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Well, good morning everybody. Nice to see you. A very belated happy new year since this is their right of 2022. It's also our first meeting with our newest member, Tamsa Neely from the library board of trustees. So for her benefit at least, I think we should go around the horn as it were and just introduce ourselves so she gets to know a wee bit more about us than just our names. So, since I'm Gavin away here already, my name is Tony Butterfield. I'm currently the chair of the personnel board. I'm also a semi retired professor from UMass in the Eisenberg School of Management. And I do want to point out, Tamsa, that our meetings are much less formal. Oh, that's good. And you can call me Tammy. That's my nickname. It's easier. I'll just say one word about myself. I've been on the board since 2012. And I was a logical person. We actually call each other by a person. Yeah, Tammy. So I just wanted to say just a few words. I've been on the board since 2012. And I was a logical person to take over Chris's long standing job here. I am also a retired librarian. I was a library director for many years. So that's a little bit about myself. Welcome. We're glad to have you. Thank you. Glad to be here. I'm Charlie Sherpa. I represent the non union employees. And I've been affiliated with the town for the past 40 years. Right. Well, I'm Catherine Porter. I'm retired from UMass. And I've been on several different boards here in Amherst, but I don't even know how long I've been on the personnel board. I don't know that they've really been checking longevity. But this is a wonderful experience because we get to see the workings of the town in this very limited but important way. And that's about personnel who comes, who goes, and of course, concerns about salaries. So it's a good place. So welcome. Thank you. Hi, Tammy. I'm Rebecca. Tammy, do you spell your name? MMY or? MMY. That's my nickname. But officially I'm Tamsen. But it's easier for people to use Tammy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, my cousin is is Tammy. So I just I've only known one other Tammy in my life. So I think it's great. Yeah. So I'm Rebecca Woodland. I'm professor of education, leadership, and policy at UMass currently not not in the semi retired or retired realm, but I but I love my colleagues, Catherine and Tony from UMass. And yeah. And I'll just say like Catherine, I love being on this board. You're great people and really thoughtful conversations and dialogue and really thank Joanne for keeping us all organized and feeling good. Charlie's my neighbor. So you're going to see some interesting dynamics between Charlie and I. And I'm glad you're here. Thank you. Yep. And hi, Tammy. I'm Joanne. I'm the staff liaison to the personnel board. Also the HR manager here with the town have been here for five years now. Good. So welcome. Only five years. Yeah. I feel like maybe that's how long I've been on the board. I think you came on soon after I started. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We do have a looks like a visitor with us this morning. Ben Breger from Amherst College. You want to say a little something about yourself, Ben? Oh, sure. Yeah. Hi, everyone. My name is Ben Breger. I'm in the planning department actually with the town. I don't know. I just I saw this on the calendar and was curious to learn more about the personnel board and see what kind of how decisions are made. So I'm just here to listen. Thank you. All right. Well, nice to have you. And I do want to say something else about Catherine, which she doesn't often mention, but I think it's it says to do with her experience at UMass. She spent quite a number of years in the position that I think is pretty relevant to what the personnel board does at least now and then she was the ombuds person. And so from time to time, we get in the middle of the issues regarding, you know, maybe some differences and stuff that needs to get resolved. So Catherine is a wonderful person to be able to bring a sort of a good perspective, a good sort of neutral perspective to understand how folks are viewing things differently. So she's our ace in the hole when it comes to my best if you will. So following the agenda, which has been so nicely prepared for us, we've sort of gone through the call to order and the opening remarks and announcements. So officially, we're now in in the public comment period. Is there any public who want to comment right now? All right. Next item is reports and comments. And I want to call everyone's attention to a report that I think is quite relevant actually to the next bullet point on our agenda, namely update on employee retention. And I hope you've all seen it. I think it is, as I said, very relevant to that particular issue. It's the study that was done in the school system regarding supporting and retaining school leaders. If you haven't seen that, I think you should. I don't know, have you have you all seen that? It was actually in the paper, I think. But yeah, did we send it to the personnel board members? If it's not, we should. I don't believe I did. I can. You know, we're going to see where the town is on that issue. But I just see it as a hugely relevant issue. And it's a very thorough study. And I think there are some things for us to learn in that. Oh, I think the parallels with the issues facing new principals are similar to those facing new directors who come on board working for the town. And so personally, I don't know that there was a whole lot new in there. But it's a tough issue. And it's an issue I'm happy to say. I think the town is working on very hard. And the personnel board is very interested in that. It would be good to hear if Donna Ray has any sort of follow up or matching comments on some of the school issues that were raised. Do you know, Joanne, if Donna Ray has... I have an update too. She prepared that I will share with you whenever you guys want me to. Oh, I think we're already at item four, new business update on employee retention. So let's do it right along here. All right. So in our last personnel board, we discussed employee retention as a concern, particularly related to the turnover of reasonably newer department heads, health department, senior services, HR prior to Donna Ray. You know, the town is not alone in noticing higher rates of turnover. More and more workers are changing jobs, even careers as opportunities present themselves in the current market. The demand of talent is high nationwide. And there are many opportunities. That being said, the town of Amherst strives to be an employer of choice in Western Mass and to follow the best practices in terms of recruitment and retention processes. HR has added state interviews and more formalized mentoring as an approach to address the turnover concerns. Donna Ray did the state interviews. And during that process, one concern that seemed to repeat is related to the tendency for the public to critique people personally as individuals and not the ideas or policies. A method that we are considering to address this issue is to add some form of community agreement to our public meeting agendas. So for an example, language that Somerville uses is that the community agreement would state one, take space, make space so everyone can share their opinions and ask questions. Two, critique ideas, not people. Always be objective as possible and three, be polite. Additionally, that we're finding that the mentoring program for the new department has has been quite helpful and well received. Each new department head has been signed some form of mentoring. Each person is different as the mentoring needed depends on a particular person, their knowledge, skills, abilities and experience. In some cases, the department head has been provided with either an internal mentor or an external mentor or both. We have also realized that and utilized recent retirees and good standing to help out such as Barb Bills at the rec department helping Ray Harp. He calls his meetings with Barb Bills Jedi training. Angela Mills, our executive assistant to the town manager has offered her time and talents to this endeavor as well. Angela has formally helped two of our newest department heads to gain solid footing when they arrive. She's also helped Donna Ray informally. She combines professionalism and kindness in a way that is welcoming and so valuable as people start their new chapter in their lives. The feedback Donna Ray received related to the individualized mentoring approach is very positive and helps to set new employees up for success through an onboarding and mentoring process. The objectives of the mentoring program include increasing and improving employee engagement and reducing turnover, creating an in-house culture of communication, knowledge sharing and skill building. We've also, HR has also lined advice to department heads to ensure that they're aware of the mentoring initiatives. We've created a new hire checklist and put it on our website. It helps to ensure a smooth onboarding process from the IT needs to reminding department heads to sign a mentor, explaining that this mentor might be a manager or a supervisor or in some cases another department head. So now Donna also wants to address the school study. They did the qualitative study of principals. Their experiences as school leaders in the schools due to concerns about principal turnover in the district in hopes to support and retain their school leaders. The studies recommendations include similar efforts for a more formalized onboarding and mentoring support system. HR is closely reviewing this report for additional ideas to support efforts of finding and keeping the best leaders and employees in the town. And we will keep the personnel board updated on our mentoring and onboarding improvements. So that was what she had prepared on the update for retention. Great. Now I know this has been recorded, but it sounds like she's she gave you something in writing. I'm wondering if you could want me to share that as well. Yeah. Of course. I'll send it in an email. We don't, but comments from my colleagues? Yeah. Yeah. I forgot to say. I was a little stunned when I heard the school report that we have not there has not been intensive mentoring all along. This should have been happening years ago. It's embarrassing to think that one of the reasons that people may be unhappy in their position is that they could have used better mentoring should have been there. We should have been doing it here in this town. So at least now we are. But how do you control the comments? That seems to be the insidious part of this whole situation with the town and with the schools. It's very good to say be nice, say nice things, be polite. But we've got a town that's almost out of control when it comes to feeling that people can say the most hurtful, ugly things both in public and in private. And because it seems like a lot of what happens is essentially word to word behind closed doors, so to speak. So I think we're doing the right thing. And I hope the town continues to and I'm just stunned that we hadn't been doing it in a better way. So that's my reaction to both the school and the town. Yeah, my thoughts overlap with your somewhat, Catherine. One thing I was thinking is when the school district and Mike Morris hired a consultant to do the study, I wondered why the town and the school district wouldn't kind of think about this at the same time. I'm not saying we the town should have hired an external consultant, but it seems like almost all of our data gathering has been by anecdotal evidence by our Human Resource Director, who I adore, by the way. I'm just saying that, but on the town side, we seem to be doing things kind of anecdotally or not as systematically. And so I really appreciate the town hiring somebody. And then I just also think about, and this is Catherine, where I think it overlaps with what you're saying, is that we are in a culture in Amherst and then nested within the larger system and our society as a whole of really lack of civility and just unbelievably intense meanness. And I just think if we over focus on mentoring, let's see, I don't want to only focus on mentoring. Mentoring is for the person who's essentially being bullied or having is experiencing it. So it's like, oh, let's help the victim cope with. And I know I'm exaggerating a little bit to make my point, but so much in that report from the school district was about all these leaders, particularly women leaders, reporting that they are feeling that their gender is contributing to this lack of respect, getting comments about their age, their appearance, their eating habits. Like, oh, it's like, what kind of mentoring is, or what are we mentoring them to do? Take it? Accept it? So I just think we need to be thinking about what are we doing or saying to make sure that we are not bystanders to the bad stuff and that we are teaching all of our employees about civility and appropriate ways to disagree and so forth and so on, that doesn't put it all on the person in the position. Right. Okay. Thank you. Charlie, you got anything to add? Not really. I've lived it for 40 years. You're just finding out about it, but I think I mentioned it the last time, some of the problems we had in this community, but now I have nothing to add. All right. Well, I want to add to both Rebecca's and Catherine's comments. There was a little bit of sort of discussion about when it became clear that the number of women leaving these high-level positions was more than one or two. There was a little bit of a question is, should we do an outside study? And my reaction to that was, well, no, let's look into things a little more deeply. And we did do a second round of interviewing to those people who had left. You know, there's the traditional exit interviewing and I didn't do any of those exit interviews. I have in the past, but in some sense, they're kind of pro forma. Okay, this person is leaving. Now we need to try to figure out why. And so Donna Ray and I did some extra interviews. Everybody had already been interviewed. And then we went back to them to sort of probe a little more deeply. And I actually thought maybe since I don't work for the town, I might be in a sort of a more neutral position to learn what folks had to say. But I felt I didn't learn anything more or more concerning than we already knew about some of these departures. So at the time we felt, okay, well, we sort of know what the problems are. We just need to work harder at solving them. And one of them did see this mentoring issue. And I agree entirely that you're not going to solve all these problems with mentoring, although you should do mentoring way more deliberately than we had been. Mentoring is sort of speaking from personal experience and also some of the research I do. It's sort of, unless the organization makes a really big deal of it, it's kind of the last thing the manager, well, if I got time, I'll go spend with some time with my mentee. But first I got to do this, that and the other thing. And it looks like I'm going to have to cancel our session, you know, that we usually have it a couple of weeks because something more urgent has come around. I'd like to believe that we're now taking this way more seriously and that it will be helpful. I'm glad to hear that at least in one case we're bringing back some wonderful expertise of a retiree to help the new person in that position. There's one thing that Donna Ray didn't mention that I thought at the time and Paul, you're with us now because you seem to react to this pretty positively. Rebecca had described something I forget the label. I think it had the word consulting in it, but it had a way, it had to do with when the managers are getting together, is spending some time, I don't know, sharing problems with each other, talking how to help each other out. And it wasn't, okay, we got three minutes left for this weekly meeting. Let's talk about that stuff. It was a way more deliberate, we're going to spend some time talking about this stuff. And I think you might even have sent us some citations or some sources to learn more about this approach. And so, Mr. Paul, good morning to you. My first question is, did anything ever come of that? Have you been able to find enough time? Because the usual excuses were too damn busy solving, putting on fires, and dealing with a budget. Oh my God, how are we going to deal with this? So the other thing, and now we got to deal with this darn mentoring stuff. So where are you on that, my friend? Yes, so thank you. I think there's two things. One is on the mentoring thing, I think it's taking different shapes. I'm not sure how much Joanne has shared with you, but sometimes we look for external support for some people. We've contracted with people who are in the profession but outside the town who provide support. Sometimes it'll be someone who's been in the position before that we contract with and provide support. But also, I think very importantly, we've developed teams to support incoming department heads. I think that was the best, biggest lesson learned. And just, I think Angela in my office has taken a real leadership role on that and has proven to be the person with the time and the social skills to pull people together. And they feel really comfortable asking her questions. So that's been a really positive thing. For instance, she just took the new senior director and the new recreation director out to lunch. And they were sharing stories about how hard it is to hire people when you're brand new because they both had a lot of vacancies and there's still harbors when they got there. And they're like, we don't know how it really works in this town. And they were able to sort of share experiences at that, you know, both within the first six months of their employment stories. That was, that's an example of something. And they've appreciated, they've also written to Donna Ray saying how much they have appreciated that. In terms of the other piece of it, which is the sort of internal consulting group, we have not done anything on that. I have found that really, we have not been meeting in person. And I'm hoping that that will change. And I've just not broached that with the leadership team. So we have a leadership team, which is about eight or nine people that meets monthly. And then we have a department heads group, which is about 25 people and then meet quarterly. And those are the, those are the two sort of functional ways that we provide. And then I have one-on-one meetings with all the department heads obviously on either weekly or bi-weekly basis, depending on the department. So, but, you know, to be honest, Tony, we just, I have not, I really like the idea. But you're right. It's sort of like everybody, I've got an hour for this meeting. Let's get through what we have to get through and to usually about the budget or something or ARPA or something like that. So, and also the, in the leadership team, it tends to be super experienced people, people, and that's the, I've really not puzzled through how receptive folks will be to say, yeah, I'm going to participate in, in this full bore. We have younger staff who've taken on different roles like in the core equity team and things like that, where they're very interested and willing to, to try new things. But it's really on me for not saying, this is our agenda, here's what we're going to do. And I just haven't put the time into thinking like, how is this really going to work to benefit everybody? Well, I think I suggested last time, and I'll repeat it for, for Cammie's benefit. I think one of the rather easy solutions was for Paul to change from a 24-hour-a-day workday to a 30-hour a day workday. And because he's a pretty busy man and, you know, structurally in, you know, stepping back a little bit, he's probably got too many people reporting to him. Too many people wanting some of his time. The new hires especially want some of his time because they want some guidance. They want to learn, you know, how do you get things done around here and so on. And so it's a, it's a heck of a challenge. And I do say Donna Ray has taken on a big chunk of that. She really has made that a priority for her and, and she's really reaching out to people and intervening in certain situations as well. So that's been a huge help. Well, I'm glad to hear that because I don't think we specified this. And in some ways, if the mentoring effort really is happening the way we want it to happen, but I'm, and I think somewhere in the procedures manual, there's something about 90 days or 60 days or, but I think some interviewing from somebody like Donna, you know, like a week after being hired or two weeks after being hired to just touch base, how's this going? Going in the direction you're hoping new hire. And if it isn't, what can we do to make it go that way? Sort of intervening way early on before it's clear there's a problem or there's going to be a problem. So I just want to interject, Tony, when you said, in terms of mentoring, if what's happening, what we want to have happening, do we, the personnel board have anything written down about what we want to have happening? What I'm interested in is not doing things by default or off the cuff, but doing them by design, purposefully doing things by design and ensuring equitable access to whatever these great mentoring processes are. And maybe this is all written down somewhere, but maybe this is something that needs to go into the personnel procedures manual that this group has worked on before. That's there's a section on mentoring or there's a section on, I don't know what it might be called, but it might sort of prompt or force the articulation in explicit ways about what we mean by mentoring. I love that Angela is taking people to lunch. Does everybody get to go to lunch? Is it all based on Angela's personality? I'm not saying that shouldn't be, but how do we ensure that that's something that would happen even if Angela wasn't there? Or you know what I mean? I want things by design, not because, oh, it just happens in this moment because of these people, it works, you know? Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. And it has been done intuitively instead of by design. And it's sort of like to say, starting to skate a little bit, are we able to stand up on our skates by doing it this way? And that's like, okay, now we have a sense of what is needed. And honestly, I have focused on the department head level, but we don't really, you know, there's a lot of new employees that we're getting a million new employees, and they're all feeling the same thing probably. And I know HR spends the first day of every person's, you know, they spend a lot of time with them in their first or second day to say, here's how things work. But that's more about, I mean, Joanne, you do most of them. So just a cool stuff. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think something like this, I'm going back to Rebecca's suggestion of holding those discussions. It takes a lot of training, skill for perhaps a department manager to even know how to ask a question that will elicit people's opinions. And there has to be a lot of trust that when Joe says to his supervisor, you know, I've got this issue that Joe can trust and assume that comment will be taken, but there'll be no retaliation, et cetera, et cetera. So I love the idea that Rebecca has put forth and I can see that for Paul it's just a challenge to find the time to do that. But it isn't just a matter of throwing people around the table, the person who's conducting that dialogue really has to know how to ask the question and people have to trust that when they give a response that it won't face retaliation or discrimination. So it's a big picture of a big package to deal with. So throw that out. Are there comments, questions? I don't think, Rebecca, it's the personnel board's job to say this is how you should do mentoring. I think it's the town's job to say this is what we are doing about mentoring. And then we can look at that and say, yeah, great, but don't forget about this, don't forget about that. And to a certain extent, maybe it exists, maybe bits and pieces of it exist in different places and what needs to be done is pull it all together. Perhaps the report that Donna Ray prepared for us today is a good start on consolidating what actions are being taken and then maybe add some more specifics about mentoring in particular. So it might be nice to just have somewhere, we talk about mentoring exactly what it is and what are we doing about it where we can see and remind ourselves what we're supposed to be doing and check off whether we're actually doing that or not. I wanted to add an additional answer. Wait, Paul, I went here. Paul has a response, Tony. Yeah, I think you're right, Tony. I think what the agenda item for us would be, let's put together a mentoring, a designed mentoring program that we bring back to you at your next meeting. I'm volunteering Donna Ray to take this on, but also talked with the people who participated, some participated more than others. Like for the recreation director, we had the assistant town manager and the fire chief and Angela, I think as the mentoring team, but I think they had different roles. They took different paths and I think we were going to say, well, what path did you take? Why did you take that path? And then come up with a plan because I think it would be helpful both to the mentors, but also the mentee when we're recruiting to say, when you come here, here's what we provide for you because so many people show up and they get a desk in the phone and they say, here's how your phone works. And see you later. And they struggle. And I know that that has happened with our employees recently. And because we're like, thank God, someone's in that seat now, I don't have to do the support anymore. But I think let's take that on as a task and then deliver to you and for critical feedback. Okay. Good. Now, on behalf of my colleagues, let me offer our help in this regard. And that was the idea I mentioned a couple of minutes ago, not my idea, but this is sort of doing interviewing sooner than whenever it occurs, you know, as soon as a couple of weeks after somebody's on board. I'm ready to do any of that. If it would be helpful and I hope my colleagues on the board would be ready to do any of that, you know, we're just interested in how you do it. You know, is it working out for you? And, and how can we or the town be more helpful to to ease your adjustment into this new, into this new position. So I'm happy on your behalf colleagues on the personnel board to make work for us if we can be helpful. And of course, we'll put in our time and expect to be paid double time to do that task for us. And I would want a king size snickers and not a regular size snickers. Right. Oh, you don't want the fun size. You want the fun size, which is not fun. Hey, I have a t-shirt that says I'm not sure and I'm just fun size. The other thing is another observation thought I had. And this gets into sort of a well, not really a deeper issue. But it's sort of twofold. The first is, in my opinion, not all of this turnover has necessarily been bad. Yeah. I don't think all of these hires, well, if they were sort of bad decisions being made, it was to hire this person in the first place. You know, it was a bad fit from the get go. And when they left, it actually was good. This problem has been resolved because the person is leaving. Now, that suggests two things. We need to do maybe a better selection job than we've been. But there are always going to be mistakes. And the town has been working very hard to increase the diversity among its managers, and in particular, ad women. Where am I going with this thought? Oh, but I think all of these problems, all of these cases, represent bringing somebody in from the outside, somebody who wasn't already working in the town. And maybe we need to do a little better job, figuring out how to develop people to move into these higher level positions. It's sort of promote from within wisdom. In general, you're better off if you can promote from within, because at least the person is familiar with the system. And we know that person's strengths and weaknesses better maybe than somebody from the outside. So that I guess where I'm heading here is a topic we've talked about on and off before. And that is development of managers and future managers to move up in the organization. So I have no idea whether it was clear in all of these recent hires, and I'm defining recentism the last couple years, that it was clear there was no talent to move up to that position. And so we had to go outside. Or maybe we really wanted to make a hire to add some diversity into this department, or onto the, under the ranks of Amherstown employees. But I dare say some, well, actually, Mike, what I know about the reasons people leave, and this was evident in the, in the school report. And we know this is the town of Amherst is a is a tough town to work in. And so with people already on board, at least in theory, they know what they're getting in for, because they've been working here already, I think Charlie from time to time has sort of said, hey, why can't we promote from within? Why don't you know, we've got people, we're supposed to be developing them. You know, can we do a better job on that score? And I hope we can. I think we should, if we're not doing enough already, I don't know, Paul, whether you want to add anything to that, like you're off your guard, Tony, we're already doing this, or, yeah, maybe we should, you know, they in large organizations, and we're not that large, we may feel pretty large, but there are staffing charts and there are succession charts. You know, and if this director leaves tomorrow, who do we have that could step in? Not just, you know, for an interim but could fill that job permanently. And I'm happy to add another task to the HR folks, if we don't have that already, maybe we should. And if we're looking at at the folks sort of below that director's position, and don't see anybody who could do that, then why not? So if I can respond to that, Tony, so when I came here, I knew I'd prefer taking a job, I knew the department heads were really strong. But once I got here, what I realized was the seconds and commands were super strong too, they could be department heads in their own right in many other communities. And that's actually like for the police department, that's proven to be true. We have a lot of people from our force who become chiefs in other communities. So succession planning is a hot topic for us from the department's point of view. What happens typically is that the departments are very loyal to their staff. And so they that's where they want the succession to go. That is usually almost 100% of the time does not promote diversity in our community. And so that's why we always, every job has to be posted, that's under the town charter. So we always say it's an open process. But it is one of these things where there is some conflict in terms of diversifying the workforce, but and also promoting from within and we try to balance that as best we can. And the most recent example of that, for instance, is the police, the fire chief, there's a mandatory retirement age of 65 for the fire chief. He turned 65 in April, it's public information. I have asked him to stay on, we need special state legislation for him to stay on. But we've done a lot of consideration to what that looks like internally for the department and there's been some ranker from some staff members who are looking for change. But at this point in time, having Chief Nelson there as we build our out the crest program, I think is vitally important to have him participate in the development of that new department. But, you know, but we have had in the fire department at the leadership levels, the two assistant chiefs and the chiefs real clear conversations about what what's their leadership plan look like. For instance, you know, and the police and fire tend to have a much more rigid sort of hierarchy. Everybody knows how many years you've been on the force and what you've done and stuff like that. Yeah. All right. I'd like to jump in, Tony, you brought up a couple of things and I wanted to have an opportunity to respond or chime in on them. One is you, you lovingly offered our services to do interviews. If that were a thing and I just want to agree with that and with the caveat that that has to be by design as well. We need, we would need conversation about what questions we're asking. How are we asking them? Why are we asking them? This sort of goes to Catherine's point about you can't just get together with a person and I'm going to have a very different response as an employee if a senior semi-retired white man asks me questions versus Joanne is asking me questions. I'm just putting it out there for real. And unless it's, unless we're very mindful and by design how we're doing it, we're going to be comparing apples to oranges and not having any information that could be sort of generalized or inform our work going forward. So I just want to say, I don't want to be off the cuff about that. If we are going to do interviews, we need to have conversations about what those interviews are and how they're being conducted and where they're asked and so forth. The other thing I wanted to bring up was this issue of mentoring obviously is not new. It's not unique to Amherst. I mean, I just did a quick Google search. Various towns have mentoring plans. We could look at them. There's a statewide mentoring plan for schools, teachers and districts that I'm sure Amherst is referring to. So the idea that we would start from scratch and write down what we're doing to me is like, oh boy, you know, there's some lifting that's been done on this. Let's use some of the lifting. Yep. Yep. No need to start from scratch. Yep. And I agree that we shouldn't just willy-nilly start doing interviews, those of us on the personnel board without having some deliberate, focused questions and plan of attack if you will. So are we okay on this agenda item? I guess so, yeah. I'm ready to move on because Paul just said a magic word a few moments ago on the second bullet point under new business, which is status of new departments, DEI and Cress. So do we have something from Donna on that? Something from Paul? What's happening on these new departments? Did Donna give anything to you, Joanne? Yeah, I do. I do have an update. Again, it's a written prepared document. I can share it with you too, but I'll just read from it. So the community safety working group, also known as the CSWG, has been meeting weekly since it formed in 2020. Hold on. CSWG. Now we got C-R-E-S-S. That's on the quiz. What the C-R-E-S-S stands for? Cress. That's a good question, Donna. That's okay. Community responders for equity, safety, and service. Just to clarify, CSWG is demised. It does not meet anymore. It does not meet anymore. Okay. But they were created to make recommendations on alternative methods for providing public safety to the community and making reforms to the current organizational and oversight structure of the APD. The group spent their time studying the complex issue of delivering community safety services to ensure racial equity and examining existing town funding priorities to deliver those services. They made several recommendations on alternative ways of providing public safety services to the community and reforms to the structure. Out of these recommendations, the town council has approved a reorganization plan which included the creation of two new departments. The first is the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the town structure. Elevating the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion into the hierarchical structure of the town management prioritizes these issues and has had some success in building more equitable and inclusive corporations and communities. The second is the Department of Community Responders for Equity, Safety, and Safety Service, excuse me, Cress, which is a civilian unarmed alternative to the police department providing community safety services in situations that don't involve violence or serious crime. The date the reorganizations, to date the reorganizations were approved by the town council in December. So the status of the DEI department is that it will be housed on the mezzanine close to the town manager. The town has developed a DOB description for the DEI director. It's been posted and the interview team is near completion. We will start the process of hiring in the near term. The assistant director of DEI is filled by Jennifer Moyston and the status of the Cress department is the Cress implementation project manager has been hired and he just started on Monday, actually. So that is the current status of those two departments. I don't know if Paul has any other. Yeah, I do. So for the DEI, yeah, I think that's moving forward. Jen Moyston is the assistant director of DEI. She's been doing a lot of this work anyway, along the way. So it takes a fair amount of work. Her job description includes other things, including some of the things that she does as a community participation officer, and such as organizing events like all the, you know, tonight is a Chinese New Year sort of celebration, connecting with communities that live in our town. The Cress program has, there's an implementation team that has been meeting weekly, and that includes the police chief, the fire chief, Jen Moyston, and the former co-chairs of the community safety working group, Alicia Walker and Brianna Owen. And Russ Fern and Jones has been going to these on a regular basis as well. He was on the community safety working group as well. And it's just a really big, hard topic. We're doing things that no other community is really looking at. We're not looking at a co-responder model, where a social service type person goes with the police. We're looking at a totally standalone model. The details are enormous. Everything from liability to what calls get directed. We quickly came to the conclusion that the initial request was for a standalone dispatch center for this group, but it just, the economics said that we're just in tall, unavailable to us. So now we're going through our normal dispatch. And so Mike Curtin from dispatch is saying, okay, I need to know exactly what calls and we're not going to give a call to somebody who's not, you know, there's just every detail you have to look at every, every call. So that's a, that's an onerous process, but just really appreciate the people who are involved in that moving it forward. The implementation manager is actually a grant funded position. That's just really a grant manager as much as anything. It's, it's not a leadership position the Crest director. And that's where we have our interview team getting ready to the reviewing interview at resumes and going to do interviews in relatively near future. When that person gets on board, then things will start to move forward. They'll be able to start to hire Crest workers. Lots of questions about this, whether there is a, are people out there, whether we can get the people, the types of people we want. They want social service workers, people with lived experience, you know, the diverse workforce, all these things. They've modified the idea from being a 24 seven operation to being more like an eight to midnight operation. And just because of the likelihood of getting people who want to work overnight in a number of calls that we get overnight anyway. We're participating, we've been asked to participate with the Harvard County School. They have a group of cities and towns that are doing the same kind of work. And so they have a community of practice that we've been involved with as well. We weren't, we applied to be one of their, their five cohort groups that we did not get accepted because it was more like Harris County, which is where Houston is and Albuquerque and big communities that were chosen for these things. So, you know, we're, we're committed, the council has voted to develop the Crest program, the department, we're moving forward on that. There's a lot of unknowns and making sure that it works as best as they can with police and fire is the highest priority because they are going to be a public safety team. So that's where we are in that. So you have for both positions, you have in hand resumes for people who might be directors of these operations and expect it soon to begin the interviewing process to make a decision. So are you thinking about, when would either of these directors, if that's the right term, be on board? Is that, you know, in two weeks or at the end of March or, I think Crest, we think it's the end of February. Joanne, I'm not sure what to schedule why is what that team is doing. I think realistically, DEI is probably end of March that that team hasn't even started looking at resumes yet, but we have a, but we've determined that the pool of applicants is sufficient to start the process. Okay. Now, pertinent to one of our observations about the turnover among some of these high level positions, are there any internal candidates for these jobs or were we explicitly looking for people? We can't comment on that. Okay. All right. All right. And then I do have a question because I always wondered, and you sort of touched on this and this is just for my own information. I'm assuming that the Crest people as the police and fire are now action would be started as the result of a 911 call. Who makes the decision to route this to the police or to Crest? That's been the subject of multiple meetings and actually looking at through call logs for the last three years, because the last two years were a little bit aberrant. So there will be a dedicated line for people who don't want to call the police to call the Crest team directly. They can call the business line for the police department or they can call 911. The 911 dispatchers will all be trained to with protocols in place on who gets what. And that's where we care a lot about liability. We don't want to put someone, we don't want anybody that we send to a situation to be hurt. And it's just noise complaints. So the common thing people say, we'll send them to noise complaints that cops don't need to go to those things, but we all know that many domestic violence situations present as noise complaints because I hear pounding in the house next door. They don't want to say that it's a domestic violence situation. So we don't and those are for police officers. I understand some of the most volatile situations that they walk into. So we want to, you know, our dispatch team is spectacular. They know their business. Mike Curtin is just top of the shelf top shelf. And so he's thinking very critically about he and he wants he wants he wants his workers to know what to do. They don't want to leave. And they have a lot of real experience in handling a multitude of calls. Yep. Okay. Are there questions? But just like I listen to the scanner a lot, just yeah, no life. And I'm always thinking like who what's called what would I where would this call go to where, you know, I wanted to say because I put more or less learned about this program, watching the town council meetings. And it left me thinking, man, I do not know what's going on in Amherst. I'm a white woman who lives in North Amherst. And the impression I got is we have a huge problem. Or do we do we not have a big problem with police responding to calls? I was left with the impression that Amherst has a serious issue. And maybe I'm the only one who didn't know this. But if I am, then, you know, I'm learning as I go. But on the other hand, if I'm if I'm not alone in this, I don't know how how much information has been given to the residents of Amherst as to whether or not how serious our issue is that we have to establish actually two two new departments. And I know we're caught up in the the whole country being in such a state of affairs. But I didn't know, I real and I asked a few other friends, they didn't know. And again, I don't know, maybe you can explain to me, Paul, how bad is it? Or are we just trying to be proactive? Maybe that's the bottom line question. Yeah, I can take that two different ways. So for the DEI department, I think it's really important at the university pretty much every school has a DEI director of some sort. We need that kind of participation at a high level to bring that we have two lenses that we look at everything through social racial justice and climate climate change. And we try to think about everything we do, whether it's capital projects or operations through those two lenses, it's hard, we're still learning how to do that. But I think the need for the DEI director is just participation, you know, presence matters, being present in conversations, it matters. And so I think that that's a really key thing for us to have as a town. We're doing more than most towns do. We have two positions. It's a two position department. Many towns have a DEI officer of some sort. But I think, you know, it's a pretty high priority for the town, at least to stay as established by the council. In terms of the Crest program, the testimony, there was a lot of testimony that came in. We don't know how many calls are really going to be generated specifically for the Crest program and how many people are not calling the police but would call the Crest program. Because we just don't know the answer to that question. And we're going to learn, you know, as we roll out the program, and it's not going to, we're not going to know in a year, it's going to take multiple years to give the program a time, a chance to get its footing. Our police department has really advanced and for years has been proactive on, you know, our officers have been getting implicit bias training for, I don't know, probably for years, I'm not sure how long, but they've always been at the forefront and getting training and you know, de-escalation techniques and things like that. So we have a super great police department. And so it, but they are all, we've also asked them to respond to everything, you know, you know, a paranoid woman at home came in this morning who's like, feels that there's somebody in her house and they're not, but they police have to respond with their tools, right? They show their tools, their trade. They show up with a, with their vest on and their gun and stuff. And it's like, maybe that wasn't necessary for that. Maybe there's someone else, a social worker could have gone to that situation. And police would say, everything winds up in the police's lap. You call, everybody calls 911. I've got ice at the bottom of my driveway or I've got a kitten in a tree or there's a guy walking down Amethyst Brook with a gun that I don't know what that he's all about. So they have to handle everything. So I think there's, I think this is a new, we're really plowing new terrain here. We, not many cities or towns are doing what we're doing. Most have done, have gotten social workers on board. Like we have a domestic violence worker, a civilian DV worker that we get, we have our honors that comes to us and to the police department. So it's we're relatively small town and how, you know, we don't know how it's going to work, but we're going to try it. Okay. That's enough. I would just like to add that I saw the town council meeting where that working group, which has now been dissolved. And I would say dissolved by declaring victory because of what has happened as a result of their report. And it was an amazingly thorough job. And I think they, I hope they all feel pretty good about what they did because things are happening as a result of that report. Now, Mr. town manager, I have to ask you as a magician, where have you been able to find money to fund these new positions? I think the town council said just do it and find the money somewhere. Yeah. So for the DEI, we took a person who had been half time in the manager's office, half time in personnel. And we took we eliminated the manager's assistant and and added a half position. So she's full time in DEI. So that was a half position we had to fund and that came initially from ARPA funds. For the DEI director, I did not fill the economic development director. I substituted the DEI director for the economic development director for Cress. Those funds, we put some funds in the budget for that. Out of our increase, we have ARPA money to help bridge that gap. Also, we got a $450,000 grant from the state to support some of these more social service and social counseling services that we will be providing through the program. So that's a three year grant that we're pretty proud to have received. There's only five in the state that went out. So we're always a smallest community to get one of those things. But be honest, the Cress program, especially if it grows to the level that is intended, will absorb every spare dollar the town has going into the future. We projected that out in a time when a lot of the public coffers, state and local are doing pretty well because of ARPA funds primarily. We're not going to be expanding anything else. This is where we've made our commitment. And it sounds like a couple of years down the pike, then the town is going to have to figure out where else to get some money because the outcome is relatively short term. Well, it's three years. So that's our bridge. And by then, we will have carved out money in our budget by saying no to lots of other things to make sure that there's enough ongoing support. So Shamangano does a great job at projecting out. So he's our finance director. Okay, questions, comments from my colleagues on the board about DEI and CRESS update. Next item on the agenda I'm looking at under new business says set the annual non-union staff meeting, which Tammy, if you don't know, we basically every year try to meet with the town employees. Our specific domain is non-union town employees, but I don't think people are refused entry who are members of a union to join that meeting. And typically it's been in March. And although I think last year it was bucked back at least till April, maybe even May, I think Paul, there were some budgetary uncertainties that you wanted to be less uncertain when we had this meeting because one of the things that happens during the meeting and the town manager is basically the star attraction for that meeting, the personnel board basically is a listening board at that time. What's on your minds, folks? But traditionally that's been the time when Paul will announce what the cost of living increase is and any other sort of issues directly affecting the town employees, including things like benefits and insurance and stuff like that. So are we ready for doing this in March again, Paul? Yeah, I think we are. Okay. It could be April too, but I think everything, any financial things we know, we know what then those numbers are for health insurance and for COLA. Okay. So and the other thing we've done is we've scheduled this meeting sort of back to back with a personnel board meeting. And since as the agenda shows, we currently expect for the PB to meet on March 9th at 9 a.m., is that a good time to schedule the town-wide employees meeting, do you think? You mean at 9 or at 10? Well, you're talking about the date. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I think we usually do the town meeting, employees meeting first, right? And then immediately because once in a while there are issues that we can act immediately on based on what we've learned in that town meeting. So would you consider the 16th as a possible alternate date? Would I consider that? Yeah. I can make the 9th work, but I would just need to move some. Well, fortunately, we got all of the PB members here. The 16th works for me. Does it work for the rest of you, dear colleagues? We're talking March. 16th, yes. Right. Now, the issue there is that's right in the middle of spring break and I'm not retired. And that is when I would be doing something not work. But I don't want to be the party pooper, but I am actually on that schedule. So we can keep the 9th then. Party pooper. Well, can't you just zoom in from Fort Lauderdale? That's right. She goes to Fort Lauderdale. Oh, that's me. I'm actually a Daytona person. Oh, okay. All right. Well, okay. Said me never. All right. So what do we want? 16 or 9? The 16th is a Jones Library Board trustee meeting at 9 o'clock in the morning. So I would be unable to attend on the 16th. Let's keep the 9th then. Let's do the 9th. Looks very definite. So, okay, that's what we'll do. And we'll do the town employees meeting first, roughly 9 to 10. And then we'll meet immediately after to do whatever business we need to be doing immediately after. And okay. We also need formally to approve the minutes of our November the 10th meeting. Joanne sent them out. I assume you've read them carefully and did your best to make sure everything is accurately reported. And does anybody have any questions, comments, corrections to want to make officially to those minutes? If not, I would just say Catherine's name sometimes is up in there with an E and sometimes with an A and she's a double A. She's a double A gal. That's never happened before. I just want to honor the name thing. Oh God, I don't care. I know you don't care. I care. Okay, A R I N E. Oh, I did it wrong. I did it right at the top, but I did it wrong. I apologize Catherine. But on my email, it's E R I N E, which is a long story and a mistake I made a year ago with Comcast. So I'm almost going back with Comcast. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Comcast tells me it's E R. I'll take it. Yeah. That's what just changed your name at the clerk's office. I'm almost thinking about it. I mean, just go all the way back to the beginning. Yeah, I'm almost thinking I should change my name. Any other sharp eyed tweaking needs to be made to the minutes. If not, can we have a motion to approve as tweaked? I so move. All right. Second. Okay. Any other discussion? Tweaking? All of A is A I. Hi. Hi. Opposed? Abstentions? Okay. The minutes are hereby approved. And topics the chair did not reasonably anticipate 48 hours in advance of this meeting. I don't have any new topics to put before us. Don't we have the staffing report? Oh, pardon me. I skipped right over that. Yes. Thank you for noticing. Yeah. All right. So Joanne, you want to lead us through the staffing report? Sure. Anything of particular interest? Well, we've had a little bit of movement. We lost our assistant land manager. We're in current recruitment for that. I think we have two finalists. Hopefully we can make an offer by the end of the week. We lost a firefighter and a DPW worker and our senior center admin assistant, Jennifer Reynolds. Interestingly enough, she took on our new senior center director's former position in Bernadestine. So that is that. We rehired one of our former DPW employees as our labor truck driver. We hired on a bilingual customer assistant to work in our front office for central services with the tax collector, tax collections, excise tax, all of that, parking tickets, and rehired a former dispatcher as well. We've promoted a couple of internal part-time people into some permanent positions, one at the senior, excuse me, at the health department and another at the recreation. We hired on a new librarian at the library. And of course, we have Haley as our new senior services director. We also brought back a second employee, former employee from the DPW who came back. So I guess the grass isn't always greener on the other side there for a couple of those guys. And we've promoted a nice, a very smart person who's working for us as an intern in our waste water treatment plan as a mechanic apprentice, basically. Very good at welding, went to a trade school. So we're promoting him. He's actually in a training program right now with our current mechanic who's planning to retire at the end of March. So there's a little bit of some transition training, mentoring there going on, which is going to be really helpful for him. So that's, that's what I have. I have, I have one question. Sure. Jennifer Reynolds, was she a candidate for the administrative job or we had the senior center? We can't really comment on that, Charlie. Okay. How long did she work for the senior center? For the senior center. I think it was 2018 that she moved over to the senior center. Yeah. She's our parking enforcement officer. She is spectacular at that role. And then she, then she basically went to get off the street and worked at the senior center did a great job there. Well, I'm just looking at it. I don't know the lady, but I'm just looking at it said assistant. And obviously the head job was open. Oh, it's an administrative assistant. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Yeah. And so the current candidate had been the directors of council on aging in Bernardsden. And then now Jen made the, really, she did the next step, which is to become a director of a, of a council on aging out of smaller town. And so she's well positioned after she does that for a couple of years to come back of this, you know, for her to go to another, a bigger town as this moves forward. Yep. Thank you. Other questions? Observations. Thank you very much. Anything else to come before this body, my dear colleagues? Thanks. Thank you, Tony for leading us, facilitating us. You always do such an awesome job. I love it. Very much. Good to see you all. Okay. And for my colleagues on personnel board, even you, Rebecca, take the rest of the day off. Okay. Oh, no, next zoom, 14 minutes. Here we go. All right. Yeah. All right. Well, with that, I'll leave it there to you, everybody. I'll leave it there to you. Thank you. Thank you. Nice to meet you, Tammy. Thank you. I was listening. I won't be quiet for long though. All right. Oh, well, I thought folks from the library were always fine. All right. Thank you. Bye-bye. Thank you. Bye-bye.
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T-Mobile bought Mint Mobile and I am fed up. Ryan Reynolds has done all he can to make Mint a lot of money through their "incredibly improvised and borderline reckless messaging strategy" which has increased their customer base to the point that T-Mobile had to notice. Congratulations Ryan and Mint customers, you win... welcome to T-Mobile.
But not so fast!! The buck stops with me today, because I have the full message understood. I read the fine print. I guess it's time for a reaction channel approach to these tatics!!
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Hey guys, I am Ken Ross here. I'm a business consultant that specializes in reducing costs for businesses By looking at their essential expenses and today boy. I have a different one for today I've been doing a lot of research on this company and you may have heard them You may have heard a lot of their commercials and I'm quite annoyed with those commercials So I was gearing up to come up with a really great video and then I had to change it all for Whatever reason right? So let me just get into it. I'm gonna talk about today That's right mint mobile and what has actually happened in the more recent times And I decided instead of going through the usual route of hey, let me show you some great screenshots Let me break down all the analysis here and get into a lot of different details I'm actually just gonna do something that I see a lot of other youtubers do and just do a reaction channel Let's try it Okay, guys. Here's the the mint mobile YouTube channel and you can see here. They have a lot of different videos. I I've looked at a few of them There's some good ones in here. Let me start with one that I think is a good one. Let's go with this one here 30 seconds, right? That that's wow, okay, so right off the bat Ryan Reynolds here We like to do the opposite of what big wireless does now. I'm doing a little foreshadowing here, but You'll get my point later. Let's let's see what he's got to say Okay, okay Ryan, where is that right on your lower back really you have a mint mobile tattoo I Want to see it so I want to understand what he means by that because I don't know if that's really a good claim Right instead of putting your name on arena you put it on your lower back. Yeah, I want to see it Let me see that Now now that that I will stop I keep saying reaction videos are Interesting and I should probably let it run and then respond, but I like to respond to what he has to say. Yes Verizon did raise their rates and I'm gonna post a video. They have an economic adjustment charge now It's very ridiculous. Yeah, if you know anything about it, it's absolutely absurd that they would add this fee But people haven't complained. It's what a lot of people do in this in this market. They just go with it Right or they do what Ryan's do it. Let's let's let it roll. I'll let it finish and then I have more to say Really really Okay, all right, I'm gonna stop it right here because this is the most important part right of any commercial These bottom terms down here and let me read it to you because I don't think you're really paying attention Or at least most people don't pay attention to that because they just see hey unlimited $15 a month. How does this really work? Right? It says right there limited time only offer new activation and upfront Payments for three months. That's right, gentlemen and ladies. You have to pay three months at a time That's how meant mobile works you pay three months in advance when you first create your account You're not paying $15. You're paying $45. That's what's required at the beginning emotional rate lasts for the first three months What does that mean? That means this $15 a month claim that they're making is only for the first three months gentlemen and ladies You do not pay $45 every three months until you decide to cancel No, you pay $45 the first month and then it really is going to depend on the plan, right? So if you look here taxes and fees extra just like any other big wireless plan Unlimited customers using over or greater than 35 gigabytes a month will experience lower speeds Why is that because meant mobile doesn't own their network? They're on I'm gonna leave that for the next video, but then I'm gonna react to they're on a particular network That network knows meant mobile customers Versus their regular customers and if you use more than 35 gigabytes in that month on their network They throttle you they prior you down. They put you in a different category last part of this is video stream at 480p so if you're using Netflix or Disney Plus or you're Doing other things that require or even YouTube if you're watching this video on a meant mobile device You are only gonna see 480p on those on those streams now that may be good for Your cell phones But tablets or other mobile devices if you're tethering your phone to somewhere your your speeds will be hindered How do they do that? They know who's talking to their networks. They're able to prior your Your internet speeds down so that you don't get Greater than 480p speeds on any of your streaming services and then it says see full terms of meant mobile.com now This is what I was going to do for a video, but I decided this is much better. So let's let's keep going Let's go to the next video. I want to show you I'm gonna cut to this one. Let's go to this one Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds as owner of mint mobile. I'm always looking for new ways to save money on our holiday commercials It's why this year our holiday props are just stuff. I picked up for five dollars from a yard sale Why why did you think what? What's the benefit? I mean $5 yard sale. I mean I can go to a yard sale and buy I mean I Don't know. Let's run. Let's let it roll Well, they may not be much to look at they're bringing plenty of cheer because of the money We saved we're giving you three months of premium wireless free. Oh, wow. Okay. Wait wait So this is their promotion during the holidays. They're gonna give you the first three months For free now wait if you're not paying attention to the bottom of the screen This is where you're gonna miss it limited time new customer offer not everybody's getting three months free gentlemen and ladies only new activations required within 45 days or by 115-23 now this promotions over with but I want to explain something very clear here meant mobile has has been the experts or they are they are claiming they have been the experts in marketing low-budget Wireless right? They've they've perfected it to one of the reasons why they were acquired We'll talk about that in the very next video. Let me get into but I wanted to talk about this one because I feel like it's It's it's it's it's warranted, right? They are trying to give away their wireless plans during the holiday season. Why because they need more customers They want to try to make themselves relevant and it's a really big reason why they were acquired by Name the company here. I'm pretty sure you're gonna figure it out or you've already figured it out if you haven't But I'm gonna get to that in the next video last part additional taxes and fees restrictions apply all that young mumble Jumbo cement mobile for com for details would have loved you at the time really looked into this deal because Obviously, right you aren't gonna pay for the first three months But if you've been paying attention the $15 a month part of this isn't even in this commercial Let's let's go back and re-watch it. I want to I want to start from the beginning again. Let's start I'll watch the whole thing. Hey, it's Ryan Reynolds as owner of mint mobile I'm always looking for new ways to save money on our holiday commercials It's why this year our holiday props are just stuff I picked up for $5 from a yard sale And while they may not be much to look at they're bringing plenty of cheer Because with the money we saved we're giving you three months of premium wireless free on any plan including unlimited Yes, those are not stockings. Those are June socks Lightly used So lightly All right So if you get if you get what the promotion here is they want to give you the first three months free instead of paying the $45 for the first month and then it changes depending on the plan that you're on because I'd love to get into the details But to make a long story short when you go to sign up for mint mobile Whatever plan you pay you you pick you're paying for that rate three months at a time, right? So you may pick a $30 a month plan After the initial $15 a month plan and you'll have to pay $90 every three months. That's how it works with taxes and fees and other things, right? And then in addition to that there are data restrictions once you reach that limit. Yes It's unlimited wireless, right? You can still make your own phone calls That's what they they call unlimited these days, but it's not unlimited data your data is metered It talks about it on all these commercials if you watch many of them and I've watched a few of them on TV I did not watch the whole YouTube channel because I'm not the biggest fan of mint mobile case in point the next video That I'm gonna get to so let's get to it Two minutes, I might see the CEO of T-Mobile. Wait, wait, wait. This is a guy who works for T-Mobile What is he doing on mint mobile's channel, right? I've already told you you got it as the uncarrier We put customers first in everything we do like being the only wireless provider that offers both the best network and the best The best network and the best value can you quantify that for me, please? Can you tell me what makes T-Mobile the best value you just cost less you're using 5g technology? Your 5g is not as good as Verizon's 5g. It's different than AT&T's 5g. Let's let's really talk about that Let's debate those things because honestly Yes, you have 5g, but is that 5g the same? And and and what do you pay for it? And why is it so much more? Important why is it so much of a better value, right? Because I because it says 5g on my phone. Let's keep going Today I am thrilled to announce that T-Mobile plans to acquire mint mobile a wireless brand that shares our customer first commitment And here with me to share the news is okay customer first commitment. What does that mean? Does that mean you just charge less? Yeah, that's what most people want. They don't want to overpay That's the problem with wireless most people think I'm being raked over because these fees are insane They added an economics adjustment charge. They they you know They can't tether my phone for a while you couldn't do that even back in the day You used to have to pay for every text message whether you wanted it or not. This is the problem with the wireless industry It's been that way forever. So is that why your customer first because you cost less Owner of mint mobile. Thank you, Mike. Here's my here's right. Go ahead. Let's see what you got The reason people have such a great experience with mint is due to the T-Mobile network, especially its unrivaled lead in 5g Alright, and we are so happy to have you and the whole men team join the T-Mobile family Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna show you something else real quick because I really do feel like this is important for you to see So when you go to mintmobile.com, let me let me pull it up here. Hang on Okay, guys when you go there, right? This is the first thing you got to do you got check your eligibility So you may not be able to even take advantage of this first of all That's that's that's the first hurdle, right? And then once you get through that, right? And you look at hey, let me look at some of these plans These are the different plans Right here for gigs a month at $15 a month now notice you pay $15 a month, but you're paying $45 for three months of service That's how all of these plans are structured the unlimited plan is $30 a month Which is definitely not different in any way Then other premium wireless carriers when it comes to what you pay per month The only difference is you're gonna pay $90 for the first three months leave your service at the beginning. Okay, I digress I'm just gonna keep going right the other parts of this that I found very interesting when you come to this thing Right, you could do the family plan your family plan you get two lines of $15 a month all that crap Alright, so I had to do some digging and I found it So right here it says premium wireless for $15 a month and it says see for yourself and they have this This comparison chart now if you're paying a good enough attention here, and you've looked at this Which big wireless company is missing? Verizon AT&T and oh, where's where's T-Mobile? That's because T-Mobile is the the carrier Formant plans when you activate a phone you're activating it on their network That's why T-Mobile is not listed here And that's one of the reasons why Ryan Reynolds and the folks that own T-Mobile are meant mobile It's gonna be difficult So the difficult video for me because I got to put them both together at some point and then separate them when meant mobile first started Ryan Reynolds wasn't an owner of meant mobile. He came into this. He started advertising it a lot of folks have gotten on to it and T-Mobile saw this as an opportunity. What is the opportunity? The opportunity is to increase their customer base More than than ever at this point. We will acquire meant mobile They become our customers and we complete a bigger case to the government for more breaks to get more money from the consumers to put people in these different types of plans that AT&T and Verizon don't have and rather than getting the semantics right here You could see you could see here very quick very quickly. I'm a decline this year You can see here very quickly at a high level. They're representing their 4 gig plan at $15 a month and they're saying everybody else is at 40 Well, that's because you're not really looking at the full picture when it comes to Verizon and AT&T They don't include a 10 gig plan, right? These are all unlimited plans. They're talking about here It's just how much usage you have until you get metered until it slows down When it comes down to it in the end, right? You have to realize something that this isn't that much of a different value than other wireless carriers And when you really look at it the only big advantage you have here is that you pay three months at a time So let's keep going Well, I wouldn't call it a family mic Family's a place for me. Let's back it up in 5G Ryan, we are so happy to have you and the whole men team join the T-Mobile family Well, I wouldn't call it a family mic. Family's a place for misdirected hopes and dreams. I'm hoping this will be much better than that Well Wow, that was a great joke But seriously, how does that really sell me on mint mobile? It doesn't go ahead Mobile is all about value. So we're excited to continue mints famous $15 a month pricing and I'm really excited about even more good stuff to come And T-Mobile has assured me that our incredibly improvised and borderline reckless messaging strategy will also remain untouched I don't I don't remember the word reckless. Well, I wrote it into the contract with crayon Mike Okay, maybe reckless just means not funny or a hard attempt at being funny because Ryan That's about all you've really done with these commercials. I Absolutely deplore all these cameras every time I see one of these mint mobile commercials I shake my fist and I say read the fine print because it is not a good deal the crap I don't know how else to put it You can get a better deal from a major wireless carrier You could go to T-Mobile today and get some of the same deals that meant mobile is representing the only real Subsidive difference between mint mobiles deals and the deals you can do negotiate yourself or do yourself Is that you're paying three months at a time? Let's let's go back a little bit. Oh, I'll hear what they have to say I don't remember the word reckless right? Well, I wrote it into the contract with crayon Mike Yeah, another later. We're so happy that mint mobile and ultra mobile will play a big part in T-Mobile's future Wait, wait, wait, wait. He said mint mobile and ultra mobile. What's ultra mobile? Right? You're asking yourself Go look it up. It's wild right mint mobile has two companies not just one two and T-Mobile to both of them Customers everywhere will benefit from the combination along with the entire mint mobile team and my maximum effort teams I'm just absolutely thrilled with every aspect of this new venture I'm certain that I'm finally going to fill whatever hole I have inside my soul Which possesses me to emphasize external success overquieting an inner child Cutely craving some sort of illusory acknowledgment for my now deceased father Okay, right. Yeah, just excited I I'm speechless guys. I'm speechless like really I Feel like a lot of people have just been played by Ryan Reynolds How do I even put this if you really want to know how to do this? Effectively don't listen to these hype commercials, right? These are 30 second and two minute, you know 30-second two-minute spots. They actually had a spot in the in the Super Bowl. I watched it and I was I was I Couldn't believe it. It was ruining my day People get get into the hype right of these types of things and you could see where it leads us right in the end T-Mobile is now going to take all those customers. It was in their plan There's no way T-Mobile didn't think well. Hey if mint mobile is successful We let them use our network. We'll just we'll just take them over and that's exactly what they did here So congratulations to those who have mint mobile if you have a mint mobile plan and you really enjoy it Put your put your comments down in the comments section below I want to know what I'm missing because honestly, I think I figured it out the only real difference to your plan Versus some other plan right now is you pay three months in advance. Oh And you got a really good deal at the beginning, right? Don't get suckered into these things. Don't put yourself in a situation where you're stuck or you're forced to be Under a carrier's wing That's what they're doing here with mint mobile. That's what T-Mobile is now doing By acquiring them. They've increased their customer base, right? They sure had those same customers already on their network They know they can handle those customers. They're just taking those customers and sending you out T-Mobile bills now instead of mint mobile bills I don't want anybody to be fooled. I don't I don't want anybody to think differently of What wireless carriers are out to do they are out to take care of their shareholders? They are out to make more money. They are not out to helping you. They have three competing networks They're all different technologies. They all claim to be 5g. Yes, it is under the 5g umbrella But those those networks are separate networks. They're managed separately. They they pay for them separately We're paying as a society for three different networks to do the same thing That is absolutely shocking to me that people don't understand or realize that that's what we're doing It's all I could switch from AT&T to Verizon. I can switch from T-Mobile to mint mobile or I could switch from this network than this That's great. It just requires a sim and some programming on a little money, right? When you go to change. Oh, and this network may not be great here, but this other network is great here Why are we competing like this? Why is this the way it works? Why can't we all just play along in the same place and have good service everywhere? Right? Why can't all three of these companies invest in the same thing? They're not they're investing in 5g for sure but 5g is a iteration of wireless technology throughout the years that has changed over time and When we started it was very segmented and now they're more on the same page than ever But they're not quite there yet T-Mobile buying mint mobile is not a surprise to me It's a surprise to me that it's so glossed over and allowed to be in a two-minute commercial as hey This is a big joke. It's so funny. It's not funny folks We're we're we're at a very serious time in telecommunications history And I hope that this has really helped you a little bit I hope you I hope you see something in this video if you don't tell me I'm a show and I and all I do is hate hate On big wireless. I don't care. I'm out to point out something because I honestly think you know It's funny as Ryan Reynolds is in movies. He's not funny when it comes to this. That's just my opinion, right? You can take it for what it is Don't sue me So with that that's what I have please put in the comment section below what you think I've spent a lot of time rambling I ramble a lot on this channel about different topics Please go check out some of my other videos if you're new to this channel if you've come to this channel thinking Well, what's this guy doing like go check out what I've done. I've done a lot of work on this channel Already to try to help you understand kind of the things that I do But would love to hear from you down below if you like this format if you like things that I'm doing here with these Reactions, I'd love to react to other videos. There are a bunch of Verizon commercials. I could do the same thing with I don't know I I feel like Verizon is just as bad right now as Ryan Reynolds Would love to keep doing these types of reactions because I feel like They gloss over a lot of details that most people aren't really paying attention to and then they put that fine print at the bottom And they're thinking oh, you're not gonna see it and you're not gonna care because hey You've gotten on the train with us I am Ken Ross Please like and share this video tell other people about my channel and visit my website I am Ken Ross calm and until I see you next time. I'll see you around. Thanks for going with me on the ride. I really enjoy it
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Anti-tracking: What you need to know
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As a web community, we’re all always looking for ways to raise the bar on privacy while enabling a healthy web ecosystem. Join the Google Chrome team to understand how privacy is about to change for the better and what it means for you as a developer.
Speaker:
Maud Nalpas, Developer Relations Engineer, Web security and privacy, Google
Aside from web security and privacy, Maud likes to dive into new web capabilities and AR/VR.
Recorded at EMEA Web Day on March 24, 2021.
Event website → https://goo.gle/3gHs2z8
Event playlist → https://goo.gle/3aAyRPv
Try it and share feedback:
GitHub → https://goo.gle/3aAyxA8
User-Agent Clients → https://goo.gle/3vfjp38
Further resources:
Developer resources → https://goo.gle/2LERTHN
Subscribe to Google Chrome Developers → https://goo.gle/ChromeDevs
#WebPrivacy #AntiTracking
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Hi, I'm Muth. It's good to be here. Thank you all for joining. I'm a developer relations engineer for web privacy and security, and I work together with Rohan within the Chrome organization. Now, in the previous session, Rohan talked about how you can engage in building a more private web. And together in this session, we'll take a closer look at what you need to know and do to prepare your sites and systems for this more private web. And this is valid whether or not you have anything advertising related in your stack. To quickly refresh on what Rohan introduced with the privacy model, we want to move from a join identity to a partition identity. And anti-tracking efforts help us do this, because they phase out or replace mechanisms that enable identity joining. And today, one primary mechanism that's used to join user identity across sites is third-party cookies. And this is why Chrome will be phasing out third-party cookies. So what does this mean for you? Before I get into this section, let me say that there's a wide variety of ways sites use cookies. So how you adapt your site to cookie changes depends on how your use case and constraints look like. So I'll only give you a high level view, but we'll share links to everything you need to know. So cookies are changing and how can you prepare for this? Well, first, if you do the following, you're on a good track. First, use HTTPS everywhere. And second, make your cookies look like this when you can. This is a good first-party cookie. And you can tweak this base recipe to fit your needs. But let's take a closer look at what this recipe does exactly. So host is a prefix. What this means is it works like an interface in the sense that it makes some attributes mandatory and forbids others. So with host, more specifically, the attribute secure and path slash must be in. And the attribute domain must be out, which is why you cannot see it here on this slide. I won't detail secure and HTTP only too much here, but they help protect cookies from being stolen, either on insecure networks or by malicious third parties. Now let's move on to path slash. Path goes hand in hand with an attribute that's called domain. And domain is not set here, as we've said. So it means that the cookie is accessible only at the domain that sets it. So the domain of the current document, not even in subdomains. If you need one session across subdomains, you can tweak this base recipe. And path slash means that the cookie is accessible in all pages for that origin. So with this, the cookie for example.com will go on every request to example.com, but in no request to images.example.com. Finally, same set lacks. So this restricts the cookie to only be sent in requests that match the top-level sites the user is currently visiting. Except for navigations. So with this, you're not sharing your cookie with third parties. And as you know, last year, same set lacks has become the default in modern browsers. But even though it's the default, it's still good practice to specify it anyways. So same set lacks by default actually has two main benefits. First, sites that won't state in cross-site requests must now opt in with same set none. So now third-party cookies are labeled as such. And this is one step towards phasing out third-party cookies. And the second benefit is improved protection by default. Again, cross-site request forgery attacks. So you see that cookie changes have both privacy and security benefits. And this is a pattern that you'll see across a lot of anti-tracking changes. Now, remember earlier, we said that the best option was for you to fully migrate to HTTPS. And another push towards HTTPS by default being your easiest option is skimful same site. So last year, after a same set lacks by default, it meant that cross-site cookies would be blocked by default. And now with skimful same site, what this means is that different schemes, so HTTP and HTTPS, now also count as cross-sites. So this further restricts cookies from being shared between HTTP and HTTPS. So long story short, if you migrate fully to HTTPS, you shouldn't have any issue here. Now one quick note on WebView and cookies, because I think we had questions on that. The cookie changes that we have just introduced kick in if you target Android 12 and newer. So existing apps will not be affected until they choose to target Android 12. So what you can do today is either try and target Android 12 and see how your cookies behave in the resulting build. Or if you can't target Android 12 just yet, if you cannot target Android 12, you can enable the new cookie behavior with this specific flag. Now back to our cookie recipe. It's nice, but there's a chance that it's not enough for your use case. For example, what if you have different country-level domains for your organization and you want to use cookies in those contexts? Well, since the same site changed last year, you would need to set same site none if you want the cookie to be sent in that case. And yeah, it's cross-site, but it doesn't really feel like it's third-party. It's more of a first-party relationship that's wider than just one site. So building up on last year's same-site changes, there is now a proposal to define exactly that relationship. And this proposal is first-party sets and the same-party cookie attributes. And to loop in the concepts Hane introduced earlier, if you have first-party relationships that are wider than just one site, it means that you're potentially an implementer for this API, first-party sets. Now it's at an early stage, so there are still open questions. But if those questions are interesting for you, an origin trail is available for first-party sets. Maybe, though, this is not enough and you actually need some information to be transmitted across parties. And if you're doing this today with third-party cookies, it means that you need to replace them with new alternatives. And this is where new purpose-built APIs come in. So new APIs are designed to fulfill use cases that show today's web, but they do so in a privacy-preserving way. Some of these new APIs are ads-focused, so focused on advertising use cases, and a lot of them are named after birds. In the previous session, Rohan introduced you to one of the rare ads-focused API that is not named after a bird, namely the Conversion Measurement API. Here in this session, I won't detail any ads APIs, but instead we can look at another new API that's under the Privacy Sandbox umbrella. And this API is Trust Tokens. So Trust Tokens allow a site to issue tokens to the browser, and these tokens include a small amount of information, like a signal that says if the site thinks the user is real or a bot. And then later on, other sites can redeem and verify these tokens, for example for fraud protection or spam protection. And Trust Tokens is interesting because it aligns with the privacy model in the way that the tokens cannot be linked with the individual user, but they still allow the bit of cross-site information that is needed for this specific use case. So new APIs like Trust Tokens and Ads APIs are helpful, but we also need restrictions on how a few APIs are working today. And we want to apply these restrictions while maintaining the usefulness and capabilities offered by these APIs. And balancing privacy and usefulness is another pattern that you'll recognize across Chrome's privacy efforts. Now first, let's look at some interesting headers. User agent client hints or UACH if you're in a hurry. So today, like on this slide, the UA string can be used to fingerprint users and join their identity across sites, which is why we're trying to walk away from with the new model, privacy model for the web. And what makes it worse is that the UA string, the user agent string, exposes all of the user information by default. With user agent client hints, UACH access is managed in an explicit way instead. So you do receive some broad values by default like browser name and others, but if you need more specific information, you would need to ask for it. And the way this works is the server asks client hints like platform or platform version by a header, and then the browser sends back only the requested headers. And UACH is an alternative to the user agent string, and also the first step to reducing the granularity of the user agent string. Benefit of UACH is that it also offers a better developer experience in the sense that you don't need regular expressions to go and extract the bit of information you need in an endless UA string, but you get just the data you need instead. And with this, we want you to be able to access the information you need in a privacy-preserving way, and we think user agent client hints does this. It should allow you to migrate from the user agent string, and it's already out. It's live in Chrome stable, but we're still using your input and feedback to adjust things, to adjust the API and make sure it addresses your use cases. So try it out, and if something is stopping you from migrating, let us know and share your feedback. One last bit we're almost through. So earlier today, you heard about Core Web Vitals, and maybe you're already doing performance budgeting. Well, Chrome also proposed introducing a privacy budget, and the idea is that sites should be still able to use powerful APIs, but not to uniquely identify users across sites. So here you find the same pattern, again, balancing privacy and capabilities. The privacy budget is at a very early stage, so you cannot try it yet, and it will not be enforced soon, but it's definitely a good idea to already try and reduce the amount of potentially identifiable information you're using. And for example, user agent client hints help you do just that, so it's a good way to prepare for what's coming. Right, that's all I have for this presentation. There's more, but it was already a lot for 15 minutes.
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Scalp Scrub for Natural Hair Growth & Scalp Health! Exfoliating and Moisturizing! | TriniGirlNatural
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I loved this Scalp Scrub for Natural Hair experience! Even though I have a very healthy scalp, I've always been curious about the added benefits of scalp exfoliation for removing build up and dead skin cells and really clearing room for your follicles to thrive. I'm so glad I was finally able to try it for myself! Watch this video to learn how I did it and see my results :). xoxo
NOTE that this She Scent It nourishing sugar scrub was LIMITED EDITION just for the box and I don't think it's available now. But I think she might consider bringing it out again after hearing about this video ;-). Also Soultanicals just released a scalp scrub with her Spring Bundle :-). Also as you saw from the ingredients you can very easily make it yourself! :)
#naturalhair #scalpscrub #scalptreatment
TriniGirlNatural is all about my natural hair journey and achieving healthy, beautiful natural hair. Thanks for joining me and sharing your journey with me as well 😊. All are welcome. Let's do this together as a community! Xoxo
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Trini girl natural hi everyone i was actually out of the country for like a month so i decided you know after like a month of canto and stuff i just wanted to kind of reset i've been curious to try scant exfoliation for a while because you know i'm all about healthy things and people say that it's really good for your scalp but they say like he's gonna get all that dead skin off i was just curious to see what would happen and my scalp was feeling kind of meh after just roughing it dizzy my hair was like roughing it for a month my scalp was kind of roughing it too so i decided this would be a great time to try a scalp exfoliation scrub i think the main thing that i wanted to know was is there any benefit to doing scalp scrubs if you pretty much have a healthy scalp like you don't have any i don't have dandruff i don't have serious aches or i don't have any issues with my scalp should i just try to get extra healthy or do i need it or not so if you are considering whether you should try a scalp scrub if your scalp is healthy then definitely stay tuned and take a look at this video if you do have scalp concerns then definitely watch this video to see what to do like just how to give your scalp a little bit of an ease of course don't be too rough don't do it too often disclaimer disclaimer i would say that if you have a scalp issue research your condition and see what you can and can't use because in some cases for some issues oils actually make it worse and some issues you know you're okay to use oils whatever you usually use for your scalp to treat your scalp issue whether it's acv whether it's a little tea tree or whatever you can put all of that in with some sugar and just make it exfoliating i know that sugar and salt are the popular ones i chose the sugar i'm a pj of course i happen to have a sugar scrub in my stash i have this she sent it nourishing sugar scrub that i got like in a she sent a beauty box like when i was doing beauty boxes which was when i was bad but since i'm not buying anymore i don't do beauty boxes anymore i really don't like to buy mystery boxes and then get disappointed no more boxes for me but i got this in a box and it looked great it fit my purpose perfectly and it's hard to use it you can see the ingredients i definitely was not disappointed with this box in terms of ingredients the only thing i have with this box is that i got like sugar scrub in a bunch of butters and i was like i don't really use butters and i'll take care of my skin if i should so i didn't use the spray which i did look because i do use sprays sprays but the butter and the sugar just kind of went by the wayside but finally i found the use for it so i dug it out post this one because i wanted the sugar scrub and i was like okay this has sugar like some lemon peel oils and lemon extract i'm gonna like extract so it seemed like a good scrub especially if you don't have any scalp conditioning you just want to the actual sugar is the main thing with a little bit of oils to help condition your scalp and a little bit of like aloe vera for moisture and stuff like that so i decided what the hair let me just use it i'm gonna show you a demo of what i did it's kind of hilarious because when you rub it can get to your scalp then it works out fine as well i guess you get to see how thick my hair really is trying to find like a line of scalp to show you guys was probably like oh i'm using this she sent it nourishing sugar scrub and i added a bit of aloe vera gel just to dilute it a little bit and make it easier to spread i worked in sections just to make it a bit easier but the struggle was still really all just dealing with my thick hair and i don't have any problems with it and i had to dry it a little bit so the struggle was real but essentially i just kind of potted my hair and patted the sugar onto it or just gently placed the sugar on i didn't scrub at that point just wanted to gently get the sugar on there and then do all the scrubbing later so this is just a video of me kind of going through all my hair and trying to get that sugar near to my scalp if not on it you can tell from my expression that my happy place was going at that point just trying to get through all my hair so once the sugar scrub was everywhere on my scalp i just gently massage and it looks pretty fast here but it's sped up i was very gentle just gave it a kind of careful massage to just exfoliate my scalp a little bit with the sugar you definitely don't want to abrade your scalp by being too rough after the scrub i just kind of put it up again and then went to the shower to rinse it out so that was it that was how i applied it on my scalp and like scrubbed it and everything so let me just show you how it looked after i rinsed it out so i didn't shag where i think i just rinsed it out take a look at this this palette and these are my results after rinsing you know my scalp looked good i don't know i was trying to figure out like how i felt about it i felt like yeah i like it um how much do i like it i don't know but i like doing my scalp looks and you know my hair looked fine it was good i guess so yeah just some more scalp shots and you know my result i did like the fro that i got like that was my favorite thing from the whole thing was that fro that i got from this i took pictures on instagram and everything it did rinse clean my hair my scalp felt great after that it didn't probably give my hair a little moisture boost because it is basically a humectant in the oil rinse i would definitely not not do it again but in terms of benefit like in terms of my scalp feeling cleaner like it didn't run brown it didn't feel like i got scales off or anything like that in terms of how i felt like my scalp didn't feel nice and it didn't smell great i think it had a little bit of something tingly in here so scalp scrub because like i mentioned in my scalp massage video like the tingles does help stimulate your scalp which stimulates the hair growth so it felt awesome to use it smelled great it smelled like brown sugar with a yeah with that tingle or what but it smelled great it felt great and i think it did a great job on rinse clean but in terms of like curing me of some skinny scalp or something so after shampoo i use a shampoo brush and i could have been just because of the tingle but it didn't feel like my rule wasn't worked my life didn't change or anything like that i don't think it really did much in terms of medicine or whatever but extra clean not every day but maybe at least once a year or something i could try it you know especially with a little bit of mint or something in there just give your scalp a little spa treatment so am i gonna do it again probably yes just to use this but i did love the experience and i do kind of recommend it i guess when i run out of this it might get even easier i'm going to use definitely but you might want to give this a try and even if you don't have scalp scrubs or maybe at least you got to see my scalp at some point and thanks so much for watching and i'll see you in the next one
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No one is born knowing how to be a parent. And we know that parenting can be difficult sometimes. But some parents focus so much on what they should be doing and forget about what they should not be doing. Below is a list of things no parent should ever do to their child.
Disclaimer: If you can relate to any of these signs, please do not take this feedback as an attack on your character. This video is meant to be a self-improvement guide for those of you who have been feeling a little stuck.
We also made another video on the things toxic parents may say: https://youtu.be/GS_mATLF7BE
Writer: Sara Del Villar
Script Editor: Caitlin McColl
Script Manager: Kelly Soong
VO: Amanda Silvera @amandasilvera
Animator: Grace Cárdenas Cano
YouTube Manager: Cindy Cheong
REFERENCES:
Amen Clinic. (2019, May 2). 10 things parents should never do. Amen Clinics 10 Things Parents Should NEVER Do Comments. Retrieved from www.amenclinics.com/blog/10-things-parents-should-never-do/.
Buttner, J. (2018, June 1). 25 things parents should not do. MyKidsTime. Retrieved from www.mykidstime.com/for-parents/25-things-good-parents-should-not-do/.
Mintbook. (2020, November 24). Top 11 things parents should never do to their children. Mintbook. Retrieved November from mintbook.com/blog/top-11-things-parents-should-never-do/.
Powers, M. (2021). 20 ways to start a conversation with a child. Tootris. Retrieved November from tootris.com/edu/blog/parents/20-ways-to-start-a-conversation-with-a-child-without-asking-how-their-day-was/.
The Soul Publishing. (2018, February 11). 10 things parents shouldn’t do for their children. Bright Side – Inspiration. Creativity. Wonder. Retrieved from brightside.me/inspiration-family-and-kids/10-things-you-shouldnt-do-for-your-children-448610/.
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Hey, sect-goers! Are you a parent? If so, you probably know lots of things you can do to help kids become the best they can be. But even if you aren't a parent, the info in today's video doesn't only apply to kids, but everyone, so keep watching. No one is born knowing how to be a parent, and parenting can be difficult sometimes. Some parents even focus so much on what they should be doing that they forget about what they shouldn't be with their kids. So here are 7 things parents should never do to a child. Although many parents don't mean to, ignoring your child is common. A healthy parent-child relationship involves quality time, even if it's just 20 minutes. Spend some time with your child. Studies show that if you're distracted when spending time with your child, children are more likely to act out and behave poorly. But spending time with your child helps them feel loved and secure. Even if you mean to encourage them, you shouldn't compare them to others. Drawing comparisons between them or their achievements and someone else hurts their self-esteem. As a parent, you should accept your child with all their flaws as well as their achievements. It might be difficult to quell the curiosity of knowing what your child is doing. And there may be times where you want to know more about their life or what they're up to. But invading your child's privacy is not the way to go. It shows that you don't respect their privacy and you undermine their agency. The best way is to talk to them. They may not tell you everything, and that's okay. They're allowed to keep certain things to themselves, but by opening a space for dialogue and conversation, you give them the freedom to choose what they want to share with you. To create conversations with your children, lead with positive uplifting questions and ask questions to gain awareness. One mistake that parents can make is being overly permissive. In an attempt to befriend your child, you might forget that you are their parent. While you want to create a space for them to approach you, you also need to provide guidance and correction. Letting your child do anything they want is not okay. You should establish clear boundaries, and by doing that, you're helping your child understand what is acceptable and what is not, a skill that will help them later in life. Another mistake some parents make is pointing out your child's flaws too quickly. While the intention may be geared towards improvement, solely pointing out your child's flaws makes them incredibly self-conscious. One thing that a parent should never ignore is their child's mental health. A person's mental health is also part of their general well-being. So, as the parent and guardian, you should consider your child's mental health as important as their physical health. The last thing a parent should not do is ignore their mental health. Parenting is difficult, and it's easy to forget to take care of yourself while taking care of others. But as much as possible, you should try to take care of yourself as well. Your child is dependent on you, and they need you to take care of them. To do this well, you should be healthy too. Remember, no one is in a position to judge your parenting. But there are certain things that you should never do to your child, and hopefully these tips have helped you learn some of them. Can you relate to any of these points? If so, let us know in the comments, and please remember to like and share this video with people who might find it helpful. As always, the studies are shown in the description below. Until next time Psych2Goers, take care, and thanks for watching.
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Alastair Winner, HPE - #HPEdiscover - #theCUBE
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01. Alastair Winner, HPE, Visits #theCUBE!. (00:19)
02. Give Us The Update On The Services Business. (00:33)
03. What Is The Services Strategy. (02:28)
04. What Are The Swim Lanes Between HPE Services And Your Partners. (04:00)
05. How Does Your Organization Relate To Transforming Your Customers Business. (05:34)
06. What Has Sharpened Your Focus As A Services Organization. (07:58)
07. What Is Hybrid IT. (09:48)
08. Do Customers Come To You Wanting To Go To Hybrid IT. (11:29)
09. Is It Fair To Say That You're A Technology And Product Company First. (12:06)
10. How Has The Decision Process Changed. (14:28)
11. Where Do You See This Going In The Next Couple Of Years. (15:52)
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Can CSC spin-merger help HPE strike the infrastructure-services balance? | #HPEDiscover
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It can be difficult for a company with deep hardware roots to be seen as an equal contender in software-led solutions, with all the new services-only companies springing up. Customers may see a company like Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s foray into services as simply a ploy to follow the money. But HPE says that it takes two — infrastructure and services — to provide the seamless experience customers want, and HPE combines them in one package, according to Alastair Winner, VP of technology services, compute, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.
Winner spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), co-hosts of theCUBE*, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover EU in London, about how outsourcing Enterprise Services to CSC through a spin-merger is giving them room to evolve. “With ES moving out, it gives us the opportunity to partner far more with the likes of [professional services company] Accenture,” he said.
Additionally, Winner said HPE’s merger with software company Micro Focus will be mutually enriching. “I think the opportunity really for us is to be the infrastructure partner for those SIs [system integrators] and companies,” he said.
Winner said that HPE’s software capabilities are robust enough to be of real value, “helping customers modernize applications with technology like Docker.”
HPE does double duty
When asked if HPE is still primarily a product and hardware company, Alastair answered resolutely, “No.”
He said where once customers just wanted to buy gear from them and move on, “now customers are saying, ‘Actually, I don’t want to buy gear anymore. Help me consume it, whether that’s on premise or on the cloud.'”
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Live from London, England, it's theCUBE. Covering Discover 2016 London. Brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Now, here's your hosts, Dave Vellante and Paul Gillis. The HPE Discover 2016, this is theCUBE, the worldwide leader in live tech coverage. Alistair Winner is here, he's the Vice President of Technology Services Support for Compute for HPE. Alistair, good to see you again. Great to be here. So, we were just kind of riffing off camera about the growth in services, two consecutive quarters of growth, it's powered. You know, a lot of the cash flow on HPE's income statement and a lot of the things that you've announced a couple years ago really starting to kick in. Give us the update on the services business. Yes, well thank you. We're really proud of the performance of the business, two consecutive quarters of growth and services being very much an annuity business takes a long time to turn around. So we've got the tanker turned around and we've got some momentum now. So really what we've been focused on of course is ensuring that we're wrapping our great products with the appropriate professional services and support. So, you know, very much a traditional support focus business, we're doing extremely well there. But also, we sort of diversified a little as you referenced a few years ago and we started to focus on developing new experiences that were maybe less associated with the product itself. So with our data center care solution and that's been extremely successful. So we've really focused on developing this experience which is all about helping customers drive success through IT. So it's not just about supporting them, it's about how they extract the value from that. And flexible capacity which you'll hear a lot about during the show and it's very, very visible here has been really the superstar performer for us. So that's really services leading products and allowing our customers to consume IT in a very different way. So it's a cloud-like experience but on-premises. And really, you'll see the tagline here is why choose. Why does the customer have to choose between public cloud and on-premises? Data center, IT with flexible capacity, they can actually have it all. So that's been growing hugely and we're very, very happy with the performance of that business. It was kind of you to point out, not to point out, my mistake in the introduction that I was saying HP was getting out of the services business, obviously clearly you're not, but you did do a spin-in transaction earlier this year, got rid of the former EDS business. Can you explain, I think there is some confusion over what exactly the services strategy is. Why did you do that transaction and what was the strategic, what have you kept strategically? Sure, that is a great question. Thank you for the opportunity to cover it. So the way I'd simply describe it is that we're out of the outsourcing business now, whether that's IT outsourcing or business process outsourcing, which is really the bulk of what EDS or EES had to offer. Clearly, given that there's now a focus on infrastructure, HP is very much focused on the infrastructure, there's an opportunity to wrap that with services, with advisory services, with professional services and with support services. So the business that remains is very large. We have over 22,000 professionals. We have great partnerships with our channel partners and with our technology partners. So it's a very vibrant, very active business. And I think with EES moving out, it gives us the opportunity to partner far more with the likes of Accenture and Wipro, who I know you've already talked to there. They're good examples of now where we can really step forward and engage with those in a much more active way. And so what are the swim lanes there, Alistair? Obviously, you've got your product-related stuff, you've got what you're calling non-product-specific services, like data center care, flexible capacity, but describe in more detail the swim lanes between what HPE services would do and what some of your partners would do. So I think, as I indicated, really our services are much more around the infrastructure itself. Whereas I think our big partners, they bring a level of industry vertical knowledge or some specific insight and value that we can't and will not recreate inside of our organization. So you'll see us, I mean, we'll bring some vertical expertise and products that will be appropriate in certain markets. But I think the opportunity really for us is to be the infrastructure partner for those SIs and companies. And there are certain services, value propositions that we can bring to them that actually differentiate them in the market. And again, flexible capacity is a great example of where, for example, in Accenture, which really doesn't want to get into the data center ownership business, can actually offer that type of solution to their customers using a flexible consumption model powered by HPE flexible capacity. Digital transformation is a big theme at this conference. It'll be the theme of today's keynote. How does your organization relate to transforming your customer's business? So absolutely and it really is key, key strategic area for us. I mean, what I would say is, and what we observe is actually as customers transform to a digital business, actually the IT experience becomes almost synonymous with the customer's own business or the experience of their customer or their partner or their employee. So whereas previously, really we were here to help the IT department provide a service to their internal users. Now actually what we're doing, especially as you get to the edge, the intelligent edge, actually what we're doing is really what the customer is experiencing. So a huge opportunity from a service's point of view to add some value and content there. We're really focused on, from an advisory perspective on four key swim lanes. We're looking at hybrid IT, so really the ability to manage this on-premises IT and cloud IT and really being able to help customers place their workloads correctly and being able to provide a support solution that covers both. So regardless of where they end up operating, they have one support provider that they can turn to. As part of that, we're looking at applications, not recoding applications, but helping customers modernize applications with technology like Bucca, which you saw. So really pushing on infrastructure automation and helping customers utilize things like microservices effectively, so those two. Then we focused on IT edge, really bringing value to the edge, bringing compute to the edge and really offering services that help our customers there. And again as part of that, we're looking at big data and really helping ensure that the insight that we're able to extract from devices at the edge is processed and brings value at the edge. So you'll see us very much focused on those areas in terms of advisory, and those typically resonate very well with our partners. Now several years ago, correct me if I'm wrong, but the technology services support organization was folded in under the enterprise group. And that was an attempt to sort of align things better, streamline the organization. You've always had obviously capabilities around product, but then you've extended beyond, as you pointed out, beyond product. Now with the EDS Spin Merge, the CSC, and of course the software division as well, going to micro focus, particularly the latter. Has that also sharpened your focus as a services organization? And how has it done so and affected other potential partnerships? Yes, I mean it certainly has sharpened our focus. I think you hit the nail on the head. Really what this is forcing us to do almost is explore new partnerships and really looking at how do we construct an ecosystem that delivers an experience to a customer that where we can really overlay our capabilities and our global strength. So Docker is a good example and Mesosphere is a good example of where we've worked very actively to bring I guess a traditional support element to it. So we want to support their products, but also using solutions like flexible capacity, look at alternative ways for customers to consume. So you'll hear some news on main stage today about what we're doing in that regard. Some exciting news that really shows how we can combine the value that we bring with the value that some of these innovative partners can bring. And you'll see us do more and more partnership work. I want to take you back to something, a term used earlier, hybrid IT. We hear that term a lot these days. It's not the same as hybrid cloud. It's a different organization. It's a different way of delivering IT services. What is hybrid IT? So very simply for me, it's a customer and IT department having a number of sourcing options, whether that's on-premises, delivered IT, in a traditional delivery model or a private cloud, or really taking service from someone else's data center, is the way I would describe it, whether that's a public cloud or software as a service. So really what we're seeing are IT departments embracing the cloud as a sourcing option. I would say two years ago, they really saw public cloud as a threat and they were doing everything they could to really avoid engaging. And that actually forced a number of the business, lines of business or developers to actually go to the cloud directly by passing IT. I think we now see IT really viewing it as a strategic asset. And really what we're saying is, look, we need to ensure that placement of workloads is simple and it's agile and it supports the ball end to end. So we're saying, look, what we want to do is to create a support experience, a services experience that embraces that and ensures that as customers move workloads from on-premises to cloud, or they decide to continue to run on-premises, that it's a simple experience and they can consume it in a way that brings value to them, both operationally and financially. But that's a structural change. I mean, that's a cultural change. Is that within your domain? Yes, yes, it absolutely is. Do customers typically come to you saying we want to get to hybrid IT, we want you to help us? Or is that something that you will nudge them toward as you engage? So I would say two years ago, we were nudging. I would say today, every customer I talk to is already doing hybrid IT. And it's more about how do they refine that to a point where it's fully operational and really adding the value that or the potential value that it has to offer. So I'm hearing a story, Alistair, of sort of streamlined organization, focus. It's going to be kind of strange asking a services person this, but I see HP as a technology and product company first. Is that fair? No. Okay, so help me square that circle. Look, we're clearly very proud of our engineering heritage and we make great, great product. It's the roots. It's the roots, it's the DNA of the company and we're very, very proud of it. So maybe I was a little bit disrespectful to my product. But I think, as I've described really, what we're seeing is customers, a few years ago, what customers used to decide is, look, this is the gear I want. Help me decide how I want to buy it. Now customers are saying, actually I don't want to buy gear anymore. Help me consume it, whether that's on-premises or from the cloud. So what we're doing, what the services team are doing and the product team are doing is really driving to a common vision, which is about simplicity and agility. How could we remove some of that undifferentiated heavy lifting that we were doing many years ago when you were operating a data center? Many of these things really don't add true value or differentiation to a customer's business. They're important IT tasks, like backing things up or updating firmware. These are important things you have to do when you operate your own IT, but they don't really add differentiation to a customer. So what we're doing on the services side is saying, look, a customer has an existing investment. How do we work with them to simplify the operation of that investment? How do we take away that undifferentiated heavy lifting? How do we automate it? Because there is lots you can do with an existing investment. And then obviously our product teams are developing technology which brings additional simplicity and agility. So when a customer decides I want to continue to consume IT on-premises, when they roll in our new gear, their experience just gets better and better. So you really need these two things. They're very symbiotic. And it's all about this experience. And you cannot deliver an experience just through a product alone. It's a combination of the product and the service. How has the decision process changed? And in the days of outsourcing, it was very much an ROI decision. Buy my equipment and you're going to save me X% on my costs. How have those factors changed in this new world you're talking about? So I would say, I mean, you still, I mean, there are still lots of customers that buy through a traditional or procurement method like you described. But more and more our discussions are happening with the CFO or with the lines of business, especially the CFO actually with a flexible consumption model like flexibility. So really we're talking again, we're sort of leading with consumption as being the sort of the primary discussion point, really trying to look at how do we maximize a customer's cash flow? How can we explain the true cost of public cloud versus on-premises cloud? So I would say that the people that we're working with, the personas still exist inside of a customer the same as they always have. It's just that we've sort of elevated our discussion outside of procurement and classic IT to talk now with the financial organizations and also the lines of business to really understand what's the experience that they want to create for their customers. And through doing so, actually it makes what we have to offer much more valuable to IT. As infrastructure becomes programmable, we talk about infrastructure as code. We talk about heavy high degrees of automation. That's a whole new business model for not only HPE but for its customers. And it seems like the role of the services organization, the technology services and support organization is to facilitate that new business model for your customers. So last question is where do you see this going over the next 12, 18, 24 months? We're at Discover, let's say, two years from now. What's it going to look like? Wow, what a question. So I think you'll see us continue to be very much services centric and services led. Actually, if you walk around the floor today, if you go to the transformation zone one, transform to hybrid, this is a completely services led, services managed experience. So I think you'll continue to see us focus on that. As you say, automation, this notion of simplicity and agility is really critical to the company, critical to a digital transformation. So you'll see us continue to focus on that. And I really hope what you'll see over time is that it'll be very difficult to sort of spot the services guy from the product guy because these things are going to become one. And that's certainly our hope. Excellent. All right, Allison, thanks very much again for coming back in theCUBE. My pleasure. Okay, keep it right there, Paul and I will be back with our next guest as theCUBE. We're live from HPE Discover 2016 in London. Keep it right back.
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Dial in a Keith Richards Style Tone with the Dept. 10 Dual Drive | Blackstar Potential Lesson
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In this week's Blackstar Potential lesson with Leigh Fuge of Musicteacher.com we'll be looking at how to achieve classic Keith Richards inspired tones direct, using the valve-powered Dept. 10 Dual Drive pedal and inbuilt Cab Rig™ advanced DSP speaker simulator software.
Learn more about Dept. 10 - https://blackstaramps.com/dept10/
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Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential, my name is Lee Fuge and I'm here today with MusicTeacher.com and in this video we're going to be checking out how to dial in some Keith Richards style tones using just the Blackstar Department 10 Dual Drive. So all the tones you are hearing in this video are coming directly from the XLR output of the Department 10 Dual Drive straight into my audio interface. Starting off with a Tokai Telecaster for this video, I'm going to be switching guitars later on as well. This is an open G tuning, so from low to high we've got D, G, D, G, B, D. This is a very very important part of the Keith Richards guitar sound. So along with the Telecaster, the Keith Richards guitar sound's other main ingredient is very small low headroom tweed amps which are cranked. So we're going to be using the Department 10 Dual Drive to try and recreate some of those tones. So on top of the pedal you'll notice I'm actually using the clean channel of the pedal here but I've got the level all the way up and the gain at two o'clock. Now because these small tweed style amps are American voiced I've got the ISF all the way in the American position. I've also added a lot of mid and treble as you can see here because when you crank these small tweed style amps there's a lot of top end and a lot of mid focus there but I have dropped the bass back because these amps are predominantly much smaller than your regular amps they usually have eight or ten inch speakers which do lack some of the low ends of a 12 inch speaker so I've removed some of the lows for that purpose. If we head over to cabrig I'm going to show you the settings that I'm using so I've gone with a 6L6 power amp for this. Now these style amps usually have 6V6 tubes which are again very American voiced very low headroom. The 6L6 is the nearest equivalent that's built into cabrig. The resonance I've kept on three because again there's not a huge amount of low end from these style amps but I have pushed the presence up to four. I've also pushed the amps drive on max because we want that clean channel to break up as we dig in. Cabinet wise I've gone for a one by ten classic USA combo that's the smallest speaker available in cabrig Keith Richards would have gone between eight inch and ten inch speakers for these type of tones anyway. They do lack the lows of a 12 inch speaker but you get that nice mid focus and bite. Microphone wise I've kept it pretty safe I've gone with the 67 condenser this is a pretty standard microphone that you're going to find in most major recording studios. I'm using a medium room for this in mono. We don't really need to worry about stereo for this because those old Rolling Stones records were mostly recorded in mono so we're used to hearing the room sound in mono in those setups anyway and it is mixed quite low just for a little bit of ambience but then I've also cut some lows out of the master EQ so I've actually dropped nearly two decibels of lows here and a little bit of low mid. I have bumped up the high mid and the high again just to kind of accentuate that upper end bite and that mid focus. I've got a low cut at 171 Hertz and a high cut at 11.65 kilohertz. This tone is not modeled after any specific Keith Richards or Rolling Stones track. It's a little bit of a catch-all tone we'll just get you in that Keith Richards ballpark. This tone is very very versatile and responsive so how you play and what guitars you play will give you slightly different feels and slightly different sounds without needing to do too much adjustment. So now I'm going to show you some of the variation you can get from this tone by just altering what you play and how you set your guitar. So I'm going to start off with the bridge pickup selected with everything on 10 the volume and the tone of the guitar both on 10. This gets you into that snappy crunchy brown sugar-style sound. This tone is very very responsive to how you set your guitar so I've got a cap on the fourth fret now. What I'm going to do is I'm going to set my tone control about halfway back just to take some of the top end off. I'm going to rig my volume back to about eight. This is going to clean up the tone quite a lot and get me in the ballpark of trunks like Jumping Jack Flash. It also cleans up nicely if we go to the neck pickup now and bring the volume down a little bit more to about five or six. We get in the ballpark of bluesier trunks like Tumbling Dice. Keith Richards was also known for playing a double cut Les Paul Junior style guitar amongst other guitars in his arsenal. This guitar has a single P90 pickup with a little bit more bite than a Telecaster so I've got a cap on the seventh fret here. This guitar is going to hit the front end of the pedal a little bit harder. Give me a little bit more gain. This is great for tracks like Midnight Rambler. So there you go. There are some Keith Richards style guitar tones using just the Department 10 deal drive. If you want access to this patch you can click the link in the description and download the patch yourself and use it in your own Department 10 pedals. Pairing that with the settings I've shown you in this video. If there are any other artists you'd like to see us make these videos about and recreate the tones using just the Department 10 deal drive and cab rig. Throw their names down below in the comments as well. Don't forget to check out Blackstar Amplification on YouTube for many more videos just like this one. And if you're looking for a music teacher in your local area please head over to MusicTeacher.com. There's a network of great teachers all around the country waiting to help you guys out. Thanks so much for watching and I'll see you soon.
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Autoscaling with virtual node and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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Virtual node is now a public preview feature with Azure Kubernetes Service. With virtual node you can burst into Azure Container Instances where you have no VM management. This enables you to scale your Kubernetes clusters even faster when you combine concepts like the horizontal pod autoscaler. The technology behind this is virtual kubelet which is an open source project supported by multiple cloud providers.
Explore the demo
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Hi everyone, my name is Ria Batia and I'm a Program Manager in the Cloud Native Compute team. And today I'm going to be talking to you guys about how to autoscale with AKS and a new public preview feature we have called Virtual Node. In the agenda, we have first the background of Azure Container instances and then I'll go through an open-source project called Virtual Kubelet. And finally, we'll talk about the Virtual Node in public preview with a couple demos to show you guys what it's all about. So the first thing is containers. So sometimes all you need to do is just run a container. And VMs just take up too much management for just trying to run a single workload. And that's when we came up with Azure Container instances. It takes away the need of VM management. It starts in seconds and we support Windows and Linux. It's also Hyper-V isolated. So that means you have the same level of isolation that you get in VMs today. It's just at the container level. You can also configure the amount of memory and CPU that you want. So you can say you want four cores and maybe 14 gigabytes. You really get to choose, which is pretty awesome. Our Virtual Kubelet project in the open is something that we released last December. And it's gained a lot of support since then. Basically what we've done is we figured out how to extend Kubernetes and connect the APIs of Kubernetes to APIs of any other kind of service. For Azure, we're connecting it to Azure Container instances. But we also have another provider for the IoT Edge, which is pretty great. And we also have support from the rest of the community. So not only Microsoft, but providers from Amazon, Hyper-SH, VMware have all joined the cause of helping us build Virtual Kubelet. And the GitHub link is on the slide. So with ACI and Virtual Kubelet and AKS, we've basically come together and built a preview within Azure called Virtual Node. So now today we're announcing that it's in public preview and you guys can basically get this Virtual Node within your cluster through the portal or the CLI. This is the way it works. The Virtual Node architecture is basically you get the management of AKS and the masters are already controlled for you. It's a managed control plane. But then you also get an extra burst capacity through ACI and Virtual Node. So now you can have one to X amount of VMs in your cluster. And then you can install Virtual Node to be able to scale out basically infinitely into ACI. And there's no VMs to think about. So when you're scaling, you don't have to scale VMs and then think about the workloads that go on top of them. All you do is just scale out Azure Container instances. And you don't even realize it. The management plane is still Kubernetes, which is pretty awesome. So now what I'm going to do is take you through a demo of first how to install Virtual Node in Azure and then how to actually use Virtual Node in your own applications and how to autoscale from your cluster to Virtual Node itself and to Azure Container instances. So now that we've already installed Virtual Node in my cluster, I've went ahead and installed an entire application. It's basically just a simple front end that simulates a Black Friday event. So we're selling service books. We're selling Xboxes. And it's just this simple website. From here, what I've gone ahead and done is I've started a big amount of load. So I have this load tester basically paying this front end a lot. And we're going to see how our cluster scales with that demand and with that customer traffic. So what I'm going to do is head over to application insights. And they have this thing called live metric stream. And from here, we can see the amount of incoming requests, how long the requests are actually durated for. And we can see the amount of servers that are coming up too. And if you look at this, we have a couple coming online. We started with just one of these. And now a couple of them are starting to show up, which is pretty nice. I also have another dashboard to show you guys what's going on. So this was Azure's live metric stream. But I'm also using Grafana, which is an open source dashboarding tool. And over here, we can see that the RPS, which is requests per second per pod, is going exponentially up. And so the RPS per pod and the RPS in general is going up. The response time is actually going down because we're getting a bunch of more infrastructure starting up here. And they're all starting up in pods in ACI. So we have eight already. There's two on the actual VMs in my cluster. So two pods in there that are helping this cause. And they're all working together to get the request per second down per pod. So if I go ahead over here, we can see the amount of containers that are pending. So this is where Kubernetes is stepping in and helping us a lot to autoscale out. I'm using the horizontal pod autoscaler, which isn't a known thing in Kubernetes that allows you to horizontally scale out your pods. And I'm scaling on requests per second. So once you hit 10 requests per pod, it says, oh, now we need another pod. So anytime you get 10 requests per pod, that's why we're spinning out so many different containers. And if I go over here, I can refresh this page. This is my resource group. And now we can see all of the container instances that are actually spinning up. And they're all spinning out in the same resource group, which is pretty awesome. We have so many that started up within a couple seconds. Now if you think about if you did this with just VMs in your cluster, it would have taken you, first of all, a couple of minutes to start up the VM and then another minute to start up all of those containers. But for this amount of containers, you would need probably five to 10 VMs, all starting up one after the other. In this case, we just had, I don't know, 20, 30 pods start up in tandem in parallel, which is pretty great. So you can use virtual nodes to autoscale out from your cluster into ACI. And hopefully this gives you an easy solution for scaling in Kubernetes. So that's how easy it is to use virtual node. And if you want to get started, check out these links. We have the demo repo, which is right there for you to install all the different bits. And we also have the feedback form. So if you have any feedback for us, please reach out. Thanks for watching.
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Hvis du er interesseret i, hvordan it påvirker og forandrer vores samfund, så er Informationsvidenskab et studie for dig.
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I remind members that if the amendment in the name of Douglas Lumsden is agreed to, the amendment in the name of Colin Smyth will fall. The question is that amendment 2442.2 in the name of Douglas Lumsden, which seeks to amend motion 2442 in the name of Tom Arthur on Scotland Love's local be agreed, and members should cast their votes now. The vote is now closed. The result of the vote on amendment number 2442.2, in the name of Douglas Lumsden, is yes, 28, no, 85. There were two abstentions, the amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that amendment 2442.1, in the name of Colin Smyth, which seeks to amend motion 2442, in the name of Tom Arthur, on Scotland loves local, be agreed. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The vote is now closed. The result of the vote on amendment number 2442.1, in the name of Colin Smyth, is yes, 21, no, 93. There were two abstentions, the amendment is therefore not agreed. The next question is that motion 2442, in the name of Tom Arthur, on Scotland loves local, be agreed. Are we all agreed? The Parliament is not agreed, therefore we will move to a vote and members should cast their votes now. The vote is now closed. The result of the vote on motion 2442, in the name of Tom Arthur, is yes, 87, no, 28. There were no abstentions, the motion is therefore agreed. I propose to ask a single question on three parliamentary bureau motions. Does any member object? No members object, therefore the final question is that motions 2465 to 2467, in the name of George Adam, on approval of SSIs, be agreed. Are we all agreed? The motion is therefore agreed to. That concludes decision time. We will now move on to members' business and I'd be grateful if members leaving the chamber could do so quietly.
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State Sen. Housley Launches Campaign For Franken's Seat
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While the first Republican candidate has announced a bid for Democratic Senator Al Franken's seat in 2018, State Senator Karen Housley launched her campaign Tuesday for the special election to complete Franken's term, which ends in 2020. Housley is a second term lawmaker and real estate agent from the Twin Cities Eastern suburbs. She's married to Phil Housley, who had a long NHL playing career and is now coach of the Buffalo Sabres. Former Governor Tim Pawlenty is also among the other Republicans who are considering running next year. Democratic Governor Mark Dayton's pick to hold the seat until the special election, Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith is also expected to run. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.
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Designing for Everyone | Sinead Burke
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How can design for one be design for all? Join designer Sinead Burke as she explores how innovative thinking and design can benefit everyone.
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Good morning It's such an honor to be here and to be speaking to so many people who can create change Instantly particularly around the domains that I'm going to be speaking about today education and fashion I Was four years old when I decided that I wanted to be a primary school teacher For anybody American in the room an elementary school teacher When I came home from my first day of school and told my parents that this is what I wanted to do They were incredibly supportive their immediate response was yes amazing Absolutely, I Went to my second day of school full of encouragement and could visualize myself at the top of the room being a teacher Despite the teacher not looking like me As an adult reflecting back on those first days of school I'm incredibly admirable of my parents complete sense of confidence in what I could be and become because that happened in 1994 an Ireland the country in which I live ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities in 2018 and It wasn't until I was attending University that I realized that ambition that I had that I shared with my parents may be challenged Not by my own abilities, but by design and the world around me I remember sitting in a lecture and a colleague someone who was also studying education Turning to me and saying How are you gonna do it? And I said what? The assignment it'll take you 15 minutes hand it in you'll be fine She said no How are you gonna be a teacher? How are you going to control them? How are you going to work within the design of the classroom? It's not for you and Really, it wasn't until that moment that I realized it may not be possible if You can take yourself back to reflect on your own time in the classroom. Can you imagine my challenges? well, I Can't reach the blackboard The light switch is a challenge Hanging the artwork on the wall is incredibly difficult which if you remember from your childhood is is incredibly important But my biggest difficulty was much more immediate than that It's also a challenge in this space It's the designing of the seating I Could not see every child in my classroom nor could every child in my classroom see me So what did I do I? Broke from tradition and they didn't sit in clusters or groups But they sat in a u-shape where they could see one another and see me But what happens when you step outside the conforms of design? Transformation Because all of a sudden the culture and dynamic in my classroom was entirely different No longer was I the authoritative adult at the top of the room with this Assumption that education was almost fucotion that they were pales that I had to fill with knowledge It became about power sharing Because all of a sudden with this design of the classroom, we were all at eye level and That was something that my colleagues who were training to be teachers Couldn't replicate Because what everybody saw as my disadvantage became my enormous advantage despite the challenges of design and It was within education that taught me the limits of not only who's designing product But who's designing curriculum and who's designing culture? Teaching in what was known as socio-economic disadvantage areas. I realized the limitations of designing of curriculum Because when I was told to teach about homes, I would teach about cottages with attached roofs I would teach about bungalows. I would teach about terrace The books that I was instructed to work from never spoke about homelessness Which was a reality for so many in my classroom And yet I realized very quickly That if we are only designing for an experience which we are familiar with What are the blind spots? Who are we leaving out? And I had a very wonderful Transformative personal discovery in exactly this one of the most challenging subjects to teach in my classroom was mathematics The boys and girls who I taught didn't feel like it was a subject that they could easily interact with Primarily because the language was inaccessible to them So I taught maths through the local takeout menu and told them the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Which as a disabled woman with dwarfism, they were unsure as to where I was taking that narrative But I told them that Snow White and Prince Charming had left to go in a last-minute date And we had 60 euro by which we had to calculate and work out all of the different menu requirements from the Seven Dwarfs One was paleo One was vegan because it's January Three were vegetarian Complicating the arithmetic for those who were independently able Whilst it gave me an opportunity to sit with those who were really challenged by the material And I learned one very important thing. I said okay, well, let's just work out the chips And one boy who really struggled academically said to me okay great well one bag of chips is 250 Two bags of chips is five euro And if anybody is a teacher or a parent in the room that moment when a child understands multiplication It's just sensational And I wrote down the multiplication and he looked at me like I was bananas and he said what are you doing? I said that's what you just did. You just did multiplication. You did maths And he said I didn't do maths. I did dinner And we as adults in this room and very privileged space can laugh at that But he was being entirely sincere because he did not see the relevance of his reality Mirrored in any way the design of the curriculum at the design of the classroom So how could he see it as an opportunity in which he could be a success? And in many ways the education system taught me that Design wasn't just unique in terms of its challenges and limitations of me as a disabled woman But it framed my thinking When it came to not only teaching But also fashion I sent at the height of three foot five inches tall and I'm completely enamored by the power of fashion It is the one industry in which we each have to legally interact with We almost were closed and Yet as a disabled woman I felt completely Lost within the landscape I would go shopping with my siblings or with my friends and as you can see from this image alone Could not reach so many of the items that exist. I was never considered within the design process Be it at the rails in the changing room at the height of the cash register But it is not just within the retail space and design alone that I'm not considered But in the entire ecosystem in fashion. I love clothes But at three foot five inches tall if you pass me in the corridors of the congress center, you may mistake me for a child However today, I'm wearing full-length custom Gucci It is unlikely you will mistake me for a child And that is the power of fashion But what does the fashion industry need to do to change? Because in many ways the system is enormous and it seems very difficult to transform Do we need models and lines that are just designed specifically for disabled people? I Really don't feel that's a long-term solution What I need on a very individual basis is something most of us in this room need Alterations as you can see this coat doesn't entirely fit But what about if we start to deconstruct it? literally What about if we take some more off and for good effect? Add a crown Now this is not a coat that I can wear every day These are beautiful images by the incredible fashion photographer Tim Walker for the print issue of the business of fashion But the ecosystem of the fashion industry is taking steps forward But it needs to change at every level We need to be encouraging design students that there is not just one body type That is a good body or is the right body in which needs to be designed for how can we encourage? Creativity and curiosity among design students How do we make sure that disabled people feel that fashion is not just an industry that they can participate in as consumers? But also as employees as a disabled woman. I like to describe myself as organized creative curious and articulate Those are four skills that I developed not just out of personal interest but for survival From the earliest of age I've been having to manipulate architecture and design in order for my independence For just a second think within this space alone. How I would have to mitigate them Perhaps it's in the design of public restrooms and I cannot reach the lock on the cubicle door So over the course of the next few days, you may see me approaching you and asking you for assistance or for help But what's the broader lens? So not only do we need to look at design students, but this community Has a size of one billion people It's the size of China and in terms of their spending It's just over two trillion dollars But we need to do this sincerely and beautifully We need to develop scholarship programs so that those who are disabled can enter into these spaces and participate in design colleges We need to make sure that HR and employment practices are rid of any biases that might exist If a CV comes across your desk and someone says that they were unwell for a period of time or there was a time missing within their CV It's not good enough just to discredit them We need to also make sure that designers are bringing disabled people into the conversation Because they will have ideas about the future of design that is formed by their lived experience Take this dress for example My condition of a contraplasia means that I have a curvature in my spine Which means that all garments that have to go around my hip measurement lift So whenever I'm liating with a designer be a Gucci or another brand I asked them very specifically Will you please introduce two inches longer the hemline at the rear so that it would look odd and a hanger But even on me For so many brands, this is a new innovation But how many consumers have a wider hip measurement than they do waist measurement This is the beauty of bringing in this diversity of voices and removing the blind spot that we have within the system of design But is the fashion industry changing? Earlier this year. I was very fortunate to receive the leadership award at the green carpet fashion awards in Milan and this is on stage at the Scala But in order to take steps forward this conversation is not going to change tomorrow or the next day Brands have to invest in this as a long-term change Because one of the greatest challenges that has been for the advancement of this conversation is that disabled voices have just not been included But what do we need? We need platforms not pedestals We need the design communities being an architecture fashion Education and society as a whole to open up the privileged spaces and to welcome the diversity of voices that exists within our Society to be included in the conversation We need to value their contributions their lived experience and continuously ask the question Who is not in the room and what I would ask you in the audience is Who is not in the room? I'm very grateful to all of you who have taken this moment this morning so early within the very first day of the Davos schedule but I would ask you From whatever you learn from this session to be empowered to be an advocate and an ally and Have this discussion as you meander through the corridors and meet people who can create change tomorrow if not the next day I need you to ask who is not in this room and Who is not in the rooms as you go back to wherever you work and exist? Because the only way in which change can happen is if we all do this together. Thank you very much
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THE NEW NBA 2K22 CITY JUST LEAKED.. AND OH MY GOD ...
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New about the NBA 2K22 city and cruise ship have come out! Less than a month from launch, 2K is finally starting to talk.
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We're less than a month away from the launch of NBA 2K22, but you might be asking the big question, where is all the news? Well, up until today, I really had no idea because NBA 2K is finally starting to talk about the game, but in other markets, in Asian markets, they're beginning to talk about next-gen city news. There's articles from random websites quoting NBA 2K developers talking about current-gen cruise ship talk. There's talk about the soundtrack, there's talk about the gameplay, so let's dive into it, man. First of all, if y'all new to the channel, you haven't already, man, be sure to subscribe. Drop a like on the video, let's try and get to 25,000 likes. Eh, let's get into it. All right, I kinda wanna start off with the newest news, and that's this video here. I don't exactly know what language this is, but when it's a language that looks Asian and I don't know how to readily identify it, I assume Mandarin. All right, the bread and butter, as we all know of any NBA 2K experience, is the gameplay, it's the basketball. 2K, I definitely could've got somebody that speaks this language to just make the video, but it's fine, I prefer it in English. It's why you buy the game. NBA 2K 22 takes huge steps to making that experience better than ever. With a very sharp focus on offense and defense and making those components more skill-based and less random animation-based. Oh my God, I'm fucking sick, guys, of hearing this exact thing be said every year. I'm not gonna lie. Bro, I've heard this be said 12 times in my life. I don't believe it anymore. We've made NBA 2K 22 both the most accessible and the most enjoyable NBA 2K experience to date. Users are gonna have complete control over layups and dunks and those mechanics in previous years, you would kinda... Oh my God, okay. This is about the fifth time in 2K cycle we've heard this exact thing. Please, something useful. Probably the mode that most of you play that most everyone plays is our My Career mode. It is our narrative-driven experience that allows you to effectively go from rags to riches, to go from high school to the NBA. In NBA 2K 22, it is back and it is bigger than ever. Oh, it's back! The news! My career is... Is how I would have reacted if I actually received some good news. In NBA 2K 22, it is back and it is bigger than ever in many different ways. Tell me. On the next-gen consoles, my career is completely integrated with the city. And what does that mean? I would say in previous years, my career was kind of akin to a movie. You would start it, you would get a five-minute sequence and you would just go play games and you'd eventually get more sequences. This year, like I said, it's completely integrated. You are going to have an intro and the right-of-way your player is running around the city and he's talking to agents. He's talking to his best friend, coaches. It's very RPG-like. You are experiencing... Okay, 2K, I want 2K to know this. Is someone watching, please? If y'all are going down an RPG route, please don't like half do it. Like, really, because RPG games is like, these are some of the most addicting games on planet Earth. The reason why I don't touch games like Diablo. I already know I'm going to have too much fun and I have too many things to do in my life. So if y'all are going to go down RPG, please do RPG correctly. In my opinion, the best-done RPG from a big publisher that went that route after their game having nothing to do with RPG to go into the RPG route was Assassin's Creed. I think they perfected it with Assassin's Creed Origins. So take some notes from Ubisoft, please, please. This rise to fame in the city that you live in, it's a really cool feeling and it's a really big evolution for sports video games. Our current gen consoles, because again- What was that? What the fuck was that? It's a little tidbit. What was that? What was that? I want to see that screenshot. How do y'all fuck up an editing era like this, 2K? God damn it, you're editing. What am I looking at? Is this somebody's stream? Is this a 2K21 next-gen stream that made it this way into the video? Hey, shout out to this guy, man. Keep grinding, my brother. Our current gen consoles, because again, we're really making two games this year. We're making a brand new next-gen experience for our next-gen consoles and publishers. We're doing the same thing for current gen. Current gen also has a fully rich narrative that people will enjoy in a more traditional theme. You're on the boat, which we talked about earlier, and you're getting the full my career experience. My brother, that is not a boat. That is a mega yacht, please. I've seen boats before. Some of my neighbors have boats. That is not what a boat looks like. That is a mega yacht. Experience in a way that you've been experiencing for many years. So no matter which version of the game you purchase, you're getting a brand new experience that we know you're- Yeah, we know you're gonna love. This might work in whatever market you tried this on, but it is not working with me. You literally said nothing new. Cause all of that we knew. We knew you was gonna be integrated into the city. We knew all of that. I actually received no new Intel. For those who don't know, the next-gen version of NBA 2K22 is not the traditional my career experience. They alluded to it in Brian Mzik's article a couple of weeks ago. I dropped a video on it. If you missed it, you can catch it. Link in the description or on the end screen at the end of the video. But to sum it all up really, instead of having the story mode, and then they let go of you when there's nothing else to talk about, the story mode is like, they kind of RPG-ed it up. So now you have to grind RPG-like to get your fame up. And there's different side hustles. It went trending on Twitter, cause everyone was like, you could be a rapper on NBA 2K22 now. You could be a fashion mogul in NBA 2K22 now. I prefer it that way. I never really enjoyed a single player in my career story. If you're integrating it to the online, my is getting a little bit hard. I prefer it that way. But the news actually continued because NBA 2K22 Intel dropped this tweet on Twitter. They said, this shit will cruise to different locations when events take place on current gen, to which Badge Plug appropriately responded. The bank size is large. Man, I'm gonna come with low expectations for current gen cause I don't believe that the dev team they have working on the game is as good as the next gen dev team. But I'm hoping that there's gonna be a lot of good frequent content across both games. I don't know which game people is gonna stick on. I think the answer is gonna be next gen this year. But because current gen is currently winning, that might be a difficult transition for some people to make. Believe it or not, I actually really like that 2K is taking a risk. My career has been the same way for a very long period of time. 2K took a risk to introduce my career in 2K10. For them to take a risk to transform the way that my career is played, in my opinion, is dope. Especially because if you did wanna like a generic my career experience that's been the way it's been for like 11 years now, you can go on current gen. This is the best time for them to take a risk like this. Chamomah dropped a tweet on Twitter. He said, I don't know where 2K Devs this year is just talking a random article. They just, you just see like a 2K Dev quarter in a random article on a random website. This shit will have various daily events while the ship sails closer to different land masses, allowing you to jump off and shoot hoops all around the world. You're gonna start and see an island off in the distance and every day gets closer. You can jump off the boat. You can go to various locales around the world. We even have an event in Egypt, events in Iceland in latest seasons as well. I don't know if I can't read or this article writer does not a right. I say it's both of us. Hey, I want y'all to know that what he just said is actually nothing new in the NBA 2K series because in NBA 2K3 or was it NBA 2K4? It might've been both. Egypt was a map. Washington DC was a map. China was a map in the game. These are all things they did multiple decades ago that I've been saying for a while and needs to come back. I've been saying for a minute it'd be nice to play around the world. So this right here, I'm looking, my is getting hard. I'll wait to see the execution of it though because when you talk about something you tend to assume like best case scenario. What if they actually pull it off? But what if it they don't and it's buggy and it's a mess or it's not like the environment suck and there's no lights and it's not colorful. It's like 2K18 grayscale. We don't know. But this is positive news for the people that if you don't have next gen consoles yet because they're still hard to come across, you can play the current gen version of the game and you could be rest assured that it's a whole new dev team working on it and unlike in previous generation jumps it's not like some shit they just out that they didn't care about, they put one developer on. It's a whole dev team working on the game. The chance that that becomes a dookie product is not as low, it's not as high. You know what I mean. Things got a little bit more interesting because 2K is getting a little bolder with their risk taking. This time it has to do with soundtracks. NBA 2K said this. The NBA soundtrack will be updated with fresh tracks to capitalize on some of the hardest artists at the time. Taking it a step further up and coming producers will also be able to drop their own beats for the game's community to get their hands by adding vocals and remixing the beats. 2K Sports Decision comes after years of sports games suffering from soundtracks quickly aging amid a constantly moving music industry. Don't ever describe the music industry as constantly moving. Those are some of the oldest thinking people I've seen on planet earth. But they're right. There was a time where the soundtrack was like a huge part of the game and as decades went on it's become less and less important. Soundtracks have been hitting less and less. I know some of y'all still remember like NBA Live 06 soundtrack. I could narrate you the lyrics word by word for a majority of songs on that soundtrack. NBA Street Volume 2. That game without the soundtrack is not the same game. It just, it puts you in a vibe. It puts you in a vibe to wanna dunk on people and break ankles with Alan Iverson. I don't know how many of you guys know this but the process of getting the rights for the music they put in these games is not only very expensive and costs millions of dollars but also takes a lot of effort. In my opinion, it's not worth the effort and you can take that same money and just hire more developer. I don't think nobody really even listens to the soundtracks in 2K games no more. How I listen to it, I just have my Spotify running on the side, Apple Music running on the side. You can play whatever you want to. And for copyright reasons, I haven't even listened to soundtracks in the last six, seven NBA 2Ks. I turn them off immediately because I have to make videos and I don't want artists taking all my money. But for those of you who actually do enjoy the experience, they call it now a dynamic soundtrack so that the soundtrack is gonna be changing throughout the years. So there's something to look forward to there if you're into that. I've been asking 2K to actually give us real exclusive content access to behind the scenes stuff for so long and it seems like the past couple of years they've been actually doing it. Here's cover athlete Luca Donchich in a mocap suit recording some of the animations for NBA 2K. That's Mike Wang in the tuck, baby. Yeah. Mike Wang is defending Luca? Hey, that's actually fucking dope, by the way. Yo, man, if my job was to be a developer for a game and celebrity athletes came in and I got to defend them, that's a lit job. I'm not gonna lie. D-up, Mike. Oh, yes, sir, what a clean form. So we got some new Luca animations in the game. You love to see it. Bro, please tell me that's not Luca's size up. Nobody is ever gonna pull the trigger on this driven move in the park. Ooh, ooh. I know Mike Wang might be telling you to be less explosive, Luca, but please, for the sake of gameplay and fun, be more explosive in these animations, please. Anyway, that is the entirety of the clip. NBA 2K is pushing pre-orders as they usually do. Developers love to push pre-orders as early as possible because they just take the pre-order money and invest it. So if you give them $60 and they make like a 8% return on your $60 that they invest in random markets around the world, then they're making more money than your $60 is given. And so they're making money with the money you give them early and so they incentivize pre-orders which usually means that developers like to give news early so that you have a reason to pre-order, but for some reason, with less than a month left in 2K's launchers, you still haven't heard too much about the gameplay. We haven't heard really much about the city, my team, my NBA, the W, really any mode. Unlike any way they've released news in the past, I'm curious to see when they're gonna really start to pummel home some news because we're waiting. We wanna see what the games are all about. And this year there's two games to talk about. There's two games. There's two full games to talk about. It feels like of any year, this would be the year where you would start early. So you can let people know what's going on in these video games. You're selling twists for 70 bones, 2K, or a hundred. It's more than a hundred. Some of these packages is more than $100. Hey, in the comments down below, let me know if y'all already pre-order NBA 2K 22 on either current, next, or both gens. If y'all new to the channel, be sure to subscribe, drop a like on it so we get to 25,000 and have a second channel where I'm uploading consistently on man. Catch those videos and screen right here. Boom, boom, man. Watch some extra videos. And that's a lot of things I ask you to do. You don't have to do any of them if you don't want to. I'll catch you guys on the next one. Peace.
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Hey everybody, it's Hari Swaminathan from optiontiger.com. What I wanted to do in this video is to lay out four or five simple rules for the proper usage of the SPX Tix Algo as well as the custom RSI indicator. Now these things are very powerful and we just need to follow some of these rules and apply them on a daily basis and even if you take a five contract position on the SPX with the 35 Delta, you can easily generate anywhere from thousand to two thousand dollars a day. So what I want to do in this video is to lay out these rules and then what we'll do is we'll go back and look at a few days of market action and see if we applied these rules properly what would have been the performance of these SPX daydrays. So on this slide we have the rules and guidelines for the usage of the Tix and custom RSI. The rules per se are just a few and then there are just some usage parameters or usage guidelines and let's go through each one of them. The first one of course is we have to let the Tix develop for one hour at least when the market's open. So we're talking about 9 30 a.m. US Eastern time and you want to let the Tix develop for one hour at least. Now there could be situations where there's strong momentum at the open and the market rushes off either to the upside or to the downside but you have to bear in mind that's more of a momentum play rather than a Tix play. So that could be a great day trade if you get into that but it's not a really based on the Tix per se. It's based on the strong momentum coming out at the open. The second one is once that one hour or 45 minutes to an hour has passed by then you want to gauge the market sentiment because by that point the Tix will probably tell you which side of the market it wants to go. Now granted later on in the day that might change but at least for the morning session you might get a good idea as to which way it wants to go. Now bear in mind when you have the ES which is just plus or minus five on either side of the flatline that's really considered neutral. The average two range for the S&P on a daily basis now is about 15 points and so it can go anywhere from plus or minus 15 on any given day. Obviously it can go more also and it can go less but if the market remains within a plus or minus five points then that is more of a neutral day and therefore you might have to be a little bit more patient with that particular day. Then once a sentiment has been set you want to align your trades. So basically whether you're going to go to the call side or to the put side you want to align it with the market sentiment on a five-minute chart. So until then you may be looking at a one-minute chart just to get some quicker feedback loop. However once a one hour has passed you want to be looking at the five-minute chart and that would be a lot more clearer that will provide a lot more clarity. So if the ES is bullish the ticks are above the zero line and it's increasing and custom RSI is in the bullish zone that's the perfect time to take a call frame. If the ES is bearish the ticks are below zero and decreasing and custom RSI has entered the bearish zone that is the time to go in for puts and once the custom RSI enters the bullish or bearish zones then you want to remain in the trade until that direction changes and of course you want to look for some persistence. So which means on the five-minute chart you want to see at least two dots with the above conditions and that's what gives you confidence for the trade. Bear in mind if the ticks and the custom RSI are not in sync then there is no trade. If the custom RSI or the ticks are turning around and you're already in a trade please take profits because you can always get back into another trade if that's what is needed but for now when you have profits you can take it and then when you want to see a little bit more finer view of the chart you can step down to the one-minute chart anytime but always come back to the five-minute chart when you're making trading decisions because after the first one hour or so you're going to find much more clarity on the five-minute chart. Let's now go into the platform and let's see a few days of trading and see if we can apply these rules and guidelines and how these trades would have played out. So this is the trading action for Friday July 19th. Now you can see the market started right here and it was up about six or seven points at the open and then as it comes down you can see that it's still near the flat line the ticks are near the flat line besides we are not even in the first hour so the first hour gets over somewhere here so it's only after this that you really start thinking of taking trades and now you can see there is some persistence here there could be a bearish trade right there after that you can see that the green ticks are coming in so you would have gotten out over here this is below the zero line so even though you're seeing green ticks first of all the custom RSI is still more closer towards the bearish zone and the green ticks are below the zero line so there is no call trade at all then if you look at this once again it's choppy and so there is no persistence there here you find a couple of green dots and coming up nicely but it is all below the zero line and the custom RSI has not yet come out of the bearish zone and so there's no trade there either and then once you come here once again lot of choppiness here perhaps you might have taken a trade over here but that would have gotten stopped out right away because it went away that opportunity is gone and then you see some persistence but once again now we are above the zero line and so there is no put trade there and so you would want to wait over here and then this is in the it goes into the bearish zone and once again there is no trade at all all the way till here and perhaps maybe this was a good trade one you see some you know a sudden drop in the ticks and then it becomes persistent and the custom RSI clearly goes into the bearish zone and it remains there for a while now you do see some slight green ticks over here you might have come out and that's fine this would have been a decent trade from this level to this level and this would have been a decent very good trade this would have been on a five contract position as I said this would be about a thousand dollar trade at least you know that's it so really one great trading opportunity on Friday let's go back one day to Thursday this would be July 18th and as you can see the first one hour the ticks are settling in there is no real clear direction here even though you see the RSI in the bullish zone there is no clear trade it's only here that you start getting some persistence on the bearish side and this would have been a very very good trade you can see that you could have come from this level all the way down till here so and even till here you would have gotten out at this bar and so that would have been a fantastic trade a fifteen hundred dollar trade I would say but then the green dots now are below the zero line so there's no trade there and there's no trade through any of this and the only time now you get some persistence is on the upside towards the close and this would have been a decent bullish trade because as you can see this starts becoming persistent and that's really what takes the market to really high levels over here in fact it closes somewhere here but the trade would have gotten over somewhere around this level here that would have been another thousand dollar twelve hundred dollar trade all right let's go back one more day here and this is where you get fantastic opportunities because you can see that you're starting off and right away the ticks are going below zero and then you have some persistent conditions with the RSI completely here so this would have been a great trade and this might be a day where you take the trade a little earlier than one hour because you can see that there is some persistence going on here and especially after these two or three dots you want to take the trade so here I would say from a three zero zero three level you can come till at least two nine nine five that's eight points on the S&P so this would have been a fifteen hundred to two thousand dollar trade right there and then of course you're seeing some bullish action you don't get into that because everything is below zero and then you want to see to see see if you can get some more bearish but the customer RSI never really gets in there so there's no trade through any of this and then from here perhaps you might get into a trade because this is you know this is pretty good but then you would have been stopped out over here so it would have been a small trade and then that's really it after that it just chops around so on Thursday you would have had two very good trades both of them would have been approximately fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars and then now let's go back one more day here you see once again the tick starts and it tries to go up but there's no there's no real momentum to the upside there's a little bit here on the ticks but the customer RSI is not cooperating and therefore there is no trade so when the ticks and the customer RSI are not in sync there is no trade so even though you see these green dots you don't want to get into the trade so really the first time you start getting into a trade is a bearish trade right here and you see the customer RSI is already in the bearish zone now you see two or three dots and so somewhere around here which is about three zero one three and then you ride it all the way till here perhaps anywhere here you can see the choppiness you just get out because you would have made your fifteen hundred dollar profit on this trade after that may be a small trade here that's about it and then it just becomes choppy and actually makes its way up a little bit so let's go back one more day here and then see this this is also something there is momentum coming in at the open the ticks are showing higher but you can see the customer RSI it's not it's not there and that because look at the price action very very choppy there's nothing going on there and therefore there is no trade on this as well so the only time you do look at it now clearly everything is above the zero line by the time you reach into the afternoon session and so somewhere here you might be tempted to take a trade it wouldn't have lasted very well you would have probably been stopped out very quickly and then there is no trade there's just choppiness here so really on this was on the 15th of July there's no real big trading opportunity at all and that's to be expected because not every day is going to present opportunities and the key is not to over trade and just take the best trading opportunities so once again you see at the open the ticks are just flat lining and then there is this is in the bearish zone but there's no trade there and then once it starts getting over here once again it's quite choppy so there is no there's no real trade and all the way till here there's no real trade the only trade that comes is right here and once you see this condition right there and the customer RSI clearly in the bullish zone yes you can go in for a trade and that could have lasted anywhere till here so I would say somewhere from the 30 one one level up to the 3013 so not a huge trade this would have been a five to seven hundred dollar trade but it would have been a profitable trade there all right let's do one more and here you can see as the markets open tries to go up there's nothing there but in any case we don't do anything for one hour and then you can see some bearish action coming in so somewhere here maybe after 45 minutes after the markets open you can take the trade somewhere here and that would be a 3000 level and then you would have gotten out at the 2996 not too bad about an 800 dollar trade and then once again you see the customer RSI is still coming out of the bearish zone so all through this you don't want to take any trade even though the price action on the chart looks attractive you don't want to take the trade and so you let it go and once again you can see some weakness coming in but it also cannot sustain itself the ticks is still above the zero line so that's it there's no real trade there perhaps here towards the close is what you're looking at because now customer RSI is flirting with the bullish zone and over here it goes into the bullish zone so in the last half an hour you do have a nice trade about an 800 dollar trade again if you apply these rules consistently on a daily basis I feel you can get one to two trades don't look for more trades than that unless it presents you with the opportunity but even if you do one to two trades and on a five contract position I think you can average about a thousand dollar day profit using the SPX ticks indicator as well as the customer RSI if you have any questions you can email me at infoadoptiontiger.com thanks
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It's official. You get 110% revenue share for all your videos about the games we publish. We have published Dreamscaper, the video of the game behind me on Steam. Click that I to see the video about Dreamscaper to learn more. Create a playlist of all the videos you've made about Dreamscaper. Let's plays, reviews, first impressions, parodies, anything about this game. Call it the 110% revenue share playlist or anything you like and then send it to us when we're ready. We're not ready just yet, that's why I'm asking you to prepare the playlist but we will pay you 10% more than what YouTube pays us for every video about Dreamscaper. If you make one video, 10 videos, 100,000 videos, every single one will get 110% revenue share. There's no limit to how many videos or how many views or there's no cap to how much you can make. It's simply 110% of everything. And more videos in the future. 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So make your videos like Eszador, put them in a playlist and make 110% revenue share. Note you do need to be a freedom partner because if you're not a freedom partner, we don't get paid for the video so we can pay you an extra 10%. Maybe we can roll this out to non-freedom partners in the future. But for now, this is only for people partnered with freedom. Let me pitch you on a new idea. How do you get more views to your Dreamscaper videos or any videos on YouTube? Quick, what's this? It's a blog. See, it's text, not video and screenshots. This is a review of Dreamscaper on a website. Do you have a blog? Do you want a blog? You can embed your videos in your blog so you get additional views from people who Google search and find your blog because of your compelling editorial content that's keyword rich. So Google will pick it up and send some organic traffic to you. Here is YouTube's official blog. They also do exactly that right about the videos and the people on the platform to get Google love, not just YouTube SEO love. Roberto Blake. He's another popular YouTuber who has his own blog. This is just WordPress. He collects his newsletter subscribers just like he collects YouTube subscribers. This subscribe button will ask for your email and he's building his base of subscribers on his website on his blog. Should you do the same? Do we have a blog? Well, we didn't, but now we do. I made this very recently as an experiment to see how difficult it is to make a blog. I collect my most popular tip videos on www.tips.tm. That's the website of this blog. I want to show you how easy it is. First, what does it look like? I click on this image. It's a thumbnail. I see my embedded video and I have a little extra text to talk about the video. This is not a very good example because the point of a blog is to have rich, compelling editorial, not just a copy of your video description. Let's take a look at this blog, which is a better example where I put screenshots of what I didn't even have in the video to help explain the concept of how to monetize all your videos quickly. How do I make a new blog post from one of my videos? Let's take an example of this new YouTube strip. I simply copy the title, step one, create a new blog post, and I just paste it right in the new blog. Then I take the video link on YouTube, copy that, and paste it into the blog, and it's instantly embedded right here. But I don't want it at the very top. I want to start with some text. This is where I go into my video description. I take a copy of some relevant text, not the entire video description, and then I write some more text to add compelling editorial content that Google SEO will pick up and drive traffic to me from Google searches. I just finished writing some text here, and you noticed I included my YouTube chapters, which I think are relevant and helpful for Google SEO. 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2016 FLLITE Workshop - Session 3.3: More FLLITE Lesson Examples - presentation
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Presenter: Chantelle Warner
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The FLLITE Approach: Lesson Design, Assessment, and Publication
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Participants used pedagogical principles and strategies from the Foreign Languages and the Literary in the Everyday (FLLITE) project to create original lessons, discovered new open educational materials featuring playful language use, incorporated formative and summative assessment into FLLITE lessons, and prepared and peer-reviewed materials for possible publication.
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OK. All right, we're going to get started again. Welcome back, everyone. I wanted to show, because I know we threw a lot of references at you, so I wanted to just really quickly, before I get into what I wanted to share, show you. This is not a plug for Amazon. It was just the fastest, quickest place that I found the book. But this is the book. Oh, but it's hard to see. This is the book we mentioned, Reading for Meaning, by Janet Swoffer, Catherine Arons, and Heidi Burns. They've all three written things since then. But I like this book as a go-to for these reading matrices and ideas of really tangible things to do in the classroom. So it's an oldie but a goodie. So that's one that I would recommend. And it's super cheap, it looks like, because it's old, which is also nice. Somebody could snap up that one cent hardcover there. And then the other book I wanted to mention actually is to do a plug for a book that is co-authored by my co-director from Circle, Beatrice de Puy. And this actually grew out of a project that was sponsored by Circle that was on, basically, teacher education and multiliteracies approaches. And so it's by Kate Paizani, who's actually stepping in as the director of one of the other language resource centers of Carla, yeah. So she'll be one of our colleagues, Beatrice de Puy, and then Heather Willis-Allen. And this book is a multiliteracies framework for collegiate foreign language teaching, but don't let the collegiate part fool you. I've seen them present on this at Actful. And I think most of the examples they have for the classroom are actually really readily available to adapt for middle school and high school for sure. I think you'd probably have to do a little more thinking to bring them into elementary. But I think it's a great resource because it's really a teacher training guide. So it always has, at the end of the chapters, practical activities to help you think into the kinds of concepts they're introducing. And it's very compatible with the kinds of approaches and the methods that we've been talking about during the workshop. So those are just two resources if you want to follow up later. What we're going to do for the next little stretch before we set you on your way is I wanted to share, not that, I wanted to share, I'm going to focus on the beginning level. I gave you on the handout a couple of examples from beginning and a couple of examples from intermediate. But I have the sense from our conversations yesterday and today that the beginning is going to be more pertinent. So I'm just going to point at the intermediate one, but talk more in depth about the beginning level one. And first, I wanted to orientate you a little bit because the examples I gave you come from our first year curriculum for German. And they're from the first full chapter that we do, which is kind of the second chapter because the book has an introduction, which gives classroom vocabulary, saying hello, greetings, things like that. So it's the first full rounded out chapter of the book. So it's really early. But there is also a flight lesson associated with that. And it is in German, but like a lot of the materials from Joanna's textbook, the kind of teacher discourse around it is in English. So even if you don't speak German, I think you can kind of get an idea for the lesson if you went in there. So I just also wanted to show you where to find things like that. So if you're on the flight web page, the place that you go is example lessons. And you'll find these categories of play that we were working with yesterday. And under those, you'll find a whole lot of examples and hopefully more examples. And you might soon be finding your own examples placed under there. That's the afternoon workshop we'll be talking about those. But in this particular instance, I know one of the categories that falls under is genre play. So if I go under there, there's the lesson. And it's a lesson on personal ads. And to understand that choice, I want to just tell you a little bit about my curricular context. And then I'll show you a tiny bit of the lesson, and then we'll talk about the assessments. So I teach and I direct a language program where we have multi-sections. We have a graduate program. So our beginning level languages are taught by graduate students. So I have this coming fall seven or eight sections of Beginning German. So it's important in my context, because when I show you the grading rubrics, that's going to matter. Because the people who are teaching my beginning levels, I maybe have one or two experienced graduate students who've been in our program. If I'm lucky for two years, sometimes even a little longer if we have a couple PhD students teaching at that level. But most of the instructors who are teaching my beginning level course are brand new, novice teachers with absolutely zero teaching experience. So that means I have to break things down in certain ways that I wouldn't do if I myself were just teaching the course. It's a course which has, we're actually in the process of switching that. But until very recently, we've used a standard commercial textbook. It's one of the better textbooks, I would argue, but it still has its problems. And it falls into these traps that Carl kind of mentioned earlier of teaching grammar and culture in a really normative way and a fairly flat way. And it also, even though it's sold as a communicative language teaching textbook, ends up doing a lot of really discreet vocabulary and discreet grammar teaching, but also testing. The test bank, which we don't use very much, is mostly kind of falls back into discreet vocabulary items, translating the word into English, fill in the blank kind of activities. And so part of our challenge over the last few years has been to kind of take that textbook and take what we have and what's good of that because there are really important reasons why we use that textbook, especially with a big group of new instructors. It has a lot of support built in for both the students and the teachers. But to kind of rethink the curriculum because what we found and it's something that's kind of echoed in a lot of the research is that students were kind of hitting a ceiling around the fifth semester where because they were getting all of the support, thinking back to the training wheels metaphors yesterday, they were doing fine, they were getting good grades, they felt kind of to an extent comfortable in those first couple of years. And then they didn't, they were struggling to go further. They were struggling to do the kinds of things that were expected of them at the higher levels because they were so used to this particular kind of support that they kind of fell over when they got into the real situations where the language got more complex. So we wanted to build in early that support system to get them asking those right questions and thinking about grammar, culture, language being more complicated than what the textbook was telling them so that they would be prepared as they moved forward to kind of really be long term learners and not to kind of hit that ceiling along the way. So our first step was to take what we had but redefine the objectives a little bit. So we looked at our textbook which would have sort of functional kinds of objectives but they were sort of vaguely defined but then would test grammar and say, what do we want students to do at the end of each chapter? So we came in with kind of can do statements, drawing a lot from the European Common Framework, little bit from Actful as well, and then going, because I wanted to bring in this multi-literacies approach, going to the website I mentioned yesterday which I wanted to show you now, you'll find this page pretty easily and they have a whole lot of resources but the page that I go to the most, this one that I love, especially for my new instructors is under learning by design and the knowledge processes. What they have is those pedagogical acts that we talked about yesterday, they call them knowledge processes. That's not my favorite term, that's a discussion maybe for lunch but these are these pedagogical acts that we were talking about yesterday, experiencing, conceptualizing, analyzing and applying but for each of them, they have those active verbs and for those of you who are familiar with it, a lot of them look a lot like something from Bloom's taxonomy, if you've been trained in that kind of method so they kind of resonate. Some people find that problematic. I love that because especially for working with my novice teachers, they get these, they can sit there and say, oh, I'm categorizing different kinds of pronouns. I'm categorizing words in different kinds of semantic fields, words that relate to clothing, words that relate to this. And so we can kind of intersect with the textbook and the way that it works. We can intersect with things that feel a little bit intuitive because these are a little bit more obvious, a little bit more opaque than some other kinds of terms but then we can use that to build into these kind of more multiliteracies objectives and ultimately to bringing in a lot of the flight kind of approach that we've been talking about over the last couple of days. So we started to reframe our whole curriculum along these lines and I have massive documents of how we've done that which I won't share, but if anyone's interested, I'm happy to share them at a later point because we had to create new tables of learning outcomes and how that matched up with the textbook. And so one of the things that we ended up doing though to realize those objectives is we then looked at, well, where are the weak points in the textbook? What does it do? What does it not do? And that's where we started to supplement with a lot of text that really fit into the flight approach and a lot of the lessons for beginning German that we have on the website or that are continuing to be added to the website come exactly out of this, of my graduate students and I working together to say, what is the textbook not doing? What do we need it to do? What can we create to have it do that? And a lot of those lessons end up really being along the flight approach. And so one of them comes from a chapter, it's kind of similar to what Joanna shared with the poem. It's the chapter that's called who I am and what I do. So it probably will be familiar to many of you from a beginning level class. The students are introduced to some vocabulary like student about their identity and they also learn to talk about hobbies and they also learn some very simple expressions for I like to X, I like to Y, I don't like to this. So a little bit of kind of expressing preferences and expressing opinions, but kind of on that personal, what do I do level? So the textbook has a variety of different dialogues and interactions and kind of really simple genres that they have to do this. And we started thinking together about, well, what are some other genres that maybe bring in this playfulness a little bit that will still allow the students to use vocabulary from the textbook and these very simple sentence structures from the textbook, but that will bring this playfulness in a little bit. And one of the graduate students who's the co-author of the activity, I'm gonna show you Chelsea Steinart, said, well, what about singles ads? Because singles ads are very short, they have to be, right? Because even they used to be in newspapers where you were limited by print, now they're online, but that tradition has sort of still held in a lot of spaces. So they're short texts, they're simple texts, right? You don't have a lot of space, but you have to do something really important and that is to convince another human being that you are an attractive, charming, appealing person whom they should contact because you want to date them, right? So they are very playful a lot of the time because you have in a very short text to convey a lot of personality. So we assigned ourselves the very fun task of going online and finding German singles ads because we wanted to try to use authentic texts as much as possible. I don't know if I recommend that part of the curriculum form, it's a weird world. But we did find some that fit the bill. They kind of did the work we wanted, they were interesting, they were playful and they were gonna also resonate with some of the resources, linguistic resources that the students were getting from the textbook. So this is in German, I'll just walk you through it a little bit. This is the lesson on personal ads in German called Kontaktansagen. And so this is the kind of format of the typical lessons that we have and you'll see this later when we talk about the author documents. So it lists at first the texts and genres and practices while the texts they're doing, they're reading and responding to personal ads. They're designing a personal ad for a fictional character because that was another thing we wanted to do, the textbook, and this might be familiar to some of you, I think tends to over personalize. There's sort of an assumption that the students wanna talk about themselves all the time, which in terms of actually being playful and creative, sometimes can actually be an interesting sort of restriction because my students coming in in the first semester are usually freshmen. They're not, for those of you teaching high school, they're not that much older or more mature than your students and they're brand new students at college. So there's a lot of posturing. So actually sometimes giving them a distance to do what Cheryl Krugler is called creative personalization. You're personalizing for a fictional character is actually a really nice opportunity for them a lot of the time. And then they're gonna transform that text into a response, I'll show that in a second. And what they're doing is they're certainly, I'm gonna skip to this language use and language play. They're certainly working with the vocabulary and the grammar, but they're viewing these as choices. What word I choose to describe myself in a moment isn't just something intrinsic about me. It's about how I'm presenting myself in the world. It's how I'm trying to sell myself to another human being. And this is really, it's really creative in a lot of ways. They're also a little bit, we bring in multimodality because that choice of do you include an image or not? Do you ask for an image or not is kind of important in singles ads and interesting in terms of self representation. But they're also starting to look at this as an actual social practice. It's not some kind of abstracted thing we're having them fill out that's from the textbook and then the only person who reads it is me. Now they're not actually posting singles ads and going out there and finding people, but they're still tapping into something like this is an actual social practice in the world that circulates somewhere, that has meaning, has a function, does something in the world. And again, the objective here is not that they become proficient writers, readers, consumers of singles ads, but really that they're thinking about self representation as something that is creative, as something that isn't just about describing the kind of bland facts about I'm so and so tall and my hair is this color and I am so and so old, but is something that's very dynamic and has to do with how you present yourself in a given situation, in a given context. So I won't go through all of the steps because I wanna get into the assessment, but we give them just a few, six I think total, yeah, six singles ads. None of these actually were from websites with images so they don't have images and that was actually a deliberate choice for us to choose those for this step because we wanted them to look at the text. Sometimes we've had them read all of them more often than not actually we'd divvy them up so we have the class in six groups and each group gets one singles ad that they're working with at first because even though they're very short texts, again, this is the first chapter, this is very, very beginning level. So they're simple texts, but it's still a lot for them to kind of take on at that moment. And I'm just gonna highlight one because I know, I think no one in the room speaks German so I just wanna highlight one to give you an example of where the play comes in. This is the most playful so know this is an extreme case but it's my favorite one. This is a gentleman who describes himself as a warrior of the light who's looking for a spiritual elf. So warrior of the light and then this is one of the genre norms that they learn. The M is for he's a male and he's 38 years old and he's looking for an attractive arwin. Anyone get that illusion? Lord of the Rings, anyone? Okay. Who has a sense of nature, peace. For example, likes camping, likes bonfires on the sea and nature. He likes nature and he likes culture the same. He's open to the world, he's tolerant, or sorry, openness to the world, tolerance and pretty eyes would be nice. And he would be happy for responses and an image which is something that they notice really quickly is that a lot of the gender comes into this. A lot of them say, hey, we'd like this person who has tolerance and openness but send your picture, please. Which is one of the norms of the genre as well. So we look at a couple of these examples again. Some of them are less playful than this but a lot of them have metaphor, kind of German equivalence of what Joanna was showing this morning, right? Cause they're trying to convey a lot in a very short text. So we work with these. We have some structured activities, kind of basically reading matrices. Woop, where they first just break down, what's the age, how do they look, what are the hobbies and interests? Cause we've already brainstormed that these are the kinds of things you might put in a singles ad. And then we start to look at it more closely. What are some, we really look at what are some of the literate, what's some of the literatiness? What are some of the metaphors? What's some of the playful language? Do they take on character roles? How do they describe themselves? And one of the things we talk about here because this becomes important for the other activities is which ones do this a lot? Like our warrior of the light here? And which authors do this only very little? Maybe they just have one or two little metaphors that are actually fairly standard metaphors. And we think about that that's a choice too because if you're the kind of person who sells yourself as the warrior of the light, that might not be attractive to everyone, right? Maybe you want the kind of straight edged kind of normal guy who describes himself as being a sport cannon as in German, right? So thinking about how literary to be and how literary not to be is itself a choice, right? Maybe you just want the straight forward description and that itself is a choice rather than something that's just assumed. So we talk about that, we talk about which ones they think are most creative and then we give them a set of images. These are all open resources again to go back to what Carl was also flagging for us yesterday. And we say, imagine a person who's writing a singles ad who uses this image. So it's not just about being this person, this image itself is a choice, right? If I put the image of myself in the cafe during my gig while I'm playing my guitar, right? I'm portraying myself as a particular kind of individual. So what kind of profile would this person be likely to write? Would they use a lot of metaphor? Would they take on character roles? Would they describe themselves in kind of more neutral terms? What would they do? Would they be more playful? Would they be less playful? So they speculate on that in groups and then they compose a profile for that person. So if I chose the guy with the guitar, then I'm writing as the guy with the guitar, right? Me, man, 26 years old. This is what I like to do, this is who I am. And then the final step is they go back and they think, OK, let's pretend that you're the person who just wrote this profile. Let's say I'm guy with the guitar. And now you're perusing those singles ads that we read at the beginning. Would he respond to any of those, do you think? And if he would respond to them, what would he say? Because this is another moment of self-representation where a lot of them ask you to respond by text message, an even shorter form where you have to sell yourself because you want the person to write back. And so we asked them to think about in a text message, how would this guy respond to this particular ad? And so part of this is us having kind of the series of texts. So none of it is kind of abstract, just describe this person, but rather how are you positioning yourself, how are you presenting yourself so that they can see that these choices are always something that is embedded in a particular moment, in a particular interaction between people. And that allows us thinking back to those three levels from yesterday to bring in the textual, right? They're writing a short text. A text message is a very short text that often can have incomplete sentences. That's one of its norms, but it's still a text. But we're also bringing in this ideational experiential, right? This idea of what is a single's ad? What are you saying about yourself, right? That what are you expressing? What kinds of verbs do you use? But we're also bringing in the interpersonal. It's fictive. I mean, these are imagined people. There's a lot of speculation going on. It's creative work. But they're still thinking about these particular individuals in a given moment, how might they interact? And so it becomes a little bit more contextualized, even if that context is, yes, unauthentic, yes, fictive. But it gives them a lot more to work with. So that's the lesson. And so thinking about assessment, for us at this level, it usually takes two forms. And so one is what we might call formative assessment, and one is what we might call summative assessment. And these are both on the handout. And for us, the summative assessment is always something that's integrated into a lesson like this. So it's often what you might call a transformation activity. We were talking yesterday about the applying appropriately and applying creatively. Usually, for us, our formative assessment at this level is an opportunity for them to apply appropriately and creatively, trying to bring those two together. So the tasks that I just mentioned, where they imagine that they're a person from one of the images, and they themselves compose the singles ad, and think about how do they introduce themselves? Do they use metaphors and cliches, as some of the ads did? What role does the text play? Do they use an image? What role does the image play? This, for me, is a formative assessment. And then that SMS, the text message that they write, is another formative assessment. They're imagining they're the person in the ad, and they're ringing the singles ads. Which person suits you? Choose one person and write a text message. What do you say? How do you introduce yourselves? So the tasks are formative. But also the reflections. Because at this level, we always have a reflective element. Sometimes that's more informal. It's just in the classroom. Stepping aside, usually for a couple of minutes in English at this level and saying, why did you do it this way? Why did you do it that way? Us looking at their classmates' texts and comparing them and seeing all the different choices that are available and what different effects those have. At the higher levels where they can write a little bit more, we start to make those reflections a written component of the task. So then at the end, write a couple of sentences just about the choices you made kind of explaining them to us. Because that allows us to also check in to see, what are they doing? What did they mean to do? Is there for us any friction between them and to give some feedback, either peer feedback or instructor feedback on that? The summative assessments for us at these levels, we have unit tests. So they're chapter tests. So the summative assessments are embedded in the unit tests, which are also testing a variety of other things. And this is one place. I just want to flag this as being kind of a friction myself, because we've gone back and forth, the instructors and I, talking about exactly how to do this. Because one thing that we didn't want to do was enforce them being literary in these texts, interestingly enough. And especially for a genre like this, again, that choice of how literary you are or not is part of how you're conveying your personality. And so to say, you have to now write a text that fits like this, to me would be in direct opposition to exactly what we're trying to teach the students, which is that these choices are choices and that they matter, and you should come at them critically and with an awareness, and that that's what we're trying to develop, is them asking these questions of, what do I want to say? What do I want to do with this language? What choices can I make? And what effects might those have on the individuals I'm trying to interact with? And so if we enforce a particular way of writing, it felt wrong. At the same time, we felt like if we didn't somehow value or validate that, that that also kind of went into opposition with what we were teaching them. So what we've come up with, the tasks themselves are usually fairly open. You can see here an example, it kind of models or echoes what they had already done. In this case, they have some activities where they're presented with new singles ads, not the ones we already talked about, but new singles ads, and they end up doing a little bit of work with those, quite similar to what they did here. So we do a lot of matrices on the exams as well. First, kind of just identify, what's the age? How does this person look? What are the hobbies and the way that we did in the reading matrix earlier? But then in the tasks, they again introduce themselves to a person, pretend like they're checking the social networking site first. And first we have them tell a friend about somebody's profile that you saw, so describing another person and why you found them interesting. So it's kind of an imagined oral task. We've also sometimes done as an email task, so kind of a more oral or orate genre where they just have to describe, I saw this profile of guitar guy. I find him very attractive. This is why, right? And so they describe the other person. And then they have to introduce themselves. So this echoes exactly more or less what they did with the text message. They send one of the profiles, a text message saying, I saw your profile and I'm interested in you. But for the grading Rubik, ours is very, very, very simple. You'll see at the bottom there. And that is we give points for task completion and comprehensibility. At this level, we are really much trying to push proficiency. We give, we put vocabulary and grammar together in a category. And then we give points for creativity and complexity. And that means different things at different moments. Cause in the first chapter, complexity, when you're writing a text message, there's not a whole lot of complexity going on there necessarily, but we do, along the way, talk to them about varying syntax, varying word order. It's something we introduced quite early in the curriculum. Varying vocabulary, varying structures in other ways so that they're from the get-go not kind of writing cookie cutter texts. And we're also trying to break them of the mold of, sometimes if we tell them right four sentences, we get texts where it's four sentences numbered one, two, three, four. That's not a text. That's a set of sentences, but it's not a text. So we're trying to kind of break them out of that mold. So that would also fall into creativity and complexity, but it also gives us a space for the students who say, actually, I'm gonna try out. I'm gonna be the warrior of the dark and I'm gonna write my profile to give that person some recognition for that and to build that into the rubric. There are no descriptors. I will admit to that. One thing we found, you'll see this when I show it to you really, really briefly, when we start writing longer compositions at the intermediate level, we do have descriptors. At this level on the test, we found that, I mean, it's kind of ends up being, yes, from excellent down to inadequate, that when we had kind of a more specific set of descriptors, it actually didn't seem to help with the feedback to the students. It didn't actually have a huge impact on how people were grading, but it meant that the instructors were taking twice as long to grade things and they were overthinking every choice. Whereas when we kind of broke it down quite simple, I looked at the test. They weren't grading any differently, but their time was cut in half and they were having a much easier time saying, this is five points versus three points. And I don't know if this is only my experience. I've seen some evidence on English language composition grading that suggests similar things that when people have a very simple rubric that actually sometimes the feedback is better in the grading process is more effective. But I think that's something that probably needs a little bit more research and I'd be happy for feedback on that. Now that's, I have the freedom to make that choice. I'm not, nobody asks me to provide something more detailed, so I have that flexibility. Maybe I'll stop there before I show the intermediate one quickly. Does anyone have any comments or questions about that one? What you just said about having the rubric without the descriptors. I do that a lot myself because it saves me time. I have my categories and I go from one to five on every task on whatever it is. And I do have the big sheet with all the descriptors of what's completed the task, what's excellent, what's, I think lacks competence or whatever our descriptor happens to be. And so the kids can refer back to that but it does save you time. And then if I'm ever having a question when I'm reading something, well I don't really know if this is a five or a three or a four or whatever, then I can go back and look at those descriptors. But it also helps if a parent has a question because usually it's not the kids who have the question about their grade, it's the parents. So that is something that we have to fall back on. So you're not alone in that, it does happen to us too. Occasionally a student will come back to ask for their grade. And then also we're in a kind of bifurcated power situation where they might go to their instructor and that's what I will tell them to do but they might also bring it to me at some point. So I need to be able to understand the choices. So they do give feedback in the margin about why they took off where. But it's made the process of grading for those novice instructors I think a lot faster and effective. Do you care if they're using textual language or do they have to spell out the foreign language and normal? That's a good question. So we give them a couple of examples and then we give them a link to a site and we tell them that that's part of what you can play with. The thing about German texting languages that a lot of them are actually the same as English. So part of it is it's kind of a cognate. It's saying hey, notice how a lot of these actually work the same way that they do in English. They've taken like LOL even though that doesn't work in German. People just know that that's laughing out loud. But then some things are also quite different. And those are a really simple set of resources. We can give them that if they're gonna have peer-peer interactions, if they go study abroad, which we encourage them to do, although a small number do, if they have German speaking friends, that's something they can use right away. It's not academic language, but it's real language and texting language also has a lot of playfulness. It's something we come back to later in the curriculum as well. I'm gonna point out very quickly the intermediate one but I think that that's less relevant for a lot of your context. So I won't spend a lot of time on it. But what we do, and this is on page five of the handout, our fifth semester curriculum, which we call intermediate advanced, it's kind of an odd course because most of our courses are three credits, which means they meet four days a week for 50 minutes. This course is a six credit unit course. So they meet five days a week for twice that, I guess a hundred minutes, and they have two instructors. It's kind of a beast and it's our course where we really bring majors and minors into the fold and say, okay, now we're revving things up. You're serious about this because we have a two year language requirement for most of the majors at our university. It's also a course that sometimes students who take high school German for four years do test into. So we get somewhere usually between two and four high school students who test into that every year. And the way we structure that course is on a kind of loose genre approach. So the first genre is description, then we do narrative, and then we do argumentation. And so for each of those units, we read a variety of different kinds of texts that are describing people and places then that are narrating in various contexts and we tie that a little bit into historical narration. And then very simple forms of argumentation like film reviews, book reviews, simple position papers. And so I say that so that you can see when you look at the example here, it's in the middle unit, which is on narrative. And part of, a lot of what we focus on is really standard narratives, kind of very familiar kinds of narrative, both literary and a lot of personal recounts. But we do do a couple of units that are more looking at multimodal and looking at digital narratives so that that's also something we can connect with it. And so one of the flight lessons is a lesson that's on cultural illusion, humor and memes. So it's this case that was at a university in Germany where a door broke and the response was for them the administration to put a sign on the door that said the technician has been informed. And then it created this whole phenomenon whereby people kept printing off internet memes. Everyone knows what an internet meme is, right? Where you have the image and then you have a short text. So people started printing them off and pasting them around the door. So you end up with this entire collage of internet memes and then that spawned an entire Facebook page which is devoted to this door at a university in Germany which still continues today. Part of the lesson now is we have them go to the Facebook page. But what's interesting about it is that when it got posted on the internet it was framed as a meme story. And so it's a story that someone compiled by taking a series of the photos and kind of showing how first there were two and then there were like 100 and then they all get taken down and then the dean posts something saying we had to take these down because it was against fire code. And then people start posting memes about it being about fire code. And there's all this entire response and it's framed as a narrative. So we look at, well what does it mean to tell a narrative in pictures? And what's narrative about this compared to the other kinds of narratives that we've done? And then they also have to try to recount the story which is a way of us, again, formatively assessing the kinds of narration that we've been practicing, that we've been working on, that we've been building on but also seeing that tension between telling the story in words and telling the story in images they don't afford the same things, right? You can do different things in images, you can do different things in words. So they pay attention to that and then we do some work with also graphic novels after that. So it kind of bridges into that a little bit. So this flight lesson where they work with the memes, the formative constructions that are built in are things like doing this recount where they have to consider what to leave out, what to mention, what they have to add that isn't there and present in the story that's on the internet. And also to think about this multimodality when you're moving between modes. But when it builds into the summative assessment, the summative assessment for this is that they write a story. And so this is another one of those spaces where the foreign language is in the littering the everyday, it's not directly assessed in the summative assessment for us in the curriculum. They are allowed and encouraged to use images with their story but it's not required because again, part of what we're trying to do is give them these resources, this kind of palette of ways in which they can make meaning and to see these different choices and the different effects they have. So I wanted to highlight this because sometimes I think it looks like the flight goes away in the assessments. And I don't have examples with me. If you look at what the students produce both in the activities around the singles ads on the exam and in the kinds of stories that they tell and choose to tell, we've continually seen exactly these aspects of literariness, these kinds of play that we bring into the lessons, coming into the kinds of things they're writing even when it's not being forced, even when it's not part of what we're directly assessing. And so that to me is anecdotally an indication that at least a number of students are seeing these resources, taking advantage of them and kind of building the ways in which they can express things in our case in the German language. So sometimes the assessment can be also coming in a little bit from the side and that if you're not directly assessing the literariness that doesn't necessarily mean that exactly those kind of tasks that you want them to do, that that literariness isn't part of what's supporting that kind of command of the language that we've been talking about over the last couple of days. And it's something we do see in their essays. For those, this is way too much probably for anyone to soak in, but if anyone wants a version, I'm just gonna flag it. For that, of course, we do have descriptors. The essays are all in three drafts. They write a first draft where the focus and attention, and this is on the back page on page six. And the first draft, the focus and the attention is always on task completion and comprehensibility and structure and coherence. We wanna see if the assignment is to write a narrative. What we're first looking at is, did you write a narrative? Is it a cohesive, coherent narrative? And our attention is really on that kind of macro structure. And then on the second draft, we assess style and word choice. That's not something that was assessed on the first draft, but we do give feedback on it. So they're not getting points counted off for incorrect word choice, for not being idiomatic. But we give them that feedback. So then when they revise the second draft, part of what they're doing is taking in that feedback and making sense out of it. We don't correct it, we give feedback, sometimes peer and sometimes instructor feedback. And then on the third draft, style and word choice comes in again with more points because they've already had feedback, but they've received feedback now for grammatical accuracy and complexity. And then that is where they also get points on the third draft. So the idea is that we're always building the feedback into the process before they write. And this came out of actually a study that one of our graduate students did several years ago, looking at this kind of modified process writing approach. And one of the things he found is that when we gave all of that feedback at the beginning, the students only focused on grammatical accuracy. And so we would get back essays that weren't narratives or weren't very coherent narratives or that jumped all over the place, that weren't using things that we wanted them to use linguistically like temporal and causal connectors that used all these linguistic resources for telling a story that at the intermediate advanced level, we want them to start to have command over. They weren't even using those because their focus was on adjective endings and had they declined this the right way and things like that. And so by forcing the text first, we've kind of shifted their attention on that. And then we come back to accuracy at the end. It still matters. We're saying, when you proofread your essay in English or in German, you need to come back at the end and make sure there are no typos in that you've declined things correctly. But first you have to have a text to work with. And so that's kind of our way of pushing them to a little bit more challenging writing at that level. And so we do have a very detailed kind of set of descriptors for what all the different points mean for that, which I can share a translation of if anyone wants it later. But I know this is a little bit beyond what a lot of you are teaching. But what we'd like you to be doing is going back to those lessons that you started yesterday. And depending on where you are, you might be doing slightly different things, but going back into them, starting to think about objectives. We had you inside the lesson, sort of looking at the trees, come back out to the forest for a second. What are the objectives of this? How does this fit into your curriculum? And that might also push you to go back into the lesson again and kind of move back and forth between those levels. Also starting to think about what possible assessments you might couple with that lesson in your curriculum if you're at that point. If you're not at that point, it's okay if you're mostly focusing your attention on the lesson at this point.
