I'm concerned. I keep looking at the sentence in Dr. Leff's letter that was sent to us on Friday last week. With regards to the camp closure and the opening tied to the opening of the 1220 River Street. And then there's sort of a category, basically an and which is including the other 40 beds. And I'm worried that we're going to get stuck in a timeline issue again. And the sentence is very clear. I want to emphasize that the encampment currently poses a significant public health risk to the individuals at the encampment. As well as the general community, and it should be permanently closed as soon as possible. So I worry with tying that closure to yet another facility that we still don't have a site for that we don't have an operator for. And we could be slipping yet another month further on before all of that. And what I'm hearing is that the Laurel Street program may have some room. So I'm just worried, I spent all last week talking to a lot of the merchants in that center. And a lot of people are way down on their revenues. One manager told me she's probably going to have to lay people off. So there's real impact that's going on economically there. And I think it's very clear what the county health officer is advising us to do. So I'd like to see if we could maybe work on that and or and figure out a way to keep things moving, okay? Council Member Glover. Thank you. I would say that it's imperative that we keep the language and and emphasize it in fact. So that it is for sure not an and or but an and. So that we can not only make sure that we have the bed spaces for people to move into. But also, so we have spaces for them to move into because if we go and remove them from the camp or close the camp without having adequate amounts of shelter, we talked during our closed session about what that could mean. So we want to make sure that we're up to date with respecting people's human rights. We want to also make sure that we are doing what's right and offering the space that's available for them. I don't think based off of the diligent work that Susie and the rest of the staff has been doing. That the idea that we'll be able to set up a small pilot transitional encampment or safe parking program by the 17th of April, especially with the timeline that was suggested is unfeasible. And it seems more responsible to do it that way. So I would encourage the maker of the motion to keep the current language or be even more specific and remove the or language to make sure that we have those extra 40 beds before we close the camp. People, I'm thinking we should just go, let's go through it and start getting to it. So why don't we just go ahead and piece by piece kind of get a pulse to the council of that. I just asked the friendly amendment from Brown to change to 50 was accepted. Okay, so starting with the first bullet, we have opening a 60 bed non-profit managing encampment at 1220 River Street on or before April 17th, 2019. All those in favor, please say aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. I think, go ahead. I provide one line of clarification for council member Glover. The second bullet point, it's to open the transitional camp with 50 beds and or the slave sleeping in storage site. So the idea being that we would want to have those 50 beds open on or before April 17th and or in addition to those that transitional encampment, the slave sleeping in storage site. Okay, yeah, I mean, I can get behind that and I'm thinking for the clarification. I just want to make sure that the or doesn't get in the way of us being able to offer those now 50 beds. But either way, thank you for clarifying. It's all good. So- Can I ask a question? Susie, is there any reason why we can't have like an option? Because I'm just worried about the tabling the transitional encampment conversation. We have two pilots, is that an option for a second pilot if we get the 40, go with another pilot? I would just highly recommend trying to tackle this first pilot rather than trying to pile on another. We're going to put out more people than we have space for. I think that remains to be seen in terms of who is there and kind of accessing the space for sleeping. We'll know more about that. But generally speaking, based on the intensive outreach that we are doing out there, this 100 beds should be plenty in terms of capacity. In terms of folks that have readiness to move into shelter and wanting to kind of access the services that we have available. So I'll just say that I have concern with that date. I'm absolutely open to considering it for July 1st as we're starting to look at that holistic package. But for me it seems accelerated and there's a lot for us to do in terms of bridging expectations, community outcomes, and for me just personally to understand that. So I just don't feel comfortable with the accelerated timeline personally. So we'll be voting against, but I'm 1 to 7. For one point of clarification, because I'm thinking it's late and I might have misheard this. Bullet number two does not suggest we're opening both types of programs at the same time. It's either a transitional encampment or I'm not sure why there's an end. So I just want to make sure I understand the