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Hello there. Welcome. My name is Casper Melville. I am a senior lecturer in the School of Arts at SOAS. I convene the MA in global creative and cultural industries and this is me giving you a little sample, a taster of the kind of thing that you can expect if you come to SOAS, if you come to my MA or indeed other MA's in the department where you can take my courses as options. I'm sorry I can't be with you in person live. I'm afraid I had other things that have taken me away but thank you for joining me for this recording. So like I said in this recording I'm going to give you a kind of taster and I'm going to give you a sample of one of the lectures that comes from one of the courses that I teach which I'll explain to you in just a minute. So let us start by me sharing my screen and let me take you to this and we'll start from the beginning shall we? Okay so as part of the MA that I teach global creative and cultural industries I teach a module which is called the music business which looks at all aspects of the production circulation of popular music. It's a module that kind of stands alone, you can take it as an option, lots of people who are doing a music MA or maybe doing history of our MA or indeed MA's in other parts of SOAS take this as an option but it's also a required a course for the MA global creative and cultural industries and a lot of the issues that I'm looking at in relation to music in the music industry of course are applicable across the creative economy. So as you can see the title of this this piece is going to be what is wrong with Spotify and it's really about the politics of streaming. I'm going to say politics I'm not talking about party politics, I'm talking about the debates about the nature of streaming. Streaming is something which you'll be very familiar with now but it's a relatively new phenomenon but it's transformed the way in which we consume cultural products of course in a huge way I mean throw your mind back when I first started teaching this course in 2013 very few of my students were using streaming some of them had iTunes some of them were doing illegal file sharing one or two had started to use Spotify fast forward now to 2022 and something like 90 percent of the students in my music business class are streaming and not only are they do the degree of penetration of Spotify. So in this session I just want to give a sense of the debate around Spotify what sort of creative industry scholars and various others have said about it and get some sense of you know what it means and what and and how we can think how we can analyze it how we can think about it as a sort of new element of the creative economy. So let's start with this proposition really which comes from an article by Dave Hesman House from 2020. Dave Hesman House is a cultural industry scholar he's written the very well-known book called The Cultural Industries but also recently has been publishing a lot of work on digital platforms like SoundCloud and Bandcamp and Spotify and the most recent piece that he's written or one of the most recent he makes this claim which I think is a claim which he can justify using the data. Having declined for 14 continuous years from 2001 to 2014 the music industry began record growth. This growth was driven entirely by music streaming services so the the piece he read at the end the recovery of revenues was almost entirely driven by the increasing use across much of the world of music streaming services. So the reason why the record industries revenues collapsed of course at the beginning of this of this century is because of the impact of the internet and particularly what the so-called Napster moment this was the moment of file sharing this was the moment when people suddenly realized that they could swap files without having to root it through some kind of legitimate way of buying it and there was this a huge kind of moral panic in the industry or an actual panic about so-called piracy and revenues music industry revenues consequently took a nosedive because of the end of physical sales you know no the collapse of CD sales really and it's only been since the emergence of streaming initially around 2006 2007 and then the way that built up latterly till the point that we're at now in 2020 when streaming is providing a bulk of the revenues in the music industry and revenues have bounced back now to the levels that they had reached it at the beginning of the 1990s the high point of CD sales. So in some sense you might think streaming has resolved some of the big issues in the musical economy and you know it's something to be celebrated. This is just a chart this is actually from 2017 so it's not you know brand new but it just gives you some a sense of the kind of global penetration of streaming services it's not it's unevenly distributed around the world and it's not completely dominated by you know the Anglo-West as you can see Mexico at that point at the top was at the top with 75 of the audience who had streamed or used streaming but you can see Sweden Brazil South Korea Germany Canada Japan is an interesting case right at the bottom because Japan is a bit of an outlier in the music industry and despite Japan's reputation for sort of being at the cutting edge of technology is actually quite slow often to adapt to new ways of distributing music so for example you can still rent CDs in Japan in a way that you just can't in the UK I mean how would you do that. So that gives you a sense of the kind of global spread let's have a little think about how streaming services make money it's not just Spotify there are lots of others but Spotify does tend to predominate because it's got the largest market share they offer ad supported services so the revenue is coming from advertising subscription that's where you pay for a subscription everybody knows about this model now because everybody subscribes not everybody but probably you to Netflix Disney Plus Spotify Apple Music I mean subscription model is now the most you know the biggest and the biggest growing model within the creative economy some kind of hybrid of those two and also offers on-demand access that's the key thing about streaming which makes it different from traditional forms of media like television although of course we now stream television so that's become complicated but unlike television and radio which are pre-programmed the programs will come on at a given time and you have to be there to watch them we're talking about on-demand this is you deciding what you want to listen to what you want to watch by clicking a button here's a key point about these services the majority of them are not profitable now that's an odd thing to think is they're successful but not profitable they generate money they generate income they generate income for the people who work for them and the people who own them and the people who own shares in them and of course Spotify is a publicly traded company but they don't actually turn a profit you know the vast amount of money that Spotify makes through streaming through its subscription services passed on to the record labels which is why you know the music industry revenues have gone way up but they don't actually make profit unto itself and this is a very common model of you know internet-based business it's not initially doesn't it's not initially important to be profitable what is important is market share so what happens with a technology company like Spotify is that they emerge they are given funding from people who back the idea and think it's going to be successful so-called venture capitalists or angel investors and then they go through subsequent rounds of funding which keeps you know allowing them to improve their their interface and to you know buy more things and build up their staff until they are so big that they have they can dominate the market and at that point often things change I mean you'll remember maybe when Facebook was in this position just before Facebook was profitable it had a huge penetration global market and it then transitioned into basically the world's biggest advertising company and is now vastly profitable and similar with Google so that's something to bear in mind when you're thinking about the the economic structure of these new digital platforms and of course now there is there are some platforms which are which in this space which are profitable so for example Bandcamp which is a kind of online record store has reported that it is profitable but and it's probably not coincidental that Bandcamp was just two weeks ago been bought by Epic Games so this is about the model in which independence tend to be bought up by big big players Epic Games is partly owned by Tencent which is a ginormous Chinese internet company which also has a stake in Spotify. Okay so who are the main players in the kind of stream music streaming world is here's a list of some of the biggest Spotify is the biggest 144 million paid subscribers that's going up quite nicely or has been over the past few years although that growth has slowed somewhat as the penetration becomes you know a lot across the world. Apple Music next with 60 million subscribers Apple obviously the world's richest company has significant advantages because people have already got what used to be called iTunes which has been rebranded as Apple Music if you have an iPhone you've got Apple Music already on your phone or on your laptop and they've been you know transferring those people who are owning the phones into subscribers to Apple Music. YouTube has a subscription service as well they've got 20 million paying subscribers I don't know if you pay for YouTube I rather doubt it 20 million is not that many comparative to the amount of people who actually use YouTube and YouTube remains the number one place to discover music it is the most significant music distribution site in the world albeit that it's its business model is different to Spotify and Apple and then there's Amazon now with Amazon as you'll probably know if you're an Amazon Prime subscriber it's bundled in with your Prime subscription which is really to get kind of free delivery or to watch you know TV programs on Amazon Prime but you do actually get a music service bundled in with it I don't know if you know that or if you use it it's hard to figure out exactly how many subscribers they have because of course the 150 million subscribers like I said are subscribing for a multiple reasons not just to get hold of the music service that they have there are independence in the streaming sector some of the big independence Idagio they specialize in classical music they tend to be niche in some way SoundCloud which I'll talk a bit about SoundCloud later on because they've got a new model but they're very much about new music especially kind of younger people's club-based type music or hip-hop produces upload their music which may not actually be released on a major label and people can follow you there's a social media aspect to it. Bankamp I've just mentioned to you which has just been bought so no longer in indie arguably Tidal this was the big experiment that you know a bunch of you know famous African-American artists including Jay-Z established and Rihanna in the US which was designed to compete on the basis of having much better quality sound files it's actually been not a very successful launch business something like three million subscribers and it's now owned by Sprint which is an American telephony company and similarly Deezer which was the kind of French version of Spotify is now owned by Orange again by a phone company so you can see that at this level there's a lot of integration between the platforms and the different services and sometimes the music is there really just to be bundled up with other things to make the other subscriptions more attractive very much like the way that BT bought into sport live sport in order to drive the uptake of their on-demand TV services there are there is global variation of course I mean it's the huge the largest share of the streaming market is dominated by Spotify which is Swedish but really it's an American company now and Apple we know is American but in in India there's Geo Savan which is a huge Indian streaming service 100 million active users and in Tencent in China there's a whole you know in some ways there's more there's at least two internets if not more but you know there's an English language English speaking internet and then there's Chinese internet many of the same services are not available China blocks quite a lot of services from from outside of China but Tencent is a huge company within China and as you can see by the numbers you know 900 million users you know that's the scale of the of the Chinese market and it's growing very rapidly now what are the controversies associated with streaming well here's some of them the dominance of the platform capitalists the way that platform capitalists amazon alphabet who owns google apple and facebook these are the so-called platform capitalists have dominated have come to predominate in cultural production they didn't initially start off as cultural producers of course they circulate as you know they're like you upload your content onto our site we don't we're not publishers but actually now all of them have moved very strongly into cultural production they make things we know that apple tv is making original programming so is amazon and facebook is moving into that direction as well there are some anxieties about the way in which streaming in represents a shift from buying music to owning music and owning cultural products like you know your records on your shelf or your cds or your bvds to paying for access and what the implications are in terms of cultural value really in terms of how we value the products that we're getting access to and our our ownership of them do we take them into ourselves do we make them part of our of our kind of um you know our identities in the same way that we might with things that we buy do we have a same do we value them as highly and there's been anxieties expressed about that and there are issues around the con what are the consequences for pay for creative pay here what you know what does it mean that this system is dominated by these very wealthy platform capitalists and are they fairly distributing the money that they are making especially back to those people are actually making the culture itself and making the music so those are the three of the kind of key anxieties in this in this space now i'm just going to stop sharing for a second because i want to share something else with you i just want to show you this is just a sort of reminder of the vulnerability really of the way that of the way that it's possible to so-called gain the system now this is rather sad but a footage in one sense which is that it it features michael k williams who sadly died quite recently you may know him as the the character oma in the wire but this is an investigation he did for vice which is this kind of hip young media company not so young anymore which went to look at the so-called streaming farms and just have a little look at what happens yeah and stream their music to run the numbers up yeah just basically just run the numbers up some people ask for 100 days to 100 days just to get really the appearance of that music to look at when people go to the beach oh so that's actually not a place for anyone to swim thousands streams how much of that movement that the farmers are the engine of a booming black market the music artists are faking their way to the top of the charts how do your clients find you most of this is just weird enough to refer to maybe it's a label or an art company and they're giving a lot of business with all their clients you've had a and rs and labels come to you yeah you've seen some of these comedy artists like french Montana but maybe last year her song went down and that's twitter thing and become an artist using these farms french Montana got caught up in a scandal when fans alleged that botts had hacked this Spotify account to rack up streams of his music the geese management got caught red-handed in a neat phone call maybe they don't know how to stop them hey no hey they have people they know are you able to show me like your stream farm in action can show you the bottom with all the servers on it basically 50 different means that it's happened to me while you get any given time right so i have them also with the bot so i wanted to play the song for 60 minutes i'm just type in 60 here so 2 p.m all of those servers i'm going to stream i've been taking the song per se for song this is three minutes long so we're talking about 20 times 50 am i correct in a space of one i'm going to stop that there um just so that uh because you don't need to see much more of it but i hope you get the point there are streaming farms streaming farms you can pay them to run loads and loads of computers and phones which will stream your tracks which will push your which will drive up the the listens drive you up in chart position making more popular making more shareable it's the way to game the system okay so let's go back to the lecture and so here um oh this is taking me back to the wrong page okay let's go here so that was what i showed you just now so the thing to bear in mind about these platform capitalists is that while we might worry that they're completely predominating in the in the cultural space that they have too much power that they're generating too much wealth they're not infallible and in fact they're in constant turmoil and they're in constant churn trying to figure out a business model that's going to work i mentioned to you that Spotify is not profitable so here's just a list of some of the things that Spotify have tried to do you know in some ways there's a question about whether really they're a music company at all is music their primary concern because in 2016 there was a decision that they were going to pivot to video um you know that they wanted to make their service much more about video and every now and then when you go and play a spot track you there'll be a little video playing but in fact that was a failure it didn't really work one of the reasons probably is that most spotify usages on mobile phones and people are doing other things right they're not sitting looking at a video they're listening on their headphones in 2018 Spotify decided that maybe they should try and enter the space of labels be a label unto themselves at the moment the way Spotify works is it works with record labels you have to be on a label to get onto Spotify and the labels are the main recipients of the money that Spotify passes on although some of that money is supposed to be passed on to artists and we'll get to that in a minute so they thought why don't we just let musicians come direct to us but in fact they got a lot of bad publicity and feedback from record labels who were threatened by this and who are you know an important part of their ecosystem and they dropped that then in 2019 there was this shift to podcasting and so Spotify started making some very significant investments for example buying gimlet media which is a big podcaster and you might be familiar of course with the controversy that was kicked up around Joe Rogan who they paid a hundred million dollars for for an exclusive to to broadcast his podcast and then Neil Young the musician Neil Young who decided to take his content off Spotify because he was worried that Joe Rogan was spreading anti-vax you know fake news that continues to rumble on that debate but the thing I'm focusing on here is the way in which Spotify pivoting to podcasting why why were they pivoting to do that well because they have to give so much money to the record labels because of copyright when you stream a song money goes to the songwriter the person who wrote the lyrics and the person who owns the recording and that money has by law has to be passed on and therefore Spotify don't get a very high return on their investment but with podcasting that doesn't exist you do not have to do that you can generate you can pay for the production of your own podcast and keep all the money that comes there is also a huge $330 billion advertising pie for podcasts which Spotify can also benefit from so in the end the people who analyze Spotify one of the things that they say is that there's something a bit worrying about having a company which is so powerful in the music industry that doesn't seem to care that much about music they would actually be you know they're actually concerned with making money and the reason they're concerned with making money partly is because they have investors they they they were taken to the stock market and they have to keep their shareholders happy because the share price is what really matters when you're a publicly listed company this is Mark Mulligan who writes for the music industry blog it is tech growth stock and thus its market value is defined more by what it will be tomorrow by what it is today this is what tech growth stock is all about that so really it's not that much about music and this is one of the anxieties that people have who care about music a lot that what you know become these kind of tech companies are using music to drive audience to drive attention to drive advertising but actually do they really care that much about music at all so here is three claims which are being made about the nature of streaming and what's bad about streaming this is again coming from Dave Hesman House's piece from 2020 the first claim is that the new system is damaging to musicians because not enough money is making its way into the pockets of musicians there's too many middlemen and the purse dream payout is too small in streaming and we'll review some of those arguments in a minute the second one is that these systems reproduce unjust systems of industrial power so that argument is about how in the old model of the music industry it was dominated by the so-called big six or then the big four these huge record labels which had a lot of power practiced you know unfair practices you know very unfair contracts you know lots of kind of hidden clauses in those contracts and just had a lot of muscle in the system and one of the promises of digital was that it would it would undermine that power it would remove the middleman it would create the possibility of going direct to the audience but in fact we've just got a new set of middlemen these tech companies and there's anxieties about that and the third claim is that it's now harder for musicians to earn a decent living from recorded music that's the kind of conclusion of that it's like things are getting worse it's because of streaming and it's reproducing an unjust system now Dave Hezman house is a committed academic and it's not that he disbelieves necessarily these claims but what he wants to do is give a sense of proportion and a sense of what is the evidence he's asking the question on what evidence are we basing these assumptions so it's like being slightly skeptical so let me just give you some examples of the kind of arguments that are that the Hezman house is talking about this is um Tom Gray who has become quite a well-known person he's a musician he's in the van Gomez but he started this campaign called broken record which was all about highlighting the poor the bad low payments that were being made by the streaming services to musicians and saying how unsustainable it was and calling for a different system so as part of the lobbying you can see on the left there this you know here's a breakdown of the per stream rates that the different streaming services offer amazon you'll get 0.009 of a pence from Spotify even worse 0.0028 of a pence for your streams right the number of streams to earn one hour's minimum wage you'd need to stream more than 3000 times to just to get minimum wage levels so what we're talking about is you know how this is a system which benefits those people who can motivate millions of streams things people that you know a famous Adele Ed Sheeran you at that level multiple millions of streams you can make good money but at much lower levels for the more independent artists there's an anxiety about whether there's enough money being made at all and then what happens to that money when it goes down the down the shoot down the system and one of the problems with assessing this is that a lot of that information is hidden away it's considered to be business critical information it's not shared by to Spotify or the other streamers it's hidden behind so-called NDAs non non-disclosure agreements and so it can be very difficult to to generate the evidence anyway some of the things that Tom Gray is arguing for here is that this system is very good for those people who have some very valuable copyrights you know if you're a major rights holder that's really what big record labels are these days is they don't really manufacture anything because everything's digital right you don't need to really manufacture digital files but what they do is they own copyrights and if they own enough of them and there's enough streaming of their copyrighted material across a wide range of their catalog there is serious money to be made but not for the individual artists it will depend on the nature of the deal that the artist has with the label but usually these will be in favor of the label and his concern is also with songwriters and the flow of money you know that comes in for those people who've actually written the songs and this is dictated partly by copyright law so it can be a bit of a complex argument but Tom Gray and the broken record sort of perspective is the kind of perspective that Dave Hesman house is being slightly wary of because he thinks that maybe it's exaggerating the nature of what's wrong here's another example of a kind of anti-spotify case this is Liz Pelly who's a journalist who writes for The Baffler and many other kind of independent publications in the US she talks about Spotify's broken music model she says it's a company whose product is fully built on exploited labor the exploited labor of the musicians she is particularly hostile to this thing called Spotify wrapped I don't know if you're a Spotify user but at the end of the year they've started producing this little kind of mini it's now like a little mini film which summarizes your usage from the year tells you what your most listened to track was your the new genre as you discovered and it's become the sort of thing that people have been putting around on social media sharing and Liz Pelly and others have pointed out that really what's happening here is this is a very very effective and very cheap marketing tool for Spotify you know while we're you know sharing our musical interest and taste what we're really doing is is doing free advertising for Spotify do we want a publicly traded tech company whose only investment is to make returns to major labels and banks and investment firms setting the terms of how value is decided across all corners of music that summarizes you know the debate and summarizes the the hostility that's lots of people in the music industry or commentators on the music industry feel towards Spotify but and this is the Dave Hesman house but while musicians have of course always cobbled together income from multiple sources it is not yet clear that in the new musical system dominated by streaming it is harder for musicians to make a living than before one of the things Dave Hesman house who's a media scholar who's been working for you know 40 years in that field is determined to do is to give some historical context and to encourage you to think that yes it may be difficult to make a living as a musician now in the new streaming world but it was always difficult to make a living as a musician it was inherently precarious the creative economy has always been built on risk and precariousity it's never been that secure not that it shouldn't be made more secure but that we can't blame that all on streaming um he even argues looking at the evidence that it's possible that some musicians get more from streaming than they got previously and I'm going to revisit that argument right at the end of this lecture because I've got some new evidence for that now one of the concerns around streaming and this is a bit technical but let me just summarize it feel like this we imagine that we're when we're when we subscribe or pay for these services the money that we pay is going into this that we're listening to right well some of it does but not all of it and that's because they do not actually operate a per stream system you know i stream your track you get one penny or one proportion of a penny from of my money it's not done on that basis it's done on the so-called pro rata basis so total monthly revenue for Spotify is divided up between all the artists on Spotify according to how often they're streamed and what that really means in effect is no matter that you might be listening to experimental Japanese punk or Estonian folk music or only listening to Stormzy some of the money that you're giving to Spotify is going into the pocket of Adele or Drake or Taylor Swift or name your other big artist BTS and some people think that that's unfair and they think there should be a much tighter relationship between you know the listener and you know i want to listen to and put money into the pocket of the musicians that i like and value and i do not want to just fund the big boys and girls so some of the argument about streaming has been about shouldn't we change this system shouldn't we have a fairer system and i'll show you an example of a system which has been developed in the light of that so again have a think about the the the problem with some of the claims that are being made the way in which the apparently very small very small per stream rates offered by the streamers are used as part of the argument about unsafe unfair systems of reward that Dave Hezman house is questioning whether that mechanism of that argument is actually working properly are they entirely responsible for the problem or are they a symptom some of these arguments can tend towards simplification and there's as i said before there's very limited evidence on which to base some of these so there's a kind of argument what what Dave Hezman house and some of the other scholars are saying is let's slow down a little bit let's be comparative let's think historically in context and let's not just kind of rush into the hype i mean i must say amongst my students it seems like a pretty much of a norm that people are very critical of Spotify and money that they're paying musicians or be it that they're also streaming at the same time which is an interesting moment to be in isn't it when everyone's critical of something and yet they're also also always also doing it and can't really imagine not doing it because there isn't really an alternative so i talked about broken record and this is just a kind of summary of their position and what they think should be done to fix it so i'm you know what they're calling for is a so-called user centric payment system one that much more reflects the actual given usage interest musical taste of the individual subscribers so consumers can have their rights restored right they want their money to go to the artists that they want to support not to everyone they're calling for something a so-called fair trade they want the author to get direct compensation for the use of their art rather than it being rooted through record companies and this is partly to do with trying to chip away at some of the power that records companies have managed to reestablish in this period and of course there's this issue of cheating and we've just shown you a video about about farming you know stream farming streams and it is a big problem it's a it's a system that can be easily gained and therefore it's something that we can't really trust and so they're calling for mechanisms which address this and try and stop the inflation of of streaming numbers uh Damon Krakowski who's an also a musician is someone who has written an interesting piece which was called how to be responsible a responsible music fan in the age of streaming so he's not recommending that you get rid of streaming completely some some people do some people say just like when they're talking about social media you should close down your facebook come off it it's bad for you here's his is his kind of rules of engagement how to be an ethical consumer the first is he's he's he's interested in going local he thinks that you should be trying to support your local music ecosystem and he uses the example of the grateful dead here the grateful dead this american blues band from the 70s who famously were followed by this kind of rag tag multicolor you know multicolored fans wearing sort of tie dye t-shirts and taking a lot of acid and they built a very very successful musical career but they never really grazed the charts or weren't really part of a kind of global pop phenomenon it was quite localized and it was very specific and niche and he thinks that that's there's a lot to be said for that kind of thinking not global but local consider your streaming news he says you know just have a think about it 90% of streams are of 10% of songs right 90% of the songs that are streamed in the world are only 10% of the available songs they're all the ones that are huge hits the Ed Sheeran's and the Adele's if you don't want your money to go into their pocket don't stream right you know that that's what happens don't do it that's one option or if you do do it be acknowledge your own participation in that system care about the context he says you know think about the the ecosystem with which produces music this is the kind of activity you can do outside of the streaming ecosystem think about how you can talk up the bands you like you know share information about them and one of the things that he says is that we should be sharing music a lot more you know there was a big crackdown on piracy at the beginning in the origins of the internet age because it was considered to be you know killing off the industry and killing off musicians and and that you know there's an element of truth to that but then on the other hand sharing music sharing what we like supporting it going using things like patreon or other ways that to directly fund or buy merchandise or paying for tickets you know after covid obviously covid the the live economy music economy kind of collapsed under covid but as we recover one of the ways we can support our bands you know the bands we like the musicians that we like is actually paying for a concert ticket because much more of that money will go into their pocket than the streaming revenue so those are some kind of guides on how to do it here's just some example of some of a quite a smart move by soundcloud now soundcloud is another uh streaming site it's slightly different from spotify i think i said before it's much more of our independent artists a lot of artists upload music that hasn't actually been released or music that's a remix or something that they're trying out it's more experimental it's more artist driven but they have just recently introduced what they are calling what do they call it fan powered royalties and this is precisely an attempt to kind of connect uh the issue that people are criticizing spotify for which is how can we connect the money that the consumer has with the artist more directly i want to fund and support the artist i'm listening to and that's indeed what is going to happen as the only director consumer music streaming platform and the next generation artist services company this is the chief executive officer he talks in that kind of language the launch of fan powered royalties represents a significant move in soundcloud strategic direction to elevate grow and create new opportunities directly with independent artists so it's a very artist centers approach and it's got a kind of moral imperative and it's almost saying you know we all know spotify is immoral come over to soundcloud whether it's working or not we don't quite know yet it's only was only introduced i think in 2020 it'd be interesting to know if you use it at all none of my students have yet um taken up the offer so that all remains to be seen let me just leave you with a couple of final points on this issue because there's a lot more obviously i'm just scratching the surface of this so one of them is underneath all of this debate about digital culture about streaming and about nfts you might have heard of those non-fungible tokens you know which is this other kind of new mechanism of commodification within the cultural industries is that they are incredibly environmentally expensive we might we sometimes get the impression that digital culture takes place somewhere in a nebulous nowhere or use these metaphors like the cloud where's the cloud it's nowhere in particular well no it's not nowhere they're in huge server farms you know in the mojave desert and probably also increasingly in the developing world very very expensive of energy especially fossil fuel energy which is what powers them so actually we are we is all of this debate really at the heart of it really a debate about environmental sustainability or should it be a debate and is streaming therefore going to be the best option if it's going to be so expensive this is kyle devine who's an associate professor of music at university of oslo there is a widespread notion that music digitalized is music dematerialized the figures may even suggest that the rises of downloading and streaming are making music more environmentally friendly but a very different picture emerges when we think about the energy used to power online music listening storing and processing music online uses a tremendous amount of resources and energy with a high impact on the environment so actually again maybe we're thinking about streaming not as the kind of end result for some for people in the music industry they may be thinking great we've been saved no one's buying CDs anymore but we've got streaming but maybe it's a transitional technology and we need to be thinking as damien krakowski said we need to name krakowski we need to think about new options new ways of doing this which which are actually environmentally sustainable but let me leave you with this very last point because this is something I just learned this week this this gentleman this great guy elijah he's a grime dj he runs his own label called butters uh he he puts on raves you know he's a sort of entrepreneurial young man um he's been doing it now for like 10 years and he's also become a bit of a kind of he's been posting a lot on instagram advice to other people in the independent music sector giving them advice about how to manage their royalties about how to think about their you know world of work um a very interesting man and when he came in to talk to my class last week one of the questions came up which was what do you think about streaming and I think the assumption amongst my students and myself would be that as an artist or someone who represents artists he might be a little bit he gives that broken record type of argument you know it's very unfair but he didn't say that at all he said streaming has been really important to the sustainability of his business and the reason why is because even though the payments are relatively small they are regular and reliable and they have created an income stream for him which he contrasted with the income stream of what it was like before now he's he hasn't been around in music production long enough to remember the days of making loads of CDs or loads of records although he does produce vinyl and CDs but that wasn't the heart of the business because he didn't start until the 2000s so the immediate environment that he's comparing it to is the environment of file sharing and downloading and illegal downloads and he said that you know back in those days people weren't paying for music so there wasn't revenue for the company or even if they were so if they were buying digital downloads he described the process as being whether you would release this music people would buy a download and that would be it that'd be the end of the income one payment per customer are done and then you move on but with streaming of course the tracks are always there and they're always available to be streamed and so he described a scenario where the income from streaming was actually a really important part of the business model now it also depends on having an ethical relationship with your artists which he certainly does have any profit shares with them so you know because he's representing a label there and it could be the Spotify is very good for labels but not so good for artists but if you're very artist-centered independent label as Butters is actually maybe we should think of streaming as being a vital component in sustaining an independent music economy the other thing he told us which was when we asked him because he'd said that when when COVID came along 80% of his company's income collapsed because they did live shows and a lot of their income came through live shows and clubs and selling merchandise at those events and that was completely killed off for two years and he doubted whether it would come back at the same level but the other thing he said was that a really important source of revenue is sync rights now a sync right is when you sell your music to a company a corporation you know for advertising or to put in a film significant money to be made from that and his basic principle was the way I do my business the way I run it the way I market myself is put out good music and that's the beginning and the end of the whole thing and then there are these new revenue streams which have emerged particularly sync but also streaming which are vital to the survival of an independent business like that so that is really the end of what I wanted to say to you just to give you a sense of the kind of issues that we that we deal with in my core course which is called analytical approaches to the global creative and cultural industries we look at film we look at journalism we look at cartoons you know any any aspects of the cultural economy alongside music then there's a there's also a course which is specifically about the film industry and the independent film industry and issues like festivals and alternative forms of distribution taught by my colleagues lindy wedovie and astrea finandez and then I teach the music business course from which that is taken so if you are interested please do contact me about any aspect of this or if you're interested in maybe coming and doing an ma in creative industries at so as cm 54 at so as dot ac dot uk my name is casper i'd be very happy to talk to you thanks a lot for listening goodbye
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{POCSO Act, 2012} Justice for every child: Procedural Law Part:I Justice Roshan Dalvi: Former Judge, Bombay High Court and Dr. Justice Shalini Phansalkar Joshi: Former Judge, Bombay High Court
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on different platforms, seminars and webinars with effect of course code. And therefore we have divided this topic though it's vast to understand the procedural law and the substantive law. In the first session, we would be discussing the procedural law because we thought if we understand the procedural law then the automatic code would be that one can understand the substantive law in that sense. And amongst us, we have two prominent speakers, Dr. Justice Charlie Fanzalkar Joshi and Dr. Roshan Dalvi, both former judges of the Bombay High Court. And what a pandemic has brought us that we are able to connect with the one of the best resource persons for the webinars ban India and ban world. And it's always a pleasure when you have good speakers with us to share the knowledge. And those who have been connected with beyond law have seen that Justice Joshi and Justice Roshan Dalvi have been sharing their insights on this platform. And we can, we only be enamoured by the fact that these sessions are very well received because they take us deeper in sight because they say for a law, you have to dive deep and then only you can get the pearls otherwise you can just dive and dive in the ocean. Without taking much time, since the first session would be, I can say, taking the procedural aspects by Justice Joshi and request Justice Roshan Dalvi to introduce the topic and then we will request Justice Joshi to take the things forward. What do you have? Good afternoon, friends. And good afternoon, Justice Joshi and Vikas. This is a very fragile topic. And you've got a real sturdy speaker for that topic. Now, Justice Joshi has written a book which promises to be the Bible of child rights and child rights more specially the child sexual abuse. So she will be speaking of course about that subject but I will be feeling in my duty if I did not tell you about this aspect. So to begin with, it is good to understand the social implications and aspects of a law like epoxy. It deals with children. It deals with children of our country. In this case, we work without barriers. We work for the children. Whoever are the stakeholders in a system, be they police, prosecutors, medical officers, judicial officers or legal officers, we work for the children. Now, when I was a sessions judge, there was no epoxy. But I applied what I thought would be the principles of epoxy. When Dr. Salini Joshi wrote her thesis, there was no epoxy. And she wrote what should be epoxy. Today we have epoxy. So you've got a great tool, a great ammunition with you. And now there'll be nobody who can say but how can we do such a thing? We both did it in our times without epoxy. What all has to be done under the procedural aspect? Thesis Joshi will tell you. The substantive aspect would be the sensitization which is required to take this procedure forward. Because this is not just one criminal matter. It is not just one case. It is crimes against children. Now crimes against children begin before their birth and quite often they end with their death. We have female fetusite, infanticide. And then we have a number of cases like outrating modesty, abortions, illegal adoptions, trafficking, sexual abuse and a number of cases which we will deal with separately. They all come under epoxy when a child is less than 18 years old because she's a child in law. No matter how big she may look, or how big he may look. This also takes in the pedophilia, the sodomy, vizuality and all of those offenses which are against children, essentially which are sexual. They need not even be sexual, but mostly they are. So for such a topic, we require you to look at this aspect from a societal point of view. Having done that, we should know what is the procedure required for members of the society to bring this crime to light and to bring the victim to justice. Now therefore we will be dealing with victimology in this procedure. And there are various aspects of victimology which Dr. Salini Joshi will be telling you about. Having seen these, we will go further to in depth next time, sometime in the next week to understand the substantive aspects. This together would make the child rights. And next time we will be dealing with what are all those child rights which by today you would all be knowing, okay? So it is good to hear an author, a judge and a practitioner of the rights of children, Justice Joshi. Thank you, thank you so much, Justice Joshi and Delvi and Vikas for giving me this wonderful platform to address on the subject of child sexual abuse. The subject which is, you know, which has always pained me, troubled me, tortured me because while being presiding officer of the special court for atrocities against women as a session judge, daily I used to come across so many cases of child sexual abuse. And during that time, as Justice Delvi had said, we did not have any law to deal with those cases. Actually, neither the substantive law nor the procedural law. And that was the day period of the 1999, then 2000, up to 2000 Ilhay one. And therefore, these painful and torturous face faces of the children made me undertake the study on this subject. And as Justice Delvi has said, my thinking is on this very subject of socio-legal perspectives of child sexual abuse. And now after that has come into effect and I have written the book also. When we are talking about the children, India is considered to be, you know, the larger, to be having the largest child population. At least 42% of our population consists of the children below the age of 15 years. So one can imagine. I mean, so many young persons we are having and they being subjected to any sort of abuse. Especially when we are talking of the abuse, it is not only physical, it is not only emotional, but sexual abuse, which includes, and it goes beyond even physical, mental, emotional, everything, it is considered to be the violation of the innocence of the childhood or the violation of the childhood. And especially when child personifies the innocence and that very innocence makes the child vulnerable to the abuse, this subject is of paramount importance to not only the legal professionals who are working in this field or who are coming across such cases, but also to every parent because the reality shows that every child is susceptible to sexual abuse. I mean, this is something it was shocking even for the Supreme Court. When Supreme Court came across such allegation of child sexual abuse by a mother against the father of the child. And in the case of Satish Mehra versus state of Punjab, the Supreme Court itself says that some eerie allegations are labeled by disgruntled wife against her husband that of the child being subjected to sexual abuse. So to that extent in the year 1996 or thereafter also when this case was decided, there was lots and lots of disbelief and one may call a sense of denial against the existence of such phenomena like child sexual abuse. But it is a matter of concern that it exists throughout all the ages up to this time and it cuts across all the barriers of society. I mean, it exists in all parts of society where a ruler, urban, foreign, Western countries or Indian countries. The only difference is that in some cases like Western countries, it is acknowledge and I mean, there was a law or there is a legal procedure established for the same. However, in India, it was not so till 2012 when this act was enacted. We are having a legal legislative history behind enactment of this act along with the history on judicial side also. From time to time, the stock was taken and the Supreme Court was constrained to direct the legislature to enact such a law. At times the Supreme Court was also called upon to legislate on this subject which Supreme Court has declined it being the job or the prerogative of the legislature to do so. And now we are having this POSCO Act that is the protection of children from sexual offenses act 2012. It is the most comprehensive law, a self-contained code as we call it. And it is the welcome piece of legislation though it may be having like any other legislation it may be having some lecuna, some informatics but it was a long awaited piece of legislation. Initially when I was doing my work as a special court and thereafter writing my thesis, I used to come across only one or hardly any case, one case to case in the Journal of Criminal Law, Journal or Supreme Court cases. But now we know that not a single volume of Supreme Court cases or criminal law journal is free from these cases, reporting of these cases. To that extent there is an exponential growth or we can say increase in number of these cases. And as of today there are more than lakhs of cases pending in various courts in the whole of the country. So this problem is very, very serious one, very, very something which requires immediate attention and that's why the act was came into effect in 2012. The act was, I mean, you know, the basic foundation of the act or its roots and wings we will find in the constitution itself. Our basic law of the land provides for special enactment or special legislation for protection of children. Article 153 is very, I mean, the soul of fundamental rights in that sense as it enables the government to make special provision or to make special legislation for the children and women considering the vulnerabilities to which they are subjected, considering their innocence. There, you know, they are required to be protected so far as children are concerned. We are also having article 39 of the constitution which deals with directive principles of state policing and which also expect the state. I mean, you know, the government to ensure that the children are protected and spared from their exploitation and this is a variant they grow in the healthy and proper atmosphere. So article 39 which deals with directive principle of state policy and apart from that, I mean, this is the domestic law or the basic law of the land, but we are also having the child rights convention of 1989 which was adopted or ratified by India in 1992. It also mandates the state to enact the law which will protect the children from their exploitative use, inducement or coercion of the children to engage in any unlawful sexual activity to prevent the exploitative use of children in prostitution or other unlawful sexual practices and exploitative use of children in pornographic performances. So this act has not come out of any air or without any foundation, but it is having a very strong foundation in the basic law of the land and also in international convention that is the CRC. Apart from that, as I said, the act is also having some factual data of this and repeatedly the matter was coming before the Supreme Court in various decisions requesting the Supreme Court to take cognizance of the sexual abuse of the children and pointing out to the Supreme Court that yes, the law is not being sufficient and then Supreme Court directing the 56 law commission then 172 law commission to deal with this aspect. So this is on legislative side of the enactment of the act. Apart from that, as I said, when the act was to come on that statute book, the woman and child development department of the central government has conducted the study. I mean, they wanted some factual database to enact this law and that study was conducted in 2007 and which also conform and verify that several children are being subjected to sexual abuse but there was no law to protect them or to take legal recourse for their parents to punish the offender. It was also no peace that in most of the cases and that is again an agonizing factor that in child sexual abuse cases, the offender is not some stranger. His or she may be someone from the family itself. Maybe the family member, maybe the neighbor, maybe the teacher, maybe the, you know, Riksha Vala or so many. I mean, with whom the child comes in contact. We never allow the child to be in contact with stranger. We always insist whenever we are going out, we will ask the neighbor to look, neighbor uncle or aunt to look after or we will ask the child to be accompanied by someone known to the family. And that's very person. I mean, you know, commits the breach of the trust which is reposed in him by the child and the family. And therefore in more than 90% of the cases, the abuser is either some family member, some like uncle, brother, at times father also. The cases of incest are also very much. I mean, in large number, though they may not be reported in that proportion, but there may be neighbor, there may be school teachers, post teacher and so many. And but the problem was that our society being tradition bound and sex as a subject was taboo. We never discussed the sexual aspects of the case or anything with the child. We may just protect the child from physical abuse, mental torture, but we never consider sexual abuse as prevailing as such. And as a result, several children are falling prey to this abuse and the secrecy and mystery surrounds and there is a silence because family also does not want to acknowledge it. And this data was earlier brought out by various organizations like Samod from Bangalore, then Huck from Delhi and so many NGOs. Thereafter, the government itself conducted this study in 2007 and was convinced that we require some law to deal with these offenses. Not only as regards the registration of the offenses, but also to provide for commensurate punishment for these offenses and then most importantly to provide child-friendly procedures because it is a very important aspect of the criminal jurisprudence as such. Our entire criminal jurisprudence is accused-oriented, accused-centered, accused-focused. It was felt initially, I mean, when we were under the colonial rule that the accused, a single individual is pitted against the entire machinery of government which is represented by police. And therefore accused must have certain rights. Those rights may be fundamental or legal, but rights of the accused are required to be jealously guarded by the court. And as a result, the jurisprudence itself evolved in the direction of protection of rights of the accused. While doing so, the victim side was totally ignored. And as a result, when the child came into a picture, we first had juvenile justice act for care and protection of those children who were alleged, who are alleged to have committed an offense. So that act was enacted, I mean, in the year 1986 itself. So child as an accused, child as an offender and his interest to be protected special machinery for protection of the interest of such rights was provided in the year 1986 itself. But child as a victim of that too of a serious offense like sexual abuse, that act was not there till the year this act, I mean, 2012. This child doesn't have to deal only with the equation of accused versus victim, but child has also to deal with another equation and that is a child versus adult. Because our entire machinery of criminal law, whether police station, whether courts are always, you know, adultery entry. We never expected the child to come before the court or to the police station, either as a victim or as an accused. And therefore naturally we are having the raised platform in the court, the witness box, accuser cage. So everything, you know, wherever, I mean, whatever was necessary, everything was done taking into consideration the needs of the accused adult witness, adult accused, adult victim and never in case of child victim or child witness. And that lecuna in the law is now being tried to be fulfilled by this act. So this act in that particular, in that context is really a comprehensive piece of legislation, a long awaited piece of legislation. Apart from that, it expects, I mean, you know, all the police machinery, then the state machinery like NGOs, government officers, police officer, justice delivery system, everything to work in coordination with each other as collaborators for paramount consideration of the child victim. That is his best interest to be protected. And this is something, you know, like multi-stakeholder system which is provided under this act. And that we will see in the course of our session through the various provisions. So when we are talking of this act, we have to remember that it was a long awaited law and act has tried to fulfill the requirements and it tends to fill the lecunas also. The act, as I said, came into effect on 1411, 2012. And thereafter, I mean, the study was conducted in 2007 but by the time it was legislated and came into effect, it was November 2012. The rules were also framed along with the act in 2012 but thereafter those rules were abolished and now new rules have come into effect in 2020. Act was also amended in 2019 to enhance the punishment for the penetrative sexual assault, aggravated penetrative sexual assault. It was in tune with the demand of the time after coming across the various cases pertaining to child sexual abuse and assault and very gruesome cases, we all know those cases so I may not state them. Therefore the amendment came into effect on 168, 2019. Under section 39 of the act, state is enabled, government is enabled to frame the model guidelines and those model guidelines are also enforced. So the act is not only a standalone piece of legislation but it is for aberrated, supplemented with the details rules framed into 2020 and also the guidelines and one schedule. If we generally see the scheme of the act, we will find that it is divided into nine chapters. 46 section only. So it makes them all at comparatively and only one schedule of the act. But as I said, act is per quote, is giving a lot of scope to protect the best interest of the child and that was the very objective of the act which says that to protect the best interest of the child throughout the process, judicial and investigation process at every stage of the process. I mean, this is a very wonderful thing to look after and care for the child not only at a particular stage and it also says that to protect the child from offenses of sexual assault, sexual harassment, pornography and provide for establishment of special court and that is the object in short of the act. As I said, it is having only nine chapters. Out of them first chapter deals with the definitions and second chapter defines the various sexual offenses. Chapter three deals with use of child for pornographic purposes. Chapter four deals with abatement and attempt of commission of these offenses. Chapter five is a innovative one, radical one that is dealing with mandatory duty of reporting of such sexual offenses. Then chapter six deals with special procedure for recording the statement of the child by police and magistrate. Chapter seven deals with establishment of special courts. Eight deals with procedures and powers of the special court and nine deals with miscellaneous provisions. So very, as I said, a very small act but it addresses all the issues which remain to be addressed till then. Which are the key features of the act or salient features of the act. The most first and foremost which I can recall is the act gender inclusion. I mean, earlier when you used to have that sexual offenses, they were covered only under rape that is 376 of IPC and violation of modesty that is three section 354 of IPC. These were the mainly two offenses which were dealing with sexual offenses. And both these offenses were in respect of, I mean, wherein the victim was supposed to be the woman only. I mean, they were supposed to be committed only against the woman. So far as male children, male persons are concerned there was no such offense recognized under the IPC. And it was noticed and was revealed from the study also that it is not only the female children who are subjected to sexual abuse but even the male children are also not spared from the same. And the statistic again is very agonizing about it. But male children, they don't know how to disclose whom to disclose. And earlier there was no legal provision under which the parents can lodge the complaint. And therefore the special, I mean, significance of this act is that the definition of the child as given in section 2D of the act is gender-inclusive. What it says, any queer child, any person who is below the age of 18 years. So the word persons necessarily signifies that it includes both a male and female person. Therefore any sexual assault abuse of male children also stands covered now under the act. Not only the male and female children but now even transgender children or gay, lesbian or all the children, whosoever may be, they also stand covered under the definition of the child because any person and they also constitute a person. Now, the real controversial issue about the definition of child under this section 2D of the act was it has enhanced the age of the child from 16 to 18 years. Under the rape law under 376, you know, below 16 was considered to be the age in the sense that above 16, if there was consensual sexual relations, they were not constituting the offense of rape. Now what has happened, even consensual relationship between the teenage children up to the age of 18 years are also brought under the purview of the act. And as a result, there is no such exemption, exception, even when the child, girl child is maybe 16 years or above 16 year and male child is around 18 years, even if they are in romantic relationship and having the love affair and after falling in love, they had sexual relations even then, you know, if any party or their parents wants to complain or not approving of their relationship, that sexual relationship will come within the purview of this act and it will be punishable as such. This is one more area of concern under the act. What has happened is there are several such cases of romantic relationship where the girl and boy has run away from the home and their parents not approving their relationship have lost the complaint. Therefore, the special courts are now flooded with these cases also because the age of consensual sex is now increased to 18 years. That is one more aspect which I mean repeatedly the judgments are coming. And last week also there was one judgment wherein the court wherein the direction was given to the government to consider this aspect to reduce the age, maybe there are pros and cons of 16 to 18 years. I mean, you know, whether the consent was free or not whether it was a sort of grooming of the child and therefore the consent was obtained by way of persuasion. So various angles are there but for the present we have to remember that now child means any person below the age of 15 years. There is another aspect also so far as definition of child is concerned and that is in respect of the mental age of the child. We have seen that several mentally challenged children are subjected to sexual abuse because they are neither in a position to understand the sexual abuse nor in a position to resist the same. In several shelter homes such cases are coming to light where the biological age of the child may be about the 18 years but mental age may be much, much below 6, 7, 8 years. In these children however, unfortunately are not covered under the act. A plea to cover these children whose mental age may be below the age of 18 years the biological age may be above the 18 years. The such plea was filed before the Supreme Court in the case of ERA versus state of in city Delhi 2017, volume 15, SSC 13. It was argued that such mentally challenged child or special child requires the protection of this act because vulnerabilities of such child are far more than even the child whose biological age may be below the age of 18 years. But then the Supreme Court says that this area Supreme Court says that legislative intent does not appear to be to include those children whose biological age is above 18 years. If it was the intention of the legislature, would have said so explicitly. As legislature has not done so, Supreme Court left it to the legislature to consider whether such children whose biological age is above 18 years but mental age is below 18 years should be included under the act or not. So the position which stands as on today is that such children are not included under the act. So far as the definition of child under section 2D of the act is concerned, these are two important issues. One is raising of consensual age of consensual relationship, sexual relationship and another is not included, not including the children whose mental age is below 18 years of age. Now, this is one aspect of the act which is gender inclusive and that is really a radical shift from the existing laws. And that was the requirement of the time. So it was long felt and necessity also considering that made children are also susceptible to sexual abuse. Another important feature of the act is it recognizes all forms of sexual abuse. I mean, earlier, as I said, there were only two sort of sexual offenses, one violation of modesty and another rape. And both of these offenses were falling short to cover those sexual abuses to which children were subjected. I will give you just one case that was a state of Punjab versus nature scene, air 1967. And in that case, air 1967, Supreme Court page 63. In that case, what has happened was child of seven months and seven and a half months was sexually abused in the sense that finger was inserted in the vagina of the child. And it has resulted into serious injuries and damage to the internal parts of the child, not only vagina, but other internal parts of the child also. Now, the question arose whether inserting a finger or fingering in vagina would amount to violation of modesty or rape. Because rape, necessarily, what was the definition of section 376? It necessarily contemplates, penile is the penetration of the vagina. Here, there was no penile penetration, but only finger, somebody partly finger was inserted. And therefore police said that it is not an offense of rape. Police filed charge sheet under section 354 of IPC. Remember for rape, the offense was minimum punishment, was a minimum seven years imprisonment for violation of modesty under section 354, only three years maximum. Otherwise also the gravity of the offense stands reduced when the accused is prosecuted for the offense of violation of modesty. Interestingly, session court convicted the accused of accepting 354 as an offense. High court acquitted, the matter came before the Supreme Court. Now the question arose, various arguments were advanced that child was sleeping. So another is seven and a half months old child cannot have a sense of modesty. So how can one violate the modesty? Then secondly, if the child was sleeping, there is no question of child having the sense of modesty and such modesty being violated. And thirdly, that we cannot say that every female child is possessing the modesty that is to general a statement. So all these three different opinions were given and ultimately, I mean, third opinion was that it was the intention of the accused which is a paramount importance and having regard to that intention, it has to be held that accused has committed the offense. So by majority of two, it was held that 354 was proved but there was a minority opinion holding that there was no violation of modesty. What I'm trying to stress upon is that the substantive law under which the accused can be brought was not adequate. Like rape, the definition was very restrictive, only penile penetration, not any other body part inserting of any other body parts in the private part of the child. Whereas the definition of violation of modesty was riddled with obscurity and also having some moral overtones. So this was the position till 2012 when this act was enacted because CRPC was amended in 2013. After this act to remove the definition of rape and to include the definition of sexual assault, et cetera. But this was the first act which removed both the rape and violation of modesty, both these terms from the statute book and they introduced the term sexual assault and penetrating sexual assault, non-penetrating sexual assault. This act tries to cover all kinds of sexual abuse. It may be real, virtual, it may be penetrative, non-penetrating, it may be homosexual or heterosexual, it may be verbal or physical, it may be sexual or brutal also. So whatever form of sexual abuse to which the child can be subjected now stands covered under the act. And I said it has consciously avoided the use of both the words rape and violation of modesty. Now the act has categorized the sexual offenses in three categories classified them. First is sexual offenses involving physical contact but not the penetration. So those offenses which are without penetration but there is physical contact that is called as sexual assault. And it is covered under the provisions of section, seven of that, that is sexual assault. Whoever touches the vagina, pennies and breast of the child or make the child to do so is covered and that he does so with sexual intent is said to have committed sexual assault for which punishment is three years, not less than three years but up to five years. So sexual assault is non-penetrative but any actor done with sexual intent. Another category of sexual offenses is involving penetration. So which may be called as penetrative sexual assault and it is defined in section three of the act. So it includes penetrating vagina with pennies to any extent or when inserting pennies in mouth, urethra or anise of the child or make the child to do so, inserting to any extent any body part, fingers, et cetera which we have said earlier or manipulating any part of the body of the child or applying mouth that is oral sex, et cetera. The punishment for these offenses, not less than seven, 10 years but which may include the imprisonment for life. So this is an penetrative sexual assault. Another, I mean, you know, form of offense which is recognized under this is aggravated penetrative sexual assault. So aggravated sexual assault and also aggravated penetrative sexual assault which are those cases where we can call that there is penetrative assault or sexual assault which can be called as aggravated. When such sexual assault is committed by certain persons like someone in charge of the hospital, someone in charge of the schools, someone in charge of the shelter homes, someone in charge of, you know, the place where children are kept or where children are in custody as good as such persons. So when the offense is committed by such certain specified persons or when the offense is committed under certain circumstances, like, you know, the child is kept in the shelter home or child has gone to the police station and the police person has committed or the army man has committed or when there is a gang rape. So at certain situations, certain persons when the family members commit the offense, when someone known to the child commits the offense or when the gang rape is committed or when, you know, the child is as a result of the sexual assault, the child becomes pregnant where the child is sexually assaulted by giving threats of, you know, corrosive substance or some weapon or arms. So in all these cases, when the certain, you know, there are given various 23 situations wherein the sexual assault or penetrating sexual assault becomes aggravated. And so when the offense is committed by certain persons like police, army, in charge persons of shelter homes, school, et cetera, then it becomes aggravated. And if it results in pregnancy, gang rape, et cetera, et cetera with the weapons and other things, then also it becomes aggravated. The punishment is accordingly enhanced for these offenses. And therefore when there is aggravated penetrative assault, the punishment is minimum of 20 years and maximum life or death depending upon the fact situation. And this penalty of death was introduced after the amendment in 2019. So the act is important in the context that it recognizes all sorts of sexual offenses. The offense may be subtle, may be brutal, as I said, sexual assault. And then it also further provides for other, provides for alternate punishment, which is called as, you know, if the offense is one, which is used, also comes under the IPC and also under the POSCO Act, then under which law the accused can be punished for maximum punishment, that punishment is to be awarded. That is section 42 of the act, which is also an important aspect because normally when the one act constitutes an offense under two different statutes or law, then the lesser punishment is to be given to the accused because we were always having our criminal jurisprudence is oriented towards protection of the rights of the accused. But this act is departure because section 42 specifically provides that the punishment, which is larger, more is to be given and not the lesser punishment. There are other offenses also covered under the act and those offenses are of sexual harassment, which do not involve physical touch. I mean, these are offenses without physical contact. We all know the sexual harassment of women at workplace. So there the sexual harassment is defined under that act of 2013. Under this act also, the sexual harassment constitutes a different offense and it is defined under section 11 of the act. As I said, it doesn't involve the physical contact and therefore uttering any words, making any sound or making any gesture, exhibiting anybody part, object with intention that such word or sound shall be heard or such gesture or object shall be seen by the child or making the child exhibit any his body that is making naked the child or showing any object to the child in any form for pornography purposes, repeatedly constantly following the child, et cetera. All these six acts which are done with sexual intent, but which do not involve the physical contact are now covered under section 11 of the act which deals with sexual harassment and they are punished with imprisonment for two, three years. So as I said, nothing remains now beyond the scope of this act. Whatever whichever act done with sexual intent is covered under this act. Then separate chapter is introduced in the chapter three which deals with use of the child for pornography purposes. I mean, the child maybe pornography material is stored where in the child is used that also amounts to an offense. And what is pornography in the defining section to be a of the act. And this is an amended amendment made in 2019. So what is child pornography? It means visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a child which includes photograph, video, digital or computer generated image. And under the act that is section 13 of that when the child is used for preparing such pornographic material and such material is stored then it becomes an offense and it is liable for punishment. And especially so far as media persons are concerned I mean, the act is making a special provision for the same. Then chapter four of the act it deals with abitement and attempt to commit any of these offenses. I mean, that is also independently covered. Otherwise in other laws we have to take recourse to section 511 of IPC for attempt to commit offense or 109 of IPC for abitement of the offense. But act is a self-contained code. It also deals with the punishment for any person who abits or attempts to commit such offenses. So in that case, the act deals with sexual offenses it's abitement, it's commission, use of the child for pornography, sexual harassment. And in addition to that there are three more offenses under that for which punishment is provided which we will deal with subsequently. So far as this fee provision is concerned as I said, it is a very important provision. I mean, this is an important feature of this act that it deals with all sorts of sexual offenses in respect to which the child may be subjected as a victim. Act also provides less than everywhere it says not less than. So no more judicial discretion, no more we can say that, okay, the facts of the case do not warrant us to impose less. I mean, you know, minimum punishment less not less than three, not less than seven, not less than 20 years or so. So very strict provisions of regards the punishment are made under the act and it has helped to achieve uniformity also because in the earlier what used to happen under section 376 sub plus two or five p.c. For sufficient and you know, especially sufficient and reasonable reasons the court could adequate reasons the court can reduce the punishment to less than minimum but now that discretion is no more. And it becomes a problematic area wherein there is teenage relationship as I said both the children are below the age of 18 years or she on the 18 years and each 20 years and in love in that case also if it has resulted into pregnancy of the girl then the minimum punishment provided under the act is 20 years penetrative with sexual assault aggravated penetrative sexual assault. So this is an area of concern but otherwise in cases where there is really the sexual assault sexual abuse of the child then his punishment was a longstanding demand strict punishment. So uniformity of sentencing is another feature that also warrants that the fine should necessarily incorporate the part of punishment. So every offense, every punishment must be you know, not only of imprisonment but also of fine and fine must be just and reasonable to meet the medical expenses and rehabilitation of the victim. So this is another area which provides for compensation of the victim child to which we may come subsequently. Needless to say that all these offenses being of a serious nature, they are cognisable and non-malleable. The actor doesn't specifically contains any section to that effect having rebut to the punishment imposed for the same. It follows that these offenses are non-malleable. Act also, I mean very important and unique feature of the act is mandatory duty of reporting. We never had such provision under any law. This is the first path breaking legislation wherein every person is cast with a mandatory duty of reporting. If to his knowledge, such sexual offense has been committed or even when there is apprehension of commission of such offense. So not only after the commission but apprehension of commission of such offense. So it is a mandatory duty of reporting. In Western countries, this duty was there. I mean, it was cast on specific persons like, you know those who are likely to come across such incidents maybe media persons or otherwise. But POSCO Act has made this provision for the first time. So it is a duty on each and every person to report the commission or apprehension of commission of any of the offense under the act. Failure to report is bringing, as I said one of the offense, some other offenses and that is an offense failure to report because it is mandatory and hence non-reporting when I have knowledge. Like school principal is having the knowledge that sports teacher is committing sexual abuse. Child has complaint but if the school teacher has principal has not taken action then it becomes the breach of mandatory duty of reporting. So if the knowledge is there then reporting is a must. Failure to do so invites six months punishment and fine. So another offense in this context is every police person who is informed about this offense or the report is lodged, he has to register that offense. If it is not registered, it also amounts to a failure of this mandatory duty and therefore it becomes punishable with six months imprisonment. Therefore, both on individual and also on police person there is a duty for police person to register the offense and for other persons to go to the police station and lodge the report. In the judgment of Shankar Kishan Rao Khade versus state of Maharashtra, 2013, five Supreme Court cases, page 546. 2013, five Supreme Court cases, page 546. Supreme Court has given directions for person in charge of schools, special homes, children home, media personnel and hospitals to take seriously about this provision of mandatory reporting. Why it was felt necessary? Because children find it very difficult to disclose about the sexual abuse. They are not only vulnerable but they have their own limitations. They may not find it comfortable to state something which is done in secrecy, privacy. And sometimes on account of the grooming, the abuser takes the child in confidence, tells him not to disclose about it. It is our shared secret. And if you disclose it, I will not give you the gift. I will not pamper you. I will neglect you. And that may be the part of grooming or child is too afraid or child is lacking the vocabulary also to disclose about the same. So disclosure of such offense is very, very difficult. If someone comes to know about it and then discloses, then the child will get the help immediately, medical assistance, legal assistance and that will stop the recurrence of this or repetition of this offense and therefore the provision of mandatory reporting, duty of reporting. It has resulted again, as I said, this is a new act. There are several gray areas reporting, mandatory duty of reporting has also some consequences. Like child may not be prepared for it. Child doesn't want to disclose it. Child's sense of privacy and confidentiality are also in question. And in that case, we know till our judicial system, our investigation system improves and child is brought to the court to state something about the incident which child doesn't want to, especially when this incident is or abuse is done by the family member, then that is also having some significant consequences. So we have to wait for time to know whether this provision is really in help of the child or otherwise, but this is an important part of the provision under this act. Then we are also having some mandatory provisions or presumptions under the act, which is again a radical departure from existing jurisprudence, criminal jurisprudence or existing evidence act. Section 29 and 30 are of important in this aspect in the respect of the presumptions. They are casting a reverse burden or proof because we know that entire criminal offense, entire burden lies on the prosecution to prove the case against the accused. Even if accused doesn't open his mouth, or doesn't open his defense, he may not be at loss because it will be the prosecution. It is for the prosecution to prove the case against accused beyond reasonable doubt. But the legislature recognized that so far a child is concerned. I mean, you know, there are several difficulties to record the evidence of the child and for child to state that this particular act was done by the accused with sexual intent because child is too small a person to state that accused had some sexual intent. All of you might be knowing the case of Rupam Bajaj versus KPS Gill, wherein the question arose whether giving a pat on the posterior portion of a woman amounts to violation of modesty or not, whether it was done casually or whether it was done with sexual intent. So sexual intent is something difficult to prove. If the child is made nude, if the child is asked to remove the clothes, if child is asked to exhibit certain body parts, whether the child can say that it was done with sexual intent. And therefore, section 30 of the act says that there shall be presumption if the act is proved, then it will be presumed that it was done with sexual intent. So mainstream as such, what is sexual intent is a mainstream that is guilty intention that is presumed under the act and it will be for the accused to revert that presumption. So the act has as I say, it made a radical departure from the existing legal provisions. Now any act like this defined under the act is done and it is proved then it will be presumed unless contrary is proved by the accused that it was done with sexual intent. So section 30 is to that effect. The more serious, I mean more interesting provision is section 29 of the act, which is again deals with the presumption and it says that any person, if any of this person is prosecuted for the offense of punishable under section 35 and seven and nine of the act that is sexual assault, aggravated, penetrative, et cetera, then it will be presumed that he has committed an offense unless the contrary is proved. The word is used is shall so it is a mandatory presumption. Now the question arose what the word prosecuted means whether mere filing of charge sheet is sufficient, whether mere framing of charge is sufficient at which stage the burden will shift upon the accused. And that was the question. I mean, when this presumption will be triggered and this question has engaged the attention of the various high courts and all the high courts so far, including our Bombay High Court, including Kerala High Court and several other high courts in various of this Calcutta High Court in the case of Sibrato Biswas versus state of West Bengal, the decision dated 11, 6, 2019, then Kerala High Court in the case of Joy versus state of Kerala in the decision of 2019, SSC Online, Kerala 783 and the Bombay High Court also in the decision of Navin Bariya versus state of Maharashtra, 2018 criminal law journal 3393 has again fallen back to our old criminal jurisprudence and has said that the burden prosecution will not be exempted from proving the foundational facts. So the prosecution has to prove the foundational facts that is the incident has happened. It was the accused who has committed such incident or act and then only the presumption will be triggered. So not merely on prosecuted means after the entire trial at the time of judgment, we will see whether the accused has reverted that presumption. So it is like any other presumption whether under section 106 of IPC or 113 of A of Evidence Act or 113 B of Evidence Act. So it has become now like any other presumption which we have to consider at the time of judgment whether accused has reverted that presumption that he is no more the innocent. So section 29, which was intended to state that whenever such act is alleged or accused is prosecuted he shall be presumed to have committed an offense unless contrary is proved is now reducing its significance. Now let us see what Supreme Court has said because still today we are waiting for the decision of the Supreme Court. The first, the next provision made under the act pertains to making the trial of these offenses speedy and time bound. I mean speedy because the state evidence of the child victim is to be recorded within 30 days from the date when the court takes cognizance. And entire trial is to be completed within one year from the date of taking cognizance. So within one year everything has to be completed. That is the object of the act having regard to the far reaching impact such incident has on the child psychology, child's life, child's future, career, school and everything. And therefore at least the evidence of the child because in evidence child has to repeat everything. So whatever the incident, traumatic incident with child has tried to forget. Now child has to remember it again and again at the time of giving statement before the police at the time of giving statement before the magistrate and again in giving evidence before the court. That drama should be spared at least at the earliest occasion it should get over. And that was why these offenses are now made, I mean trial for the same is now made speedy and time bound. So unless the reasons are recorded the court cannot extend the time for trial of these offenses. Unfortunately, however, establishment of special court which is again the mandate of this act has not redeemed the situation because every district is having one special court and now all the district courts are flooded with these special courts are flooded with these cases. So Supreme Court has in the latest also last year given direction for establishment of more courts at every district because several cases are pending beyond the period of one year. And hence in practicality it is rather getting difficult but yes, the act, the legislature has made it mandatory to have that case decided within the time bound manner. Apart from these substantive laws relating to the offenses, their punishment, presumptions, I mean these were necessitated, they were long awaited but the most important feature for which this act is of paramount significance is the child friendly procedures provided under the act. We will be dealing on these aspect in the next session more but I will just cursorily deal with this because establishment of child friendly special court necessarily contemplates that child is not to be brought in the regular court where the judge is sitting on the raised platform and there is witness from the witness box child has to give evidence but it contemplates establishment of the special place chamber where the evidence of vulnerable victim can be recorded and that is the Supreme Court has also directed in the judgment of Mahendra Chawla versus Union of India and state of Maharashtra versus Bandu 2018 11 Supreme Court cases 163 for establishment of at least one center for examination of vulnerable witnesses. Though these special court should have a special arrangement for recording evidence of child witness and such evidence of child witness is to be recorded as we will see in the session of Justice Dalvi either in the chamber or at a place where no outsider can have the entry. So when we call only in camera trial which is mandatory in these cases in camera means at a place where the entry of the public is restricted because our courts are supposed to be the open public place open courts where anyone can come in but these trials in cases of sexual offenses are to be conducted in camera where the identity of the victim is to be guarded strictly not to be disclosed by anyone and identity of the child not only means his name his or her name but also the name of his family the place where he's residing that is his address the school in which he is going any fact which may give rise or which may give indication about the identity of the child is required to be strictly omitted both in the charge sheet in the police paper in the court papers in the judgment everywhere because the act is enacted to respect the child's right to confidentiality and privacy and that right is required to be respected by everyone including the media and therefore the media is also restricted from and there is a special provision under the act which mandates that media should not print media electronic media any social media should not disclose the identity of the victim because that is going to affect his future and his self-respect and dignity his privacy this act is child rights based so the entitlements I mean whatever provisions are made under the act are not some favors given to the child but these are the rights and entitlements of the child and every stakeholder, beauty holder under the act is required to guard these entitlements to protect these entitlements to safeguard these rights if he doesn't then he's liable for punishment so if the media discloses the identity of the child media is liable for punishment under the act and thus this is an important aspect of the provision of this act apart from that we will find that under section 33 of the act the child is entitled to get assistance of the experts, interpreters, translators special educators, especially in case of mentally challenging children those children who are unable to communicate for them also special educators at the time of recording their statement by police by magistrate and also by the court during the evidence then there is also mandate that woman police officer not below the rank of serve inspector is to record the statement there has to be a special juvenile police unit to take cognizance medical evidence and medical treatment is to be provided fourth with and if the victim is a female then medical officer also has to be a female another I mean key provision made under the act is the assistance of support person I mean in civil matters we used to have the provision of guardian atlithm or the next friend whenever the child has to file a suit but there was no such provision under CRPC now this CRPC I mean this act has made the provision for appointment of support person so that support person maybe the parent of the child maybe someone from the family or NGO voluntary organization any person in whom the child is having the confidence and trust that person is to be in form of all the progress made in the case date of hearing or bail application even the hearing that person is to remain present in the court when the evidence of the child is to be recorded so to protect the interest of the child who is unable to do so for himself or herself now the appointment of support person is of importance then the act also provides for right to access documents and information I mean court or police you don't get the information easily available but this is provided under the act at the time of recording evidence so the cross examination or examination in chief of the child is not to be directly conducted by the public prosecutor or the defense counsel but the presiding judge will conduct it expecting that the harsh treatment which is given in cross examination to the witness can be avoided especially when he is a child witness so questions relating to character assassination or aggressive questioning is to be strictly avoided then child is to be given frequent breaks in recording of evidence not to be called repeatedly not to be seen by the accused or the child is not to see the accused during a recording of evidence there should be one way mirror or screen or all these things are provided under the act itself which we will be dealing in the next session of Justice Dalvesh will elaborate thereupon how the sensitization in this respect is of importance another aspect which as regards victimology is concerned which I would like to highlight is the legal assistance which is provided to the child victim as of right otherwise under our existing law the victim was not given any legal representation the victim was to be represented by public prosecutor only and not independent legal counsel but this act provides for such legal assistance legal right to represent it and if the family or child is unable to afford their own counsel then legal services authorities to provide that so this is again an important provision apart from the provision for appointment of special public prosecutors expecting that there should be special judge who is sensitized to these matters and special public prosecutor also so that these matters will be handled in the way we expect them to be handled so you know and last provision which I would like to highlight during this limited time is of the compensation for the purpose of rehabilitation of the victim I mean under previously awarding of compensation was purely discretionary now under this act the fine amount is to be given to the victim for rehabilitation so and as I said fine amount has to be just and reasonable having regard to the resources required for the rehabilitation of the child and section under the act it is mandated that compensation has to be provided either from the victim injury compensation fund which is to be established by every state government if the accused is unable to provide for the same and Supreme Court has in the judgment of Nipun Saxena versus Union of India 2019 1 in number 313 Supreme Court cases 719 given direction for establishment of such injury compensation fund from which the compensation is to be provided it is a must now apart from that there is provision for interior compensation also because after the cases decided giving compensation will be too late in some cases so immediately after the filing of the cases so when the victim really requires some financial resources such interior compensation can also be given from time to time and that is also mandated under the rule 9 sub law 6 of the act so this is something judicially it was recognized in the case of Bodhisattva Gautam versus Ms. Subra Chakravarti Air 1996 Supreme Court 992 Supreme Court has recognized payment of interior compensation thereafter in the judgment of Ankush Sivaji Gaikwad versus state of Maharashtra 2013 6 Supreme Court cases 770 Supreme Court has again made it mandatory for the court to grant such compensation but now legislatively now it is mandatory for rehabilitation which is important that is for providing vocational training also for pursuing the education also for having some residence also for all these aspects now the compensation is necessary and is mandated and there has to be a judicial application of mind for awarding of this compensation so the act is as I said on legislation on paper it is very very comprehensive it is very a welcome piece of legislation a long-awaited piece of legislation so for a children who are unable to speak for themselves and hence the necessity to have someone speak for them and to spare them from the trauma to spare them from the entire rigorous process of undergoing this investigation and trial stages it was a must act and the legislature has fulfilled the demands there may be certain legulums as I said certain grey areas certain controversial points also which will be cleared in the course of the time on judicial side but for the present it is filling the vacuum which was in the legislative field and it is providing the child friendly procedures however since it I charge can use this provisions and in no way to their own that we will be dealing in the next session by Justice Roshan Dalvi but the bare provisions of the acts the substantive provisions of the law which deal with this subject I have dealt with and I think I will stop here because I find lots of queries being made on the on the chat and therefore I would like to answer those queries and have interaction with you thank you so much over to Vikas sometimes the command of muting the lawyer is with the in the virtual courts not with the judges but the staff can be you have actually taken the entire insights yes there are some situations and some takes also interesting there are too many chats that to scroll up meanwhile I will take which we normally top off and probably in one of the sessions Justice Roshan Dalvi also said what is the good touch and a bad touch which we normally correlate with this act yes it is difficult for the child to state that this was a good touch or this was a bad touch so why to cast this onerous responsibility on the child to state that it was a bad touch or it was a good touch why not spare the child from that so you know earlier there used to be this concept of good touch and bad touch in the sense that child will feel uncomfortable that touch with which the child will feel uncomfortable that will be called as a bad touch but as I said in the case of grooming grooming where you know where the child is taken into confidence, child is told child is showered with gifts praise her and child is convinced that this is our secret don't tell anyone that child may not understand that it was a bad touch sexual activity which was done with the child was a bad touch but it was a sexual offense and therefore now there is a you know thinking or there is some on this line it is said that we should not burden the child with the responsibility of saying it is a good touch or it was a bad touch we will decide and therefore section 30 of the act which says that if any of these acts which are given in section 3, 5, 7, 9 of the act like touching or physical involving physical touch or otherwise then they will be presumed to be done with sexual intent so the child doesn't have to say that whether it was a good touch or it was a bad touch but yes from family point of view, from society point of view you must make the child aware of these things that if anyone's touch make the child uncomfortable then the child should report it that is creating awareness about the existence of prevalence of this phenomena and for that extent you should I mean every parent, every family, every school should make the child aware that any touch to your body of which with which you are not comfortable with which you find something wrong then please report it take the child in confidence that is the duty of the family and every school also not to ignore, not to say that it is nothing how he will do it like this because now we know that even family members also subject the child to sexual abuse so don't disbelieve the child believe the child make the child aware that these things also happen and therefore report to me in that context good touch and bad touch as you see and therefore as I said any touch which makes the child uncomfortable that is a bad touch in one of the sessions I attended it was said that normally wherever the private parts are normally covered so that's a bad touch and which are exposed to normal human being in the open it can be a good touch as such though the expression would always touch but in that case you know only private parts but the lips, cheeks are open and they are also touched in a otherwise manner with sexual intent it also becomes a bad touch child may not know so if anyone cheeks, lips are touched that also becomes child making and uncomfortable but you know like doing this to the child that is something you know not good for child not feel comfortable so child should be able to report it and we should be able to stop it so covered body parts in addition to that that touch which makes him uncomfortable Arun an 18-year-old boy accused of raping and impregnating a minor the girl was granted bail by the court after the DNA test proven innocent the boy spent 35 days in this process the court had demanded the boy in judicial custody on July 22 under the box correct the girl had alleged that the boy had raped her while she was on her way back while the boy kept on denying the charges and said he was innocent which led the officials to conduct a DNA test to ascertain if the boy was a father the boy was charged under the relevant Indian penal code led with boxo he was released on Saturday from Thirur sub jail I'm innocent in this case and very happy that the truth came out he said the family is happy because these are the facts of a particular pending I am also seeing that you do not blame them that's true and the matter could be subreddit normal question could be once you have found innocent is there any compensation awarded against the government or judiciary or punishment to the false accuser in such like cases where you are ultimately acquitted so far as false and malicious Roshan Dalvi ma'am also can supplement that yes so far as false and malicious prostitution is concerned there is a provision for compensation if it is proved to be false and malicious may be separate proceeding but yes there is a provision for compensation and I would request justice Roshan Dalvi to supplement that is the very right answer it is one thing to get acquittal it is another thing to then prosecute for malicious prostitution because if it was malicious and then you have been acquitted then you have to prove how it was malicious what was the malefights involved and that could be a separate trial otherwise you are acquitted what are the causes of CSO where is the data and scientific analysis correcting the root cause what are the causes of? CSO what is CSO? Child sexual offence yeah causes of child sexual abuse is easy accessibility of the child that is one cause may be another cause may be vulnerabilities of the child the child will not understand also and you can satisfy your sexual urge with the child there is something called pedophiles who enjoy having sex with the children that is also one aspect previously we used to have this concept of having sex with the child or virgin improves your virility or whatever it may be or fuels you from sexual what you call as some sexual but in each or sexual diseases so there may be several concepts but ultimately it is sexual urge secondly dominance secondly that phase of enjoying and the possibility of being caught is less if you commit such offence with a grown up girl, grown up lady then immediately the complaint is lost that and then it becomes an offence you are caught but so far each children are concerned they are not in a position to disclose us so the abuse can take place for days together it is not a singular act one time act but it is repeated over time as and when you feel because child is in your home or child is easily accessible child is in school and these are the various reasons and we never make the children aware of such sexual act which can be committed sex is still considered to be a taboo subject surrounded in secrecy and therefore there may be these may be some of the reasons and technology advancement in technology has given a lot of exposure now the teenage children want to experiment sexually interment experiment it is easily available child is easily available their sexual urge is also enhanced because of seeing the pornographic material or obscenity scenes which are easily available on social media TV, everything so there may be several causes we cannot pinpoint one particular cause for the sexual offenses you are in the bird eye view what are the basic trigger points in aware the alienated parents struggle to meet their own children in the so-called family courts will it be able to prevent such abuse of their own children because of the denial of excess by order or by hostile parties what are the preventions prevention for not allowing the child to meet or prevention for what he says that in such like cases there are more chances of sexual abuse for the child how can it be stopped because when the both the parties are hostile to each other because of the relationship there are certain I mean both the possibilities are there sometimes it is said that delegations are made just for the sake of it to get the divorce sometimes the allegations are very serious so the family court has to assert whether there is a substance there is possibility there is probability of such sexual offense of the child taking place if given in the custody of the other parent then the family court can will not give the custody or access to the other parent if there is you know the allegation there is no substance in the allegation then family court may give it it depends upon the particular facts of that case sometimes you know family court has to ascertain from the child also family court has to ascertain from the you know everything pleading and all the things thereafter the child can be given supervised access you know someone will be present not overnight access to step by step the family court will go on giving that depending upon the nature of the allegations depending upon the substance in the allegation and finding the overall situation so if there are other family members and child is comfortable with the father then the court may say that no we will try it on an experimental basis so it depends upon the particular facts of that case here let me have taken let me check it on the YouTube what kind of remedies are given to the victims' children under the boxlet we have already seen the remedies under the post-coact the child can immediately lodge the complaint along with his parents or support person the affidavit will be arrested caught and everything and then tried for the offense the safeguards are provided as regards reporting of his statement in the in his residence not at police station the safeguards are also there that he should his evidence to be recorded in camera and not in court so various safeguards are there for his immediate medical treatment medical assistance legal assistance so the remedy which the child is to disclose about the incident or if someone comes to know about it will disclose about it yeah so thank you ma'am for giving us the insights and next week we will be connecting and we will update the date on the social media to the effect where we have the substantive law and it was a pleasure connecting on a different topic but reliving the memories as to how we got connected on this virtual platform so thank you everyone stay safe, stay blessed and we are thankful to Justice Shalini and Justice Roshan Dalmi for spending the time and to share their knowledge beyond the judicial 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Tonight, the Bemidji Girls soccer team did something they've only done once previously this year. Play after a loss. The Jacks fell to Brainerd on Saturday 1-0 and looked to bounce back against St. Cloud Apollo, an unfamiliar foe who they last played in 2011. The game played at the chat. Apollo jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but then Lindsay Hildenbrand took over, takes the pass, races through two defenders, and buries it in the left corner, cuts the deficit to one. Just two minutes later, Hildenbrand with another run, dumps it off to Kinley Prestigar. She hits the post, but Hildenbrand able to clean it up, tied it to going into halftime. In the 51st minute, Harper towered with a shot from distance, hits the crossbar, but guess who? Hildenbrand there for the rebound. They take a 3-2 lead on the hat-trick. And with five minutes to go in the game, Emmedine into the box, Liberty Dickerson shoots it. It goes off Hildenbrand and into the back of the net when you're on, you're on. Final score of this one, Lindsay Hildenbrand 4, St. Cloud Apollo 2.
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They actually did a study on this where they found that small frequent successes led to more motivation and more of those motivated type feelings, which we're all looking for, right? When you feel motivated, it's easier to do the things that you think you need to do or you should do, right? When you feel unmotivated, it gets real tough. So what they found in the study was that small, frequent wins or successes was more effective at producing that state of mind than infrequent large successes. Okay. So you're better off doing little things on a daily basis where you actually accomplish them versus aiming for this one big thing. And then maybe you hit it every once in a while. These small wins lead to the state of mind that is more conducive to success.
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Book 10 of the Iliad. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org, recording by Anna Simon. The Iliad by Homer, translated by Samuel Butler. Book 10. Ulysses and Diomed go out as spies and meet Dolan, who gives them information. They then kill him and, profiting by what he had told them, kill Reese's, King of the Thracians and take his horses. Now the other princes of the Achaeans slept soundly the whole night through, but Agamemnon, son of Atreus, was troubled so that he could get no rest. As when Fer Juno's lord flashes his lightning in token of great rain or hail, or snow when the snowflakes whiten the ground, or again as a sign that he will open the white jaws of hungry war, even so did Agamemnon heave many a heavy sigh. For his soul trembled within him. When he looked upon the plain of Troy, he marveled at the many watchfires burning in front of Ilias, and at the sound of pipes and flutes and of the hum of man. But when presently he turned towards the ships and hosts of the Achaeans, he tore his hair by handfuls before Jove on high, and groaned aloud for the very disquietness of his soul. In the end he deemed it best to go at once to Nestor, son of Ilias, and see if between them they could find any way of the Achaeans from destruction. He therefore rose, put on his shirt, bound his handles about his comely feet, flung the skin of a huge, tawny lion over his shoulders, a skin that reached his feet, and took his spear in his hand. Neither could Manaleo sleep, for he, too, bowed an ill for the archives who, for his sake, had sailed from far over the seas to fight the Trojans. He covered his broad back with the skin of a spotted panther, put a cask of bronze upon his head, and took his spear in his brawny hand. Then he went to rouse his brother, who was by far the most powerful of the Achaeans, and was honoured by the people as though he were a god. He found him by the stern of his ship, already putting as goodly array about his shoulders, and right glad was he that his brother had come. Manaleos spoke first. Why, said he, my dear brother, are you this arming? Are you going to send any of our comrades to exploit the Trojans? I greatly fear that no one will do you this service and spy upon the enemy alone in the dead of night. It will be a deed of great daring. And King Agamemnon answered, Manaleos, we both of us need shrewd counsel to save the archives and our ships, for Jove has changed his mind and inclines towards hectares sacrifices rather than ours. I never saw nor heard tell of any man as having wrought such ruin in one day as Hector has now wrought against the sons of the Achaeans, and that too of his own unaid itself, for his son neither to God nor goddess. The archives will ruid long and deeply. Run, therefore, with all speed by the line of the ships, and call Ajax and Idomineus. Meanwhile I will go to Nestor and bid him rise and go about among the companies of our sentinels to give them their instructions. They will listen to him sooner than to any man, for his own son and Mariani's, brother in arms to Idomineus, are captains over them. It was to them more particularly that we gave this charge. Manaleos replied, How do I take your meaning? Am I to stay with them and wait your coming? Or shall I return here as soon as I've given your orders? Wait! answered King Agamemnon, for there are so many paths about the camp that we might miss one another. Call every man on your way and bid him be stirring. Name him by his lineage and by his father's name. Give each all titular observance and stand not too much upon your own dignity. We must take our full share of toil, for at our birth Jov laid this heavy burden upon us. With these instructions he sent his brother on his way and went on to Nestor, shepherd of his people. He found him sleeping in his tent, hard by his own ship. His goodly armour lay beside him, his shield, his two spears and his helmet. Beside him also lay the gleaming girdle with which the old man girded himself when he armed to lead his people into battle, for his age stayed him not. He raised himself on his elbow and looked up at Agamemnon. Who is it? said he. That goes thus about the host and the ships alone and in the dead of night when men are sleeping. Are you looking for one of your mules or for some comrade? Do not stand there and say nothing but speak. What is your business? And Agamemnon answered, Nestor, son of Nilius, honour to the Achaean name. It is I, Agamemnon, son of Atreus, on whom Jove has laid labour and sorrow so long as there is breath in my body, and my limbs carry me. I am thus abroad because sleep sits not upon my eyelids, but my heart is big with war and with the jeopardy of the Achaeans. I am in great fear for the Danaians. I am at sea, and without your counsel, my heart beats as though it would leap out of my body and my limbs fail me. If then you can do anything, for you too cannot sleep. Let us go the round of the watch and see whether they are drowsy with toil and sleeping to the neglect of their duty. The enemy is encamped hard, and we know not, but he may attack us by night. Nestor replied, Most noble son of ages, king of men, Agamemnon, Jove will not do all for Hector that Hector thinks he will. He will have troubles yet in plenty if Achilles will lay aside his anger. I will go with you and will rouse others. Either the son of Tydeus or Ulysses or fleet Ajax and the valiant son of Philius. Someone had also better go and call Ajax and King Idomeneus for their ships are not near at hand, but the farthest of all. I cannot however refrain from blaming Menelaus much as I love him and respect him, and I will say so plainly even at the risk of offending you for sleeping and leaving all this trouble to yourself. He ought to be going about imploring aid from all the princes of the Achaeans for we are in extreme danger. And Agamemnon answered, Sir, you may sometimes blame him justly for he is often remiss and unwilling to exert himself. Not indeed from sloth, nor yet heedlessness, but because he looks to me and expects me to take the lead. On this occasion, however, he was awake before I was the owner called. I have already sent him to call the very man whom you have named. And now let us be going. We shall find them with the watch outside the gates, for it was there I said that we would meet him. In that case, answered Nestor, the archives will not blame him nor disobey his orders when he urges them to fight or gives them instructions. With this he put on his shirt and bound his sandals about his comely feet. He buckled on his purple coat with two thicknesses, large and of a rough, shaggy texture, grasped his redoubtable bronze shot spear and wended his way along the line of the Achaean ships. First he called loudly to Ulysses peer of gods in council and woke him, for he was soon roused by the sound of the battle cry. He came outside his tent and said, Why do you go thus alone about the host and along the line of the ships in the stillness of the night? What is it that you find so urgent? And Nestor, night of Jureen, answered, Ulysses, noble son of Lertus, take it not amiss, for the Achaeans are in great straits. Come with me and let us wake some other, who may advise well with us whether we shall fight or fly. On this Ulysses went at once into his tent, put his shield about his shoulders and came out with them. First they went to Diamond, son of Tidius and found him outside his tent clad in his armor, with his comrades sleeping round him and using their shields as pillows. As for their spears, they stood upright on the spikes of their butts that were driven into the ground and the burnished bronze flashed afar like the lightning of Father Jove. The hero was sleeping upon the skin of an ox with a piece of fine carpet under his head. Nestor went up to him and stirred him with his heel to rouse him, abrading him and urging him to bestow himself. Wake up, he exclaimed, son of Tidius, how can you sleep on in this way? Can you not see that the Trojans are encamped on the brow of the plain, hard by our ships, with but a little space between us and them? On these words, Diamond leapt up instantly and said, Old man, your heart is of iron. You rest on one moment from your labours. Are there no younger men among the Achaeans who could go about to rouse the princes? There is no tiring you. And Nestor, night of Jereen, made answer, My son, all that you have said is true. I have good sons and also much people who might call the chieftains, but the Achaeans are in the graveest danger. Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor. Go then, for you are younger than I, and of your curtsy, rouse Ajax in the fleet, son of Phileus. Diamond threw the skin of a great tawny lion about his shoulders, a skin that reached his feet, and grasped his spear. When he had roused the heroes, he brought them back with him. They then went the round of those who were on guard, and found the captains not sleeping at their posts, but wakeful and sitting with their arms about them. As sheep-dogs that watched their flocks when they are yarded, and hear a wild beast coming through the mountain forest towards them, forthwith there is a ewe and cry of dogs and men and slumber is broken. Even so was sleep chased from the eyes of the Achaeans as they kept the watches of the wicked knight, for they turned constantly towards the plain whenever they heard any stir among the Trojans. The old man was glad, bade them be of good cheer. Watch on, my children, said he, and let not sleep get hold upon you lest our enemies triumph over us. With this he passed the trench, and with him the other chiefs of the Achaeans who had been called to the council. Morionis and the brave son of Nestor went also, for the princes bade them. When they were beyond the trench that was dug round the wall, they held their meeting on the open ground where there was a space clear of corpses, for it was here that one night fell Hector had turned back from his onslaught on the archives. They sat down, therefore, and helped debate with one another. Nestor spoke first. My friends, said he, is there any man bold enough to venture the Trojans and cut off some straggler, or bring us news of what the enemy mean to do, whether they will stay here by the ships away from the city, or whether, now that they have worsted the Achaeans, they will retire within their walls. If he could learn all this and come back safely here, his fame would be high as heaven in the mouths of all men, and he would be rewarded richly. For the chiefs from all our ships would give him a black hue with her lamp, which is a present of surpassing value, and he would be asked as a guest to all feasts and clan gatherings. They all held their peace, but the diameter of the loud war cry spoke, saying, Nestor, gladly will I visit the host of the Trojans over against us, but if another will go with me, I shall do so in greater confidence and comfort. When two men are together, one of them may see some opportunity which the other has not caught sight of. If a man is alone, he is less full of resource, and his wit is weaker. On this several offered to go with Diomed. The two Ajaxes, servants of Mars, Marionis, and the son of Nestor all wanted to go, so did Manilaus, son of Atreus. Ulysses also wished to go among the host of the Trojans, for he was ever full of daring, and thereon Agamemnon, thus. Diomed, said he, son of Tidius, man after my own heart, choose your comrade for yourself, take the best man of those that have offered, for many would now go with you. Do not, through delicacy, reject the better man, and take the worst out of respect for his lineage, because he is of more royal blood. He said this because he feared for Manilaus. Diomed answered, if you bid me take the man of my own choice, how in that case can I fail to think of Ulysses, than whom there is no man more eager to face all kinds of danger, and Pallas Minerva loves him well. If he were to go with me, we should pass safely through fire itself, for he is quick to see and understand. Son of Tidius, replied Ulysses, say neither good nor ill about me, for you are among archives who know me well. Let us be going, for the night wanes and the stars have gone forwards, two-thirds of the night are already spent, and a third is alone left us. They then put on their armour. Brave Thrasymides provided the son of Tidius with a sword and a shield, for he had left his own at his ship, and on his head he set a helmet of bull's hide without either peak or crest. It is called a skullcap, and is a common headgear. Morionees found a bow and quiver of Ulysses, and on his head he set a leavened helmet that was lined with a strong plating of leavened thongs, while on the outside it was thickly studded with boar's teeth, well and skillfully set into it. Next ahead there was an inner lining of felt. This helmet had been stolen by Atollicus out of Illian when he broke into the house of Amontor, son of Orminus. He gave it to Amphidamus of Sithra to take to Scandia, and Amphidamus gave it as a guest gift to Molus who gave it to his son Morionees and now it was set upon the head of Ulysses. When the pair had armed, they set out and left the other chieftains behind them. Pallas Minerva sent them a heron by the wayside upon their right hands. They could not see it for the darkness, but they heard its cry. Ulysses was glad when he heard it and prayed to Minerva. Hear me, he cried, daughter of Aegis bearing Jove, you who spy out all my ways and who are with me in all my hardships. Befriend me in this mine hour and grant that we may return to the ships covered with glory after having achieved some mighty exploit that shall bring sorrow to the Trojans. Then Diamond of the Loud War cry also prayed. Hear me, too, said he, daughter of Jove, unvariable. Be with me even as you were with my noble father Tidius when he went to Thebes as envoys sent by the Achaeans. He left the Achaeans by the banks of the river Isapus and went to the city bearing a message of peace to the Chetmians. On his return thence with your help, goddess, he did great deeds of daring for you were his ready helper. Even so, guide me and guard me now and in return I will offer you your old, unbroken and never yet brought by man under the yoke. I will guilt her horns and will offer her up to you in sacrifice. Thus they prayed and Pallas Minerva heard their prayer. When they had done praying to the daughter of great Jove they went their way like two lions prowling by night amid the armor and blood stained bodies of them that had fallen. Neither again did Hector let the Trojans sleep for he too called the princes and counsellors of the Trojans that he might set his council before them. Is there one, said he, who for a great reward will do me the service of which I will tell you? He shall be well paid if he will. I will give him a chariot and a couple of horses, the fleetest that can be found at the ships of the Achaeans if he will dare this thing and he will win infinite honour to boot. He must go to the ships and find out whether they are still guarded as here to four or whether now that we have beaten them the Achaeans designed to fly and through sheer exhaustion are neglecting to keep their watches. They all held their peace but there was among the Trojans a certain man named Dolan, son of Humides, the famous Herald a man rich in gold and bronze he was ill-favoured but a good runner and was it only son among five sisters he it was that now addressed the Trojans. I, Hector, said he, will to the ships and will exploit them but first hold up your scepter and swear that you will give me the chariot be dyed with bronze and the horses that now carry the noble son of Pilius I will make you a good scout and will not fail you. I will go through the host from one end to the other till I come to the ship of Agamemnon where I take the princes the princes of the Achaeans are now consulting whether they shall fight or fly when he had done speaking Hector held up his scepter and swore him his oath saying the oath he swore was bootless but it made Dolan more keen on going he hung his bow over his shoulder and as an overall he wore the skin of a grey wolf while on his head he set a cap of ferret skin then he took a point of javelin and left the camp for the ships but he was not to return with any news for Hector when he had left the horses and the troops behind him he made all speed on his way but Ulysses perceived his coming and said to Diomed Diomed, here is someone from the camp I'm not sure whether he is a spy or whether it is some thief who would plunder the bodies of the dead let him get a little past us we can then spring upon him and take him if however he is too quick for us go after him with your spear and hem him in towards the ships away from the Trojan camp to prevent his getting back to the town with this they turned out of their way and lay down among the corpses Dolan suspected nothing and soon passed them but when he had got about as far as the distance by which a mule plowed furrow exceeds one that has been plowed by oxen for mules can plow fellow land quicker than oxen they ran after him and when he heard their footsteps he stood still for he made sure they were friends from the Trojan camp come by Hector's orders to bid him return when however they were only a spears cast or less away from him he saw that they were enemies so he could stay as fast as his legs could take him the others gave chase at once and as a couple of well trained hounds press forward after a doe or hare that runs screaming in front of them even so that the son of Tidias and Ulysses pursued Dolan and cut him off from his own people but when he had fled so far towards the ships that it would soon have fallen in with the outposts Minerva infused fresh strength into the son of Tidias for fear some other of the Achaeans might have the glory of being first to hit him and he might himself be only second he therefore sprang forward with his spear and said stand or I shall throw my spear and in that case I shall soon make an end of you he threw as he spoke but missed his aim on purpose the dart flew over the man's right shoulder and then stuck in the ground he stood stuck still trembling and in great fear his teeth chattered and he turned pale with fear the two came breathless up to him and seized his hands whereon he began to weep and said take me alive I will ransom myself we have great store of gold, bronze and wrought iron and from this my father will satisfy you with a very large ransom should he hear of my being alive at the ships of the Achaeans fear not replied Ulysses no thought of death be in your mind but tell me and tell me true why are you thus going about alone in the dead of night away from your camp and towards the ships while other men are sleeping is it to plunder the bodies of the slain or did Hector sent you to spy out what was going on at the ships or did you come here of your own mere notion Dolan answered his limbs trembling beneath him Hector with his vain flattering promises lured me for my better judgment he said he would give me the horses of the noble son of Pilius and his bronze bed as a chariot he bade me go through the darkness of the flying night get close to the enemy and find out whether the ships are still guarded as here to for or whether now that we have beaten them the Achaeans designed to fly and through sheer exhaustion are neglecting to keep their watches Ulysses smiled at him and answered you had indeed set your heart upon a great reward but the horses of the descendant of Iacus are hardly to be kept in hand or driven by any other mortal man than Achilles himself whose mother was an immortal but tell me and tell me true where did you leave Hector when you started where lies his armor and his horses how two are the watches and sleeping ground of the Trojans ordered what are their plans will they stay here by the ships and away from the city or now that they have worsted the Achaeans will they retire within their walls and Dolan answered I will tell you truly all Hector and the other counselors are now holding conference by the monument of Great Illus away from the general tumult as for the guards about which you ask me there is no chosen watch to keep guard over the host the Trojans have their watchfires for they are bound to have them they therefore are awake either to their duty as sentinels but the allies who have come from other places are asleep and leave it to the Trojans to keep guard for their wives and children are not here Ulysses then said now tell me are they sleeping among the Trojan troops or do they lie apart explain this that I may understand it I will tell you truly all replied Dolan to the seaward like the Kerians the peonian bowmen the Laleges the Cauconians and the noble Palaesgi the Lysians and proud Mysians with the Phrygians and Mionians have their place on the side towards Thimbra but why ask about all this if you want to find your way into the host of the Trojans there are the Thracians who have lately come here and lie apart from the others at the far end of the camp and they have Ryses son of Ionius for their king his horses are the finest and strongest they are whiter than snow and fleeter than any wind that blows his chariot is bedied with silver and gold and he's brought his marvellous golden armour of the rarest workmanship too splendid for any mortal man to carry and meet only for the gods now therefore take me to the ships or bind me securely here until you come back and have proved my words whether they be false or true Diomed looked sternly at him and answered think not Dolon for all the good information you've given us that you shall escape now you are in our hands for if we ransom you or let you go you will come some second time to the ships of the Achaeans either as a spy or as an open enemy but if I kill you and make an end of you you will give no more trouble on this Dolon would have caught him by the beard to besiege him further but Diomed struck him in the middle of his neck with his sword and cut through both sinews so that his head fell rolling in the dust while he was yet speaking they took the ferret skin capped from his head and also the wolf skin the bow and his long spear Ulysses hung them up aloft in honour of Minerva the goddess of Plunder and prayed saying accept these goddess for we give them to you in preference to all the gods in Olympus therefore speed us still further towards the horses and sleeping ground of Thracians with these words he took the spoils and set them upon a tamarisk tree and they marked the place by pulling up reeds and gathering bows of tamarisk that they might not miss it as they came back through the flying hours of darkness the two then went onwards amid the fallen armour and the blood and came presently to the company of Thracian soldiers who were sleeping tired out with our day's toil their goodly armour was lying on the ground beside them mortally in three rows and each man had his yoke of horses beside him Rhesus was sleeping in the middle and hard by him his horses were made fast to the topmost rim of his chariot Ulysses from some way off saw him and said this, Diomedes, is the man and these are the horses about which Dolan whom we killed told us do you are very utmost dally not about your armour but lose the horses at once kill the man yourself while I see to the horses thereon Minerva put courage into the heart of Diomedes and he smote them right and left they made a hideous groaning as they were being hacked about and the earth was red with their blood as a lion springs furiously upon a flock of sheep or goats when he finds them without their shepherd so that the son of Tidius set upon the Thracian soldiers till he had killed twelve as he killed them Ulysses came and drew them aside by their feet one by one that the horses might go forward freely without being frightened as they pass over the dead bodies for they were not yet used to them when the son of Tidius came to the king he killed him too which made thirteen as he was breathing hard for by the council of Minerva an evil dream the seed of Onius hovered that night over his head and untied the horses made them fast one to another and drove them off striking them with his bow for he had forgotten to take the whip from the chariot then he whistled as a sign to Diomedes but Diomedes stayed where he was thinking what other daring deed he might accomplish he was doubting whether to take the chariot in which the king's armor was lying and draw it out by the pole or to lift the armor out and carry it off or whether again he should not kill some more Thracians while he was thus hesitating Minerva came up to him and said get back Diomedes to the ships or you may be driven thither should some other guard rouse the Trojans Diomedes knew that it was the goddess and at once sprang upon the horses Ulysses beat them with his bow and they fled onward to the ships of the Achaeans but Apollo kept no blind lookout when he saw Minerva with the son of Tidius he was angry with her and coming to the host with the Trojans he roused Hippoquon a counselor of the Thracians and a noble kinsman of Rhesus he started up out of his sleep and saw that the horses were no longer in their place and that the man were gasping at their death agony on this he groaned aloud and called upon his friend by name then the whole Trojan camp was in an uproar as the people kept hurrying together and they marveled at the deeds of the heroes who had now got away towards the ships when they reached the place where they had killed Hector's scout Ulysses stayed his horses and the son of Tidius, leaping to the ground placed the blots taint spoils in the hands of Ulysses and remounted then he lashed the horses onwards and they flew forward nothing loth towards the ships as though of their own free will Nestor was first to hear the tramp of their feet my friends said he princes and counsellors of the archives shall I guess right or wrong but I must say what I think there is a sound in my ears as of the tramp of horses I hope it may be Diomed and Ulysses driving in horses from the Trojans but I much fear that the bravers of the archives may have come to some harm at their hands yet hardly done speaking when the two men came in and dismounted the others shook hands right gladly with them and congratulated them Nestor, knight of Jereen was first to question them tell me, said he renowned Ulysses, how did you to come by these horses did you steal in among the Trojan forces or did some god meet you and give them to you they are like some beams I am well conversant with the Trojans for old warrior though I am I never hold back by the ships saw or heard of such horses as these are surely some god must have met you and given them to you for you are both of you, dear to Jove and to Jove's daughter Minerva and Ulysses answered Nestor, son of Nelius honoured to the Achaean name heaven, if it so will can give us even better horses than these for the gods are far miter than we are these horses however about which you ask me from Thrace Diomed killed their king with the 12 bravest of his companions hard by the ships we took a 13th man, a scout whom Hector and the other Trojans had sent as a spy upon our ships he laughed as he spoke and drove the horses over the ditch while the other Achaeans followed him gladly when they reached the strongly built quarters of the son of Tidias they tied the horses with thongs of leather to the manger and Diomed stood eating their sweet corn but Ulysses hung the bloodstained spoils of Dolon at the stern of his ship that they might prepare a sacred offering to Minerva as for themselves they went into the sea and washed the sweat from their bodies and from their necks and thighs when the sea water had taken all the sweat from of them and had refreshed them they went into the baths and washed themselves after they had done so they sat down to table and drawing from a full mixing bowl made a drink offering of wine to Minerva end of book 10 The Iliad by Homer translated by Samuel Butler Book 11 In the forenoon the fight is equal but Agamemnon turns over the day towards the Achaeans until he gets wounded and leaves the field Hector then drives everything before him till he is wounded by Diomed Paris wounds Diomed Ulysses, Nestor and Eutomanias perform prodigies of Valar Macaeon is wounded Nestor drives him off in his chariot Achilles sees the pair driving towards the camp and sends Patroclus to ask who it is that is wounded this is the beginning of evil for Patroclus Nestor makes a long speech and now as Dawn rose from her couch besides Tithonus harbinger of lighter like to mortals and immortals Jove sent fierce discord with the ensign of war in her hands to the ships of the Achaeans she took her stand by the huge black hull of Ulysses ship which was middle most of all so that her voice might carry farthest on either side on the one hand towards the tense of Ajax's son of Telemond and on the other towards those of Achilles for these two heroes well assured of their own strength had valorously drawn up their ships at the two ends of the line there she took her stand and raised a cry both loud and shrill that filled the Achaeans with courage giving them heart to fight resolutely and with all their might so that they had rather stay there and do battle than go home in their ships the son of Atreus shouted the Argaeus Gerd themselves were battle while he put on his armour first he girded his goodly greaves about his legs making them fast with ankle clasps of silver first he girded his goodly greaves about his legs making them fast with ankle clasps of silver and about his chests he set the breastplate which Keneras had once given him as a guest gift it had been noised abroad as far as Cyprus that the Achaeans were about to sail for Troy and therefore he gave it to the king it had ten courses of dark Cyannus twelve of gold and ten of tin there were serpents of Cyannus that reared themselves up towards the neck three upon either side like the rainbows which the son of Saturn has set in heaven as a sign to mortal men about his shoulders he threw his sword studied with bosses of gold and the scabbard was of silver with the chain of gold wherewith to hang it he took more over the richly dyed shield that covered his body when he was in battle fair to see with ten circles of bronze running all round it on the body of the shield there were twenty bosses of white tin with another of dark Cyannus in the middle this last was made to show where Gorgon's head fierce and grim with rout and panic on either side the band for the arm to go through was of silver on which there was a writhing snake of Cyannus with three heads that sprang from a single neck and went in and out among one another on his head Agamemnon set a helmet with a peak before and behind and four plumes of horse hair that knotted it menacingly above it then he grasped two redoubtable bronze shot spears the gleam of his armor shot from him as a flame into the firmament while Juno and Minerva thundered in honour of the king of Rich Mycenae every man now left his horses in charge of his charioteer to hold them in readiness by the trench while he went into battle on foot clad in fellow armor and a mighty uproar rose on high unto the dawning the chiefs were armed and ducked the trench before the horses got there but these came up presently the son of Saturn sent a portent of evil sound about their host and the dew fell red with blood for he was about to send many a brave man hurrying down to Hades the Trojans, on the other side upon the rising slope of the plain were gathered round great Hector Noble Polydomus a neus who was owned by the Trojans like an immortal and the three sons of Antonore Polybus, Agenore and young Akamas, mutious as a god Hector's round shield showed in the front rank and a some baneful star it shines for a moment through a rent in the clouds and it is again hidden beneath them even so was Hector now seen in the front ranks and now again in the hindermost and his bronze armor gleaned like the lightning of Aegis bearing Jove and now was a band of reapers most swathes of wheat or barley upon a rich man's land and the sheaves fall thick before them even so did the Trojans and Akians fall upon one another they were in no mood for yielding they fought like wolves and neither side got the better of the other discord was glad as she beheld them for she was the only god that went among them the others were not there but stayed quietly each in his own home among the dels and valleys of Olympus all of them blamed the son of Saturn for wanting to give victory to the Trojans but father Jove he did them not he held a loop from all and sat apart in his all glorious majesty looking down upon the city of the Trojans, the ships of the Akians the gleam of bronze and a like upon the slayers and on the slain now so long as the day waxed and it was still morning the darts rained thick on one another and the people perished but as the hour drew nigh when a woodman working in some mountain forest will get his midday meal for he has felled till his hands are weary he is tired out and must now have food then the Denaeans with a cry their ranks broke the battalions of the enemy Agamemnon led them on and stood first Mienor a leader of his people and afterwards his comrade and charioteer Euliaeus who sprung from his chariot and was coming full towards him but Agamemnon struck him on the forehead with his spear his bronze visor was of no avail against the weapon which pierced both bronze and bone so that his brains were battered in Agamemnon strict their shirts from off them and left them with their breasts all bare to lie where they had fallen he then went on to kill Isis and Antifas, two sons of Priam the one abasted, the other born in Wedlock they were in the same chariot the bastard driving while noble Antifas fought beside him Achilles had once taken both of them prisoners in the glades of Idae and had bound them with fresh wives as they were shepherding they had taken a ransom for them now however Agamemnon, son of Atreus smote Isis in the chest above the nipple with his spear while he struck Antifas hard by the ear and threw him from his chariot for with he stripped their goodly armor from off them and recognised them for he had already seen them at ships when Achilles brought them from Idae as a lion fastens on the thorns of a hind and crushes them with his great jaws robbing them of their tender life while he on his way back to his lair the hind can do nothing for them even though she be close by for she is in an agony of fear and flies through the thick forest sweating and at her utmost speed before the mighty monster so no man of the Trojans could help Isis and Antifas for they were themselves flying panic before the archives then King Agamemnon took the two sons of Antimachus Pissander and Bave Hippolicus it was Antimachus who had been foremost in preventing Helens being restored to Menelaus for he was largely bribed by Alexandrus and now Agamemnon took his two sons both in the same chariot trying to bring their horses to a stand for they had lost the hold of their reins and the horses were mad with fear the son of Atreus sprang upon them like a lion and the pair brought him from their chariot take us alive they cried son of Atreus and you shall receive a great ransom for us our father Antimachus has a great store of gold bronze and wrought iron and from this he will satisfy you with a very large ransom should he hear of our being alive at the ships of the Achaeans with such piteous words and tears did they beseech the king but they heard no pitiful answer in return if said Agamemnon you are sons of Antimachus who once at a council of Trojans proposed that Menelaus and Ulysses who had come to you as envoys should be killed and not suffered to return you shall now pay for the foul iniquity of your father as he spoke he fell Pizander from his chariot to the earth smiting him on the chest with his spear so that he lay face uppermost upon the ground Hippolycos fled but him too did Agamemnon smite he cut off his hands and his head which he sent rolling in among the crowd as though it were a ball there he let them both lie and wherever the ranks were thickest thither he flew while the other Achaeans followed foot soldiers drove the foot soldiers of the foe in route before them and slew them horsemen did the like by horsemen and the thundering tramp of the horses raised a cloud of dust from off the plain King Agamemnon followed after ever slaying them and cheering on the Achaeans as when some mighty forest is all ablaze the eddying gusts whirl fire in all directions till the thickets shrivel and are consumed before the blast of flame even so fell the heads of the flying Trojans before Agamemnon son of Antrius and many a noble pair of steams drew an empty chariot along the highways of war for lack of drivers who were lying on the plain more useful now to vultures than to their wives Jove drew Hector away from the darts and dust with the carnage and din of battle but the son of Antrius sped onwards calling out lustily to the Danayans they flew on by the tomb of Odylus son of Dardinus in the middle of the plain like a herd of cows maddened with fright when a lion has attacked them in the dead of night he springs on one of them seizes her neck in the grip of his strong teeth and laps up her blood and gorges himself upon her entrails and he sees them and he sees them and sees them and he sees them and he sees them and he sees them and he sees them and he sees them and then gorges himself upon her entrails even so did King Agomemnon son of Altreas pursue the foe ever slaughtering the hind boasters they fled Pelmel before him came down from heaven and took his seat thunderbolt in hand and upon the crest of many fountain-eider. He then told Iris of the golden wings to carry a message for him. "'Go,' said he, fleet Iris, and speak thus to Hector. Say that so long as he sees Agamemnon heading his men and making havoc of the Trojan ranks, he is to keep aloof, and with the others bear the brunt of the battle. But when Agamemnon is wounded either by spear or arrow, and takes to his chariot, then will I vouchsafe him strength to slay till he reach the ships and night falls at the going down of the sun. Iris harkened and obeyed. Down she went to strong Ilias from the crests of Ida, and found Hector, son of Priam, standing by his chariot and horses. Then she said, Hector, son of Priam, peer of gods in council, father Jove has sent me to bear you this message. So long as you see Agamemnon heading his men and making havoc of the Trojan ranks, you are to keep aloof, and bid the others bear the brunt of the battle. But when Agamemnon is wounded either by spear or arrow, and takes to his chariot, then will Jove vouchsafe you strength to slay till you reach the ships and night falls at the going down of the sun. When she had thus spoken, Iris left him, and Hector sprang full arm from his chariots to the ground, brandishing his spear as he went about everywhere among the host, cheering his men on to fight, and stirring the dread strife of battle. The Trojans and wheels round, and again met the Achaeans, or the Argyres on their part strengthened their battalions. The battle was now in array, and they stood face to face with one another, Agamemnon ever pressing forward in his eagerness to be ahead of all others. Tell me now ye muses that dwell in the mansions of Olympus, who, whether of the Trojans or of their allies, was first to face Agamemnon. It was Iphidamus, son of Antenor, man both brave and of great stature, who was brought up in fertile Thrace, the mother of sheep. His, his mother's father, brought him up in his own house when he was a child, Gisees, father to Fair Theano. When he reached manhood, Gisees would have kept him there, and was forgiving him to his daughter in marriage, but as soon as he had married, he set out to fight the Achaeans with twelve ships that followed him. These he had left at Percote, and had come on by land to Ilius. He it was that now met Agamemnon, son of Atreus. When they were close up with one another, the son of Atreus missed his aim, and Iphidamus hit him upon the girdle below the curas, then flung himself upon him, trusting to his strength of arm. The girdle, however, was not pierced nor nearly so, for the point of the spear struck against the silver, and was turned aside as though it had been led. King Agamemnon caught it from his hand, and drew it towards him with a fury of a lion. He then drew his sword, and killed Iphidamus by striking him on the neck. So there the poor fellow lay, sleeping asleep as it were of bronze, killed him in the defence of his fellow-citizens far from his wedded wife, of whom he had no joy, though he had given much for her. He had given a hundred head of cattle down, and had promised later on to give a thousand sheep and goats mixed from the countless flocks of which he was possessed. Agamemnon, Salvatreus, then despoiled him, and carried off his armour into the host of the Achaeans. The noble co-on, Antonor's eldest son, saw this, saw indeed were his eyes at the sight of his fallen brother. Unseen by Agamemnon, he got beside him spear in hand, and wounded him in the middle of his arm below the elbow, the point of the spear going right through the arm. Agamemnon was convulsed with pain, but still not even for this did he leave off struggling and fighting, but grasped his spear that flew as fleet as the wind, and sprang upon co-on who was trying to drag off the body of his brother, his father's son, by the foot, and was crying for help to all the bravest of his comrades. But Agamemnon struck him with a bronze-shod spear, and killed him as he was dragging the dead body through the press of men under cover of his shield. He then cut off his head, standing over the body of Iphidamus. Thus did the sons of Antonor meet their fate at the hands of the son of Atreus, and go down into the house of Hades. As long as the blood still welled warm from his wound, Agamemnon went about attacking the ranks of the enemy with spear and sword, and with great handfuls of stone, but when the blood had ceased to flow with the wound grew dry, the pain became great. As the sharp pangs which the Elythuei, goddesses of childbirth, daughters of Juno, and dispenses of cruel pain, send upon a woman when she is in labour, even so sharp with the pangs of the son of Atreus. He sprang onto his chariot, and bade his charioteer drive to the ships, for he was in great agony. With a loud, clear voice, he shouted to the Denaeans, My friends, princes, and counsellors of the Argives, defend the ships yourselves, for Jove has not suffered me to fight the whole day through against the Trojans. With this the charioteer turned his horses towards the ships, and they flew forward nothing loath. Their chests were white with foam, and their bellies with dust, as they threw the wounded king out of the battle. When Hector saw Agamemnon quit the field, he shouted to the Trojans and the Lysians, saying, Trojans, Lysians, and Ardanian warriors, be men, my friends, and acquit yourselves in battle bravely. The best man has left them, and Jove has vouchsafed me a great triumph. Charge the foe with your chariots, that you may win still greater glory. With these words he put heart and soul into them all, and as a huntsman hounds his dogs on against a lion or a wild boar, even so did Hector, peer of Mars, hound the proud Trojans on against the Achaeans. Full of hope he plunged in among the foremost, and fell on the fight like some fierce tempest that swoops down upon the sea, and lashes its deep blue waters into fury. What then is the full tale of those whom Hector, son of Priam, killed in the hour of triumph with Jove, then vouchsafed him? First Aseus, Ortonus, and Opetes, Dallup's son of Pleitius, Opheltius, and Agilaus, Isymnus, Orus, and Hipponous steadfast in battle, these chieftains of the Achaeans did Hector slay, and then he fell upon the rank and file, as when the west wind hustles the clouds of the white south, and beats them down with the fierceness of its fury, the waves of the sea roll high, and the sprays flung aloft in the rage of the wandering wind, even so thick were the heads of them that fell by the hand of Hector. All had then been lost, and no help for it, and the Achaeans would have fled Pelmel to their ships. Had not Ulysses cried out to Diomed, son of Tydeus, what has happened to us that we thus forget our prowess? Come, my good fellow, stand by my side, and help me, which we shame forever if Hector takes the ships. And Diomed answered, come what may, I will stand firm, but we shall have scant his joy of it, for Jove is minded to give victory to the Trojans rather than to us. With these words he struck Thimbrius from his chariot to the ground, smiting him in the left breast with his spear, while Ulysses kidmolion, who was his squire. These they let lie now that they had stopped their fighting. The two heroes then went on playing havoc with the foe, like two wild boars that turn in fury and rend the hounds that hunt them. Once did they turn upon the Trojans and slay them, and the Achaeans were thankful to have breathing time in their flight from Hector. They then took two princes with their chariot, the two sons of Merops of Percoty, who excelled all others in the arts of divination. He had forbidden his sons to go to the war, but they would not obey him, for fate lured them to their fall. Diomed son of Tydeus slew both of them and stripped them of their armour, while Ulysses killed Hippodamus and Hyperocas. And now the son of Saturn, as he looked down from Ida, ordained that neither side should have the advantage, and they kept on killing one another. The son of Tydeus speared a gastrophous son of Pion in the hip joint with his spear. His chariot was not at hand for him to fly with, so blindly confident had he been. His squire was in charge of it at some distance, and he was fighting on foot among the foremost until he lost his life. Hector, who marked the Havoc, Diomed and Ulysses were making, and bore down upon them with a loud cry, followed by the Trojan ranks. Brave Diomed was dismayed when he saw them, and said to Ulysses, who was beside him, Great Hector is bearing down upon us, and we shall be undone. Let us stand firm and wait his onset. He poised his spear as he spoke, and hurled it, nor did he miss his mark. He had aimed at Hector's head near the top of his helmet, but bronze was turned by bronze, and Hector was untouched, for the spear was staid by the visoured helm made with three plates of metal, which Phoebus Apollo had given him. Hector sprang back with a great bound under cover of the ranks. He fell on his knees, and propped himself with his brawny hand, leaning on the ground, but darkness had fallen on his eyes. The son of Tydeus, having thrown his spear, dashed in among the foremost fighters to the place where he had seen it strike the ground. Meanwhile Hector recovered himself, and sprung him back into his chariot, mingled with the crowd, by which means he saved his life. But Diomed made at him with his spear, and said, Dog, you have again got away, though death was close on your heels. Hector's Apollo, to whom I wean you, Praier, you go into battle, has again saved you. Nevertheless I will meet you, and make an end of you hereafter, if there is any God who will stand by me, too, and be my helper. For the present I must pursue those I can lay hands on." As he spoke he began stripping the spoils from the sons of Pion, but Alexandra's husband of lovely Helen aimed an arrow at him, leaning against a pillar of the monument which men had raised to Ilas, son of Dardanus, a ruler in the days of old. Diomed had taken the cuirass for off the breast of Agastraphus, his heavy helmet also, and the shield from off his shoulders, when Paris drew his bow and that fly an arrow that sped not from his hand in vain, but pierced the flat of Diomed's right foot, going right through it and fixing itself in the ground. Thereon Paris, with a hearty laugh, sprang forward in front of his hiding place, and taunted him, saying, Your wounded, my arrow has not been shot in vain. Would that it had hit you in the belly and killed you, for thus the Trojans, who fear you as goats fear a lion, would have had a truce from evil. Diomed, all undaunted, answered, Aren't you? You who without your bow are nothing, slanderer, and seducer. If you were to be tried in single combat fighting in full armour, your bow and your arrows would serve you in little stead. Vain is your boast in that you have scratched the sole of my foot. I care no more than if a girl or some silly boy had hit me. A worthless coward can inflict but a light wound. When I wound a man, though I but graze his skin, it is another matter, for my weapon will lay him low. His wife will tear her cheeks for grief, and his children will be fatherless. There he will rot, reddening the earth with his blood, and vultures, not women, will gather round him. Thus he spoke, but Ulysses came up and stood over him. Under this cover he sat down to draw the arrow from his foot, and sharp was the pain he suffered as he did so. Then he sprang on to his chariot and bade the charioteer drive him to the ships, for he was sick at heart. Ulysses was now alone, not one of the Argyves stood by him, for they were all panic-stricken. Alas, he said to himself in his dismay, What will become of me? It is ill if I turn and fly before these odds, but it would be worse if I am left alone and taken prisoner, for the son of Saturn has struck the rest of the denayans with panic. But why talk to myself in this way? Well do I know that though cowards quit the field a hero, whether he wound or be wounded, must stand firm and hold his own. While he was thus in two minds, the ranks of the Trojans advanced and hemmed him in, and bitterly did they come to ruin. As hounds and lusty youth set upon a wild boar that sallies from his lair whiting his white tusks, they attack him from every side, and can hear the gnashing of his jaws, but for all his fierceness they still hold their ground, even so furiously did the Trojans attack Ulysses. First he sprang spear in hand upon Diopides, and wounded him on the shoulder with a downward blow. Then he held Thorn and Enimus. Under these he struck Cercidimus in the loins under his shield, as he had just sprung down from his chariot, so he fell in the dust and clutched the earth with the hollow of his hand. These he let lie, and went on to wound Carrups, son of Hipposus, own brother to noble Socus. Socus, hero that he was, made all speed to help him, and when he was close to Ulysses said, Far famed Ulysses, insatiable of craft and toil, this day you shall either boast of having killed both the sons of Hipposus, and stripped them of their armor, or you shall fall before my spear. With these words he struck the shield of Ulysses. The spear went through the shield, and passed on through his richly wrought keras, tearing the flesh from his side, but Palasminerva did not suffer it to pierce the entrails of the hero. Ulysses knew that his hour was not yet come, but he gave ground, and said to Socus, Wretch! You shall now surely die! You stayed me from fighting further with the Trojans, but you shall now fall by my spear, yielding glory to myself, and your soul to Hades of the noble Steens. Socus had turned in flight, but as he did so, the spear struck him in the back midway between the shoulders, and went right through his chest. He fell heavily to the ground, and Ulysses vaunted over him, saying, O Socus, son of Hippasus, tamer of horses, death has been too quick for you, and you have not escaped him, poor Wretch! Not even in death shall your father and mother close your eyes, but the ravening vultures shall enshroud you with the flapping of their dark wings, and devour you. Whereas even though I fall, the Achaeans will give me my due rights of burial. So saying, he drew Socus' heavy spear out of his flesh, and from his shield, and the blood whilled forth when the spear was withdrawn, so that he was much dismayed. When the Trojans saw that Ulysses was bleeding, they raised a great shout, and came on in a body toward him. He therefore gave ground, and called his comrades to come and help him. Next did he cry loudly as man can cry, and thrice did brave Menelaus hear him. He turned therefore to Ajax, who was close beside him, and said, Ajax noble son of Telemann, captain of your people, the cry of Ulysses rings in my ears, as though the Trojans had cut him off, and were worsting him while he is single-handed. Let us make our way through the throng, it will be well that we defend him. I fear he may come to harm for all his valour if he be left without support, and the Deneans would miss him sorely. He led the way, and mighty Ajax went with him. The Trojans had gathered round Ulysses like ravenous mountain jackals round the carcass of some horned stag that has been hit with an arrow. The stag has fled at full speed, so long as his blood was warm, and his strength thus lasted. But when the arrow had overcome him, the savage jackals devoured him in the shady glades of the forest. Then heaven said the fierce lion dither, who had upon the jackals fly in terror, and the lion robs them of their prey. Even so did Trojans many and brave gather round crafty Ulysses. But the hero stood at bay, and kept them off with his spear. Ajax then came up with his shield before him like a wall, and stood hard by whereon the Trojans fled in all directions. Manelaus took Ulysses by the hand, and led him out to the press while his squire brought up his chariot. And Ajax rushed furiously on the Trojans, and killed Doriclus, bastard son of Priam. Then he wounded Pandacus, Lysandrus, Parasus, and Pilates. As some swollen torrent comes rushing in full, frud from the mountains onto the plain, nigg with the rain of heaven. Many a dry oak and a pine does it engulf, and much mud does it bring down and cast into the sea. Even so did brave Ajax, chase the foe furiously over the plain, slaying both men and horses. Hector did not yet know what Ajax was doing, for he was fighting on the extreme left of the battle by the banks of the River Scamander, where the carnage was thickest, and the wall cried loudest round Nestor, and brave Idomenius. Among these Hector was making great slaughter with his spear and furious driving, and was destroying the ranks that were opposed to him. Still the Achaeans would have given no ground, had not Alexandrus, husband of lovely Helen, stayed the prowess of Macaen, shepherd of his people, by wounding him in the right shoulder with a triple barbed arrow. The Achaeans were in great fear that as the fight had turned against them the Trojans might take him prisoner, and Idomenius said to Nestor, Nestor, son of Nelius, honor to the Achaean name, mount your chariot at once, take Macaen with you and drive your horses to the ships as fast as you can. A physician is worth more than several other men put together for he can cut out arrows and spread healing herbs. Nestor, knight of Garene, he did as Idomenius had counseled. He at once mounted his chariot, and Macaen's son of the famed physician Ascalapius went with him. He lashed his horses, and they flew onward nothing loathed towards the ships, as though of their own free will. Then Caprione, seeing the Trojans in confusion, said to Hector from his place beside him, Hector, here are we two fighting on the extreme wing of the battle, while the other Trojans are in Pelmel Rant, they and their horses. Agex, son of Telemon, is driving them before him. I know him by the breadth of his shield. Let us turn our chariot and horses thither, where horse and foot are fighting most desperately, and where the cry of battle is loudest. With this he lashed his goodly steeds, and when they felt the whip they drew the chariot full of speed amongst the Achaeans and Trojans over the bodies and shields of those that had fallen. The axle was bespattered with blood, and the rail around the car was covered with splashes, both from the horses' hooves and from the tires of the wheels. Hector tore his way through and flung himself into the thick of the fight, and his presence threw the Denaeans into confusion, for his spear was not long idle. Nevertheless he went among the ranks with sword and spear and throwing great stones. He avoided Agex, son of Telemon, for Jove would have been angry with him if he had fought a better man than himself. Then Father Jove, from his high throne, struck fear into the heart of Agex, so that he stood there dazed and threw his shield behind him, looking fearfully at the throng of his foes, as though he were some wild beast turning hither and thither, but crouching slowly backwards. As peasants, with their hounds, chase a lion from their stockyard, and watch by night to prevent his carrying off the pick of their herd, he makes his greedy spring, but in vain, for the darts from many a strong hand fall thick around him with burning brands that scare him for all his fury, and when morning comes he slinks, foiled and angry away. Even so did Agex, sorely against his will, retreat angrily before the Trojans, fearing for the ships of the Aegeans, or as some lazy ass that has had many a cudgel broken about his back, when he into a field begins eating the corn, boys beat him, but he is too many for them. And though they lay about with their sticks they cannot hurt him. Still when he has had his fill, they at last drive him from the field. Even so did the Trojans and their allies pursue great Agex ever smiting the middle of his shield with their darts. Now and again he would turn and show fight, keeping back the battalions of the Trojans, and then he would again retreat, but he prevented any of them from making his way to the ships. Still handed he stood midway between the Trojans and the Keyans. The spears that sped from their hands stuck some of them in his mighty shield, while many, though thirsting for his blood, fell to the ground, ere they could reach him to the wounding of his fair flesh. Now when Eurypilus, the brave son of Euroman, saw that Agex was being overpowered by the reign of Arrows, he went up to him and hurled his spear. He struck Apizion, son of Phosius, in the liver below the midriff, and laid him low. Eurypilus sprung upon him and stripped the armour from his shoulders, but when Alexanderus saw him, he aimed an arrow at him which struck him in the right thigh. The arrow broke, but the point that was left in the wound dragged on the thigh. He drew back, therefore, and under cover of his comrades to save his life, shouting as he did so to the Deneans. My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, rallied to the defence of Agex, who was being overpowered, and I doubt whether he will come out of the fight alive, hither then to the rescue of great Agex, son of Telemon. Even so did he cry when he was wounded. Thereon the others came near, and gathered round him, holding their shields upwards from their shoulders, so as to give him cover. Agex then made towards them, and turned round to stand at bay as soon as he had reached his men. Thus then did they fight, as it were a flaming fire. Meanwhile the mares of Nelius, all in a lather with sweat, were bearing nest door out of the fight, and with him Machian shepherd of his people. Achilles saw and took note, for he was standing on the stern of his ship, watching the hard stress and struggle of the fight. He called from the ship to his comrade Patroclus, who heard him in the tent, and came out looking like Mars himself. Here indeed was the beginning of the ill that presently befell him. Why, said he, Achilles, do you call me? What do you want with me? And Achilles answered, noble son of Menotius, a man after my own heart, I take it that I shall now have the Achians preying at my knees, for they are in great straits. Go, Patroclus, and ask Nestor who it is that he is bearing away wounded from the field. From his back I should say it was Machian, son of Asclepius, but I could not see his face, for the horses went by me at full speed. Patroclus did as his dear comrade had bitten him, and set off running by the ships and tents of the Achaeans. When Nestor and Machian had reached the tents of the son of Nellius, they dismounted and an esquire, Eurymedon, took the horses from the chariot. The pair then stood in the breeze by the seaside to dry the sweat from their shirts. When they had so done, they came inside and took their seats. Fair her comedy, whom Nestor had awarded him from Tenedus when Achilles took it, mixed them of S. She was daughter of wise Arsinois, and the Achaeans had given her to Nestor because he excelled all of them in council. First she set for them a fair and well-made table that had feet of cyanoes. On it there was a vessel of bronze and an onion to give relish to the drink, with honey and kinks of barley-meal. There was also a cup of rare workmanship which the old man had brought with him from home, studded with bosses of gold. It had four handles, on each of which there were two golden doves feeding, and it had two feet to stand on. Anyone else would hardly have been able to lift it from the table when it was full, but Nestor could do it quite easily. In this the woman, as fair as a goddess, mixed them a mess with Pramnian wine. She grated goat's milk cheese into it, with a bronze grater, threw in a handful of white barley-meal, and having thus prepared the mess, she bade them drink it. When they had done so and had thus quenched their thirst, they fell talking with one another, and at this moment Patroclus appeared at the door. When the old man saw him, he sprang from his seat, seized his hand, led him into the tent, and made him take his place among them. Patroclus stood where he was, and said, No, sir, I may not stay, you cannot persuade me to come in. He that sent me is not one to be trifled with, and he bade me ask who the wounded man was whom you were bearing away from the field. I can now see for myself that he is Maccaion, shepherd of his people. I must go back and tell Achilles, you, sir, know what a terrible man he is, and how ready to blame, even where no blame should lie. And Nestor answered, Why should Achilles care to know how many of the Achaeans may be wounded? He wrecks not of the dismay that reigns in our host. Our most valiant chieftains lie disabled. Brave Diomed, son of Tydeus, is wounded. So are Ulysses and Agamemnon. Euripales has been hit with an arrow in the thigh, and I have just been bringing this man from the field. He too wounded with an arrow. Nevertheless Achilles, so valiant though he be, cares not, and knows no roof. Will he wait till the ships do what we may, are in a blaze, and we perish one upon the other? As for me I have no strength, nor stay in me any longer. Would that I were still young and strong, as in the days when there was a fight between us, and the men of Aelis, about some cattle raiding? Then I killed Etomeneus, the valiant son of Hypericus, the dweller in Aelis, as I was driving in the spoil. He was hit by a dart thrown by my hand while fighting in the front rank in defense of his cows, so he fell, and the country people about him were in great fear. He drove off a vast quantity of booty from the plain, fifty herds of cattle, and as many flocks of sheep, fifty droves also of pigs, and as many wide-spreading flocks of goats, of horses moreover, we seized a hundred and fifty all of them bears, and many had foals running with them. All these did we drive by night to Pylos, the city of Aelius, taking them within the city, and the heart of Nelius was glad in that eye had taken so much, though it was the first time I had ever been in the field. At daybreak the heralds went round crying that all in Aelis to whom there was a debt owing should come, and the leading Pylians assembled to divide the spoils. There were many to whom the Appians owed shadows, for we men of Pylos were few, and had been oppressed with wrong. In former years Hercules had come, and laid his hand heavy upon us, so that all our best men had perished. Nelius had had twelve sons, but I alone was left. The others had all been killed. The Appians, presuming upon all this, had looked down upon us, and done us much evil. My father chose a herd of cattle, and a great flock of sheep, three hundred in all. And he took their shepherds with him, for there was a great debt due to him in Aelis, to wit four horses, winners of prizes. They and their chariots with them had gone to the games, and were to run for a tripod. The king Aelius took them, and sent them back their driver, grieving for the loss of his horses. Nelius was angered by what he had both said and done, and took great value in return, but he divided the rest that no man might have less than his full share. Thus did we order all things, and offer sacrifices to the gods throughout the city. But three days afterwards the Appians came in a body many in number, they and their chariots in full array, and with them the two Molliones in their armour, though they were still lads and unused to fighting. Now there is a certain town, Theoroessa, perched upon a rock in the river Alpheus, the border city Pylos. This they would destroy, and pitch their camp about it, but when they had crossed their whole plain, Minerva darted down by night from Olympus, and Bada set ourselves in array, and she found willing soldiers in Pylos, for the men meant fighting. Nelius would not let me arm and hid my horses, for he said that as yet I could know nothing about war. Nevertheless, Minerva so ordered the fight, that all on foot as I was, I fought among our mounted forces, and vied with the foremost of them. There is a river Miniaeus that falls into the sea near Arini, and there they that were mounted, and I with them waited till morning, when the companies of foot soldiers came up with us in force. Once, in full panoply and equipment, we came towards noon to the sacred waters of the Alpheus, and there we offered victims to Almighty Jove, with a bowl to Alpheus, another to Neptune, and a herd heifer to Minerva. After this we took supper in our companies, and laid us down to rest, each in his armor by the river. The Appians were beleaguering the city, and were determined to take it, but here this might be there was a desperate fight in store for them. When the sun's rays began to fall upon the earth, we joined battle, praying to Jove and to Minerva, and when the fight had begun, I was the first to kill my man, and take his horses, to wit the warrior Miniaeus. He was son in law to Audius, having married his eldest daughter, Golden Hair Agamedi, who knew the virtues of every herb which grows upon the face of the earth. I speared him as he was coming towards me, and when he fell headlong in the dust, I sprang upon his chariot, and took my place in the front ranks. The Appians fled in all directions, when they saw the captain of their horsemen, the best man they had laid low, and I swept down on them like a whirlwind, taking fifty chariots, and in each of them two men bit the dust, slain by my sphere. I should have even killed the two Malionis, sons of Actor, unless their real father Neptune, lord of the earthquake, had hidden them in a thick mist, and borne them out of the fight. Thereon Jove vouchsafed the Pylians a great victory, for we chased them far over the plain, killing the men and bringing in their hour, till we had brought our horses to Buprasium, rich in wheat, and to the Olanean rock, with the hill that is called Elysian, at which point Minerva turned the people back. There I slew the last man and left him. Then the Achaeans drove their horses back from Buprasium to Pylos, and gave thanks to Jove among the gods, and among mortal men to Nestor. Such was I among my peers, as surely as ever was, but Achilles is for keeping all his valor for himself. Bitterly will he rue it hereafter, when the host is being cut to pieces. My good friend, did not Menuatius charge you thus on the day when he sent you from Pithia to Agamemnon? Eulises and I were in the house inside, and heard all that he said to you, for we came to the fair house of Pelyus, while beating up recruits throughout all Achaea, and when we got there we found Menuatius, and yourself, and Achilles with you. The old knight Pelyus was in the outer court, roasting the fat thigh bones of a heifer to Jove, the Lord of Thunder, and he held a gold chalice in his hand, from which he poured drink offerings of wine over the burning sacrifice. You two were busy cutting up the heifer, and at that moment we stood at the gates, whereupon Achilles sprang to his feet, led us by the hand into the house, placed us at table, and set before us such hospitable entertainment as guests expect. When we had satisfied ourselves with meat and drink, I said my say, and urged both of you to join us. You were ready enough to do so, and the two old men charged you much and straightly. Old Pelyus baited his son Achilles to fight ever among the foremost, and have vied his peers. Well, Menuatius, the son of Actor, spoke thus to you. My son, said he, Achilles is of noble birth and you are, but you are older than he, though he is far better than ban of the two. Counsel him wisely, guide him in the right way, and he will follow you to his own prophet. Thus did your father charge you, but you have forgotten. Nevertheless, even now, say all this to Achilles if he will listen to you. Who knows but with heaven's help you may talk him over, for it is good to take a friend's advice, if, however, he is fearful about some oracle, or if his mother has told him something from Jove, then let him send you, and let the rest of the Mermidans follow with you, if perchance you may bring light and saving to the Deneans. And let him send you into battle, clad in his own armour, that the Trojans may mistake you for him and leave off fighting. The sons of the Achaeans may thus have time to get their breath, for they are hard pressed, and there is little breathing time in battle. You, how our fresh might easily drive a tired enemy back to his walls and away from the tents and ships. With these words, he moved the heart of Patroclus, who set off running by the line of the ships to Achilles, descendant of Aeceus. When he had got as far as the ships of Ulysses, where was the place of assembly and court of justice, with their altars dedicated to the gods, Euripilus, son of Eumon, met him, wounded in the thigh with an arrow, and limping out of the fight. Sweat rained from his head and shoulders, and black blood welled from his cruel wound, but his mind did not wander. The son of Menoetius, when he saw him, had compassion upon him, and spoke piteously, saying, O unhappy princes and counsellors of the Deneans, are you then doomed to feed the hounds of Troy with your fat, far from your friends and your native land? Say, noble Euripilus, will the Achaeans be able to hold great hector in check, or will they fall now before his spear? Wounded Euripilus made answer, noble Patroclus, there is no hope left for the Achaeans, but they will perish at their ships. All they that were princes among us are lying struck down and wounded at the hands of the Trojans, who are waxing stronger and stronger, but save me, and take me to your ship. Cut out the arrow from my thigh, wash the black blood from off it with warm water, and lay upon it those gracious herbs which, so they say, have been shown you by Achilles, who was himself shown them by Chiron, who was righteous of all the centaurs. For of the physicians Podilearius and Machaean, I hear that the one is lying wounded in his tent, and is himself in need of healing, while the other is fighting the Trojans on the plain. Hero Euripilus replied the brave son of Manuishus, How may these things be? What can I do? I am on my way to bear a message to noble Achilles from Nestor of Garini, bulk of the Achaeans, but even so I will not be unmindful of your distress. With this he clasped him round the middle, and led him into the tent, and a servant when he saw him, spread bulk skins on the ground for him to lie on. He laid him at full length, and cut out the sharp arrow from his thigh. He washed the black blood from the wound with warm water. He then crushed a bitter herb, rubbing it between his hands, and spread it upon the wound. This was a virtuous herb which killed all pain, so the wound presently dried, and the blood left off flowing. For more information or to volunteer please visit LibriVox.org. So the son of Manuishus was attending to the hurt of Euripilus within the tent, but the Argives and Trojans still fought desperately, nor were the trench and the high wall above it to keep the Trojans in check any longer. They had built it to protect their ships, and had dug the trench all around it that it might safeguard both the ships and the rich spoils they had taken, but they had not offered hecatomes to the gods. It had been built without the consent of the immortals, and therefore it did not last. So long as Hector lived and Achilles nursed his anger, and so long as the city of Prium remained untaken, the great wall of the Achaean stood firm. But when the bravest of the Trojans were no more, and many also of the Argives, though some were yet still left alive, when more over the city was sacked in 10th year, and the Argives had gone back with their ships to their own country. Then Neptune and Apollo took counsel to destroy the wall, and they turned on to it the streams of all the rivers from Mount Ida to the sea. Rhesus, Heptoporus, Carius, Rhodius, Grinitius, Ecipus, and Goodly Scamander, which simuous where many a shield and helm had fallen, and many a hero of the race of demigods had bitten the dust. Phoebus Apollo turned the mouths of all the rivers together, and made them flow for nine days against the wall, while Jove reigned the whole time that he might wash it sooner into the sea. Neptune himself tried it in hand, surveyed the work, and threw into the sea all the foundations of beams and stones which the Achaeans had laid with so much toil. He made all level by the mighty stream of the hell-spont, and then when he had swept the wall away, he spread a great beech of sand over the place where it had been. This done, he turned the rivers back into their old courses. This was what Neptune and Apollo were to do in after time. But as yet, Baddlin turmoil were still raging round the wall till its timbers rang under the blows that rained upon them. The Argives, cowed by the scourge of Jove, were hemmed in at their ships in fear of Hector, the mighty minister of Rout, who as heretofore fought with the force and fury of a whirlwind. As a lion or wild boar turns fiercely on the dogs and men that attack him, while these form solid wall and shower the javelins as they face him, his courage is all indaunted, but his high spirit will be the death of him. Many a time does he charge at his pursuers to scatter them, and they fall back as often as he does so. Even so did Hector go about among the host, exhorting his men and cheering them on to cross the trench. But the horses dared not do so, and stood neighing upon its brink for the width frightened them. They could neither jump it nor cross it, for it had overhanging banks all round upon either side, above which there were the sharp stakes that the sons of the Achaeans had planted so close and strong as a defense against all who would assail it. A horse, therefore, could not get into it and draw his chariot after him, but those who were on foot kept trying their very utmost. Then Polydemus went up to Hector and said, Hector, and you other captains of the Trojans and allies, it is madness for us to try and drive our horses across the trench. It will be very hard to cross, for it is full of sharp stakes, and beyond this there is a wall. Our horses, therefore, cannot get down into it, and would be of no use if they did. Moreover, it is a narrow pass and we should come to harm. If indeed Great Job is minded to help the Trojans, and in his anger will utterly destroy the Achaeans, I would myself gladly see them perish now and here, far from Argos. But if they should rally, and we are driven back from the ship's pell-mellon to the trench, there will be not so much as a man get back to the city to tell the tale. Now, therefore, let us all do as I say. Let our squires hold our horses by the trench, but let us follow Hector in a body on foot, clad in full armor, and if the day of their doom is at hand, the Achaeans will not be able to withstand us. Thus spoke Polydamus, and his saying pleased Hector, who sprang in full armor to the ground, and all the other Trojans, when they saw him do so, also left their chariots. Each man then gave his horses over to his charioteer in charge, to hold them ready for him at the trench. Then they formed themselves into companies, made themselves ready, and in five bodies followed their leaders. Those that went with Hector and Polydamus were the bravest and most in number, and the most determined to break through the wall and fight at the ships. Sebrionis were also joined with them as a third in command, for Hector had left his chariot in charge of a less valiant soldier. The next company was led by Paris, Alcathus and Aegonor, the third by Hellenus and Diaphobus, two sons of Priam, and with them was the hero Asias, Asias the son of Hercticus, whose great black horses of the breed that come from the River Selyus had bought him from Orizbe. Aeneas, the valiant son of Ancaesis, led the fourth. He and the two sons of Antinor, Achaeolochus and Necomus, men well versed in all the arts of war. Sarpodon was captain over the allies, and took with him Glaucus and Asteropius, whom he deemed most valiant after himself, for he was by far the best man of them all. These helped to array one another in their oxide shields, and then charged straight at the Danians, for they felt sure they would not hold out longer, and that they should themselves now fall upon the ships. The rest of the Trojans and their allies now followed the consul of Palaedemus, but Asias, son of Hercticus, would not leave his horses in his Asquire behind him. In his foolhardiness he took them on with him towards the ship, nor did he fail to come by ascending consequence. Nevermore was he to return to Wildenbitten Ilius, exalting in his chariot and his horses. ere he could do so, death of Il-Omen Mame had overshadowed him, and he had fallen by the spear of Atomenius, the noble son of Ducalion. He had driven towards the left wing of the ships, by which the Achaeans used to return with their chariots and horses from the plain. Hither he drove and found the gates with their doors open wide, and the great bar down. For the gatemen kept them open, so as to let those of their comrades enter who might be flying towards the ships. Hither had set purpose that he direct his horses, and his men followed him with a loud cry, for they felt sure that the Achaeans would not hold out longer, and that they should now fall upon the ships. Little did they know that at the gates they should find two of the bravest cheaptons, proud sons of the fighting Lepithae, the one, Polypoetus, mighty son of Perithius, and the other, Leontius, pure of murderous Mars. These stood before the gates like too high oak trees upon the mountains, that tower from their wide-spreading roots, and year after year battle with wind and rain. Even so, did these two men await the onset of the great Achaeus confidently and without flinching. The Trojans led by him and Iaminus, Arestes, Adamus, son of Achaeus, Thun, and Oemonus, raised a loud cry of battle and made straight for the wall, holding their shields of dry oxide above their heads. For a while, the two defenders remained inside and cheered the Achaeans on to stand firm in defense of their ships. When, however, they saw that the Trojans were attacking the wall, while the Danans were crying out for help and being routed, they rushed outside and fought in front of the gates like two wild boars upon the mountains that abide the attack of men and dogs, and charging on either side, break down the wood all around them, tearing it up by the roots, and no one can hear the clattering of their tusks till someone hits them and makes an end of them. Even so, did the gleaming bronze rattle about their breasts as the weapons fell upon them, for they fought with great fury, trusting to their own prowess and to those who were on the wall above them. These, through great stones that their assailants in defense of themselves, their tents and their ships. The stones fell thick as flakes of snow, which some fierce blast dries from the dark clouds and showers down and sheets upon the earth. Even so, fell the weapons from the hands alike of Trojans and Achaeans. Helmet and shield rang out as the great stones rained upon them, and Asius, the son of Hercticus, in his dismay cried aloud and smote his two thighs. Father Jove, he cried, of a truth you two are altogether given to lying. I made sure the Argyve heroes could not withstand us, whereas like slim-wisted wasps or bees that have their nest in the rocks by the wayside, they leave not the holes wherein they have built undefended, but fight for their little ones against all who would take them. Even so, these men, though they be but two, will not be driven from the gates, but stand firm either to slay or be slain. He spoke, but moved not the mind of Jove, whose counsel it then was to give glory to Hector. Meanwhile, the rest of the Trojans were fighting about the other gates. I, however, am no god to be able to tell about these things, for the battle raged everywhere about the stone wall as it were a fiery furnace. The Argyves, discomfited though they were, were forced to defend their ships, and all the gods who were defending the Achaeans were vexed in spirit, but the lap they kept on fighting with might and main. Thereupon, Palaepewities, mighty son of Pyretheus hit Damascus with a spear upon his cheek pierced helmet. The helmet did not protect him, for the point of the spear went through it and broke the bones where the brain inside was scattered about, and he died fighting. He then slew Pylon and Ormenus. Lyontis the race of Mars killed Hippomachus, the son of Antimachus, by striking him with a spear upon the girdle. He then drew his sword and sprang first upon the Tefeities, whom he killed in combat, and who fell face upwards upon the earth. After him he killed Menon, Iamenus, and Restes, and laid them low one after the other. While they were busy stripping the armor from these heroes, they used to were led on by Palaedemus and Hector, and these were the greater part and the most valiant of those that were trying to break through the wall and fire the ships, were still standing by the trench, uncertain what they should do, for they had seen a sign from heaven when they had essayed to cross it. A soaring eagle that flew skirting to the left wing of their host with a monstrous blood red snake in its talons still alive and struggling to escape. The snake was still bent on revenge, wriggling and twisting itself backwards till it struck the bird that held it on the neck and breast, whereupon the bird being in pain let it fall, dropping it into the middle of the host, and then flew down the wind with a sharp cry. The Trojans were struck with terror when they saw the snake, portent of ages bearing joe writhing in the midst of them, and Palaedemus went up to Hector and said, Hector, at our counsels of war, you were ever given to rebuke me, even when I speak wisely, as though it were not well forsooth that one of the people should cross your will either in the field or at Council Board. You would have them support you always. Nevertheless, I will say what I think be best. Let us not now go on the fight to Danes into ship, for I know what will happen if the soaring eagle which skirted the left wing of our host with a monstrous blood red snake in its talons, the snake still being alive, was really so sure of it. Was really sent as an omen to the Trojans on their essaying to cross the trench. The eagle let go her hold. She did not succeed in taking it home to her little ones, and so will it be with ourselves. Even though by a mighty effort we break through the gates and wall of the Achaeans, and they give way before us, still we shall not return in good order by the way we came, but shall leave many a man behind us whom the Achaeans will do to death in defense of their ships. Thus would any seer who was expert in these matters and was trusted by the people read the portent. Hector looked fiercely at him and said, Pallidamus, I like not you of your reading. You can find a better saying than this if you will. If, however, you have spoken in good earnest, then indeed has heaven robbed you of your reason. You would have me pay no heed to the councils of Jove, nor to the promises he made me, and he bowed his head in confirmation, and you bid me be ruled rather by the flight of a wildfowl. What cair are whether they fly on towards dawn or dark, and whether they be on my right hand or my left? Let us put our trust rather in the council of great Jove, king of mortals and immortals, there is one omen and one only, that a man should fight for his country. Why are you so fearful? Though we all be of a slain at the ships of unarguives, you are not likely to be killed yourself, for you are not steadfast nor courageous. If you will not fight, or would talk others over from doing so, you shall fall forthwith before my spear. With these words he led the way, and the others followed after with a cry that rent the air. Then Jove, the lord of thunder, set the blast of a mighty wind from the mountains of Ida, that bore the dust down towards the ships. He thus lulled the Akkadians into security, and gave victory to Hector and to the Trojans, who, trusting their own might and to the signs he had shown them, essayed to break through the great wall of the Akkadians. They tore down the breastworks from the walls, and overthrew the battlements. They upheaved the buttresses, which the Akkadians had set forth in front of the wall in order to support it. When they had pulled these down, they made sure of breaking through the wall, but the Danians still showed no sign of giving ground. They still fenced the battlements with their shields of oxide, and hurled the missiles down upon the foe as soon as any came below the wall. The two Ajaxes went about everywhere on the walls, cheering the Akkadians, giving fair words to some, while they spoke sharply to anyone whom they saw to be remiss. My friends, they cried, our guides, one and all, good, bad, indifferent, for there was never fight yet in which we were all of equal prowess. There is now work enough, as you very well know for all of you. See that you, none of you, turn in flight towards the ships, daunted by the shouting of the foe, but press forward, and keep one another in heart. If it may so be that Olympian Job, the Lord of Lightning, will vouchsafe us to repel our foes, and drive them back towards the city. Thus did the two go about shouting and cheering the Akkadians on, as the flakes did fall thick upon a winter's day, when Job is minded to snow and to display his arrows to mankind. He lulls the wind to rest, and snows hour after hour, till he has buried the tops of high mountains, the headlands that jut into the sea, the grassy plains, and the tilled fields of men. The snow lies deep upon the forelands, and havens of the grey sea, but the waves as they come rolling in, stay it that it can come no further. Though all else is wrapped as with a mantle, so heavy are the heavens with snow. Even thus thickly did the stones fall on one side and the other, some thrown at the Trojans, and some by the Trojans at the Akkadians, and the whole wall was in an uproar. Still the Trojans and brave Hector would not yet have broken down the gates in the great bar, had not Job turned his son Sarpedon against the Argives as a lion against a herd of horned cattle. Before him he held his shield of hammered bronze, that the smith had beaten so fair and round that he had lined with oxides which he had made fast with rivets of gold all round the shield. This he held in front of him, and brandishing his two spears came on like some line of the wilderness, who had been long famished for want of meat and will dare break even into a well-fenced homestead to try and get at the sheep. He may find the shepherds keeping watch over their flocks with dogs and spears, but he is of no mind to be driven from the fold until he has had a try for it. He will either spring on a sheep and carry it off or by hit by a spear from some strong hand, even so with Sarpedon feigned to attack the wall and break down its battlements. Then he said to Glaucus, son of Aprolicus, Glaucus, why in Lycea do we receive a special honor as regards our place at the table? Why are the Choices portion served us and our cups kept brimming? And why do men look up to us as though we were gods? Moreover, we hold a large estate by the banks of the River Xanthith, fair with orchard, lawns, and wheat-growing land. It becomes us therefore to take our stand at the head of all the Lycians to bear the brunt of the fight that they may say one to another. I, our princes and Lycea, eat the fat of the land and drink best of wine, but they are fine fellows. They fight well and are ever at the front in this battle. My good friend, if when we were once out of this fight we could escape old age and death's this forward and forever, I should neither press forward myself nor bid you do so. But death in ten thousand shapes hangs ever over our heads and no man can elude him. Therefore let us go forward and either win glory for ourselves or yield it to another. Glaucas heeded his sing and the pair forthwith led on the host of Lyceans. Menesias, son of Pideos, was dismayed when he saw them for was against his part of the wall that they came, bringing destruction with them. He looked along the wall for some chieftain to support his comrades and saw the two Ajaxes, men ever eager for the fray, and Tusser who had just come from his tent standing near them. But he could not make his voice heard by shouting to them. So great an uproar was there from the crashing shields and helmet and the battering of gates with a din which reached the skies. For all the gates had been closed and the Trojans were hammering them to try and break their way through them. Menesias therefore sent thutes with the Missus Ajax. Run, good thud, as he said, and call Ajax or better still bid both come, for it will be all over with us here directly. The leaders of the Lycians are upon us, men who have ever fought desperately here too far. But if they have too much on their hands to let them come at any rate, let Ajax son of Telemond do so, and let Tusser, the famous bowman, come with him. The messenger did as he was told, and sent off running along the wall the Achaians. When he reached the Ajax, as he said to them, sirs, princes of our guives, the son of Nobopideus, bid you come to him for a while and help him. You would better both come if you can, or it will be all over with him directly. The leaders of the Lycians are upon him, men who have ever fought desperately here too far. If you have too much on your hands to let both come, at any rate, let Ajax son of Telemond do so, and let Tusser, the famous bowman, come with him. Great Ajax, son of Telemond, heated the message, and at once spoke to the son of Oilis. Ajax, he said, do you too, too, yourself, and brave like comedies, stay here, and keep the Danians in heart to fight their hardest. I will go over Yonder and bear my part in the fray, but I will come back here at once, as soon as I have given them the help they need. With this, Ajax son of Telemond set off and Tusser, his brother, by the same father went also, with Pandion to carry Tusser's bow. They went along inside the wall, and when they came to the tower where Mnestius was, and hard-pressed indeed that they find him, the brave captains and leaders of the Lycians were storming the battlements as it were a thick, dark cloud, fighting in close quarters and raising the battle cry aloud. First, Ajax son of Telemond killed brave Epicles, a comrade of Sarpedon, hitting him with a jagged stone that lay by the battlements at the very top of the wall. As men now are, even one who is in the bloom of youth could hardly lift it with his two hands, but Ajax raised it high aloft and flung it down, smashing Epicles' four-crusted helmet so that the bones of his head were crushed to pieces, and he fell from the high wall as though he were diving, with no more life left in him. Then Tusser wounded Glaucus, the brave son of Hippolychus, as he was coming on to attack the wall. He saw his shoulder bare and aimed an arrow at it, which made Glaucus leave off fighting. Thereon, he sprang covertly down for fear some of the Achaeans might see that he was wounded and taunt him. Sarpedon was stung with grief when he saw Glaucus leave him. Still, he did not leave off fighting, but aimed his spear at Alchemon, son of Thestor, and hit him. He drew his spear back again, and Alchemon came down headlong after with his bronzed armor rattling round him. Then Sarpedon seized the battlement in the strong hands and tugged at it until it gave way altogether, and a breach was made through which many men might pass. Ajax and Tusser then both of them attacked him. Tusser hit him with an arrow on the band that bore the shield which covered his body, but Jove saved his son from destruction that he might not fall by the ship's sterns. Meanwhile, Ajax sprang on him and pierced his shield, but the spear did not go clean through, though it hustled him back that he could come on no further. He therefore retired a little space from the battlement, yet without losing his ground, for he still thought to cover himself with glory. Then he turned round and shouted a brave Lycean, saying, Lyceans, why do you thus fail me? For all my prowess I cannot break through the wall and open away to the ship single-handed. Come close on behind me, for the more there are of us, the better. The Lyceans, ashamed by his rebuke, pressed close around him who was their counselor and their king. The Argives on their part got their men in fighting order within the wall, and there was a deadly struggle between them. The Lyceans could not break through the wall and force their way to the ships, nor could the Danans drive the Lyceans from the wall now once they had reached it. As two men, measuring rods and hads, quarrel about their boundaries in a field that they own in common, and stickle for their rights though they'd bebut in a mere strip, even so did the battlements now serve as a bone of contention, and they beat one another's round shields for their possession. Many a man's body was wounded with the pitiless bronze as he turned round and barred his back to the foe, and many were struck clean through their shields, and the wall and the battlements were everywhere deluged with the blood alike of Trojans and of Achaeans. But even so, the Trojans could not rout the Achaeans, who still held on, and as some honest, hardworking woman weighs wool in their balance and sees that the scales be true, for she would gain some pitiful earnings for her little ones, even so was the fight balanced evenly between them, till the time came when Jove gave the greater glory to Hector's song of Priam, who was first to spring towards the wall of the Achaeans. When he had done so, he cried aloud to the Trojans, Up Trojans, break the wall of the archives, and fling a fire upon their ships. Thus did he hound them on, and in one body they rushed straight at the wall, as he had bitten them, and scaled the battlements with sharp spears in their hands. Hector lay hold of a stone that lay just outside the gates, and was thick at one end but pointed at the other. Two of the best men in a town as men now are could hardly raise it from the ground and put it onto a wagon, but Hector lifted it quite easily by himself, for the sun of scheming Saturn made it light for him. As a shepherd picks up a ram's fleece with one hand, and finds it no burden, so easily did Hector lift the great stone, and drive it right at the doors to close the gates so strong and so firmly set. These doors were double and high. They were kept closed by two crossbars to which there was but one key. When he had got close up to them, Hector strode towards them, that his blow might gain in force, and struck them in the middle, leaning his whole weight against them. He broke both hinges, and the stone fell inside by reason of its great weight. The portals re-echoed with the sound, and the bars held no longer, and the doors flew open, one one way and the other, the other through the force of the blow. Then brave Hector leaped inside with a face as dark as that of flying night. The gleaming bronze flashed fiercely about his body, and he had two spears in his hand. None but a god could have withstood him as he flung himself into the gateway, and his eyes glared like fire. Then he turned round towards the Trojans and called them on the scale the wall, and he did as they bade him. Some of them at once climbing over the wall, while others passed through the gates. The Danes then fled panicked stricken towards their ships, and all was uproar and confusion.
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Puppy Raiser Profile: Julian
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Julian works full time as a graphic designer and has recently taken up the role of being a first time Puppy Raiser of Vashti. We sat down to ask him what his experience has been like so far. He covers off some of the most frequently asked questions about the role, including information on his home life, workplace requirements and why he chose to look after a GDV puppy.
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I've always wanted a dog, so I've had dogs when I was a kid, things like that, but this time around I thought instead of just buying a dog and having to commit for 10 years or whatever, we're going to have a one-year commitment and do something with a special dog. So I decided to get involved with the puppy raising program. You're really good before you get started, so everyone at the GuyDogs will sort of explain to you exactly what's expected and that it is quite a big job, but I was sort of ready for a bit of commitment in my life and it sounded like something I could do. It's not like, yeah, here's a puppy and we'll see you in 12 months, like you know that there's going to be a lot of work, but nothing can really prepare you for just how much work it is. There is a lot of effort that goes into it, but it's all rewarding as well. Just explained, I said like this is something I want to do, you know, it's nothing to do with work, it's a life thing that I want to do for myself, but it's going to affect work obviously, but yeah, they were fully supportive of it and I explained what it actually means to have a GuyDog puppy in the office and what my commitments would be, but yeah, they were fully supportive of it. Just sort of educating them before the puppy arrives that you can't just, it's not a pet basically. So once I understand that, you just sort of explain how important it is to do certain things with the puppy. They understand and everyone followed the rules and worked really well. When you've got the puppy at home, that's where it's a lot more fun, like it's still great to have her at work, but she will sort of, she gets taught to stay under the desk and be quiet and stuff, but when you get home, that's where you can sort of have all the fun. It's special with a GuyDog puppy because you can't just go for a walk and let them you know play and sniff and everything, there's a lot of structure around what they can do and it's actually quite enjoyable adhering to this structure and watching that the dog sort of develop and get better and get closer to being a GuyDog. I thought it would affect me a lot, like I sort of told my friends when I started doing it that you'd probably not going to see me that much, but in reality it just, it didn't change anything, so still go have coffees and go to the pub and everything and then once they sort of get to that age where they're allowed to start visiting those places, yeah, take her out to cafes and things like that and she joins me and my friends and yeah, and everyone loves her, so she's part of the group now. The only thing that you need to pay for is a bed and toys. Toys obviously because they go through a lot of toys, but all the food and all the vet bills and everything is taken care of by them, so yeah, it doesn't cost you anything at all, which is a really good way to get a dog. As long as they've got somewhere to sort of toilet outdoors or, you know, if they've got one of those sort of fake grass trays, that's generally enough and the main thing is that they get exercise and socialization, but nothing sort of beats getting them down to the park and we're lucky here because we live really close to a big dog park, so we go there every day. So she's a bit of a celebrity down there, but that's where she gets all her energy out. That's the only question people will always ask you, how are you going to give it back? You sort of say, well, that's the job, that's why I'm doing it, is because she does go back and then she's going to go on to be a special pup for someone else. I think I can't not have a puppy in my life now. I consider getting like a forever dog, but it's still it's a big commitment and now that I've sort of had this like special pup that's you know, got this really important job to do, like I don't think I can just go back to having a normal dog. So I might end up as a serial puppy racer, which, you know, it's not a bad thing to be.
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Lecture 28: Utility and Social Choice - Part 2
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Lecture 28: Utility and Social Choice - Part 2
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So, now the question is individuals have different belief systems and then based on those belief systems, they will have preferences and make choices. We now want to look at how we aggregate and make social choices from different individual values. So, what are the methods for making decisions about specific projects or regulations that have some adverse environmental impact based on the individual preferences? Please remember, there are no restrictions on the individual preferences. Every individual can decide how he or she will choose between all the different options. So, let's put this in a set of different equations. Let's say that there is an N-person society. N-people and let's say that there are, you know, we talked of potatoes, onions, travel, air conditioning, a whole set of different goods. Let's assume a composite material good x. That material good has x1, x2, xm, different goods, goods services. Each individual is consuming all of this. In addition to this, so there is an individual state of preferences. How many clothes? How much food? How much entertainment? All of this comes in this. And then in addition to this will be E. E is the quality of the environment. We could, this is remember, this will actually have multiple attributes. We can talk about the air quality. We can look at particulate matter. We can look at global emissions in terms of CO2. We can talk about it in terms of divisibility. So, we could look at the quality of water, the quality of the soil. Now, the idea is that this E, the x was dependent on every individual. So, every individual would have a range of different values of x and would also have in the utility some value for the environment. The environment quality is going to be common for all the individuals. So, when we talk about the utility well-being of every individual, so there are two things, the composite good x, which has those M different components and the environment E. And so each individual has a utility which is a function of xi and E. So, x1, E, x2, E and so on. For each individual, there will be a utility function and then there will be N such utility functions. Now, let's look at, when we look at, is it possible to substitute x for E? Can we, if you consume more of x, if you are consuming more fossil fuels, there are going to be more emissions and so on. So, pure biocentrists will say that you don't want to have anything where any ecosystem or the species is getting, species biodiversity or any life is getting spoiled. So, there will be no substitution for x, x for E. And in the case of extreme anthropocentrists, you would not want to give up anything in terms of your goods for the environment. So, you don't want to substitute any E for x. These are both extreme conditions, but in actual practice, there will always be this trade-off. So, also remember, whenever we are talking of choices, we talked about the N individuals and their choices. However, the future generation and the utility that they will enjoy will also can also come into the utility function. That means utility xi, E and the utility of future generations. Where uj is the utility of person j in the future generation. And this of course makes it all that much more difficult. And this is where now you have this whole situation where you have children coming up and opposing the governments in terms of the inaction related to climate change. You have Greta Thunberg telling world leaders that we need to think about the future and we do not have the right to spoil the choices for the future. So, these are tricky things, but in concept we think of when we take the decision which is a long-term decision, it is also the utility of future generations which is involved. So, we will now try to look at how do we choose between two bundles. There are two bundles of goods, two options A x dash E dash where x dash is x1 dash x2 dash each of this x is x1 is for individual 1 and it is the whole bundle of consumption goods that one that individual consumes and that is a it is a array of M different goods and services. So similarly so this is a composite good as we said xn dash and E dash this is one option the second option is x double dash alright. So the question is should we choose A or should we choose B should the society choose A or should the society choose B and what conditions should we choose and the question is how do we generate a set of societal preferences over different bundles given individual preferences over the same bundles. So each individual will have a preference x1 dash and E dash individual 1 has x1 dash E dash as compared to x1 double dash E double dash x2 dash E dash x2 double dash E double dash and we will see under what conditions can we have a unanimous choice under what conditions how will we have trade-offs and what are the ways in which we can make these choices. The problem was first solved in a sense by Wilfredo Pareto an Italian economist who talked about the concept of Pareto optimality and the idea was that we could get a situation where you cannot have an improvement where everyone benefits and so that become the condition of Pareto optimality where there is no possible change where everyone benefits and everyone will be agreeable to it so we look at the Pareto criterion is what he defined this has found applications in many different fields and we will talk about it in the utility field so let us look at the situation let us look at the graph so what we have done here is n individuals in a society now we are looking at two individuals so we have a and b and you have different combinations of in the case of w look at each point each point is a combination of resources which gives us a's utility and b's utility there is a distribution of resources and b and this shaded region represents the feasible region of all possible combinations so when we compare w with z you will find that a's utility for z is greater than a's utility for w so it is better of w with z in the case of b also b's utility for z is more utility is more than that of w so what we say is both a and b are better off and this z is said to be Pareto preferred over w similarly if you look at x and r if you look at x and r a's utility in x and b a's utility in r are both the same so as far as a is concerned x and r are identical but for b the utility for r is greater than the utility for x so for a is indifferent to this but for b this is better so this is also r is Pareto preferred to x when we now compare x and s you find that a's utility in s is more than a's utility a's utility in s is more than a's utility in x and b's utility remains the same again s is Pareto preferred similarly y but if we look at this curve you will find that the this represents from this curve there is no feasible solution of Pareto improvement so this curve represents locus of all the best points which are Pareto preferred this is also called the Pareto frontier so essentially we can talk about z being Pareto preferred to w and y being Pareto preferred to x so in principle when we write this we can talk about 2 consumption bundles a dash being x dash and e dash and a double dash as x double dash e dash and the group of people i is equal to 1 to n with utility function if for the group as a whole a dash is Pareto preferred to a double dash that will mean that every individuals for every i ui of a dash greater than equal to ui a double dash and for at least at least one individual so that means everyone is either better off or equal it could be that all are equal a dash is equal to a a dash is equal to a double dash utility at least for one individual the utility increases then what we say is that a dash is Pareto preferred over a double dash which means that everybody is at least as well off in terms of the utility and at least one person is better off with a dash than in a double dash so the Pareto criteria will have unanimity everyone will opt for a dash everyone will opt for a dash because they are either equivalent or they are better off so this is the Pareto criterion and of course this is restrictive it will be only in a very small subset of cases where you can have this where everyone is better off or they are in a equivalent situation no one gets affected no one loses off in terms of the utility there are many other situations where actually some lose and some gain and there is a modification which we try to do for the which is called the potential Pareto improvement so for instance in the case of X and if you look at X and R and we are moving from X to if you look at the benefit that we are getting in terms of moving from X to Z we are getting a benefit B's utility increases very significantly A's utility decreases so the question is the amount of increase that B has if B compensates A to account for the loss in utility that A has so that it is compensated and based on that this is equivalent at least equivalent for A we can have a situation where A is also okay with the new option and since B gets so much improvement in utility they can transfer something back to A so that this is happening and this is the principle which is used for dams when we talk about resettlement we try to give compensation to the people who are affected that the net benefits outweigh the costs and this is the whole concept of the potential Pareto improvement so in this what we do is we allow transfer of resources amongst the individuals to increase the unanimity of opinion regarding the option so for instance suppose 80% of the population prefer an option A to B while 20% prefer B to A and according to Pareto criterion we cannot say whether A or B is preferred but suppose the 80% can transfer significant resources to B and suppose the resources that transfer is large enough so that unanimity can be reached on option A so there is a compensation where B can agree that okay we will go ahead and everyone agrees to do that so in order to do this what we say is that in addition to X and E we also have another resource Y and this Y could be something which is tradable for instance money so that we are looking at a certain amount of Y and we have transfers in Y which are Zi that means for instance in the example that we had A has a certain amount of money YA and B has an initial amount of money YB we transfer since A is getting if you look at this graph you remember sorry B is getting most of the benefits let's look at this point when we look at B is getting most of the benefits so what we do is transfer money to A so this will be Z so this becomes YA plus Z and this becomes YB minus Z so with the result that because now the initial thing was XA E YA now it becomes XBE the utility with this additional resource can be such that it is equal to the more than or equal to this so you transfer that much resource so that these become equivalent and with the result that the utility of B is also increasing even though it is transferring a certain amount of money because it is getting so much additional benefit so if it is possible to do this such that the sigma of ZI is going to be equal to 0 that means there is no money or no additional resource coming from outside the system this resource is balance within the system it is traded so that we compensate those whose utility is decreasing and the individuals whose utility is increasing compensates this overall if you can do that so that the utility of those who in the earlier case were not for the project because their utility was decreasing now their utility is remaining constant hence it becomes after compensation it becomes a Pareto preferred choice so then that is the situation that we can look at so we look at the condition where we are comparing A dash Y minus Z is Pareto preferred to A double dash we compare A dash Y minus Z to A double dash Y and if A dash Y minus Z is Pareto preferred then this is a potential Pareto improvement so this increases the options that we have and we compare 2 bundles as we said so that A dash Y minus Z is Pareto preferred to A double dash Y then A dash is a potential Pareto improvement now so this is clear compensate and in the compensation at the result of that finally every individual utility either increases or remains constant some of the individuals who had utility increase more they transfer some resources their utility their part of that increase in utility is shared with those who are losing out with the result of unanimity so this is called potential Pareto improvement now the third third situation is called the Kaldor Hicks compensation principle and this is little controversial this talks about the fact that if transfers could be made to achieve unanimity that means if we can have a choice where we transfer from the gainers some tradable resource to the losers so that the losers utility remains constant with the result that there is a net gain and every single individual is okay with the project if that can be conceptually done and it works then the choice is socially desirable even if the transfers are not actually made now this is highly controversial because in actual practice when you look at individuals and societies there is already a significant amount of inequality and what is mentioned here is that if the project is such that it is possible to make these transfers then societally this project results in better utilities and the idea of equity compensation links with the idea of equity is decoupled from determining whether the choice is a good idea or not the choice is a good idea or not if hypothetically transfers could be made this would be then Pareto preferred even though the transfers are not made so this is a fine sort of argument but in actual practice this is what really happens in many cases we identify based on cost benefit saying that compensation even after compensation the project is profitable but then we do not do the compensation so then there is this kind of issue and this is what even this is the problem with the kind of sometimes the economic calculation another mode of choice is voting and voting means that every individual is asked to vote on the project and this rule does not need unanimity so it is more flexible than the Pareto condition but the majority rule cannot take into account intensity of preferences so often majorities may decide some things which may not necessarily be correct in terms of principles of natural justice and so now the next thing that we will look at is we will try to create some kind of a social indifference curve we will look at the utility so we would like to compare the society with a welfare function welfare function means there are any individuals each individual has its own utility u1, u2 to un when we compare 2 different sets of preferences where we look at 2 bundles and A and B and we would try to see we put a welfare function where we calculate the value of the utility for all the n individuals for A and the value of this utility for all the n individuals in B and if we say in comparing this that this utility is greater than or equal to the is greater than the utility for B then A is socially preferred to B where W is called Bergson-Samuelson social welfare function there are different ways of creating this social welfare function and there are many different function values if you look at the metamite social welfare function this is just a weighted average so we basically say un we call this as theta1, u1 plus theta2, u2 plus and so on thetaN, un where thetaI greater than or equal to 0 they are all positive and we sum this up so this is some weighted average some weighted values and we can decide what are these weights depending on this of course and egalitarian function function could be where we have equal weights we can also try to see that we want to minimize the deviation from the so you have this egalitarian function which you can see here is the sum of ui minus ui minus minimum ui so that the deviation from the minimum is we try to see that we try to reduce the gap between the average value and the minimum value and this can be an egalitarian social welfare function John Rawls who is a philosopher and a thinker said that the utility function should be where we are maximizing the minimum utility so the poorest individuals utility should be first maximized so with this we have let us just take stock of what we have done we have looked at this choices between environment and development we have looked at the philosophical basis and the perspectives we looked at a few problems a few problem context and then we talked about pareto preferen they pareto pareto something being pareto preferred and something where we can have a transfer and we can then use this with the transfer we can get a pareto preferred option then we looked at the Hicks Kaldor compensation principle so these are three methods of choices pareto preferen pareto compensation and then the Hicks Kaldor compensation principle we then also looked at voting after doing that we then said that let us look at all the utilities and create a social welfare function where we get the welfare of the overall society please remember in actual practice these are all conceptual constructs by which we understand how we are making the tradeoffs and it is difficult to construct some of these utility functions but conceptually this is useful to us to understand what kind of tradeoffs and possibilities are there you may want to look at from your locality or your state or the context that you are familiar with try to identify problems where we talk about energy environment and the environmental impacts look at the kind of tradeoffs which are there look at what kind of who are the stakeholders and how would you identify what are the kind of utilities and also think in terms of 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Find people who train. Pride's okay. It's a minor ingredient. It's like celery in the soup. You can have it and you cannot have it. It ain't that important. You need some level of self-belief, but belief in facts and truth. If you don't believe me, look at all the science that's come out. All these books on the talent myth. Every one of these books are by hardcore scientists who have gone through the life story of the greatest people who have accomplished the most important things in every one of them train. Mozart was training at one years old with his father. So was Tiger Woods. You know, my mom was a single mom. I wish someone had shown her a video like this and said, take your boy, Tati. Show him how to train.
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Oh, Super Fractor, Chris Livingston, Invicta, didn't even realize that. Nice one there, one of one. Congrats, Daniel, that's awesome, dude. And Pistons, Excellence, Rookie, Auto, Seven of Ten, Cade, Cunningham. A ruby parallel triple relic auto, one soda, one of one. Juan Godo, Padres. Ooh, Super Fractor. Ooh. Super Fractor, doesn't look like a rookie. That is Dalton Varshow, nice for the Diamondbacks, Namql. One of one, Dalton Varshow Super Fractor. Third one I pulled out of this now. Another Super Fractor. Are you serious? Hell, dude. Is this the same box? Yes. Not in the world. What? I can't tell the team, really. Peter Lonzo, Super Fractor, Auto. Jeff G with the Mets, one of one. What the? Dude, that's awesome. Thank you for just here giggling about languages and two Super Fractors in one box. 250, Adam Frazier, Prism Refractor, and nice. Royals, AL Central, Rookie, Gold Refractor, Auto to 50. Bobby Whipp, Jr. Congrats, AL Central. They really did it here. 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Donnie just ran in here. That's awesome. Never seen Donnie move so fast in my life. Holy cow, what a sketch box for. Congrats. That's a big one. Andrew F. And Gold is rookie of Julio Rodriguez. Boom. That's why you get the second one, Matt. Let's go, 10 of 50. Bang, bang. Boom, Matt. Come on now. We'll get Sean to mag this one for you. Good morning, everybody. It is 9.50. We're going to get this first break started at 10. I'm through the lineup here. We have 23 Bowman jumbo, full case number 135. Pick your team. It is sold out. And we have 22 Tops Allen and Ginter Chrome, full case. Pick your teams. It is sold out. Tops Chrome Sonic Light and Update Chrome Hobby. Six box mixer number 21 random teams is sold out. We have two and one to go in our select basketball. Six box pick your team style breaks 19 and 20 on select football hobby. Six box pick your team style breaks numbers 47 and 48. And then we're sold out on our 22 upper deck. Good one champions, four box random letter style breaks. What's up, Yogi? How's it going? Of course it's going live tonight at five Eastern sketch rarity. They're not super. Oh, hold on. Can you guys hear me? Okay. I think it was pointed up to the ceiling. Yeah. The sketches aren't easy polls, but I mean, there are several of them in there. You know, it's like, like they'll have more than one Yoda sketch, for instance, but they're all originals. So just select breaks to fill up today two and one on basketball and then 19 and 20 on football nets and Sixers on that first select basketball. And just the nets on the second one. So you got a sketch and a Yoda auto. Got both. That's awesome. Congrats. Who is the sketch? So we have two one 18 and 20 to go for the day. 41 spots left for the entire day. We're looking pretty good here. Um, about six minutes until start time. Big release day on a on Friday. The release dates hold Chronicles soccer obsidian basketball select basketball H two tops finest baseball tops finest overtime elite basketball and wildcard elimination draft football. Next week looks like we're going to have tops tribute. Um, champions champions league museum collection soccer, a w upper deck of lure hockey. Looks like Wednesday and then Friday. Um, the 14th leaf vibrance multi sport encased football. Um, so yeah, it should be fun next week. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm not familiar with the artist. I know some of them, some of the cards sell for more based on the, um, the team or the, uh, not the team the artist for down to 15 and 17 on select football. All right. Here comes a link one more time for the, um, select basketball six box number 17 pick your teams. We're going to get this going here in about three minutes. Um, but just the nets and sixers left two to go for select basketball looks like we're down to 14 and 16 on select football. Just 33 spots left for the day. Dean, how's it going? Just waiting on the clock here. Um, about a minute and a half and we'll get this first break started one minute now. Grab up your spots for today and also for tonight's breaks forest is live at five eastern. Um, we are doing breaks tomorrow night on the fourth of July. Um, not sure who's breaking that night. It's my normal day off. So I won't be here. All right. It's time. Let's do this. Everybody Matt here for late in sports cars. Rip in 2023 Bowman baseball jumbo eight box full case break. Number 135 pick your team. We have M O D reds and Phillies, Charles N. Nationals, Dan M. Astros Mariners, Diana D. Giants, Cardinals, Duke F. Pirates, Padres, Franklin T. Red Sox, Harold S. Marlins, Harper B. Cubs, Jack S. Guardians, Rangers, Jason A. White Sox, Jeffrey H. Orioles, Royals and Dodgers. Jeffrey H. That's Jeffrey H A Z. Mets, Jim L. Twins, John C. Angels, Rockies, Brewers, Kyle M. Rays, Miles H. Braves, Nicholas S. A's, Niles S. Blue Jays, Raymond D. Yankees, Ryan B. Cubs, Michael Tigers and Wesley W. D-backs. All right, here we go. Caper base does not ship. It gets donated and this is regular chrome cards are divided between all spots. Michelin Coleman, Ares, J.C. Young, Tyler Soderstrom. Jackson Churio, Spotlight, Marcello. Zandra Rodriguez, Lunar Glow. There he is, Rays. Otto, Junior Caminero. Congrats Tampa Bay. Nice start. Justin Kassus, Ramos. Young Green Paper to $3.99. Oswaldo Cabrera, Rookie. Jose Perosa, Aqua Shimmer to $125. Adley, Rookie Insert. Allie De La Cruz, Modern Prospects. Nick Gable, Blue Jays. Blue Lunar Crater Refractor Auto to $150. Hayden Younger, Go Toronto. Robert Russell, Drew Jones. Top 100, Drew Jones, Spotlight. I think it's Chicago this year, isn't it? Christian Hernandez, Henry Davis. Benny Montgomery, Aqua. It's $125 that goes this way. Josh Young, Rookie Insert. It's Fuchsia Paper to $2.99. They're William Sedanio and Drew Painter. Oh, I don't know. It's, I think the website's like NSCC, NSCCShow.com or something like that. Zach Veen and Tamar. Anthony Pagaro, Yellow Refractor to $75. This is Blue Jays, Refractor Auto to $4.99. And Manuel Bonilla, nice hit to Toronto. Very forward. Brett Beatty, Rookie Spotlight. Jonathan Mejia, Jay Savina, Lunar Glow. Carlos Jorge, Speckle to $2.99. Jordan Carroll, Rookie Insert. Rafaela, Jordan Lawler. Matt McClain, Angels Auto, Cayden Dana. Real Moreno. We have two and one to go on Select Basketball. 14 and 16 on Select Football. That's all we have for spots open for the day. Volpe and Lawler. Up after this, we have Alan again to Chrome Baseball. There's Alcantara. Followed by Pops Chrome, Sonic Light and Update Chrome Hobby. Six Box Mixer Random Teams. That one, or both of those are sold out. And then our Goodwin Champions breaks at the end of the day are sold out as well. Beatty and Brady House. Gonzardo. Orioles, nice. Gold Refractor, Top 100, Auto to $50. Colton Couser. Go nice hit, O's. Salam Montgomery. Jacob Berry. That is Lava Refractor to $3.99. Layon. Josh Young, Rookie Spotlight. Baez. Jackson Merrill. Leers. Purple Paper. Alex Ramirez to $2.50. Evan Carter. Mingas. Francisco Alvarez. Fuchsia Paper Rookie to $2.99. And Cardinals. Refractor Auto to $4.99. Samuel De La Rosa. Taj Bradley. All right, here we go. Jet Williams. Andrew Painter. Gonzalez. Thierres. Tremar. Lunar Glow. Tigers. Purple Refractor Auto to $2.50. Abel Bostitas. Corbin Carroll Rookie Insert. Jacob Berry. Purple Refractor to $2.50. Nice and Marlins. Ellie. Marcel. Valera. Alon Grissom. Sweeney. Mariners. Speckle Auto to $2.99. Josh Hood. Chariot. Gunner Henderson. Spotlight. Drew Jones. Modern Prospects. Ryan Clifford Refractor. Brett Beatty. Rookie Insert. Neon Green. Paper. Khalil Watson. Zach Beane. Spino. Red Sox Auto. Brandon Walter. All right. Box number four. Gunner Henderson. Rookie Insert. Christian Hernandez. Joshua Baez. Rays again. Nice. That is Speckle Auto to $2.99. Junior Caminero. Gratz Tampa Bay. Mag this one for you. We've got a base and a Speckle already. Not even halfway through the case. Ricardo Perez. Lava to $3.99. I guess if you're going to get more than one auto, a player in the case, might as well be a big name like that. Montez. Ramos. Grissom. Neon Green. Paper. Manuel Beltrade. $3.99. Eden Drew Jones. And Collier. Metz. Auto Alex Ramirez. Jacob Berry. Orioles. Blue Refractor first. Bowen Auto to $1.50. Leandro Arias. Marco Luciano. Adela Cruz. Sites on September. Luller. Brooks Lee. Purple Pattern Paper. Raphael Devers to $1.99. Old Parasa. Red Beatty. Rookie Insert. John Jorge. PCA. Elijah Green. Corbin Carroll. Rookie Spotlight. Elijah Green. San Dominguez. Speckle. Jordan Walker. Second half of the case. It's still two and one to go on Select Basketball in 13 and 15. It's still two and one to go on Select Basketball. It's still two and one to go on Select Basketball in 13 and 15 on Select Football. There are only 31 spots left for the entire day. Everything else is sold out. Escobaraz. Romantes. Jacob Berry. Purple Refractor to $2.50. Second Purple. Third Numbered Berry of the Break. Two Purples and a Lava Berry. Adela Cruz. Cartaya. Speckle Auto to $2.99. Jackson Farris. Blue for a Super. For the Smeed. I think I pulled Super Inser Auto but I haven't pulled the first Bowman Super Auto yet this year. 123 Bowman anyway. Besson Harris. Rockies. Atomic Refractor Auto to $100. Juan Brito. First Bowman Atomic Refractor Auto. Jackson Churio. Coby Mayo. Gunner. Rookie Spotlight. Jackson Holiday Modern Prospects. Pajes. Lujes. Otto. Jalaponte. Adley. Rookie Insert. Gutierrez. Pajes. Colmenares. And Junior Caminero. Blue Refractor to $1.50. Congrats Rays. That'll pair nicely with your two Caminero Autos. Three Caminero Mags for you in the Break. Anthony Bay. Simul Zavala and Victor. Nelson Velazquez. Rookie Purple Paper to $2.50. Fully Young. Parazza. Silver Straub. Blake. Kevin Williams. Gutierrez. And Tamar. There's Sandela Santos. Lunar Glow. Crawford. Box number six. You know what Carter, I just thought of this. I could be wrong. I don't even know if this is in Chicago. Donald Stevens Convention Center keeps coming to mind. You know what Carter, I just thought of this. I could be wrong. I don't even know if this is in Chicago. Donald Stevens Convention Center keeps coming to mind. Donald Stevens Convention Center keeps coming to mind. For the national living look. Yeah, I think that's it. Donald Stevens Convention Center. I don't know why that just randomly popped in my head. Yeah, that's where it's at. What's up, Dan? Dumb work, I know, right? There's that gunner. There have been three Caminero Mags so far. A base auto, a speckle auto, and a blue refractor. Non-auto. There's Drew Jones. It's no monsters, but some really good hits. Luis Rodriguez. That was Lunar Glow. Brooks Lee. Coleser. Tristan Casas. Rookie Spotlight. Diner Fernandez. Lunar Glow. Cardinals are 65-1. Odds of winning the World Series this year. Marlon Zotto. Troy Johnston. Vaughn Grissom. Austin Wells. Max Muncie. Nolan Gorman. Rookie Insert. Trio. Lawrence Sway. How's it going? Cam Collier. Come on, let's see a huge hit here. This is Philly's Gold Refractor. First bowman auto to 50. Amarion Boyd. There you go, Philly. Hang up one second on that one. What's up, Nicholas? Yep, go great. Appreciate it. PCA. Y'all Vargas. Sky Blue. Leandro Arias. Ledger Green. Luciano. Jordan Walker. Rangers. Purple Refractor auto to 250. Tommy Speck. He kept his signature on the card, but then added a line over there to go off the card. Luciano. Vargas and Hernandez. Michael Bush. So still the Nets and Sixers left on our first left basketball, and then the Nets on our second. Matt DeClayne. Gabriel Gonzalez. That is Aqua Shimmer to 125. Nice one, Mariners. Mr. Marr. Brett Beatty. Rookie Spotlight. Achurio Lunar Glow. Luis Rodriguez. Achurio. This is A's. Yellow Refractor. First bow and auto to 75. Colin Palouse. A secondary color match there. Gunner Henderson Rookie insert. Excuse me, just a second here. Volpe Martinez. Sky Blue Rookie. 499. Max Meyer. Little Watson. Casas and Juan. Nice. Cubs to 75. First bowman. Yellow Lunar Crater Refractor. Matt Mervis, 13 of 75. You go. Congrats Cubs. Crawford. Royals Refractor Auto to 499. Lisandro Rodriguez. Montgomery Gutierrez. Josh Young. Rookie Spotlight. Holiday. Nolan Gorman Rookie insert. Davis and De La Santos. Sky Blue. Cole Young. Raffaella and Allie De La Cruz. Westburg. Padre Zotto. Nick Boat. Off the right side of the card there at that signature. Colson Montgomery. All right, one box to go. Up after this we have Tops Allen against your Chrome. Riley Green Rookie insert. Hernandez. Jackson Merrill. Silderstrom. Evan Carter. Achurio and Achurio. Lionel James. Lunar Glow and Dominguez. This is D-Bax. Green Grass Refractor Auto to 99. Tim Tawa. Arizona Alvarez. Brad Lee. Brock Jones. Purple Refractor. Waller. Corbin Carroll. Simon Wan. Again, Reyes Refractor Auto to 499. Junior Caminero. Reyes Crushed It. A Base, a Refractor. And a Speckle. Caminero Auto. Along with that Blue Refractor. First Bowman Chrome. Reyes was Kyle M. Congrats, man. You crushed it. Gee whiz. Drew Jones. Spotlight. Jackson Holiday. Modern Prospects. Austin Wells. Aqua. Sites on September to 125. Tyler Silderstrom. Gibro Moreno. Corporal Paper. Luis Garcia. Javier Osorio. Aqua Shimmer to 125. L.A. De La Cruz. Manzardo. Cubs. Auto. Pedro Ramirez. Let's do a recap. Marlins. Jacob Berry. First Bowman. Lava Refractor to 399. And two. Purple Refractors to 250. 53 and 55. Gibro Gonzalez. Aqua Shimmer to 125 for the Mariners. Base Autos. Cubs. Pedro Ramirez. Padres Nick Boat. Marlins. Troy Johnston. Blue Jays. Juan Jalaponte. Mets. Alex Ramirez. Red Sox. Brandon Walter. Angels. Caden Dana. Refractor Autos to 499. Royals. These Andra Rodriguez. Cardinals. Samuel De La Rosa. Blue Jays. Manuel Bonilla. Speckle Autos to 299. Cubs. Jackson Ferris. Mariners. Josh Hood. Purple Refractor Autos to 250. Rangers. Tommy Speck. And Tigers. Abel Bostitas. To 150. We had Orioles. Blue Refractor Auto. Leandra Arias. And Blue Jays. Blue Lunar Crater Refractor Auto. Hayden Younger. Rockies. Atomic Refractor Auto to 101. Brito. D-Backs. Greengrass. Refractor Auto to 99. Tim Tallah. A's. Yellow Refractor Auto to 75. Cullen Palouse. Orioles. Cubs. Cubs. Cubs. Cubs. Cubs. Cubs. Orioles. That's Gold Refractor. Top 100 Auto to 50. Colton Kouser. We had Cubs. Yellow Lunar Crater Refractor to 75. Matt Mervis. Phillies. That is. That is First Bowman Gold Refractor Auto to 50. Amarion Void. And then Raze. We had Junior Comminero First Bowman Blue Refractor to 150. Base Auto. Refractor Auto to 499. And Speckle Auto to 299. That'll do it for the break. Thank you everybody. We have Alan Ginterkrum up next. Two bags for the Comminero. Yep. I agree, Dan. Another Chase the Rainbow. Heck yeah, man. That was so nice. Actually, both of them. Pull a Trout and a J-Rod. All right. Let's get these other breaks filled up. We have two and one to go and select basketball. Nets and Sixers in the first one. Nets are 49. Sixers are 49. Here comes the link. The last Alan Ginterkrum I did, I think. Hold the J-Rod. All right. Just a couple of minutes. I'll be right back. We'll get Alan Ginterkrum going. One-of-one silhouette, Sam Cassell. The alien. For the box, dude, with the game-used box jersey. That's disgusting. Uno de uno, Sam Cassell. That is game-worn right there. Good lord, man. With two one-of-ones. Wow. What a box. What a box, man. Back-to-back one-of-ones. The redemption. Scoot Henderson. Let's go. Scoot Henderson. Why are you going to show that to us, man? One-of-one Jeff Bagwell. Astro. Congrats, Stroes. One-of-one Hall of Fame framed autograph. That's going to be our first one-of-one platinum foil. Kauai Leonard. That is nasty, dude. On the throwbacks. Raptors and Clippers. Luckily, this is a left-side serial numbers break. There's the Demons' Fettle. And how about a red wave to five? Joke on you, rookie. No way already. Boom. Wow. There we go. All right. I'll do some Alan Ginterkrum. Just about ready here. All right. Let's do it. Hey, everybody. Matt here for Latin Sports Cards. Ripping 2022. Top Salon and Ginterkrum baseball hobby. 12-box full case break. Number 40. Pick your team. We have Brandon B. Angels. Brian H. Blue Jays. David C. Royals. Ray's. Flavio N. Pirates. Frank C. Nationals. Gina Marie P. Non-MLB spot. Jamie M. Rangers. Jason K. Mariners. Joseph S. Orioles. Red Sox. White Sox and Twins. Craig K. D-Vax Rockies. And Padres. Michael G. Ray's at R. Dodgers. Scott J. Cubs-Reds. Astros Marlins. And Metz. Steve W. Guardians. Tara F. Cardinals. Trustin M. Braves. Wayne P. Tigers Brewers. A's and Giants. All right. Let's do it. Gavin Sheets. Rookie Green Mini. Strasburg. Charlotte North. We are overdue for a Super now. Jim Ginrio. I'm going to do a Super now. I'm going to do a Super now. Jim Ginrio. Hold. I think five of them on this day. Ted Williams. I don't know how many I've pulled between 15 and 20 I think. I had a Valonian Interchrome this year. Louise Heel. And all cards ship. Stephen Kwan. Rookie Mini. So two and one to go on select basketball. And then remaining teams are on sale for select football. 13 and 15 to go. Kick Brown L. Blue Refractor to 150. That was for the non MLB spot. Pedro Martinez. Magenta Refractor. Jose Miranda. Toni Santian. Rookie Refractor. And our X-Fractor is Padres. Tony Quinn. Go Congrats San Diego on the case hit. Bryce Lucia Spock. Blue Bob Green Refractor to 99. Donovan and West. Amosotus Refractor. Brendan Marsh. Mini. Justin Verlander. Blue to 150. Mike Trout. That is Gold Mini 46 of 50. Go Angels. Nice one. Josh Donaldson. Magenta. Joanne Durant. Rookie Refractor. Josh Low Rookie. Kirby Puckett Refractor. Spencer Torpleson. Rookie Mini. Charlie Sheen. Hanson. Royce Lewis. Mini Variation. Jose S. Rookie Green Refractor. 99. Griffey. And Jayrod Rookie. Halce Ryan. Seya Suzuki. Rookie Mini Variation. Jay Mugs. Gary. And Mark McGuire. Gold Refractor to 50. 34 of 50. Box number three. Labor Torres. Magenta Refractor. Wander Rookie Mini Variation. So they've named five people for the homerun derby. Who do you think? So they've got Alonzo Betz, Guerrero, Rodriguez, and Arroz Arena. Who do you think the other three are going to be? Stephen Kwan. Rookie. Machado. Blue. High Cheese. Oliva. Key Brian Hayes. Green Mini. Hunter Green Rookie Refractor. Albert Pujols. Magenta. Zardo. Bryce Harper Mini. Jeremy Pena Rookie. Burrios. Chimitome. Williams. Lubab Matt Olson. Yeah, definitely. I think Olson should definitely be in. There's Seiya Suzuki. Lubab would be interesting. I actually wish they held one spot for the player that was leading AAA in homeruns at the break. I think that'd be pretty cool. There's Thurman Munson. Orange Mini to 25. Canerco. Yeah, he is. Yeah, I think I picked him like the second round in my fantasy draft. Second or third. Cody Ballinger. Green Refractor. It's 99. Went from first place all the way down to eighth over the course of about a month. And then... I went eight and two last week. So I'm back up to fifth place. That's an abrasive, so tiny. Devers for the homerun derby. Yeah, that's an interesting name. How many do you see have on this season? John Osborn. Zini. Well, he's Stargill. Green Mini. Devers has 20. Lorenzo King. Magenta. Nice seal. Devner. You know what time he's got 31 homeruns. We're right now at the legway point of the season, right? T.J. Friedl. Rookie Refractor. Benny Horowitz. Magenta. C.J. Abrams. 15 in the last 22 games. Crawford. Ott. Ramos. Mini Variation. Yeah, that's true. Ryan Mountcastle. India. We're down to one and one on select basketball. 11 and 10 on select football. Jonathan Taylor. Blue Refractor. 250. Wander. Rookie Mini. Good product. I like it. Box number five. All right. So, suppose Otani gets a 10-year deal. What do you think that deal's worth? I think it's going to hit 700. It absolutely will be a lot more than 300. You know what seal? I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah. Six. 675. There's Torque. Rookie. And Tom Siever. Gold Mini. 7 to 750. Yeah. Ellis. Floors 500. Yeah. I'd be shocked to see him signed for 500. Crazy. Willie Stargill. Magenta Refractor. I mean, it's going to be the biggest free agent in the history of sports. Steven Kwan Rookie and Vinny Horowitz. Blue Refractor to 150. Does anyone make it 50 a year? I don't think. Not just. There's Ricky. Magenta. 15 home runs in the last 22 games. Seya Suzuki. Rookie Refractor. Yeah. So, imagine signing Judge Indigrom all in one. I don't know that. Oh, he does a nice little picture. Gold Refractor. Jerry Pena. Senior. Real. Joe Ryan. Donaldson. It's going to be fun to watch it play out. Beves. Munson. Brandon Marsh. Rookie Mini. Variation. Andrews. Juan Soto. OX number six. Yeah. That's a good point. Safe roster spot. Looks like Scherzer and Verlander have the highest salaries. At $43,333,000. And then Judge is at $40,000. And then Anthony Rendon. Anthony Rendon makes more money than Mike Trapp. He decided to have a career year right before he became a... I'm sure that's not a joke on him every time he cashes those checks. Horowitz had a career year going into his free agent season. Dela Cruz. Rookie. Rice and Stot. Rookie Refractor. There's zero percent chance on that as in zero. I would be shocked if there was... I'd be shocked if there was a six in that first digit, let alone a five. Freddie Freeman. Blue to 150. Rice and Stot. I just hope it's not a boring move. Like the tiny to the Dodgers would be really boring. Yeah, the Brazer. I've been talked about a lot now. Won't be the Cardinals. Ducks on the pond. Matt Manning. Rookie Refractor. Ohtani to the Twins. Dave Winfield. Magenta. Ozzy Elby's. Green Mini to 99 and Suzuki Rookie. I don't know if they have a kind of money to spend. Yeah, the Austin. The Austin did really drive two hours in the watch pitch. Well, you know, broken ladder. Mariners. I would say Mariners would be awesome. Tony Oliva. Magenta. Correa for Ohtani. Obashet. This is Hunter Grain. Rookie Gold Refractor. Gold Grain for the Reds. I know George Stringer is a quality player. How on earth does that dude make $24 million a year? Refractor. Yepez. Sendog. He's an O'Neill Cruise Rookie. You Darvish. Blue Refractor. John Durand. Rookie Gold Mini. Springer. Jeremy Pena. Rookie Mini Design Variation. Dick Allen. Green. Grushkin. Grice. Edgar. I wouldn't be surprised if they unloaded one of their $40 million pictures. Wander. Arte. Torque Rookie. Well, the Adonis. Gold Refractor for $50 million. Yeah. Lujan. Westman. Arias. Who's that, Rob? Bonilla. Yeah, that was just the other day, wasn't it? I see, really. Braggman. It's smart. Smarter players to do that. Michelle Wewest. Green Mini. $99 million. So we're at one-on-one to go on Select Basketball. $9.08 on Select Football. The Select Football teams are on sale. Jared Hart. Magenta. Pedro. Austin Meadows. Harper. Broken Ladder. Yeah, Gallon, I think. I think it's a vote where today Gallon would get it. Duke Snyder. Orange. Refractor. That's the 25. Four of 25. Dodgers. Arte. That's Jeroen Durand. Mini Variation. Maurice Lewis. Thanks, Rojo. Nick Allen. Rookie Blue Refractor. Early Fingers 1881. It just boggles my mind. What kind of ridiculous questions they have to ask in their titles on these sports talk shows to justify them devoting time to the conversation. We're just arguing over whether or not, whether Dak Prescott or Kirk Cousins is the second best starting QB and NFC. Pudge. Correa. Rios. Alonzo. Green to $99. We'll see how big Otto are. Super. Both. Ortiz. Gavin Sheets. Rookie Refractor. Stephen Kwan. Mini Variation. Josh Lowe. Rookie Magenta Refractor. $199. Abrams. Barrios. Rookie Refractor. Melissa Nair. Bobby Witt Jr. Rookie. Thomas. Mostly parallels. There's a J-Rod. Rookie Mini Design Variation. Mostly parallels. There's usually one Otto per case. Jeremy Pena. Rookie Refractor. Freddie Freeman. Magenta. Otto. Snell. And J-Rod. Jamison. Morgan Murphy. Green. Buxton Refractor. Corey Seger. Blue. $150. Jay Melendez. Shelby. Alec Thomas. Rookie Mini. John Osborn. Gold Mini. $150. Ellis. Back to this. We have Tops Chrome Sonic Light and Update Chrome Hobby. $6. Mixer. Babe Ruth. Magenta Refractor. Swagner. Marte. All right. Two boxes to go. Here we go. Box 11. Bobby Witt Jr. Rookie Mini. Ortiz. Jeremiah Paprocki. Green. Taliyo Ramos. Rookie. Orange Mini. $25. Nice Giants Color Match. There you go. Giants. Pujols. Ronald Morf. Silicone. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. Coral. recap of all the numbered parallels and hopefully we have an auto in this one. I have seen one case without an auto and I've seen some with multiple autos. Moped has been in Tindy, Magenta. Yeah I've had cases with like three Reds and I've had some with none. I've had a couple with none. Carlton, Mount Castle, Josh Townsend Blue, 150, Cindergarde, Chrono Morse, Francisco Lindor, Gold Mini, another X-Fracture, that is Hermon Marquez, Rockies, two X-Fractures in the case, Ramos, Kindle Tool, Griffey inside the park, J-Rod Mini, Rookie, Machine. Yeah I've had three in a case a few times on the autos. McKinsey, Gore, Rookie, Refracture, thought that was gonna be an auto, that's Abrams, something. We'll see something in these last three. Sledolo, Adam Wainwright, Gold Refracture to 50. I use 130.com, Castle, 130, the word point and then .com. Alright last pack, Secunia, Green Mini, 99. Gore and Castillo. Alright well no auto in that case, just a minute here for the recap. Yeah no red, no super, I mean we did get two X-Fractures but no red refractors, no super fractures, no autos. So we have one and one to go and select seven and seven and one and one and select basketball, seven and seven and select football, 16 spots left for the day. Magenta Refractures to 199. Pedro Martinez, Babe Ruth, Willie Stargill, Ricky Henderson, Josh Donaldson, Michelle Wee, Bob Feller, Jared Hart, Glaver Torres, Albert Pujols, Tony Oliva, Dave Winfield, Freddie Freeman, Josh Lowe, Rookie, Lindsay O'Kane, Ben Intendi, and Benny Horowitz. Blue Refractures to 150. Kate Brownell, Justin Verlander, Freddie Freeman, Josh Donaldson, Corey Seger, Nick Allen, Rookie, Jared Hart, Benny Horowitz, Hugh Darvish, that's Matt Hamilton, Manny Machado, Jonathan Taylor, Green Minis to 99, Ronald Acunha, Tyler O'Neill, Michelle Wee, Ozzy Alves, Willie Stargill, Gavin Cheats, Rookie, and keep Ryan Hayes, Green Refractures to 99, Luis Robert, Morgan Murphy, Jose S. Rookie, Jeremiah Paprocki, Dick Allen, Peter Lanzo, and Cody Bellinger. Gold Refractures to 50. Mark McGuire, Adam Wainwright, Hunter Green Rookie, Brandon Crawford, and William Domes. Gold Minis to 50. Mike Trout, Tom Siever, John Osborn, Francisco Lindore, and Joanne Durand. Orange Minis, Thurman Munson, and Haley O'Ramos. Orange Refracture, Duke Snyder, and then our X fractures. We had Rockies, Hermon Marquez, and Padres, Tony Quinn. All right, Matt, we'll do it for the case. Thank you, everybody. We have Sonic Light and Update Chrome Mixer coming up. Best ones to invest in. It just depends on, like, if you're, if you're into basketball, football, baseball, whatever you're into, like, if you're into baseball, I would invest in, like, Bowman, or if you're looking for active or major league players, then maybe Topps Chrome for football and basketball right now, probably, like, select, optic, or prism. Hockey, I don't know. I can't give you an educated answer on that one because I don't know hockey. No Castro, 130point.com. This next one going here in just a bit. Should be able to stay right on schedule all day. One and one to go and our select basketball breaks, just the net spot, I think, in both. Give me just a few minutes here. I'll be right back and we'll get this one going soon. Awesome. Nice James Cook. We'll take that all day long. Got that straight into a mag for you, buddy. Nasty right there. Nasty laundry. Yeah, upside down, swoosh. Hit it, this guy in this break. George Pickens, one of one. One and G, two of... Another one. I think that's black. It's moments two. It's a timeless moment, too. Oh, come on, man. Oh, come on, man. Snap. Oh, my God. One of the biggest cars in the product. All right. Just a few minutes here and we're going to get this next one started. Refresh. Six to go in each of our select football. Still one on those select basketball. One second here. Nets are on sale on those select basketball breaks. I do need to go grab a case. I'll be right back. All right. Just about ready to go on this next one. It wasn't MLB license, but they had the license with the Players Association. It was Benini. So that Nets spot in select basketball is marked down from 49 to 39. Select football. The first one has Ravens, Bills, Chiefs, Niners, Seahawks, and Titans. Those teams are on sale. 23 definitive. I think it usually comes out a little later. Sold out on select basketball. Both of them. So we're down to five and six. 11 spots left of the day. Five and six in select football. And teams are on sale. All right. Let's do this. Everybody. Matt here for Layton Sports Cards. Ripping 2022. Tops Chromosonic Light and Update Chrome Hobby. Six box mixer number 21. Random teams. Here we go. We'll randomize seven times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Keith J. Down to Austin M. And seven times on the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Angels down to Brewer's Marlins. All right. We have Keith J. Angels, Alex J. Red Sox, Nick H. White Sox, Swae L. Rangers, Nick H. Reds Astros, Swae L. Metz, Brian J. Giants, Richard H. Royals, named QL. Yankees, Justin K. A's, Phoenix G. National, Cindy A. Pirates, Christopher A. Padres, Michael C. Tigers, Richard J. Cubs, Alex J. Mariners, James D. Dodgers, Cindy A. Braves, Nick H. Rockies, Blue Jays, Gary A. Phillies, John F. Twins, Steve W. D. Bax, Ryan B. Reyes, Matthew J. Orioles, Randy A. Cardinals, named QL. Guardians, and Austin M. Brewer's Marlins. All right. Post these results. We'll get this started. Here is a link to the results. Up after this we have two six box select basketball. Pick your team style breaks. Those are both sold out. Then we have, last I checked, we had five and six to go on select football, six box pick your teams. You can see Gore Rodriguez, hardship, regular vet bases divided evenly, stallings, separate out the vet base. J. Rod, rookie, Poppy, and ref Snyder, Drew Martinez, and Nick Lidolo, rookie, purple. Wanderer generation now rookie insert, and Marte, Trevino, Hunter Green, rookie, Buxton, and Panetta. What's up, Toke? It's appropriate. I've been told I'm like a bad case of the Mondays. How's it going? Bryce Harper, die cut greats. O'Neal Cruz, debut. Nathan, it's Forrest. Well, he's in tonight. So here's Ramos, Cortez, Odore, Manaya, Pujols, die cut greats, and Alec Thomas, rookie, purple. Richard, Scherzer, Seya Suzuki, rookie, Stephen Kwan, generation now, and Stephen Matz, Royce Lewis, debut, purple, Garrett Cole, and Savale, Hunter Green, and Sergio Ramos, blue refractor to 199, Mariners, 82 of 199, Austin Meadows, Tony Quinn, which one's that, Toke? Quentin Ramos, O'Romo of, I don't know, Spaz, Paredes, and Freddie Freeman. Ryan McMahon, Prism Refractor, Harper, Hendricks. Oh yeah, I did see that part. Tom Arte, Refractor, Black and White, Ray Wave, Yachty, Josh Donaldson, Prism Refractor, Hoy Park, Rookie, Miguel Cabrera, Purple and Yellow, Sonic Pulse to 299, Tigers, Soda, Josh Donaldson, and what is this? Carlos Santana, that is Black and Red, Sonic Pulse, four of five, there you go, nice one, Royals, you go KC, nice red, that looks pregnant, all the numbers there are, Corcia, Mancini, Jiren Duran, Rookie, Youthquake, Charis, and Eudarvish, Black and White, Tree Mancini, Refractor, Seth Beer, Thompson, Trey Turner, Refractor, Lodolo Youthquake, Clement, Vachette, Clayton Kershaw, Black and White, Ray Wave, Chrome Update, this is from 2022, Mookie, Bryson Stott, Fetty, Green, Mike Trout, Dykut Grates, Bryski, Sanchez, Thomas and Tork, debut purple, so we have just one in five to go on our select football breaks, that's all we have for the day, George Kirby debut, if you missed out today, Forrest is doing group breaks tonight, we also do have group breaks tomorrow night, Fourth of July, Lodolo, Rookie Purple, Bryson Stott, Rookie Purple, Stephen Kwan, Rookie, George Kirby, Rookie and Castillo, Rookie, Dykut Grates, Melendez, Chase Silseth, Melendez and Woods, Serrana and Kukuchi, O'Neill Cruz debut, Royce Lewis, Rookie Purple, Arseneck and Trevino, Gibson and Albert Pujols, Purple, Meadows, Zand, Stott, Ramos and Peterson, Miranda, Coteau, Sias Suzuki, Rookie debut and Nico Goodrum, Aqua Refractor, that is the 250, go Astros, Odore, Kinsey Gore, Stallings, pack of this box, J-Rod, Rookie, Otani generation now and Helio Ramos, Rookie Purple, one and four, just five spots left for the daytime breaks, Tomate Prism, Castellanos, Josh Lowe, Rookie Youthquake, Connor Wong, Rookie Black and White, Raywave, color coming, that is Jeff McNeil, Gold, Raywave, 50, nice one, Metz, it's 20 of 50, Short, Rodolfo Castro, Rookie Refractor, Kaur and Ozas, Rookie Black and White, O'Neill Cruz, Rookie, we have just the Niners left, on select football, six spots, half case number 47, pick your team, Tyler McGill, Rookie Youthquake, Enjin Ryu, and Trey Enberg, Rookie Black and White, Rayna Marsh, Rookie Refractor, Max Muncie, well how about a Duelado or a Triple Auto, Lamehue, Curtis Terry, Rookie Refractor, Dettmers and Musgrove, Prism Refractor, Trent Grisham, and Black and White, Raywave, Rookie Shane Bottes, Scherzer, Refractor and Votto, just a second here, let's put that Niners spot on sale at 449, Seya Suzuki Rookie, it's pretty slowest debut purple, Bobby Whit Jr. Rookie, Eddie Matthews and Tork Rookie Purple, Cole Sands, Bobby Whit Jr. Rookie Generation Now, and Urchella, it is Ray's Rookie Auto, Tommy Romero, Kinsey Gore, Estianos, Freddie Freeman, Johnny Meyes, Rojas, Jeremy Pena Generation Now, and Sonny Gray, Richick and Scherzer, Jeremy Pena Rookie, Wanda Rookie debut, Joan Durant, Paige, Joe Perez, Rookie Purple, Soto Generation Now, and Cortez, Pepeo, Donaldson, Gonsolin Bryant, Juan debut, and Brendan Donovan, Rookie Purple, Suensky, O'Neal Cruz debut, Purple, and Jay Melendez, O'Neal Cruz Generation Now, Kenley Janssen, Joe Ryan and Josh Winder, so one and four to go on select football, just the Niners left on number one, they're marked out from 499 to 449 now, Detmerz, Andre Jackson, Moncada, Refractor, Grealis, Ogan Gilbert, and Isaiah Kainer-Felefa, that's Green and Yellow, Sonic Pulse to the 99, Rangers, Riley Adams, Chisholm, and Tapia, Black and White, O'Neal Cruz, Rookie, and Rendon, Blasnell, Refractor, and Arias, Carlson, is that Charles? Yeah, just barely afternoon here, Stanton, Prism, Wanda Rookie, and Black and White, Tyler Stephenson, and Cheats, Reed Detmerz, Youthquake, Nelson Cruz, Black and White, Jackson Cawar, hey thank you Charles, appreciate that, so Jackson Cawar, Rookie Refractor, and Robbie Grossman, yeah that was an awesome car, that was a fun poll man, Alex Wells, Rookie Prism Refractor, Brandon Woodruff, two packs to go, and we'll do a recap of the color of the auto, Matt Veerling, Rookie Refractor, Brandon Marsh, Rookie Youthquake, Black Pack, Kyle Muller, Joe Ryan, and Albert Pujols, Black and White, all right there we go, we had, so we had Purple and Yellow, Sonic Pulse to 299, Miguel Cabrera, Tigers, then Astros, Aqua Refractor to 250, Nico Goodrum, Mariners, Blue Refractor to 199, Sergio Romo, Ragers, Green and Yellow, Sonic Pulse to 99, I'd say a kind of Falefa, Metz, that's Green, I'm sorry Green, that's Gold, Ray Wave, Jeff McNeil, Royals, Red and Black, Sonic Pulse to 5, Carlos Santana, and Reyes, Rookie Auto, Tommy Romero, I don't do it for the break, thank you everybody, we have Select Basketball coming up, all right I'm gonna get that one uploaded, we'll get Select going here shortly, just the Niners left on that first Select Football break, again they are on sale, 50 bucks off, there you go, I'll be right back and we'll get this started, morning Timmy how's it going, all right, let's take a look at our schedule, we are right on time, all right let's get this going, let's do it, everybody Matt here for Layton Sports Cards ripping 2022-23, Panini Select Basketball hobby, six box break number 17, pick your team, we have Brent W. Pistons, Magic Cavs, Daniel B. Jazz, Doran K. Nets, Eric W. Pacers, Frank Y. Hawks, Hans H. Bucks, Jacob M. Bulls, Jeff M. Nuggett Sons, Jeffrey H. Thunder and Kings, Justin C. Rockets, Pelicans, Ken I. Heat, Kosuke K. Wizards, Lu Ming H. Warriors, Mitchell H. Clippers, Peter G. Mavericks and T-Wolves, Polaris C. Hornets and Raptors, Robert P. Blazers, Rory C. Sixers, Rudy G. Grizzlies, Thomas C. Lakers, Tyler S. Knicks, Von B. Spurs and Wang S. Celtics, all right here we go, what's up Kyle, yep it's all Halley, Ricky Vaughn, Bobby Ducey and Jackie Moon, I should have done Ricky Bobby too but we didn't have any racing, LeBron, Tri-Color and Donovan Mitchell. Hello sir. Did you get that car? No, well I don't know, I told myself I would sleep on it but also they're doing like it had just gotten into the shop. Yeah, Farrie Smith and Pacers to 49 and Flight Signatures Blue, Miles Turner. So they're like doing like the check over and like doing like the like, they're not in detailing and all that so I was like well let me think about it and like come see it after it's fully detailed and like then I'll make my decision. You wear nikes, you know how to just do it, Malachi Branham. So just do it at the same time. Joellen B. Tri-Color and Christian Coloco. See Kyle, that's part of my reason is that it's basically from 2010 which is my only hesitation. Oh is it really? No it's from, it's a 2015 but like that's my hesitation, it's like if I'm buying a new car do I want a 2015? Yeah. Is Lane my son? No. No, nephew. Desmond Bain, White to 149, Jaden Ivy, Shade on Sharp, Rookie Silver and Walker Kessler. I thought you were about to pull like an old or something but you slowed down there. Your truck's a 2015. Yeah, my only thing about buying a used car is there's Pelicans, Jersey, Brandon Ingram is like, you're probably Smith Jr. or Rookie Silver. It's only not 28,000 miles. Dang. Yeah, my hold up like seven or eight years ago, I had a car that was like 2010, I think it was in 2017 and I was like, man like five years now I'm going to be paying on a car that's over a decade old though. Like that's my like thought but then at the same time like with what it is like at least it retains value. Yeah, tie-dye, Christian Wood, 25, Mavericks, Halliburton. Like I was looking at like some old bodies and they're still selling for more than 50% of wood like Lee Aske is on this one which is a 10 year older car than what I'm looking at. It's Jimmy Butler's Scope and RJ. Dude, there's some on the market that are older with less miles too, which scares me. There was an 07 with 11,000 miles and I was like that just means that it was never driven. Christian Brown? Like ever. Yeah, I don't know man. Wiggins, Dozumo and then like if you want to take a road trip or something you know then you'd have to be like, well how am I just going to make my car depreciate now because of the mileage you put on? I mean it will and it won't because it's like. This is Rockets, Rookie Giurziato, Jabari Smith Jr, nice one Houston. Huge hit there. Grats Rockets. Oh yeah, for a few more dollars like triple. Beal and Laravia. The 2023 is legitimately like 4x the price of this one. Jeremy Sohan and Blake Wesley, that is Maroon Dicut Rookie to $175. You should go get a Honda Ridgeline. I wanted to get one because I was like, dude, this thing has a trunk. It has a trunk in the bed and you can like do tailgate party that speakers the bed. I was like, I could do this and this and this, but then I was like, oh, I would be doing this and this and this just because to justify it. For the longest time, I wanted the Subaru Baja just because I was like, it's a car, but it's a truck. I have never met an unkind person who drives a Subaru. Yeah, but the Subaru Baja is just a different animal. Look up the Subaru Baja. They stopped making it after like a year. Hi Ty. Jaylen Williams, Jaylen Williams, Rookie Scope, Dale and Terry, Rookie Courtside, Elf Meal. Yeah, Lane's going to get a flat bed, flat bed. It's literally like a full-on Subaru and then it just has like a little bed in the back. And they're just like chopped off the back. I wanted that for so long. David Roddy. I wanted a truck, but I didn't want a truck. Lane needs a cyber truck. It literally looks like they tried to like make a fusion car and like the fusion machine got stuck midway through. This is to 49 Nuggets Rookie Patch Bronze, Peyton Watson. They just like forgot to finish. Why is he doing kissy face? Look, he's doing kissy face in the picture. I mean, maybe they told him that maybe he was about to like call a play and it was like kissy face play or duck face or something. Blue die cut. So Kyle, I don't want to start like debates because there's people that really like them, but I am not a Tesla fan at all. Like, I would probably get a smart car before I got a Tesla. Jeremy Sohan, Rookie. And Tri-Color Rookie, Johnny Davis. Mary, Jibarty Smith, Light Blue Tray. I wonder how much advertising Tesla's getting on Twitter now. Oh, so much. Kyle with with Lane's driving prowess might need to get one that you can remote control. Palakai Branham and Enfuego. Jason Tatum, Silver. Go Celtics. Yeah, I'm not getting a smart car. Recap on this one. KT. John Bochamp and Thunder to 99. That is Rookie Jersey Auto. Chet Holmgren. Congrats Thunder. I think I should stay. That's two really good boxes to start the break. Yeah, I'm about to pull something ridiculous in this next one. This will be a mag. Jalen Suggs, Tri-Color and MB. Jaden Ivey, three-card pack here. Really? That is Rookie Quartzside Silver Ochaic Bajie and Celtics Jersey Grant Williams. Trevor Kiehl's Rookie Red. Jeremy Sohan, Rookie. Hey, Kyle, I think we're going to start all the breakers. We're going to start dyeing our hair different colors like Sohan, like Wesley or Yonboard with that. I will frost my tips. Chris Middleton, Tri-Color. I actually left the house thinking I would probably get the Ridgeline and then but then yeah I was just standing there looking at it and I was like all this stuff that I'm thinking I could do I don't currently do. So why would I buy a truck so I could do stuff that I don't already do and when you own a truck everybody you know that lives within three hours will call you asking you to help them move and I pay people when I move so I don't like helping other people move since I won't help myself move. Blake Wesley and there's the man. Pistons to 25. That is tie-dye, patch auto, Bill Lambeer. Mr. Congeniality. Nice Lambeer for the Pistons. You got pink? Where's Jamal Murray? Yeah, I'm going to go platinum blonde and then it'll just blend in with my gray. Sohan. Future? Soap. Do you want a brown scope? That's exactly it. No, you can't. Yeah, it has to be about like pickup trucks and jade and ivy. Jade and ivy, rookie tri-color. I was listening to Hank Williams senior like when I had a truck but I was listening to it on Bluetooth and I felt like it was probably against the law. Ochaic Bajie, tie-tie. Hank senior is overrated though. Scotty Barnes, tri-color and hardy. Hank Williams senior is overrated. He sounds like the stirring Diabathe, rookie white. He's like a crying dog. Diabathe, rookie silver and chat home-grin rookie. Sam would probably go Raven's colors. He'd probably do like purple with black low lights. I don't know. What about forest? Pascal Siakam. That's blue die cut and Tyler Harrow. Palo Banquero, rookie. Yannis Silver and Jalen Suggs. Duran and Jazz, 75. Jumbo Jersey, blue. Rudy Gobert, Dalen Terry and Dalen Terry. That was Silver and base. A.J. Griffin and nice. Celtics, Red, Otto. Jason Tatum. Congrats, Boston. This will be a mag. Jalen Suggs, Silver. Shade-on, Sharp. Light Green, Evan Mobley. Jalen Dern. Trey. Brandon Ingram. Light blue. Box number four. Still one and four to go on select football. The Niners spot is on sale and still available in both of those breaks. Blake Wesley, rookie, tri-color and brown. Jalen Williams and Warriors to 99. That is rookie Jersey Otto Purple, Patrick Baldwin. Guis Montiang, rookie. Light Green, 75. Andrew Nemhardt. That'd be nice to see and get it together. Zion. Ty Ty, rookie. Scope. Chris Paul. Benedict Mathurin, rookie. Hegan Murray, rookie. Silver. Ant-Man and Bucks Jersey, Yanis. Terese Halliburton, blue. Scope and Palo Bencaro, rookie. Gideon Jovic, Steph, Jaden Hardy, rookie. It's Benedict Mathurin, rookie. Scope. Wiggins. Purple Dy-Cut, Pascal Siakam. Still 99. Quindell Moore. Tri-Color, Colin Sexton. Jason Tatum, Diabatte, Tari-Eason, Paul George, and Moravia. Thunder to 199, rookie. Jersey Otto Usman-Diang, Lamello, Tri-Color, and Ochaic Bajie. Jay Nivey, rookie. Silver, Tri-Color, Marcus Smart, Eason, Ty Ty and Halliburton. This is Nix to 99. Red Otto, Walt Clyde Frazier. Go, Nix. Donovan Mitchell, light blue. Cloco, Tari-Eason, Tari-Eason, Maxie, Josh Giddy, Tri-Color, Marchand Bo-Champ. Scope, Demarda Rosen, Chris Middleton, Shade-On-Sharp, rookie. Johnny Davis, AJ Griffin, rookie. Silver and Ty Ty. AT and Tri-Color, Trey. Kade Cunningham, Jayland Terry. Blue-Dye Cut, K-A-T. Palo Banquero, rookie. And Jayden Ivey, Sensations, rookie. Silver. Trey Silver, Jayland Duran. And Grizzlies, that's rookie. Otto Silver, David Roddy. Lundlemore Jr., rookie. Tri-Color, and Pistons to 99. That is rookie. Jersey, Purple, Jayland Duran. This is Jazz, rookie. Red to 199, Ochaik Vaji. Go, Utah, Kyrie. And that is Tari-Eason. Cortside, rookie. Silver. Last box. Still one and four to go on select football. Here's a link for that first one. That's just the Niners there on sale at 4.49. And then that's number 47. And the number 48 has Bill's Chiefs, Niners, and Commanders. Darius Garland, Scope, Musadia. How horrible do you think it would have been if Stallone and Schwarzenegger would have been the exact opposite? So, Schwarzenegger would have been in all the Stallone roles in Stallone. So Stallone is Kenne Gartenkopf. And Schwarzenegger is Rocky. Chet Holmgren, rookie. Kate Cunningham-Silver and Wendell Moore. This is Rafters. Jersey, Pascal Siakam. Jake Laravia, rookie. Light blue. Christian Coloco, rookie. No, we don't. Jabari Smith Jr., no, we just saw the spot straight up. This one's Yang. Tricolor, Andrew Wiggins. What's that? Malachi, Brandon Rookie. Kind of a Mitchell and Tricolor rookie. Jabari Smith. Williams, Bochamp and Tricolor. Kate Cunningham. AD. Sister 249. Jalen Williams, rookie. Blue Scope. Jalen Williams. Brown Chet Holmgren, rookie. Silver. Benedict Matherin, rookie. Christian Wood and Mavericks to 75. Jersey Auto Purple, Jason Kidd. Nice legend hit. We'll go Dallas. Jabari Smith, rookie. Tricolor. Nidavis. Tari Eason, Fred Van Vleet-Silver. This is Spurs. Rookie Jersey, Jeremy Sohan. Wizards, tie-dye, rookie. Die cut to 25. Johnny Davis, six of 25. I sure badly want to pull one of those with tie-tie Washington. It's going to be a tie-tie tie-tie tie-tie. Christian Brown, Andrew Wiggins and a Zebra. Kawhi Leonard Zebra. Congrats Clippers. Nice Kawhi. Second the last card of the break. And courtside rookie, Jalen Williams. Nice couple cards there to close this out. All right, we had Celtics and Fuego Silver, Jason Tatum. Clippers, Zebra, Kawhi Leonard. Relics. Spurs, rookie. Jeremy Sohan. Raptors, Pascal Siakum. Pistons, rookie. 75 to 99 Jalen Duran. Bucks, Yannis. Celtics, Grant Williams. Jazz, Blue. Ready to go, Bear. Those to 75. Nuggets, rookie. Patch to 50. Peyton Watson. Pelicans, Brandon Ingram. Relic, Autos. Thunder, rookie. Usman D'Angue. Pistons, tie-dye. Patch, Auto to 25. Bill Lambeer. Warriors, rookie. Jersey Auto. Patrick Baldwin Jr. Mavericks. Purple. Jersey Auto. Jason Kidd. Those to 75. Grizzlies. Rookie Auto. Silver. David Roddy. Nix. Red Auto. Walt Frazier. Pacers. In-flight signatures. Blue. Miles Turner. Celtics. Red. Auto. Jason Tatum. 75. Rockets. Rookie. Jersey Auto to 199. Jabari Smith Jr. And Thunder. Rookie. Jersey Auto to 99. Chet Holmgren. That'll do it for the break. Thank you, everybody. Number 18's up next. All right. So, 1-4 to go on select football. Just the Niners left in that first one. They are on sale. Marked on for $4.99 to $4.49. I'll be back in just a minute. We'll get this next one going soon. That's a hit right there, buddy. That's so sick. That'll go straight into a mag. Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Oh, that is a, that's a Luca Succi image variation. Orange Rookie, 5 of 25. Big card. Wow. I've never pulled, I haven't pulled one of these yet. The variations are sick. Got one already. Let's go. I am so jealous of that. Jackie Robinson. Corbin Burns. There you go. First one of the day. One of one. Craig Abigio. That's my favorite player of all time right there. That is so sick. That's those 2000s Astros jerseys too. Wow. Who's got Houston? Congrats, H-town. Fracture and a gold wave. F1 racer. Rookie. Jo Guan Yu. That's really nice. These inserts are really cool. Love the color on that. That's sick. Current Reds. Oh, there's one current. But Red Sox Legends here. Going back to Regina. Triple auto. Four out of, and Raffy Devers. Wow. Sick. Grimes Rookie. And he's not expecting that. Steph Curry. Jersey number. Holy cow. There's the 30. I saw the Warriors and I was like, oh, Kominga or Moody. That'll be cool. Nope. No, sir. Not at all. We'll get that magged up for you. Hang up, of course. Shohei Otani. Triple patch. Two of three. Angels. Very nice. 8RBI, 13K. That is a sick patch in the center too. Cody Bellinger. Boom. And El West. I saw one there. That nasty patch on that thing. And Tiktok. Oh, we got our first box. That is a gold. Wow. That is so sick. Oh my God. Green. Another one. We've got Skymore, one of the Chiefs. Congrats. All right. Just about ready to go on this next one here. I'll get this going in a minute here. Just waiting on the computer. All right. We just have two breaks left to fill up. Nine our spot is now at 429. Let's get it filled. It is a Brown Dose shirt. Everybody, Matt here for late in sports cards are up in 2022-23. Panini Select basketball hobby. This is six box break number four. I'm sorry, number 18. Pick your team. We have Brent W. Magic, Daniel B. Jazz, Dave A. Cavs, Doran K. Nets, Eric W. Pacers, Frank Y. Hawks, Hans H. Bucks, H. Wang, Celtics, Nix, Sons, H. U. Grizzlies, Jeff M. Sixers, Jeffrey H. Piston Thunder, Justin C. Pelicans, Ken I. Heat, Looming H. Warriors, Michael B. Wizards, Polaris C. Hornets Raptors, Robert P. Blazers, Scott J. Bulls, Rockets, Clippers, Nuggets, Tyce A. K. Lakers, Thomas C. Mavericks, Ting W. Kings, Tony Y. T. Wolves, and Von B. Spurs. All right, here we go. Yeah, I used to have two it, two Brown Dose shirts, but I don't know, one of them disappeared. Just started. Hawks to 199. Rookie Jersey Otto, Tyrese Martin, Paul George, White, and Jabari Smith. Steph, Mark Williams, Tri-Color Rookie, and Kairi, Chris Maxie, Jaylen Dern, Rookie Tri-Color, and Kevin Durant. Christian Brown, Marcus Smart, Scotty Barnes, and 99 Nuggets. Jersey, Purple, Jamal Murray, Tyrese Halliburton, Maroon, Dye Cut to 175, and Christian Wood, Chris Paul, Tri-Color, Colin Sexton, and Benedict Matherin, Rookie, Jeremy Sohan, Rookie, Dyson Daniels, Rookie Scope, and Blake Wesley, Courtside. Okay, Branham, Jabari Smith Jr., Tyrese Halliburton, Blue Scope, Jamal Murray, and then Fuego, Yanis. Let me go bucks, two in Fuego's in my case. Jaylen Green, Jaylen Williams, Rookie, and Bulls to 99, Rookie Jersey Otto, Purple, Daylen Terry, Jaylen Brunson, Scope, Jayden Ivey, Zach Levine, and Diabatte, Shadow Holmgren Rookie, Tatum, Dyson Daniels, Rookie Silver, and Jaylen Williams. Box number two, Steph Curry, Silver Snapshots, and Jayden Ivey, Rookie Silver, Jeremy Fox, and T-Wolves to 149, Silver Otto, Rudy Gobert, Drew Holiday, Jaylen Williams, Blue Dye Cut, SGA, Colin Sexton, and to 10, Sixers, that is Gold Patch, Joel M. Bede. Nice hit for the Sixers. I think they were the last team taken. No, second to last team. It was the Nets. I think maybe that was the last break. Kyrie and Daylen Terry, and Dick Matherin, Blue Scope, Malcolm Brogdon, Trey and Scope, Tyler Harrow, Diabatte, Light Blue, Tyler Harrow, Pistons, Rookie Jersey, Jayden Ivey, and Bede Silver, Malachi Brannum. Nice. That is tie-dye. Dye Cut, Trey Young, and you go Hawks. 13 of 25, RJ, Jayden Hardy Rookie, David Roddy, Tri-Color, and Keegan Murray, SGA, Tri-Color, and Siakham. Still at one and four on those select football breaks. They are up next, Benadik Matherin, Clay Thompson, Tri-Color, and Ochaic Baji. Just the Niners left on that first one. Great price on the Niners. They're on sale at $429 down from $499. KD Silver, you got $429? No. Next, I don't need it. Jersey, Julius Randall, Guismontieng, Purple Dye Cut, Luca, Jayden Ivey, Diabatte, Rookie Tri-Color, and Walker Kessler. Jayden Hardy, Tri-Color Rookie, Jabari Smith, and Embiid, Scope, Kyrie, Bambli, Jaylen Durran, Rookie, KAT, Maroon Dye Cut, and Paula Bankero, and Trevor Keele's Rookie Silver, Markinon, Pistons, Rookie Jersey Otto, to $199, Jaylen Durran, Nice Hit, Detroit, and Porter Jr., Scope, Christian Brown, Jaylen Williams, Wesley Silver, and Murray, Smarton Moore, T-Wolst, 99, Jumbo Jersey, Zach Levine, Purple, in Minnesota, LeBron James, Blue Scope to $249, Ravya, another Zebra coming, there's LeBron, Keegan Murray, Rookie Snapshots, and Jimmy Butler, Zebra for the Heat, James Harden. Yeah, tell me that was such a good movie. I would definitely be on board with Mike Judge coming out with another movie soon. I don't even know what all he's done. I mean, I know he did be with somebody at an office space. He did King of the Hill. King of the Hill. Yeah. But movie-wise, he's done, I know, office space. Yeah. Office space, idiocracy, and be with somebody. Tari Eason, Rookie Light Blue, Bari Smith, Tri-Color, Jimmy Butler, Jayden Hardy, Alakai Branham, Christian Brown, Rookie Silver, Luka, Vicky Williams, and Bochamp, and Raptors to 10, that is Gold Patch, Pascal Siakam, nice one, Toronto, Blue Dicut, Luka, $249, Steph, James Harden, Scope, Jayden Ivey, Jaylin Green, Scope, Christian Brown, Rookie, Keegan Murray, Future, Rookie Insert, Johnny Davis, Rookie Silver, this is Rockets to 99, and Flight Signatures, Red, Alperin Shangoon, Go Houston, that Booker Scope, Chat Holmgren, Yanis Silver, and Gitty, Top TGP, appreciate it, and Happy Monday, this is Paul, Hornets to 99, Rookie Jersey, Purple, Mark Williams, this is Christian Wood, Red, Agbaji, Ty Ty, Kevin Durant, Tri-Color, and Caleb Houston, Sohan, Andre Mitchell, and 10 of 10, Gold Dicut, Carl Anthony Towns, nice K-A-T, third gold of the break, two Gold Patches, and now a Gold Dicut, Bradley Beal, Durant, Paulo Banquero, Rookie, Red, Anthony Simons, and Durant, Simons and Simons, Jayden Ivey, Rookie, and a Redemption, double check the team here, I think this is Pacers, yep, Pacers, Rookie Otto, Andrew Nemhardt, go Pacers, Hawaii Silver, Murray, Ty Ty, Rookie, Blue Dicut, Musa Diabate, and Walker Kessler, Julius Randall Tri-Color and base, this is Blue Scope, Rookie to 249, Keegan Murray, Caliburton, Shade on Sharp, Chante Murray, Pacers, Rookie Jersey, Benedict Matherin, Blake Wesley, Rookie Silver, Sohan, Light Blue, Bam, and Chet, Agbaji, Rookie, and to 99 Grizzlies, Jersey Purple, John Morant, Andrew Nemhardt, Rookie Scope, Swanton Yang, Bradley Beal, Tri-Color, KPJ, Trey, John, Dylan Terry, Jalen Suggs, Scope, and Jayden Hardy, Horside, all right give me a second here, last box let's finish strong here, just the Bills and Chiefs left in number 48, just the Niners left in number 47, Select Football, John Morant, Tri-Color, Malachi Brannum, Jayden Ivy, Mark Williams, Rookie Silver, Dylan Terry, Ty Ty, Lakers Jersey, Silver, Anthony Davis, Rookie Blue Scope to 249, Marchon Bochamp, Chai Agbaji, and another Enfuego, Jason Tatum, makes three Enfuegos for the case, Marta Rosen, Silver, Sumo, the Hofstra Try, I've pulled some really nice parties so far, Jabardi Smith, Junior Rookie, and T-Wolves to 125, this is Jersey Otto, Rudy Gobert, Desmond Bang, Blue Dye Cut, Tyler Harrow, Jalen Williams, Bochamp, Scope, Clay Thompson, Jalen Suggs, Dylan Terry, Scope, Rookie, Clay Thompson, Shadon Sharp Rookie, Light Blue, Tyrese Maxie, RJ, Jeremy Sohan Rookie, Bradley Beale Silver, and Keegan Murray Rookie, Hornets to 99, Rookie Jersey Otto Purple, Mark Williams, Jaylen Williams, Rookie Tri-Color, Lamello, Alchai Vranum, Ant-Man, Dyson Daniels, Rookie Tri-Color, and Jason Tatum, forth side. All right, last pack, AT, Usman D'Ang, Rookie Silver, and Caleb Houston, and Hornets, Rookie Jersey Otto Purple, Mark Williams, T-Wolves, Jersey Otto, Rudy Gobert, Lakers Jersey, Anthony Davis, and Fuego, Jason Tatum, Celtics, Grizzlies, Jersey Purple, John Morant, Pacers, Rookie Jersey, Benedict Matheran, Pacers, Rookie Otto, Andrew Nemhardt, Hornets, Rookie Jersey Purple, Mark Williams, Rockets, In-Flight Signatures, Red to 99, Alperin Shangoon, Raptors, Gold, Patch, Pascal Siakam, T-Wolves, Purple, Jersey, Zach Levine, some Pistons, Rookie Jersey Otto, Jaylen Durran, Zebra, Jimmy Butler, Heat, did you really? Yeah, that's awesome. Jay Nivey, Rookie Jersey, Pistons, T-Wolves, Otto, Rudy Gobert, Bulls, Rookie Jersey Otto, Purple, Dayland Terry, Hawks, Rookie Jersey Otto, Tyrese Martin, Nuggets, Jersey Otto, I'm sorry, Jersey, Purple, Jamal Murray, Sixers, Gold, Patch to 10, Joel Mb, Nix, Jersey, Julius Randall, and we had Hawks, that's Tideye, Dicut, 25, Trey Young, and T-Wolves, Gold, Dicut to 10, Carl Anthony Towns, that will do it for the break. Thank you everybody. We have football up next. So the bills are gone from number 48. So still the Niners in the first select football half case, they are on sale at 429. There's a link looking for Perty, and then number 48 has just the chiefs left, they are on sale at 229. This will be back in just a minute. All right, let me see where we're at. Niners are gone. We'll get this next one going here in just a couple of minutes. We have one spot left for the day, that's the chiefs on sale at 229 in six bucks number 48. Here's a link for that. Yep, somebody grabbed the Niners. We are sold out for the day. Appreciate that everybody. Appreciate you closing that out. Thank you. All right, grab up your spots for tonight's breaks. Also, don't forget tomorrow, there are group breaks during the evening. It is 4th of July, we'll have some breaks going. I won't be here, it's my normal day off anyway. Yeah, appreciate you closing us out. Good luck with the, yeah, thanks Mark. All right, we're gonna get this one going. I don't need gloves. I've pulled so much fire, there's no, I have no feeling left in my hands. It won't hurt. Might be ugly to watch. Everybody, Matt here for Layton Sports Cards ripping 2022. Panini select football hobby, six bucks, half case break number 47. Pick your team. We have Brad C, Patriots, Corbin D, Eagles, Eric W, Falcons, Panthers, Texans and Niners, Eric B, Lions and Commanders, Hans H, Packers, Howard J, Rams, Jared S, Saints, Jason A, Bills, Chiefs, Titans, Jeff M Vikings, Jeffrey H, Steelers Colts, Joe H, Ravens, John B, Dolphins, Joseph M, Browns, Matt J Broncos, Ramon M, Bucks, Ronnie B, Bears, Rory C, Cowboys Jets, Ryan M Chargers, Ryan B Raiders, Thomas D Seahawks, Wade T Cardinals, Will Z, Jags, William D Giants and Xavier G Bengals. All right, here we go. Good luck, everybody. Let's do it. I seem to pull up one sheet here. Two us, Sensations, McLaren and Chris Olave, Rookie, Kenny Pickett, Neon Icons, Rookie, Lions, 25, Tideye, Rookie Patch Otto, Aiden Hutchinson. Nice hit for the Lions. Nice start to the break. This is Light Green, Rookie, Chris Olave. It's a 49. Nice hit for the Saints. Recap on this one. This is Cowboys 49, Jersey Otto Purple, Leighton Vanderash. As we are sold out for the day, Kevin Lloyd Rookie Silver, Blue Joe Mixon, Dak Silver, Rookie, Tideye, Aiden Hutchinson, once again, Lions. Two Tideye, Leighton Vanderash. Stuck there. Skye Moore, Rookie Red, Color Match for the Chiefs. Okay, Dotten. That's awesome. Is that you, Eric? Yeah, congrats, man. That's awesome. Shahid, Garrett Wilson, Neon Icons, Donald and Pierce. Two Tideye. Oh, God. Dang it. Sorry. Two Tideye, Aiden Hutchinson, one RPA, same box. Saquon, Giants. Giants, Saquon, Jersey Bronze, 49. Chase, Josh Jacobs, Bradley Chubb and Greg Dulcich. Now, I was actually in the hospital last night. Pushing through them off tomorrow, so this is Rookie Gold, Zameer White. That is two of ten for the Raiders. Hamilton, Traylon Burks, Rookie Silver. No, that was me gasping. Drake London, Phenomenon Rookie, Justin Herbert Silver. No, I didn't even, I told the doctor last night I was coming into work today. It's a Baker Tri-Color Sauce, Rookie Sweet Level, Kingsley Enig Bear, Rookie Silver. I come into work pretty much, pretty much no matter what. Traylon Burks, Tyreek and Ravens to 60. That's Rookie Auto Red, Kyle Hamilton, Dobbins, Vonte Wyatt, Kenneth Walker, Rookie Sensation Silver, Taken Q, Rookie Silver, Sean Watson, Micah Parsons, Blue Rookie, I'm not Rookie, Blue Football Card, Packers to 199, Jersey Auto, AJ Dillon, David Montgomery, Juju, Sweet Level Tri-Color, Aaron Rodgers, Kurt Warner, Silver and Rodriguez, Rokwon, Tua, Garrett Wilson, Rookie Blue, Tom Brady, Sweet Level, Rookie Silver, Boye Mafe, Derek Young, Ford, we've got Green coming, Dallas Goddard, and Christian Wilkins, Green to 5, Nice one, Dolphins, A-Rod, Silver, Ruth and Timido, Vonta Smith, Phenomenon Silver and Silver, Reese Hall, Brock Purdy, Rookie Phenomenon, Joe Burrow, Silver, Jabbo, Patriots 25, Tie-Dye Patch, Remandre Stevenson, nice four-color patch, Josh Allen Silver, Jones and Brady, Brock Purdy, Neon Icons, Roger McReary, Rookie Silver, Demian Pierce, Field Level Rookie, that is, Orange to 49, Rookie, Cameron Dicker, Rick Goff Silver, box number three, we have one more select football break, and then we have two Goodwin champions, four box, random letter style, Andre Stevenson, Patrick Mahomes, Silver, yeah I'm not sure what I've pulled, there's a Zebra, Sensations, Zebra, Trevor Lawrence, nice one, Jags, Claypool, Giozio Macanquo, Rookie Blue, and Chiefs to 199, Jersey Auto, Kaderius Tony, Fields, and Panthers, Rookie Auto, Matt Corral, 199, Dobbins, Desmond Ritter Rookie, Saquon, Light Blue, IU, Russell Wilson, Traylance, Phenomenon Silver, Of course Buckner Silver, Russell Wilson, and Falcons of 75, Rookie Jersey White, Drake London, Michael Pittman, Saquon, Kirk Cousins, Field Level Tri-Color, Jack Sandborn, Rookie Silver, and Icons Derek Henry, Garrett Wilson, Rookie Silver, and Drake London, Field Level Rookie, Amon Ross St. Brown, Kenny Pickett, Rookie Silver, Jay Brown, Jonathan Taylor, Sweet Level Silver, Soss, Malik Willis, Rookie Tri-Color, Jackson Davis Mills, Box number four, we are sold out today, grab up your spots for tonight, force goes live at five, Cousins, Breece Hall, Sweet Level Rookie Blue, Zeke Silver, Mahomes, George Pickens, Snapshot Silver, Rookie, Lattimore and Kenneth Walker, Rookie Field Level, Kenyan Green, Rookie Tri-Color, Jordan Poyer, Calvin Austin, Rookie Silver, Amazon Rucker, T-Law, and Patriots to 199, Rookie Jersey Otto, Taekwon Thornton, Julio Tom Brady, Blue, this is 75 of 199, Rashi Chahid, Rookie Silver, Desmond Ritter, Sweet Level Rookie, Tuante, Brian Robinson Jr., Sweet Level Rookie Silver, TN, and Giants Jersey, 99 of 99, Seyquan Barclay, Kyle Pitts, Thibodeau, George Pickens, Neon Icons, Kowy Dean, Rookie Silver, and T-Russell Wilson-Purple, Hutchinson, Capri Silver, Hogan Hall, and an XRC, and this is going to be numbered 5 of 10, XRC draft, or NFL draft XRC Redemption, that is XRC Gold Prism Redemption, card number 515, Wide Receiver 6, card 515, that is Jaden Reed Packers, Congrats Green Bay, Smart Chase, Justin Fields, Field Level Silver, you're on Kyler Murray, Tri-Color Sweet Level, and this is Bucks, Super Bowl, Otto Silver, Shaquille Barrett, Bailey Zappie, Rookie, Fields Wilson, box number 5, Kenny Pickett, Rookie, Garrett Wilson, Rookie Maroon, this is 149, Lamb Jack Silver, George Goff, and to 99 Packers, Sparks Jersey, Rashon Gary, Gary Terry, Traylon Burks, Patrick Moe, Silver, Capri, I didn't get that character for a long time, Deontay Johnson-Purple, Sean Watson-Silver, Bullsich, another XRC Redemption, that is Defense 1, card number 518, Texans, Will Anderson Jr., Go Texans, Desmond Ritter, Neon Icon Silver, or actually, no, that's not, that is Tideye to 25, you go Falcons, nice Tideye Neon Icons, Rookie Desmond Ritter, Andrews and Bost will make that Ritter for you Falcons, come forward, and we have a gold coming, that is Cowboys Gold, CD Lamb, Field Level to 10, you go Dallas, 10 of 10, this is Chargers to 199, Jersey Otto, Antonio Gates, Zay Jones, Tom Brady, Danny Gray, Rookie Trikeller, Ryan Asamoa, Rookie Silver and Stafford, Jack Jones, Patrick Mahomes, Sensations, Sean Watson, Sweet Level Silver and Davenport, Trevor Lawrence, Light Blue, Traylon Burke, Sweet Level Rookie, IU, Son Haskins, Dak, Neon Icons, and Giants, that is Award Winners, Otto, Phil Sims, Super Bowl 21 MVP, nice Sims, of course Buckner, Go Jabbo, Jack Sanborn, Rookie Silver, Neon Icon Silver, Edding from Rookie Silver. All right, last box, grab up your spots for tonight, Forest Goes Live at Five, some club competitions, Chrome Soccer, Select, Hobby and Prison, Premier League Choice, Soccer Mixers, a 19 through 23 Bowman Jumbo, five box, New Year's Mixer, Bowman Chrome Sapphire, Bowman Sapphire, Bowman University Best Basketball, there's Traylon, Mack Jones, and Jets, the 75, Rookie Jumbo, Jersey Otto, Ahmaud Soss Gardner, there you go, nice hit for the Jets, Devin Bush, Van Der Seet, yeah, let's find you a nice Howell, there you go in the Dotson, Saquon, Trikeller, Khalil Shakir, Rookie Silver, Josh Allen and Kyler Murray, Field Level Silver, Eddingham, Andrew Booth, and to 99, Rookie Jersey, Garrett Wilson, Schwann Walker Rookie Silver, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes Sensations, Derek Carr Silver and Tyreek, this is Brandon Ayuk, Blue, Tom Brady Silver, Breeze Hall Rookie, Sweet Level Rookie Silver, Breeze Hall, Sean Watson, Ryan Asimoa, Rookie Blue, and Eagles 49, Red Otto, Fletcher Cox, Kenneth Murray, Breeze Hall, Neon Icons, Keenan Allen Silver, Lamjack, Jair Alexander, Trikeller, and Rookie Silver, Jameson Williams, Jadon, yeah, there was an Olave, I think to 49 earlier, Espoye Mafe, Jamar Chase, Bosa, all right, Last Pack, and a Green, DJ Moore, Panthers, you go Carolina, 305, 5 minus 3 equals 2, Jersey Number, Tremac Duffy, Rookie Silver, and Micah Parsons, a second here, we'll do a recap, all right, Relics, Jets Rookie, Garrett Wilson, Packers for Sean Gehry, Giant Saquan Barkley, Falcons, Drake London, Patriots, Tideye, Ramandre Stevenson, Giants, Bronze, Saquan Barkley, a few nice parallels here, we had Saints, that's Rookie, Light Green to 49, Chris Olave, it was 49 of 49, Texans with XRC, Prism Redemption, Defense 1, Jags, Zebra, Sensations, Trevor Lawrence, Cowboys, that is Gold, Field Level to 10, CD Lamb, Panthers, Green, DJ Moore, 5, Relicados, Jets, Modsauce Gardner, 75, Chargers, Antonio Gates, Patriots, Rookie, Tyquan Thornton, Chiefs, Kaderius Tony, Packers, AJ Dillon, Cowboys, Purple, Layton Van Der Esch, that was 49, and then we had Eagles, Red Otto, Fletcher Cox, Giants, Award Winners Otto, Phil Sims, Bucks, Super Bowl Otto, Silver, Chiquil Barrett, Ravens, Rookie Otto, Red, Kyle Hamilton, Panthers, Rookie Otto, Matt Corral, we had Neon Icons, Tideye, Rookie to 25, Falcons, Desmond Ritter, Packers, XRC, Gold Prism Redemption, Wide Receiver 6, and Lions, Tideye, Rookie Patch Otto to 25, Aidan Hutchinson, that'll do it for the break, thank you everybody, number 48's coming up, that one uploading, oh yeah there was, yeah that didn't make it in the recap, there was a Tideye Rookie, all right, this next to go in here in just a few minutes, we have the sheet ready, I'm gonna have to get up and walk around just for a couple minutes, all right, I'll be right back, it's a gorgeous sketch right there too, holy cow look at the details on this, it's a gold now, gold boxes so far, insane, not one of Woosh Tag, that is awesome, nice James Cook, one of one, we'll take that all day long, got that straight into a mag for you buddy, nasty right there, nasty laundry, yeah upside down swoosh, hit it this guy in this break, George Pickens, one of one, one in G to a peacock, another one, I think that's black, it's a timeless moment too, it's a timeless moment too, come on man, all right we have one more select football, because we have humans working here, selects a lot to top load, all right, let's get this going, everybody, Matt here for late in sports cards, ripping one, I'm sorry, ripping one, ripping 2022 Pinini select football, hobby six box, half case break number 48, pick your team, we have Anthony P commanders, Brad C Bears, Chris N Chargers, Chris F Rams, Corbin D Eagles, Craig H Patriots, Eric W Falcons, Panthers Texans, Eric B Chiefs, Jared S Saints, Jason A Ravens Packers Titans, Jeff H Bills, Jeff M Vikings, Jeffrey H Steelers Colts, Joseph M Raiders, Josh M Niners, Joshua P Dolphins, Matt J Browns, Mitchell H Giants, Ramon M Bucks, Ronnie B Cardinals, Rory C Cowboys Jets, Sean W Lyons, Thomas D Seahawks, Will Z Jags, William D Broncos, and Xavier G Bengals, all right here we go, yeah no I was responding to the other person asking how it missed, this is Rams 105 Green Patch Cooper Cup, there you go, nice one Rams, Thompson Rookie Silver, Sir Tan, yeah there was the tie-dye RPA and then a tie-dye Rookie of Hutchinson in the same box, Corral Rookie Tri-Color, Nick Bonito Rookie Silver, Panth Walker, Neon Icons, DJ Moore, Silver and Patrick Mahomes field level, there's a tie-dye Baker Mayfield, 25, Third Forest Junior, Isaiah Likely Rookie Silver, and Damian Pierce Rookie, Traylon Burks, Lamb Jack, Jaylen Waddle, Silver Phenomenon, McLauren, Trevor Lawrence, Metcalf, Seyquan Mahomes, Traylon Burks Rookie Silver, and Kenny Pickett field level Rookie, Oye Mape, Aidan Hutchinson, Phenomenon and Redemption, nice that is Commanders, Rookie Signature, memorabilia, blue prism, Brian Robinson Jr, that wasn't one of the biggest hits Ashish, that wasn't that wasn't a card that required a mag, there you can go away though, Donovan Wilson, Red, Gare Strong Jr, Rookie Silver, and is Zebra Rookie, Sweet Level, Kyle Hamilton, and you go Ravens, Tyreek, Silver Sensations, Sam Williams, Rookie Silver, Porter, Josh Allen, Simone Clark, Rookie Tri-Color, Watson, Rookie Tri, Rookie Tri-Color, Kenneth Walker, Bears, to 25, tie-dye Rookie Patch-Auto, Brian Erlacher, Go Chicago, can you pick it, blue, Rookie Khalil Shakir, Chaquan Bricker, Rookie Silver, Daxton Hill, Rookie Tri-Color, Chris Olave, Sweet Level Rookie, Isaiah Spiller, Rookie Silver, Patrick Mahomes, Silver Sensations, yeah now you're good, Channing Tindall, Rookie Silver, some people are just unhappy, Kenny Pickett, Rookie Sensations, Carr, Real Davis, Stefan Diggs, Field Level Blue, that is to 49, Bill's Color Match, Brian Robinson Jr, Neon Icons, Trevor Lawrence, Silver, and Kelsey, David and Joku, Travis Etn, and Patriots to 199, Rookie Auto, Bailey Zappie, nice one, Patriots, Bailey Zappie Rookie, Tom Brady, James Connor, Tri-Color and Bucks, Super Bowl Auto, Devin White, Tampa Bay, Derek Stingley, what's up boys, doing all right man, I'll just uh a few more breaks and I'll be off tomorrow and ready to rock on Wednesday, there's Christian McCaffrey, Blue, Silver Matt Ryan, Josh Allen, Silver Sensations, Hendrickson, Chris Olave, Rookie, and Lions to 75, that's Jersey White, Jamal Williams, hey thank you, I appreciate it, Kobe Bryant, Rookie Silver, Herbert, George Pickett, Snapshots, Alec Pierce, Rookie Silver, now I wish I could, I wish I could blame it on something other than just old age, low number Rookie Parallels and Autos and XRC Redemptions, there's Kyler Murray, Field Level Blue, that's to 49, Jamie G, Jameson Williams, Rookie Silver, Kader Koho, Tri-Color, J-Speed Rookie, Sean Watson, Silver, Heinecke, and Eli Manning, Multiverse, that's the first one of these I've seen, there you go giants, I think that's a super short print, has anybody else seen these out of breaks, I know that's the first one I've pulled, yeah that's a really cool card, I just, that's the first one I've seen, it's like the last Eli sold for 83 bucks, go ahead, this goes in the recap please, Malik Willis, Aaron Jones, Field Level Silver and Damian Pierce, Evner, Matt Ryan, Blue Rookie Traylon Berks, Bears, that is Super Bowl, Otto Silver, Willie Gull and Logan Thomas, no he didn't, I think he just, I don't, did he even put on the hat, I don't remember, I think he might have just held the hat, I don't remember for sure though, O'Lave Neon Icons, E.J. Speed, Rookie Blue, Asimoa, Rookie Silver and Brian Burns, oh yeah, I see, Multiverse, Juante Williams and Commanders to 75, Rookie Jersey Auto Blue, Sam Howell, nice hit, Commanders, C.D. Lamb, Monsauce Gardner, Reggie Gilliam, Rookie Tri-Color, Lamb Jack Silver, Chris O'Lave, Sweet Level Rookie, Austin Eckler Silver, oh Sam Ditt, Desmond Ritter, Steelers to 99, Rookie Jersey, George Pickens, wasn't that long ago right, this just came out last week, Khalil Shakir, Rookie Silver, was it last week or the week before, how many of those two weeks go right, Gonta Smith, Silver Phenomenon, Joan Clark, Rookie Silver, Mom Walker Rookie Silver and Aji Harris, Multiverse, Ryan Leaves, Super Bowl Champion Card, Monsauce Gardner Rookie, Chiefs 75, White Jersey Clyde D'Avorti-Lair, Walker Rookie Neon Icons to a Field Level Rookie or Field Level Silver, Romeo Dobbs, Field Level Rookie, XRC, NFL Draft XRC Redemption, that is QB3, card number 503 Colts, Anthony Richardson, congrats Indian Indianapolis Colts, QB3, Andrew Thomas, McCaffrey, I don't think so, I don't think I've seen one yet, Josh Allen and Dolphins, one of five that is Green, Rookie Patch Auto EZE, nice low-numbered RPA that was Green to five, Dolphins, Magdad Fourier, McChub, Evan Neal, Rookie Purple, Desmond Ritter, Rookie, Christian Watson, Rookie Snapshot, Sam Howell, Rookie Silver, Cam Juergens, Rookie Light Blue, Bonta Smith, Keontae Ingram, Rookie Silver, Justin Jefferson, Rookie Tri-Color, Keontae Ingram, Tua Silver, and we'll just have to pull one and find out, right? Jermaine Johnson, Rookie Maroon, and Cowboys to 99, Jersey Auto, Dalton Schultz, we'll sign Rookie Silver, Jaylen Warren, thanks, Tammy, appreciate it, Patrick Mahomes, Sweet Level, C.D. Lamb, Marshawn Lattimore, all right, two boxes to go, Inherst and Jets to 199, Garrett Wilson, Rookie Blue, nice Garrett Wilson, don't know why that was flipped upside down, Tyler Linderbaum, Rookie Blue, and Steelers to 35, that is Rookie Auto White, Calvin Austin, Dre Henderson, Christian Watson, Snapshots, Cameron Jordan, Patrick Mahomes, Kenneth Walker, Neon Icons, Saquon, Field Level Silver, Patrick Mahomes, Packers to 25, Tideye, Sparks Patch, Rashon Gary, John Pascall, Rookie Silver, and Brock Purdy, Rookie, Josh Allen, Drake London, Rookie Silver, Walker, Dalvin Cook, Silver, Rodgers, DK Metcalf, and Titans to 99, Prime Selection, Rookie Jersey Auto, Traylon Burks, and you go, Tennessee, Patrick Mahomes, Smith, Aaron Rodgers, Tri-Color, Linderbaum, Rookie Silver, and Aidan Hutchinson, Patrick Mahomes, Silver Snapshots, Antonio Gibson, and Bailey Zappe, Field Level Rookie, Tri-Color, Sweet Level, Derek Carr, and Joku, Shahid, Rookie Tri-Color, Mack Jones, Silver, all right, last box, well let's see a huge hit here to close it out, Beckham Parsons, Dalvin Cook, Silver, Neon Icons, Rookie, Garrett Wilson, and Steelers to 99, Rookie Jersey Auto, George Pickens, Joe Pittsburgh, Desmond Ritter, and nice, that is Rookie White, Chris Olave, this is 20 of 35, Trevor Lawrence, Silver, Pierce, Raji Harris, Aaron Jones, Silver, Field Level, Russell Wilson, Falcons 25, that is tie-dye patch, Kyle Pitts, Daniel Bellinger, Rookie Silver, Eric Stingley, Lawrence, and Light Blue, Joe Burrow, this is Ravens, 24 of 25, tie-dye, die-cut auto, Justin Tucker, you go, Ravens, why is it so dark, there we go, I think that other one was sucking the light, Marshawn Lattimore, Mike Kevins, Kenneth Walker, Rookie Sensations, Kway Walker, Rookie Silver, Lesca Chanel, nice, Rookie Blue, Damian Pierce, still 199, Kair Ilham, Rookie Silver, Silver Phenomenon, Amonrest St. Brown, Field Level Rookie, Desmond Ritter, Sauce, and EJ Speed, Rookie Red, 49 of 49, Goddard, Aaron Williams, Diggs, Justin Fields, all right, last pack, Darius Tony, Tri-Color, Brian Inger, Jerome Ford, Rookie Silver, all right, just a second here, we'll recap, tie-dye, Baker Mayfield to 25, and it's Rams, Ravens, Rookie Zebra, Sweet Level, Kyle Hamilton, this is, give me one second on this, Eli, actually it's a, I mean he only played for the Giants, so that's Eli Giants, multi-verse, just give me one second, yeah, still Giants on the checklist, I just wanted to make sure, because I had both teams on the front and on the back, but he only played for the Giants, all right, so that was a multi-verse, Eli, and then we had Kyle Pitts, tie-dye patch, 25, Falcons, Packers, tie-dye patch, 25, Rashawn Gary, Steelers Rookie Jersey, George Pickens, Chiefs, Jersey, White, Clyde Edwards-Hilaire, Lions, White, Jersey, Small Adams, Rams, that is Green, Patch to 5, Cooper Cup, we had Relic Autos, Steelers Rookie, George Pickens, Titans Rookie, Traylon Burks, Cowboys, Dalton Schultz, we'll mag this one for you, that is Sam Howell, Rookie Jersey Auto Blue to 75, 7 of 75, we'll mag that one, Bears, that's tie-dye patch, Auto, Brian Erlacher, Ravens, tie-dye, Dicut, Auto to 25, Justin Tucker, Steelers Rookie, Auto White to 35, Calvin Austin, Bears, Super Bowl, Auto Silver, Willie Galt, Buck's Super Bowl, Auto Devon White, Commanders, Rookie Signature, Memorabilia, Blue Prism, Brian Robinson, Jr., some Saints, Rookie White to 35, Crystal Lave, Dolphins, Rookie Patch, Auto Green to 5, EZE, this is Colts, XRC Prism Redemption, QB3, Patriots, Rookie Auto to 199, Bailey Zaffi, that'll do it for the break, thank you everybody, we have Goodman Champions up next, all right I'm going to get this one uploaded, I'm going to stretch for just a minute and then we got Goodman Champions going, all right I'll be back in just a minute, I'm just going to go right to it, I don't want to mess around here, Nolan Ryan, Angels Super Fractor, one of one for the Angels, Nolan Ryan and Nolan Ryan Express, love it, there we go, congrats Angels, 32 of 50, Thriller's Rookie Auto, congrats Steelers, get back that, we've got Cow, it's not expecting that, that's so sick dude, Tiger Purple PMG, one of 75, wow, wow, wow, that's awesome, nice one there man, we'll get, yeah there's a meat market, Brock Purdy, Rookie Auto to 299, congrats 49ers, in his professional uniform, not a practice uniform, this lonely box of spectra has been sitting out on the shelf out there, wow, that's sick dude, about Shawn Alexander and Green Shimmer Auto, going to Derrick A, all right, I've got this one going here in just a couple minutes, I just need to type in the names for the random, does the computer get sun loading, we're just about ready to go here, yeah they do, hey everybody, Matt here for Layton Sports Cards Ripping 2022, Upper Deck Goodman Champions, hobby four box break number seven, random letter style, the random letter applies to the first name of the subject, for example LeBron James goes to the L spot, Michael Jordan goes to the M spot, 14 total spots in the break and all hits, number cards and insert ship, let me double check 14 and 14, we are good to go, let's do it, we will randomize four times, good luck, one, two, three, four, Gabriel S down to Nathan W and four times on the letters, one, two, three, four, P and O down to T and N, all right we have Gabriel S, P and O, Keith J, K and E, Wenchu L, J, David F, A and Z, Rob H, R, Don B, L and F, Swaggy G, M and Q, Richard G, S, Raymond D, B, Joseph S, C and G, T Wang, D and I and T Wang has H and Y, Rob H, W and V, Nathan W, T and N, all right those results posted and we'll get started, all right results are posted to the website, here comes your link, that one's empty, oh Kennedy Chandler goes to the K spot, Keith J, pack first auto, Traylon Burks, that's a $4.99, Traylon is T, Nathan W, that is Osser Thompson, blue, Shade on Sharp, that's a cool playing card type, goes to the S spot, Richard, Peppy, County, Kate Bach, that is to $4.99, Alex Alcala, splash of color, says Diogo Jota, playing card, DJ Uyagilele, playing card, Nany Wei, playing card, Giliyovic, Jojo Roper, playing card, splash of color, Will Zalatoris, Arcella Meyer, tractor, Lebron, insert, Brandon Maia, Maia, Giliyovic, splash of color, and Marcello Meyer, that looks like the old sport, sport flicks cards, a splash of color as well, Marcello M, that goes to Swaggy G, Brenda Maia, Chrome, Lebron Chrome, spin these so I don't have to flip every pack, there we go, green splash of color, thickie here, that is Exquisite Rookie, Michael Foster, 28 of $149, Felix, Chrome, card, Felix, Riley Green, splash of color, Josephine Scriver, Caleb Williams, this is to $199, Cosmic, splash of color, Refractor Lebron James, that is Rainbow Red, nice Lebron, L is Don V, Bison Daniels, playing card, splash of color, Marcello Meyer, that is Rainbow, Josephine Scriver, playing card, splash of color, Diogo Jota, Schreiber, and interesting insects, Wax-tailed Bug, so the name is Wax-tailed Bug, so that'll go to the W spot, Rob H, which and Kate Bach, Rainbow Red, I think that was numbered, no, Ryan Acunha, playing card, Diogo Jota, Alcara Thompson, Will Zalatoris, playing card, Riley Green, Felix, Caleb Williams, that is Rainbow Blue, Wayne Gretzky, Roper, splash of color, Alex Alcala, Gretzky, and interesting insects, Crane Fly, Crane starts with a C, that's Joseph S with the C spot, splash of color, Lebron, splash of color, Chrome I guess, they have this, Sarah has a complete set, I think they had it in Genter or something, or maybe it was a good one, Yeti Cappé, splash of color, Catarina Macario, that is Otto, Felene Celestin, F, that is Don B, splash of color, Riley Green, Chrome, Michael Foster, that's Rita Macario, splash of color, it's not Stephen Berkwing, Michael Foster, this is Orange Prism to 499, one of 499, Peyton Watson, splash of color, Rainbow, Ayman Thompson, playing card, Virgil Ortiz Jr. playing card, last box, we have one more of these 4 boxes and that'll be it for the daytime breaks, or else he'll be live at 5, be sure to grab up your spots for his breaks tonight, we also do have breaks going on tomorrow night, 4th of July, I'll be back on Wednesday daytime, Sam Meyer, Roderick Arias, playing card, splash of color, Chrome, LeBron, Alex Alcala, that is Rainbow Red, Stephen Berkwing, Chandler Smith, playing card, Sam Meyer, splash of color, splash of color, Sport Flix style, it's Caleb Williams, does anybody have any old 80s Sport Flix cards in their collection besides me, Will Zalatoris, splash of color, Chrome, Sam Meyer, Alex Alcala, playing card, I'm so grateful that these packs open easily, there was like one year, there was like their well-to-chut Cape Buck, splash of color, and Jackson Smith, Jackson Smith and Jigba, auto, to 299, SP authentic future watch style, there you go, nice one, J-spot, that is Wenchu L, GFS, Nito Santiago Rookie, nice, Michael Foster, Anthony Richardson, that is Cosmic, 9 of 199, LeBron James, Chrome, John Pack, Kate Bach, LeBron, splash of color, Danny Way, Pink Tracks to 299, Brady House, Silver, Rainbow, Simmons and Mickey Ward, playing card, last pack, Codon Slovis, four of the boxes, let's do a quick recap of the autos and relics here, interesting insects, Crane Fly goes to the C-spot, Joseph S and then Wax-tailed Bug goes to the W-spot, that is Rob H, we had auto to 299, Jackson Smith and Jigba, J was Wenchu, auto, Felene Celestin, F-spot, Don B, auto, Kennedy Chandler, K-spot, Keith J, and that will do it for the break, thank you everybody, we have number eight coming up next, and this next one here, as soon as I get the random set up, it will take just a few minutes, it has what planes crave, thank you, I appreciate that, all right, let's do the last break of the day, everybody, Matt here for Layton Sports Cards, ripping 2022, Upper Deck, Goodwin Champions, Hobby, four box break, number eight, random letter style, so 14 spots to the break, let's see, we have the random letter applies to the first name of the subject, so like LeBron James goes to the L-spot, Michael Jordan goes to the M-spot, etc, all hits, numbered cards and insert ship, let's do it, randomize the names then the letters, four times, good luck, one, two, three, and four, Nathan W down to Jeff M, excuse me, four times on the letters, one, two, three, and four, W and V down to J, all right, we have Nathan W, W and V, Rob H, A and Z, Jamie M, D and I, Jeff M, H and Y, Rob H, K and E, L, Q, C and G, Joseph S, R, David F, M and Q, Don B, Allen F, Raymond D, S, Jeff M, P and O, T and N, Keith J, B and Jeff M, J, all right, these results post them, we'll get this started, there's a link to the results, thank you, this is my second favorite, remember, Ando shirts, I just don't know where the other one went, splash of color, Wayne Gretzky, Allen Iverson, Rainbow one, that's A, spot, Rob H, Giddy Cappy, Francisco Trinkow, playing card, splash of color, Roderick Arias and Otto, Kennedy Chandler to 299, Kennedy K-spot is Rob H, we'll recap the autos and relics at the end, here comes the relic, Armando Cruz and Interesting Insects, Atlas Moth, Atlas is A, Rob H, Rob cleaning up here in box one, Steven Bergman, Roderick Arias, Ricardo Pepe, Christian Hernandez, Dyson Daniels, splash of color, Kate Buck and Exquisite Otto, 10 of 10, Brady House, nice one, that is B-spot, Keith J, exquisite rookie Otto, Tiger Woods, Chrome, Jose Pradomo, playing card, Dyson Daniels, Maria Sharapova, splash of color, LeBron James, this is Orange Prism, to 499, nice LeBron, Felix, that is Rainbow Green, John Sharp, Maria Sharapova, playing card, Marcello Meyer, playing card, Giovanni Swanson, playing card, splash of color, Chrome, Steve Bergwine, Steve Bergwine, Rainbow, Maria Sharapova, Brady House, splash of colors, Alphelix, splash of color, Jose Pradomo, Jeff N, did a cap 8, Chrome, Felix, Steve Bergwine, playing card, and it goes off the first one, so I like that Steve, or Steven Bergwine would be S, that was Raymond D, John Pack, and Otto, Hatch, Esports, that is Jeff M, that is Marcello Meyer, Goodwin Champion's portraits, M, that is David F, nice Marcello, Christian Hernandez, Rainbow Red, Mondo Cruz, Cahili Blundell, splash of color, Pink Tracks, Marcello Meyer, to 299, Kate Bach, splash of color, Kate Bach, Allen Iverson, right next box, Sam Mayer, Meyer, Chrome, Dyson Daniels, Rainbow, Alex Alcala, Blundell, Natalie Allen Lind, splash of color, Pradomo, Interesting Insects, Hummingbird Clearwing, Hummingbird H, that is Jeff M, Los Alatoros, Chrome, say Pradomo, Alyssa Lue, playing card, Bryce Young, splash of color, what is this? World Traveler Map Relics, that is Toolhouse, France, Toolhouse, starts with a T, that is Jeff M at the T-Spot, it's very cool, Marcello, and Redavis, and DJ, Aya Galele, Yua Galele, splash of color, Yeti Capay, his orange prism to 499, Michael Foster, Rainbow, Willie T. Ribs, all good, Karlin, all right, one box to go, I'll swing back by tomorrow when we're done, all right, last box, let's finish with something crazy here, Caleb Williams, splash of color, Zalatoros, Diego Jota, Otto, Yogo, that is D-Spot, Jamie M, this is Lebron James, Portraits, that's a cool one, Sketch Reproduction, oh that is Don B, Alex Alcala, Lebron playing card, Zalatoros, Wayne Gretzky, splash of color, Marcello, that is Skye to 99, Maria Sharapova, that is Rainbow, and Sharapova, Bryce Young, playing card, Alex Alcala, splash of color, Shade on Sharp, this is Rainbow Red, DJ U, Yua Galele, so I'm going with Aspen Lad, Marcello, Kate Bach, splash of color, K-Spot, that is Rob H, Brenda Mea, Marcello, Bryce Young, two packs to go, we're on Bochamp, Wayne Gretzky, Gretzky card, and that'll do it for the boxes, let's do a recap, all right Relics, we had Interesting Insects, Hummingbird Clearwing, that went to the H-Spot, Jeff M, Interesting Insects, Atlas Moth, A-Spot, went to Rob H, World Traveler Relics, Toolhouse, not Toolhouse, Toulouse, France, T-Spot, Jeff M, Autos, we had Diogo Hota, D-Spot, Jamie M, Hedge, Auto, H-Spot, that was Jeff M, Exquisite Rookie Auto, 10 of 10, Brady House, B was Keith J, and Rookie Authentics, Autograph to 299, Kennedy Chandler, K-Spot was Rob H, that'll do it for the break, thank you everybody, and that will do it for me for today, thank you all so much for filling up the breaks, hanging out, yeah grab up your spots for tonight, and also tomorrow night's breaks, we will have evening group breaks, I'll be back on Wednesday daytime, 10am Eastern start time, so grab your spots for those breaks as well, have a great night everybody, thank you and I'll talk to you soon.
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Water as the driving force for development and health
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The keynote session of Hans Rosling, Professor International Health, delivered a fact-based worldview of humanity. Setting the stage for a week of discussions at the world leading event in the water sector, The World Water Congress & Exhibition 2014.
The International Water Association (IWA) is an organisation that brings together people from across the water profession to deliver equitable and sustainable water solutions for our world.
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Thank you very much for the kind invitation. When you accept a title like this, you think, oh, that will be nice. And then you start thinking, is this title really? Can I meet up with this? First I saw water, and I decided, no, let's make it wash. Because I'm better into sanitation, perhaps, than my medical background. And then I thought it was a little megalomaniac wash as a the driving force. So I decided to be a little modest and say, ah, driving force. And let's compare it with the other driving forces. And then for development and health benefit was a little too vague for me. I wanted to narrow it. So let's go for the big thing, ending extreme poverty, which is just one of the tasks you are dealing with. Because water and sanitation issues are indeed important throughout all economic spectrums. But this is what I will try to cover. And I will start talking about people. To do this, I divided the world into four regions here, America, Africa, and for Europe to have any chance, I had to merge it with Turkey and Russia there. And then Asia is here. I made the Australians Asians. They had to get used to it, you know? So that's the world. And we are 7 billion people. Where do they live? One in America, one in Europe, one in Africa, and four in Asia. This is my most important message, the pin code of the world, 1114. And we have found that this is a sort of a macro level where we often don't get it right. You may know certain countries you work with and you know the whole world. But this is important to remember. Most people live in Asia today. But in 2050, this will change. No more people in Europe, a little more just in America doesn't change much. There will be 1 billion more in Asia. And by that, the fast population growth in Asia is over. And by 2050 already, twice as many people in Africa. And before the fast population growth will be over by the end of this century, it may continue to grow a little by the end of this century or even have started to decrease. But before that, there will most probably be 2 billion more in Africa. This is the world we are aiming to. More or less, plus minus 1 to 2 billion. An important thing here to remember that if we divide this in North and South, we get the concept which I used to call the old West. That will be less than 10% of the world population. It was 30, 40% of the world population when I was young. It has changed like that. 80% of the world population will be living in Asia and Africa. The Indian Ocean will be the main sea of trade and the other parts of the Pacific linking to that. And Atlantic Ocean will be backwaters. This image is the one that the CEOs of the major international company likes most. They asked me for copies for this to distribute to the entire management. Because this is what we have to see. They say, my staff think that globalization is done. It hasn't even started. It hasn't even started. Because I will show you how economy will follow up on this. But first, can we trust these numbers? They come from United Nations Population Division. They made their first forecast in 1958 and they said world population will grow like this. It will be more than 6 billion by the year 2000. And if you read the media at that time, they said they are stupid. Everyone know there can't be 1.3 billion people in India. And now we know the answer. Here's the answer. Respect for demography. They were 3% wrong on a 42-year prediction. Have you ever heard an economist making that? Or a medical expert for that sake? Did we tell you in advance that Ebola was going to come like this? Did we tell you in advance about HIV? No, we are just embarrassed that we don't understand what epidemics will come. And so many disciplines have difficulties forecasting. The demographers are quite good at it. And let me put one question to you here. This is how they are forecasting the number of children. When I was born, 1948, there were less than 1 billion children, 0 to 15 years old, then it increased to almost 2 billion now by the turn of the century. One of these lines come from the fine group of demographers at the United Nations. The other two I made up. They are pure fantasy, the other two. It's just to make a quiz for you. Do they say like the number of children will more or less continue to grow like this and we will have 4 billion children by the end of the century? Or do they say, no, no, it will slow down, there will be 3 billion? Or do they say, no, the number of children will not increase? Can I have a vote of hand this early morning? How many think that this is the true projection? How many think it's this one? And how many think it's this one? You're a little better than average. It's also an early morning today. This is what the Swedish population said. Gapminder Foundation are now measuring the impact of our work. We have to measure the true impact. Do we have quality in our education? Do people know it? So we do web-based service with the finest companies and here is Britain, this is United States, you know? And you had more or less, I estimated about 20, 22% you had here and this is the right answer. The number of children have stopped increasing in the world. It's the biggest event in the history of mankind that was ever completely missed by media and by academia. And it's quite interesting because it's really a big thing when this happens and I will show you this now more in detail and you didn't know it, you know? That's strange. Because had I gone to the zoo and asked the ships, they would score 33%. So you didn't even reach random. And what does it mean when entire populations in highly educated countries score one third of random, one third of ships? It means that they're preconceived ideas. This is the main problem teaching about the world. My colleague with professor in stem cell research has an easy life. No one knows anything about stem cells. So when you start explaining, it's a blank paper and you can start from scratch. I have to work erasing, erasing, erasing. And then I can put something new. But often when I put something new, the old slips in underneath and stays. So let's look at the next here. Why has this happened? Because the babies born per woman in the world has changed. In Europe it changed like this. It fell quite early, but not so fast. It's now below two children per woman down here. In America it came just a little after, but there was a baby boom after the Second World War, both in North and South America. In Asia, everyone was scared, especially Paul Erlich, he wrote the population bomb, but then it fell like that. And today there are two children per woman on earth. 2.2 in Asia. In India it's 2.5. In China 1.6. And Africa, is Africa changing anything? Yes it is. And most probably Africa fertility was even higher than six, a part of modern time. And everyone knows that this is more or less what will happen. There are just two things we are debating. One is how fast will Africa come down? Will they come down like this? A faster education of extreme poverty, provisional water and sanitation, better health contraceptives, economic growth. They will come down faster. Or the other thing we don't know. Where will population end up? How many children? Will they be like Germany 1.6 or like Sweden 2.0? It's very different in different countries. Japan is 1.3, Taiwan is 1.2. Mind you, Taiwan, who doesn't have a one child policy and less children per woman than China that has a one child policy. It's strange isn't it? The conclusion is easy. The Communist Party is not so powerful in the bedroom. Why do they know this? Well, the old balance 200 years back, 1,000 years back, 2,000 years back, human societies on average, two parents had six children and four tragically died before growing up to become parents themselves. Two survived and the world population grow very, very slowly. From the start of agriculture, seven, 8,000 years ago we were roughly 10 million people like Sweden today. Imagine a world with only Swedes. And then from there, with agriculture and thousands of years, we came up to 1 billion, 1 billion here. Now came industrial revolution. And you know what happened. Industrial produced soap. Yon Snow, cause of cholera, better sanitation, better food, and what happens was that more children survived. And thus we had the exponential growth and then we became seven billion. And 25% of the Swedes went to Minnesota. And that's, now there are two problems with this curve. There are two problems with this curve. First it's a deep moral issue and then it's a mathematical issue. The moral issue is that some people still call it a population explosion. That originated from 1968 when Paul and Anna Erlich book was published and the publisher wanted it to be called Population Bomb. Because that attracted the psyche at that time. America had the nuclear bomb, Asia had the children. And they gave birth to many children that were to become communists. And now this was truly, this was the whole concept behind it. It was sort of scary how many they were and how many they were becoming. That means when you say population explosion, you tell other people that their children are terrorist bomb. Their love children. Don't do that. Stop it. It's derogative, it's unintellectual. We can say fast population growth. We don't have to put these value judgment in it. We must understand it. And I can tell you that many of my friends and scholars across the world living in countries with higher fertility rate, they just hate that expression. So don't do it. Let's be neutral and let's be fact-based when we discuss. The other problem is exponential growth. Everyone say, oh, it's growing exponentially. It's not at all. It's a straight line since 1968. Can you see? What does that mean? It means that the interest rate is falling. The maximum growth rate of the world population was 1968. It was growing with 2.1% it's been falling ever since. That's why we have a straight line. And we know more or less what will happen in the future. We know that this will not happen. It will be like this because we have almost reached the new balance. The new balance where the parents in the bedroom decide how many children they should have with what interval and they decide the number according to what they are able to give to the children of a good life, of a good upbringing. We are almost there. You saw the world is down to 2.5 children per woman. I will show you a graph of that. Each bubble is a country. Size of the bubble is the population. This is China. This is India. And red, Asia, green America, blue Africa, and yellow Europe. Here, number of babies per woman. Small families, large families. Over there, child mortality. Low child mortality, 50,000. High child mortality, 350,000. Every third child dying, one in 20 children dying down there. 1963, 50 years ago, the world consisted of two types of countries. Developed countries, small families, low mortality. Developing countries, large family, high, very high child mortality. How has it changed? I will start the world. And you can see how it runs year by year from this situation up to today. And keep especially an eye on China. Here we go. Ready, steady, go. It falls down child mortality and family planning starts in China. Can you see here they're coming? They're coming, they're rushing over. But this is Brazil. And this is Mexico. They don't care about the church. They put on the condom and they decrease the family size here. And here comes Indonesia. Here comes India is coming here. And look at Africa. This is Ethiopia, coming very fast. Completely new world. You saw how the world changed. Today, 2.5 is the average. The division into developing and developed countries is gone. It just remains as a tattoo in the head. We have countries in all of them. Unfortunately, we still have countries in deep poverty and civil conflict. This is Afghanistan. Sorry, this is Congo. This is Afghanistan. All these are countries who are going through severe strides. Other countries are more successful. Look, Africa goes from here up to there, the blue. And it's very important to realize that some are now on a very, very low level down here. Now, let me go back and tell you a little about the concept. Last week on Thursday, this article was published in Science by the fine group of demographers at UN Population Division. It got an unfortunate title because it evoked that feeling of population bomb. What they really published was this. Media throughout the world, including BBC, said that this was a new graph. It was not. It was the same line that was published 13th of June last year, World Population Prospect 2012. What they did now was more advanced definition of the uncertainty. And we will be. We are 7 billion now. This is more or less how we will end up on 12 billion. And if you can see, yes, it is still increasing a little. It's almost flat. It's going like this. And the growth rate of the world population has fallen like this. 2.1%. Today, 1.1%. In just about 35 years, it will be 0.5%. It's really falling now the growth rate. Then 0.25%. And 0.11%. And then yet, the many media in Europe and North America write about an explosive population growth. I never called my bank interest 0.11% as explosive. It's strange how this sticks. We have to take away this. It even has a tendency of structural racism in this. We have to think objectively about it. Now, let me show you also how countries differ within. This is Ethiopia, the fantastic success of Ethiopia. Well, success. They are on their way, lowering child mortality, making access to contraceptive, making access to education for women. But if I split Ethiopia into its provinces, it's like this. Addis Ababa is in one end. And Somali region is in the other end. Now, this is the population composition of the world today. Each doll, 100 million. This is below 15, below 30, below 45, below 60. This is Europe. This is me. We are above 60 in Europe. This is America. Some retired people missing in South America here. This is Africa today. Already today, more people, more children below 15 than the entire Europe in America together, 400 million. This is Asia where most people and most young people live. But there, the number of young people have stopped increasing. Remember the Asian line who came down to 2? It's already stopped. This big area has to be filled up. Instead of population pyramid, I made it a box. Because the number of children from there to there is not expected to increase. This is what will happen. The old people, they die. The rest grow 15 years older. Children are born. They all die. The rest grow older. And children are born. And we are in 2045. They all die. The rest grow older. And children are born. They all die. The rest grow older. And children are born. What you see is that the number of children stays the same because it's decreasing in Asia, below two. And it's increasing in Africa and that compensates each other. And this entire fill up is not because people get older. It's just a breaking distance. Fill up of adults, inevitable. 2.5 billion more people. And so many environmentally say, oh, we have to stop at 8 billion. It won't happen until they start killing. It's very serious. It's very serious when people don't know. We don't understand. There's no way. You saw that other graph. There's no way we will level off on less than 9.5 billion. That's the most important in the publication last week is to say, forget it. Let's plan for 10 to 11 billion. That's what we will be at least. We may be more if we fail. But this is where it is today. Some people will live longer also. And that will add a little. But that's not the big thing. China doesn't get older because people live longer. They already live long. They get older because the young generation now fills up the older age group. From the time a country reached two children per woman. They go from six, five, four, three, two. From that year, they reached two children per woman. The population continued to grow for 75 years. It's a breaking distance. It's like huge oil pankers populations. You break them and they continue to grow because you have to fill up. So this is what we will have. And you see very clear what I showed before. The world will be African Asia. This will be a very small place. And even Europe is shrinking today. I really had to make an effort almost twist it. I had put in Turkey. Remember why I put in Turkey now? See, Europe just needed Turkey. Otherwise, it will start shrinking there at the bottom. I hope Turkish people would accept to join us in Europe. Extreme poverty is what determines gender equity. The number of children is decreasing in Asia because of lack of gender equality. Japanese women marry late, if ever, and have one child if they marry. That's why you have Japan, Korea, and so on. We have more or less the same pattern all over. Now, this is the world today. 80% of people live in societies which have two child families and they are working to improve their welfare. They have water, tap water already. They have probably, most of them, some sort of toilet facility, which we would call the improvement. Now they want the modern bathroom. Now they want the washing machine. Now they want the nice life. Mexico Catholic, Buddhist in Vietnam, Coptic Christians in Addis Ababa, 1.6 children per woman, Muslims in Bangladesh, Hindus in India. In India, 500 million live in the nine states that already today have two children per woman or less. Two states in India have less children per woman than Sweden. Iran and Brazil have less children per woman than Sweden. It's a completely new world which we need to upgrade to. Money. Now this is a sad thing. When I asked about MDG-1, which is the number of the proportion of people who live in extreme poverty, below $125, that is not having enough food for the day. And we asked the population in Sweden. We asked the population in Norway, in Britain, and in the United States. They answered like this. And the right answer is this. All beat them by ships. Sorry, sorry, sorry, I messed this up there. And this is MDG-1. And so much effort we put into this MDG information. MDG may have been useful in the more narrow policy circle. It's absolutely a failure in the wide public. Because no one who used the MDG to promote development aid controlled or measured what people actually learned or very few did it. Let me be correct, very few did it. We are not fact-based when we run information about the world. And here, let me now show you the income distribution of the world. It's difficult to get it compiled, but more or less it looked like this. Red is Asia, blue is Africa, green America, yellow Europe. Same colors as before. 1820, they were more or less the same. More or less the same. Remember, all of them had five to six children per woman. And they had very little income. Some were rich in feudal countries. Most people were very poor and hungry. This is what happened when Europe and America took off and left Asia and Africa behind. And this is how we came into the modern world. This is when I was a student. There I was a student at the university. And we learned that it was a camel world. One hump for the poor, one hump for the rich. Exactly as when I showed reproduction. One group which had small families and children with good survival, one group that had large families and a high death rate in children. This was the same. What has happened here? Has this merged? Well, let's move it forward. And you can see the number of people increased, but yes, the camel-back hump merged with the front hump and we get a dromedary. Just think like that. What's a camel world? Now it's a dromedary world. Problem is, the poor is as poor as they were. We have not managed to take the poorest and move them away like here. The riches have got even richer. Would I include some individuals? They are over there, some of them. If we had Piketty coming from Paris to lecture, he could stand over here and lecture. And the interesting thing is that so many now of those with high income are in Asia and an increasing number in Africa also. So we have this new complexity where the distance between the poorest and the richest is bigger than ever, but not be the poor and the rich. It's not the dichotomy any longer. It's a distribution where most are in the middle. Now let's see what that can mean if we look at two countries. China and United States. 1968, the better off in the top of the Communist Party and the poorest in rural Mississippi had the same income. You see how modest the Chinese leaders were? They were living at this level. Most of the United States was different. It was a dichotomy. And here comes China. Here comes China. And I only have data to 2010, you know? And today, actually, it covers the entire United States. Every citizen of the United States have a Chinese citizen that have the same income. And this is overwhelming, but China still have people who are at lower income and they even have a few, few in extreme poverty, but really almost no one in the real extreme poverty. That's what they've managed. They've managed to drag people along in this end. And how does this happen then? How does people get out of extreme poverty? Well, this is my favorite photos. And it fits very well to this meeting. It's two girls who have to go and fetch surface water in the river and carry it home. They can't go to school because they have to carry water. And out of poverty is when Mrs. Tapu have made her investment in the first water transport system, which is a wheelbarrow. First little steps. See how proud she is as an entrepreneur. Probably microcredit help her by this. And now one, two, three, and the girls are gone to school. This is the big difference. The first little step, she increased her productivity. To me, economic growth is just about increasing people's productivity. So each working hour, they will produce better and they will live better. With this comes all the other major factors. And I think one of the best measure of getting out of extreme poverty is fertility rate. It's number of children per woman. We can measure that with such precision. The poverty rate is very difficult to measure. And these are the fertility determinants. Out of extreme poverty. And mind you, when we talk about water in people in extreme poverty, often we think, oh, they get diarrhea because they are bad water. Now they lose working hours in going and fetching the water. If they get a tap to their village or even to their house, it's not only that they get the much safer water or just safe water. They also get one to two hours free every day, which is physical hard labor, which they can allocate of something else. Playing with the kids or doing some other business, growing tomatoes, selling tomatoes, getting in money, improving the life condition of the family. Water has more. Here, here. Here stands the public health professor invited to this conference. And I point that in extreme poverty, the most important is to reduce working load for women and girls. Then you also get like a benefit. You get the health effect of it. And people won't tap water not because they want to be healthy. It's just so much easier. So much easier life. And then, of course, female education goes through this. Child survival is necessary. Contraceptives have to be there to implement smaller family. Political commitment is needed for this. And of course, rights for women and a value change for men. Men has to be proud of how children are doing instead of how many they have. And this all is happening. And in this, water improvement is essential. But don't think only the quality of water. Think about reducing the workload in supplying family with water. And water not only for cooking and eating, for washing clothes. If you get the tap water, you don't have to carry the clothes away to the river, leaving the small children at home. It is enormously important to get water out of poverty, to get people out of poverty. They need much better water supply. And then they need to get away from poverty. People don't just want to get out of poverty and have food for the day. They want to get away towards welfare. Look at this happy woman here in Malawi. I spent about 20 years together with African institutions and colleagues doing field research in remote parts of Africa. We studied nutrition and cassava farming systems. So this woman is going to the market to sell cassava. And she said, I get away from poverty mainly because I went to school. I can count. They can't cheat me when I'm selling this. I have a healthy child, so I can go with my child now. I thank aid for the textbook in school and for the mosquito net. But I also thank my government even more for training that teacher and that nurse and paying their seller. Aid ain't taking people and countries out of poverty. It just can help people and countries to do that. Most of it is done by individuals and their governments. And then she loved infrastructure. Thank you, World Bank, for the credit that gave us asphalt. I can reach further with my bicycle. I love my rights. Human rights are very important for me because my good husband works in the city to earn money for us to build a better house. And that's why I need my rights defended. Cellphones are wonderful. Now we know in the village the price at the different markets. And of course, agrotechnology, fertilizer, better irrigation system, and better planting materials is important. Credits bought me this bicycle. And credit also helped us to get safe water in the village. This is very important. We are healthy with that. I don't have to fetch water. I have time to grow crops which I can now go and sell. All this she likes. When globally, especially in the rich countries, when you discuss getting out of poverty, people have a pet investment. Or they love credit. They work in the bank. Oh, people should have credits. Then everything will solve itself. Or they are a little revolutionary. And they say, everyone has the right for health service. Or they are more deep into human rights. Or they are school teacher. Or they are engineers. Or they work with water. And there's a tendency of wanting that aid money. So you overestimate your own factor. Or rather, you don't overestimate it because everything is important. And water is indeed important. But you underestimate the others because it's potentiated each other. It potentiated. The better water supply, it was to relieve her working hours so that she can go to market when the price is good. And she'll know when the price is good because there's cell phone. And she won't be cheated because she went to school. She loves it all. And she really needs the market. But really, she wants to go and have a job. Come invest in my country. I want a factory. There's need for not only agricultural water but industrial water also. And she has a dream. I want a toilet and electricity. And eventually, she wants a washing machine. I always ask my students, especially when I lecture to these environmental classes, I ask them, how many of you on a regular basis hand wash your jeans and your bedsheets? And no, never any hand. Once it happened at Stockholm University, that one guy on the first row, he was sitting there. He rose his hand like this. But around him was a hollow of empty seats. Everyone who can afford a user washing machine in one or the other way, they mechanize it. And that's what all people, that's just to point out the vision, what it's all about. Your work is about getting very, very water efficient washing machines and very environmentally friendly detergents and have the industry to work in that direction. Now, when we continue to ask about this, now I could ask you also, education. I said education was so important. It's so interlinked with getting out of poverty, getting a little money, investing it in water. What is the difference in the world today between the years in school of men and of women? Men above 25 have been eight years to school. How long have women been to school? Three, five, or seven years? How many would say three years? How many would say five years? How many say seven years? Yes, you're also above average. But this is what the Swedes say. This is what the Nuit isn't that cute. This is two absolutely different surveys with two different companies in the neighboring sibling countries, and we get the same result. I've gone back to the data. I can't present this internationally. You have to change it. No, we've got exactly the same result in Sweden and Norway. And the problem is just that it's completely wrong. It's seven years. Women in the world, when it comes to primary school, is just one year behind. And this is not known because so many activists use this fact for their way to explain in the richer end what gender inequality is. Is gender inequality solved? No, it's not at all. It's almost worse to be 14 years old having gone to school, having done well, knowing your capacity, and then being stopped in life and being forced into marriage and a lot of other terrible things that young women meet. The main cause of death in women 15 to 19 years old in the world today is suicide. It really shows what situation. Gender equality, to use primary school enrollment for that, that's a very bad way of measuring gender equality. That is done, not everywhere, but almost everywhere. Once again, it's the idea in the richer end that there's a lot of very poor people who doesn't have water or can't read and write, who are not healthy. They don't see the middle. In the rich end of the world, we have not learned to see the middle. Now, this is the difficult to see. If you live in a country where you have about $100 a day and you look down to the middle who may have $10 a day, you think that $10 a day is the same as $1 a day. But if you live on $1 a day, it's very easy. Wow, they have 10 times as much. That means light bulb. That means water tap. That means sanitation. Then we can have our toilet. This is the big leap forward for many families. When you are here, you already have a bicycle. You are saving money for the motorbike, and then you are aiming for that one. In the simple way, this is what's difficult to explain, that this group exists. Many who live in the richest country think that this is the same group. It's extremely different to live on $10 or $1 a day. Now, what about wash in this area? If I put up on this income distribution in the world, 7 billion people, each one is 1 billion. This is what they earn, on average, in dollar per year, GDP per capita. Now, this one has fire. This one have a light bulb. This have a bicycle. This one have a motorbike. Here they have a refrigerator, a car, a washing machine, and all things, some necessary, but many unnecessary, and then they fly on holiday. Now, people living up here, you must see. The big leap is this one, and this one. These are the big leap. Then this is even nicer. They are going to the beach, and everyone want to get here. Many environmental activists get it completely wrong. They don't realize how big the challenge is, because everyone wants to that machine. They want to relieve the time it takes to have a washing machine. It's almost like having that tap water. You get hours and hours away from hard work. Now, if I do like this, how many have water of this? Six out of seven have improved water today. Congratulation to your sector. You have done fine. It's an enormous increase since some decade ago. You have one billion, even less than one billion who doesn't have improved water today. It's enormous, but now you have all these people in the middle. What is their problem with water? It's quality. They may be contaminated with microbes. It may be contaminated with other toxic product. There may be a lot of different problems with it. So the focus today swaps over from getting the last billion to the tap on to improving quality here. And that quality should be improved, but we shouldn't forget that the work is not finished. We still have almost a billion of fellow human beings in extreme poverty. How many have latrines? This one has a toilet. This one has a toilet. This one has a toilet. This has a toilet. And half of them have toilet. So sanitation is much worse off. I was in Nepal recently. And the last household survey in Nepal shows that 80% of the population have cell phone and 60% have a latrine. That means cell phone is here in between. Water, highest percentage, then cell phone, then toilet. And the reason is that your sector have failed to produce an eye toilet, a smart toilet. Anyone here are going to present at the exhibition the smart toilet, you know? Did this need any aid money to get to know? It was a blessing from engineers who made us these phones and these systems. And they are so important for people out in poverty. The woman there was grateful. She knew the price now when she was out there. So improved water looks like this. Improved water looks like this. If I jump here and I go to this one. Here we are. Here improved water source, percent of the population. This is 1990. India and China was down there. So what has changed? Look, at relatively modest income, countries have improved indeed. And although I only have data here to 2010, it's really so that from $4,000, it's fine, almost fine. Here you have an enormous quality problem. But please segmentize the world. Don't think about the world as industrialized and developing countries. If you do that, you will miss out the extreme poverty because they are in minority today. And I think that development aid, actually, which is now given from $12,000 per capita, should change the cutoff. Do the cutoff at $4,000 instead, because here is where the severe problem remains. These countries are very capable to manage many things on their own, and there should be trade collaboration and technical collaboration. Money transfer is not needed. In fact, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico is now countries who provide aid to countries in desperate need. They have aid agencies, and then other countries keep giving money to them. The disease rank in the world is like this. See? The blue is non-communicable disease. Green is injury, and red is the diseases most of poverty. Infection, pregnancy, newborn, and nutrition. So what is number five? It's HIV, and there is diarrhea. Still high up, but this is measured not as number of deaths. It measured as life years lost and disability cause. Please do not compare diseases as number of deaths, because then prostate cancer will win, because it hit old men. People who use death to compare diseases, they think that you will live forever. We won't, unfortunately. No one will. There's only one number that is absolutely correct and safe in medical science. There's 100% mortality if you just have a long observation time. Everyone dies in the end. And it's so sad that we still compare deaths, especially for diarrheal disease, which hit the young, and the young adults in such a way. Here, you have stroke, there you have pneumonia, and there you have a chemic heart disease. As burden, if you then would use deaths instead, diarrhea will fall way down on this list. I have to jump over this one, and instead I'll go to this one. This is intricate, but this is the risk factors for disease. And if you look at death, the risk for death in the whole world, the main risk is diet, then high blood pressure, then smoking, then household air pollution. Indoor air pollution is today a bigger problem than unmet needs for water and sanitation. And high body mass index, glucose. These are all what kills, because what kills people today are the diseases of old age. And if you look at death here, you have lack of sanitation, lack of safe water, with 240,000 deaths there and 160,000 deaths there. Now there is a new study by Bruce and Ustun, which is coming out this year that calculates slightly different, so you will see more clearly it's difficult to estimate this. But anyhow, today, on a global basis, counting deaths, the deaths caused by the remaining $1 billion who doesn't have safe water. That's not the major thing. But if I move to the poorest countries and look at life years lost, that is the number of years lost, so then I can get a heavy burden of those who die young, then unimproved sanitation, unimproved water is among the most important. But remember, this is not the main reason for providing water solutions in extreme poverty. It's that you relieve working hours. You make their life more efficient. The opportunity cost is the more important. Energy and climate, well, I can't do much about this. Just let me show you this. This is the fossil fuel of the world. This is the nuclear. This is bio and hydro. And oh, sorry, this here. This is solar and wind. It's very little, 1%. Very important, 81% of the world runs on fossil fuel. That hasn't decreased over the last 20 to 30 years. Now, how is this distributed over the $7 billion? You remember, there were safe water to here. There was latrine to half of here. How is fossil fuel distributed? Well, the richest $1 billion take half of it. Wow, it ended up. There it is. There was some mistake in this, but if I do it like this, the richest take half, the next take half of what's left, the next take half. These three billions consume 87% of the fossil fuel. This doesn't make sense to talk about developed world and developing world any longer. And when activists stand up here and say, you cannot live like us, that would never work. You give birth to too many children. Now, it's these two billions that will increase their fossil fuel consumption and change the climate. Together with these ones that continue to admit as much as they have been emitting before. The people over there, they have a kerosene lamp in the village. They're very modest use of fossil fuel. And these two groups, they have less than two children per woman. They have the lowest number of children. Climate change is not about number of people. It's about amount and type of consumption. And this is what we really have to realize. Where do the children die? The children die here. Burning fossil fuel saved the life of children. This is the hard fact. By that, I will end and I shall go to the final things. I can leave that. I think I can leave that for discussion or if we get the question. I end here. We have a world that you have to segmentize. Nice bathroom with Jacuzzi in the richest billion. Then bathroom is coming in the second billion. Relatively good water and wash in the third billion. And then quality problem in the fifth and the sixth and then extreme poverty in the last two billions. You have to segmentize this and don't mix it up. And especially aid, I think, should be used for the poorest billion. The others have to find economic feasible solutions. Thank you very much.
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Good morning cyber traders welcome back On this Christmas Eve. How's everybody doing good to see you Lita good to see Andrea by the way Lita? I don't know if you heard me, but thanks for that beautiful gorgeous reef of yours and Andrea, thanks for those cookies again. Just want to remind you though pretty just packed on about 10 pounds My buddy raised already sent me an email. He said has that died doing foul, so I said it said It fell off the wagon I told him, you know until till after New Year's again, but other things great. Good to see you Want to tell it to you my friend tying friend. All right, so everyone we had an unbelievable day yesterday and It was just I mean just like Damn, I mean, you know what? No, yes, I yesterday is a very depressing day If you do not get not one, but several of those winners. We just had some crazy stocks yesterday I want to start off with the ITCI and I mean, where do you find a pre-market stock? at 8 30 this morning we traded it and It was right around 22 and it ran all the way to 45. That is just Unbelievable unbelievable and you know what you guys know as well as I do I tell everybody of this all the time How often do we do this? How often do we find stocks like this in the cyber group room? I mean, it's got to be at least like two three times a week people says they they never find it They say, you know, it's so funny. I talk people like oh, I don't remember last time I was ever in a stock like that and it's like, you know what I tell them if You've never seen it and you don't want to see it. You shouldn't be trading. That is a quality, you know Trade that everybody should have been traded and you know what it didn't stop there There was a lot of them that moved and guess what they're all they're all moving again this morning They're every single one of them are in the watch list again. I mean, it's just it's just unbelievable Well, let's look at him. I mean you have the and by the way, this one's back on the watch list Embod another one. I mean this thing went from 7 to 14. I mean, that's unheard of I Mean, you know, it's it's back in them. It's bad. It was gapped up pretty big this morning That's going down. But look on the long-term chart. We all remember trading and by just not too long ago The stock went from five to about nine. It was you know, it's a great short squeeze So, I mean every one of these things are just making big big moves. What else did we trade? SAVA another one I'm actually stuck in this position right now. I might be able to get out now. Oh, it gapped up. Okay I bought some I bought a lot of shares of it and I sold some of it. I actually bought I Cancel my orders. So all right, so kind of worked out in my favor. It's actually going higher But this one also 260 to $4 breaking all-time highs. I mean, that's What we're looking for great great move, but there's a pretty big resistance levels right around there What else did we have? Right aid Another one making new highs RAD, I mean here you go that a lot of these stuff stocks became not only day trades But now they also became very good swing trades So all these stocks have been really well, so I mean, but that the ITCI was just literally like Ridiculous literally ridiculous. But anyway, that's the past guys. You're right, you know There are more people talking about it today and you probably watch the financial stations or probably seeing the tweets All you know is this you heard you here first, you know at 8 o'clock in the morning 745 So let's go find a new list, right? I mean listen that the day's over. That's the past I always tell everyone don't worry about what happened yesterday Every day is a new day now. The problem with today is I thought personally it was gonna be a really slow day yesterday But it actually was I said it, you know any afternoon meeting was probably the best afternoon a Morning day before Christmas. I've ever ever traded. I've never seen not one but several stocks made big moves Now can we get that same thing going today? I don't know You know why because this looks like the same stocks that I'm moving from yesterday. I'm moving today So let's start off with them. So we got we got M bot But M bot, you know, I don't know about you, but it's not on my short list unfortunately So I'm stuck in that one. Yeah, no, I see the they you thank God I didn't sell it I know the the SAV a Grant yeah, it's starting to go up But I got a big resistance levels right here. So yes, you bring it up. I'll bring it up So the SAV a another nice little stock and expensive nice little move It's got to break this $4 price range though this high if it breaks this four would be great But if you notice from yesterday till today, it definitely has a little bit of a foul still flag All right, so we got that one. We got that one AMD. My god Josh would be so upset right now. I mean you guys we was trading the stock in the 20s What a great swing, but unfortunately, you know what? Yeah, you know, you got we all got to get liquid And we don't want to tie up all our money That's why we try to tell you when you day trade you got to keep things separate You can't you got to trade less shares of it and you so you know because you got to work with you the capital you have But but he'll be really happy when he sees this one I know he wish he had a lot more shares of it, but he'll be back, you know, he's on he's on he's on vacation So we'll be back right after Christmas. So we got the AMD. We got the L J PC another one that's making a little bit of a gap up right here I like this one because it's filling in the gap fill right there So right above right below 550 is a the next support levels actually right below five You could see it right there, but I like gap fills because there's no there's it's on uncharted territories That's what a gap fill is. What else we got? Oh the the the ITCI. Listen, everybody should learn from yesterday. This stock is Crazy stock just crazy. I mean this thing went from 45 down to 35 Do not if you're gonna trade the stock do not trade a lot of shares of it This thing is just all over the place and you know what you learn from just looking at level two and and the level three A lot of people ain't trained too many shares of it because it is that volatile, but this thing is just unbelievable PTI another one that was a big move yesterday totally forgot about that one I would keep an eye on it it gapped up from yesterday's close really slow But you remember we trade the stock as a great swing trader from a dollar of 450 and then obviously you could see That's why you can't hold overnight positions back really tanked right there But she's going up a little by little deal. She's good yesterday. She's good this morning. Nice little cheap stock The SAVA, you know is working out. Wow, there we go. Look at that Looking pretty good the good thing I didn't sell all my shares Grant, right? I Cancel my order so that was Worked out in my favor. Thank God. All right, so Fortunately, I sold a little too many shares of it though. I didn't have as many as I would like I Didn't like how his trading was holding there But you know what looks like somebody came in all right Worked out great so so far this one looks like the pretty nice one so far You could see it started started making a nice move right here great orders all over the place Looks like somebody started stepping step it up the plate on the stock. We got that one right aid like making new highs, you know, I sold my swing trade on that and I don't think I should have held on to it, but the thing about right aid is that it's a They they cut they did a reverse stock split and the stock is just like All of a sudden when you were do a reverse stock split There's not that many shares out there makes the stock a lot more volatile. So you got to be careful with that And that's about it. I think we got all of them. So we got a pretty good list Got the AMD trade also so we got one two three four five six seven stocks on Christmas Eve Wow, that's a lot. That's a lot of stocks And you're in that's at 78 cents SAVA. All right Looks like you're in with me. All right. Good. Good. Good. You got a better price than me. I got it at I Got it at No, actually at the same price. I'm just checking. We want the same price So funny how the thing just started moving right when nine o'clock started All right, the market also. Yes, the market is closed at one o'clock. So we will not have an afternoon meeting Actually, I'm gonna be leaving early myself, you know, you got the staff here. Also, I got to get ready to make my you know Andrea says he's got to make a bunch of fish. I got to make a little bit myself too. I got an early Christmas Eve dinner So starting at four o'clock. So I got to start cooking sooner than later So but you know what that's why they end the market early. I guess everybody has to but you know what if that's You know, it's a great day and by the way, just for all for everyone that celebrates Christmas I wish you all a happy and merry merry Christmas. It's it's been great and you know what race talk is canceled Yes, there's no truth. It's definitely canceled So um So for that with that everybody like I said be safe enjoy your holidays We're closed tomorrow. Obviously everybody knows that, you know, because you know being holiday and then we'll see you all back on Thursday, all right, everyone same thing to you everybody merry Christmas to everyone and listen Let's try to make our money early if we don't see anything great. Let's just call quits. All right, and you know what? That's okay. That's a good thing. You know what you killed it yesterday You guys showed up this morning. Just that alone is great Just for you guys to be here and you know what I know there's some people here Wish they were here yesterday, but what is what it is? So anyway, Merry Christmas all Merry Christmas all you family Thanks everyone. Happy Hanukkah. So I'll tell you friends and everyone else Thanks everybody. Good luck. Happy trading
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Hey guys, it's Nate, AKA the Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Today is a big Monday on FIFA 23, especially inside of Team of the Year because today is the day that I expect EA Sports to start dropping upgrade packs. Specifically, some of those Team of the Year upgrade packs that so many of us are looking forward to doing on a repeat during Team of the Year to give ourselves the best shot at packing Team of the Year cards. Now, we're not looking to open those packs today. No way. There's only the midfielders that are in packs. We're looking to open more of those later on this week when the full team and potentially honorable mentions come into packs. But the SBCs might be dropped today and that's what I wanna look at. How you can still prepare a club last minute and what to expect and just a little bit of uncertainty as well around these upgrade SBCs that could be dropping. Today also a part of Monday content. We could see an 83 times three midfielders pack. While this one goes away, the attackers pack. We'll talk about that and the 12th man vote. That's a lot of Team of the Year content coming today as well as a lot of market movement ahead on this game. Fodder went up a lot yesterday because of the 88 plus pack. We'll talk about that and one part of the fodder market still looks a bit investable to me. We'll cover that as well in this video. And of course, tell you why I have like zero coins. Bought a lot of cards yesterday. Like we talked about in last night's video, the market dipped. I'm hoping for it to rise a bit more today. We'll talk more about that in this video as well. If you're excited for it, hit the thumbs up. Subscribe if you're new. Let's talk about these upgrade packs because one year ago today, EA Sports dropped upgrade packs in Team of the Year in FIFA 22 and they were exactly the ones that we wanted. The premium Premier League and well, not even just Premier League, the premium upgrade packs, those are the ones that we really want guys because that gives you 12 players from the same league, three of them being rare. This is where the craft, where the rubber meets the road basically. This is the SBC that we won all top five leagues since we have a player from each league in Team of the Year and probably more in the honorable mentions that will come out later this week. These are the SBCs that we're looking for, right? There's a premium upgrade and a lower tier upgrade, right? Last year, the lower tier upgrade was three gold players, one rare and guess what, good news. That was a pretty good SBC to craft into last year. Good, the good news is those packs are back. If you take a look at the pack code that footscoreboard uploaded a couple of days ago, these three league one players packs, it's the exact same thing as last year, three players, one rare from all of the top five leagues, hopefully those are dropped today, as well as what we saw last year, the premium Premier League and top five league upgrade SBCs, right? One for each specific league. Now, this is why we've been saying, buy the gold rares. These will probably just require 11 gold rare players not league specific. That's how they've been in the recent couple of years. You can still do that. I believe gold rares on the market right now are still with weak and weak rewards being paid out. People opening a few packs here or there. Gold rares are still basically discard price. 650, you can get them on bid. This is gonna be like kind of one of the last calls before gold rares probably start to slide up in price just a little bit after these packs are released in the game, even though not a lot of people will be wanting to open these upgrade packs like today. If these packs are dropped today, which I think it's a very, very high likelihood that they are, you will start to see people go out and start to build them and craft them before later on this week when most people will start to open them. Now, with the upgrade packs coming today, there is one thing that I'm a little unsure about and I'm just, I'm uncertain guys because we looked at this pack code, right? For the three player packs. But these premium SBCs, I don't know if they've actually been added to the code yet of this game. Now, if we look back to last year, like I said, literally last year on Monday, this is from FIFA U team's website. They've got all the content that was out during Team of the Year last year. We got all of these last year. We got the premium and the three player upgrade, right? Here's the premium upgrades. And there's the midfielder upgrade, like we're probably gonna get today as well. There's the premium SBCs and the regular ones. But as so far this year, I was trying to just look through the SBCs that we've seen this year. I don't think we have had any sort of the league specific upgrade packs like these, the premium ones at least, dropped in the game. So that's a little bit kind of concerning to me because I don't know if they've been added to the code and it was a while ago and they just haven't been talked about recently, but these were just recently added to the code. I really hope they either add the premium upgrades to the code or they've already been in and I completely missed it. I don't know which one it is. Maybe we'll have to do some hunting and go back and look in the pack code or anything along those lines. But these are the packs that we need. If we don't get these packs and we only get these, which I don't see happening, I do believe EA Sports would drop these as well. That would be crazy and crazy, not good. So just watch out for these upgrade packs to drop today. They still could drop like an 81 plus double as well. And the reason why we believe it's today is because they did it last year and Mondays are just always the days where they kind of drop the upgrade packs. They've set that precedent. So if you haven't stocked the club yet, I would focus more on the rares, but I'd focus on the non-rares as well, right? Focusing on the rares and non-rares should probably fill up your club if you haven't already with some of these. That is if you have coins and you want to do a lot of upgrade packs because again, later on in this week, later on as we get towards the weekend, gold rares will be upwards of a thousand coins, maybe even a little bit higher than that if we get those premium upgrades just because people will be spamming upgrade packs like crazy. So those are the big upgrade packs that we should expect to see today. Now, like I mentioned, the 83 times three tackers upgrade is going away. I would expect that to be replaced with the 83 times three midfielders upgrade since now we have the midfielders in packs. Last time around that SBC required an 83 rated squad and it also required an 84 rated card. So 84s, although they're already pushing up could go up a little bit further and 83s are probably gonna go even higher themselves, which is why in the beginning of this video, I mentioned a potential investment still on one piece of the fodder market and that is once again 82s. I believe 82s at 750 or 700 on bid are a really good option. I do believe just like they did last week, they will probably get up to around 1000 coins a piece at some point because we're gonna have these 83 times three packs that will be out. People will be crafting other SBCs. I mean, we might have other stuff dropped during the week that could require 83 rated squads. I think that the 82s are pretty safe by as 83s keep going up and up and more 83 rated squads are gonna be required, especially if you have an 84 rated player in that squad. You only need a couple of 83s, well about 683s and then you need like what, 482s and then your 184 rated player, something like that to get it done. I do see 82s going back up to 1000 coins like they did last Friday on this game. So if you wanna invest in some of those, I think that potential is there as well. Now, speaking of SBCs, let's talk about what happened with this 88 plus, right? We're going from today back to yesterday to talk about fodder for a bit more. This is a 230,000 coin SBC, which is cheaper than what I thought it was gonna be, especially after EA added the prime icons into this. But a lot of people are doing it because you see the thumbs up here, 74% thumbs up good value, right? And that's got 86 rated specifically going crazy. The 86 index yesterday jumped like crazy. These guys were all 20,000 coins around the content drop. Now they're back down a little bit, which is kind of interesting to me. People opening packs, right? We've had lighting rounds, we have weakening rewards. So it makes sense to have cards come down a little bit from that spike. But this icon pack is again, repeatable tomorrow on Tuesday. So a lot of people in my opinion with the upgrade packs that are gonna be out and people just loving to do these packs in general, fodder might have another spike later on this week, especially if we have more SBCs, we've got other icon team of the year icon SBCs that are leaked. We've got the flashback Pogba that is still out there. Of course, we had the end of an era, Gareth Balear stats worth talking about as well, right? So much demand on the fodder market on like 83s, 85s, 86s and 84s as well in that lower tier range because of Bale and the 88 plus. I think that fodder prices could go back up and even go even higher later in the week, just depending on the card rating of course, but especially in the 86 realm. Like if you were selling these at 20,000 coins, I think they will get back up there. And maybe if you're interested in buying them at 16K again, you might be able to sell them at 20,000 coins again later on this week. Cause that's how high they were in the peak of that 88 plus being dropped yesterday on Saturday. Now the high tier market didn't move that much. 91s are still 63, 64K. 90s are still about 53,000 coins. It was in again, centralized into that low to mid tier fodder market. Informs have started to go up as well. Not a lot, but a little bit on those informs since they were required. If I had informs like, well, I do have informs, but if I had golds, I would look to sell the gold cards before the end of the week for sure, whether it's 82s all the way up to like 86s as 87s, I would look to sell those then. But if I had informs, I would be holding, right? Informs more of a long-term play. We talked about that in yesterday's video, but fodder is up because of that demand for that 88 plus icon. And Gigi's the EA for making it honestly a pretty cheap and pretty affordable SPC. But something that I don't want to do right now, cause I don't wanna drain the club of fodder as much as I possibly can, because the focus is again on the team of the year packs. And I have no problem skipping this SPC because I know that this next weekend EA is gonna drop another one of these. It's gonna be craftable and I'll be crafting something along these lines while I'm opening up so many of the team of the year upgrade packs. Like I said, hopefully dropping today on this game. Now, of course, with that pack dropping, we had a lot of movements on the market, like Nate, we're in the world or your coins had right now. I bought a lot of cards to trade with and to flip yesterday on this game because that was one thing we talked about in the video is if there was going to be some panic selling on the market, I wanted to get involved because this market is very healthy right now. A lot of people are playing this game. There's a lot of gameplay demand for Weekend League with the extra rewards that were out there and a lot of prices dropped yesterday and some of them are starting to rebound already super fast, kind of like we expected, right? When you get a big time SPC, we talk about this all the time. This is one of the most, I would say, consistent ways to trade weekly on this game. It happens at least once a week, sometimes twice or three times. You get a big SPC, like an icon pack or a hero player pick. People have to panic sell cards from their team to afford the SPC to get it done, right? And what that does is it causes a dip in prices on the market and then cards that are rare and popular in meta end up skyrocketing right back because people go out and buy them for their teams. Case in point, the Sakini, right? Take a look at his graph, 500,000 coins yesterday before the SPC dropped, boom. SPC drops all the way down to 460 and then skyrockets back up to 500,000 coins just because he has a rare card. He's in demand with the Rommel's SPC that is out, PSG links in general, right? That's a perfect example of how you can trade weekly on this game and I knew that sort of situation was gonna happen if an 88 plus pack was dropped and it absolutely did. Now, not all cards you're gonna rebound the best, right? That Hakimi is an example of a card that did absolutely amazing. Some cards dropped down in price and really didn't rebound that much. This Casamiro was like 220,000 coins, I believe, 223, went down to about 205, but he's only back up to about 215. So if you bought him at 205, you're not even making coins right now because you have 10,000 coins of tax. That's the biggest thing you have to factor in here and just look at cards that dropped off the biggest percentages in the shortest amount of time to buy some of those, right? I bought some Rommel's at 230, 232K, a couple of them because I knew that this card is in a lot more demand right now because of the Emi Martinez that is available via objectives, right? With that Primitive League and the Argentina links, that's very, very nice for a lot of people that still have Argentina players in their squad. Maybe they have the Acuña, maybe they have the Correa, the Enzo Fernandez, the Di Maria, right? There's still a lot of those links that are popular in this game, so that's why it went after the Romero card. And I just bought a bunch of cards from all these different out-of-packs Promo teams that went down a lot. Now some cards are still a little bit low and that's another option that we can look at for today if you're waking up and watching this video. Kind of check around the market and maybe find some little cards like this Sancho 293. That might be a little bit of an undercut, but yesterday before content, he did reach highs of 324K. The market is still very healthy and I'm still liking a lot of these cards for short-term flips. Again, it's a short-term kind of flip situation where you're buying the card, holding it for less than a day and then selling it for more later on. Just like in yesterday's video, we bought Benetter for 340, sold it for 370, right? Above 370, he's back down again. I'm kind of staying away from him tonight, I think, but that's a card that you could probably trade with. The Verati card, 589,000 coins. He was like 620, I think. Was he 620 yesterday? 623, so this is being like 580 where it is now. If I saw this and got an undercut at like 570, because you have a lot of tax here, 30K of tax, which is the only problem with a card like this, that's the kind of way that I'd be trading right now on the market, right? Because there's a lot of demand, 589, yeah, I'm gonna have to try to get a bid or a couple bids right here, right? That's what I'm gonna have to do to try to make coins on a card like this. I also only have 598K, so I can only buy one, but that's what I'm gonna be doing. I think the market will be really healthy today. I think there will be a nice Monday market rise per usual on most of the meta market. And I think even after content today, if all we gets the upgrade packs and the 83x3, probably we'll see the market even rise up a bit further just because that's what the market normally does on Mondays and if there's not something to cause panic like there was yesterday, market will probably continue to go up a little bit. Let's talk about these team of the year midfielders because yesterday, a lot of us on the stream were trying to time this and look for a low point. Now, I didn't have any coins because I, again, bought a lot of cards for those quick flips. Jude Bellingham, who just got undercut right there at 2.1, Jude Bellingham is skyrocketing back up in price. He was all the way down to 2 million coins. These guys dropped late into the night, Sunday night. And now they're finally rebounding back up. Kevin De Bruyne was 2.4 million coins. This Jude Bellingham was 2 million coins flat. He's now back up to about 2.2 mil. Modric was about 1.2 mil or just above 1.2 mil. So I missed out on some potential flip opportunities here. You see, Modric is back up to about 1.4. I could have bought Modric at 1.2 lows, sold them here in the 1.4 range. Trading off of this rarity would have been very, very nice yesterday, but I opted for just kind of like the mass buy play. I thought it was going to be able to make more coins off of that, which I think I probably will. But these guys have hit some low points and they're starting to rebound back up. And honestly, the midfield, Jude Bellingham looks like a nice card. Kevin De Bruyne's card looks pretty good. Modric, I think people are not that happy with. Modric is definitely going to be the cheapest midfielder out of this promo team. I would not be surprised that this Modric is like a 750K, 800,000 coins, maybe 750 come the end of this week because he just looks a little underwhelming. The work rates didn't change in this card. Still a great card, don't get me wrong. But in the concept of team of the year, it's just not that amazing. Now, Jude Bellingham's card looks really, really good. I think I might undervalued him a little bit because in my price predictions video, I think I said that I imagined Jude Bellingham was going to be somewhere around like the low one million coin range, but EA gave him a bigger boost. Like for a 95 rated card, that is an insane card. Only two stats under 90. Looks absolutely mental. So Gigi's the EA for a proper boost on Jude Bellingham. De Bruyne's card looks really good as well. And I think that all of these will continue to drop off later in the week. But if you're trying to get one for the year now, one of their lowest prices we might have seen earlier this evening with these price drop offs that they have, just be very careful, hold on to those because they probably will not go super-duper high. And if they rise up before Thursday at all, it would be very quick and very short-lived. Your other team of the year cards, Benzema's pretty rare. He was almost 2.2 mil earlier today. Like if I was looking to buy a Benzema, if I saw like 2.05, maybe this morning on Wednesday, or Monday morning, I would get interested in trying that out. But Messi is up a little bit and Boppe is up a little bit. These guys are probably gonna peak today or tomorrow and then we'll get lower again towards the end of the week. That's how we expect it to be for the team of the years. And the team of the year icons as well, they continue to be very high in price and very inflated. They do fluctuate a lot. Like this Zenetti sometimes goes down to like 980K and then we'll rebound back up to about 1.1. Pierlo, Vintage, like all these guys are fluctuating a lot on the market but their lowest prices were definitely on like that Friday night, Saturday timeframe where they just got really, really low. So the market's a very healthy place. Consider it very good to trade in right now and easy to make coins. If you're trying to make the last few maybe a couple hundred K before team of the year starts or just maybe an extra 50K, that'll sponsor you an extra couple of upgrade packs, right? Once we get into that kind of mindset with the grind. Now, a couple other things to watch out for today on Monday. This is a little bit of a leak from a couple of days ago but I expect it to be true. We also had this last year on Monday at the start of team of the year. We had the 12th man vote. The leaked players in it are Valverde, Erling Holland and Shwell Cancelo. So watch out for some sort of like player pick today. They'll give you a loan version which will be your choice, right? Might be a one game loan. I don't know exactly how they're gonna do this but watch out for a team of the year, 12th man vote today with the winner probably being revealed or leaked on Thursday and then in packs on Friday. So watch out for that and the other kind of piece of information that we might or piece of content actually that we might see today on this game is a Twitch Prime pack. So for all of you guys that have Twitch Prime or Amazon Prime, get that link up sorted and come to the stream, drop your Prime sub and get your free pack, right? Link that up on your Twitch account and then boom, you will be able to get a free pack today. And other than that, I mean, this Monday today I don't expect it to be a really bizarre Monday. Like yesterday was probably a crazier day on Sunday with the 88 plus pack and the midfielders dropping in packs. Then today will be, I don't know about any player SBCs. I know the Pogba is still out there. I don't expect the Pogba today. Could it happen? Yeah, it could happen. But I feel like that Pogba, just like Veran was last year, I keep making that reference but it seems to be so true. I think Pogba is gonna be a one to 1.2 million coin SBC. He's probably gonna drop on like Wednesday or Thursday sometime a little bit later on in the week. We will have to see. But that's gonna be the video for me today guys. If you did enjoy it, smash the thumbs up, comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you are new. Happy team of the year hunting with these packs and start crafting if you're gonna be opening a lot of upgrade packs during team of the year. I'll catch you guys later. It's been Nate the Foot Accountant. Peace out.
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What I try to do at the end of this is take all the different points of view, side conversations, and find some synthesis and major themes that have gone on, why we've discussed this. And I'll talk a little bit so I don't forget addressing Joey's provocation after Joyce's question, which is around kind of mapping what's going on. And it's something that we've really looked at and tried to figure out, is it a Salesforce solution, whatever. But we recently did conversations with all of our active grantees and many of our active prototypes, our first class of prototype grants. And we're asking them, what kinds of things can I do better? What do you need from us? But we heard over and over again that this type of thing, this type of convening, is vitally important to it. And we found that people were reticent to talk to each other if they hadn't physically met before. So once you find that, there's something here that's very special that we're very focused on. I'm saying how do we be very strategic about these convenings are? How do we do signal to noise right? When you have someone, when you meet someone, how the best thing to do is think about how you can follow them, how you can even touch with them. But we know that the physical connection for that is really important. And after that, it becomes easier to do that. Mapping the entire universe of what's going on is difficult. But I think if we get better at thinking about this through convening, and what I heard from everyone that I talked to, was that that was really important. So just a little bit of an answer to that and why this is so important are these ideas that we have. So this is one of the things that came out for me on this, is a lot of this stuff that we're talking about, there's a real disconnect. And it's something that you may have heard and something I said, which is to say that a lot of the conversation about the open web only occurs on Sandhill Road in K Street. And usually oppositionally. So how do we move this? How do we make it something that you run into that you're perhaps sick of seeing as a mean, as a format? So I think one of the things to talk about that's a continuing conversation that came up increasingly in our thoughts during this conference was, why isn't this something that's more important to everyone? And we addressed it a little bit and I'll go through some of those. So first of all, being open might not be enough. It might not be enough to pat ourselves on the back and say, wow, we're doing all this open stuff and it's a great, and it is great. But increasingly, what we find and what is I think a conversation here is when you produce these things that are beneficial and positive for our culture, country, world, you're really at a brand warfare moment with the rest of content on the planet. So what used to be where if you're developing a truth-telling app, that's a brand, you have to think of it as a brand, really. Because what you're going up against is the walking dead in Game of Thrones. You're not going up against another truth-teller app. You're not going against another media site. It's the flow of information so high. How do we make these things? How do they get attention paid to them? So opening your being open is key. It's vital as a cornerstone. But I think what we heard is how do we extend that? How do we push that? How do we make sure that once it's open and that it is open, how do we build community around that? Really important. This came up a lot. And what I mean by think water not plumbing is we tend to talk about the pipes. We tend to talk about the infrastructure. The fight for us is often around making sure that these things are. And even the metaphors that we use tend to be around fast lane, slow lane, you know, these kind of systems idea. And really what we heard over and over again is the thing that turns people is content, right? When something I get eliminated from something, when I can't see something, when I want to do it, that's when I realize there's constrictions on what we're doing. So we have to think shift the conversation to being a lot more about water and what type of water we have and why that water is important or perhaps beer. But not necessarily what the plumbing is for it. And that's going to be really important as we move forward in this tension around making these types of issues much more open. This, I think, came up a lot. I don't think we know who we have some idea of who are important in these spaces and have been, but I think we have to make sure that we're finding new heroes and celebrate them, large and small, technical, non-technical. This morning around, we saw a lot of people like that with the examples in Turkey, people taking opportunities to work in very heroic ways around journalism, openness, fairness, those types of things, finding them, celebrating them, moving them to the forefront, I think is going to be really vital. So a recurrent thing that's happened in this conference is the need to remember the human. We just had a great example of that with human-centered design, a brief overview of that in this last couple of hours. But there's a sense that there's all this machinery going on. And I think it was, especially with the city and the sensor moment, where you're losing the sense of what the human is and making sure the human is centered into this. So as we talk about these issues, it's easy to forget that there's people behind it. And that the notion that there's something behind there and that the technology is overriding what it is about humans that humans are using that technology and that's what they're about is, I think, really important to keep in mind. And so that they're not ghosts, they're actually humans. So there's actually something there. And we need to pay attention to all the time we need to be building for. We need to think about. We need to interact with. And it's not the tech or software itself. I was really struck by this. And again, this notion of how do we make all these principles more democratic. The notion of a grandmother in Turkey changing their DNS is a great, and when we think about that, it's like, how can we make those types of skill sets ubiquitous? How do we enable people to understand the internet in that way? And thinking about that that's so vital to do and it's so important in their lives that they will figure out or look up or find someone else to help them do that. And we need a lot more, I think, again, on this notion of democratizing a lot of these issues across. So it's not just specialists. It's not just people in this room that care about it, but actually people everywhere. What came up a lot, I think, weirdly, is that we need more policy people. We don't have a lot of policy people actually even here. And these are issues that we need to start interfacing with that just as a lot of what Knight has done and what we have tried to do with the MIT conference is an interface technologists and developers with journalism, with information, and what those things are. And I think what we're increasingly running up against is the need to do that in governing bodies. We find we do a lot of open government work or a little bit we try to do open government work. Over and over again, it's the things that you heard throughout the conference that it's a leadership at the top that defines the time and space that allows those changes to occur. And we need a lot more people in those. So there's new heroes that we have. We had to find them, I think, in the wonks. So another aspect of what we have is how do we layer those people into government with these issues that we care about? How do we interface with those? How do we give them tools to do it? It's amazing when we start getting into open government, people will say, I don't know if it's legal for me to give you this spreadsheet. They have no idea. It's not that they don't want to. They just don't have any aspects of it. And Jim Parker tells this great story from Code for America, where she said, I go into a city, and I say, well, why don't we release this database? And they say, well, it's against the law. And she's like, OK, well, show me the law. And then they can't find the law. And they said, well, it's actually a policy. And she goes, OK, well, find me the policy, right? And they try to find the policy. And there is no policy. And he's like, well, there's probably a memo. And you go, OK, well, find me the memo, right? And then they get sounded, it's like Doug said, we're not supposed to do it, right? And then Doug hasn't worked there for five years, right? So we need to figure out how to get those people in and really work and help them get the strategies around that. So this is the coin I turned to coin, which is getting at the tensions between what we talked about with the potential of what urban spaces is and what sensors and surveillance and that. So a combination of this very connected, complex thing that is utopia and penopticon at the same time, right? So something in this notion that the sensor networks that we have could build brave new cities that are really exciting at the same time. What does it mean for the individual? What does it mean for surveillance? What does it mean for freedom? And these are things that I think we really have. They are conjoined and weird. And we have to unpack it. And not that I think this is going to enter the dictionary anytime soon. But the notion is how do we think about these things in really smart ways and how do we pay attention to it and not block the things that are going on? So one final meme moment, which is to say this is something that has heard over and over again and not that I want to leave on a pessimistic note, but because I think a lot of the conference has been optimistic around these things. But it's very real. I think all of us sense that at this 25-year turn of the internet anniversary that there's a real potential of losing many of the things that we've worked, a lot of us are whole lives on building. And vigilance is key on this. And I think if we're active in it, we can get through it. But being very aware of the Mark Sermon saying, I think we're losing is scary. So these kind of convenings and having everyone interact is super important. And these are the kinds of things that if we have more of these and we stay in contact and we develop new ideas and we think refreshed and anew, we won't have to worry about this other than making sure that we're vigilant in what's going on. So Ethan did an amazing job of thanking everyone. I would also like to thank you and a big thank you again to Laurie and Ethan and Laird and C125 for coming. Thank you all for coming here. And just a final shout out, I have to say to Megan if she would stand up a bit. And the reason for that is Friday is actually Megan's last day at the Knight Foundation. So she's leaving for a terrific opportunity to have very great nonprofit as a project manager in Miami. But we'll miss her desperately. I know you all will miss her desperately when these things happen. She's just been an amazing person to work with. So just on that note, good luck to Megan. Thanks to all of you. And we'll see you on the internet. Thanks.
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JP’s Product Pick of the Week 12/12/23 BNO055 9-DOF Absolute Orientation IMU Breakout RECAP
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#newproducts
JP’s Product Pick of the Week 12/12/23 BNO055 9-DOF Absolute Orientation IMU Breakout RECAP
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There, that's my product pick of the week this week. It is the B&O 0559 DOF Absolute Orientation IMU Breakout. This is the one you want if your project involves trying to figure out where you're pointing something Or maybe where you're pointing yourself The fact that it does the sensor fusion, which is to say it takes the magnetometer accelerometer gyro takes all of that and Does the calculations does the math to figure out where the heck is this thing pointed in 3d space? It's gonna use the direction. I'm pointing as it's sort of relative Starting points so you can see even though I'm not pointing at my monitor back there. I was able to To get the orientation to to work that right there is my product pick of the week this week It is the B&O 0559 DOF absolute orientation IMU breakout board You
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NodeJs Limiting Network Traffic - Express, Express Rate Limit
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Today we are going to look at Rate limiting, which is a strategy for limiting network traffic.
We'll use Express and the Express Rate Limit package.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-rate-limit
Chapters:
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◾ 0:27 Project Setup
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◾ 2:52 Express Server
◾ 6:03 Rate Limit
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Hey, welcome everybody, my name is Roddy and today we're going to look at rate limiting, which is a strategy for limiting network traffic. It limits how often someone can repeat an action within a certain time frame like logging into an account. It can protect against API endpoint overuse and also malicious bot activity, Brute post attacks, DDoS, Wiperscraping, etc. Hey, welcome everybody. I've already created a brand new project folder called Rate Limit Tutorial. An insight here is where we're going to initialize a new project. On Windows, you can do left shift, right click and open in terminal or PowerShell, whatever you prefer. And then essentially this is going to CD to the current folder that I'm in, the Rate Limit Tutorial folder, which is located in my desktop. If you're unable to do this, you can actually CD to your project folder using the CD command and just make sure you navigate to the folder that you want to initialize your project. In order to initialize a new project, we can do MPM in it, then dash Y in order to skip all the questions, such as the name, version description and so on. This creates a very basic package.json file inside the project folder in here, as you can see. And now we can install the packages that we need by doing MPM, I for install and then express and then express dash rate dash limit. And this is going to install the packages. Let's clear this super quickly and let's install the last thing, which is going to be the node one. So MPM I for install and then dash dash save dash death and then node one node one is a development dependency. And that's why I'm putting the dash dash save depth and node one essentially is going to restart the server for us every time we make a change instead of doing the restarting manually. Now let's open the project in VGTD code by doing code dot or you can open your code editor and just go to file and open folder and for me, this is a rate limit tutorial folder. So now inside the explorer here, you will see that we have the package.json file that we just created and we have the dependencies that we installed such as the express and express rate limit. We also have the development dependency node money here, which I want to use. So we know that to be able to use this, we can go in the script and just after the test line, let's put a comma and let's create another line and let's call this one start and then column and then inside here, we say no one and then app.js. So we want to start application with no one and or application is called app.js, which we're going to create now. So let's save this and close the package.json file. Go to the explorer here and let's create any file and this is going to be called app.js. So now that we've created this, open it and let's close the explorer so we can focus on it. The first thing that we need to do is create a very basic express server. Let's start with creating an express server. So const express equals require and then we require express inside here. Now we need to initialize a new express application and to do this, we can do const app equals express and this basically creates a new express application and now we can give it a port number const port and this port number, for example, can be 5000 as we just develop it locally. This is going to be absolutely fine and then what we want to do is app.listen and we want to listen on this port number or 5000 here and then we're going to do comma and this is going to be another function like so and it's going to say console.info and then in slanted single quotes, we are going to do app listening on port and then with the dollar sign and curly brackets, we're going to pull the variable from here, the const and put it inside here. Save. This is pretty much how you create a very basic express application. Now let's run this. So I'm going to go back to the PowerShell in this case and as long as we are CD to this folder, I can do NPM and then start. This is going to start application and as you can see, Node 1 starts the app.js file and is listening for changes, which is great. Also the app is listening on port 5000, which means that we view it in the browser. If I open a browser super quickly and let's go to the port of 5000, you will see that we're getting cannot get and slash. This is because we don't have any routes created just yet. So let's create the first one to go back inside here. I'm going to create a dummy REST API route. So let's say app.get and inside here, let's say this is going to be an API and we have an version one, for example, it doesn't really matter too much. So let's put a comma and this is going to be a function that is going to take the request and the response and in curly brackets is where we're going to respond. So we're going to do response.json and inside here, we can just put some dummy data. For example, I'm going to copy, for example, we can do something like this. Maybe we can just do an idea of one title, Node.js description, JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's via JavaScript engine. This is just an example. If we save this and if you go under API V1 now, so we are in the localhost of 5000 and then we do API slash API V1, you will see that we're getting the raw JSON file here with the ID of one title and so on. All right. Now let's have a look at how we can use the rate limit. Let's create any cons here at the top and say rate limit like so. And this is going to be because require and then we require the express rate limit like so. Now, in order to be able to use it, we can set up a few basic options. So for example, under the port here, let's make some space and let's say now we create any cons with the limiter name. And now inside here, we can grab the rate limit and give it a few options inside Kelly bracket. Now, the first option inside here is called window MS and this is essentially the minutes. The timeframe for each request are checked and remembered. So for example, let's say 15 times 60 and then times 1000. This is going to give you a 15 minutes interval. We also need to give it a max number. So through this, we're going to do max or five. So we can do maximum five requests in this timeframe here, of course, give it whatever you like. And this is going to limit each IP to five requests like so. So this is a very basic usage of this. And now in order to use this on all the routes that we have at the moment, we only have one. But if you had more route, and if you wanted to kind of like use it globally, what you can do is inside here, you can do app.use and then we can just put the limiter here like so. And now this is going to work on pretty much every route that we create. So let me save this. And let me show you what I mean and let's refresh this. So one, two, three, four, five. And now on the sixth time, we're getting too many requests, please try again later. Now we could also change this message if you wish. Inside the options, we can do another one. As long as you have come in here, we can do message. And for the message, I'm going to paste too many API requests from this IP. Please try again after 15 minutes. Save this. And now every time I save, by the way, it's restarting the actual server here. So it's not going to remember what happened. So if I refresh the page now, it's going to show me the original API. And now I need to refresh it a few more times. So one, two, three, four, five, two, many API requests from this IP. Try again in 15 minutes. Now as long as I don't refresh the actual application, I need to wait 15 minutes in order to be able to see the actual API, which is great. Now let me show you how we can do this for a specific route, for example. Let's say that we had a different route. I'm going to copy this and paste it inside here. And instead of having an API V1, let's say, for example, that you had a slash login page and instead of res.json, let's do res.send. And let's send something like imaginary login, imaginary login form. So if I go to login now, like so, imaginary login form. And if I do five times, one, two, three, four, five, here we go. Too many API requests. So this is working on all routes. And now let's say that I want to only limit the API here. In order to do this, let's comment this out so you can have as an example. And let's copy and paste it in here. Inside here, we can give it the route that we want. So comma, and then we can do slash API. So all the API routes that we have are going to be limited to this to 15 minutes and only five times. Let me save this and let's go back. Essentially, the login should be working now. I'm going to press enter imaginary login form is here. And let's say you're pressing F5. As you can see, the login form is working. But if I go to V2 API, V1, and if I press it a couple of times, this is going to be blocked. Perfect. Now let's say that we wanted to make a specific one for the login. So let's go back to log in super quickly. Here we go. Imaginary login form. And let's say you want to limit this as well, just so people are not trying to log in too many times. Let's say there is a bot that is just trying and trying and trying. We want to limit this and make it a little bit more specific. For example, I can copy this and I can give it a different name. We can maybe give this a login account limiter like so. And I can copy the accounts from here and paste it just here between the function as a middle where so I can do another comma and paste in here. And instead of doing too many API requests, let's say, I don't know, something else, try again after 15 minutes. Of course, you can change the numbers, but this is very specific to the login page. Now let's say, and if we go back, we have the imaginary login form. Let's say somebody keeps trying to log in. It could be a malicious user. It could be a bot, whatever. And now if we do one, two, three, four, five, six, try again after 15 minutes. And now they can't do anything. The last thing that I wanted to show you is that if you do right click and inspect, you will see on the network and we need to refresh now. You will see that if I click on the login page here, let me zoom in. Okay, I can't move this anymore, but inside here, if we look at the response headers, you will see that we have a couple of new headers such as the X rate limit, which is set to five that we've put in the code. And we have the X rate limit remaining, which is now set to zero. And we have the X rate limit reset. Now you can disable those headers, but they can be also super helpful if you're building your application. And I just wanted to mention this. If I reset the application super quickly, so I'm making a change, let me save it. And yep, that crashed, but it's now again listening, which is great. And if I refresh the page, you will see that on the login form, we have some around here. We have a X rate limit remaining four. If I refresh it, we should have three, two, and then one, and then that's pretty much it. And now it's gonna break on the last one. Here we go. We have remaining zero. So refresh and try it again after 50 minutes. And that's pretty much it. There are a lot more options that you can use. Head to npmjs.com slash packages express dash rate dash limit. And have a look at some of the options. There's some pretty good ones in here. For example, you have functions such as on limit reach, on skip. You can allow IP lists, request successful. There is a lot of options basically that you can use. Have a look and that's pretty much it. There are a lot more options that you can use. Have a look at the official documentation. And now that you know about it, I guess that you can always Google and find the stuff that you need. That's pretty much everything from this tutorial. I hope that you liked it. I hope that you found it useful. Consider subscribing to my channel and like this video. Thank you very much for watching.
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Good morning lab students. It is Wednesday, May 6th. You guys finished up your final exam last night but it's going to take me a little bit of time to get them all graded. If you do have any outstanding work such as course evaluations or some late labs from this last half of the semester since we've been online you have to get those to me by Friday to have them included in your grades. I may be sending out a few messages to some students in particular about some work that's missing that you were supposed to get me that I haven't gotten yet but otherwise I'm just going to be focused on grading. Once I have your final grades calculated, I will let you know before I put them into the system as official grades. I hope you have a good day and start relaxing as you are winding down from final exams. If you have any questions, please do contact me.
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PM Modi reveals how ‘Pariksha Pe Charcha’ helps him…
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PM Narendra Modi interacted with students, their parents and teachers during the 5th edition of Pariksha Pe Charcha at Delhi's Talkatora Stadium. He spoke on subjects like with examination stress, using technology effectively, keeping self motivated and improving productivity, the National Education Policy and more.
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जीवन में जिव सवाल के दारे में नहीं हैं लेकि मैं जरू कहना चांगा के हम सच्विज में जीवन में आनंद की अनुबुती करनी है तो अपने आप को एक प्वालीटी विखसित करने का प्रैास कन दा चाहीग अगर उस वीदा को हम देलप करेंगे तो आप वह मेंशा अनन्डित रहेंगे और वो है, गॉनों के पुजारी बनना किसी में भी हम गुम देकते हैं, खॉलिटी देकते हैं तो हम उसके पुजारी बननते हैं उसको ताखविज दीलती हैं हमें ताखविस दीलती हैं अम ऴ़ा सबहव बन जाता है कि wherever you see good things and observe how they are good, observe them, असको हम सबिकार कगने का पयास करें, कुटको اس में दलने का पयासकरें, अईनवेद कने का पयासकरें, जोडने का पयासकरें, अगर हम ॑ एड़्शा भाउ पनप्रे देते हैं, दिखवायार, मेरे से आगे हो गया, देखो उसका खुर्ता तो नेरे सी ज़ादा अच्छा है देखे आर ये ये इसके तो पर्वार में थना अच्छा वातावान है, उसको तो कोई तकली भी नहीं आगे अगर यही ध्बिब शणा अँगे भडी रहती है, तो हम दिरे-दिरे-तिरे-ळीछ Bharathe armi... बहुति आपने आपको चोटा कर ते जाथै। bhuhfute akko chhoda kar the regulate. आम कभी बड़े ने बड़सकते है hai. � 322 अपके बी बादे बादे बावनवे प्रतिषोड कि बावना प्रदानी हो गी है बी बड़े आनंद और सुख कि जिन्गी जीभाएंगे इसी एक पेच्चा जे जाथ, मैं फीर एक वार वो जानने का समजने का सुखार करने का, बहुती उम्दा मन होना चाही एक, कभी भी विर्षा का बावनी होगा, कभी भी हमारे वनवे प्रतिषोड कि बावना प्रदानी हो गी अब ये बड़े आनन्द और सुख कि जिन्गी जीब आएंगे इसी एक पेच्चा जे जाथ, मैं फीर एक वार अप सब का बहुत बड़ बनन नन करता हूँ, सभी विद्यार सोग का बनन नन करता हूँ अप सब नवजवारो से मुझे मिलने का मोचा मिला, कुफ रोकों को लगता होगा, कि मोदी परिष्खा की चर्चा चो खरते है, अग्जाम सुभ बहत दी कै, तो तीछर नि बवध को समजा जी आगगा, आपको लाब होता है, कि नहीं होता है, मुझे मालुम नहीं है, मेरा तो मैं पचा साल चोटा हो जाता, और मैं, अपने आप को आपकी उमर से कुछ सीकर के गुरोग करने की कोछिष करता हूँ, यहने मैं, मेरी पीडी जबे दलती है, मैं आपके साब जुनने के काराँन,
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2018 Producers Workshop Gettysburg NRCS Jason Miller "Cover Crop Impacts on Future Crops"
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Jason Miller, USDA NRCS Agronomist speaker on "Cover Crop Impacts on Future Crops" at the Producers Workshop in Gettysburg, SD on February 12, 2018 at Bob's Resort.
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Kay, first one of me to make sure you guys are aware of if you're doing any intercropping of legumes into native range, stuff that's never been farmed, make sure you check with your FSA office. You may potentially have to sign a 1026. She doesn't want to get anyone in trouble, so make sure you check with her if you want to do any legumes or forbs into native range land. That was first thing. Second thing was when I said the radishes, make sure you plant, or the radishes you want to plant after the summer solstice. That's one of those species that will just bolt and flower if you plant in the spring. There's been a number of guys that raised radishes seed. If you plant in the spring, it's just gonna bolt and flower, produces very little vegetated growth, very little taproot. If you plant it July, or approximately July 5th or later, they'll produce the big taproot that you want for that surface compaction or deeper compaction. I'm sorry, the deeper compaction, okay? 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And if we look at that window where we're going from wheat to corn, when does winter wheat stop using an appreciable amount of water to when corn starts using an appreciable amount of water? Somewhere between that August to June timeframe, 13 inches of plant-available water or a precept falls in that timeframe. A good soil profile, silt loam, five feet down, five feet deep is gonna hold 11 inches of plant-available water. We're at 13 inches, we're already over full. So we should have in most normal years enough moisture there to produce that cover crop and not her next year's corn crop in most years. This year was an exception as most of you know. So probably kind of know where I'm going with this a little bit. And this was the year where we had that half. You know, what happens if we get less than half of normal? Remember we had 13.2 inches, a precept falling out of year or during that timeframe. This year we had that less than six inches falling in that timeframe. And we had some decent moisture last that fall of 2016 where we actually had a tremendous cover crop growing in the fall of 2016. Remember it was long, it was warm. We had some good moisture. We had a lot of cover crop growth. If we look at some of the research data from Dakota Lakes, we had two different rotations here on dry land. This is all dry land stuff here I'm gonna be talking about. November 15, 2007, three feet down where we had the cover crop. We had a little bit over four inches and a top three feet of plant-available water where we had no cover crop, five inches. Again, that's what would be after the cover crop is really done growing and doing its thing. If we look at that, following spring in 2008 where we had the cover crop, most of the time we always gain moisture in the spring. This year or that year, 2008, we actually were two inches behind compared to where we had no cover crop. If we look how that happened or how it translated into corn yield, wheat corn pea, no cover crop, about 100 bushel where we had the cover crop after the winter. Prior to this first year corn, we actually cut that yield in half. So this isn't something that's never happened in the past. We've had it happen before and it's gonna probably happen down the road in some years. Now, what we always preach is they have enough carbon in that cover crop mixture. And I'll show you some slides here where carbon is probably the most limiting nutrient. Most people think it's nitrogen, it's actually carbon. Dorfusx Rape is a Brassica. If we have 100% Brassica as a cover crop mixture, our yield is cut even further yet, 26 bushel. Here we have a mixture of some legume and some Brassica's 57 bushel. And granted, this isn't any high carbon cover crops in there, but you see by including the Rape in there, it definitely cut the yield in half when it's 100% Brassica. What did you mean by carbon is the most limiting? Carbon is the most limiting nutrient probably. And I'll show you or I'll talk more about that here in a minute. Just some additional years as far as cover crop soil moisture. Again, taking late fall after the cover crop's done its thing, wheat stubble with no cover crop, top three feet, seven inches of plant available water where we had cover crop in these other two, three inches. So we use four inches of plant available water, which in most years we replenish that with our spring moisture, snow and rain in the spring and don't have a problem with it. This year was kind of like that year. Just an example of VS replenishing that soil moisture. This is a study up in Bismarck, North Dakota, very fine, sandy loam soils cover crop with three inches of plant available water compared to no cover crop, three inches. Again, replenish it in the spring. This was done in Redfield in the spring of 2006 where we had no cover crop, 11 inches, where we had a cover crop over here, a little bit over 10 inches there. So again, no cover crop compared to cover crop, virtually the same in the spring. And that usually happens in most years. Now, when I said carbon is probably the most limiting factor or nutrient I should say, Taylor made a comment that that study on down in for Nebraska was three years. Quite honestly, three years is not long enough to determine management impacts or rotational impacts. This took us 12 years to find, to see this. Dakota Lakes Farm was started in 1990 and these three or these two dry land rotations were started at that time. You notice that the sequence, these are all winter wheat yields and you notice these are both after field pea crops. Winter wheat after field pea. We have a high-residue rotation here, high-residue crop, where it's two-thirds high-residue crops. Corn is a high-residue producing crop. Winter wheat is a high-residue producing crop. Field pea is a low-residue producing crop. Okay, two-thirds, two out of three years high-residue producing crops. Soybean, low-residue crop, corn high, field pea low, winter wheat high. 50%, no different than a corn bean, corn bean, corn bean rotation. Only 50% of the crops are high-residue. Again, 12 years, we notice where we have a high-residue rotation. The wheat yields were double in several years. It doesn't happen every single year, but it seems like once we get water stress at a certain point, that's the tipping area and we start seeing those huge increases where we have a lot of carbon in that system. Does that answer your question there? Is part of that carbon you're talking about some of that effect, the armor effect or the shading? Yes, it does, yes it does. That's a lot of it. And just like some of those five principles over there, the soil cover is extremely important. But it's also building organic matters, building that resilience. Organic matter is extremely critical from a standpoint of holding water, basically carrying over that crop throughout those two to three weeks of hot, dry weather. That's basically what it's doing. And when you have the low-residue crops, too many low-residue crops in your crop rotation, it's actually starting to mine away that organic matter versus building it, even when you convert to no-till. Those guys in a corn bean belt, they're losing organic matter at a very slow rate, even if they're going no-till at a very slow rate, they're still losing it. Not enough material there to start building in and sustaining that soil organic matter level. So, there was a project done here in Potter County involved three producers, Thad Barangers, which I'll spend the most amount of time on. And then Dan Forges or Cronin Farms had another site that was at the end of the taco. I have some data on that. And then Bob Rausch had a site also where we planted cover crops and did various treatments in them. Thad Barangers had a cover crop planted after spring wheat harvest, drill August 4th. And real close to my date, if I had one date I would pick out for the entire year would be if I could have my cover crops planted on August 5th of every year, I would shoot for that. I guess it just tends to be right in that sweet spot. Granted, it can fluctuate from two weeks on either side of that. But generally we get enough warm weather in late September to early October to make some of these species flourish. And this was the year for, or this was the date for 2016. But you see the mixture there, sedan grass, radish, Winfred Brassica is gonna be a hybrid of kale and turnip, very winter hardy, oats, flax, turnips and peas. You notice there's a fair amount of higher carbon crops in there, sedan grass. Oats and flax are all considered high residue crops in that situation there. That picture was, let's see here. September 21st is when this picture was taken, decent stand there. Prior to, or going in the fall, the soil scientist from the peer office came up and did some infiltration rates, plus some bulk density measurements. Bob's was a little bit over one gram per cubic centimeters. If you wanna know where your ballpark is, anything under 1.4 for the silt loam soils is good. So all these guys were in very good category. Fads was 0.88, Crohn's were 1.14. So all very good rates there. Now, if ad turned out 100 head of cow calf pairs on the 80 acres, he had a quarter section planted in cover crops. He split this quarter section in the north-south and grazed the east half of this quarter. And right next door to it, he had a quarter of grass, actually where the cows had to go out and get water. Started grazing September 22nd. He moved the fence 200 feet after six days just as a quick flash grazing to see if that did anything. Pulled the herd October 7th. So only had 16 days of grazing out there with 100 head of cow calf pairs. So what it looks like October 21st. So this was several days after he pulled them off. Again, he pulled them off October 7th. Good residue cover there, looks okay. That's where the fence line was at. This is November 4th. We had stuff that re-grew after he took the cows off. We had an excellent fall for some regrowth. Now, I got a call on September 20th from Dan Forree, who was called by Thad. Thad happened to be out there walking between the area that was grazed versus non-grazed. And he said, there's at least a 30 bushel corn yield hit there. I'm going, you gotta be kidding me. I've never heard of that. That's impossible. Either he severely overgrazed it or something went terribly wrong there. So I have access to two planes with cameras on them. We took some aerial imagery the very next day on September 21st. Granted, we're probably a month behind where we should have taken. This is just a picture of a synthetic natural color there. Here's a green NDVI. Here's where that fence line was. Shows up very clearly there. Again, this half was grazed. This half was not grazed, but the entire quarter section had cover crops on it. Everyone with me so far? We took it to yield or obviously you combined it. That's the yield map there. See where the fence line's at? I drew a polygon and field view around that area. I always leave off the field border. So the field border off here was off. And then the north end and the south end, I leave the field borders off. 67 bushel averaged there compared to the west half that was ungrazed, 117. 50 bushel yield difference. Really got scratched in my head when I saw this. So after harvest, well, let's continue on here. Here's some satellite imagery, Sentinel satellite imagery, 10 meter resolution way better than Landsat July 5th. You can see it already July 5th, that line there. August 4th. You see the line, you can also see that 200 feet where he was out there, where he just moved it, grazed it only six days and then moved the fence line. And there's our green, yeah, our green NDVI. So I thought right away that he over grazed. I didn't even see the photos until well after I started digging it as further. I'm thinking he way over grazed, beat it to death, et cetera. So I wanted to take, after corn harvest, the Gettysburg office, Tom and James helped me gather the residue with a hoop, took out all the corn stocks and corn stover off the sites and just clipped the remaining wheat straw and any old cover crop growth from that area. And all the grazed ones were actually, they had a lot of residue there, but it was all pretty much flatter, definitely flatter than the non-grazed ones. Here's a non-grazed one there compared to the grazed one there. Almost every single one was flatter. So I'm thinking, okay, as much snow as we had up here last year, maybe the standing residue caught some more snow and it may have, the ground froze less deep, allowed it to soak in what snow it did catch, but most of the time when that happens, in that satellite imagery especially, you should be able to see fingers where that snow would have drifted and that's why I looked at the satellite imagery, you can't see that. So I didn't know exactly what was going on, but in the end it was replicated four times, looking at the amount of residue and actually the grazed area had just a tad more, 728 more pounds compared to the non-grazed area. Eight tons of old residue there, wheat straw, previous year's corn, sunflowers, et cetera, or soybeans were all there. So eight ton of residue is a tremendous amount of residue. So that wasn't it, that screwed that theory. And as we've talked about, Stan mentioned before and someone else talked about that hanging effect, several years of hanging, I've seen it with crop fields, depending on how they were farmed, management impacts on that. Was this field farmed north and south for years of the East half versus the West half or et cetera? I've talked to Thad about asking, did you take a couple of years in a row of corn silage off the East half and not the West half, et cetera, or were they broke out later or whatever? So I started looking at our imagery that we have 2016 nape, 14 nape, and this actually had to be, this was actually a cover crop again in 2014, along with 2016. 12, you notice it's all farmed the same direction, 10, 2006 we had some areas broken out down here. 1991, I went all the way back down to 1952. If anything, there was a difference in farming at East and West and not North and South. So that theory was blown out of the water that it wasn't past management impacts on that field. Okay, so then I started looking at precept data. 2016, July 1.23, August 4.26, September 3.13, October 0.57, I didn't realize it was that wet up here in those months, and these are actually his actual numbers right on the field, unfortunately, I don't have September, October, and November there, but remember when he grazed, he turned out September 22nd, pull them off October 7th. Fair amount of moisture there. Maybe, there's a snow turtle there, I won't get into that. Kind of leading up to the precept data to cover crops that had really good growth, but you don't know what happened in the spring. Way below average here, the green line is what actually happened there. Cumulative, this orange line here, brown, is actually normal, way below that. And after looking at this again, talking about that, seeing the precept data, I go, Thad, do you have precept data? Again, talking about that, seeing the precept data, I go, Thad, do you have precision planning with the down pressure option? The automatic down pressure goes, yes, I do. Give me a screenshot of that map, and there it is. The more darker the orange, the higher the down pressure the planter had to use going through that field. The lighter, yellows, greens, less down pressure. Pretty dang close to that line. Again, he was out there, it wasn't frozen. And we actually had a field day up there, we were supposed to go to the site, and it was too wet to even get to the site. Remember that, Danny? And the wind was blowing 65 mile an hour. But right in this area is where he moved that fence line. So even just six days, again, he had a quarter of grass right to the east of it. Hindsight is always 20-20. Should have pulled him off, put him over there, locked him up for a few days, let things dry out a little bit. But there had to be enough soil moisture there. When I saw this, it's obvious. Again, this is not replicated, and most of the time I listen to, I don't really care for non-replicated results. But when it's 50 bushel, guess what, guys, there's something happening there. Gotta keep in mind, get the cows off on cropland when it's not frozen and it's wet out. This is not Nebraska or Iowa, where we can turn a sprinkler on. Well, a few of you guys can, but most of us can't. So that irrigation plays a huge role in what we're potentially able to get by with. So test results between the grays versus non-grazed, grazed area, 93 bushel. Some of these, I don't know, did he take these down in that non-grazed area in that southwest corner where it was newer ground? I've seen that hundreds of times where we sample newer ground after some later fall season rain or late summer rain like we had this year and then mineralize some of that organic matter. I don't know if that's a fluke or not, but most of those zones are, I mean, I would expect more or something like this where we had more nitrogen left over in the grazed area just because we didn't translate it into yield versus where we didn't graze it. A whole different side note. Would you be planting soybeans in this field with this kind of carry-over nitrogen numbers? You raise your T yields up here by 10 bushel. How many guys are you going to do beans on all kinds of weird stuff? No? And if you're a first-time bean grower, if this was first-time beans, I would be very concerned because that soybean plant and rhizobia will not form that relationship. It needs to form it relatively early in that soybeans growth period. And if it doesn't form it, that plant may never produce the rhizobia to carry it through. Soybeans need 3.8 pounds of nitrogen per bushel. You might get it to 35. Let's just say by chance we finally start raining here and get some moisture and you have a 50 bushel yield potential. You don't have enough. That soybean plant didn't form a relationship with the rhizobia, the inoculum, and you're going to run short. Just something to think about. A soybean plant can only produce so much nitrogen for itself. Yes, it's limited, but it's... Correct. Right. But it's going to produce enough for... Usually you don't get the real responses unless you're 70 bushel plus if you've thrown on an X-ray. So around here it's going to be irrigated. So I'm not too authorary about that. We start inhibiting that soybean plant from making that relationship and we may hurt ourselves in some situations. So just work caution to make sure you know what your soil tests are and adjust accordingly. Now, this wasn't the only case where we saw some of these impacts. Lyman County there at Reliance. This is Brad Carlin's area. Same corn hybrid, obviously. No cover crop, no grazing, 131 bushel. Where we had a cover crop planted a couple weeks after this one. Had a small cover crop, 3 to 4 inches. 111 bushel, 20 bushel yield hit there. Huge cover crop, grazing, 91 bushel. These fields are all within about a mile and a half of each other. Again, it's not replicated, but it's something that's concerning me and I got my astute enough this fall that I need to really start looking at this. Especially in this part of the area. And this just happened to be... And this by chance was 100% Brassica. This was 100% turnips. They planted with the corn planter. I've yelled at these guys. I don't know how many times, three, four years in a row. Just by chance they proved me wrong the year before. It was their best producing corn. But we had rain at the right time. Rain makes a crop. It hides all the mistakes time after time. They got lucky. They did it again in the Burnham this last year. Sully County, right east of Oneida. Same corn hybrid here. No cover crop, no grazing 176. Versus one with a cover crop with no grazing 148. Substantial. Different corn hybrid. Again, the exact same area. No grazing 161. And look at this. No cover crop, but with grazing 112. Cover crop, yes. Grazing, yes, 97. Again, unfortunately this is not replicated stuff, but we need to be looking at this stuff a little bit closer. For you guys that are using cover crops, leave some check strips. Leave two or three. Preferably three or four. So if we screw up something measuring, we always have another rep to come back to to look at it. What are our options to delay planting? To delay planting that cover crop is an option. I prefer, I really don't prefer this option, but some guys usually the further soft you get like to get that crack out, that volunteer wheat, like to get a crack at cheap grass, so this may be a viable option for some. But just delay planting that cover crop by two weeks makes a huge, potentially a huge difference in amount of growth you get. Grazing versus non-grazing. Which one are you going to pick if you're a cow guy, obviously. So I don't really prefer this method, but this is an option. Planning it timely, and if things really start turning hot and dry, terminate it before the frost. A lot of you guys are doing cover crops because of CSP. If things turn hot and dry, document your rainfall, come into us. I already talked to our boss in here on. He has no issue with maybe potentially allowing you to terminate this early. Because we are behind for what cover crops have the potential to do, what we think they can do, and just what, like I showed you with that with that Dakota Lakes Research Farm stuff, took us 12 years to see that. Are these small little increments that we get from this cover crop just enough to keep the soil biology moving forward, keep building a little bit of extra carbon? Is that enough to someday get to catapult us to this next level of crop production? I don't know. I don't want to answer that for sure. But that's what we're hoping. So we're going to work with you on that. Any questions on that so far? My next topic is going to be a quick study, two different fertilizer studies at Cronin Farms. Is it good there? Cronin study, Cronin Farms had a cover crop, full season cover crop planted July 10th in 2016. It was after Tefgrass. Plenty of moisture there. It got things going good. It was a 12-way mix, very diverse sedan grass, the BMR grazing corn, the kale, to okra. You had okra in there. Well, we didn't see any okra plants, but you had okra seed in there. All kinds of different things. We wanted to know how nitrogen was going to you know, we always hear that after cover crops you're able to reduce your inputs. We wanted to see if we could make that happen. This study was replicated, and the following study I'll show you was also replicated. These are hand harvested yields, which generally are 8-10% higher than combine harvested yields. But we had fertilizer treatments out there. This slide is very busy. We had treatments in treatments out there along with how the fertilizer was put down. The bulk of the fertilizer was put down with a sprayer in stream bars on the surface running north and south. 0 gallons 20 gallons and 40 gallons wasn't it? Or 30 gallons. 0, 20, and 40. And then we had we had the starter in there of 75 pounds of mezz, so that's where this 9 pounds of nitrogen comes into play. And that was all the starter fertilizer was right with the corn seed. The sideban in dictated whether or not we had 51 pounds of actual in 2 inches beside the seed 2-3 inches beside the seed. So wherever it has a yes here we had 51 pounds flat rated right beside the seed. Our total in that we put on without the soil nitrogen in our soil nitrogen in was 30 pounds but this is just actually what commercial fertilizer was added anywhere from 9 pounds to 180. The sweet spot which we kind of calculated to be was 120 pounds of actual in produce 185 bushel corn and 9.1 percent protein. I took protein measurements of that corn just because if you're raising your own corn for feed you want to make sure you get that as high as you can. It's going to have less less supplements you're going to need down the road. But that was also the highest net return when we were looking at it economically from the price of corn being 280 the price of nitrogen being 40 cents our net return was 458 for that one. You went up to 129 pounds and it started decreasing our net return. So again the sweet spot was 120. Look how much corn we produced though basically our check. 133 bushel. That cover crop they only put down 50 pounds of actual in for that cover crop that produced 8 tons of dry material. Yep. You know another thing Casey how many days did you raise on your pad ox? Well both the stowage 25 days over it was 25 pad ox 25 days and then the we wanted to return the residue it was what many swath grade but we felt we did it everything right the snow herders the deer herders the cold herders but so anyway we saw it but the thing I liked about the whole thing Casey I'll say the same thing is everything stayed on the field but we didn't have a as far as you could go out there next spring we didn't have a compaction issue but then we were in January. Right exactly. Yeah there was no compaction whatsoever with your terrible ridiculously cold so again this study will be done exactly in the same field because it's going to be going back to corn we're going to do the exact same treatments in the exact same spots so we'll see if there's a benefit to two years after that full season cover crop is really what we're going to see I'll need to get in there and soil sample those areas to adjust accordingly which I should have did after harvest last year but it just didn't get done, sorry and that same field in a different part of that field Danny Cronins did a starter fertilizer study because as Dwayne Beck has always preached long-term low disturbance no-till we get all this mycorrhizal fungi produced and maintained do we really need starter fertilizer is really a question so this was a replicated treatment the soil test was 12 parts per million bray and he went zero pounds and then he went 37 pounds of mes and 75 pounds of mes which is 15 pounds of actual pee and the 37 pounds and 30 pounds of actual pee and the 75 pounds of product no statistical differences amongst the yield there now with that said I would not advocate cutting or eliminating with this study I would not advocate completely eliminating your pee can you cut back if your pee levels especially are in a decent category probably but again you got to remember that soil was long-term no-till and low disturbance it has to be low disturbance any of those whole type openers that you may have used 10, 15 years ago or still have it doesn't count this has to be low disturbance you have to have that mycorrhizal fungi intact long-term for this maybe to be of some benefit and we the Colex Research firm has got a new person down on board down there, Jose Guzman he's going to study it on irrigated we're pushing Duane to get it studied on dry land where it needs to be and we hope to have some results in the next three to five years one year is just not enough to make a call on it's just going to be too dependent on weather conditions and this year I wish Danny this would have been after that heavy wheat residue you know where things were cool and wet I mean not wet but cool where we had frost etc you know this was into that that crop cover crop that was grazed you know what we've seen some different results all the soil tests analysis and stuff has all been done under conventional till and SDSU realizes they need to be looking at this differently under long-term no-till situations of how we can adjust and probably cut back on some of our inputs we just need to know where
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Day 2 | Lessons Learned in Addressing Inequities in Heat-Related Climate Change Impacts Workshop
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For this hybrid workshop (both online and in-person), we identified key elements of "effective actions" to prevent and mitigate inequitable health risks from one of climate change's most pervasive, critical aspects–extreme heat. This multiday hybrid workshop convened people with lived experience, environmental health, economic, and racial justice experts, climate scientists, energy specialists, and individuals who work on sustainable planning and disaster relief. Together they explored a diverse set of real-world challenges affecting different communities and the innovative actions being pursued to prevent, adapt to or mitigate the health consequences of extreme heat.