intentionality around that. Or a safe sleeping and storage site on or before April 17th. With the idea that when we go out to the community and ask about interest in either siding or operating this encampment, we may not yield results that we're looking for in terms of the structure that I think is required for our community. I have great faith that we have people that might be able to do this. The safe sleeping and storage site is I think there's more potential for us to do that very quickly because it really is offering a secure environment. And quite frankly, it's a much lower barrier program. So I think over this next week we really need to understand siding and operational capacity for transitional encampment, but also be poised to offer the safe sleeping site instead of if it comes to that. Okay, and so this is something that's going to come back to us next week, correct? Yes, it's your March 19th meeting, so if you're having a meeting, we figure there's urgency, we'll piggyback on. Okay, so I'll go ahead and support it to come back on the 19th with more information at this time. Can I ask, what is a safe sleeping and storage site? So I have a slide on that. It's where they go and they sleep and then they store the stuff during the day and they just go there to sleep. Yeah, so it's a dust to dawn program, I'm sorry, I'll just describe it. So it's a dust to dawn program which provides an opportunity for safe sleeping. It's typically there's programs in Eugene that actually have kind of a more permanent type of facility. What you see in other locations is you're utilizing space that's otherwise used during the day for other programming. So it actually opens up our options a little bit as well in terms of utilizing parking lots for instance. But it basically is a rest stop right to sleep program. You're providing onsite storage as well. One of the added benefits is that you provide storage potentially for folks that are not using the safe sleeping area, thinking about types of sites. It's basically the same sites as we are looking at for transitional encampments. So for the second bullet, we have opening the small scale no more than 50 beds, six month pilot and transitional encampment. Ani, could you put the motion back up? Why don't you ask if there's anything else people want to pull out and then we can. Okay, that's a good, okay, good call. So is there specific items and then we'll try to vote on all of that we agree on that people want to pull out at this time. I am going to pull at number three for conversation afterward. Closing the gateway encampment, okay. Adopting the revised shelter ordinance, crisis separation, sorry. Okay, so we'll pull the adopting the shelter revised crisis ordinance. I would pull the to table, move to table discussion. Okay. And the remainder is the same as we see it presented essentially with a couple of the additions that were the friendly amendments. Okay, so we'll go ahead and vote in one motion. On returning on March 19th with recommendations or locations for a interim space, either a transitional encampment or safe sleeping or storage site to be potentially implemented by the 17th. So then we'll have that discussion then to provide a minimum of one week notice to gateway encampment sleepers and day users as to close your date, to move to direct the staff to return to council on or before April 9th with a citing and operator recommendations for the pilot program. To implement the project scope of the transitional encampment charter, per suggested timeline, incorporating safe parking to ensure deliberate and inclusive community process. And move to have the staff identify one city parking lot for the utilization of association of faith community's safe parking program to host up to five vehicles per night and return to council on March 26th for approval. And then incorporating the search for county lots, the motion language around establishing a more holistic needs assessment, policy alternatives in short, medium, and long term solutions. And to add that to discussion for the two by two committee with the county. And I think that covers what we're about to talk about. Can I ask for one point of clarification? I thought I heard vice mayor Cummings also, but I don't see it up there. The adoption of the shelter crisis declaration. That was pulled. We're going to have further conversation about that. Okay, so that was pulled. We'll talk about that next. Is that seen clear? Yes, just on the county locations. I specifically said both public and private. Okay, okay, okay. Any further concern polling questions? Okay, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. Good suggestion. Thank you, councilmember Matthews. Okay, so we'll go ahead and with the first bullet that was pulled was closing the gateway encampment to coincide with the opening of the 1220 River Street program and pilot transitional encampment or safe sleeping and storage site. Councilmember Meyers, I believe you wanted to address this one. Yeah, I would just again request that we tie it to the River Street opening on April 17th. I think it's too much to ask to not. I think I just think it's too much to try to try to get another facility open at the same time. If we can, that's great, but I just can't agree with the word and in there. I mean, both those things try to be achieved and by the by April 17th. I show your concern in that regard. Okay. Any other discussion? Just just going to say I support it. Okay. So all those in favor please say aye. Aye. Aye. Those opposed? No. No. So that passes with councilmember Brown, Matthews, vice mayor Cummings, Crone, Gleaver in support and councilmember Meyers and myself against. Okay. And then the last was. Just two. There are two more. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, two more. So to table the discussion on transitional encampment and safe parking ordinance amendments until the subject is contemplated in the project charter scope. My sense is we're just not going to find the space and what we're going to have is many people from the gateway camp are going to be sleeping other places unless we have one other low barrier site that identified and we're seeking to get it up and running before the closure of even, you know, the vets, VFW or Laurel Street. I mean, if we can get another one up by then by June, I think it would, I just don't think we have enough space right now. So do you are you proposing that we move forward with adopting the ordinance? Are you proposing that you don't support this and will not vote? No, I don't support this particular ones. I'm just making the case that we shouldn't be tabling it unless we identify another space. As I said before, maybe two options rather than just one option. So the alternative would be to adopt it tonight. Essentially, I would like to see us with the intention of not just one of the safe sleeping or storage sites or transitional encampment. I'd like to see us get to another 50 beds. Council Member Brown, sorry, we'll go over the line. We'll start with you, Council Member Brown. So while I agree with Council Member Crohn's sense of the need and the desire to get some of these pilots or transitional encampments, whatever we want to call it, up and running more quickly to accommodate those who may be displaced, who will be displaced, ultimately. I also know that we've reiterated and reiterated that all of this is contingent on finding sites and operators. And so if adopting an ordinance tonight or moving the ordinance tonight and coming back for second reading, I assume it wouldn't happen as an emergency ordinance, we're, if not doing that, I'm trying to make sure that I say this correctly. If doing that would get us that additional encampment, that additional pilot, then I would be all for doing it. But I don't think just simply saying that we're going to, because we have the ordinance, we're going to make it so, is reflects reality. We just, we don't have operators, we don't have sites. And what I am, if I could clarify what I think I heard y'all say is should an additional pilot be possible, that could happen without an ordinance in place. So we're not precluding an additional pilot, should it be doable? Yeah, no, that's absolutely correct. Even though we're tabling the discussion until August, we could still be here. Yeah, you don't, you don't need the ordinances to explore additional shelter options from. Explore or actually implement? Implement, explore and implement. Okay, so given that information, you're fine with it. Okay, okay, so do you want to vote on that one? Sorry, okay. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. And then I think the last one is the conversation around the Shelter Crisis Declaration or expansion of existing shelter crisis language. So I just, I won't be able to support the motion. I received a lot of, a lot of correspondence on this and some of the, the language has been heavily revised and I understand the intent about it. I've talked with staff about it. But it's, it's a document that's causing a lot of concern in the, in the community, especially around things that people think of as fairly standard process, which is CEQA and the Coastal Act. So I'd like to just postpone, if we can, I'd like to make an alternative motion to bring that back to us on March 9th with some proposed revisions in an attempt to get the community to understand the purpose of the resolution. It's probably the one thing that I got the most comments on. It's a fairly, and as we've said, we have an existing resolution in place. As far as I understand from talking to staff, our existing resolution will allow us to do all of these things. It sounds like, and I think, I think I would, yeah. So I would make an alternative motion that we postpone or refer this to our March 9th meeting and consider further revisions to the document. Okay. Let's move clarification on that date. March 19th, March 19th, it's midnight. So we have an alternative motion to postpone the conversation around it. I'll second that to feel like there's more that I need to understand about that. And again, feel that we'd be happy to revisit it, but it's a little bit fast in regards to bringing the community along, understanding the different components and some of the unintended or just sort of consequences either way with it. That I'd like to know more about. Happy to discuss it more on March 19th if that's the will of the council, if