Watch Day 1 (June 20, 2023): https://youtu.be/GTGG5I5ISts
Video Content DAY 2: JUNE 21, 2023
00:00:00 - Day 2: Welcome and Meeting Overview
00:03:51 - Day 2, Session 1: Success stories focused on cross-sector partnership
00:05:11 - Dana Habeeb, Indiana University
00:13:33 - Raed Mansour, Chicago Department of Public Health
00:21:54 - Day 2, Session 1: Q&A
00:38:13 - Day 2, Session 2: Interactive Cross-Sectoral and Transdisciplinary Solution-building Panel Discussions with Public Participation
00:40:13 - Hunter Jones, NOAA–National Integrated Heat Health Information System
00:42:03 - Vivek Shandas, Portland State University
00:44:19 - Jessica Tredinnick, 3M
00:47:36 - Rupa Basu, California EPA – Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
00:50:22 - Nikki Cooley, Northern Arizona University–Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals
00:53:05 - Jane Gilbert, Miami-Dade County
00:55:53 - Garry Harris, Center for Sustainable Communities
00:58:37 - Day 2, Session 2: Q&A solution-building panels
00:59:29 - Solution-building Panel Discussions #1: Natural and Built Environment
01:15:47 - Solution-building Panel Discussions #2: Workers and Economic Productivity
01:32:48 - Solution-building Panel Discussions #3: Health and Healthcare
01:48:55 - Solution-building Panel Discussions #4: Well-being/social cohesion
02:04:51 - Day 2, Session 3: Circumventing unexpected obstacles or wildcards through collaborative brainstorming
Day 2, Session 3: Recap of Session 3 Breakouts
02:08:09 - Breakout Room #1
02:10:51 - Breakout Room #2
02:14:24 - Breakout Room #3
02:16:02 - Breakout Room #4
02:21:50 - Reflection and Closing
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Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Sabrina McCormick. I'm founder of Resilience Entertainment and co-chair of today's meeting. And I'm Anna Guntz. I'm a pediatric intensivist and co-director of the Children's Environmental Health Clinic, Ontario. On behalf of the full planning committee, we welcome you to day two of the third in a four-part series of workshops on communities, climate change, and health equity. The overall goal of the workshop from yesterday and today is to identify key elements of effective and innovative actions to prevent and mitigate inequitable effects and health risks from one of climate change's most pervasive critical aspects, extreme heat. Yesterday, we had a number of speakers and we also had participants input information as well from breakouts. And there were about five themes that came up. One is the need to improve communication about heat and the health implications that includes involving valuing nature as well as the community knowledge. Another is the need to better characterize heat as a risk in terms of the specific definition and how we describe and define it. The need for correct assessments of the affected communities while at the same time moving towards actions and implementation, which involves also valuing local action, community knowledge and indigenous knowledge and other ways of knowing. The potential for using social change approaches for actually integrating health within social change programs to input effects of community action. And the final theme that we identified was that all interventions need to be addressed locally. And then when we have these local information strategies, how do we scale them so that other people aren't reinventing the wheel? Today's, we're gonna have a number of sessions, but we are gonna move from identifying barriers in order to actually talking about solutions and creative design. So we've created a number of sessions to help facilitate this and your participation is actually gonna be hugely important to this. So in the first session, we're gonna hear from speakers about cross-sectorial partnerships and co-creation. And in the second session, we have gathered some experts and we're going to review the barriers that were identified yesterday and ask them to think of solutions from their experience and even just their philosophy and their purview. And at the same time, we're also gonna invite audience participation to write in solutions as well. And then in the third stage, what we're gonna do is we're gonna look at the most popular solutions that have been identified by the entire group, online and in-house and break out into breakout sessions. And then these breakout sessions are actually gonna flush out these solutions in a lot more detail and test them. And then we're gonna kind of come back together and review them at the end. So at the end of this workshop series, we'll produce a report in the format of a proceedings in brief these and these workshops are gonna be designed to be highly interactive and to look at case studies reflecting people's lived experiences. And so we hope that this will help pave the way for our way forward. And so we wanna state this because we really wanna emphasize how important it is, how we value your participation either through the chat, which is open to everyone across the groups and through the Jamboards that we're gonna be using and the Q and A sessions in Slido. So let's get started. It's my pleasure to introduce the first sessions moderator, Daniel Horton. He's one of the committee members and he is also assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science is at Northwestern University. The floor is yours. Thank you, Anna. I'm very happy to begin the transition of our discussion from barriers to solutions. The goals of this first session of day two are to understand what it takes to collaborate effectively and co-produce solutions that work for all. So that is working across sectors toward a common goal. To better understand these needs and best practices, we're first turning to the narrative format with two stories of success from a couple Midwest based practitioners. But first, a bit of logistics. Audience members are invited to submit questions at any time using Slido where everyone can upvote the questions they most want to hear our speakers answer. We'll address as many of these questions as possible during our panel discussion after the two stories. And for our presenters, you'll have about eight to 10 minutes maximum for your presentations to allow time for Q and A at the end. And at the two minute mark, we'll send you a warning via chat that your time is coming to an end. Okay, on to the stories. Our first speaker is Dr. Dana Habib. Dr. Habib is an assistant professor in the Department of Informatics at Indiana University. Today, she will share her experience around design, urban planning, public health, local sensing and local interventions for climate resilience. Dr. Habib, the floor is yours. Thank you so very much. Welcome, everyone. And thank you so much for inviting me to speak today. Today, I'll be talking about one of our programs called Beat the Heat. And talk about how we're integrating communities and equity into heat response planning. The Beat the Heat program is a two-year program funded by the Indiana Office for Community and Rural Affairs where we're working with two communities in Indiana, Richmond and Clarksville, to help them develop targeted heat response plans for their communities. Climate change is increasing extreme heat events across the globe and Clarksville and Richmond is no exception. We can see that by the year 2050, Clarksville and Richmond can expect to see a doubling and tripling of extreme heat events in both of their communities. The Beat the Heat grant is divided into five different phases. For this story, I'm gonna really talk about phase one and primarily phase two of community needs assessment. And the important for assessing our communities to really understand their vulnerability and how to tailor strategies to these communities. For phase one, I think one of the things that's really unique about the Beat the Heat program is that we hired a full-time heat relief coordinator for both of our communities. And one of the first things that the heat relief coordinators did was to establish the heat relief task force. The task force was representative of a cross-section of the communities that had stakeholders from both government sector as well as from communities. And it really provided support and guidance to our heat relief coordinators. And so here you can see different members that were in some of the task force. And then phase two, this is where we did our community needs assessment. In our community's needs assessment, we primarily looked at community input through focus groups, interviews, and surveys. We also participated in NOAA and CAPA strategies heat work campaign and created heat vulnerability and disease for both of our communities. For our surveys, we survey both of our communities and we really were wanting to understand a community's understanding of their awareness of extreme heat risk, but also to understand their adaptive capacities. And one of the most important things that we saw from the survey was really that many members and communities were really experiencing barriers to end home cooling. We saw that one in three people that took the survey experienced barriers to their home cooling systems and that the two top barriers were cost of bills and cost of repairs. Some of the quotes that we got in these surveys was, for example, heat is something I think about all the time. There are times when me and my daughters will get in the car and go for a ride because it's much cooler in the car and with air conditioning other than it is in our house. Or another individual said, our only source of cooling are fans and we place fans throughout the house, but we're unable to keep them going for too long because it dries our electric bill up and we can barely afford our electric bill as it is. And so when we're really looking at equity and climate change and extreme heat, it's so important to understand who's vulnerable in our communities to extreme heat and who has the ability to adapt to these conditions. We also conducted focus groups with different stakeholders. We conducted focus groups with outdoor workers, older adults, parents, youth and government employees. And some of the main takeaways that we saw from these focus groups, as we can imagine from government employees, a really important need for cross-organizational collaboration. For outdoor workers, the need for flexibility in their work schedules. For youth and high school athletes, we saw there's limited knowledge about heat-related illness. And so there's a lot of opportunity here for education awareness here. For older adults, we saw that they had difficulties moving around their communities during hot days. And that parents noted that access to drinking water was really critical, but also a resource that was hard to come by in their communities. We also participated in knowing Kappa Strategies' heat mapping campaign. This is a campaign that's done across the United States. I'm sure many of you are familiar with it. And it's a wonderful community, a wonderful project, but really needed in order to capture hyper-local environmental data, which is needed to really understand a community's exposure to extreme heat. And it's a great example of citizen science project. So you can see different images from our communities here, participating in this program. We're basically knowing Kappa Strategies sent us sensors that we mounted on our cars, our bikes. And with predetermined routes, we biked through each or drive through each of our communities. Days were selected by working with National Weather Service to really pick a day that was ideal for urban heat-related conditions. And just to note too, that Clarksville worked with their high school students and really integrated them into the process. So it was a great way to increase education awareness there too. So here's some of our outputs that we received from our Heat Work Campaign where we can see our hyper-local temperature data and the heat exposures in both of these communities. We use this data to create story maps as well as to use this for education and engagement. We saw community members use these for grants, applications, as well as for planning and decision support too. We also use this to create our heat vulnerability indices for both of our communities. A heat vulnerability index is where we are able to identify areas that are most vulnerable to heat. And our main indicators are looking at environmental exposures, sensitivity such as age and adaptive capacity. For our heat vulnerability index, we specifically used evening temperatures because we see that nighttime temperatures are better predictors of negative health effects due to extreme heat. And we also created a sensitivity score for our communities by combining different social demographic factors, which include age, educational attainment, race, language barrier, poverty and social isolation. You can see these different factors mapped here on the right. We combined all of those into a sensitivity score. And then we overlaid our heat exposure in our sensitivity score and identified the block groups that were ranked the highest in both heat exposure and sensitivity score. And then we ranked them in priority areas from first to third. And so here's an example. This is what our priority areas look to both of our communities. What was wonderful then to see how the communities use these types of priority areas, we saw that both communities use these to apply for grants for tree plantings and to plant trees and areas of high vulnerability and high heat exposures for the communities. And we also saw that Clarksville when working with their senior citizens were also decided to really look through bus stop amenities and how they could help with the transportation system. So also looked at areas that were high to heat exposures and how they could really improve their communities in that aspect as well. And so this pretty much wraps up our community needs assessment stage. We developed the different heat management strategy plans and now we're on phase five of the program. And in phase three, we develop our management heat management strategies as well as our heat roof wave response protocols for both of these communities. These management strategies have been passed and approved through both of their city councils too. And then this is just an overview, just to kind of show all the different strategies our communities worked on to look at with regard to their heat wave response protocols, public outreach strategies, home cooling strategies as well as climate responsive design strategies. And now we are in the process of wrapping up our continuity plan and also looking at different methods for in-home cooling. Thank you all so very much. Thank you so much, Dr. Habib. Our next speaker is Rod Mansur, who is currently the Director of Environmental Innovation at the Chicago Department of Public Health. Today, Rod will share a story about his leadership of the R-Route Chicago Tree Equity Program. Take away Rod. Thank you, Dan. Exciting to see what's been done with the Heat Watch Campaign. We're going to be doing that this year too. So thanks for sharing that. I'm going to center our initiative, R-Route Chicago, more around the community today. R-Route Chicago is an initiative to equitably increase Chicago's urban canopy with a $46 million investment over five years. So it's something like 75,000 trees. We offer some solutions to overcome some of the long-standing barriers and unwind the injustices that have led to having these low-canopied communities. So just a little data. It's data-informed, but that's just a small piece of what we're trying to do. We prioritize communities. We looked at four buckets of social, economic, environmental, and public health data. We brought it together and we were able to see where that tree canopy percentage, where the most benefit will be perceived and realized in the communities where we should be planting these trees. But the data was a small part of it. So it's data-informed, but community-driven. And what I mean by that is, you know, we didn't start out with this many people in that tree equity working group back in August of 2021, probably 20 people. And now there's 135 folks from a lot of organizations. And here it's not to impress you with the number of people that are joining our meetings that are part of this, but it's more about the concept of this three-legged stool we've coined, where you bring together community, conservation organizations, you know, researchers, and government regularly, once a month, Tuesday mornings at 9 a.m., second Tuesdays of every month. And we discuss all issues around tree equity, tree maintenance, planting, water, policies, procedures, ash trees, the list goes on and on. And I don't want to make it sound like we all agree on everything that's being presented, but we are aligned on a mission, and we are engaging, we are listening and hearing each other, and we're learning from each other. And that's one of the key things here that we have some of these community organizations sharing their best practices. So, you know, we've defined tree equity, you know, but I think what's more important is the definition the community has developed. Prioritizing historically marginalized disinvested under canopy communities on the top of the website. But when we ask what tree equity means to the individuals that are part of this working group, you can see here, health was the number one answer. Of course, you see justice, peace, community, all these add up into that definition. But we all agreed on this health as part of this strategy. So, the community led the logo design. They told us they need a website so that they can drive people to the site to answer questions. They wanted tools, they wanted door hangers, and we developed that for them. They wanted to combat misinformation in the community, some of the myths that center around trees. And then we launched on Arbor Day of 2022. But how do you convince residents that something like this, where there are no trees in the community in Chicago, is something that can be someday look like this? And the answer is by going to the community, speaking to those that have been working on the ground on this work and walk their neighborhoods and talk to them. They have the solutions, but there's a need of resources. So, combined with understanding what the communities need, lean in when needed, and lean back when not. And what the city can do. So, we launched this Tree Ambassador program where we trained and paid community organizations to submit tree requests on behalf of residents instead of waiting for someone to request the tree. And we learned what our foresters do in the city, and we passed that along to the community. We created Tree Ambassadors, and you can see in Little Village and in North Lawndale, and Pilsen and in Roseland. We go out to the community and train, and they then train the trainers. They go out into their communities, and hopefully the forced multiplier effect of not only educating about the benefits of trees and seeing if a tree does fit within the parkway of the city, of the publicly owned area, but to engage the residents because 30% of trees are on public property, the rest are on private. So, this train, the trainer's model was developed so that the number of Tree Ambassadors can increase in the community, and they can help shape, this is important, shape the character of their own neighborhood. We planted the 18,000 trees. There's a picture of some of our officials, and this is this year. We're planning to plant 15,000 minimum, and on the right there, you see the Chicago Architectural Center worked with us to have a tree exhibit called Recover, and some of the Tree Working Group folks who says that you can't have fun doing this. So, I'll leave it at that. Here's my contact information, and feel free to visit Chicago.gov. That's our route. Thank you. Thank you so much, Rod. Thank you so much, Rod. We have plenty of time for Q&A, so if you have questions, please put them in the Slido. I'll start out with a question for you, Rod. I think it's rather interesting that in Chicago, the tree planting program is run out of the health department. I'm curious, how does that work, and how do you mesh with the other agencies that might care about trees in the city? I wouldn't say lead. Co-led is probably, but yeah, it did originate out of public health. Public health does not plant or maintain any trees in the city of Chicago. We don't have foresters. But I think bringing in that expertise of community engagement, community collaboration, and the public health data, bring it to the silo department. The folks that plant trees are parks, streets and sanitation, department transportation. The landscape ordinance is run under the Department of Planning and Development, and then we have a Chief Sustainability Officer, and you can see how that can be spread across different departments. So we thought, how can we create an umbrella? And the Tree Equity Working Group was part of that solution, where every month, it's not just community organizations and conservation organizations and researchers that are meeting at this working group. Government representatives regularly all the time from all the departments and agencies. And we come together, and it's an opportunity for community who address the Tree Equity in one meeting, in one sitting, now emailing or calling different people trying to find an answer. We work on that together. And I think public health convenes this and leads it. And I think that's important, especially when you see the definition of Tree Equity where all the members thought health could be at the center of this work. Thank you. Thank you. My next question is for Dr. Habib. I know that you indicated that some of the data that you acquired during the NOAA campaign is part of what underlies your heat vulnerability indices. I'm curious about your perspective on the value of local generation of data or cogeneration of data and knowledge to building community trust and having the community adapt the policy suggestions that you're making. Yeah, I think that's a wonderful question. And so important to be able to engage the community, both in giving them a voice and power and also building that trust with them. So one thing that I thought that was really wonderful that came from Richmond was that not only did we create our HVIs, our heat vulnerability index and our priority areas in order to really target policies, but we used that approach to really be able to educate the communities and have the communities around their different vulnerabilities to heat, but also to create volunteers with the communities around tree planting. And so Richmond had specifically created tree tenders, which have never had a volunteer for tree planting before. And so tree tenders specifically came about from this grant and another where training was done for tree planting, but also the focus on really prioritizing that planting in the most heat-vulnerable areas. So I think bridging those two together was really great to see both the data coming in, but then also the community organization that happened as well. The other thing that was really important with building trust with the community is getting access to our most vulnerable community members. And this is something that's really difficult. And we saw it was difficult in both of our communities. And so really being able to work with the stakeholders who have already built that trust and be able to power them and give them the resources in order to work with these communities. So a lot of our housing insecure residents in our communities, both of our heat relief coronas, really worked with stakeholders that they identified that had already built those trust and then developed things such as cool kits distributions too by figuring out things that they would need. And so coming together by creating these cool kits and then working with different community members to distribute those. So that was another great example of seeing both the data coming in, but also seeing that engagement with the communities and the important stakeholders there. So both of you have touched on building green canopies or tree planting. And we had a lot of discussion yesterday and it's come up again in the slide out chat. So here's a question for both of you. One ongoing concern I hear from communities is the fear of green gentrification. And I'm curious for both of your perspectives on ways to prevent this practice. That's a great question. This came up early on. First posed by researchers who kind of, you know, came up and thought that that was a risk. And it was immediately addressed by community members. Those that have been working on the ground in trying to increase the tree canopies in their community. And I'm going to quote her, Anna Maria from North Laundale, who stopped and said, it's not gentrification when the community is running. And so I couldn't, I couldn't have said it any better. The idea of having community members go door to door engaging with residents, surveying the parkway where trees can go is at the essence of what we're trying to do. Having the community shape the character of their neighborhood, not the city, not only decided by the city or by others. So it is a true, you know, community driven initiative. And just to kind of add on to that, I think the important thing to note here is that housing stability is so important when we look at the adaptive capacity of our communities with climate change. And this is something that plagues our communities across the country is that ability for housing stability. And so I think this is a larger issue of really what's driving instability. We don't want to keep our communities from having healthy environments because that might raise property value, but instead these more core issues need to be addressed and really, you know, tackling housing stability, because we can't talk about, you know, having adaptive capacity and building resilience if our communities don't have that stability. Both of you spoke quite a bit about engaging with the community and you're coming from one from government and one from academia. And certainly there's challenges with working with community organizations and vice versa. And so I'm curious about the development of these relationship with community organizations from a government perspective, from an academic perspective. What are some barriers that you ran into and what are some ways that you got beyond that? And then how long did this take to develop? I know that relationships can take a long time to build. And so what are your perspectives on this? Hard to put a number on the time frame. Some are easier, some are harder. I think the thing that should be emphasized is get out of the office and meet with the community and understand what they're going through and what their needs are. I did say in my presentation to lean in and lean back when not needed. And that's important. I think sometimes we want to do onto or do for instead of doing with. And so that can create a lot of problems because it's not coming from community. Having conversations and being honest, there's always this total government line I think sometimes where we're very careful about what we say. But I think that if you just let down the guard and understand that a lot of the distrust and sometimes the advocacy and push is not directed personally like myself. It is an opening and an avenue to talk about issues that they've been aggravated by to put, you know, not only aggravated but also affected by the way the bureaucracy is set up where they don't have a voice. And so listening is a key part of this. And don't worry about defending past whatever. We're here to change that. And I think going out there and talking and listening and being a part of it when they invite you over, you can't say you're busy. When they have their community meetings that they want you to join at 7pm on a Tuesday, you join. You know, it is a rough schedule sometimes being there on Saturday and Sunday and having them having your telephone number. But that's, I think, a part of that overall building trust. So we all know where we're coming from and it can be lead to real genuine relationship. I think the time aspect can't be underestimated. It takes so much time to build that trust and those connections. And it's one of those things that can't just happen at the beginning of a project. And so understanding who has built those already, those establishments, those stress, those connections. And whether you're doing that work or you're giving the resources to the people that already have that connection too. I think it's always this like tension between realizing that a lot of communities are often over strain too. And so that fine line between engagement but not putting burden on the community. And so meeting them at their needs and kind of as what was mentioned too, you know, going to them for, for meetings and really understanding that time cost too and engagement and that, that importance to it. I really love that idea of our task force and really bringing in community members into this. And so when making these types of policies or plans or even trying to understand assessments that I really felt like both of the community's task force were so important for our heat relief coordinators to understand who were the important people to go to and talk to that had the connections to be able to reach the most vulnerable communities in need. And so I think bringing, making sure you're bringing people to the table to give them the voice and to have, you know, power over how decisions are made or maybe how policies are directed too was really helpful and overarching plan for, for beat the heat. All right, I have a couple of nitty gritty questions for each of you from the Slido. The first is for Dr. Habib was the heat vulnerability index used for the mapping in Indiana different from the social vulnerability index. So the question is asking was the heat vulnerability index different than the social vulnerability index? Yeah, I believe we're looking for a little bit of clarification on the distinction between the two. So what we did was we created a social vulnerability index. And then what we, for our heat vulnerability index, what we did was that was our index, but then we overlay social vulnerability and heat exposure. We didn't combine those into the exposure. One thing that we did, one thing that was really great about our program and it's still great is that there was a ton of education that went into our program with both of our communities. We had many webinars on looking at extreme heat and engagement with communities, how to do focus groups was important for asset mapping, looking at extreme heat and extreme heat thresholds. So there was so much education that went in through this phase and the very, especially the very beginning of the program, which I find to be very valuable. But then we also went and we talked about our heat vulnerability index to understand that indices can be misleading. And so it was important to understand which characteristics you want to strategize for and to prioritize. And so that's when we had all of our maps separate and said, if you want to focus specifically on elders that live in isolation, then these are the block groups for that and you can target policies specifically for that. But if you want to look at all the different types of all the different demographic characteristics together, then we have it indicated for that. If you just want to look at heat exposure, you can look at that separately. If you want to combine the two, these are our priority areas. And so we really walked through that entire process talking about the pros and cons of this and really understanding also the limitations that we have with a lot of our demographics and systems data being at such low spatial resolution and the power that we have from working with Kappa and Noah getting that really high resolution heat exposure data too. And one last question for you, Rod, on the governance structure of the R-Root's tree equity program, how does that work? I lead the tree equity working group meetings. I collect agenda items. We have the chief sustainability officer who drives across all the departments and strategizes with them individually. We don't have it as formal as you think it would be because it coalesces easily individually. If public health brings in the community part and the foresters bring in their know-how and the chief sustainability can oversee all that, that's basically that loose kind of internal piece. Now the working group members though, in empowering them, there's a lot of conservation organizations that are integral to making this work. Open Lands, the Chicago Region Trees initiative at Morton Arboretum, the Trust for Public Land, they're already working with community members, but we figured out how to leverage some of their existing work. And without them, there's just government people meeting about trees. So that piece is more important, I think, than us. If we bring the money and they bring the engagement and it comes together, we don't micro-manage how a lot of that happens. So they've done a great job reaching out to community and we don't want to interrupt that. Like I said, they'll come to us and say, this is what we need. As minimal as a community organization that says, can you create 200 flyers for us? I mean, it's very laid back and it's worked. Although others have tried to formalize it more and structure it more, I feel like we might lose that ability to pivot and be more dynamic and address problems that come up. Like we're at a severe drought right now in Chicago. And do we wait for change of command? Do we go through outside departments that will now be given the power, I guess, to overshadow a lot of what we do. So I think this shared power is the best way to go. Wonderful. Well, thank you both for sharing some of your perspectives and your successes. But more importantly, thank you for the work that you've been doing in your communities. We're going to transition now to session number two, which is moderated by my fellow committee member, Cecilia Sorenson, who is the director of the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Environmental Health Sciences, all at Columbia University. Thank you so much, Daniel. And in this session, we're going to continue to build on solutions. This session is entitled Interactive Cross-Sectoral and Transdisciplinary Solution Building Panel Discussions. So let's get started. The goal of this session is to explore an integrated multi-sectoral approach with the hope of arriving at a set of effective innovative actions for addressing some of the identified problems and challenges related to extreme heat that were brought to the forefront from day one. So for this, I will facilitate a collaborative discussion with panelists from different sectors and ask you as the audience to also propose solutions, actors and actions. So to accomplish this, this session is going to be divided into three parts. The first part is where the panelists will each provide a two-minute opening remarks given their names, their positions and actions they are taking at their levels towards solving specific heat issues. Then our facilitators from yesterday's four different breakout rooms will briefly present a summary of barriers or challenges to the panel. And our panel will have 10 to 15 minutes to debate and explore innovative integrated solutions that align with the needs of all sectors represented. In parallel, we invite you the audience to submit your ideas for solutions during this time as our facilitators are presenting the challenges and barriers that were identified and all of this will be woven into our meeting summary report. So with that, I would like to welcome our esteemed panel. If we can bring them on to the screen. Our first panelist is Hunter Jones, who is representing a federal government perspective. Hunter, your two minutes are starting now. Thank you very much and hi everyone. I'm with the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration and representing the National Integrated Heat Health Information System, NIHIS, which we launched in 2015. It was actually jointly launched by NOAA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But at this point, we have a ton of agencies that are a part of our group. I wouldn't want to start listing them because it would take a while. But if you go to heat.gov, you can see all the agencies we work with. And the idea behind launching NIHIS was really to provide a coordinated federal response to extreme heat. And so we were responding to a number of issues that we saw and that have been discussed already in this wonderful session. So in this wonderful workshop, the impacts are often invisible and delayed and hard to quantify of heat. And so we've been trying to change that. Heat governance has been a challenge at all levels, including the federal level. And so that's one reason why we wanted to bring all these agencies together to work on heat. We also identified the issue of heat affecting marginalized groups differently and having greater impacts. And so we wanted to start to illuminate that more and help communities take on heat. And then also we wanted to really focus on the timescale issues with respect to heat. So heat is something that you can respond to in the moment, but it's also something you can plan for and prepare for and be resilient to. So we really wanted to kind of think on all these different timescales about how we would help people manage heat. So I'm really looking forward to this discussion with the other panelists. Thank you for having me. Thank you so much, Hunter. I know you'll have a lot to add to this. And next, I'll turn it over to Vivek Shondas. It's great following Hunter. Hi everyone, Vivek Shondas. He, him, his. I introduced myself and some of the projects yesterday and well just quickly note is just several tensions that exist in this field right now and ways like this forum to be able to directly confront and explore what those tensions might look like. A few of those tensions include what we were just hearing about from Raed is the idea of formal versus informal approaches. That's something that comes up over and over in the work that I'm doing. Another is related is the relationship between lived experience of heat and the tension of technical expertise brought into that understanding. Another one is letting perfect the enemy of the good and that is something I continuously see a lot of preventable debts that could occur as trying to get this exact perfect and a fourth one of five that I'll just mention here is the idea of kind of characterizing risks first and then leading to actions as I was mentioning in yesterday's session and finally slow and planned response versus the fast and responsive approach and that gets to Hunter's point about timeliness and these are things that I'm consistently seeing play out and there may be several others that I could point to as we explore the conversation a bit more but things that we're doing to try to get at these tensions is trying to understand exposure pathways what are the means by which people are getting direct exposure to heat. I'm not sure of evidence and data on that we also don't have a lot of evidence on evaluating effectiveness of particular interventions. This is a long game and we really are throwing lots at this right now and we really need to get into that zone of evaluating so I'll stop there for now and look forward to the conversation with others. Thank you so much. You're coming in and out just a little bit so if there's anything you can do on your end to adjust your connection that would be great. Our third panelist is Jessica who is representing an industry perspective. Hi everybody my name is Jessica Trudinic I know that last time is challenging to pronounce so as you say I do bring the industry perspective I also I am an occupational health and safety professional by background so I bring that perspective also and of course also finally the perspective of a concerned member of the public and I'm interested in this conversation for many reasons first the space between occupational and home or private exposures is narrowing in this day and age what is a worker what is a member of the public workers are increasingly driven by the gig economy seasonal workers things like that so these populations are not disparate from each other and of course as we've discussed the exposures to heat via personal life and also via workplace life interact with each other so I think that the most important exposure sources are important to consider and I think this workshop has done a really good job of that so far I'm particularly interested in the workplace conversation because as we've talked about today and yesterday workers have historically often not been considered at risk populations but of course we understand today that they are particularly at risk because they cannot avoid their exposures by reducing physical exertion or staying indoors in cool places and so workers need particularly proactive interventions and finally my interest in the conversation is driven by my experience in occupational health so while it's true that heat risk can be difficult to predict and difficult to characterize we do have roadmaps available to us to help us do this both for occupational exposures and also for home life or personal life exposures so there are three examples that I have of how we can pull occupational health practices into this I know I don't have a lot of time but very briefly in occupational hygiene we aim always to anticipate first recognize characterize and control risks and as others have said I think that's the approach we need to take to the challenge of extreme heat we have also a very proven practice of creating similar exposure groups I haven't heard this concept mentioned specifically in that term but that's the practice of creating subpopulations of individuals whose risk can reasonably expected to be the same and then you design controls and protections for those groups and that's a way to amplify the impact of actions taken and then finally the hierarchy of controls so in situations where we get to that place where we need to control a risk we need to make sure to follow the hierarchy of controls in order to prioritize the actions that we identify that we should take and also to inform decision making about which actions to take and there are plenty of examples about how we should prioritize first the elimination of the hazard and then controlling the hazard through engineering controls all the way down to possible personal individual protective solutions and we can I'm sure during the session explore that in greater detail I'm happy to be here thanks everybody thank you so much Jessica and over to Dr. Rupa Basu who is representing a state government perspective Hi everyone I'm Rupa Basu thank you Cecilia for that introduction I'm currently at the Air and Climate Epidemiology section at one of the California EPA's offices with the Office of Environment and Health Hazard Assessment and I'd like to kind of come from an epidemiologist by training I started this work really half my life ago I had 25 years ago and I at that time we were really basing our work on case reports following heat waves so we have come a long way we've developed epidemiologic methods we've looked at mortality identified high-risk populations also considered morbidity outcomes and I think at this point I agree with the other panelists something that's been repeated over again from this morning and also yesterday is that we are at this point now where we have done this work and we need to move forward with interventions really thinking about high-risk populations and communities getting community workers involved it's kind of like we now have this big picture we know what's going on we need to kind of hone in on and use the knowledge that we've created so far over the past 20-30 years to develop interventions I think we all agree that it's not going to be the same interventions for every community so we have to really try to think about what will work in each location and it has to be very specific to that location based on vulnerable populations high-risk groups but also what is feasible a lot of times we hear about cooling centers as an intervention in some places that works great movie theaters for example shopping malls senior centers in other places people lack the transportation to even get to these cooling centers or may not even think about going there so we really have to think about this in terms of each community and of course we can develop plans that we can as a state government employee think about working with local health departments but I think we have to take it a step further and again include community members to think about what will work and this I want to say again and again a lot of the heat-related mortality morbidity is preventable so we can get there thank you so much dr. Bessie and I'll turn it over next to Nikki Cooley who is representing an indigenous perspective over to you Nikki. My name is Nikki Cooley I'm from the next nation we're commonly known as the Navajo people I live here in Arizona Flagstaff Arizona the rightful homelands of the Navajo Hopi Walapai Havasupai and many other Pi tribes I am the co-director of the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals Northern Arizona University and I also co-managed the tribes and climate change program we work with tribes across the country on climate adaptation and mitigation via workshops we have introductory and advanced courses webinars we offer technical assistance to assist tribes in addressing climate impacts and one of the things that we are largely focusing on is the inclusion ever the always mentioning of traditional knowledges, indigenous knowledges so the Biden Harris Administration submitted federal guidelines for decision making processes using indigenous knowledges and that is a huge victory for us because in our work we stress the use of indigenous knowledges even in every sector and right now we are talking about the impacts of heat on indigenous peoples and we are trying to have the federal government even at the regional local community level, governance level to consider indigenous ways of knowing because these types of knowledges have been knownly and intentionally excluded from every conversation because we feel that there are indigenous ways of doing like traditional structures that can help with cooling of you know communities that are facing high heat such as we are facing here in Arizona so that is one of the things that we are working with tribes on and I'll talk a little bit more about what I do and I just want to mention to everyone here don't speak for any specific tribe even though I am from the Dine tribe we work with tribes and some of the information that I will be sharing I have been given permission but I don't speak for all indigenous people so I'll pass it back over to you Cecilia Thank you so much Niki and now I'll turn it over to Jane Gilbert who is representing a local government perspective Thank you Cecilia and thank you National Academies this has been great to hear everybody's comments and discussion Yes Jane Gilbert chief officer in Miami-Dade County I was appointed two years ago by our mayor to address the increasing risks health and economic risks associated with extreme heat in our region and it's great to hear everyone talk about involving community sectoral solutions because the way I was charged to address this issue was exactly that was to one we did hire some researchers to do a heat vulnerability assessment and access heat study to really understand the conditions at which people were most at risk and the areas geographies and demographics of people that were most at risk in our particular region but we also engaged through our place-based foundation across Miami-Dade County has 34 municipalities within it we have our state health department our community-based organizations our university partners all of which were involved in our climate and heat health task force and we did a community-wide call for people with lived experience from low-income communities from a stipend to participate as an official task force member we then did a series of public workshops where we had our community partners, our municipalities, etc do a big outreach to make sure we got as many voices in the room as possible to address the different issues related to extreme heat so our heat action plan which was released last year is a collective action strategy it's not a county-owned strategy it's actually under our resilient 305 rubric or framework we have other entities a national weather service or community-based organizations or our school district leading on different actions within that strategy it's under three main goals and we talk about short medium long-term solutions it's got all of those engaged on it we're moving forward on all of them now but some of them will take longer and we'll talk about a few fruition so our first one is about informing we gotta keep it super brief just for the introduction three main goals inform, prepare, and protect people cool our homes and emergency facilities and then cooling our neighborhoods and I can get into more detail thank you so much and over to Gary Harris who is representing a non-profit perspective thanks thanks so much Gary Harris I'm managing director for the center for sustainable communities we're about making communities greener, cleaner, healthier, safer and more climate resilient and we do that through an equity and environmental justice lens and I'll approach to this to the effects of heat is in an umbrella program called building a weather-ready nation for all and this really came out of a low storm event that happened in Atlanta a long time ago and since then we've built a number of programs to handle severe weather which includes heat and tornadoes and hurricanes etc etc and we do this by capacity building in communities we do this by meaningful community engagement by exchanging technical knowledge by actually developing computer-based technology by education through environmental justice etc etc example we work with Raytheon to produce an animated series of severe weather interactive tools that will guide the communities through heat-related measures next we work with the State of South Carolina in developing their EJ Strong program which looks at risk and hazards and capacities and vulnerabilities of particular community as it relates to heat and other vulnerabilities and such and from there driving out action plans from there we focus on communities where we want to empower them and in 2017 we won the females award for community engagement for our rally for resilience and that's where we're getting everybody together in the community along with experts and specialists to exchange, to have dialogue and such and talk about heat and other severe weather related matters in one interactive session next we're working with the NWCP with their climate and energy justice program and there we develop guidelines for community engagement and projects and programs that may cause heat-out effects etc etc and lastly we work with something called the building EJ tool or the building environmental justice tool where we work with AutoCase and a number of developers and planners and such to develop a tool that would ask the question if we build this, how will it affect the community including the heat-out effect so a number of things we're doing under building a weather ready nation for all. Thank you so much Gary and as I think we all can see we have an incredible range of expertise on this panel we also have this incredible audience everyone here so thank you all so much so for being here today we are going to have each of our facilitators from day one give a two-minute summary of some of the main challenges and barriers that were identified and we're going to put these problems in front of this panel and let your incredible expertise come to bear on them we hope this will be really exciting and engaging I want to caution everybody to limit your remarks to 30 seconds if you're not available so for those of you in the audience there will be a link put in the chat where you can join a Slido and we invite you to propose solutions as we go through the different challenges that will be presented and now we will turn to our first set of challenges and Carlos you represent the natural and built environment breakout group and what were your major takeaways from the discussion yesterday? for those of you who were in the group yesterday that was led by Mikhail Chester don't be thrown off Mikhail is not able to join us today so I will be pinch hitting stuff the right sports analogies pinch hitting I will be substituting for him today so just as a reminder natural and built environment included a range of blue, green and grey infrastructure and facilities like cooling sensors etc so I'm going to quickly go through three themes obviously there was a lot of conversation we invite you all to go back to the gem board to see some of those but the three how to go rising some of these in three themes I will describe the themes and pose it as a question for you designated panelists to respond to the first is a challenge with the most diffused current intervention for heat emergencies in the natural built environment and that would be cooling sensors there's a lot of discussion about restrictions including federal restrictions around cooling sensors and what the alternatives to cooling sensors could be such as resilient subs etc so that's number one so who I'm going to ask all the designated panelists who are the agents that are controlling these what is their jurisdictional authorities their constitutional authorities and how those could be altered into feasible solutions for dealing with cooling sensors as the first intervention the second is the challenge with less diffused intervention and I'm going to be lumping greening green space and land use change overall and so that's a barrier that there was a range of barriers to local land use changes in greening some of the ones that were mentioned were municipal planning zoning Dr. Chester himself mentioned his own homeowner's association as being responsible for this so these agents the local government versus county state federal roles so particularly those of you that are representing local government state federal roles Jane I'm going to be pulling on you to certainly talk about Miami-Dade with a very forward thinking mayor but who has very clear constitutional divisions about land use rules and so I'm happy to hear your comments on that third challenge is with the less diffused excuse me the challenge that we have least with the least understood phenomenon and that is the lack of knowledge around indoor heat quality this came up repeatedly yesterday because the over emphasis on outdoor heat exposures but certainly existing residential commercial properties so many of the heat deaths and heat health hazards that we see are indoors so thinking a little bit more about who are the responsible parties here how could city governments landlords those who control indoor air qualities not just for new so I'm cautioning the group not to focus on solutions like building codes which are helpful but looking at existing properties and how one can provide solutions for that built environment set would be helpful and those are the three so I'm going to pass it to the designated panelists who I believe is going to we're going to start with Jane yeah let's start with Jane right go ahead Jane okay my internet has been a little unstable so apologies just on the first one thank you Carlos the concern I think I actually was in the group been expressed was really evacuation facilities that in the event of a widespread and extended power outage we don't have in several of them enough backup power to keep some cool and when we went to try to apply for grants there was challenges through FEMA to actually provide those kind of that kind of support so I wanted to be specific on the challenge I don't have the solution to that one but what we did do is pivot and try to work and get a brick grant for a cooling center slash resilience hub that's more a daytime facility in terms of some of the land use questions that you had Carlos I think what we try to do at the county is through our comprehensive plan through our land use is to try to create some that are our ground level that all our municipalities have to live up to and then if they want to do a stronger code they can and so that's what we work towards with our landscape and Street Tree Master Plan code in terms of that but we are revisiting that as we speak we've got a whole urban forestry plan as part of our heat plan so that's another piece that we're looking at. Thank you so much and I wonder if Jessica have any thoughts on our challenge of a lack of knowledge about indoor heat and temperature quality? It is absolutely a challenge of course to characterize the hazards that are present in a way that we know that they're going to represent the day-to-day minute-to-minute realities but I'm not sure honestly how extensively sensor technologies real time detection capabilities have been explored as a way to sort of characterize and zone in real time it looks like Jane has knowledge on that topic. Yeah so sorry but we used university partners to place sensors in homes and then they did research, I forget with the IRB rules or whatever but they made sure they could interview them and do extensive interviews so they could match the temperature humidities with the experience of the people inside and then with NOAA actually Hunter was involved with this we placed sensors outside those homes to understand the correlation between inside and outdoor heat it's helping but we still lack data on really understanding where all the people are that are ACN secure and energy burdened in our county. Let's move towards solutions I want to push you guys to think about what are the solutions to this and maybe Hunter you have some thoughts in terms of some of the data you've received and how we can improve our lack of knowledge. Yeah so I'm kind of reflecting on some of these things that came out of the first group when it comes to the you know making changes in the built environment one solution that we supported that actually is building on a lot of the urban handling mapping campaigns that we worked on throughout the years is with a group at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University that not only developed an authoritative guide on how urban planners and design and other professionals can mitigate heat in the built environment but they also built on previously developed approach called PERS the plan integration for resilience scorecard and they extended it to heat and what it is essentially a planning tool to look across a number of different documents your resilience plan, your sustainability plan a number of different planning documents and just with a focus on heat see what net impact you were having that you know in some places they were having a positive impact on heat, they were mitigating it in other places they were having a negative impact unintentionally because they were focused on another hazard perhaps and so just looking across all those plans and getting a good handle on what was being accomplished was a really good step and so now that approach is being ruled out in a number of other places and there's a lot of interest to do more of it yeah that's great to hear Hunter and you know we do have a lot of guidance and I think this is one of the things that's great more guidance is emerging but I'd like to hear maybe Gary and Nicky what do you think, how do we translate this guidance to the vulnerable populations so that they can take action, what are your thoughts on that maybe Nicky first and then Gary when you're talking about vulnerable communities the indigenous peoples are always part of that group I come from that group where the poverty rate is below 40 it's like not below, it's at 40 more percent on the Navajo Nation but also remember that a lot of our community members are rural so just having been inclusive of that perspective is so important, I know what it's like to live without electricity, running water and I think all of the other panelists we all live in these urban areas and I think to have that perspective we need to really get down into the community and hear from the people I think someone was talking about community meaningful engagement what does that look like, it's not just taking surveys and handing out flyers and saying we need your perspective it's really getting to know the community that you really want to assist so I'll stop right there for now thanks so much Nicky and Gary I'm going to push you towards giving us some solutions here okay quickly here it's all about capacity building and with that I mean getting in community and just not informing them just not consulting them just not letting them know but moving them towards empowerment having ownership of these issues that's the person foremost and also let's move these cooling centers out of government control and into communities and build resilience hubs and such and have those hubs maintained by the community they're accessible, they're maintained and also that the community understands the importance of the treatment as well and it also gets down to the very homes in which people live in a lot of people in underserved communities live in not so nice housing it's not well insulated it was built before so some of the latest it's old and etc so healthy homes, we need to make sure that populations in those communities are living in healthy homes so establishing healthy homes programs with an emphasis on extreme need you walk around the community sometimes you see a home with a single air conditioner stuck in the window what if the air conditioner goes out and it's a 90 degree day another thing that we're doing quickly here is really working with NASA data NASA opened up their information center today and everybody was there and so we're using NASA data from satellites or science data and we're gathering community both together and saying here's a way for you to mitigate your environmental justice challenges via using NASA data we've had two workshops so far and we're feeding back to NASA how can we empower these communities with your data including extreme need yeah I love that thank you Gary so we've been talking quite a bit about how we address this lack of knowledge around indoor heat and temperature and thinking about solutions there let's spend a little time thinking about this cooling centers and evacuation facilities issue Rupa is this something that you've encountered in your work in California and any solutions that really come to the forefront for this yeah so I guess I first want to start with some of the barriers that you discussed one of the biggest things is that we're really silo even among the state workers our state agencies aren't so great about working together and this is why it's so important to have conversations like what we're having right now whether it's academics or government or you know communities it's really important and like Nikki said when we're talking about communities not to just go pass out a flyer and put a questionnaire in and then kind of leave and not do anything about the issues travel communities, unhoused populations and outdoor workers are these high-risk populations that we just don't have data on the indoor air also or indoor temperature excuse me is really important but it's expensive to get that data we need personal monitoring for that that's why it's so much easier to do these large scale studies so as far as interventions go we do have some heat action plans that we can learn from again I don't think that those really capture the root of the problem and also doesn't capture the very vulnerable populations that are not included in these larger data sets but it still gives us a start as to what we can do what kind of interventions we can take as far as cooling centers go Zilly asked that question I don't think that's been a valid solution for most places but in some areas especially in urban areas that does seem to work just because they're more accessible you know there's libraries I mentioned before movie theaters and those types of things that people would probably visit anyway but we have to think about areas that don't have these types of areas rural, semi-urban smaller communities and that's where I think more of this work needs to be done we've done a better job in urban areas just because that's where we have the data we don't have the data in those other places and that's where I see a huge gap Thanks Rupa and over to Hunter I just wanted to add one thought about cooling centers and that is we often focus so much on the centers themselves and not on the people that are using them and who they are and why and I think we need to think more about the groups of people that go to the centers anecdotally I know it's a lot of groups of people like first of all the unhoused population but then there's also another category which is people who are poorly housed older adults that maybe feel like they can't run their air conditioning or something so really getting more paying more attention to who's going and why they're going you might be able to address different issues that are driving people to need to use cooling centers when it comes to poorly housed individuals for example or people who maybe don't feel like they have who don't have air conditioning or don't have the means to run their air conditioning that's potentially a different solution that you can implement as opposed to expecting them to go to a cooling center so really breaking down these issues a little bit more thanks and we have about 30 seconds left I'll turn over to Jessica thank you I know we are trying to focus on solutions and not challenges but I do want to mention that there are parts of the country where historically public buildings have not needed to be climate controlled so there actually is not a capability currently to do things like manage the air quality manage the temperature inside buildings buildings like schools community centers food shelves even sometimes movie theaters don't have air conditioning systems because previous to current times they weren't needed and so I think there's a particular need to evaluate public spaces because we know from occupational hygiene and other practices that relying on engineering controls rather than administrative controls which involve altering human behavior is more reliable so control the climate in those spaces where humans spend their time anyway thank you so much alright well we're going to move on to the next set of challenges and hope audiences following along in Slido and I'd like to invite Juanita to come on screen and present some challenges from the workers and economic productivity group we had yesterday thanks so much Cecilia so my name is Juanita Constable and I'm with the natural resources defense council a lot of the barriers we discussed in the workers and economic productivity session yesterday echoed what we've been hearing all through these main sessions so I'll just group them in three broad categories first there are wide information gaps among and between employers health and safety professionals and workers about the perils of heat and how to address them so many workers aren't aware of their workplace rights many industrial hygienists don't have adequate training on heat which was a big surprise for me to hear yesterday and many employers don't understand that they'll save money by protecting their workers from heat second even when workers and employers understand the health harms of heat they may not have the tools to address them small business owners may not have the staff or the technological expertise they need to develop a robust heat emergency plan or workers may be blocked from organizing themselves to collectively demand the protections they deserve finally as someone just a little talked about yesterday in the context of community members if you have a problem with heat you face a lot of other threats in your life that means that even if a worker has the information they need and the tools to address the harms of heat they may be afraid to use those tools so workers may be afraid of being other for being pregnant they may be afraid of being deported to another country back home to their home they may not be safe for them or lacks economic opportunity they may be afraid of losing the only job available to them and these fears stem directly from the major institutional structural and economic forces that put workers and especially low wage workers of color workers of color in harm's way and keeps them there so we have this nested set of barriers at multiple scales that all contribute to one another how we deal with these nested barriers in a holistic way that doesn't just nibble at the edges of the threat of heat to worker health and productivity and who needs to be contributing to those solutions and how do we best engage those contributors thanks thank you so much and why don't we start this one off with the fact because we didn't hear from you in the last panel if you're ready to respond sure I hope my internet is also stable at least for these 30 seconds that I just quickly respond this is really interesting Juanita lots of work is happening in this area I think one of the things that comes to mind is that when we're thinking about innovative solutions a lot of the my definition of innovation is just old ideas that are put to new application and in this case things like things that have been around IHEAP these early assistance programs even federal agencies like FEMA they don't recognize heat in LIHEAP's case they don't recognize summertime heat as a necessary a lot of states who apply to federal agencies for those resources don't see heat necessarily as a direct opportunity to shore up some resources and that can be directly applicable to workers to to entities and that could be a direct way to address some of the countervailing arguments that I've often heard from private agencies that often say you know we don't have the money to be able to put in air conditioning or we don't have the money to be able to do X, Y, or Z and there are programs that I think do exist already where you can quickly catalyze a lot of activity in terms of reducing exposure particularly those workers who are outdoor workers I'd be really curious to hear from others on the panel about opportunities that might be available or innovations that might be available for getting an outdoor workers outside of the city and I'm curious to know what your thoughts are among any of these themes of communication gaps not workers not having tools and the sort of the fear of retribution that workers experience there's so much to say here I want to start by acknowledging that these challenges are not unique to extreme heat these challenges impact workforces with respect to a lot of different aspects of occupational health and safety there's that and that actually brings me to again the fact that we do have a lot of proven practices that I think we should tap into here when addressing the challenge of extreme heat and its impact on workforces I know Vivek you had challenged us to think about solutions that are not regulations but I do think regulatory framework is absolutely essential there is a state heat illness prevention standard in California that I think is a really great example for other states to follow but we do also need a federal level regulation in place that specifies and requires mandates specific programmatic elements to be put in place in workplaces we don't have that there's a lot of research out there about practices that are effective to address challenges in workplaces we need to tap into the research and the learnings tap into the best practices there are lots of resources recommended guides out there for how to implement a heat illness prevention program but we need those program elements to be mandated by federal OSHA and again there are great examples and I want to point to respiratory protection programs as an example where federal OSHA has mandated specific program requirements that help employers make sure they're putting everything in place they need to to effectively protect workers I can say a lot more but I want to give other people a chance to speak also thanks so much Jessica and panelists if you have a comment you'd like to jump in on please raise your hand so I call on you otherwise I'm going to kind of just go with it. Rupa is that you coming off mute yeah sure I could just add to that one area that is often missed is mental health especially with outdoor workers so we've done some studies now to look at heat and mental health and we know that the suicides and homicides and all these other mental health outcomes are actually elevated when temperatures increase but high risk populations such as outdoor workers are often missed and I think we haven't talked about mental health and that whole aspect as much also something that really needs to be addressed when developing these action heat action plans thanks Rupa and kind of pushing towards solutions I think one of the big challenges we see in this area is big communication gaps and so curious how this group has come up with solutions maybe for other communication gaps but how can we apply it here Jane, Nicky, Gary any thoughts on how we really improve our communication to vulnerable populations in this case being workers go ahead Gary yeah quickly here there's nothing more effective than a good old fashion inspection so let's have our inspectors not only look for safety hazards not only look for trips and falls but also for heat as well and how we can do better not only on outdoor construction sites but also indoor manufacturing facilities as well it's about educating leadership getting that CEO engaged involved making him knowledgeable that hey this is affecting folks all the way down to the assembly line and we need to do something about it he let the officials typically not well educated in this space so we need to push those guys as well the policy worker rights also we touched on laws of regulations and lastly industry operating experience industries keep good records around histories of accidents of things going wrong in certain places so let's expand that to capture history around heat effects and share that as well industry operating experience I love that any Jane any thoughts to oh we have Jessica why don't you jump in and then Jane so quickly to your question about communication challenges a basic practice we need to have in place always is understanding the languages that are spoken by the workforce and providing information both verbal and also written information via posters in the languages of the workforce that is present and then also I want to point out that one way to address communication challenges indirectly is to implement your controls in the form of everyday work day practices rather than training so if you rely less on training and more on things the controls like misting stations that are located there at the work site in the space where the workers are spending their time constructed canopies shade that is erected in the space where the workers are spending their time enforced water and cooling breaks buddy programs where no worker works alone those are our practices very specific examples of practices that can be implemented that rely a little bit less on training and communication of the workforce itself thanks so much Jessica on the theme of communication Jane and then Nicky so I'm wearing a sticker from a demonstration outside that says agua sombrae descansu it's a campaign of workers that are looking for local heat protection we've worked with them for three years trying to get a state level standard and so now we're pivoting towards a local heat protection standard we're exploring that but our heat season campaign to everybody's point was in three languages English, Spanish and Haitian Creole it all channels outdoor media social media but radio the radio stations that we heard from our community members that the Haitian Creole speaking people listening to or the Spanish speaking people listen to and just not just spots but interviews making sure that they're actually their people are representing and getting the word out so I think that's really important we did some that were specifically targeted towards outdoor workers so that we could reach out and are looking to partner with OSHA on a series of trainings this summer to engage employers on the issue so that we can try to Gary's point try to get those the employers involved and engaged on the issue. Yeah, and changing the narrative there maybe and saying you know healthy workers are productive workers right because we when health declines productivity declines how do we frame this in the positive you're actually when you're exerting energy over 90 degrees your productivity goes down 50% so with just an hour out there so if if you do take breaks though I think that's really important because it's really important to have this research that shows that you're more productive. There you go. Nikki over to you. I just quickly wanted to say that I agree with Gary when he mentioned that educating the leadership getting them on the ground and that's something that we do or try to encourage in our work at itep is to have leadership people to have leadership decisions or influence decisions to be to experience what it's like on the ground a few years ago I believe Senator Cory Booker went in the field to with the with the workers and and many other representatives have done the same thing but that kind of I think leadership is needed to educate and show you know so they know and then in the communication one of the things that we promote as well is to and somebody said in the slide out is to empower the community, empower those who are on the ground. I believe that we should see them as relatives not just machines who create products or help with the product output but see them as human beings and that's something that I think should be in management 101 so seeing them in a holistic way right I think how do we create these solutions in a holistic way and one of those ways is going back to seeing our relatives who are in the fields as just that relatives not just worker bees who help us create money so anyways I'll stop there thank you. No you don't have to stop Nikki I think we have some more questions specifically for you and I think you know bringing that indigenous perspective to this is really valuable and one thing that's occurring to me is that workers actually do have a lot of knowledge about heat and how do we bring indigenous knowledge or ancestral knowledge to the forefront and I wonder if you have any experience with raising the profile of those types of practices and maybe it applies in this situation. I live in Northern Arizona and in the area near Monument Valley like Powell area and we've been experiencing extreme heat like over 100 degrees which hasn't happened I grew up herding sheep in the cornfield and I don't remember ever it being like 95 degrees and above but I'll tell you I also live at 7000 plus feet in elevation now so I'm very spoiled my mother still wears hats long sleeve jeans in 100 degree heat and they have these cooling centers and our cooling centers are shape structures made from material off the land and it is and under trees and so we take care of our trees juniper and pinion trees and so just asking our as we say indigenous way our elders our elders are long term monitoring networks and data somebody was saying that there's a lack of data in these vulnerable low income rural communities and that's to your point Cecilia they people are data and we don't ask them enough and that's what we're trying to continually promote at ITEP and with our other partners we have a lot to speak to the people and I'll end with this the Heela River Indian Community which is located south of Phoenix and Chandler Arizona they are also facing extreme heat a lot of Haboobs you know these huge dust storms and the lack of water they are creating traditional shape structures as part of their climate adaptation planning process on the western colonized way of the four wall structures which most often if you look on tribal reservations and communities are poorly built and they're not built to last they're not built to retain heat or coolness so asking the people what it's like and going back to that traditional way of creating these structures which can help with retaining heat or cooling off our most vulnerable community members. Thank you that's so cool Niki thank you so much for sharing we have to move on to our next group now Hunter I see you and we'll come to you quickly so I'd like to turn it over to Anna to present some more challenges and let's focus on solutions we're making really great progress thanks to everyone and thanks to those of you in the audience putting stuff into Slido we really appreciate that over to you Anna I think that bridges perfectly into some of the discussion here so we were health and health systems and so we've summarized this into three take homes but I will say part of this I've taken the liberty of building on so the first one you already heard is silos so where knowledge is who's missing from the conversation who are the actors who has access to health and health care and all of this is affected by trust but it leads to I mean the truth is there's this sectional work because in health health is mental, physical, spiritual emotional health so it it actually it links to everything that we've talked to here but yet the health care system and sector is very siloed and I think that this has just been underscored perfectly in this conversation but we haven't labeled it until in this last one which is really we exist with our information our power and our funding and our scientific method are all very colonial ways of thinking we take complex problem we pick it apart and then we try and measure and then we put it back together again and like that's not a very relational way of thinking it's not helpful and I think you know in health care we're really with all of these fundamental pieces is return to relationships relationships with each other with nature with the environment in the umbrella of planetary health you know really returning and trying to understand support and legitimizing indigenous knowledge systems as really important to our health and amplifying those voices so I think there's definitely an opportunity for learning and recognition of indigenous knowledge systems as you know knowledge keepers but the barrier there is that it's not legitimized it's not recognized and even I think when people are well-meaning it takes time to really listen to learn to listen and understand and the people who are affected by these systems are the speakers so how can we enable healing capacity to share that knowledge I think is a huge piece that was brought in there the second one is data and you know that's difficult to measure you know if you're talking about time points and there's a leg with heat and then there's chronic stress and what that is often misses people's human experience and their human knowledge the scale of the granularity of the pieces getting real-time data and I think a lot of it's focusing on benchmarking but really we need to be working on action so how do you do all these things simultaneously and include these different perspectives and weight and knowledge to get that across and then there's the communication how do you disseminate it how do you counter in a way that's not defeating because there's really striking health outcomes countering disinformation and and and you know how do you also integrate the narrative of climate change in while you're doing this because that's really one of the causes and then the third one is this this chronic and acute response to heat in the health system which we do not have it's very reactive not proactive and often the solutions are outside of the health system but even within the umbrella do we have heat emergency plans do practitioners have conversations and do medication plans and hot day planning are you are we linked properly to you know I think public health and health geography and epidemiology here and then the and that's where the knowledge is but the frontline people the people supposed to be having conversations are often the ones not connected to the community organizations the activists the people having these and and they're not we're not as healthcare providers prepared and we don't have that knowledge so just to sum it up there's like three I think barriers one is the silos and part of that is this healthcare system is like siloed itself from all these other pieces and is trying to link back through we've siloed indigenous knowledge and not highlighted and enabled it the second is data and all the issues around that about who has it how we benchmark and not inhibit action and the third is this preparation for the acute and chronic health system effects like those are basically non-existent so it's a barrier but the other barrier is the fact that we're trying to integrate this on an already overburden stress system. Thanks so much Anna. Okay so let's go to Rupa first for this one. Okay I think you hit so many things right on the head Anna but the thing that I want to talk about now is we are kind of in crisis mode and that's why I think so much of our public health interventions tend to be short-term what do we do about it now even just 20 years ago we would talk about something climate change happening in the future we don't have to worry about it quite yet maybe in the next generation but we're seeing now that that's not the case regardless of where we live we're seeing impacts on climate change but it doesn't mean that we shouldn't be thinking about long-term solutions as well particularly again getting back to high-risk communities what about things like building infrastructure what about enforcing some of the guidelines because especially when I think about farm workers people know their rights but they're not enforced and so they maybe feel like not able to really take action even though they know that there's oh I should be taking a break now but other people aren't taking breaks and so maybe I would get fired because I'm the one that's doing that things like that I think that we need to think about long-term solutions I know that we're in crisis mode I know that you know from epidemiologic studies most of the health impacts are very short-term and acute and that's why we need to act quickly but we need to also plan ahead thanks for both so let's let's talk about solutions towards this how do we get out of crisis and reactive mode and I'll turn to Jane next sure thank you and I'm not going to address all the challenges but one thing we did I co-chaired our task force with an internal medicine doctor who was a co-founder of the Florida Clinicians for Climate Action her name Dr. Cheryl Holder and she got involved because her patient who had COPD came to her and asked for her to sign off to get her help with utility assistance and that speaks to Anna's point of just the intersectionality of the challenges so doctors, nurses, nurses in particular are our most trusted messengers out there so we partnered Cheryl Holder and I and our Baptist Health System and and our Health Foundation on creating a continuing education series that train nurses, doctors on why is it getting more hot both the climate change, urban heat patterns who's most vulnerable and really talked about questions and how you tease out some of that chronic exposure identify an understanding and reminding practitioners that how that could compound either medications they're on or pre-existing conditions they may have understanding what their conditions are at home and exposure that might be at home as well and what resources they could help their patients with with our utility assistance programs or knowing what what rights a worker does have even though they're limited here but what their rights they do have those were some of the so that was just one solution that we put together. That's great so thinking about education of healthcare workers making sure healthcare workers know about what resources are available to their patients right and so they're well educated and can really step in that's really wonderful and there were some of things there too that we've captured. Nikki over to you. Nikki you're muted. Thank you for that synopsis and I really appreciate it I just want to say part of the solution that we're trying to encourage and promote with our adaptation planning and our work the health of the environment is very closely tied interconnected with the people we are not different that is literally who I am and if I did say my clan system that you know we are part of these clans it's all about the environment and the animals and the plants our whole being does not honor the New York skyscrapers or the Eiffel Tower or the industrial revolution it honors our relatives our non-human relatives the plants and the environment so I really want to stress that part of the solution is acknowledging that all our healthcare officials on and off the reservations need to take into account that indigenous people's healthcare does not include always include a facility like Indian Health Service or Flagstaff Medical Center or you know and so on our healthcare comes from the environment we have medicine people I don't call them shamans but we call them medicine people men and women people who are of the two-spirit who are medicine people that provide prayers ceremonies emotional well-being practices so that's a big part of it Windflow Indian Health Center which is right down the road from Flagstaff years ago employed a medicine man who was a traditional healer who actually worked with the elders and a lot of the community members whose first language was the Navajo or Hopi and then that way they could also work with the people who had the title of doctor the western doctors and that was so successful but it's not a practice that is promoted and there's some places that have that but it's not widely done and I also want to make sure that I talk about the national climate assessment the fifth one that's upcoming the human health chapter which I'm honored to be a co-author on is promoting or not in promoting including how there's the interconnectedness between the environment and the people and that emotional well-being of the people is directly impacted by the environment and I'll end with this example a relative in Alaska has long-term insomnia because he doesn't hear the ice crashing because the warming waters near the waters that he lives near and also he's been very stressed out and had some emotional problems and so nobody understands that and he said the only thing that can heal me is me being on the land being near ice which I and he's like 85 right now so taking that those types of taking all of that into account is important for those who are in the urban healthcare system and Indian Health Service is not the best so have in educating doctors and nurses who come from urban areas to work on the reservations need to be educated that as well so perhaps some of my co-authors are on this call and hopefully they'll comment as well and I'll stop there thank you thanks so much Nikki and over to Jessica and then Gary we got to keep it quick because we're going to move on to the next session soon thank you so much I wanted to address the communication silo challenge again this is another challenge that's not unique to the heat situation I have seen what I have seen be effective here is partnerships between schools of public health and schools of medicine within university systems incredibly powerful to have both as part of the formal education of healthcare practitioners but also as continuing education have some crossover some cross-pollination of those those two populations are public health folks who are learning in their fields and medicine professionals are learning in their fields there's an overlap of curricula some interaction some cross-disciplinary problem solving we actually practiced that when I went through my school of public health here in Minnesota and then also on the continuing education point there are programs funded public health continuing ed programs for medical practitioners geared towards that audience where I think extreme heat can be addressed to help increase access to some of the knowledge that is sort of held within public health to make sure that it is accessed by healthcare practitioners and then also on your question about how do we get out of emergency mode I honestly think that to an extent we we can't avoid the urgency of this particular challenge preparedness is the challenge for healthcare organizations healthcare operations and I think that we can learn from other public health events and a lot of the preparedness lessons that we've learned even from COVID-19 and other infectious disease outbreaks how do we prepare hospital systems to be poised and ready to respond when a situation arises when you can't always predict that it will unfortunately we've struggled to absorb some of those lessons learned even from infectious disease outbreaks but I think we should tap into them they're available things like stocking the needed supplies and materials implementing action plans and holding emergency drills to make sure that everybody involved knows what to do when an emergency situation arises. So I think that's one of the things that we've learned from COVID-19 and I think that's one of the things that we've learned from COVID-19 and and you know the global consortium on climate health education is exists solely for the purpose of educating health professionals so we do a lot of courses and training events if anyone here is interested we have one minute left for these questions and I'll put it over to Gary. Okay quickly here if we have a radio show called why our community must care about climate and so we have health professionals, we have climate experts, we have technologies on panel there and such sometimes up to 10 experts at a time again talking about health, talking about climate and talking about that intersection which includes extreme heat again why our community must care about climate. Next we have rewards program which is the continuous education program where folks go in and they take a quiz, they get rewards, they actually get cash for learning about things like extreme heat which affects their health. Next if you're doing research studies out there hey bring the community along with you let them ride in the car with the instruments and such and see the difference in tree canopies between wealthy sections and those less fortunate and then lastly here we need to promote the social determinants of health we do that all day long through social media and other means as well. Thank you so much Gary we're going to move over now to our next set of challenges and so I will introduce now Allison to lead this session. Thank you hi everyone everyone it's a turn off your computer this going to work? Okay I facilitated breakout group four which discussed how rising heat affects overall well being as well as discussed various types of programming that can build social cohesion or reduce risks in other ways such as heat risk education as well as barriers to implementing effective programming we did during our discussion start focusing some great solutions but for the purposes of this discussion I'll just highlight three of the themes among the barriers we identified with some examples for each so one thing that came up a number of times was the problem of lack of training or in some cases ineffective training on how to implement programming that mitigates heat risk so for example lack of training among health care providers on how to identify and report heat related health impacts for teachers or caregivers on how to balance the need for exercise with the need to stay cool limited understanding of how to communicate in a culturally inclusive way or programming that does not adequately incorporate non institutional or local knowledge and expertise or offer fair compensation of the participants the second category theme of barriers we talked about was the perception of individual responsibility people have often thought of heat as someone that an individual should really just deal with on their own and a lot of the potential solutions out there of course are things that someone might only typically have access to if they're well off or part of a dominant culture such as ability to pay for air conditioning or travel using a personal vehicle to a cool space so the question being how do we shift perception of cooling resources from private resources to public resources and make them more accessible to folks who are at risk and then finally the third theme of barriers we talked about was this narrow focus on heat as a standalone issue because of course people in communities at high risk of heat related health problems often face many other problems that contribute to or compound their risk from heat such as air pollution or poor access to health care or poverty and we may not want to prioritize solutions that only address heat or being narrowly focused on staying in cool spaces so the question is how can communities develop programming in a way that honors intersectional needs and priorities and that addresses heat alongside other community priorities are there existing programs through which heat related education or cooling resources can be offered Thank you so much Ali and to the audience we definitely want to hear from you as well so please use the slide you'll find the link in the chat again here and maybe we'll open up this session with maybe some reflections from you Hunter Okay I'll start by going back actually to the last two categories because I think the intervention I had was applicable to pretty much all of them and that is that I think participatory science is a really important avenue for addressing the silos that were mentioned addressing the communications issues that were mentioned that were that are it's really useful for bringing alternative thought processes and ways of thinking about heat and its impacts into the scientific process so I just want to put that out there and you know we've done that with the mapping campaigns that we run but there are a lot of other ways of doing it there are wearable sensors there are the indoor sensors that were mentioned before so and then also qualitative ways of doing other conversations with people so I wanted to get that out there because it's really I think one of the solutions to a number of these these issues and then just a quick reaction to the idea of shifting that perception of individual responsibility I think a lot of our messaging is targeted individuals and we could do we could make subtle changes to that messaging that would actually have really interesting impact so instead of our social media accounts all saying you know go drink water and seek shade and that kind of thing we could shift the messaging to make sure that the people under your care have water help your friends find shade contact your you know anyone you know in your family that might be at risk of extreme heat so just kind of shifting that messaging would probably have a really big impact yeah I really love I love that Hunter Vivek do you have any thoughts on this one sure and apologies that my camera's off I want to make sure my voice is coming through clearly here rather than seeing my face okay just real quick part of what part of what I think this social cohesion issue is and we are experiencing a national epidemic on isolation I think the Surgeon General has written about this we've seen a lot of publications and literature emerging more recently about this and what we're really trying to do in any of the work and what we're seeing over and over as solutions is really meeting people where they are like not trying to bring heat right to you know the conversation but really starting from where people are in terms of their experience of their place what are the things they see every day around a neighborhood around the farm around any place where they spend time and this is really I think one of almost a no-brainer solution that feels not really innovative but nevertheless given the kind of culture that we have of kind of attention-seeking in every possible sense for every topic I think part of what we're really talking about is how do we actually have authentic conversations with people in the places they are in the experiences they're having and then take that as a means for trying to understand a bit more about how these different changes in the environment including heat intersects with the challenge of having a job and maintaining it being able to get food on the table being able to run and pay the energy bill etc so that's really the approach that I've found to be most effective and we've used that in everything from urban forestry to public health campaigns to heat and even thinking about energy systems like heat pumps and air conditioning units so I'll just leave it at that hopefully that came through better without my camera on. Yes it absolutely did Jane over to you. Sure so just picking up on a couple of things Hunter said in terms of participatory science we have had a long time partnership with our universities and community based partners place i-button sensors throughout our community and then this last round we added in and I see one of our partners right there on the screen Bertha Howard but we've also now worked with the schools to Nikki's point at someone's point about schools and making sure the education system understood the students are now looking at the different heat and humidity and different parts of their school yards and what that means and also reporting on how they're how they're doing I definitely have shifted messaging from just individual responsibility to think about it about your employers not only your loved ones but your employers people you serve if you if you have a retail restaurant operation make sure water is available you know that just different things that everyone's thinking about their neighbor in some way group I see some head nodding there anything to add Yeah I agree with what has been said again the two basic if I could break it down into two categories health education and public health messaging and health education includes everything from elementary school kids to healthcare practitioners to the general public to high-risk communities I think it's so important to me really make that connection between the heat and symptoms many times that is not made so for example if there's some kind of lightheadedness or dizziness it might be attributed to other things but not the heat and so then it's I think different interventions would be made based on what you think the root cause is of these symptoms with public health messaging heat alerts fact sheets getting this message across to vulnerable communities but what I've seen so far and of course there's been improvement but public health messaging is so important because heat advisories right now do not include all high-risk populations so many people don't even know that they're increased risk don't know that they should be taking any kind of precautions and that even includes populations such as elderly who are maybe don't have any pre-existing diseases but just because the fact of their age could put them at higher risk or certain medications that they might be taking so I think that's really important is to talk about who is at risk and convey that message to the people who are at high risk and also their caretakers yeah absolutely Nicky or Gary any thoughts on this well you know what really comes to mind again is this intersection between community and the local health infrastructure and the medical schools etc you know here in Hampton Hills Virginia we've all come together in a collaborative where we exchange we do products together we do community-based campaigns in other words we're deliberately tearing down these silos and we do it in a very very structured manner continuous social media outreach and education campaigns formulating sub-committees sharing knowledge on upcoming webinars again continuously educating our staff but again having that fruitful meaningful engagement successfully we can reach out into communities and make a real difference and over to you Nicky thank you I just wanted to add that for many of our communities, not just indigenous we have community gatherings we have home multi-generational households and taking that into consideration when you're thinking about solutions and support for the community in emergency situations and making sure that all of these community members are informed for indigenous people a lot of our traditional indigenous health care is ceremonial you know we have multi-day ceremonies we also have multi-day gatherings and the traditional way of making decisions was done in the community but also in the matriarchal system where all the women have one to give birth and raise the children primarily were the decision makers and also in recognition of our LGBTQ two-spirit relatives who are also healers they are also part of our health care system so when you're talking about when we're talking about social cohesion I think that is something that needs to be acknowledged time and time again you know with this colonized western framework of patriarchal system that's fine I mean not fine it's fine if they are inclusive of the matriarch and the two-spirit and it hasn't been that way so part of our social network within these indigenous communities is being inclusive inclusive of all genders and making sure that you respect and acknowledge these ceremonial systems that are part of our health care and so that's what all the western health care providers need to understand when you're working with indigenous people whether they live on reservations or off reservations tribal communities but there's a large indigenous populations like in Duluth, Minnesota Los Angeles these huge urban areas they get forgotten but that's I just want to mention that so I'll stop there thank you thank you so much Nikki and we're about at the end of this session but maybe we could just go around this panel and just give sort of a one-sentence thought or idea of where you see the most bang for our buck in terms of solutions we'll start with Hunter I would target it at this particular convening and the committee that brought us here and I would say don't stop here I've been in a lot of conversations like this I always learn a lot from these conversations but it's really important that we've discovered a number of different avenues, categories we can go down we can have days of conversation about each of these and we probably should and so I just want to end with that I think we really just need to keep going with these issues to have some results great Rupa 10 words or less I think the message is clear more community engagement and we know what that looks like there's a lot of mistrust and maybe rightfully so of outside groups doesn't matter who we are we always tend to just trust our community more so I think that's the message that I'd like to end with and Jane I'll just build on that I think that the solutions need to be developed from across sectors across expertise so that you do get those transdisciplinary solutions okay Jessica I was going to say the same thing an inclusive approach to decision making both in building programs and also addressing crises when they arise great Gary lead with equity meet people where they are move towards empowerment Nikki inclusion and the insertion of indigenous traditional knowledges in all decision making processes well I I can't thank this panel enough for your thoughtful and rich contributions this has been really fun exciting I think we've got a lot of material here to work with we've been capturing all of these solutions and we've put them into the Slido and for the next five minutes we want our audience to upvote the solutions that they feel like could be most impactful because the top 16 of these are going to become the discussion points for our next session after we come back from this quick break alright sorry 10 minute break we're going to reconvene at 245 so get your coffee get your water and upvote the solutions that speak to you and we'll see you back here soon hi everyone welcome back I'm Nambi Duga she her pronouns and I am with KFF's racial equity and health policy program so the goal of today's breakout sessions are to consider the proposed innovative and future looking solutions that were upvoted in Slido and discuss potential wildcards or obstacles that could hinder the implementation of such solutions the solutions shared cover many different and connected avenues of addressing the threat of extreme heat including seeking to address improve upon the built environment sharing and leveraging the expertise and knowledge from local communities and engaging meaningfully with them improving heat related data collection and translation and distribution and overall developing holistic cross sectoral and decolonized solutions so each breakout group will discuss the four solutions assigned to them as you look through the solutions and consider which breakout rooms you participate in we suggest that you push yourself outside of your comfort zones and join rooms that stress and challenge you if you notice breakout rooms with far fewer participants we ask that you join these rooms to facilitate a more robust discussion in addition to being presented on the Jamboard the solutions will also be added to the chat so the goal in your rooms will be to push the collective thinking toward a more resilient set of actions or implementation strategies in the face of sudden challenges or uncertainties these challenges can run the gamut of experiences including disease outbreaks power outages technological malfunctions extreme weather events mass shootings political instabilities social political economic movements and others so while you're in the room as your wonderful selves you will also discuss how you could promote a change of narrative we encourage you to be innovative and creative in your approaches what we have not think about what we have not thought about to improve and prioritize disproportionately impacted communities what is still needed to mitigate and adapt to the health effects of climate change how do we leverage the evolving technological landscape and how can we account for these uncertainties our indigenous groups and knowledge bases being centered in these spaces and who is missing from these solution spaces and how can they be equitably and safely included I would like to emphasize that you will get to decide which room you want to attend and the rooms are being posted in the chat you will have the access to the chat function and will be able to use it to contribute to the discussion and provide ideas for innovative solutions and also be unmuted if you want to contribute verbally we ask that these options are used wisely and that you keep your comments short and targeted so to reiterate for each solution and action provided we also ask that you provide an actor or actors and partners as needed who can act on these solutions and who needs to be a part of these solutions so thank you so much guys I look forward to discussing these solutions and try to navigate the different challenges that we have in the different breakout rooms to refer to the chats for all information all right I think we have enough thumbs up that we can move forward let's approach this in this way I'm going to go through the and Daniel's on shall I share the breakout the solutions great I was just going to do the same thing please go ahead so we're going to go through the four solutions that were identified for our breakout why don't we approach this by going through all four and then give it a moment for any overall reflections and then we'll go back into each one to talk about whether it makes sense to tweak it or expand on the actors, agents future proofing questions that we were assigned and then vote again so the first solution is we need to address the built environment that's the solution for the built environment work with nature and not against it there are many small things we could be doing that would greatly reduce the impact of heat involving city planning, architecture, etc again I'm just going to go through all four of them first and then we can come back to each one and word smith them a little bit solution to real-time sensor technologies for indoor and outdoor heat joining data and lived experiences solution proposed number three safety rules which may I'm going to keep going through all four that includes national mandates and preempting state variations and solution proposed number four health education from elementary school all the way through communicating to high-risk communities so if I can be the first in this group to make some overall provides some overall thoughts it would strike me that solution number three is better attuned to breakout room number two on workplace heat exposures and that number four is better attuned to breakout room number four which is the social programming but I will pause there and say ask if there are any other comments around that if there are conflicts with those thoughts or any other overall thoughts anybody in this breakout room and I can't unfortunately see so Laura if you can see if somebody has their hand raised or wants to comment or is putting something in the chat it's not coming up on our our zoom absolutely I'll make sure to copy any comments that are in the chat to the Jamboard and any verbal comments I'll also make sure to copy onto the Jamboard and let me know if I can help with anything else Thanks Laura so and Daniel is here taking notes in the group too so Laura and Dan are here so somebody named Roy from Pennsylvania DOT just raised his hand or their hand their hand is fine I'm working for PennDOT and I agree kind of with Solution 2 and 4 maybe belonging somewhere else but in Pennsylvania we have an interagency health equity team that has about 12 different levels state agencies working together to address critical health issues across the state so from a state level perspective all of these might fall into the state health department transportation community and economic development basket of tools we've been trying to overlay five-year plans to address some of these and we're updating our Climate Action Plan in Pennsylvania so this is a particular interest to me because my partners and the other agencies couldn't attend today so I'm okay wherever you want to move them but I have thoughts on all of them Roy if it's okay I'm going to pin you a little bit more PennDOT I'm assuming is Pennsylvania State Department of Transportation that is correct yes so given that the quality of transportation in the built-in environment and potential heat is there anything in particular transportation office is looking at so we have, I'm working in a niche within PennDOT from the governor's policy office and one of the things that we see as a challenge is our transit so the we have a number of different smaller and larger transit entities in the state especially in the urban and suburban areas we do tend to have fixed route transit and our bus stops which in many places the bus stop for a long list of reasons is a post in the ground and during heat emergencies and in the summer those are not wonderful places to be waiting for the bus especially for people in disadvantaged communities who have a whole constellation of issues to deal with besides transit so that is one piece of it we're implementing an active transportation plan we're working very hard to get our 2500 townships 2500 municipalities in 67 counties thinking about active transportation walking, biking and rolling in terms of reaching community resources so when we're thinking about they're doing that in an unprotected environment how do we do that with the street trees with the sidewalks with places to rest with access to shelter and things like that so there's a lot in here that I think would be useful maybe I was just going to ask you so a lot of the conversation that we had in this prior session was around planning and building the knowledge and research base so I'd like to push us as a group to think a little bit more about the solutions that would come not just the plan being the end but then the projects that would come out of it so from your perspective in PennDOT and I'm sorry to keep harping on your word but so far you're the only one who stepped up in this breakout room what are the solutions for example for the challenge that you identified of people waiting for buses and upgrade hunters so we'll come to you in a second Hunter sure have there been actual proposed interventions yes we have created a publication called build a better bus stop which walks through at a very basic level the ADA requirements the legal requirements is the ownership of the sidewalk the ownership of the physical bus stop itself and the placement of the bus stop for like access in four corners of them interchange where you would best do that so that you have a series of best practices to design something that's safe and comfortable for the users that's one piece of it the other piece is to try to get our transit partners to start thinking about that as they're doing their plans we don't we advise and we're a pass-through for dollars we are not in charge of the transit systems themselves so there's a lot of education pieces here and I think that as we get through the state climate action plan addressing some of these issues cross agency is going to be really helpful in getting the messaging out there so that's the big one thanks for being our guinea pig here Roy and so before we pass it to Hunter for your thoughts Hunter Laura has reminded us that we're not focusing on the same physical interventions as yesterday's breakout groups where we've been given a whole new set of solutions that so there are things that potentially Daniel and I aren't experts in that we'll be hearing so we're just here to listen to you all so Hunter you're on thanks nice to be into number two I hate to be the censor person always talking about it but urban areas are really poorly observed and it's not just urban areas rural areas are too and so I think the data challenges we're facing characterizing heat risk in part stem from a lack of observational data empirical data and so I just want to make sure that we're really emphasizing this as one of the needs is just really increasing the observations that are available of many kinds observing different variables different different ways of observing it's the where other sessions already but the wearable sensors in the indoor and outdoor and this is a really important thing for us to address because you know the program that we've been running through Nihiss has made it a dent in this issue but a very small one because it's such a large issue so just leaning into that if I may I'm curious the program that you're talking about running is called heat you're talking about heat watch is that correct that's what campus strategies calls the program yes yeah so I was curious you know I kind of struggle with this in terms of what happens after you get the grant to map your city it maps it for a day primarily maps outdoor temperatures and humidities and so is there thinking within the program that it's going to become perhaps more comprehensive or both indoor outdoor or maybe starting to prioritize the indoor along with the outdoor now or what's the thinking at NOAA here we would love to do all of those things yes and I think in general you know another much better funded example is the department of energy and their integrated field laboratories there are four of them now that are just getting spun up but they're taking place in communities across the U.S. and they are really going into an elaborate set of experiments and you know community engagements that involve a lot of different observational types not just a one-day community science or citizen science sort of snapshot so those are those kind of represent the two ends of the spectrum in terms of the kinds of observations and the level of intensity you can get to and I think lead to kind of find an approach that works in a lot of different communities you know we've reached a lot of communities with a very small and manageable program they're reaching a few communities with a very big program there's a lot in the middle that we can do we'll come back to the center conversation but I do want to pass that there's another hand raised from Robert to see actually we can go back to the sensory talk right now because that's what I was raising my hand about good and can you identify where you're coming from Robert oh yeah I'm an epidemiologist at the Rhode Island Department of Health and I primarily work in environmental health stock so there's a reason why I'm going to the sensors and a different webinar recently a lot of the talk that I was seeing was about wearable and personalized sensors and so I've been kind of this is something I've been mulling over since that last webinar I'd love to hear from you guys about we're kind of at this point where we're starting to set up useful urban sensor network so that we're able to understand the distribution of outcomes across cities but as we're doing this we're further understanding how that might be significantly different than the individual exposure with a person living in that environment and also given how much of our exposure is indoor versus outdoors what is the value of the sensor networks and as someone who is looking to set one of those up in our state it's something which I think is still valuable especially because for example with heat stress if it's hot outside even if it's not the same temperature inside you're going to have to be taking actions in order to respond to mitigate your own exposure which limits what you can do however that still means there's going to be a discrepancy between the individual exposure and what we can capture in a useful sensor network and I don't know I'd just love to hear if anyone knows about any work into putting together individual personalized exposure on data say through multiple sensors along with sensor network data to see how they compare or if there are behavioral changes that you could ease out of that sorry does that make sense to other people it's just been something that I've been rolling so it's a technical question about the interconnection between personal sensors and outdoor picture networks of sensors is that correct yeah and how we can utilize both side by side will still understanding their limitations especially because with the personalized ones the build out of capacity those are primarily going to benefit people who can afford an Apple watch is kind of what it is now which obviously goes against the health equity stuff I don't know if Hunter your hand has continued to be up or if you have any feedback yeah I was going to offer a little bit so in terms of the value of non wearable sensors which is I think one of your first questions a lot of the solutions don't follow people around and so if you're planting trees or doing some sort of a smart services implementation that's going to be a fixed location and so it still makes sense to be able to have fixed location sensors especially and this is something that's really important that's just not it's not been done enough sensors that are evaluating the long-term outcomes of a lot of these interventions we have such poor data such poor evidence on what these outcomes are and how long-term the effectiveness of a lot of these approaches that we're trying to implement for heat and it's not just about sensing environmental parameters it's also about social science studies there's such poor evidence about the effectiveness I'm drifting a little bit here but the effectiveness of different approaches to warning and alerting there's just so much research that needs to get done and a lot of it's on the social science side as well so I don't want us to lose sight of that as for connecting the sensors I also want to not maybe answer your question but add one more consideration which is the quality of the observations you know if you have fixed location really high quality observational networks how do you connect them to the lower cost sensors and make sure that everything's been calibrated they're kind of feeding off of each other so that you you have a good estimate of the uncertainty of some of those lower cost sensors if I could all of you who are discussing the sensor technology so there is a lower has put in some interest in provocations in the chat around this but I would also about the implementation challenges who are the actors where would this not work etc but I would also push you all to think a little about what the sensor what challenge the sensors are actually solving is it simply information to measure all the other potential interventions that we've been talking about or is there another outcome of interest that we're looking at that comes from the sensors so for me personally I'm kind of thinking of it from two perspectives one is leaning into the temporal trends that you can get from a sensor in order to identify for surveillance things with heat specifically in mind if we're having elevated time frames that we see are related with heat can we use that to preemptively make heat warnings but also with a spatial aspect of it due to the heterogeneity within cities of the built environment you're going to have heterogeneous temperature zones and so this helps us identify which parts of the these locations might be more vulnerable and therefore a better place to say implement a cooling station or communications so I think those are the for me at least those are the two obvious which I'm currently looking at it but I'd love to hear other ones helpful to know that we're talking about this as a means to other interventions right because it's not just the information about the heat themselves is there I don't know if Hunter you wanted to comment on that question too when you combine the data you collect with stories from people it makes for a really powerful narrative so it's also a really important communication tool really important for advocacy for catalyzing change and that's one of the ways that I see it used all the time I guess maybe somebody who's coming at this room not quite the lay perspective but a very different perspective in the housing world I mean we know when it's hot and we know the stories that come out during heat wave so what are we talking about that would be different qualitatively different and there's a hand raised Julie I'm going to pass it to you in just a second but if anybody who has been either Robert or Hunter you want to respond to that I would just say that it's been really powerful to see the temperature differences in any city that we worked in and to line it up with a redlining map or some sort of environmental justice map often it just is very stark and that's still extremely valuable for telling that story even if you're kind of hearing it first hand from people seeing it as well it's so valuable because it's the invisible killer or the silent killer it's another way of making it clear what these impacts are right Julie Hansman if you can identify yourself and your affiliation sure thanks DC actually switching into the adaptation of resilience fields so I don't have an appropriate organization at this point well I'm realizing you can't go into detail about the large universe of data issues here relevant to this issue could you nonetheless please clarify the sensing data versus other kinds of data sets that are gathered I take it that sensing data is this granular really gain the micro changes by being either worn on someone's body or otherwise can you please confirm that and also clarify how that fits into the ecosystem of data collection Julie help elaborate who you're directing that question to oh gosh anyone who can answer it that would not be me I could take a shot so when we when we talk about temperature and particularly urban heat islands we're looking for heterogeneous patterns within a typically within a city it turns out that we don't have holistic coverage of temperature in these locations and so sometimes we use what are called remote sensing techniques so satellites can look down and tell you what surface temperature is but not necessarily what the air temperature is and the air temperature is typically what people experience in situ sensors some of them are gold standard sensors so you can think about national weather service Noah type sensors but they're often a few and far between and so we supplement those with what we can sometimes refer to as cheap sensing technologies and cheap sensing technologies are informative but they're not our gold standards but taken holistically all of these all of these different technologies can tell us things about the heterogeneities within a city the heat watch campaign that I mentioned before and that Noah and that the hunters talked about is a very specific campaign where cities apply for funding to have a consultancy agency come in and map temperature on one summer day so they fit cars and then they drive the cars around three times a day and tell you what the temperature is all over your city and so these are all different forms of sensing and this is kind of the constellation that we're talking about and we're getting down even further now to individual exposure where people would put a sensor on their body and walk around with it and tailoring solutions and interventions using each of these individual data sets and different answers and so a great way to improve your city's urban heat island if you're constricting your urban heat island using surface temperatures is to plant trees but that's surface temperature it's not necessarily air temperature and so these are considerations that we have to make depending on the data that's available to us thank you we've with the three minutes that we have left I believe in our time here we've only focused on solution number two I do want to if anybody in the breakout who's attendance wants to talk about one, three or four please raise your hand otherwise I will ask those who have been participating on the sensor question we have one we need to start talking about actors very quickly so Matrini Weaver can identify yourself which of the solutions you want to talk about we can hear you Matrini I'm currently deployed for Hurricane Ian in Fort Myers, Florida with FEMA so I have a concern about the EJ community that even like old folks and people are going to have a problem for the heat wave so to my view for the heat wave we're going to be there no matter whether you're going to have layers and layers data it's just a trending for the climate change it's unavoidable it's going to get warmer and warmer so I think what I would like to see and the actors is is there any emergency locations for folks that having health problems that's more likely to be provided or is there going to be household supporting system between neighborhoods each other by the time that the heat wave is coming no matter you know what's going to randomly happen with Texas right now or maybe like tornado just like popping here and there like a popcorn so I guess you know that's more doable I think it needed to be done not only just intervention of technology or policy but what we're going to do on the ground itself so I would like to propose that idea to be into action helpful to consider and certainly many of the challenges that were identified yesterday that speaks to those is there any we have one minute left is there anybody who wants to add any new proposal or any elaboration on the four proposals that we have in this breakout group we see a lot happening in the chat so that's good we'll make sure we have that documented otherwise I believe we're resorting to a five minute break according to the agenda and I think everybody who's in this breakout room you can stay here because this will become the main room as well so you don't need to transfer your rooms but otherwise we'll see you officially in five minutes now we can go into just the hearing from the different facilitators if they have if they can give a two three minute summary of what they discuss the big holes and takeaways so if we can go to room one who who wants to speak hello from room one our discussion mainly focused on two particular items the first was sensor technology and the sensor technology and kind of the difference between various forms of sensing technology and the the large the dearth of indoor sensor technology and how to improve that which federal partners are working in those different spheres and then we actually got quite granular with a second solution that was discussed and that had to do with bus stops and the built environment and in particular reducing heat exposure at bus stops and so following the framework that was provided to us if we're thinking about better design of bus stops terms of the partners that are responsible for that we talked about the departments of transportation at various levels also zoning committees and community groups that could be used to identify particular bus stops in need of help in terms of essential actions we talked about the idea at least in the particular case of one state of an umbrella directive that's coming from a state climate action plan and so the need to develop a state climate action plan that will then influence the myriad agencies that are required to make this a better situation I don't think we got into future-proofing that particular item but in terms of accounting for vulnerable populations this was the impetus of this discussion the idea that many of these bus stops are not in good neighborhoods or neighborhoods that are in need of resilience building and lastly the strategy or the communication strategy here was largely driven by the state climate action plan and how that all-encompassing document will trickle down to the various agencies that will be responsible for making this a better situation thank you and I'm happy to pass to room 2 if needed yes here we are hi everyone so we had a pretty wide-ranging conversation one of the themes that kept coming up over and over again was the concept of bringing bringing corporate partners into the conversation whether that be incentivizing good behavior amongst corporations that want to be part of the solution or whether that be making sure that there's a way to get resources into the hands of communities on the front end so if they want to do heat improvements that there's a way to structure it so that community members don't have to buy what they want and then get reimbursed afterwards so that would be there would be a big role for private public partnerships there another theme that came up is that for all of the solutions we discussed which was sorry the two main solutions that we discussed that were sort of home and neighborhood related that renters often get left out of the conversation and so solutions have to be geared not just at homeowners but making sure that there's options for people that are renting where they live and not owning them we talked a lot too about information flow between communities and various governance levels so for example creating places for communities to share the success stories that they've had and basically empower each other with the solutions that they've been leading at home but how do we make sure that everyone has access to those kinds of stories so we talked a little bit about ways to have reporting apps or tools that might be housed by a government body such as looking at you national integrated system but would actually be co-developed with communities and they would be the ones who would be community members would be the ones that would be selecting what's important to share not having some expert arbiter at the top we didn't really get into the future proofing thing because we were so excited about talking about how to make each one of these things happen but one thing that one communication strategy that kept coming up again and again as we've heard the last two days is just the importance of stories and how this can't just be techno speak we have to talk in a language and in a manner that people intuitively understand and are used to actually using in their own lives Sabina anyone else want to add any summary I think you did a really wonderful job summarizing only thought I want to add is that I think we had a conversation a lot about federal housing for these programs and if that's the best place and if so how they can collaborate with communities in new and inventive ways so that we're increasing discussion across multiple levels of government thank you sorry I'm using the wrong mic I think I'm next so we are the third group which was we only got to two of our solutions the first was around national weatherization programs and repair programs and I think you know the main main things there are that I mean we need to be future thinking the data that all of these programs need to be based on future projections and current projections and need to be constantly updated which you know we were told that often they aren't and that they really need to be incentivized and implemented at a local level so regardless of political wins and they're not sort of corporate held and led but they're actually within communities having data oh sorry I said data flex and I think the other piece is framing these as a health issue and I think that also was helpful in terms of when we had a long list of essential partners and really thinking at an intersectional level identifying partners and including health sectors and social justice sectors as well especially for the accountability to you know traditionally marginalizer underrepresentation populations and the other one that we talked about was the you know it was about education for fossil fuels and adaptation that doesn't inhibit mitigation and that was really a conversation about health messaging framing this as a health crisis and on going and then disseminating education across and putting in policies as well that then protect those that are more vulnerable so thinking of it like other public health crises so we'll talk about advertising we're talking about hot day policies for schools you know sports organizations having quotas for when to change outdoor activity and then also there was a very well stated point that we also have to think about you know emotional and mental well-being when we're thinking about this so having intentional conversations that include those aspects and dimensions when we are having when we're promoting this through education as a delicate balance that's where we got to and I will hand it over to group Dr. Hi everyone our group started out by discussing how old ideas can be applied to new situations and we narrowed in a little bit on thinking about the development or use of highly insulated buildings which could include in some scenarios you know office spaces that maybe you know not going used or in other scenarios might include in a way that the public and the indigenous communities have used for thousands of years to stay cool and so the question we were thinking through was how could new resources or new programs be brought to bear to support the use of those types of buildings or support people in accessing them so we identified as some essential sort of hazard mitigation funding that doesn't typically go towards cooling or cool spaces but getting the hazard mitigation world to support it might include engaging FEMA or Red Cross among other sort of emergency management type of folks and also in order to make those solutions resilient as possible to identify potentially multiple structures in a given area so that if something goes wrong with one of them you know you have that sort of redundancy to support your resilience then we talked about micro grids specifically and thinking about not just high tech micro grids with you know the latest solar panels and battery but also geothermal other and solutions that have you know been used by indigenous groups for many years and we recognized that power generation and use is often a very highly regulated environment and so for micro grids as a solution is can be very important to get engaged in advocacy and to engage local representatives to push for the regulatory environment to become more amenable which is already happening but could continue to sort of move forward on that path then our third solution we discussed was about regulatory frameworks really focusing more on housing and for example the concept of a maximum temperature threshold for housing which has been instituted in some places and we discussed how not only is it important to you know for the building code regulators to be hearing from advocates on this but to also be engaging civic associations and as I think somebody else mentioned earlier renters as a key stakeholder group and thinking about renters associations or other sort of housing justice advocacy type associations as partners to engage and then we also focused on solutions based journalism and when it comes to developing narratives for any of these solutions you know creating a story based on people and sort of real experiences while also trying to highlight solutions and looking for those journalists that are really interested in conveying solutions and stories about things that are being done in new ways or succeeding in new ways and then we all the last sort of category of things we talked about was different methods for empowering communities or uplifting existing community solutions and in particular we discussed the train the trainer model so ways to really engage community members and leaders in further sharing circulating disseminating information and resources that can help amplify the number of people reached in a given campaign I think that about summarizes it Nambi would you add anything from our group okay that's it from group four thank you well it is very surprising to find ourselves at the end of this two-day workshop that we have spent the past few months planning and I would just like to thank everyone very sincerely for your incredible participation the creativity the heart and of course the incredible intellect that all of you have dedicated in the past couple of days also especially to our committee members the past few months and to the National Academy staff who have been our fearless leaders throughout thank you so so very much for your leadership in this incredibly important day from this with all of the collective learnings we hope you will continue to contribute to the Jamboard contributions will be added to the proceedings report that will be developed subsequent to our meeting today so please do continue to engage there if you haven't already or if you have already thank you very much everyone have a wonderful day thank you everyone
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7. Data Hazards
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Conceptual look at the various types data hazards and how they occur.
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This time we're going to be looking at the second type of hazard, data hazards. Data hazards occur when two instructions try to access the same piece of data, either in a register or in a block of memory. We'll be looking at three different types of data hazards, read after write, write after read, and write after write. For the MIPS architecture, we're only going to be interested in one of these at the moment, the raw hazards, but we'll see how all three of them work and how they can occur. So a write after write hazard occurs when one instruction tries to read something that the previous instruction had just written. In our single-cycle architecture, we didn't have any problems there, because one instruction had to complete before a second one could start. In our multi-cycle pipeline, one instruction could start and try to read from a register before the previous one had written its results to a register or to memory. So this type of hazard occurs when we have two instructions nearby, such as these, where one instruction is going to write to a register, and the next instruction is going to read from that register. So here you can see we've got T0 in both of these, and our second instruction wants to use T0, but our first instruction is going to update it. So if our second instruction gets to read from T0 before the first one has had a chance to write to it, then the second instruction is going to get some old data. This is the one type of hazard that we can have with the MIPS architecture, so we will need to find ways around this, but it's relatively straightforward and easy to see. Our second type of hazard is a write after read hazard. This type of hazard occurs when one instruction tries to write to a register before the previous one has done reading from it. This can happen when one instruction is capable of writing to a register very early in its pipeline, before the previous one has had a chance to actually read from it. This requires some odd structured instructions, but if you have some instructions that take a really long time, then this type of problem can start to arise. Our third type of hazard is a write after write hazard. This type of hazard occurs when one instruction tries to write to a register after the previous one did. Similar to the write after read hazard, this kind of hazard can occur when one instruction is capable of writing to a register really early in its pipeline before the other one has had a chance to. So in this case, the second instruction might complete. It writes its results to T0 and the first one is still doing its computation. If that occurred, then the first one would eventually finish and it would overwrite the results of the second to add instruction, leaving us with the results of the first instruction instead of the ones that we actually want. The fourth type of hazard you could envision would be a read after read hazard, but those don't really exist because reading doesn't change the state of our system, so it doesn't really matter what order you do your reads in. What does matter is when you start having writes involved as well. Fortunately for our MIPS architecture, we only have to worry about raw hazards. We won't have to worry about war or write after write hazards. But we will see how these can affect things later on when we start looking at even more complicated architectures.
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2020 05 18 Jenkins Docs Office Hours
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Jenkins Docs office hours May 18, 2020
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Hi everybody. I'm Mark Waite. Oh go ahead John. Okay. No, no, just okay. Sorry. Great. I'm Mark Waite. This is the Jenkins documentation office hours. It's a question and answer session where we'd like to be able to ask, allow anyone to ask questions and get answers about how to create Jenkins documentation, how to deliver it, how to help it. We'll be doing these as long as there's a need. Right now the plan is about once a week and delighted to host them whenever. We do adhere to the Jenkins Code of Conduct. The Jenkins Code of Conduct means that we are expected to be respectful, kind and considerate to one another. Violations of the Code of Conduct are brought to the Jenkins Board and handled there. So please if you feel uncomfortable or uneasy about something let me know and we'll we'll worry about it and take care of it. So this is being recorded. Thanks very much. First off I was going to give an overview of materials of what I had envisioned for office hours and then we can talk about is that what you want to do or would you like to do something different for today? So I'm going to share my screen and let's look at what I've got for a draft outline. So here's what what I'd propose is oh let's put down who's attending. Here we go. So my thought is this is a question and answer session. That's our first and foremost objective here. Whatever questions you have of any sort you're welcome to ask them. You can ask them either verbally. You could submit them as changes in this document or you could ask them in chat in the session. One way or the other we want to collect them and after collecting them we'll try to answer them. I like to do examples and demonstrations so that you can see things and get a hint and we will record this so that we can use post the recording and use it later. Any questions so far? Sounds good to me too. All right okay so one question is how do I build the Jenkins site docs from source? Right it's a valid question. Another question might be can we have meetings at a different time? I suspect there are some contributors who may be in Asia others who may be in Eastern Europe or in Western Europe and we've got people who are willing to host office hours during European morning hours or during the European afternoon or the US morning or in US afternoon and even into the evening. We don't right now have anybody who is explicitly in what I might call prime Asia like Beijing or Australia who's willing to host an office hour there but we've got most of the 24 hours covered some way. Right now we're going to do them at this time and we'll adjust times as we see a need or cancel them if we don't have a lot of interest. Another question that let's see other questions what's Google season of docs? And that I assume is an interesting one because it's one way to contribute to the project. Another might be how do I get involved? Another might be what are the tools that I get involved with? Yet another might be what are the current projects that the Jenkins project is working on? What are the current documentation projects? So Jonathan and Vlad are there questions you would like to add to the list or some of these that you think would be higher priority you'd like to do those first? Well just I wanted not necessary today but in the future something that I'm interested in like getting more understanding about relationship between documentation or hosted in Jenkins IO repository and documentation for plugins. The relationship and how best practices maybe for handling that relationship based on previous experience of contributors and developers of Jenkins project. Okay so is this things like how do I decide where to place some information or how do users experience it? Tell me more about the kinds of things. Well here is just one of the use cases which emerged just today. I was working on documentation for monitoring plugins. Well update in monitoring page which is hosted by Jenkins IO and when I'm referring to those plugins documentation for plugins is hosted by Jenkins CI as I understand and when we change who is going to change documentation for specific plugins and how we manage our relationship with I guess developers who are doing development of specific plugins. Good okay so how do developers interact with with technical writers? Very good all right. All right I believe the section speaking about Google doc season it's a good beginning because I want to know how works the job and how we need to work together to to write a lot of docs that you plan to in this season. Okay so Jonathan this one is of interest to you. What is Google season docs? Great. Not about what is but about the kind of job that we realize we execute on them. Okay so tell me tell me more about that question I'm not sure I'm following it entirely so could you elaborate a little further? Yeah it's for no more about the plans for Jenkins elaborate to us we'll work together. Okay so it is it's what types of projects would be included in Google season of docs is that sort of what you're asking for? No no not a kind of projects because the website has a list with the projects right and I want to know how we work the process of the job so for example where you use the tools where how we can help with some beginnings and news commerce activities. Okay good okay so how does the Google season of docs process work how can new contributors help? Yeah exactly okay so maybe maybe then this that sounds like there's a good a good opportunity there to describe how our project ideas our projects how will the technical writer be selected selected that does Google season of docs and how our projects selected are those sort of questions that you're asking or it's amazing thank you okay good all right can I add can I add to this list also one more how mentors are selected okay yeah good all right okay any other questions around I think that's a good first set already we can dive into that together and look at them together and then have a discussion okay I agree all right so let's I think what I'm going to organize these sort of in I'm going to take a different take the how can new contributors help to towards the bottom because that one applies to anything it applies much more widely well maybe actually you know what maybe let's put that very first let's put that one very first just as it was because one of the key decisions is in choosing which who the technical writer is that would be selected for Google season of docs is how are they interacting with the community already so let's talk about how can new contributors help first and then we'll go into others so new contributors can help in the with what we'd call friendly issues and you can find friendly issues on github I'll link to them let's go to github jankins.io here in the issues list and if we look at issues that are good first issue and I'll embed this link into that document so that we've all got it so if we go here choose an issue sign it to yourself start work ask questions submit a poll request and work with the reviewers with reviewers so that that one there applies to anyone whether in google season of docs or elsewhere the you can always pick up a friendly issue and work on it now as part of the hack fest coming up may 25th you're going to be focusing on user experience and a significant portion of the user experience is documentation so documentation as a key part of the user experience and you can join the join the hack fest sessions that will start the may 25 through 29 any questions on how to contribute at the high level no it's okay it's a normal process just like I have a question mark about this hack fest which is coming on May 25 is it the proper time to ask this question this this is a great type to ask please go ahead so this hack fest will be related to yaks are we going to discuss like there will be sessions discussing just user documentation or also the process of building documentation automating this documentation and how it is related to general builds of Jenkins IO and so on there there will be a session session presented by me on contributing to docs and it will include a demonstration of of tools techniques etc thank you in addition we've got the google season of docs project ideas is now project ideas are an important concept of the google season of docs process they are not a project plan yet a project idea is a concept that someone in the community proposes that then a technical writer will refine that that idea or their own idea and submit it submit something that becomes their proposed plan and that's the thing that google season of docs will then evaluate is the plan the ideas are just concepts or topics that might be considered so don't don't mistake that oh because there's this this idea out there that oh there there's a whole bunch on it or that I have to do exactly that no you're welcome to explore further you're welcome to do propose something different all all are valid so here's the link to the google season of docs page and you see the the project ideas they include things like migrating from the wiki document Jenkins on kubernetes lots and lots of interest for Jenkins on kubernetes but not nearly enough documentation on Jenkins on kubernetes reorganize the existing documentation set create new pages for use cases sorry was there a question yeah hello go ahead yeah so basically for me I mean I mean you come mine to software is the open source contribution so getting started for me is kind of challenging though I've been able to clone the document of the repo motor starts has been kind of easy for me I've gone through every of the document but I still know well I'll explain for me to get started so I don't know if there's any help anyone can render for me on how to do it there there certainly is and so let me put a different topic here is how about where can I find help okay yeah I think that's that's actually great I know a lot of guys out there are kind of stock like I'm I'm present sure so that's the Jenkins Jenkins docs getter channel as people that listen that watch it periodically and try to help out so let's go there and we're going to grab a link to that and I'll just paste it there you can ask questions directly in this getter channel and about once a day at least at least once a day I'll be on there others are on there off and on and that's a great place to ask a question thank you for that another is the Jenkins docs mailing list in okay yeah and that you'll find here in google groups under Jenkins documentation and again it has a number of users and those people tend to help each other so that's a good place to ask questions as well all right anything else thank you okay so we've talked through how can new contributors help if you've got no other questions on that let's talk some other topics like how will technical writers be selected for google season of docs and in order to get to that one I think we've got to go to the overview and timeline and talk about the the what things are happening and when they are happening so what I'd say is let's open up overview here and make it bigger so that I can read it all right so google season of docs is an opportunity for technical writers to come together with open source projects to help improve the open source projects documentation so the assumption is you've got some technical writing experience the idea is you'll spend a few months working closely with a community to bring your skills to help the project's documentation and at the same time you learn about that open source project and about some new technologies so the technologies we're using for documentation in our case are centered around the github workflow pull requests ascii doc and a site that's generated programmatically so now in terms of what happens the the season of docs program organizations like jankins apply to be mentor organizations with project ideas we've done that we've been accepted as a mentor organization then technical writers explore the organizations and choose projects that interest them and then you write up a project proposal and submit it to google season of docs notice that this is not me writing it up it's you so the writers who want to be in google season of docs submit their proposal and then the organization selects the projects they would like to mentor the technical writer when they're accepted spends time working with them to complete the project and then at the end of the program it's announced success or failure etc questions on that high-level picture yeah i have a question about this topic i can speak her yes yeah all right so the main idea is i'm as a technical writer i build a plan propose a project proposal sent to you and if it's selected we start to work with right but uh i don't know about the jankins necessity so for example in those google seasons uh website i see there we have a a plugin documentation and update necessity to be great a uh from the old wiki i i know i guess and from the new one in kitchen right this is on the proposed plan right so uh how can i uh know what is the necessity for work on this because it's my first time time interact with janks so i needed some hints to build my my project propose right good that's a very reasonable question so i think jonathan i think what you're asking is how can i as a new arrival on on this thing jakeens possibly propose a plan when i don't yet understand the details right yeah that's the point yeah all right you're very good i i you certainly don't know how to do any of the things that are described here or may not yet because you may not have done any work with the jankins project documentation it's perfect yeah perfect yeah i don't know how to do this yeah i'll possibly give you a plan and the answer is embedded in the timeline so so it's very very good you hit you hit it very well uh the timeline will take us through how we get you to that knowledge before you submit your plan nice okay so what we do is we're now at may the 18th so we are in this period here where we're in what's called technical writer exploration this period lasts until june 8th this period is where you discuss project ideas with mentoring organizations and learn that have the technical experiences you need so that you can create a good plan so during this phase i expect that you will be submitting poll requests you'll be reviewing documentation you'll be experimenting with jankins you'll be finding problems and asking questions about those problems that this is a very active phase for you so that you can learn what what the components of a good plan would be and so that you understand so the general say things in your plan that the people reviewing the plan look at and say that is outrageous it won't help anyone to say to say that so so the idea is you in this period between now and the 8th of june enter into discussions and the discussions are typically done by proposing changes you pick a wiki page and you transform it into jankins.io or you help with some project on a change of one sort or another you pick a bug report and fix that bug and the process of you doing that work will give you the experience you need so that you can enter into this technical writer application period and be ready to then let's see so now so technical writer applic oh yeah so june 8th to june 9 so to so beginning june 9 starts the application period you have then one month to prepare your proposal in that month you continue contributing you continue exploring you continue looking at different aspects of the project plan that you're going to propose and as you do that your abilities increase and you're able to give a better plan so that when we get to this july 9 deadline for applications you've got a good plan that you're ready to submit for as an application. I get the idea but it's possible for example you or everyone that have more experience with Jenkins and make a bunch or a collection of uh uh beginning stacks that tasks for example I saw in the github there is a label called new commerce issues for example uh but uh I don't know what I can pick or not because I know how to use ask docs mark down a github work process workflow but I need a point to start because there is a lot of links a lot of dots for to read and I need a start point all right very good and and that's go ahead yeah hello yes um yeah like well mr do not learn actually said there's this part when I actually cloned the projects I forked it and I have the rep on my own account so I went through the doc so I was kind of lost I don't even know where to get started from so now I had to go back to github going back to github I went to issues so I see a lot of issues on the air but I still don't know okay where am I going to start from even viewing every of the issues that is here so I think that's one of the things we need to break down so that okay as a newcomer if I'm coming for the first time I should be able to know that okay the first step is for me to get the rep or on my own local mansion then from there I proceed from the okay writing a proposal it dies the next thing to do and leave that is not the next thing to do I should be able to know the next thing in line for me to actually do so that I will be able to contribute to the success of the project great so I think I think what you what you what I would recommend is that you go to the the list of issues let's see if I can find my issues here okay so this is jenkin the jenkins.io websites github repository issues and then here under label so your first issue and you could choose one of these and the technique you use is you read it and say hey is this is this topic interesting to me if it is interesting to you you could assign it to yourself by clicking this assign yourself link that I'm hovered over that's saying I'm going to assign myself if you then choose not to assign it you could give it back so it's okay and and this is your chance to say okay I'm going to try this now you might say oh that that is not the issue I want to work on then you unassign it okay now as part of working on that issue you'll learn many many things as you how do I fork the repository how do I submit a pull request how do I update my local repository all very good and useful things to learn and you'll have helped the project as well yeah thank you so the good first issue it's a tag so we begin it's a good one point to start using this label right nice thank you well and and this the good first issue label is still evolving we've got the six right now that are open by the time we start the hackfix fest next week I expect to have double or triple that number available this these issues that you see here have been created by my looking at um the wiki pages to see which ones need to be translated and many of these are related to that or some other piece of the project's needs if if as an example you're interested in maybe you're interested in writing code that is related to the building of the site then this one this author macro lets you get involved in ASCII doc generation the process of converting ASCII doc into the web pages you may say no no I want to do something different but this is a is one topic another might be oh I'm interested in the ways that that the Jenkins project uses artwork this one is a good choice for artwork there are many different places you can contribute and any one of them will give you experience in the workflow and cause help you discover problems or things that should be better described or should be help you should be yeah should be described better so that you can contribute more effectively another point mark for sample one of the issues it's immigrated linux installation guides to Jenkins.io for sample here we have the checkbox with the tasks right but there is some kind of sample to guide us beyond the creation page for sample a how can I say a a guide a model to to to allow us to know how to what I can write and format the page this things like that or not that's a very good question so so there certainly are what what this particular type of issue report is structured to do is trying to tell us we want to convert from the old thing this page here the Jenkins on red hat wiki page oh yeah this is the old thing and wait patiently it takes forever to load so but you see here's the look the old thing where it says ah this is how I install configure with some important notes that are glaringly absent this the install instructions I've migrated myself but this piece is missing so it's one of those oh okay how would we say that so that's the from now here's the two so this is the destination and here you see the destination is this page on Jenkins.io where we're trying to put it I guess yeah now as the as the really cool secret where but where is this page in the source code right because it's it's all lovely that I can see it on Jenkins.io but I can't edit it right on Jenkins.io I have to find the source code if I jump to the bottom of this page all the way scroll down to the bottom oh well this is taking a long time there down at the very bottom of this page there's this link improve this page if I click that link improve this page it will take me right into GitHub now I know exactly the page to modify even if I do nothing with this page I have found the page to change yeah and so my first action is oh cancel I don't I don't want to edit it here because I have I have a really good editor actually my good editor will do things much better than this so okay but that gives me a chance okay so so the the power of that technique is ah there there are already tools that will let me find this now if while you're reading and certainly you'll be reading you may realize oh here's this mistake on this page well notice here this hyperlink report a problem if I click on any page so let's let's choose a different page this time we're going to choose the using Jenkins page on credentials and I found a problem here I click report a problem and it will put me right into the creation process for a brand new GitHub issue so so again it's simple simplified for my benefit so that it's easy for me to submit a bug report now I'm not going to submit this bug report all right okay just another another another question about the stock yet for sample we are migrating all the data from to to destiny and there is a a step of installations right we need to replay reproduce all steps steps by steps and put screenshots for sample will make some videos oh no it's just next to one well so we we are delighted to have screenshots we have a few videos we typically tend to host our videos on youtube and right a reference to the video into our pages the the it's most common you'll find that most of the documentation is very heavy on words with relatively few screenshots and even fewer videos okay it's one of the one of the problems is many of us do not have great screen presence you look at me I'm balding almost 60 years old etc it's my report right that's a good way to say it that was a very delicate way to say it Jonathan very good not saying mark isn't a particularly pretty person to look at but rather the content is more important that's a good way to say it yeah hello yeah I was just thinking along when you were explaining every of these things okay let's say for instance the process we have on the wiki page which is the old version of the documentation right so and we are trying to migrate it to the jackings.io which is the current one we are working on so I'm thinking what if the process that is in the old version which is in the wiki page there's a kind of breakage like something breaks maybe the installation of the one you have on wiki page is the old version of package so how do we know as a technical writer how do we know the ones you put in the current page so one way is to assume that what's written on the wiki is correct and place it into the new page and then allow the code review process to tell you that oh that's not not right that's that's certainly one way to do it the other is try it yourself if you have access to a to the the right computer you should by all means try to do what the thing is that you're documenting okay now many many users you may say oh all I have is windows and this is describing linux or all I have is macOS and this is describing windows and so many times you may have to write without being able to experience everything that's described in the document okay like you experiment yourself correct right so yeah but you can you can also be comfortable and confident that there are others who will review the documentation that you're proposing and will give you feedback on it now it at least for me I find it I find it I would like the original submitter to have done the work that I think they could do so for instance if you write something and it's clear that you you had access to something that could test it and you never tested it I find that not as helpful if you can test it you should test it correct mark may I ask a couple questions related to uh well uh first of all there is documentation on jenkins.io about the projects which are part of hacker fest which will start in one week are those projects or ideas and this is the question related to time frame because when we looked at google uh doc about gsod the time frame for selecting projects and the melting projects was middle of august and our page tells that this project already we have several projects for documentation so are those projects or ideas and just so to use this precise terminology that google season of docs uses there isn't any google season of docs project uh accepted yet for the jenkins for for jenkins there are project ideas and the ideas are offered to our writer candidates as possible possibilities they might consider but none of them are projects in the sense of a google season of docs projects are selected by the organization administrators and the mentors during this during this selection phase here july 9 through july 31 so did that answer your question blad yes let me reiterate so those are in our terminology just ideas not yet projects they haven't materialized into the projects that is correct so these and and i like that phrasing that's a very good way to phrase it let's drop the word project these are just ideas or concepts that have been tossed out as clear needs by people who are participants in the jenkins project and in jenkins but they are not staffed they are not in any condition of permanent ongoing effort people in the prod in the in jenkins make progress on them when they feel like it and they don't make progress on them when they don't feel like it and well next question which comes out of this answer uh when in case some of those projects will be stuffed how people participating in discussion and contributing in ideas will kind of participate in actual projects not ideas and how uh like the question about the sponsorship maybe or are those based on just volunteering work or is it some kind of compensation for this work in terms of minor compensation good good question so the the i believe google season of docs has a compensation portion although i have not done the research on it so let's take a quick look at it and see if we can find that just a moment uh because i i know google summer of code with the university students that runs just over the summertime does in fact compensate the contributors it compensates the students let me double check this i think let's see google season of docs google season of docs uh paint maybe is a good word technical writer stipends here we go good okay okay so google uses pioneer to pay a stipend to technical writers who successfully complete season of docs it is a single stipend single payment paid at the end of documentation development the amounts are calculated based on home location and we can and here they say base amount of 6000 us dollars and then adjusted to each based on each country's purchasing power parity so minimum 2400 us dollars maximum 6600 and this in case if contributors will be selected as technical writers this kind of payment and in case if this idea will be materialized in the project and it will be selected by google groups you are correct so so this stipend is only paid after successful completion and it's after development is complete yeah good question i had not done the research so thanks for letting me learn with you and uh on mentoring i know that uh jenkins project jenkins project organization had be selected as mentor organization but individual mentors uh those maybe not necessary technical writers they may be as i understand uh software engineers programmers or just regular people willing to help who have some experience and is there any kind of compensation for that quite category of people for mentors i don't believe there is i'm not aware of any compensation for mentors uh it's it's as far as i know entirely part of the it's just assumed that they're part of the project and therefore google season of docs definitely has no contribution comp no payment to mentors and i see nothing here on season of docs either so mentors are not compensated and to just for precision the mentors in general will not be technical writers because we don't have many we don't have any dedicated technical writers that that's all they do on the project what we have are people like me let's see 15 years as a manager in technology some years as a programmer etc but and i speak english but that's about the limits right calling me a technical writer is i've i've created training i've presented training but i'm not a technical writer i'm happy to write i write because it helps uh so did that answer your question glad absolutely yes great and um i'm not sure is it related to not just general questions do you want to go through our agenda first and well i'm actually fine with questions go ahead and ask your question and we'll go back to the agenda to be sure we're okay mm-hmm just a general question about the hosting of jenkins io documentation is hosted on azure right now and we're trying to be great to one of public cloud providers or is it misconception maybe good good question so let's let's put let me put that in so um where where is jenkins.io hosted and what's the plan future plan right so um the jenkins project is a community effort right infrastructure is donated is donated uh the continuous delivery foundation uh provides funds for a portion of the infrastructure uh amazon provides funds provides uh credits for a portion um for the three years prior to up until december of 2019 microsoft azure provided credits through december 2019 uh and so those those donors and we have hope that someday google will provide or maybe ibm cloud so donors provide the infrastructure currently uh azure is the host for jenkins.io at the moment uh and for ci.jenkins.io the master aws hosts ci.jenkins.io agents and we may move things around based on who's willing to fund us and how they're willing to fund us and uh thank you very much for answering and also related to this question about creating accounts on those public providers are those accounts donated by those corresponding applications and uh in case if contributors or mentors or technical right well some people contribute into the jenkins project would like to test uh hosting deployment or there's documentation on specific uh cloud provider how can they proceed without having an account or should they have a card so how does a how does a contributor request compute capacity right for for or request capacity for compute disk etc is that a fair way to state state your question yes okay so the the first preference is prefer to use existing infrastructure like ti.jenkins.io that gives us access to linux windows uh s390x for those who know mainframes power pc and rm64 and it's run on a jenkins server now if you say oh i need to do interactive experimenting with this thing then the next is prefer to use your own workstation your own computer because if your machine won't run it it probably is broken for someone else that's that's correct assumption yeah so if if none of those work we'll need to discuss further because right now we don't have we we don't have a way to generally lend out capacity to share capacity infrastructure capacity without becoming an infrastructure administrator and i'm hesitant to give anybody in for admin capabilities that doesn't absolutely require it we've had we've had one too many places where people used some unsecured jenkins instance on the public internet to crypto mine to go go computing bitcoin or something and we'd rather not have that our infrastructure used that way yeah absolutely and uh thank you for clarifying this and if you don't mind one more question uh until like i didn't forget it uh so if contributors for instance are providing new recommendation making the build and creating full request and this is uh uh merge approved for instance this is the start of the process uh when the actual result of this full request we can see on jenkins.io site so i guess it is the question about when we can how this contribution will result in the actual build which will be deployed to the hosting site yeah so immediately it's you should expect that well in fact i had it just today jenkins 2.237 was released this morning and the jenkins changelog for that release had not yet been published i published it and 30 or 45 minutes later or i i merged the pull request on jenkins.io 30 or 45 minutes later and it was visible on the actual production site thank you it's it's part of the why it's not instantaneous is we have a content delivery network um provided donated by fastly uh that um accelerates delivery to users by cashing right and because of the cashing cashing sometimes delays visibility of new changes and and it just fastly does a wonderful job of cashing for us we've been really pleased their donation is much appreciated okay thanks all right so any others i'm going to grab that those answers because we touched on those in the session already any other questions that you have i've got we've got about five minutes left before we would end our hour well just a related question maybe nobody else question just to continue our discussion uh when uh we can we contribute to the code to the documentation it's merged uh immediately this result we can see on jenkins.io uh how it is related to and jenkins.io i guess is the part of their product documentation goes with the product i guess right how it is related with the actual long-term builds and weekly builds and uh how permanent is this change and how long it will leave so i'm not sure i'm understanding the question so is your question how how how does documentation get associated to a specific long-term support release or a specific weekly release right so for instance there are certain versions of the product which are published on jenkins.io and how the documentation is related to this version of the product uh and another question there is also jenkins to owe documentation and how this is related to our documentation as well okay so maybe maybe i'll use this as an excuse to give a quick overview of of first the the static website is describing the current release so we don't have uh we we do not have historical copies or or choose your version style documentation it's always describing current release thank you um however jenkins and its plugins bundle help inside themselves inside their binary and and those binaries that help exactly matches a running version mm-hmm and and therefore the static website can describe only one version it's the current version but the jenkins that i am executing describes the version that is i am executing precisely that version mm-hmm so so the example for me is if i look at my my jenkin server that's here on in my environment when i look here at um let's pick something that needs help how about i've got a failing test a failing job on the jenkins get client oh i don't how about an unstable one here's one this thing is has some tests that are failing and if i want to know something about it i can find when i click oh i need to pick a different job let's pick this one i click this one when i click configure it's going to bring up a panel with a bunch of question marks on it for help mm-hmm like this little question why just went off screen now we have to shrink the jenkin user interface is getting work and this is a hint why see this question mark over here on the right yes that is help that is built directly into the product and is tied is exactly with that version of the plugin mm-hmm so that online help tells me precisely what this version is able to do mm-hmm did that did that assist yes absolutely all right so we will do this again next week i will stop the session now and post a copy of the recording thanks very much for your time look forward to see you on the getter channel remember that the getter channel is here it's called jenkin ci slash docs and i'll send each of you a copy of the notes so that you've got a link to them thank you thank you thanks very much thank you so much yeah it was very very useful thank you for your help all right have a lovely day and we'll talk to you in a week
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I sewed the Style Arc Freya Tunic and I'm here to tell you all about my experience in making this comfy, cute, and chic sweater.
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So, fun fact, before this top, I actually hadn't sewn a single thing in two and a half months. And boy was I rusty. But I forged ahead and made this should've been easier than I made it out to be, sweater. More about that soon. But first, if you're new here, hi, I'm Lindsay. I sew all my own clothes and I'm glad you found me. Be sure to introduce yourself in the comments so that I can give you a formal welcome. And for everyone watching, be sure to like this video so other people will see it. Videos highlighting my makes and sewing patterns go up every Monday. I have dozens for you to watch if you want to binge. Check out the playlist in the top right corner of your screen. It opens in a new tab so you will not lose your place here. Okay, back to the sweater. So this is the Style Arc Freya tunic, which was the sew together pattern for last November. The Freya is a cow neck tunic with an angled design line and tucked sleeve opening. To me, it's both chic and comfy and with a few little interesting design details. And as you know by now, I am a sucker for patterns that are basics with a twist. And this is that pattern to a tee. Style Arc patterns, for the most part, are sold by the individual size. So I got the size that would best fit my bust and then I adjusted the hip because to me, that's easier than adjusting the bust and the shoulders and all of that. I used my Fast Fit Workbook to determine that I needed to add two inches to the hip to get the exact amount of pattern and design ease that was designed for the Freya. And then I added a little bit more just for my personal taste. But the Fast Fit Worksheet really helps me understand how the pattern should fit so I can make the necessary adjustments before cutting out my fabric. If you want to check out the Fast Fit Worksheet for yourself, check the description box. I've got links to the individual worksheets as well as the workbook that includes 100 sheets bound together for safekeeping and organization. So after getting the pattern pieces cut out and seeing as this pattern is so simple and I've sewn dozens of similar sweaters in my day, it should have taken about 30 minutes to whip up. Well, cut to two hours later and realizing that I cut the fabric off-grain, I realized that I cannot take 10 weeks away from my sewing. I technically did not have enough of this gorgeous bouquet knit for the pattern, but I needed it to work. I had this plan to sew this pattern with this fabric for months and nothing was better suited for it, either in my imagination or in my stash. As that ever happened to you before, you just cannot picture the pattern in any other fabric. So you do what you can to make it work. To get the pattern to fit on the fabric, I ended up shortening the front and back bodices by about three inches each. And I also shortened the sleeve by about two inches, which, as you can tell, ended up kind of working out. Like, I don't think you can tell that I shortened all of the pattern pieces by so much, especially the sleeve. That sleeve would have been really long if I hadn't shortened it. So it ended up being a blessing in disguise. The neckband is very, very tall. I had it doubled over here because my fabric is so thick. It lays a little funny when I just kind of have it in one layer where all the folds are kind of stacked on top of each other. So if your fabric is thick like this, you could get away with only using half of the neckband pattern piece, which is a real contributor to why this pattern takes so much yardage. If your fabric is lighter weight, though, you might like it really tall so that it lays on top of itself and comes up higher on your neck. It was only after I had played pattern tetris for about 30 minutes and also cut out three of the five pattern pieces that I realized I had my fabric folded the wrong way with the selvedge perpendicular to the fold and therefore was cutting the entire thing off grain. Oh man, but thankfully the design ease of the pattern and the non-obvious direction of the weave of the fabric meant that it didn't technically matter. I bet none of you could tell before I mentioned it and I can't tell when I wear it. So I'll take that as a huge get out of jail free card from the sewing gods. Karma is real, you guys. It's like I hadn't sewn in so long, but the sewing gods really wanted to give me like a good, successful make on my return back. So even though I kept making all these mistakes and running into all of these bead bumps, they were still on my side and we made it happen. As for the exact fabric, I got it from Stylemaker Fabric sometime, gosh, maybe in 2020. I really can't remember. I originally got it to make a crop jacket, but I am so glad that I held on to it for this instead. I paired it today with some fleece lined leggings and combat boots. I love how long it is in the back, but it scoops up in the center front to not hide absolutely everything. I think whenever tunic is the same length all the way around, especially on a pear shaped person like myself, it can make your hips look really like a lot wider than they are. But when it scoops up in the front, it tends to be a little bit more flattering showing that you do have a figure underneath the oversized sweater. I can also see myself wearing this sweater with some high waisted trousers, like half tucked with booties or pointy toed flats. So you really can dress it up or dress it down. Let me know in the comments how you would style this sweater. One little hack I might add for next time is to add a little hidden pocket between the two side seams across the front bodice. Because the side seam is angled, they actually sit closer to the front of the body, making them ideal for like an inside hidden kangaroo pocket. So a little bit of knit scrap sewn into those side seams would be super simple and really functional. Let me know if you'd like to see a tutorial on how to do that. Check the description box for a link to this pattern, the Freya pattern. I hope you are inspired to make one for yourself. I've also added my most recent pattern review for some super white like pants to the end slate here. You can just click that video on the bottom right. But that's going to do it for me today. Thank you all so much for watching. I will see you all very soon. Bye.
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Progressive Discussions with Chiseler's Hall of Shame (uncensored adult topics). Subscribe to support this work, www.newslettercensored.com, www.facebook.com/groups/thetruthwhisperers
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okay it happens to be believe it or not Sunday Sunday Sunday Sunday otherwise known as Domingo in Spanish August the 11th Sunday afternoon August the 11th sorry 2013 how do you like for 23 you like after yeah for or no 40 yeah or 411 13 so how do you like them apples if you have or 11 811 what August 8 yeah 8 8 11 8 11 2013 yeah you have to write out you have to write out the year now you can't you can't go like oh 13 oh well the computer wants a 08 11 yeah 2013 that's the proper way to do it you know when you save a file on the computer you cannot use the the backslash you know for the date you got to use a hyphen you got the separate certain characters you can't use yeah like you have to use it yeah I don't like the hyphen when it comes to date the date but you got to use it separating the the month day and year anyway welcome everyone to progressive discussions I know it's Sunday instead of Saturday afternoon but I was busy yesterday and I am here okay the mission must go on and we're we're coming to you like we do every week from the newsletter sensor Research Center in Northeastern Jersey and I will now let me put my authentic dear antlers down which I these points or the club side are meant for wicked greedy stingy right-wing Republicans or repealicants they used to be rethuglicans but now they're repealicans reblood look and so yeah Jesse Jesse Ventura right but the only but they don't do any work they just vacation all month they work a couple days of month no they don't work they repeal a couple days out of the month and they then they take another vacation and then you told me when they when they they close up shop they run down the Capitol building stairs oh my god very running to get to their planes really oh yeah planes huh get home baby get home and they want to get home and really and they feel their some some right-wing instigator Flamer says said something you must have been a right-wing teabagger Flamer online he said something to the effect that well you know under the Constitution the United States Congress is entitled to a compensation yeah compensation for a service provided which includes working not compensation not 175 to 200,000 without a year without perks for doing nothing and how about them next to nothing them writing the laws for their own raises guaranteed oh they want raises on top of they get an automatic raise every year the 200 grand a year and and free the best free health care don't forget those croissants baby the court yeah the 300 300 and what is it $50 a month for for coffee and and donuts and pastries for each congressman and and the week a good retirement on top of that everything is all like a they made sure that they have they they have a guaranteed life of Riley guaranteed for doing much less than any part-timer anywhere in the United States they don't even work part-time and they work at destruction destroying the United States of America anything that has to do with the United States government they just want to dismember it and and shrink it and destroy it and privatize man and woman and privatize everything and they and they lie to to all the idiot teabaggers that vote for them they lied to them by saying oh privatization is is the way to go that's the best way to run the country or meanwhile privatization has never succeeded well it has succeeded for the privatizer it's a matter of when you when your government sells its assets there's no more assets if I'm a government I sell my telecommunications sector I got no more income coming from that thing and water and and just did you read that that recent banner I found and posted on Facebook and today where it well it it holds up is an image of a $20 bill and and and they're saying that this American $20 bill is not a tangible representative of $20 it's it's a some kind of a note of borrowed all the money is borrowed borrowed promissory you know I think what yeah it like it you're not you're not actually holding you know possessing $20 I'm not talking about inflation you know and devaluing the money I'm talking about printed money is the same printed money borrowed is only as good as the government that prints it you must have faith in that government to accept its money once upon a time money was based on gold gold back by gold yeah but if you back your money by gold you can only have a certain amount of money you can't only a certain amount of gold in the world you can't print and print you can't keep printing it yeah like mr. Bernack is doing right now he's printing and printing and printing so we ain't recovering and recovering and recovering there's no recovering so therefore the the money is like monopoly money well that's what it's becoming very you know and and when and when the banker the banksters and and and Wall Street and politicians the Republican Congress when they pass go they don't pay $200 and they don't go to jail speaking of go and jail you know monopoly took the go to jail thing out of it oh really yeah who did that Republicans probably Wall Street you know had some influence there because nobody ever goes so so so so in the in the greedy capitalist game of monopoly who made that Milton Bradley one of those companies anyway in this all greedy game of capitalism monopoly the board game they took away punishment for going to jail or do not pass go on their hand unethical unethical tactics or underhanded tactics you do not you do not pay a fine and go to jail in monopoly anymore interesting interesting so I guess that's part of the lawless society like Dodge City one gigantic Dodge City so in other words the whole conservative idea of selfishness being a virtue and greed being good this is all part of it they just took the penalty the punishment out of the monopoly game doesn't do that in real life so they might as well do it in the board game yeah nobody in Goldman Sachs or any of the banks in Wall Street nobody ever went to jail but if you protest against them you're terrorist you get arrested if you're an innocent little college girl with no weapons on her possession you get pepper maced in the face maybe kicked you know roughed up by a cop and I read and arrested and arrested interesting anyway let me formally pipe aboard my co-host and mentor and founder of a newsletter censored in 1977 with my authentic Boson's whistle and by the way I am very proud at the all-new tweaked and remodeled newsletter censored page on Facebook you know the page where you can click like there's a like button check it out there's a lot of good stuff on there including information about our commercial voiceover specialist William H. Moral the third who God willing knock on wood will be calling I left him a voice message as a double reminder but he's got an incredible memory I'm sure you won't forget I think he usually calls in about 10 minutes after 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time because we're on we're in the Northeast knock Billy Junior off his gargoyle pedestal here he's wow now I didn't really sorry about that Billy Junior so many decibels it's like my brief like the old Memorex commercial when the one that was the Ella Fitzgerald hits the high note and she breaks and she breaks the glass yeah is it live or is it Memorex anyway welcome to our progressive liberal Starship the Rev. Dr. William J. Eisenman how are you feeling this week sir I need a shave well you are the mysterious co-host which which is never seen so you don't have to worry huh mustn't forget the levity bells yeah well hold on the mysterious disembodied spirit known as the Rev. Dr. William J. Eisenman who is never seen doesn't have to worry about his hairstyle his hair brushed shaving makeup you can call me fuzz or like some supposedly straight celebrity men they're starting to wear eye makeup hey I think they got that from the Rockstar Elvis used to do that Elvis used to have eyeliner on really that's a bit much okay I don't I'm sure I will have other inductees later on into the chiseledest Hall of Shame but I only have one so we're because we're gonna get right into the readings we're gonna sink our teeth right into the readings early today and this first inductee is the infomercial that's that has been around for a while called Magic Jack and now they have Magic Jack Plus and what is Magic Jack Plus well it simply means that for $20 a year you plug it into your it's a little gadget with a USB I mean ethernet connection and you plug it and one side is USB the other side has like an ethernet jack or something and you plug it into your computer modem and your PC or your laptop and for $20 a year you have unlimited calling okay you can use your now well that was your issue to phone number and it can it can work through your home telephone okay or work through your gee you know what I don't I'm not sure if it'll work through the cell phone or not I never asked that question but I know it definitely it definitely can work through your home phone or you can talk on the computer but it does work through the home phone if you have one I imagine it works through the cell phone so because everybody more people have cell phones than home phones you know the networks yeah yeah well they rip you up horizon rip you off to have a home telephone but you know now the technology is the smartphone that's it period forget about home phones now Magic Jack plus enables you to use it and make calls without the computer being boot up the computer does not have to be booted up naturally your your cable modem is still on Vonage has been like that you can make the phone calls without the computer well it's not it's it uses the modem okay to make you can make unlimited long-distance calls I think including Hawaii Puerto Rico Alaska you know territories yeah well you can make international if the other person has Magic Jack then you don't have to pay for international calling but why am I inducting them Magic Jack plus into the chiseless Hall of Shame well what they don't tell you is in order to get Magic Jack plus for $20 a year for the extra convenience you have to buy it in a five-year bundle yeah they're using the word bundle T-Mobile and Verizon uses the word a contract right you have to sign like a two-year contract now with this economy lack of a job market lack of how can one sign a contract to pledge that they're going to make the payments for two years with this type of disastrous situation that we have in the United States to sign any contract to pledge that you're going to make payments in a timely fashion for two years and that helps them stay in business of course and this includes other bills that people have to pay where they have the automatic payment program where they automatically deduct the your premiums your payments from your checking account on time you know automatically you authorize them to do this now what if some something happens and your checking account is depleted for you know maybe some unseen financial woe bankruptcy comes upon you can still grab your stuff bankruptcy a layoff of a job somebody screws up with their fixed income you know social security whatever you know like I was trying to I was trying to explain to mass Bob I says you know and Ken kept on insisting that your yeah Ken create was insisting that your social security disability is safe if you do not make us over a certain amount part-time and I said don't let that fool you don't let them trick you if you have a part-time job for a certain amount of time they will send you a letter stating that you have to get reviewed again by a case worker because you might be eligible for work because you have held this part-time job for so long so much time and they will use that against the disabled person stating that oh you you've held this part-time job meanwhile it could be a hamburger flippin minimum wage job that you can't survive on without family charity okay and they consider it consider it gainful employment but of course they do the Republicans want to use any excuse to take away your fixed income no matter what so if so if the if the if the handicapped person if the disabled person gets a part-time job where they they'll they might be working two times a week you know like far less than than 12 hours you know chump change as I like to call it chump change which is what it is they'll say oh you held this you actually go to work and you you've been here a year now meanwhile you're making chump change I don't trust them they will use it as an excuse to have the law kid it they have the law so security law kid it k.i.d.d.a. yeah which states very emphatically that if you can work you are no longer disabled that's right automatically somebody who is totally and permanently disabled if they get a job right they are no longer disabled it's magic magic it's magic thanks to all the disabled people back in the 1980s was it during Reagan when they went to Washington and they and they're showing these poster boys look at him look how disabled he is and he works full-time good for you you know they're all of course all the time ever all the conservatives are like that's just great oh is it is what an example we have what a fine example we have here there's a woman that's in a wheelchair who swims hey Republicans they're thrilled love that oh she's physical she's good she does laps in a pool oh she can get a job how independent these disabled people are we're so proud of them and all the teabaggers probably say the same thing oh yeah you don't have to be on the dole anymore not they don't tell you that the the congressmen and senators are on the dole those are the ones who are they're on a dole at their own and so are the corporations that get bailed out they're on the dough for free Exxon Mobile GE and etc are on the dough they're all on the dough but you know if if if a poor person or a handicapped person's on the guy for a bit or a senior oh that got forbid so meanwhile all these handicapped I'm sorry disabled people were made to feel guilty the conservatives laid that big guilt trip on them and they and they caved in they were made to feel very guilty for being at home sitting at home collecting social security disability checks or SSI or SSI or whatever and they were made to feel guilty so they of course they they're like dopes they're all in Washington with big smiles on their face and this is the kid a law right well that's the law they refer to that you know if you work you are no longer disabled that's kid so so kid up is just a fancy trick of doping of doping the handicap kiddo was a the guy was I believe he had tuberculosis I believe he had tuberculosis really doesn't matter it was a disease process that got better he got better and they know along he went back to work and they no longer said he was disabled so they use an infection but that yeah but that same law let's take a person who had polio doesn't apply it shouldn't have became totally and permanently disabled part permanent is the key word well no those words mean nothing if he works he too is no longer disabled this is the ludicrousness of the law I mean ludicrous ludicrous that's the word as I always get to do you understand I use the example if a man with no hands like no arms and no legs gets a job as second base for the Yankees he's no longer considered disabled now when he goes home it looks in a mirror he's got no arms and legs not a second not a second base man not a second base a player on the team just the base just the base that everybody slides into when they try to steal they go from first to second and the cleats you know and ram it yeah now that they could they're considered gainfully implausible that's correct and yeah like I was saying before these disabled people are tricked and duped and made to feel guilty if they're collecting from a form of social service to collect for fixed income you know you know that the policy of the Social Security Administration is to refuse one third of those who apply initially because they know they will not come back initially off the bat correct off the bat that's correct they know that people certain people will not pursue they will not go they play their inventor they play the numbers game that's correct and it is official policy and they work because they know they're gonna win at the numbers game because not everybody has the backbone the gumption to to appeal and reappeal and oh except for the Republican Congress they'll reveal everything repeal everything instead of like improving Obamacare they just repeal yeah if it's for the masses and poor people and the mainstream they repeal it if it's for if it's free money if it's welfare for the rich and themselves they won't they won't repeal it they love it they love it the devil's economics they love it's a it's a big double standard they're hypocrites the word of the worst kind but the American media continues to give them FaceTime and they never mention all the the dirty tactics that the Republicans that they do they never mention it like they have no opinion like like they're afraid of saying something well they consider like two parties there's two points notice there's only one party the other party is total evil the Republican Party is total evil it's a lesser of the two the Democrats are the lesser of the two evils they're both two party system they're both but the Republicans are evil yeah they're evil they're pure evil yeah well they they they both take campaign contributions from corporations and elitists they both accept campaign contributions they're all corporates corporates is right all of them but you know I know there's groups out there there's organizations that they still think the Democratic Party are just 100% peachy keen and and you know and and and they they can do no wrong and you know people are the average person is so easily like fooled and hypnotized and and you know it's so easy to get people to follow you because people in general are not independent free thinkers with open minds and they certainly don't do their homework no they're lazy or you wouldn't have like 40% of people watching Fox News yeah who don't know the truth now you did about certain even science at science they're too lazy to research anything and it's like I mean do your homework research question everything like the rest nothing and trust not a trust nothing just like a George Carlin and late the late George Carlin Jesse Ventura people like this question everything and be a real independent free thinker and just realize that hey I'm sick and tired of voting for the lesser of the two evils all the time I want somebody who has good intentions 100% but you got to take the money out of politics change the system you got to take the money out of politics which means a brilliant qualified poor poor slub that wants to run for president or governor or congressman or senator should be allowed to get enough votes to get on the ballot and be able to debate a rich candidate that has millions and millions of dollars donated to him or her and be able to debate and allow the American people to get to know them as an independent progressive hopefully the progressive liberal independent no party affiliation and this person who is definitely qualified to hold office who's brilliant who's got the character and everything and it's very honest should be allowed to run without the big the big bucks they should be allowed to do it you have to change
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Tekton Chains in Action - Natale Vinto, Developer Advocate Lead, Red Hat
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Tekton Chains in Action
Natale Vinto, Developer Advocate Lead, Red Hat
The growing demand for secure supply chain management in Kubernetes has led to the development of Tekton Chains—a powerful controller and security subsystem. This session digs into practical examples and use cases to showcase how Chains empowers Tekton users to effectively manage supply chain security. Attendees will gain insights into how Chains facilitates the secure capture of metadata during CI/CD execution, enabling robust attestation of binary provenance and verifiable builds through comprehensive signing mechanisms.
Join us to explore how Tekton Chains enhances supply chain security within the Tekton ecosystem.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm really excited to be here. This is my first time and the CD mini summit the first time I see many of you in person. So I'm really really excited about it Today, we're gonna talk about tecton chains and how it works a Quick introduction about me or for those of you that doesn't know me. I'm a developer advocate leading redacted this year I'm a CD ambassador. I'm really excited about it And I'm also in the organization of a Kubernetes community days Italy And I'm out of those two books modernizing enterprise Java and gtops cookbook And I have a link at the end of the session So you can if you want you can download those those books for free. So let's go ahead and let's start with that. Why? You usually when when you buy a car you expect that any part supply to be genuine, right? Moreover for those, you know expensive card you expect those are perfect and What about the software should be the same? When we use a software when we buy a software when we you know Adopt a community software. We expect this software the component of this part are all genuine a lot good This is a very important topic. Let me share some scary numbers with you. Those are the percentage of Supply software supply chain attack over the past three years 742 percent 20% data breach compromises software supply chain but the the good number also that teams are start started the doing initiative to bring DevOps and security together because them the attacks are increasing in the software supply chain and Those kind of those are the most common attack right dependency confusion a stolen certificate malware, you know my ransomware any any any bad thing around but you know dependency confusion and a Compromised build environment. Those are also very common attack So let me start with this tail right a software development tail Here's I really like this diagram because show how development works for for any company now for any Project so you have some developer teams that start developing an app one of more application, right? development usually obtains local laptop local workstation or remote or Even though I'm using directly Kubernetes, but this is what we call the inner loop when you start coding building the bagging hopefully testing The software and then you start pushing your code into git So you do a git action. So your development is in the inner loop When you move things to production or to deployment to the CD part to to quote Jeremy, right? Let's talk about the CD This is called the outer loop. So you move your software your artifact into Kind of an automation that build your software and here's you in this outer loop You can have a pipeline that build run compliancy test run security test integration test unit test Deploy your software artifact into one or more environment and and then you are ready then to push this to production now you see those those are two loops and they are very close to a Forming an infinite loop because when something happened in the outer loop You got to go back in the inner loop or you need to add a new feature So it's a continuous inner loop outer loop and then the connection is always a git action So you have a git push then you have a Pull pull request. So you start with the code review and then you send to probe I had that to this diagram. This is really this arrow here the devs a cop So this means that security should be in place from the first time from when you start a code to when you Deploy this code into production. This is the ideal flow And today we're gonna focus. We're gonna talk about the outer loop how tecton and tecton chain a really help implementing Security aspect for your pipeline. We're gonna talk about it in a moment I want to sometimes I make some history jokes this month today. I Borrowed the Joffrey Chaucer Contemporary tales and this is the start of the contemporary tales Adapted for you know, this context one that dependency and this out at so yeah, I'm not gonna say in all English But this is really cool, right? because this is a kind of a song that Is a in to the dependency Dependency and dependency tales what I want to say is that we're gonna talk today about how to secure the supply chain and how Our how opens our software like tecton help with that Before we go ahead into into it. Let me give you some terminology for those of you. Maybe not not aware of these Terms. So one of the most common term is a SLSA, which is sub supply chain level for software architect artifact and then there's a zest and then you might have heard about CVE when there's a vulnerability There's some CVE published in in some public website That there's this bomb the software bill of material The sick store, but the the important thing today is also the attestation and the provenance So attestation about authenticated statement about metadata about the software architect artifact We're building right and the provenance is the record of the region the history and who made the change so it's like more kind of a git but more on the software artifact and SLSA is a very important the specification and define also some levels So level zero is a you know a best effort is a kind of a dry run And then you go into more levels. Let's say level one level two level three level three is really the one that the prevent Vulnerability prevent injecting the dependencies Not expected. So level three you might want to have SLSA SLSA level three in your outer loop and Here's the another good diagram about the shift left. No We start, you know from the final up goes to your user and then You have the user use some networking and they go to production now production is the final result of all the them They are Tifa software artifact. No promote it across development QA staging But you everything start as a you as a developer coding and pushing into it That's that's why the community the industry is promoting also a Shifted approach from source to product and what what about this the coding part? When we talk about coding we need to we usually have use our favorite package manager for Java It's pom for Python is peep any any any of this right and we have our dependencies. So It's kind of automator, right? You I need an HTTP library I'm writing in my Pomex ML something and the maven eventually downloads two gigabytes of stuff I don't know what it's doing, right usually like this and But if you analyze what what is doing under the hood? This is an example with maven Dependency tree it's downloading lots of stuff, right? And we don't really Look at it where we we we have it as a given, but this is also very important. It's the way An attacker can inject a vulnerability as a malware Or is a single point of failure if you remember when that guy from MPM Removed that no JS library and basically stopped the world for for some reason or if you think about the vulnerability Log for J Java, you know, that is really severe that that was a something the people start recognizing about dependency Important after these issues basically, let me show you some open source friends that help you implementing the shift left approach So you start with any git repos you get Git SCM you can be github githlub whatever you want to use, but Most of the time your production is Kubernetes, right? And Kubernetes today is the factor standard for application deployment application workloads and so Kubernetes has a really rich ecosystem of project to to build software and one of this is tecton and Today we're going to talk about specifically about one extension of tecton called tecton chains that help implementing provenance Implementing at the station together with other open source friend like cosine Which is another open source software that can sign artifact and other Software like Claire Claire is an open source software that scan container image Consult a public list of CVE this kind of image give you a result per layer Then if you're using kubernetes, you might want to use policies and open policy agent is really a popular open source software for that and that you might want to deploy software in kubernetes So tecton usually can build the software can also deploy of course But usually build the software sign the the task sign the container email and then you you can deploy the Argo CD But any software for the gtops, but Argo CD one of the popular one So here's an opinionated open source chain for building secure software chain So we're gonna focus today on the safeguard of the building system so we're gonna focus on the outer loop and I know some some of you are directly involved into tecton development, but I was wondering How many of you are already using tecton? Yeah, that's a good number. That's a good number for those of you not aware of tecton Tecton is open and open source software Governed by the CD foundation that provide the kubernetes native CICD on kubernetes This means that you don't have to install an external Software to run CICD on kubernetes. It's native You just install it those what is called those API called custom resource and you have Pipelines in say kubernetes so you can do kubectl get pipeline or kubectl get pod. It's native to kubernetes So that's the default choice when you have when you want to come have kubernetes being a CICD system The good thing of tecton for those of you not not aware of it is that is declarative like anything in kubernetes You declare the state the decided state of your pipeline as an API It's composable you can insert into a pipeline multiple tasks. It's reproducible and it's a cloud net It means that you it's it's native to the containers and kubernetes A quick recap of the concept because in the quick demo we're gonna see really briefly some of this So the pipeline is a pipeline object for pipeline API that can contain one or more task The task in the pipeline can be sequential or parallel But inside the task you have multiple steps. Those steps are sequential and under the hood those steps are just container image That are executed just because tecton is a kubernetes native. Everything is a container So a step is really a container can be a script in the container by it's a container running and The task is a pod is a pod running in your in your cluster Let me show you a quick tecton architecture So basically you define the pipeline that pipeline contain the task Here's the thing different if you use a other software for CICD outside Kubernetes also the running Object is a is an object is a kubernetes object So you can do a kubectl get pipeline run to see the live execution of your pipeline and the pipeline run as a task run inside So when you run the pipeline under the hood you create basically a Task that represent a pod So you have your pipeline is the decomposed by a task the task is a pod inside the pod You have multiple containers that represent the steps. Those are the Overall picture. Let me focus today on tecton chain So tecton chain is part of the tecton ecosystem and it has been had just to add those Secure supply chain component. We were talking about how tecton chain can do that. Well, it can sign task and with sign task result with cryptographic keys and they can also do attestation format like in total We'll we'll look in in a second So can essentially can sign the execution of your task as a software artifact and can also sign the container image that you Generate it so you can I'll show you In the demo in the registry you can have some kind of a tick that display that this is sign it The the in total attestation is Authenticated metadata for one of more software artifact. This is how it is defined in the in the official website So basically you can sign an OCI image OCI is a crony that means open Container initiative. So any container image today is an OCI image docker images Pogman generated images, whatever is a is an open format So you can sign this open format container image and then you create sign sign at the SLS SA provenance attestation for the task run and the pipeline, but not only the Say the software sign it the content and image sign it But also the pipeline run is sign it you are signing everything in your outer loop I Like the logo of SLSA this cyberdike is super cool But what what do you mean that the sign at the SLS SLS say provenance? It's used for verify which build system produce the attestation how the build system was used So it's a complete Verification of everything so, you know in usually in git you can see who mates what right in the code What about in the build system who mates what who did that who signed this is that valid or not? So in this case you in this way you cannot inject dependencies not expected because those are not sign it and Well how tecton chain know that a task run or a pipeline built an image This is done via the what is called type in thing So when you create Container image on OCA OCI container image you have the URL or the image digest this I just This digest is used and then it's gonna be a sign it So tecton build a container image generate and hash that this hash will be used As a digest and that would be will be signed Will change just sign the man the image yes can also Create a pipeline that pretend to build a certain image. Yes tecton can can be can be all of this And I want to show you in particular like James Brown here doing This I want to show you a demo and for the demo I'm using the official documentation You know usually I take the official documentation example to verify that our that works are up to date So if anything and we can send a full request But this is really cool because it show a really good example of sign and provenance tutorial So the first step is you have to generate a key pair with cosine It's a public key private key pair. So you do your signing with basically this is a Asymmetric cryptography once you generate a cosine pair basically you go you can configure tecton chains and you can tell tecton chain to use SLSA and then you can Create the secrets in the namespace of tecton chain containing your your cosine key the generated key Private key in this case and and the public key So you you configure tecton chain and then you move into the into the pipeline So in this example, we're gonna run a pipeline doing a canico task. Canico is a is a It's a building mechanism as an open source software that can build containers from a Docker file is agnostic So this task will generate a container image This image will be a sign then push in a public registry I'm gonna put to quite a yo is similar to Docker app and we're gonna see that this is sign it so This is also important the step for Chain observable the task run the snapshot the task run and then convert the snapshot to standard pilot format Sign them and store them in the metadata. So let's see that in action. This is the first demo Let me let me check why I'm at a much time. We have we might have used just this demo, but let me check this so I'm doing this demo and I'm using my Quaio registry and I want to show you that there's this There there's this CLI called tecton when you use tecton you can use This CLI that's really help you starting a pipeline. I'm using mini cube in my virtual machine I'm in my Fredora workstation. I'm in this namespace So I'm starting a pipeline that essentially will use this task that I have already downloaded And I'm show you what is this task about? So this is a tecton task that build a container image from a Docker file It expects some Docker file somewhere and then it pushed this container image into a registry somewhere So it's really simple task, but this is just used to to show you how it works Designing everything. So let me grab the log of this it takes some second to start the poll So when you use tecton and you start a task, this will create a pod So now this is running is a running pot in the Kubernetes cluster and it executing a step Each of these are steps. So those are containers into the pod And as you can see is building the container image and is and is pushing into a registry now Let me check what well, let me show you what what what this done? I'm gonna do a tecton TaskRound LS and I want to see if that is sign it so I'm gonna do a tecton The task around describe this one Let me check in the into the annotation here's I hope you can see Yes as you can see this annotation has been add and this means the tecton is Signing this this task and also you have a name and you have a Navidence of everything that is going on into into them Into the task run And I want to show you that also your the container image that we generated Has also an evidence on the registry so we're sending this we're sending the container image over here as you can see This is a little tick here This means that this tag has been sign it with cosine now. I'm using quail that also perform some security scan Under the hood where you use Claire Claire is the open source author that perform the scan So not only you signed it the task you sign the container image with the with the hash you generated Also, you can perform some security scan you can have this in you into your your kind of a outer loop to build the mechanism So that was the one part and I have my script here because I want to show you that you can also verify with cosine that Your public key has been used to to sign that image and then you can verify the attestation I'm gonna run this the command So you can see the output live And we here we should have the payload of the for the hour in total attestation so we also verify this with with cosine and then we can also a Click all the record click that help us giving more info about What we have done? Let me check. This is another click and a lot It's part also of the all the tutorial and give you for the for the container image give all the info What happened for the SL? SA Provenance attestation Mechanism that we did with a Techno chain. So that was one example. I want to show you another exam another demo. This was on mini cube but I Want to show you this that read that also build assas around all of this so tecton chain and The building mechanism can be can it go can be anyone Open open shift in skate the Kubernetes open policy agent So everything is over here and this is implemented the SL SA level 3 So I want to show you if we have time are a real app Please stop in when when we have to stop I have a real application here, which is there read that cool store So it's a store where you can buy cool swag like read that hat By the way, if you are interested that the hat is at the boot tomorrow at the conference So here we are out of stock, right? And this is some micro service base application I'll show you so I have a front end I will one or two three micro service for the back end Let's say I want to make all this from the inner loop to the outer loop in a secure way I can implement in my Kubernetes cluster through all the software component I was talking to you about but you but I want to show you that you can also use Assas like this that implement this and you can do the same on your own cluster if you want Let me show you how this works. Let's imagine we We do one change in our in our software like we want to increase the the quantity of Of the software, let me do this one so let me do I want to show you the full story if we have time if we don't have time I'm gonna stop and I show you that what I already deployed, right? So I'm gonna start this Java application the development mode, which is also as a Continuous testing mode for some reason my port 8080s, but I don't need it at the moment Let's imagine we want to increase that Fedora quantity not to 10 and I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna resume the testing So the first step in your secure software supply chain is to verify in the inner loop if everything is fine Now, you know, I changed the code. I haven't updated the test. This is really bad So I need to update my test as well and acquire cruise and the continuous And the continuous testing mode really really help with that Let me check what I've done here Look that's failed Job and I'm making something really bad. Oh the port 8080s build. Okay. Sorry. Sorry about it And for some reason the port 8080 is a is is busy But I wanted to show that, you know, you need to update the The the test you need to eventually perform some security scan locally and for that, you know, we Read that provides on what we call the dependency analytics report the pen extension. It's just an extension that analyzes your Dependency file like a Pomex ML and provide you early some security scan So before you push before you move into the outer loop, let's say this is in collaboration with Nick I have some I have some kind of important Severity in my in memory database. So let's say let's imagine me I'm not gonna use the memory database in production. So let's let's imagine this is good But here I could stop no, I can I can stop I am I can about sending this to production now Let me update the quantity to 10 and let me push Add into the staging area. I want to show you what what what you what you can done So when we push the application when we get push a web book Automatically will start a tecton pipeline and this this this tool is using a pipeline as a code To to to build a automatically the pipeline. Let me show you the source code over here There we go So when you use the tool is gonna inject in your git repo tecton pipeline as a code and for any push or any Poor request this is gonna start there again the pipeline with the task and the task is gonna build everything now This is something you can build out of the box without tecton chain but let me show you the cool thing when you use tecton chain and and all the ecosystem, you know, you can perform your pipeline security scan and Here's some something cool Not only the clear scan so the container image scan the anti anti-virus scan But also the software bill of material check Sast check so it's a complete suite and and the tecton chain then is used to push this image into The query just so I'm doing the same stuff. I was doing into mini cube. It's a little bit more, you know It's more more Extensive, right? But I'm showing you that this application which has been pushed into Into the production. Let's say with the tool is using a container image on this registry again And this is sign it with a tecton chain and cosine in the same way We were doing with a with mini cube So as you can see I'm using the same mechanism from a SAS and that SAS is also adding more stuff Like enterprise contract Anti-virus scan image can container image scan So you can really build something similar on your own with your Kubernetes cluster with tecton tecton chain Claire OPA and Kubernetes Argos CD. You can automate really everything and the good and and GitHub is not respond and and the good stuff is that you can take benefit of all opens or software for creating your secure software supply chain Now those where the demo wanted to do but the pipeline is gonna take some minutes to do the scan So we're not gonna see this live. Maybe we can check later But this will update the quantity in stock. We can have more Fedors to share tomorrow with you at the boot Don't don't forget about it. And what about the other tags that might interested you we have this panel about Secure software supply chain if you are interested in on the topic, please join as this is on Tuesday So it's tomorrow. It's we're gonna talk about SLSA and we're gonna talk about open SSF So you are you are more in security and those topics. Please join this talk because it's really interesting That was the talk. I hope you enjoy the live demos with all the consequences and If you are interested to know more about tecton, this is I think this is a good book because it starts from zero to get ops So there's a is a list of receipt containing how to build containers how to create Helm chart how to use customized and then it goes into how to create tecton pipeline work tecton task and then move into Argo CD how to Use Argo CD as a CD tool and and then tecton other kind of a CI CD tool So there's no tecton chain in version one, but I hope to add the version do the tecton chain part If you are interested to know more about red dot and red dot developer join us on developers with that I've come with many things of free books and tutorials and everything around developers and yeah Thank you all
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Venkat Subramaniam night! Refactoring from Imperative to Functional Style - Singa Dev
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Speaker: Dr. Venkat Subramaniam
Venkat is one of the most famous polyglot developers on earth, and has written 11 books on Java, Kotlin, Scala...
Get ready for a meetup where we'll jazz up the syntax game with Dr. Venkat Subramaniam leading the way. Imagine him as the conductor of a funky functional symphony, turning dull code into a dance of finesse.
In this meetup, we're diving into the tricky world of code, making it cooler and more functional. Join the fun crowd breaking the coding rules, and let's figure out how to think in a whole new way with Dr. Venkat, the coding rockstar.In this live coding presentation, we will take a look at how to promote such thinking by taking some imperative style code and refactoring to functional style.
Along the way, we will discuss the thought process to make the journey a pleasant experience and also explore functions baked into the JDK that make this possible.
Don't be scared; he's not just a code whiz – he's also a writer dude, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and brainiac behind agilelearner.com. As a teacher at the University of Houston, he's not just explaining code but making software world-friendly. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
Event Page: https://www.meetup.com/singadev/events/299098316/
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Is that good? All right, well, first of all, thank you so much for taking the time to join here. It's a great pleasure to have you all. Thank you so much for the facility and for all the effort to organize. So I want to talk about something that we struggled quite a bit, which is how do we write code in functional style? So I want to spend just a few minutes talking about the context, and then we'll dive in and talk about refactoring through functional style after that. The best time to ask questions or make comments is anytime you have a question or a comment. So please don't hesitate. Anytime is a great time. Just draw my attention, start speaking. I'll be delighted to listen to what you have to say. So we all have been programming in imperative style. I would say that's probably what most of us are familiar with, unless you took some weird course in colleges and they forced you to do functional programming. We pretty much did that. And for my experience, for my most part, I've done imperative style of programming. I spent my youth writing code in imperative style. I spent my youth writing code in C++. What I'm telling you in so many words is I had a very dark past. And eventually, of course, I stumbled upon functional programming. And one of the things that made it really hard for me to transition was that people who knew functional programming often said, oh, it's really easy, but it was not. And part of the reason it's really hard is we can learn syntax fairly easily. We are good at doing it. We can learn libraries really easily. But what's really, really hard for us programmers is the paradigm shift. Because paradigm shift doesn't require us to just learn something extra. Paradigm shift requires that we change our thinking. Thinking is hard in the first place. And changing the thinking is even more difficult. So that transitioning was really hard for me to start programming in functional style. And honestly, I would say I'm not really good at it. But I'm not good at anything for that matter. But it gets better over time with more practice. And that's what I want to focus on today is how can we get better at writing functional style code. But before we do that, let's set some context here. What does it really mean to program functional, program imperative? What does all that mean? So let's take a little example and play with it to get a feel for this so we can see what that really may mean in this particular context. So let's say we have a collection of names. I'll say names is equal to. Let's say a list of, in this case, we'll say some names that I want to start with. As you can see, I typed really fast. And in here, I want to be able to find out if our good friend Nemo is in this collection. So how do you find if Nemo is this collection? We, every one of us, have written code like this, isn't it? So what we can do here is we can say, first of all, we can say Boolean and we can say found is equal to false. Then of course, if found is true, we can maybe print out something beautiful. We can say Nemo found. Maybe play a nice little music to celebrate it. Or we can simply say, in this particular case, we could print a message. In this case, we could say maybe Nemo not found. And then we can play maybe a sad music. But within this, what do we do? We can say for i equal to 0. And then i less than and then, oh, is it less than or less than or equal to? How many times have we asked that question? So when people ask me, what is that symbol? I say that's an international symbol for I feel stupid. Because every time you write it, you got to pass and say, hm, is it boundary condition less than or equal to? And you're never sure about it, right? You walk away and you're still thinking. Is it less than or less than or equal to? We have to do the bound shape properly, right? Well, thankfully, we don't have to struggle that hard. We could do something like far. And we could say name coming from the names collection. So we could say names. Then what we do here is we say if. And then, of course, name is equal to Nemo. And somebody says, oh dear, that's not correct. You better do names dot equals really Nemo. And that's another feeling stupid. Which way do we compare it, right? So notice what really is going on here. So we could be writing all this code. In the meantime, we got production code to release. And then we can say in this case, a found is equal to true. And somebody points out, but don't it, you forgot to put a break statement over there. Now, what this really means in this particular context is when I run the code, it says Nemo found. But essentially, what did we just do? So essentially, what we are doing here is imperative style. So imperative style is where you tell what to do and also tell, in this case, how to do it. So essentially, this is quite a bit of complexity that you have to deal with. So you tell what to do, but you also say how to do it. And the details are unapologistic to you. In a sense, basically what's happening here is it is on your face. It doesn't have any sympathy towards you. It draws you in, sucks you in, beats you down, and says, this is all the details you need to know. So one of the problems you have to deal with is to know what it is doing, you got to know all of it. And that's enormously complex for us to deal with. So how does it feel to write code in imperative style? Everyone has this in their family, right? I'm talking about that uncle that we try to avoid in family gatherings. You open the door, you step out, you see that uncle at a distance, you say, oh, no. Last time I said hello to him, four hours, my life was wasted. I'm not going to say anything. I'm going to take this other exit. That is imperative style code to me. Because when I look at it, it draws me in, sits me down, punishes me. So there is no relief to it. The entire complexity is on you when you deal with imperative style code. But we have all been writing this code for a long time. You probably will come across programmers who tell you, oh, come on. That's not too bad. That, come on, that's not too bad, has a technical term for it. It's called the Stockholm syndrome. Yeah, they did feed me every day while they kept me hostage. So the point is we tend to really be forgiving to these. And sometimes even would also tell you, but look at that code. It's actually simple. This is one of the problems we deal with as humans. So we often confuse innocence. We often confuse familiar with simple. And this is a flaw in our thinking. It's not your fault. It's not my fault. If you don't like the talk, you can tell me you don't like it. You don't have to turn things off. So essentially, the problem really here is that when you're dealing with something like this, oops, let's see what happens. There you go. Is it back on there? Awesome, thank you. So essentially, we often confuse familiar with simple. What is familiar is something we have seen over and over and over. And because we have seen it so many times, we just don't feel it. There's a difference between not having the pain and not feeling the pain. This is not feeling the pain. Why? Because we become numb over time with the pain. And that is kind of like a chronic pain we are dealing with. More morphine, we can get together, keep moving. But we can do better. So let's think a little bit about how we could rethink about it. So this is imperative style we talked about. But then the next thing I want to talk about is called declarative style. So declarative style is where we tell what to do. And you can say, but not how to do it. So essentially, you tell what to do, but not how to do it. So how do we do this? Notice I'm not adding code. I just deleted code. All that noise is gone. And I simply come down here and say names.contains. And I say Nemo right there and produces the same result as it did before. So what we did is declarative style. You tell what to do. Tell me it contains. And of course, the question is, how does the contains actually work? Anyone wants to take a guess? What does contains do compared to the code we wrote before? Same is a good answer. I like that answer. Any other answers? Maybe a super duper fast algorithm? Oh, they got to be using a hash code. Or the answer I like is, I don't care. OK, that's pretty rude. Let me rephrase it. It's encapsulated. What does that mean? It's encapsulated. I don't care, said in a polite way. That's basically what it is. So the point really is, it is under this layer. But of course, honestly, as programmers, we know one thing. We do care. Because, hey, what about performance? What about security? What about other implications? But here's the beauty. That's one click away. It tells you you don't need to know it right now. But if you do, press that button on your IDE. What is that, F12 command B? What are IDs you use? And immediately, you can look at the implementation. So it's not on your face, but it's just one layer below. As it turns out, there's a name for this, too. It's called SLAP, which is one of my most favorite principles, not physically to anybody. But in code, this is an amazing principle. It stands for single level of abstraction principle. So essentially, the idea behind the single level of abstraction principle is your code focuses on one level of abstraction, one level of detail. Anything that is a lower level detail, you push that and delegate it to another function. How does this help us? It helps to deal with complexity in the code. So you're not really spending your time enough for dealing with every single detail. So you can focus on your level of detail and anything that's a lower level detail. You delegate it to another function and say, go take care of it. Now, we talked about the imperative. We talked about the declarator. But you say, wait a minute. I thought I came here to hear about functional style. You're talking about declarator style. So let's talk about that a little bit before we go any further. But what is then a functional style of programming? So as it stands out, functional style is actually declarative style plus the use of higher order functions. So you're able to use higher order functions. So it's functional style plus the use of higher order functions. So this gives you the ability to focus on, essentially, not all declarative style is functional, but all functional style is declarative. This is one of the reasons why we tend to benefit from the idea of functional programming is because it's declarative by nature. So you focus on what, not as much on how. But we understand what declarative is. What in the world is this higher order function? Well, typically, we program with functions. So when you write code with function, what do we do? We pass objects, or we can say we pass data to functions. That's what we do. We take some data, we send the data to function, and say, go take this and work with it. We often create, if you will, data in functions. Not only that, we often return data from functions. So we tend to do these things with functions in general. So we pass data to functions, we create data in functions, we return data from functions as well. And as it turns out, it doesn't want to be connected anymore. Let's try that. So this is another lesson in architecture. This is the best way to demonstrate. The more moving parts you have, the more systems break. So this is just the philosophy we can learn from. There you go. Thank you. So excellent. Thank you so much. So that is one of the beautiful things. We can never have simple things because that's boring. And when we have complex, sorry? Simple scales. Yeah, simple scales. But who wants scalability? We want scale, not scale. So this is fantastic. But that's the nature of the systems we build and work with. Let's see, did that work? No? OK. Is that the correct one, though? Joseph? So this computer was a monolith. It turned into a microservice. And now we are trying to do observability, traceability. In the meantime, the customers are like, when can we have our product? But you don't understand. We're building microservices. So DevOps guy can tell us how to maintain this introduction as well. Yeah. The continuous deployment just crashed. Absolutely. That's a different screen. So it wanted to switch now. So is that still connected over there? No. OK. So let's try to change this. So I'm going to extend it. I'm going to mirror this. So let's see if the mirroring works. Yeah. How about that? Is that any better? Awesome. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thanks. So about two weeks ago, are we good? Yeah. Did that work? So about two weeks ago, I was speaking in CERN in Switzerland. And my computer would not connect. And I'm not kidding with you. They spent 40 minutes. And they couldn't get my computer to work. So I literally went over. Mario, who is a speaker, I said, can I borrow your computer, please? He was very interested. I said, here you go. I said, no, no, no. I want your computer with you. I can't type on your computer. So he was the typist I gave the talk. So the next day, I had another talk. And they called me up and said, you got to test this. Come early. So I went there, we tested it. And it connected. It worked. I said, this is awesome. Can you tell me how you fixed it? And they said, it's working. We have no clue why. Don't talk to us. So I started my talk saying, this is amazing, because here at CERN, they know how to take subatomic particles you cannot see and make them collide, but they cannot make a stupid computer connected in the projector. Go figure. So that's the word we live in. Anyways, amazing. So essentially, the idea here is when we have functions, we pass functions, we pass data to functions, we create data, we return data as well. But what in the world are these higher-order functions? What do they do? Well, the beauty of this is we can pass functions to functions, we can create functions and functions, and we can return functions from functions as well. And that's what makes a function a higher-order function. So not only can you do object decomposition, you can also do functional decomposition as well. And this is a powerful feature that we have. For example, if I ask you, if I have a pen, I say, what is this pen? It's an abstraction. You say, oh, that's a pen. But I can unscrew the pen. I will take the spring out of it, the metal, not the framework. And I can say, well, look, there's a spring. There's this ink in it. And I can disassemble into parts. You don't see the pen anymore. You see the parts. But I can put them back together as a pen. In a similar way, I can take functions and build bigger functions with it, just like I can take objects and build bigger objects with it. So not only can we have object aggregation, we can have functional aggregation. That is called functional composition. So that gives us a way for us to build the applications with it. But I do want to apologize to you because I'm a big fan of dad jokes. As I realized, one of the meaningful things of having children is to really tell really bad jokes to embarrass the children. So I'm a big fan of dad jokes. But I have to share a dad joke with you. And you need to answer this, so be ready. So here's the question for you. What is the most favorite animal for functional programmers? Anyone? Don't be shy. What do you think? What is the most favorite animal for functional programmers? Lambda. That's right. That's correct. You nailed it. Lambda. So what are lambdas? I apologize for that really bad joke. But usually people tell Python, I'm like, yeah, that kind of comes close. But lambda is the right answer. Thank you. So essentially, we're lambdas. Lambdas are anonymous functions. So functions typically have names lambdas don't. But lambdas have parameters you pass. They have a body, which is very concise. Proton type is often inferred. But you can specify that in some languages. So essentially, you're passing functions to functions. But those functions you pass really are the lambdas that you can pass. So we talked about the functional style. They had a lot of functions. But typically, though, we talk about immutability, functional composition I mentioned, and lazy evaluation. But I'm going to be lazy about lazy evaluation. We'll talk about that later. So we'll come back to that and talk about it. So that takes us to the main topic, which is to take the code and refactor it. But one of the challenges is the more you are used to one way of doing things, the harder it is to do it differently. So a lot of times what we know makes it harder for us to do it in a different style, different way. I come from about 35 years of programming and imperative style. I've been programming in functional style for 10, 15 years now. And so naturally, I can think imperatively a lot better than think functionally. And when I started programming this, it was really, really hard to think in functional style. And I remember one experience I would never forget. And I take a problem, and I was on a long flight, a 10-hour flight from Europe back to the US. And I was on the flight. I sit down. And the minute I sat down, I took a piece of code. Literally, it took me 10, 15 minutes to make it work, imperative style. So the code is working. Now I said, now that it's working imperative style, I want to make it work functional style. And I'm not kidding with you. It took me the next nine hours trying to find a way to write this code functionally. It was so bad. The flight attendant kept checking on me. You've got to look at the dude at 24, you know, L. He's kind of having trouble over there. And she would come over and say, are you OK? I'm fine. It's a stupid code. You want to pay programming? Be about this with me? So essentially, there was a stress rating. And at the end of the nine hours, a light bulb goes in my head. I get the functional code working. And I'm like, gosh, why was this so hard thinking in functional style? And the lesson I learned from that was the following. Don't bother with functional style. To begin with, you're not in a competition. You don't have to prove to anybody that you can write the code in functional style. So my code is I'm a big fan of this particular mantra. And that is make it work. And of course, once it works, if I know how to type work, make it work, make it better real soon. So I'm a big fan of making things work first. If things work, you can always improve it. And either you can improve it or somebody else comes and improves it. So make it work, make it better real soon. But one of the key things I would say, I know this isn't chart supply oftentimes, but if you write automated tests on your code, amazing things happen. Because when you write automated tests, you're able to know that the code is doing what it's supposed to do because you're verifying this with the test. Come and change the code to functional style. Run the test again. If the test works, you got it. If the test doesn't work, you realize you didn't understand the code in the first place. And this is something I really enjoy a lot because I'm a big fan of functional style. I would tell my developers, let's change this code into functional style. And we would modify the code only to see the test fail. Imagine we did not have the test. And the minute I say, here's a functional style code, isn't it awesome? And then five days from now, they find that it doesn't work properly. The next time I say I want to do functional style, they'll drag me out of the building. So having that feedback loop is very important to know it is working before and it's continuing to work after the change as well that can be very helpful. So given this, one of my recommendations really is write, first of all, the code in the imperative style until you get really comfortable with it, write it in imperative style. Then my recommendation is think, first of all, think declarative. This is one of the things that really has helped me. So don't try to take the leap into the functional style but think declarative, then code functional. So this seems to be a nice way to transition into it. So when I'm getting really tangled up, I'm like, I don't understand how to do this. I'm getting really confused. Just take a deep breath, step back a little bit and say, let me think about it declaratively. Let me think about what am I doing rather than how to actually do it. And detaching that helps oftentimes to figure out the solution, that's a journey we can take. But enough talking, let's take a look at what we can do to solve this particular problem. So what I wanna do here is to take a few examples and play with it. So here is a little example code as you can see and it says for the values one to seven, I wanna know if the number is a prime number or not. Now, this is a imperative style code we have written. And what do we do in this imperative style code? You are setting this variable called divisible. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, come on, I don't ever call it divisible. What do you do? You say T, right? What is T? T stands for temp. But why don't you call it temp? Because that's how you tell the variable you don't deserve to live, right? Those are called garbage variables. Garbage variables are not part of the problem. They're part of the solution we create. And we give really bad names to garbage variables because they are uninvited variables, right? They're the third class citizen. We don't like them. So that's my divisible. And then we say as I iterate over this collection of a range of numbers, I check if it is divisible by that number in the index. If it is, I set divisible to true, I break out of the loop, then I come back and check it. Now, the question is, if you have proper tests, you would verify that it's working. In this case, it says one is not prime. Yeah, it's not. Two and three are prime. Four is not five is. Six is not seven is. But I wanna write this code in functional style. How do we do it? I think declarative and then write functional. So what are we doing? I can say a number is prime if for the range two to number minus one, no number in the range divides the given number. So we could say no value in the range to avoid confusion divides the given number. So now we have described the behavior of what a prime is. Once we write this down, we can look for some key things in here. Given the number, yeah, we have a number. It's prime if for the range two to number minus one. So we need a range operation, great. What else do we need? And then we say no value in the range divides the given number. Well, the value in a range is being divisible as a predicate, but nothing in it. So no value in the range, you can think about a few different options. It's a none match. So essentially it becomes no match or none match and you can start exploring things and you can find what that really means. So now that we have a little bit of a handle on this, we can go back here and say, I want to bring in import. Let's go ahead and import here. Java dot util dot. In this case, a stream dot start. And I want to come down here and say, here is the divisible number is greater than one. And in the stream, we can say, dot range two to the given number, we can say. So then what do we want to do? Two to the given number. So here is the value in that range. Then I can say dot none match. Given the index, I want to say, number mod i is equal to zero. So essentially we can convert that to a functional style by simply using the range function and then we use a none match to it and then we can execute the code and we can get the response as well. So essentially we want to think about what we are doing and then start looking for the functions after that. So what have we learned from this little experience that we had right now? So we can start gathering some collective knowledge at this point. So if you have a imperative style code, imperative style code, and you want to be able to convert it to a functional style, so you have a traditional far i equal to zero and then you have a range of values. So that literally becomes the range function. So you can use a range where you see a far that becomes a tool to look for in terms of what to refactor that is something we can do. So we started with this code. It's a lot less noisy, no garbage variables. There's no that divisible variable is gone. We are using the higher order function, which is what? Well, none match is a higher order function. Why is that? Because we are passing the lambda expression to the none match, passing the function to a function. None match is the higher order function that we are using right there. And of course, that's a refactoring we did. So essentially, start with an imperative style code, but think declaratively before you jump into functional, that gives you a handle to know where you need to approach and you can start experimenting with it and then you can move forward. Well, great so far, but let's go a little bit further with this to see the next thing we can do in here. So here is a little function which is going to compute the factorial. And what does this function do? It says the result is one and then for every value in that range, I'm gonna do a multiply and take the value and keep multiplying to the previous value. So when I run the code, you can see the values for the factorial. One, one, two, one, 20 and so on. So the question is, how do I refactor this code to functional style? So there are a few things you can think about, look for in the code that are giving you the clues to look at what you wanna do. This is a skill we need to take time to develop. In a way, I would say metaphorically speaking, imagine you're wearing a functional style dress and you put this glass on, you don't see the imperative code anymore, but it shows you the pieces that are functional and imagine this is like a, this will be a nice business to have by the way and AR glasses for functional programming. You put these glasses on, it shows you the functional code for imperative style code. And I have such a glass by the way, that's glass I put it on and you can ask me, what do you see here? I see the reduce function right there and that's a technique we need to take to develop. Why do I see a reduce function? The clue here is notice the result on the right side and the result on the left side. We all know what that means. It's called the successive refinement of a variable. So if you keep refining a variable, that's a reduce operation. So what does a reduce do? Reduce operation takes a collection of data but reduces it to a single value. Oh, by the way, this is an amazing feature in programming languages. It's as if the authors of the language get together for dinner and they ask each other, what do you call that function? Oh, you call it reduce. I'll make sure I call it something else. So they work so hard to come up with different names. Hey, what do you call this in C sharp? They call it aggregate. What do you call this in Java? We call it reduce. What do we call this in Groovy? We call it collect. What do you call it in Ruby? We call it inject. And the next programming language is like, what word is not used so far? I can come up with that. Oh, fold, thank you. And Scala calls it fold. And in fact, fold is not enough. You can fold it left or fold it right. So you have a fold left and fold right as well. But that brings us to the point. Imagine you have a little mat. You're doing your gym plank. You work out. What do you do after you work out being a nice person? You roll it, right? Absolutely. And you can roll it to the left or roll it to the right. Don't get too anxious. It doesn't matter which way you roll. In the case of mat, at least. And then you stack it up against the wall. That's why it's called a fold operation. And that's what C sharp calls, sorry, F sharp. Oh, that's even better. Everybody has flaws. But Microsoft has the biggest flaws. Because it's the same damn company. The C sharp team called it select and where. And the F sharp people are like, we can't do that. So they call it different. It drives me crazy. Because when I do F sharp, I have to use different names for the same thing when you see sharp, right? Go figure. But anyways, at the end of the day, we need to recognize all of these are reduced operations. So reduced comes in different flavors. Collect, inject, fold and aggregate and so on. That's a success of refinement. Oh, but by the way, what is this in here? My glasses show me that's a map operation. Because you're transforming the data for every eye, you're transforming it to a value. So you recognize a map and you recognize a reduce in this code. So now we can take this code and we can say, aha, I can do dot, you still dot stream one more time. And now we can go back to this code and we can say return into stream dot range. Oh, but wait a minute. Notice it's less than or equal to, so that becomes a range closed. So back here, if this was a less than it is range, but if it's a less than or equal to, that turns into a range closed. Because the range closed includes the ending value, whereas the range excludes that. So this becomes a range closed from one to up to, so we are iterating through all those values. Then we say dot map, but we are not mapping an integer to an integer. So we say map to object. We wanna go from an int stream to a stream and we are saying, given our eye, I wanna convert it to big integer dot value of eye and we do a map operation on it. And once we transform that to a map operation, we do a reduce operation. So what does a reduce operation do? The reduce operation says, I'm gonna successfully define this value, start on one end left and keep going to the right and refine it. So this is gonna say, I wanna start with a big integer one because that's our initial value we started with. So that's our first value. Then we say a product because that's what we are trying to do. Oh, by the way, this is another thing that drives me crazy. How many times have you seen developers do this? They call it X. That's a beautiful name, isn't it? Or you call it P. I mean, seriously, would you do this? Would you name your kid P? Child, what's your name? My name is P. Really, is that your initial? No, that's my full name. The only reason that ever happens is both the parents are programmers. If one parent is a programmer, the other one is not, child is safe. Hey, I wanna name the kid P. Are you out of your mind? And there's a force of people on you, right? But if both the programs are programmers, it's like, I wanna name the kid P. Oh, I love you, this is great. And the poor kid, that's what happened to Elon Musk, right? What a disaster in naming. I don't know how the child is gonna deal with this poor thing. Give it good name, respect your variables. This is product. You know, what is the risk of calling a product? People understand. They're not trying to wonder, what does this variable mean? You know, I always wondered, I used to think, why do people do this, right? You got a series of code. This is called maybe, you know, X. This is called W. This is called K. And one day I was thinking, what does all this variable mean? And I was like, maybe, maybe my colleague was abducted. And the person who abducted them said, you keep writing code. So nobody knows you're being abducted. Maybe they're leaving a secret message for me at the location where they're hiding. No, that didn't really mean anything, right? And maybe eventually I figured out, maybe they're programming with their cat. I mean, it's a great thing, right? You're coding, you attend a phone call, your cat jumps on the keyboard. I mean, if my cat gives a name, I'm not gonna change it. I'm like, this is great. I tell them, at least comment, who can we attribute this variable name to? Name your cat in there, right? But I think we can make the code a little readable. We can respect that and say, oh, this is a product after all. So product and what is the next one? An index, right? Usually an index variable is I, but this is a value that you have. So we can say value. And what do you wanna return from here? Big integer dot multi, pardon me, it's a product dot multiply and the value that you have. So now we wrote this in functional style and we can run the code right now and make sure it's doing the job. Ooh, let's fix this. So this is going to be the value that's a product coming in and we are, oops, a little error there. There we go, let's fix that and run the code and incompatible lossy type. Ooh, let's see what the type, oh, of course. This is big integer one and line number six is not happy with me. Let's take a look at line number six. So in here, we have, oh, this is a long, isn't it? So long stream, not into stream. You're, oh, sorry, not stream. So long stream, there we go. So long. So now we can run the code and you can see the same result as before and that gave us the result. We can stop here if you want to. But if you look at this lambda expression, what does this lambda expression actually do? Now you can have lambda expressions that actually do some work. For example, I may have a lambda, for instance, just as an example, I do a map and you can say given a value, you could say value times two. That's doing a little bit of work, isn't it? You could say plus 10, that's doing some work. But what does this lambda do? It takes an input and passes it in to this function. In other words, it does absolutely nothing other than just passing the value. This reminds me, I know this is an old movie, but you probably have seen this. Remember seeing the office space movie? In that movie, they ask Tom, what do you do? I take the requirements from the business people and I give it to the programmers. And the guys are like, why can't the business people give the requirements to the programmers directly? Damn it, I'm a people person. I take the requirements from the business people, I give it to the programmers. So I call this one the office space pattern. It is not doing anything useful. Well, not only is it not doing anything useful, we give a really terrible name for this variable. You're forcing people to read a code they don't have to read. So what you can do is, these are called pass through lambdas. Pass through lambdas simply pass their parameters through and do nothing. So you can replace them with method references very easily. So as a result, you can get rid of the lambda and simply write a method reference. And you recognize not only was that a pass through lambda, this one is also a pass through lambda. It takes the two parameters and passes them as arguments. So we can get rid of that as well. So we can say big integer and we can write a method reference right there and we can simply remove that as well and we can write that as a method reference. Well, with the method reference, you spend less time reading the code so it becomes easier to understand it and it taxes you a lot less as well. So where possible, definitely use method references. But what did we learn in this case? First of all, if you are transforming data that you are value of, what function do we use for that? We use a map function. And your successive refinement of the data, what do we use for that? That's your reduce operation. So we can start putting together these kinds of functions to work with. And we can start recognizing things we do in imperative style and the equivalent of it in functional style. We can start gathering some of these ways to refactor. But of course, one of the things is to avoid the mutation as well. If you saw the code we saw earlier, it was mutating the variable. Now we are not at least explicitly mutating. We'll come to the mutation later on and the code is a lot more expressive. So here is one of the nice things about functional style code. Functional style code reads like the problem, like the problem statement. So essentially that's one of the biggest benefits you get. When you start reading the code, it begins to flow like the problem statement. What does this code do? Given a range of values, find their values as big integer and compute the product. So you are just drawing through the step after step. It becomes easy to understand. When it comes to an imperative style code, what do people, people are very polite. These are called euphemism. You go to somebody and give them an imperative style code and say, what does it do? What do they say? I'm trying to figure it out. What is the word in English? I'm trying to figure it out mean. It means the code sucks. We don't know what it is doing. We're struggling with it. What do we say nicely? I'm trying to figure it out. I don't want to figure out what your code is doing. Let it be obvious to me when I look at it. So imperative style code hides the complexity and tortures you with it. Functional style code flows and makes it obvious what you're doing so you're not taxed. It reduces your cognitive load. So that brings us to one other function I want to talk about here. Let's go to the next example. And notice what I'm doing here. I have a search word is equal to local host. Then I have a file, et cetera, host. I want to find how many lines in the file have the word local host. So what do you do? I apologize for this already, but we create a buffered reader and point it to the file. Then comes the scary code, string line equal to null. Then we say, go read the line, assign it to null but check it for not null. How do you feel when you look at this code? This is the kind of code you will hide from humanity. You will never, ever want to show a code like this to your children. If you ever show this code to the children, they will never take after the profession. I really wish they had told me this when I was younger. You know, I travel a lot. So when I go home, I want to spend time with my kids but I also have work to do. So I would take my children, put them on my lap and then I would be coding. And when they're really small, what do they know, right? So they're sitting there and watching things. I keep coding. They slam on the keyboard for a little bit and then time goes on, they're still on my lap but they begin to learn. And one day my son as was coding away, he said, I said, oh my gosh, are you okay? He looked at the screen, he looked at me. He looked at the screen, he looked at me. I said, is everything okay? And he said, dad? I said, yeah. He said, don't worry. When I grow up, I'll take care of you. You don't have to do this anymore. And I am the last Subramanian who will ever be a programmer in my family. Because my children said, dad, this stops with you. No more of this programming stuff. This is what happens if you show bad code to children. And I wish they hadn't told me how to shut the door and I'm secretly programming. Nobody should see my code, right? But this is a code that kills really hard. So that's verbose, isn't it? Then we say lines.contains, at least that's a relief. Then we say count plus plus. That's mutation right there, which we created up here. So the question is what can we do to solve this problem? First of all, notice this F. This F is saying do something or don't based on a condition. So and if in your imperative style code readily turns into a filter, hey, that's great. And I'm gonna look at the count to plus plus. I want you to tell me what that seems like. Count plus plus. You take the value of count, add one to it, put it back to it. What does that feel like? Come on. Current value of count becomes a new value of count. It's a successive refinement of count. So it's a reduce operation, bingo. That's reduce right there because you're successively refining it, isn't it? Old value of count, new value of count. Old value of count, new value of count, successively refining it. So that's a reduce. But a reduce comes in many different forms. Some is a reduce. So when you see some, recognize it as a reduce operation. So almost we have everything almost. What is the one thing we don't have? In the examples we saw so far, if I start with a stream, I can do filter map and reduce. But if I start with the stream, but what am I working with here? Not a stream, but a data from a file. So the only question left in our mind is the following. The question is, can I convert strings in a file into a stream of strings? So you are like, I've got half my puzzle solved. If you give me a stream, I can attach a filter map and reduce to it. The only part that's missing is I need a stream. Can I convert a file to a stream? That's a question. As it turns out, the answer is yes. So we can go back here and say java.nio.file.star. And I can simply say over here, I can say a return files.lines and I can say packs.get. And the file I wanna get is the path that's given to me. Dot, hey, what are we doing? A filter, because for every line, I wanna say a line dot contains the search word. And now that I have all the lines with the search word, I wanna do the count. So we can get rid of all that now. And this becomes a count. So I can simply say avar count is equal to and the count I can display right now. So, oh, illegal start of expression. Let's make sure I've got this proper. So that is my count. And I'm gonna say, oh, no return, right? Where did the return come from? So essentially in this case, I want to take the value and put it back in there. And the result is three as it was before. So essentially, what is, so, this is one other thing we need to get better at. If I point to that line and I ask you, what is that line? You must be able to say that's reduce operation. Count is a specialized reduce. Some is a specialized reduce and so on. So you can use these specialized reduce operations in addition to a general reduce operation as well. So that is basically a reduce at the very end. So you do filter, reduce, filter, map, reduce, map, reduce. So you're basically using these kinds of operations. That's basically what you did right here. Again, no explicit mutability. And we used a filter and a stream and we're writing on it. Okay, so far so good. But the things can get a little bit more complicated when it comes to imperative style code. And one such example we're going to see here is the next one I wanna show you. Let's see if that's gonna bring it up. Oh, let me try to pull this up again. So yeah, so what does this do? Notice in this case, I have scores. So I have scores, Jack has 12 points, Jill has 15, Tom has 11, Darla has 15, Nick has 15, Nancy has 11. But what I wanna do is to group them based on the score. So I wanna say for 15, I have Jill, Darla and Nick. For 11 I have Tom and Nancy. For 12 I have only Jack. So how do I group them based on those scores? Now we all have written imperative style code. Let's take a look at what this imperative style code is doing. We are starting with the given input. We create an empty hash map. Then we say for every name in this collection, for every, you know, in the scores, we'll get the score for it, 15, 12, 11. Then we create an array list. This array list is called the victim array list. Why? Because it may get thrown away. We may not even use it. Poor, sad array list, isn't it? We create this one. We check if the key exists. If it does, we pull the array list from the collection, discarding this one. We update whichever collection we have and then we put them back into the store. Raise your hand if you like to write this code. Not really, right? So what do you do if you have to write this code like this? That's why we hire interns, isn't it? So you tell the intern, go write this code. And they're so happy you give them the job to do. And they're writing this code while you take the lunch, long lunch. Well, poor interns, we don't wanna torture them, right? That borders the line of cruel and unusual punishment. This is too low level. This is not the kind of code we wanna write. But let's step back and think about what we are trying to do. So we have all these names, right? We have Jack with 12, Jill with 15, Tom with 11, Darla with 15, and so on. So I want you to think about this conceptually a little bit differently. I'm a big fan of imagining things. Because if you imagine things, it becomes easier to code. One of the places where we get really tangled up is we take our things too seriously. Oh, I'm writing code. Well, you get tangled up. You're not able to figure out how to write the code. Walk away, step away. Think about stuff. It becomes easy to write the code after that. Hey, so I want to group them based on these numbers. So what would I do? If I have a bunch of kids at home, how would I work with them to do this? I'll go tell them, look at me five or six buckets. Oh, now they have some buckets. Let's put some labels on the buckets. A label on one bucket is called 11. Label on another bucket is called 15. A label on another bucket is called 12. Now I tell the kids, when you see a bucket with 12, drop Jack into it. When you see a bucket with 15, drop Jill into it. Now notice conceptually what you're doing. You got buckets and you throw things into the bucket. So all you have to do is tell which bucket to put that into. Becomes easy. If you understand that concept, you just understood what grouping by does. That's exactly what grouping by does. 11 has Tom and Nancy, 12 has Jack, 15 has the other three. Notice what we are going to do. We take this bulky code. Look at this horrible code. What are we going to do instead? We first of all go bring collectors into this. Once we bring in the collectors, collectors as a function to group, but let's see what we're going to do. So we say return and we take the scores dot key set, dot stream. So we're working with the stream of the names given to us. Dot collect, grouping by given a data, tell me the label of the bucket. That's all you're doing here. That's a very powerful concept is in there. You're saying I've got a group of data coming in as you work with this data, simply take the data and put that into a bucket with that particular label and rest his history. Now you got a buckets that you can group together and you're done. Well, if that is so, what can we do here? We can say given a name, I want this scores dot get on the name. And that becomes, and this is shocking as in it, you took all that bulky code and replaced it with just the three lines of code. And you run this code, it's got exactly the same result. And you just told what buckets to put into. So what does the grouping by do? You tell it the bucket to drop into and you might observe this and say, wait a second, isn't that really redundant? Sure, you can simply replace that with a method reference as well. And so right now you can run the code, produce the same result as well. So that becomes a grouping by operation. And you can see how concise this code is compared to the monster we wrote a few minutes ago. This is easy to understand, easy to read if you understand this idea of putting things in the bucket. So you still need to understand what these functions do for you. But think about this like we can keep doing manual labor, we can keep digging and plowing or we can press a few buttons and have the machine do the job for us. But of course to operate the machine, you need some more education because giving the machine to a person whose layman is dangerous, somebody's arms and legs may be lost doing it. So you need a little bit more training on how to use these functions, but then you become more productive using them. That's the benefit you get out of this. But that's where the training comes in to think about, go think about this as a bucket into which you drop, then it becomes easier to think about it. Well, so far so good we saw how it went away from this verbose code to something really simple, but I wanna post a little challenge to you. So we're gonna look at two more examples before we wrap this up, but this one is gonna be a challenge. And I'm gonna show you a code and this code was sent to me by somebody and they said, here's an imperative style code. How do you, oh, both this and the next example are examples people sent me. And here's an imperative style code. How do you write it in functional style? That's the question we're gonna answer. So here's the code I wanna start with. So what does this code do? First of all, if you notice, a little bit tricky. Hi, what word is being repeated? The answer, what letter is being repeated? The answer is nothing. So it's empty. H is not repeated, I is not repeated. And I'm gonna ask the question, what's repeated in each one of these? What is repeated in here? L is repeated, right? So L is the letter that's repeated. What's the first letter that is repeated? The first letter. So P is not there, U is not there, R, aha, R is there. So R is repeated, right? So here's the R and the R is repeated. So it appears twice. What about Jaguar, what's being repeated? A is in there. A appears another time. What about here, what is repeated? H, because H is the first letter that is repeated. Not the L, L is the second letter that is repeated. But H is the first one in the sequence, right? So the goal is to find among us string which is the first letter that is repeated. So here is a code that somebody sent me. They said, first I will split this into a char array. So here I have the letters. I'm gonna loop through for every candidate letter in the letters, count is zero. I'm gonna check if char letter, again an iteration. If the candidate is the letter, count plus plus. If the count is greater than one, return that value and you're done. So that is a imperative style code to find the first letter that is being repeated. So what did they do? They take a letter, they go through the entire word looking for it. If it's not present, go to the next one. If it's present, count is greater than one, you're done, get out. I wanna write this code in functional style. What are your thoughts? How could we implement this in functional style? That's a question. Don't worry about being right or wrong. The key is to be able to think and see what can we do. And it's a struggle, sometimes we get it, sometimes we don't. Filter, we can filter, I like that idea but what can I filter on and what would I be looking for? I can take the character and I can filter it but it's gonna give me the same letter that's there because it's already there when I filter it. But I don't know the count when I filter. We need a little bit more, right? So I can say, given a letter, check if it's there in the letter in the word, it's there. But it only is there once, how do we know it's there twice? I can split, I can start filtering after the split but then how do we do that? Need a little bit more. You can use a map and group by. Let's start with that. Great first thought. But how does that feel? Does it feel like it was a little bit more heavy handed solution? Maybe you have to create an entire map and then come back and look for it. Will it work? Yes. Yep, got it. Bingo, yep. So H is one, H is two and then you group by. Yes, but does it feel like it's a lot of work? Great first thought. And if you ask me, did I ever think of it? Yes, that's a good first thought. So sometimes the hardest of solutions are the simplest because simple solutions hide behind the complexity. Complex code is like me, loud. Simple code is like, have you seen this one before? Right? And some of the smartest people are the quiet people, isn't it? We know that. I'm the loud. They're like, have you looked at this solution over here? Simple code is the quietest, hard to see, hard to sense. So sometimes we look for solutions but we gloss over simple as code because we're like, that cannot be used. So to answer this question, let's step back a little bit. I like to experiment with code. And there are many ways to experiment. You can use an IDE, fancy IDE, you can write code in IDEs. The problem with IDE for me is it's too slow. You write the code in IDE, you gotta go click a button, you can run it and you can say, oh, Venkat, you can use a shortcut key to run it, sure. But that is if I first started the IDE. And what does an IDE say? Welcome on board, you gotta create a project. I'm like, I wanna just get my work done. But we will tell you how to structure your code. I'm like, dude, I just wanna play with some code. So there are two ways to do it today. Java now has what's called a playground. Anyone who has used the playground so far? Thank you. I don't, but there's one person who has used it. Can you say a few words about playground? Do you like it? It's beautiful isn't it? So playground simply is a browser page. You go select the Java version, you write the code on the browser, how cool that is, and you run it in the browser. You don't need to install Java on your machine at all. So you're visiting family, a little niece or nephew says, is Java nice? You say, of course, sweetie, Java is awesome. And they're like, really? How would it look? Let me show you. And just take your phone, go to the playground and show them some Java code and you spoil them for life, right? How cool that is, right? So you don't have to install anything. You can just play with it right there. So you can use playground. I'm a big fan of JShell. I love to use JShell because it just comes up right there. I can write some code in it. And people often say, well, you need an ID to do anything serious. Well, really. So we can say, you know, greet equal to hello. And how cool this is. You don't even have to put a semicolon. Isn't that cool? You just wrote that. And then you say greet dot index off, I can say. Then people say, well, if you're using the real IDE, it'll expand the code for you like it just did. So it can expand it for you too. And they say, but if you use the real IDE, it'll give you documentation like that. And you can even look for the documentation. So you have the whole shebang in front of you in JShell. So it's pretty much your IDE within a command shell. I actually have seen developers using IDE and use JShell within the terminal. You can even have a cake and as I did it, right? So why not? So I can say, I want to know where L is in this particular case. Oh, L is two in the hello, right? So greet, as you know, is hello and L is in location two. But I can say greet dot last index of L, aha. What is that? That's three. But if I say greet dot index off, and what am I looking for in this case, index of H, that's going to be a zero. But a greet dot last index of H, what does that end up being? Well, that ended up being zero as well. So now exactly we have some ideas to play with this index. So I can say here, aha. So return, and I can say word. So stream dot off word dot split on the empty. So I can split on it. And once I split it, obviously in this case, I need the import Java dot util dot stream dot stream. We'll bring that in. So once I split on it, what's my next step? My next step after splitting on it is to say filter given a letter, I'm going to say word dot last index off the letter is greater than word dot index off the letter. Does that make sense? When will it be greater? Only if it's repeated, not otherwise. Okay, so far so good, but what am I looking for? I want the very first one dot find first. And here's the charm. Find first is lazily evaluated. Find first will not keep going. The minute it finds the first letter, it's like I'm done, I'm going home. No need to do anymore. Well, what does find first return an optional? You say RLs give me the empty. So when you run this code, you can see the same output as before. But just to confirm what I said, this is lazy evaluation. So let's take an example and play with it. So if I go back to this variable, this one here, so let's just take this one. And so persevere, what does that do? It's going to take P, it doesn't exist. U doesn't exist or does. So you should never touch S-E-B-E. That's when you know it's got good performances in there. So when you run the code, it tells you the responses are, but how do I know? This is an interesting little tool you can use called peak. And you can take a letter and you can simply output the letter. So it gives you an opportunity to just peek into it. So when you run the code, notice it says P, U, and R, but it never went beyond that because R is the first match and it's like I'm out of here. Please. It just simplifies the code, that's it. It doesn't reduce the runtime complexity. It reduces your, same as before. You're not doing any worse. But memory-wise, you're not taxing it. Had we created a map, we would have caused the space-time complexity, right? Right, but you'd use more memory in this case if it's a large collection, trade-off. And I would say experiment with it, that's the best way. I never take S-O-N-O for an answer. I always say show me the code, compare it, contrast it, and then decide which one is better. One is better than the other, take which one is better. That's the key. So essentially in this case, you are using this ability to do lazy evaluation. And when you do lazy evaluation, you're not really computing things you don't need to compute, life becomes a lot easier. So that brings us to the last example I wanna show you here. This is an example that somebody sent me and said, look, I know exactly how to do filter map and reduce, but how can I solve this particular problem? So they said, I have compute triples. So given a value 10, I wanna be able to compute triples, sorry, given a 10 values, give me 10 values, compute 10 triples and print it. But what is a triple? A triple is a Pythagorean value. So you have A, B, and C, for which A squared plus B squared equal to C squared. And that's what you wanna compute. So if you run this code, we want 10 values. So notice the very first one, three, four, and five. So three squared plus four squared is 25, which is five squared. Similarly, 940 and 41 is the 10th value. You can, it's an infinite series. You can create as many values as you want to. But in this case, we want only 10 values. So the question is, how can we write this code in functional style? But let's understand the imperative style code first. So we start with a count equal to one. And by the way, this is called the Euclid's algorithm. And Euclid's algorithm says, you start with the value of m from two to infinity. You start with the value of n that goes from one to the value of m, upper bound. You get the triple using that function you saw about, which does this. And then you increase the count. Once you increase the count, if the count is greater than the number break from the inner loop, if the count is greater than the number break from the outer loop, that feels morally wrong, isn't it? That you have to break twice on the same value. But that's because you got to get out of the inner loop and the outer loop. So the question, how can we implement this in functional style? That's our last refactoring we're going to do. What do you think? What are we going to look for is the question, right? Anything comes to mind? All right, I'll give you a clue. I want you to look at this. That's your loop. Value of m goes from two, three, four, five, six. Here's an inner loop, value going from one, two, three all the way to m. And then you are getting a triple. Only look at this for a minute. What comes to your mind? Given a value, you're getting a triple for it. Given a value, you get something else. Map. So we know that's a map, bingo, right? So there's a map in there, but the map is a little bit more complex. And I want to get to that with a little example to understand what this means. So a little detour if you don't mind. So in this case, oh, I forgot to update this, right? So we saw the files, sorry, you have a reading from a file, right? Reading file that became files, dot lines, which gave you a stream. We saw that as well, right, very nicely. So that was a useful operation. And similarly, what did we see in the next example we saw? We saw grouping by. So when you're trying to really collect into groups, you can use the grouping by. And in the grouping by, think of it as the buckets to conceptualize it, that becomes a lot easier. And similarly, find a first really becomes so break, right? So break on first value can become a find first. But let's come to this one. I wanted to think about a stream dot t dot map. And you take a function, I'll call it as one-to-one function. What is a one-to-one function? One-to-one function is given one input, you get one output. When you have a one-to-one function, this returns back a stream of R as a response, whatever the return type is. So that's good so far, right? But if you have a stream of t, and you say map of a function one-to-n, given one value, it gives you a collection of values. So given a person, I want their date of birth. Good news, everybody has one date of birth, right? But if I ask you, I want all your email addresses. Some person may have one email address, some may have 10, but I want all of them. That's a one-to-n, one-to-many, right? One-to-many. So what does this return to you as a response? It's gonna return a stream of list of R, maybe. But the question is, is it what you wanted? So the answer is, if you have a one-to-one, one-to-one function, use map. If you have a one-to-many function, and you guess, use what? Flat map, works really well. So if you have a one-to-many transformation, use a flat map. So the key here is to look at the code and recognize that you have a one-to-many mapping. How do you have a one-to-many mapping in this case? Given one value of m, you have many values of get triple because there are many values of n. That's a one-to-many mapping. The minute you see there's a one-to-many mapping, you know it's a flat map, boom, you got the answer. So when I run the code, you can see it says 345, 940, 41. Let's go back here and work through the flat map problem. So look at that nested if and double, if, we don't have to mess with all of that, return. And I'm gonna say in this case, a stream dot eta rate. So eta rate and what? I'm gonna start with the, was it a two? So I'm gonna say start with a, okay, let's do this again. So in this case, I'm gonna start with this and say in this particular case, let's go back and say, yep, two. So let's work through this here. So I can simply say, let me bring in dot stream, first of all, start with that. So back in here, let's say return a stream dot eta rate two to m given m m plus one dot. So we took care of this for loop right there. What about this one? We say dot flat map as we talked about, given a m into stream dot range, is it range or range closed? Range from one to m dot map, map to object, we have an n given to us. We call get triple m comma n. So we got back the flat map for this particular map. Then what are we gonna do as a next step? We wanna count plus plus. What do you think is the count plus plus going to be? Because we wanna keep incrementing the number of values, right? Well, in this case, our goal is not to actually do the counting. We simply say limit the number of values. That's how many you want. And when you got all the values, what do we do to list? Put the back in a list and send it to me. So that becomes the code to execute it. So we used a flat map for us to perform that operation. So one to one mapping use map. One to many mapping use flat map. And so the minute you recognize the one to many in it, it becomes a flat map problem very quickly. And that becomes a nice way to transform it. So the bottom line is this. This journey can be a bit messy. I'm gonna stop with this one. This journey can be really messy. And but there are some things we can do to get better. There is nothing like practicing. Practice, practice, practice. So a lot of times I would say, there's a great way to invite a colleague at work and say, hey, here we have our imperative style of code. Let's sit together. Let's start refactoring it to functional style. That's a great way for us to get better as a team. So invite a colleague and say, let's just refactor this. And we both may struggle, but we get to learn from each other. That's a great way to raise the bar of the team is to pair with developers to refactor it. Work on some exercises. When you have a problem, you see that, and I do this quite often. I'd be working with something. I say, ooh, that's a imperative style code. I wanna convert that to a functional style code. This can be really a great opportunity on long flights. Keeps you away from watching them in, I mean, this beats AV in-flight entertainment you can have, right? If you want a horror story, you got that right in the code, right? It's got comedy, it's got drama, it's got tragedy, it's got everything built into it. As long as it works in the end, right? You walk out smiling and say, ooh, that was a journey, right? And this can be really rewarding because the more you try, the more you practice, the more you tend to really figure out things and you'll bring rewires these thought process. I'd be delighted to answer any questions, but that's all I have. Questions, comments, thoughts, anything. I'd be delighted, please. Beautiful. So the question is, for the functional style, which is the language that's the most suitable? The one that you are programming in? And I'll tell you why I say this. We can be theoretical about things but I'm a very practical person. I want to get my work done. That's the first thing. And along the way, I want to improve what I do. If I had the opportunity to go learn a different language and use that language in production, that's great. I also teach part-time in the university and I had a gentleman who has about 15 years of experience and I was doing a programming language discourse, so throw them into multiple languages. So they programmed in Scala and they programmed in Clojure. And my student came to me and said, I think Clojure is better than Scala. I said, I'm not gonna argue with you but tell me why. He said, I was programming in Scala and I had really hard time thinking functional. I started writing code in Imperative and it just let me do it. I was programming in, actually it was Erlang, I think it was programming not Scala or Clojure, but nevertheless, I was programming in this language and it said, my way or the highway. And it will not let me write the code in any other way than functional. I had to fight with it and eventually it made me write the code in functional. That's great from a learning point of view but that's a disaster when I have code I have to release in production because my boss is now going to be kind to me and say, I understand, take your time. If it takes 15 years for you to figure out that's still okay, right? So I got to get my work done, make it work, make it better real soon. But having said that, I do find languages like Haskell to be very rewarding because when I learn these languages it gives me the ability to think differently then I can come back and apply that in any language. But the point really is you wanna make that paradigm shift. That's the most important. You can do that in any language. Some languages may force you. Some languages may not force you and you may have to really force yourselves to think about a few things. But the problem is this. If you are gonna be dissuaded from practicing functional style because you now have to learn the syntax of a new language before you can learn functional style. And if that is keeping you away I would say the language you're programming is the best one because to me the goal is to learn things and apply rather than giving excuses to say I really wanted to learn this but my gosh that's an uphill battle, I couldn't take that anymore. And that's what I would say be practical about it and that way you can gain something out of it. Good question though, thank you for asking that. Please, beautiful. I love that question because I think a lot of people pitch bad things against each other. Let me emphasize this. So what I wanna emphasize here is I wanna really say this simply. Oh, it's not your enemy, it is not. How many of us have benefited from object-oriented programming? All of us. So let's not bash what has helped us, right? The problem is not with object-oriented programming. The problem is the way we use it. So what is the influence on this? I today use OO programming with a lot less state than I used to. When I work with developers, public class, private field, whoa, wait a minute, what was that? It's a field. Why'd you write it? They say, what do you mean? I need a field. No, you don't. Don't bring a field until you cannot implement this without a field. So my code has less state now than it used to. So your enemy is not object-oriented programming. So what is your enemy? Your enemy is the complexity that is in the imperative style. So fight that. So I use object with functional. So here's a way to think about it, right? Just a stupid analogy. I'm a big person of analogies. So I'm saying, I wanna build a house. I wanna build a wall. How do I build a wall? Well, dude, you need a brick. Great. But how do I, I don't stack up a brick and walk away, right? That's dangerous. It may even fall on me. So what do you do? You can take a brick and you can put them together using clay. Not saying that's a great idea, but you could do that. Or you can take brick and you can put a cement on it to connect them. So now you know where I'm going. Your brick is the object. You can connect it using imperative, which is your clay, or you can connect them using your cement, which is your functional. So think of these as glue. How do you work with your objects? Well, I can work with my objects using imperative. I can work with my objects using cement, functional. And I can go back and forth, but you got that ability to mix and mix right now. So to me, the object is not the problem. So when people tell me, oh, oh, oh, please pad, function is better, like you missed the point. Opti-term programming allows you to deal with complexity. So your enemy is not objects. So your enemy is the complexity and imperative style. So beat that complexity. That's what I would say. Beautiful, love it. We have this room until five AM, right? Because the question is what happens to design patterns? Let me put something out before I go into it. The more design patterns we see is a sign of lack of capability of a language where we use them. Let me put it in a slightly different way. The more capable, you could say capable language is the fewer patterns we will use. So a lot of times design patterns are a way to compensate for something that's missing. You're saying, I wish I had this, I don't, I'm using a pattern. If a language is really powerful, we call them features, not patterns. So when I first got into Java, it was like a light bulb moment. Because things I would call as patterns in C++ were just features in Java. With Lambda, I almost relived that experience. The patterns in Java were just features now in Java. So patterns get hidden into language features. So a great example of this is passing Lambda's to functions is really a very simple concept in Java. We call that higher order functions. But what does it mean to pass a Lambda to a function? Using Lambda to function is really the strategy pattern. You just don't call it a strategy pattern. Why? Because it's normal life now. What did you do for strategy? Oh, design an interface, implement a bunch of classes, and you forget why you started doing this in the first place along the way. That's so much code you had to write. Whereas here, just create a Lambda, pass that in, and you're done. So it becomes a natural way to do that. Similarly, you take a stream and you iterate it. So the iterated pattern flows. So a lot of these things merge into patterns, a big version of the language feature. Once you get past it, there are some new patterns now. So one of my favorite patterns is, then you could say we can use newer patterns like for example, execute around method pattern. So essentially, you can use lambdas or functional patterns. So one of them is called the execute around method pattern. Execute around method pattern says, I have a piece of code, but around that code, I have pre-op and a post-op. So this becomes very easy for you to model this in your code as a execute around method pattern. For example, if you look at languages like Python or Ruby or many other languages, you open a file, but you never close it. So here's an example in Ruby. File.open and you say filename and you say do file and you say end. And here you say file.something. Notice you never do a close. Why not? Because when you leave the block of code, the close happens automatically. This is called the execute around method pattern. This is very powerful pattern because you don't have to worry about oops, I forgot to close the resource. You just acquire it. When you leave the block of code, it's released. So that reduces the burden on you. But we have used this in Java for a long time. You just don't realize it. Where did we use this in Java? Years on years. Synchronize. Object. Remember that? You acquire the lock when you say synchronize, synchronize. But do you release the lock? It happens automatically here. That's your execute around method pattern. But this was only for synchronize implemented in Java. But what about my own code? That's what this is doing. So these kinds of patterns and what are we passing to it? Oh, that's a lambda, by the way. That you're passing there. So you can do similar things in Java as well to implement this execute around method pattern. So some patterns simply hide away as features of the language. Because the more capable of languages, the fewer patterns you will have. And then as a result, we have some newer patterns that we could use. Like this one, we can start modeling, for example. So it becomes very powerful as well. Awesome. Please. Beautiful, beautiful. So bottom line is this, the code is a mess. I didn't write it. Somebody gave it to me as we do in companies. They didn't leave any tests behind. But I want to really refactor it, make it maybe functional style. What can I do? Very reasonable question. So this is where we need to rethink. Tooling can help us a lot. So we can rethink about it. So we don't do this enough, but I think we can. This goes back to your earlier question. What can we learn from functional languages, other languages? So people who are programming a language like Haskell and Erlang, they use a tool called QuickCheck. And a QuickCheck is a tool that would take a piece of code and run through various combination of tests on it. And the good news is QuickCheck is available for Java now. So you can run QuickCheck on your function. You will run through a slew of tests on it. Hopefully it doesn't break because your functional style code is messy but correct. But the good news is now you have tests. You didn't have to write them manually, but you can write QuickCheck for it. The key is this, right? The key is you nailed it. And that is tests are safety net for refactoring. There's no way around it. So the question is not, can a refactor without test? Question is, how can I get the test without losing my life? And the answer is, find tools like that. The other thing you may essentially do is there are some tools like this which use AI to generate the test for you. But at the bottom line is, you've got to have tests. But it doesn't mean you have to write the test. You just need to get the test. And then once you do, you can refactor and see if it's working. And that can be a way to get around it. Please, you are beautiful. I love it. I love it. So functional, this is a term I try to use. Functional style is equal to functional composition. Very, very careful. Functional style is functional composition. It's the pipeline that we saw. The pipeline is nice. The pipeline is not enough. Functional programming is equal to functional composition plus lazy evaluation. Without laziness, you're not doing functional programming. You are getting functional style. Why is this important to keep in mind? So I'm going to throw a little slogan here. I'm going to say polymorphism is to OOP as lazy evaluation is to functional programming. If you're saying, I'm doing optional programming, I'm like, where's polymorphism? If you're not using polymorphism, that is object-based programming, not object-oriented programming. So polymorphism is the key to OOP. Lazy evaluation is the key to functional style. But there's also a beautiful question. This also leads to something as an implication. And that is, this ties back to one thing I wanted to talk about, but then, but I'm glad you brought it up, functional programming relies on lazy evaluation for efficiency. So if you don't have lazy evaluation, all you have is a functional style. It's nice to see, but you don't want to use it if it's a large collection. You're going to lose on performance. And what good is a beautiful code that runs slow? We're not going to be using it. We say, that's a nice idea. Thank you, but no thanks. I've got real work to do. But lazy evaluation relies on purity of functions, also known as immutable, right? Immutable bitty, immutability for correctness. So this is where it gets very tricky. When people say, in functional programming, you have to honor immutability. That's not because it's fashionable. It's because, look how cool we are. We're writing immutable code. No, it's an existential crisis. If you don't honor purity of functions, your code will give you wrong results. If you want wrong results, you can get that by writing code in C++. You don't have to write the code in other languages, because C++ gives you performance with no accuracy. But you want correctness first, that you care about. So if you want correctness, you need to honor purity. That's because lazy evaluation is not optional. It is an existential crisis for functional programming. You want really performance. It's got to be lazy. So functional programming relies on lazy evaluation for efficiency, and lazy evaluation relies on purity of functions for correctness. So this is why if you are programming just to get a nice flow and reduce the complexity in code, with regard to performance, you can do functional style. But you want to really go for functional programming, because that really comes from having a laziness. You don't have a choice oftentimes. Some languages like JavaScript give you only functional style. You may have to use third party libraries to get lazy evaluation. Otherwise you don't have laziness. Languages like Java and languages like C-Sharp, even though they are not traditional functional programming languages, they are still hybrid functional programming languages. Why? Because both Java and C-Sharp give you lazy evaluation. That's the behavior, right? I was going to say default behavior. No, that's the behavior. That's the only way it behaves. Like your streams are always lazy. You don't have an option to change that. That's the way it works. The language itself has nothing. The language is a bunch of syntax, and semantics put together. So if you were to write your own stuff, if passing lambdas around, lambdas are lazy. It depends on when you evaluate it. It doesn't force you to evaluate at any certain times. It's baked into it. No difference. There's no difference. It's just the libraries. They also evaluate laziness. That's all. It's lazy in other ways, but it doesn't mean you have to have laziness everywhere. But with lambdas and functional pipeline, it is lazy, as simple as that. Yeah, that's what you're saying is. In Java, you don't have an option to be lazy. It is lazy. Streams are. Streams are. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's hard to make it work. We don't care about the language, right? It's lambdas and functional pipeline where I vector defer, but you can go with that. Your goal is not for laziness everywhere. No, I don't want to. I want laziness where it matters to me. I don't want to boil the ocean with it. Where I like functional style code, I want laziness with it because I want efficiency. That's all I care about. I don't care about what else you can do in the language because I don't touch those features. That's why I differ from purity, right? Purity can take us to extremes, and then we throw away good things because of that. I want to be practical. You're writing code, mind your efficiency for the code you're writing. If you're writing the code in Java, you get it for free with no effort when you write functional pipeline. And if you're using something else, evaluate that. But you get efficiency in other ways in an imperative style language as well. But you got to trade that efficiency to, that's true in almost any language where you're using, right? You're using the structures given to languages. You don't use something that you don't have as simple as that. Yeah. But that's a distinction I make. Is that laziness really is a essential part for me to qualify it as a functional programming. If you don't have laziness in the code you're writing, and if it's doing an eager evaluation, then I would say that's not functional programming, that's functional style. Again, functional style is only when you're using functional composition, right? Otherwise it's not, it's imperative. And if it's imperative, I don't care, lazy or, you know, eager. It's not karma at that point. Did I answer your question? A little louder, please. Yeah, you have to be careful about it. But the problem also is it's semantics, not syntax. So you may look at the code all day long, you may not realize sometimes whether it's lazy or eager. So you kind of have to know the semantics. If you don't know the semantics, you could be walking away with the wrong understanding of the behavior of the code. You can go either way. Yes, please. No worries, no worries. So in Scala and Kotlin, you have the option to select when you work with the collection of data, you can say go eager on it or you can go lazy on it. The syntax never does lazy or eager. Syntax is just a way you express it. Not to my knowledge. You are probably confusing different use of the word lazy where variables are evaluated lazily or not. That's a different concept than functional programming. That's just differing valuation of a variable's values. That's not what I'm referring to here. One more question. Yes, please. Huh. Beautiful. Right. Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't write code with bugs, so I don't know. So there are two answers to that. Yes and no, yes and no. This is where the familiarity versus unfamiliarity kicks in. When you're unfamiliar with something, fear kicks in. Oh my gosh, what do I do when I go into this alley? It's dark, right? That's okay to have those fears. So there are two answers for it. The first answer is you need to understand the semantics because if you understand the semantics, you know, if you put a breakpoint, it's gonna hit the breakpoint. It just won't hit the breakpoint now. It'll hit the breakpoint when it's evaluated eventually, right? So you can debug the same way you debug code. If I ask you, can you debug multi-threaded code? You're like, yeah, well, it'd be called. Now, when it hits that point, same concept here. But there are two things you can do. If you break those functions into smaller functions and you should, you can unit test those functions. So if something is not working, why do you wanna debug a stream when you can just debug the function that you are using inside of it? That's one answer. But the other answer is, this is where it becomes really interesting, is if you use tools like IntelliJ IDEA, in IntelliJ IDEA, when you go to the debugger, there is a stream debugger. If you ever had a chance to look at it, take a look at it. It's a little squeaky that you'll see in the bottom. You click on it, it'll open a window and it will show you the execution data of a stream laid out. So you will see the original collection. Then you'll see a next column, result of the filter, a third column, a result of a map, and a fourth column, result of a reduce. So you can just read through it and say, oh, that was stupid over there, I can fix it. So you don't have to debug because it visualizes the stream for you. So that is something you can do. So the key is, you can understand the semantics, you can write unit test on smaller pieces of code, you can use the visualizer. So there are techniques available to reduce the burden. You can also put the most famous. So my niece was going to college. She's in computer science. So traditional as a family, right? When a child goes to college, everybody has to give an advice. So it was my turn. So you said, Uncle Venkat, I'm going to college, I'm going to be in computer science. So I went to her and said, let me tell you one thing, it's okay to use print tag. So absolutely, right? And put a peak. And the peak shows you what the output is. Debug to your heart's content. Just don't put that into production. That's all it is. That's all I have. Thank you, folks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Decentralizing Ethereum Data with VulcanizeDB by Rob Mulholand (Devcon5)
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Ethereum is a robust platform for decentralized applications, but the same data structures and encodings that make it effective and trustless also complicate data accessibility and usability. How do you know token balances were updated correctly after you sent your transaction? Is an address authorized to seize your assets? How have system parameters changed over time? To answer these questions, we’ve traditionally depended on centralized APIs and block explorers to capture and serve historical data in a performant way. But what if those services shut down or returned modified results?
VulcanizeDB has been working hard to address this problem - aiming to make it easier for anyone to set up, maintain, and query their own data directly. The good news: it is possible to keep track of the historical state of smart contracts without storing petabytes of data! The tricky part: you need to be intentional about how you track information, and you need to aggregate data from disparate sources to provide a holistic view. This workshop will provide a demo and hands-on experience walking through how VulcanizeDB simplifies the process of developing and interacting with smart contracts while keeping our applications and data independent of centralized third parties.
Speaker(s): Rob Mulholand
Skill level: Intermediate
Track: Privacy
Keywords: technical
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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/
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So, I would like you to do a bit of a demo to try and show off sort of what happens if this runs successfully for you, but if you're able to connect to the internet and interested in the workshop style component, then I actually recommend following these steps, basically just pulling down and vulcanize, checking out the grant you got set up for this process and running Docker Compose up to set up your instance. So, it's now being settled, grab a microphone and let's start it. So, yeah, if you're talking about vulcanized DV, my name is Rob Mohald. I'm a lead developer with Vulcanize. I'm also a principal software crafter at Haylight in Chicago. And I'm a guest engineer. I've added three lines of code to the Ethereum repo. It's a microphone process. Yeah, bring the microphone up, cool. So, to get started talking about sort of the motivation for Vulcanized DV, I wanted to start talking about sort of where are we now with accessing data in the Ethereum ecosystem. And from my perspective, there's a few things to notice. One is that you've got these decentralized applications, but largely in order for these decentralized applications to work, we're relying on centralized data, right? So, here I've visited molockdow.com, and we've got a bunch of network requests going to Infura to access the latest state of the molock contracts. And that's pretty cool, like it works, and it's awesome that Infura provides this service. But ideally, you know, we might have solutions that didn't depend on one third party to service that data. So, in addition to sort of centralization around access to data, another thing we've got is that we've got a lot of duplicated effort, right? So, when I've spoken with people about Vulcanized DV in the hallway, I think one of the most common comments I get is like, oh, that sounds really great. Like, we had to build something like that in-house to support our own infrastructure, right? So, it's amazing to me how many teams have sort of gone through this work of figuring out how to, like, extract data from an Ethereum node, decode it, and put it into a Postgres database. But the fact that so many people are doing it sort of raises the obvious question of like, why don't we have a shared tool set for that? I did want to mention that there's a lot of teams doing great work to address these two issues, right? So, the question of centralization and duplicated effort, we see a ton of teams out there making progress to try and improve the situation. And, you know, I think that's super awesome. I'm really happy to be able to, you know, hear at DevCon, like, see what other people are doing and learn from them, and hopefully we can all learn from each other. But I think the fact that you've got this many organizations all working on like this shared problem sort of indicates the magnitude of the issue and the rationale for having improved tool set. So, with that sort of motivation in mind, the question I wanted to propose is so like, where are we headed? And with VolcanizedDB, I would say that our mission is to replace the centralized and bespoke solutions with shared tooling that anyone can run. And so, if we look at the toolbox of sort of what we've started been developing to make this happen, I wanted to walk through a few different things in our tool chain that you can use like right now to start spinning up your own instance of VolcanizedDB and owning your own data to be able to serve it for yourself. So, I'll walk through each of these in more detail. So, the foundation of the process for setting up a VolcanizedDB instance, we've got this header sync process. And what the header sync process does is we're basically taking block headers out of your node and putting them into Postgres. You can configure a starting block. So, if you only care about a contract that was deployed at block, you know, seven and a half million, then you can start syncing headers into your instance from that individual starting block. And what this process will do is it'll enable you to continually verify those headers at a configurable depth. So, depending on what your concern is about reorgs and so forth, you can have this foundation of data that's continually being validated and where data that's no longer on the chain, if there was a reorg or something like that, is going to be automatically pruned for you. So, you know you have a consistent record of just, like, what are the headers that were on the chain. And importantly, for some of the additional tools I'll discuss, you know, we have foreign key relationship between this block header and all of the nested data, such that you can sort of cascade, remove any data you have in your system that is a product of a header that was removed. So, the thing I wanted to talk about today and the thing that the exercise will let you to run is then the contract watcher process. And so, we think the contract watcher is pretty neat. What it does is basically you give us an address for a contract and you tell us the deployment block of that contract. And then we will automatically figure out what are the events on this contract, start getting them off the chain and decoding them for you. You can run the contract watcher with multiple contracts. We'll create a schema for each one and a table for each event. Those events that end up in Postgres will be associated with the headers, such that that header sync process is going to remove stuff that's no longer valid. And this works pretty great for things that are like events that are defined in a contract's ADI. And again, so if you're able to access the internet and want to set up your own instance, this will do that for you. This will kick off the header sync process, contract watcher, focusing on three contracts from MoLockdown. And it will spin up an instance of Postgraphile, which I'll get to that will enable you to see that data on localhost 5000 in your browser. Compose and execute is a command that I want to talk about. So this is still very much in the work for us, but what the contract watcher gives you is the ability to automatically look at events that are defined in the ADI. But what we've found is that in more complex systems of smart contracts, you also got to worry about things like anonymous events or custom events where the payload doesn't necessarily, like the types that you want to decode the payload into and Postgres don't necessarily match what might be defined on the ADI or the topic zero on a given log event is a little bit different than what you might expect. And so our answer for dealing with that sort of thing has basically been to say, hey, you can write your own plugins and these plugins can be used to, you know, take care of that. Another thing that composes and executes plugins enable you to do is to look directly at storage tree nodes. So I'll be continuing to talk about this during this talk, but I think one thing that is really interesting that the community sort of needs to, like, reckon with is that, right, in order to access state you traditionally need to run, like, an archive node, right, if you want to have historical state. And so a lot of folks don't want to do that. They want to be able to access their data running just a full node. And the way you can do that is you can sort of stuff your state into events, which is cool, except it means that we've just sort of moved the problem over where instead of, like, state load or you have the state load but you also then have, like, event load, right? There have been proposals already floated in the ecosystem to start pruning historical events out of full nodes as well. And the state that you get from an event isn't necessarily the state that's actually, you know, what's happening on a given contract. And so one thing that we've been working on a lot with plugins that we're developing is to look directly at storage on a contract. Now, traditionally you're going to have to do this with an archived node but we've got some ideas there as well. Anyways, plugins let you look at storage tree nodes. You can automatically decode, like, what is the true value of a variable on a contract. And plugins also enable you to make more complex queries, right? So in order to sort of crystallize what those complex queries look like, I'm going to bump ahead to post-graphile. So post-graphile is not something we built, but post-graphile is a super awesome tool. We support Benji on Patreon. I would recommend that everyone else does as well. What post-graphile enables you to do is you just literally, like, bump post-graphile from the command line and it will inspect your post-graph database, identify the schema, and, like, automatically make that available to you in the browser, which is just, like, super sick hotness. So thank you so much to Benji. He's also super responsive on Discord. We found it to be a really easy solution to sort of expose the API in the browser with the data that we have in post-graph. Of course, if you're interested, you can always, you know, just make queries directly against that post-graph data but for browser access, post-graphile's been great. Some things to know about post-graphile is that, like, it'll automatically discover relations between your data, right? So, for example, I mentioned that events we decode are associated with a block header that exists in the database, so you can automatically get header by ID with the event that you're looking up and see, you know, metadata about that block header if you want to see, you know, what block number was it or whatever. Post-graphile also exposes built-in filters and conditions and so forth, which means that you can, like, basically apply those exact tools to your post-graph database via your GraphQL query. It supports subscriptions. It has notifications about new data hitting the database. There are computed columns, which enable you to, like, append data and custom queries, which is what I was mentioning with the more complex queries on the last slide, right? So, you can, in a migration, like create a query that aggregates data from, say, multiple events or tables and those will show up automatically in post-graphile. So, that's the toolbox, sort of, like, as it stands right now. Again, you can try it out, totally open source. The thing I wanted to talk about next is sort of, like, what are we driving toward with our upcoming work? And so, the first thing is simplifying our interfaces for plugins, right? So, I mentioned that you can write plugins and they do super cool stuff, but our mission there is to make sure that in order to write a plugin that enable you to get things like storage tree nodes or anonymous events that you have to write, like, the minimal amount of bespoke code possible for a given smart contract. Another thing we're working on is client patches to emit these storage diffs during a sync. So, I mentioned that, like, traditionally you need an archive node to access historical state and that's kind of a bummer, but, like, one option that's definitely on the table would be to enable a subscription over the JSON-RPC interface that would just, like, spit out those diffs as they're happening. So, I'm going to publish diffs to me if they come from a given smart contract, right? So, part of our sort of open source work is to figure out a way to get this done and get that upstreamed into GAP and Parity and so forth so that you can sort of plug in that subscription directly to VulkanizedDB have a plugin that's parsing that data on the fly and you can be accessing state data with a plugin that took, ideally, a minimal amount of code. Another thing that we've got coming down the pipeline is what we call the super node. So, the idea for the super node is that we will be automatically digesting all those state and storage diffs but also blocks and also proofs for the diffs that are coming out of a node and our goal is to publish all of that data to IPFS and have VulkanizedDB serve as sort of a filtering layer where you can say I want to get all of the diffs from X contract and we will give you a list of contact addresses contact addresses CIDs and you can then query IPFS for that data and you can get the proofs with it right so you don't have to trust that we're giving you the correct data or that that data is valid because you can submit that proof to your node if you want in order to verify that that data is in fact what we say it is and so, again, we think this is super cool work like share Docker compose style demo that lets you do this at DevCon next year maybe or even sooner but that's some huge priority stress and, you know, we always welcome issues, pull requests and people think that other priorities are worth tracking down as well this is the part of the workshop where I would be saying like let's go ahead and try this out everyone run your own instance of VulkanizedDB on your machine if you have internet, we even like performance tested a node back home that you can connect to but I don't think performance is going to be a problem with that internet issue here so to walk into our stack VulkanizedDB is written in Go it goes very nice because it enables us to really easily integrate with Go Ethereum for like unpacking logs and so forth Postgres, obviously talking about that GraphQL this setup on this slide is exactly what it says on the board but, you know, try it out when you're at the hotel or home or whatever like definitely interested to get feedback on this so what I wanted to point out about this setup that we're showing is our config file this config file is 20 lines this config file also yields parsed events from all three mo-lock contracts the mo-lock contract, the yield bank contract and the mo-lock pool contract some of that data at the top I could have put in environment variables to slim this down even more but I wanted to show you like everything you need to do this work so what's happening under the hood you've got this configuration file and then you're running three of the processes that I mentioned so you're saying I went on the header sync process pointed that config file starting at the deployment block contract watcher process with that config file and the most cumbersome command in this post-graph file but that's our fault because the way that we set up these schemas for the contracts is header, basically says this is the header sync process and the contract watcher that's creating this data and then it's the contract address so fairly straightforward to populate this data with any arbitrary address that you want to, you can point at this schema it'll be there there's a little W flag there which is important you can kick off this post-graph file process as soon as you kick off the contract watcher and with the W flag it'll be watching the schema so you'll see a warning perhaps that'll say hey we don't have anything in this schema right now and then as the contract watcher starts to populate that it'll be like oh okay the schema's here you can load it and when you refresh your browser you're gonna have that data exposed in post-graph file so a workshop well an ability to run this stuff we've got I've got sort of a demo here so this is this is a setup instance so I did this whole thing these steps that I'm asking everyone else to do and this is the post-graph file interface that we have so graph IQL which was a command we passed to post-graph file that means that we get a list of all the available queries on the left hand side and then what we've got in the center is graph QL interface with these queries so I've selected these two ownership transfer events and withdrawal events because we can see that if I ask for that I get 23 events and if we pop over to the main source of truth either scan we see that there is an attack 23 events on the MoLock pool contract so that's cool that lines up checks out within these queries we can do some cool stuff so we can say I want to see the nodes and I want to see the parts like new owner and previous owner data and then I fire that query and like there it is ownership was transferred from address and I can do the same thing with withdrawal events I want to see the amount I want to see the receiver and cool these amounts are weird because it's like PBM but there's a fixed value you can divide that by to get something that's a little bit more easy to parse an easier event to look at for understanding this would be the rage put event because they're dealing with shares as opposed to a monetary value and so if I want to see shares to burn and the member address from the rage put events on the MoLock contract then it's like okay these are pretty nice numbers and we can see here we've got like 99 shares burnt we pop over the MoLock contract on ether scan we see like oh interesting here's that same address in topic 1 you know it's a padded hex value and if we do code this to number it's like 99 this event is that event so okay you know you're just getting like automatically decoded events I had you know I can walk through all the queries but I think folks get an idea of what we're doing right you're automatically getting all these events parsed into postgres with like three cans cool so trying to avoid opening my email again and talk about customizing it so you know the idea for the workshop was like first you can run this docker compose that will enable you to like reproduce exactly what I just demoed I did want to mention that thing that I demoed that database ends up being about three gigs that also took me about 30 hours to sync on my own wifi so continue to work on performance that cost is amortized over the life of your system right so you might have like a high up front cost to get totally sync with all the events that have happened throughout history but then you're going to stay in sync if you're running the process continually not going to fall behind and yeah that cost to amortize which is built but what that means is that you know you start seeing events immediately for things that happened early on in the history of those contracts but you wouldn't see all the latest ones until your system finished thinking but if you wanted to check out some other stuff you could write your own config file so that was 20 lines to look at 3 contracts but you could look at 17 contracts and more lines that's up to you you could run it with an address where the ABI is not published on EtherScan right so there's an option to supply the ABI in that config file for the contract if you're not dealing with you know verified source code so it's not a constraint for the system that the ABI has to exist on EtherScan but that minimizes the amount you have to include in the config and if you wanted to run it locally like not in Docker then you can you know do a few things that we have hidden for you in our composed script right so you have to like create a database that Volcanize can connect to we use Go modules so you have to turn that on to enable it to build you end up with your VolcanizeDB binary and you should be able to run these things locally and then if folks were able to you know be like ok I did this I'm bored and I like made my own config looked at my own contracts and bored again I'm running it locally on my machine I'm still bored then like option 3 that I thought would really take up everyone's time would be ok let's start building our own plugins right so all the plugin architecture is in the library shared folder of VolcanizeDB and specifically in the factories directory you can see we've abstracted code that will handle like the overarching process of syncing anonymous events or syncing storage diffs that you just have to write like a few small dependencies to basically tell us like ok you've given me an anonymous event like how does X become Y like something that you put in the database but yeah and you know I'll stick around after this talk I would love for people to give this a go if we can but there we are so I wanted to say thank you I definitely have not done this by myself I you know have the privilege to speak up here but Rick Dudley, Elizabeth Andy, Gabe, Edward, Ian, Connor, Guston have all been super instrumental to getting this project to where it is today we see support from the Ethereum Foundation for which we're tremendously grateful and also from MakerDoc so thank you so much to those folks for supporting our effort we're really excited about hopefully a lot of value can be delivered to the community with some of the tools that for caching historical data and that is pretty much what I got for questions do you support subscriptions on GraphQL? yeah post-graph out is just like the most awesome open source projects it supports subscriptions out of the box so yeah yeah we're just curious the intercom file that you showed us in the address how do you deal with some tabs that essentially spawn from the contract for each individual user with the same bytecode and now you're ending up with thousands of addresses yeah so you definitely want to write a plugin to deal with that because what the contract watcher is giving you is it's giving you an upfront facility to say given a contract address which I think has some value on its own but we're not trying to be super aggressive beyond that with the contract watcher itself but with plugins what you could do is you could say given that I see this event that I want to spin up maybe a new instance of the contract watcher pointed at a field on that event that is an address that I care about or any number of ways you can implement that to run the process we have code that does that some IANs code there's a couple different teams that work on both SDV so there's another code base that actually does that it will read a contract to get a contract address and then write the code for that address yeah similar question is like from now you want to just listen for ABI whatever address typical case 721 for example to keep track of all the 721 token yeah so that's actually what I was just talking about it was an ERC 20 watcher and we just did an ERC 20 watcher but obviously you could change it to make it an ERC 721 watcher as well yeah I mean one thing just to expand on that point too you know we've sort of tinkered with a variety of different amounts of like base data that you can scan for when you're running VulcanizedDB and like just like digest everything and then anyone can run this and digest everything but like I think a reality is that a lot of people who might get value for VulcanizedDB are not necessarily super stoked to like pay the performance cost that it takes to digest all of that extra information if they don't need it right so a lot of what I've been demoing here is like a pretty lightweight process of syncing headers and syncing events from specific targeted contracts there are more tools in the box that enable you to do more heavyweight stuff if you've got the info on the motivation to do that and we're hoping the Supernote can help out with that a lot too I'll go back to you I have another question Is there a technical reason for not syncing backwards? Because you mentioned that you start syncing from the starting block which means it takes you 30 hours to get to events you probably care about yeah so I mean the main thing is just like I guess the latest blocks are more likely to be removed by the header sync process right so you'd be potentially doing a lot more redundant work you can totally get around that if you're interested by starting the header sync process with a more recent starting block number right so I was demoing with the deployment block as the starting block number so that you know you're going to get full of the events but if you really wanted to say like I just want to spin up an instance to give me like what happened the last five days then you can pop that in as a parameter to the command a block number where you start caring about stuff and then that's where the sync will happen from yeah but I mean you care about everything it's just that in the 30 30 hours you want to do something as well yep and you have a book watcher watching for new blocks so your reorgs can just manage just the same way as they are right now yep it's just instead of starting at 7 million whatever you walk backwards from the moment you started the book watcher yeah but before but before yep so the short answer is it is technically harder to do that just generally Gath doesn't like to go in reverse so I mean that's kind of we can if you're really curious about it we can really talk about it short answers Gath doesn't want to go in reverse well I mean that's specifically true also with like subscriptions right so part of the idea here is that you could easily have like a subscription to events but then those are going to be fired as your nodes like processing the blocks that it's going over so part of the rationale for the setup is like you could use either subscriptions or get large queries to progress forward but I think that's a really cool idea and something we could totally dig into so appreciate it yeah it's kind of a work in progress I mean we have I think we had like a doctor file a long time ago and it was like pointed at ranked B and we found it to be like not super useful for our day to day development so lately there's been a lot more work on that and we have a lot of progress on an open PR I think it's called like doctor updates but yes it's not on master yet and the reason but the reason that this one is on its own branch is because like this is pointed at MOLOC like maybe it makes sense at some point to have like an ample doctor files but we just didn't want to be like the purpose of VulcanizedDB is washing the MOLOC contracts you know it does a lot more than that yeah I'm curious about the limitations of the plugin API so currently from what I understood plugins act as a map let's say so they map events or whatever to another events or whatever can they act as a reduce so for example reduce I don't know on the database level like I don't know sum up transfer balance whatever and how does it work with reorgs yeah I think I'm gonna go straight to Rick on this one oh okay I mean yeah you would be running reduce but then as you pointed out so what you would be doing is we would have a table like we have now and then we would just again have a plugin that read from that table and wrote a new table and then it would know to compute the new table so the first table that I described would have all of the things that could get reorged and then the secondary table would get re-computed so you can write everything that I just described because you can do all these things in plugins and that's sort of that's how we would have addressed that but yeah I mean when I designed the system originally I thought most of the utility would be in reduce that's just not the way that development happened to go yeah you said in your presentation that you're not only about those so-state genders yeah yeah so I mean that's work that happens in plugins because we're actively trying to sort of figure out how can we either do this automatically or ask you to write the bare minimum of code that you need to to make that happen but in a nutshell the way it works is that you have a mapping of given storage keys to given contract values so that's pretty straightforward for static values on contracts like it's literally just like to index the value on the contract so you can have a mapping because like index one is you know the total supply or whatever but it gets a little bit more interesting when you start dealing with like mappings and dynamic arrays because generating storage keys for that generally depends on secondary data so like an address to map to balances or whatever and so the way that we're looking at doing that is basically you flag some events as like these have addresses that I know for sure in this mapping and then will like automatically based on the index of the mapping generate the keys based on hashing that address with the index such that you can recognize like all of the storage divs that are coming off of a contract after a given event has been synced and then you know after you know like what it maps to it's a pretty trivial process of just like decoding the value associated with that storage key into the appropriate type well thank you so much for coming out to listen to me talk again we're really excited about this work and hope that it can provide a lot of value for the community and totally open source
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Explore theCUBE's complete MWC Barcelona 2024 coverage https://www.thecube.net/events/gsma/mwc24
The conversation delves into the collaborative efforts between companies like Red Hat and telecom providers to leverage AI supercloud, underscoring its impact on service management and 5G monetization. With a focus on unified network and service solutions and the transition from network functions virtualization, the dialogue showcases AI's capacity to drive innovation, optimize infrastructure and enhance customer experiences through intelligent, real-time operations.
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Good morning and bienvenidos a Barcelona. My name is Savannah Peterson. Join us here with Dave Vellante. We are on day four of our live coverage here on theCUBE at Mobile World Congress. We're excited, developers, developers, developers. We're bringing the heat, and we've got two fantastic guests joining us with a very interesting and exciting partnership. We're going to go real deep on the tech side. So for all you nerds, you're going to want to tune into this one. We've got Dave and Chooja. Thank you both for being here on the show. How are you guys feeling day four? I'm feeling great. First of all, we were here last year, right? On this very stage. Welcome back. And I think actually the mood's even improved further. It's like, I think last year, everybody was back from COVID and there was relief. This year, you actually feel palpable energy, enthusiasm for the industry, which is nice, right? And I think part of that's being driven by the AI everywhere. Like it's just, you can't escape it. I mean, there's robots attacking you in the aisles. I mean, it's literally, there's like all sorts of hovercraft and things like that going around. But it's a, but it's, I think people are seeing a future state, right? It's allowing them to sort of break away from, because clearly telcos have a heritage in infrastructure and being sort of hide bound in these big boxes and things like that and big iron, right? And now the AI is sort of giving them this idea of this horizontal, lightweight, loosely coupled future, much more intelligence and contextual. So I think that's generating a lot of excitement on the floor. I hadn't really thought of AI as spelt, but that was a nice, nice opportunity. What about for you, Shujah? Yeah, I mean, as Dave said about the AI is pretty much the hype this year. We have done a lot of work from our side as well in order to prepare since last year to this year to bring in AI's story across every single portfolio, technology, as well as work across the partner ecosystem in order to look at the use cases, the areas where you can jointly collaborate and deliver some value to the customers. So it has been pretty exciting so far. A lot of good partnership and collaboration and relationship across the whole broader partner ecosystem and some really good demos and demonstrations that could actually weave into the way of 5G monetization and other areas where telcos might be interested in. We want such a hot topic there with monetization. We'll dive into that in a second. Dave, can you tell us a little bit more about the partnership here? Oh yeah, absolutely. So we were here last year with Azar from Red Hat and we're talking about Telco SuperCloud. Yes. We love talking SuperCloud. We've got a whole new demo to talk about the presentation we're doing here at MWC24. But you know, this is actually a long running collaboration. We actually collaborated with Red Hat on the very first Etsy NFE proof of concept, right? In 2013, right? Back in 2013, we were already demonstrating a venture-driven model-based poly-control automation using graphs and agents and nobody knew what I was talking about. Yeah, so you know, things take time to, but now, again, AI's here and I think our story can be absorbed better. I mean, we've been succeeding through the industry but now I really can feel the wind behind our back because people want contextuality, because people want personalized experiences, because people want to optimize, well, they want to optimize their infrastructure too, right? Low energy, right? You know, low latency, right? This is another generation of technology, right? That's delivering this and Enterprise Web's going to be part of that. But the collaboration with Red Hat's very natural because you can just very simply state it is Enterprise Web Platform's the application layer. Red Hat's the infrastructure layer. Together, it's unified network and service management, right? I mean, we literally weave together so nicely, right? At all aspects across from OpenShift, Ansible, there's just so many points, I don't know if you want to bring in some of the others. Right, I mean, as Dave said, let's call it AI-powered super cloud with the joint collaboration. So Red Hat vision is build ones, deploy everywhere and operate autonomously and we have a vision of open hybrid cloud powered by AI. We have done a lot of work with our partner ecosystem horizontally and vertically in order all the way from Silicon at the OEM level to the networking stack, to the switching fabric, go up in the layer at the application layer with our workload providers and especially the one team that is very common here and is the abstraction layer because now we have this multiple operating model, multiple operating systems, multiple different cloud environments as well as different silo or mission that is going on in different areas of the business, like IT, network, cloud, I think that the foremost important piece is the abstraction layer, how do you abstract all of that underneath in order to expose that common and unified platform and that's where our partnership has evolved as Dave said, we're starting from the early days of NFE and our mission and orchestration into more meaningful and focused AI powered abstraction layer that could actually serve the purpose across, I mean the GSMA open gateway with the open APIs as well as the common layer of service management and orchestration that is being talk of the town in the open ran business or 5G core edge in the data center. So I think our partnership has grown up as well as our technology stack has actually grown up and plus we have some future vision in order to deliver some of that common theme across the next generation of the telco cloud. So let's get into that a little bit. You're talking graph and graph ops here at the show. Traditionally you think about graph databases, they've been used inside of places like security. They've not been widely applicable in the enterprise because while they're expressive they're really hard to query, you don't get that simplicity of query that you get with SQL. So you actually have to go back 10 or 15 years to query graph databases. That's beginning to change. It sounds like you've got, I really want to hear more about your applying, I mentioned security, it sounds like the network can really benefit from graph and graph ops. Can you explain that? And then I actually Dave want to get into what that means for the enterprise outside of telco but we're here so let's talk about it. We're right back to abstraction, this is a subject we talk about all the time. And I think if you really think about it in software abstraction equals power. When you build silos, you build use cases. You build static things. And every time you build a static silo thing it's the next problem you have for interoperability and end automation and global visibility. When you have abstractions you're essentially going over the top. And that's what we originally talked about super cloud. So you're spot on regarding graph. The history, graph goes back to Aristotle in objects and things. A little bit of history. A little bit of history, yeah. I thought I was an industry historian, wow. In mathematics it goes back to 1736 bridges of Koningsburg theory, seriously, I had no joke. Love this knowledge right now. But in the last 10 years or so the graphs that most people know about the semantic web, label property graphs, RDF kind of things like that triples those are really data graphs for data scientists and data analytics. They are not operational databases. And I think people are looking to graphs because they see graphs and they see flexibility. They see things that you can analyze very quickly and they want to bring that in but there's an impedance mismatch. A graph database as practiced by semantic web they're great for what they do. That's their use case. But they're not going to be, so enterprise web is using something called hyper graph. So we actually have, we just got an announcement of our 21st awarded US patent. So we have 21 awarded patents on the use of- Congratulations. Thank you. It's exciting. Yeah, it is exciting and expensive by the way. Yeah. That's what it is. You know, it's a couple million I guess spent on other things. More flames. Yeah. But, you know, hyper graphs essentially are an abstraction of graph itself. Essentially enterprise web instead of actually building a graph database which actually as the complexity of your objects and the complexity of your domain grows you have to, you were saying sharded over a lot of databases and then you have this, your reads and your writes become much more expensive and you have these problems called cascading update problems. I mean they're real fundamental problems. They're roadblocks to using it for anything real time. Enterprise web essentially is almost like old fashioned list processing. If you're a Lisp, like from the 1950s, McCarthy, right? Where essentially enterprise web is just like a long skinny table and we actually project the graphs instead of having a database that models a graph physically we actually just run as rows. And what we have is tags on the rows and those tags are relationships. And what we could do is we can read those tags and project graphs and say, okay in this context these things are related. In another context these things are related. And what it means is that we're always interpreting the graph based on the moment, the context of the moment. Enterprise web is driven by that. There's nothing else enterprise web does. It says there's a request, a query or command for something. It's coming from Dave. It's coming in from Barcelona. It's coming with what's called your in-band metadata. And we take that little bit of in-band metadata and then we throw that against it. We use that to sort of bootstrap a walk across the rest of our graph. And then we say, we know all these other things about Dave Vlante. Let's bring those into bearer and we'll apply security. We'll apply all these policies and we'll bring it down and say, here in 200 milliseconds, Dave is a completely personalized response to you. If it was for Shujar in the response and he asked the same question, but in his context, in his role his response might be completely different. So you infer that metadata, infer from that metadata and now you can apply AI to do a lot of that heavy lifting. And actually we can work very like sympathetically with AI too, because graphs naturally work with AI because if you think it, if you have a SQL siloed solution and a hierarchical rigid database, it's hard for the AI to really roam that, right? But graphs are based on relationships and because we're a hyper graph or multi-dimensional, we can expose that graph through an API to AI or to LLMs, right? And they can essentially walk our graphs because any form of AI is looking for patterns. They're just different methods to detect patterns. Well, relationships help you identify patterns. So we're sort of on the deterministic logic-based side driving those real-time operations and then we could work with AI to get those higher level inferences. So a good example is last year after MWC 23, we met with Microsoft and when we, a few months later in May of last year, we demonstrated the world's first telco-grade generative AI for intent-based orchestration. Nobody else- Casual. Yeah, so we did that directly with Microsoft Telecom. We were the first people in the world to actually show that telco-grade orchestration within LLM, right? And it's nine months, it's almost a year later and nobody else has matched it yet, right? It's partially because of our design choices, it's our architecture. Enterprise Web is really sort of suited for this moment, for this AI-enabled, intelligent, real-time, you know, 10 years ago, people thought I was crazy, but now I think, you know, like, you know, who's going to want that? Do you feel vindicated? Do you feel validated now? I am, Dave, I don't think 10 years ago, people thought you were crazy, other than the fact that they thought what you were trying to do was impossible, so maybe they thought you were crazy for trying to solve that problem, but it's a real problem, right? And you think about, well, you think about packaged apps like SAP or Oracle, they define how you have to operate, and they essentially, you call them, I think, use cases, and that use case is, all the data is locked inside of that use case, so what are the advancements in software technology, this is what you're at the forefront of, that are allowing you, enabling you to span, to abstract across those environments so that you can now have a more logical layer of your business, a representation of your business, can you describe that technology? How much time do we have? But, so, you know, in short, so Enterprise Web, it's really, you have to almost back it up for a second, you could, 10 years ago, you could see distributed systems coming, right? Even before the cloud, right? Cloud's not to 2012, 13, right? And that's still nascent, right? Kubernetes is not to 2016, we think it's been around forever, but 2016, that's not that long ago, right? But you could see as the industry was fragmenting, right? And systems were getting, people and systems and information were getting distributed. In a distributed system, it's just logical, and this was my original sort of insight that when I founded the motivation to found the company, was to say, you know, actually, in a distributed system, you don't want to build silos, silos are going to be just pain points for interoperability and change, and we're just going to be exacerbating all our problems when we go to the cloud, if we keep our silos, you want a horizontal abstraction over the top. You want, even though the world is increasingly dynamic, distributed and diverse, you'd like one layer where you could say, hey, all these objects look the same to me. And in this place, I know they're unique, I know they're all snowflakes, but in this place, they've been modeled, mapped to a DSL, they've been mapped to this graph, and I could look at them in the same way, I can discover them the same way, I can compose them declaratively, and I can deploy them and manage them with central policy management. That's really critical. It's a better user experience. Yeah, and what's really happening is that's all abstraction, because in the reality is enterprise web's runtime, anytime you abstract something, what you're doing is, when we were talking about developers in the beginning, right? Yeah, yeah. So, developers, so for the developers, right, developers want to solve business cases, they want to solve business problems, and the way to do that is remove barriers from them. If we can create an abstraction, say, look guys, everything's in a catalog, forget the fact that they might be unique, and they have idiosyncrasies and all these details here. In this catalog, you can find anything you need, a router, a switch, whatever else it is, right? I want to go there, I want to compose it into the service that I need to compose for my job. I want to set the SLAs on it, the policies, and then I want to deploy it. I don't want to care about how it runs. I don't want to care about where it runs. I don't want to be able to tell the system. I want it to work. I want it to work. I want it to be low latency. I want it to be energy efficient. And I want the system, so every time you do an abstraction, what you're doing is you're raising the abstraction so the developer and his tasks are simplified or his, her, right? So their tasks are simplified and automated, right? And what you're doing is when you're transferring the burden onto the runtime, the runtime that takes responsibility. How we do that, we use agents. So Enterprise Web is so the graph is where you get to the model and the execution, the runtime of Enterprise Web is completely agent-based. Enterprise Web is a serverless runtime. It's part of our patents. It's not Amazon Lambda. It's our own implementation of serverless, which just means that we have these agents that live inside our graph as well and every time something was we were talking about, there's a queer command. We just fan out agents to customize that response for you. So imagine if you went to the car wash and 20 guys came out to hand wash your car, right? They just come out of the building and they just swarm your car and they just do, and then they're gone. And then they're on the next car, right? What we have is a swarm of agents that come out. They do the tasks they need to do and then they go away. They're completely stateless. There's no long running threads. There's no long running sessions. So if you look about- You don't have to manage them, all right? You don't have to manage them as an IT person. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because enterprise web is doing it. Yeah, if I may add just to build on top, because everything has to run on the infrastructure, right? In the past, 10 years ago, was not a common vision across people, processes, and a platform. There's some harmonization, but now I would say there is more broader understanding of this common and unified platform across every single environment because today you could see that there's a lot of edge development that are happening, edge private 5G, that you have this core network, then you have the data center. Now this open run has come in. So there are different set of technologies, different environments across any cloud, public cloud, multi-cloud. You have this small application cloud. All these environments are actually getting mixed. So now you need that form of uniqueness across your infrastructure layer. You need that same uniqueness across your abstraction layer. Your graph ops, as you explained, you want this single pane of glass that could actually provide you the capability and ability across any single environment. And that's where Red Hat brings in the technologies that actually goes all the way from device edge in a small box to the core and the data center. Uplift enables some of those technologies which we have integrated successfully with enterprise web graph ops in order to bring in this capability of OpenShift AI for example, some of the AI tools in order to train the model, in order to deploy the model, in order to continue this reinforcement. So all those capabilities that has actually been added in the platform in order to uplift and enhance the user experience on top. This is where the partnerships really starting to come into focus because essentially you're an integration layer across legacy applications. You're taking what were previously islands of automation and you're spanning those. Now I can automate my entire business. So I can now, we're seeing the days where you can get a digital representation of your business in real time. People, George and we talk about this all the time, people, places and things, Uber for the enterprise. Imagine an Uber like experience except it's your enterprise. Everything that's happening and you got your agents swarming and then leaving and then you've got the graph representing that business. Yes, yeah. So it's maintaining the state of the business too, right? Which is another thing that graph databases wouldn't do naturally, right? Because when you're dealing with that kind of complexity you're literally managing the state of every user interaction, every system interaction, every deployed function. You're managing a lot of, so the run time takes a lot of responsibility to manage the consistency across all the partners. So everybody looking at an object at any given time, state has to be consistent, right? Absolutely. But that should be lifted up from the developer, right? It's just too much, right? The fact is the demand for integration and interoperability and new applications is going through the roof, right? Humans don't scale that well, right? We need to make it easier for developers to do these tasks, right? So they can accelerate service delivery, right? Deliver new products to market faster, connect their end to end solutions and evolve them over time, right? It's another thing about graph, just like your social graph on LinkedIn, right? We're connected on LinkedIn, right? So on LinkedIn, you'd like to think you're only adding people but you can add people, leave people, right? And just like, you know, you have friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, you have this, there's a graph behind you, right? And that's evolving with you over time, right? And that's interesting. So Enterprise Web allows you to do that as a business because that was my original motivation. I am, at my core, a business guy that likes to get technical. I'm not a technical guy. So I want- You haven't noticed. I wanted to solve a business problem. You're not a technical guy? No, I'm talking about- You don't build my technical guy, my silent partner. But the, because I wanted, I saw it as a business problem. It's like, I actually got mad at that same thing you were talking about. So back in 2010 or so, I was thinking like, hey, I'm a business guy. I want to look down my people information capabilities. I want to flexibly compose them for purpose. And I don't want IT to tell me I can't. So I, nobody was doing it. So I figured, okay, I'm going to solve this problem. And I did. So far, so good. You said something while we were getting prepped and we could go on all day. So we're going to have to wrap this up here in just a second. However- Why don't you just have them bring drinks here? Yeah. I mean, I'm here for that. A little early. There's, you know, whatever. It's day four. There are no rules here. We're in Barcelona. You mentioned, I'm a big fan of The Edge. We've had quite a few great conversations on theCUBE this week about The Edge. You said that you can do things nobody else can at The Edge. Explain. Oh, you're going to call me out on that? Well, now I want to know. Now I want to know what those things are. You teased me with it before we went live. Okay, so then it goes down to like the characteristics of our platform itself, right? So we already agreed that people want to be real-time, intelligent, contextual AI. So we agree. So now imagine if I told you I could do that all in 50 megabytes and it could run at the core, at The Edge on a device. Ooh, yeah. Our full footprint is 50 megabytes. I can actually cut it. Our kernel is only like six or seven. Really? And when I talk about 50 megabytes, that's an entire telco model. So the ran, the core, the transport, layer one through seven, I can reason over that entire space space that's something nobody else can do. Yeah. And see, this is a big thing that we were talking about, trapped use cases and stuff like that. AI is all about reasoning, right? It's making intelligent decisions. Like if you were a doctor, you would look at me, if I was on the operating table through the emergency room, you would look at me holistically. You would just say, Dave's got a scratch over here. Let me just treat that and you'd miss the gunshot wound. Right. Or you'd neglect to find out that I have allergies to some drugs or some issues. You would want to know my chart. You would actually be managing me. You'd be checking my blood pressure. You'd be checking. You'd be taking all these facts in all the time to make sure the actions you take are optimized, right? If you do everything siloed, you've just contained what your decision space is, right? If I'm managing a service or a slice and I'm all the way up here, it's a network service, I want to understand what's the RAN doing? What's the core doing? What's the transport doing? What are my functions doing? Do I need to dynamic? What do I need to like configure here and what do you need to configure there to make sure this thing maintains its SLA continuously, right? That's a sort of next level problem. The fact that we could take that and we can bring that down into a sub 50 megabyte footprint. Yeah. Right? Yeah. That's game changing. Impressive. Yeah, thank you. Okay, so you weren't lying to me before we started the show. That's awesome. Shuja, Dave, thank you so much for being here on the show. Absolutely. Oh, it was a pleasure. It was a discussion. Dave, thank you for always keeping it entertaining and both of us getting technical on graphs here. I love it. And thank you all for tuning in to our four days of live coverage here for Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. My name is Savannah Peterson. You're watching theCUBE, the leading source for enterprise tech news.
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Family Theater presents Robert Young from Hollywood the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater presents the unknown. Now to introduce the drama here is your host Robert Young. Thank You Larry Chatterton. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives if we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families, and peace for the world. Family Theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our drama the unknown with Lamont Johnson as Richard, Betty Lou Gerson as Estelle, and J. Develo as Henri. You remember what happened to Estelle Beecham? Alright, Lady Beecham. Anyway, you remember reading about it last fall? You probably think as a lot of other people do that Estelle Beecham died a stupid pointless death right in character. I don't think anything could be further from the truth. You'd have had to know her, only for a few short days as I did to understand why I feel this way. Perhaps I should begin by telling you the reason I was in Paris last fall. I'm one of those GIs who never came home after the war. I thought I was gonna be a writer. I may yet, although I haven't written much, but I have friends in Paris, like Henri, who now and then get me some work translating one of their poems or stories. That's what I thought it was about when Henri phoned me to meet him down at the chigger that evening. Ah, dick dick, seat yourself, seat yourself. Thanks, Henri. How's it go? Like this, like that. What are you going to eat? I've eaten. Today? Ah, twice. Two meals. My check came in. Dick, why don't you go back to Ohio and help run the shoe company? Then it would be weekly salaries instead of quarterly dividends. Also it would be eight-hour days instead of three months siestas. Always you make yourself out a loafer. No, no, ask my landlady. In Ohio you would see your family. In Ohio I would also see my uncle who cannot see me. You always do this, Henri. What's this job you have for me? Well, it is not much. It never is. I always take it. Now, what do I translate this time? Play, poem? A story. And you do not translate it, you write it. For the English edition of my paper. Ah, what's it about? Well, like me, on this job you will be a journalist, a reporter. And since we must leave Paris for some weeks, I can understand you're not wanting to take the assignment. Ah, I take it. Forget Ohio. I'm not going back to the shoe company. I take the job. It will involve some physical discomfort. I thought it was going hungry. But you said you had eaten twice today. To make up for yesterday. Mm-hmm. And how is the novel going? It's going into the bottom of the trunk as soon as I can get you to tell me what this job is. All right, all right, all right. Do you know what is a speleologist? Ah, I know the birds who do their mountain climbing upside down. Then inside out. They are cave hunters. And after they find a likely cave, they explore it as far down as they can go. But I can't imagine why. What does it we do? We go along with this expedition of crazy people and take pictures and write the story of what they find in the caverns. Where are the caverns? South. Somewhere in the Pyrenees. We don't leave until Monday. So you have plenty of time to back out. Now look, Henri, if there's someone else you'd rather hand this job. No, no, no, no, no. The office wants an American for the job. No, no, because if there is someone you can go right ahead. How come an American? Well, because of the woman in the expedition, she is an American. Well, anyway, she was an American before she married Sir James. And my paper feels that the human interest angle for American syndication would be stronger if it were handled by someone from her own country of her own generation. Someone who remembered her. Remembered who? Lady James Beachum. I spoke to her on the phone from the lobby of the Reeds this afternoon. Very gracious. Oh, what hour is it? Oh, 9.36. Why? Well, she promised to be here at 9.30. I never heard of Lady Beachum. There she is now. The tall brunette coming past the bar. No, no, no, no. Sit down. I don't know. Of course you do. 15 years ago, everyone in America knew her. Her maiden name was Estelle Pierce. And of course, just as it would have for you, that name, Estelle Pierce, rang a familiar bell. I remembered this stunning, not quite beautiful young woman who was the New York debutante of the year, the rage of the Ivy League, and the delight of anyone who saw her picture on the cover of a magazine back in the late 30s. I watched Lady James Beachum, a Estelle Pierce, still as stunning as ever, thread her way toward the alcove where Henri and I were seated. Uh, Mr. Lejean? Lady Beachum, I am enchanted. So glad you could come. This is Mr. McLaughlin. Richard McLaughlin, the American I told you about. It's a pleasure, Mr. McLaughlin. Lady Beachum. Oh, please, sit down. Thank you. I'm afraid I won't be able to stay long. Oh, too bad. Something wrong? No, just one of those things that always seem to happen at the last minute. Professor Blanchett has come down with some kind of virus. We have to scout a replacement for him. Oh, I shouldn't think you'd have much trouble there, considering all the publicity and store for the expedition. You sound as if you don't approve, Mr. McLaughlin. Then your interest in this, Lady Beachum, is purely scientific? Oh, don't talk a lot, Mr. McLaughlin. I'm no scientist and you know it. I'm... I'm an ex debutante. And cave hunting promises you a little stimulation, unlike a few fast sets at Forest Hills. Is that how it looks to you? How else would you expect it to look? No different. And at all, one reasons is good as another. Well, Dick, how does it feel to be going first class with a few thousand francs in your pocket and a full stomach for a change? Very unfamiliar. What time do they make up these beds in these compartments? Beds? Not yet nine in the evening and you want to retire? Ah, what else is there to do? Well, we might go up to the lounge and keep Lady Beachum company. Yeah, is that where she is? Dick, this is Henri. You don't have to put on this surprise look for me. I have eyes. I know what is happening to you. Keep it to yourself. That's what I'm doing. But why? She seems to feel pleasantly toward you. She is Lady Beachum, which means she's got a husband somewhere. But she is a widow. Her husband, Sir James, was killed during the war. Oh, she doesn't know I'm alive. But you must consider these things, uh, they take time. No, there isn't anything there. Not for me. Maybe not for anyone. You know, Dick, she is a very strange person. Always going someplace. Always seems running from something. Loneliness? No. Even before her husband died, she ran. She smiled more then, but still it was hop, hop from place to place almost as if she were, well, almost as if she were running from life. Yeah, I guess we've all done a little of that. Dick, do you know what I would do if Lady Beachum bothered me the way she bothers you? No. All right, don't worry. What would you do? I would go up to the lunch car and start an idle conversation. As I walk forward through the train, I made a strange admission to myself. I probably wasn't in love with Estelle. I... Well, like her, I was chasing unreality. I was thinking this girl is Estelle and if a man came back to America, to his hometown in Ohio, married to her, it wouldn't matter what he'd been doing for the last eight years. He could spend the rest of his life on that now. He'd never have to go near the shoe company. Richard, I missed you at dinner. Yes, sir. I ate early. Sir Don. Thanks. And how is the syndicated article going? I haven't started it yet. Won't your public be clamoring for something if you don't get a move on? Haven't you got us mixed up? I don't have a public. Still trying to figure it out? Figure what out? Why I want to go down in the caves. I hadn't really thought much about it. Oh, I'm sorry if I sounded rude. You're right. I am still trying to figure it out. Has it occurred to you that I might not know myself? No, it hasn't. I'll tell you something. This expedition started out like every other junket I've ever attached myself to. For lives, for fun, to pass the time. And now? Now I... I don't know. I'm afraid of those caves. Then why go into them? I can't explain it, but I have the feeling that I have to. You mean you have the feeling that you'll find something there? It's a little like that. You know, I was sent to some very fashionable schools as a girl, and yet I never learned how to look for things. Maybe you didn't know what you were looking for. More likely it's because I never had to look for anything. Whatever I wanted was always placed within easy reach. Might be an explanation for your wanting to go down into the caves. What? You can't exactly call places thousands of feet below the earth within easy reach. Maybe that's why they fascinate you. Is that what you're going to put in your article as my reason for going on this expedition? Not if you don't want me to. As a matter of fact, Big, I do want you to. It's logical. It's completely in character. Sure. It's perfectly perfect. If you're willing to overlook the fact that it's not true. Why do you say that? Because it isn't. But as close to the truth as I've been able to get, all I'm looking for is peace and I find it by forgetting myself. Put that in your article and stop trying to analyze me. I've already stopped. Oh, of course. And I suppose that means I've been neatly figured out and catalogued all in five minutes. I don't know. It's taking a little longer than that. You don't know a thing about me, McLaughlin. I think I know what you're looking for. Oh, wonderful. Well, then perhaps you'll be good enough to tell me what it is or where it is. That would be even better. Where is it, McLaughlin? The will of the wisp I've been chasing. Is it down in the caves? Yes. If we mean the same thing. Dick, do you have a name for it? Maybe not a name you'd agree with. Well, I suppose we wait until you decide you found it. Then we can compare notes. We reached Belle Partia a little before six the following morning as the sun was breaking over the ridge of mountains to the east. Just before evening of the second day, the expedition, six men including Henri and myself, and Estelle, arrived at the entrance to the network of caverns the party intended to explore. And by the following afternoon, we were well along in our descent into the dark world below the earth. Richard, do you know what I think? What do you think, Henri? I think I was a fool to come along on this subterranean goose chase. I kind of like it. You like being lowered on that cable bumping against slimy worlds of rock a hundred yards down through the darkness? I can't say I thought much of that part, but now that we're down here, I'm glad I can. Bless your light around. What is there to see? Stalactites. Icicles of stone. If you have seen one, you have seen them all. You never prove it by that gang of pothollers up ahead of us. They're fools. You know, I have no patience with fanatics, and this is the word to describe your Lady Bichon. No, I don't think that is exactly the word. She's looking for something down here, Henri. Dick, Dick, look. Up ahead, the lights have stopped moving. We stumbled forward, realizing as we drew closer to them that the exploration party was standing at the edge of a gaping crevasse perhaps 50 feet around the rocky vault above it curved back like a grotto. It was the end of the line. There was no other way to go but down. I don't remember the technicalities of the discussion that followed, but the net of it was that Estelle wanted to make the descent immediately while the Dutch geologist insisted that it was impossible without the aid of another winch. I don't even remember the precise arrangements Estelle and her colleagues made about going to get the other winch, but a few moments later they'd gone, leaving her, Henri, and I standing on the ragged edge of the crevasse, staring down into the yawning darkness below. What do you think is down there, McLaughlin? More limestone. What else? More caves, more water, more white cockroaches. No. There's something more. There's mystery in all that blackness. And the key to the mystery? Sounds as if they're ready to lure the winch down the shaft. Would you mind going back to help them, Mr. Lejean? No, not at all, Lady Beatrice. And please call up for them to bring it down slowly. We don't want it damaged. Oh, wait, wait. I will tell them. Dick, hand me that cable. What are you going to do? I'm going down alone. You're crazy. Now, don't be melodramatic. It's perfectly safe. Cables anchored at the other end. Now, please, Estelle, you wait for the others. Let that Dutchman go down ahead of me. Why not? You're not a trophy collector. What's the difference who goes first? All the difference in the world. Don't you understand? Don't you know why I'm down here? Why I've driven myself here? Yes, but it doesn't have to be done this way. For me, yes. It has to. All my life I've been running. I've been afraid and now I know it's got to stop. But why must it stop here? Because here I am. And here I have to face it. Estelle. I've got to go down. If I don't, there'll never be another chance for me to break out of this cage I've built for myself. Now, do you understand? Yes. Will you steady the other end of that cable while I go over the side? All right. Keep it taught. Estelle, be careful. Don't worry, I will. Can you see anything? A scream? Oh, sure. Hold on. What? Can you see the river? Can you reach the entrance to the cave from where you are? I mean, this hole goes deeper? Another 25 or 30 feet? Estelle, I don't think you ought to go any further. But you want to, have you? Whenever the memory of the few moments that followed floods back over me, those words of Estelle's always come with it. Please, Dick, I have to get in there. The girl who never in her life had to reach out for anything was at the last striving with all her might to enter a great lost cavern that reminded her of a cathedral in which water burst forth from a rock. I can never recall what thoughts I had as I fed those last few feet of cable down to Estelle. Perhaps I was remembering the girl on the cover of the magazine 15 years before. Perhaps our conversation on the train to Belpesh. Perhaps none of those things. All that stands out in my mind now is the moment when I realized something had gone wrong with that cable. Yes, Estelle, hold on. The cable snapped beneath me and released the silent, unprotesting weight at the end of it. For a moment, the shock of what had just happened left me numb. I couldn't bring myself to look down, even though I knew I'd see only bottomless darkness. So I lay there, slumped on the edge of the crevasse and listened to what seemed an eternity. Until at last I knew that Estelle Pierce was dead. At the end, in her own way, she found some part of what she was looking for. She would have called it courage. Courage to live, even though she may not have known it until the end. It was really more than physical, personal courage that she sought. It was the same thing that all troubled people who roam the earth or under the earth or who search the sky are seeking. Estelle was looking for the source of all courage. The feeling she found at the last, wanting so much to live, yet plummeting down in the darkness toward eternity. I think she found an even greater courage. A courage we cannot muster alone. The courage to face death, the unknown, unafraid. I think that must have happened because remember when the cable snapped, it was... Hi. Not she. Who cried out in fear. This is Robert Young again. Just the other day I heard a friend of mine liken prayer to a blind man's stick. And I can see his point. Who of us hasn't seen the wonders a blind man's stick can perform? It makes every face the face of a sympathetic friend, every arm the aiding arm of a neighbor. There are a few things that can pacify the clamor of automobile drivers at a busy intersection. But I've seen the blind man's stick do it. Traffic signals or a policeman's club haven't a hundredth of its power. In Times Square on Michigan Boulevard at Hollywood and Vine, I've seen the look it can bring to the faces of drivers who an instant before would commit mayhem for just an inch of territory. That little white stick seems to make everyone say, there but for the grace of God, go I. It silences every selfish thought and prayers like that. It gives us courage, confidence, direction, hope. It can pacify the clamor of an angry heart. It makes us recognize every man as a brother and neighbor. It helps us to pick our journey through life's darkness avoiding obstacles in our path as we tap our way toward a goal that our minds tell us is and must be there. Although it is often hidden from our eyes. And the unifying force of family prayers especially needed in our times for the family that prays together stays together. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. From Hollywood, Family Theatre has brought you the unknown. Robert Young was your host. In our cast were Lamont Johnson, Betty Lugerson and Jay Novello. The script was written by John T. Kelly with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman and was directed and transcribed for Family Theatre by Lou X. Landsworth. 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Okay. So we are now in Revelation 7. We're going to start reading. Could somebody read for us the first four verses please? Revelation 7 verses 1 through 4. Revelation 7, 1 through 4. After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth holding the four wings of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea or on any tree. Then I saw another angel ascending from the east having the seal of the living god and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea. Saying, Do not harm the earth, the sea or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads. And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed. So thank you. So we're seeing that there is a time of great calm. So these four angels standing on the four corners of the earth holding back the winds that shouldn't blow on the earth to disturb the tree or the sea or anything on the earth is symbolic for us, symbolic of a time of great calm. The winds are like unrepresenting turbulence, things happening. So there's a period of calm, quiet. And then there's an angel who was too, who comes from the east and this angel has the power to cause harm. But the instruction is don't do anything. That means let the spirit of calm continue until we have marked out these 144,000 Jewish people. That means God is going to call forth these 144,000 Jews from all over the earth. And they belong to the 12 tribes of the children of Israel. That means they are sealed. They are marked out by God. The call of God is put upon their lives. And now how they are sealed, we know in the New Testament there are two things that are used to seal people. That is the presence of the Holy Spirit and the name of the Lord God. So we today as New Testament believers, we are sealed with the presence of the Holy Spirit and by the name of our God. Similarly, these people, these 144,000 Jews would be sealed by God by giving them both the Holy Spirit and the name of the Lord, being put upon their lives. They will be called by God. It does not mean that these 144,000 Jews have to be in Israel. They could be anywhere in the world. But they belong to the 12 tribes of Israel. Now, what is interesting versus five through eight of Revelation chapter seven versus five through eight. When in mentioning the names of the 12 tribes, two of the tribes have been left out. Instead of putting their names, the tribe of Dan and Ephraim, it's replaced by Joseph and Manasseh. So specifically mentioning Dan and Ephraim, it's replaced by Joseph and Manasseh. Again, there's, you know, there's in some in commentaries, there will be this discussion on why those names were left out and replaced by Joseph and Manasseh. Now, Joseph, but eventually, you know, you're covering all the 12 tribes, but it's a specifically naming Ephraim and Manasseh. It's put in there. Joseph, who was the father of Ephraim and Manasseh, the two tribes, his name is put in there. And Dan, the answer of Dan, just the tribe of Manasseh is mentioned there. So why would that happen? And there's a lot of, you know, discussion and the common part is again, this is just based on Bible study. People come up with the most logical reason is that because of the tribe of Dan and Ephraim, that they, you know, maybe they went away from God or they refused to fight for Israel or for the nation and so on. So there are various reasons why people would try to explain why their names were left. So why specifically Dan and Ephraim were left? There could be, you know, different reasons that people present. Now, we don't have to worry about it other than the fact that all the 12 tribes are covered, but the name of Joseph and Manasseh is mentioned in Stub Dan and Ephraim. Now, so what we are seeing is these 144,000 Jews have been marked. Now, obviously they are marked for a reason. They are marked for an assignment. It's not just for fun. Their assignment is to be proclaimers, to bear testimony to the Word of God and to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And they're empowered by the Holy Spirit to do that. And we will see later in chapter 14 a testimony to their life during the tribulation. We will see that. Tribulation 14 looks back and says this is how they lived. But these 144,000 Jews, men have been marked by God around the world that they're bearing testimony to the Word of God and to the name of Jesus Christ. So the gospel is being preached, is being proclaimed even during the tribulation. Then what we are seeing is while this is going on, while these 144,000 Jews are being raised up, we now see once again a great multitude who have come into the presence of God. So our view goes from what's happening here on Earth, 144,000 Jews being marked out for God's purpose to heaven where we are seeing a great multitude of people. And who are these multitude of people? These are people who have come through the tribulation. That means we are seeing some more people who have been killed during the tribulation. Remember we saw in Revelation 6 in the fifth seal that many more people are going to be killed and they're going to obviously, you know, their souls are going to come up before the presence of God. And they're going to be clothed in white robes just like what we saw in Revelation 6-9, that when people are killed on the Earth, they're martyred on the Earth for the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus. Spiritually their spiritual persons come before the presence of God and they're clothed by tropes. So we're going to see one more scene of that in Revelation 7 verses 9-17 and these people are standing before the throne and they're worshiping God. That means more lives, more people are being martyred and they are seen up in heaven. So let's read that. That says Revelation 7-9-17, the worship of the martyred saints taking place in heaven. Revelation 7-9-17, please. Dave, would you want to read it or Aaron? After this I looked and there was an enormous crowd, no one could count all the people. They were from every race tribe, nation and language and they stood in front of the throne and all the lame dressed in white robes and holding palm branches and their hands. They called out in a loud voice, salvation comes from our God who sits on the throne. And from the lame all the angels stood round the throne and the elders and the four living creatures. Then they threw themselves face downwards in front of the throne and worshipped God saying, Amen, praise, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power and might belongs to God forever and ever. One of the elders asked me, who are these people dressed in white robes and where do they come from? I don't know sir, you do, I answer. He said to me, these are the people who have come safely through the terrible persecution. They have washed their robes and met them white with the blood of the lame. That is why they stand before God's throne and serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will protect them with his presence, never again will they hunger or thirst. Neither son nor any scorching heat will burn them because the lame who is in the center of the throne will be their shepherd and he will guide them to the spring of living, of life giving water and God will wipe away every tears from their eyes. Thank you. So John sees this great multitude once again. And this time he's seeing people from all over the world, from every tribe, town, people, language. So he's getting a sense of, wow, there are people here from just everywhere, standing before the throne. And they are clothed in white robes. So just keep this in mind, clothed in white robes, that's very special for the saints. We saw that earlier, the martyred saints in Revelation 6-9, they were given white robes. So here again, these are clothed in white robes and they're standing before the throne, they're worshiping God. They are singing salvation, belongs to the Lord and the angels and everyone else is joining in this worship before God. And so while the elders ask, do you know who these people are, who are they? And John says, I don't know. And the elder explains to them, these are the people who have come out through the great tribulation. So we are saying that these, now it doesn't state it here in the text, but it's safe to conclude that these are people who have been martyred during the tribulation. Why? Because the whole tribulation period is not yet over, it's going on. So these are saints who have been martyred during the tribulation and they are come up in the presence of God, they're clothed in white robes and they're worshiping God. And the promise to them is, I will wipe away all tears. So again, the reason that promise is given is because they have endured so much, they've gone through so much, they've suffered and they've even died for the name of Christ. And so there's this promise that they're going to be, they're going to sit on the throne, they're going to be before the throne of God, they will worship the Lord, they will neither hunger nor thirst to be more. They're not experienced, any of these hardships which they experienced while here on earth, God will wipe away all the tears. And so that's what we're saying, because based on the context of what is given as a promise that these are people who most likely have suffered so much during the tribulation, died for their faith and they are there before the presence of God worshipping. So chapter seven is like an in between chapter, it's like an interjecting the whole sequence of things that are happening. The sixth seal is over, seventh seal is going to take place, but in between, John gets this insight into 144,000 Jews who are set apart by God to serve him during the tribulation. And these great multitudes of people who are coming out of the tribulation, they're in the presence of God out of every tribe, tongue and nation that comes, people from all over the world are going to believe in Christ during the tribulation. They're going to die for their faith during the tribulation and they are going to come up with the presence of God, clothed in white robes and worshipping God. So remember, these things are happening during the tribulation and literally in the first half of the tribulation because we haven't reached chapter 11 yet. So it's just the beginning now when all these things are happening. So we get into chapter eight, where we now in a read about the seventh seal. And then that leads us into the seven trumpets. Right. So the seven seals, seven trumpets and seven bowls. So the seventh seal. So in Revelation chapter eight, and let's read verses one through six, please. Revelation chapter eight, verses one through six. So we're going to transition from seven seals into the seven trumpets. What happens then during that time? Somebody could read Revelation chapter eight, verses one through six for us, please. And now Kanan Siddharth. When he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels who stand before God and to them were giving seven trumpets. Another angel who had a golden sensor came and stood at their altar. He was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne. The smoke of the incense together with the prayers of the saints went before God from the angels' hand. Then the angel took the sensor, filled it with fire from the altar and hurled it on the earth. And there came force, and there came peach of thunder, rumblings the pleasure of loving and love to the trumpets. And the seven angels who had seven trumpets prepared to sound them. Thank you. So what do we see here? The seventh seal is just a moment of silence. It's a continuation of this calm that we read in chapter seven. So remember the beginning of chapter seven. The angel says, okay, don't do anything. Hold back the winds. Let there be calm. There are certain things that need to be done. What is it? Mark out the 144,000 Jews. And we are seeing, you know, souls up in heaven, worshiping God. So chapter eight, seventh seal, silence, quietness. But it's an indication. It's a time of transition. What's happening? We're going to get ready for the seven trumpets. So that's revelation eight to the seven angels for the seven trumpets. They come and they stand. But at this time. What we are seeing is there's a great prayer and intercession happening from the earth. Because we are seeing that there is this angel who has this is verse three revelation eight verse three has this golden sensor. And he's having a lot of incense. And there are the prayers of the saints that are coming up before the throne, the golden altar before the throne. So what we have obviously these are the prayers of the saints who are on the earth. And the prayers are coming up before God. And this angel has been given this incense. It's just showing us it's representing to us. A lot of prayer that's happening. The prayers of the saints ascending before God. So therefore what we could say is that at this point in the tribulation, there's going to be a great prayer movement. Sometimes you might hear it referred to as a global prayer movement. This is happening in the tribulation. Obviously, when people are seeing all these, you know, things happening, there will be many who turn to God. It doesn't mean that everybody will turn to God, but there will be many who turn to God. And the only thing they can do is pray. Why? Because it's so difficult. It's so difficult to follow Christ. Like we've already seen people are being killed for the word and they're testimony. They're being martyred. And more people are going to be killed. So it's going to be very difficult. And the only thing people can do, those who turn to the Lord in those days is they can just pray. And that's what Revelation 8 verses 1 through 6. We are seeing this lots of prayer, prayer ascending before God. And the angel is throwing the censor to the earth, meaning he's igniting this prayer movement. You know, there's something from heaven that is igniting this prayer or encouraging this prayer or supporting this prayer movement on the earth. People are praying, crying out to God. Because it's not going to be easy. So that's another thing we're seeing happen during the Tribulation. And remember, we haven't even reached the middle of the Tribulation yet. This is all happening in the first part of the Tribulation. Revelation 11 will be the transition point when we are crossing into the second half of the Tribulation. This is all in the first part. It was three and a half years. The next thing that we see happen is the seven angels are ready to sound the seven trumpets. So one by one, these seven trumpets are sounded. And similar to what happened with the seven seals, with the six seals, first six of them, whenever a trumpet is sounded, something is happening here or not. And there is the wrath of God. There is a judgment of God being poured out on the earth. So let's look at them one by one. Let's read Revelation 8 verses 7 through 11. We will read about the first three trumpets. Revelation 8, 7 through 11. Somebody could read that for us, please. Revelation 8, 7 through 11. Karan, if your mic is fine, you can read it. Otherwise, may I call upon Dave to read? Okay, maybe Dave, you should read. I think maybe Karan's mic is not okay. You give me some time, sir. Oh, okay. Okay, okay. Revelation 8 verses 7 through 11. Maybe Prince, if you can read, if it's possible, or if Dave can get it or can get it. Go ahead. The first indus sounded, and hill and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grasses were burned up. Then the second indus sounded, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood, and a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. Then the third indus sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers, and on the springs of water, the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became Wormwood, and many men died from the water because it was metric. Thank you. So, as the trumpet judgments are being sounded, things are happening on the earth. So, when the first trumpet sounds, one third of the earth's vegetation is burned up. So, the trees, one third of all the trees in the grass, so earth's vegetation is destroyed. A third, 30% of the earth's vegetation is destroyed, and it's destroyed by hail and fire. So, different parts of the world are experiencing these things, hail and fire, and it's destroying the vegetation. Second angel, so John is saying, he's saying a great mountain burning with fire. So, when you think about a great mountain burning with fire, a mountain with fire, what does that look like for us? A mountain that's throwing fire into the sea. What does that picture to you? To most of us, that would seem like a volcano. A mountain that's throwing out fire seems like a volcano. So, it could be volcanic eruptions, but anyway, John sees like a mountain burning with fire, it's throwing fire into the sea. And it's destroying life in the sea. It's destroying sea creatures. It's destroying ships. So, life in the sea is being destroyed. Now, remember, we do depend a lot on the sea for food and other things, and there's just so much destruction there. The third trumpet is causing destruction of drinking water. Springs and rivers are affected and the water is turning bitter and can't drink it anymore. So, really life on earth, the vegetation, life in the sea, water that we drink is all being affected. And 30%, saying over and over again, 30% of all of these things is affected. And it's not going to be easy when things like this is happening. Already we've seen so many things happen under the seal judgments. Now the trumpet judgments are beginning to affect life, make it even more difficult. The fourth trumpet we will read verses 12 to 13. Revelation 8, 12 to 13. Somebody could read this, please. Then the fourth angel sounded, and the third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon and a third of the star, so that a third of them were drunken. A third of the day did not sign and likewise the night. And I looked and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth because of the remains of the trumpet, of the three angels who are above the sun. Thank you. So this fourth trumpet is once again, just like what we saw in Revelation 6, once again the sun, the stars, the moon are affected. And it's cutting off the heat and the light that the earth needs. So I can imagine, you know, how life on earth is going to be affected. If today everything, you know, under normal conditions, everything is held in balance. We get just the right amount of light and heat from the sun. There is the right balance of day and night. But then when that is disrupted and it says yet a third of the sun, that means imagine if 30% of the heat and the light is taken off, it's going to be terrible. So that's what I'm saying here in verse 12, that the stars, the sun is darkened and they did not shine. Now, we don't know for how long, whether it's just, you know, a short period of time or what duration this is, but it's going to affect life on earth terribly. And then there's an angel that says, you know, woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because the next three trumpets are going to be worse than these first four judgments that come on the earth. The next three trumpet sound are going to be worse than the first four trumpets that have already sounded. So it's like, get ready for worse things. So let me come into chapter nine and we read about the fifth trumpet. The fifth trumpet being sounded and what do we see happen? It's a rather lengthy passage, Revelation chapter nine. And we have to read verses one through 12 to get an understanding of what happens when the fifth trumpet sounded. But the angel has warned us, hey, this is going to be worse than the first four. So let's just look at Revelation nine verses one through 12. Somebody could read that for us, please. Revelation nine, one through 12, please. Can I read? Yes, go ahead. Then the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star fallen from heaven on the earth to him was given the key to the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottomless pit and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace. And the air were opened because of the smoke of the pit. Then out of the smoke, locusts came upon the earth and to them was given power as the scorpions of the earth have power. They were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth or any green thing or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads. And they were not given authority to kill them, but to torment them for five minutes. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. In those days, men will seek death and will not find it. They will decide to die and death will flee from them. The shape of the locusts was like horses, prepared for battle. On their heads were crowns of something like gold and their faces were like the faces of men. They had hair like women's hair and their teeth were like lion's teeth. And they had a breastplate like breastplates of iron and the sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. They had tails like scorpions and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men for five months and they had a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit, those who were in Hebrew in Abaddon. But in Greek, he has the name Apollon. One bow is passed. Behold, two more bows were coming after these things. Thank you. So the fifth trumpet sounds. So there is an angelic being who is released on the earth who opens up the bottomless pit, meaning there's a release of demonic spirits on the earth. So the locus here are representing these demonic beings that are released on the earth and they have power like scorpions that means they are very painful and destructive in what they're doing and they're tormenting people on the earth for five months but they cannot affect these men who have the seal of God in their foreheads. It's not affecting the 144,000 Jewish men but these beings are troubling men so much that men want to die. They want to just end their lives but they're not able to do it. So it's a very difficult situation. They're being tormented. People are being tormented by these demonic powers for five months and they want to die but they just cannot. Now John describes what he's seeing verses 7 through 10 and what are these beings like? Now we don't know if what he was seeing when he describes these locus, he refers to them as locus so we can imagine, you know, locus they look almost like grasshoppers looking type creatures but they're actually empowered by demonic spirits so they could either just represent demonic spirits or some physical thing that is being used by demonic spirits but John is describing what he's seeing these locus that he's seeing so it's very likely that there are some things that are being used by these spirits that have been released from the bottomless pit to trouble men. It's very hard to determine from what John has described here what this could be. So, you know, just anything that we would arrive at could be just speculation, could be just guess but we will just leave it at that that there are these certain creatures or things that are being used by these demonic spirits to hurt men and trouble men for five months and this whole thing that's happening on the earth is actually being led by the angel of the bottomless pit I mean, this is like a heightened demonic activity on the earth which is troubling men and it could be through some sort of a thing or a creature, whatever that is on the earth meaning these creatures that John is saying, locus like things but the real power behind all of that is demonic power now keep this in mind because when we come to Revelation chapter 19 once again we will see demonic forces released on the earth in a different way this is when we come to the bold judgments so those demonic powers will actually cause nations to come against each other they will be released on the earth to go and instigate the heads of nations to come into the battle of Armageddon so what we are saying is during the tribulation both during the trumpet judgments as well as during the bold judgments there is increased demonic activity on the earth that is troubling people, causing people to suffer and the height of all of this what we will see later on is in chapter 13 when the beast and the false prophet that is the Antichrist and the false prophet Satan directly is empowering them they are empowered by the dragon that is Satan to cause harm upon the human race to take control of people's lives so we put all this together and we say that during the tribulation while there are other things happening in nature calamities happening vegetation being destroyed water being affected the seas being affected there are volcanic eruptions all of those things are happening the sun is being darkened the moon is turning blood red and all those things are happening there is also an unleash of demonic activity on the earth that are troubling people's lives like never before this fifth angel has announced and this is what is happening on the earth demonic power is troubling people on the earth for these five months but then he says the next two are going to be even worse so when the sixth trumpet is sounded again there is a release of demonic powers and they are affecting people on the earth in a very significant way so let us read Revelation chapter 9 verses 13 to 21 Revelation 9, 13 to 21 somebody could read that for us please then the sixth angel sounded and I heard a voice from the four phones of the golden altar which is before God saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet release the four angels who are bound at the great river Ephrytus so the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of an angel now the number of the armies of the horsemen was 200 million I heard the number of them and thus I saw the horse in a vision and those who sat on them had bracelets of fiery red hyacinth blue and sulphur yellow and the heads of the horse were like the heads of lion and out of their mouths came fire smoke and brimstone by these three flakes a third of men was killed by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths for their power is in their mouth and in their tails for their tails are like serpents having heads and with them they do harm but the rest of the men who were not killed by these flakes did not repent of the works of their hands that they should not worth a demon and idols of gold, silver, baston and wood which can neither see nor hear nor walk and they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immoralities or their thefts So once again when the sixth trumpet sounded angels have released from the river Euphrates and they they go there assignment is to kill a third of mankind so it seems here that there are these angels who been assigned in this territory and they go about they have been assigned in this territory around the river Euphrates at the great river Euphrates and they are released to destroy one third of mankind now it is not very clear here that how all this happens but it seems like there is a human army it could be understood as a literal army of people of 200 million this is in verse 16 200 million and they are going about destroying the lives of people and he's mentioning John is seeing actually what's happening because there is fiery red blue sulfur yellow fire smoke and brimstone that is coming out from these 200 million horsemen army of the horsemen or movement of this army and also these horses are looking very different this is some sort of a metallic they have breast plates and faces like lions and so on and so forth and there is fire and smoke and brimstone coming out so is John seeing spiritual beings that are very destructive in their nature that have been released on the earth that could be one or could this 200 million be a human army that is going about destroying lives but what is very clear is in verse 18 he says people are destroyed by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone so it seems to me and again I'm only saying it seems because we don't know for sure that this is talking about you know kind of battle of warfare that could happen in our day and time back in old times people fought with swords and shields and spears and fire and smoke and brimstone was not part of weapons of destruction or battles at the most they would shoot arrowheads with fire but today battles are very different it's fire, smoke and brimstone it's basically been dropped bombs missiles tanks and all the kinds of weapons that are used in warfare today are like this they cause these kinds of things to happen so if this army of 200 million that John saw it could be a literal army of people going about killing destroying this is when the sixth angel sounds or if it is all just a spiritual in nature it could be a natural army of 200 million people an army that's going about being very destructive at that point in time that's my feeling because he's talking about fire, smoke and brimstone and one third or 30% of mankind was killed so most likely it's some huge army some of the countries that have capacity for this kind of army of course is China they have a standing army I think of over 200 million soldiers so or at least it could be a combination of nations possibly such a large standing army that could more round and cause destruction now just to close off versus 20 to 21 while all this is happening there's another side to all of this that is people don't repent so on the one side we said there are people who are dying for their faith who are turning to God in prayer there are people who are listening to us who are bearing witness for the Lord Jesus Christ but then on the other side there are people it says here the rest of mankind they did not repent though they were seeing all these things they hardened their hearts and they continued to do in their sinful ways they did not turn to God so that's the other side of what's happening people are recognizing that this is very unusual this is not normal and yet there are people who refuse to repent and they continue on in their sinful ways so we've come to the end of chapter 9 next week we will pick up with chapter 10 and move forward and as we look at all these things we say you know a lot of these things that we are seeing that we are reading could definitely be fulfilled in our day and time especially when you talk about an army of 200 million if that was actually a physical army that's going about killing with smoke and fire and brimstone that seems much like a modern day warfare battle with the kind of equipment that's available today for battle seems very much like today's times alright so we're going to pause here we will pray and dismiss and we will continue this next week just an announcement that we will not be having the next class on media and technology and just taking a break we will continue that next week as well with that subject so there won't be class on media and technology I've put a note in that class as well okay I want to invite somebody to pray with us and we will close sorry Kiran would you like to pray and we will close sorry thank you sir I want to say thank you for the God your grace and mercy for the God thank you for the God once again we are just praying for that all people who the God just open their eyes for the God they can understand they can receive you for the God and they can repent for the God raise your people for the God intercede for the God all things are meeting to your hand now time give your peace and comfort for the God to every side for the God just give your saloon for the God to every country, every state and every way to help them to understand your presence and your peace and your God's father thank you for coming time to submit to your hand thank you for being part of the class today I appreciate it have a good weekend enjoy your time thank you for being part of the class today I appreciate it have a good weekend enjoy your time
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Robin Schumacher & Lara Shackelford | Strata-Hadoop World 2012
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DataStax vice president of products Robin Schumacher and marketing head Lara Shackelford has a very solid take on big data as it stands today. The two executives believe that Apache Cassandra. The open-source platform on which their company’s portfolio is built, has a big role to play in this trend, and they told Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly all about it at Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2012.
Schumacher kicks off the interview by stressing that big data is real, and so are the problems that are faced by enterprises who want to tap it into. High velocity, complexity and massive volumes are all big considerations for every segment, including DataStax’s own clients.
The company lists Netflix, Thompson Reuters and a number of other household names as customers. It also has a big install base in healthcare – this is when Schumacher gets specific.
He says that one organization, Healthcare Anytime, was only able to process 2,000 consumer profiles an hour on its legacy infrastructure. It switched to NoSQL from pure business necessity and can now process data at much greater speeds; this enables it to get these workloads faster into Hadoop, and leverage the results in the applications that sit on top. That includes enterprise search functionality, which Schumacher noted his company provides as well.
Jeff then asks the executives’ opinion on the claim that big data is not just a technology, but rather a whole new information mindset. Lara Shackelford agrees: the marketing VP says that data powers apps with a direct and very tangible impact on the bottom line – still the top priority for any organization. She stresses this affects both chief information officers and CMOs, who are in turn also spending more on analytics to realize direct improvements in merchandising efforts
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And welcome back, we're here live at Strata Conference and Hanoop World in New York City. I'm Jeff Kelly with wikibon.org. We're here live inside theCUBE, SiliconANGLE's premier TV production. We're here with two great guests from Datastax, Lara Shackleford, VP of Marketing, Rahman Shoemaker, VP of Products. Welcome to theCUBE. Great to have you guys on. So we just heard from Venky from Thompson Reuters, a Datastax customer. And what really struck me was the, kind of the complimentary nature of the Cassandra and the Hadoop platform that you guys provide him. Tell me a little bit about, we heard about some of the ways he's using Cassandra and your product. What are some of the trends you're seeing? Is Venky kind of representative of some of the trends you're seeing? Yeah, absolutely. The thing is, the whole big data idea is, for one of a better term, extremely legit. The idea of high velocity data coming in, variety of data, volume of data, and then really the complexity of data is very real with all of our customers. And so whether it's Venky with Thompson Reuters, whether it's in the media area, whether it's in healthcare, all of these things are occurring. So for example, we have one of our customers, healthcare anytime. These guys, we're trying to use legacy traditional relational databases, hit the wall very quickly, couldn't add more than 10,000 patients an hour to their online health portal. They needed something else. And so by necessity, they came to a NoSQL database, they came to Cassandra to be able to ingest all of that information, consume all the information. That got them past that particular issue. Once they had all that information, then they can very easily move that over into the analytics Hadoop nodes for analysis on things like doctor notes that help them build Medicaid. And then all that information is also available for enterprise search, which we also provide. So they can do things like very quick online searches for a doctor who speaks German, who's five miles close to my home, things like that. So the entire platform of DataStacks Enterprise provides them with all the ability to really take on that whole big data challenge. So one of the things we hear, we're here at Hadoop World, but people sometimes think Hadoop, they think, well, that is big data, but there's more than just Hadoop as we're seeing. So it's interesting, how do you guys define big data? I mean, what does it mean to you in terms of is it a technology or is it more of a mindset? Because the way we're looking at it and some of the research we're doing, it seems like it's more than a technology. It's a way of thinking about data and a way of thinking about how you're going to monetize that data and make use of it. What's your take on the bigger picture definition? Yeah, I think you're right. I think the technologies are definitely underpinning the ability to now utilize something that perhaps people couldn't do anymore. They always wanted to, but they never could. So for example, one of our customers, Constant Contact, same thing, they could only keep 90 days of data online to be able to service all of their marketing customers that they take care of. They had all the social media information coming in, they wanted to do more, but their DB2 database just couldn't handle it. So now they came to Cassandra, lo and behold, now they can store years worth of data versus just 90 days. And so what we see are a blend of those traits that I mentioned earlier, maybe not all of them. The ones that we see the most, high velocity data coming in, being able to very quickly ingest that data, variety of data, structured, unstructured, semi-structured, and then the complexity of data is especially true, having to take that data into multiple geographies, multiple data centers, and be able to have true location independence, being able to read and write anywhere and bring all that together. And then finally the volume comes in afterwards, but most of the time it's velocity, variety, and complexity with volume coming in after that. So, sorry, go ahead. I would add to that. We power apps for customers that are transformational for their business. So we tend to find, in the example of healthcare anytime, we had a customer who wanted to transform their experience for not just their customers who were largely hospitals, focusing on patients who subscribed to Medicare and Medicaid, but also their end users, and really creating a better experience for their end users. We get involved very much in understanding what our customer needs are and how we can help transform their organization. So whether it's someone like a healthcare anytime, a very well-known story for us is Netflix, who really worked with us to transform their experience for their customers, their end users who want to interact with Netflix in real time. And that's, again, high velocity of data, but very much to transformational in the way that it powers their business. Yeah, I can speak to that. I'm a Netflix user myself, so I've benefited from the technology that you guys are helping them extend to the consumer space, but you mentioned helping your customers transform. So, and you mentioned earlier, and we saw with Vinky hitting a wall with some of the traditional data management tools and technologies, but at the same time, they're not necessarily going away anytime soon, so it's a transition period. How do you help your customers manage that transition because it's not a matter of just ripping out your relational database? You kind of have to look at it, I think, kind of as a portfolio manager and find the least risky way to make that transition and to mitigate your risk where you can and maximize the value of these new types of technologies where you can. Absolutely. Yeah, we very much see a coexistence strategy happening in many of these cases where perhaps legacy relational databases are retained for what they're good for, asset-compliant transactions and that type of work, or managing perhaps small amounts of data that don't take on big data characteristics. So you'll still see an Oracle or a MySQL in play, but then when you have these apps that either start out or they really transform to become a big data application, out of necessity, that's when they have to turn to another SQL solution like Cassandra and then also an analytics solution that provides them that bulk and batch capability on that big data like Hadoop. So, Lara, in terms of the marketing message we were talking earlier about how kind of the CMO is quickly rivaling the CIO internal technology spend. So how does that impact from a marketing perspective talking to potential customers? Are you talking more to the business about business use case and value and less to IT or what's that balance like and is it shifting? I would say both. We're definitely, one thing we've found as a marketer, you have to talk to the right audience with the right message, but the spend is shifting and you definitely have to, we talked to Vinky earlier who has, from Thompson Reuters, who is a role in global development, we're speaking with this counterpart in the business this afternoon with Vinky and we have to make sure that they both understand and can perceive the value that we can provide them both on the technical level and on the business level. So one thing that we are doing more and more of is making sure that we address that business problem so it's not just about the technical aspects of what we can do but also about how we can bring that value to the customer and again, we're really focused on helping our customers and understanding where, helping them understand what that transition you were asking about is where we can help them now, where they can wait and use a traditional 35 year old system that has been working for them in other areas and we do that both on the business and the technical side. And you know, at the end of the day, really, for whatever business, it's all about two things, making money and saving money, okay? They want to make money by being able to use all the information, all the data that's coming in to make those business decisions in a very timely fashion and therefore help their company make money and at the same time, they've got to look at cost and one of the great things about data sex enterprise and what we do here is we can literally provide them with the types of technology that solve these issues at about a tenth the cost they're going to pay for these older relational systems. So, you know, one of the themes we're seeing here at this show is the kind of the real-time SQL-like capabilities coming into the Hadoop world. Clutter had an announcement in MapR, companies like HADAPT doing some interesting things there. You know, but that's, you guys take a different approach to that same business problem. Kind of compare and contrast how you approach that. You know, you've been doing it for a while. I mean, today we're just seeing some announcements. So kind of put it in context, kind of where you sit relative to some of these announcements that we're seeing today and really, why is it so important to have those two capabilities? Sure. So with Cassandra, what you basically have is a modern day transactional system of record system. So people like Vinkey and others, what they're looking to do is try to take their online business application and scale that. So that's a little different than what you have with a Hadoop or an analytics or a BI structure, type of infrastructure. So we have Cassandra that's being able to take in all this information and provide, again, system of record capabilities at scale, linear scale, being able to predictably and linearly scale your application. And then with the Hadoop side, being able to have, again, something that's a little bit better than they've had maybe in the past. With Hive, okay, you have the SQL access, but let's face it, it's still MapReduce under the covers and you're still having to wait. So now being able to have this real-time access for that analytic data, I think is a tremendous win for people. So, you know, I'd love to get your impressions of the show. I mean, we've seen that, you know, there's a lot of folks here doing some really interesting things. What are some of the things that you're most interested to kind of learn here? Are you here to talk to potential customers? Are you here to learn about kind of the, there's so many different areas of the big data space, the visualizations, doing some really interesting things, companies like Tableau. So what are some of the things that are kind of getting you excited this week? I'll tell you, Anna, you know, we're certainly here to learn and connect with our customers who are here. At the same time, we're really here to help to, there's so much hype around big data and we want to help to bring some, I guess, reality to that story, which is that is it about big data or is it about the value that we can bring to our customers? And we think it's about value and that's what it's always been about. So that's where we're focused and that's one of the reasons we wanted to be here, telling the kind of reality-based story. I think this year's show, I was at last year's Stratashow in New York and I've been to the ones in California. Always been a fan of the Stratashoes. I think this year's show is a very market improvement where we saw last year in terms of the New York excellent sessions and we're certainly here to learn about some of the new technologies because, Jeff, as you know, I mean, Datastacks Enterprise, we bring together a lot of the best of breed technologies into one big data platform, Cassandra, Hadoop, Solar and so we're always on the lookout for other technologies that are able to complement that platform and help our customers be able to manage all those various data domains again in one cluster. Yeah, I mean, I think that's really one of the direction we're going. It's kind of that having that one comprehensive platform rather than kind of that world of connectors, but as to the point we were talking about earlier, that transition from the old to the new takes time and it's not going to happen overnight and I think a key role that vendors like yourselves play are helping your customers understand that and actually navigate that. So we are out of time and thanks so much for coming on. Appreciate it very much. Datastacks, definitely check them out and thanks again for your support. Thank you for helping bring us the cube to Strato and Hadoop World. So thanks again, appreciate it. We'll be right back here live in New York City just after this. Thank you.
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PM Modi attends mass wedding ceremony – 'Papa Ni Pari' Lagnotsav 2022, at Bhavnagar, Gujarat
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attended a mass wedding ceremony – 'Papa Ni Pari' Lagnotsav 2022, at Bhavnagar, Gujarat. PM Modi spoke at the event and addressed the audience by giving his blessing to all 552 daughters getting married at the event. PM Modi, furthermore, highlighted the importance of having a father in one’s life.
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आप सवने विनन्ती आदन यह प्रदान मन्त्रिश्वी आप सवनु अभीवादन जिल्ता जिल्ता यह वच्छे थीज पसार थवानाचे मते आप सव पन त्या उबात हैने तेमने आगमन ने आदर थी वदावश्वो परन्तू कोई पोटानु स्थान नहीं चोडे आपने आ� विनन्ती के पाचर जे खुर्षी हो चे तेमा पोटानु सान ग्रान करी रेशो जननी जन्मगुमिस च्ष्वर्गा दपी करी आसी जननी अने जन्मबूमि स्वर्गती पन महान चे यत्रनारियस् तुपुज्यते रमन्ते तत्र देवता जननारिनी पुजा थाएचे त्या देवताव नोवा आस्वाएचे देश सेवानी वेदी मा जातने खूमि आब्योच्छूं आजे स्त्री सम्मान ने काजे माश्वक्ती नियागने आब्योच्छूं शुभस्वागतम शुभस्वागतम नमसकार मारूती इंपैक्स पाूंटेशिन द्वारा आयोजित पितानी छत्रचाया गुमावनार पासो एकावन जेतली दिकरियोना सरवग न्यातिय लगनोच्छूं इतले के पापानी परी बहेजार भाविस्मा अप सुओनु रदाई पुर्वक स्वागत्चे आजे आपनी वच्चे कर्मनिष्ट, दिर गद्रष्टा अने देशना यशस्वी यवा आदन्य प्रदान मैंत्रिष्री अने मान वनता महानु भावो अदिकरियोने आनव दंपत्तियोने आशिर्वाद आप्वा माते पदारे आचे आरे भावेनानी दर्तिपर आदन्य वडार उप्रदान्षी नरिंद्र भाई मोदी अने सुओनु स्वागत करिये शिए संसकार अने संसक्रुती जया सच्वाया चे यवी आब वूमी आजे अ शुकन्वन्ती गड़ी मा एक पुन्य कर्मना सक्षी बन्वा सवू सम्मिलित है आशि अथर्व वेद मा केवायूं शे कि शत रहस्त समा हर सहस्त रहस्त संकीर अथाद सो हाथ फी कमाउ अने हजार हाथ फी डान करो आसंसकार समाजिक उठान मातेनी परम चेतना जेमने सदाई पोतानी अंदर जाग्रत राखी शे यवा समस्त लखानी परिवार आजे आप मन्चुपर तेमज अत्रे उपस थीत सो कोई विराजमान महानु भोने आवकारता आवकारता आनन्दनी लागनी अनुभवेशे आवो विदिवत रीते आदरनी प्रदान मन्टरी श्रीनु स्वागत करिये सो प्रत्हम विनन्ती करिये च्ये शी सुरेश भाई लखानीने के आप आजना प्रसंगे अत्रे उपस थीत आदरनी और्नी अप्रदान मन्टरी श्रीनु स्वागत अभीवादन विषान पुष्ठम खार वडे कर्षो जईनि आन्दर आपना प्रत्येना प्रेम अदरनी सुवास छे यवा अपुष्ठम वडे आपनो स्वागत करवाम आवीeling अदनी अप्रदान मट्रीश्डीना सवागतने आपने सव पण ताडियो थी वदाविये जे सततट भीजाओ माते जीवेचे तीवा अ लखानी परिवार अने हभे आम प्रिद करीः सिये शी वियाष लखानी शी अमेष लखानी अजे जरे आदन्य प्रदान्मन्त्रिष्वी आपना आमन्त्रन्ने माहना पीने आदिकर्योना, तमना जीवन न सोथी याद्गार प्रसंगने वदु याद्गार बनावा, अने पोताना हेट रूपी आश्विर्वाद पाठवा माते आपनी वच्छे पदारे आचे. पुरुषार्त अने सतत गतीनो प्रतीग एवू आसुन्दर गाडू आपन करी रहा आचे सवसाते मलीने, आदन्य प्रदान्मन्त्रिष्वी प्रत्ये, पोताना आदर अने सनेने अभीवियक्त करता, सोथी चीन हभेट करी रहा आचे. तनेवाद. अभे प्रीखवार विनन्ती करी ये श्वी दिनेश्माई लखानी, अने श्वी सुरेश्माई लखानी ने, के आदन्य प्रदान्मन्त्रिष्वी ज़र एद्यन् वियस्त होगा चता, पर आद्दिकर्यो ने माथे हाद मुख्वा माते, अने एमना जीवन्ना महा मुला प्रसंगे, पोतानी उपस्तिती ती, तमने आशीर्वाद अप्वा माते पदारे आचे, त्यारे सुंदर फोटोफ्रेम अरपन करीने, तमनो रूँन स्विकार करशो, एक मानाव सहज समवेदना, जयंप्रन कोई दूखी होई, तू, पोतान लूँन मन पर दूगी तैजाया, जयरे परन कोई ने कई जरुर होई, तो तरहतत तेना प्रतीः, पोतनी समवेदना अने लग्धिख है चाहे, एवा समान विचारो वाडा, समान संवेदना वाडा, समान अनु कमपा वाडा सत परुशो आजे आमन्चुपर सम्मिलित ठयाचे तयारे आए एक प्रकारे रून स्विकार नो अवसर पन चे आदनी ये प्रदान मैंट्री श्रीने, फोतोफ्रेम आर पन करी रहा आचे श्री दिनेश भाई और श्री सूरेश भाई, कुब-कुब दन्यवाद आजे आपनी वच्चे, जेवने पोताना जीवन मान चान, मान, अने गन्यान प्रप्त करी उचे एवा मानवन ता महनु बाओ उपस्तिच्छे अप विनन्ति करी एची पद्मष्ष्वी दोड़क्याने, कि आप गुज्रात राजेना, माननी अषिक्ष्चर मन्त्रे शीजी तुबाई वागानी, नु स्वागत सन्मान करीषू, नु स्वागत सन्मान कर्षू, शंखनी, रतिक्रूती, अने हवे विनन्ति करी एची श्रीमती दीपल बैन लखानी ने, के आप आजना प्रसंके, आपनी वच्छे अपस्तिट, माननी असान सद, श्रीमती भारती बैन, शियान ने, नु स्वागत सन्मान करीषू, अपस्तिट माननी असान सद, श्रीमती बारती बैन, शियान ने, शुबत वना प्रतिख समान, कलष अने श्रीफन अरप्रण करीने, तेम लुबवावीनु स्वागत कर्षू, हैया माहेत अने नयन माने हिसाते, सवना स्वागत माते उच्सुक छे आ परीवार, प्रस्तुट छे आ कलाकारो दवारा स्वागत गीत, लखानी परीवारनाज, श्रीमती दीपलबैन लखानी, जे मुख्य मंचनी सामेना मान चुपर छे, अने साथेज अन्या कलाकारो पन, अदन ये प्रदान मान्ट्री श्वी अने, अत्रे उपस्तित सवना स्वागत माते उच्सुक, प्रस्तुट स्वागत गीत. अनाया सेया समग्र प्रांगन पूलकित ठही उच्छे, करन्के बारत देशना सवती लोक्लाडी लावडा प्रदान, शी नरेंद्र भाई मुदि सहेदना पावन पगलाई पडयाजी, जे मने आख जुकावी नहीं आख मिलावी ने वाद करता शिख्वीं, प्रष्टाचार ने निस्ट नाबूद करवानु बिडू जडप्यू, जे मने देशने पहला बेटो कर्यो, पची ने उभो कर्यो, हवे जगत जोडे कदम मिलावी दोडतो करवान ना एंदानज नहीं एना प्रमान पना प्या, जे मना वर्दन ने वानी विषिष्ट वेदाक ने सुचक, समगर देशना एकसो पात्रिस करोड नागरी कोना शुबचिन तक, जे मन व्यक्तित्व, इवानो माते प्रेरक, देशना खेडू तो महिलावने गरीबोना उद्दारक, ए प्रदान सेवक, जे नो मूल मन्त्र छे जन सेवा, जे हमेशा तत पर चे आपनी समगर संस्कुती परमपराने वार्सानू जतन करवा. मारुती आंपेक्स फाँंडेशन तरवती, स्री शुरेज भाई लाखानी, अने स्री दिनेज भाई लाखानी, अन्तर मन्ना अहु भाउती, वडा प्रदान स्री नु, एर दिक स्वागत करेज। प्रस्तूती आने, एवोज भाउ भीनो आवकार, आपनी आ प्रस्तूती माती प्रगड थायो, सामाजीक सम्रस्ता, अने मानविय समवेदनाने, पोतानी अन्दर, सदाई जागरत राखीने, सामाजीक उच्सवना माद्द्यम ती, रास्त्र निरमावा, पोतानु योग्दान अप्वाना भाउसाते, आ भव्या अने दिव्या लग्नोज सो योजाई रहे हो चे, त्यारे सोथी पहला वाद कर ये, अप्रे सोथी जानी एशे, के कोई पर दिगरी, एग आमनी होई के शहरनी, एनो सामाजीक शेक्षनीक आर्थेख परी प्रिक्ष्य, चहे गम्मेते होए, परन्तु, एदरे एक दिगरीना हायामा, पोताना लगनाने लगता, किटलाई कोड होए चे, तो साथेज, माता पीता माते पन, कन्या दान एजिंदगीनो महामुलो अवसर होए चे, वर्षो सोथी दिखरी, अने एना माता पीता, अने परीवरना सो, महामुलो अवसर नी राजोता होए चे, अने आपनी संस्क्रूती मा, जेने संस्कार के वाम आवेचे, एवो लगननो संस्कार विधी वत्री ते उज़वामा आवेचे. पन किटलीक वखत, काडनी करोन ता देखो, कि दूरभाग्यववच, एभी किटलीक दिखर यो होए चे, जे, पोटाना लगना पहलाज, पितानी चत्रचाया गूमावी देखे, एपितानो सने, इमनी चत्रचाया तो गूमावेज चे, साथे-साथे, पोटाना किटला ही सबनाोने पन संकेली देखे, आने, एक निश्वास साथे, पोटाना जिवन ने, समजी लेचे. आवी दिखर यो, आवी ने कर्वामा आवेली कल्पनाो, इने पूरी कर्वामावाते, एक समवेद ना सबर पगलूम परियू, सुरेशवै लखानी है. पोटाना परिवार जनोनी जैमज, एक सवजन बनीने, आज जवाबदारी पूरी कर्वा, आने, एपन हरक भेर, इनु भीडु ज़प्यू, आने, अद्यार सुदिमा चूव्सो थी वदू दिकर्यो ने, तेमने सहर्ष, रंगे चंगे परना वीषे. आने, आज भीजी पास्सो बहवन दिकर्यो, इतले के पास्सो बहवन, नवदंपती, आज प्रभुता मा इतले कुल बहेजार दस, जितली कन्याो ने, तेो आजे कन्या दान करषे, अने लगन नो संकल आजे समपन न ठही रहो चे, त्यारे आवो निहार ये, तेमना अ वीचार थी लए, वास्तविक्ता सुदिनी यात्रा, एक संस्क्रुतिक न्रूत्यनी प्रस्तुती स्वरुपि बन्दायो चे मान्द्वोने बनी चे वेदी, शोबे चे हातो मा लाल चटक मेंदी, अगनी प्रज्वलीत चे, गुनजी रहा लगन गीत चे, स्वजन प्रियजन आत्मजनो नो सात चे, पने कुडिली कन्यानी आखोनी कोर, पापाने शोदेचे, स्वबाविखचे, पापानी परी हवे नारी बन वानी चे, आवा अती पावन परिवर्तन ना प्रसंगे, जरे एक कन्याना सोनेरी सबनानी सवार पडवानी चे द्यारे, सुव्ति प्रीः सहीर नो, सामाजिक, अन्तरिक अने आत्मी अखंड प्रवास नी पले, एक व्यक्ती तरीक, स्त्रीक तरीक, एक पतनी बनी ने हवे नत्रुत्व धारन करी, मानाउतान भविष्यनु गड्तर नी शरवात ने ताने, सुव जन ने द्याजी, साजन ने स्विकारी, बने सुपी देवानी स्तिती होए त्यारे, एनी हिम्मत नी हामी बर्वा पापाने सुधे, एना सहस ने सहमती लेवा पापाने सुधे, एना सपनावने साखार करवा, गगन ने आमवा, पापा ए आज दिन सुदी आपे लिषिकामन रुपी पाखोने, पापानी आखमा अनायसे आवेली भी नाजने अनोगवता, जन्मती लेईने आज दिन सुदीनो, कदनाक्रम गोटीने पी लेवानो होए त्यारे, पापा सामे देखायाज नहीं तो, स्वाबिक्षे. अवी अने कोडी लिखन्याोने, पापानी खोट ना साले येवी प्रतिगन्याली दीचे. अने अनोगवी ज्योथ येवी प्रक्तावी चे, दूनी येवी दखावी चे, क्या जिया समूलगन ना महा मोद सुवमा, एक बे एक तरीस चालीस नहीं, अच्सोने एक कावन कन्याोना लगन करावानो संकल पली दोजे. निजारे, मारोत इंपेक्स फाँँदेशन, समगर लाखानी परिवार, सुरेजभाई, दिनेजभाई, आवा आहलादक अदवूथ प्रसंग प्रेोजवा निमित बने होए. त्यारे, एक अती विषिष्ट महमान, अखोडिली कन्याोने आशिर्वाद आपा पड़ारे तो, आजना आ महा महोड सवनी मुल्वात यतले, नामपत जीवननी शरुवात दिवात, लगन जीवननी वात, केम कहीए के च्तरी पूरुषना सहीरा प्रवास दिवात, निजरे आवात निख़े तेरे उट्सर्फ, एक जोडी मन्मस्तिष्क मा प्रस्री जाए चे, अने एचे राम्सितानी जोडी. आई पाच्सो एक कावन लगनवान चुभ जोडा चे, राम्सितानी जोडी ना प्रतिक समा, बारत्ना वाडा प्रदान श्री नरेंद्र मोदी सहेप, आप प्रेमनी प्रट्यनच्या कहेची, आप कोडिली कन्याोना उनी प्रवासना आरम्बना अवसरे, हमने शुभाषी शाप्षे. शुभ संकलप साथे, जे वीचार, आमल्मा मुख्वामा आवे, इने चोकस, शुभ आशीर्वाध प्राप्तता हैचे, आने एस संकलप सफनता सोती पहुचेचेचे. श्री सुरेष भाई लखानी अने मना परिवार जनुए, पकत एक अनुकम्पा, जीु मात्र प्रत्ये दया, अने साथे साथे, समाजना, राजयना, अने रास्ट्रना निरमाल्मा, पोतानो युग्दान अप्वानी, द्रड इच्छा राखी, कोई पान, पोतानो विक्तिगत राजकी है, के समाजिक लाब लिवानी इच्छा वगर, निस्वार्त पने, अदिकर्यों ना चैराव पर, स्मीद अने सन्तो शावे, यवा भाव साथे, आपुन या कर्मा, कर्वानु शरू करू, अने पची तो, इमा लगातार, आगर वद्दाज रहा, करनके अने कोनी प्रेना माडी, अवे अईतिया सि गडी आवी गडी चे, जेनी आपने सु, काग दोडे रहा जोई रहा आता, लगनवान, चुक, पच्सो एक कवन जोडावने अनुरोद चे, वर अने कन्या, एक भी जानी सामे, वर्माला लेईने उबारी जाए, अवे वडा प्रदान श्री जाए, दनुश्षन प्रत्यन्चा केचे, शंखनो दूनी समभाई, एजच्षने, पाथ सो एक कवन वरने कन्या, एक साथे, एक मेखने वर्माला पहरावे, पच्सो भावन दंपतीयोना, मंगन परेना, साथ्षी बन்वानो सुवाव सर, एक भीजाने वर्माला पहरावशो? अक्षवने वर अने वद्जो, एक भीजाने वर्माला पहरावे. अही पदाडयला मह्मान, वर कन्यवनआस ने ही सुजझनो, मिट्रगन, तता सरवेष् कुझ फेद्खोनो नहीं को में अंदकरन्ती आबार माने जी खास करी ने आमारी विनन्ती ने माना पी ने इमनो आमुले समहे कादी पापानी परीना आमारा संकलपने सोनेरी सोपान बना वा माथे औने राश्च्रने साची दिषा देकाडवान आमना यस्स्वी आब्यान माते, मरूतिं पैक्स फाँम्देशन तरव ती, श्री शूरेज भाई लाकानी, श्री दिनेज भाई लाकानी, तथा समस्त लाकानी परिवार, आमरा लोक लाडिला, मुदी जीने अंता करन ती आबार व्यक्त करे. अब वित्र मंत्रो चार शंखनाद दिव्याशिष ने सुस नहीं जनोनी उपस्तिती ना आशिर्वाद साप्रे आचे नाव्दंपती ने तेमना भाई जीवन माते अने क्षुप काम नाू अदनी आप्रदान मंत्रिष्री अब भव्यायोजन मा सहबागित हवा माते आईया � पुन करवा माते आपनो क्षुप आबहर आपनी उपस्तिती दिखी आखोई प्रसंग वदू उज्वन बने अचे देदी प्यमान बने अचे माउजी दादा आने अंजु बाना रतन यवा श्री सुरेषभे लखानी एक यवा उद्योग पतीनी अनु कमपा अई नो पवित्र संकल अने मा सत पुरुशोना समश्टीना सनेही जनोना सन्तोना अने शुभत्वना विचार करवावादा सव मान्वियोना आशिर्वाद भड़े सवना सहियारा संकल पो थी आए रास्ट्र निर्मान्नो अइ तिहासिक कारिए आजना प्रसंगे हवे आमन्त्रेत करिये चीे आदनी येश्री दिनेश भाई लखानी ने आजना प्रसंगे आपनी वच्चे पदारे ला आदनी आप प्रदार मंत्रेश्वी और सवना सवागत समवोदन माते अधनी मात्रम साईप रेल मा वु तमारी बाजुव मा बेटोचु पन आजि मने सबना मावे नेवु लागुचु मने नती कबर पडती कि तमी आमारी आर्या जोडे बेटा चो अने आमारा जे भी आपान्चो भावन दिकर येवना पालक पीताना अने जे परमाने दर्साय। इपरमाने आदिकर येवना दोख तो दूर थाई गया पर आटाएपना लगन मा आपटा एसस्वी करमत वड़ा पदान्सरी नरेन्रभाई मोदी जी नी हाजरी जे आखु भावनगर अने आखु भारत जे हरसोलास साते जोडी उचे इसाईप रील मा अजी मुँ का एक अलक दूनिया मा हो के मने मारी जात उपर विष्वास नती आउतो एटलो आनन्न अवसर से आमारी माते इटले तमने आप्रसम मा आवा बडल तमारा जेतला अने जेतल तमी बोलो इमारी पाया वर्स नती अब आप बाज दीवास बोलु तो बी उचु पडे योव्चन माझ तमारु हो जोये करने आप अबेलानी दरती मा तमी जे पल माने आमने अमन्तरन आप पा आवो अने तमी जे प्रेम थी आमन्तरन शुछारु तरे बी मने लखतॉतू अवा वड़ा पदान साईब कोई मानास युख पूरुषत वोई सके बाखी, आजी हूँ तमने काओ, तो मने पोते मानुमा आउतु नती, के आ आ दिकर्यों ने दुख तो हतुज पर इने सुक मलुने दुख बदूज बुलाएगी हूँँषे इतला माते आप प्रसंग मा जे परमाने तेयारी थाई चे अने जे दिकर्यों मारा करता भी वदारे लकी चे के करनके साईब एतला भीजी चे जेटली जोआब दारी हो चे अने इप प्रसंग मा क्यारे नावी सके अने पान्सो एककावन दिकर्यों ना प्रसंग माईवाव होई तो ये अप्डा करता भी वदारे परती बाखे चाली चे इतले साईब तमने जेटला नम्मत करू जेटला अवकारू, जेटलु स्वागत करू इतला माईटे अप्रसंग माईवारा थी काई तमने, काई उक स्वागत माईवार कोई कोई जेट्गया है, अमारे मिस्टिक रेगवे तो सती करजो, बागे अगो लखानी परिवार तमने अजे प्रसंग माईवार इमा तमने चितलो अबार मानु अचो सु इरे ते स्वागत करवा माईवारा वचन्टी अमारा वर्स्टी के आखो लखानी परिवार तमने काईम माईटे लाइप माई बहुले अने अब हाँनगर नी क्रुस्नो कुमा शीनी दरती चे आमा ती एक एक तानो मैसेच जाया प्रसंग दूरा के सामाईजी उच्तोवना माईज्यम ती राश निरमा जरे तवाजतू होई अने साईब आब दी वच्छे होई अने इवक्ते साईब में तमने तमने किदलू ये की वात याद कराओ। के तमने किदू तु के पान्सो एकवन दिकरीने तु एक प्रतिकना लेव्राउ जे के जरे राश माईटे काई भी जरूरो होई तरे दिकरी वोतानी फराज आदा करे तु साईब आजे मैं फर्सुलाच साई ते काओछू के कदाज पान्सो एकवन तैई आजे मुतमने एकवन जार अने राश माईटे काई भी एक एक मिनित वहुई के each ब्हें बल्डव मा राश प्रजीवबाई काई फ्ये नहीं कैं के मु लगने ना आमांत्रन अपा गे लो अने वात असे अने राश्त नी कर तास अोग आखवsters, प्रसं �ंग यह नहीं है, क्योंके मु लगने ना आमन्त्रन आपा के लो, अने वात यहने राष्टनी करता दा, इतला माते आखो प्रसंग, अमी लोको ले, राष्ट निर्मान बादू भी आगी आची है, अने वो अमने एक साचो राज मले हो चे, अपरसंग मा तमी आएवा, अमने वोवोज गे मूझे, अमने तो गे मूझे, पाल अकी भाहे लानी जन्तो नो और सुलाज, आएक चुली जोवो, तो दीवाल यह आजे से आमारी माते. इतले मारो ताएम शाएप ने बिजी स्केट्यो लिमा आएवा, आएवाल मूझे वाद दरती दी आपरसंग मा, इमना भी वाद करुवेटली वोछीष, अपना सान सथ जे, पाल जे मैनग, जे आमने राद डवरी, अने जे मार्ग देश नाई पूझे, ये बोग जनमोल जे, इतला माते आपरसंग, ये मैनग, जे आमने राद डवरी, अने जे मार्ग देश नाई पूझे, ये बोग जनमोल जे, इतला माते आपरसंग, चे भी सारो देखार योचे, ये इन उर्जास त्रोत, खना लोगोचे, ये माते ये पाटिल साएप चे, ये वाज आमारा, बाबद, नानी नानी बाबद, कोई भी प्रसंग बाबद, इतलो खोलो चालूए, इतले वंशुख भाई, समथो भी मुझे सुवागत करो जो, ये बाध, भीजा जितुबाई, के जितुबाई एतले सूरेष, अने सूरेष अतले जितुबाई, मने क्याल चेग, कलिवा राते बाबबाई, एक एक वागे, ग्राунд मावी, अने जितुबाई, अन ग्राунд नुरिक्षन करता, अने फोवन करता, इतला माटे जितुबाई, अकोथ प्रसंग, जितुबी री होचे, ये तमरात रूचे. अने, अपना सान्षर, बार्ती बेन शिया, तमरो भी रील मादिल ती सवागत करूचु, अने डाई सुपर बेता, सवजी बाई, मनजी ददा, कंष्यम भाई, अने, योगराज, बावन गरना, योगराज, अने, वलडब बाई वडल चे, यहने, अने मने कुटूम् झे, यहे मरा म juices. इले, मरा मोडब हाई जेतले, वदारे वखान नती करवा।, लकरे मैं लागे, कुटूम नो जहन, फवए बशाग़ वखान करे जे, यहने, मने वदड़ जानता दसो, केवानी जरुन दती येवाज आमारा, हर सोलास वाला मावजी भाई, बावूवाई, राजो, अने अको लखनिवार परीवार, साईब तमारा साचा दिलती, एक रियल मां, बोग सरस रिते, जे माली पाये वर्ष नती, अने जे पावनगर, पूरु, और जे परमाने जोई दि कुब भाबार आपना लागनी भर्या आवकार माते, आजे पक्त जेव प्रभुता मा पगला माडी रहा जे एवा नवदं पती कि तमना परीवार जनोज नहीं, परन्तु समाग्र भावेन एक भाव से तुती बन ठाई रही हूँचे, अने लागनी ना सहियारा उच्सव मा सबागी थवा माडे, आजे महनु भावो पतारे आजे, त्यारे हवे सादर आमन्त्रित करीए शे आजे उपस थेद माननी सान सद शी शी आर पाटिल ने आजना प्रसंगे आपना उद्बोदन माडे पदार शूँ, शी पाटिल सहे बे एमने आपने बावने शब्दो थाखी वाचा आपने बदले आप सूँने आशिर वचन पाट्वे आजे रदै थी, और हवे समय ने द्यान मा राखी ने आपने कारे क्रवने आगर वतारी शूँ, आत्मार थम जीव लोके स्मिन कोन जीवती मानवः, परम परो पकार आप फम यो जीवती सजीवती, आप दात आदूनिया मा शवयम माडे तो कोन नती जीव तु, परन्तु जो भीजा माडे जीवे चे तेज साचा आद्फा जीवन चरीतार थ करे चे, जेव नो समस्त जीवन अने प्रत्ये क्ष्वास, देश्वास्यो ना कल्यान माडे समर पिच्छे, योवा आदूनिया प्रदान मंत्री शीनरेंद्र भाई मोदी, आजे आपनी वच्छे पतारे आचे, अपस थित दरेक माडे अत्यंत आनन्द अने गवरोवनी वाथ छे. रास्ट अनीरमान्ना बाव साथे आजे अश्रेस कर प्रव्रुतिमा अदनया शीनरेंद्र भाई, पितानी छत्र चाया गुमावनार दिखर्यो अपर, अपने सव ताडियो नहर्षनाद ती आपनो आदर बहु, सुडि पहचाडिये अंटेने आवकार ये सवथि पहला तो हूं, दिनेच भाए, सुवर्यष भाग, वालपना आऊशीर्वाद वरस्सवा माटे, ईठ वरस्सवा माटे पथार या थे, आवो आपने सव ताडियो ना हर्षनाद ती आपनो आदर भाव रदान मैंत्रिष्वी सुदी पहुचाडिये अने तेमने आवकारिये सव्दी पहला तो हूँ दिनेज भाई शूरेज भाई अने समवगर लखानी परिवारनो रूदैती खुब खुब आभार मानुषु कारके मने मने आप पवित्र कारिये ना साख्षी बनवानो मोग को आपियो मने खबर नहीं लखानी परिवार मां सन्तानोना दिकरा दिकरियोना लगन के विरिते थाया आशे प्र मुन अनुमान लगाईने कैई से कुजूजू कदाजेमना कुटुमना बेकत्योना लगन आविरिते नहीं दाया फैग. एनो अर्देते हो के समाज माडेनी बखती अने बख्ती नो भावन हैं तो कदाजेमने वो काम कर वानो सुजें नहीं अगले लखानी पर्वार मु तमारा पुरवजो नहीं प्रनाम करुजो, के जेमने तमना आवा सम्सकार आपया, दन तो गना पासे होएषे, परंतो यह दन नती देका तु मन देखाएषे. लखानी पर्वार मु मन देखाएषे, समाज माते कषु कर्वानी प्रेना. लगन तो आजेषे, लगन नी ती ती आजेषे, लगन नी भीदी आजेषे, पर लखानी पर्वार नी लगनी, मने लागेषे के बाहरे मैंना आमाल बुमलियती. कराँ चोग मैंना पहला, मैंने आगोत्र नीमंटर आप बाहे है, अने तेरे मैंदे देखे का सुरेज बेगे, दिनेज ब्याव से, पहना बडले, आमेरीका मरेता, दिकरान, बद्दान बोला लेगन लेगन लेगन लेगन लेगन लेगन, एज पडे मु जोडो तो के लोग, उमंग के तो दोज, कदाज कोई पोता ना गरमा लगने हो तोई, आपको बदाप परिवार मलवा आवे ने लेग, नीमंद राप बाई उना बने, एज ले दी आप क्यो नहीं, ये तो आगोत्र नी वतु, हवे पत्री का जपाया पजी पाजी आवो पडे, अने चता पान मुजो तो तो के नी आखो मा, आब बदी दिकरियो मातर नो सने वरस तो तो, अने जे उमंग ने उमल का थी, जे बावुख ता थी, आने एक एक दिकरी भी शे आमा आगरी मुकिमन समझावे, का दिकरी नो आवुजो, आपने ने परनावा नाची, आग गामनी दिकरी जो आपने ने परनावा नाची, जाने लगनी शद्देजर मुवाप्रुचो ने, तरे आख खाए बदी आप पानसो ने भावन दिकरियो, अने मना भावी जीवन साथी माते तहीने, इलागनी मा तुमेल उ परिवार, अने मना परिवार नाज बएक्ती हो, आपने द्या लगना होगे, तरे गर मां संगीज शंद्या वगे जें, कुतुम ला लोगो पोते, तोड़ गून करता है होगे, आपना गुजरात ना बाकी लोगो मते, प्रेरनानो एक तिर्त केविरिते बने, आबात केविरिते पहोचे, समुल लगनो आपना गुजराते, आने लगबवक स्विकारी विषे, पहला चडसा चदसी मा, पोता निजन्याती मा, अपुर देखाए जरा रुबाब देखाए, देवू करीने लगनो करावाना, देमाना दूंगर दाए, आनी होड चालती ती, पन दिरे-दिरे आपना समाज मा जाग्रुक तावी, समुल लगनो लिबाज उबोत हमा माडेो, एब अक ते मुझे मुक्य मंट्री दिक राम करतो, कुंवर बाइनु मामेरु आपने योजना चलाब तादा, अने समाज ना बदाज बरना लोको, समुल लगनो लिट्र बाले, आने खर्च उचो दाए नेवा लगनो मुजजतो तो, आने एक सलाप तो तो, अने आपन्सो बावन नहीं मार सला पनीजे, मारी सला मान से भाग विष्वाज तो दाए बो, समुल लगनो तो ताए, भेगा तेने बदा सरफ मंजानी उजमनी पन करे, पर पची गेर गया पची, मनमा कीडो सलवल बाँ माडे, काका मामा बदा आवे करे, मारी तमने हाज जोडिने विननती जे, हवे गेर जिन भीजो समारम नकरता, देवाना दुंगर मा नदुबता, पैसा उछरता होए, तो सारा काम माते मुकी राख जो, तमारा सन्तानो ना बविष्मा काम आश्टरे. नहीं, तो आप मुसीबत लेजे, समों लगनो ताया पजी पाजी कैंके गेर जिन कर्मान, आतली पवित्र ता पुर्वक, दिभ्यता पुर्वक, आपनी समसार यात्रा सरुत हती होए त्यारे, मारी आपने एतली जागनी बरी बाज जे, क्या आप आनी चिन्ता कर जो. आजे जार मैं आया आपने आपने आपने उज़ी तारे, आने एक मार्प लखनी परिबर ने उस विषेत दिते गव्रव करुजू, के आमने आप समहरम आब वलो वोड़ उदाएं पाज लोको मोपुजे ये, यो विचार ना करेू, आमने यो विचार करेू, के वो ये भी दिकर्यो सोदीस जेने पोताना पीता गूमावे आचे, ये दिकर्योने एना जिवन आत्तिन महत्वापन अवसरे अचूना आवे, येनी बदी बरपाई हूँ करीस, आने ये बहावती आप काम करुजे, साच अच मा एक पिट्र तुल्ले बहाव थी, आखु आखु लखानी परिवार, आपना जिवन साथे वे काई मी जोडाई गजुषे, आपना गुज्रातनी विशेस ता रही चे, समाज माटे कैने कर करबू यआपनी प्रेना रही चे, आपने जारे आवा उसर मड़ो जा, आपनी के दाज आर्टिक सीती नाव है, परन्तु तेम सता है, समाज माटे जीवी से काई, समाज माटे कैने करी से काई, आबदाज दिकर यो जमन आजे लगन थे आचे, आप जोड तमार गर माना नाना बहियो होए, काका मामाना चोकरा हो होए, तमारु बविष्मा परीवार बन से, तमारा संटानत से, तमे आब लखानी परीवार ने याद राछी ने, एट्लु नक्कि कर जो, के तमारा कुतुम मां, हवे कोई अबवन नही रे, आने हमाए, विकिरी ये वी नही होए, कि जैने तमे बनावी ना, आजे तमे आप संकलप करी ने जो, आब दखानी परीवार नी, साक्षी ए संकलप करी ने जो, आपने समाज जीवन न दर, के भी तागात पडी शे, हमना मारा सीर पाटी ले भिडु उठाए दो, के गुजरात मा बालो को कुपोषन थाया होए, एस थी सारी नहीं, आखा राजमती बदा आख़्ा भेगा करे आ बदा नामो काडया को आब बालो को, रेट जोन माचे. आमने लोको ने कवो कि तमे आब बालो को दद्तक लो, आमने आत्लो अत्तु खामानी चिन्ता करो, अत्ली दबानी चिन्ता करो आख्रो. मने अनन्दनी बाज है, के गराजकी पशना कारकरता हो, कुपोषन नि सामे लगाय यादरी, अने गुजरात मैई भाल लाख्फो लोको आगालाया, कि जेमने आबा बालो को ले दप्तक लिए ले, और कुपोषन माई भाँर काडवा माते, योजना बद्दरीते काम आगर दबाई, आई मरा मन्सुख भे बेटाज, केंद्र सरकार माई मरा, आरोग के विबाँगने संवारनार मारा साती छे, आई मना आरोग के विबाँगने संवारोग ले जरा कप्रा काडव के विषे, बरे चडान जरा उचापने काखा कि दूनिया माई कोरोनानो काहा कार, एवे समय मंसुख मैंनी जबाब दरी आई, आई आपने नकी करुषे के बेएजर तीस माई, तीस माई दूनिया माई तीभी माई मुक्तित हमाई बाज चे, आप्रो भारत भेजर पचीस माई तीभी ना रोग माई मुक्ते केम ना साई, यमने यमना दिपाट मेंटरा को अब्यानु पाडि, तीभी पेसंट नी संक्या करता दाताउनी संक्या पदारे मदान माई, यह मेंने अपने लोकोने केवू, किबे अपना अतला लोकोई पोटाना नाम रजिस्त्र कराया जे, जमने तीभी नी बिमाईषे, यमने अपनी अपनी बबस्ताउ कर विपडे, गरवसाते के उजे क्या देशना नागरी को ये, तीभी पेसंट नी संक्या करता दाताउनी संक्या पदारे मदान माई, यह में आप परिवार लोगे दद्तक लिजा जे, अने बदाई कुटुमवे भिडू उचाए।, कि अमें तीभी मुक्त भारत करवा माई, तीभी मुक्त भारत करवार दाते लोगों कामे लगाडा करू।, एक वार मैं को भी आप दे बडा लारी लें निकुल। अन लोगों को कि बे तमार गरमा जुना रमक्डा होए भडाम नाप।, अन में एप रमक्डा भेगा करीने, गरीब बस्तिमा जा आंगन वाडी जे त्या पीशो, साडा गरनी अंदर भालगा ना माई रमक्डा नी उमर त्रानाज मैंना ही वोए, त्रान मैंना जा लेने रमक्डा लोगों गमे नी भालगा नी, निन दो लावूज पडे, अले गर मा रमक्डा नो दगलो ती जाए, अने मैंने आचा मान भावनगर ना लोगों तेमपो लें नी गरा ता, अने लोगों दोडी दोडी ने, तेमपा बरी दी दाखा, अने यो वर्षो वर्ध आपडे करता राया, अने ये सरस सरस रमक्डा, जे आमीर गर नी अंदर होए, एक गरीबनी आंगन वाडी नी अंदर रमक्डा फे गया बाडे को, समाजी एक सन्तून लाबान रोग प्रयास होए. समाजनी शक्ती, अप्रम पार होए शे, अने एक लेज, समाजने इस्वर नु रूप कोए शे, जे सक्ती इस्वर माचे, एस सक्ती समाज मापन से, अने इस्वर ना आसिरवाद होए, समाजनी शक्ती होए, बे सक्ती वो भेई करे, तर लखानी परिवार जे बाल लोग को आगल आवे, और परना मलता होए जे परना माच यापने जोई रेए जी. समाज जीवन मा बडला होए, तर आपनी इच्छा दे, विजी दी बचा होए, पानी बचा होए, शामाते आपने जिन ता, गनी बर था है, के मोटा समारम मा जे ये, का तो गर मापन, थोडो खावानो चोडी देवो, आपने के खोटु लाक्तूड नती, आपने तेव केम ना पाडिये, के जेटनु जरूपृतु थादी मा लैस, एक दानो बगडवा नहीं दैज, आने दानो नहीं बगड़ेने, तो भले हूँ दान नकरू, पन जरूर को गरिपनु पेड भरासे, आपने लावानी, सत्ट्र हेत तो करना नहीं जरूए आच्चे। आब भदू सक्के चे, आब भदू सक्के चे, परिवारो जघ भब लगन थाज लेमने मार के हूँजे, कि तमे न में केजन बही, बीनो कत्रों ने सुको कत्रों, समाज माते कैक नानगुडु काम करिये, तो जीवन दन बने जाए. और आजन नो आवसर माने माते सद्बागे से. माने माते पुन्योध सव्छे. आब लगनोध सव नहीं पुन्योध सव्छे. पुन्या, अई आदीकरीोना आसिर्वाद. एना सी मुडु पुन्य के हूँ जिवन्मा. जर एडीकरीो को ताड़े जिवन्ना, सव्सार यातना पुन्योध सव्छे, अन दिकरी गमे ते वुमडनी हो एग. एना आसिर्वाद, हर कोईने काम आवता होँझे. अने मुतो अनुबोग कर ता लिए। मने तो दिकरियोना, मातावना, भेनोना, अप्रम पार आस्विर्वाद रे आचे यह आस्विर्वाद आज मारी ताकाज से अन आजे विशेस पसंगेज अपना आस्विर्वाद अमने एक नवी शक्ती आप से अप्री एक वार लखानी परिवार ले रुदैटी जेक्ला भिनन्दन अप्वित्ला उचाजे जेक्ला दंदिवाद कर वित्ला उचाजे आने कुतुम ला दरे एक वेक्ती में जो गर माजे मावसर होगे आमा गरनी वोगो गरनी दिकरियो एभा उमां थी मैं जोई जे एदले मनेम थाए के लखानी परिवारे साचरत्मा दन ने कारने नहीं मन ने कारने आवसर कर रोचे अने जारे मन होए ने तारे मालबे जबातू है जे बड़ाए कुतुम वो मालबे जासे वो मने पुरो विस्वासे अप सवने कुब को बमिन्दन इश्वर ना मेश आपना प्रासिर्वाद मन रे प्रभूर रामना आसिर्वाद आपनी बर बने रे आपनो जीवन सुकि सम्रुद तता है एज इश्वर ने प्रात्ना लखानी परिवार आवा अने कामो करतारे प्रगती नी नमी उचाई उसर करतारे समाज माडे प्रेना आपतारे एज परमात मैंमने शक्टि आपे कुब-कुब दन्वाद कुब-कुब अबार आदनी एप प्रधार मैंट्रेश्वी आपना प्रेनादाई वचनो माडे अपना उत्तम विचारो थकी अदिकर्यो ने आदन्व दंपत्यो ने जीवन उत्कर्ष्ती प्रेरीथ करवा माडे आपकत एक लगनोज सव नती परन्तु तेमना माडे जीवन नु और मोलु संभारनु बनी रेशे आपे तेो जारे अदन्व प्रदान माडे तेमने आशीर वाद आपशे प्रतिक आत्मा करीते आपाच नव दंपती तूर्जा किशुर भाई पतेल ब्रिचेश कुमार मनोज कुमार हेरभा पायल, हस्मुख भाई राथोड राहुल, अशोग भाई माडे अदन्व दंपती तूर्जा किशुर भाई पतेल ब्रिचेश कुमार मनोज कुमार हेरभा पायल, हस्मुख भाई राथोड राहुल, अशोग भाई मक्वाना काजल, मनीश भाई गोहिल पंकज, भरत भाई डोडया अर्चना बाभु भाई मक्वाना अशीर वचन आपी रहे आचे स्वती आगर वदी समश्टीना उतकर्ष्माते जीवन जीवानी दिशा आचे आपे बतावी चे अदन्व प्रिचान मंत्रिष्री अदिकर्योना विदिवत रिते लगन समपन तहे आचे तेरे तेमने बवावी मंगल मैं जीवन नी शुपकाम आउने साथे-साथे रास्च्र नीर्मान मा एक साचा नागरीक बनी कही रिते पोटानो योग्दान आपु तेनु पर मारग्डरषन आपे करियूचे अने उपस्तिद सहुग कोईने आपना विचारोथी आजे आखु भाव नगर भाव वीबोर बनीूचे आने आबभव सबर क्षरन ना सक्षी मंचु पर भी राजमान सवूग कोई आने मंचनी सहमे उपस्तिद सवूग कोई आसुन्दर व्यवस्ता जग्मगात आने नी साथे-साथे साचार थायाचे केंके तुर्डी ली कन्या हो ना सबना हो जे ने पोतनी आखे जोया हता आने आजे लखानी परीवार प्हमना मानस माता पीटा बनी ने आधा दिकर्योंना सबना ने साचार करी रहो चे आबभव भीनु आमंट्रन सविकारी अपनी अत्यन विस्तता वच्छे पन या पदर्वा माते आने नव दंपतियोंने आशिर्वाद आप्वा माते पदर्वा माते फरीवार आपनो अंता करन पुर्वक रून सविकार करी एची आजे जो विशाल भव्या अने दिव्या अबहुत पुर्व लगनोज सवमा सामेल ठाया तेवा आप सवनो पन खुब-खुब आबहर मानी एची अने आप सवने विननती आप रसंगने आप हजी पन मानशो हजी पन आपने सव साथे प्रीती भोचन लेशु
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WTDC-17: H.E. Dr. Phan Tam, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Viet Nam
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Policy Statement at WTDC-17 by H.E. Dr. Phan Tam, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications, Viet Nam
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Mr. Chairman, the ITU Secretary-General, Mr. Hulinsau, elected ITU official, Excellencies, distinguished heads of delegations, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great honour for me to make this statement on behalf of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam at this very important WTDC 17. First of all, I would like to highly appreciate all the effort and hard work of the ITU in organising this high-level, very important conference. This is really a very good opportunity for us to learn and to exchange experiences on the implementation of ICT strategies and on solutions to use ICT to achieve the sustainable development goals. Nowadays, the explosive development of ICT has made such rapid and deep changes to the society and to the economy. One can easily find the very strong impact of ICT on all aspects of our lives, our workings and our social relationships. And that happens at all scales, global, national, regional, organisational and individual. And in this context, we strongly believe that we have to put ICT in the heart of our SDG strategies. And in fact, Vietnam has been making every effort to make the best use of ICT to create new driving forces for sustainable and inclusive growth. We are focusing on the following priorities. Firstly, we promote ICT applications and services in public areas such as public governance and public health. In two years from 2014 to 2016, according to the United Nations e-government index, Vietnam has improved its e-government performance and made the leap from middle e-government development index to high values. In public health area, we succeeded in establishing a database of health insurance, covering approximately 99% of population. And this opens up the path to the wide use of electronic insurance cut. Secondly, we need to invest a lot in HRD. The shortage of digital skills is the biggest challenge of developing countries in this digital transformation. So international cooperation in HRD led by ITU, namely ITUD plays a very important role. Thirdly, as an agriculture country and among the ten most impacted by climate change, we need to promote e-agriculture. And our government and prime minister emphasize constantly that priority must be given to e-agriculture. Fourthly, we started smart city initiatives and we think that this will create new ICT market opportunity and new opportunities for international cooperation. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, in this all-interconnected and integrated world, Vietnam strongly believes that cooperation, mutual assistance between nations is key for success. And from outside, we are always ready and eager to cooperate with other members to jointly address common ICT challenges. In addition, we do wish to make further contribution to the ICT community through our presence at the Radio Regulation Board. In concluding, I would like to express our sincere thanks to the ITU, the ITU Secretary General, and the ITU staff who have been making continued efforts to connect members to enhance mutual understanding and to provide available assistance to members. I would also like to thank for all the great hospitality extended by the host nation of the Angentina Republic who helped to make this conference possible and meaningful. Finally, I would like to wish you all good health, success, and happiness. Thank you for your kind attention.