not, I'll say I did second the motion. I feel basically comfortable with this, but I'm also comfortable putting it off for one week because I think it's important that particularly the two of you have the chance to get your questions answered and talk to community. I also have talked with staff. I understand the intention, but I think a week of clarity is probably a good move. So, any further comments? It's covered by Councilman Matthews. Okay, so we'll vote to accept the substitute motion. That would be correct. Okay. And then vote on the substitute motion. And then we'll vote on the substitute motion if it's accepted. No, I'm not. You could just. Okay. All those in favor of the substitute motion to revisit this with an edited version on March 19th, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Nay. Okay, so that passes with Councilmember Brown, Matthews, Vice Mayor Cummings, Councilmember Myers and myself in support, Councilmember Glover and Councilmember Crone voting against. Is that it? No. We got one more. No. Councilmember Matthews. Not on this immediate motion, but we had quite a few comments from the residents in the river neighborhood, upper ocean price, Falker, Tannery, about some requests they made very short term, but they felt very strongly to make the pathway more usable and to protect the impact on the neighbors. So, I wanted to put forth the, I don't know if it's a motion, I asked about the feasibility of carrying out those because they are seriously impacted and maybe it's just putting it off for a month, but I don't know who I'd ask about. Maybe, Tony, is that you? I take their circumstances and their requests seriously. Yeah, I think is the primary concern just number of people on the path and just path being blocked or what is the main concern? Well, one was, as I understand it, pulling back the location of the porta-potties and the sanitation and then screening off the path really the neighbors submitted some diagrams of how it might be achieved. It was the movement of the boundary fence. Yeah, the offering the boundary fence just to protect that area. Yeah, yeah, we can coordinate with the team, public safety, the police department as well and yeah, look for some potential solutions this week. Okay, then I will also move that we direct staff departments as necessary to implement some very short term improvements to protect the, to separate the encampment from the river walk and protect the feeling of safety of public access along there. Thank you. I'll second that. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that passes unanimously. I just wanted to add that there'll be some measures that we'll have to take in between now and the April 17th in addition to that just to be able to address the public safety concern just for your information. Like for example, the vector control implementation, the, I think working with the fire department to create space and some of those things. So they'll just have to be some measures that'll have to be taken just to make it address the issues that come up just for your information. These seem just logistical. Yes, yes, but I just want to make you aware of that. Did you have something to add? I just, I don't want to, I just want to, so council your expectations are aligned appropriately. So we're coming back to you Tuesday a week from today. We have to have our agenda packet out on Thursday then which means we have tomorrow to put all of this together. So we will try our best, certainly, but you might expect a little more detail actually coming. The staff presentation has been happening, but we will do our best to just, so you know what we're working with. Okay. I started coming and then I had a comment. But it is possible also to dribble stuff out to us. Well, or, you know, sometimes there's a place in an agenda and then material is. Yes, it certainly can the day of, but what we do whenever you are afforded a piece of information, the community simultaneously is afforded that piece of information. So it just require a lot of updates to the packet in SIR, not insurmountable, but we will, we will try our best to get you as much as we can as soon as possible while maintaining that transparency with the public. Thank you. Yeah, I just had a quick question around whether there would be feasible, whether it would be feasible during this time when a number of these tents are going to be moved and more space is going to be created around them. For that to also be used as an opportunity to get some of the excess of trash that's been mentioned there to get that out as well. Yes. Yes. And that's what I was getting at to just improve overall conditions, sanitation conditions, emergency access. Some of these issues that the fire chief noted again to make it better for the individuals living there and for emergency personnel to get there. And again, to just make it safer sanitation and emergency. Yes. Yes. And I'll just add, I recognize that we have a number of issues impacting our community and this has dominated a lot of our staff time. I'd like to understand what we're not able to get to as a result and or if there is a need for the council to consider any type of consultant support or additional support to help maintain the work and move forward in a thoughtful and productive way that helps meet our needs, but also address the other many issues that the city has and needs that the city has for us to address as well. And so just something to consider to bring back to us ideally at a future time, given that we've now added another really urgent timeline to your workload. All right, so with that. And we just again thank our staff for just an amazing job. Yeah. 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UC1EEMoMgwhJE2_oGwK1kcsw	Art and Sprituality - 6	"Hussainiun" is a series of episodes which look at the various forms of Islamic art (calligraphy) and their importance by conducting numerous interviews with the best Islamic calligraphers around the world. You can watch IMAM HUSSEIN TV using following methods: Web-Site: www.imamhussein.tv Facebook and YouTube: @imamhussein3tv Android and iOS App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=imamtvapp.com https://appsto.re/us/GhT97.i Satellite: Hotbird 10949 V Galaxy 11898 V 105.01356	[ "Hussein", "Hossein", "Hussain", "Karbala", "Shia", "Shiette", "Religion", "Debate", "Islam", "Shirazi", "ISIS", "Islamophobia", "Judaism", "Christianity", "Torah", "Bible", "Quran", "Love", "Peace", "2016", "Sunni", "Asia", "Africa", "USA", "Britain", "Australia", "North", "America", "Canada", "Brazil", "Belgium", "Europe", "Italy", "Abrahamic", "Muhammad", "Mohammad", "violence", "Divine", "World", "Church", "Mosque", "Synagogue", "Shul", "emotions", "top", "foreign", "vevo", "education", "academic" ]	2017-10-13T13:00:08	2024-02-05T16:45:30	1,319	pCn7qyLF2VM	Even if you were not a big fan of art, and even if you were not attracted to the art of carpet weaving, you would without a doubt come across some amazing rocks that represent the name of the family of Hakiki. When you visit the Holy Shrine of Imam Riva, peace be upon him, or the carpet museum of Imam Riza's Holy Shrine, watching these small windows make many questions come to one's mind, one of which is, where does the family name of Safadar Ziyad Hakiki come from, and how did his family build themselves a reputation and gained such high rank among the artwork representatives in the Holy Shrine? In addition, how is it possible that they would go through such big trouble and non-stop work for years to get their works without anything in exchange to the Holy Shrine of the 8th Imam of Shia Muslims and Imam Rida, peace be upon him? In the Holy Shrine of Imam Riva, I spent most of my time in the Holy Shrine of the 10th Imam of the Holy Shrine. I spent the whole day in the Holy Shrine of the 3rd Imam of the Holy Shrine of Imam Rida. My father was one of the previous residents of the Holy Shrine of the 10th Imam of the Holy Shrine. I myself worked with my father under the name of Al Aghmand, and I also worked with Nassi Dori in Al-Dawiristan and in the province of Hunaristan, with Isfahan, who was a former teacher at the time of movement and the foundation of which was in the capital of Ustad-e-Sahabhadari. And one of their best students, Mr. Javadir Rostameh Shirazi, who was the founder of the school. And in those classrooms, we, Mr. Isabaadari, taught us a lesson that was very important. Because Mr. Isabaadari created the foundation. I can say that we have never been able to create a foundation in the field of the school. We have never been able to create a foundation in the field of the teacher's class. And they always have this lesson in their hearts that they should be created. I was then appointed as president and I was appointed as president in the field of the teacher's class. I was busy with my work with an Italian life that I came to teach the students and the children of the history of the school. And in that time, it was very good that in the children of the history of the history of the capital and the documents of the history of the school were published. And also the original documents that were in the history of the school were very important to me. After six years, six and a half years, I went to Farhangi and then to Farangonar I was appointed as president in the field of the teacher's class. It was very important to me that the teacher's class was published as a friend of mine. And the teacher of that class was my brother, the teacher of the Kulamali Khan Saftarzade Hayiqi who in his service was the head of the art department of the teacher's class and the teacher's class. And this is the main difference in the art department of the art department of Ziba. It was published for the National Assembly in that time that that difference was historical and now, in the field of Iran, of course, it is still not in the field of art. The truth is that Haji Saifullah, Saftarzade Hayiqi, his father and brothers are among the Isfahani artists who have dedicated all of their life to the art of carpet weaving to make a number of special fitted carpets and devote them to the shrine of the Eighth Imtalibullah man, Al-Imamrullah, peace be upon him. Whoever follows the path of love and passion must know that the sky is the only limit. He will not reach the end of the path unless he has a strong will and determination and possesses characteristics such as