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Bethel Selectboard - November 13, 2018
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First on the agenda is to approve the agenda anybody have anything they want to add Modify I Didn't know if we Should have something for Neil Fox if anything happened with Neil. I think he was gonna come to the next so I Talked with him this morning and he said he's been talking with people from the state He's not prepared to do anything yet, but he is on the agenda or actually we will do a Board of Health meeting at 530 our next meeting we'll have a pre meeting at 530 for the Board of Health Where he will be here with some information that he's okay, whatever he's done now Yeah Do we need to do anything for Jose in terms of that decision for his grant he's gonna be on he's got an appointment for the next Me. Oh, yeah, is that coming in time? Because he saw me where he worked and he told me we had Something to do something tonight. We're going to get his paperwork All right, I'll accept the motion to accept the agenda as Okay, all in favor All right public comment inquiry, this is the spot if there's Nothing on if there's something on not on the agenda that you'd like to bring up. This is the time to do it The capability that's here does have an agenda spot. So you're yeah, you're right on here Stacey We do have our first point for 30 years, so we'll get you in and out. I want to wait another 15 minutes So Stacey want to talk about his property So I guess we'll have to clarify what what you're looking for Like When it comes to water water and sewer that can be done here because we act as the water and sewer board But when it comes to taxes that would have to be done just through through a different So also so with your So right now your water is not hooked up right So that shut off So I believe what's happening right now just talking with Theresa and Greg today is From the date that it was shut off from the event you won't receive any bill for that I can't remember what the exact date was but it happened just inside them This next quarter September 24th, so you won't be billed for the whole quarter as right now what you would see would be Well, what needs to happen is that the ordinance actually allows for a Interruption or termination of service so the water commissioners can do that in an emergency situation They don't have to tell you that they're doing everything You just have to do it So that's really what we need to do most likely what we really because are you gonna build another home there anytime soon? So we're basically we will terminate the water service to that That property and it will be able to build it all And it'll be from the date the day established, which is most likely that September 24th So it's not necessarily gonna be an update, but I think it's more just a Termination of the service and as water commissioners you can do that. So does that sound like what you're looking for? So I guess at this point what we can be doing It's almost to make a motion would be to Determinate the water and sewer services first the property add to 286 South Main Street From the date in which the emergency happened into the foreseeable future I'll make that motion. Okay. Second Y'all there All right So what you'll see on your final bill will be a prorated amount that trees will put together just up to that 24th date And then from then on out here Except what you know, yeah, yeah, no future going So if that's what you want to do we need to actually do an interruption of service Which is just more of a temporary kind of thing you can't it just basically the code says that you Will you decide to turn it back on it's like 25 dollars to reconnect to the Okay, so that's what you really want to do We maybe need to reword that is to amend that to say any interruption of service unnecessarily a termination Okay, so maybe that's what we either way I think We can make it happen. We do it this way and then if something changes down the road Then we can Regardless if it's interrupted or terminated at this point Right that Because we're kind of running on the code section talks about the right emergencies Which is what this was it says if it's if it requires a shut-off due to the emergency It's responsible to pay a 25 dollar reconnection The main thing right now is it just doesn't want to be built so he essentially We all set that So we all Got the long run out email chain as it's as fast as we can have With the e911 numbering system You want to kind of take us up the speed of what we're well learn now? We've set it up, but all in all they did a pretty good job Where it starts in the intersection Intersections he is on the right On the left Number two 16, I think, that had to change. Well, then the backlash came of even though 16, that you've got to change your nine-on-one address. You don't think much about it, you start changing your license, all your billing, all the tax skills, and then everybody started complaining. So, Greg and I have talked three or four times about this or that, which is the way we go. We are done correct for the way nine-on-one states you have to do is when they change tax. And I have made the recommendation that if Royalton was going to change, they should really go scrunch a little bit better, because even though it's north to south, they go up the north road with nine-on-one, nine-on-one percent of the time to go to a call in Royalton. They don't have all the way around 12 and that type. But they already had the gears to work, parents signs the order, everything's done. Well then, you know, I get it. So they kind of fought back and forth and they sent out a second letter to the residents and then there was more of them. Well, then I didn't think a whole lot about it, so I got the last email, which I don't think all got with the yellow. And I like how many roads now they're looking to change. It's not one or two, there's 15, 20 roads they want to redo every three years. So when we, I didn't see any of that. No, we didn't get that. So when we say they, who's they? Is it the state, is it? It's a little, one of them from the state of the mausoleum, Tyler Hermanson, yeah, Hermanson, or maybe any of some of the casters, I thought no one was going to be here to explain it, because by, it's kind of conflicting, like in one email it says, we really don't have anything to do with our breath. But then in another email, he says, well, the state can do that. John St. Road, East Mellon Road should be changed. Arnold Road, the Stinson Road should be changed. Bishill Road should be changed. Tyler William Road should be changed. Music Mountain Road, Gay Hill should be changed. Willysville Road, the Stock Bridge and Mellon Road should be changed. Or Rue Crawford should be changed. More roads. Those are the highlights one, there's another, you know, they're going on that. Tcho Hill, Tcho Hill, KM Road, Rochester, Mellon. Where do you stop? And what confuses it all is the mailing address. Because Bethel happens to be the home of the male. Everybody in Barnard, rural delivery, says that Bethel belong. So, you know, they said, like let's say someone didn't know where they lived, or was staying at the house and didn't know, and they had a call. And they looked at their mail and said, well, six North Road, Bethel belong, because that's the mailing address. So they're going to call Bethel Park. But that would be in Barnard. We're upright. The fallacy of that is the fact that the North Road and Barnard fight or share greater systems. We both, if I had to pick a number, it's a mid 90% that listed each other constantly. So we know that. As long as I can remember, the only issue we ever had years and years ago was actually the method for where Bethel was. There was a sugar house, Hill Road, in Barnard, which is the old San Francisco area. And ladies had a method of shooting whoever was there didn't know where they lived. So they picked up a piece of mail and said, well, 295 Sugar House Road, Bethel belong. Well, before anybody even moved, stayed this back and had to figure it out. Because we have sugar Hill Road. So there was maybe 30 seconds of confusion. There has been a confusion in other towns. And my feeling is right now, I just hope that someone from the state can be here. Because I really think we're open and Pandora Fox. And think, in your own mind, if I told everyone to you right now, you've got to totally change your address. But that really means you have to change. You know, it's not just going out and getting a new red sign, it's everything. Because that's your mailing address. So, you know, everybody has input. It's not my call by any means. And when it started on this thing, my first thought was that it was a call that wasn't frozen, they couldn't do it. Well, they were trying to find this address. Well, the 9-1-1 lack of a little address wasn't posted on the house, wasn't posted on the property. So they weren't able to find it, mostly, because it sounds like they were right there. Maybe it was within, that he did it, right? And they just didn't have a sign. That's why it wasn't posted out, so they didn't get to where they needed to go. That really is under my initiative. I thought it would be a better idea. In the past, we said, we'll do it again this year, as we did. My view is, if any town is going to invest time, they need somebody to go street by street, house by house, and see who actually has their 9-1-1 sign up, and is in a location where emergency services can see it. And a good share of the time, the problem always is, there's no sign. Now, you can run it by the numbers, just like I said. That's the way we do it on fire. We have a call on Camp Elbow. It starts from Camp Brook, because that's the main road, not the Willysville Four Corners. So the numbers start out there. So if it's 1-7-8-5 Camp Elbow, we know it's 1.7-8-5 miles from the intersection, down the road, it's going to be on the left, because it's an odd number. So you can work your way there. And what happens is, Barnard comes from 0 to 6,000, and then Willysville started at 0 to like 3,000 or 4,000, and then Bethel goes from 0 to 900, maybe the other way. So I don't see how us changing our 16 addresses is going to really affect them. This is my biased opinion. If it's not broken, I'll fix it. But I also don't know what the state's going to do. That's why I was hoping they're going to be here tonight. I thought you got that last email, because we CC'd it through with it, but you didn't get it with the whole list that they want to change. And there's a couple like the end of Fish Hill. There's two houses in Bethel that stack over at zero. Okay, those two maybe you could change. But what's interesting is in the fiery world, if we got called to Fish Hill, might we be in reaction to any requirements told out Randolph and Randolph Center, mutually instantly, because they're going to get there before us anyway. I don't know why they did certain things certain ways. You go out, there's a white boat plane, which is actually a Royalton, right by the substation, going up 107 out of town. Royalton has all those, Sequential. And then Pat McCann, who lives in Bethel, his is Sequential with them. So it's kind of a mixed match. And now with road changes, you'll like the, we call it, they call it Rochester Mountain. Who's going to change? They're doing the same thing with Route 14. So it was Route 14, going to be consecutive, where it comes in the state of Vermont all the way to the northern border. So you get out north, are you, 107,481, that's what I don't know, you know, how they can, yeah, at this point, there's nothing meant, in some earlier emails from the E9111, they said that we're not required to do anything at this point, but they just don't recommend it. So all the time and effort that Kelly put in and all of that stuff, how did that all come to pass? What triggered all that happened? Well, I would think you would have been involved in any of the discussions. So we had the incident out there where, in Royals, they couldn't find any of this. And she got an email from this guy from the state, from the E9111, he's our kind of coordinator, he worked with all five to make sure we're numbering correctly and all that. Saying that there was this issue and we need to re-number, Royals is going to be re-numbering, so we need to re-number to make it work. So we just kind of went with that, oh okay, but we're required to do this, while the law sign letters and all that work. And then we got an email from them that said, well, I think Kelly actually sent an email saying, are we sure we have to do this or are we required to do this? We were getting a little bit of a pushback. And then we got the email that said, you're not required to do it by any means, but we just recommend that you do it because it makes it easier for response. And that's what we've heard it really thinking about, this is even more of a plus of that time, we'd sent out that second letter saying this is going to happen. And we have 16, I think there's 16 addresses and we have eight or nine people that call us, so more than half the people of their response could play and that was significant issues that they had to work with here to get this fixed, because of their address change. So that's what we've heard it thinking, well, is it's really worth doing this. And then you get your email yesterday, I just saw yesterday, with all the yellow line, which shows 14 rows in town, but they're recommending that we re-number them all. So we're a little hesitant to pull the trigger on this because do we want to set that rest then happiness throughout town? It's not mandated, you know, if it ever becomes mandated then we'll do it. But at this point, we're just a little worried about setting that example and then talking with the chief, he doesn't have an issue with the way it's working now. We have an issue with the way it's working now. No, it's, you know, like the fireman called us since I was talking about it. When someone calls 911, we're a state dispatch. Both battle firemen were around. They have 911 mapping on the computer system and they knew they saw that the call was coming from fireman. You know, even though it's about a lattice and they're saying, well, this person's saying battle. And then instantly everybody was on radio saying it is fireman. You know, and Royalton uses Hartford dispatch, which they do a great job too. And, you know, what it really, again, I think falls back to is everybody's got to be more proactive on putting your 911 signs out. Now, I live on Gilead Brook. That's a Randolph mailing address. I carry a P.O. box of battle and that must make me even more confusing. As long as I've lived on Gilead, I've never seen anybody from Randolph call Randolph fire for a call up there. Where is it in? Pleasant Street and Battle goes all the way to the town line. They have a Randolph mailing address from Gilead North but there's also a Pleasant Street and Randolph. So, you know, it's just, I think until the state actually says, okay, what are we going to do? You know, I don't, I'm hesitant to change anything. It's not a process. It's a road, don't fix it. Right. And I would say I really was hoping that the state was going to have a representative here tonight to maybe shed some light in different directions. I think the way that I see it really is, you know, too pronged. If we're comfortable with the way our system is currently, and we feel like no single person is going to be left out on an emergency call and we're not being mandated by the state to do it, then we shouldn't, you know, no sense of fixing something that's not broken. It just seemed like to me when this was presented to us a month or two ago, that it was kind of like something we had to do. Like, you know, so it was kind of more like, you know, we have to do this and it kind of went by the board. So then I was a little taken back when I started seeing all the emails because I was thinking, well, we all knew there would be some people that would be unhappy, but this was something that had to be done so they're just going to have to live with it, but. And that was the impression we had originally. Right, and then when Mike went in to talk, I didn't know about it until lately. I didn't even know that it had come forward or anything until I started getting feedback from residents like that was my, I created a problem or something. And so that's why I went in and saw Calis and what's this all about. So she wrote a letter, her and I sat there and she wrote an email right back to Tyler. He wrote back pretty quick and said, well, you don't have to do anything. So we have North Road and then we have the other roads that was 13 miles. There's more that they're recommending to do. At this point, you know, those likely, what they kept giving for a reason was they kept saying it was the fire department. They said, well, what are you going to do if someone from Byron who lives on 6th North Road in Byron calls the fire department and they tone out that because they're reading their mail and saying that when you get into the what is that the beauty part is that the environment around the same one, you know, there's fire in every way. I think if someone saw there was a fire under their station, but the moralist too was 911 dispatch immediately gets the, comes up with their map. They know the fire is in Byron. So, you know, it's never been an issue for us. It never has. In modern times not changing anything. There are these things that they have. Right, Byron is, you know, and the way they say it works is South to North. So, if they're going to read your team, or else you're going to tell the officers they've got a plane called here and they're weird. That's my biggest hesitation is there's no precedent set. And it seems to be the fire department's never had an issue with so much as the medical. And in the medical world, there's so few roles anymore at work. You know, it's all helped and it's hired. But they do a pretty decent job. So I stopped and saw Matt Harris today who runs White River Valley. And he said he's totally fine with the way it is today. You know, they've had their mishaps before. They got called Mutual Aid to Royalton up on North Road to Russo. And that's a confusing one because Russo Road actually crosses North Road, which is kind of unprecedented. Usually when it crosses another road, they change the name. So what Royalton did was, if you look at the signs up there, now they actually put the 911 sequence numbers one way and the other. So you get a feeling of which way you're going. But I still say it's right back to signage. It's the number one thing. It's, you know. Well, I mean, I guess my two cents on the matter would be one, you know, it sounds like your department feels very comfortable with the system that's in place currently. The enemy, I mean, it's solely because words that's Mutual Aid. But we're also Mutual Aid with Royalton. You know, when they have a fire call on North Road in Royalton, they told us instantly because they know we'll get there before they do. I would just make the recommendation that, you know, right now the roads that we have in question, that we make sure that we understand each one of those roads and maybe talk with your counterparts on making sure that we have those gray areas covered if something did happen for now. I mean, I think that was... Which I know we have done. You know, they consider it to be like, you know where Halvin Road is and that one. It's right on top of Matt and Tosh Hill and over the other side. And it's a, I think there's two houses out there, maybe three now, that, so they change the airport name on it, once you have three houses you have to have a name for the street. Well, that connects through to Brainshire via the class four road that's totally impassable. And that is one of the roads that came up. You know, how do you sequentially do that? You know, because at Alvin Road, a brain tree doesn't pick up for probably another eight miles because there's nothing in between. Is there also something that we can do at the town level maybe... People can order their 911 signs for five bucks. Kelly orders them. Well, I was just thinking if maybe there was something we could do on, you know, maybe for now, just on those roads in question, on some sort of mailer, you know, making sure that they have, rather than having a representation from the town, go around all these roads and look to see if they have their address correct out there. Maybe if we had some sort of mailer we could send out to them. Well, I would suggest to say if you haven't, let's make sure that you have those. Yes, you did. Okay. Because you are responsible for your 911 sign. Right. If you don't have your 911 sign on, if you have a medical call or a fire call. Right. You know, everybody does the best they can. So we've been pretty proactive of that over the years and it's still a toughie. Right. But, you know, I'm just gonna say, if anybody, if any town's gonna invest a little bit of time, it should be a design that's not in redoing three quarters of the roads. So at this point we're gonna leave things the way it is, unless we hear otherwise from the state. Greg? Less than a minute at this point, yeah. If they be indicated, the entire state just gonna have to go through this. It's not just about them. It's every single town that has a connecting road with different names. There's all of a sudden gonna be under scrutiny. And it's a little frustrating to believe the way you come over the roads are they follow the record, the recordation of the state in the back of it. And we didn't. So now they're saying that's wrong, you know, remember them. And it's interesting, like I was telling you about Fish Hill, which starts over at zero at the far, when you go into that. Yet, some of the other roads, like Spooner Hill road, if you know what that is, when you come to the end of Spooner Hill road, that's back to Bethel again, but they made those numbers sequential. I don't know who did it back then or why. Right. Well, now once this one came through in what the early 90s are, that one came in the early 90s and they changed all those numbers. Okay, I mean, I would just say at this point, let's just make sure that we have, you know, we've touched base with our counterparts in the other towns to make sure that we, you know, like for instance, if Royalton is moving forward with renumbering theirs, let's make sure that we know what they're doing as well as those roads that we have in question. And the topic is they're pulling in the U.S. Postal Service into this, which had nothing to do with 911 to start with. Right. And now if you're saying that the way the rural mail delivery goes, it's gonna have precedence on how your 911 address goes, I don't think how you can make that work or at this stage as crazy as it is. Well, if we could do something in the town report or some kind of a reminder flyer, I assume everybody has gotten a 911 sign at some point. And there's so any new housing that's been built. Yeah, and we can also re-grade the visitors that they do to check and make sure that that has been put up. We already have a page designator assigned in town report, they're actually working on for this. Okay. Or half page, I don't know how big it is, but it's in there, it's in there. Sounds good. Any further discussion from the board? All right, well thank you. Thanks. Thank you for your voice. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know, I'm sorry. Caspo. I was interested in the program because I was interested in the relationship between 911 and the postal service. And why did the postal service become one instead of before it was like that? Right, and then that's what's crazy about it, technically with the US Postal Service rural delivery, for our numbers, there's a duplicate environment. But it's the postal service, it's not 911. All 911 addresses are done correctly with the way 911 was set up for a door tap. The red and the white letters, yeah. So I think at this point, taking the page in the town report or maybe even doubling that up with a mail or something, like what he has there. What was it saying in the town report? It's just to reiterate the need for everybody to have their 911 signs posted so that whenever, yeah, so that when the first responders have to get there, they can find a place. Just a reminder for the, yeah, for the property owners on their responsibility to have their number located. And it'll say it under a building in the town so you can get them through us and just make sure they're posted. That's kind of what it's about. Yep. So we're gonna, I guess, sounds a little bit like we're gonna keep the number in the way, doesn't it? It's for us. Okay. Right, that's right. All right, we'll have a good evening. All right. Good evening. Have a good night. We are starting our first discussion for the coming budget season. And as usual, we kick it off at that time. So, you wanna take us through the trees? Well, I can just tell you I flex a couple of things. One is increasing your care. You know, I guess I just wanna start with a general applies statement about it. So first of all, the audit that we're going through right now, the expenses that could be controlled or controlled. You know, but what happens is when you have personnel that's been here for a while and see Jean Burnham retired, Pam came in, they were laughing for a little while. I came in, I'm not sure if my salary and or my health are sure. So it's certainly something that I'm taking into consideration for budgeting now is if you have someone who may or may not be retiring, you're gonna budget for that lead time. That way, if you don't use it, it stays there and it'll go to your undesignated fund balance, hopefully creating a surplus. So that's a big thing. And but there's always talk in every town about level funding. Obviously I've said repeatedly, I'm against that. There's certain things we can't cut anymore. You know, your electricity, you know, phone, things like that that are very difficult to control. There's not a huge part of the budget that you really can control. And Dave certainly knows that from schools. So what we also need to remember is we're budgeting 18 months out. So I don't know about you, but my crystal ball is a little bit, you know, rocky and a little bit cloudy. So what you wanna keep in mind is the fact that if the wheels come off the bus at some point that you have, a little bit of my distance in there doesn't mean it's gonna be spent just like we budget for salary increase. Doesn't mean someone's gonna get it, it just means we budget for it. So I guess what I'm saying is I want you to really think about that when you're moving forward, you know, through the budgeting process. Obviously we're not gonna bring another 10% increase to the voters, you know, like we did last year, but that was, we had to clean up that loan. You had some issues that we had to take care of. The other thing is I'm not sure certainly people, there are people who feel that the budgets maybe in the past weren't managed properly. Well, it's also because they weren't budgeted enough money. And I do think that it's going to take another year or so before we really know what it's gonna take to get the services that the voters want, whether it's roads, whether it's whatever. The other thing is too, everything that was left is in disrepair or it's broken or it's, you know, your water system is almost, it's more than half appreciated and this obviously needs a lot of work. Highway equipment is the same way. So it's not like the budgets were overspent and you were left in this really great situation. We're not. So, you know, I just want to be very bluntly clear about this moving forward that we will, you know, we need to present a realistic budget to the voters because I think by trying to level fund we've kicked every can down the road and then, you know, that's where we're at. So obviously we're, you know, really looking at that and we need to budget some in. You can certainly cut it in the end. It's your budget to bring with the voters but I just kind of wanted to say, this is where we're at. You know, we find any really great pots of money or anything like that. So that's one of the reasons that we increased the repairs, parts and tires lines from 41,000 last year to 50, trying to hold equipment longer. Plus it's, you know, poor Allen has, you know, had a lot of repairs and Brad could certainly speak to that. The other thing included in this budget is we know renting of a roadside mower, which is something that we, you know, we've been able to borrow sometimes from other towns but that's kind of tricky. Allen needed some more basic tools so we increased that line. The debt financing is down a little bit from last year. Like I said, it was going to be because we had that free. So the budget we have, we're looking at, this is a 5.14%. But the other discussion that you have to have here and I think this is Chris's and Greg is going to talk about this is, oh, we still budgeted for that 110,000 for highway rehabilitation. But I really think that that needs to come out of here and it needs to be, you need to do a two-part vote at town meeting and start a capital roads budget and then put this 110 in there because if you don't spend this 110,000 by June, it goes into the undesignated fund balance. So, you know, it's nice to have capital funds so that you can, you know, expense that money in and out or grants or whatever. So. No, and I'm not sure you wouldn't open session. I wasn't sure. Well, I don't know anything. Yeah, so I don't know. You can avoid it. Yeah. Yeah, right. Exactly. So then you can read the notes. I think you've got notes on the side, but certainly Greg, there's more. Question for you, trees. The, the 780 hours for Doug first. We should talk about that in the session. Well, we're discussing the budget, aren't we? So. Well, just the lead time. I'm not asking about his personal stuff. I'm just asking about that. No, I'm just saying that it's the same if you thought you had someone who may, you know, in any department, if you had anybody who you thought may retire or more. Right. If I could, if I could finish, I think I'd asked at some point in time about that a long time ago about when we had those big. Right. We had several that happened all at once. And the theory was that the money was actually there. Somewhere. Right. That was my. In theory, it was, it was taken out on a regular basis as time progressed. Yeah. All right. That's what I'm asking. That was an expense that we had not, well, that wasn't budgeted for. Well, my question, I thought it was because I thought it was looked into the accrued, you know, because we accrue what we, it's a bunch of. Right, right. But I guess it was not paid for only. It wasn't actually the cash, so. But that was fine. It was never really there. Yeah. Okay. That's what I was asking. Yeah, exactly. I was suggesting that we, that we budget for that. And of course you're never going to hit it. It's right, but in hopes that we can. Yeah. Yeah. The other thing that once someday when the federal has an unblessed being of fund balance, I know when Fred Diplissi's of Sullivan and Powers was here last year, he did recommend that we, you know, maybe set aside some of that for that reason, which would be nice. And then he wouldn't be showing those sorts of things in the budget. Mm-hmm. So I have a divergent question, but I don't want to leave this. No, no, I'm all set. No, I just, I wasn't concerned about doing dog, but I was just concerned about the concept. Slowly. So your recommendation about the $110,000 for the highway rehabilitation and sort of breaking that out and putting it into more of a capital fund. So two-part question. One is, would that be specific to public works? Yes. It would be capital fund for public works. And would that then cover things like when Greg comes to us saying, okay, we need new winter tires or the snowblowers? So that's not for the second- So the original thing we used for that line at the institute, we have a capital plan for fixing the roads, paved roads. We have an paved road plan, we don't necessarily have a capital plan at this point, but we have a capital, we have a paved road plan that was done through the study that we had done. And when they approved that fund, that was to fund those improvements on a yearly basis, not to collect those dollars and do those improvements as we had the funds bill. It was to do each one kind of a lot of time. So what we're proposing is that we take that out and it becomes a capital fund, which then any unused, any that's unspent gets carried over to the next year. So we can then do a capital plan, a long-range capital plan that'll tell us how we need to save or where we need to spend to make certain things happen. That never happened. It was just putting it as a line-hand instead of an actual fund that would be carried over. And then he wrote this in January. Yeah, sure, we could do it in a way that we would want those 10 per day. It would still be for the same purpose, in a sense, it's just held differently. The actuals. We already have a highway equipment fund. And then basically, you really don't want to take anything out of the capital fund. It's less than five grants and they'd appreciate it. But you do have a capital equipment fund. That's the perfect solution. You have equipment and you have roads and you know, fire has one. That's kind of the nice way to do it because then that money is always there because say you can't, you know, if I'm in a good place straight out, you know, you can't get them here by June, but they can come in October. You just said goodbye to a big chunk of change. And it just went into the- Well, and the roadmap is already there. But the way in which we fund it is not correct because for instance, Greg and I, you know, if you look at the capital plan that we have, you know, we're supposed to, this past year is supposed to fund it at like 110,000 and then next year it's supposed to be at like 160,000. Well, we had thought about not doing it. Well, there was a few things that we got ahead on. So we decided to instead of doing 110, the budgets that we're in now that maybe we would only do half of that and save. But what we found out is if we don't spend it inside that year, it doesn't carry over. So a lot of people actually have a fund for it. It goes back into the undexinated fund and we can't use it. So where did the 110 come from? Where did that number come from? It was a recommendation in- From that long-range plan. From the long-range plan. It'll show it. This is for doing like Sand Hill, for example. I think it was one of the long-term- Multiple runs. Yeah. The study covers all the paper that we took down. Yeah. But to your point, I'm taking like tiders and stuff out. What we're trying to do is make sure that the operation budget incorporates all those expenses. So we're not asking you for $2,000 right now. Okay. And that was sort of where I was going to do this. That's why we're trying to fund the rest of this budget correctly. It sounded like that was the direction it was going, but I was just trying to clarify how we were getting there. I think I'm following. So not only do we have to take that, we need to move that into its own fund, but we need to also re-look at it to see what that number is supposed to be. Yeah, I didn't think that entire capital plan that I did, it's not set in stone. And that's what's nice about it. It's a roadmap that it can change. The study recommends a certain sequence. I don't agree with the sequencing. I don't think you agree with the sequencing that they recommended. We can all go through that. We can go through a capital plan, look at that study and go, well maybe we do this roadmap and skip a year and do this roadmap and this roadmap. And that shows us how our funding's going to work out. And we're not losing that money at the end of the year. We don't spend it because Mike can't get here until August 1st. Nice thing is to then have to get a payday and bring it to the match, it's outside. And I used one of 10 this time, Chris, because that was what was in town report budgeted for next year. So, or the year where it's open. It also works better with grants when we get grants. Oh yeah, because it's nice if you have a payday and you don't have that. All of a sudden, what was going to be a shim coat now could be maybe you reclaim, do some reclamation and you're all of a sudden in it or you could go further or whatever. Or a lot of times with your grants when you get them, you have almost two years to use them. Exactly. But if you're only inside your budgeting season, you have to use it within that time. And when you're writing a grant, they want to see that you have a capital plan. You've got a fund, you've got money there available with that. But that 110 is raised by taxes. Absolutely, it stays in the budget because you will have to appropriate it out. You don't have to be voted on separately. So the 110 stays in the budget just is going to, instead of being used as an expense, it's going to be appropriated out just like you did in the high way. So again, every... To create it into the fund. Exactly, it would be a one-time vote accounting to create the fund, then a second part to fund it, and then in the future, people will just see the money in there and know that it's in the fund. In the fund, yeah. But I'm not sure what I would call it. I'm not sure what I would call it. Oh, yes. All right. You know, there's nothing, not a whole lot here that's a really large change. If there's any questions I can definitely answer them for you. But, you know, we did raise the tools like Theresa talked about. Alan's company multiple times said we don't have... We don't have sockets. We don't have anything. We don't have anything broken or non-existent. So he wouldn't need somebody just to go buy some basic tools. And then, yeah, this is a... What was 50? I don't know. This is a 15% increase in price per ton for salt. Yeah. And last year was a big year. And so, you know, some of that stuff depends really just whether or not you're gonna... Yeah, we got a better than state bid price on the salt this year. And it's still a 15% increase. And that's better than the state bid. This is crazy. Now, Greg, I have to pay this lovely... Would you love the state permit about the road? Yeah, it's a... So there's a storm water permit now that we have to have every year. And it's basically a fund mechanism. You don't need to worry about it. It's a fund mechanism, not a state, basically. But they're gonna... It's a storm water permit that we have to have. So there's no question of that. So that's an addition of like $1,300 to the budget under permits. The other thing we did this year was last year I'd only funded 70% of our HRA liability because I wasn't really sure how that was gonna go in Bethel because the town with Bethel pays half of the deductible and it goes on the card and you use that first. But we're gonna... Looks, people go through it. So we're gonna fund 100% of the HRA liability this time just because I didn't know how Bethel done it. I've done it in the past by only budgeting a portion of it. But that looks like that most people go through it. So we're gonna budget all of the HRA liability now. So there's also a change there in health insurance into the same thing that we did last year was say, I know what to base the budget on for the first six months of health insurance. The next six months I'm gonna do a 10% increase discuss. We made out okay this year, but you never know. So that's kind of the way we're gonna do that same scenario because we know the number for six months but we don't know the number for the next six. So that's where we're gonna do that. And then the other side over, we borrowed a neighboring town somewhere this year and it's probably not an issue with that at all. They had no issue with us doing it but I wanna just make sure that if they say no that we still have to be able to do it, we'll get that no more. We're gonna look into purchasing them all. Yeah, I mean that's the only way to look at our capital plan as a whole other volume. So back to the 110 again, I don't wanna beat a death bar. I just, I'm just curious. So if that 110 is the concept there, well if we only utilize, we'll put that aside and if we only utilize 60 of it let's say so that the other 50 is kind of building a fund towards when the big kahuna hits and we need that money because that's, every $19,000 is depending on the. That's true, but I mean, and I'm sure. That's the intention. That's why I'm gonna get asked. I mean that's the thing. About 81 miles of road in Bethel. So the fact that you always will have a road project going is I can't imagine a summer you don't, is that like the culvert lining up on. It's favorite. Oh it's not all roads. It's paid to us. But you can make it, whatever you want to ask. When we take this to the road, we can make the plan for everything. I'll get to ask that. The highway, we don't take money out of it every year. We may just buy it, you know, put it in, whatever you put 100 into it and we only take 30. And we have this small range of plants that says okay, you carry that over and you carry this over and you spend this a little bit. That carries over and you just have this long term plan that's the whole idea with us. We can't do that now because that one team goes late. So there is no plan. And being how critical our budgets have been here, you know, we want to try to get out of the peeps and valleys of budgeting up and down. You know, because if you look at the funding mechanism for the capital projects, for paved projects, you know, if you follow it, it's, you know, 110 one year, then 160 the next year, then 120 and then 200, you know, it's like up and down. So if we can find that happy medium, that way we can consistently, and then we can move that money over, which we thought we could do until we found out this year. You know, you probably don't have to set, you don't say it's 100,000 for the next 10 years. As we do our planning, we see that our needs first to lower whenever we can, we can taper it down. Or up. Or up. Yeah. It's whatever it is. We have to really establish that plan and figure out how the funding works. It's the same thing you do with highway equipment. Exactly. If you fire equipment once you stop making your payments, then that money will go in there and hold. The whole book of capital funds is obviously that you're not borrowing money, is that you have enough by the time you trade in something and you have enough safe that you can purchase it outright. So you're not, you know, increasing your debt load. So, not that I want to go through every line, Adam. However. Too late. However. I wouldn't just kind of like to go through this kind of in order. You know, we don't have to go through every line on them, but maybe just take it by each section and talk about a few of them. On the public works personnel section. Well, let me back up. So overall, this proposal versus last year, it's $55,000 higher for the public works. Overall. So, you know, currently right now, I mean, we're looking at, you know, almost three cents on the tax rate just for that one department. They don't, you know, we don't know. Keep in mind is once you throw this into the rest of the budget, how other budget load. I don't obviously have this as an offset by any revenue yet because you will get state highway aid. So there's some things that will reduce that. And I completely agree with Therese, you know, one of the major issues that we had in this town was the every year we budget for $5,000. However, every year it runs over by $10,000. And it was easy to bring to the taxpayers to get approval on, but, you know, we ate it in the long run. So, I mean, we definitely obviously have to have a realistic budget, but I think we also at the same time need to look at our needs and wants a little bit too. I can tell you Chris, the retirement portion went up, the state upped it, I think you were at 10.66 and I heard 11.7, so the town's match for the retirement went up, that's just recently. I actually couldn't go back. That's state mandated, you said that's a state mandate? Yeah, the state, because we're part of the state retirement system, they have to just tell you what's going to happen. I mean, unfortunately, you know, under the public works personnel section, there's really not much that we can do with that. You know, I'm a majority, well, some of that is the buyout of retiring, you know, type people, and then the increases in healthcare, which we have to deal with every year. However, if you kind of, if we look through some of these, a couple that kind of caught my eye first was, obviously I had the repairs parts and tires that went from $41,000 to $50,000 in this proposed budget. You know, and then just kind of looking through the three year history, it's about a $47,000 average. Yeah, because in 1617, yeah, you weren't 53, it was 46 in there still. So I just kind of, my notes anyways, was just kind of, I had written, you know, maybe we could bring that down to $45,000. We have the garage building supplies line, which it seems like every single year we have missed that one. So I guess the first question is, what is the real number there? And because like, you know, are we really, do we really have our finger on what that line item represents? Or is it just, are we just throwing bad money into? Well, we went for all the detail, you know, Alan, you know, we have all the detail of the budget and we talked about it for him, you know, it's, it's. Because every year that one's that. It can be supplies, like he was telling Greg and I, it can be small tools, it's paper towels, it's toilet paper, it's all stuff. It's a little bit of everything, right? Yeah, it is. It's also a general place still. And you know, if you need, you know, whatever it's fire extinguishers, obviously those, there's code for that. So it is kind of a. But it just looks like it looked like that was one that was always kind of had a control. Maybe because nobody was really looking at it, but you know, almost every year, except for one, it was off by 25, 30% every year. And then one year it was off by 100%. And then however, if you kind of, I don't know how, you know, how accurate the actual is for this year, that's here. But it looks like it's being managed pretty well. Yeah, well, we budgeted 8,500 and it's at 25 and change. So it seems like maybe because we have the finger on the pulse now, maybe it's being managed better. So my thought on that was, you know, our current budget season's 8,500 looks like it's being managed pretty well. Do we really need to bring it up to 12, three? I mean, just remember every $1,000 here and $1,000 there we find, you know. You find 18 of them, it adds up to a penny. So the other one I looked at was that seemed to be one that's always been severely under budget, which then I have a question mark is the uniforms. So every single year, uniforms is almost doubled. Well, Greg's next to my dad. So I don't, well, $1,000, $5,000 for the last year. It was, you both. Well, I'm just saying in the past, it's always been doubled. Well, as you guys, it was, I don't know why, because you've had a uniform that was doing your uniforms rigging up. So they're gone and we now buy our own uniforms. So we're good. That's why we cut it from $10,000 to $5,000. So I was just curious if the $5,000 in that case was, was it accurate enough to be accurate. So that, so many trends showed that we were. Yeah, each employee gets a stipend. I know that was a lot of each employee, and plus it leaves a little bit of a don't prefer things that they should be buying, you know, like rain gear or things like that, that should, maybe the taution of buying for them. So the reason why it was trending, the internet actually gives you that uniform first. And they were under contractual agreement with them for a lot of years, like 30 years actually. And there was a buyout at the end of last year, which is why this is the little line. But an hour at that $5,000, that's a steady number. That won't be over the standard. That actually should be understood because the amount of each guy's gaming comes up to roughly half, I think, of that $5,000. And it's plenty for them to get boots and pants and shirts and all that. Is there a reason that diesel is budgeted so high, but isn't that, is it just to- They give you two shittings a year. So it's really just a matter of time. You're looking at just one, or one day one shittin'. It's a daily, yeah, I think it's two, right? Yeah, I think it's one. I also do the fire and the constable would pull out of there too, so it depends on what you call it. Fire makes, and then what happens is I build a constable budget and I build a fire department, so then you put that money in. So some of that is off, so yeah. Constable doesn't use diesel a little bit. Well, he gets built for just gas, so they feel that they have up there, so. It is not, I mean, you're substantially under, you get $55,000 there, you know, $17,000, it was a $34,000, and $29,000, and $16,000, $17,000. Right, it's hard to know what diesels, it doesn't do anything, what, you know. It's gone up to $15,000, because it just buffered in in case prices. Right, yeah. We dropped the $5,000 last year, but you gotta, I think, see how things go. Yeah. And it looks like right now we're on track for about $42,000, if you carry out what we've used versus the rest of the year. Yeah. I mean, that just might be one that, you know, do we, does that $50,000 become a $45,000, you know, like. Yeah, but do we, if I put the price of diesel's gonna be in the next, it could be. If I knew that, if I knew that I would not be here. Well, if we're buying it all from the same place, then we shouldn't be able to lock in at some point, shouldn't we? I mean, maybe I'm, I guess usually, I don't know how I'm gonna show this. I think it would be a good deal for them, I mean, I could see the oil has dealt with them for years, and they just, we can bid out diesel, we can bid out on heating and stuff, but it's, you know, I just wanna say it's best if you have a hard winter, you know, how it's gonna go. The other thing is to, it's never bad to leave a little bit, just in case something breaks and you're overspent on something, and there's a little bit of cushion to save your bottom line, but, I don't know. That's the part, about the 18 months out, you know, that's a bit of a pain in the neck, isn't it? So on materials, anybody have anything else? I got a couple questions, but you were too busy. Go for it, David. The phone, $3685 a year for the telephone, what else is going on with that? So they have telephone, they have internet, there's a cell phone, and they also have... Pages, right? Security cameras. Is it a pager? Pagers, no. Is that part of the, that's a different thing? I don't know if they're, let me see what it says, telephone. Do they have other communications? He's like being called in. Well they have one pager, Morgan has a pager. Yeah. Communication system on their, what, when it's several, five, and ten, that's what it is. So that's what the telephone is, it's internet, telephone, cell phone, and I think they have a special connection, you know, because of their securities, this one. Really? This is just, because I don't know, the 100% of their HRA level, why, why, why that 100%? Just because I, I budgeted 70% last year, because I wasn't sure, obviously wasn't, wasn't sure how I've worked in Bethlehem since I was new, and just seeing that people are using, so instead of what I was funding was just 70% of it, in hopes that not all employees were, were using all of their HRA, because sometimes they don't, and so you have, you know, you can budget it a little bit of the liability, but they are using it, so it just makes sense to have, to cover 100% of it, I just really didn't have many people who weren't using it. Insurance is expensive. I understand, that was, I spent six months negotiating insurance. I love my questions, but we only budgeted 25% of it. Yeah, I only budgeted 70%, and, but, but you know, it's the, what, how it works here, is that the deductible, you use the card first, so we, Bethlehem front-loads our share, then once the employee goes through that, then they have to go through their share, so because it's front-loaded, most of it, you know, when people end up using it, so. See, we, they pay first dollar. Oh, see, in here, they pay down pay first dollar, so that's, We had a special formula in there, they had to pay first dollar. Yeah, no, that's the way it works here, so. Yeah, okay, I just, I just wanted to understand. No, of course, that makes total sense. Anything else on the first page? I mean, granted, we can come back to this, you know, once we start seeing some of the other section. It's good to identify some of those spots to look at. But, you know, these are areas that we can. Well, I just wanted to mention that, you know, I've used the word level fund it around, and I understand the concepts, how the whole thing works, and it's never, my thought, though, is if we never set a target of level funded or close as we can, and just look at all these individual items, realizing that every 19,000 is a penny, then it'll never come to pass. It will, and in the past, I've heard, well, it's okay, we can bump it up 3%, we can bump it up 5%, last year we hit people pretty hard in both the sewer and water and the taxes. So I think, and it's really impacting, we're hearing it all the time, how it's impacting the folks on social security and the elderly and all that. So I just think, when I use that term, I just, I think more of the concept of, you know, 3%, well, 3% is not good enough. Can we get it to two and a half? Is there something we can do and just keep that in mind through the whole process? I think it's, you know, I think we've done that. I mean, not, you don't know what we've done. It seems to be a thousand percent better than it were. We're trying to level fund with an understated budget. No, I understand. I understand, you guys are up, you guys are doing, I mean, I see the bills every other week, you know? I mean, everybody is being how responsible for their expenditures and everybody's pulling it out. No, I think you're right. I think, yeah, obviously it can't be carte blanche. I mean, I think if you look at, you certainly look to, you know, my thinking is three to five being on the outside. And like I said, it's obviously, you know, we're now going back to the voters for another 10 and, but it may take, it may take, as I've said, you know, a year or two to figure out what your number is. And then it's really a lot easier to keep that, you know, 3% or less. So that you're kind of in that thing. And while I certainly feel bad, taxpayers must not forget that because they were a lot of fun to grow on time, it was, you know, there was that, which is unfortunate. I'm not saying that in a mean way. It's also too bad because whoever got away with a good, now the new people are paying for it. So I know, but everybody drank the Kool-Aid, you know? Exactly, you're right, Paul. You're rearranging the chairs on the Titanic. Yeah, I think it'll help you once you see the budget in totality, you know, to see, but, you know, every line I would need to feel forgot. I think a couple of budget seasons ago, we had established as a group at the time that if we wanted to go from the budget that wasn't very well put together to a absolute perfect budget where the town should be, you know, we had thrown together, like it would have to be an instant over the night increase of like 12%. Oh, sure. That was kind of what we were thinking. And I remember Carl and I talking and saying, you know, we're not gonna go 12% in one year. So how can we pick over the period of X amount of years to get to that? And then once we are at that level, and then we can control it and keep our, you know, more of a level funded budget. So that's why, and I think that's where that 3% came up is we were talking about, you know, how much do we think that the taxpayers could come up with over a period of small adjustments? Granted, now that we have, you know, our town budget, we had water, we had sewer, and we had all this long-term debt and things like that that all came at the same time. So they've been getting hit. And I think last year we were just under 3%. If you take the long-term debt, you know, I think we were at 2.7 or 8.7. But even that was kind of a guesstimate because it was the first real look at the, even the information that you guys had a long time ago probably was incomplete or maybe. We would look at the old budgets and see that. It was budget $5,000 and every year it went $12,000. And you know, why budget $5,000 or, you know, or who's watching it, you know? And I think, and we had talked about that after this, you know, when we get to July 1st of next year, we're at that point, we should have a pretty good handle of what it costs us to run the town. What we're looking for. So when we get into that, you know, 20, 21 budget that it should be, we should be online with. So a couple years of history. Well, you know, but. A good history. So let's talk materials. That's great. So we have, so we'll pick on salt first. We could see below a hundred. I mean. So we talked about that salt went, there was a 15% increase from last year. However, the budget was reflecting a 47% increase in salt. Yeah, well, we'll get last year. Well, we use over spend. Yeah. We use a lot of salt last year, but I think there were some instances where we use salt that maybe we didn't really need to use salt. You know, there was that. Remember we talked about last year at the board, that there was that kind of learning curve year and. 1617 was also over. So I just asked, you know, what, what, you know, if we did, if it was 15%, then you're probably talking more like $80,000 for that item, not $100,000, which is 1 cent on the tax rate, you know. The other one too is sand. And we have sand level funded at 35,000. However, we, we purchased more sand than normal. We did. Which we, I remember talking to, you know, that was the deal to take it. We took it. So here. So at this point, wouldn't we have a balance of. Well. When we have a surplus of sand at that point, if it's managed correctly. Depends on the water. That's the kind of thing you might want to have a little buffer on. No, but we, in the budget right now, we budgeted 35,000 for sand. We had an opportunity deal to take more sand and we did it. So in theory, we have a surplus. You were right. In theory, you're right. We have a surplus. You know, could we take advantage of that surplus? So, you know, when we cut that surplus out, just talking about it, so that, I mean, I don't think we need to cut anything tonight, but it's good to have this conversation so that once we get the whole budget together, we say we're at 6% and we need to cut something. You know, we know this, but maybe it's something great that you can look into and see, you know. Well, I think you're right. But again, what we're talking about, and you guys know better than I do, is you've lived here a long time. The variable here is 11, I mean it's just. The same last year went crazy with their sand. They laid down more and more salt. They wrote about it in millions of dollars on salt last year. It was just ridiculous here. If you wrote over budget on salt, you can always do the sand because we've got it. Right. Which is cheaper than salt. But what we're trying to do is, I don't think we have a bare roads policy, do we? We do not have a bare roads policy, but tell us. People forget that. We might do that in every town we go to. You know, we want a budget and not enough, but we also want to have, you know, not too much, of course, but it's tough out to answer to that. It's a lot of money. So I don't know. It's a lot of money. Well, the other thing too is, you know, Alan made a really good point. Alan, your highway, your road foreman, was saying to Greg and I, the other thing is, you know, you don't have a salt shed really that you can store. So if he had a salt shed that was bigger, he could be able to buy in the off season and fill it in the savings which can't, so that's certainly one of those things. For now, he can only take, you know, truck over to where Essec Avenue keep coming. So down the road, when you build that, you know, town fire and salt shed, you know, he's saying. Well, what's the shed that we have over there? What's in that shed? Oh, there's probably a whole 10 yards. It's just the one of the women out back there. He's actually gonna give his asphalt, he's got asphalt, a small shed too, that's probably 10 yards, maybe the most. He's trying to dump that out, but we don't know where he's gonna put more salt on there tonight, but. I mean. What we can look at is, look at the historic trends, quantify those, we'll get a number with that and actually 15% and see what that comes up with. I don't know if that's gonna, if that's gonna get us, because we're at 68, we're at 100,000, 86,000, and at 48,000, over three years. So that's 100, that's $200,000, 210, over three years. So, what is that? Seven. I can't even ask, sorry. Seven. Yeah, 15% of that. So that puts us at 85. 81. There you go. So just looking at those things. I mean, I, you know, you talked about the tools, that we need tools, obviously, but, you know. How can we best do that? I'm gonna have to bring you some home and work on that. Yeah, he said they need screwdrivers, he said we create, it's just crazy. He said the basic, just set tools that we actually just need. I don't know, I see it all the time. You know, a lug nut here, a whole wrench here, you know. You're crazy, yeah, you're right. What's the bridge material that $148,000 jumps right out? Bridge 33, no worries. That is a, that number is not, is not right. Should that be there? Right, but, so we have to pay you for the entire bridge up front. And then we get reimbursed with the stake. So it'll be a revenue offset. Yeah, partially, yes. That number goes down because we were funding that for the last couple years, waiting for that to happen. And that goes way back down. But that's overstated simply because of the grant that we got and the way that, we're gonna look at doing our grants a little differently so that they're fundamental. They show a little differently in the budget. So they're not shown in here as a huge expense, even though it reimburses kind of back and at all. At the end of the day it works itself out, but when we look at liners in the budget, it looks like it's really skewed. So we're gonna work on that. But that's what that is. That's part of the payment for the lily drill for the bridge that will be reimbursed. Was there any more grant money due to the miss reading? We maxed out on 75. So we're on the book or whatever is additional? Yeah, roughly 90,000 dollars. I have spoken with the engineering volume. I've only got a lot of anything back. You're saying, you know, I'm asking if they're gonna help us out with running as we get. And they understand that, but they haven't come back to me with any resemblance of any sort of financial. Well, it's a good thing we didn't do a lot on our Hiree rehab. Yeah, that's where it all came from. Because I pretty much plugged that whole thing. Yeah, yeah. It's a shame that, yeah. Well, I'm gonna be careful on that. Well, I mean, you have an engineer for a reason. You have to depend on their numbers and unfortunately, it's way too big to help you. Well, I'm just surprised they don't have an error in their mission or some kind of a clause that says, we screw up. And because they, I mean, they're engineering at the same time upfront, I messed up. I messed up with the calculations in my budget. Oops. And, but they haven't done anything yet. So we'll see where it goes. I mean, maybe we'll get some money now. Is it worth pursuing? Is it worth pursuing further? You won't get anything out of that. I mean, I don't want to pay for legal all that. I mean, that's not gonna get anything. Or you would, but it'd be cautious. It's a little bit common to like to get things right. Only there was a select board member that said son at that point. But you don't review the plans to look at your quantities. All right. So I mean, we can look at it all. We can definitely look at that. I mean, we were over because we, we felt, I mean, I talked to Alan, he felt that he was scraping where he thought he was scraping. Of course, he wasn't learning from there. But he was like, he said, we have spreaders on low. We're not done. Just the dumb. But it's hard to tell, you know, we don't know. Not that it, not that it made a huge thing, but I think we still had, I think McCullough was pulling material out there last year for the school. True. And Alan, you won't have, which you won't have. You shouldn't have any of that this year. Right. Because the school has their own contract. When Dylan was, When Dylan was loud, so we were under contract. There was sort of a contract in place. It really wasn't. It wasn't. That the town was glad with the salt and that stopped. And Alan, he was full of love there. Right. So that should, you know. Help with that. I mean, I'm kind of one of those, you know, I kind of like to look at the salt, gravel and sand, all those kind of one, one identity, you know, I mean, it's kind of like the way the state looks at their plowing and their paving is, they go through a really tough winter where they use a lot more salt than they don't do as much paving in the summer, you know. So, you know, if we go through a winter where we have a tough winter, then maybe we don't do as much gravel in the spring summer, you know. Or if we have a year where we don't have a lot of, use a lot of salt and sand, then we do a little more gravel on the roads or something. You know, I mean, it's kind of like, almost like those three items kind of go together. Unfortunately, the town is, while they're then remissed and taken care of, most of the else they also remissed and taken care of the gravel roads, there are several roads that they are grading leach. So, that tells me there's no gravel left on the road. So, we're hoping to reclaim some of the gravel, so we've got years and years of wind roads of good material on the edge of the road. So, Alan and my boys up there have built this contraction that's got like a blade hanging on it that will pull those wind roads back into the roadway. And a lot of food and vegetables have got everything because that, and they're trying to reclaim and take some of that, those years of gravels placed on that road and grade it off and bring it back into the road. And in hopes to save some of the gravel costs that we have down the road. We're hoping, we'll see about those, but that would help some, sure, there's, according to Alan, a lot of good material that's been stockpiled on the side of the roadway, through grade. And we're gonna stop the wind roads. So, we might see some savings there once we get into it. I think we're probably able to look for the mud season thing. So, that's the big question. What sort of a mud season are we gonna have and what's the route that we need for that? You know, I don't know, it's just, those three items, I agree with them, they're just, they're large ticket items for sure, but they're also the biggest question marks. Actually, you never know. Yeah, and a little fun at the end of the two, because they seem to be okay. Hoping to see a little bit of savings in the cemeteries, I'm actually gonna, that's all for maintenance in cemeteries. And I'm gonna put that up to this year for the knowing, the edging, and all that. And hoping to see some savings, I don't know. We're budgeting for the status quo, but there may be some savings there. I think it's good to talk about these items that, you know, I don't think we, again, I don't think we need to play with any of the numbers at this session, but it kind of gives Greg and trees a few things to think about when we're putting the whole, once we get the whole budget together and see, you know, because obviously there might be some departments that are less than last year, and some will be more and then we can kind of figure out what the healthy balance is at the end. In two weeks, you'll see fire, breakfast, constable. But typically you'll see, you'll definitely get firework in the constable in the next two weeks. But typically, you know, the public works one is what, 60% of the budget? Yeah. Like that. So, you know, it's a big, big piece. Yeah, it's a big chunk of it. So something, maybe this is something you could do, Teresa, but I like that Chris has sort of highlighted some areas that we could kind of come back to once we've seen the whole budget and talk about it. And I wonder if there's a way to denote that so that when we're starting to see the full budget together and it's, you know, a month or so from now, finding those spots in this older packet, if it's sort of denoted on the budget of an asterisk or something that indicates to us, hey, we talked about maybe coming back and looking, then when we're thinking through it on our own before coming to discuss, we've sort of already highlighted those spots that we're going to come back to. Yeah, I made a few notes on mine too. Okay. Yeah, it doesn't even have to be anything major, just a little, something that indicates to all of us that, hey, this is something we talked about in a meeting that we might look back at. Because I like that, Chris, I like that you were kind of bringing our attention to certain spots and I think that's helpful. And the top thing too is, you know, not that our cost is trending upwards because I think we just had budgets that just were not ideal or realistic. But our revenue, for the most part, typically trends in a little bit of a downward position. So you're, you know, you're going up on one and down on another. So that'll be a challenge. I mean, every time one of these, you know, a house comes off or a piece of property or something like that, that's revenue that we're losing in the town. So you've got to think about that as well. Any further discussions in regards to the public works? Portion of the budget? Small question, which probably has nothing to do with, well, it does because what happened with the budget for the highway, what the trust fund or budget of last year? I mean, considerably lower. Then we're budgeting for the basis of equipment. Would you add them all together for the $110,000? Because what happened is it was a lot of odd things that happened here. We were, you know, Bethel was transferring the $110,000 to the highway equipment fund. But what wasn't really open, like to disclose to the voters is you were using that money to pay loans back. So I thought what would look more transparent to the voters was if we actually showed the payments in your budget and then the difference is getting moved over. Because what happened in the quarter department was they're not budgeting that money to cover the payments. So that fund was in a shortfall. Well, they're budgeting enough. No, they weren't. Well, nobody, I mean, like going forward. No, I meant, you know, for their trust. Right. But they were all for our budget. But, so to me, it didn't seem, I felt it should be more transparent. So that's why. So I thought, yeah. And that's why. That's why. That's why. That's why. Exactly. So this way you can see that the wind, you know, how much is that. Water heater. You kind of see it. So this made me feel a little more comfortable because we really don't disclose too much about the fund. So I'm just saying that with fire. And if you have a plan that you do out from ADC, you'll see that. We do the same thing with fire. And like the fire department, we ended up slightly coming ahead on one piece of equipment there. So we'll save the fund off. Because at the end of next year, then that fund comes back into the positive rate. And then we'll get the leaders out of there. I can't, I doubt that. But that was due to the last piece of equipment that we had to get, that we had to figure out getting. Well, here was interesting too, because I've never seen it before. We're in a town. I actually bought two dump trucks at once. I've seen them, I've heard of it. So. Oh, now you've seen it? Yeah, I've seen it. I've seen it. Surprise. Usually I've seen it. I've seen it. But I'm bad. Surprise, surprise, surprise. I bought two and one spent half the time down. Yeah, I was like, wow. So that's why. And it's like, you can't say need fire, because, oh, he's working here. I really appreciate all the work that you folks put in on this, though. I mean, it's true. And you can clearly see that. You can clearly see the work that the department heads are putting in for these as well. Yeah, they do. Especially the pump policies. Yeah. They're no accountants, and whenever something's not right, three's giving them all away, so they figure it out. It works every time. But I just. Before, if I see something that looks. Yeah. Yeah. I have a question about it. I'm not shy about it, I ask you. No, it's good. And it's nice, too, Dave, because the department heads now call that even Dave Aldergetti comes in and codes firebills. So it makes sense they know they're buying and sweating it out, and they get budgets like you guys do. So it's good, and everybody's good. All right, we'll move on. Last time we had talked about the long-term debt, no, with Mascoma. We had talked about the 2025 and 2030 year. And we decided as a board that we would like to move forward with a 25-year melt. So this is the note in which Therese has put together with the bank. So we'll be looking for his motion to sign the change in terms of agreement resolution and tax certificate with Mascoma Bank for the $1,444,000. Well, no, for 25 years. We're the first 10 years at 3%. I so move. Lay down right out there, Maury. I so move. So this one here, change in terms agreement, that's going from 1.725 to the one before the reimbursement came in, the final reimbursement. Which is what we said here to do last year, telling me that we buy it down with the FEMA money, which we got over there, physically got all the way yet. But we finally settled FEMA. So that money, we have the first round of it, and the second round should be coming our way. So that's what we did, because we bought it down with that, which is what we said we would do. Did somebody second that one? So that again? OK. OK. Is this the guy who heard that? I was waiting. OK, no, that's fine. I just want to try that in the room. Thank you. OK, all in favor? All right. So the budgeted amount that we'll see in the budget will be the $82,945. Yep, and you'll see it. It's in the highway budget. Yeah, it's in the highway budget. Do you already have your copy in there? Are we good? Yeah, I laid a little bit more for the second round. And I didn't see it in the last page last night. That financing? Last year we budgeted $109. Oh, yeah, I got it. Well, the other big thing is, too, because we budgeted $109, I would say, we budgeted for payment. So I was also able to take that money, payment, plus the FEMA, and put all that down on it. So it helped us buy it down a little bit. I think there's three patents or four, I can't remember, in this ham, obviously, at the time. We used to have an N over N, or something like that. Leave me on here. You're a better ass. What's that? It's all mine and me. I've been called off a lot. Yeah, he did. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm blind. We can sign the zones. Here you are. They've got FAM in here, but not the FAM. Is that four board members? Yeah, four board members and treasury. It's OK, Dave, we still like you. Yeah, just write your name, sign it, and write your print. Sign below the walls here. And then you get the other tabs there. I'm sorry. I didn't even catch that. I read all of them. I didn't even have stuff to ask you. Have you made your hiccups with anything with getting the plows out a little early today, or everything? No. Run? No, I don't think we've received any complaints at all. I went to... Well, the first time on Friday night, or I should say 3.30 Saturday morning, they could have waited an hour out. Because them babies are loud the first time over the road. Yeah, I might do my new puppy doll, but he's not puppy anymore. At least he likes the sound of it. So he barks, and barks, and barks, and you kind of make him laugh. I'll wait. Once you get a snow road, you'll never hear it from him. No, I tell you what, Friday night, I heard him when he came off the car, which is a mountain which is 7 tenths of a mile away. Yeah, see I'm on my favorite road, so I heard it. My dog hears no way to talk a little bit, when they're driving by. They don't even have to be on my foot, but he's barking. That's good. Yeah, not 4 or 5 o'clock. What are you supposed to get up on? No, I think they went pretty well. We had a little hiccup of a plow, and we got a run-in, we got a go-in, and it ran good all day. So he used that to pull the load on the tractor, and we saw how the load goes out. Yeah, it came down through town, and it was hung, it looked like it hung up on the curb with the door open and nobody around. Oh really? At the top of Pleasant Street. At the church school. They had a share bowl, and they had to work on it or something. And is the downtown unit all put together now? For? On my book, yeah. Pick up truck and plow and all that stuff. Everything's all set there. We're still in the process of purchasing the piece of equipment. Now there's some weeds in the head again, and I've got the weeds in this all good. I think it's ready to go. I don't think the weeds will have the spray line around the bed. What you tried, she can't do it. As far as the plowing, it's all really great. Doug didn't get his wing on? Huh? Doug didn't have his wing on. I don't know why he didn't have his wing on. And now, on this on his, his head always blew up. So he scored one from the local parts of the area. Hopefully we get that in soon. Good. That was the way of the issue they had. Not much snow here, of course. Huh? I'm wondering about the pieces up tonight. The trees up tonight. We're going to make our way to the community the rest of the main street, and see how the piece of equipment is. I know it's the abandoned cars in there. And the parking lot. No, no, no. It's over at S&S Auto. There's 40 other ones. Look at that. It's only 40. Is that my outlaw, boys? Yeah. How about that later? The other one's going on. All right. We will move on. The next piece we had was the sewer use ordinance. Yeah, so these are the this is the water sewer ordinance that I brought out of the water ordinance to you at the last meeting. And there were a couple of revisions that we had to it. And you had asked me to put together the sewer. So that's what these are. The final versions of the two ordinance changes. So it's really cleaning up some of the the vacancy rates that we kind of did talk about. And what it does is basically says that regardless of what type of property it is if the property is completely unoccupied and we if it's completely unoccupied it needs to be put onto the vacancy rate. That's the option which we will exercise. We shut the water off. Along with that, it also cleans up the vacancy rate on the second page. It originally just said vacancy rate of $18.80 for the water and whatever it was for sewer. $120.70 and it didn't really stipulated that man how that was calculated or if that was just a fixed rate. So we cleaned that up and said that's for the equivalent unit. That's the calculation of the last time they were that it was occupied. So just asking for approval of these two ordinances to clean up the vacancy rate for the water and the sewer. So why do we have a disconnect and reconnect fee for the sewer? It's not like we disconnect or reconnect anything. Is it just the reactivation of the account? I mean what's the connection? You're doing it for the water. We can eliminate that. But the idea is re-establishing the accounts for some administrative costs that are there. I'm just the physical going out and turning the water on for some administrative setting up the account and getting everything back up to where it should be and getting everything in memory and all that stuff that they do that I'm not fully aware of. There's some process there to do that and to make sure it's kept at that place. So as this is during the questions I'd be happy to answer them but it's pretty bad. So this is effective in January? Yeah. So this has to be formally used. This has to be posted in five places. In the newspaper, a quick synopsis I think you can go to the newspaper and there's a time that starts for somebody to come back in the competition to discuss this and fill this. So the January 15th is when it will actually become legal and be part of our awareness at that point. Any further discussion? We need two motions then? So I will entertain a motion. First we'll talk about let's do the water first means that was brought before the board last time. A entertain a motion for the amendment put before us in regards to the vacancy corrections to the water ordinance. Second? Dave moved it and secondly second it. All in favor? Aye. So that's for the water and then I will also entertain a motion for the sewer for the amendment put forward as well in regards to the occupancy or the unoccupancy rate. Second? All in favor? Aye. We'll have to send a marfee for sign on all of this. The board paid $25 signature. Administrator. We're just talking about part of the administrative more there we go. There you go. Unlimited comp time at this point. We are a little like that then. Do you eliminate the unlimited comp time? You need yourself to get rid of it. So parking we got parking lot ordinance. Yes, so we've been kind of talking here there about an amendment to the parking ordinance that we have and this is kind of what I've come up with along with this proposed ordinance there is a department permit that this is kind of based off of. So the concept is that we will have because we've got issues with the power of this parking lot and there may be large part of the sporadic parking lot all the time overnight, it's tough for the park. And what I've come up with is this concept where we will people that are permitted parking over the tenants that live there and the owners that live there will have a parking permit that will be good for the year that they're in. So if you get it in July, it's until December 31st. And there will be a designated spot on the uphill side where there will be signs posted for overnight parking. And that's where everybody will get parking is on that up-to-the-side. And anybody, so when we come into the plow at four o'clock, five o'clock in the morning and there's part of the parking lot now on the side, we are within our right by ordinance to plow two toes for that position that you should, it's overnight parking by permit only. So that will allow us to have a whole bottom side in the middle section and hopefully part of this other end that we can clean all of that. Originally there was some bottom out in having a blue light and having cars move to the bottom. The more I think about that, I think the logistics of that are not going to work. So, you know, once those cars and the people that work overnight may leave and we have an opportunity, we'll definitely get in there in the middle section of that. But it won't be, we won't make it necessary for those cars to move to the south of the side like we originally had talked about. I think it's just not going to work. Logistically, it just won't work. But by doing this, we have the permitted overnight people parking in this maybe area that leaves an entire majority of that parking lot open so that we can come in really quickly and plow it in the middle. How many people do you think that is? I did the count at one point and I guess it's 10 to 15 is my recollection and just thinking about like, so we have we have two crocodile parks at their spots but Kevin has four units one that has one one that has two so that's five another one that has one and another one that potentially has two but right now they only have one missing something here. The Korean Union folks that park in there on. Yeah, and then the tenants the Korean Union tenants. It's now in Rousseff's building. And then a few folks in this apartment they can park there at night but during the day they have to shift to this lot. So it fluctuates but it's about 10 to 15 15 being I think the maximum. We're going to have some criteria to get an overnight apartment and we just can't ask for it. We have to be permanent. We have to come into the town. We have a reason for wanting that overnight so other than I want. So the permanent has stipulations and it shows that you have to have a contact number of course but you have to have your landlord's name landlord's contact number so you have to show that you're part of that of this area. And not just somebody coming in all right. Now I think you know having additional spots we're talking about having the 15 spots. And I think likely though there's all being full or pretty low. If somebody were to stay overnight with their friend or something as long as they park up there I don't think it's a major issue. It's really this is really intended for people parking on the bottom side and not allowing it to become sort of a problem thing now. That's good. It'll have to be a constant because this is a law. So we have to be there. Too many. So what the permit the permit limits each address to just two permits. So if you've got a friend or maybe don't make $20 whatever you get permanent if you want it or find someone to park in there. It's not really just the design for the short-term overnight they're staying overnight. It's not really for people that are staying for an extended night time. So the permit allows for two permits. The ordinance allows for two permits. I just wanted to clarify. So like for the laver block it has multiple units in it. That's per unit. So that street address, unit one. Exactly. Exactly. So that kind of is meant to control somebody who has a bunch of friends over and they're staying for a week. You can only have two permits for that address. And I did that with control and I think 15 spots is kind of what we talked about. And I've been playing with the theory for the signs. The easy sign to be, you know, permit parking only between the signs. But I would also like to have people be able to park in those spots during the day just not over there. So I'm working with what was kind of the language of the signs that would look like between these hours. Permit parking only after a block or whatever it is. Six to six or something. Somebody with a permit comes home from work and wants to get in that spot and somebody park there. But there's 15 spots. So again the likelihood of them finding the spot. And you have to be on that spot by whatever the time is. Because once people are getting off work or getting home, we're hoping that other people have left. Eating pizza or doing whatever and they're going to get in the spots. The challenge, anything you will have is we don't have a full-time enforcement person. Nor I don't think that this parking ordinance is really meant to have someone going around parking. Being a parking meter person. It does allow us if all of a sudden there becomes a vehicle that's kind of abandoned. Like we've had in the past. We can plow people in too. If you're not supposed to be there you can get plowed in. You may not get towed but you may not build it out. That's just something that we're not going to go around everybody every night. We're not going to be checking the parking. That's not going to happen. But I think the majority of people that are over an hour hours are going to go by these rules and they're going to have their own. Even if you did get the abandoned vehicle owner that has a permit there at least you'll know who the permit is and you can track down where the passengers have a car that's abandoned and you don't know who it belongs to. Something I was wondering and this might be a little bit fraught is if the permit signs because I was wondering if you were going to go after a certain time evening or night it becomes a designated spot to sort of prevent people from parking there. They go to Babes and they're getting there at 8pm. They're not parking in a designated spot. But could the signs have a tow truck number to call that will be at the owner's expense? So say the lot is full and somebody who's a permitted person wants to be able to park that number that car would be towed to the owner's expense. I don't know why I said it might be fraught. They're not what we're doing with that towing is that we're we're enforcing our owners with our constable who has that authority to do that. But our constable is rarely on duty. True. Unfortunately what happened is if the parking lot was completely full and somebody had a few spots maybe overnight or not overnight well let's say it's an overnight person you would have to file a complaint with the town and then when he's on duty maybe he goes through the parking lot. Yeah I know there was an enforcement section in the ordinance and I'll have to see what that says. We may have to revise that and maybe like Trish just said maybe we need to change it so that myself the road foreman, the constable people that can enforce that and make the call out. Right. Maybe it's not a number you put on the sign but it's a number that when you get the permit you're given a sheet that says if there's ever an issue this is how you address that or something so then it's not just random people calling it's you've paid for your spot and if you can't get to your spot here's your recourse. The parking permit would be visible in the car right? The road foreman would be like they could see the permit, they'd realize okay probably you know only they didn't have parking so they'd I just wonder I just wonder if maybe we should have something in here that spells out the non-permitted parking so if someone does park in one of those spots that's not permitted. Right now there's really not much we can do other than maybe tow it but that's what the ordinance is to be a little more severe than that and maybe people won't park there my guess is probably at least for the near future we will have that issue but if you know if when the buildings do get full then we could have to re-circle wagons on some enforcement. I think the majority of people that are with the cars that are on the line are visited and so I don't know if it's going to be necessarily a large issue but if we get those all wrapped up in one section I think it solves itself. I mean you drive through here right now and that parking lot at 3 o'clock in the afternoon is pretty empty at that point well you know the uphill section I mean there's not like a full parking lot in my guess is it during the day 6 o'clock in the morning there's probably all the cars out of there are people with but they're just scattered well the other thing you may run into is if there's an event here at the town hall in the evening and that parking lot gets full pretty quick you know so how True, but there's a lot of spots on the bottom and if they do this right I mean we'll just have to play with them from all the good points and that's why I'm not playing with this sign as to what exactly is it going to be and how are we going to allow these cars to be usable during the day and not at night. Well I like the idea of having them be a little flexible because I think a lot of people do leave out there so why not have those spots that are a little closer to downtown accessible during the day and not locked up at night. First Mo took away our comp time and now you're taking away our parking spots so there's no better way to get on the side of it. Right? Something I was curious you had mentioned and this was a little while back about maybe regaining some of the bank parking spots was that still in the works or we're wasting them out a little bit and we're still trying to work it all the way through it sounds as though we might be able to pick up two or three of their customer parking spots and possibly draw their employee parking spots by moving over the handicap to the other side where it should be any way out of the downtown side and restriding it in certain ways that won't happen until spring when we restrack the whole thing. The other might happen hopefully soon where he takes down a couple of signs like customer parking and instead of having five I think he's talked about just going down to three so we pick up a couple of them which I I'll next time I see them I'll talk with him again about it I think I had put it out there to him and I think he had to talk with whoever the regional bosses or whatever I don't know but whoever he got to talk to he's super measured so I'll see where he came from I think right now it sounds as though we want to locate possibly how we're going to regulate people that are parking well I don't know I think this covers everybody else I mean it basically says that if you don't have a permit and you're parking there over nine that you can be towed In that sense though I think you need to explain who can compromise the tow Yes, yes I'll look at the enforcement piece of that Your son is going to say parking permit from seven o'clock you'll put that in whatever time you're sitting right? Yes, it'll say something like parking what were they parking by permit on the whatever time you want to park parking by permit only at 70 and 70 or something like that I just haven't really got that all over but we should we should have that in the policy we should have the time because what's going to happen is it says overnight right now we haven't defined what overnight is most of us kind of know what overnight is plane devil's advocate I park in a spot and you tow me and it says overnight parking and I'm going to come back on the town because you towed me and said well you towed me at 6 30 overnight probably not only do we need a sign but it should be in our ordinance that this is for 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. or 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. what do you think what do you think a reason to allow somebody who does not permit to park in a spot I would say normally you'd have to majority of people either leave or are coming back from work in the 5 to 6 o'clock hour so you're somewhere between that time I think 5 o'clock is fine I think you should be out of that overnight spot by 5 o'clock so then somebody who's working downtown park there aside from restaurants something that's later and it's not really so much you know if you've got somebody who if the streets are packed cockadoos and full bore and both sides of the road are plug-solid on a Friday evening and they go park up in the town garage and it's 7 30 and the only spot that they've got to back into is one of those spots on the high side that's how long does it really happen I don't know I know I know on a Friday night it can be pretty busy down there 7 30 on a Friday this lot starts to fill and it's a lot of it is cockadoos and babes it really is driven by both so what do those people that spend the night what do they do with their cars well I think that's some of why what I think Greg was saying earlier was why cars get so scattered as somebody's coming home and they just park in the first available spot and the reason that the people that I know that belong to people who live here will park as close as they can and so the only reason if you come out in the morning and there's four open spaces and then a car and then two open spaces and then another car is because that lot was full when they got home they will by nature just drift as close to home as they can and so I think your idea at least my understanding is to consolidate those people at that point you really want to look at the 5pm or 5.30 or 6pm when people are coming back and say you know what if you're here temporarily for a cockadoodle for babes for the laundromat whatever you might have to park a little further away because if the goal really is to consolidate then somebody coming home at 5pm if their slot is taken they're not necessarily going to go back out at 9pm to see is there an open spot but this is also mainly mainly just for winter maintenance too so we could also put in the ordinance this is you know between whatever you know May 1st April we already got a word it's November 15th April and so do these overnight spots become the same the same as that right they're open they're closed I mean they all work with their skulls it's not very big I mean are you thinking it should be as early as 5 or maybe like 6 or maybe 7 maybe that's the later you push it the later somebody may have to come down in epigammas to see if my spot's open because it wasn't open I like the idea of just doing it seasonally the rest of the year is hoot for people who are working because you're right it's about consolidating but only so that we can maintain the area that's it so maybe we stipulate that the permits are only required between November 15th and April 15th I think so I think you need to chase it all year I mean we're just looking at trying to do better maintenance I agree with you Greg but just to play devil's advocate on this is thinking about humans and habits and forming habits that then stick are we shooting ourselves in the photo if we say it's only seasonal that instead of getting people into a good habit they'll stop shooting ourselves in the photo if we say it's only seasonal instead of getting people into a good habit that they'll stick with then having to figure out how to reinforce it there are people that park in the lot overnight that as soon as April 15th happens they're parking up straight in front of their building and as soon as November 15th happens they're backing a lot so they may self enforce my answer to that would be which challenge is going to be more difficult getting them retrain in the winter or dealing with all the main street people that are not able to park in those small spots or flying parking when it's a nice sunny day and business is booming I don't know which is because what I don't want to do is is detonate those spots and lose those spots to you know, patrons that's what I'm about to is how do we do it make it work so we can maintain the area but not lose those spots so I hear what you're saying Koba I actually agree with the season all more I just wanted to sort of hear it out or hear if anybody had any other thoughts oh, it's forkling I think it should be a season off you know, I think the season will work and what we can do is just go to the landlords and say you know come I don't know October go to the landlord and say I don't know how many I don't know how many there's a set of instructions that go with it that says this is what you do they make a copy to it well, each person comes and he gets an individual permit if you're going to have it for half a year you can't share it's 20 bucks you're going to drop it down to 10 because it's just we should start at 25 yeah, but if you're just having it for half a year at least a half an hour of administration on this it's still going to rate the same amount of time to rate the permit there's enforcement there's enforcement there's the detail itself about who and we changed colors over a year or two and we're taking colors over a year or two we are hey, it's a non-tax revenue there you go there's $1.5 million $1.5 million right here there's an industry on the permit application we've got commercial vehicles and temporary plates to be excluded so if somebody works for a business but lives in town and has a commercial vehicle from their work they couldn't get a permit just throwing it out and temporary plates usually lead to permanent plates but I'm not sure why tell me temporary plates maybe we could say something like proof of residency must be and whatever and you're not generally you're like a 20-day plane whatever it's supposed to be but people are going to get a new car every now and then okay so did you decide did you file a permit at 7 a.m. or did you decide that time I think we agreed on the seasonality that November 15th to April 15th I throw out 7 to 7 I throw out 7 to 7 just for 5 I'm going to 5 because if you want to be some that are going to push it if you have a 7 to 7 someone will still be there at 7.30 but on the downside it's really not as important if someone left at 8 o'clock versus 7 p.m. whoa I'm saying in the morning if someone left an hour late I don't think that's a big deal I'm a little confused do you have to leave this but I work from home so I don't let my vehicle out every day no it will be open to anybody at that point so permanent or non-permanence the start time in the evening so if you're staying home all day and you want to leave your permitted vehicle there I'm not going out I'm not going out if you leave a car unintended in a town road or a parking lot before I think it's like 4 days or a week or something like that then it can be ticket I mean I gotta go get groceries what you've never done I think I can do that in the internet so that area can get cleaned up so if somebody leaves that car there all day they're all day it's going to get blown in or blown away. Alright, I'll go with 5. 5 PM. 5 PM to 7. 5 to 7. 5 PM to 7 AM. That is what the defining overnight is. Yep. We'll do that. We'll bring that to the final guess. Just for curiosity's sake, is this going to get opened up to other than myself, any residents who are going to be interacting with this prior to us approving it? Or is this just a town? We're just deciding this. We're deciding this. It's just more curious. You're impacting the ordinance so it has to be closed because there wasn't this idea of showing people all over the place in the moonlight and all that kind of stuff. I didn't feel the religion involved in too much. This is really just kind of defining what would happen. Well, I'm just a word of mouth. I've been, when I encounter people I know who use the lot overnight, I've been just saying, hey, just so you know when it snows, they're at the town asking us to park on the uphill side. My idea is once it's approved, I was going to hand the litter to all the owners and then they get to send it in and out. So when would this go into effect? So if you approve it at the next board meeting, let's say. It's got 15 days, but you're going to have 60 days. I mean, you're going to be until, it's probably going to be the first of February or something by the time you can. Yeah, we will. My plan was good to go. Then you need to give them enough time to go and get their permits. The plan was to get this signed and get it posted up there and then talk with the owners and say, look, this is approved. It's coming. Start training. It's already going to be happen. It almost seems like at this point we're not going to have it ready for this winter. By the time you have it, it's going to be February or March. It's going to be January. And again, I think the people that are looking there are going to appreciate what we're doing. They're going to have a kind of designated partner for themselves. It's going to be everybody else that's really the issue, but which I don't know. I really don't think it's a big issue this time of year. I think people that are working there are probably people that are living there. So we're going to start this process out before the official ordinance gets approved. And just kind of start the herd. And everyone I've talked to is completely understanding and on board for the idea of, okay, if it's snowing we park on the uphill side so they can get it. It's like, oh yeah, that's smart. Okay, I can do that. There's never been a pushback of any sort. So I think we can start getting people into those habits now. Any further discussion in regards to the parking lot ordinance? And the EU water discussion. This is the third time now we've gone over that. So last time we discussed this, there was some talk about the cost of meters even though we know we're not. What the cost of adding the meters would be. And then we had talked about what it would look like if we went back to the multifamily of commercial individual units being assessed at one EU instead of whatever that EU was. So the last three sets of data here, that's what I've done. So the addition of meters that's simply what the quarterly payment would look like with the addition of $400,000 note at either 20 years to 1%, 20 years to 2%, 30 years to 1%, 30 years to 2%. And that note is to cover the cost of installation. The meters themselves and the installation. That's what I assume. So the $400,000 came from a grant to be applied for. That did include installation. And that was years ago. That was like three years ago. So that number probably gone up, but I was using the best data. So we applied for and got a state revolving fund. We didn't take it, but we got a state revolving fund long before $400,000 for purchase and installation throughout the system. So that's what this looks like. It's that payment. So that's just the payment for that? Yeah, it's just the calculating in anybody's time to then calculate and that's just the units in the installation. That doesn't include the whatever data collection we have to do, whether that's mainly through a little reader on the house or digitally through a battery-operated sensor thing or if it's a telemetry system with a satellite like Mrs. Funder was talking about. I mean, I can be done, but it's in a copy. So we may need two or three because I don't know. That's not it. This is simply just the $400,000 to purchase and install and then at the different rates that they're looking at. The state revolving fund will do 20 or 30 years and we are assuming 1%, but until they kind of fully do what they do, it could be as much as a 2% problem. Let's move to the categories quickly. When you're looking at this one, it says addition of meters in the blue. So that's the one that's just the meter. So if you look at the column before a cost, so it says old cost and new cost. So the new cost is what we calculated with the going from all houses being a one to houses being based on their actual bedrooms and what they didn't even look like. So what I did for this addition of meters is you took the new cost plus, so whatever that number is, a budget plus the payment for the $400,000 divided by the ease, divided by for four quarters and after the payment comes out. So really all the difference between the new cost number and the 20 year is the addition of the payment in the interest. Does that make sense? So in this case here I'll just use my house as an example. So current cost would be $115 under our current system. If we went to the new cost system which was the equivalency based on the bedrooms of the, that would go from $115 to $161 a quarter. And if we base that on with the, of course, right now right now in the system we have, we can use an abundance of water, you know, we don't get charged extra. If we went to the bedroom rate it would be the same thing. It would be no metering, it would be based on bedroom usage which looks like anybody that has a home larger than two bedrooms will have to pay more from the looks of it. And then if we go to the meters, the meters it's hard to run an average but if you went to the meters it would probably be another $15 to $20 a quarter on top of the new cost. This is where we go down. So for instance right now if we went to meters it would almost be like $60 or $70 a quarter more. It may not be. Here's why. Because your new cost or even your old cost would be lower because you're only paying your fixed cost, not your consumption cost. So if I wanted to kind of go through that whole exercise I would have had 60 more columns on this spreadsheet I didn't want to do that. But the theory if we went to meters is that we wouldn't have this EU based rate of $115.42 or whatever it is. That would actually be lower because our base rate is our fixed cost and then you have a new piece that's your consumption cost. So there's a possibility that those numbers could go down or they could go up. But I was trying to make this as simple as possible based off of the rationale that we're using now. Yeah because you're right if you think about it. It could go either way because if you also you're not carrying in there that if you put in touch pads you're going to have to have something manually. And your consumption could be really high. Those 300 meters, does that mean something like that? For water meters you have some unmanual reading in every quarter. So the more I think about this I think this 100 meters is not necessarily an accurate number and I think I could fix it pretty easy. I think what we could do is just take the fixed cost plus the payment and run it with those numbers. Because you could make your base rate could be based on all your fixed, your operating cost and then your consumption cost could cover your debt. Are very good. Well yeah I got just that thinking well. Because what it's doing now is it's basically covering everything. Our fixed rate which is our new cost is covering 100%. If we had meters we would have a different billet structure because we would have our fixed cost or whatever that base rate would be. Well you're still going to have the fixed cost plus the base rate. The meter. Which would be lower. So it's 80% below that number, whatever, 8% plus the payment divided by all the other stuff. That would spit out a fixed cost base rate. I mean we would have to figure out how the consumption would relate to that. Whether you get 100 gallons per day is based into your base cost and all that. But in theory you could be paying less or more. It's hard to tell. But for this this is just basically saying that if we step slow we add meters to the system. This is what it looks like. And then the next column would only need you for apartment units. So forget about meters at this point. Meters are nice. This is simply reverting back to changing the multi-family units, the apartment units, to a 1EU per unit. Because each one has a kitchen and a bathroom and a lamp. So that whole cost is basically the new cost from the one before. Which had the EU calculated per bedroom. And the new cost is the EU calculated with the one for the individual units. And the last column is the combination of both. So this is incorporating the additional cost of the EU's plus reverting the EU calculation over the amount of EU's back to the each apartment being one. So you're saying that the new commercial apartment units away from being based on bedrooms and just being assigned 1EU per unit. Yeah, because we talked about nature bathrooms and everything. The same pictures as the house room. So those are the raw numbers. If you go to the bottom of the spreadsheet, the very, very last page probably on yours, it shows the percent increase. And that's based off of 9%, 10%, 6%, and 7%. You guys have that? No. Okay. So the ambition of that first line that we talked about. After you run the number, so the volume, what the new rate is, and the old rate, the increase that the meters are going to cause is the first line out. The first line out on the, what is it? 1% for 20 years? Is that the first one? So the addition of meters is a 9% increase. The next one is 10%, the next is 6%, and then the last one is a 7%. That's what the meter will cost. The new cost? Yes. Because we're all talking new and not already. You're just leaving the old on the four comparison. Do you have those percentages for the addition of the meters with the second addition of the meters? I don't know if I ran that. So now that's just the meter cost. Let me, I can probably run it pretty quick. I mean, presumably they'd be relatively close, because you're just offsetting... Your final numbers are still equal to each other. If you do the EU by apartment unit versus what it is. You're fine, because that increase on the apartment unit is offset decrease on your resident unit. So it should be relatively the same if not exactly. So if you go with the EUs as one EU per apartment unit, like we talked about kind of reverting back to, that puts your total EUs that we divided this all into as 839. And currently we have 524. The way we're doing that. The way we propose to do it, we're looking at 803, I think. 803.83. So you pick up the EUs which makes your preview. It goes from 75 to 24, now to 72 or 7. So that's just more data. This can go all sorts of things. But I think to really look at the cost of the meter you could have to look at basically changing how we structure our feeds. And how would that look? What would that nature be constructed for? And then go from there. And it's going to be hard to track because it's based on the assumptions that you're going to have. These fluctuations. And that's probably what we need to talk about. What is that base feed? Right now we talk about it being just our fixed costs. But I don't know if that's necessarily enough. Somehow you better talk about it. That's a base feed. That job has been done. So we're talking about a 10% increase to add meters not including data collection. So it's going to be well over a 10% increase. Yeah. Yeah. So how can brand plus the Van Gogh reader? Well and the meters have, there's three different types of meters. If you buy the heads on the meters there's something like a radio frequency that you go by and you can hopefully from a road hit this little button on your reader and it picks up that number. And those batteries actually are roughly three on a mulch piece that send out that unit, that radio frequency. You've got its laundry system with the radar with the stuff on the poles. That's super expensive. Super. But it's instantaneous. So there's no manpower with the coffee. You walk out to a centralized location, hit it in the... and then you have a touch pass where you actually have to walk out and there's a little unit that's wired to your bill and you touch it and it gives you that's the most labor intensive. And we have 300 and something. Accounts would probably take two days on a good day. Two days probably to rebuild those. And that's just the reading, not the processing that data or creating the bill from the consumption. Verifying the bills because once you read them you know there could be errors. It could be wrong. So there's a large part of that is going through the reports to make sure you're not getting these anomalies in the readings or building somebody for something ridiculous. And then you send them back out. He had to send them back out. He had to send them back out. He had to send them back out. He had to send them back out. He had 600. He had to send them back out. That's the way we did it. And you'd have to listen and say, you know, you missed one or something's wrong and you'd have to go back out. Yeah. So there's a lot of other just besides just putting a meter pass. For sure. I mean I think it's definitely important that we look at the meter option pretty closely just because we've had a lot of opposition to the way things are now and meters tends to be the louder voice. And just looking at the way this is calculated here, it doesn't exactly give me what the... I have a good feeling it's going to be an increase but it doesn't really show a pink picture right. So if we could figure that out maybe just on what a base system, the cheapest meter system would be and then any upgrades would be obviously on top of that. Just so that we can get it out there to show people that. I think we're going to need to have a discussion on what the base rate is going to be. Right. Because that's a big part of this. And we want to make sure that our base rate will cover a lot of, I mean, a majority of expenses because people decide we're not going to use water or lose our evidence. I also have to discuss how much I gave them. What is the base rate that might buy concrete today or you know how it's going to work. Because an EU is basically, so we have four meter accounts in town. So they get credit for their EU consumption. So because an EU is in gallons a day, if they had a 10, right, they're getting 2100 gallons a day of credit on their bill. So when their meter read comes in we credit them how much ever that is. So we have to talk about that too. But we've got to add 1000 gallons a month or whatever it is into that base rate. For the Israeli EU. So then you're, when you credit it back you're still making your fixed cost. Yes. Right. Oh yes, it's definitely not easy. There'd have to be a 100, 200 gallon limit that they didn't use especially if it was too bad. Oh yeah, that would be your major. If you don't give it to it then it is what it is. Well typically it is. I always see it somewhere between 1000 and 2000 dollars. And those are so you regrouping some of the costs there. You know when they're not using that much. And it helps out the people that are low users. Because there's a ton of different ways to build it. I mean we can do tier. But typically the really low users are just going to pay a base rate and they're not going to use one. That actually helps the town. So it's kind of just a trade off to help them out too. The low users are the ones that actually the town makes money. I think. Because you're allotting them. So you're allotting at 2000 gallons and you're losing 500. You're still getting paid for that 2000 gallons in your base rate. The majority of it you'll find. The majority of ours is 100. We're low. We're minimum use users. Yeah. And high users you know if we have really high users then we can talk about a tiered approach. Where they get to a certain threshold and the rate per 1000 gallons is kind of a thing. But that's all the kind of stuff that we should figure out before we can really have I think debatable numbers that we can talk to somebody that can be able to talk to all of them. I mean the more we look at the you know the system based on the bedrooms I don't get a lesser feeling about it each time we look at this thing. You know it just seems like the question that keeps popping in my head when we go to that type of system is the you know the elderly person that has a three or four bedroom home that they're living by themselves. Because obviously anything larger than a two bedroom house would go up. But you know so it just seems like we're putting a larger burden on those potential fixed income people. Kind of looking at that. But at this point however if someone wants to buy a five bedroom home then that comes with the responsibilities of having a five bedroom home too. You know. That's why I don't have a seven bedroom house because I can't afford it. But yeah it's good discussion to keep having a good job with this Greg and however we can you know I think we definitely need to you know go through the whole quarter meter option and exhaust that and we got to put some time into it just to see where we're actually at. Well I think budget time is a good time to do it. We're going to be looking at the water and sewer burden. So it's a good time to really delve into it maybe directly after the budget. Start to maybe come to a consensus on how we're going to establish those at that pace. So maybe we talk about that after the budget. Maybe we can actually start talking about that after you guys. I'm up with a starting place where we're going to start. Let's not go that way. Let's go this way. This seems like the path of least resistance. So the thing that might be working the best and what do we need to do to go down that path. I think it would be helpful to have some data on the data collection in different ways. Sure. What kind of money we're talking about. Sure. Yeah I can definitely get the installation cost, the hardware cost, and the software and then we can just kind of extrapolate, I guess, from there how much time it's going to take. You've done it in the past. I've done it. Any J-Press card will play. We'll start with every system so long in the years. I want your cops. I think we're going to softish all the ports. We've got to have those batteries. If we go with the batteries, we have a 10-year life cycle. And again we're 300-plus weeks. So you've got to start adding in our capital expenses that we're going to have to plan for the future. It's just there's a lot involved. I think after you guys have really dissected the water logic, it might be a good time to start thinking about what we're going to do. The software updates and technical support and all that. You've got to know what units you've got. Trumbull units, as we was a big Trumbull unit, GIS type unit then it wasn't cheap at all. I don't know what you guys have used but... The same thing. And then the time to do it. Maybe even finding some other towns what that cost looks like. But if we go with the meter system, that's not to go before the bomb or the whole town. It would basically be part of my intent is to go before the voters to the town and ask for a sum of money that we would borrow from the state of Baltimore most likely. And that may or may not be a quick meter. It depends on the number of conversations. At this point it does not. The water management plan... Repairs. Yes. The water management plan is what's going to dictate how long and how long. And the meters are not in that long. They're not at least in that long. That would be a separate piece but it could be funded to the same source. Doesn't have to be. It would log on. Unless we plan for it in a 20 year time or so. So do you calculate these rates? Do you put that whole meter cost into the... Yes. So that's the... It's adding the payment. So this 20 year, 100% of whatever is... Trees getting the amortization schedule and I just added the payment to the budget. And the rest of the members like we normally do. So to establish our annual rate we basically take the entire budget divided by the amount of EU's that we have and divide it by four. I understand that but... The water bills, is that going to be considered infrastructure or is that going to be considered user equipment? That would be infrastructure because the water... That $4,000 would not owe this formula because you're going to spread out a little bit. Now this is... This is based off of users. Yes. Not infrastructure. Well I think that... The EU's are based off of users. So everything goes back to the EU. And that's just the water and users. Yes. Now I think I know where you're going. It depends on how we structure this vote. But if this payment or all this infrastructure that we have to put in from the state and all of them alone, if we decide and try to get all of the townspeople to pay for that, then I think there is a cost reduction here. But that's not the way we really... Again it's basically more about the users. Is this factoring it on? I think it was Theresa sort of brought the idea up of just metering downtown businesses or businesses. I don't know if it was just downtown but this is not part of this discussion. Is that still something being tossed around or on the table at all? Everything's over. Wait until you know what your big number is. I think Greg's just kind of waiting. I don't think there's anything off the table until you know what you're going to bond for. I have some idea what you can basically, what you can afford. Yeah. I think that comes to this at all. This is based off of the status quo, how we're going in, the number of the users and that all just carries forward. And there's no change in any of the building at all. That all is assumed to be the same. Does that make sense? Yeah. It doesn't make sense to me. So no. I was just curious. That's a whole other whole thing going on for sure. The big reason it's on my mind is that people keep bringing up Ethel Mills as the example of they're probably a larger water user than we're charging them for and then they're paying for it. Is there a way to account for that or hold them accountable for that and help offset some of this? Will. That might be the best way to go about it but you can't necessarily single them out. You're going to get a meter and no one else can. You're going to get an assumption. You know, it could be way out there which is, woo, we get all this revenue but it could be nothing. And then we're making these assumptions that they're using all this water and in reality they're not. Right. But it's a way to then sort of appease those people who come meeting after meeting and say, well this is... Yeah. I mean I think it's something we could definitely put that putting meters on a lot of people. No, why is it that all of this if you can't just depending on what they say, if you can't afford to do the whole account then let's do all the commercial properties including apartments and leave the residents alone but do all the commercial properties. It just really depends on the numbers. But then we'll have to establish a base rate for those. Exactly. So it just depends on what... It depends on what they want to do with it, how much. Or we can do it like we do other meter accounts which is essentially the same thing. That's going to be used. It's not. That's a possibility. I don't know how much really implication that would have to hear because it's a variable number because it's consumption. So they're really going to try to identify that. But we could... I can kind of throw that in there because it's really based on the same method. So like our meter to cost now are being charged based on the same method as everybody else. It's so much for you to use. Then we add the consumption on time. So that would be the same way about the number. It would be put a very used tube. They would get plus whatever their consumption is and that number is such a variable. It's hard to really know what that is without having to add to the bottom. And that would be the same with all the commercial properties. We just really wouldn't know what to do. Exactly. It really just depends on what your master plan, your final number looks like. You know, you may be terrified to see that's him. Well, I mean, you currently know how many EUs you have in commercial properties, right? So you know that you have X amount of commercial properties and they have a yield of this many EUs. And if each EU right now is whatever, $115 or whatever, you know what you're charging so-called fixed... well, wouldn't be fixed. But if you did 80% of that number, that would be your so-called what should be fixed at your base rate. And then you add the equipment and then you add all your meter to that should give you a pretty close-up. Well, the way we kind of I guess feel that we're doing it equitably is we're not even going to reduce rate. We're charging the full rate when we're giving them credit for the EU, the consumption credit for the EU. Does that make sense? So it's kind of a six of one. Yeah. You're backing up the numbers. It can go a little slow, it really can. Because again, if you start talking meters, you start talking just the very first. Any further discussion in regards to water? Oh my god, no. Are you sure? Yeah. Alright. Alright, we will table that for the next time. So let me just make sure what you need from this what we're looking at now. We want to put together the cost of paper we eat, types of it. Matter of fact. Yeah. If it's possible to get a comparison, maybe not necessarily a town that they size as ours, but a comparison of what they would take into 600 people and worth 300 to buy that half just to call it some sort of equivalent to know what their manpower into it is data processing. Question cost. We have some select board meeting minutes. We have the last two, I believe the 15th, I believe we had some amendments for that. Right, but we had, I'm trying to remember now, we had several amendments to that. So the 15th, the 15th we had some amendments for that. Yes, this is the revive. It was a little change. I think you have some revisions. Any issues with the 29th? I didn't see anyone looking throughout. Well, Amos is not his name list. I'm trying to find it. She has him as Evan Post for the question mark. It's Amos Post. Where are you at? On the 29th, the second page, the top integrity energy. What's his name? Amos. U.S.D. Is it right? The last name right? Yeah, the last name is correct. On page three, there's a letter from Bethel Listers. Yeah, that's being cleaned up. So I've made that change already. We've eliminated that. Do we start this item and all that stuff? So all of us are very informational, so we just put the name of the person on there. So there's nothing else that you guys can approve of? Make one motion to approve October 15th and 29th as amended. Yep, we can't see it. All in favor? Aye. I thought we had the fifth one. Town Manager's Report? Yeah. But it started as you can see. So we'll be working with the department heads. So we had the meeting last week with the DRV. They approved the site planning. So I'm moving forward with the land and water conservation. It's kind of involved. It's a little bit of a pain, but that has to be doubt by December 17th, I believe. So I'm finishing that up and then we'll go to the next slide. So you said they approved the site plan, but they didn't go through all the specifications of square footage and setbacks and all that kind of thing. It's been overall a picture of what we're sort of proposing. The specifics are not, it's not meant to be by any means meant to be scaled. But it's not. Just because of the 10 squirts that date doesn't mean that's what it'll actually be. It'll be good after you open to it. So the skate park is still, the people on the red board are still under the impression that the skate park is limited to 5,000 square feet. If I think is what Lorde said, give me something that's no bigger than 5,000 square feet. And we'll take a look at it. So of course you're going to maximize that, huh? When they get closer to that, that kind of design will bring them back. I was talking with Carl Ketchum there, and he was concerned about how close it was. There are calls about setbacks and parking spots and all that kind of thing. He was definitely meeting, and the setback for the tip for the skate park is 15 feet, so they moved it back to make that decision for the setback. So he was okay with that. But he was dead. There were a couple of visions to it based off of some of the comments that were made, but they went ahead and looked at it. So I'll be reaching them to the architect that designed the first one, did the CAD on the first one, and they'll be putting it together here. So yeah, the Grand only event hopefully will be going at the end of December for the skate park. The water master plan? The water master plan. So the state took their sweet time and now they're open. They had all sorts of issues with this master plan. And they're looking out for Ross, which is great. But they came back with about seven pages full of comments today. So they sent out our engineer and explained to them what they wanted and what they saw and our engineer is now going land by land and addressing and changing each one of those items. So I don't say the same thing for another two or three days. So once they need it for us so that we can go over 90. So what's your address? Does it have to go back to the state for re-approval? Yeah, it should be pretty quick. It really should be really fast. So it may be, first of all, I don't know. It just really depends on how quickly our engineer can get seven pages of comments addressed and suitable for the state. Did you read through the comments? Oh yeah, I mean we're good at stuff. Who's the stuff? I mean where are we looking as a town right now? It was solely items and assumptions that were made and things that were data that really wasn't collected correctly or maybe should have been collected and was, stuff like that. It was more than the methodology of all the technical information that was in it. It wasn't that sort of numbers at all. I don't know where that was right. I haven't seen that part. Well actually I do have a draft that I can bring to you if you don't look at it. But they're not proof. No, I wasn't necessarily just thinking the numbers were more of a, you know, was the state on kind of the same wavelength that us and the engineer were? I mean was there, I think so. Was it a lot of just, you know, small technical comments or was it, you know, well we think you should do this? No, none of that. None of that. It was the, not the assumption that started, but the comments that were made and the recommendations that were made need to be validated a little more and this is how we like to do it. Kind of stuff. No big surprises. No, no. The state's not saying, oh your system's going to die tomorrow. But none of that kind of stuff. It was really more just, hey Mr. Engineer, you need to show me and prove to me how you're coming to that understanding, right, you're coming back to that, what approach you used, type of stuff. So really more technical type things. Stuff that's in the vast industry in town for sure. There were a couple things that the engineer didn't put in that the state would like to see as far as potential projects in the future. Stuff that we didn't really think were large projects but they want to see it in little things. But nothing that's going to be a substantial change from what we all thought. So I hope that we would be creating a number of things that's probably going to be a little much. And the bad thing is we need to have a number in mind when we go to the good and as to what we're going to be asking for through that level. And we may not do it. We may have to do a mid-year boat. We may have to. We may have to. It's not going to be the draft numbers. The numbers are going to be draft, report, or not. It's not going to change substantially. They're going to be generally where they need to be. And there's some big numbers there. But the report, but I'm really going to go from the report is that how they're realizing those projects. And how they think they could be putting them together. That would tell us how much we need to ask for. But they say that yeah, there's three projects that need to be done in the next five years that maybe we need to ask them all. If they say, well, there's one now and then one in four, five years and maybe another one in five years, then maybe we look and say how we can ask them to do those. So that's really what we need to do. And the bridge 33. Yeah. Do you think maybe now is the time to invite the engineering firm and me with the select board to select people? Hot seat? I can. Yeah. Sure. I mean, that's kind of what I'm thinking at this point is to ask the tough questions here in what, you know, basically at this point what they're going to do for us. Right. I can make that phone call. Yep. So in doing that, if you could just put together for us for the next meeting, maybe kind of what the estimate was because you gave us some of that stuff like, you know, maybe just informal, boom, boom, you know, this was this was the design flaw that cost us. So I'm not sure if I missed something, Greg, but at one point you were working on a harassment policy back in June or July. I think it was the last time we spoke about it. You were asking too much. I'll bring it back. You're just coming at me. Okay. I'll bring it back. I was quite pleased with what you said. And nothing will do. You said we were going to talk about SNS later. SNS? Yes. Yes. So I pulled their conditional use permit and there are no conditions in the permit to limit how many cars they can have. So the angle is to try to limit the cars that they have with our service water or well ahead. Yeah, rather protection. So that made me just have to move the cars, but what it does say in the minutes from the meeting for their permit was that they've stated that they thought that they have eight to ten cars and if things were going well they could have up to fifteen or something like that. So there is that statement from them. So I don't know if we can pursue that angle, but as far as the permit they are meeting all the conditions of the permit because there was no condition that said if you'd like to be limited on how many cars you can have. Does that permit expire at some point or is it a odd infant item? I don't imagine. Does it come up for renewing? I don't know how this was worded. I think it is a used permit service. Yes. It says in their permit that they can do they would do a small amount of service work in the back and they have to keep all their parts and pieces and all that and go back for it. Yeah, but still that's right on top of the well that it is in the flood plan. Yeah. But I just want to structure some things like that. So as far as the flood plan, don't worry about, you know, floating debris and all that. They've got a permit. They've got a condition to use permit. So they are legally authorized to be there. So they can change the oil and just put it up in the kitchen? Well, not that well ahead of me. So as far as the permit itself, I don't know that we have any legal recourse on that. Other than they have a statement saying that they thought it and they didn't know it might be a 20 car. That's a Rick thought when I talked with him. He said they didn't have a specific number but there was never more than 12 or 14 or something like that that ever came up in the discussion. But from the zoning and legal perspective, it would be tough to say hey, so what you're saying, but if there's no condition that says you can't, that's not right. If they can put a condition that says you can't, then 10 car works with them, and that's the state. But with the new zoning regs, are they grandfathered in? Oh yeah, they have permission to use permit based off the old regs. They have a permit that's the whole issue. They have it and the conditions are what the conditions are. Now the well that protection is the whole thing. Yes, because it moves. The problem with that is it actually goes more towards the high school or the school than it does towards them. I mean they're in it of course, but I'll have to see. They parked around that. That's the whole number issue. That's Tim. I think there's a legislation there. And so they look at it there with some of his sewer chub. That's the whole number issue we've been fighting for about. The parking in front. But again, that's not a condition of the permit. They're not a violation of the permit. They're a violation of being A-holes maybe, but not a violation of the permit. So the well that protection is really what I think we need to look at. And see if there's anything there that... And that may be just as simple as they may have to move the cars. I don't know. It just depends on how that language, what it says and what those limitations are. Because in the immediate area, right around the well, as you expand the forest, the limitations become less and less and less. What are our rights in that area? We're essentially leasing the land from the owner. But we do have a well that protection care, which is something that we get that we have every right. I just didn't know if we could corridor off 10 foot buffer zone or something. I didn't know if we had any recourse to put a buffer zone. The well that protection does that. So it's a circular thing. It expands out and it actually moors a little bit. But in the immediate area, it's going to circle us. That has a certain set of limitations. And then if that expands out, they change. I just need to figure out what portion of that, if all of it, then we have something to talk about. If not, maybe they just have to do some operations somewhere else. But I don't remember the permit saying that they were going to be doing some minor mechanical type stuff in the back. And that they would have all the reverse stuff up there. Mechanical is different than servicing vehicles. Yeah, they're own vehicles that they move in and out of there. They're servicing. I know folks that have bought vehicles there. They haven't serviced them. But the actual number itself, I don't have any legal authority there. The permit being contested, which it sounds like nobody contested it. They'll just give them free rein. But you guys have a good question. I'm not sure how long from now. I mean, my gut says they're about as long as the business is there. But I'm not sure. I don't think you have to come back there. I really don't. Once it's established, it's established. Your zoning regulations would say something like if they shut it down for a year, then they might... Once it's established in there, they've got the permit. Because most of the time, the only way you get in your permits that you might say something like so many truck trips a day out of a quarry or so many cars, that has to be, that's done at the time of the permitting based upon probably a adjacent property owner complaining about noise. And now that they have it, even if they said we were going to have more than 15, they could probably have 100 there now. Yeah. I'll check that. So I see something. Do you have anything else? So we have a constable report. I don't know if there was anything on there that Paul weren't talking about. Yeah. Well, yeah, I just... I think I sent you an email last year. Is this something in right? Is this some kind of written contract that we had that specifies responsibilities of us and responsibilities to him and who's going to cover what and all those kinds of things and I don't know, I wasn't involved when he was appointed. I don't know if you guys were on the board when he was appointed or what the direction was meant to be, but I just think there's a lot of questions that I have. You know, the vehicle coming over the mountain every day or every time it comes over back and forth. Should the vehicle stay here? There's just a lot of different questions about responsibilities. We don't have a contract for that. I could not find anyone that we ever had a contract with our constable. He's basically appointed as an employee and falls under our personal policy. Is there a job description? The job description I brought to you last year and it was the state statute work and that's it. That's all we have. It's the state statute. You don't have a right to define what his position really is a little more and what the expectations are. I can tell him, I'm not getting real far with it. I'm still waiting for the spreadsheet that's supposed to show me how he's splitting up. The time is on our time. He used somebody else's car and somebody else pays for the class. He's got an element in his head as to how he's making his equity, but I still haven't seen it. He reports to you, doesn't he? He does report to me. He's a talent employee. He doesn't control over. He was going to a conference. I haven't always had companies that I worked for a page for me to go to conferences. Some of these things require to get training hours and things to go to. If he's required to get to training, go kind of on his own too much and not have enough supervision. It sounds like I need to rain a little bit and just be way more all the way to do it. Well, I think if you just established the procedure, then there won't be questions. Well, I got to establish the procedure with us and the other two accounts too. They all got their own thing or whatever it is. I think in the other accounts, he just pretty much does what he needs to do. There is room over there. I think it's getting the impression from the board that this is not acceptable. There's just a fine line there between what he needs for time to go get recertified versus what might be a business day to go right. What kind of expansion should he be covering as his own? I'm not even aware of it. I'm just going to jump into him a little more and we'll get more involved in what he's actually doing. I don't know if it's possible or not if he could give us a list ahead of time of these events. I want to attend this year or this quarter. We hold him to the budget just like we do everybody else. I did. One thing I'd like to see is he's got a couple of speeds here. It says 46 to 25 nurse. He doesn't say whether he gives him the tickets or he just lets him go. I'd like to see if he stops somebody. That's just another button. There's a little spreadsheet here with his software. If you don't give him the ticket. It doesn't say anything like that. I'll tell him. I'll have him manage this report. Anything else? I just want to ask how many tax sale doses you give him I'm sorry. I can't take one of the extra dollar rooms about a quarter of a million to the attorney. They did the first round of letters which basically gave people a time frame to come up with an arrangement and we have some payments involved. We have some payment arrangements and I have not yet gone back to see the next process. The next process is going to be going through the list with Greg and then looking to see how many of those properties that we think we could find buyers for. Some of them I know I can, some of them I'm not sure about yet. To me I don't really want a tax sale if I can't find a buyer but at this point I have a list of people that are waiting for tax sales I want to buy. So I think it will be at the beginning of December before we finalize who's going to tax sale. But at least we'll have tax sales. I think you say that's a good thing. I will be adjourned. All in favor? All in right.
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Hristo Pandjarov: Speed Up WordPress – The Latest Performance Technologies
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Having a fast website is essential but not many people know how to optimize their WordPress or don’t feel the need to. Learn how to tackle speed optimizations of your site and get control over your pages performance.
In this presentation, you will get information about the latest practices and technologies that you can use and practical tips how to:
– Properly test your site and find speed problems
– How to prioritise tasks and make an optimization plan
– Take the most out of your server – PHP7, HHVM, HTTP2 and more
– Use the diferent sorts of caching you can use and implement
– Optimize your multimedia content
– Handle and optimize JS and CSS scripts
– Properly implement a CDN service in your site
Presentation slides: https://wptv.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/hristo-pandjarov-speed-up-wp-latest-performance-technologies-wctrn-2016.pdf
WPTV link: https://wordpress.tv/2016/04/21/hristo-pandjarov-speed-up-wp-latest-performance-technologies/
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Hello, good afternoon everybody Thank you for being awake and I hope you're enjoying the work. I'm so far. It's been great for me for sure My name is Chris Panjaroff. I work for SegRound for eight years and I'm managing mostly pretty much everything we do about WordPress in terms of services partnerships and transfers of bigger customers and performance and speed Has been probably my favorite topic because I think it's Really important to have a fast and very well optimized website Today I'll be talking mostly about what's new And the new stuff we are using but I'm still gonna mention some of all the well-established tools services When it comes to optimizing a WordPress website so I'd like to begin with Benchmarking which is really the first and most important thing in that process And every I think everybody should spend some of their time to do as many benchmarking as possible with their website and Run it through as many tools as possible. They have in order to find out Where the slow parts what can be optimized what can be improved and at the end of the day stream of some precious few seconds from their loading times The first thing I'm using when start working on a website and probably not many people are using it That way is firebug One of the most my probably my favorite tap here is the networking tap because it shows you right away Which resources are loaded and the sequence of them being quoted? So it's really nice way to figure out if there is something that takes too much time to load that can be a Image too big that can be a JavaScript to be an optimized A JavaScript that blocks you the rendering of your website And it's right there. It's right in your browser You don't have to install anything you don't have to use a third-party service for it So use your firebug when you when you start working on your websites and see how it loads See how much how much time it takes to locally load the website because for example if you're in Italy and Your customers are from here. That would be a pretty good check, right? When it comes to benchmarking GT metrics is my favorite tool when it comes to going through checklists of things That you have or have not done on a website It combines it actually combines two checks The first one is from Google page speed and the second one is yahoo's Weiselow so when you run your test through it you'll get basically two scores and Again a waterfall similar similar to the one In the firebug The the two different tests the Google page speed and then yahoo's Weiselow will show you Very big checklist of things that you have or haven't done on your website like enabling gzip compression minifying your CSS and JavaScript files having browser-level caching and so on It's really an eye and they have priority to those issues. So you'll see a number of red orange and hopefully mostly green Checks being made by the two different mechanisms Don't do any number chasing here Go for the end result. I have way too many people that say I can't get a 100 out of 100 in Google page It doesn't make any sense. No one will give you a piece of chocolate or something If your website loads in a third of a second, you have done your job perfectly well Okay, even if GT metric says you have 90 out of 100 Another very popular tool That's really useful is the ping dumps free tool. I use it mostly because it allows you By clicking on the settings Slightly different than the yellow background orange button. It allows you to choose From where you can make the checks. So basically You can see how the page loads from from the United States from Europe from Asia They have five different locations or something Which is really useful to see how how your scores is different in different places. Again, they show you number of checks and your result with another grade like 79 out of 100 That here is my personal unoptimized website, but it's okay because nobody reads it anyway Now a few new things out there that I found find particularly useful The first thing is a tool that's a curry recently launched is it's a curry performance And it basically use its own CDN network to make checks of how fast your website votes from a lot of different locations So for example again with my obsolete site It's hosted in a on a server in Amsterdam, but and As you can see it was perfectly well in the United States in Europe, but there's a problem in Tokyo and If you see that you have initial voting the website in a region Where you have customers visitors or readers in? Maybe you should do something about it Maybe figure figure figure out which CDN you should use if you if you're not or switch to a different one or figure out What's the problem there? So it's really good tool to see how your website loads across the world Blitz IO It's a paid service, but it provides a lot of things In addition to the checks similar to GT metrics ping-dome what we what what we've talked about so far They allow you to do stress tests on your website and they're pretty good at simulating career life usage of your pages they can Some or something they can create peaks of 200,000 visitors plus they use a lot of different IP addresses it's similar to low team packed if you're familiar with and On top of that they have a lot of different developer tools to do tests of your code on top of that but I am mostly using them for stress testing a page If you have the budget go check them out on That was about benchmarking and few things Server site that can be very good for your Pages loading times and performance in general And Ginex as a reverse proxy had great impact on the hosting industry overall It's probably the best caching mechanism out there A reverse proxy generally stores the complete HTML outcome of your website in the server's memory So when somebody loads your page on the second time and it should be served with the cache content It's been served before the request even reached the web the web server. So it's super fast it saves a lot of hosting resources and Generally minimizes the load to your entire website is causing on your machine so if you can implement and Utilize a reverse proxy on your on your server use it It's great. Unless you're serving cash content to people that shouldn't see cash content. It will have an amazing impact on your loading speeds varnish it's another reverse proxy mechanism basically and It does pretty much the same I Don't I don't use it a lot anymore Mostly because in their free version they do not support SSL connections and we'll talk about this later but that's That's a deal breaker for a lot of people but if you A can afford a paid version or B don't have an SSL certificate They don't care about it. You can still use it and great get great results out of varnish, too CDM providers another thing to boost the performance of your website There's constantly something new that CDM providers tend to add to their service. So it's a good idea to Track those and see what they're doing Because I think most of you know that by default a CDN should clone your content in their different host notes and They just serve it to your visitors from the closest location But on top of that people add things like caching They add another layer of protection from downtime to your site for example if your main server goes down they keep serving cash content to different host notes and Generally, it's a good idea to have a CDN Even if you're using even if your visitors are mostly local Just because you have another layer of protection between your server and your visitors HHVM was introduced What? Probably a couple of years ago, but it was it became recently very popular in the community and It's generally a virtual machine that stays on top of your PHP and Uses just in time compilation The thing is That it has huge effect. It's really nice When it comes to performance and loading speeds, but poorly written code may not work as well With it just because the tolerance for errors here is way lower What HHVM did when it was when it became popular and widely used is that it pushed forward In my opinion at least the development of PHP 7 which is awesome PHP 7 has a lot of new stuff implemented into it a lot of improvements. They skipped number six for that and If you have The ability to use it if your code supports it always try to To use PHP 7 it has internal upcode caching and generally if you if you open a WordPress backend Where the entire content is dynamic and there's not a lot of options to cache something can serve it faster You'll notice a huge difference if you switch from PHP 5.67 to 7 So if your code supports it use it, it's it's really huge performance boost HTTP 2 became a huge news and It's out there. It's happening and most of the hosting companies are supporting in down It's an upgrade to 11 year old protocol for transferring data It's 11 years from the latest update. I think It does a lot of things a lot of things have changed its binary now and so on but probably the most Important change a new feature is that it supports multiplexing Which generally changes the way your server and your visitor communicate when it comes to loading resources For example, you've all stumbled with I believe with pages that just used too many plugins too many JavaScript files CSS files and other resources and The entire loading of the page is being slowed because of that with HTTP 2 is much faster and The high number of resources you try to load doesn't have such a negative effect on loading a page now the thing is that Even though usage using SSL is not Forced by the HTTP to a Protocol itself There is not a single modern browser that will run HTTP 2 if the connection is unencrypted So you have to have an SSL certificate and you have to force an HTTPS connection if That used to be a problem because SSL certificates cost money and not a lot of people can afford them especially the Ev ones and more expensive ones, but now there's something called let's encrypt which is a really nice project and we're happy to support it since day zero and Basically, what's let's encrypt does it it allows everybody to have their own free SSL certificate a lot of hosting companies including us from say ground are starting doing Tools to easily install it on your account, but you can practically use it everywhere So take a look of it. If you if you don't have a big budget, but still want to get the benefits of HTTP 2 and better security Another service that I started to love in the recent months is elastic search Elastic search Provides a huge boost when it comes to database heavy websites I've used it heavily in the last months and and half with Very big customer of ours having a WooCommerce website and just to give you an example He has like a hundred thousand orders of his product and he has a WooCommerce with About ten additional plugins to that and so each order stores about 50 records in the post-mata table So if you multiply 100,000 by 50 that easily becomes five million Records in a single tape table now every time you he goes to his back end and he searches through his orders you have to query that table to get that data and We're talking about searches in the coupons and orders and including the front-end search Another customer sells ladies shoes and he obviously has like a hundred thousand different ladies shoes I didn't think that's impossible, but it is people can have hundred thousand different types of shoes obviously and multiply that number button by the number of rows each product has stores and at orders and you have a good 10 15 20 gigabytes of database and Searching in such a great amount of data isn't fast Even on a very powerful server. You can't cash a lot of that most of that content and Here comes elastic search It creates its own index. It's a service that runs on your server and It works way faster than the native search within WordPress or WooCommerce If you can't have it on your server They in they provide it as a service so you can offload some data to their site and Use their servers for for searches Now a bit more about the things I often use when it comes to comes to the WordPress app itself Double pure rocket. It's a paid plugin and it's one of my favorite plugins Double pure rocket. It's a nice paid plugin The thing is it provides a lot of things like caching JavaScript and CSS modification combination But they don't believe in having too many options. So it will either work for you great or will not work for you It's it's it's a good plugin But if you're looking into a lot of options and if you want to control each part of the optimization process It's not the thing for you But if you have pretty pretty much more of standard WordPress app and you just want to something that works It's it's great I'm I'm using another Plugin often soon, which is auto optimize Because I'm using engine access reverse proxy. I don't need to have any file caching Done by a WordPress plugin because serving content from the server's memories way faster than everything Plugin can do so once the caching is handled by reverse proxy. I just have to take care of the other parts and Big part big chunk of that is CSS and JavaScript files. So up to auto optimize does a great job when it comes to minifying those and It does just that it doesn't have a lot of options and it doesn't have one button optimize optimize all BG lazy vote is another plugin I'd recommend you to try out if you have that type of website It does lazy loading Which pretty much means that if you have a page Which is very image-intensive images Unload only the first and visible part of those images will be loaded and the second and the following images will start loading Right after the user's user starts scrolling down. So you don't have to load every single image of the page before you see it Advanced database cleaner God, it's a good plug-in again. It's gets updated very often supports It usually gets an update few days after a WordPress update It cleans stuff like old reviews of your posts and all that obsolete data that you don't need on your database and Even if that data is not queried on a daily basis, even if it if having a bigger Database with a lot of revisions in it will not slow down the Performance of your website directly it will blow to your database and everything like Optimizing the database back in it up restoring it and if you have to will become a Slower process. So it's a good idea to have something like that and regularly Clean the old and unused data from it WCOI is a tool that I use a lot and I really love If you're a plug-in developer, please start supporting WPC. Why be a good person Basically, it's a common-to-line interface for WordPress and the plugins that support it And one of the things it does it you can easily optimize your database with it It's like the same thing you could do with a regular MySQL query or pitch me my admin but the good thing is that you can script and You can set a cron job and do it like once every three days or include it into a broader script that does a lot of things and It's a good thing to take a look at Most of the WordPress hosts have it or you can have it upon the request So check whether you have access to WPC. Oh, I it's great for automation including updates and Regular database optimization Now feel more examples before we we come to the Q&A session About your content Imagify is a nice service unfortunately paid About optimizing your images they do the optimizations on their servers and you pay for each image that goes through that service and They're doing a really good job. And if you have the budget, I would recommend you doing this They do all sort of things like automatic resize optimization of the images and generally can Scheme off a lot of fun and necessary bites out of them Ah E triple w image optimizer does the same thing But it works on your server. It works It's a great plugin and now for example, I was doing the website of my interior designer Who is being blogging every day for the past two and a half years? Which produces something like a bit under a thousand posts and in each one of those posts he has like 20 to 35 to 40 images about different interior design thingies and Each of those images has like four or five different now some thumbnail sizes that's been generated So this totally accumulates to something like 200,000 images and with E triple w image optimizer Would manage to lower the size of those images by like 40 percent So a your visitors will get the content folded faster be your saving time on your Space on your hosting account and see things like backups that everybody does regularly, right? Will become faster So that was pretty much it and I'll be happy to answer if you have any questions Yes, sir You mentioned image optimizers have you tried Kraken.io compared to the one you mentioned and is there a difference? There's a lot coming out these days on image optimizers and they seem to be all using different compressions with different results When I when I do any sort of image optimization I Generally don't have the permission of the person. I'm working on their website to screw up the quality of their images so I do only lossless optimization and Just pray for the best when it comes to reducing the size So as long as it removes all the necessary data from the image like that the fact It was taken by an iPhone or whatever camera and GPS location of the image and it does the best possible compression Without losing any quality. I'm okay with it Seeing that my personal site is on the site ground. I optimize my images. You don't need to touch me People generally ask me before that so I don't just hang around and optimize our customers websites If they don't ask for it at least without telling them that would be creepy No one else. Oh nice You're all performance experts. Okay. 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There are a couple of Free ones available Just just pick something that doesn't time out with your database But and double PC li is great for that too because it allows you to just just double be DB export and Name your file and you can link that to a cron job and do it weekly and it's it supports bash So you can add variable for time stamps and you can add it into a broader script to delete the fifth and the sixth copies because you will keep of course four of them at least and It's it's really a nice way to organize it without having to depend on on a plug-in Or on your hosting provider per se Anyone else? Okay Well, what are the first thing to look into when you have a high time to first bite? time Like the you showed the waterfall diagram What you have to look is where you're where is your hosting server? Are you using a CDM provider for that and what's and probably look at the DNS service too? So that that's pretty much it to check out the server. Usually. 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Anthony Lye, NetApp & Amiram Shachar, Spot by NetApp | AWS re:Invent 2021
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Anthony Lye, Executive Vice President & General Manager Public Cloud, NetApp | @AnthonyLye & Amiram Shachar, VP & GM, Spot by NetApp | @AmiramShachar talk to SiliconANGLE's Lisa Martin at AWS re:Invent 2021 in Las Vegas, NV.
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Welcome back to theCUBE's continuing coverage of AWS re-invent 2021 live from Las Vegas. I'm Lisa Martin. We are doing one of the most important industry events, hybrid events this year with Amazon, and it's massive ecosystem of partners, some of which are joining me next. We've got two live sets, two remote sets, over 100 guests on the program. I'm going to be talking about the next decade in cloud innovation. I'm pleased to welcome back Anthony Lai to the program, the executive vice president and general manager of public cloud. Nice to see you, Anthony. Good to see you. Nice to see you again. Nice to see you in person. I know, it's been a couple years. It's been a couple years. And Amoram Cheshire is here, the VP and GM of Spot by NetApp. Amoram, it's great to have you on the program. Welcome. Likewise, thank you. So the acquisition, the spot acquisition was during the pandemic, mid-2020. Amoram, talk to me about that. Why NetApp? How's it going? Give us the leg of the land. I think that's the, it's one of the greatest things that NetApp has done. And I think it's one of the most amazing outcomes we could have as a company. And if you think about it in a first sight, when you look at storage company and compute company, what's the connection? But the thing is that NetApp is a company that is going through a huge transformation in the cloud. And by doing this acquisition, it's really like signaling where it's going. It's going way beyond. And honestly, I just wanted to be part of it. And what's the customer sentiment been, 18 months or so post acquisition? I think NetApp has done specifically with Anthony leading that acquisition. NetApp has done a phenomenal job of keeping spot as a business unit, independent business unit. So our customers, they didn't really feel that something had happened. Like the only thing we told them is we're going to have more funding. So. I'm sure they like that. Anthony, talk to us about NetApp's transformation, transition spot as part of that. And then of course, Cloud Checker, which acquisition was just announced, I believe, yesterday? We closed on actually November 7th. So it's almost been a month now since we closed. But I've been a NetApp, my gosh, it'll be five years in February. And I think that the company had a real desire to reimagine itself. And to embrace the public clouds. And to give its customers, what I think it's done incredibly well is this idea of symmetry. That we wanted to build something on Amazon that was as good, or maybe a little bit better than on-premise. And customers really, I think, depreciated, they appreciate that sort of, that desire for us to do those kinds of things. Now, of course, Cloud Checker was my ninth acquisition in four years. Just to sort of, you know, to build on what I'm saying, I mean we, Cloud Checker, we acquired four spot. And we acquired, what, four companies in the last 12 months for Spot. So we really believe that as a company now, we can address all of their potential opportunities, whether it's a legacy application, whether it's a virtual desktop, whether it's a cloud-native application, or we just went and announced Ocean for Apache Spark. So Spot now has an optimization and automation solution for Spark on AWS, which we announced, I think, just yesterday. And it lets you get both of your perspectives on keeping Spot as a brand. Anthony, we'll start with you and then Emeram will go to you. You know, Emeram is the founder and was the CEO of the company and built a fantastic company. And, you know, we, NetApp, I think, has a phenomenal brand, but a brand that's associated with the sort of the traditional IT organization. And as you know, in the cloud, the buyers are slightly different. They're sort of application owners, or they operate in a sort of a construct that most people call cloud ops or dev ops. And we felt that Spot represented that new buyer in ways that NetApp didn't and probably couldn't. And so we really liked the idea of having, you know, the sort of the structure of the big end supported by, you know, a little pink and a little blue and a more sort of cloud-native brand. And that's key, especially the dynamics in the market that we've seen the last 22 months with the rapid changes, the pivot to cloud customers that weren't that digital needing to go in that direction to survive in the very beginning. I imagine this was really kind of core to NetApp's strategy, but also helping both of your customers to survive initially and then to be able to thrive and identify some of those, you know, key areas where they can cut costs and be far more efficient. Look, I think if you were born physical, you're now digital. And if you weren't born physical, you were born digital. And, you know, digital is a very effective medium accelerated by the pandemic, because as you said, we couldn't really get close to each other. And, you know, you just look at the innovation around us here at Amazon. It's just amazing to watch. And, you know, we've just been really, really good partners with Amazon now for many, many years. And we continue to see just huge, huge opportunities. Well, Adam Salipsky in this morning in his keynote, one of the partners called out, wasn't that out? Yep, yeah, I mean, you know, we'll talk a little bit later on maybe with Yonsei and I, but you know, Amazon now sells our product. They haven't done that with anybody. So, OnTap is now a product that Amazon sells. Okay. Amazon supports, Amazon builds, Amazon runs. So, you know, we've really, really demonstrated, I think, not just to our customers, a sort of a high rate of innovation and an opportunity to sort of accelerate their businesses, but we've demonstrated it to Amazon themselves that we can operate like them and we can develop with them at a speed that they are comfortable with that maybe, you know, a few years ago, many people would have doubted that a legacy company could operate this way. Right. One of the things we know about Amazon is the speed, but also that their focus on the customer is, it's laser focus, that whole flywheel of Amazon. Everything that was being announced this morning was exciting to your point, Anthony, but it's also showing how involved the customers and the partners are in the ecosystem and that flywheel. Emeron, talk to me from your perspective, what are some of the, from a visionary standpoint? What are some of the things that you're looking forward to going forward with Cloud Checker, but also knowing how deeply connected and integrated that app is with a big powerhouse like AWS? Yeah, so a few things about that. I think the first thing is also my take from today, like listening to the keynotes and looking at all the new announcements. I think the trend is that deployment to the Cloud is becoming easier, but operations is becoming messier. And I think when we look at our category and where we aspire, where we want to be and where we are going, so I think with a Cloud Checker acquisition, so we're expanding into an area that we haven't been to because there are two categories in cloud cost. There is optimization and there is cost management. What we've done, what we've built, what we've, the business we had is in the optimization space. It's actively reducing and optimizing resources for customers, and there are very few companies in that category, as I can say. But right now we're expanding into that area of cost management so we can meet our customers sooner. And you can see us doing it in multiple areas, not only here, but also if you look at a customer journey in the Cloud, it starts with bring workloads to the Cloud, deploy them, and then secure them, and then automate them, and then optimize them. Nobody moves to the Cloud and optimizes. So we're typically meeting customers at the end of their journey. We're meeting customers when they need an optimization and they have everything already set up. And right now with Ocean for Apache Spark, Ocean Continuous Delivery, Spot Security, we're meeting customers sooner in their journey so we can provide a much more holistic solution and platform to customers wherever they are in their migration to the Cloud and scaling in the Cloud. And with Cloud Checker also taking us to a whole new world of cost management. So, you know, I think we're scaling and ramping and doing all these things and it's so amazing to realize that we haven't unleashed even 1% of what we can do. Really? So there's much more under the covers that we're still waiting for. You know, I think the good news is, you know, to comment more on what you said, our roadmaps are now largely being driven by customers. And that's just so refreshing to know that you've not only solved a problem for a particular customer, but the customer wants you to solve more problems. And that they trust us to be that sort of organization that can help them. So, you know, we're full steam ahead. You know, we're going to continue to acquire in areas where we think we can get acceleration. But, you know, our acquisition of Spot was very much about, as Amaram said, bringing not just a great company into the business, but to invest significantly in it. And that's really proven, I think, to be, as Amaram said, one of the most, if not the most successful acquisition that I've ever done. Well, congratulations. That's fantastic. But it also sounds like from that customer focus, there's clear, strong alignment with how AWS operates, how it values its customers from that app's perspective. And I imagine it from spots as well. You know, there is one thing I was really proud of during the acquisition, is I got a phone call from a customer. It's the largest food delivery company in South America. And they were very worried about this acquisition. And I asked them why. And they told me, because your customer service, Spot customer service, is the best customer service I've ever got. And if I'm not going to continue to get this customer service, I need to look how I'm finding another vendor. And they told me that when they want to even tell AWS, like which company they can learn from, they're always pointing at Spot. So, and that was a very refreshing moment for me to realize how much also at Spot we care about our customers, but not only as a gimmick, as something that customer obsession, as something that we really live. And that was interesting to see that that was a concern by our customers when we got acquired. Well, that's proof in the pudding, because you're right, it's one thing to say, companies can always say, we're customer obsessed, we're customer first, we're customer focused. It's one thing to say it as a marketing term. It's a whole other thing to actually live it and demonstrate it. And actually have people coming to you, saying that we want to model that. I'm curious, Anthony, what did you pull over from that? What has NetApp learned from? I always tell Amaram that the idea was that they would essentially take us over. That we sort of loved their culture. We loved their people and their process. And we literally changed a lot of how NetApp operated to operate along the Spot model. So we really did, as Samaram said earlier on, we let them not just sort of exist, but we let them thrive. And we encouraged them to point at other areas at NetApp that they thought we should change to be more like them. And it's raised the bar across everything we do now. And so we now have a lot of the Spot business processes, a lot of the Spot cultures sort of seeping into the whole of the company. It's a very empathetic approach, and that's one of the things that we've learned in the last year and a half. Is key to leadership, is key to anything, is that empathy. But the ability to recognize where there are things within an organization that can be improved and looking at leaders like Spot to go, let's actually make this really symbiotic and bi-directional. I imagine with Cloud Checker, it's going to be the same type of influence. Well, as I have always said, and I say this to the employees and to the acquisitions that we make, what we are acquiring is people. You know, the logo, the software, even in many ways the customer base is really very much, I think, a function of the people. And we work incredibly hard to retain the people, but we do so by sort of empowering them and encouraging them to lead. We really don't want to sort of have the sort of the historical perspective of acquisitions where big company swamps the little company. And I think we've tried very hard to make that a part of our acquisition strategy. And so Cloud Checker is very early in the process, but very much we're following those things. Even Amraam and his team are learning from them. If they're doing something a little better than Spot is, then that's something we'll pick up from them. And that's just from a very open cultural perspective. That's a big change for now, but it's also a smart way to go, because you're right, you're acquiring people. And we often talk about people process technology. But it's sometimes, to be honest with you, it's rare that we hear companies talking about the people focus as being that's critical. It's because of our people that we have successful support, happy, successful customers. So that people focus is table stakes. You know, it's the company. And culture is not something you can manufacture. It's something that happens. And it happens, I think, through people. And it's an important thing, is if you can establish, you know, an organization with the right kinds of people. And again, all credit goes to Amraam as the founder and CEO of the company. I think you sort of demanded a kind of person and a kind of culture that set you apart from so many other companies. I think the focus on culture was, I was very obsessed with it from very early on in the process that even spot investors or very, they were questioning like, how come that you are so much obsessed with culture so early on? And I think it paid off big time. There was a book I read while being a CEO that really helped me to scale from quarter to quarter. Because I really believe that as a CEO of a startup, every quarter you're basically applying again to your job because you're getting a new company every quarter. And about people, processes, technology, so at spot it was a little bit different through the book I read, which is the hard thing about hard things by Ben Horowitz. It's people, products, revenue, it's PPR. And you need to take care of the people. And if you don't take care of the people, so nothing else matters. Like, it's nothing else, just. And if the people and the product are not working well, so the revenue are not going to come. So revenue was always for us as something that is coming, it's trailing after a good product and good people. I love that. What a great, honest focus and vision you guys both have. Congratulations on the acquisition, Cloud Checkered. But also just the cultural alignment that you've done that's really driven by your people and the customers. It's very refreshing to hear that. And congrats on NetApp's continued partnership with AWS. We look forward to having you on again next time. We can see you in person and talk more about customer successes. Thank you very much for hosting us. My pleasure guys. Thank you. For my guests, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE, the global leader in live tech coverage.
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Brett Gardner blasts pair of homers vs. Detroit
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Yankees veteran Brett Gardner crushed two home runs in his first two at-bats of the ballgame Tuesday in Detroit to set a new career best with 24 homers on the season. Subscribe for daily sports videos!
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You know, anytime you score that many runs, you expect to win the ball game. But over the course of the season, you lose games like this. Unfortunately, the losses and loss doesn't matter how it happens. So just try and turn the page and do better tomorrow. We obviously jumped out to an early lead, but you got to give those guys credit. They did a good job of swinging the bat, striving the ball in the gaps, and made a good comeback. And you obviously at 36, having a career best year in home runs, is that something that you ever worked towards? There's just something that's sort of happening. Always working toward trying to get better or be more consistent at the plate, drive the ball more, and take my a-swing more consistently. So always working to get better. And just sometimes get good pitches and hit them hard, and then other times miss them. So just keep swinging it. You're ahead in the count in that last hit bat. I mean, is the idea of a home run come up in your mind, too? In my last that bat, yeah, I'm not so much a home run. I mean, I'm trying to get on base. I get a good pitch to hit and hit it hard. I think I got ahead 2-0, and then he threw, and laid off of a good breaking ball 2-2. But the other pitches that he threw were all cornered to just paint away. Just made good pitches, pitchers pitches, and obviously tried to foul off the last one. But just, yeah. But you're surrounded by a lot of really, really talented young players. When you are kind of setting the tone or setting the pace the way you are doing, showing them that it can still be done, right? Like, it doesn't matter. Like, do you take pride into that and to showing them? Like, look what I can do. Yeah, a little bit. I mean, for me, it's just a matter of going out there and doing the same thing that I've always done. And I think that, like you said, we've obviously got a talented group of young guys on our roster. And for the most part, we always, you know, collectively do a good job of going out there. I feel like playing the game the right way, playing hard. And, you know, just tonight, things can go our night, our way. You've had relatively few of these kind of let-down games where, you know, you can tell that, why do you think this team doesn't have that many of these? Well, our pitching's 98% of the time really, really good. And games that we do fall behind our pitching, you know, does a great job of holding the game where it is and giving our offense a chance to come back. And, you know, tonight, we just weren't able to hold onto the lead. Like I said, this kind of game happens. And we'll do our best to forget about it, come back out, and put up some more runs tomorrow and hopefully get the win.
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I Was SO WRONG About Productivity Drinks: My 30-Day Magic Mind Review
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We’ve all been looking for a ‘magic pill in a bottle’ to sweep away those lousy waves of procrastination. Little did we know that Magic Mind has developed a revolutionary matcha-based liquid formula that hosts the most potent nootropics and adaptogens to do the trick.
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We have all been looking for a magic pill in a bottle to sweep away those lousy waves of procrastination. Little did we know that Magic Mind has come up with a revolutionary match-up-based liquid formula that hosts the most potent tropics and adaptions to do the trick. But allow me to cut you the slack and get straight to the point. Does this notropic drink actually work? Now I've used it for an entire month and I have lots of secrets to unveil. Hello Inception Fam! My name is Greg Gostenkar, the founder of your Inception. If you're new to my channel, welcome! We talk about brain hacking and ways to boost your cognitive function in a safe and effective manner. Please like and subscribe to join our community. Today, the natropic taking away the lion might is Magic Mind. This is a match-up-based energy shot that contains lots of potent tropics. Now my first impression of this energy shot is that the packaging is so on point. It looks like a shot, it feels like a shot, and also has a fancy outlook to it. It's small, it's pocket-friendly bottle that you can carry around anywhere. But is it effective and how does it taste? As per the claims on their website, Magic Mind vouches to boost the effects of wakefulness without the jitters. It helps circulate energy for a prolonged time and also helps you time those spells of anxiety by inducing a serene state of mind. Now the adaptions help you unwind and stay calm, whereas the natropics work to sharpen your cognitive function. Much assails the deal by keeping your energy levels on the rise. Now people have come forth saying that Magic Mind helped enhance their productivity by several notches. This means you get to do more work, focus on what really matters in your life, and sideline spells of anxiety or stress. Now this sounds like a win-win situation, but does it really walk the walk like it talks the talk? Well I used Magic Mind for an entire month to experience its real effects. So what actually happened? First off, the taste. Now I wouldn't say it's the best, it might even be a tad bit hard to gallop for some. The rich and sharp matcha flavor boldly expresses itself on the palate. But I think it's drinkable, and don't forget this is just a shot so you can swallow it quite quickly. Now in terms of the effects, I started noticing results from day one, and they became progressively profound in the next days. I could definitely feel the natropics kicking in after 10 to 15 minutes, which is not what usually happens with capsules. Now the feeling was quite refreshing, I could feel this natropic formula doing its job. However this was like a regular shot of coffee or an energy drink. It was definitely more than that. The natropic effect was subtle, but tangible. I felt more productive, focused and more motivated. Now during my test period, there were days when I just didn't feel like waking up and getting worked on. Procrastination is very much real, and it can easily seep into anyone's life. Now on such days, Magic Mind didn't help as much as I wanted, and I will soon explain why is that. That being said, I'll advise my audience to remain grounded. The effect of Magic Mind is indeed noticeable, but it will not turn you into a Marvel superhero. This natropic drink is wholesome yet subtle. So for me personally, the effect lasted for about 2 hours. When I combined Magic Mind with a cup of coffee, I would say that the effect lasted for about 4 to 5 hours. But of course, then the price increases and you need to combine it with another drink or supplement. So is Magic Mind really worth its price as it's safe for long-term use? And can you compare this formula to my favorite natropic stack, Quality of Mind? Well, let's find out. By the way, are you searching for the best individual natropics for your needs? If yes, go for our free brain assessment, linked below, and get a personalized recommendation for the best natropics. Now Magic Mind is a mix of quite a lot of ingredients. This proprietary blend does list all the ingredients that go into the bottle, but it does not state the individual dosage of each component. So in my opinion, that's kind of a red flag, since full disclosure should be provided. Nevertheless, let's dive into the ingredients list and see which of them stand out. First, there is Matcha. The entire drink is stained bright green because of the Matcha component. This is a good substitute for caffeine and has antioxidant properties. Then, there is Lyon's main mushroom. Now, there's one natropic that took the internet by storm. It's this one. Everyone has been after it and it does deserve recognition because it truly is one of the big deadest in the natropic world. It enhances the BDNF, so the Brain Right Neurotropic Factor, and NGF, NeuroGrowth Factor, and therefore is sought as a potent cognitive stimulant. However, I'm afraid that the dosage of Lyon's main in this supplement is too low for any serious effects. Then, there is Rodiolaricea. This herb is also known as the golden root for its highly effective anti-inflammatory properties. Furthermore, a randomized controlled trial on eight depressed patients proved the efficacy of Rodiolaricea as an anxiolytic. It, therefore, clears brain fog and promotes a tranquil state of mind. Rodiolaricea is one of my favorite natropics, so I'm very happy it's in this stack. Now, let's talk about Ashwagandha, yet another hypnotropic. Now, people have been using this powerful herb for thousands of years. It is considered an adaption since it reduces stress and anxiety. Now, Ashwagandha is often referred to as the scripture of longevity because scientists have unveiled its neuroprotective effects as well. Now, some people love Ashwagandha and others hate it. I think it's a potentotropic, but not for everyone. Luckily, I think there's a relatively low dosage of Ashwagandha in this stack, since that's not really a problem. Okay, other natropics in this stack include Cyticholine, Phosphatylgelserine, Althianine, Organic Honey, Echinacea, Bacopa Monerii, and Cordyceps. Now, I'm a big fan of Cyticholine and Phosphatylgelserine. I find Althianine very potent and I think Cordyceps is great for long-term use. Bacopa Monerii is one great entropic as well, but I generally prefer to take it in the afternoon due to its potential negative effects on motivation. Now, to be honest, I see a lot of harmonious ingredients in this stack, which is a green flag for me. But I believe the dosages of those ingredients are very low, so I question its long-term efficacy. Now, for the best effects, you're supposed to take one bottle a day. Preferably along with your tea or coffee for enhanced longevity. Oh, and let me show you how Magic Mine looks like when it's shaked and when it isn't. It's quite a difference. I hope you can see it. Yeah, so definitely shake it before use. It is also recommended to religiously complete the course for at least 40 days to notice visible results. Now, the mushrooms and adeptions in this entropic drink take time to work their way in, so there is nothing wrong with that. Now, before I share my final verdict, let's talk about pros and cons of Magic Mine. By the way guys, if you like this video, please press the like button below and subscribe to my channel. So the biggest pros are it yields results within 10 to 15 minutes of usage. The results upscaled in intensity with regular usage. It is easy to carry in eco-friendly bottles. It's excellent for those looking to supplement their coffee or tea with a cognitive energy drink. It is probably a safe herbal drink, but we can't know for sure due to the lack of transparency from the brand. Now, how about the cons? It's quite expensive, so 30 bottles cost around $178, which is ridiculous in my opinion. And if you subscribe, you can get 30 bottles for around $97, which is way better. But this is still very expensive, especially if you compare it to quality on mind, which has double the amount of ingredients and those are way better dosed in my opinion. And they don't have a proprietary blend. The next con is the proprietary blend, which means that you cannot find the dosages of each individual ingredient. And this is quite a big problem for me. The next con is its taste. I think it's quite an okay taste, but I don't think everyone will like it. And the last con are its effects. I think the effects could be a bit more long lasting. Now, if you want to order Magic Mind, there's a link below. And if you use my link, you may get an even better deal. So, to my verdict, do I recommend Magic Mind? And who is it for? Well, Magic Mind is ideal for people who need a brain boost on the go. So, it's great for entrepreneurs and salespeople who have lots of meetings or for people who travel a lot. The drink is ready to use and is therefore perfect for those who have a hectic schedule. If you are someone who does not have time for meal, drink, preparation, this energy drink is for you. However, do not expect it to do unrealistic wonders for you. The effect is noticeable, but kind of a mild. So, would I repurchase it? Yes, I think so. And I will mainly use it while on the go. However, whenever I work from my office, I think Quality Mind is the better deal. And you can watch my full Quality Mind review up here. Thank you guys for watching and I hope to see you soon again. Stay well.
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8. Mark Person, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology - Panel 1
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Moderated by Venkat Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Planning Committee Chair
• Upmanu Lall, Columbia University
• Harihar Rajaram, Johns Hopkins University
• Ryan Smith, Missouri University of Science and Technology
• Mark Person, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
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The last speaker is Mark from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. OK, I'm going to change topics a little bit and talk about really some exciting emerging studies that are being done using magnetotellurics, both in continental venues and also in marine venues, combined with mathematical modeling, to reveal new groundwater resources that have yet to be developed in some of these cases. So the first is looking at offshore groundwater, fresh offshore groundwater. In the continental shelves, it's a global phenomenon. Why is it there? Well, on average, over the last 2 million years, sea level was 40 meters lower than present. And just 21,000 years ago, sea level was 120 meters below its current elevation. And the shoreline was much further off, exposing vast quantities of the continental shelf to meteoric recharge. There's also onshore connections to aquifer systems that crop the aquifers crop out on shore. And the gradients are higher during these sea level low stands. As I said, it's a global phenomenon. This is a paper by Vincent Post and our group that tried to quantify the volumes of offshore freshwater. Within 50 kilometers of the shoreline, we estimate that there's 10 to the fifth cubic kilometers of freshwater. Globally, we've also tried to test. There's only a few sites where there's actually well data. And those estimates were based on essentially six cross sections where we could put together salinity contour maps. We've also developed models of the New England area and confirmed that between 1 and 10 cubic kilometers per lateral distance of the shoreline per kilometer shoreline, this freshwater exists. What's truly exciting is that now marine magnetotelurics are being used. This was developed to explore for oil, but is now being used to look for freshwater. This is a great study just out two weeks ago by Chloe Gustafson, Kerry Key, and Rob Evans at La Montdority and Woods Hole. The map on the right show empty images of freshwater. That's the yellow patterns. Resistive formation resistivities can be imaged on the offshore. In two sites, they looked at Martha's Vineyard in New Jersey and they deployed both marine magnetoteluric systems on the sea floor. And then they had a controlled source electromagnetic system that was towed behind a boat and they did joint inversions. But it's amazing. This is really, I think, transformative that we'll be able to map offshore freshwater. I'd like to switch topics to using MT to look at deep crystal embasement groundwater flow systems in the arid southwest. Companies, agribusinesses have been using this hot water and fresh water to grow tilapia, to heat greenhouses and actually use the water in greenhouses. New Mexico is blessed with permeable crystalline rocks and high heat flow. One specific study that we've been working on is looking at the plumbing of deep groundwater flow in the crystalline basement below the truth or consequences town. It was formerly called Hot Springs, New Mexico. There's about 12 spas. The salinity of this geothermal water that's coming right out of the crystalline basement is 42 degrees. Well, it's 1,900 milligrams per liter, 42 degrees sea. It has carbon 14 age dates of 6,000 to 11,000 years old. And we believe it's coming from deep recharge in the mountainous terrains about 60 kilometers away. But the temperatures are quite warm and shallow. CV TICE estimated that back in the 40s that the geothermal discharge was 2 million gallons per day. We estimate that's about 10% of the mountain front recharge is actually discharging through a hydrologic window where the crystalline basement is exposed essentially at the land surface. There are no confining units to block the discharge coming to the surface. The recharge rates for this mountainous terrains are probably 5 centimeters to 10 centimeters a year. This is a nice study of recharge by Fred Philip and Dan Cadall's group. We've developed this conceptual model of deep groundwater flow. We've convinced ourselves through numerical modeling that it has to be a very deep 10 kilometer deep flow system, probably with the crystalline basement permeabilities that are unheard of, 10 to the negative 12 meters squared. We conducted an empty study of this region from the recharge to the discharge area. Jeff Peppin, my grad student, led the charge on that. And here's the amazing results that in the recharge areas up in the mountains of Alamosa Creek and Chachionegro, you can see more resistive crystalline basement rocks in the recharge area around 100 o meters to 200 o meters. That's quite a bit more permeable or more conductive than typical crystalline basin rock, which is 1,000 to 10,000 o meters. But in the discharge area down by the Hot Springs districts, we see as these geothermal fluids pick up heat and salinity along the flow path, they become more conductive. And you can image the upflow zone down to 10 kilometers. And you cannot produce the thermal anomalies or the salinity without this deep flow system. You might question, well, how can you have a Darcy permeability at 10 kilometers? Well, Jim Butler helped us analyze a pumping test in the shallow crystalline basement within the Hot Springs District at TRC. And we got permeabilities. We saw inertial effects within the pump test and a permeability of three times 10 to the negative 10th meter squared. I'd just like to point out that these deep-seated crystalline basement flow systems are economically important to the local communities in the air at Southwest. In Wilcox, Arizona, there's a geothermal greenhouse that's been drilled into vitro. There's a geothermal well in vitrified tufts at about a kilometer depth that's producing over 1,000 gallons per minute and 80 degrees C water. They're using the water to grow tomatoes. There's also this amazing aquaculture facility in Lordsburg, New Mexico. These are deep flow systems with no local recharge. So I'd just like to conclude by saying that there are huge volumes of offshore freshwater are sequestered in continental shelf sands. This is a new resource potentially available to coastal mega cities. Crystalline basement and volcanic formations represent a viable resource. And for arid Southwestern communities, I call it the ultimate food, water, and energy nexus. These greenhouse operations pay for themselves. They don't need government money. They essentially have free heat and sustainable water. And I think an exciting thing to think about in the future is using magnetotoleric surveys in an Earthscope style campaign to look at deep flow systems and deep unconventional aquifers in the US and continental shelf things.
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Neighborhoods with Concentrated Poverty
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Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and The Century Foundation discussion on the long-term and devastating impact of growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods has on children, with leading experts Paul Jargowsky (professor, Rutgers University and Century Foundation Fellow) and Patrick Sharkey (professor, New York University). They will be joined by Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic and Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. EPI Research Associate Richard Rothstein will moderate.
In 1987, William Julius Wilson transformed urban sociology by showing that when urban jobs disappeared, "truly disadvantaged" children growing up in concentrated poverty had little chance to overcome obstacles to their success. Now, a quarter century later, two social scientists have shown that these obstacles are even more serious than Wilson could know. Patrick Sharkey, in his 2013 book Stuck in Place, found that for African Americans in particular, there is little mobility out of truly disadvantaged neighborhoods -- if parents grew up in high poverty neighborhoods, their children are likely to have the same debilitating experience. Paul Jargowsky, in his report for The Century Foundation, Concentration of Poverty in the New Millennium, has found that despite significant gains during the 1990s, the number of high-poverty census tracts has increased by 50 percent since 2000, resulting in more Americans than ever before living in such neighborhoods.