humbleness and unconditional surrender. This is the path that Haji Saifullah can, has chosen to take when he was a child. The path he chose led him to meet with grandmasters such as the late master Isa Baduri and end up teaching at the school of art in the province of Isfahan. He has spent his life spent working non-stop to renovate the historical sites in the form of some key threats. I came out of Hunaristan and I started to create the historical sites that I had seen in the past. I also created the historical sites that I had seen in the past. I worked on them from one meter to 40 meters in different sites. I worked on them to make sure that every job was more reliable than any other job. I did everything I did to make sure that no one else was involved. I was a child and my job was at home. I had a passion for my father's work as well as after that in Hunaristan. I worked on the historical sites. I always thought that the historical sites that are in our city are the result of what they are. As a result, I was able to create the historical sites in our city. They were really important. They were really important and I was able to assess the historical sites that were in our city. I was able to examine the history of the city and the context of the historical sites that were in our city. I worked on them from the time that we were in our city. If you ever came across the works of art of master fatal law can you must pay attention to the visual features and the Equizitness of his artworks for they will without a doubt make you gaze and when you start at this works You must think of the fact that these rugs represent more than colors threats and designs Rather these works of art represent the unconditional love of a servant who seeks the pleasure of his Imam These works represent the unconditional love that an artist possesses the love which Transfers through the rap and wet of the lorax to create an Equizit piece of art and be later gifted to the shrine of the beloved imams peace and blessings be upon them These words are created by a man who believes that the art of carpet making is a part of his existence And he believes that if he his works not meant to decorate the shrine of his beloved Imam then they are useless with no value Even if you don't have an eye for art to realize the link between love carpet and the infallible imams You will still read or hear about the family of Safa the Raza de Hakiki The benefactors who gifted some of their invaluable work to the museum of Imam Riza's holy shrine The arts of this is the honey family are displayed for the public in a special place Where many pilgrims of Imam Riva's holy shrine can see them This is the city of love which is dedicated to the art of the Raza With the art of the master of the past Master of art, master of art, master of art And some of the great works of art And other works of art that are dedicated to Imam Riva's holy shrine Well, everyone goes there and sees it from the outside. It must be the first thing that comes to mind from that great young man. And then, if you want to say hello, it is decided that the gift will be given to the non-believer. You can be proud of it for the future. We have given this gift to the non-believer, and we are proud of it for the future. He states that the art of carpet weaving, which runs in the family of Safhadar Zadeh Haqqei, has always been merged with spirituality. This is the reason why Zadeh had faith in Allah. He has constantly been trying to come up with new desires and get inspired off of the Iranian religious architecture and utilize his knowledge and imagination to immortalize the religious boldings in the form of rags and protect them against the passage of time and natural disasters. Every single one of his artworks represents a historical site with millions of colorful threads knitted together. The historical sites of the province of Isfahan in Iran have been embodied in the rags made by Haqqei, Zadeh and Safhadar and they have been transferred to the holy city of Mashhad and the shrine of Al-Imam-Rirah, peace be upon him. Only this art form could embody all the ancient boldings of the province of Isfahan and display them at the holy shrine of Imam-Rirah, peace be upon him. I can say that it took more than a year or two or three years to complete the work and that there was no other work related to love and to Hazrat Reza. Of course, in the past, we certainly had the means to finally get rich, God willing. We also pray for our families that we will be able to get rich and that we will be able to live in harmony with our parents and our family. God willing, our families will be able to live in harmony with each other and be happy with each other. Hajj Fadelullah Khan is like a person who has passed and sweared every bomb in the road and now he is close to the ultimate destination. Moreover, he is satisfied and happy that his rugs are displayed at the holy shrine of Imam Ali bin Muser, peace be upon him. Now he can rest assured for his rugs have been immortalized. May God be pleased with him. May God have mercy on his people. This is my wish. Peace be upon the master of the universe. Ali ibn Muser ibn al-Murtabah. May Allah bless him. We hope that he will be able to tell us about his age and the name that we have left and the great people that we had in our dreams. I wish to wish them well. O Imam Riga, although you were named the estranged that you live in the hearts of the people of this country and you will always be their master, we will always be in grief, as are those flying over your shrine and men with the angels surrounding your shrine and declare with the rest of the pilgrims that our wishes will be granted and we will never return empty handed.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCn7qyLF2VM", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }
UC16Ne7V6Fe_bp1omKLiymFg	IS THE WORST DATE BEING LEFT HANGING WITH A $200 TAB? EP. 2	We take to the streets of Philadelphia to find out one thing: what is the wort date you've ever been on? Is a bad date a deal-breaker for you or is there a chance at redemption? If you can't rely on your date to show you a good time you can always Feel the Fun with Monaco Cocktails. Feel the Fun with Monaco Cocktails! Offering a variety of full flavor, spirit-based canned cocktails, Monaco packs a punch with 2 shots in every can. From Hard Lemonades to Margaritas, there’s a Monaco for everyone. Find Monaco canned cocktails at retailers near you! Must be 21+. Drink Responsibly.	[ "wallo on the streets", "worst date ever", "worst date ever story time", "worst date story time", "bad date", "bad dates", "man on the street", "man on the street interviews", "street interview", "street interview funny", "street interviews in america", "philadelphia", "philly", "monaco", "monaco cocktail", "wallo 267", "Wallo", "Wallo 267", "Gillie", "Gillie Da King", "Million Dollaz Worth of Game", "Million Dollaz Worth of Game Podcast", "Music", "Podcast", "gillie and wallo", "gillie and wallo adventures" ]	2023-08-03T23:30:06	2024-02-05T06:43:43	165	Pc1LFuA3dI4	What's up, everybody? This is Walo on the Street brought to you by Monaco. This is the morning of the Ghillie Fest. I'm going to be out here asking people the simple question. What was your worst day ever? I'm telling you that date you went on and you was like, oh man, this is not it. This is not going to make it through the whole thing. Oh man, I'm not feeling this. I'm telling you, you wasn't even that long into the day. You're like, I'm ready to go home. I don't want this. I want this to end right now. But listen, we're going to go ask people. Come on with us right now. This is brought to you by Monaco. Walo on the Street, the morning of the Ghillie Fest. We will go talk to some people. Come on. What's the worst date you ever went on, Steve? Cool. Worst day I've ever been on? Probably back in the day. Moriarties. We're having wings and she just left me with the bill and like five drinks on the counter. She left you with the bill and five drinks on the tab? Yeah, first date. I mean, I didn't really know her is what it is, but I've been blessed with some pretty good dates. So that's the worst one. I'm sure you got it. I'm sure you got one. Listen, man, that was the worst date, man. Worst day you ever been on? You got left with the tab. How much was the tab? Oh, it's like close to 200. Close to 200? Yeah, she was ordering some weird shit in Moriarties. Listen, man. I just wanted the wings. I went to the movies. Okay. And he didn't have his ID to get in. Hey, you needed an ID to get in. What were you always going to see? It was a scary movie, but it was like a late night one. And that was the worst date just because he had his ID? Yes. It was the worst date because he didn't have his ID. And then he was mad because he didn't have his ID. So instead of taking me somewhere else, he just smoked. And he sat on a car and smoked. And that was it, and you was just mad. I was mad as hell. Why you didn't just tell me to take you home? I did. Did he take you home right away or he just stalled it out? No, he stalled it out. Did you ever call him again? Yeah. Oh, that was the worst date, man! Listen, it wasn't the worst date. That was my man, so I had to like, lug it out. Oh, well, look. How long have you gone last after that? A couple of years. How you listen? So did he take you on dates that was better than that afterwards? Yeah. So that wasn't even a worst date. I don't even know what she's talking about. Well, he was supposed to. I asked him how much he had left. He said he only had $60 a spear. And I was like, all right, well, let's go to this seafood place that I, you know, that I know of. You know, get something to eat from. So he was like, yeah, let's go to this joint. So I was living in Delaware. So we went to go sit down or whatever. We ordered the food. And then when it came time for the bill, he was like, who paying for this? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. He looked at you like he said he ate it. He's like, who paid for this? Did he eat? He really threw that? Yeah, he threw that. He's like, who paid for this? What's going on? Is you paying? Because I don't know what's going on. I ain't got no money to pay for.	{ "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc1LFuA3dI4", "license": "Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" }

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