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But we are quite thrilled that you could join us for this event that we're holding in conjunction with the Century Foundation on neighborhoods with concentrated poverty. We hope this afternoon adds to the scholarship and the discourse around poverty by examining the additional adverse consequences that people face when they are concentrated in high-poverty communities. We hope that today's program stays with you for a long time, and to encourage that, we want to encourage you all to, if you are on Twitter, to, if you are having a conversation about this program, to please use the hashtag high-poverty to create some conversation and discourse about what's going on. We also hope to have you all involved with questioning the panelists and presenters this afternoon. To facilitate that, we will hand out, pass around some note cards, which will come around the room, and we would ask that you would put your questions on those note cards. We'll collect them, and our host and moderator will order them appropriately so that we can get through as many questions as possible. I'd like to advise you all that the rest rooms are located in the back part of this room if you use that back door entrance, if you should need to use them. But as you are leaving the room, please be mindful that in the back, we do have a video camera, which is performing our live feed, our stream for people who are not in attendance in the room, so please be mindful of that if you do walk in the back. So without any further ado, I'd like to introduce our host for the afternoon, Richard Rothstein, who is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, as well as being a senior fellow at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Law and Social Policy at the University of Southern California, Berkeley School of Law. Richard is one of the four most experts we have in this country on inequities, particularly as it relates to education and residential sector. This event is his brainchild. He's the inspiration for it and the convener of this incredible panel of national experts and commentators to guide us through this issue. So please, Richard Rothstein. Thank you, Christian. Christian forgot to introduce himself. That was Christian Dorsey, who's responsible for getting this all organized. As Christian mentioned, this event is co-sponsored both by the Economic Policy Institute and by the Century Foundation. And as he said, I've organized this because I've been mostly focused on education policy for the last number of years. And I've tried to understand the challenges that we face in closing the achievement gap between black and white children. And in so doing, I've come to understand that many characteristics of children from low income families, such as poor health, housing and stability, inadequate pre-literacy experiences when young, inadequate after school enrichment opportunities when older, make it difficult for them to take advantage of what even the best schools and best classroom instruction can offer. The quarter of a century ago, William Julius Wilson's book, The Truly Disadvantaged, transformed the study of urban sociology and also education policy by showing that the harm I've just described to children who come to school with a variety of characteristics that make it difficult for them to take advantage of schools is magnified enormously when children with these disadvantages are concentrated in urban ghettos where jobs have vanished, where violence, drugs and stress are commonplace and where there are a few adult role models of academic success. In the last year, two scholars, Paul Jargowski and Patrick Sharkey, have published new research that, in my opinion, will also be transformative in William Julius Wilson's tradition for those who are trying to understand the challenges faced by advocates of racial equality and justice. And we're privileged to have both Patrick Sharkey and Paul Jargowski here today. Paul is a Century Foundation Fellow and a professor of public policy at Rutgers University, where he also directs the Center for Urban Research and Education. He's the author of the Century Foundation's report, Concentration of Poverty in the New Millennium, and he'll discuss that here this afternoon. He will go first on this panel. He'll be followed by Patrick Sharkey, who's an associate professor of sociology at New York University and at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He's the author of the book, Stuck in Place, Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality. And this book will also be the basis of his presentation this afternoon. As Christian mentioned, we'll then have time for questions to the two presenters, but before doing so, we'll have comments from two discussants on this panel. First, from Ta-Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for the Atlantic and author of The Memoir, The Beautiful Struggle. And last year, Mr. Coates won a National Magazine Award for his essay, Fear of a Black President. And then we'll hear from Cheryl Anifel, the president and director counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Prior to assuming her role as the seventh director counsel of the Inc. Fund, she was a professor at the University of Maryland School of Law. Professor Eiffel is also the immediate past chair of the Open Society Institute. As Christian mentioned, staff members of the Economic Policy Institute will collect for me your written questions during the presentation and discussion and I'll pose these questions to the panelists. So with that, let me invite Professor Drogowski to come to the podium and tell us what we should know. Okay. Oh, good afternoon. Thank you for that nice introduction and I am just happy to be here and I appreciate all of you coming out this afternoon to see this presentation. I heard that a legend that Walt Whitman took the wrong train and ended up in large letters on Camden City Hall. But as you can see from these pictures, and I hope you can see them back in the back, Camden is not invincible and it was really fundamentally destroyed by deindustrialization and out migration of people with any income to the suburbs. So this, when you have conditions like this, and Patrick will talk more about this, nothing really works in those cities. The schools are failing. You have high crime. You have an astonishing murder rate in the city. Most of the kids have very difficult times. And the question, though, is how big a problem is this? And what is the prognosis for concentration of poverty? Is it a problem that's growing, is it shrinking? So that's what I'm here to talk about today, the basic facts about concentrations of poverty. And I'm gonna be using data from, to go back to 1990, from one year, they release it in five year aggregations. So the first data we have from the American Community Survey covered a span of time, 2005 to 2009. And this continues, they release it every year. My report that concentration of poverty in the Millennium released last year was based on the most recent data was the 2007 to 2011 ECS. I've just received recently the latest version 2008 to 2012. Now this is the first data that is collected after 2007, in the middle of the housing crisis, financial crisis and the recent economic troubles. So this really gives an accurate picture of what's going on. And you could think about it as representing 2010 since that's the middle of that period. There's some technical differences between these data sources, but I'm not gonna talk about that now. I'm just saying once they ask me later, we can. Here's the problem we have. Fourth, census tracts with poverty rates of 40% look like the kind of neighborhoods that you saw in the picture from Camden. They sort of have to look and feel often of the neighborhoods you might see in the wire and other depictions. And they meet the descriptions in the work of William Julius Wilson and so forth. So what do we have here? Well, between 1990 and 2000, the number of such neighborhoods together anyway. And 40% is sort of a standard benchmark that I like to use. So the number of people who live in such neighborhoods is also really exploded. So in 2000, we had about 70 old fashioned pointer. The increase was fastest for non-Hispanic whites. So since 2000, there's been a 122% increase in the number of non-Hispanic whites that live in high poverty census tracts. It also increased for blacks, 51%, and Hispanics, 74%. So that's a little bit different than in prior decades. So, all right, moving along. One interesting thing also about these high poverty neighborhoods is they are less likely to be dominated by a single racial or ethnic group. So this chart shows the percentage of these high poverty census tracts that are dominated by a group, meaning that three-fourths of the residents of that neighborhood are in that group. So this top orange-colored bar is, or census tracts where there is no one dominant group. And that was about a third back in 1990. And now it's going up to about 50%. And so this means that we have more high poverty neighborhoods that contain a mix of perhaps black and Hispanic or other groups in some of the white residents. That's, again, a difference from the earlier decades. We also, I also look at the extent to which the poor live in high poverty neighborhoods. So this is what I call the concentration of poverty. So this is the percentage of the total poor in a metropolitan area that live in high poverty neighborhoods, the 40% neighborhoods. So these are people of both their own income deficits to deal with, and most of their neighbors are very low income as well, and subjected to those conditions. So overall, of all the poor, the percentage of who live in high poverty neighborhoods has gone up from 10.3% to 13.6%. That's the first two bars. The highest rate is for African-American poor, up from 18.6% to 23.6%. But you'll notice that the second column there, that is non-Hispanic whites. It's much lower in general, but it has increased from 4.1% to 7.1%. So relatively speaking, the increase was faster for the white poor living in high poverty neighborhoods. Now, that's the average. If we look at specific metropolitan areas, you see some places where the situation is far worse. So you have, for example, in Detroit, in the Detroit metropolitan area, you have roughly 50% of the African-American poor live in high poverty census tracts. And so on, you see some of the other cities that also had very high levels, including Milwaukee, Rochester, Dayton, Ohio, Cleveland. You can see a pattern there. It's a little different if we look at the concentration of poverty among Hispanics. Highest rate is actually in Philadelphia. And that's, I guess, has a lot to do with Puerto Ricans there as well as others. But then we see a lot of in the South, Laredo, McAllen, and Brownsville, as you might expect, Fresno, California. So these are cities where you have concentration of poverty is a very substantial part of the overall poverty population. And so dealing with those people and services for those people would have to take that into account. OK, there's also an interesting phenomenon in that if we look at the metropolitan areas by size, those metropolitan areas that have more than 3 million people, sort of some of the largest metropolitan areas, weren't the ones that particularly had large increases. You see that the 1 to 3 million group, the 500,000 to 1 million group, those are the metropolitan areas where you see more larger growth change, percentage point change in the concentration of poverty. So this used to be a phenomenon that we was mostly associated with really big cities. But you see it's now spreading out into all second-tier and third-tier and fourth-tier cities across the country. And this is also a very disturbing trend, I think. Another way to look at that is to look at some individual cities. So this graph is set up so that there's a diagonal line. And if you are above that line, that meant you were increased between 2000 and the 2012 ACS data. If you're below the line, you had a decrease. So you can see the large metropolitan areas. These are the more than 3 million metropolitan areas. They're scattered all around. New York is below the line. Philadelphia's above it. But they're pretty much evenly divided above and below the diagonal. So if we look at 1 to 3 million population metropolitan areas, you see very substantially more metropolitan areas above the diagonal. And here, 500,000 to 1 million, it's very consistent. It's not just that, on average, they're higher. It's that almost all these individual metropolitan areas are, in fact, having increases in concentration of poverty. So it's a very widespread phenomenon. And finally, I have 250,000 to 500,000. Again, you see a very consistent pattern. So this is something that's going on in our cities that is not just a sort of a random thing. It's actually very consistently happening across the metropolitan areas. We could also look at the regional differences. The green bars, African-American concentration of poverty, you see the largest increases are in the north-central region. So that's over close to 15 percentage point increase, on average, in those metropolitan areas in the north-central region. And also increases in the south, not so much in the northeast and a little bit less in the west. So sometimes it's easier to see these trends in concentration of poverty at the state level, even though I prefer metropolitan areas as a unit of analysis. It's hard to map those very well. So just looking here at the state level, this is a map of the concentration of poverty for non-Hispanic whites. And virtually very few of the states have higher than 10%. A few, Pennsylvania looks like Michigan, Ohio. But mainly, they're less than 10% across the country. If we look at African-American concentration of poverty, you see quite a different picture. And you have that whole Midwest and then the corridor leading down to the deep south, where you have levels of concentration of poverty. The highest level there is greater than 25% and that's statewide. And then the next color is 20% to 25%. So it's quite a different pattern. Among Hispanics, you got a sort of an interesting difference. You have some states in the southwest and then states in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio again. So the distribution of this problem among ethnic groups is different depending on the region and the state. Here is, what's going on here? What's causing this? There are some kinds of explanations. Racial segregation can contribute to this. But racial segregation has actually been declining slowly. What's really going on in some ways is that as the suburbs grew and developed and had exclusionary zoning and other forms of keeping people out, people with income moved out and left behind people in the inner city. And here's a dramatic map that shows population change in the Philadelphia metropolitan area from 1970 to 1990 when this phenomenon was really unfolding for the first time. And what you see is the red areas had population decreases of 20% or more. Already? So then, but outside, growth is 20% or more. So we have a very consistent pattern. And you see this in many, many metropolitan areas across the country, that there was just basically abandonment of the central city in the inner ring suburbs. So that's a lot of what's driving this. And as a result, you have mostly all the high poverty census tracts in metropolitan areas are in the central cities. So for example, here's Philadelphia and Camden across the river. You don't see high poverty near-prids in any of those suburban areas. And we kind of know that, but it's important to realize what that is. And so what that means is a disproportionate burden on those central cities. So of the people who live in concentrated poverty, all of them in the Camden metropolitan area live in Camden City and two other smaller towns. And 75 other towns, 75 other suburbs, other jurisdictions, have a total of 463 people in the high poverty near-prids. So the burden is falling on those central city towns. And it's the same thing in Philadelphia. And I'm kind of short on time, so I'll kind of rush through that. But again, the vast majority of the high poverty zones are in the central cities. So we've had this tremendous increase since 1990. And the latest data shows that it's continuing. And we have this problem where it's spreading into more medium-sized and small metros. And high poverty neighborhoods are a little bit less clustered within central cities. They're kind of more spread out. They're not all in one big group anymore, but they're still within the central cities. And so finally, the policy question is, will we continue to build ghettos and barrios? And right now, a lot of the policy conversation is, how do we fix Camden? How do we fix these neighborhoods? We MTO, Enterprise Owns, Promise Neighborhoods, et cetera. But that doesn't address the underlying issue, because concentration of poverty actually results from our policies, our policies of political fragmentation of metropolitan areas, of suburbs that are allowed to grow as fast as they want. So they grow much faster than the metropolitan area, and therefore their growth is coming at the expense of the older cities and the older suburbs. And an exclusionary zoning, which creates kind of an architecture of segregation that is very durable, and we have to begin to change it. So we need to change the paradigm. We need to match the growth of the suburbs to the rate of growth of the metropolitan areas. And we need to understand that every city, every suburb, every town really should be building housing that kind of matches the distribution of income. So that I have, if I'm a low-income person, I have opportunities to move anywhere in the metropolitan area to access opportunities for my kids and for myself. So finally, if we did that for a couple of decades, it wouldn't change it immediately. But if we started to do that, we would see more infill development, higher density, more efficient public transportation, and fewer failing schools. So I just want to conclude with the idea is, the question is not how to fix Camden. The question is, how do we fix this development machine that creates Camden's in Detroit's? And that's really the policy challenge. Thank you. Thank you, Paul. And let me remind you again that his paper is available on the Century Foundation website, tcf.org. And there are copies here as well. But for those of you who are watching online, it's on the Century Foundation website. And I urge you to read it. It's an excellent and very important paper. And I'd now like to call on Patrick Sharkey to give us his thoughts on this topic. Thanks, Richard. It is really a thrill for me to be here. And I'm so grateful that we have Tom Housie and Charlotte in the comment. I've got a big extended family. And I think my book sales were basically driven by my family for a while. And then Tom Housie blogged about the book, and other people started to buy it. So I'm really grateful to have them here. And then Richard Rothstein reviewed the book. And we saw another spike there. So it is a thrill to be here. And I'm really grateful for this event. So what I thought would be the most productive use of my time is to pull out what I think are the most important empirical observations from the book. And I'll do so very, very quickly. And I wanted to start with the subtitle, which is the end of progress toward racial equality. What do I mean here? What I want to make clear is that there is a lot of progress toward equality in the 1960s. So I didn't live through this time. But I looked at the data, and it's just absolutely astounding how much better things got in the 1960s. This was a decade of major civil rights advances, the start of affirmative action on a large scale, and really kind of the decade where the large segment of the Black middle class emerged. That progress ended in the 1970s. And so just a couple of figures, this is from a report that Julia Isaacs did for the Pew Economic Mobility Project, where it's just showing that the gap in median income between Black and white families has remained just remarkably stable since 1970. And this runs through the Great Recession. It cuts off here in 2006, but the same is true through to the president. And the wealth gap has grown since the Great Recession. So we have this persistent racial inequality that hasn't changed since the 1970s. And then to go with that, African-American children from middle class families have experienced extremely high rates of downward economic mobility in the last generation. So families that were doing fairly well a generation ago have moved downward in the distribution. This column on the right just tells us that over half of African-American children from middle class families have moved downward within the income distribution over time. And 35% have moved upward over the same time. So how do we understand these patterns? That's kind of the motivating puzzle for the book. And the overarching argument is that to understand the persistence of racial equality, we have to look beyond human capital. We have to look beyond income. We have to look beyond the home and the individual and consider the environments in which Black and white families have lived over the past four decades, over the past two generations. And Paul touched on the gaps in neighborhood environments that exist right now. I just want to make the point that these gaps look much more severe when we incorporate the dimension of time. So when we consider what types of environments children and families live in over an extended period of time, the figures that I'm showing here show the average environments. This is from a survey where we can follow kids over time and, in fact, over multiple generations of panel study of income dynamics. So this shows the average neighborhood environments of Black and white children in two cohorts. First, a cohort born from 1955 to 1970. And there you see that about 60, just over 60% of Black children spend their childhoods on average in neighborhoods with at least 20% poverty. OK, this is true for 4% of white children. 30 years later, and there is virtually no change except the percentage of white children has risen slightly to about 6%, but about 66% of African-American children born in this latest cohort. These are adolescents and young adults today. Grew up in neighborhoods with at least 20% poverty. So Black and white children continue to be raised and spend their childhoods in entirely different social worlds. And just the second point is that this is not explained by income. This has very little to do with income. So these are comparisons of the average level of neighborhood disadvantage. This is a scale that incorporates poverty, unemployment, welfare receipt, family structure, density of children, all of these things that come bundled together in high poverty neighborhoods. And this figure looks at this for Black, Hispanic, and white families, the size of the 2,000 census, in different income groups. So on the far left, we have families making less than $30,000 per year. We see this racial gap with Black families on the far left and with high levels of neighborhood disadvantage. White families on the right with low levels. These are in standard deviation. So this essentially means that these white families making less than $30,000 per year still live in neighborhoods that are less disadvantaged than the average neighborhood across the country. The other finding, I don't want to go into too much detail on this figure, but the other finding that stands out here is a comparison. And I'll just point it out here. The comparison of this column with this column. What this tells us is that African-American families making $100,000 or more per year live in more disadvantaged neighborhoods than white families making less than $30,000 per year. So that is what we're talking about when we discuss racial inequality in neighborhood environments. It has very little to do with income. Very little to do with wealth. It has to do with the interaction of neighborhoods and race in America. OK, so this stuff is not new. Richard pointed to William Julius Wilson's seminal work back more than 25 years ago where he was really the first scholar to observe how urban poverty had transformed. And he pointed to the new concentration of poverty in America's cities and linked it with the life chances of African-Americans in a way that hadn't been done. What I'm arguing in this book is that in order to understand the consequences of neighborhood inequality, we have to focus on the fact that it's not just that poverty has become increasingly concentrated. It's that the same families have experienced life in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods over long periods of time, and in fact over multiple generations. And just one chart to demonstrate this, this is based on data that follows families over two generations and looks at the neighborhood environments in each generation of the families. So this is pairs of parents and children. And the bar on the left shows that about half of African-American families have lived in the poorest quarter of US neighborhoods over the past two generations. So this is the median experience for black Americans in the US compared with about 7% of whites. So this multi-generational nature of neighborhood inequality really amplifies any of the consequences. And I think this finding is probably the most important in the book, because it suggests that to understand American inequality, and particularly racial inequality, a shift of thinking is necessary. We have to think about inequality as something that occurs over long periods of time that extends across generations of families with consequences that link one generation to the next. So neighborhood poverty experience a generation ago doesn't disappear, doesn't become inconsequential. It lingers on to affect the next generation. And just a few slides to support that claim. The first, if we go back to this work on economic mobility, or the findings on economic mobility that I showed you, a large part of the reason why black Americans have had higher rates of downward mobility is explained by the environments in which African-American children were raised a generation ago. So when we condition on where a child grew up, then these racial gaps in economic mobility are largely explained. And one analysis I do that's not in the book. I consider the neighborhood environment and the larger spatial environment, the gap between whites and blacks in terms of downward economic mobility is no longer significant. It is explained away by considering the childhood neighborhood environments. In this analysis, the estimate was that growing up in a high poverty neighborhood increases the probability of downward mobility by 50% by half. And the explanation for this is over the past four decades when African-Americans make advances in human capital, move into the middle class, this does not translate into an advantaged residential environment in the same way that it does for other groups. So African-American families in the middle class continue to attend schools that are relatively low quality, continue to be exposed to higher levels of crime and violence, continue to be exposed to higher levels of pollution in the air, continue to live in neighborhoods that do not have the basic amenities that are taken for granted in most communities across the country. The second piece of evidence to demonstrate the cumulative nature of neighborhood disadvantage is an analysis done with Felix Ellwert, who is a sociologist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where we looked at the effect of being exposed to neighborhood poverty over consecutive generations. And the reason this is a shift from the literature is because when researchers study neighborhood effects or the consequences of growing up in a poor neighborhood, they almost always focus on the neighborhoods in which families currently live. But what we found is that the neighborhoods from a previous generation are actually at least as consequential or more consequential for kids' developmental trajectories than the child's own neighborhood environment. So this figure looks at cognitive skills, a common indicator of the developmental trajectory of children. And it looks at cognitive skills for groups. And this is after adjusting for everything we can observe about the child and his family. So these are kids that are identical, except for the neighborhoods in which they live. And on the far left, see that kids from families that have never lived in poor neighborhoods over consecutive generations score. This is a standard IQ scale. So score about six points above the national mean, whereas kids from families that are always in poor neighborhoods write three points below the mean. This difference, the difference between kids never in poor neighborhoods and kids always in poor neighborhoods, is about two-thirds of a standard deviation. This is almost the size of the typical gap between black and white children on these assessments of cognitive skills. This is the equivalent of missing about three years of schooling. And it's still purely to the neighborhood environment. OK, so the point here is that when we think about in terms of generations, when we think in terms of long-term exposure to disadvantaged environments, then the consequences of growing up in a poor neighborhood look much more severe. Consequences look cumulative. Consequences from one generation extend to the next generation. So we have to think about inequality that exists now as a continuation of inequality that's been experienced by families over long periods of time. And this is particularly true for African-American families where 80% of the kids who are currently in poor neighborhoods are from families that have lived in similarly poor neighborhoods for at least two generations. So this means that children going to a low-quality school overwhelmingly are being raised by parents who also went to a low-quality school. It is a continuation. It's a process that has occurred over multiple generations. Taking a multi-generational perspective, also, I argue, changes that we should think about policy. And my thoughts here are really complementary to Paul's. I think I agree entirely with Paul's assessment of the policy picture at the end. We have to think about policy on a different time scale. Most of our urban policy consists of short-term investments or short-term programs that allow families to leave high-poverty neighborhoods for a short period of time without making a sustained change. I'm arguing that we need to shift to policy that allow for families to alter their trajectories, that allow for communities to undergo transformed trajectories in ways that are sustained over time. I argue that more important than having good ideas for urban policy is the need for durable urban policy. And what I mean with durable urban policy, the principles for a durable urban policy agenda are here. I don't talk much about specific. I mentioned some programs, but more of what I'm trying to do in the book is lay out a set of principles. So durable urban policy disrupts multi-generational patterns of neighborhood inequality, has the potential to generate transformative changes in places and in families' lives. And lastly, in the one where we've had the most trouble to withstand fluctuations in the political mood and the business cycle, I think we have, I just list a few examples of programs that meet some of the criteria for durable urban policy here, which I won't discuss in any more detail. But I will make the point that I think we have good examples of policies and programs that fit these criteria. I think we have very few examples of this last category. Investments of programs that have withstood shifts in the political mood and in the business cycle. So I think this is the real policy challenge. The last thing I'll say is this. The types of investments that I'm describing, durable urban policy investments are already in place and are taken for granted in communities across the country. So stable suburban, ex-urban communities were created by federal policy. They were, when the government decided to directly provide home mortgages, that allowed for home ownership on a large scale. That allowed for the emergence of suburbs. But that was restricted to almost entirely restricted to white communities. So the federal government took a direct conscious approach to creating stability in affluent and predominantly white communities. Our policies, our approach to giving localities, unparalleled autonomy in the capacity to exclude unwanted populations and to restrict the construction of affordable housing is another active intervention in the housing market that has created this neighborhood inequality. So when I'm asking for durable urban policy, I'm not asking for a unique commitment to low-income non-white communities. I'm proposing that we extend the commitment, the massive investments that have been made in affluent, predominantly white communities, and extend them to a higher population to communities across the country, including low-income and non-white communities. That's really what I mean when I talk about a durable urban policy agenda. Thank you. Thank you very much, Patrick. I have a strong interest that I share with Patrick in reducing the share of his book sales that are attributable to his own family. So I urge you to, if you're watching this online, to Google the book and order it. It's called Stuck in Place. And if you're here, there are other forms for the book outside. It's a terrific book. As he said, I reviewed it. And I think it's one of the more important books that have been written in many years about this topic. I'd now like to call on Tanahisi Coates to make some comments in response to both Pauls and Patrick's presentations. Hi. It's a little too hot. OK. I should just make the quick correction. It's Tanahisi Coates. I have no offense for people mispronouncing my name. It looks like Tanahisi, but my mother would kill me if I didn't make that correction. So I'm going to go ahead and do it. I'm from West Baltimore. I grew up in West Baltimore during, well, I was one in the mid-70s, grew up there mostly in the 80s and into the early 90s. And one of the reasons why I was such a fan of Patrick's book, I feel like I'm getting, I have a big mouth. I could almost go without this. One of the reasons why I was such a fan of Patrick's book is because it was, as though somebody was doing like mapping the DNA of my life or something. I don't know if that's the correct scientific term, but it was very much a roadmap of my life. I lived in West Baltimore, but I had a very active father. Sometimes I wished he was less active when I was a kid. I had a very active mother. I was raised in a very, I would say, stimulating intellectual environment, books everywhere. But my friends were very different than me. It was not particularly common to have a father in the house. It was not particularly common for everybody to be stably employed. And as soon as I got to college and I left West Baltimore, I always wondered, how could it be that I had the attributes, if you looked at my family in many ways, of a quote unquote middle class white family. And yet the neighborhood I lived in was nothing like that at all. And when I got to college, I met many more African-Americans who were just like that. And I realized that that was something essential to the African-American story of my generation. What Patrick was able to do is take that away from the realm of memoir, which was the only place I had dealt with it before and to make it scientific. It made so many things that I had observed in my life substantial and real. And I just, I can't recommend that book enough, because I think what happens in these conversations very often, I think this is the spirit of the time. It is much easier for us to talk about, to have conversations around class, around poverty. These are very important conversations to have. It's much harder to expand the conversation out to racism. And I use the term racism very deliberately instead of the term race. I love where Patrick ended his comment, because his point is that things have been actively done. The suburbs didn't just happen. It didn't just spring up out of nowhere. White families who were formerly living in Camden, living in Baltimore, living in Philadelphia, living in Detroit, didn't just up in one day decide that it'd be nice to move somewhere else. And when I say racism, they didn't even just move because they necessarily had hatred in their heart. It wasn't even so much that you saw this black family move in, and I hate them so much that we now have to leave, although that happened on occasion too. But one of the things that has been very interesting for me in terms of the research I've done in terms of housing that I've had to do over the past year is even if you were a white family who wanted to stick around, we had laws and we had housing policy in such a way and that was an effect that would make it totally illogical for you to stay in these neighborhoods when black people moved into them because the chance of you being able to refinance your mortgage, being able to invest in your property, immediately dipped down. As soon as I moved in, as soon as my brother moved in, my sister moved in. Regardless of whether we were educated, regardless of whether we were a two-parent household, regardless of whether we went to church every Sunday, no amount of virtue was going to save your ability to invest in your house. So people did what logic dictates, they moved. And I think this is really important because when we talk about these issues, there's some sense that what has happened over the past 30 or 40 years is somehow natural. That it's not the result of policy, that it's not the result of governmental intervention. And I think when we say words like race, which sort of just filters in, yeah, you're different from me, you're from Africa, I'm from Europe, whatever, so this happened. As opposed to racism, where we have actual decisions made out of animus for a particular group of people or out of a need, maybe not even animus, a need for particular people to occupy a place in society. I think it's really, really important that we think about things in that sort of way. I wanna historicize that just a little bit, that claim that I just made. Time with the WPA files that researchers took when they went out in the 20s and 30s, and these files have all sorts of problems, but you get direct testimony of enslaved black people in this country, and it's very, very interesting. And one of the files I came across was a woman who had been enslaved on I believe it was the Georgia plantation of Alexander Stevens. Anybody know who Alexander Stevens was? Alexander Stevens was the vice president of the Confederacy, intellectual architect of the Civil War, if there were to be one. And Stevens, I knew about him from his famous cornerstone speech, when he made the argument that slavery was itself in elevation of civilization. And it was very interesting, because I had feelings about that, obviously, not particularly positive. And then to hear this woman who had been enslaved on Alexander Stevens' plantation, talking about how nice he was, and how good he was, and how well he treated everybody who lived there. And so I was faced with this reality of what he had done systemically, and advocating slavery, and who he was on a person-to-person basis. And this is true of a lot of people. You follow George Wallace's story. You can find black people to say very good things about George Wallace. I say that to say. It's important not to think of racism, to not think of you are a bad person. You are the equivalent of a child molested. It is something corrupt in your heart. When I say that, I'm talking about things that we decide to do, that we make a decision to do. And I think that's the great challenge as I really appreciated Patrick and Paul both laying out the way forward. But I've been in this sort of, I guess, depress the moves when people have put it lately. But I just want to put this out there. How do we have programs over the long term that are politically durable, that can be durable throughout a business cycle, that we can have a commitment if we haven't made a commitment to excising racism from the heart of this country, from the heart of its policy. Look, we're here talking about concentrated poverty and where people live today. We could have a very similar conversation about mass incarceration in this country. We could look at the fact that African-American males in the world comprise some infinitesimal amount of people and yet comprise 8% of all people incarcerated on this world so that if an alien came and decided to visit Earth and said, can you present me with what a prisoner looks like, it'd be very likely that should we get an African-American male. We could go across the board. In any, we could talk about health and have a very, very similar conversation. I just have to say, and with great, great appreciation, I hope this doesn't come off the wrong way, for Paul's work, for Patrick's work, we have a history, and history doesn't just go away because we did some nice things in the 1960s. We have a history, we have a heritage, we have a legacy of treating people with African ancestry who were enslaved in this country, particularly, in a very, very specific way. I'm very, very skeptical about our ability to craft policy that can end this sort of thing, it can deal with mass incarceration, it can deal with the sort of statistics that Patrick and Paul just laid out if we can't get that outside of ourselves. And I'll leave that there. I'm Sheryl, and I just wanted to note that if you have questions that you've written out just to hold them up, and one of the EPI staff members will collect them for you. Oh, I'm gonna get a bonus prize early, okay. Sheryl? Thank you very much. I want to thank Richard Rothstein and EPI and the Century Foundation for including me in this terrific program, and I really am thrilled in this moment to be on this panel because all of the material that both Paul and Patrick have presented are critically important at this particular moment. They build on what I really have, for myself, seen as kind of the four essential texts to understand from my line of work, race and housing in America. And those are, of course, Massey and Denton's American apartheid, Oliver and Shapiro's Black Wealth, White Wealth, Sundown Towns, who's author, I can't remember, Jim Lohan, and then Blockbusting in Baltimore by Ed Orser. I'm originally from New York, but I have raised three children in West Baltimore. And that last book describes precisely the phenomenon that Tanahasi talked about a few minutes ago about white flight and the inability of whites to maintain themselves in neighborhoods once blacks moved in. So let me just kind of tie together what I think here is a theme across the two presentations and Tanahasi's comments, which is about accident, chance, and race. Two of these things go together. One is an outlier. When it comes to housing and race, there really is no such thing as chance or accident. So Paul began with this story about, was it Walt Whitman and Camden, right? It reminded me of the story that Robert Carter tells. Robert Carter was a brilliant lawyer, one of the architects of Brown versus Board of Education who worked for the ACP Legal Defense Fund and one of the lawyers who argued Brown and later became a federal judge in New York. And Robert Carter describes when his family came up from the south as part of the great migration with so many other black families and he explained how so many black families ended up in Newark, New Jersey. And what he said was that many black families were on the train and when the train conductor announced the station, Newark, many of them thought that the conductor said New York and so they got off the train. And then they didn't have the money to get to New York and so they stayed there. And that was a story of how his family ended up in Newark. So that sounds like chance, that sounds serendipitous, right? But why were they on the train? Why were they leaving the community that they came from in the south? And they were leaving the community they came from in the south along with so many hundreds of thousands of others in the great migration because of the astonishing conditions in which African Americans were living in so many communities. So I guess I have to add Isabelle Wilkerson as the warmth of other sons as the kind of fifth in the collection of texts that you need to understand race and housing. So for me, it's very important to remember that if you pull the thread long enough when we're talking about housing and race in particular, you get to a point where actions were compelled or imposed in ways that have generational consequences that we continue to live with today. And the problem, of course, is that when it comes to talking about race and discrimination, it's very much the way Tanahasi described it. We don't do structure well. What we like to do is to identify a policy or a practice that is discriminatory and then we like to stop doing it. And we think that that solves the problem. So although the FHA from 1935 to the 1960s used an appraisal process for home mortgages that graded home mortgages A, B, C, and D with A being for homes in neighborhoods that had no blacks and no foreigners and D being for neighborhoods that were black and even though they required racially restrictive covenants in homes that they insured for whites and even though they would not allow whites to sell homes to people of color. Between 1935 and the 1960s, at some point we just stopped doing it. But we were left with a structure in place that gets inherited over generations that we then are presented with today and we wonder how did we end up here? We try to fix Camden. We try to fix whatever neighborhood we think we need to fix but we never deal with the structural problem that created it and our response is not structural. So what I hear both of the authors calling for is the need for a structural response to issues of concentrated poverty and housing. Not just stopping doing something that's bad but making an affirmative effort to reverse, to change, to transform the legacy of structural decisions that were made in prior generations. Now here I do think that we're in a particular moment where this is important for us. We just had the biggest financial crisis in the United States since the Great Depression. And even as we sit in this room over in Congress, plans are afoot to rebuild and they are engaging in the process of rebuilding our financial structure as it relates to housing and loans and credit and so forth. We're here while they're making decisions about loans and down payments that you'll need and credit and so forth. That's a structure, the financial system is a structure. It collapsed under its own weight. And as they're remaking the structure, the conversation is actually not at all focused on race and discrimination and some of the legacy that existed within that structure that made African American middle class homeowners so precariously balanced anyway. I know there was a housing crisis. I know it was a terrible economic crisis but it's also true that even before 2008 many middle class black families were there hanging by a thread. The fragility of the black middle class is very much dependent on the decisions that we've made about how to organize our financial structure. The only place in which I would say I disagree somewhat with Patrick is in that I think, and it's a very light disagreement, is in that I think we can do both things. Which is that we can make decisions that are structural, that is policies that he said can withstand shifts in political mood. And we can provide opportunities for choice for people who are currently living in distressed communities. So I'm a civil rights lawyer. I have big ideas but I also have clients. Real people suffering who want real opportunity and chances for their children and for their families. And I think we have to be responsive to both of those things. So I want to give an example of each. So structure, durable policies that can withstand political mood, to me, in my view, one of the most important of those policies that affects the issue of distressed neighborhoods and poverty is transportation policy. Transportation, when you finally do it, actually survives generationally. We all drive on the interstate highways. They didn't just go away, because Eisenhower was no longer president. They live, they endure. And transportation policy, I think, is one of the least engaged areas of policy for civil rights organizations like my own. This is a self critique. Tanahase will know this. Baltimore City, for example. So once you get out of the big cities, that in New York you can take a subway or bus anywhere. It arrives on pretty promptly. Yes, your train might be delayed by a smoky condition or a man on the track, but it's coming. Baltimore City has the same subway system that it had when LDF's great mentor Bill Coleman was transportation secretary and Nixon was president. It's one line, it has about 10 stops, goes up to Johns Hopkins and back down. Does not cut east to west. The light rail, which was built in Baltimore City, which goes north to south to get people out to the suburbs. I mean, there's an interesting story associated with the light rail. If you get on the light rail in downtown Baltimore and you begin to take the light rail, every stop comes at about five minutes, a five minute break. And then suddenly you get on at say Falls Road and then there's a really long stretch. It's like 15 minutes long. You pass a lake and everything. You say, well, when is this train gonna stop? And that's because it passes a community called Rockston, which forbade Baltimore City from having a light rail stop because they did not want people from the city coming into the Rockston community. So the decisions that we make about transportation, even if you live in Baltimore and you have a job at Johns Hopkins, and I know many of the low wage workers there are striking right now, but if you have a job there and you're making 10, $15 an hour, Tana Hasey knows this. If you get up at five o'clock in Baltimore and you go out and you drive in West Baltimore, you will see black women standing in their nursing smocks at bus stops waiting 40 minutes for a bus that was created basically for the maid's route to get to the actual job they have. Now we were just talking about children and education. What that means is they've left their children at home who will have to get to school on their own in the neighborhood that Tana Hasey's described. They haven't given them breakfast. When they come home at night, they'll do the same thing. Their children will be out at three. If they're working a 12 hour shift and they get off at seven, they'll get home at eight. And you'll wonder why they didn't read Good Night Moon to their children and help them with their homework and give them a delicious home-cooked meal. And you'll say that that person should lean in. An election of about it. An election of about it. So for me, this is such an important and powerful issue to being able to unlock what is this kind of generational distress within too many, from my perspective, African-American communities. Very interesting to see the increase in white communities as well. But from my perspective, to see this in African-American communities, generation after generation. What we will talk about is the child that was left alone, the child who came unprepared to school. We'll talk about all the symptoms, but we would never relate it to the transportation issue. We would never relate it to the fact that if there was a quick rail that could get the mom to the office on time, she'd have time to actually take her kids to school, get on that train, get to work and get home. We don't think that's relevant. So that's a structural piece that's durable. But the choice piece, we litigated a case called Thompson versus HUD. Actually, we were really part of the remedial part of the case. The ACLU did really a lot of the heavy lifting in which we were able to provide opportunities for families in Baltimore to make the choice to leave highly distressed communities. We sued HUD. And we sued HUD because HUD had been actively involved in creating segregated public housing in Baltimore City. The case settled, and we've been able to allow parents to have the choice, not just the voucher to leave, but also the counseling that goes along with leaving your own neighborhood and entering a different realm and finding the supports that you need. So I think we need to be doing both things. We need to be making decisions that produce these structural shifts that can break some of these intergenerational problems. But we also need to be giving real opportunity for choice. I was very interested last week to see the Washington Post article about a recent study that was done out of University of California challenging the Amy Chua's tiger mom theory and studying low-income Asian-American families, because Amy Chua was like a Harvard professor, so it was kind of hard to tease out how much of her children's achievement was about being a tiger mom and how much was about the fact that socioeconomically they're doing quite well. And so they picked poor immigrant Asian-American families, that next generation. And what they said in that piece in the study was that the single most important predictor of the children's outcome in life and the difference between those families and other families was that they said Asian-American families carefully chose their neighborhood based on the schools and what schools offered AP courses and so forth and a kind of enriched educational opportunity. Ask yourself how many African-American families can choose what neighborhood they want to live in economically because they're steered by real estate agents into particular neighborhoods because we continue to have, as in Baltimore County, an unwillingness to allow for the use of Section 8 vouchers, for the building of affordable housing, for mixed housing neighborhoods so that communities are kind of broken up. I mean, all of these affect the ability to have your family thrive and succeed and leave that distressed condition and break what may have been generations of poverty. So I think we need to do both things, and I'm deeply grateful for being able to be part of you today and just appreciate so much the enormous work that both Paul and Patrick have done and hope that we're going to keep this conversation going. Thanks very much, Sherlyn. I've looked over all the questions that were turned in and they're almost all on a single theme. So I think I'm going to summarize them and ask each of the panelists to describe it. And they all relate to policy. What should we do about it? And I guess in asking each of the panelists to comment on it, I'd like to ask them to think about two things. First is, what's the single most important policies, concrete policy that you think we should follow to undo the concentration of poverty and the effects of concentration? And then secondly, if it's not the same thing, what do you think is the most important thing we can do that's politically realistic in the short term as a way of addressing this issue? So I don't know if you want to take a minute to think about it, that's okay. Or if somebody wants to volunteer to go first, who's finished thinking, that's okay too. Paul? I hope I'm not finished thinking completely, but I think that the most important thing is that we need absolutely to understand that exclusionary zoning is a big part of this problem. And I can't, I've actually been an expert witness for developers that wanted to build small 1,000 square foot homes in the suburbs because they done studies and found that there was tremendous pent up demand for smaller houses in better school districts. And they knew they could sell as many of these houses as they can build. And if the zoning didn't already prevent it, as soon as they said they were gonna build it, the city council would change the zoning so they couldn't do it. It's sort of like the stuff. So this is, you can't even think about moving to the suburbs if there's not a housing that you can move into. And funny, we both used the word durable in different ways. I talked about a durable architecture of segregation. That's what we've built. And it's gonna be here for 30 or 50 years. So that's why what we need to start doing is to start to stop exclusionary zoning and in fact go in the other direction and say actually every community has a responsibility to build housing that is going to fit roughly the income distribution of the larger area. So then the difference between being the wealthy suburb and the poor suburb in the central city would be smaller. So there'd be less of an incentive to have to sort of fight to be the wealthy suburb by keeping out everybody. And does this sound unrealistic? Well, it happens in Europe all the time. In the city of London, every town in London, which London is actually comprised of many smaller cities, every one of those places has its share of social housing and just taken for granted. They take it for granted just like we take for granted the opposite that of course the suburbs are all rich people. Well, you know, in 1968 we said we can no longer discriminate on race in housing. Now we haven't actually enforced that as well as we should have and it still happens in various subtle ways but we should also have the same principle for income. You shouldn't be able to discriminate as a community legally on the basis of income but you can't prevent people two thirds of the income distribution, for example, from living in your community. That shouldn't be legal. And we have to start there. And now, is that politically realistic? Ah, I don't know. Well, if you have a politically realistic suggestion we can come back to you. Patrick? I'll think about it. Sure. So, all right, I'm gonna answer this in a indirect and roundabout way. I think what is on the policy agenda right now is essentially our model of dealing with urban poverty, crime, disadvantage and unrest and we've had the same model since the late 1960s and that model has been disinvestment and investment in policing and the criminal justice system. That has been the dominant, now I'm not saying that other policies haven't come and gone, there have been a lot of policies and exciting really good ideas that have been implemented but that have not been sustained over time but that has been the dominant model particularly at the federal level but also in terms of corrections at the state level that our country has dealt with the problem of urban poverty. It has been to disinvest in programs like public housing and to make large investments in criminal justice and corrections. I think that model has broken down. I think there is consensus across the political spectrum that it is no longer sustainable. I've heard this from people who I never would have predicted would argue against our rate of incarceration or now arguing against it for different reasons not necessarily because of social justice reasons but because of economic reasons and budgetary reasons but there is this consensus that this model has broken down and is no longer sustainable. So the question now is what is the next model? What is the next model for dealing with the issues that Paul and I discussed and we're asking this question in the context of consistent racism as Tana Hazi pointed out. So that is the context. We can't ignore that but at the same time we're also dealing with this question at a time when violent crime is as low as it's been in the last century. Okay, so this is just an absolutely incredible time period. We are at the safest point. People don't believe this but we haven't had a homicide rate this low. We had it for a few years in the early 60s and then prior to that it was before World War I. So we're dealing with these issues at a time when the link that's been made between race, central cities and violence has been weakened dramatically. You can't make that argument in a lot of big cities across the country that cities are places where violent crimes are rampant. It's just not true anymore and every group has been affected by this. It is a myth that the crime drop has not reached most disadvantaged neighborhoods. We've looked at this over several cities and in each case the drop in crime in the most violent neighborhoods has been equal to or much larger than the drop that has occurred in the remainder of the cities. So I guess I hesitate to say that it's politically reasonable to think that we'll have a progressive answer to this question of persistent urban disadvantage but I do think we're at a point where the old model has broken down and something new is coming to replace it. And so it is an active time to kind of point out that cities are in a good place, that violent crime is down, that a lot of the problems associated with central city disadvantage, low income, non-white communities have dropped considerably. We're not where we were when Bill Wilson wrote the truly disadvantage. So I'm at least a little bit more optimistic about where the policy agenda could go. Sherilyn, both the highest priority policy and one that might be more politically realistic. Well, frankly, I think everything associated with issues of fair housing in this moment, particularly maintaining HUD's commitment to recognizing the importance of disparate impact as a way of measuring a jurisdiction's compliance with the Fair Housing Act. Of course, it is clear that at this point there are forces and maybe some on the Supreme Court who are quite determined to get rid of the disparate impact standard. That's where my organization comes in and we'll continue to stay on top of that. But I also just mentioned transportation. I think that we don't pay enough attention to it and we missed an important opportunity with the stimulus package to really focus on that and to see that as important. So here's the difficulty. The narrative associated with all of the things that would work is deeply racialized. So if you talk about wanting to invest in public transportation, in fact the word public I think now has become public schools. Public transportation, public universities has all, that's part of the code. People know what you're talking about. And so there's some narrative work to be done here too that really has to change and reinvigorate the conversation and the lexicon about who we are as Americans and what we hope to accomplish. There is a theory of America in which we all privately live in our bunkers and drive our biggest cars and have our own driveway and our own gun and our homeschool our kids and you know what, it's America, do your thing. However, there is an alternative view of America one that has been more consistent which is an America of interaction and a publicly robust America. And in fact, the truth is that America as a nation of immigrants only worked because of the public infrastructure certainly for the 20th century. The idea was that you had to integrate waves of new people into the cities and decisions were made about public education, about public health, about public housing, about all kinds of things to deal with the fact that you had an immigrant population. And so it seems to me we're kind of, we need more ambassadors, more high thinkers, more John Dewey's to kind of create a narrative to help us think about a different way of imagining America to support that policy. I wanna take issue with the politically realistic challenge. I'm not sure it was ever realistic. I mean, the aberration of the 1960s, it really, it was an aberration, right? So for most of our country's history, it was not realistic to imagine that you could advance public policies that would benefit people who were poor, who were black, who were powerless. That's not been our history. So we've always had to run counter to the political headwinds. And to me, the question is, what are the efforts that we can workshop and show success that you then can lift up? Because I think part of the moment that we're in in this country is where everyone's throwing their hands up about everything, everything looks like it's too hard. It's also complicated, Congress is deadlocked, all the things that people say. But what convinces is success. Paul just put up some of these communities that he thought were doing, or maybe it was Patrick, that he thought were doing good things. Like one of them was the Harlem Children's Zone, Jeff Canada's Harlem Children's Zone, which is not replicable everywhere, right? But he showed a model. In a matter of fact, he's showing how much investment it would take, right? To save a community and their children and to educate them and so forth. It's a fascinating example for us. So part of what that does is, it's not just about the fact that he is working with that community and those families, but he's also shown us, and the people he works with have shown us what it takes if we are serious about doing that kind of work in a community. So part of what we have to do in a Baltimore, or maybe a Baltimore County, right? It's show what it could look like if you dealt with exclusionary zoning. If you created incentives for mixed income, the development of mixed income housing. If you provided choice and counseling for people moving into different neighborhoods so they would know how to navigate themselves, right? So part of what I feel is kind of my charge is that, is being able to create models that take away from people the ability to say it can't be done. Of course. I'll gladly answer the question. I also want to challenge the premise, but first to answer the question, protecting the right to vote for every American citizen. I mean, you want something that's doable right now, you should pay attention to what's happened and what happened in North Carolina and what's happening across the country on the thinnest premises, removing the right to vote from American citizens. That's the most tangible, doable thing, I think. Thank you. I'll take the applause. Thank you. But I think it's important to challenge the premise because I think we live in this time when if you can't get a filibuster-proof majority, it shouldn't be talked about. And I think that's like a very ahistorical way of looking at history. And I think African Americans particularly should understand this to a great degree. Slavery ended in this country, technically in 1865. That means that there were roughly 250 years when black people lived insolated in this country. Black people lived enslaved in this country longer than they thus far lived free. I say that to say that abolition was a really, really old idea when it happened. And the fact that it wasn't politically doable at the time, I'm sure did not stop black people in 1620, 1621, 22, living in Virginia colony from saying you really should get rid of this slavery thing. I really shouldn't be a slave. So I think it's very, very important that we state ideas whether they're doable or not. And the other thing is we don't know what's doable and what's not doable. In 1860, no one thought, no one, not the most radical or radical abolitionist thought within five years all African Americans in the country would be emancipated. No one thought that. The Seneca Valley Conference happens and convention happens and what? The 1850s, within a century women get the right to vote. You say to the Seneca Valley Convention, you guys shouldn't assemble because that's clearly not doable. I think it's really, really important that we think of politics beyond Congress, beyond what you do in the ballot box, beyond who you elect for president. All that's important, don't get me wrong. But politics is a big, big process that happens over a long period of time with all sorts of actors. And I'll conclude that by saying, whatever policy you endorse, and I would say this for the one I endorsed, in terms of the right to vote, the conversation around racism must be attached to it. I know that we don't wanna get into it because we wanna talk about what's doable right now and anytime you start talking about racism, that immediately makes things less doable. But I think part of the problem, I guess my great fear is we solve one problem then it moves to somewhere else. So this is not an original observation, but is it a mistake that after abolition you have a large swath of African-Americans in the South are effectively enslaved under debt peonage? Is it a mistake that after the revolutions of the 1960s you have a system come up where you have mass incarceration? Unfreedom is not unfamiliar to African-Americans. And my great fear is if we solve it in one area, racism, white supremacy moves to another area. Because we haven't really dealt at home with why we keep making these decisions. That's a tough fight, it's a rough fight. But I do think it's one that needs to be engaged. And I'll tell you why, just to end on this. You know, we started this conversation talking about William Julius Wilson's great summoner work, The Truly Disadvantaged. The horrifying upshot, and I don't know if Patrick would say this, but the horrifying upshot that I took from his book was Wilson is saying, well, there's this coterie of mostly African-American poor people who live in this neighborhood. Middle-class black people have gone over here. They're doing pretty well. We don't have to worry about. We need to worry about the truly, truly disadvantaged. And you look at those charts that Patrick puts up where you see African-American families earning $100,000, living in neighborhoods that are equivalent for white families that are earning $20,000 or $30,000. And the conclusion can only be that the truly disadvantaged are black people in this country, period. That there is no necessary escape because whatever your individual accomplishments might be. So any conversation that we have policy-wise in terms of housing, in terms of healthcare, in terms of transportation, I think like Americans as a country, we really, really need to be reminded of where we live, that we have legacy, that we have heritage, that if George Washington is important, then redlining has to be important too. I really, really think we need a frank acknowledgement of who we are attached to any policy. Thank you. I'm gonna take the prerogative of the host to elaborate a bit. Of course, nothing's politically realistic this year, but there are short-time unrealistic and long-term unrealistic. And let me work off two of the questions I've gotten to give an example and get your reaction to it. One of them was a quarter of children in neighborhoods, live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, I'm sorry, a quarter of children in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty receive federal rental assistance, by which I assume the question means with commonly known Section 8 Housing Voucher Assistance. So one long-term unrealistic solution would be to prohibit the use of Section 8 Housing Vouchers in high-poverty neighborhoods. A short-term solution, which I think is not realistic this year, but might be if we mobilize appropriately and could be, first of all, fully funding the program, so all families who received that voucher assistance would have the funds, would be able to use them. Since it's already on the books, we might conceivably think that we could persuade Congress to fund it. And secondly, although it might not be realistic to prohibit their use in high-poverty neighborhoods, there have been a number of efforts to combine the Section 8 Housing Voucher Program with counseling to persuade people to move to low-poverty neighborhoods. So does that answer your challenge about political realism? Richard, is that one of the biggest problems has been even when individuals are counseled to move to other neighborhoods, has been the issue of transportation, has been the issue of mobility, because mobility is not just where you move to live, it's where your children, you leave your children off for the day, it's how you get to work and how you get home. And this is why I keep coming back to the transportation issues. The number one reason people will tell you, is how am I gonna get there? How am I gonna get there? How am I gonna get there? And if we don't do that, what we do is we set people up in Baltimore for things like payday loans to try to have cars that they can't afford, and we actually just kind of exacerbate the problem. So I'm fully in agreement with you, but there has to be an infrastructure to begin to support the mobility that we want to see happening of people in those communities. I want to add one other thing about, well, two things. One is something Paul said. Paul said, you shouldn't be able to discriminate based on income, then you said, keeping two-thirds of the income distribution from being, so I'm playing around with that in my head, and I just want you to know I'm taking that with me because that sounds so right and put that way sounds like something. I'm gonna work on that. The second thing is Patrick said, we talked about crime levels, right, which are back at the same level they were at in 1966. In 1966, the incarcerated prison population was 250,000, which is a little bit more than today's federal prison population, right? So now we have 2 million people in prison, about 202, 211,000 of them are in federal prison. That was about the size of the entire prison population in the United States in 1966. And yet now our crime levels are back to that same level, right? So somehow we should be dialing it back. And you're right, there are people on the right, including a group called Right on Crime. I was just in a meeting with them the other day who are quite focused on the issue of mass incarceration and who understand that it's unsustainable. So if there is such thing as a peace dividend when you don't have war, I wonder if there is a peace dividend when crime goes down, right? That the funds that were funneled in that direction should be, there's an argument that they should be redirected in a way that invigorates the community. And I just kind of like to see us play around and talk about that a little bit as there's this goodwill on the criminal justice side, some goodwill on the criminal justice side. Okay, does anybody else want to say before I go on to the next one? Can I actually? Yeah, sure. Both Charlotte and Patrick, you guys make this point. Are you guys at all worried that that becomes then an argument for preserving incarceration where it is the low crime in effect becomes a justification for it? For preserving? Well, yeah, I mean, clearly, well, crime dropped because we put all these people in jail. I mean, that's not my argument, but. We've heard it. All the criminologists have demonstrated that that's not true. So, yes, we've heard the argument, but even the people who you would expect to make that argument and accept it, recognize that something else happened. Go ahead. Sometimes people say, listen, people who live in the interstate don't want to move to the suburbs because they want to stay with their churches and their groups and their friends. And even when in MTO, they move people out to low poverty neighborhoods, many of them ended up moving back closer to their neighborhoods of origin. And my answer to that is very simple. People should have that choice. And for that choice to be real, there has to be, first of all, the unit they can move into. Secondly, maybe the transportation to use that. And then we'll see. And my belief is that many people would take that option to get better services, public services and education for their children. And if others have priorities that involve staying close to an historical community, that's okay. But right now they don't have the choice. That's the point. And let me go on to another issue that's reflected in the number of questions that I've gotten. And that is, what does gentrification have to do with all of this? And let me elaborate just for a minute. As we know, there are many high poverty neighborhoods in this country that are being gentrified. And so they look like they are being integrated and look like they're no longer areas of concentrated poverty. And many of the families that did live in these gentrified neighborhoods are now moving to first ring suburbs, which also look temporarily integrated. So my question, interpreting the question that I got is what can we do to stabilize both the inner city neighborhoods that are being gentrified so they don't become all affluent and the first ring suburbs to which the former residents are being expelled so they don't become all poor. Consequence of gentrification is that the high poverty neighborhoods that used to be very centralized are now scattered around the middle pockets and including some in the inner ring suburbs. So if you look at a map of these neighborhoods, they seem to explode between 2000 and 2010. And you see this, they're now scattered around, which I think makes it harder to have service to delivery and so forth. Part of that is gentrification. When I lived in DC in the early 80s, the Shaw neighborhood was not a place I went very often. And now you go there to hear jazz and it's wonderful. So that's good. I have a couple of questions. And one of those is when these neighborhoods gentrify, who benefits, right? So if you have homeowners there that they want to sell in order to get maybe more house in the suburbs or something and then their owners, they benefit. But if they're renters, then they sort of get displaced and they don't get any benefits. So there might be some way to look at the tax, increment financing and so forth that as these places develop, maybe some of those resources could be used to support better transportation options or housing, the construction of affordable housing. In other words, I don't think gentrification is a bad thing. We want communities to be better. We want people who live in the suburbs now to think about realistically living in the city instead of retreating further and further away. But let's make sure that as that happens, it's the benefits of that are somehow captured and used for good purposes. Patrick? Okay, thanks. So I'll admit, I get very frustrated with the debates on gentrification because it's usually not defined well. And we're talking about a whole bunch of different things when we talk about gentrification. Let me just make two points. First, there's much, much more stability in terms of the hierarchy, in terms of disadvantage of neighborhoods over time than there is change. And Robert Sampson's book, Great American City is the best demonstration of this. Just how rigidly structured cities and metropolitan areas are in terms of the distribution of disadvantage and advantage. Secondly, when we look at neighborhood change, so I'm consciously not using the term gentrification, but neighborhood change that occurs in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods, it looks nothing like most of our visions of what gentrification is. Over the past 40 years, the dominant form of neighborhood change in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods has been to become more ethnically diverse. That is, most disadvantaged neighborhoods have absorbed new populations, primarily from immigrants moving in. Not white populations displacing black populations. That is extremely rare. And it's a definite problem where displacement happens, but it is extremely uncommon. The much more common form of change has been for neighborhoods of extreme unemployment, neighborhoods that have lost populations for long periods of time, neighborhoods that offer few economic opportunities, and neighborhoods that have been almost entirely racially segregated have become much more diverse, absorb new immigrant populations. And when this happens, or at least as this has happened over the past 40 years, the original residents of these neighborhoods benefit enormously. They benefit when new populations repopulate communities that have been abandoned. They benefit when new businesses arrive, new economic opportunities emerge. So I think we've, the point is, I'm not making argument about gentrification as most of us probably in our minds are thinking of it, but if we think about neighborhood change and what has been the dominant form of neighborhood change, when neighborhoods have become less repopulated with new economic opportunities and new populations, the most disadvantaged neighborhoods have improved dramatically over time. And we can demonstrate very clearly that the original residents in those neighborhoods benefit enormously as they move into adulthood. So this is a process that we should be encouraging and trying to expand upon. So let me say a few words just about the gentrification that is the one in everybody's mind, not the one that Patrick was just talking about, which is neighborhood change. And I think you're quite right about it. I haven't seen the data, but I think that seems intuitively quite right. So the gentrification that is in most people's heads, which actually seems not to be that rare in a place like New York seems actually to be quite prevalent. But one of the things that's interesting about it is why do people do it? Gentrification happens, I think, because going back to the point I was making earlier, the two points I was making earlier, one, it is in fact quite convenient to live in the city. Why is it convenient to live in the city? Because you're close to public transportation, because you're close to rep, because of all of the public infrastructure that tends to exist within the inner city. People don't gentrify the suburbs. They move to the suburbs, that may be true. But the idea of coming into a distressed community and deciding that you're going to make a life there largely happens because of the location. It's near the waterfront. There's something about the public space that is attractive to the gentrifier, which tells me that there is still a lot of power in the idea of public life in this country, because that's really what those individuals are craving. It's also true that going back to something Paul said earlier, I mean, there are, it seems to me, ways to create incentive for mixed income neighborhoods when gentrification is happening, right? It's not that you wanna have neighborhoods that have fortresses and walls. You only may enter, I mean, this would be counter to everything we've said on this panel. You may only enter this neighborhood if you have two generations of poor people in your family. That would be crazy, right? Or if you've lived here for three generations. It's not that we're saying there shouldn't be change. What disturbs people about gentrification is when those who have usually a higher, much higher socioeconomic condition and often are white, are displacing and changing aspects of the neighborhood that now make it unaffordable for the people who originally lived there. So that rather than helping those in that neighborhood reinvigorate the neighborhood to make it a good place to live, others come in who displace. But it seems to me, again, if we make this commitment as a policy matter to ensuring that communities must have mixed income housing, must have mixed income and affordable housing within every neighborhood, you dilute the most egregious effects of bad gentrification. Not all gentrification's been bad, by the way. But of bad gentrification where you really have this horrible displacement. But I first and foremost think it's worth pausing for a minute and recognizing the way in which the whole idea of gentrification reinforces the idea that there's something important about public life that people want in this country. And using that as the springboard to think about repairing, reinvigorating and creating infrastructure, public infrastructure within distressed communities. I share Patrick's sort of distress when people use the term gentrification because I'm never quite clear on what they're talking about. It's such a vague, vague use of language. I went to school here in D.C. And I understand people are very upset about what they see as gentrification here. But black people, I think, have been leaving D.C. since the 80s for Prince George's County, for surrounding suburbs. And the black folks who were leaving were not unhappy about it. They were not pushed out. They were happily leaving the city. And so I think that really needs to be part of the conversation. At one point, I don't know if this is true today, but Prince George's County at one point was the only county in America, the only jurisdiction in America to become more wealthy as it became, more black. That's an unusual story. And most of those folks were coming out of D.C. and they were very happy to leave D.C. For the same reason that anybody else that we've been talking about on this panel, Americans have been leaving the city. I think that the whole conversation around gentrification could really use some precision in terms. I think that would help out a lot. To the extent that there is the kind of gentrification that Shirlen was just talking about, that it does exist where you actually have situations where folks are being pushed out. The thing I can't get past is why this isn't just a reflection of the racist dynamics at work in America as it is. We, I think the Pew Foundation just put out a study. The average white family is something like, I don't know, six, 10 times. The wealthy average black family has. The percentage of black families that have negative wealth is not even comparable to whatever the percentage is. I'm sorry I don't have to stand on hand, but I read the study like about a week ago. The percentage of white families that have negative wealth. If you are someone who wants to stay in your neighborhood and wants to hold on, what that basically means is you have less power, less ability. This is to say nothing about me if you even go beyond stats like the wealthy. If you talk about resources being taken out of African-American communities through incarceration and what that means in terms of people that actually want to stay in their neighborhoods. Black people in this country just have less power. And so it kind of follows that you would have, for those of us who do want to stay in our neighborhoods, that we would have less ability to do that. The expectation that something will happen outside of a systemic white supremacy just strikes me as bizarre. I'm going to take one final topic of questions that I've received and get your reactions to it and also relate a bit to what Tanahasi just said. The question relates public housing, rates to public housing. Public housing, as you all know, has pretty much been abandoned and been replaced by the sectional housing voucher programs. But in terms of the African-Americans who have left DC, Montgomery County, Maryland has a unique program which has not been replicated anywhere else in the country in that it has an inclusionary zoning program. But the Public Housing Authority of Montgomery County purchases one third of the low and moderate income units. And so you have scattered public housing throughout the county. The incredible thing about that program is it's been there for, I don't know, 20 years and it has not been replicated anywhere else in the country. So my question to you is first, does public housing have a role anymore or should we consent to its abandonment? And secondly, is this Montgomery County model something that might be applicable elsewhere? What is the, what are the functions of a government? And one of the first ones is to protect against attack from enemies, external enemies. But then a government is organized to make sure that people have shelter and food that systems work, the economy works, so that we have housing and we have an ability for the economy to be productive. And so housing, yes, absolutely, public housing. Now, how it should be provided, of course, is important. And we stopped building giant concentrated public housing projects like Cabrini Green and so forth that actually concentrated poverty by design. In other words, you had to be poor to get into those units. So of course you had concentrated poverty in those neighborhoods. So providing public housing, but in a way that actually serves the purpose of housing, which is to say that the housing is available near opportunities, near schools, in various scattered site ways so that people can actually use the housing if they can't afford to buy a private market unit to live their lives and to access opportunities and to get an education for their children. So that model is a great model. And as you know, I think there's their study showing that controlling for your family income and other characteristics that children in Montgomery County score better. Low-income children score better in school and do better and graduate more often. Because why? They're good school, you know? So that makes a huge difference. And so yes, I think public housing has to be more creative to achieve the goal. But let's just remember that the goal has to be that people are not just housed with the roof over their head, but they're able to participate in the economy and participate and to get their, to achieve their life, to be able to access opportunities and move forward. So I just want to make the point that the huge public housing high-rise projects that we have in our mind, we're not an inevitable failure. They were a major improvement over the housing conditions that existed prior and they represented a massive, it was an investment that was designed to enhance segregation, but it was also just a dramatic improvement and a basic reform that was a huge investment by the federal government. They didn't work because they were abandoned. So this is why I talk about durable urban policy because when we have had initiatives that represent investments in low-income or non-white communities, some of those investments are very good ideas. High-rise public housing projects may or may not be the best model, but it was a huge improvement over what had been there before and it was a basic investment in central city housing. The issue is that this investment was abandoned. Okay, so these projects were defunded entirely, in particularly in the 70s, but then in the 80s, the funding for public housing was absolutely slashed. So what happens when you have a high-rise housing project that has no funds attached to it, it becomes dilapidated, the walls start crumbling, the security is compromised, and they become what we saw in the 1980s and the 1990s. This was not an inevitable result of public housing or poor people living together. This was an inevitable result of public policy of the way that we invest in communities and when we abandon investments, that is the result. So when they conducted a national study looking at distressed housing and found that this enormous share of public housing projects, where I forget the term, they used severely distressed. Deeply distressed. Deeply distressed. Anyway, there was an official designation for places that had to come down and it is certainly true that public housing policy had to change, but again, it wasn't inevitable. It was a result of a conscious set of decisions that were made over time about where to invest and where to maintain investments over time. This is why I keep referring to this durable urban policy agenda. If you make a commitment to public housing, it can work. We have very good models of this. If that commitment is then abandoned, then we get the result where these projects look dysfunctional, look dilapidated, look like violent places, but that was the inevitable result based on our public policy. Because we have one quick thing on that, which is that the whole notion of building that housing in a concentrated fashion in the central city was based on an older understanding of what the economy was, that we had manufacturing employment in those central cities. So one of the reasons that they abandoned those public housing was in part because those cities went into a fiscal crisis because there was rampant deindustrialization. Now people were housed in a place where they couldn't access jobs because the jobs had begun to move out. So it was just kind of an unfortunate historical event that we built all that just in time for it to be redundant and poorly designed for the new economy. I couldn't agree more with both of the remarks that have been made and it would only add this. This is why I think we need a narrative and a better way of telling the story about things that have been discredited. Because I think we do accept the idea that yes it was the height of the buildings that made public housing so bad. And it is why I have this call to people to kind of come out and reclaim the value of public life in this country. So I went to Head Start, right? People talk about Head Start now like it was nothing. I'm the youngest of 10 kids. It was terrific, you know? So did things go wrong? Was it not funded enough? Of course, right? We have a Supreme Court justice who was raised in public housing, Sonia Sotomayor. So it's not that public housing in and of itself is somehow dysfunctional and bad, right? We make decisions after we make investments as Patrick says and we live with the consequences of those decisions. So I just think we're in a moment where if we're not really careful we're gonna throw out all the baby and the bath water. And we actually need to segregate out a conversation about the value of the things that we created to create an invigorated public life. It would be like going down into the New York City subway and your train is delayed because there's a smoky condition at J Street Borough Hall, whatever they always say. And then saying public transportation is just a terrible idea. Because you were late to work three days that week. Well, that's crazy, right? You wouldn't say that. But we tend to kind of conflate and we do it because of the narratives we tell very often about race, which was the narrative of public housing. Once when I was a kid, I knew white kids in public housing, but once public housing became identified as this is a black thing, then it was easier to create a story about it that allowed you not to have a nuanced conversation that might have helped us understand all of the factors that both Paul and Patrick have talked about. So I do think this is why we have to be attentive to the story of what is valuable about public investment in this country. I'm actually gonna beg off of this question because I don't have the expertise. All right, well then I'm gonna take your time and tell you a little public housing story. In 1949, when President Truman proposed a massive public housing program, a conservative Republicans proposed a poison pill in Congress to the public housing bill and the poison pill was that public housing had to be integrated. Knowing that if the amendment was adopted, Southern Democrats would then no longer vote for public housing and the whole thing would go down. And Paul Douglas, who was the floor leader in the Senate for the public housing bill, got up and made a speech in which he said, and I'm paraphrasing, he says, I want to say to my Negro friends that they will get more public housing under this act if it's segregated than if it's integrated. And Douglas and Uwe Humphrey and all of the liberals in the Senate beat back the integrationist amendment and a segregated public housing project was adopted. I think, and with slight disagreement with Patrick, I think that the disinvestment later in public housing was an inevitable consequence of that decision to ensure that it would be segregated. And again, I guess this is the opposite of what we were saying before. There are short-term and long-term consequences of the decisions that we make. And I think some of the consequences of some of the segregation decisions that were made in the past are still coming back to haunt us. With that, I just want to thank these four wonderful panelists for just a terrific, just a terrific presentation and I do hope you will get copies of both Paul's paper and Patrick's book. And thank you all very much for coming.
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Lightning Talk - React Knowledgeable
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Speaker: Thomas Chia
Event Page: https://www.meetup.com/React-Knowledgeable/events/263825225/
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one. I was actually inspired to do this talk yesterday when I went to Singapore CSS. And I listened to a talk by Mr Sheldon here where he talked about a specific, talked about a problem he was having at work. So what inspired me particularly was that often in these talks we like to discuss a lot of ideal scenarios or new stuff. And sometimes we forget that there's real life with real problems, which are sometimes not as exciting as the things you want to talk about. But I was inspired to talk about a particular problem that I had and the solution that we came to. So I'm not saying that, so there's a problem, right? So I'm not saying that this is how you should do things if you have a choice. But this is what we were doing in the context of the problem. Okay, so what's the problem? The problem is we were developing a react application and it was built, it was started using create react app, right? So that's all fine. The problem is that it had to be served as part of another website. So this is still setting the scene here. It was decided that there would be an iframe placed in that website and we would serve the react application within that iframe. So this was like kind of okay. Until a particular point where it became not okay. And this point was when we had a modal in the react application and I'll demonstrate later why things became not okay. Actually, let me demonstrate it now. So I haven't prepared that well for this, but this is the page with the iframe. So the iframe is here and within this iframe we're serving a react application which has a modal. So when you open the modal, there's a problem. Everything is trapped within the iframe. All right, so this is obviously not how a modal is supposed to work. It's actually supposed to cover the entire screen. So what we did basically for this was we made use of a react feature called portals. It's actually part of reactdom. So what is a portal? What react is is basically a tree, right? For some of us it's like the tree of life, but it's basically a tree. And what this tree is is your components, right? So you usually start off with like app and then there's like, I don't know, header, whatever, the rest of it. But the thing is react is actually not a tree. So I sound like I've just contradicted myself, but react is actually two trees. So the first tree is the one I just described, which is the tree of UI elements. But there's actually a more like, I don't know, phantom like tree, which is the tree of data. So as you, as everyone knows in react data is, data flow is unidirectional. So top down and unidirectional. So when we have a, when you have a react application, in addition to just the UI components forming a tree, the relationship of the data between these components also forms like another tree on top of it. And for the most part, this is fine because when you have a component that's a child of another component, then you typically want that component to be able to get access to the data that is either created by its parent or passed on. But sometimes this is not what we want. Sometimes we want to separate these trees. And what Apostles let us do is, is keep the data tree, but move the UI tree. So this is basically what, how we solve this issue. Now I'm not going to do any live coding, but I'm going to do live git. Yeah. And I didn't have time to figure out how to do this properly, but I have to build it because otherwise I get some like cross origin problem in the iframe. So this is what we did. And now when we open the model, let's see. Yes. Okay. So what we were able to do was to render the content of the model outside the iframe. So what that looks like is here. Okay. This is like just, it's almost like pseudocode. But basically what we're doing is inside the model component, we target outside the, we target outside the iframe and we mount it there. So if you look, this, this model in the like data tree is a sibling of the button. But if you look at the UI tree, it's actually a sibling of the iframe. But the, but the data flow is still like, as it appears in the code, right? So if you, if you close everything still hooks up together. There's a problem though, right? Obviously. It doesn't look like a model. It's missing all the styles. And that's because the styles are like still trapped in the iframe. So, so how did we solve this? I'd like to say that like we came out with like this really great solution. But actually we just happened to find the solution already there. So we were using style components in the react application. And this is how I found out about this feature. There's actually a feature of style components, which lets you solve this. So let's see if it works this time. Yeah. Okay. So, so it works now, right? And what is the feature of style components? It's actually this thing called style sheet manager, which lets you pass a target where you want the generated styles to be attached. So all the styles inside here, where all the styles inside style sheet manager will be attached here instead of inside the iframe. So, if you look, they are like here. So that's how we managed to like take out the UI and also the styles. Yeah, that's it. Thanks. So the question. Yeah. So if we remove the iframe now, so how the behavior will be because you're attaching to the window problem? Yeah. So it's dependent on the outside structure. So if you pass a reference to a node that doesn't exist to the target, then you'll have some problems. So the way we did it was we had like we did it via configuration where we had like a finite set of environments. So we had like the one with the iframe and then for local development, we had it without. So in one configuration, you pass like a default reference there. And then for a different one, you choose the correct element. Yeah. Any other questions? So yes, but partly by chance because when style components generates the class names, it's it's it's like a hash. So I don't know what the so technically it's possible that you can break stuff. If you happen to have a if you happen to have a class on a component in the outside app, which has the same name as the generated one, but we didn't face that. So yeah. But yeah, technically it's it is sharing the same scope once it's out. Okay.
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Week 6: Tutorial 2
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Hi everyone in this video we will learn about inter-process communication so there are various mechanisms using which two processes can interact with each other but what we'll use here is the named pipes so we will run one process process one and we'll run another process called process two and we will send some messages from process one to process two using a named pipe and then we'll have another pipe using which we'll send messages back from process two to process one so let's look at the code so this is code for process one so we will open two pipes between process one and process two one is for writing and one is for reading so process one will write in one pipe from which process two will read and there will be another pipe in which process one will write and process two will read so we have two file descriptors what is for writing one is for reading we print this opening fee for a name pipe is also called FIFO in Linux so this FIFO is just like a normal file and we can see that in file explorer but it acts like a named pipe so we first define just two paths this is the path for our FIFO file so this is inside m folder we have my FIFO one and my FIFO two we use this MKFIFO function to create the FIFO file its first argument is the part to the file and second is the permission so if we check if the return value is equal to minus one that means there was some error and here we are checking if the error number is not e exist so if it is e exist so that would mean that this FIFO was already there and we do not worry because we just want that there is a FIFO at this particular path which we can use we similarly create the another FIFO file and then we open both these files so in process one we open FIFO one for writing and we open FIFO two for reading so we give the respective file descriptor to these variables and if we look at process two's code we have similar code till this point where we define this my FIFO one my FIFO two we make these both FIFO's but here we use my FIFO one for reading and my FIFO two for writing so let's continue so we print that FIFO was opened and then we have two buffers one is for process one messages and another is for process two messages now we execute this while loop and we first read the message from fd read which means we want first message from process two and we read it in this buffer we check if the message length is not zero then we continue and we print that this was the message received from process two we reset this message from process two buffer and then we take in input some new message from the terminal for process one and we write it to the fd write file descriptor so here we are reading a message from the first pipe and here we are writing to the second pipe using the write function then we reset this message from process one buffer so this will execute in a while loop and in the end we close both the file descriptors and we print FIFO closed and return zero and in process two's code we have a similar code till this point but here first we take in input some message from the user and then we write it to fd write so we send some message from pipe one to process one and process two reads that message and then we read a reply from process one using this read function and we print out that message and then we again take in input this message from process two and this we continue till we get a buy in process two and finally we write an empty message to fd write so that in process one this while loop can exit so the length of message from process two will be zero and it will break and then we close both this file descriptors and we print out FIFO closed so let's compile both of these programs and see the output let's open two terminals alright I'll compile process one and named executable process one I will similarly compile process 2.c okay and now I run process one so here if we see this process one is stuck at opening FIFO let's try to understand why it is stuck after opening FIFO let's have a look at the code again so what we are doing in process one is we are creating two FIFO files we then open both these files one for writing another for reading and then we print FIFO open but it didn't print FIFO open which means that it is stuck somewhere here so it is stuck because in case of FIFO the open code blocks until there is another open for reading so it is stuck after this point so if we look at the man page of open man to open and if we scroll down so here it is mentioned that opening the read or write end of FIFO blocks until the other end is also opened so here this open call is blocking till we also open reading end of this pipe in some other process so now if I execute process two only then can process one go ahead so let's again open these terminals all right so here I'll execute process two and once I press enter then you will see that it will print out open FIFO so we have both the FIFO open in both the processes and process two is showing us this cursor for input so let's send some message hello from process two and we receive that message here in process one so here we can send messages back and forth between process one and process two using two named pipes we can in fact see these FIFO files in the TMP folder so let's execute this LSTMP so here you can see these two files my FIFO one and my FIFO two so these are those two FIFO files so that's it for this video thanks and have a nice day
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HOW TO SKETCH latte foam art (3 mediums)
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Happy "Cuddle Up Day" - go snuggle in with a cup of coffee and your favorite art supplies.....paint a latte!
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Well, hello there and welcome to my studio. I'm Sandy Allnock. I'm an artist and I work in lots of different mediums and make all kinds of different things And I want to say a special welcome back to those of you who somehow got the idea in my last video the social media breakup That I was leaving YouTube and I think you must have misheard something or didn't watch the end or something But if you're interested in finding out what I'm doing with social media in 2024 I will put a link in the doobly-doo to that video But today is an actual tutorial. I'm going to be coloring some latte in different mediums because it's cuddle-up day and Drinking something warm sounds like a good thing to do Each of the three sketches today are going to be about Three three and a quarter inches or so. I made two circles using a compass and then colored in a cup For the latte, which is really what we're going to focus on not the cup itself I'm just taking a very light marker first and sketching in a rough design And this is instead of doing it in pencil because pencil can drag when you're Going over it with alcohol markers because especially with light colors. They'll just make streaks of gray all over the place so I use kind of a Skin tone very light skin tone there so you could see it you could do it in something lighter if you want and Then switch to a yellow kind of color YR23 The yellow and the peach are going to show through in some of the foam and give it a little different color than Rather than just all the browns that are going to be used on top So it doesn't even matter that this under part is on the messy side because there's going to be a lot covering it up So I'm going to start with an e3 5. I wasn't sure if this was the perfect right color but I wanted to go from darker on the left side to a bit lighter on the right side and What I find in drawing latte is just go slowly and build up your colors So start light and then get darker. There is going to be some darker on here But I decided this was going to be kind of the middle dark and then I'm going to switch to an e3 3 Which is going to give me a little lighter of a dark color I wanted to get a little bit more of this e3 5 in here before I switch over Because I wanted some of the little swirls in the foam to have some dark Sections in between them that sort of thing So I got the e3 3 out and that starts giving me that overall Kind of color shift from the dark on the left side to the lighter on the right side And I'm even coloring over top of some of this foam Really the little heart in the center can be the only thing you leave because it's real easy to get carried away with your marker colors But all the layering of the color pushes some of the phone back underneath the surface of the coffee So it starts actually looking more realistic and before we continue. Let me bring you a word from our sponsor This latte video is brought to you by the fresh brew alcohol marker class Over at our dash classes comm in this brand new course, which is a level three an Intermediate course you will learn how to draw three different cups of coffee one is overhead One is a somewhat side view and the other is a more angled view in each one of them We will be exploring how to layer the colors how to recognize the shapes how to look for where one area Begins the other ends how to make that spoon look like it Finds how to make the reflections sparkle You are gonna have so much fun in this class You're gonna learn a lot that you can apply to other drawings of coffee cups So if you're interested, there's a link in the doobly-doo. I now return you to our regular scheduled latte video. Oh My silly marketing radio voice. I Hope that was not too jarring for you But I figured if you are watching a video on how to draw a latte foam You might be interested in drawing cups In the class there are no lattes. There's just coffee But no now that you know how to draw the latte foam Just a note if you try to draw the latte foam on a cup That's not a direct overhead view you have to distort the hearts and everything because those will also be at an angle So what I'm doing here is just kind of continually playing around and refining my shapes putting in a few darks and Trying to blend in some areas so I get softer Kind of transitions between some of the colors. I'm not too worried about making the heart perfect So if your heart is not perfect, you know, a Latte foam is not gonna be perfect anyway So here I'm using an e2 9 because the side closest to the light is gonna be the darkest side So I wanted some dark up in that corner, but also remember the shadow is gonna cast across the foam So you may need to darken a little of the foam to not just the coffee and Then at the very end I use my colorless blender to soften out the areas that are especially right around the whites The colorless blender won't erase it all the way back to white, but it'll get it close ish and it looks fantastically like a swirl on a latte So that's the alcohol marker version now for what I think is my favorite version out of these three You can decide which one you like better the colored pencils on stonehenge paper totally gave me the texture of What you can find on the top of a cup of coffee And I don't drink coffee like that's not my thing I you know if I go to Starbucks or to our local coffee shop or anything for me It's like a hot chocolate or a cider or something But I I love watching them make latte art I love watching videos on latte art because it's just fascinating to me that you pour this thing in this liquid And it just makes these shapes So this one is done entirely with two colored pencils there is a looks like the number on here is one oh three four golden rod and Sienna brown nine four five both in Prismacolor But you can use any kind of gold ish pencil for this first layer so basically what I did was sketch in the design with the Golden rod pencil and I put like a heart at the top and then a wider heart underneath of it and a still wider heart underneath that just kind of nested them and then made some Almost leaves I guess that kind of go up and curl into this thing. So it all looks like one big heart I saw a lot of variations of this design on the Googles So if you want to go find some designs rock on and see what you can locate for some inspiration You could also go to a coffee shop and get some inspiration that by the way is where I Recorded the sound here. I went to my local coffee shop and Turned on my recording device so that I could have a little coffee in behind what we're doing here today We can pretend we're sketching in a coffee shop so I'm taking the sienna brown and Reinforcing some of the darks that I want on the interior of all of that yummy Foam but not everywhere and don't put it absolutely everywhere because that's not what latte foam looks like It's kind of mishmash and it goes from dark to light in all different kinds of ways So again, I'm putting the shadow on the side kind of to the upper top and left Where the shadow is going to be cast from the cup or from the lip of the cup onto the foam So it's going to be darker up there And I'm just going to use massive numbers of layers of this because when I do layers I can slowly build it up over time Instead of trying to find one pencil and then pressing really hard My hands also don't like pressing really hard because they get tired By the way, you may be wondering what the glove is doing on my hand. I have a spider bite on that hand and I'm like one of those people if somebody has like a big weird thing going on on their their hand I get like really freaked out and I can't watch the videos. Oh, I just thought well I'm gonna wear my glove today So you don't have to look at my spider bite. At least that's I'm assuming it's a spider bite. I don't know It's going away, but not fast enough So I'm continuing to build up the layers and as I get toward the end here I'm going over top of each one of these dark sections and Going in circles with my pencil So I start getting almost a bleeding out of the dark lines because I want them to be soft And then the very last step was to use my electric eraser to Lift up some of those spots. They got a little too dark So an electric eraser on the Stonehenge paper works phenomenally So there is the latte in colored pencil The final latte is going to be in watercolor and this one the design is going to end up being a lot simpler Than the other two because it's a little tough to get all that kind of detail in in watercolor But you can certainly try it. I'm going to initially just paint in a rough heart Using my brush not worrying about trying it trying it pencil first I could do that, but then I could trap some pencil under there So I figured I'm just going to paint it very thin yellow ochre paint Because this can also serve as some underpainting as well But I want that center part of course available for a heart I'm going to dry it completely and that's going to mean the next layer I can really get into painting all kinds of shapes of swirls So if you're going to do a complex design, this would be the time to do it But I also decided in here that I wanted to change the shape of my heart and look how I can do that when I'm staying very light with my layers That yellowish part at the bottom Doesn't matter if I start painting over it to carve my heart into a different shape I can totally do that and use some of that underpainting to Enrich the the various layers of the entire latte itself So I got that layer in and then dried it And then started using some thicker and darker pigment. I added to it To the yellow ochre I added a little bit of transparent red oxide or you could add some burnt sienna If it's too bright then add a blue to it to kind of dull it down And I'm just painting right over all of those under parts. So see how it's developing that kind of nice foam under the foam sort of thing I got out my liner brush to even add a few very tiny lines But you can use like a number two brush to do that And then I went in with some darker pigment. So again using that transparent red oxide almost full strength here And creating the shadow part that goes behind the lip of the cup And then I'm just kind of making more shapes in here You can stop before you get to this point. You don't need to make it this dark But different kinds of drinks are going to be made to different depths of color So, you know, just kind of play with it and have fun These would be great for valentines, by the way Just put one of these like cut out a circle And hand somebody a circle with a latte on it and then tape a gift card to the back of it So they can go get a latte. Wouldn't that be nice? Um, so I'm just kind of painting some shapes on here You can see the brush is just kind of making these nice wiggly lines And then as I'm finishing I'm using thinner paint to fill in in between the lines Because that's going to smooth it all out a bit And leave the heart being the thing that's floating in the center without quite as many of the white parts around the outside edge But look how much it looks like foam that sunk into the coffee That was kind of what I was looking for Because with watercolor that's almost an easier look to do than Trying for some of the fancy things done in the more controllable mediums because water watercolor is not always as controllable So reaffirming the shadow up at the top side with some dark pigment and there is the watercolor version And reviewing the colored pencil one. There's still pictures of these on my blog if you want to go see that And yeah, don't forget the fresh brew class is waiting for you I don't serve coffee in it, but we do have some of the ambient sounds Of the coffee shop that you're hearing in this video I will see you guys later on Like tuesday next week next video is coming up for letter writing week. I'll see you then take care and create something every day Bye
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What is #STOPCOPCITY?
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Kwame Olufemi and Jasmine Burnett, organizers with Community Movement Builders in Atlanta explain what the Stop Cop City movement is about. Join the #stopcopcity Week of Action and learn how you can take action from your community at http://stopcopcitysolidarity.org
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Cop City is what we call a urban warfare training facility and the reason why we call that is not being hyperbolic it's because the Atlanta police foundation who was bankrolling the project what they say is going to be built there are shooting ranges is going to be a mock city of Atlanta where they're going to be practicing high speed car chases where they're going to be practicing bomb detonations where they're going to be practicing busting into people's doors and doing evacuation drill these are specific trainings to be able to one repress movements whatever those movements might be and also to be able to ultimately brutalize poor and working class communities black communities in particular the phrase defend the Atlanta forest has come directly out of the fight against cop city over a hundred acres of publicly owned land is slated to be developed we believe that you know one tree is too much for them to even be cutting down and there are a lot of reasons why this force is an important site to recognize and to protect um historically this is Muscogee land right indigenous folks who had their land stolen by white people in Atlanta who then transitioned that land into a prison farm essentially where they were capturing formerly enslaved people and forcing them to work at this farm and now they want to use this site to build yet another apparatus that is going to harm and brutalize poor and working class people this is an urban forest it is responsible for collecting the rainwater when we have huge storms here southwest Atlanta black neighborhoods already flood and so without those trees we're going to experience even more flooding of our communities we also know that the trees provide a natural canopy for the rising increases in temperatures that we're experiencing due to global warming so without those trees it's set to get even hotter and we know that poor working class black and brown people have the least access to you know AC right who aren't going to be able to be durable against these increased impacts of climate change we also know specifically that when they're doing these tear gas explosions when they're detonating these bombs right the runoff from those chemicals will get into our water supply this forest there's a river that flows through it that provides our drinking water and environmental studies after environmental studies have confirmed that the water will be poisoned if cop city is built there this is specifically environmental racism the area with that surrounds where cop city is proposed to be built is 70 black right it's a very much so a poor and working class community the poisoned water the noise pollution from gunshot rounds being being fired bomb detonation is being taken place all of that is specifically affecting poor and working class black communities i've been pulled over by the police repeatedly in atlanta the further militarization of the police is just going to further the risk that i have whenever i am pulled over by the police in atlanta atlanta is also already the most surveilled city in the entire country and in my own neighborhood we have police cameras up all over the place right so we recognize that this is just an extension of the police state as we've been trying to organize to be able to get uh cop city stopped the state's repression against organizers has also increased greatly what i'm talking about is literally having guns pointed in your face as an organizer organizing against cap city having tear gas deployed against you as an organizer in cops against cop city up to the point where the atlanta police atlanta police or the georgia state police actually murdered a protester tortugita was murdered by georgia state police for sitting in a tent on public park land and the same people who are investigating their murder is the georgia bureau of investigation who was actually on the scene when they were murdered and so that's culminated now and not only the murder of one organizer but also the domestic terrorism charges against 19 different people organizing against cop city the week of action is an opportunity for folks who want to to come to atlanta and participate in different rallies demonstrations teachings cultural events all related to stopping cop city if you're unable to come to atlanta there's a great website called stopcopcity solidarity dot org where you can learn how you can plug in from where you're at right that could be calling the contractors and subcontractors headquarters in your own city that could be writing letters to the folks who are still incarcerated for demonstrating against cop city that could be doing banner drops or art installations to let people know where you are what's going on with cop city because it's important to know that while this facility is being built in atlanta 43% of the officers that will be trained at cop city will not even be in the state of georgia so this is a moment of urgency for everyone and that website will give folks a lot of information on who they should be targeting if they want to plug into the week of action
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Oscar Pistorius: The Sprint to Infamy - Unveiling the Blade Runner’s Darkest Night
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Oscar Pistorius: The Sprint to Infamy - Unveiling the Blade Runner’s Darkest Night
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Step into the world of Oscar Pistorius, the once-revered Olympic runner with a story that captivated and then shocked the world. From his groundbreaking achievements on the track to the fateful night that changed everything, we take you inside the walls of the Silverwoods Country Estates. Witness the contrast between the glory of athletic triumph and the grim reality of a Valentine’s Day tragedy. Watch as we dissect the events, the trial, and the aftermath that followed. Stay tuned till the end for an in-depth look at the man behind the headlines and the legacy left in the wake of that dark night.
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Oscar Pistorius was born November 22nd 1986 and he was a famous runner known for his speedy prosthetic legs making history by competing in the Olympics despite being a double amputee. His success story took a sad turn in 2013. Imagine a big house in a fancy neighborhood called Silverwood's Country, Estates and Pretoria, South Africa. This is where Oscar would stay with his girlfriend Riva Steenkamp, a property which saw both the good and bad sides of Oscar's life. Everything changed on Valentine's Day in 2013 when something tragic happened inside their beautiful home. It was this night when the celebrated Paralympic runner fatally shot his girlfriend Riva, an incident that revealed a troubled relationship between the couple.
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Assassination Nation Cast Play Never Have I Ever | MTV Movies
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Assassination Nation stars Abra, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef and Odessa Young play a REVEALING game of Never Have I Ever, and reveal their funniest moments behind the scenes AND their character’s secret pasts!
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Never have I ever used someone else's toothbrush. Like on the daily. I just think that that's ridiculous. There's so much that humans would do. To not use a toothbrush is like... Because that's for a cleaning fit. You don't? I have not. What? With the record I had not clapped on that one so... Never have I ever had an embarrassing screen name. I considered myself somewhat of an environmentalist when I was a child. And so my screen names were like things to do with whales. There was one that had something to do with a dying seal. It was really morbid. It was really really morbid. Never have I ever gotten a tattoo. Wait. So many. Yes. Okay. I got a matching one with my mom. Mine's absolutely pathetic. It's a dot. I love her. Actually the story behind it is cute. It's the pale blue dot. It's not very cool whatsoever. No it isn't. Oh that's a cowboy hat on her arm. I got a big hat. Is that a new hat? No it's not. We just covered it up. Yeah. I got this like a month before we started shooting and Sam was so upset with me. He was like... Girl. We got to cover this so we spent like two hours in makeup like covering this up. What does it say? Angel. Oh right. The movie obviously deals with some like serious subjects but what was the funniest thing that happened on set that we maybe didn't see on screen? We got a guy to lick an ashtray. Oh. Wait you did that. You did that. You got him to do that. I got him to lick an ashtray while I was like choking him probably at the same time. Come on. Before or after you spit. Thank you. Oh I spit in his mouth. Yeah. This is all in the same scene. This is my feminism. Why are there any scenes that you did film that didn't make the final cut that you're hoping resurface on like a DVD? There's a great acapella singing moment that... Yeah. That... We could do it for you. Can we cast? Yeah. I'm dead. Why did that not make the final cut? I mean because there's literally no point to it but it's pretty cool. There was a lot of gore in the movie. Firstly, what were you covered in? What was the fake blood? Okay. It was f***ing superglue. I'm sorry but that blood... Oh it was really... I'm losing all of you from like ripping your skin off. My ass got stuck to my calves when I like kneeled down one day. I had a video of peeling my skin off itself. She was stuck to the floor when they were... They were seeing the last scene in the bathroom and she was stuck to the floor with the blood. She was just like, help me. Her skin was like peeling. I was like... Yeah your skin would rip off when you tried to stand up. I was crazy. I survived blood left. Yeah you did. You got to wash your blood off in the pool. True. Yeah I remember they were like bikini scenes and the makeup artists were just like, oh no. Yeah all the bruises on us. What was your favourite scene to film? Probably just the scenes where we're all sitting around talking smack. Sam with that as improv he'd be like, talk about boy butts. Talk about Britney Spears. Yeah and he would give us phones as well. Like we all had our own personal phones to like film our own stuff on or whatever and I remember me and Odessa going around and I think I was like humping a bin or trash bin and Odessa was like filming me and we'd just be messing around like pretending that teachers were coming. It was like a kind of a summer heights high. Oh yeah. We're talking animals. We went to the basketball court and did this dance to sleep for you. I took news and characters. For like hours. Wait I just found the peaches video. Yeah. You have that? On the motorcycle. On the motorcycle. So you guys did like a full dance routine to f**k you away by peaches and it was amazing. It was a damn good shooting. I was like next door to Hari and she would be on her phone like doing this BTS and she'd be like, I'm Bex and like I like Soothed. I would just hear it from next door. Wait because Bex had this whole other storyline where she was like a YouTube, like she was a YouTuber. Oh yeah no like I fully, no I had like a whole background story for Bex. I named her Tumblr which I found out was the name of an actual Tumblr. It's a bad swear word. Okay so. I feel like. Like somebody please ask. Double Ks. Kardashian. Wait that's really good. Wait what is it? Double K? Like K. F**k with a K. Okay I'm like sorry. And you guessed that's what Bex. Right like I feel like that was her Tumblr and she was like really big on Tumblr and she'd post like self-help videos. Yeah and her parents were like psychologists. Yeah I thought her parents were just. Oh that's right. Wait the backstory went deep. Oh no Bex was wearing like, like Bex Loki has some like designer pieces. I'm like okay. Yeah you were going to be like an artist or like you were going to go to art history. Yeah she wanted to go to like Parsons or something. I went to acting school and I learned how to prepare film roles this way.
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I Was a Communist for the FBI - The Red Octopus
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06/10/53, episode 60
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I was a communist for the FBI. Starring Dana Andrews in an exciting tale of danger and espionage. I was a communist for the FBI. Many of the incidents and the story you're about to hear are based on the actual records and authentic experiences of Matt Sevettik, who for nine fantastic years lived as a communist for the FBI. Here is our star, Dana Andrews, as Matt Sevettik. A night of terror that stretched out for nine long years. That was my experience as a communist for the FBI. I feared and hated every minute of it. But believe me, mister, you'd fear and hate it a lot more if the communists ever got control of this country. Because fear and hate is the basis of my story. And it may surprise you to learn that without knowing it, you're helping to finance your own terror. In a moment, listen to Dana Andrews as Matt Sevettik, under cover man. Andrews as Matt Sevettik, under cover man. This story from the confidential file is marked, The Red Octopus. After the comrade has given me my orders and left, I go to a chair and sit down, heavenly. I've been scared before, but never as badly as this. I'm under orders to report to the communist control committee in New York. And the control committee is the American communist secret police, the dispensers of party discipline. Later, when I have my nerves under better control, I form the FBI and arrange to be picked up for a conference. I'm at the designated corner, long before the agent drives up and stops in front of me. Get in, Matt. Thanks. What's wrong, boy? You look as though you've been in a fight. Oh, just nervous. I cut myself, shaming. The Red Control Committee wants me in New York. When? Immediately. And I've been ordered to advise all my local contacts not to worry about me. I may be gone indefinitely. That doesn't sound good. There's the understatement of the week. It sounds as though I've slipped somewhere. And the comrades are going to give me the works. Yeah. Well, you've got any suggestions? No, Matt. I'm going to pass the buck to you. If you accept this party invitation, it'll have to be as a volunteer. You mean I have a choice? Well, the Bureau isn't going to order you to commit suicide. Somehow I don't find that very consoling. But naturally, Matt, if you do decide to follow party orders and meet with the control committee, our New York office will give you all possible protection. In other words, you really want me to go. There's always the chance you might pick up some vital information. Yeah, I know. You'll think it over, Matt. If you decide against going, nobody in the Bureau will think any less of you. But naturally, it'll end your value as an undercover man. Yeah. Well, let me out at the next corner, will you? Sure. You made up your mind already? No, that's why I want out. Maybe if I walk around a little, I think this out better. You let me know what you decide as soon as possible, Matt? Yeah, I'll call you in the morning. Good. There are some ways to walk back to my place. But even walking can't help the kind of thinking that I have to do. Maybe the control committee isn't just setting me up to knock me down. Maybe I'm going to be given an assignment that will be vitally important to the fight against communism. Maybe I'll be given an assignment that looks important, but is really a trap. Maybe. Maybe I'm going nuts. I'm all the way home, and I haven't decided what to do. Then I open the door of my room, and a decision is made for me. Comrade Smith? Yes? I am Comrade Miller, Comrade Smith. Sent by the control committee to escort you back to New York. Escort me to New York? You didn't get the orders? Yes, but just an hour or so ago, and they didn't say anything about anyone coming for me. I know, but the recent disturbing information leaks prompted the committee to take no chances in this case. Well, I was supposed to notify all my local contacts that I might be away indefinitely. You can write them from New York. Now please get your things together. I have reservations for us on a plane that leaves a little after midnight. A plane? I was going to take a bus. A bus makes too many stops. It sounds as though I've suddenly become pretty important to the control committee. Very important, Comrade Svettik. When Miller says that, I want to slug him and run. But where can a communist run and find safety? Besides, Miller's a big man. A real control committee goon. If I didn't knock him out with a first punch, my trying to escape would convict me of every crime in the party book. So I pack and go to the airport with Miller without a chance to notify the FBI that I'm leaving. Aboard the plane, I try to find out why I'm being taken to New York. But Miller won't talk. The first information I get comes to me in the bleak, sound-proofed interrogation chamber of the control committee where Comrade Miller leaves me with Comrade Rice. Sit down, Comrade Svettik. I don't mind standing Comrade Rice. Suit yourself. What's all this about? First, I get orders to report to the control committee, then before I can follow the orders, I'm picked up and brought here. This is a very serious matter, Comrade Svettik. It was decided that we must move quickly and take no chances. I've been through that with Comrade Miller. What's the charge? Charge, Comrade. There's no charge at the moment. Oh. Then why have I been hauled around like a party criminal? Believe me, Comrade, we don't transport party criminals by plane. You're here for an extremely delicate assignment. An assignment? It catches me by surprise and I sink into the chair. I'd refuse just a moment ago. Then I look up and I see Comrade Rice watching me closely. I tell him, I'm sorry, I suddenly felt very tired. Don't apologize, Comrade Svettik. Here at the control committee, we see that reaction frequently. Yeah, I can understand that. As for your assignment, Comrade Svettik, what do you know about a Comrade Hillman? Hillman. I know that there's one who heads the party's commercial enterprises. That's the one. Have you ever had any contact with him? No. Why? We have reason to believe that Comrade Hillman has been injuring the party by using his position for his own financial interests. In fact, we're sure of it. But we can't prove it. So? So we brought you to New York to get that proof. Did the Hillman operate it out of New Orleans? He does normally, but he has such great organizational ability that we brought him to New York to direct our operation against the waterfront. Now he seems to feel that he's bigger than the party. How's that? Hillman can give you the details. He's too useful to destroy, but he has to be controlled. We're assigning you to him as his assistant to get concrete evidence which will justify our disciplining him. Am I the first to be given this assignment, Comrade Rice? No, there have been others. The waterfront is not a drawing room, Comrade Setic. There's always violence there. And Hillman's assistants are always in the middle. In the middle of what? Whatever comes up. So far, those who have tried to remain faithful and fulfill their obligations to the party have somehow run afoul of Hillman's friends in the MBD. Those who have switched their allegiance to Hillman have been dealt with by the committee. Doesn't sound like a great future. We're hoping, Comrade Setic, that you will be more clever and luckier than those who have preceded you. If I'd been luckier, you'd never have called me. Perhaps we thought you were more clever. That crack doesn't make me feel either lucky or clever. And if I didn't like the setup before, I want no part of it now. This is strictly a pigeon trap, and I am the pigeon, but there's no backing out. While these thoughts are racing through my mind, Rice calls Comrade Miller in and orders him to take me to Comrade Hillman. Then we walk through a miserable, foggy night to a dingy waterfront office where I meet Comrade Hillman. Well, Comrade Miller, what do I owe the pleasure of this visit? I brought you an assistant, Comrade Hillman. Another? The control committee feels that Comrade Setic could learn a lot from watching your operations. I see. In that case, welcome to the waterfront, Comrade Setic. Thank you, Comrade Hillman. Where would the control committee like to have Comrade Setic start? Oh, we'll leave that to you. Just be sure he gets a clear picture of everything you're doing here. That goes without saying, Comrade. Oh, good. I will expect to hear from you like at this evening, Comrade Setic. I'll see that he gets away in plenty of time. Thank you. Did I miss something funny, Comrade Hillman? Something very funny, Comrade Setic. Well, if you're not going to let me in on it, maybe you'd better start briefing me on the project. Oh, well, it's quite simple. Our job has a dual purpose, to infiltrate the waterfront with party members and so be in a position to delay the shipping of war goods and to fatten the party's finances. How's that done? By taking over unions and siphoning off dues? Nothing so petty, Comrade. Our party members on the docks have access to warehouses where quantities of valuable goods are stored. These goods we distribute through party-controlled manufacturing and retail outlets at a considerable profit. You mean the Communist Party is officially sponsoring these waterfront thefts? Oh, certainly not, Comrade Setic. I've set up a separate organization to handle this business, an organization which you, as my assistant, will head. Then if anything goes wrong, I'm the patsy, huh? Oh, there's always that chance. However, according to the newspapers, these wholesale thefts are all part of the unsavory waterfront mess. In other words, the party gets the money. Someone else gets the blame. That's about right. It's a perfect setup. But now fools like Comrade Miller want this goldmine stopped. Well, I haven't been told anything about any part of this. What's their reasoning? The big heats on, and they're afraid. You're going to have to choose sides before tomorrow night, Comrade Setic. What do you mean? The control committee has put you in a spot where you can't stay neutral. You're either with me or you're against me. You don't have much time to choose. I don't have much choice either, do I? Oh, yes. You can choose between Comrade Miller, who handles waterfront discipline for the control committee, and Comrade Broski, who performs the same duties for my friends in the MVD. They're both magicians when it comes to making men disappear. Caring as Matt Severick in I Was a Communist for the FBI and the second act of our story. While I'm considering the unlovely choice that Comrade Hillman has offered me, a chance to disappear at the hands of either the control committee or the MVD, he goes on to the next step in communist technique, the technique which offers inescapable punishment and possible reward to any person or country whose cooperation is needed. The possible reward he offered me was definitely negative, a mere possible chance to avoid trouble. This operation, Comrade Severick, is temporary, and picky you in comparison to my regular job. I understand that you had all the party's commercial enterprises. Oh, yes, you name it. I operate it. Would you like to be part of it? Well, it sounds like a spot where a guy could pick up a fast buck for himself without crossing party interests. Now the party's never suffered, and I've done very well for myself. Really? Yeah, yeah. If you didn't get any ideas about announcing me, Comrade, I would deny it. It would be your word against mine. And I have some very powerful friends in both the Comintern and the MVD. I have some friends on the control committee. Naturally. Your predecessors had friends too. Yet none of them survived a single report that recommended action against me. Quite a coincidence. Yes. Coincidence. Well, what do you intend to report to the committee? That, so far, you've been very helpful and informative, Comrade Hillman. Yeah, well, be sure you don't go any farther than that, huh? We'll discuss this again in the morning, after you've made your report. After I've made my report. Nice spot, isn't it? Hillman's as good as told me that he's using the party for his own financial gain, but I can't prove it. Hillman's MVD friends will knock me off. As far as I can see, there's only one thing for me to do, and that's run for it. Then, just as I leave the waterfront, a car pulls up in front of me and the door's thrown open, and inside says, Get in, Sevedic. There's nothing else I can do, so I get in. I'm Ryan Sevedic with a bureau here in New York. Here are my credentials. How did you know I was here? One of our men covering your airport saw you board the plane there and phoned ahead. We've had a tail on you ever since you landed in New York. After Ryan hears my report, he asks me to stay with the assignment and to string along with Hillman. We've known about this waterfront business for some time, man, but we don't have enough men to cover every dark and warehouse every night. I can understand that. The aerial blow to the wrench if you could help us catch them in the act. Hillman particularly. We could jail the gang involved, confiscate their property. The aerial big step toward buttoning up the waterfront operation. Well, I'll see what I can do. I can't understand why the committee hasn't arranged to have Hillman just disappear. Say, Hillman must have a friend on the committee who tips him off on reports made against him. If I knew who that guy was. We'll put a 24-hour tail on Hillman immediately and see who contacts him after you've made this first report. After Ryan gives me an emergency phone number to call, just in case, he lets me out. And I go before the committee and make my non-committal report on Comrade Hillman. I try to say nothing that can be used against me by either side. I'm apparently successful. At any rate, the committee doesn't reprimand me, and when I walk into Hillman's office the next morning, I get a very friendly reception. Well, your report was very satisfactory to me, Comrade Svetik. I think we'll get along. I hope the committee's satisfied, too. Now, according to my information, there weren't any openly adverse comments. They may question me more closely next time. They want this warehouse looting stopped before the party's publicly involved. This waterfront operation is much more important than a few dollars. Well, you'll know all the answers, but I don't think you'll give them to the committee. I know that. But how can you be so sure? Because before you leave this office, you're going to call the party's trucking company and order eight vans to be at warehouse 23 at 10.30 tonight. Go on. At 10.15 tonight, you will go to warehouse 23. There you'll be contacted by a man who'll identify himself as Comrade Brotsky, the warehouse watchman. Oh, that's convenient. Oh, very. As soon as the trucks arrive, you will help Comrade Brotsky load them with the warehouse goods he indicates. You aren't afraid of my getting this evidence and turning it against you? No, Comrade. Because before you leave here, you're also going to call the committee and clear the use of the truck, certifying that that'll be used for regular party business. Now, I don't think you'll give me any trouble. No, I don't believe I will. Good. Make your phone calls and then go and get some rest. We're going to have a busy night ahead of us. I have a busy night ahead of me, all right? And when it's all over, Hillman will be able to shift the party's disciplinary action from himself to me, because this theft will be my responsibility. After clearing the trucks while Hillman listens, I go out and away from the waterfront. And as soon as I think I'm safe, I call the emergency number that Ryan gave me and make my report to the FBI. This is the break we've been looking for, Matt. Well, the break I'm looking for is a chance to get out of this with my neck. Who is it? A guy named Juice, he's the only committee member known to us who's contacted Hillman since you made your report. That's good news. Yeah. At least you know your enemy. Yeah. And that may be the break I'm looking for, as well as the one the bureau wants. Oh, what do you have in mind, Matt? Well, it isn't clear yet. And it may not work at all. I'll call you back this afternoon. I have an idea, all right? If I'm lucky and it works, I'll be a party hero. Everything depends on the accuracy of the FBI's assumption that Comrade Houston is Hillman's contact on the committee. It isn't easy to keep the nervous quiver out of my voice when I talk to Comrade Rice. Why aren't you with Comrade Hillman, Comrade Svedik? I can't tell you that, Comrade Rice, until you agree to one condition. What is it? Before I make any statement, bring Comrade Houston here and hold him in Communicado until tomorrow morning. But Comrade Houston's a member of the control committee. I know that. And I want you to arrest him and me before I tell you anything more. This is a weird request. It's a weird situation. And if I refuse it? Then I don't know a thing, Comrade. I think I'll see what you're driving at, Comrade Svedik. And since you've asked to be placed under arrest, too, I'll accept your condition. I hope for your sake that your information concerning Comrade Houston is correct. Now, what's your charge against him? He is your information leak to Hillman. Can you prove it? I hope so. At any rate, he gave Hillman the details of my report to the committee, the report I deliberately made non-committal. This is still just words. I'll give you more than just words. After my report, Hillman took me into his confidence to the extent of ordering me to steal a shipment of merchandise from Warehouse 23 at 10.30 tonight. Is that what you cleared those trucks for? That's right. With Hillman standing right next to me. But how could he expect to get away with it? Houston is the key. As long as he was free to warn Hillman, you could never catch them. They must have been splitting up a large share of the loot. But how can we catch Hillman in the act? Couldn't Houston be persuaded to call Hillman at the last moment tonight and tell him that you had placed me under arrest and that Hillman will have to supervise the job himself? Comrade Houston can be persuaded to do anything. As to whether or not Hillman will accept his suggestion, well, your future depends on that. Now I start the real sweat. Comrade Rice has accepted my plan so readily that I begin to wonder if maybe he's Hillman's contact. And when he tells me to go to my hotel room alone, I watch my step crossing every street for fear he has an accident planned for me. Nothing happens the first three or four blocks though, but I can't find a shadow trailing me. So I duck into a phone booth and call the FBI. Brian speaking. This is Matt. Go ahead. I won't be at the warehouse. Thanks. At my hotel, I'm joined by Comrade Miller, the control committee muscle man. We spend the afternoon and evening playing cards, but my mind is not it. I'm thinking of Hillman and Rice and the FBI and what'll happen to me if anything goes wrong. Ah, it beats me again. You know, for a guy who says he doesn't have his mind in the game, Comrade, you play a lot of wrongly. All right, I've been lucky. You'll be more than lucky if your tip to the committee works out. Yeah. It is almost eleven. We should know something very soon. Oh, shut up, will you? Sure. Who's deal is it? No, I don't care. I don't care. All right, I'll do. Didn't you say Comrade Rice told you that he'd be here by eleven? We've got a couple of minutes here. Don't rush the undertaker. What did you say that? Say what? About the undertaker. Do you know something that I don't? What are you talking about? Look at your cards. But I... Go on, Comrade. In your spot, you either win or you lose. So forget your problems. Play cards. I'll get it. Stay away from the door, huh? Comrade Rice is holding me responsible for you being here when he arrives. One way or another, you will be here. I'll get the door. Very good. Oh. Well, Comrade Svetik. Yes? You are right. You caught Hillman in the act. We saw him, but the FBI caught him. The FBI? Yes. The greedy idiot crossed the party more tonight than he ever earned for it. The FBI caught him, Comrade Braski, and the eight truck drivers. They'll give Hillman a chance to talk to save himself. He'll tell them everything he knows about the party and its operation. That sounds like quite a mess. The FBI must have had pretty complete information. Very complete information, obviously. I wonder... What? Comrade Houston. If he worked against the party to tip off Hillman, I think I'll have another talk with Houston. You think he tipped off the FBI? Very probably. In fact, they might even be on their way here right now. You'd better return to your home immediately, Comrade Svetik, before you're dragged into this too. We're very grateful to you. The control committee is grateful to me. I want to laugh hysterically because I hate the committee and I fear it too. And as I said earlier, fear and hate are the principal bases of communism. Fear your comrades and hate the free world. I love the free world, but I'm barred from it. And I do hate the comrades. So I walk alone. Dana Andrews will return in just a moment. This is Dana Andrews, friends. In the story you just heard, names, dates and places are fictitious to protect innocent persons. Many of these stories are based on incidents in the life of Matt Svetik, who worked undercover for the FBI. Next week, another fantastic adventure. Join us then, won't you?
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Is Your Goal Hopeless and Unrealistic? Applying Byron Katie's work
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Byron Katie gives us a method to challenge beliefs. Here, we examine the belief that 'My goal is hopeless and unrealistic'. Spoiler alert: this is not 'true', . Rather, it's simply a concept, and thus, we are free to drop it if we so choose.
For Online Coaching/Counselling, visit https://www.drdavidmaloney.com
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Dr. David Maloney is a Psychologist and a therapist/counselor. His has trained in a variety of techniques (person-centered, Gestalt, ACIM, psychodynamic) and works with people on a wide variety of issues. His main areas of expertise are in self-esteem, motivation, self-actualization, spirituality, relationships, overcoming procrastination, and living authentically. If you feel like you're are holding yourself back in life, or just need someone to talk things through with, his online coachng service might be perfect for you. From your own home, you can work with a highly trained and experienced therapist.
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So from time to time you tell yourself that the goal you have in life is unrealistic and even hopeless Now this video I'm going to show you a way to handle this so that it's not going to throw you off course the problem with this type of Situation is that this is anxiety and we believe these thoughts when they're there and how do we know you believe them? Well, we have these feelings so what I want you to start doing and I'm going to make this super quick is Notice the feelings when they come up and see if it's related to this belief There are no original thoughts when it comes to anxiety or hopelessness. So if One client I've worked with has this thought of my goal is unrealistic and hopeless The chances are and the reason I'm making this video is that Hundreds of thousands of other people out there Will also have this thought millions of people maybe Now isn't that interesting that so many of us have this thought? My goal is unrealistic and hopeless and it's related to these horrible feelings. What are these feelings? embarrassed Feeling stupid like you've made a huge mistake. You feel unmotivated sad dejected disappointed Anxious as I've mentioned afraid miserable and you feel pain in your body emotional pain It shows up in your body. That is the cause of this belief So this motivation just falls off a cliff with this So when any of these types of beliefs, I want you to realize when you're having this thought okay, check in with the feelings that are there and Realize it's because I'm believing that my goal is unrealistic and hopeless and I want you to realize That the emotions that you're feeling in that moment are related to one thing and one thing only It's not an objective analysis or an objective Observation of the world or your situation It is anxiety. It is just a belief. The belief causes these feelings Okay, so what do we need to do? We need to first Figure out. Okay, don't like how it makes me feel already motivated to drop it just because it had a loan And then I want to experience or imagine what it would feel like if I was in this exact same situation in my life And I wasn't believing this thought What would that be like? Well, I'd feel more open. I'd feel more present more grateful optimistic hopeful more excited more willing to act What we're doing here is we're weighing up Life with disbelief and life without disbelief even before we even look at whether or not it's true Which is the next step. So after you weigh up whether you like having this thought or not And you're comparing your life with and without disbelief. You should be motivated to say wouldn't it be great if it wasn't true? Okay So then the final step Look, is it true? Now? How do you know if this belief is true? My goal is unrealistic and hopeless What you do is you find out the exact opposite belief Which would be? My goal is realistic and exciting now if if there's any evidence that that's true your original fearful thought cannot be true Okay, because if the opposite is true or there's evidence that it's true the original thought cannot be true It would make no sense. It would be like saying the sky is red and the sky is blue and Saying both of those can be true at the same time. It's either true or it isn't So my goal is realistic and exciting and really look See if there's evidence that it's realistic and I promise you That if you look you will find evidence that it's true So it could be something like many people have already achieved this goal or it could be I'm bringing value to people with this goal Other things I have a unique perspective that I can share with people It could be something like I have plenty of time to achieve my goal It could be I've already done a lot of work towards my goal that will stand to me in the future So there's all these things once you start to be open-minded and start to look for them And even if it's small to begin with you can find it guys this thought is only a thought That's the point of this I want you to get in touch with the power of your mind the power that your thoughts have over your life When you change your thinking Your life changes Okay, the way you are emotionally in your day-to-day life changes So just start to question these thoughts because all they are are just concepts and They can either help you or they can tear you down After a while you begin to see you know what I don't want to live my life like this with these thoughts And I'm not going to use positive thinking. I'm going to look at reality. I'm going to look and see if there's evidence That a more loving compassion and exciting inspiring thought might be true And I guarantee you if you're if you're looking for it, you will find it My goal is realistic and exciting. So if you're watching this video, I'm going to tell you Whatever the goal is that you have it's realistic and it's exciting Okay, it's realistic and it's exciting look for the evidence start to hold that thought Just for a little while Even if it's scary Realize the price of having the other thought My goal is unrealistic and hopeless makes me feel terrible Are we seeing the power of our thoughts? Are we seeing the choice that we have to make the choice for something more Liberate in our lives So that's an example if you ever have this feeling that your goals are unrealistic and hopeless I want you to come back and watch this video. I want you to watch this video again and again because it's not true It's not true that your goals are unrealistic and hopeless and even if you don't achieve your goal just the very fact that you're working towards something that you want and feeling that it's realistic and exciting May not bring you to where you want to end up. It may But it may bring you somewhere even better than that. Okay, so the point of it is Not to let any negative thought throw you off course Or throw you away from a course of action that you feel is exciting and right for your life Because all they are are just concepts. They're not real Guys, I hope that was helpful. Hope that was someone inspiring Of course a lot of this this content here the approach I take today is cognitive behavioral therapy or Byron Katie's work is a huge inspiration for the work. I do If you want to check out my work and get in touch with me just go to my website dr. David Miloni calm and If you're interested in these videos Maybe subscribe if you feel like subscribing if you want to watch any more of these It helps me reach more people. So I always appreciate it. It makes my day when I see people subscribe the match So thanks for everyone who has done so far really appreciate it Take care yourselves guys, and I will talk to you again soon. Bye for now
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How the Yocto Project Addressed Comcast RDK Scalability Issues - Nicolas Dechesne, Linaro & Khem Raj
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How the Yocto Project Addressed Comcast RDK Scalability Issues - Nicolas Dechesne, Linaro & Khem Raj, Comcast
The Comcast RDK is a complex Linux software stack powering millions of set-top-boxes. In 2013 the project faced scalability issues with their home grown Linux environment which impacted internal teams and ecosystem partners.
The team engaged with Linaro to migrate the RDK into a Yocto Project based Linux distribution. The revamped RDK has been released into millions of homes throughout the world with many multi-services operators. It started with video devices but layered design has scaled beyond video devices into broadband, cameras, and other IOT devices making an infrastructure for RDK based Home OS.
Khem and Nicolas will discuss about how such a significant engineering effort was executed. They will discuss the social and technical challenges and how the Yocto Project increased the overall quality of the RDK. And also the cautions and rail-guards needed when scale hits the project.
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Hello So I think it's start it's time to start to 25 Thanks, everyone. Thanks for joining today and Cam and I are going to talk about the Octo project and the RDK and What what we've been working on a couple of years ago and what is actually still a very active project? Okay, first a quick introduction. So my name is Nicolette Shen. I work for Linaro and Where I do a bunch of Linux and the Octo open-ended related stuff, and I'm also the committee manager for the Octo project So I'm Cam Raj. I work at Comcast. I basically I'm a RDK architect Primarily responsible for all open-source activities around RDK so a couple of years ago both Comcast and Linaro worked together on On I mean with the RDK software, which is the set-top box stack, which is actually used by Comcast and other MSO and we actually Worked and took what we use used to be the RDK before and we actually migrated everything to the Octo project Using all the practices and everything from the Octo project. So that's basically the the reason of the talk today Is to show what one very specific Ecosystem has been able to do and to build with the Octo project We are going to talk about I mean what is the Octo project in case some people don't know What's the RDK? some of the issues that we had before and Why we actually ended up choosing the Octo project to actually use as a baseline for the for the RDK And then what happened? So we started and we started to deploy and work with the Octo project and what are the benefits and actually also the challenges that We've had more from the Octo project side and from the from the RDK side So what is the Octo project? So that could be a very long discussion, but we are going to make a very short picture So basically that's that's a tool set. So that's a set of tools a set of processes That be allows you to build your own Linux So whether you want to do a small Linux a large Linux whether you want to do that for the embedded space for Cloud for anything containers You when you need to build your own Linux You have the choice to either use an existing Linux for many an existing vendor or you can actually use tools to make your own So that's the very high-level pitch about what it is It allows you to make your own Linux and customize the way you want so you can do anything with that after that So in terms of the project itself, so it's a it's a Linux foundation project. It's been a hostage since 2010 The Richard Purdy has been the main architect. I don't is here this weekend. Don't see him in the room But he's been the main architect and the commuter for the project since I mean since it started It uses the Octo project build system is basically open embedded So there is a very strong relationship between the two open source project They're open open embedded and the Octo project if you have any questions about that I mean you can always come and ask us It's basically support all kind of major architecture I mean our makes 86 Meep 65 I mean everything that exists today is pretty much supported by the project It's has become one of the main system which is used today to build Linux It started from the embedded space and what we see now It's actually use more and more outside of just the embedded space We make releases twice a year April and October We actually just made the Octo release 3.0 release a couple of days ago Why people should be using something? I mean the Octo project Basically the idea is that if you build your own Linux And if you hand up with your own tools and on set of scrapes or whatever I'm just called what it is You are basically spending all your time building your own build system so by using some standard tools and processes it comes with recipes it comes with Processes and you can have updated up-to-date recipes for pretty much every software that exists in Linux I mean with all the the component that you need to build your own user space have their own recipes are most likely already Existing and already supported by by the community you can very quickly Build your entire image and and and get started with with very standard Linux system We have support for package management for like advanced use cases where you actually do need to use packages or Make binary packages. That's something which is also possible and which is most of the time not possible to do by hand and Predict predictable so basically if you build today I mean there is a high chance that you will be able to build I mean next month the same thing that you build so that's actually all the Goodness and the things which are built in and and given for free to you by when you start using the project. It's It's it's used quite I mean so it there is there is a membership around the Octo projects So there are many companies like you sponsor and use the Octo projects So basically by relying on that project you use something which is standard and the standard in the industry It's flexible. So even though I mean you can you can actually build completely the the Linux system It's completely flexible in the sense that you can customize any package that you include You include the upstream packages and you choose how you compile Which piece of the system you need for your for use cases and you can actually tailor your image to exactly what you need So I'm gonna talk about R.D.K. So essentially what you see here is a R.D.K. video stack But essentially that's where we started R.D.K. Is essentially our home operating system That is actually started with video, but right now we'll talk about a bit more. There are more profiles we have But this is just a high-level picture that you will see how what are different components that are in there So you've got like certain OEM based components So this is a software stack, of course but you know these are like kind of various owners that contribute to R.D.K. stack and And then you see in the middle There is the R.D.K. stack essentially And as you can see there are many components in there And obviously you have application layer on top where you have all your UI and other applications The what you can see in there is that there is a a lot of open source components that are in there so Now given this What we had was to give you a little history and there was a R.D.K. build system that we had early on and Eventually we basically got on to Yachter project and Nico just listed few of the reasons I'll go over those in In short but when R.D.K. started it had its own build system like we all do many times That's how we start and it was called R.D.K. build system very innovative name And it started fine You know they were like bash scripts grew into Python and then Various of the things so people started adding you know their own build logics and It just went at 300 miles an hour no documentation After a while even you know the people who wrote it would have to refer to their memory and they were not finding the answers So it became very difficult to maintain right so Obviously, it's easy to snapshot the components, but then it's hard to maintain them later on so if you Snapshot Linux kernel, that's fine But then you want to upgrade then you have your own patches. You have other patches So you end up basically in a very weird situation where your velocity is impacted And obviously, you know, there are other tasks not only upgrades. You are scaling you are building new products So essentially build is the last thing you want to be doing right so or developing Soon or later, there was a realization that the project had that build is Not the differentiation that R.D.K. has So it's better to use something and share with the rest of the community So essentially I think what Niko is going to tell you is basically What 1.0x looked like in terms of high-level architecture from R.D.K.'s point of view and then how we transformed it into Yachto eventually So it's it's quite easy to understand that if you make your own build system Which is very difficult to use and so on that's a problem Not upgrading your system very often is a problem But there is a biggest issue that we had before is that because everything was so complicated What ended up happening is that we we ended up with this very weird pyramid where Most of the software that was actually in the product in the end came from the baseball vendor, which is Hope I'm almost the opposite of what you would expect and you expect from the vendor I mean that the vendor and the BSP vendor is basically whoever provides the SOC where this stuff is going to run The only thing you expect from the vendor is more or less like a Linux kernel Which is one very small piece of the problem But what we've seen is that the build system was so complex to use that the SDK that came from the Every vendor started to grow and grow and grow. So every vendor that was working with the SDK They started to add the Linux kernel and then the busy box and then they started to a g-streamer and they started to add They started to customize GCC because they could and then they started to basically add Qt5 and everything and everything So basically in the end The Rdk project and the MSO I mean the companies like Comcast even though they actually own the platform if you actually look at What's running on their own platform? They actually didn't own much of it. So that was a very big problem So the the base port as the whole the whole power to actually control what went into the product And that was because mostly because I mean of the build scalability issues and and the intrinsic issue because of the build systems so What happened? We started this project together and we we sat down and we basically wanted to unify all the build systems And and all the values vendors and use cases from the Rdk into like a single build We definitely wanted to address the ownership and the responsibility so the MSO and people on the layers above should be responsible for the for most of the software and And and yes, I mean of course, I mean your project was I'm chosen as the platform to build the system The and then we wanted to also address the other kind of issues like being able to much easier upgrade the system and and more importantly We wanted to make it very easy for like a new base port vendor Like if you if you want to pull this setup box software to a new SOC vendor That should be very trivial or if we on the other end if we wanted to add a new user of the Rdk like a new MSO System it should also be simple for them. So that's that's the kind of that was the goals when we started the project So when we we ended up with this thing which looks more much more better Basically everything is actually coming from the Yachter project from the open embedded side So most of the software you need to at your own Linux already exists and it's already supported by the project And then you start stacking stuff And layers of software on top. So you have all the generic APIs that are needed or frameworks That are needed to run the Rdk and then the customization from the Specific MSO I mean like for example Comcast and then eventually you basically had the the small pieces that you expect like how do I get My GPU to work. How do I get to boots and these kind of things for the baseballs? So This is actually an interesting diagram It shows at the end of this project, which was more or less like a year Even maybe in eight months. Maybe we were able to basically port the existing Rdk to pretty different Vendors like one was an arm mips and an Intel platforms We had a single build and that's a single images. Everybody was actually using the same image. Everybody was using the same Tools and configurations and you just change and just give the machine name and you would be able to generate a new image When you look at the content of the image That's actually a graph that was made from that if you look at every file of the image And if you look where these files are coming from basically that tells you that Three-quarter of the system comes from the recipes metadata which are actually coming from open embedded It comes for free so which looks much better than if you remember the previous pyramid from before So you definitely own the complete system and the base port now is a very small It's actually one of the small part of the system, which is exactly how you would expect things to be So what that means is that now 75% of your system comes for free Which means if you want to upgrade or if you want to make any change You can apply that change and it will be deployed to all your All your variations all your flavors of the ADK for all your vendors On top of that what we also realize is that if we have one issue that the That the development so that there is the platform itself But then there are all the applications that actually runs on a set of box They were developed on the hardware themselves what we realize if we instead of building for a specific hardware We would just build for QMU x86 We would be able to just run the same image that actually runs on the real hardware on the emulator So basically people who don't care about the low-level stuff and only cared about providing a Applications for the MSO they could actually develop on the on the PC just I mean without even worrying about the board So that was a very nice addition that was not planned at the beginning that just came for free by actually choosing to Do what we decided to do okay, so I think you know As I mentioned earlier We wanted to differentiate where it mattered and we understood that build system is critical. It's It's actually a backbone and you need to have a strong one and that's where you know your project helped We could go to different as to see vendors and you know They basically had a consistent system to deliver into And obviously once they did it for one and they could easily reuse it for other projects and eventually it also helped our kind of like Lowering the bar of entry for a new or SSEs So that was an added advantage because you know you were not like R.D.K. Wasn't vertically integrated and that provided a lot of You know benefit to Because R.D.K. Is run actually it's a open project so therefore, you know Different users have different needs. They have different SSEs and it's very important that a New SSE can easily be ported R.D.K. Into their ecosystems and and Then we could define standard health That we could then ask various Portors to work on so essentially as you can see as the triangle kind of you know inverted that gave a lot of stability at the bottom and That gave a consistent set of health that we'd work with right so And obviously we also had a lot of community knowledge about building systems which also helped in Growing the R.D.K. Community especially on the platform side And we could offer rich set of tools and packages for new app writers so They have a lot of dependencies right on Applications they develop and many cases you would get a bundle right and on embedded systems You you don't want to ship three different versions of same library most of the time without any solid reason So this helps you to kind of you know, shed some weight in that area as well then because your platform is common So so it ended up you know in creating this standard template for us that basically also helped us to scale Vertically into our stack and also scale horizontally that I'll cover a little bit so Because now we could focus on where it really mattered as I mentioned So you would see that you know our teams came up with a few interesting components essentially Vestor us which is a valent compositor very small has like embedded focus can do nested compositions and And is very suitable for like a set of box operating system similarly, we have a UI engine that you can do native application rendering There's an SDK and that we came up with because you know, it's based on open embedded and the SDK features that we have We could basically have WPE which is basically a Webkit for you know on top of Wayland and it's kind of optimized for embedded systems and Open CDM so you know as you can see what it's a video specific Tasks, but what it ended up was filling in the gaps where we really needed to concentrate And then we went horizontal which means that there were different started with video But then there were more projects like broadband routers, you know cameras smart cameras Wi-Fi access points Wi-Fi mesh We could scale horizontally because Given the scalability that we have flexibility we have we could create, you know different profiles Seal use same tools so we could create images which are really really small and Then we could go across have very complex tags as I showed with the video for example so this provided a very solid baseline to Go into those directions that where we are today after a few years So One of the pain points were build times when we had our own build system our build times were linear, you know, they were Humongous because we didn't have any build acceleration technologies is underneath and we didn't do shares like common builds and those were like straight away benefits we got from Yachto and Incremental bills were huge Shared state another feature of Yachto that we use today is a very good first-time experience for somebody checking out a new tree and trying to do bills and There's a lot of documentation. I know that there's a bit of Probably Unknown in that people probably don't know it has a lot of specific use cases If you go through the mega manual everything is in there So we started there and our developers really loved it from going from zero documentation to you know ton of documentation and As a result actually they came up with FAQs that were specific to our decay and that's very valuable for us They have certain playbooks that they have created That are specifically based on the documentation that the October project provides if you're doing something similar internally that you know I recommend that for your own use case to you know train your own developers that helps a lot and Obviously we use the licensing tools for our compliance and we have testing infrastructure that we Indirectly depend upon all the testing that is happening on emulators. For example in the Yachto community and then we also rely on the security patches that are being you know done by the community and Previously they were all onus was on us. So in this a lot of benefits in that sections that we have been having There are challenges of course learning curve main region for that was adopting a different software and The cultural change where instead of you know having an internal bill system now you have an open source bill system So it wasn't more about okay. It's hard, but it's different And you have to get to know the processes and how to work with it Developer workflow when we deployed Yachto project it had a lot stronger release focus That problem was fixed but then developers ended up with you know a Suboptimal workflow or at least they wanted improved one and Then we work with the community actually on the dev to Project that was added actually to Yachto project in past three to five years and That solves a lot of the issues that were deported by the developers in their workflow improvements The project upgrade is always an issue and we basically find that there could be some improvements in there Where you know we could rely on a more collaborative release that can be maintained for a lot longer maybe a few years so there are kind of ideas around those but you know That's actually a challenge. Once you deploy it how often you can upgrade and how much effort it should be So we have a focus on that where we want to make that nimble basically have easy way to upgrade And then obviously, you know the build time improvement was there, but then of course, you know more is always better and There has been features that has been coming into Yachto that we basically Will will work on deploying even into Rdk hash equivalence is one of the latest features Where it can do a much better job identifying something not to be rebuilt so So I think there's a detailed talks if you're attending Yachto summit you can talk to experts find more about it But it's a it's a very cool feature. It's kind of a game-changer in the in the build area I think essentially where you can now Deploy your pre-built artifacts Smartly and not end up rebuilding things accidentally. So that kind of gives a much better You know view for end users too when they don't have false rebuilds happening so Yeah, so I think Having said that That's pretty much. I want you to share so if you have any questions or comments Or you would like to ask specific questions because this has been happening over years I might have forgotten many things that you know, we went through I would be happy to answer and project kind of view The the main reason why we've wanted to I mean have this talk here was to basically explain I mean how we actually did solve like a real life problem. I mean, it's it's been a bigger success story both on on both sides actually on the on the Yachto project side I mean is it and this is like a huge user base for the for the octoproject But that's also a good success story for you as you've seen I mean by focusing less on things that you don't care You can do more. I mean, that's that's the basic thing that we always say but we now have like some some really good evidence of that Yeah, so any And and what has been done once I mean it can actually be done in different Ecosystem as well. Yes Thanks. Yeah, what was the particular challenge in adopting open source culture? Yeah, that's for you it's a so essentially I think Look change is always hard right and One of the challenge you always have is you're familiar with something but Sometimes you know one of the things you you have to realize your development teams is and They will always say we are doing well. We are running fast, right? But you have to tell them it's a hamster wheel that you're running up, right? So that's the challenging part. How do you make them realize that that? The things that you've been doing are suboptimal, right? And so in many cases we did that where we basically created, you know parallel workflows Right and demonstrated that what we do today and what we can do in future And then contrast to them So a lot of kind of these kind of documents do exist where we do compare and contrast certain things that were strong points of Culture so you have to approach it from database It has to be backed by data Right though preaching doesn't work All right, so many times people know it is right thing to do But if you have to make it effective you have to back it up with data So we always created use cases where we then went to the people with data and they realized that this is a better way of doing things So that was I think one of the learning that you know And once you present the data, it's a very compelling case to adopt And speaking about data this diagram where I was showing this 75% and we actually this is a slide We showed I mean the management say I mean this is what we've done I mean this is data. This is not just what we would like to do This is what has been done and this is how much you can actually say if I mean This is a leader we've presented that to the management at that time Yeah, so I think you have to pick the battles and you will know those internally in your own companies and organizations What the battles are right in many cases people might have Acceleration tools already deployed right and then what there might be different Challenges that you're running into but the template is always same collect data Right and then compare and contrast and then then talk about the benefits a Lot of trainings that helps to if we are like new commerce right and many times people are eager to learn but Trainings is actually one of the big things that help them to onboard quickly So think about trainings Quite a lot right and specific trainings to your use cases Many times, you know, you might not want to do I mean everything is not relevant to you So just call out which areas will be the onboarding areas that you want to do So sometimes that helps quite a lot with your teams and from the project perspective We we are very well aware that I mean this is there is a very I mean difficult learning curve I mean this is nobody denies that so what we try to do is we this is also why we organize I mean developer days at each of these conference. You might have attended some of this We also have provided and actually support a really good documentation as well We are always hoping to I mean how we could do more and better things and there are lots of companies I mean out there that actually can help you and train your teams I mean in many different languages everywhere. So we try to make sure that within the ecosystem We actually enable these companies. So that's what we'll try to do More questions. How did your developers react to adopting such a change in the build like chain of your product? Because most of the times what I've seen is that developers don't really care about the integration in the build process They only want to code their Component and then somebody else handle the entire chain of deployment integration that that all Have you included some of these activities in the garden or are you handling completely independent of them? Yeah So I think it's a very good question. So I think if you see the triangle it's always It's a funnel, right? So you got like system developers kernel developers handful of them and then you know you got like middleware and then you got like a large set of application people and So we did talk about emulator for example, right? So you have to kind of create those Those use cases where they feel happy about because you know that you are changing underneath things that will make them unhappy so so once you have like an emulator like platform where They can develop their app and test their app 80% That's a big boost for them because they realize that doing hundred percent on This app on it puny device is very painful and think of debugging You know webkit even on Raspberry Pi 3, you know the stack traces don't show up for 10 minutes, right? Right. So that's the practical problem But when you can provide additional tooling where you say hey, you know the process is gonna remain same so ease out their workflow and They are they're basically More susceptible to accept the changes that you're bringing in You also have to approach it from the process side where you know you have the DevOps team so we basically in enlarge Developer teams process has to be there So you have to basically look at take a very hard look at the process you have and Then design the tools to fit in into your process many times those are not pretty and You know we might have a tool that is Pretty neat, but you might need to add the glue to it To basically rough the edges so you can ride into the developer Workflows and then once you are in there then you can make like optimizations improvements, but I think Again, that's use case by use case I think the Changes are very common, but what I saw was if you were to say hey, you know, I'm changing your workflow They were simply say no, right, but if you say here is a better way of doing it Would you like to adopt it? Then they adopt to that and then you can change the workflow for release and all those things So we found that's more effective, but there is a consistent resistance that you will always have So if your developers are not happy, it won't fly So essentially, I think of course you have to measure a lot You know sometimes we forget about that, but we put in a lot of measurements. For example Our auto builders measure build times and they plot them over time, right? So, you know, if you use Jenkins or whatever it might not have that feature built in you might have to build that on top Right. So what it gives you is it gives you insight into What it is doing, right? Is it bringing any benefits, right? And how it is going right as developers adopted Is it getting worse it is getting better? so so I think more data-based approach and then understanding the inflection points where you can insert those workflows, so I Find that very useful and people are very open to adopt It might sound very counterintuitive, but you had data where I mean it was showing that Using the Rdk after the October project they actually save build time So I mean if you see if I mean most of the complaints that we hear about the project It is built takes a long time and download and everything But then if you actually apply that to a really I mean if you only make one image Yes, maybe it's wrong, but then if you actually use that on your daily for like Plenty of images and plenty of machines and everything and you actually start making them count of how much you save I mean you did you do end up saving a huge amount of actually build time Yeah, and I think there's another thing where you try to basically I've seen you try to push it through You have to identify your users pretty well And in many cases an SDK an application SDK would make perfect sense, right? And if you push the whole build system into them that might not be the you know optimal solution So you have to work through those depending upon the use cases So the beautiful thing about open embedded the October project tooling is that there is a a set of tools You have available to you now how you use it to improve the productivity and you know effectiveness of your developers Would be slightly different so one time one size won't fit all right So if you have like 10 developers Maybe just using the full-build system is fine, but you have 500 developers, right? You might want to give them a consistent Platform to work on and you might want to have a more federated model where you know you have application development You have a platform development happening separately and then Devise a CI system basically which marries both of them So but you can think about those things because now you have a solid platform. That's my methods Okay, so I guess we are on time One thing just last word. We are here. I mean the yachter project is here at the conference We are the showcase and we have a booth so there will there are lots of people from the project here So if you have any questions wants to talk about anything You can just come and see us and then we also have on Thursday and Friday a two-day conference about the yachter project so It may be some of you will come there This is the first time we do that we do a two-day conference We call that the yachter project summit and the hope is to basically put users of the project and Developers and do the same home and just talking together and just showing us what people are doing with the yachter project So I encourage you to actually learn about that and just obviously come and talk to us Thank you. Thank you
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Excursions, Ep. 70: Ludwig von Mises and Economic Calculation Under Socialism, Part 1
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George H. Smith discusses the theory of value that provided the foundation for the argument that rational economic calculation is impossible in a socialistic economy.
Read this essay: http://bit.ly/1lk9aqc
Download the .mp3: http://bit.ly/1MKsant
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Welcome to George H. Smith's Excursions into Libertarian Thought, a production of Libertarianism.org and the Cato Institute, narrated by James Foster. Ludwig von Mises and Economic Calculation Under Socialism, Part 1. Ludwig von Mises, 1881 to 1973, was a brilliant economist, a leading proponent of the Austrian School of Economics, but he was more. He was an interdisciplinary thinker of remarkable breadth who was conversant in history, social theory and philosophy. His greatest book, Human Action, is a masterful exposition of praxeology, the science of human action, and throughout his many other books, such as theory and history, the epistemological problems of economics, and the theory of money and credit, we see an original first rate mind at work. Mises is perhaps best known for his early critique of socialism, which convinced many economists, including a young socialist named Friedrich Heich, that rational economic calculation is impossible in a socialist system. Optimal economic coordination requires a free market in which prices transmit crucial information about the supply and demand of capital goods. Mises drew on the Austrian theory of value to argue that socialism cannot solve the problem of economic calculation. Thus, before presenting the Misesian argument, I will present some relevant background information on this theory of value. Central to all economic analysis is the concept of value. In classical economics whose major exponents include Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill, two kinds of value were often distinguished, namely the value in use and value in exchange. Use value signifies the usefulness or utility of a given commodity, such as water. Because water is essential to human life, it was said to have a high use value. Exchange value, in contrast, refers to what a given commodity can fetch in the market when it is exchanged for something else. Because diamonds will command a good deal in return, they were said to have a high exchange value. As Adam Smith put it in The Wealth of Nations, the word value has two different meanings and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. After distinguishing value in use from value in exchange, Smith continued, The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange. And, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use. Nothing is more useful than water, but it will purchase scarce anything. Scarce anything can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use, but a very great quantity of other goods may frequently be had in exchange for it. Although modern economists sometimes refer to this distinction as the paradox of value or the water-diamond paradox, this was not how it was viewed by Smith and his many predecessors going back to Aristotle. Smith was not puzzled by this paradox, which he explained in the same manner as it had been explained many times before, that is, in terms of relative scarcity. As he put it in his lectures on jurisprudence, the market price of a commodity depends on three things. First, the demand or need for it, whether this be real or capricious. Second, the abundance of it in proportion to this demand. Third, the wealth of the demanders. Something for which there is no demand, such as a lump of clay, will not command a market price. But, if something is perceived as useful and thereby generates a demand, then the price will be regulated according to the demand. Thus, even a good which has little use value will command a high price if the quantity be not sufficient to supply the demand, hence the price of diamonds. On the other hand, a highly useful good like water, if it exists in superabundance and is able to more than supply all possible demands, renders water of no price at all. Although Smith's explanation is valid as far as it goes, the positing of two different types of value generated some problems for classical economists that they were unable to resolve. A unified theory of value did not emerge until the 1870s when there occurred what is known as the marginal utility revolution in economic thought. This important innovation was arrived at independently by three men. William Stanley Jevons in England, Leon Valras in Switzerland, and Carl Menger in Austria. Although these men differed somewhat in their treatments of marginal utility, their central insights were essentially the same. The term marginal utility was coined by the Austrian economist Friedrich von Wieser. As these economists pointed out, when we choose one commodity over another, we do not consider the general usefulness of that commodity. We do not, for example, consider the general utility of water, its role in supporting human life when deciding how much we are willing to exchange for a specific amount of water. True, if we had to choose between all the water in the world and all the diamonds in the world, then we would choose water over diamonds, but rarely are we faced with this all or nothing situation. Instead, we confront commodities as they exist in specific quantities or units, and how much we subjectively value a given unit of a given commodity depends on how we plan to use it. Suppose we are deciding whether or not to purchase a gallon of water. How much we are willing to pay will be based not on the general usefulness of water, but on the contribution that the additional gallon of water will make to satisfying our marginal wants. And this, of course, depends on how much water we already have. A man dying of thirst in a desert will value a gallon of water more highly than he would in normal circumstances because he will use that gallon to sustain his life rather than using it, say, to wash his car, which is what he might do in circumstances in which water is more plentiful. Thus, economic value ultimately depends not on the general usefulness of a commodity, but on the specific usefulness or marginal utility of a given unit of that commodity in satisfying our most pressing desires. If water is abundant, that is, if most of our important wants are easily satisfied by the available water, then we will place a relatively low value on each additional unit of water because that unit will be used to fulfill a want that we consider relatively unimportant. And if diamonds, while greatly prized, are normally scarce, then we will place a relatively high value on each additional unit of diamonds because that unit will be used to satisfy a want that ranks high on our scale of preferences. As I noted before, the classical economists were able to explain the water-diamond paradox fairly well in terms of relative scarcity, but their dualistic theory of value, which distinguished between use value and exchange value, created more problems than it solved. The theory of marginal utility was a significant theoretical advance because it was able to dispense with this dichotomy in favor of a unified theory of value. It was now understood that exchange value can ultimately be explained in terms of use value, provided that we correctly understand the meaning of use value as referring to the marginal use of a specific quantity of an economic good. This is where the discussion of marginal utility by Carl Menger, 1840 to 1921, is especially important if we are to appreciate what Ludwig von Mises had to say about economic calculation. Menger, who is generally acknowledged as the founder of the Austrian school, stressed the subjective nature of use value. The economic value of a commodity, argued Menger, depends ultimately on our subjective valuations, specifically on how we assess the usefulness of a good in furthering our subjective goals. Economic science does not pass judgment on the true worth or objective value of an economic good. It does not, for instance, evaluate the true worth of water in relation to diamonds. Rather, economics takes as its starting point what people do in fact value, and it then analyzes the economic phenomena that emerge from this pursuit of subjective goals. Menger's distinctive contribution to marginal utility was his extension of this theory to what he called goods of a higher order, or what are sometimes called capital goods, or the means of production, in contrast to consumer goods. Many economists had contrasted supply or the factors of production with consumer demand, as if these elements operated according to different principles of value. But this is incorrect, said Menger. Ultimately, the value of all higher order goods depends on their role in producing consumer goods, those things that people use directly to satisfy their desires. Goods of a higher order, so-called because they fall higher than consumer goods on the scale of production, are indirect means of satisfying human wants. A steel factory may not produce anything that is directly used by the consumer, but it does satisfy consumer demand indirectly by providing the material for the building of cars and other goods that are directly used by the consumer. Menger's discussion of higher order goods allowed him to apply the notion of marginal utility not only to consumer goods, but to the factors of production as well. This insight proved essential to the Misesian argument that planners in a socialist economy will be unable to engage in rational economic calculation. Mises first advanced his argument in a 1920 essay, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth, and he expanded upon it two years later in his seminal book, Socialism and Economic and Sociological Analysis. Pure socialism is a system in which there is no private ownership of the means of production. All production decisions are made by a central planning authority, unlike a market system in which capitalists and entrepreneurs can base their production decisions on the market prices of higher order goods, the planners in a socialist economy have no such prices to guide them. What then can these planners substitute for market prices? What rational criteria can they use in determining which higher order goods are needed and in what amount in order to produce the desired consumer goods? Without market prices to guide production, argued Mises, no rational calculation is possible. Thus, the supposed rational economic planning of socialism, or any kind of planned economy, leads to economic chaos, to inefficiency, and waste on a massive scale. Thank you for listening to Excursions. To learn more about libertarian philosophy and history, visit www.libertarianism.org.
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IMPACT VS MANIAC | Don't Flop Rap Battle
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It's fucking good, don't flop all fucking day. Hashtag DFAFD, we are here in Germany, Berlin. Make some fucking noise, let's go! It's at Twitter, on Twitter, at Don't Flop. Big up Jolly J, every single time for having us out. This is the first of four English-speaking, English-versed Germany battles of the night. No further ado, it's 11.30, let's get it popping straight away. MC on my right hand side from Don't Flop in the UK. Tried out 2012, now here in Germany, 2014. Make some fucking noise for impact, let's go! Yes, an MC representing Germany on my left hand side. First appearance in the league of Don't Flop. Make some noise for maniac, let's go! So as usual, log on to YouTube on the comments section. Leave a comment, leave a comment on our forum as well. Reflipped off camera, Impact won the flip. He chose maniac to go first, so it's round number one, Don't Flop, Berlin on maniac. Let's go. Yo, might as well remove the ceiling, because I'm gonna raise the roof this evening. When you heard that you were stepping to this European, there was urine leaking all over your pants, you were peeing. Which confuses me when a title like yours should be backed by a few achievements. I mean, did I spell the name Impact wrong when on YouTube I only found like two Impact songs? I tried to search other platforms that Impact on and started wondering who the hell you've had an Impact on. Baby's true, you let the label... Sorry about that. I checked this brother on Bandcamp. Your music's wack, you should spend your summers at Bandcamp. Look, me, I'm pressing a vinyl and getting my record sold. Parallel to that, I'm collecting dough for every show. You will never be like Busta Rhymes in Scenario, because they know Powerful Impact. Boom, from the cannon, yo. Yo, when it comes to the people of Germany moving forward, I think now's the time to lose hope. Because back in the day, your ancestors left Jews burned, but now, Jews froze. I won't cross. And you? What would happen if Fellaini fucks sideshow Bob? Yo, you think you rhyme so hot, but you really need a hella practice. The crew reps, demographics, bunch of pathetic faggots. And just cause English happens to be your secondary language don't mean you can get away with that corny ass American accent. Hot as a large furnace, stop him on road and go through his shit like car searches your bars. Have no meaning. I don't see your art's purpose. It's like when your country bought the Euro in. This Twitch marks worthless. That's full of original concepts. He apps about vibrations. 2012 and all that spiritual nonsense. I can see the world leaders panicking right now. Sitting in Congress, like shit. Some white rapper from Germany's found out we're reptilian monsters. Yo, how you gonna spit about oneness and try giving us lessons when against most prob you spewed loads of Jew jokes like you want Hitler's affection? Or since you're so obsessed with metaphysics, I can help you with your mystic ascension when I give you one shot and send you to a different dimension. Tight. Check it. These German jokes, they're just wack and just old dog. You see his biggest inspiration was my battle verse most pro. Shit. Really unpredictable. How you making fun of my hair. Shit, ladies love that shit. So what the fuck do I care? Producer on the mic. Getting fame in the British League. I don't really care if them haters ain't feeling me. I'm not like JD, a big name in the industry but I play the background and get the peg when I do the beat. Don't underestimate my ability. I play live in Germany, France, Spain or in Italy and still got time to kill this geek and take home the victory. But hey, at least they gave you a plane ticket here for free. From a St. Auburn's ghetto street. Picture no gun bars when he spray in the weaponry. It's crazy to think that he's a dangerous threat to me that his fake only seen violence played in the symphony. Get it? So you trying to tell us that you hard? It's quite wack. That's like me saying, look magic. Nobody's gonna buy that. Religious unorthodox. Yeah, religions bullshit and a reason why the wars don't stop but the nickname don't make up for the deepness that your songs ain't got. So what are you doing against those that leads who always call the shots? Nothing. So mentally you living in a smaller box like all the carbs, fuck. That's it, time. Talking about abstract obscure reference raps when I say you're gonna get these punches and left of your temple tapped. So keep running your gums. You'll have to change your dental plan because when I give this German some West Indian beats it won't be gentle, man. Sick bars. Nah, it's twice wack. The kids gassed, I'm just gonna keep it real. And Frank, yo, you're racist type. Try to hide the fact you hate your life some curly hair, German breath. Who likes to plagiarise David Ike? Take a hike. When you've battled most probs you made it seem like you rate Hitler. You probably think all Jews are reptilian shapeshifters which makes you a fucking hypocrite when you spit about being some spiritual change bringer when you single-handedly took your country back to its ignorant days, nigger. This hippie likes to rap about living in the woods. Yeah, I can see you there, cunt. With that hair, you could be the full fucking member of the hair bear bunch. Yo, you're a wack cunt with a mug that I wanna slap up. How have you got the face of the white Michael Jackson and the hair of the black one? He said he's called maniac because the world's gone mad. Nah, mate, it's just you. And every time you get up on the mic, you always flop. He's like, oh, how predictable you've referenced my battle with most probs, mate, that's all you've got. Time. At that on point, I admit, I wasn't in the zone, tough luck. And my freestyle was like when his girl is on my dick because I fucked up. He'd explode an idea for his video, some real innovative shit to impact the scene and all, some 2014 next level shit. Really, y'all? Him rapping in front of a graffiti wall. He's like, impot that I'm the hardest motherfucker out. Slap a bitch and tell her to shut her mouth. What the fuck you talking about? Just seems like there's a little bit of self-esteem missing. He's like a McDonald's burger. He ain't got no real beef in him. So he asked the beef women to deal with the weak. I am beginning to think that you don't even like fitness because it looks like your daily time limit is five minutes. At your gym, I asked an eyewitness and for miles distance, nobody saw your chop like Thai kitchens. So usually people exercise so a muscle grows. But what you working out, man? Your fucking nose is lukewarm. So how'd you get those muscles on your arm, you porn? It should be clear right now. Maniac, I'm your winner. He got served three rounds like this a five-star dinner. Right, clown. He's talking about me smacking bitches. That's what I'm doing right now. David Luiz was an addict to speed. This guy's the person he would actually beat. Yo, you must have aphrodunga somewhere within your family's genes. And when you stroll through the woods, you get your hair tangled in trees. Yo, you're such a fucking hippie for your pants you have leaves and make Adam and Eve seem like some glamorous peeps. Your chick is a buzz vegan who loves snacking on seed. And that curly, yo, and that curly bush you've got on your head matches her V. Yo, you go to nudist resorts to get in tune with your thoughts. Yo, and think the cycle of the moon in its course decides the future of all. Yo, motherfucker, you ain't dope. Are you the mascot for cheese strings or a seize lens started bleaching his face loads with cake so? Yo, fuck this dumb white clown. You look like someone dipped a mop in tar and turned it upside down. Yo, plus I think the way you wax kind of unusual fam always moving your hands is that a seizure when you're doing a dance. Trying to tell the whole world about Lucifer's plans rocking a tinfoil hat with the aluminum pants. It really isn't too difficult to attempt to cost ya. Yo, it really isn't too difficult to attempt to cost ya when you're such a decrepit sucker with a head like a feather duster. It's like even God hates you and wants to just let you suffer so you were born with a genetic structure of such a pathetic fucker. Yo, you have a very basic flow. When I first saw your hair and the way you let it grow, I thought I was battling that dude from LMFAO. All droopy. Hey yo, I'd rather bury my fist in Verity whisking.
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1/4/2021 - South Burlington City Council
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Link: https://www.gotomeet.me/SouthBurlingtonVT/city-council-meeting-01-04-2021
Call In: 1-646-749-3122 Access Code: 545-403-629
AGENDA
1. Welcome (6:00 PM)
2. Agenda Review: Additions, deletions or changes in order of agenda items. (6:00 – 6:01 PM)
3. Possible Executive session to discuss financial matters where premature general public
knowledge would clearly place the City at a substantial disadvantage and to receive advice
from legal Counsel including matters related to personnel (6:01 – 6:40 PM)
4. Comments and questions from the public not related to the agenda. (6:40 – 6:50 PM)
5. Announcements and City Manager’s Report. (6:50 – 6:55 PM)
6. Consent Agenda: (6:55 – 7:00 PM)
A. *** Consider and Sign Disbursements
B. *** Approve three party agreement between the City of South Burlington, the Dorset
Park Skating Association and the C Anthony Cairns Trust
7. ***Consider and possibly approve an amendment for FY22 for the Capital Improvement Plan
Public Hearing scheduled for 7:00 PM - Martha Machar, Finance Director & Tom Hubbard,
Deputy City Manager (7:00 – 7:20 PM)
8. ***Council review, discussion, and possible approval of FY22 proposed Enterprise Funds
Budget - Justin Rabidoux, Director of Public Works & Joe Duncan, General Manager,
Champlain Water District (CWD) (7:20 – 7:50 PM)
9. ***Council review, discussion and possible approval of FY’ 2022 draft General Fund budget
– Tom Hubbard, Deputy City Manager (7:50 – 9:10 PM)
10. Update on voting options for the 2021 South Burlington Annual Meeting and possible
guidance/action from the Council related to preferred options – Donna Kinville, City Clerk
(9:10 – 9:20 PM)
11. ***Council review and possible approval of Fire District #2 Land Transfer – Andrew Bolduc,
City Attorney (9:20 – 9:30 PM)
12. *** Council discussion and possible action on South Burlington/Winooski/Burlington
Memorandum of Understanding related to the externalities created by operations at the
Burlington International Airport located in South Burlington – Councilor Riehle (9:30 – 10:00
PM)
13. Council appointment of members to a City Manager Applicant Review Committee and
direction to the Committee – Councilor Riehle (10:00 – 10:10 PM)
14. Council discussion of options related to legalization of various cannabis retail options and
possible referral of issue to the Economic Development Committee. (10:10 – 10:20 PM)
15. November Financials – Tom Hubbard (10:20 – 10:25 PM)
16. Reports from Councilors on Committee assignments (10:25 – 10:30 PM)
17. Other business (10:30 – 10:35 PM)
18. Adjourn (10:35 PM)
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I'd like to call to order the South Wellington city council meeting heavens, hopefully a better year. First item is the agenda review. Are there any additions, deletions or changes in the order of anything that anyone wishes to make? Okay, seeing none. Item three then is the possible executive session. So Tim is in here. So we don't have the actual language, but I would entertain a motion to go into executive session to discuss financial matters where premature general public knowledge would clearly place the city at a substantial disadvantage and to receive advice from legal council, including matters related to personnel. Included in the meeting will be Jennifer Murray, Colin McNeill, Patrick Leduc, Kevin and Tom, the council and, oh, I'm sorry, and Jay Pascal. So moved. So moved. Second, it's moved and seconded. So all those in favor, did you have a comment? David, you just raised my hand. Oh, to vote yes. What did you want to say? No, I'm just raising my hand to vote. Oh, okay, I'm sorry. So all those in favor, raise your hand. Indicate yes. Okay, so we are in executive session. So the other two in town meeting and the other paper have been uninvited. Is that how they, they can't hear what we're talking about? They don't need to sign back in for the regular meeting. I'm in city council Monday, January 4th, 2021, executive session and we'll go to item four, comments and questions from the public, not related to the agenda. If there is someone who would like to speak, if you're- I'm not here. It's Laura Waters. Laura, okay. Laura Waters. Yep. Well, hello everybody. Happy new year. Thank you. You as well. The reason that I'm here tonight is I wanted to reiterate that the act 250 permit application for the Burton project has been submitted and that there is a pre-hearing, there's a site visit and a pre-hearing conference on July 13th. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, January 13th. January 13th. Yeah. January 13th. The person who's the project manager said that he called somebody with South Burlington or called, left a message to alert everyone that this is coming up because South Burlington, I believe automatically is an interested party, but he's not heard anything back as far as whether South Burlington is going to be involved with this. So I just wanted to lay that out and ask whoever's responsible. I don't know who that person would be to contact act 250 and make sure that South Burlington is included in the list of interested parties because otherwise if this thing continues then you don't have any authority to appeal or do anything. And the letter that South Burlington wrote to the city council, Burlington city council was excellent and that would be something that wouldn't really cost much time or effort but could be resubmitted tweets a little bit as far as act 250 is concerned. And I think it would be super helpful to all of us to get that recorded. Okay, thank you. We have been advised to. I wanted to, I just want to read into the record a letter from one of our neighbors that he wrote at 530. So most of you probably didn't see it but I just, I want to get it in the record. And it concerns this. Dear city council members, I'm writing this letter on behalf of my family and neighbors in Queen city park. The Burton act 250 hearing process has begun starting with the site visit on January 13th by the act 250 regional board overseeing the hearing. These hearings will be led by Aaron Rondike who's the act 250 state coordinator. They expect the hearings to be contentious enough that he has stepped in to oversee them. A number of interested people from the five surrounding neighborhoods that will be impacted by the Burton HUD project should be completed, should be applying for party status and the hopes of influencing the act 250 board on the environmental impacts decision that will be affecting the surrounding area along with this inhabitants, human and otherwise. I am writing to strongly encourage and hope that the south Burlington city council will participate in these hearings. However, they see fit to do so. Ways to do this would be to include party statuses and a butter along Queen city park road, as well as sending a strong written message to the act 250 board that south Burlington is concerned about the environmental impacts project will have on the adjacent south Burlington neighborhood of Queen city park, the south Burlington town beach and Red Rocks park. Environmental impacts will result from noise, traffic, possible mitigation, hazmat site contamination towards the drilled drinking water well, supply, Queen city park, as well as the south Burlington city swimming beach and Red Rocks park. The impacts are all negative and potentially harmful. I encourage you, our city representatives to send a letter expressing your concern, similar to the letter south Burlington said to the Burlington DRB regarding the Burton hub project permit application as soon as possible. Thank you for your careful consideration of this important request. Respectfully yours, Michael Turner. Okay. And that's it. Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much and we are aware of that. Thank you. Are there any other comments from the public on items not on the agenda? Okay. So we'll move on to announcements on the city manager's report. I do not have anything to announce. You do. I would just like to use this opportunity to give a public kudos to our south Burlington police department. I read the other paper article about their investigation of the hit and run accident and it just, I was quite impressed by everything they did, talking to local business owners, narrowing it down based on the paint chips that were at the scene. I just think they did remarkable work and I hope they know that they're appreciated and it's remarkable what our Kevin Grealis and other officers put into such an important investigation in such a short period of time. So great work. Okay. Thank you. All right. So the city manager's report, Kevin. Really not much today, Helen, after the holidays. We're gonna have a staff planning session next Wednesday for a couple hours, really looking back at what we've learned from the COVID experience and also planning ahead for the next six months, things we wanna try to get done or things we wanna get on track. I think the public can anticipate the staff is gonna be working from remotely and that city hall is gonna be closed probably for another month. We'll have to wait and see what the governor advises, but I think we've been able to manage it pretty well, notwithstanding the lost route against the city clerk by the out-of-state title company, but even with that, people are able to come in and do their title searches now on a reservation basis and I think it's going pretty well. So that's what I've got tonight. Okay. Thank you. So let's move on to the consent agenda and there are two items, disbursements, considering signed disbursements and also the second item B, approved a three-party agreement between the city of South Burlington, the Dorset Park Skating Association and the Sea Anthony Cairns Trust. So I would entertain a motion for approval. Go moved. Is there a second? And a second by Tom. Is there any discussion? Megan and then Tim. Yeah, I was just noting the difference between the two contracts for the Cairns Association, the Dorset Park Skating Association and Cairns Trust. I just wanted us to at least take note and I just wanted, I'm willing to vote on this, I was willing to move and second it as well, but the city's right to pay the loan. In the new contract regarding the new entry, if there is a default or something that means that the city would wanna take over, we would be paying back the family trust as opposed to the bank, which is in the original contract. So I just wanted to have that out in the open. I wanted to actually hear from other counselors about that. It's just, I understand that the family trust is being used as kind of a go-through here since they'll be putting, they'll be acting as a bank, putting out the funds and then being paid back by the Skating Association. But I just, that just seems to be a different arrangement. And I wanted us to maybe weigh the differences between being beholden to a trust as opposed to a bank. I think I can clarify that fairly, fairly easily when we were looking to finance the addition and we still have a small balance to do on the original mortgage. We could have done that through the bank, but the terms were not quite as favorable as we might like and the amount of paperwork and cost to finance through the bank was significant. Finally, Tony said, let's just get this done. I'll finance the whole thing. So basically Tony took over, Tony is indeed the bank right now. And we will look to refinance with a bank. I forget what the timing is that we've said, but Tony's good to continue the financing as long as necessary. And I guess if you want to put it in volume of work, you know, finance something through a bank takes dozens and dozens, if not a hundred plus pages of paperwork, I believe the agreement with Tony is two pages long, maybe three. So, you know, we eliminated a lot of red tape, saved money, saved time and got the project done. And that's the whole reason. And we should be, it'll be just fine. Tim, did you have a comment? Yeah, Kenny, you can hear me, right? Yes. So this question is for Tom Hubbard about the disbursements. Why did the city of Burlington overpay their taxes to South Burlington? Is that airport tax that we had to refund? 12,200 approximately. I'm just curious where that comes from. It is one of the airport properties, Tim. The commercial property paid directly and then the city paid as well. So the city's being reimbursed for paying for the owner. Oh, okay. It's being reimbursed. The city's, the city of Burlington is being refunded. Okay, got it. And where is the manager of the property has already made the payment? Okay, so we're paying them back. Okay, got it. Thank you very much. You got it? You always have an explanation. Thank you. Is your, was that answer enough information for you? Yeah, maybe. Okay. That's what I was gonna ask. Did that give you enough, Megan, to understand it completely? Yeah. And I simply wanted it to be publicly discussed. That's basically what I asked. It's one of the beauties of having, you know, a public private partnership is that when you've got the private sector involved and they're able to do something responsibly and expeditiously, it helps the whole process, good for everybody. And as everybody knows, we've been at this for, if you can believe it, 27 years now, I believe. And it goes beautifully. So it's great. Other than the fact that we're not generating much revenue right now. Yeah. Sandy, Julie, did you wanna make a comment? You're on mute, so. Okay. Can you hear me? Yeah. Okay. I just, is Tony still on the board? Yep. And the Dursapart Skating Association is a 501C3, right? Yep. Are we paying interest to the trust? We're paying interest to, I forget, yes, there's interest in there. It's less than the bank interest would have been, I believe. Do the bylaws of the association allow a director to have that kind of financial relationship? That, I can't answer. With your organization? With our attorney. Sandy, I don't have an answer to that. We'd have to ask, Rick Kozlosti reviewed, he's our attorney and he's on the board, reviewed everything before as we proceeded with this arrangement. So I can only presume there's no conflict, can certainly inquire further if necessary. Cause I know when you do, at least as I recall, when you do a 990, you have to reveal whether any of your board members or officers have a financial relationship with the organization. Anyway, I'd appreciate you're checking that out. Okay, thank you. Good point. So should we wait and only vote on the disbursements and wait till we get that information before we approve the agreement, three-party agreement? Is that the right thing to do? Or are you- I'm- All right, I think my personal feeling is- This is Kevin. Go ahead. This is a- Yeah, let Kevin answer that. Oh, yeah. You know, this was consistent with the prior agreement from 1991. This is really an agreement for the most part between the city or between the trust and the association. The association's lease is the security behind this. So we're in this. Andrew really didn't know that there was a reason why we needed to be in this other than we were in back in 91. And so whether or not it's in the bylaws that Tony can finance this and still be on the board is really a discussion between him, between he and the association, I think. If Rick has looked at this, Andrew's looked at this, neither one of them had any issue. I- Okay. I can go ahead and get this done. It's not gonna stop the project at all if you wanna wait till the next meeting to do it, but- Anyway. Would you like to just keep it on the consent agenda? I'm okay with that. I'm okay with voting on it too. I think it's great that Tony Karens is so supportive of this project. It's a tremendous asset for the community. I'm glad it's happening. It's moving forward, but I agree with Sandy Dooley that we should look into this and maybe the board should consider if there's any concerns or other disclosures they need to do, but it doesn't pause me from supporting this agreement. Okay. So we have a motion made and seconded on the consent agenda. Are you ready for that vote? I'll call the roll. Tim Barrett. Aye. David Kauffman. Aye. Megan Emory. Aye. Thomas Chittenden. Aye. And the care votes aye. So the consent agenda is approved five to zero. Moving on to item seven, consider and possibly approve an amendment for FY22 for the capital improvement plan, public hearing scheduled for seven p.m. So we're five minutes late, but. So I guess Martha will be on deck and Tom and we need to move into a public hearing. So I'd entertain a motion. I'll move. Second. And a second. It's been moved and seconded, all in favor. Aye. Aye. Okay, so we now are in a public hearing regarding the FY22 capital improvement plan. So I don't know if Martha or Tom, who's going to lead off, but you have the floor. Thank you, Helen. Martha will lead off. My name is Martha Machar. My name's of self. My memo was included last week in the agenda. And for the record, couple improvement program is a 10 year plan that is adjusted yearly. Once approved, the first year of the plan is incorporated into the budget. In this case, FY22 will be incorporated into 2021 to 2022 budget that will presented to voters in March. And also once approved, it will replace the existing FY 2022 through 2021 plan that is currently, that was adopted last year. So capital improvement program is a tool used to improve coordination in the timing of major project plan for capital replacement and future maintenance costs with the goal of reducing purchasing in the tax rate. You will also notice that some edits have been made since it was presented to council in December and those edits represent a reduction in the amount of vehicle as proposed for public works by one and by one cruiser for police department. Also the amount that was proposed presented in December for paving has been reduced. And the amount that was also proposed in December has also been reduced for the harsh trees removal. The total amount reduction since it was presented to council in December is 141,000 dollars. And that bring us down to a total here at the bottom about 2.5 million proposed FY22 budget. Somehow what will lead us into the discussion of how that process came about for us to come down to that amount. As you can see, that amount is way less than what was approved for FY 2022, FY 2021 I mean. We have staff members available to answer questions regarding to specific projects proposed for FY22, but in the meantime, Tom Hubbard will lead us in the process of what has been undertaken so far to bring us to where we are today, Tom. Thanks for that. Thank you, Martha. Yep, appreciate all of Martha's help with the budget, the CIP and all the many things finances going on right now are audit and such. Helen, did you officially open the public hearing? Yes, I did. Okay, so we're good there. So just a few comments about the process. The council will need to pass an amendment for the CIP. You may be ready to do that. You may not, but this is the first step related to the budget for FY22. We'll completely go through the rest of the budget process later in the agenda tonight, including all the enterprise funds and general discussion about the budget and its impacts and amendment may be considered by the council at that point based on where you're at. For now, I think I'd just like to continue with a brief overview, but happy to go into as much detail as needed regarding any of the items that are listed in the CIP. I wanna start by saying the summary of the capital improvement plan is really broken into three different sections. The first is general fund expenses, and that's on page one. Martha, if you could flip back to that. That's the one we went into the most detail with back when we first presented this to you at the first meeting in December. That has general fund expenses comprised of requests from police, fire, DPW, recreation, and all our various departments that affect the tax base. The second section is enterprise funds where we talk about wastewater, stormwater, and water, which are supported by user fees. Justin's gonna go into a little bit more detail on those in the next agenda item, and Joe Duncan from CWD will be joining him for that part of the discussion. And the third section that comprises the capital improvement plan are special funds. These include monies for penny for pass, bike and pet improvements, open space projects, energy projects, and city center, which are supported by dollars that are outside the general fund. As Martha noted, we initially presented this to you back in December. It's been slightly adjusted with some reductions since then to really fit within the proposed request that we've given you for the general fund. So those have included cuts and paving, fleet for DPW, some of the tree removal and replacement for the Emerald Ashbore, another vehicle being cut from the police department and a slight reduction in the police department's computer IT fund. The result is that some of these projects originally planned for FY22 or had additional funding proposed for FY22 have either been reduced or moved to some out years in the CIP for consideration at a later date. Overall, the general fund funding for items in the CIP, the capital improvement plan, has decreased by about $400,000 in the general fund from what was approved last year, currently our FY21 fiscal year. All of our department managers are in attendance tonight to respond to any questions related to any of the department asks, including Ashley Parker who's worked with the bike and pet committee and the natural resources committee and have both committees which have reviewed and supported the projects that are proposed, Justin who will speak to the enterprise funds along with Joe and all our other department managers to respond to any questions regarding their department. So with that, Martha's pulled up the summary of the projects starting with the general fund page and we're ready for any questions from the council or the public as you, now that you've officially opened the public hearing. So happy to engage our other managers and respond to any questions council for the public ask. Thank you. Are there any questions by the council? I don't see any. How about the public? Oh, Sandy. Duly. Okay. You can hear me? Yes. Thank you. I just on page 94, it talks about in the coming year, 75,000 would be spent on an indoor recreation facility. And then another 21 million would be spent over the following two fiscal years. And well, just to refresh my memory, the voters turned down by 56% a proposal for a local option tax in 2019 that would fund an indoor recreation facility. And I'm also been thinking about how voters might be more interested in outdoor improvements, more rec pass, et cetera, as a result of COVID. But my main thing is what is the 75,000 in the FY22 budget to be, what is that to be spent on? And in terms of the future, my record election is like for purchasing the, well, the initial proposal to build a fire police station in what became Wheeler Nature Park and also city center. And then later to buy the property that's now the police department. We've had separate votes at town meetings. So I'm just wondering what's the plan for getting voter input on the proposal to build an indoor recreation facility? Okay, is that Holly or Tom? Maybe I can start with that, Helen. And then I think we'll go to Alana. But the same is plain. May I just say, it seems to me that the council are the people that will maybe, this is an administrative decision, but isn't it the council that decides whether something is put on the ballot? And when? Absolutely, Sandy. Absolutely, I'm still asking what the $75,000 was for. I'm asking both questions. Okay, we'll have the $5,000 and then what's the plan for getting the rest of the money? So I think Sandy's question is a good one for the public to understand that the capital improvement plan is a plan. That's what it is. It's a plan. It's a placeholder for some major items that have either been talked about or discussed, mainly with the council in terms of we should make a plan to, within the next 10 years, outline all the different things that are gonna be considered. Nothing moves forward. Absolutely nothing moves forward. Without the council ratifying an amendment every single year for what the next year's capital improvement plan calls for. So they can't bless anything Sandy that's 10 years down the road right now. They can only ratify as you probably remember from your tenure on the council. They can only speak to what's in the budget for next year. But every year the budget comes before the council as part of the public process that goes before the voters as part of the public process. So really keeping the indoor rec center in the CIP right now is to really keep it there as a placeholder. I think that Alana can address the $75,000, which I think finishes up the initial study and engineering that was done. This is all with money outside of the general fund. This is not taxpayer money. These are impact fees and money within special funds. But Alana, you wanna address exactly what that 75,000 would be used for please. Yeah, so the 75,000 would be used to complete the study. We have a small amount left in the feasibility study. I'm not sure how my volume is. But mainly it would be used to work with the construction company to ensure that we have a good estimate should this project be taken to the voters for funding. Okay. Does that answer your question, Sandy? Well, just is there a projected date when that study would be finished and when it would be available for the public to review? So the bulk of the feasibility study that was already undertaken, there should be a PowerPoint online. And if not, I'll make sure that it's online that summarizes a potential design and a magnitude of cost. And then what this study is for is to work with the construction company and to further that particular design to ensure that any numbers that we present to the voters are good numbers for the project. Okay. And represent an actual construction cost. Okay, thank you. Tom? Well, to your point, Sandy, I would just say this. I see the SIP as what the council through feedback and committees and these types of discussions is thinking about for the coming years and trying to plan for it with the capital expenses. I remember before the pandemic hit, we were talking about this recreational center as possibly being on the ballot this past November. I think the council with when the pandemic and all of the uncertainty, we rightfully push that on the back burner and haven't really come back to it. And I don't even think tonight we're coming back to it. It's out a couple of years, so no action is gonna happen to it. But if it were to ever be actionable again, which I expect it to be sooner or later, it will absolutely go to the voters because it would require a bond. So the voters would weigh in on it. This is just saying that the council still thinks it's a plan that is worth us investigating. There's been a long established need for it. And I think that need is well documented. I don't know if that answers your question, Sandy. Okay. Okay, thank you. Are there other questions from the public or the council? Well, seeing none, I guess we can go back to, if there's no other comments or questions, I guess we can close the public hearing for the Capital Improvement Plan. I'll entertain a motion. So moved. Second. Okay. All in favor, signified by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Unanimous. So we have closed the public hearing. Does the council wish to hold off on supporting this amendment till we look at the entire budget? Yes, that seems appropriate to me, but okay. Good. So we'll move on to then item eight, which is a council review discussion and possible approval of the FY22 proposed enterprise fund budget. And we've got Justin Rabadou and Joe Duncan. Welcome. Joe, but I see, here's Joe, yeah. Oh, there. Hi, Joe. How you doing? Justin Rabadou, director of public works. And with me is Joe Duncan, the general manager of the Champaign Water District, the city's wholesale water supplier. And I thought before we got into the city-specific enterprise budgets, including their CIP projects, if there's an interest from the council in public, we would first let Joe take the council through the CWD budget process, which as you know, the major expense item for our water department is the purchase of water, which Joe's team sets the price on. So we thought we'd let Joe just give an introduction. Okay, great. And give him some place time and then I'll take it from there on the larger issues. Perfect. Thank you, Justin. Good evening, everybody. So as Justin said, we are your wholesale water supplier. So we draw water out of the lake, we treat it. And then we pump it out to our 12 service systems and South Burlington being the front door and home city for us. We have a wholesale rate. Our current wholesale rate is $2.31. And we are, every year we go through and take a look at what our long-term sustainability, resiliency, and reliability needs. And this year, the board has put together a budget and revised our rate from 2.313 to 2.392 per thousand gallons. That is about an 8 cent per thousand gallon increase, which results in about a $5.19 per year increase to the average family that uses around 65,000 gallons a year, or basically 43 cents per month. So that is our impact to you so that the city has to purchase it at that rate. So of the city's bill, the city's bill is currently somewhere around $285 for a homeowner who uses about 65,000 gallons a year. So of that, $285, we represent about $150 a year of that. So which makes sense because typically treatment costs and transmission costs are by the primary, primary cost for any system that does provide water. So that's our impact to the city this year. We continue to focus on infrastructure investments. We recognize that similar to servicing a car, if we can continue to invest in our infrastructure, keep it running at a high level, it minimizes the long-term costs and that's our sustainable asset management approach. So I'm happy to go into any detail you would like me to, but I just want to give you that quick overview of who we are, what we do and what our plans are for the upcoming fiscal year. Joe, I just have a quick question because I didn't hear you. What is the average cost of water for a home in the city? So the average cost for a home is $285 per year for someone who uses 65,700 gallons, which is about 180 gallons a day. Thank you. And that doesn't include sewer and storm water, right? Correct, water only. Okay, thanks. All right, are there any questions for Joe? All right, back to you then. Just a quick question, are there any big capital jobs coming up in the next year or so? Because you just put in a new tank two years ago, right? Correct, yep. We did build the tank at our plant two years ago. Last March, the district voted two bonds. One was for a project out in Colchester to add a new loop to the Water Tower Hill feed up there. And also to address some water quality issues in the Colchester Town water system. That project is being built, actually it's under construction now and will be finished next spring. We also bonded for a new pump station now in Essex to help with our water quality as well as our hydraulic grade line, which does benefit South Burlington because we have a tank out, an Essex West tank that's very difficult to turn over. And so we wind up having to stress some of our service systems in order to get that tank to turn over. So we're putting in a pump station there. That will be built next summer. We're actually bidding that in a couple of weeks. And so those two projects are out there. Then the other thing I'll throw out there right now is those two projects, we were able to get a drinking water SRF funding and that funding resulted in 75% loan forgiveness for up to a million dollars for each project. And then 40% for 25% forgiveness after that. And so the one project in Colchester was a million dollars. So we're paying back $250,000 of a million dollars borrowed for that project. And then the Essex West project is 2.6 million and we are paying back only 40% of that. So something on the order of like 1.2 or 1.4 I'd have to do the math again. But essentially we were able to save on the order of almost $2 million in bond capacity. And so because of that, we actually have some projects that we want to move along. We built a new tank at our plant and we have an existing tank that needs repair. And so we're actually looking to do a bond vote in March of this year to repurpose that unused debt authorization. It actually keeps our debt service lower than what we had originally anticipated prior to the loan forgiveness, but allows us to move forward that plus some pump station work down at our Lakewater Pump Station. So we do have some more, another round of bonding we're looking to do but it actually is a net zero impact on the rate. Actually, if anything, it's even lower than we had originally anticipated because of the loan forgiveness we're getting through the SRF. Sorry for maybe more than you wanted to know but those are some of the things we're trying to reinvest in our infrastructure. No, that's what I want to know. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, Kevin, I'm sorry, Justin, excuse me. Yeah, and also just so you know, on the call is the city's representative appointed or voted, I believe it's voted member to the board of commissioners, Dennis Lutz, South Burlington resident. So he's the city's representative to CWD. So if there's any additional questions, Dennis is here in that capacity as well. Thank you. Thank you. So moving forward, I just wanted to give a brief, big picture overview of the three utility funds. As I believe in Councilor Barrett's question, yes they are water, wastewater and stormwater. Martha, can you go to the rate comparison tab which I think is the rightmost tab or it was the rightmost other, okay, it's its own tab. So I want to start from this point and work backwards. This is the sheet that we always have in the annual reports. And it just is a summation of where our proposed rate increases stand relative to both the current rate as well as the average increase to the South Burlington homeowner. Starting on the bottom, you already heard Joe use the number 285 for South Burlington. And that's arrived at by looking at what the 2021 rate of 277.11 plus the 2.9% increase of an additional $789 gets us to $285. So that's where Joe, so it's good that we have the same number Joe, coincidentally, but that's where that number is derived from the biggest takeaway for us. Well, we have a couple. One is the stormwater division continues almost in the manner that Joe just described, their ability to not just get grants, but also to get loan forgiveness. The stormwater staff continues to bring in hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars of grants to South Burlington, always in a manner exceeding our budgetary expectations because we budget conservatively. As such, we can again continue to show a lower than forecasted utility rate increase for stormwater. And the stormwater rate, if you can scroll up a bit, Martha, so we can just see the header of this, please. Thank you. The stormwater rate is referred to as an ERU, an Equivalent Residential Unit. So basically, if you own a single family residential home or a condominium in South Burlington, you're charged presently $7.08 a month with our proposed increase in FY22 of 1.7%. That goes to $7.20 a month for a grand total of $1.44 for the year. So we have $1.44 in stormwater. We already discussed we're just under $8 in water and we're proposing it. And again, this is a lower than anticipated number within sewer. We're proposing a 1.5% increase. And as you can see sewer is our most expensive utility to fund. It's roughly $350 a year for the average homeowner with the 1.5% proposed increase. But those three items in totality are $14.50 to the average single family homeowner in South Burlington. And I'm sure all the counselors have done this through the proposed utility budget. The biggest thing people's attention is drawn to is the dollar change or the percent change in any one line item from year to year. So there's just a few I wanted to highlight if I may in wastewater particularly. The largest increase in expenses of things that staff controls that does not include items like salary and benefits. Those are administrative assigned cost but things that my group is in charge of. The biggest increases we're seeing are in chemicals. So you'll see $15,000 in polymer, $10,000 in caustic line, $25,000 in alum. All of that is a direct result of and directly affects our effluent phosphorus discharge. We're permitted by the state of Vermont to discharge roughly 790 pounds of phosphorus combined at both wastewater facilities into Lake Champlain each year. We presently discharge somewhere between 5% and 8% of that annual total which is an incredibly low number. I can't imagine people are coming in any lower than our concentrations of, for example, 0.02 milligrams per liter or 0.03. Sometimes we actually get non detectable because our phosphorus is so low and are effluent but that there's a correlated expense to that. And we're seeing an increase in those line items for chemicals but we feel it's appropriate just given what it is we all know about the detrimental impact of phosphorus on Lake Champlain. And on the positive side of the plus or minus draw your attention to the airport parkway loan payment. Marfa, that's near the bottom of the expense items if you scroll down a bit, just a little bit more. So yeah, so you'll notice, I think Marfa's highlighting. Yeah, thank you. A $367,000 decrease in our annual payment. We had been scheduled to pay and we have been paying $1.27 million annually to the state to pay back the 2012 completed upgrade to the airport parkway project. Total project cost of 30 million. However, we were able to receive this year a retro we applied for and received a retroactive grant that reduced the principal on our loan balance by over $4.5 million. So our recalculated debt schedule has our new annual payment of just above $900,000. So it's almost a $400,000 savings that was achieved through staffs pursuing and frankly pestering the state for about six years for this grant. So we like to thank the state as our partner but also that's a huge impact on a $5 million budget. If you can lop off almost 10% of that budget which we're able to do this year and that will be our payment for the remainder. So that $367,000, it's gonna be times however many years we have left. I believe like I said, it's about $4.5 million total. So those two things really, so that item really helps us keep the rate increase at a low number, particularly in a year in which we're ramping up for the Bartlett Bay expansion project. So we anticipate $400,000 in design services and you can see that above about 12 or so lines above the Bartlett Bay upgrades. So the good news is while we have these large expenses this reduction in loan repayment just about offsets it which allows us to achieve both rate stabilization and put more money in the bank for the funds. Justin, is that federal dollars that come into the state to pay for this or are those really state generated funds? So this was a loan through the Revolving Loan Fund the same program that Joe mentioned earlier. So what essentially what it is is all of the municipalities are borrowing it's kind of a self-insurance. All lending each other and borrowing each other money through the Vermont bond bank at a very low rate. So it's either state nor fed. I'm sure the state contributes some amount first primarily funded by the users of the system who contribute both the debt and receive benefit from it. Thank you. And then in looking through both our water and stormwater budget there's only one other item that I want to highlight. Certainly I'll answer any questions on any of the dozens of account numbers. But Marfa, if you can go to the bottom of the stormwater expense I want to get us to stormwater capital projects. There it is right there. So that's a very large number it's a 4.3 million dollars almost 3 million up from the previous year. There are two main, well there's probably three factors contributing to this. One is the unplanned unbudgeted expense of the Kimball Avenue Bridge that's being funded through this program. However, since the city of South Groningen is running the project we're showing the total cost and expense on each side of the ledger keeping in mind that Williston is paying half of the roughly two million dollar project. So this number is already inflated kind of by a million because Williston is contributing on the revenue side. Additionally, we knew that just the way our project cycle works we were gonna this was always going to be a construction heavy summer for us. However, that was compounded by frankly this last season with the pandemic we and the shutdown we had a couple of projects that we would have liked to take to construction they're just gonna be transferred to this season. However, as Stormwater is an enterprise fund the money just comes with it from the prior year. So the money sits in the reserves. I suspect once you get the FY21 budgeted actuals which you won't have for about nine or 10 months but you will notice a very small number in capital expenditures in FY21 because of the pandemic. So I just wanted if people saw that $3 million number as an increase I didn't at least want to have the opportunity to explain it for folks. Beyond that, everything else is going up or down very minor percentage points. We were very conscientious of understanding that while these are enterprise funds and they're outside of the quote property tax bill it's all the same wallet. So we were very sensitive of the rate increases. We actually took a little bit of money out of our water divisions reserves, capital reserves and as a revenue infusion to lessen the water rate increase. The our reserves are extremely healthy for a fund that is annually about $2.5 million a year. We have almost 40% cash on hand in our reserve. So we felt that was an appropriate move from an auditing standpoint and it does help lessen the rate increase and gets us back down to that 2.9% water increase. Whereas if we had just absorbed all of the justifiable increases that Joe had mentioned without trying to adjust anything we would have been closer to 6%. So that's how in totality that's how we arrived at the various rate increases. And those are the highlights. And there's also some CIP projects that were included in Tom and Martha's discussion earlier that I'm happy to answer questions on now or later as well. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Are there any questions for Justin? How about from the public? I think Barb service, did you wanna ask a question? I just wanted to toss in my usual comment. As we look at a rate increase we still have inequity and we're not doing anything to incent conservation of water and it's an important resource that we don't wanna waste. So I'm still hoping that at some point we will be able to have a more equitable way to assign the water part. I'm not objecting to anything that's being done other than it would be nice if we could do it a little bit more equitably and basically incentivize people to be more careful about their water usage. Thanks. Okay, thank you. Kevin, did you wanna make a comment? And then- Yeah, I do. I really do wanna recognize Justin on something. This grant we got from the state related to the airport parkway plant. The only reason we got that is because Justin figured out how we could advocate for this money and he got very tenacious about going after. This is a huge impact for the rate pairs and for debt and it opens the door to savings at the plant and elsewhere. And this kind of goes beyond just a normal recognition. The city owes Justin a lot for tracking this down and getting this done. And I just wanna recognize it on the record find other ways to do it well but this is a lot of money. So Justin- Who knows to Justin? Thank you. Thank you. Okay, we have another public person. Yes, whoever raised their hand. Yes. I think it's Megan. Oh, that's Megan. I didn't recognize you. Oh, that's so funny. Sorry, you keep changing in your background. I know, we're up in the mountains and so I don't have my usual- I hear someone. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, I don't have my usual little hideaway. So I'm having to escape the crowd. I did have a question regarding the sewer expenditures and I just was curious, there must be new people coming on board here with the group health insurance, the group life insurance, the dental insurance, the pension, just seeing upticks there. I'll defer to Tom Hubbard on those administrative costs. Coming. Here I am. So yeah, we did a really in-depth analysis of all the enterprise funds this year and developed a new comprehensive schedule for all the employees. So these are more reflective of actual costs that are coming out. And we did this across the board with all the benefits. There was, we did have a fairly significant raise to our water quality employees this past year, Megan, to keep them competitive because of the certifications that are required for them and their job and to be able to keep them here because even though I know Dennis is listening in, we have neighboring towns that are looking to steal some good people and that hasn't happened with Essex but it's happened with other towns around us. So to remain competitive, we did bring those salaries up and that's reflective as well in some of the costs that you see. Yeah. But in addition to the salaries, there's also the health insurance that's up by over 25%. Yeah, again, it's more truly reflective of what's actually being paid out as we did the in-depth analysis. It's gonna actually help the general fund but I'm sure Justin wasn't happy to see the figures either as they came out of the enterprise accounts but it took us quite a while to do the analysis. I think it was worth doing. Okay, all right. Thank you for that. And we've added, is it one more person, Justin, to the water quality than we had? I know we're looking to fill a position as well but. Yes. But that also accounts for an additional employee as well. All right, thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Seeing none, I guess we can move on to item nine then thank you very much, Justin. This was excellent and I appreciate you pointing out the highlights and Joe as well. Thank you. We'll move on to item nine, council review discussion of possible approval of the FY 2022 draft general fund budget and we'll go to Tom Hubbard for that. Okay. Now I can recognize you making your pictures bigger. It was so teeny. And we'll have Martha pull that up. I guess Helen, I'd like to start with just some general comments that they shared with the council at the last meeting. This is one of the most challenging budgets that we as a team have really submitted to the council. And we all certainly understand the reasons behind that. Before I begin, I really wanna extend my sincere thanks and appreciation to all our department managers on working with us to develop a budget that reflects and responds really to the fiscal crisis that we're in as a result of the pandemic. But none of us have ever gone through this before and with Kevin, we continue to be thankful, continue to be proud and honored to work alongside each of our department managers to work alongside each of you as we continue to move through this. And we still have challenges even in the rest of this year as we're only halfway through fiscal year 21. So we're bringing forth a budget that has compromises, it has sacrifices and in some departments it has reduced funding for services. We're responding in a way that we believe to be fiscally prudent and responsible given the challenges that we're facing. While you as a council are aware, because you've heard me say this a number of times of what the major impacts are on the budget this year, we recognize that there's maybe people from the public that are hearing this for the first time. And I'll go through some of those and hope that this will help prepare for discussion tonight. I'm mainly gonna outline some of the more significant increases and decreases that are projected. And to be honest, I'm actually more concerned about the reduction in our projected revenue than the relatively small increase that we have in expenses for FY 22. The proposed budget is 0.98% increase in the tax rate. So just under 1% it assumes a 1% growth in the grand list as projected by our assessor. And this is understanding that the real grand list numbers will change once the reappraisal is complete. But this provides really the only true measure of how residents can determine what the impact is of this budget and what that will have on their taxes at this point in time. And how it compares to recent budgets. So this kind of puts in apples to apples kind of comparison in terms of what these numbers mean. And based on what's being proposed, what that means to the average taxpayer is an increase of $13.01 for the year for the average condo and an $18.76 increase for the year to the average homeowner. The total increase in expenses in the general fund is just under $146,000, but the revenue is down almost $262,000. And that's largely due to the impact with a reduction in the projected local options taxes. So looking at some of the major expense factors that we have a number of cost drivers that we've identified, these are agreements with our three bargaining units, health insurance and pension increases, workers come, property tax and liability increases, reduction in the interest on our investments. We've actually gone from a 2% interest rate to a 0.25 interest rate. And we don't expect that that's gonna rebound quickly. There's increase in funding needed for the opening of the new library. And there's the decrease in the revenue from the local options taxes previously mentioned. All told, these items alone, just these factors account for nearly $1.3 million in costs. So let's look a little bit on the revenue side. We were able to conservatively project a 1% growth in the grand list. The city clerk revenue remains high for recording fees and vital records. This has been substantial over the last few years. The city has an additional tenant at Gregory Drive, as you know, as the city now owns the building and we have two tenants. The fire department is projecting to be able to maintain the fire inspection fees and increase in revenue for ambulance fees as we go to the third party billing. And the city also retired some debt this year that was due on the public works building that accounted for about $100,000 between principal and interest. Unfortunately, these revenue factors don't outweigh the budget impact. So significant cuts were necessary. Some of those have already been shared. We've had additional cuts to the CIP as discussed earlier tonight. We've had cuts to various line items that have been noted in the general fund. We've had cuts to both the designated and undesignated reserve funds. And we've had a number of staff positions that will not be filled. We've talked about this, but the following positions have either opened up since the pandemic or were approved positions in the FY21 budget that have not yet been filled. These include a patrol officer, a firefighter, city planner position, the deputy finance officer, a parks laborer and a benefits administrator. Additionally, several positions are proposed to merge from two separate positions into shared positions. Really a total of nine staff positions that are not included in the budget. Obviously these decisions have not come easy and they've been carefully examined and reviewed. Our department managers are aware and our understanding of where we currently are fiscally. And this will have an impact on the level of service from departments some more than others. I shared some further information for council to consider regarding the fund balance at our last meeting, the fund balance for FY20. This provides the council with some additional options should you choose to allocate any of that money towards FY21 or FY22 or leave it in the city's fund balance. Again, I shared at the last meeting that several of the library one-time expenditures are proposed with a fund balance allocation. And I know Jennifer will be speaking a little bit more about that. But we're really all here, all department managers here to be engaged in some back and forth discussion related to the budget impacts, to the level of service, to the loss of positions and any other questions or comments from the public or the council that we can respond to. I would just like to point out that most departments are facing budget cuts on areas within their budget that they actually do have some control of. This is many areas of the budget that they don't. Some that we spoke to earlier with increases in insurance, bargaining unit agreements and such. So separate budget reviews from each of them probably wouldn't be pertinent for tonight. But to start things off with the proposed increase in funding that will be required for the library based on the opening of the new facility, I'd like to ask Jennifer to give a brief overview, a follow-up really to what was presented from the trustees to you back at a prior council meeting and then open up for a general discussion and question with all our departments. So Jennifer, if you're set to begin, I'll turn it over to you at this point. Okay, thank you. Hello council. I wanna start off by congratulating you because suddenly now FY22 is gonna be the year that you're opening a new library. And it's not finished yet, but when you think about all the decades and all the councils and all the trustees and all the residents who've been wanting a library for so long, it's exciting that we're finally in the fiscal year where this is really gonna happen. So congratulations. So Ted and Patrick gave you a presentation about our proposed budget. The last meeting and you have that information and I just wanna go over some of the basics. We know that the city is in, fiscally is in trouble this year. And so what we came up with as a plan because most of our added funding was for staffing. So what we've done is we came up with a budget for that for the first six months of FY22. The library would only be open for 40 hours a week and which we would be able to do with only an increase of 1.5 FTE. And while this option drastically limits staff and public use of library spaces, it does open the library to the public six days a week. And so our hope is that our plan is to start there and then over time to maximize the space for programs and services so that we can achieve what the building was designed to do. So after the first six months, the second six months beginning in January, the plan is to open more evenings, allowing for more programming by the library, other departments and public groups. And at that time after being open for six months, we'll have a better picture of how new populations are using the library and then we'll add staff to fill those evenings, but in a way that is appropriate to who's using the library and how they're using it and how they want to be using it. We'll be asking questions like, are we seeing the Marcot students coming in after school as we anticipate? Are the teens coming in after school? Are they staying on into the evening? And are we programming for them or are they just need space from us? Has the book circulation doubled, which libraries that open new buildings often are saying that their usage doubles? Is that gonna happen for us? And at what rate is the public reserving meeting rooms? So those are some of the questions that we'll have some data from from the first six months and then we'll be able to get the right people in place to make sure that we can open the library for additional hours and address the appropriate needs for the second six months. Tom mentioned the fund balance and the line on the budget is library equipment and I believe it's around $26,000 and that is for one time purchases to self-checkout machines. Self-checkout machines, when I visited a lot of libraries, they're very popular. They're useful. They mean we don't necessarily have to add a lot of circulation staff because once people get used to them, they might choose to go to them. So this is adding two of those self-checkout machines for us to have in the circulation area of the library. So if possible, it'd be great to get those from the fund balance. So opening the library has long been a community dream, as I mentioned, and this budget for us keeps additions to a minimum for FY22 because we are doing our part in keeping expenses low while also making the new library available to all residents. And if you have any specific questions, I'm happy to answer them. Are there any questions? I would agree. It's very exciting. It's pretty cool. All right. So who's up next for the general fund? I think at this point, Helen, we'll just open it up to questions on any of the budgets. And Martha can pull up the different sheets if you'd like to hear from any of the department managers about any of the impacts on their budgets. They're all here, so feel free to call upon them. Okay. Are there any questions? Tim. So just quickly, the revenue shortfall, Tom, is mostly due to the local meals tax, right? Yeah, it's about a quarter of a million dollars that I'm hoping that's a conservative number. It's gonna be more of an impact this year, Tim, but I'm hoping by the full fiscal year of FY22 that we're able to give back to some normalcy. And I think by FY23, we can go back to the numbers that we've been looking at over the past couple of years, which were substantial in offsetting some of the costs in the general fund. Have you seen, I mean, the numbers from the state in terms of the sales tax, does it indicate that you don't have any way to differentiate? We talked about the support between internet sales and local sales tax, right? You have no way to tell the difference. We don't, and this will be a key one because the next allocation that we get in mid-February, and that will include the period of about mid-November, I think around the 14th of November, through mid-February. So we'll have the whole holiday season in there. It's usually our biggest take in terms of local option tax money. The sales tax on the first allocation that we received was pretty close to what we'd received in past years. It's the rooms and meals that have really taken a hit. Do you ever talk to the Burlington, your Burlington counterparts, because they receive their local sales tax directly to them, it doesn't go through Montpelier, right? Correct. And so if they... That's an agreement that they have with the state. The state doesn't have that offer to any of the rest of us. But Burlington then received a remittance from the state which is represented by the internet sales, right? I believe so. So do you know if their ratio looks like there has been expanded use, I mean, I'm sure there has been, but I'm just curious what the percent difference is in internet revenue versus local normal sales tax revenue and I'm just curious because they're the only ones that could give you that ratio difference over time, right? Yeah, I would love for the tax department to be more willing to share some of that data with us. Maybe they will. I mean, they're going through the same shortfall that we are. A decrease in the local options for us is a decrease for them as they take 30% of it. So we should all be concerned about where is that coming from? And I would love to have access to that information. My second question really quickly, Helen, is that the positions that won't be filled, what impact do you think that will have on the city or its services or the residents themselves? If you can quantify that? I think we can by having some of the department managers speak to that point and maybe we'll start with Paul Conner. Paul has a fairly small staff. The city planner position is not being proposed to be filled and maybe Paul can talk about the capacity that he envisions for his department and then have some of the other managers speak to some of the positions being cut as well. Paul, you wanna kick that off? Sure, thank you, Tom and thank you, Tim, for the question. I think as Tom said, this is a challenging budget for all of us, but we're all trying to recognize that this is also a challenging budget for all of our residents. So as Tom described in the planning and zoning department, the proposal was to not fill the city planner position. That was a position that was voluntarily vacated this past summer. What the effect in our department on that is, and therefore to the public is, essentially we have certain required functions that we have to do and those are on the permitting and the development of view side. There are statutory requirements, there's local zoning requirements, there's due process requirements. And so that's, we will continue as best we can largely unimpeded in that section, which means that the side of it that gets affected is more the long range planning side, the voluntary actions, the city. And so that puts us into a position where we have less capacity, one fewer person capacity to take that on. We are mitigating that a little bit by proposing to retain the consulting budget to be able to continue to help get the assistance from the Regional Planning Commission with some of their staff time that they've helped us with. But essentially what it means is that our ability to take on new projects or big projects is reduced. And so we'll have to pick a couple of big projects in a year rather than three or four. We have some efforts that I know people have been excited for a long time for us to take on, like updating our official map that's 15 years old or bringing in some new standards, whether they're related to housing affordability or energy or things like that. And we'll have to, with the position unfilled, we'll have to prioritize working closely with the Planning Commission. And then I guess the last thing I'd say is that we have had, there's been a fair amount of interest in our community in doing more implementation of our plan that isn't just about regulations. That's about whether it's a developing a climate action plan or it's working on sustainability across departments to embed it into our decision making or it's setting up pop-up markets for our local entrepreneurs, that kind of sort of implementation without it always being about rules. That's gonna have, without the city planner position or position like it being filled, that's limited capacity to take those things on. Thank you. We have a patrol officer that a fire fighter. I can't remember who else was cut or not filled. I know that Justin has some significant cuts in DPW between the paving and some of his fleet, the fight against the emerald ash borer. He had a position for parks labor position to be filled in FY21. So that hasn't been filled this year. It's not proposed to be filled next year either I think we're all in agreement that the position is needed and it's a matter of trying to fit it in where we can. But Justin, you wanna speak to some of those items? Yeah, thank you Tom. So in a pre-pandemic world, we contemplated the growing size of wonderful park and recreation options in the city of South Burlington as well as areas in which we felt we could do better. So in addition to having more assets be Underwood or the new city center park, the new Market Street stormwater pond, we also thought the city could use some beautification, planting beds along the median on route two over the interstate, some sort of attractive landscaping feature at Dorsa and Williston Road. So both of those items were contemplated in the FY21 budget. It's the tune of a $75,000 landscape contract and a new staff position. Well, in FY21, the administration authorized us to spend 35,000 of that 75,000. And we did that in upkeep at Overlook, along Market Street and at the Market Street stormwater pond and in city center park. That obviously those functions need to be annual. That is back in this year's budget, but at $45,000. So it allows us to do maintenance in the areas that I've described, but it doesn't allow us to do some of the enhancements that we had contemplated as part of the FY21 budget, putting it together. Additionally, the staff position remains unfilled. So while we were growing these, that while we have more assets, we need, we just, we simply need more people and our inability to provide maintenance, I think was, well, I know I heard it and I'm sure others did either heard it or felt it. Like for example, something as every day as along the bike path come August, once that overgrowth starts crowding you when you're coming up from Farrell up to Spear Street. If there's more leaves, if you're encountering more debris across the path that you normally would, that's because we, you know, the labor hours in addition to people being on furlough, we just have more things to take care of. So through the new position as well as the expanded maintenance contract and beautification contract, we were hopeful to be providing increased levels of service to the city, certainly going forward at least for the next 18 months that's off the table for the time being. Tom did mention our fleet is now at, yeah, I think it's at $225,000 within public works to put that number in perspective. When you see a full-size plow truck going down your street, that costs between $160,000 and $180,000. And we kind of need to replace the one of those every year based on the number of them we have and the number of routes and their life cycles. So this year we're gonna have to choose, do we not, because, you know, once we buy one of those, there's not much money left. You know, we don't buy pieces of equipment that costs $3,000. So we're gonna have to choose, is this a year where we buy a bunch of pickups or do we just buy one big truck and probably not much else to be, you know, so that speaks to a couple of things, level of service and that will be relying on an older fleet, which is gonna result in more downtime, which is gonna result in increased costs in our maintenance parts wide item budget. You know, so these things, there's a snowball effect, obviously. And then the last one that Tom mentioned that I'll cover is paving. We had initially proposed during last year's budget development that we would be up to a million dollars by now in paving. We're at $700,000. So yeah, that's just, again, it's gonna be more money we're gonna have to spend on potholes because that threat $300,000 is, it's one big project or it's honestly, it's probably five to 10 neighborhood-sized streets that are just off the table at this point. And to give you a direct example of what that meant this year with the pandemic, with the cutback that the council approved, we basically only spent half of our paving budget. We have folks that live over off Patrick Road on Archer and Larber. They are desperately in need of new pavement and the money just simply wasn't there this year. So we hope to get to those folks this time around but there'll be another large, there's another large in Arber every year. So does the pothole funding come out of paving? So that's in operations. Okay. The potholes are funded through operations. The paving contract is the large number that Martha has highlighted here. Thank you, I believe those are Tom, so, hi, Megan. Did you have a question, Megan? Oh, no. Yes, go. One minute, let her out. All right, thanks. I have just a couple of questions. First of all, is there gonna be no more cleaning service? You all are gonna be doing the cleaning. Is that what I'm to understand by that budget line going to zero? So this was... Are you talking about the city administration budget? Yeah, yeah. Municipal building cleaning supplies went up $11,000 and the cleaning service went down $30,300. So what we're doing there, Megan, is we're opening up the new city hall and we'll be hiring custodians as part of the operations for that building which we'll need, we'll need somebody during the day to assist with set up with some of the different function rooms and just general cleaning and then somebody at night to also assist with cleaning and to be there for security for the building and lockup. So those positions will be filled and the facilities manager will come online in fiscal year 21 and we'll oversee all the different buildings and we'll determine whether or not we continue to keep cleaning contracts private or if we are able to have our own cleaning crew that would be able to go around to the different facility buildings. We've got the whole 19 Gregory Drive now that we'll be responsible for and we need to look at things more comprehensively like HVAC for all our buildings. I think, Justin, how many units you got on top of yours over there at Public Works? Quite a few. He's muted, but I think he's... Three or four. Yeah, but just looking at all the different HVAC needs for the facilities and looking at that with Lubrizzi and the energy committee and just looking more comprehensively in terms of what we can do with maintenance. So the maintenance cost that's coming out of the budget that you see was the cost for the service that we contracted with. And that has been planted into... Let me just see if I can... I see that City Hall maintenance went up $19,000, but... Yeah, so that's where some of that went into that and I think there's one other area. The building cleaning supplies went up because I know there's a number of things that we're gonna need for the new building, for the custodial services that will be startup expenses. So I think it was a wash between what we were paying on the City Hall side of things for services and then a library budget is picking up a balance of some of the maintenance costs for the building. I think Alana has a percentage of 68% of the costs for the building and utilities are library and 25% roughly are City Hall. And then the balance is the common areas in the senior center area. So that's where the different costs are coming from. It's really a shifting there, but not an elimination of them. Okay, and under information technology, I see utility services has gone up, not quite doubling, but I'm just curious about that. Yeah, Mike, are you on like Michael Mott? I don't think you've met our new IT network administrator since I'll laugh. I did in the office, I think, I did in the office. Let's see if Mike is on here. I'm not seeing him on right now. I apologize, I thought I saw him on earlier. So he's probably having an issue connecting. He's- I thought I saw him on earlier. I'll get you some more information on the IT. I know that a good part of that is for support services for the new building. Okay, all right. And then I know that we didn't hire someone in finance, but we have a consulting assessing. So we're gonna have a consultant helping Martha out or- Yeah, so what we propose to do there with the reappraisal being complete, Megan, is taking the tax assessing and the tax collection of positions and combining them into one position. I think that- Tots retiring. Pardon me. Tots retiring. Todd will be, yeah. And we're thinking with all that information and data up to date that at least for a couple of years that one person could probably manage both those operations. We can- We still have somebody that helps Martha even now at the Welcome Center. And we would- We've also put some consulting money in there so that as inspections need to be done offsite by an appraiser, that we could have someone go out and do that without hiring another full-time staff member to do it. So that is one of the areas where we're taking two positions and combining them into one position. I will have a question about, yeah, what we'll do when we come back to perhaps full employment. And I also see that our printer and copier lease is decreasing. Are we having a change there? We owe most of the printers and copiers now because they're old. But you have that couple of years where they're old but they're still good enough to be able to perform what you need them to do. There's gonna be a time soon here that we're gonna need to replace some of those. We're working with SimQuest to look at the new building in terms of having all of City Hall together, looking at our existing machines and kind of figuring out what is most needed there in terms of a shared kind of a system that we can utilize. And then they'll be working with our other departments as the copiers kind of age out in terms of what we can do with SimQuest in having them come on board and help us with those needs in the future. My last two questions have to do with fire and police. So I'll just give them a heads up there. So you had said that we aren't hiring a firefighter, yet I see that the salaries, the permanent salaries line is going up. Yeah, as our people become more senior, they increase in their steps. And we have another people who were maxed out on their lunch every day, that's reflected in that. We also have a contract obligations as well. So what does, we are down one and a half positions as a result of this budget and about $77,000 in our operating costs as directed by you folks. That's eventually gonna be catching up with us. We're authorized strength is 10 per shift with ADA on duty. Right now I have one shift that's down to eight people with no taxpayers because we have a person who is serving time in some place sandy with the military. And the other open position was a firefighter paramedic position that the person voluntarily separated from us. And what that means is that we have been very fortunate in the city has been very generous in trying to make sure that we have a paramedic for each apparatus. And even with that, we still rely on almost 700 mutual aid calls a year. Truth be known, we need another ambulance and more people, but the budget cannot support that. We will look to safer grants, federal grants and that type of stuff, but that's still a 75, that's a 25% match. And that's not something that'll be able to take advantage of in fiscal year 22. Doesn't mean that we won't be looking at it though. So really what it means is about the loss of the full-time firefighter position is that, if you're unlucky enough to be the third person called within five minutes and our paramedics are tied up, the third piece of equipment may or may not have a paramedic on it, which means that you may or may not get the best quality care that is available in the state. So that's always a risk benefit type thing. Operationally, probably our biggest hit was in our training. And we are fortunate enough that our personnel are trained not only in fire and EMS, but 10 of 16 other disciplines that are within the fire service. Those certifications are gonna run out in 23, fiscal year 23, and we're gonna have to budget for that. Otherwise, things like confined space, which every industry in the city that has confined space in relies on us for their confined space rescue. We don't have that ability anymore. That means you'll have to go to a third party, which may means you might be waiting for an hour and a half to two hours to get help. That's not a position the citizens or you folks or I want to be in, but this is the reality of what these budgets are and these budget restrictions that we have because nobody has a money tree in their backyard. We're still seeing people in spite of COVID needing EMS response. As you know, firefighters is cross-trained and some levels of firefighter too is a minimum and they used an EMT and all the way up to EMT paramedic. And those calls aren't going away. They're increasing. In fact, December was our busiest December in month with 353 calls. And what we're experiencing is that we are getting simultaneous calls, which means that, for example, this morning we had three calls in 18 minutes. The fourth call came in and my fire inspector took it and we relayed on mutual aid to come give us an ambulance in two of those cases. So that's becoming more and more typical. But again, we understand the fiscal responsibilities that we all have towards keeping the budget where it needs to be. But a cautionary tale is, it is going to catch up with us in about 18 months. So we just need to be aware of that. And remind me why in 18 months? Because of the... It takes lead time to get the recertifications done for those 10 or 11 other specialties. The certifications are good for two to three years. And they have to be recertified just like our EMS and fire service stuff has to be done. Which line is the training line? That is, great question. I see new employee training. Yep, no, it's not new employee training. It's about a 30,000 dollar hit on training itself. Martha, I think you could have go down a little bit more. Ah. We just missed it, Martha. Go up just a little bit. Training schools? Yeah, training schools. It's, should be above that. I'm gonna get to my page. I can read my page easier. Bear with me just a second. Yeah, I'm on my page too. Megan, while he's looking for that, I'll say also that we combine some of the things together. We're trying to reduce some of the different salary categories within fire and ambulance. So if you look at the FICA line for total salaries, you'll see that there's really only a $9,700 increase in the FICA there. So the increase in the salaries that the chief was speaking to earlier is really reflective of the bargaining unit agreement. And this, and we don't have to increase it as much because we're short to one employee. So that's kind of, might be a better way to kind of measure what the impact is there. And that's actually. We've made some of these together in salaries. And Megan, that's actually reflected in the firefighter overtime for training. Our current union agreement requires a certain level of overtime for these things. If we're doing high angle rescue, we really can't do that on duty or ice rescue because you're out in the middle of the lake through the water and suddenly you have a call, it's gonna take you more than three minutes to get out of the water, get redressed and get back and same thing with, you know, any of the other things can find space. If you're in a little tube someplace, it's gonna take you a little time to get extricated out of that and then go to the call. And that's not something that is responsible nor a good training because we can't focus on what we're supposed to be doing. Right, right. And how about the next line, the emergency call? So what you were talking about earlier? The emergency call is when we have to hold personnel over, typically on a call it comes in at 7.45 or so. And suddenly they're held over for an extra hour, an hour and a half, two hours. Couple of cases we had multiple, we had a multiple alarm fire, the whole guys, a whole shift over for two and a half hours or whatever while we're mitigating that emergency. So that's where that over time emergency call comes in. Thank you, Mark. Let me ask a question, Charlie. Yes, I'm sorry. I was looking at the lines and not you, sorry. Chief Francis, this is my sixth year on the council. And I remember my first year even running before I was elected to the first term. I heard about the rumbling in the backgrounds for a second. I'm not sure. And it's, I'm sorry, councilor Armead. I didn't hear that. So my question to you is what metric should we be watching? I just heard you say 700 calls once a mutual aid agencies. What other metrics and how closely should we pay attention to this over the coming two or three years to start asking the question if we as a community are in need of or when we will identify that we are in need for a second ambulance. Yeah, so that's a great question. And truly the metric is kind of an industry based metric is that when you start when you get start transporting over 2000 patients a year is when you need to start really implementing a second ambulance. And this year we transported a little over 1800 and when our calls are going up by a hundred between the average is 125 calls a year. So if you use that metric within two years that second ambulance really needs to be in place and operating, that's a substantial cost. That's seven people. It's a $300,000 ambulance. The good news is we have a station that now has bedrooms in it that we could put the right put people in and keep COVID compliant, which we're gonna have to maintain for certainly another six months or so. So we're taking steps towards that but the big ticket item is probably gonna be $800,000 or more for personnel, personnel and equipment. But that's the metrics we use. Tom, I think the chief will agree with me when I say that I think we seriously have to start looking at a more regional kind of an ambulance service or fire department service that I feel our team could really lead because as the chief referred to, we've got a lot of paramedics on staff. And as you look at the costs and then look at the metrics that the chief is talking about, it starts to become a bit unsustainable for any one community to be able to absorb those kinds of costs on a year in, year out basis. And as we look at regional dispatch, I think we've got to start looking at regional ambulance and regional fire as well in terms of combining some of these services so that more agencies are getting a better bang for their buck and municipalities aren't gonna go into the hole trying to fund separate operations and be able to sustain the number of firefighters and rescue personnel that we need to be able to respond to the calls that are coming within Chittenden County. And I know we respond to mutual aid calls as well but the chief already gave you a number of mutual aid calls that are already coming into South Burlington. I think regionalizing that makes a lot of sense. Yeah, this is a better part. If you're looking at that model, the regional dispatch has to be a significant part of that because it allows a dispatcher to track what assets are available, where they are and all of that. You know, Sean's people do a good job with a lot of times one person on duty but it's a little ridiculous when the dispatcher has to pick up the phone and call five different agencies to say, do you have any ambulance? Do you have a fire truck when it could be done at a touch of a button? And it's not from lack of trying. I've been doing this more years than I care to reflect on but looking at the picture in the camera here, I'm like, yeah, I'm old. And, you know, for well over 40 years we've been trying to do a regional dispatch and, you know, maybe it'll happen before all my teeth fall out but I won't be bothered about it. It's gonna happen sometime in FY 22, Terry. It's in the budget. Great, look forward to that. Chief Burke has put his slide on so you're gonna tell us the impact of not having a patrol? Officer. Yes, thank you very much for the time this evening. It's good to see everybody. You know, the way we're currently staffed, we have patrol full and that's really the spine of the dispatcher, the organization, the critical components. We have our vacancy in youth service currently in given, you know, what's going on at the school in terms of in-person learning on a full-time basis. That posture is working for us. I don't have any operational concerns going through fiscal year 22, even if we have to have a lighter footprint with the school district. And by, you know, as evidenced by recent cases we have the right allotment in other units to include detectives and sex crimes and our commitment to the drug task force. All those employees are doing a fantastic job in closing the cases that are headline. So I think we're good to go there. In terms of, you know, the cruiser, you know, it's always better on the maintenance budget to have newer stuff in our frontline fleet, but I'm confident where we are now that we can get through fiscal year 22 with the addition of two new patrol cars and we'll move around what we need to move around with things that we already own into less-front-facing assignments, whether that's converting it to a detective car, converting it to a car that's used in youth service. As long as we have our new equipment frontline serving the 24-7 demands of patrol, we should be in good shape. Okay. I do want you to know that you were highly complimented earlier on and I don't think you had joined us yet, but Councillor Chittenden wanted to make sure that you knew how impressed he and the rest of us were with the work on tracking down the hit-and-run driver. Well, thank you very much. That work goes all to the detectives that were here grinding it out. Very, very impressive. And it makes me miss when I was a cop. Now I get to toil with these numbers and answer really good and hard topic questions from the public. Great. Any other questions for Chief Burke? Tim, you just came on. Oh, Megan. Yeah, thanks and I'm sorry. I don't know. I think I'm having some connection issues. Can you hear me okay? We can. Okay. My question for Chief Burke had to do with, and maybe this is more for Tom, the debt service, how could we have cut the debt service in the, and I have a couple more questions with regard to the police budget as well, but with regard to the capital improvement plan, how can we cut that debt service? Can you still hear me? Yes. Yeah, I think they're looking for it. Okay. It went from 66,000 down to 51,000. The debt service will decrease over time up until I think the stations paid off in 2032, I believe. Martha probably has that in the long-term debt schedule. Those numbers are right out of our long-term debt schedule from the bond that we have for the building. Okay, all right, so there was not a decrease. So it was just the vehicle cruiser that was decreased. And find it, see vehicles and equipment. Do you have the account number, Megan, that you're looking at? I'm looking at the CIP. Oh, the CIP. I was comparing it to, yeah, I was looking at the CIP on the budget line at the same time, where it appears in the budget lines. I just wanted to confirm, I guess, that I was understanding the CIP. So nothing was cut from the debt service, but the vehicle replacement. That just decreased based on the payment schedule. As you can see, it will go down over the next few years on the CIP, eventually to nothing in 26, from the general fund. So it was just the vehicle replacement that was? The vehicle replacement decreased and then $2,000 out of the computer fund from 198. Okay, all right. Okay, so that takes care of that question. And are we having to renew all of the tasers this year? Is that why that's such a big jump? Yes, that's correct. The current devices are at end of life. So we have to replace up them all. All right, all right. That's just a hopefully simple question for you. The easiest ones you've had today, maybe. Thank you. Megan brought up a point about in the CIP, Sean, do you want to just speak to the communications computers and electronics? Cause in 23, you have a huge jump there. You want to just talk about that briefly. This is not for FY22, but for FY23 proposed. Yeah, thanks for bringing up that point. So in FY23, what I've included in the CIP would be in addition to our cruiser camera to also deploy body worn cameras. So our current posture now, we have our patrol fleet outfitted with cruiser cameras that load up to a in-house server that we maintain here at the PD. Moving forward, given the quality of these video platforms and the amount of video evidence that we would produce with body worn cameras, we would have to merge to a cloud-based solution, which increases the annual cost for storage. Compounding that is the generosity of the Vermont Record of Public Records law and how long we have to retain the lion's share of our evidence. So looking out on the horizon, if we were to move to a body worn camera platform in FY23, we would see in year one, going off the top of my head is about $64,000 in year one. And that would be for the hardware in first year of cloud-based storage. And then moving forward, it would be about $24,000 a year, over four years to have unlimited cloud-based storage for our video evidence. Now, hopefully, if there is a more concerted effort at the state level to have all of Vermont police outfitted with body worn cameras, I would hope that the state would at least entertain hosting some services through Department of Public Safety where we could subscribe as a larger body and perhaps improve those rates. But again, that's just a fleeting thought for me as I sit here, but I know that we need to get the organization in a place where we're seriously moving toward body worn cameras in the next year or so. It would be terrific, but at minimum in the next two years. Do any of you have body worn cameras right now? No, they were never contemplated here from the history I was able to kind of dig up within the South Provincet organization. It's not a great place to be, but it's not a terrible place to be because not only is there huge fiscal considerations with body worn cameras, but there's a lot of debate going on around the policy when police officers will operate these, how police officers will let people know that they are in operation, when police officers are required to turn them off, when an officer can or cannot mute their cameras. And that is work that is gonna be taken up this session by the legislature. There is a model policy out as part of the Department of Public Safety's modernization of policing plan. So I'm anxiously awaiting those results, having lived through developing or being part of the team that developed the Burlington policy, I think version 1.0 and maybe 1.5, these are really, really tough questions to answer. And I believe that once the state has a model policy that we can embrace and answer a lot of those questions, it makes a little more seamless transition when you're trying to operationalize body worn cameras because there's also, for new cops, it's terrific because you strap this device on their person and they build the muscle memory, just like when you get out of the cruiser and turn your radio on, you know to hit the button, you know to hit the button. But as an older cop, when you're deploying out of the cruiser, you kind of forget once in a while. So it's actually not only the training of how to operate it, how to engage with the software, how to store, categorize and account for your digital evidence, but we also have to build through scenario-based training that manual activation of turning that camera on because if you don't do that, you will have incidents where it's really an opportunity that they weren't activated. All right, thank you. Helen, I'm sorry. When I didn't have any more sound, I was asking Chief Francis about the hour and a half wait. I still don't understand that maybe he was describing it when I couldn't hear and I was struggling to get back on. But I just want to be able to understand what this one and a half hour wait is. I think it's important to understand this. Specific to our overtime? No. Well, was it? Yes, maybe it was under the overtime. That $6,500 expense that was reduced. Oh yeah, for emergency callback. So that is when an emergency call comes in at just before shift change. Shift change for us is at eight o'clock. The call comes in at 740 and the oncoming shift isn't there because they're not supposed to be there until eight. Most of our people are early. And members of the off-going shift have to go to the call. It's possible that they may be at that call for an extra hour if they're on the ambulance maybe an hour and a half so that each one of those individuals get time and a half for that emergency call past eight o'clock. I got it. All right, thank you. Took three times. I appreciate it. Not a problem. Okay. Other questions? Are there other department heads who would like to clarify or clear up with us? How the impact in the cuts will affect their service or concerns? I mean, I know you're all team players and you're not gonna wind, but I mean, there is no some reality to these cuts. So we do want to understand them. So Holly? Hi Helen. Hi everybody. Thanks. Certainly no winding, but I just wanted to kind of clear up in case anybody was wondering. We do have an accommodation to be hiring for a senior center director, even though we went into this fiscal year as a staff of five and hopefully we'll go out of this fiscal year as a staff of five, but we have had some administrative support that's kind of been shifted. So I just wanted to clear up that we fully anticipate hiring a senior center director and having that up and running to full swinging capacity as long as COVID allows and prepping for that now with some research into job descriptions and it's comparable salary pieces. And we're also a large portion of what was shifted was a registrar. And one complaint that we've been getting really for a long time, but certainly in the past couple of years has been that our registration platform hasn't been intuitive. I think our community is used to kind of an Amazon click and peg situation and we just didn't, we don't have a platform that supports that. So we've been doing a lot of work in the downtime through the past six months and researching new registration platform that is more intuitive and that is user friendly and also friendly from the back loading perspective. So the thought there is that we're not going to need as much support with registration services and so we've done some shifting there. So I wouldn't anticipate that we would see certainly a loss of functionality at all. We're gearing up for a full blown welcoming of the senior center and obviously with two program staff and still a special projects coordinator eager to get back into Suburban night outs and events and those types of things. So, we have accommodated for some shifts and expenses and revenues for programs because it will take some time to rebuild once we are able to get together and not have to physically distance anymore. So you'll see some of those but we don't really see an issue with what we're able to produce for the community. So just wanted to put that. Sorry. Happy to answer any questions if you have them. Okay, are there any questions? That was helpful. Well, who else is out there that we haven't heard from who would like to share some things. Thank you very much, Holly. Is there anyone else? Dave? Yeah, I'm not out there as in the audience but I just like to say that I really appreciate and it's one of my favorite parts about being and living and serving in South Burlington that the department heads and city management have worked so well together in a very tough time to craft a budget that will work. Everybody's taken their hits. Everybody realized that had to be done. Tom as usual has crafted an incredibly complicated budget and it better be a heck of a good teacher for the next time around. And I just wanna express my appreciation probably on behalf of all the council members for the great job you've all done in making this work and with a little luck we'll be out of it in a lot better place six months from now. So thanks, gang. Okay, any other questions? I totally appreciate those remarks. Tim, did you raise your hand? No, okay. Well, Megan? Yeah, I was just curious why the solar credits have nothing in the revenue line. I think they appear somewhere else. Martha or Alana, can you respond to that? Which one are you looking at, Megan, under which department? I believe it's under planning and zoning, planning development review. Can you scoot down to that one, Martha? Yep. There are no page numbers, I'm afraid. It's page 65 or 64 of the PDF. And you have the planning and zoning, the solar credit transfer in. So at one time before we had Lou on board, we were taking some money into planning and zoning and staff was working through that to address some energy efficient projects. When Lou came on board, that $40,000 got appropriated by council into the energy fund under city manager. So it no longer reflects in the, in solar credit money coming in from the landfill to fund energy efficient projects. It's all done through the money that we pay Lou, which is a portion of that $40,000. It's his part-time salary, but also some of the facility improvements that are done would come out of that account and through the revenue that's collected at the solar landfill that gets paid directly to offset the cost of the projects. Thank you. Thank you, Tom. Yep. Okay, Paul, your fate. Okay, no, he was just gonna answer that. All right, so I believe if there's no more questions, we have the option, or we can think on it a little for another two weeks, but we have the option to approve the three draft budgets, general fund, PIP, and the enterprise. I don't know if the council's ready to do that or we don't have to do it till the 19th, I guess, but we can approve it tonight. Megan? Yeah, so going back to Chief Francis, Matt, he doesn't have to answer. Not that he has to come online and answer, but is there any way to stagger shifts so that someone can respond to an emergency? That's a great question. Part of it is actually a fair amount of it is driven by our union contract, and we have not looked at doing that in the 50-year history of the department, not saying that we didn't. Other departments have tried it and has not been as successful as people would hope, but if that's the direction you want me to check it out, I'm more than happy to look at it. I do have a breakout of time of day calls, what day, that type of stuff, but generally we find it's just easier to move people all at one fell swoop, so that we work, we try to work as a team, each shift as its own team, and as it is, we have enough inter-shift swapping as it is because of vacation times and all of that, that can be a little bit more challenging to try to look at a gradual shift out. Certainly can investigate that and take a look at how it works with time of day. Yeah, yeah, because that seems to be, I mean, you're the judge, but me, the layman, it seems to be a problem that is crying for a solution. Yeah, and I think I've figured out what your other question was, was something that you asked about an hour and a half delay, is that what you had asked about? Yeah. Okay, that was regard with if we lose certification for the 11 specialty rescues, things that we do in addition to firing EMS for some of these other agencies to come to our aid could be up to an hour and a half or longer. And if you're in trouble, that's a long wait. Yep. Yeah, it is. But that's future in the future. And we have, you know, the next budget year, we'll take a high, we'll make that a high priority. Okay. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Are there any more questions now? Helen? Yes? I just wanted to clarify that the council doesn't have to decide tonight, but the last date that you have to decide is January 14th, which is before the 19th is your next regular meeting. Cause we have to send by our city charter, we have to send this budget off to the school district prior, so many days prior to the meeting that we have with them, which is tentatively scheduled for the 20th to share the school. So we can still set a special meeting, but I just wanted to clarify that date. All right, so I will put it out there. Are people ready to vote on this tonight? Sure. Okay. So can we make a single motion to approve for a vote by the public on meeting day, the general fund, the CIP and the enterprise fund budgets? Helen, I'm sorry, this is really clunky with this online format, but I just want to have the question answered by Tom. When we go back to full employment, when we go back to getting that police vehicle and we get to have people with the shifts being better serving the public, if we were to go ahead and improve this budget, what jump would that be? I mean, what are we facing going from a point, what is it, 0.98% increase to what percent increase next year? To be ready for the training, to be have the parks and rec, have people in place to help out in planning zoning and with our finance team and... I think we're probably going to be in that two to 3% range, Megan, but history has kind of shown us in the past that that's really what it's taken to maintain our level of service. So I'm just guessing a lot of that is going to be revenue-based if we can generate more on the revenue side of this and get back to a full even more money in the local options than we'd had coming in. That's been the biggest hit to us and it's allowed us to do some of the things that we wouldn't have otherwise been able to do. So I think that balanced with a couple percent up to 3%, probably kind of an increase would get us back probably to where we need to be. The paving and everything that's been taken out? Yeah, I mean, the only other way to look at this is the other options that you have is you could take money off the fund balance and that wouldn't impact the tax rate if you're adding to what's already in there. Or you go to a separate bond vote on a particular item and I'm not saying you would need to do that this year but if you wanted to look at a substantial paving bond you could do that in addition to the general fund budget that you're advocating for. You could say in addition to that X amount of dollars in a paving bond would get us this amount of work done that would allow us to maintain it more consistently in the general fund. So I think the council in future years is gonna have those kinds of decisions to make. In past years, many past years ago where we'd be able to save a certain amount of money a year to save up to a fire truck with the minimum increases that we've had that have allowed us to maintain the level of service those kinds of things have been sacrificed. So the next time that you come up for a fire truck or for any ambulance, I think you're probably gonna be looking at that as a separate ballot item rather than trying to absorb all that through the general fund which you just wouldn't be able to do without cutting services. So I think those are the decisions that are gonna be the difficult ones I think in the next couple of years. Do you have another comment, Megan? Well, just how soon is that fire truck coming? I'm looking. Vehicle replacement here. So that's fiscal year 23. Two years. Yeah. And that's because we're not setting aside any money ahead of time that we would have to go ahead and do a separate ballot item on that. Right? And how about for fiscal year 25 when we have 730,000 and fiscal year 26 when we have over a million dollars? Yeah, I think the chief could probably respond to that. I think some of those are placeholders. We obviously wouldn't be able to do a lot of that in successive years. But again, I go back to my point, Megan. I think we're looking at a regional service here. That's the way to go. If you look at the number of fire trucks and the number of ambulances that are around in Chittenden County, there's got to be a better way to utilize these services than having each municipality own and operate them independently. The chief could tell us how many different tower trucks there are just in this local area here. And I think those are, again, these are the tough decisions that I think are gonna need to be made over the next couple of years in terms of what the future of those of our public safety departments are gonna look like. All right. Regionalization is definitely. Okay. Did police vehicles fall into this discussion as well? I don't know if Sean's still on or not. I'm here. The police vehicles are more reusable on a year to year basis. There's not the kind of huge investment that it takes to purchase a million-dollar fire truck or a $400,000 ambulance. I think Sean is pretty consistent with, if he can get three to four cruisers, as many as four cruisers in some years, there's two for next year, but he's gonna be able to get one in a different way through a special fund. So I think those would probably continue to be required operational expenses that we would need. You still have to put an officer in a car. Sean, do you have anything more to add to that, Chief Burke? I don't. Thank you. Just our line does represent three cars with the projected costs. The police cars have gone up in price. Since the last time we purchased police cars, they went up 10%. I know there's some supply chain issues with that, and then the technology that's going into the emergency warning equipment is getting ridiculously expensive. But again, we are always in a position where we can likely go without one car what the CIP illustrates is that three to four car projection year to year, but our number is a lot more flexible than that that the fire service faces. Okay. All right, so you're welcome. So are we ready to roll this all into one rather large motion? Okay, so we have a motion to recommend for the voters those three budgets. So move. Okay, David move, two seconds. Okay, it's been moved in second. Is there any further discussion? All right, I will call the roll. You're ready for the vote. Megan Emery. Aye. Tim Barrett. Aye. Dave Crawford. Aye. Tom Chinden. Aye. And the chair votes aye. So we have approved the three budgets for ballot items in March, whatever it is, third or fourth. Okay. Good job. Thank you, Tom and Kevin and all the department heads for really a lot of work and thought that went into keeping this budget where you brought it in. I mean, I just think it's remarkable and I really appreciate it. Okay. Thank you. Moving on to 10. That really Diane Bugby's trying to say. Oh, I'm sorry. Diane, Bugby, you're on mute. Just a general question about what the council's plan is to communicate the budget with the community just because the implications of COVID, the changes, what's been eliminated, what the implications are in future budgets. I just wondered kind of how this budget will be communicated to the community. Well, hopefully really well. And I think the newsletter will provide one avenue, maybe Kevin and the newspaper. Kevin, do you have any other thoughts? I don't know as we're thinking about having any public meetings. Well, we'll have the public meeting with the school board to go over both of the steering committee. And then the night before the annual meeting we'll have our traditional budget session then. But prior to that, we'll certainly use the newsletter, we'll certainly use the other paper. And we're exploring whether or not a special mailing might be in order. We're not yet sure what the school district is gonna do with their budget and potentially another ballot item. We may do it in conjunction with them or we may do it separately. But we will certainly do as much or more than we've done in past year. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Good question, Diane, thank you. So moving on now, update on voting options for the 2021 Self-Browing to Annual Meeting. So, Donna, Kenville, what have you heard? Hi, everybody. Thank you for allowing me to come tonight. I know you've got a very cramped meeting tonight. And when I asked Kevin to add this to the agenda last week, the school board was meeting last Wednesday to discuss the same thing we discussed or you discussed a week plus ago. And so I was hoping to be able to report back tonight what they had decided. Unfortunately, they did not make a decision. They have postponed it till this Wednesday night. And I was not invited to that first meeting and I probably could have given some information and maybe nudged them along a little bit. But I have been invited to Wednesday night's meeting. And I don't know where the conversation was going. David didn't give me any indication of what they were thinking. So I don't know if they're looking to keep it on March 2nd. I don't know if they're looking to expand to push it back. I don't know if they're looking to kind of continue on as normal or to mail a ballot out to everybody. But I will have that. Hopefully, I told them, they really, I said, we were kind of promised it tonight. 1-4, you said you were gonna have a decision for us. So I'm pushing back at him to say that this Wednesday is the absolute latest I need to have to get it ready to get all my plans in motion. So see how that goes. Two of the things, I do have just two updates. One is I have talked to the postmaster. Because of the short timeframe we have from when we actually mail the ballots out to when they come in, it's about 20 days. Less than 20 days, if you count the mail back and forth, we're gonna have a lot of people that are gonna be dropping them off at city hall, whether it's our night drop or wherever. A lot of people are gonna be dropping them back off. And I really kind of hate putting postage on those things which are not gonna go through the postmaster. So I have contacted Jerome at the White Street branch who's been awesome to us during these elections to find out if there's something that we could do where something special on the post, we just pay for what's returned to us. If there's some type of system where they can keep track of whatever's returned to us to the mail, we'll pay. But we don't wanna pay for something that's not coming back through them. So he's looking into it and seeing of what options we have. So I'm looking at that to try and keep some costs down. And then I reached out to Paw Prints who is the company that we got a quote from and is ready to go about when they need our list from us to be able to, if we decide to go that route and the post pass and legislature proves it and all that stuff, what is the absolute last day they need to get the list from me to be able to turn around, create all the envelopes and start the stuffing. And they said the latest would be January 27th which is later than I thought it would be. So I think that's good news. So as soon as I hear from the school board hopefully on Wednesday night, they'll make a decision I'll be there, I'll hear it. And then that means Friday, Thursday morning I'll be able to start everything going announcing for petitions to be brought in announcing for people to hurry up and get your address as updated. If you want the ballots to go to a different location other than your home address just start the media blitz out there trying to get people ready for this election which I had more news for you tonight but that's okay, it is what it is. Well, you did some good leg work and are working on ways to maybe save some money with the postage and so that's all good. So hopefully they'll make a decision. I guess if they don't, we make it for them. Right? Yeah. So, okay, any comments or questions from other council members? Okay, well, thank you very much, Donna. Okay, thank you. Okay, item 11, council review impossible approval of fire district number two, land transfer and Andrew, welcome. Good evening, happy new year, everyone. Good to see you all. Happy new year. I also have Peter Taylor is also here to answer some questions from the fire district. Tom or Kevin, can you make me presenter? I think it would be helpful if we just show the map. It's probably the best way. Yeah. Honestly, Peter. Okay, I got it, we got it, great. Great, can everyone see this here? Right, so this is a project I mentioned in the memo that started back in 2015. It started with a request from the fire district based on some research they had done, discovering some land they did not realize that they had. It was of unknown, some of it of unknown origin but also it was the result of a land transfer gone wrong back in 1970 where the fire, if you look on the map here, it's up against the potash brook. I don't know if you can see my cursor at all. We can, but it is in this area right here. The original transfer, instead of referencing any deed, it basically used a line starting about right here and cutting directly to the southwest and it cut off a certain portion of lands and also went right through a property as well, which you can see here. This large triangle is the property that it cut right through. So the city of South Burlington received the potash brook nature area but the fire district number two retained the lands in yellow. Their request to the city was that we would take over those lands and kind of correct this defect and we've been working in the past five years to kind of come up with the resolve, any of the encumbrances that might be on the property. The most significant which was a deed restriction that was in the title of the developer to the fire district that restricted the land so it could only be used for school purposes, which is not what the intended use would be if the city does accept the land. We had to do a joint action in the civil court and that went through the end of last summer. There was also some trees that we asked to be removed that could potentially have some liability for the city. Those were all removed. So we're in a place now where we're ready to move forward with the transfer and accept these lands from the fire district. And the request in front of you is to authorize the city manager to move forward. Helen, can I ask a question? You certainly may. So Andrew, this is Tim Barrett. So looking at your diagram, the city wants to receive the yellow areas. Correct. And then the pink areas, do those have to be given back to the landowners or what happens to the pink areas, the triangles? That's a great question. So we noticed this other sort of encumbrance here, but since this was already owned by the private landowners, when the fire district did the original transfer, they actually did not have the right to transfer that land. So there is no need to clear that up. That being said, we've had contact with the current owners. And if there's any sort of a letter from the city or a quick claim deed to sort of resolve that for future land transactions that they had, resolve those encumbrances, we've certainly said we'd be happy to provide that if needed, although as it stands legally, I don't think it's necessary. So if that landowner wanted to sell today or tomorrow and somebody did a title search, would something pop up that would be questionable? It could pop up. I think a title researcher should understand that this was not the fire districts to convey at the time. So any title issues that would make it challenging for an title insurance company to do a policy or on the mortgage should not occur. And again, that's something that if there is that request when it comes in, I think it's something we can resolve pretty readily either through a legal opinion or through a deed if that's necessary. Okay, thank you. Any other questions or Peter Taylor, do you wanna say anything? No other comments from what Andrew said, but I just wanna take a minute, spend them at least a five year project. And I really wanna thank the city and the staff who've done a wonderful job helping us do all this and getting this already, a lot of moving parts. And Jim Barlow and Andrew have put a lot of time into this and I really appreciate their efforts. I guess that's all I need to say. I'll answer any questions if you have any. Okay, no, I remember this quite well. So I'm glad we have come to a conclusion, frankly. That's great. Me too, huh? Can I ask one more question? You certainly may. In 20 words or less, how many fire districts do we have in South Burlington and why? Ooh, I can give you the answer to that. I went through every annual report for the city. At one point in time, you had seven and today you have two, Mayfair Park District and Queen City. And I got a whole list of when all those changes, at least the years in which different fire districts were gotten rid of, but I'll send that over to Andrew just so somebody can have that in the records. What was the purpose of the Mayfair Fire District? Was this something that was done at that time to create fire protection or something like that? At that time, there were two main things I've heard about is they put an in-ground drainage system in way back and also they did some bug control. And those were sort of the two main functions I know of, we never had a fire engine or any other water system or anything like that that I know of. Okay, thank you. Chair Ruili, I would like to move to authorize the city manager to complete the land transfer with fire district number two and Margaret has legally by conveying a portion of South Road and noticing the same in a paper of general circulation within the city, submitting a minor lot line adjustment application and following removal of all private encroachments accepting conveyance of two parcels abutting the Podash Baroque natural area. Second. Okay, we have moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion? Okay, I'll call the roll. Megan, Emery? Hi. Tim Barrett? Hi. Thomas, Dave Crawford? Dave's still there. Well, we can go to Tom. Hi. When Dave, if he comes back to the chair votes yay. So we have a four, zero, one, and it passes. So thank you very much for your perseverance and thank you, Peter Taylor for making. Thank you all. I appreciate that. Close the book on that one. Yeah. Thank you. Okay, moving on now to item 12. This is the council discussion possible action on the South Burlington-Wanuski Burlington memorandum of understanding related to the externalities created by operations at the Burlington International Airport. This is something we've been working on the three communities for quite a while. And this is our final draft, we hope. The other two communities, I think they're voting on it tonight as well. I mean, you read through it and I think it's pretty self-evident. I would like to highlight that one of the issues that started the conversation on this was really about not tearing down any more houses in the airport area for noise mitigation. And so a couple of the, I think important whereas is include the current administrations and legislative bodies of all three cities believe that removing existing housing is not their preferred method of sound mitigation that all of the cities really desire a new noise compatibility program that includes a variety of techniques for ensuring compatibility of land uses. I think it's important to note the way it was structured clarifies exactly what things or steps each community is responsible for and most of them are the same. I think importantly, Burlington, agrees to pursue an amendment to add an amendment to their city charter to add a rotating seat for the city of Winooski to the airport commission. They've also, army. Did they do that? Because last time we met, you said that they were gonna pass that along to the Burlington City Council that night. Well, I think the Burlington City Council is dealing with that charter change to go into the legislature for this session. Tom's shaking his head. I'm under the impression they're putting it to the voters this time meeting day. So it's one of the four valid items. That was my understanding. And then it goes to the legislature and they typically take up those charter changes and act upon them before the session ends. They don't usually hold on to them. Thank you. And so then they also included, I mean, this took so long that they ended up developing a partnership with the Vermont gas systems. Frankly, thanks to Kevin Dorn to find the $550,000 match for the 10% match to go forward with sound mitigation or noise mitigation. And then an agreement that if additional funds are needed beyond that, that we all would advocate strongly in the legislature to find additional money or with our congressional delegation to find additional money from the FAA. And then South Burlington, we would explore options for creating compatible land uses in areas affected by the airport and build and compatible building codes for future buildings. Not a promise, but an agreement that we may look at some zoning changes there. We would also explore appropriate roadway and transportation network modifications. And we would, if need be, we would commit to funding local match portions of all NCP grants using the allocated local options tax collected from the aviation fuels. And then the city of Lewinowski had similar things that they would work on. And I think importantly, number four makes it clear that all three municipalities agree that we'll do everything feasible to ensure that general funds from all of those cities do not would never be responsible for the local match. And then we continue to work together. So I would encourage you, it's just a memorandum of understanding it's the artful language to maybe not promise the world, but at least put on a piece of paper the intentions of the legislative bodies in the cities. I think it's great work. I fully support what you brought forward and I'd be happy to move to adopt as presented. Okay. Is there a second? And a second from Tim. Is there further discussion? Great job. Okay, Megan. Yeah, yeah, we're close. We're really close. The only true commitment in it is that our fuel taxes will be used as the local match. That's the only true commitment. Everything else is explore to commit. Or they commit to exploring or it's dependent on approval and pending approval. The only thing that this commits to, and I'm gonna say it like I see it, is that they have access to our jet fuel tax fund. I think we discussed that and thought it was a reasonable use of that money. It is, it is a reasonable use of the money. But I just, I wanna say that I would love to have them commit to using airport revenues to meet the local match requirement. I would love to see that language also be seen as a legitimate use of that money. I do not see, you know, that they've committed to as much, I would say reasonable policy. And that's all I have to say on the matter, I guess. And I just wanna double check that, because I think it is reasonable policy for the airport to commit to it. Are we satisfied with the level of involvement? I know that they disbanded the technical advisory committee, is that correct? You know, I'm not aware of that. Paul, is he still here or no? Megan, I think this is Kevin. I think it morphed back into the so-called sound committee that existed prior to the development of the NCP. So the technical advisory committee is required by federal regulations in order to develop an NCP. Once that was approved, that function went away, but the sound committee came back. You'll recall the sound committee prior to the technical advisory committee. So I think they intend to continue to have meetings of the sound committee. And that will have residents from South Burlington participation. Yeah, and I think you probably will need to reappoint, as you recall, one of those resident representatives on the sound committee has moved out of the community and need to appoint other representatives. Right, right. I just, I want to make sure that all of the where as is are truly reflective of an inclusion of South Burlington. And, you know, I see that there is not an indication, you know, saying that they will look at South Burlington's development plans or, you know, things, planning documents. I mean, I think that was something that was a myth prior. You know, they moved ahead with plans without really consulting, not only our staff, but also the Synapsee, which was talking, you know, about planning for Chamberlain neighborhood. And I, so I, you know, I won't vote against this, but I would say we're not quite there if I were to have, you know, the version that I would truly feel comfortable with. I still feel that they have the upper hand. I feel that they have wiggle room to say, we're not going to do this and you have committed to doing this, which leads me with some discomfort at the same time. We can wiggle room to get out of this as well. Everyone can agree that any party shall have the right to terminate this. Right, which would be dramatic, right? It would be a dramatic thing for people to walk away from this. So I guess I'm more of a planner as opposed to someone who would jump ship. I would, but I know that this has taken a long time to get here. So I'm just, I weigh that. Well, I guess I will just say I truly believe that the intent is to include all three communities and they throw Williston in there too for information to improve the communication and inclusion of all the communities and their concerns about the airport. So I think that is the intent. If it doesn't say that specifically, I'm sorry, but I think it makes it as clear as you possibly can that at least the current administrations and legislative bodies are not interested in tearing down any more homes. Right, and I think that was. And I think that was a major, that was a good commitment. Yeah. Before it was just talk and this is on a piece of paper and then it's added, it took so darn long. You know, we got to plan and plan instead of pilot program. And so there's a lot more up-to-date information. That's why I won't vote against it. But yeah, I'm just listing my reservations. That's all. Okay, no, and I appreciate those. And that's, yeah, it's making sausage and sometimes it's doesn't have all the herbs that you might want in them or spices. Okay, so we have a motion made and seconded. Is there any other comments or debate or discussion? You ready for the vote? All right. Dave Crawford? Yes. Tom? Megan? Hi. And Tim? Hi. And the chair votes yes. And so we have agreed to this memorandum of understanding. Thank you very much. Okay, I am sorry. How many charter changes is Burlington going to present to Moncleer this year? I think we have four on the ballot this town meeting day. But I'll say this, I'm hoping to be on transportation. And Megan, all of your concerns, that you've heard me talk about this before, in this coming service and down in the legislature, I hope to actually accomplish change and how decisions are made over the Burlington International Airport. So I welcome advice on how to do that from on the transportation committee. I'm going to be calling Dave Kauffman just about every week to ask what I need to do to move this forward, to continue his good work from the 80s. Happy to work with you on it. In there, Dave. We're calling on you, Thomas. Thirty-three years ago. Tom, you were a little tight when we last worked on it, for God's sake. A little tight. Thank you. Yeah, he was probably at Central School. I was. Okay, so moving right along, the council appointment of members to a city manager, applicant review committee and direction to the committee. And I've been working with Kevin and have reached out to a number of people. He was going to identify some good candidates within the staff. And I reached out and got acceptances actually from everyone I asked. And I was looking for a broad variety of people who reflected sort of the interests of all the different committees and communities within South Burlington. So Linda McGinnis will serve. Donna Kinville offered. And I thought that that's really an interesting aspect to bring to consideration of the next city manager. Bob Britt, Peter Taylor, Diane Bugby, Katie Langrock, Bernie Gagman and Paul Conner, I think. Paul, I mean, Kevin, who did you ask? Paul. Oh, is that all? Well, I and Donna had already volunteered. So two people. Okay, and then I will join the committee too. And the idea is for them to look through all the applicants and make the first cut, not to the interviews, but looking through, we're developing a matrix that identifies a way to sort of check off or evaluate all the different characteristics that we outlined in the job requirements. And we know it down to one, two or three candidates for the council to review and make the final decision. So I believe we need to have the committee, I'm thinking they could probably get this done in one meeting, maybe two, but I think we need a motion to approve that committee to form that committee. And then if there's discussion, well, we can have discussion now if there's any discussion or comments people wanna make. I think it sounds like a great group of people will move to form that committee as announced. Okay, thank you. Second. And have we, today was a deadline, right? For applications? Yes, I believe so. Do we have any? Do we have any, yeah. I understand, Tom told me that there were 11. Oh, wow. So, we don't know who they are, but we haven't seen them, but Tom said, Jamie, our human resources staff person has received 11. Okay, and we intend to send out in hard copy and I guess electronic, all of the applications and the matrix and how we'll go about doing this. Evaluating them, so maybe with 11, I don't know how many they'll win or down. I may have missed this, you're representing the council, is that correct? I am. Okay, great. I think we could add more time than anyone. This is true. Okay, so we have a motion made and seconded. Are you ready for that vote? Okay, you can do an all in favor with the thumbs up, it's fine, we don't need to do, okay. Megan looks frozen in time, so. For me, I said I, I don't know what you're saying. No, I couldn't hear you and you're not moving, so I know you're live. Okay, thank you. So we'll start that and hopefully, I don't know in a week or two we'll have our first meeting and get this all settled sooner rather than later. Okay, item 14, council discussion of options related to legalization of various cannabis retail options and possible referral of issue to the economic development committee. I think Tom has been actively talking to a few people about this. He and I emailed back and forth with Kevin and I think this isn't an option, we're not ready to put this on the ballot, I don't believe in March, we got too many bigger fish to fry. And so this was a process I thought, well, let's have the economic development committee do their due diligence to see what this means for the city and I mean, I think there might be some positive tax ramifications and that would just be good to know. What are the pros and the cons? Because in order to have a retail outlet in our community, rather, you have to opt-ins, you have to proactively say, yeah, we wanna sell marijuana, have marijuana sold and their products sold in our community. So- What's the tax revenue percentage? You know, I don't even know. I know nothing about it other than it was just passed. I mean, I'm assuming it's probably the 7%? Unless it's at all, if it's food, maybe it's 9%. There you go. That's what someone needs to do the research and I didn't think we had the time or interest to do it in order to get it on the ballot. It's a really good question, is what possible revenue could the city see from an enterprise like that or multiple enterprises? Tim, the only tax revenue that's available to us is from the local option tax. The state decided not to share any of their tax revenue with the communities unless you have a local option tax. And so I'm not sure how we could estimate how much we would get from our 1% on the sales tax, but we would get something. I think the bigger issue is that the, I think the legislature set aside some pretty important details when they pass this and they're gonna set up this cannabis control board or something, cannabis control board that will be the regulatory body that will oversee cannabis sales in Vermont. And a lot of the regulation for doing that has yet to be written or even frankly talked about. That board hasn't been established yet. They are hoping to get their work done late in the spring, but there are a lot of unanswered questions right now. My recommendation is to just, is to do what Helen suggested and turn this, turn to the committee and ask them to monitor this and make a recommendation back. I'm sorry, Tom, I interrupted you. No, no. I just wanna, since you said that I've been discussing this, I met a gentleman at a Lake Champlain legislative mixer that's a gentleman who sent us this documentation. I am not endorsing fast movement on this. I don't think there's any reason to squeeze it onto this town meeting day. So I fully support directing it to the Economic Development Committee. I just want the council to hear that if we don't vote on it this town meeting day, it's likely we will miss the vote of the early rush of marijuana purchase and sales, but I am completely fine with that because this will start to go, will legalize marijuana about 18 months from now. So I'm thinking that if the next time that we'd be able to vote on this would be next town meeting day since there's no ballots in between. And that would probably have us come later to the game to allow marijuana to be sold in South Burlington. But I as one counselor and completely fine with that, I don't see any reason to rush action on this. I like what the chair is recommending by directing it to the Economic Development Committee. I completely agree with what Tom just said. I'm there. Megan, do you have a comment? I have your phone to your ear. Oops. Any other comments? I don't have a comment, sorry. That's okay. All right, so. Well, I understand referring it to the Economic Development Committee is one thing that we could do, but I mean, we just need more information, right? We need to know, it sounds like there's just too much that's unsettled at this point. And if there's not enough information that we couldn't even make a decision ourselves. So, I mean, you can refer to that kind of like the Development Committee, but I don't think they're gonna be able to do anything either. Cause they're not getting a lot done right now. More information than I think we have time to generate. And I really didn't want to ask any of the staff in COVID land with, you know, winnowed down positions across city government to take on something like this to research for it. So, I figured. No rush, no rush. Yeah, I'm not in a rush. I just thought that I don't know really how much stuff the Economic Development Committee has done and whether we tasked them to do anything, but this might be something to either get them to quit cause they're not interested or to dig their teeth into and find out, this is the answer to all our economic woes. I mean, that's what a lot of people think. Well, if you have a lot of economic woes, it might be the answer to your problem, right? Yeah, right. At least you'll feel better about it, you know? Exactly. Okay, so we will ask the Economic Development Committee to do a little due diligence and keep abreast of that. All right. Item 15, we're ahead of schedule. November financials. Tom. Yeah, thanks, Ellen. If you hadn't had enough of me yet tonight, I'm back again. Yeah, I was thinking, man. More finances. So just real quickly, these are the November ones. We'll have December probably at the next meeting, but we're 42% of the way through the fiscal year. We're still in the budget freeze. Revenues are at just over 38%. Expenses are at 33% right now. The expenses I'm not concerned about, those are the things that we can control. It's the revenue, again, here that concerns me. We talked about the local options tax earlier, but the building and sign permits, if we were supposed to be at 42%, we're at 11% right now in terms of what we take in for revenue. Fire inspection, we're at 17%. And the interest on our investments, which I know is not gonna increase much, we're at 7%. Those are big numbers that we're looking at in addition to what the shortfall in the local options tax might be. So again, as we move forward, it's really not the expenses in the budget. I'd love to get to the expenses, but we need to make sure we have enough revenue to be able to make some of those expenses like some of the things in the CIP. And I'm hopeful that our numbers in February with the local options tax will be better. I'm hopeful that as we get into the spring, that some development will start up again that we'll be able to have some more building permits and some more fire inspection revenue from. And some of those things are with timing too in terms of the season of the year, but anyway, they're lower than normal at this point. And just identifying those as additional areas of concern that we'll continue to watch as we move forward. Well, I'm sure glad you're around to watch. We will definitely be watching. Tim? Tom, has there been any effect on property tax revenue for the, normally we pay in November, December 15th was an installment date, right? December was, yeah. I personally know a family that received a late notice and so I'm just wondering, do you have an idea of how many people didn't pay on time possibly because they didn't realize and didn't look closely at their bill when they got it or? Martha tells me it was a very good turnout for getting the revenue in. In fact, even in November, Tim, we were at 46% of property tax revenue. So we were actually ahead. There's some people that pay for the whole year, right up front. Our number always is against a little bit, but property tax is a big number. So to have 46%, even in November, rather than 42% is still pretty good. And then December 15th payments came in really well. And I know that there were some that were late and she had said that this is pretty much the kind of the normal kind of number that we would typically have that were late. So I didn't sense that there was anything unusual in terms of the delaying in a month in terms of not getting it in, but I'm sure there were other reasons for it. So there was some chatter that I heard, I think maybe on Facebook or elsewhere where people were surprised by, the second installment being substantially larger than the first installment. And we all know why because of the late school budget vote. So there's a very good explanation, but sometimes people don't pay attention to the news and don't understand why installment one was lower than installment two and three. So we just want to put that out. Yeah, and it was in the mailer that went with the tax bill. And in that mailer, it was identified that the municipal tax didn't change. Right. What you're paying is what you're paying each installment in the municipal tax. So the reason it went up is because the school budget got figured into the mix and we tried to explain that as best we can and with help with the language from the school district, but there's always confusion or education funding is not a simple matter. I thought the different colored paper really helped too. I mean, I think it was like lime green or something when the first guy. That was Mark's idea that really helped. It looked like a real bill in a way. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Okay. All right, any other questions or thoughts for Tom? All righty. Any committees that people serve on that have met? No, but I do have an other business item. It's really quick. Okay. So no reports, then we'll move on to other business. The old shuttered Pizza Hut next to Koto's has been in its hideous. It's a, I don't know when it happened, but you can't miss it. It's this tremendous eyesore. And I just think it's a terrible thing to leave on people's minds when they drive into South Burlington. I don't know what we can do, but if you haven't seen it lately, it's hard to miss. Kevin, if you've heard any thoughts or if you've seen it yourself, I'd love to know if there's anything we as a municipality can do to have that be addressed. I will, I will look into whether or not we have the authority to reach out to the owner on this, Tom. You know, they're like building, which is clearly what it is right now. I'll look into that and I'll let the council know as soon as I can get a strategy around that. What, did we put in our abandoned building ordinance that we tried to work with a couple of years ago to address this type of thing? I don't know if we address the fact that it could be covered in graffiti. Like the house on Dorset Street, you know, next to Fulsham Farm Road, and that's not covered in graffiti, but it's literally falling down. It is, yeah. And all the windows are open and there could be squatters in there for all we know. And it's probably not a safe structure at this point, especially the barn, but Tom is right on. I mean, I feel so awful when I pass that building because it's like at our gateway, sort of when you hit the interstate before you hit it. And it is just a miserable mess of scrawl and color. And plus it's an awful building to begin with. Right. Yeah, it looks plastic. Yeah, it is pretty ugly. I mean, the people, they should just tear it down, tear it down and leave the cellar hole that would be better than what's there today. But you can't leave the cellar hole. No. Then, Phil, whatever, you know what I mean? Yeah, well, you tear it down and throw it all into the cellar hole and then pave it over. Who owns it? I mean, it must be a private, it's not owned by Pizza Hut anymore, if it ever was. I don't know who owns it, but we'll find out. I wonder if they still play taxes on it. Somebody is. Somebody is, yeah. Yeah. Well, I just have one other item and I just want to wish Tom good luck, enjoy the Senate. It's really a great thing. And I like the committees you've been assigned to, so that should be helpful for you, interesting for you and helpful to our city. The one thing that's not on your committee, and I think we forgot to include this to our legislators, but my understanding is that banks will not include in the mortgage the cost of solar panels on the roof, on the roofs, and I just think that's nuts. I mean, you know, I know they don't last forever, but nor does the furnace, but they don't give you a mortgage for your house accepting the appliances and the furnace because they don't last forever. And so I think that I probably should talk to Michael Sorotkin because he'll probably be back on finance and they're the ones who do that stuff, but we aren't the only community who's trying to push or encourage solar as an alternative. And, you know, we've made some requirements just have it solar ready. And, you know, Brian, Evan was telling me, well, yeah, it's an option, but they can't finance it. So they have to, you know, and you can take out a home equity mortgage to, I don't know, put a pool in or something, you know? So we're going on a trip. I mean, it's just outrageous. So anyway. So I was going to call Dave Coppin once a week. I was going to call Dave Coppin once a week. I'm going to call you Helen twice a week since you used to serve in the Senate. Well, I was going to have to get that done. Okay, well, I'll enter those calls. If there's no other business, a motion to adjourn? So moved. And seconded? Absolutely. And all in favor? You bet. All right. Okay, well, thank you. This was a long meeting and a, you know, full of lots of details, but yeah, there were excellent questions. And I hope the public appreciates what we did because that was a hell of a budget. Helen, can I ask a question off the record? Yeah. Has the city of South Burlington made any decision not openly necessarily as to what will happen if Burlington does not have enough police protection and you guys are being called to back us up? We're adjourned. So I'm hesitant to discuss it. That's why I'm asking the question. I'm going to drop off. But Helen, why don't you, when they're clustering. I'm before you go. Yeah, we're very concerned here. I mean, I'm sure they are. I would call Kevin after the meeting. I'll talk to you about it soon. I'll talk to you. I don't know if we've had any conversation and certainly our council has not. Our service. Yeah, since you, I'm sorry, I was going to do this before, but I didn't want to hold up the meeting. You all did a great job tonight. And everybody on the staff and the council should feel really good as a taxpayer. I am so impressed with the tough decisions you had to make. And I am grateful that you are taking such good care of our city. So thank you. Oh, well, thank you. Okay. So we haven't voted. We haven't actually adjourned. We had a motion. So all in favor. Aye. Okay. Aye. Good night all. Thank you. Bye-bye.
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Father Knows Best - 09/25/52 episode 139
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Mother, why did Daddy switch to Post-Em? Your father says there's no caffeine in Post-Em. Nothing to spoil your sleep, and your father knows best. Yes, it's Father Knows Best, transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young as Father. A half-hour visit with your neighbors, the Anderson. Brought to you by Instant Post-Em, the good-tasting drink that's entirely caffeine-free, and by Post's 40% brand flakes, America's largest-selling brand flakes. Holmes once described home as a place that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. And for once in the White Frame House on Maple Street, none of the feet are leaving, and all of the hearts are there. Margaret is absorbed in reading. Kathy is spread eagled on the floor with her comic books. Betty is studying a fashion magazine, and Bud is busily munching an apple and a banana, both at the same time. Jim is contemplating his son with wonder, like this. Bud, yes, Stan? How do you do it? Do what? You just got up from a big dinner, meat, potatoes, vegetables, and a big piece of pie. He had two pieces, not counting the one he ate in the kitchen. Oh, so that's where the rest of the pie went. Isn't that where the rest of any food goes around here? Margaret, is he normal? That's good, dear. Well, now, there's a real intelligent answer. Yes, dear. Kitten, would you mind peering over your mother's shoulder and see what she's reading? She's reading a magazine. I know that. Margaret, what are you reading that's so fascinating? Of course, dear. Well, that clears up everything. If you really want to know, Father, she's doing some research on happy marriages. What's she reading that junk for? You wouldn't understand, Dopey. Dear, may I borrow your pencil? Oh, so you are here. Huh? Here? Well, of course. What's the matter? Margaret, we've been talking about you. Aren't you listening? No. Should I have been? Mommy, aren't you happy married to Daddy? Why, Angel, where did you ever get such an idea? Well... Honey, what's this sudden interest in matrimonial problems? Mother is just looking up the reasons why some marriages are happy and others aren't. Some women have a spiritual contentment and inner radiance. You can see they're not only happy outside, but happy inside. I'm hungry, but... Well, I'm not happy inside. You're not a woman either. Thank goodness for small favors. Margaret, just what is this research you're doing on happy marriages? Oh, it's such fun, Jim. I don't know when I've enjoyed anything as much. I've been reading a survey on complaints of wives. Complaints? What kind of complaints do these lovely ladies make, Margaret? Well, listen to this. Very few women complain about the big things. It's the small, irritating habits of their husbands that annoy them most. Like not shaving on weekends. 75% of wives object to their husband's beard. You find that amusing? Of course. I know just how they feel. It strikes me that if the only complaint a woman has is her husband's refusal to shave on weekends, she's a very lucky woman. You're right, dear. I only meant... Why don't you shave on weekends, Father? Me? How did I get in on this? What's wrong with shaving? I think it would be fun. Ralph's father always shaves every single day, and he looks simply marvelous. It's just the same. I imagine it is a nuisance to shave every single day. And I don't blame your father for getting careless now and then. Yes, I... careless? Me? Well, aren't you? When I get married, I'll expect my husband to shave every single morning and twice on Sundays. Fine, Betty. We'll keep your room ready so you can come back home and live with us. Well, I don't see why. If a man cares enough, he'll try to keep attractive for his wife. I believe your mother finds me attractive. Of course I do. Your father doesn't look that bad with a beard. Well, thank you. I think... Don't see why you're all picking on Daddy. I heard Mr. Johnson say he'd like to wear old dirty slacks around the yard like Daddy does because he looks so comfortable. What? So there. So where? I'm not sure I like your defense, kitten. It seems to me we're making a big fuss over a very little thing. But Mother, you said it's the little things that irritate women. Well, yes. But let's be reasonable. You know, there are a lot of amusing things in this article. Why don't you read it, Jim? Read it out loud, Daddy. This is fun. Isn't it? Ha-ha. Well, let's see what else it has to say. I quote, Another complaint of the majority of women is the fact that men forget romance once they're married. Now and then they'd like to have their husband bring home some flowers. Oh, for heaven's sake, Margaret, do you really enjoy this sort of thing? Daddy, why don't you bring flowers home to Mommy ever? Oh, dear, this is getting out of hand. Let's change the subject. On the contrary, I'm beginning to understand your fascination for it. I'll get it. It's probably for me. I'm going out and get something to eat. Mother, did you see how red Father was getting? I guess we were kind of mean. But it was fun teasing him a little. Are you almost through with your speech, Mother? Not quite, dear. I still have to make more notes on it. But I find I can get most of my information from this book. See? Careers for married women. I wonder why the Professional Women's Club chose you to make a speech on careers for housewives. You're not a businesswoman. They just want the housewife's point of view. You see, it will be sort of a debate. Mrs. Stuyvestons is going to speak four careers for married women, and I'm to speak against it. I think I'll enjoy it. I wonder how Father would feel if you ever decided to go to work. He wouldn't be able to stand it, I know. Margaret, have you seen my appointment book? It's upstairs, dear. I'll get it. I wonder if Daddy was really getting worried. Well, let him worry. It's good for a man sometimes. Never mind the appointment book, honey. I don't... She's upstairs looking for it, Father. Nothing to eat in the whole darn house. You know, we never did find out why your mother's doing this research on happy marriages. Maybe she's trying to make you happier. She couldn't. Mommy's been working on that for a week, Daddy. She made a lot of notes out of this book. What book? Let me see that. Careers for married women. Careers? Gosh, you don't think mom wants to work, do you, Dad? Oh, don't be foolish, son. She's probably reading it because... Well, because... just for her own amusement. You think it's funny? Well, you know how it is. Women sometimes have a strange sense of humor. Let's read some of this and see. Would you like to be a consultant, a counselor, a personnel manager? Married women are particularly suited for these positions because of their knowledge of people. You got to be married to no people? Look at this one, Daddy. Would you like to be a model mother? There, you see. If there's one ambition your mother has, it's to be a model mother. You mean she wants to post for fashion magazines? Oh, your mother? Let me look at that again, Kathy. If you look gracious and wear clothes well, there is a demand for your type in the fashion world. Holy cow! Mom wears clothes real good. Yes, doesn't she? Margaret! Margaret! What is it, dear? What's all this about you becoming a fashion model? A fashion model? What on earth? You're not going to get your picture in those fancy magazines, are you? Well, I wouldn't think of it. You wouldn't go to work and leave us, would you, Mommy? Besides, you can't be a model. You're too old. Too old. Now, just a minute, kitten. Your mother and I may be older than you are, but we don't go back that many generations. I didn't mean you were real old. You... Yes, go on. Oh, golly, I think Mommy's beautiful. But isn't she too big to be a model? Big? She doesn't mean big. Well, what does she mean? Oh, round maybe. Round! Oh, dear, they're such children, so inept at explaining things. What they mean, Mother, is that you're too mature to be a model. That's all. Just a minute. I resent all this. For your information, your mother is just about one of the best-looking women in our crowd. In the whole neighborhood, in fact. Well, thank you, dear. I was beginning to feel a little ancient. Me, too. When they make better-looking women than your mother, I want to know about it. What for? Model, are you Mommy? Angel, I don't know where you get that... She certainly isn't. A woman belongs in her home. It's her job to take care of her family and do it well. Oh, I think I do that, Jim. And you'll go right on doing it. Well, is that an order? My wife will never go to work if I have anything to say about it. Well, really? Jim, I've never gone against your wishes. But when you begin to think of me as something as unromantic as a kitchen stove, then it's time I did something about it. You mean you're going to go to work? Oh, Mother, you know you're not going to. You told me you were going to make a speech against... It's a woman's privilege to change her mind, and I intend to exercise my privilege. Margaret, I forbid it. You what? I mean... No, honey, be reasonable. You really are too old to be a model, you know. That does it. Starting tomorrow, I'm going to look into the possibilities of becoming a fashion model. Oh, no. Now look what you did, Dad. And if it's the last thing I do, Jim Anderson, I'll make you eat those words. Eat? That reminds me. I'm not happy inside. Neither am I, bud. Neither am I. Poor bud, poor Jim. They're not happy inside. Maybe they both need a little inside advice, like the kind Ed Prentice has for all of us right now. Ever find yourself cross and nervous, flying off the handle easily? It often happens when you don't get a good night's sleep, doesn't it? Well, you're not sleeping at night, may come from the caffeine and coffee and tea. In that case, drinking Postum is the answer for you, because Instant Postum doesn't have a single bit of caffeine in it. Absolutely none. Nothing to give you coffee nerves or ruin your sleep. Now, that's important, because caffeine is a drug, a nerve stimulant that may leave you too nervous and upset to sleep properly. Of course, lots of people can take coffee and tea without being bothered, but lots of others can't. So if you're one who can't, switch to caffeine-free Postum now. Then see whether you aren't sleeping better, feeling and looking better too. And say, why don't you give the kids Postum? They can drink it as often as they want. Nothing in Postum to harm them. And it's mighty good tasting. Perfect for the whole family. Try a jar of Instant Postum tomorrow. Well, life in the Anderson family has become a thing of beauty, but not a joy forever. Margaret has become the thing of beauty. But the thing that is not a joy is Jim Anderson, who has convinced that Margaret is seeking a career as a fashion model and now doesn't know how to stop her. After some heavy thinking, Jim decides that maybe life in the White Frame House on Maple Street has become a little dull for Margaret. So he decides to romance her. Like this. Margaret, I'm home. I'll be down in a few minutes, dear. Take your time, honey. Take your time. But... Kathy! Princess, where are you all? Oh, hi, Dad. Oh, Father, sit down if you can find a clear place. Well, that's about the most enthusiastic greeting I've had in years. Why all the long, long faces? Well, Mother's so changed since she's gone in for that modeling career that we hardly know her. Well, don't all be so gloomy. I'm sure I can change all that. You can, Daddy? Oh, I knew you'd think of something. You just leave things to your father. I understand your mother thoroughly. Wait till you see what I brought her tonight. Two dozen gorgeous red roses. Holy cow, you can't eat roses. Son, you're missing the point entirely. What is the point, Father? Well, your mother was finding things a little dull, so she probably yearns for romance, excitement, sort of like the old days before you children were born. Gee, do you remember that far back, Daddy? Well, it's a strain, but I manage it. Don't you see? If I start bringing roses to your mother, and, oh, sort of showing her special attentions, she'll melt like a honey cake in the sun. How could she possibly prefer a business career to my attentions? You really want to know? No, I don't. Don't be such a drip, bud. Father, I think that's a super idea. Every woman wants to be swept off her feet by a handsome escort to be lifted to the skies by whispered sweet nothings. Well, anyway, I'm quite certain your mother will respond when I start showing her some of my old charm. She'll forget all about this career nonsense. Shh, everybody, here she comes. Hello, dear children. Sorry to have kept you waiting so long. Wow. Honey, you've always looked well in gold, but I never knew it could make you look so radiant. Ah. Holy cow, bud. Mother, that's an utterly dreamy outfit. Wherever did you find it? Oh, it's just an old dress I had, but I took off all the trimmings, altered it here and there, changed the neckline. Didn't you, though? Gee, Mommy, you look like Eva Gardner. Don't you think so, Daddy? She always has been beautiful to me. Why, dear, what a lovely thing to say. And speaking of lovely things, may I present you with roses, Madame? Ah. For the most beautiful rose of all. Oh, Jim, dear. Golly, to think my own mother and father could be so thrillingly exotic. It's just too dreamy for words. Well, bud, you're the only one who hasn't commented on your mother's loveliness. I'm hungry. Leave it to bud to bring us down to earth. Well, shall we all go into dinner and feed the inner man? Now you're making sense. A dinner is just about ready, dear, and Betty knows how to go about the finishing touches. Betty? Aren't you going to eat with us? Of course, I see. It's high time the children took over some of your chores and lightened your load a little. I heartily approve. That's good, dear. Then I'll be running along now. I'm a little late. Late? For what? It doesn't matter. It was worth it to hear all the nice things you said. Margaret, what is this? Aren't you going to have dinner with us? Well, no, dear. Didn't I tell you? Oh, I'm so absent-minded these days. No, I won't be having dinner here tonight. But my roses... I'm terribly sorry. I know as appointment if I could. But you see, I have to make a speech tonight. Speech? You? Yes. I speak English quite well. I'm going to address the Professional Women's Club on Careers for Married Women. Oh, is that where you're going? Yes, dear. I told you about it two weeks ago, remember? Yes, but you said your speech would be against... Don't forget to put the potatoes on, Betty. Mother, could I speak to you privately for a minute? Why all the secrecy? You wouldn't understand. This is between us women. What women? I'm beginning to feel like a sorority sister. Goodbye, everyone. Kathy, be a good girl now. Goodbye, bud. Dad, are you sure you understand, Mom? I'm not sure of anything right now. Goodbye, dear. I won't be long, and I'll tell you all about it when I get back. Well, thank you very much. But don't ask me why. Mother, you're a big baker. Why, Betty? You're still going to make that speech against careers for married women, aren't you? Of course I am. And you're just letting Father think you're in favor of married women working to teach him a lesson. Because he got so completely stuffy about a woman's place in the home, aren't you? You're growing up fast, dear. Mother, you're simply devastating, and I love you lots. Thank you, dear. Goodbye now. See you soon. Goodbye. You career woman, you. She said she wouldn't be gone long, and here it is two and a half hours. Why, for all we know, she may be wandering around somewhere with amnesia. Who's he? Oh, Father, how corn-fed can you be? Well, I don't care. Just isn't like your mother to be late. It just isn't like her. What is like her these days? What mother's doing is admirable. Admirable? I don't quite go along with her walking out and leaving us and making a speech to get up married women to have a career. She didn't leave you and she isn't telling them to go to work. She's against it. Oh, dear. What was that, Princess? Nothing, nothing at all. I didn't say anything, Father. You sure said a lot for somebody who didn't say anything. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm sure. Princess. Oh, golly, Father, you might as well know. Yes, especially since I'm going to find out anyway. Mother wanted to teach you a lesson. You deserved it, too, the way you talked to her. So she didn't let you know her research work was for a speech against careers for married women. What? You mean your mother would pull a trick like that on me? It's your own fault. She tried to explain, but every time she opened her mouth, you put your foot in it. Oh, brother, me and my big, fat foot. You mean Mommy isn't going to look for a job after all? She never intended to. But if any of you let her know that I told you, I'll positively destroy you. Aw, turn blue. Wait a minute, kids. I've got an idea. I'm glad somebody has. I'm lost. Let's be reasonable about this. In a way, your mother is right. We never did give her a chance to explain. And, well, we have sort of been taking her for granted. You mean we haven't been tweeting her right? Oh, we've been just like any other average family. Sort of forgetting all the good things she does for us and not doing anything for her. Gee, Dad, have we been like that? In a way, I guess we have. What do you think we ought to do, Father? Let's go along with her little act. Let her think we believe she's going to work. When she gets home, let's all be just as unhappy as we were before we knew this. And you leave the rest to me. Oh, gee, this is going to be keen. I always wanted to act. Can I cry, Daddy? Well, maybe a little. On second thought, why don't you just forget it, kitten? Now, are we all set? Any questions? When do we eat? Tomorrow morning at breakfast. Quiet, everyone. Here she is now. Remember, look miserable. That won't be hard. I'm not happy inside, I know. But try to bear up like a man. Hello, Jim, children. Hello, everybody. I've had such a very enjoyable evening. And you know, I almost think I was successful. It was a simply wonderful evening. Well, it was up to now. Take it easy, kitten. Why, Angel, did you miss me that much? Betty doesn't cook as many potatoes as you do. No, Bud, I'm sure Betty gave you a fine meal. She's an excellent cook. We ran out of everything after the third helping. I think you'll survive, Bud. We had a pleasant evening, Margaret. Quiet, but pleasant. Oh, I'm so glad. Of course, it was terribly lonely. But then we had a long talk, the children and I, and we've decided that you're right. You have? Yes, Margaret. We realize now how much this means to you, and even though we'll suffer horribly, we'll sit back, uncomplaining, and watch you startle the world with your charm and brilliance. Oh, dear. Jim, children, I have a confession. If there are any confessions, we'll make them. We realize now, Margaret, we've been mistreating you. Mistreating me? We've been hiding your light under a bushel. Dad, even though it means the destruction of the great harmony in our family, we'll stand by, Margaret, and see you through. Dad. We wouldn't think of letting our love become a burden on you. Dad, what is it, son? Let's not get sickening about it. Gee, I thought he was doing swell. Go on, Daddy. It's better than a movie. Please, children, you must realize the gravity of this situation. I know you love your mother, and it goes without saying that I am devoted to her. But she is entitled to a life of her own, no matter how much it hurts us. But, dear, you know I wouldn't think of spoiling our family life. Well, not intentionally, of course. Not anyway. Listen to me, all of you. I never, never intend to have a business career. I just pretended I was, because, well, you goaded me into it. That's why. But, Margaret, how can you say that when you made a speech tonight, favoring careers for married women? Mrs. Stuyvesant favored careers. I said that a married woman should avoid a career if possible. To me, there is no finer job than taking care of my family and my home. Margaret, you really mean that? With all my heart. Did you hear that, Princess Kitten? But your mother wasn't your mother for a while. But now your mother is your mother again. Come again? Welcome home, Mommy. Angel, I never left you. Eat post-brand flakes. So good and so good for you. Like that little melody? It's a good tune to remember when you're shopping this weekend because it reminds you that new post-40% brand flakes are good and so good for you. Yes, they're good because something wonderful has happened to brand. You see, new post-40% brand flakes now have a delicious magic oven flavor, a new crisp texture that many people prefer to any other cereal. And new post-40% brand flakes are good for you because they contain the important, keep regular benefits that brand is known for. So tomorrow, buy new post-40% brand flakes, America's largest selling brand flakes. I think you'll agree, they're good and good for you. Well, peace and serenity reign again in the White Frame House on Maple Street. It's late now and in the upstairs hall, Betty is saying... Mother, I've been trying to get a chance to talk to you all evening. Whatever for, dear? Well, I think it's only fair to tell you. Father found out about your speech before you came home and he was just putting on an act. Oh, Betty, you didn't tell him. I didn't mean to. It just slipped out. I thought he was a little on the dramatic side. All right, don't worry about it. I think I'll go in and have a slight talk with your father. Good night, dear. Good night, Mother. Uh, sleep, Jim? Uh, not quite. I just wanted to say you were wonderfully understanding about this whole thing. Oh, it's nothing. But I must say you certainly did a fine job of acting and me fool completely. You know, I was wondering about that. Just think, Jim, a career as an actress. I wonder if I shouldn't go in for dramatics. Oh, no. Well, why don't we discuss it thoroughly tomorrow? Good night, dear. Uh, Margaret. Yes, dear? I don't think I'm happy inside. Join us again next week when we'll be back with Father Knows Best starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson. Until then, good night and good luck from the makers of Post 40% Brand Flakes, America's largest-selling brand flakes, and Instant Postum, the drink that's entirely caffeine-free. In our cast were Gene Vanderpile as Margaret, Rhoda Williams, Ted Donaldson, and Norma Jean-Millson. It comes in a red, white, and blue box. What is it? Hot post wheat meal. It has the picture of Roy Rogers on the package. What is it? Hot post wheat meal. It's packed full of whole wheat nourishment. What is it? Hot post wheat meal. It has a rich, delicious, nut-like flavor. What is it? Hot post wheat meal. Cooks in just three minutes. Another member of the famous post family. What is it? Hot post wheat meal. It's the best hot cereal you ever ate. Hot post wheat meal. Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Paul West and Dina Fields. This is Bill Foreman speaking. Right here, Counterspy on NBC.
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Action Item | AWS re:Invent 2017 Expectations Nov 2017
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Peter Burris sits down with John Furrier, George Gilbert, David Floyer, Rob Hof, and Dave Vellante to discuss expectations of AWS re:Invent 2017.
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Hi, I'm Peter Burris and welcome once again to Action Item. Every week Wikibon gathers together the research team to discuss seminal issues that are facing the IT industry and this week is no different. In the next couple of weeks, somewhere near 100,000 people are going to be heading to Las Vegas for the Amazon or AWS re-invent show from all over the world. And this week what we want to do is we want to provide a preview of what we think folks are going to be talking about. And I'm joined here in our lovely Palo Alto studio, the Cube studio, by Rob Hof, who's the editor-in-chief of Silicon Angle, David Fleury, who's an analyst at Wikibon, George Gilbert, who's an analyst at Wikibon, and John Furrier, who's a Cube host and co-CEO. On the phone we have Neil Raiden, an analyst at Wikibon, and also Dave Vellante, who's co-CEO with John Furrier, an analyst at Wikibon as well. So guys, let's jump right into it. David Fleury, I want to hit you first. AWS has done a masterful job of making the whole concept of infrastructure as a service real. Nobody should downplay how hard that was and how amazing their success has been. But they're moving beyond infrastructure as a service. What are the expected, or what do we expect for how far up Amazon's likely to go up the stack this year at re-invent? Well, I can say what I'm hoping for. I agree with your premise that they have to go beyond IAS. The overall market for cloud is much bigger than just IAS with SAS and other clouds as well, both on-premise and off-premise. So I would start with what enterprise CIOs are wanting, and they are wanting to see a multi-cloud strategy, both on-premise and multiple clouds, SAS clouds, other clouds. So I'm looking for AWS to provide additional services to make that easier, in particular services for private clouds, for enterprises. I'm looking for distributed capabilities, particularly in the storage area, so they can link different clouds together. I want to see edge data management capabilities. I'd love to see that because the edge itself, especially the low-latency stuff, the real-time stuff, that needs specialist services, and I'd like to see them integrate that much better than just Snowball. I want to see more details about AI. I'd love to see what they're doing in that. There's tremendous potential for AI and operational to improve security, to improve availability, recovery. That is an area where I think they could be a leader of the IT industry. Let me stop you there. George, I want to turn to you. So AWS in AI. How do we anticipate that's going to play out at re-invent this year? I can see three things in decreasing order of likelihood. The first one is they have to do a better job of tooling, both for sort of developers who want to dabble in or get their arms around AI, but who aren't real data scientists, and then also hardcore tools for data scientists that have been well-served by recently Microsoft and IBM, among others. So this is this Iron Man initiative that we've heard about. For the hardcore tools, something from Domino Data Labs, it looks like they're going to partner with them. It's like a data science workbench. So for the collaborative data preparation, modeling, deployment, that whole life cycle. And then for the developer-ready tooling, I expect to see that they'll be working with a company called DataRobot, which has a really nifty tool where you put in a whole bunch of training data, and it trains, could be a couple dozen models that it thinks might fit, and it'll show you the best fits. It'll show you the features in the models that are most impactful. In other words, it provides a lot of transparency. So it's kind of like models for models? Yes, and it provides transparency. Now that's the highest likelihood, and we have names on who we think the likely suspects are. The next step down, I would put applying machine learning to application performance management and IT operations. So that's the whole AI for ITOM that David Fleur just mentioned. Yeah. Now presumably this is going to have to extend beyond just AI for Amazon or AWS-related ITOM. Are expectations that we're going to see a greater distribution of or Amazon take more of a leadership in establishing a framework that cuts across multi-cloud? Have I got that right, David Fleur? Absolutely. And that's an opportunity for them to provide the basics on their own platform. That's obviously the starting point. They'll have the best instrumentation for all of the components they have there, but they will need to integrate that in with their own databases, with other people's databases. The more that they can link all the units together and get real instrumentation from an application point of view of the whole of the infrastructure, the more value AI can contribute. John Fleur, the whole concept of the last few years of AWS is that all roads eventually end up at AWS. However, there's been a real challenge associated with getting this migration momentum to really start to mature. Now we saw some interesting moves that they made with VMware over the last couple of years, and it's been quite successful. And some would argue it might even have given another round of life to VMware. Are there some things we expect to see AWS do this time that are going to really energize the ecosystem to start bringing more customers higher up the stack to AWS? Yeah, I think I look at it quickly as VMware was a groundbreaking event for both companies. VMware and AWS, we talked about that research event we had with them. The issue that's happening is that AWS has continued to have a run on the marketplace. They've been the leader in cloud every year. It's been a slew of announcements. This year is no different. They're going to have more and more announcements. In fact, they had to release some announcements early before the show because they have, again, more and more announcements. So they have the under the hood stuff going on that David Floyer and George were pointing out. So the classic build strategy is to continue to be competitive by having more services layered on top of each other, upgrading those services. That's a competitive strategy for Amazon under the hood. On the business side, you're seeing more competition this year than ever before. Amazon now is highly contested, certainly in the marketplace with competitors. You're seeing FUD, fear and certainty endowed from other people, how they're bundling. But it's clear. The cloud visibility is clear to customers. The numbers are coming in multiple years of financial performance. But now the ecosystem play is really the interesting one. I think the VMware move is going to be a tell side for other companies that haven't won that top three position. Example. I will say SAP. Oh, really? You think SAP is going to have a major play this year? We might see some more stuff about AWS and SAP. I'm hearing rumblings that SAP is going to be expanding their relationship. I don't have the facts yet on the ground. But from what I'm sensing, this is consistent with what they've been doing. We've seen them at Google Cloud Platform. We've talked to them specifically about how they're dealing with cloud and that their strategy is clear. They want to be on Azure, Google and Amazon. They want to provide that database functionality and their client base in from HANA and roll that in. So it's clear that SAP wants to be multi-cloud. We've seen Oracle over the past couple of years where our research has suggested, I would say, that there's been kind of two broad strategies. The application-oriented strategy that goes down to IAAS aggressively. That'd be Oracle and Microsoft. And then the IAAS strategy that's trying to move up through an ecosystem play, which is more where AWS, David Floyer and I have been writing a lot of that research. So it sounds like AWS is really going to start doubling down in the ecosystem and making strategic bets on software providers that can bring those large enterprise-installed bases with them. And the thing that you pointed out is migration. That's a huge issue. Now, you can get technical and say, what does that mean? But Andy Jassy has been clear and the whole Amazon Web Services team has been clear from day one. They're customer-centric. They listen to the customers. So if they're doing more migration this year, and we'll see, I think they will be. I think that's a good tell sign and good prediction. That means the customers want to use Amazon more. And VMware was the same way. Their customers say, hey, we're ops guys. We want to have a cloud strategy. It was such a great move for VMware. I think that's going to lift the fog, if you will, pun intended, between what cloud computing is and other alternatives. And I think companies are going to be clear that I can partner with Amazon Web Services and still run my business in a way that's going to help customers. So I think that's the number one thing that I'm looking for, is what is the customers looking for in multi-cloud or if it's serverless or other things? Well, or, yeah, I agree. Let me ask one this by you guys. It sounds though multi-cloud increasingly is going to be associated with an application set. So, for example, it's very difficult to migrate a database manager from one place to another as a snowflake. The cost to the customer is extremely high. The cost to the migration team is extremely high, a lot of risk. But if you can get an application provider to step up and start migrating elements of the database interface, then you dramatically reduce the overall cost of what that migration might look like. Have I got that right, David Fleur? Yeah, absolutely. And I think that's what AWS will, I'm expecting them to focus on, is more integration with more SaaS vendors, making it a better place. Or just software vendors. Software vendors. Well, SaaS vendors in particular, but software vendors in particular. Well, SAP is not a SaaS player, right? Well, they are. They are a little bit. But most of their installations are still SAP on Oracle. And moving them more over the last is going to require a significant amount of SAP help. And one of the things I would love to see them have is a proper tier one database as a service. That's something that's hugely missing at the moment. And using HANA, for example, on SAP, it's a tier one database in a particular area. But that would be a good move and help a lot of enterprises to move stuff into AWS. Is that going to be sufficient, though, given how good Oracle is? No. I mean, they need something, general purpose, which can compete with Oracle, or come to some agreement with Oracle, who knows what's going to happen in the future. Yeah, I don't know. We're all kind of here going here. It will be interesting to see. But at the end of the day, Oracle has an incentive also to render more of what it has as a service at some level. And it's going to be very difficult to say, we're going to render this as a service to a customer, but Amazon can't play, or AWS can't play. That's going to be a real challenge. The Oracle thing is interesting, and I bring this up because Oracle has been struggling as a company with cloud-native messaging. In other words, they're putting out, they have a lot of open source, we know what they have for tooling, but they own IT. I mean, you talk about Oracle, they get the databases, David pointed out tier one, but they know the IT guys. They've been doing business in IT for years as a legacy vendor. Now they're transforming, and they're trying hard to be the cloud-native path, and they're not making it. They're not getting the credit. And I don't know if that's a cultural issue with Oracle, but Amazon has that positioning from a developer cloud DNA now winning real enterprise deals. So the question that I'm looking for is, can Amazon continue to knock down these enterprise deals in lieu of these incumbent or legacy players in IT? So if IT continues to transform more towards cloud-native Docker containers or containers in Kubernetes, these kinds of microservices, I would give the advantage to Amazon over Oracle, even though Oracle has the database, because ultimately the developers are driving the behavior. So the question here was, would you disagree with that? The trouble though is the cost of migrating the applications and the data, that is huge. The systems of record are there for a reason. So there are two fundamental strategies for Oracle. If they can get their developers to add the AI, add the systems of intelligence, make them systems of intelligence, then they can win in that strategy. Or the alternative is that they move it to AWS and do that movement in AWS. That's a much more risky strategy. Right, but I think our kind of concluding point here is that ultimately if AWS can get big application players to participate and assist and invest in and move customers along with some of these big application migrations, it's good for AWS. And to your point, John, it's probably good for the customers too. I don't think it's mutually exclusive. David makes a point about migrating for Oracle. I don't see a lot of migration coming off of Oracle. I look at overall database growth is the issue. So Oracle will have that position, but it's kind of like when we argued about the internet growth back in 1997. Just internet users growing was so great, the rising tide floated. So I believe that the database growth is going to happen so fast that Amazon is not necessarily targeting Oracle's market share. They're going after the overall database market, which might be a smaller tier two kind of configuration or new architectures that are developing. So I think it's interesting dynamic and Oracle certainly can play there and lock in the database. Here's what I would say. I would say that they're going after the new workload world and a lot of that new work is going to involve database as it always has. I don't think there's anything. The notion that we have solved or that database is 90% penetrated for the applications that are going to be dominant matter in 2025 is ridiculous. There's a lot of new database that's going to be solved. I think you're absolutely right. Rob Wolf, what's the general scubble butt that you're hearing? You know, as editor-in-chief of Silicon Angle, what is the journalist world buzzing about for a reinvent this year? Well, I guess, you know, my question is because of the challenges they're facing, like we just talked about with the migrating difficulty in migrating some of these applications, we also see, you know, very fast-growing rivals like Google, you know, still small, but, you know, growing fast. And then there's China. That's a big one where, you know, is there a natural limit there that they're going to have? So, I mean, you put these things together and I guess, you know, we see Amazon Web Services still growing at 42% a year or whatever. It's great. But is it going to start to go down because of all these challenges? Because some of the constraints that may start to assert themselves. Exactly, exactly. So that's kind of the journalism world is kind of saying, you know, are there some speed bumps up ahead for AWS? Exactly. We saw one just a couple, well, just this week with China, for example. You know, they sold off $300 million worth of data centers, equipment and such to their partner in China, Beijing Senate. And they say this is a way to, you know, comply with Chinese law. Now we're going to start expanding. But, you know, expanding while you're selling off $300 million worth of equipment, you know, it begs a question. So I'm curious how they're going to get past that. That does raise an interesting question. I think it might go back to some of the AI on ITOM, AI on IT Operations Management, is that do you need control of the physical assets in China to nonetheless sell great service for accessing assets in China? Right. My guess is that if they're successful with AI for ITOM and some of these other initiatives we're talking about, in fact, may be very possible for them to offer a great service in China, but not actually own the physical assets. And that's a, it's an interesting question for some of the Chinese law issues. Dave Vellante, anything you want to jump in on and add to the conversation? For example, if we look at some of the ecosystem and some of the new technologies and some of the new investments being made around new technologies, what are some of your thoughts about some of the new stuff that we might hear about at AWS this year? Well, so a couple things. Just to comment on some of the things you guys were saying about Oracle and migration, to me it comes down to three things, growth, which is clearly there. We've talked about 40% plus growth. Momentum, you know, the flywheel effect that Amazon has been talking about for years and something that really hasn't been discussed much was economics, and this is something that we've talked about a lot. And Amazon is bringing a software like marginal economics model to infrastructure services. And as it potentially slows down its growth, it needs to find new areas and it will expand its time by gobbling up parts of the ecosystem. So, you know, there's so much white space, but partners got to be careful about where they're adding value because ultimately Amazon is going to target those, much in the same way in my view anyway, that Microsoft and Intel have in the past. And so I think you've got to tread very carefully there and watch where Amazon is going and they're going into the big areas of, you know, AI, trying to do more stuff at the edge, and anyway there's automation, they are going to grab that piece of value in the value chain. So one of the things that we've been, we've talked about two main things. We've talked about a lot of investments, a lot of expectations about AI and how AI is going to show up in a variety of different ways at re-invent. And we've talked about how they're likely to make some of these migration issues even that much more tangible than they have been. So by putting some real operational clarity as to how they intend to bring enterprises into AWS. We haven't talked about IoT. Dave just mentioned it. What's happening with the edge? How's the edge going to work? Now historically what we've seen is we've seen a lot of promises that the edge was all going to end up in the cloud from a data standpoint. That's where everything was going to be processed. We started seeing the first indications that that's not necessarily how AWS is going to move last year with Snowball and serverless computing and some of those initiatives. We have anticipated a real honest to goodness true private cloud AWS stack with a partnership. Hasn't happened yet. Dave, what are we looking for this year? Are we going to see that this year or are we going to see more kind of circumvalidating the issue and doing the best that they can? Well, my prediction last year was that they would come out with some sort of data service that you could install on your on-premise machine as a starting point for this communication across a multi-cloud environment. I'm still expecting that, whether it happens this year or early next year, I think they have to. The pressure from enterprises, and they are a customer-driven organization, the pressure from enterprises, is going to mandate that they have some sort of solution on-premise. It's a requirement in many countries, especially in Europe. They're going to have to do that, I think, without doubt. So they can do it in multiple ways. They can do it as they have done with the U.S. government by putting in particular data centers, whole data centers within the U.S. government, or they can do it with small services or they can take the Microsoft approach of having an AWS service on-site as well. I think with pressure from Microsoft, the pressure from Europe in particular is going to make this an essential requirement of the whole strategy. I remember a number of years going back a couple of decades when Dell made big moves because to win the business of a very large manufacturer that had 50,000 workstations, mainly engineers returning over every year to get that business, Dell literally put a distribution point right next to that manufacturer. And we expect to see something similar here, I would presume, when we start talking about this. Yeah, I mean, I want to make a comment on the IOT. First of all, I agree with David said, I don't want to make a prediction, but I'm kind of taking a contrarian view on this and I'm watching a few things at Amazon. Amazon always takes an approach of getting into new markets either with a big idea and small teams to figure it out or building blocks and they listen to the customers. So IOT is interesting because IOT is hard. It's really a fundamental important infrastructure, architecture that's not going away. I mean, it has to be nailed down. It's obvious. Just like blockchain kind of is obvious when you talk about decentralization. It does on those two fronts. But what's interesting to note is, Amazon always becomes their first customer. When their retail business, AWS, was powering retail. With Whole Foods and stuff they're doing on the physical side, it'd be very interesting to see what their IOT strategy is from a technology standpoint with what they're doing internally. We get food delivered to our house now from Amazon Fresh and they got Whole Foods and all the retail. So it'd be interesting to see that. They're buying a lot of real estate and I thought about this as well, John. They're buying a lot of real estate and how much processing can they put in there. And the only limit is that I don't think Whole Foods would qualify as a particularly secure location when we start talking about this. But I think you're absolutely right. It brings the question, how will they roll out IOT because he's like, okay, roll on appliance. That's more of an infrastructure thing. Is that their first move? So the question that I'm looking for is just to kind of read the tea leaves and saying, what is really they're doing? So they have the tech. And it's going to be interesting to see. I mean, it's more of a high level kind of business conversation. But IOT is a really big challenging area. We're hearing that all over the place from CIO. It's like, what's the architecture? What's the playbook? And it's different per company. So it's challenging. Although one of the reasons why it looks different per company is because it is so uncertain as to how it's going to play out. There's not a lot of knowledge diffused. My guess is that in 10 years, we're going to look back and see that there was a lot more commonality and patterns of work that were in IOT that many people expected. So I'll tell you one of the things that I saw last year that particularly impressed me at AWS re-invent was the scale at which the network was being built out. And it raised for me an interesting question. If, in fact, one of the chief challenges at IOT, there's two, there's multiple challenges that every company faces with IOT. One is latency. One is intellectual property control. One is legal ramifications like GDPR, which is one of the reasons why the whole Europe play is going to be so interesting because GDPR is going to have a major impact on a global basis. It's not just Europe. Bandwidth, however, is an area that is not necessarily given. It's partly a function of cost. So what happens if AWS blankets the world with network and customers to get access to at least some degree of edge no longer have to worry about a telco? What happens to the telco business, at least from a data communication standpoint? Anybody want to jump in on that one? Well, yeah. I mean, I've actually talked to a couple of folks like Ericsson and I think AT&T, and they're actually talking about taking their central offices and even the base stations and sort of outfitting them as many data centers. There's Pops. Yeah. But I think we've been hearing now for about 12 months that maybe Edge is going to take over before we actually even finish getting to the cloud. And I think that's about as sort of ill-considered as the notion that PCs were going to put mainframes out of business. And the reason I used that as an analogy, at one point, IPM was going to put all their mainframe-based databases and communication protocol on the PC. That was called OS2 extended edition and it failed spectacularly. For a lot of reasons. But the idea is you have a separation of concerns. Presentation on one side in that case and data management communications on the other. Here in this, in what we're doing here, we're definitely going to have the low-latency inferencing on the Edge. And then the question is, what data goes back up into the cloud for training and retraining and even simulation? And we've already got, having talked to Microsoft's Azure CTO this week, they see it the same way. They see the compute-intensive modeling work and even simulation work done in the cloud and the sort of automated decisioning happening on the Edge. All right, so I'm going to make one point and then I want to hit the action item around here. The one point I want to make is, I have a feeling that over, and I don't know if it's going to happen to reinvent this year, but I have a feeling that over the course of the next six to nine months, there's going to be a major initiative on the part of Amazon to start bringing down the costs of data communications and use their power to start hitting the telecos on a global basis. And what's going to be very, very interesting is whether Amazon starts selling services to its network independent of its other cloud services because that could have global implications for who wins and who loses. Well, that's a good point. I always add color on that. Just anecdotally, from my perspective, you asked the question, I haven't talked to anyone, but knowing the telco business, I think they're going to have that VMware moment because they've been struggling with over the top for so long, the rapid pace of innovation going on that I don't think Amazon is going to go after the telcos. I think it's just an evolutionary steamroller. It's an inevitability. It's an inevitability that the steamroller is coming. Users don't sign long-term data communications deals right now. Why wouldn't you do a deal with Amazon if you're a telco? You get relevance, you have stability, lock in your cash flows, cut your deal, and stay alive. That's an interesting thought. All right, so let's hit the action item around here. So really quickly, as a preface for this, the way we want to do this, guys, is that John Furrier is going to have a couple of hours, one on one with Andy Jassy sometime in the next few days. And so if you were to... Well, tell us a little bit about that first, John. Well, every reinvent... We've been doing reinvent for multiple years, and I think it's our sixth year. We do all the events. We cover it as the media part, as you know. And I'm going to have a one-on-one sit-down every year prior to reinvent to get his view, exclusive interview for two hours, talk about the future. We broke the first Amazon story years ago on the building blocks and how they... Okay, but now they're winning. So it's the time for me to sit down and get his insight and continue to tell the story and document the growth of this amazing success story. So I'm going to ask him specific questions, and I want to love to know what he's thinking. All right, guys. So I want each of you to pretend that you are, so representing your community, what would your community... What's the one question your community would like answered by Andy Jassy? George, let's start with you. So my question would be, are you going to take IT operations management, machine learn, enable it, and then as part of offering a hybrid cloud solution, do you extend that capability on-prem and maybe even to other vendor clouds? That's a good one. David Floyer. I've got two, if I may. I'll say them very quickly. The first one, John, is you being a AWS that developed a great international network, a fantastic performance. How is AWS going to avoid conflicts with the EU, China, Japan, and particularly about their reticence about using any US-based nodes from an in-country and from in-country telecommunication vendor? So that's my first. And the second is, again on AI, what's going to be the focus of AWS in applying the value of AI? Where are you going to focus first and to give value to your customers? Rob Wolf, do you want to ask a question? Yeah, I'd like to... One thing I didn't raise in terms of the challenges is Amazon overall is expanding so fast into all kinds of areas. Whole Foods, we saw this. I did ask Jassy, how do you contend with reality that a lot of these companies that you're now bumping up against as an overall company now don't necessarily want to depend on AWS for their critical infrastructure because they're competitors? How do you deal with that? Great question. Yeah. David Vellante. Yeah, my question is, would be, you know, as an ecosystem partner, what advice would you give, because I'm really nervous that as you grow and you use the mantra, well, we do what customers want, that you are going to eat into my innovation. So what advice would you give to your ecosystem partners about places that they could play and a framework that they should think about where they should invest in that value without the fear of, you know, you consuming their value proposition? So it's kind of the ecosystem analog to the customer question that Rob asked. So the one that I would have for you, John, is at what... the promise is all about scale. And they've talked a lot about how software at scale has to turn into hardware. What will Amazon be in five years? Are they going to be a hardware player on a global basis? Following this China question, are they going to be a software management player on a global basis? And they're not going to worry as much about who owns the underlying hardware because that opens up a lot of questions about maybe there is going to be a true private cloud option and AWS will just try to run on everything and really be the multi-cloud administrator across the board. The Cisco as opposed to the IBM in the internet transformation. All right, so let me summarize very quickly. Thank you very much, all of you guys, once again for joining us in our action item. So this week we talked about AWS re-invent. We've done this for a couple of years now. theCUBE has gone up and done 30, 35, 40 interviews. We're really expanding our presence at AWS re-invent this year. So our expectation is that Amazon has been a major player in the industry for quite some time. They have spearheaded the whole concept of infrastructure as a service in a way that in many respects nobody ever expected. And they've done it so well and so successfully that they are having an enormous impact way beyond just infrastructure in the marketplace today. Our expectations that this year at AWS re-invent, we're going to hear a lot about three things. Here's what we're looking for. First is AWS as a provider of advanced artificial intelligence technologies that then get rendered in services for application developers but also for infrastructure managers. AI for ITOM being, for example, a very practical way of envisioning how AI gets instantiated within the enterprise. The second one is AWS has had a significant migration as a service initiative underway for quite some time. But as we've argued in Wikibon research that's very nice but the reality is nobody wants to bond the database manager. They don't want a promise that the database manager is going to come over. It's interesting to conceive of AWS starting to work with application players as a way of facilitating the process of bringing database interfaces over to AWS more successfully as an onboarding roadmap for enterprises that want to move some of their enterprise applications into the AWS domain. We mentioned one in particular, SAP, that has an interesting potential here. The final one is we don't expect to see the kind of comprehensive edge answers at this year's re-invent. Instead, what our expectation is is that we're going to continue to see AWS provide services and capabilities through serverless, through other partnerships that allow AWS or the cloud to be able to extend out to the edge without necessarily putting out that comprehensive software that's comprehensive software stack as an appliance being moved through some technology suppliers. The green grass, certainly serverless, Lambda and other technologies are going to continue to be important. If we finalize overall what we think one of the biggest plays is, we are especially intrigued by Amazon's continuing build out of what appears to be one of the world's fastest, most comprehensive networks and their commitment to continue to do that. We think that this is going to have implications far beyond just how AWS addresses the edge to overall how the industry ends up getting organized. So with that, once again, thank you very much for enjoying Action Item and participating and we'll talk next week as we review some of the things that we heard at AWS and we look forward to those further conversations with you. So for Peter Burris, the Wikibon team, SiliconANGLE, thank you very much and this has been Action Item.
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शर्मिस्टा मुखर्ची खूली ले गान्दी परिबारो पूड प्रडव, माई पादर ये दोट्टर लिमेमबर्स पूच्तो कुर बडधा खुला सा सून्या भांगी दे तिल प्रडव को प्रदाल्मन्त्री बनी बाचा राहुल गान्दी कोनी प्रबातना रास्टबती दे एकले बड़ाब बआएन प्रडव जानिना तिबालो को के मी ती संवाली बा देसरो कमान चर्चरे प्रडव, माई पादर ये दोट्टर लिमेमबर्स पूच्तो को और प्रबातना रास्टबती प्रडव मुखार जिन को चीः सर्मिष्ता मुखार जिन को पूच्तो करु ख्लडिबा को जाँखची गान्दी परिबारो एको च्ट्रबादी बूमि कर पूल औहीरे रहुल गन्दी सून्या गन्दिंको ने प्रणाब देखिबा तिप्पूनि कु, स्थाना देछंती सर्मिष्था. देसर आस्टबदी पदर दिवापले प्रणामोखर जिंकु बहुभार भेटिति तिले रहुल गन्दि. तरे संदियारे फिला साख्या समया हिले सोकल उ पहुषी जेथले रहुल आम प्यम फरोग ज़रना किछा लोको केमिती देसर सासाना संपल्बभगली एश्णदर ब�jarazasambhaibabali e sandar bhare प्रुना प्रतिक्ने रखित्वा पुष्टक्रे उलेक रखिचन्ती सर्मिष्था एक दिन रहुल गान्दी जी मेरे पादर का साथ मिलने कि लिया आए और भावा तब मुखल गार्डन में वोक ले रहे रहे थे प्रस्टिन्ट्ट्ट्ट् तो मिले वो आसीत फिर बाद में पताचला अगी रहूल गान्दी जी शाम को मिलने कि लिया आने अगाले आगे तो रहुल गान्दी को अप्रस उनहों गल्ती से शाम की जगा उनको सुबे बतादी तो मुझे एडी सी से पताचला तो भीर बैने जाब आपना बाबाबा के से जिगर करी इस बात को तो उनहुने बोला की तोड़ा सरकास्टिक के लिए उनहुने बोला कि अगर रहुल गान्दी को अप्रस को जाडी आपनों को आमा भीट्रोटी बहल लगिला तेभे आमा चैनल को लिए शेर अप सबस्क्रेप करीपा को जमा भी बोलों तो नहीं
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APPLE SOARS ON EARNINGS! | Trading Update 1/29/19 | Apple Stock Analysis 2019
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What is going on everybody, Astos here. Welcome back to another video. So in this video, we're going to be doing an overall market update, looking at the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. We're going to be talking about one trade that I made today on the 29th of January in 2019, as well as taking a look at Apple's earnings guys. Apple is the company that we've been waiting for over the past couple of weeks to report their earnings and they are finally here. We're going to be taking a look at some nitty gritty numbers. So stay tuned and the next couple of minutes we'll get into that. And of course, we're going to be talking about some other stocks, some other ETFs that did very well today. So before we do get into all of this, feel free to smash that like button if you guys do enjoy and find value in the content and really does help my channel grow. And I do appreciate you guys to the fullest if you do smash that like button. So let's get into it guys. Without further ado, starting off here with the SPX, also known as the S&P 500, the 500 largest US companies are right here guys. And we can see at the close of the market today, not too crazy of movement in terms of the three major indices right the SPX was down around 0.15% down around $4 the Dow Jones was down around or up around $51 rather up around 0.2% on the day. And the NASDAQ guys you can clearly see it's up the highest right now. These are the futures that are currently still moving. And with Apple stock flying up at the close of the market, this is obviously pushing up the NASDAQ futures. And we can see these are currently up around 56 points up around 0.84% guys. So in terms of, you know, this overall 180 day four hour chart, what we've been talking about over these past couple of videos is the resistance under the 180 SMA. And as of right now guys, you know, in terms of the SPX, this resistance is still intact. And we've seen it got rejected here back in the beginning of December, back in the beginning of November, and in the middle of October on three separate occasions, we've been rejected here, and we've pushed down in price. And as of now guys, we double top in the SPX at around $26.75. We talked about this in yesterday's video, but just to quickly recap on that right now, a double top in any future, you know, stock, index, ETF is a bearish pattern and could indicate some downside to come, right? And on the 20 day one hour chart, we can see this on a closer basis, right? We topped off at $26.75. We pulled back, held that 50 SMA as a support. We pushed out of this bullish pennant right here a couple of days back, but we failed to break that 26.75 resistance, double topping here, getting rejected. We broke that 50 SMA, that support that we were just talking about. And that's again, another big sign that we could be heading down right now in the SPX. And with the trading, you know, with the day today being flat in terms of trading, closing the day, only down a mere $3, you know, this is a good sign that we are continuing to further push down. And of course, guys with Apple pushing up very heavily right now, this could have a fluctuation on the market tomorrow as well as some other stocks that are doing well here after market hours. So that's what the SPX is looking like right now, guys, we are still technically in that downwards trending pattern on the 184 hour chart due to us still trending below that 180 SMA. So in terms of the Dow Jones guys, very similar, right? We're trading under that 180 SMA here on the four hour chart. And on the 20 day chart, we didn't double top like we did in the SPX, we pushed to a higher high. But the fact that we're having trouble getting above this resistance right here at around 24,600 ish, right? That's a good sign that we are getting rejected, slowly starting to reverse and could see some more downside in the next couple of days, right? And of course, we talked about this yesterday, but again, just to reiterate it in this video, we have the support here on the Dow Jones at around $24,300, which is a very critical level to keep an eye out for. And you know, we're kind of trading in this horizontal pattern. So we're getting rejected here. Like I said, and the next spot we could be headed to is that 24,300 support. And if we do break that guys, that's going to be a continuation, you know, continuation pattern to the downside for the Dow Jones and the selling could start to kick in at that point guys. So keep an eye on the $24,300 level in terms of the Dow Jones and on this NASDAQ composite guys, very similar to the Dow Jones. We're trading in the horizontal pattern here, but in terms of the NASDAQ, we're trading between $6,600 up to around $6,800. We saw a bearish pattern here from the double top at around $6,800. We capped out here, we broke that 50 SMA here, right guys? We tried to push back up, ended up getting capped out again at $6,800, forming that double top formation. And now we're trending on top of that support roughly at around $6,630. That's where we ended up getting down to today. We held above that. We can clearly see now, you know, the futures are almost back up into the $6,700 range. So keep an eye guys on this support. If we do break the $6,600 support in terms of the NASDAQ, that could be a good signal that we're going down, we're selling off. And the downtrend in the NASDAQ and the overall market is continuing guys. So in terms of the overall market right now, we're at very critical spots, you know, like we've been in over the past couple of days, right? We're at rejection zones for the SPX and the Dow Jones. The Dow Jones at a critical, you know, in a critical horizontal pattern, which is either going to push it to the upside or the downside, same exact thing here with the NASDAQ. So keep an eye on all of these levels, guys. Super important in terms of the overall market. So let's quickly talk about Apple guys. I know a lot of you guys want to talk about Apple. Drop a comment down below. Let me know what you guys think about their earnings report. I have some notes right here on my phone that I'm just going to talk about very briefly, just really giving us a gist of their earnings report. And we're going to talk about some different products, as well as some emerging markets and the performance of Apple in China. So overall, guys, again, I'm reading off my phone here, Apple. EPS, they brought in $4.18 versus $4.17 expected by the analysts. So they beat on EPS on revenue. They beat as well, bringing in $84.3 billion compared to $83.97 billion. And now let's break down some iPhone revenue versus the service revenue for Q1. Okay, iPhone revenue, like we expected, was down. They missed $51.98 billion versus $52.67 billion. The services revenue guys, which did very great from the year-over-year perspective today, reported $10.9 billion in revenue versus $10.87 billion in revenue expected. That's a 19% year-over-year increase in terms of the revenue. And again, a lot of you guys know that the services revenue, the services business is one of the quickest. And one of the biggest catalysts in Apple's business, right? It's one of the growing sectors in the business. And I think there's a lot of bright room in that business in the future, guys. Drop a comment down below. Let me know what you guys think. So getting into, you know, some more product sales, some more product revenue. iPhone, $51.98 billion versus $52.67 billion. All right, we already said that. Apple, Apple iPad was $6.73 billion in revenue versus $5.9 billion. So iPad beat. Mac also came right in line with earnings expectations. $7.42 billion versus $7.42 billion expected. And the wearables, home and accessories, $7.31 billion versus $7.33 billion estimated. So out of the main products, guys, the wearables and the home and accessories business missed. That's the only one that missed analyst expectations, right? And also iPhone. So iPad and Mac did very well. And of course, services did very well compared to the iPhone and compared to the wearables, home and accessories. So another thing I want to talk about very quickly is the loss of revenue in China, guys. So $13 billion in revenue from China this quarter, which is down 27% from a year ago, guys. So this is actually huge, right? This is a big chunk of Apple's business, which is why they cut that revenue guidance about a month, a month and a half ago, whenever that was from about like $90.95 billion. I can't remember off the top of my head, but they ended up cutting that, you know, all the way down to around $85, whatever we just saw, $84 billion because of the weak Chinese economy, right? The sales are going down in China, and we can clearly see that here from their earnings reports, guys. 27% hit from a year ago. That's absolutely crazy. But the good thing is, there's a lot of emerging markets in terms of Apple's business, guys. I forget all of them, but just to name a few, Germany has been doing well, Spain has been doing very well. Those are two that I can remember off the top of my head. I just got off the earnings report call a couple of minutes ago before recording this video, and there was a lot more emerging markets. I just can't remember off the top of my head. Sometimes my short-term memory is crap, but that is why I take notes while watching the earnings report. That's the whole entire idea. So overall, guys, Apple's earnings report, it wasn't too bad, right? And we can see the stock right now acted very, very positively to the earnings report. We can see we closed today at around $154.68, and we're up an insane amount, guys. We literally went up $10 per share in the matter of an hour here after market hours, right? About an hour and a half after market hours. We went all the way up to $164, and we're hovering around $163 right now, which is absolutely crazy. I did not honestly expect this move. I understood that the revenue cut from China, China sales are being down that we got from about the news we got about a month and a half ago. I understood that that was mostly priced into the stock already, meaning that investors of the market already perceived this news and sold off their shares, whatever they wanted to do, and they already got it to the price where that news led to, right? For those of you guys who don't understand what I'm saying, but I honestly didn't think it was going to fly this high after this earnings report. I honestly thought that there was a chance we were going to maybe go up a little bit in price, right, if we slightly beat, but also I thought we could possibly sell off even more, but I did not think we were going to get up like 7% after market hours. Absolutely crazy, but nonetheless, guys, I've been buying Apple. It's one of my long-term positions, and the fact that it's going up in price right now is very good, but the bad thing is that I can't buy any more shares now because my target was to buy more shares in the 140s, and I personally like buying dips, buying averaging down, cost averaging down, very, very solid strategy for a long-term position, and the stock going up right now, that's not going to lead to me buying more shares. I'm just going to have to wait a couple more weeks, wait a couple more months, see how the stock reacts. If it ends up going back down in the next week, two weeks, who knows, guys? If that ends up happening, I'm probably going to be buying more shares of Apple, but as of right now, if it's hovering in the 160s, 170s, I view Apple as a hold right now in my personal opinion because I was buying all the way down into the 140s a couple of weeks ago, so buying more shares right now doesn't really make sense in my personal opinion, but again, it's all up to you guys. Don't buy any of these shares based on my opinion. If you want to buy Apple, go ahead, man, go buy Apple. Don't do it on my opinion. You have to do your own research, but anyway, now that we talked about Apple for a little bit, just drop a comment down below. Let me know what you guys think, but let's transition into what I personally traded today on the 29th, and I'm sure you guys already know this, and people in the chat already guessed it, TVIX, guys. I traded TVIX yet again, and I traded this one earlier on in the day. I'm aware that it ended up closing the day on a pretty big downtrend, but I got in today at around $46, I believe $0.70 is when I got in, and it was around 10.40 a.m. here, and we can see, once I did get in on this pullback with the margin of profit opened, we held that 50 SMA for a higher low, which is what I was honestly looking to see before entering. This proved to be a solid, solid position. So let me just go over the technicals very quickly why I did go into this position today, and for those of you guys that don't know, TVIX is an ETF that tracks the S&P 500 SPX. You can also use SPY because SPY is an ETF that tracks the S&P 500, so you can really use both of these to track TVIX. Pretty much how it works, guys. Whenever the SPX, the SPY, whenever they're going down in price, that's when TVIX is going up in price. So we can see here, we ended up opening the market at around, what was it, like 20, 26.44, ended up pushing up to around 26.50, and from there, guys, we slowly started to downtrend. And what told me to get into TVIX was this pattern that I started to see right here. We can see we topped off at 26.50, and the next high topped off at around 26.45, which was a lower high from the previous. This indicates to me that the index is falling in price. It's failing to push up, it's failing to push for a higher high, and what really solidified it was the break below the 180SMA support. From the past 20 minutes here at 10.18, guys, I was waiting to see if it was going to hold it here, ended up not. We broke below, and this was a support from yesterday, right? We can see once we got that lower high in the SPX, guys, we broke that 180SMA, and that opened up a nice chunk in TVIX. And I honestly already got into TVIX, I believe, a little bit early. I did jump the gun, which is something that I don't always do, but some days when I'm feeling a little bit more risky, guys, today was one of those days I jumped the gun, got into TVIX before the break of the 180SMA on the SPX, but it ended up working well for me today. I got a 2.5% profit on TVIX, and again, we can see right around 10.30, guys, right on the top of the 180SMA for the SPX, right? Right around this time, that is when I ended up getting into TVIX when it was holding that or the 50SMA as a support, right? I ended up getting in right around here, I believe, like 46.70ish, and wrote it up for 2.5% profit, and we can see, guys, that was around, put me at the sell, at around 47.90. So about $1.20 per share, 2.5% increase today. In terms of TVIX, let me know what you guys ended up trading today down below in the comment section. I would love to love to know, and that's pretty much it for my trading, guys. You know, I'm pretty basic when it comes to trading. I stick to the same ETFs. I stick to the same stocks pretty much all the time, right? And it just works for me, guys, and I keep working at what works for me, and I want you guys to do the same exact thing for yourselves, right? Don't just feel like, you know, you have to have a watch list of 100 stocks, and you have to trade everything in that watch list because that's what people do, right? That's not really the case, right? That could work for you, but a lot of people out there, you know, they stick to a couple, let's say 5, 10, 15, like me, myself, right? They're consistent with those. They understand the patterns, and they really just master trading those, and they do very well at it, right? So it all depends on what you want to do, your goals, your ambitions, your trading style, it all comes down to that. So guys, that's pretty much it for, you know, my trading today. Nothing too crazy. Now, let's go over some other stocks today that did very well, some other ETFs that did very well, and some that didn't do so well. So one I want to talk about right now is AMD, guys. AMD ended up reporting earnings. Their stock was up around 10%. I wrote a note down on AMD. Let me quickly tell you guys what this note was. They missed on revenue 1 in terms of their earnings report, but they do expect strong sales growth in 2019. So this could be the catalyst as to why the stock ended up shooting from 1926 at close all the way up to around 2130, which is ridiculous, right? Which is absolutely ridiculous. That could be the potential catalyst to that. So if I was an AMD shareholder, I would honestly be pretty happy with the comment of strong sales growth expected in 2019 because that means more top-line revenue. It could mean some more profit. You know, that's pretty good as a shareholder in my, you know, personal opinion. So AMD, guys, it looks pretty good right now, honestly, as a potential trade for tomorrow. If it continues to run, it could potentially close the gap from around 2130 to 2230. And that's kind of, you know, a big if, guys, because it's already up around 10%. So we could potentially experience a sell-off tomorrow, but let's say the hype continues into tomorrow, this stock could end up pushing back up to 22, 22, 2230, very, very possible in my personal opinion. Another one I want to talk about today were the Gold Futures. These ended up playing out perfectly as to our analysis from yesterday's video. Do you guys remember? I was talking about how the Gold Futures were trading above 1300 and keeping that old resistance as a new support level. And I literally said, in yesterday's video, watch out for this becoming a new support level and watch out for the push up, the gap up into the 1310, 1315 level. And that's exactly what ended up happening, guys. So I'm going to be waiting to see, you know, tomorrow are the Gold Futures going to continue to push up? Are they going to continue this bull run they've been in over the past couple of days? Or are they going to pull back, opening up a nice entry point for JDST, pull back and then continue the uptrend, which would then open up a nice opportunity for Jnug, guys. So if I witness, you know, if I see any pullbacks tomorrow in terms of GC, guys, I might be entering into a JDST trade on the pullback. And then of course, if it finds support again, entering Jnug on the reversal to the upside. So another one that did very well today for a good portion of the day today was crude oil. Crude oil went from $52 all the way up to $54, opening up a huge move today in UWT, guys. UWT closed the day yesterday at $12.56, went all the way up to nearly $14. And I know a lot of you guys out there in the group chat did trade UWT. And by the way, if you guys are not yet in the Discord group chat, that link is down below. We have nearly 500 people in there talking day to day about trading stocks, news, options, you know, long-term investing, a lot of different stuff. So get in there. But anyways, UWT very silent move today. You know, from this particular ETF, we saw a little consolidation, you know, downwards move for the rest of the day, but that initial spike up was pretty significant. So another one that we've been talking about was Cron. This one had some pretty choppy trading today, guys. It went from $19.50 all the way down to $17 again. And then it ended up closing the day down around $18. So very choppy trading. This could be a reversal zone, honestly, for Cron if it does end up breaking this 50 SMA on the one hour chart. So keep an eye on that, guys. Another one that did poorly today due to a decent earnings report. I believe they missed on revenue. Don't call me on that, but Verizon, they reported earnings this morning and they ended up dropping like a knife, right, from $55 all the way down to $52, and they ended up consolidating for the rest of the day. So that's what I'm looking at in terms of stocks right now, guys. You know, for tomorrow, I'm going to be waiting to see anticipating a potential market pullback. But again, guys, if Apple's push continues into tomorrow, you know, we have some other big earnings later on this week. If they report green earnings or rather good earnings that push the stock into the green, if Apple continues to push into the green, you know, this could push the entire market up tomorrow. So right now, you know, my opinion with the markets for tomorrow, it's kind of up in the air because a lot of things have to play out before I can make a sound judgment. So before I do leave you guys today for the day, tomorrow, these are the companies to keep an eye out for. Alibaba, Facebook, Microsoft, Boeing, AT&T, Tesla, McDonald's, PayPal, Visa, these are arguably, this day in particular Wednesday is arguably the biggest day in terms of earnings this entire week, right? We have some conglomerates here, AT&T, Boeing, Microsoft, massive, massive companies, and of course, Alibaba, Chinese company, massive company, and Facebook, massive company. So when I'm talking about the overall market guys, pushing up or down, this is what you have to keep an eye out here for. Are these companies, we're going to report good earnings and what are their stock prices going to be looking like after they report their earnings? If they're very bullish afterwards, this can send up the entire market for warning, right? So just letting you guys know that right now. And on Thursday, General Electric, Amazon, UPS, we have some other ones down here. And of course, on Friday, Exxon, Chevron, Merck, Honeywell, Sony, Cigna, Dominion Energy, I don't know that company, but I'm sure they have a decent company for being on this list. But anyway, guys, I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, feel free to drop a like, leave a comment, subscribe, follow me on Instagram, as well as on Twitter, and join our Discord group chat, as well as our Facebook group. All of those are linked down below in the description box. And if you guys want to be in touch with me and 500 other people, get into that Discord guys, it's 100% free. We're talking every day about stocks, trading, investing, options, long term investing, whatever guys, we're talking about it literally 24-7. The group has gotten to the point where everyone's super engaging, super awesome community, and we're talking nonstop throughout the day. So get in there. All the links are down below in the description box. Again, thanks for watching. I really appreciate you guys. Peace out.
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South Burlington City Council - 2/21/2023
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Call to Order 00:00:00
Announcements and City Manager’s Report 00:02:07
Consent Agenda 00:16:10
Resources on Climate Change 00:18:21
Honoring the Service of Representatives 00:23:39
City Manager's Contract 00:34:29
Senate Housing Bill & H.68 00:39:54
Purchase of 1270 Williston Rd. 02:07:32
SAFER Grant 02:14:16
FY23 Policy Policies and Strategies 02:30:10
Other Business 02:32:49
Total Run Time: 02:37:17
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you all right well at 6 30 and I would like to call to order the South Burlington City Council meeting of Tuesday February 21st 2023 and we'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance and maybe our former legislators would like to start it you just have to say aye I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you ladies okay instructions on exiting the building in case of emergency great thanks so for those in the room if there's emergency you can go out either side of the rear of the auditorium and then turn left and right and go outside for those joining us remotely if you'd like to comment on agenda item please turn your camera on and the chair will call on you you can also indicate your interest in the chat and I will have the chair call on you we are not monitoring the chat for content thank you okay just so you know Councillor Chittenden cannot be here tonight and I am anticipating Councillor Emory item 3 the agenda review are there any additions deletions or changes in the order of anything okay are there any comments and questions from the public not related to the agenda none sitting here I take it any online councilor's announcements and reports on committee assignments in the city managers report so Tim do you want to start sure so I attended the some comp plan feedback meetings from the community for the Economic Development Committee and also I was triple booked on Thursday with the debate which I was only able to see part of the candidates debate and then I had to run over the the BCA which I went to and then I went upstairs to another comprehensive plan neighborhood feedback meeting so busy week thank you for attending those oh yeah I was triple booked and then forgot one thing and then got delayed so I did two of four things well so one small thing at the BCA I reminded the new JPs that one of the cardinal rules on election day is not to put the aye vote stickers on the same platform where the people put their their ballots into the machine otherwise if it gets sucked in it'll it'll jam it right well don't you know that night I went home and watched the NBC news and they were they had a segment about voting and they showed one of our machines but not in South Burlington but that same machine and the people had all these aye vote stickers on top of it so I stopped took a screenshot sent it to Donna and said what's wrong with this picture so there you go so we have to educate other people as well yeah you have to remind them right okay Matt yeah I attended the SBBA meeting that was hosted by city manager Jesse Baker this morning right here so I was was here at 7 a.m. and up be here till 10 p.m. but excellent job Jesse as usual in the entire team who came out to help tell us what's on the ballot and what's going on in City Hall we had a GMTA meeting I can't stress this enough one of the big challenges facing public bus service yes funding yes all these technical issues but one of the biggest challenges finding people who want to drive buses that problem has not gone away and excellent salaries excellent benefits but in order to provide adequate bus service we need people to see it as a viable profession which it is so that was the discussion that we had at our last meeting finally thank you chair really for giving me an opportunity for 30 seconds to say thank you to all of you this is my last meeting as a city counselor it was about 10 years ago when I moved to South Burlington and thought gee I'd like to get involved somehow and my neighbor Tim Barrett said well there's this thing called the DRB used to be on the planning commission in your little town of Plainfield you might know something about this and and I said yeah sure I'll try it and it was Tim who was the model for me to eventually become chair and I truly appreciate all the things that you've taught me whether you realize you're teaching me or not so I appreciate that Megan I know we haven't agreed on some things but there's one thing that I think we can agree on which is we both care passionately about our community and that's what matters right chair really you have been so kind to me over the last two years and yes races can be contentious but you never held a grudge you always helped me in my process even though we didn't agree on many things and I appreciate that genuinely Jesse you just do a fantastic job and I think the city of South Burlington is very fortunate to have such a professional leading our staff but none of this can happen as all you don't know without the people at home that are never in the audience and sometimes watching on videotape but my wife Sarah my son Davis my daughter Molly they I wouldn't be able to do this if they didn't support and I know that's the same thing for all of you who volunteer countless hours of time we couldn't do it without support back home so thank you to Davis Molly and Sarah thank you well thank you those were very sweet words Megan do you have any my husband and daughter to my husband and daughter are definitely part of this you know commitment that I've made and I just want to thank you for your service but you counselor Kota and it is you you know it in the two years you've served it's a it's a big commitment and it's an important commitment one that has real meaning and so I hope that it gave you meaning it was a short two years but I would have to say that you have also contributed I think to kind of the tenor of our discussions and and I think in spite of some of our disagreements I think sometimes I was I was pleased to see that we agreed on quite a lot so I just wanted to say that as well and wish you well in your in your ventures thank you very much and I should say for the record thank you to Thomas Chittenden as well I'll see you work tomorrow yes he's busy tonight triple book he said well I've been busy this week Jesse and I met with the school leadership for the first time in quite a while and we had a a good meeting and talked about a whole host of things some of it focused on how perhaps we can better communicate with the school board get to know them and use each other's talents perhaps to have a fuller discussion of some of the issues that face the city certainly education is a big one for all of us it's not really our purview but whatever is decided it would be good if we could all work toward the same end and so and probably and I or Dr. Childs and I agreed that we would try to work on something after the election to see if we could get together for I don't know a meal or something and meet potentially some new school board members although I don't know and certainly we'll have two council members and I think that would would be really helpful in the long haul for everyone so that was a good meeting I went to Jesse's I'm orient not orientation but informational meeting with all the candidates and my contribution was to really let them know in a sense how much work this is when when my husband convinced me to run he said a Helen it's two meetings a month not a big deal and then we went into the first interim zoning so we were hearing all the cases that normally went for the DRB and it's it's grown from there and then partway through my first year I realized that oh I'm on the BCA I kept getting the announcements no one ever told me that as a counselor you're a member of the BCA I had no idea and I thought oh isn't this nice they keep us informed of when they have all their meetings and then I had a conversation I guess with Donna and she said well you're a member so there was a whole host of other duties along with you know as we know we and I think it's good for the city to have the council liaisons to our committees and but but so I laid that out so they all knew that this is more than two meetings a month on Mondays unless it's a national holiday forget the liquor board oh well yeah but that's sort of incorporated in our meetings that is in a separate meeting and then I I did attend part of the council debate and prior to that I was interviewed by a student at Jordan Butterfield and he wanted he had talked to I think Tom D. Pietro maybe Paul Connor I don't know but anyway he wanted to talk about the bond issue for the wastewater so and that was that was fun he was putting together some kind of video educational thing about city government and the and decisions that we make and you know wanted me to describe what a bond was and you know that whole process so so that was that was fun and I do I want to thank you also Matt for showing up and being here and sharing sometimes different perspectives but not always different you just added to the texture I guess of our conversations coming from perhaps a different place than I but it's always helpful to hear what you had to say and I think I agree with Megan there were far more times when we all agreed on the substance of something anyway or might work to make something better and the really important things like the budget and those kinds of things decisions about city center that we all agreed on and so thank you for your short stint but you were on DRB for a while too so you have contributed mightily to the city thank you and I really wish you well on your new adventure yeah okay Jesse thanks well Matt's been on council the entire time here so for me it's a very long time thank you for your service and I'm sure we will be talking again so city updates thanks also to the SBBA for the invitation to speak with them this morning we had a great event here first thing this morning with the leadership team and many members of the business community going over what's on the ballot as well as lots of different municipal projects that are underway so really great event thank them for the invitation just a reminder for the community and the council that on our website is all of our information about town meeting day so you can go to our website black slash TMD town meeting day 2023 and all of the information is organized there we will have one more public forum on February 28th at 6 o'clock and then of course on March 6th the night before town meeting day we'll have our annual pre town meeting day presentation with the city with the school board as a steering committee so hopefully folks can join us as several of you have mentioned the comp plan conversations are ongoing there are no more in March in February but they start again March 1st March 8th and March 9th with ecology environment and agriculture transportation mobility and the southeast neighborhoods on our home page is also the link to about a five-minute survey if people don't have the capacity to come out to a community conversation we do encourage folks to go online the last I heard hey Paul the last I heard we had a hundred and seventy seven responses to our survey so that's pretty good community engagement but certainly welcome a lot more the council was invited to fire promotion event Thursday evening we are going to postpone that until April because of the storm coming in so more to come on that I did want the council to know that chief Burke and I met with the commissioner of the Department of Corrections last week as you may have heard in the legislature they are considering the future of the women's facility in Vermont as I'm sure you all know we host the women's facility the only Vermont based women's facility here in South Burlington down by what I think of is by Klingers by 189 that facility while a very important facility for the state and for women in our state is really outdated and needs a lot of modernization as well as reconnection to more facilities for reentry into the community and folks to be able to step down so chief Burke and I sent two clear messages on behalf of the city to them one and they were very open and is a very positive conversation one is if they are going to leave that facility to make sure that they leave it they either sell it for redevelopment its prime redevelopment property in the city or they leave it in a way for future redevelopment they don't just abandon it which they had no intention of doing and the second is that we have been happy to host the women's facility for many years it is a great location in the state easy accessibility to the interstate to services to colleges and universities to health facilities if they are looking to stay in South Burlington we would be very we would be open and active participant in that future conversation so much more to come they seemed really receptive to the conversation but I want the council to know we had that conversation so more to come just again a reminder March 6 is a pre-tumming day and then for those remaining on the council March 9th is our annual organizational meeting so that's the Thursday night after time meeting 6 30 yep and that's all I have for now okay thank you moving on to item 6 the consent agenda we have three items the disbursements the January financials and approval of the road impact fee credit request requests for construction at 224 market street to 68 market street and 339 market street garden street a garden street excuse me so is there a move that we approve the consent agenda second okay any discussion none okay all in favor signify by saying aye hi so the consent agenda as presented is approved okay so now we come to you can get John down here yeah okay so we have a city council resolution to recognize the service of three long-serving representatives of South Burlington John Colackey and Pew and made it Townsend but before I ask you to come up and read it I think we'll wait for John he's upstairs at another meeting so he's double-booked he's double-booked yeah he's a busy guy was on the NPR this morning I think was it this morning or yesterday NPR or VPR well I mean it's the same station I think the public public yeah well it's it sounded like partly here but partly somebody else too do we want to jump to item 13 which is opportunity for counselors and public to share information and resources on climate change sure we can do that okay so why don't we move on to just item 13 while we're waiting so are there any counselors or public who would like to share information and resources on climate change funny you should ask and I don't know if I shared this at the last meeting or not but thank you for turning me on Matt to the ice in England app on the phone and plus the web page but that cold snap that we had right it was very interesting looking at the ice no England ice so no England grid and its sources of power for those two or three days right at its worst point in its coldest the number one fuel consumed to generate electricity was guess oil right number two was natural gas so over 55 percent of all the electricity in New England was being generated by those two sources as the temperatures warmed up and the price of the gig what hour went down right then the oil sources turned off because they couldn't afford it anymore but natural gas so good so then like it's pretty amazing the like right now for example it's not too cold and there is no there's no oil being used hardly at all and it's all natural gas and then nuclear and that imports in a little bit of hydro so so when it gets really cold in England that's when the oil burners turn on and the natural gas goes full throttle and the nuclear adds some it's interesting so there are challenges to I think the region to try and overcome that with building more renewables but I don't know what the schedules for that the other item is that as you've known the wholesale price of natural gas has gone up as high as $10 of therm since the start of the Ukraine war it's now down to $2.06 so the markets have even themselves out and Germany is no longer supposedly importing any more natural gas from from Russia as well so it things are getting better from a market perspective at least for those prices so that's the only yes can you just tack on to that because you and I attended a great meeting at on logic where one of our south brilliant to businesses night of power is figuring out how to reduce the use of heating oil for power generation on the coldest nights through batteries and micro grids and that's happening here in South Burlington that's something to really celebrate in my opinion well I I've always thought that if you push the envelope then industry will respond and develop things I mean if Henry Ford someone had said to him don't build the cars we don't have gas stations we don't even have paved roads so don't go forward with that wait and so you know my position kind of as you can't wait forever for everything to be all developed and laid out before you kind of push or embrace new technologies or they'll never never get you where you want to go but keep us posted I will I knew he's like that it's fascinating stuff and I'm there are more resources to tell you exactly where and what technology is using that is creating the energy from that oil source and I also learned that there the contracts for the natural gas heating of homes in New England constricts the amount of gas that's available for generating electricity so the homeowners have precedents right they're the ones that get the bulk of the flow if it's so cold that that dominates most of the flow of the natural gas to the homes then the natural gas generators don't turn on or they turn on less or whatever so then they become a minority until they provide more pipeline capacity into New England to run them at the same time which probably isn't going to happen and then you ask the question why isn't there more hydro Quebec power coming down from Canada to New England it's because there are some voters in Maine and New Hampshire that refuse to allow those power lines to be you know sent down through those states that's why the opportunity to put the power line under Lake Champlain is back on the table apparently so it's very interesting yeah yeah yeah well I did hear this morning and I believe it was VP or Vermont public no the public oh the public the public oh okay that because yeah that usually the energy consumption for electricity is highest during the day but because more and more people are putting solar into place it's now at night so I think I always you know repeat when I get the chance what Ethan Goldman said which was don't follow the electrons follow the dollars where you know just like Helen said if the dollars are going towards a new technology that's where the businesses will follow and I find that to be a pretty strong argument so yes we have work to do on our grid but if we continue to put our dollars where we want them to go the industry will follow I do have confidence there is there anyone online you would like to make a comment okay so we'll go back to item 7 our resolution you want them to come up how do you want to do this you want me to read it and then have them come up they could stand in front of the camera yeah that's a really long resolution I don't want to stand well why don't I read it and then you can come up because we can give you a hug and shake your hand are you a hug in public I don't know but anyway so this is the city council resolution resolution in recognition of the service of our representatives former representatives I guess John Kalaki and Pew and Mated Townsend February 21st 2023 it's kind of long but you all have done a lot and this will be clear why we're recognizing you and this is just a small snapshot of what each of you have contributed whereas South Burlington was extremely well served by Representative John Kalaki Representative and Pew and Representative Mated Townsend who each retired at the end of the last legislative biennium and whereas John Kalaki served as a state representative from South Burlington since 2019 and during this time served on the House Committee on General Housing and Military Affairs and whereas Representative Kalaki's writing and work can be seen in the South Burlington Public Library as well as aired on this says VPR but it probably should be the public and published in Vermont Digger in the Burlington Free Press and whereas Representative Kalaki centered Vermonters who were disadvantaged by some of our core systems advocating for better treatment of women prisoners in our correction systems working to provide better access to those Vermonters who were working on their sobriety and pointedly fighting for better access for those with physical disabilities to our State House and whereas Representative Kalaki fought to make sure that our artistic institutions and our artists receive federal and state assistance throughout the initial phases of the pandemic advocated for Vermonters who worked for minimum wage and for the use of state and federal funds to help Vermont to help keep Vermonters in their homes and to keep those experiencing homelessness safe throughout the pandemic and whereas Representative Kalaki brought his experience voiced to our public apology to Vermonters whose ancestors were damaged by our state sponsored and supported eugenics policies as well as the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and whereas Anne Pugh served as a State Representative from South Burlington since 1993 served as the chair of the House Committee on Human Services for many years and also served on the City's Planning Commission and whereas Representative Pugh was always a social worker at heart and was a constant champion of many of the neediest Vermonters including individuals and families with income and health challenges and whereas Representative Pugh worked excuse me to address homelessness and housing safety issues and was a terror tireless advocate for reproductive freedom and whereas Representative Pugh was an early and prominent leader around tobacco and youth cessation efforts raising the age of for tobacco advocating for health and outreach to youth through advertising by the use of the tobacco funding from successful state litigation against big tobacco and whereas Representative Pugh was a strong advocate regarding reducing lead pain exposure working on universal access to health care and expanded Medicaid access for children and their families and led the effort to successfully require mental health to be included in health care policies thus mainstreaming that care with traditional health and whereas made a Townsend served as a State Representative from South Burlington since 2015 and served on the House Committee on Appropriations and the Government Operations Committee including one year's chair and whereas Representative Townsend is a strong supporter of public education and enjoyed a long career as a French teacher and whereas Representative Townsend set the example for constituent services was always quick to respond to constituent questions and an annual basis visited every household in our district stopping to chat or leaving information if no one was home and whereas Representative Townsend brought intelligence sharp insight and incredible diligence to her work examining issues from all angles and with consideration of other perspectives plot applying an amazing work ethic readily accepting extra work doing your homework and was always exhibiting kindness and consideration and whereas Representative Townsend was instrumental at steering funding towards numerous priorities for the state and South Burlington including the expansion of broadband throughout the state and whereas representatives Calackey Pew and Townsend each supported the constitutional amendments to explicitly prohibit slavery and indentured servitude and to protect the right to personal reproductive autonomy and whereas the council and the community of South Burlington have been ably served by each of these representatives now therefore be it resolved that the South Burlington City Council hereby expresses its greatest appreciation to representatives Calackey Pew and Townsend for their tireless advocacy for the city and wishes them the very best and political retirement. Where do you want us to sit over here? Okay. Megan is art directing it, it's good, behind the baron flag, isn't it? Should we put our flag down? No, unless you don't want them in the picture. Oh, thank you. I have to run back up. We're meeting upstairs. So let's sort of struggle in here. But he's at home. You lie down in summer comfy with a 12 year old. Can you go on that side? Go in. I think I stand above the wall. Can you see the flag? Just a little over here for the flag. One, two, three. Okay, got a lot of them. Okay, thank you. Thank you so much all of you. I'm having the council sign many copies of this resolution and it will be delivered to you. Perfect. Thanks so much. It was very easy to represent. It was such a joy. Well, you guys are a joy to work with. And a joy to do some of those things when you were in another position. Oh, I know. That's why I could remember some of those things. Some of them go way back. Thank you. Thank you. We'll go ahead and again. Thank you. We'll correct it. Okay. If anyone wants to say anything on the mic too, you are welcome. Yeah. Do any of you want to say a few words? No. Thank you anyway. Thank you. Coming over to say thank you to you in both ways that I have interacted with you. I appreciate that. Thank you very much. My biggest sorrow is that I came in the beginning of your. You're still a constituent. I know much as you would like. I think Sarah. Oh, Sarah. Hi, just from a citizen's point of view, I wanted to say a heartfelt thanks to all three. You've just been fantastic. They have been. Thank you. Responsive to the public always. And I second Sarah's comments. So moving on to item eight, consider, consider entering executive session to discuss the evaluation employment contract of the city manager with this city. It's a city council request. It will be brief. I would like to go into executive session to discuss the evaluation employment contract of the city manager. Second. All in favor. Okay, and we will. Okay, I would like to call back to order the South Burlington City Council meeting of Tuesday, February 21st 2023. We're at item eight. Item nine now to approve the city council's contract with the city mayor. Manager, excuse me. We got a promotion and there is. Yeah, no. I don't think you want to be mayor. Yeah. I wouldn't want to be mayor either. You need to go back into executive session. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, no. You need extra money for that. This is party space. So just so the public knows the process we went through, there were actually four evaluations done either about Jesse or one, one, she did a self evaluation. The council did an evaluation using a tool that very similar, if not exactly like the one we used two years ago, or we used with Kevin, I guess. And no, a year ago with you. Yeah, yeah. And, and then the leadership team, and that's how many is that 1217 people did another evaluation. And then we did a third or fourth one, I guess. And this was a group of key stakeholders were asked to consider Jesse's job in the past year to put it simply all of the evaluations were really outstanding. I'm sure no one is surprised about that, but the numbers were high and the comments were excellent. In many cases when we were asked, or anyone was asked, so what could she do better. There weren't a whole lot of recommendations or areas for improvement. So for that reason, we supported or I'm putting forward this employment agreement that does include a substantial raise. It's a three year contract that's substantial raise for year one. And then smaller ones for year two and three, the average over the three years is 7%. But the first year is larger, it's 12%. And then five, and then four, it is Jesse had also requested an additional year of pay a year week of paid vacation. She currently receives for and we opted to hold off to the third year to add that fifth week of vacation. And then she also requested in addition to the essentially the agreement for employment that currently is in place permission, I guess, and the funding to go for a certification for city managers. What's the title? It's the ICMA, which is the International City and County Management Association Credential Manager. Okay, so we will pay for that $125 and she'll do the work and take I guess there must be an exam or something. Yeah, so we present this agreement for employment and if anyone wants to make any comments they can otherwise we'll just have a vote. I'd make a motion that we approve the employment contract with city manager Jesse Baker. Second. Okay, is there any further discussion? I'll just say I'm going to be voting nay. Not because I don't think Jesse is terrific and not because I, I don't agree with the sentiment, but I find 12% to be much too high. And specifically with regard to the pay increases that were given across the city, I don't agree with this additional pay. And I just don't want that I mean money is separate from from sentiment as it should be. So I just want to say I totally support fully support Jesse's position as city manager. I think she's doing an excellent job and I it's just I find 12% to be much too high. Okay, you ready for the vote. Okay, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Nay. The motion and the contract to her agreement passes three to one with one absent. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, item nine, consider action, oh wait, we just did that, excuse me. 10 is discussing DR request 230091 draft 7.2, the Senate's omnibus housing bill. And the H68, an act relating to removing state and municipal regulatory barriers for fair zoning and housing affordability and potentially take action. Okay. I just want to frame it just a little bit. These are the two bills, one in the House and one in the Senate that are, I don't even know if the Senate bill has been, has it been published? Does it have a number? It does not have a number. All right. Still published, but it does not have a number. Yeah, which is kind of unusual. I've never seen that, but that's what they're doing this year. Around focused on, I think attempting to create more housing meet that demand of housing in Vermont, both affordable and I think just housing in general. And so, was it last week, Paul? No, the week before. Paul Connor and I went to Montpelier and spoke with or presented to the Senate committee and then agreed that Paul, not I, would work on some real, they asked him some additional questions. He has submitted those, addressed those answers to the committee. And my understanding is he has some additional language. We agreed and they were interested in hearing what South Burlington had to say since their intention. I think we support, but some of the language would put at risk. A lot of the work that this city and the planning commission and this council have done as well as the Department of Planning. We promote additional compact housing. And at the same time, also make sure that we maintain appropriate open space and natural resources for our future and our children's future. So Paul, you have some new stuff to share. I even have newer stuff than the new stuff, which is like smartphone updates, there's often a new version. So there is a new version of the bill since the version that we reviewed last week and that this memo is covering that came out today. So I'll do my best on the fly to describe how things might be a little bit different even from the memo that's in front of you. I did and there's a paper copy. Yes, but we didn't get it till this afternoon. So it's right in front of you. This is the previous memo though. No, no, this is the newest. The memo that's in front of you and that you received by email at about 430 today is the four this evening's meeting. And I'll walk through it because I know folks haven't really had a chance to look at it. Is this in response to draft 8.1? It's in response to draft 7.2 and on the fly. That's what I just said is that this afternoon we know that there's an 8.1. So I will adjust comments as we go to include the 8.1, though we haven't really looked into it in depth. On 20 minutes of review. Yes, and the intention is that the council understand what the most recent bill says. And we can convey to Paul the city's position so that he can advocate for us in Montpelier because they're interested in city planners. Giving them the real hard, the real language to change, not just we don't like this, but rather we don't like it and hear some language that could address it. And so that's why we're having this conversation. So let me take just a couple of minutes if I can to give sort of a in plain English what appears to have changed from the first draft that you provided feedback on through to today. There's sort of a couple of categories of changes and that can maybe help frame out what additional feedback, if any, the city wants to give. And as chair really said, what you'd like to direct me to advocate for. So the main changes that have taken place over the last couple of iterations are one, as you had identified in the last draft, the term area served by water and sewer was undefined. So the bill takes an effort at defining what an area served by water and sewer is, and largely what it incorporates are specific circumstances where the bill would not apply. And that's why they are mostly not applicable to South Burlington. So there are things like if a water and sewer line were extended from say a village out to a pre existing mobile home park or industrial area solely for the purpose of serving that area that the land in between the village and that mobile home park industrial park does not have to meet does not all have to meet that minimum zoning density requirement. There's an allowance similarly for areas that are regulated at the state level or identified at the state levels being flood hazard areas or areas of wetlands that kind of thing. That that's the biggest change and I'll go into what we think that means in a second the bill that came out today has one change that does affect us to a certain extent which is that the minimum allowable zoning which was going to be previously five units per acre has been reduced to four units per acre. So now where water and sewer in an area served by water and sewer the minimum allowable has to be four, which is in South Burlington a lot of our districts are forward in the snaker. There are some other changes as well. There's been sort of ongoing shifting about what the bonus would be for affordable housing. So the first one that you looked at had allowed for an additional story and your feedback was that that felt a little bit clunky as a single tool. The latest draft said eliminated that and said 20% density bonus which is South Burlington rule South Burlington's rules encompass and extend beyond that. The latest draft that came out today says 40% density bonus and an extra story so there's a lot that's sort of shifting in that world that seems to be sort of trying to both both meet broad policy and editorializing like maybe there's one or two specific circumstances that are being advocated for. Is that 40% or or rather than and and yeah both both would be both are granted. Yeah, right both would be granted automatically for things that count as an affordable housing development. And then the on the subject of energy standards which is something that you had weighed in on. There's been a little bit of I'm not sure if I'd call it clarification but authority granted for municipalities to regulate. The the energy from buildings and this commercial and residential energy codes where buildings dwelling units exceed 1800 square feet but not below 1800 square feet. We'll go into this in a minute. I'm not sure that that's necessarily addressing the subject area that the council was interested in but we'll speak about that in a minute. And then lastly, this latest bill takes a provides a new tool proposed for municipalities to essentially get a delegated authority to to regulate active 50 criteria. But only for communities that have designated downtowns only in those designated downtowns through a process. South Browlington does not have a designated downtown. We're not eligible yet. We need to grow into city center a little longer before we would be eligible to be a downtown. What's the threshold? It's there's a number of criteria of demonstrating that you have that you have a historic downtown essentially. So ours being so new is intent is is a new new town center, which is intended to be the new ones existing. So we can look again in the near future at thresholds to see whether we would qualify when we last looked before City Hall existed. We were not eligible yet but so that's the lay of the land. This memo here tries to sort of outline what's changed in the bill up until before today. What the implications would be in South Browlington if it were adopted more or less as is. And then some considerations that you may wish to provide guidance to staff on regarding advocacy to the legislature. So I'm sorry, I just want to make sure I here I see at least five dwelling units per acre. So as of before today was five now it's gone to four. Paul wrote this memo based on the prior draft and the current draft was released at like four o'clock this afternoon. And so it's the in the italics paragraph that's the language from the bill and that says five right but they've changed that to four. More or less. Yes, the italics is actually a quote from your last letter because I was trying to say what you use what you were quoting. So it's actually two bills ago bills or two drafts ago. This is the challenge. Right. Yeah, it's a moving target. Right. I do. Right. I do think that the principles of the core things are stay more or less the same. So whether it's four or it's five the same major implications to South Browlington remain the same. So in my memo I note that the difference between four and five for instance in a neighborhood like Mayfair Park or the orchards or Chamberlain is fairly negligible because the lots already exist at a quarter acre. So changing it from four to five doesn't really change a whole heck of a lot where the bill. Let me take a step back there. In Stas view there's one area of this bill that could use some significant clarification. As I described, there is a provision now that tries to define what an area served by water and sewer is the good news of defining it is that it's starting to create some definition to it. The bad news is that it is creating some definition to it. It is likely the case that municipalities still retain the right under separate statute to define the geographic area that it is intending to serve with its water and sewer system. That's a very common tool used throughout Vermont to know, you know, this is the boundary of what we will serve in the future. But with these definition of area served that is a little bit of a question mark at least to planning staff as to whether that this how these two things intermix. And so several of the comments that are in this memo reflect this idea that presumably we still have the authority to broadly say where areas that where our sewer system can be expanded. And not so if somebody were to come with a proposal and say I'd like to extend our sewer service one mile over to cheese factory road that we would have the authority to say no no we drew the line at this area for municipal infrastructure purposes. I would recommend as a first comment that the legislature clarify that we retain that authority to do that broadly for areas that are just way outside of service areas. Paralleled with that in South Burlington we define in our own ordinances that a sewer service area is 200 feet from an existing water and sewer line but we do not have a policy on the expansion of that sewer service area. We sometimes draw an actual boundary that says this is where we regardless of proposals given to us this is where we draw our water and sewer lines. This is the extent of it we don't have that in our ordinances. So something that the city could do assuming that we remained retain the authority to do would be to match up our zoning with our sewer service area so that an area that is intentionally the natural resource protection district for instance that allows for very limited housing let's say you know one or two homes on 15 acres or three acres or three homes on more than 15 acres say on cheese factory road would still be allowed to exist but would be on private well and sewer which is of course what they're doing today but matching up the policy would be stronger. So that was my first recommendation is that some clarification be given to confirm the municipalities retain this ability to draw their own water and sewer lines. The second one would be that under the bill the purpose as stated by Senator Rom Hinsdale is to make clear that areas are either intended for development at four or five dwelling in an acre or that there is no residential development to be sort of not having this sprawling you know one dwelling in an acre staff would recommend that the bill allow for pre existing homes to connect even in a circumstance where it's more spread out could be home that exists before the laws passed but there could be areas of the city that are not intended to see more development but that have a historic home that is served by a failing water and sewer and so being able to connect to that we think would be important. We were invited to provide feedback if we like on the subject of TDRs and redistribution what the senator had described to me was that as long as the outcome is that there's either no development or at least four or five dwelling in its breaker that the tool that gets there is up to the municipality some clarification that codifies that I think would be helpful. So that would include our TDRs that would include our density bonuses right that that would call that if upon use of TDRs or density bonuses you got you achieve the four that that would be meeting the intent of the rule. And how about the 40% and extra and an extra story. So we already do 50% so we allow for more than what the bylaw what the bill would do. As of today in your memo I say that's taken care of because the last version of the bill was already within what South Burlington does. I would probably recommend that the extra story is still too blunt of a tool to just grant because it doesn't necessarily mean anything it just means more height. But yeah. So the next section that I wanted to go through with you is to sort of help walk you through what assuming that these clarifications that about the ability to adopt our own sewer lines is in fact accurate what the implications of this bill would be in South Burlington. And specifically the minimum of four dwelling units in acre so assuming that we can say that areas like the NRP areas like habitat blocks that don't allow for development or very very very little development can be excluded from a sewer service area. What's the remaining impact. So that's on on page two of your memo and there's really two areas that I wanted to draw your attention to that would be of some consequence and then this is really a discussion for you all as to what to do. So the west side of Spear Street south of Swiss Street is currently a R one zone so residential one and a little bit of residential two so one home breaker two homes breaker. That area is served by largely not every not every segment but mostly is served by water and sewer. So our assessment would be that that area would be needed would need to meet this new four units in acre west side of Spear Street west side of Spear Street. That of course does not mean that any homeowner who lives there has to change anything of what they do nobody's forcing anybody to take their lot and subdivide it but the authority to do so would have would likely if this were passed have to be granted. So that's probably the most significant one. There is a small area on the west side of Spear Street just north of Swift that would fall into a similar category. There's two or three homes there. There's a habitat block that's behind it but in front of the habitat block is an area that if you have less than five buildable acres the zoning allows for only one home per acre. If you have more than five acres you're automatically a PUD sorry four acres you're automatically a PUD which meets our rules because of the minimum densities in there. It's sort of served by water and sewer so that would be a little bit of a judgment call that you know it's nearby ish and I think we'd have to look at it but. So the west side I'm trying to think. So is that a cross from the church? Is it between the Millers and the Erdmans pretty much? Yes. So the corner that is not the corner towards the interstate from the UVM wheeler we lock barn. Yeah. And on the other side of Spear from the church that corner there. So there's a couple of parcels that would be affected in there possibly there's water service there and then sewer is near ish but not right there. And then that land is contiguous with UVM land. Correct. Now most of that land in that whole big block is an habitat block which would not allow for residential development but a portion of it is outside of it. The other area of what would happen to the habitat block. I'll get to there in just a second. The other area from a zoning perspective that would be affected is if you recall last year when we made the amendments to the southeast quadrant. Some of the the areas that were called receiving zones so the neighborhood residential district the neighborhood residential transition district and the village residential. If they had four or more acres became a conservation PUD if they were less than four acres in order to have the sort of total amount of housing meet up the density was lowered a little bit there. From allowing up to four homes per acre to now allowing 1.8. The commission planning commission recognized that that might be a little bit of an awkward tool and has it on this year's work plan to reevaluate that question. But my assessment would be that those areas where we do allow for development today that were essentially down zoned a little bit would need to go back to this for in order to meet the state law. So this is areas that are zoned neighborhood residential that are less than four acres in size. So those are sort of the big zoning ones. I did look at it also through the lens of the nrp and through the habitat blocks. The nrp largely does not allow for housing development. If you've got a split lot you must build the homes in the area that is not in the nrp and that meets the rule because there's no housing allowed in the district. There are a handful of parcels where the entire parcel is in the nrp which allows for a little bit of housing today and it's near a watered sewer line. It's a very small handful I came up with somewhere between four and seven parcels that meet this those criteria. And so if the law were if the bill were passed then the city would need to either a change the nrp to say no new housing can exist. B possibly designate those areas as being outside of the sewer service area or C create a carve out on these lots that specified where development can be and meet the standard of allowing five units an acre. It doesn't have to necessarily be a large one but geographically identified. On the habitat blocks for the most part no housing is allowed and therefore my read would be that if housing is not permitted then it's meeting the law. There is an exception where for parcel is more than 70% covered by habitat block that they can build on 30%. Most of the time that's going to be a conservation PUD and a conservation PUD allows for the shifting of development potential to that 30% and allows for at least four units an acre. So that should not be a problem. There is there are very small handful of cases where a parcel would not be eligible to be a conservation PUD and has more than 70% habitat block. In most cases this where housing is allowed again very small number of parcels the city would need to set wouldn't do allow at least five sorry four homes per acre. Over the natural resources. Over the 30% that we already allowed to be built. It wouldn't really change policy except to say if you're going to build on the 30% or some subset of it it needs to be at least four units an acre. To me that's consistent with all of the planning efforts which is instead of building on the entire parcel build on a small portion of it. So that's essentially the implications as we read them the committee was helpful in describing sort of philosophically that what they're really after is either don't build or build it at least four units an acre. And so areas that the city does not identify as being eligible for development are not part of that discussion. So I wanted to give you that as likely implications as to whether those rise to the level of you wanting to provide concerning feedback on any of those or just say that there are implications of bills and it's an opportunity to evaluate our local regulations in those areas that's that's really up to you all. And then lastly, on the energy side, as I said, the bill does not appear to be responsive to the concerns that the city had raised, which is the city in its letter sought to ensure that complimentary standards like the ones that you recently adopted of heating fuel sources, or what the planning commission is considering which is requiring solar photovoltaic where it's been identified. Those are not building code standards per se they are complimentary to them. And so if council was interested in pushing that a little bit further. We'd recommend that there be feedback that said that things that are not specifically regulated by the residential building energy standards or the commercial building energy standards are still the authority remains at the local level to do that. Now, of course, if they take that over then then they set a standard but where there isn't a standard that the municipality still have the authority. But that language isn't clear. Is that what you're saying? It does not. But it's not clear that it's not clear that we retain that authority higher standard that that could. Right. Is that your assessment after reading the latest draft as well. The latest draft does not appear to change very much in that specific area, though, I will confess to having read it while sitting in this room so I retain the. I reserve the right to email you tomorrow and say actually the draft tomorrow could change as well. Can I ask a question? Sure. The height issue in. You don't we don't see a issue with that that the has defined in 4303 of this titled make seed building height limitations by one habitable floor beyond the maximum height and using that additional floor makes the density limitations for residential developments where that's that's not in conflict with any of our LDRs is at all. It's a little bit in conflict so what I had written in this memo was based in the last draft without was taken out. Now it's been put back in today. I would. Here's the ways in which I would say it's slightly in conflict one. South Burlington intentionally increased the heights along Shelburne road to just simplify it and say instead of it being a DRB discussion. It's five stories. Period. Just. Not make it conditional just allow it. Six stories for affordable housing. Probably doesn't change too much, but it is sort of. Entering back into this sort of more math more complexity. The area where I think it could be a little bit challenging is the traditional neighborhood development the TND this this planning and development type is very sort of calibrated to. Focus first and foremost on the scale of everything so that everything feels like you're in a neighborhood. Would one additional story for affordable housing change everything. Maybe not, but it feels like a little bit of a blunt instrument and would possibly run the risk at that scale of saying oh that building that building and that building are the three affordable ones because they're taller than all the other ones. Right. I like on my risk level. It's it's a it's a medium. It's not, you know, I don't think it's as high as some of the other ones as to their implications, but it's it is a little bit of a blunt tool. Can I ask a practical question related to the number of stories so from my memory when the Odell buildings were built right there for stories and they had a very minimal steel skeleton hardly any if at all right. At that time, I think I was told that that four stories was the limit with that wood wall type construction. Has that changed in the last 10 years where they can put a fifth story on and not have to go to complete steel. So I'm going to take a shot and see if Deputy Chief Francis who I see is on the screen happens to be available. My understanding pending his arrival is that five stories can generally be done by wood now. And that's what part of why we set it at five stories and that once you get past that it becomes really difficult to stay on wood and meet all the standards without changing. So functionally, it may not mean a whole heck of a lot. Right. So it would. He is green now. I am here, much to your chagrin. Hey, thanks, Paul. And yeah, currently, IBC international building code allows up to five stories of wood frame. We have one building of that construction type in South Burlington. It's on Eastwood. And, and it's a site where that was built about six years ago. We do have a couple of podium style buildings that are going in. That can be up to seven stories by IBC, not by state by our standards, which, if you look at 1068 Wilson road, we have two stories of steel construction, and then four stories of wood frame above that. Actually, it's four and a half stories of wood frame above that, but that's currently the maximum that's allowed in the city. And we're allowed to go one story higher in the IBC as things stand today. So just flat saying through this legislation that you could add a story might might not be practical in terms of what the developer has for resources and or just whatever whatever they're able to do. Yeah, you have to go to a different building construction type, right? If you want to go higher, it's a city allowed us to go to seven stories, eight stories. It all be type type two or type one construction, meaning steel or CMU block. It sounds as though chief that it would possibly be pot allowable under the IBC as you just said to have a two story podium and then would above it for four stories. Is that correct? That's correct. So that would be an example of where somebody could conceivably do that. And our current limit is five. So that would conceivably be six. Thank you that clarifies. Yeah, 1068 Wilson road, the old holiday insight is a good example of that. Alright, so that's my broad feedback and really the discussion for you all kind of understanding the impact that might have on our neighborhood. Well, one impact would be take a look at Eric Farrell's building on Joy Drive. Right. So the one that's set so it's it's on the Olympiad property, but it's not the Maidstone. It's called the Olympiad, excuse me, because Maidstone is is the southern building and the northern building along Swift is is the old Olympiad. They're calling the Olympiad building, right? That was proposed originally as a four, four story. Then he wanted to five story and the DRB voted against me and allowed the five story, but it's immediately adjacent to a neighborhood of two one and two story homes on Meadow Road, Orchard Road, Proctor Hadley, that area. Right. So that's the kind of thing I worry about where you add a story on now you have a seven story building next to an old, you know, post Korean War built neighborhood. Right. That that kind of scale difference is just really wrong in my estimation from an aesthetic point of view. So I take issue with a lot of stuff in here because I have to ask the next question is, has, has the legislature ever taken this type of an action before to supersede any local zoning, planning and zoning action, you know, existing regulations in the state that that you know of or I don't know of any? Can somebody fill me in? Sure. There is a section of statute 44, 4412 and 4413 that do place limitations on what municipalities can do. So, for example, municipalities cannot regulate telecommunications facilities or power generation facilities. But that's been like that for years, right? Yes, though the telecommunications is in my career. So that's an example. Okay. So that would be one the allowance for municipalities. Sorry, the, the setting a new floor that says that accessory apartments are permitted everywhere. Back in two before 2003, that was mother in law apartments. So you had to be related by blood or more marriage or over the age of 65 to qualify. So that's been made across the board and accessory apartment doesn't have a limitation on who can live there. I don't know when the other ones went in, but there are other ones that limit the authority of a municipality to regulate municipal school facilities, state facilities, hazardous waste materials, and we have, we cannot regulate agriculture or self-cultural practices. But those are the power to regulate specific things. Has, have they ever dipped their fingers into actual planning, zoning, height requirements, number of units per acre and, and that kind of content? Because to me, it's, to me, I think they've exceeded their authority. They, the whole statute is built on letting the, you know, the cities and towns establish their planning commissions, establish their planning and zoning, you know, offices and their LDRs have a comprehensive plan and go through the process of what's the point of having a planning commission if the state's going to tell us what our density requirements are going to be or what our height requirements are going to be. I, I just don't understand how they can do that. And I, and so I, my feeling is to give them the feedback that we don't support any of their proposals. I understand that there's a good heart behind this to try to expand housing in the state of Vermont. But I don't think this is the way to do it at all unless there are certain municipalities that are, that are stubborn and, and are behind the times in some respect because they're not allowing development. But, but all the work that's gone into all the LDR protections, right, that we, that we passed last year in, in February could be at stake here unless they, they change the wording. And that's completely ridiculous for them to propose that we would want to build housing in areas that are, that are natural in the city, that we've already said it should be protected. So, I mean, I hate to go off on a rant like this, right? But every time I read these, it just makes me really angry because I don't want the state telling us what our planning and zoning staff and our planning commission have been doing for the last 40 years. Here, here. And, and looking across the country, these bills have failed in other states. So I really, I completely, I completely agree with you, Tim, that this is completely at odds with why we are funding our taxpayers are funding a planning and zoning department. If the state wants to do that business, let's save a lot of money. I mean, I just, you know, we're all here for enterprise and here they are taking enterprise away from, you know, from our hands with very capable hands at the helm. So, yeah. Next question, is there anything that's unconstitutional about this type of legislation proposal that is counteracted by some other statute that gives us the power to regulate our own LDRs? You know what I mean? I mean, I don't know enough about that. I don't know if Colin knows something about that. No, it's the state. The state has the power. The state has the power, but most states have delegated that power to local municipalities. So our constitution, our federal constitution gives that power to the states. Jesse. Oh, is that what you were going to say? No. But. Well, did you want to say something? I guess I just want to make the point that we, the conversation that council had at the last meeting, this is not against your position or fervor, but the conversation council had at the last meeting was let's try and figure out how to be a partner with the state in achieving our housing goals as a state and our conservation goals and climate change goals as a state. So, Paul was directly responding to what in this can we would negatively impact us and how can we shift in course correct to give them something that would be better. So I appreciate your passion. Please don't direct it at Paul. He was. He wasn't. This is the kind of work that we have to do to play their game to give the feedback to them about the stuff we don't like and the stuff that we could possibly live with, but I don't like having anything shoved down our throat. But I do agree with Megan that we are a very, we have this myth of local control in Vermont and we are a very strong Dylan's rule state. And if the legislature decides to enact laws to tell us what to do, I've never see them not have the power to do that. So what do we need to do to protect our natural resource protection areas, Paul. So in the memo there, I have a few bulleted items in red. I think the strongest thing if you were to provide feedback on the bill specifically here would be to strongly encourage the legislature to be clear that municipalities have the authority to to draw the boundaries of their sewer and water service areas. With that, I think not all but many of the concerns raised by the council and the planning commission can be addressed because these are areas that you have largely designated for not having development. And where there is very limited development allowed, it's far away from water and sewer service. So I think that would be a strong tool. Allowing pre-existing homes to connect to me is an important one because if you decide to find your sewer service areas to exclude certain areas that you have no intent in the future of seeing additional development, there still may be a building or two that has existed for five, 10, 50, 100 years that would want to connect and putting you in the position of either having to include it in a sewer service area, therefore allow more development, or exclude it, therefore making it so that the house can never connect doesn't feel like good policy or to good options. Clarifying, again, within the rubric of what's been presented, that TDR programs and other programs that redistribute density are acceptable ways of meeting the standards. And the statement about complementary rules to the energy codes. So those would be the recommendations that I had. I had a few other items of things that staff has been working on that are, in our view, things that South Burlington is already advocating for that would be additional tools that the state could give, such as the ability to have a second new town center if we wanted one, to have a new designation that envisions places like Shelburne Road or the Barry Montpelier Road sort of strip development and how could the state maybe makes it easier for towns to redevelop those areas, just giving an additional tool to towns. And I've been in communication with our partners in Winooski and Burlington about a possible optional delegation of Act 250 to the municipal level, so that if we have a functionally equivalent set of rules that we could remove some of the redundancy that exists between local zoning and Act 250, these would be complementary things to, in our view, A, they'd be good things to do and be demonstrate that there are ideas that are being generated at the local level as to how to meet some of these goals. And then I went through that whole exercise of the implications of the bill along Spear Street and in the neighborhood residential portion of the SEQ to give you a little better background and see, you know, how does that resonate with you all? The intent clearly of the bill is to say that if an area is clearly served by water and sewer and residential development is allowed, that it have a minimum allowable and there's a couple of areas in the city that don't meet that. And those are the R1 district, the portions of the SEQ that, again, it's on the work plan to address and then a handful of other places near the lake. And is that from the council's perspective, do you want us to push back against that or is that something where you would say, well, there are, you know, whether we either like the bill and its intent or we're going to pick our battles on it. And that's really for you all to discuss and decide what you want to do. Are you talking about what you are working on with regard to infill? Is that part of what this bill supersedes? There were some smaller parcels that were changed from four units per acre to 1.8 units per acre. And the goal was to look at where four units make sense and to kind of think about the kind of transition areas. I'm going to be really careful with my use of the word infill because I think infill means different things to different people. But I would say it is already on the planning commission's list to evaluate areas that are clearly built areas where the rules last year sort of unintentionally made a little bit of infill not viable. I would say that Spear Street on the west side is a little bit of a different circumstance because it wasn't changed last year. It has been one unit an acre. And so this is somewhere where the state rules would set a new floor for the municipality and again sort of up to you as to whether that's something that you want to push back on, something that you want to pick and choose your battles on or something that you support policy-wise that's really up to you. Is there any value in identifying more rigidly I guess with a real line the natural resource areas and the habitat areas to say this is where South Florida and Burlington does not want growth or doesn't allow it? Or do you think we already have that in place? I think we largely have it with possibly a few minor tweaks in our zoning where we don't have it is in a parallel sewer service area map. And so a recommendation that assuming that we retain the authority to have a plan sewer service area map would be to match that up with the zoning to be very clear as to the areas that the city intends to allow future extensions of water and sewer service area and areas that it chooses not to. Because I think that is an opportunity to reinforce our own local policy. But the guidance to the state here would be make sure that we retain that authority. Is it the legislature that determined the 200 feet? That's our own. That's yours. Well, ours being yours. My understanding from 7.2 version of the bill is that they didn't want to give that designation power to the municipalities, but rather to take specific exceptions to areas where sewer and water went through. So I tend to play conservative and I don't know that that's going to become language that they'll adopt. So is there another way that we could say specifically this needs to be exempted, this needs to be exempted? Right. So we could say if, and that's a good comment. I think when I look at this, I think of a more rural community than we are. And I imagine a circumstance where let's say you've got a village that's served by water and sewer and you've got a road on the edge of the village. There could be a 300 acre parcel adjacent to that. It's not likely the intended policy that all 300 acres there can be four or five units an acre. And at the same time, there's not a lot of clarity provided as to how to draw that line in this bill. So I think one alternative would be that municipalities retain the authority to draw water and sewer district boundaries. An alternative if, as you're suggesting, Councillor Emory, there's no appetite for that, there could be a numerical definition of it. So something along the lines of our 200 feet, 200 feet, 800 feet, some number that says that in areas that are designated for rural areas, in all cases, X number of feet from the existing water sewer line must be allowed to be at four or five units an acre if any residential development is allowed. I think it's very clear in the bill that if there's no residential development allowed, then that's okay. But it's this sort of, you have 300 acres in a rural residential zone, is that intending to say everything has to be one or the other? I'm not sure that's the intent, but that's where that gets a little bit unclear in the rules. Well, I think it could blow up a sewer and water system in a small community. Oh, yeah. You know, if it was a little community with one street or two roads. Right, and there's nothing that strikes. 300 acres developed for 1200 houses. Right. Well, as someone who lived in the town of Plainfield, there are restrictions on what you can do based on that sewer and water. So it doesn't, we don't find out after the fact. You have to get permission to put in a toilet in some of these communities. So I'm just saying what their goal of having all this housing is maybe more limited than by reality, that a community isn't like South Burlington and kept a $33 million bond to upgrade their sewer system to support. Right. And the bill is clear that where there's a, that we don't, a municipality doesn't have to permit housing where there's no capacity. But how the municipality geographically allocates that capacity is brought slightly into question in my view. I'm not an attorney, but that's where I would see a potential language that we could provide to them where that capacity should be directed. You know, I'm just looking at page four and page five of the draft 7.2, which I know has been superseded. And I don't know if this language is still in the, the, the new version. But here we have what page I'm sorry for four and five. So they're talking about, you know, what's served by municipal water and sewer infrastructure means. And, right, it does not mean areas that are prohibited by, right, at the bottom of page four. And one of the prohibitions is identified capacity constraints. That's the two, Roman numeral two. And then there's another Roman numeral two for whatever reason. Municipally adopted service and capacity agreements or areas established by the municipality by ordinance or bylaw that. Now here we have some exclusions exclude flood hazard or inundation areas as established by statute river corridors or fluvial erosion areas, etc. Exclude this is now Roman numeral three exclude areas served by water and sewer to address an identified community scale public health hazard or environmental hazard. And it says exclude areas where service lines are located to serve the areas described in subdivisions three to four. So that also has to do with three to five. Thank you. So that also has to do with public health hazard or environmental hazard. These are areas that I would see that they would welcome our language because I do not see them granting that leeway to municipalities given how detailed this is. We can certainly give them both, right, but I think we have to be prepared that they're not going to be giving that authority to municipalities. I don't like a Stalinist dictatorship myself, but what I can say is we have to play it safe to and we have to play it conservative. And so we could, you know, look at that language. Does that adequately protect our natural resource protection areas? If not, what do we need to add so that those areas are protected? Does it adequately protect all of our habitat blocks? If not, or all of our conservation beauties? If not, what do we do? And as I said earlier, in a one of the tools that the municipality could do, I believe both under this and if with some clarifications are if there's an area that prohibits residential development, then that's acceptable. So it's possible that the city may at some point be faced with the minimal allowance for residential development in the NRP. For instance, the city may have to either not allow for residential development or break that out more specifically to say here is the actual physical place where you can build a house. And that is that meets the four or five units an acre and the rest of it is not. And because the law does appear to still say that if residential development is not allowed in an area, then that's acceptable. So could we include that language then that we'd like that added where residential is not allowed? I believe that that's already in there. So 13 subsection 13 says in any district served by municipal water and sewer infrastructure that allows residential development. So that's already if you don't allow residential development, then the section doesn't apply. Okay, so which conservation beauties would no longer be allowed? Is it because there's already house on there? I'm trying to understand the distinctions you were drawing earlier. The distinction right there. It's it's it's not about conservation beauties per se. It's about a handful of parcels that are in the NRP where there is some allowance for a house to be built. So if you have a pre existing lot of say under 15 acres, you're allowed to build one house if it doesn't already exist. There's a handful of circumstances where an argument could be made that that watt is up against water and sewer. And so we're allowing one house to be built on a parcel that is served by water and sewer per this bill. That might not be allowable because the parcel is served by water and sewer and it's not allowing a minimum of four or five units nacre. I guess I have to kind of agree with the legislature here. Why are we still allowing one house on such a large parcel to be built in the future? To to coin a term legislation is sausage making and that was the decision made back in 2005. So an outcome of the city would be to say that's a full conservation district. There's nothing that could be allowable. It might end that the TDR program is what is compensating property orders for that. But we'd have to change that rule in order for that to be clear that no residential is allowed. That might have to be an outcome if this legislation is passed. Yes. Or alternatively the city designates the first hundred feet of that property and says that hundred feet can be built at five units nacre. And then the remainder may not be built. That's those are planning choices that would remain at the municipal municipal level. Yeah. And how about you know agricultural land land that could potentially be agricultural where we would want to be able to have farm workers being able to be housed? I mean are there distinctions in the land use? Not as presented. So if residential development is allowed in an area served by water and sewer then it has to allow this density as drafted. So what about in the whole bread and butter and? Claire. Pardon me. Claire. Yeah. There's a I mean a lot of the money to purchase that and preserve it for agriculture was from the. You know the agriculture department right? Yep. And they maintained that there was there could be a parcel for farm housing. I mean wasn't that one of the requirements? Right. So. Right. So there's there's about 10 acres that would be allowed to do that and that was. Does that supersede what this bill might say? I would say that in my reading of it the planning for that is consistent. Our regulations are already consistent with this bill because the if that were to come to fruition, we already allow more than four units in acre in that retained area and it would be next to cider mill to neighborhood. So I don't see any conflict there where there. Yes. It would be eligible to be it would be served in the future when cider mill to is built. That was that was why they did that's why they chose that area because those. Yeah. I remember. Right. Okay. They're coming. I think that you know what what gets a little bit can. You know in my example of the 300 acre parcel there are three house lots proposed on the south side of or that have been approved by the DRB in the south side of cheese factory road. It's at least a mile from any water sewer service presumably that would not be that would be allowed to pursue because it's not anywhere served by water and sewer. But I'm sorry. Which what are you talking about? Lot C, which is the south side of cheese factory road up against Heinzburg Road. Okay. It's about a 45 acre parcel there. Yeah. Presumably, you know, that's an area completely unserved by water and sewer. There's nothing in this bill that is intending to say that truly rural development can't happen on private wells and septic. But the side effect of defining all these things as counselor and we described as all the exceptions as to things served by water and sewer sort of leaves this well what about rural areas and we don't have that many of them. But in other areas of the state, does it in it just sort of leaves this gray area that feels open to challenges in the future one way or the other. So that's why our recommendation would be to make it clear the municipalities retain the authority to determine areas that just aren't water and sewer areas. They're truly rural. I have two more questions. Do we have time for that is. Yeah, no. We have time. Subdivision review proposal that in the highlights and yellow. I mean, the way I read that it almost seems like they would like to circumvent the ability of neighbors to have public access to a review review process for subdivisions so that subdivisions could take pace basically without any public notice or hardly any notice. I suspect that the intent there was municipalities can delegate certain things to the administrative officer to do administratively. And there's a section in there that talks about adding authority for that to become for subdivisions to become administrative. I think there's an unintended additional language there that was trying to match it to say when it's administrative there's no public hearing. But the language says a municipality can choose when there's a public hearing period as part of my technical comments that I've not sort of brought to you all. Everything else that goes to a DRB has to be a public hearing so it would be peculiar to have this one thing under all of the areas of state law that doesn't have to be a public hearing. I think the intent was to say if you've chosen that it's so small that you have delegated to the administrative officer which has its own standards of it can't be discretionary it has to be very black and white. I think that's what it meant to do. But it doesn't say that and that's a comment that we have provided as a technical. The second thing is I noticed that there were proposals to raise the limit for active 50 review. Right. So nine houses currently is exempt. Right. So they would raise it up. There were a couple of 20 or 25 25 in the latest draft 25. So my question is if you look at Link Road and Sadie Lane and the buildings across from Sadie Lane those are three examples of exactly nine home developments. Right. Because they didn't require active 50 review. If those were blank land today and they were going to go in and develop them could they put in more than nine homes on those properties. Well I guess I'd answer two ways. One it would still be of course subject to all of our local regulations. Right. So just to be clear. But to back up a little bit I believe those developers chose nine homes because they didn't require any active 50. Right. Right. But had there been. Yeah. I believe that the standard of 25 applies only in designated downtown's villages and. Okay. Newtown centers so unless I'm. Thank you. Right. No I may be wrong. Maybe 25 period is proposed to expand. That's 25 top of page. Let's see. Yeah I think it is 25 period not just in downtown's. It is. What page is it. I'm on a different version of this new but sections 6001 definitions around page 21. This is the new version you're looking at. Both. It's it's this particular thing is not changed. But it is just to be clear from the 10 to the 25 it's within five miles within five years. So if the developers of Sadie Lane had built 20 homes somewhere else within five miles they'd still be an active 50 for these nine foot for doing nine on Sadie Lane. It's not nine and individual individual project. It's nine. Five miles five years five nine. Which means that effectively everybody in South Burlington is in is in active 50 because it's very there have been examples examples like the one you're raising but most of them. A developer has done something in the last five years within five miles which is. Burlington and Williston. Where do you. Oh this is the notwithstanding nine. A designated downtown. Okay. Yes. And then just above it. Yeah. Above it it talks about. The 25 straight. So I think. Yeah. Yeah it's a little hard to read with all the missing sections in it but I think it's. Raises it to 25 period and then matches that in the in the village. I know it probably doesn't have anything to do with us but I was trying to. Understand when they have when they're talking about a place for the homeless. And you can't. Designate times. When it's open and closed. And I was just trying to decide. What they were getting at because so many of the homeless shelters. Are there open at. You know five in the afternoon or something. And you got to be out by eight it's really just. Sure night. I think that so so this is a new protection so right now under the law there's nothing that says the municipality has to allow homeless shelters or shelters I guess is the definition. This would say municipalities must allow shelters. Just along alongside that other list of things that I just said that we have limited regulation over and. In allowing them we're not allowed to set through zoning hours of operation. So we would not be able to say well you're allowed but you're only allowed to be open between noon and 2pm organization can say we're only organization can but through zoning. Right. Trying to get it. Right. By allowing municipalities to allow emergency shelters and. Prohibit us from dictating the hours of operation. Thank you. I read it differently. And I was trying to figure out what they were. What goal they were trying to achieve. I'm waiting for a pause so I could just say something. well the council should continue to have and I know they will have long after I'm gone multiple discussions on this I just want to say that this bill for 19 years I've been walking the halls of the State House this bill is going to change about 13 more times back forth back forth back forth Paul did an excellent job representing our city and he's well respected so thank you for doing that but just know as you know what it looks like today it looks like different with skill if I can may and I feel very comfortable having Paul represent our city in the State House as he did last week and you as well but Paul did the heavy lifting certainly did the heavy lifting yes he did thank you council yeah no that was great no and I think they are looking for you absolutely if you have any other but I think Paul needs our direction in order to know what to advocate for so to that point I think it would be we've had a really robust conversation about this tonight which is great and I think to Matt's point if we get too much into advocate for this specific thing and this thing we're we're going to be hamstrung in our ability to be nimble so I think it would be helpful to hear if there's something in if any of the red text in this memo you strongly disagree with give us direction to not go and provide testimony on those specific things or if these red statements are statements that you think as a council you can get behind and we can and Paul can use his professional judgment to meld testimony along those statements I think that would be helpful alternatively the council could decide this is not a perfect you know this is not a for us to weigh in on or identify a specific counselor to work with Paul to make policy recommendation into the future my first ladder the former letter would be agree with the red comment a ladder ladder former ladder this is a wooden ladder or a metal ladder steel I think it's really important for us to protect the TDR program I you know I say I don't see why we shouldn't I really wonder what they're going to say to number two I think we're we might have to give them more reason to do that and I and I think that we should really look at those exemptions and we being you as a planner do those exemptions meet our needs or what else you know could be added to that exemption language and of course if there's anything in the bill that we didn't cover tonight or not in my red bullets that you would like for us to be touching on please don't hesitate I was using your feedback from the last one as the guide for that but if there's anything that you've noticed in the bill or that you'd like me to elaborate on if our understanding I'm of course happy to do that tonight or any other night because there's a lot in this bill that is not necessarily covered in this memo so for wetlands and flood zones they're still using 50 foot buffers my read of it is that as defined they describe it as statutory statutorily enabled so I would say it's probably the 50 foot buffers I would I would argue as a planner that we're gonna be facing serious flooding and that that is inadequate well and and I think mine the reason I didn't flag that subject area is that my interpretation is we don't allow development within 100 feet therefore we meet the criteria of no development is allowed okay so I think it's it's the if we were to say well we allow for new homes sometimes to be within 150 feet if they are purple or if they're sitting up 10 feet in the air I think that's where we'd be in trouble but our rules are pretty clear to say residential development isn't new residential development is not allowed in those areas okay so I didn't flag it for that reason the same thing for for the flooded hazard areas we have slightly more restrictive rules and then the baseline I'm glad and they don't allow for new development any other council comments all right Andrew did you want to say something yeah and just understand council this is clearly a work in progress so this isn't our last conversation Paul might be able to bring other things forward or we may identify other issues so this isn't like just these red things tonight and that's it we can add some more red ink okay Andrew hi Andrew Chaluk so there was a lot said tonight a lot to unpack and so this is a little awkward it may actually much be much better a kind of working group but I wrote some thoughts down I think merit some discussion so let me just start really right at the end with Paul what you said that if no development is allowed in the area you're okay I get that I don't read the proposal that way because the proposal talks about whether districts allow residential development and district is undefined and our regulation is defined the southeast quadrant as a district which allows residential development I don't really see how I'm saying this area doesn't allow development protects you so that's really the first comment just not sure that's right I think that needs to be looked at maybe a little more carefully then so in my mind the question is what's what's it what's a district because that's there's no like the the statue doesn't apply to areas applies to districts and so I think what we would have to so without more I think the entire southeast quadrant would be rezoned at four units per acre subject to the very narrow carve-outs that mostly don't apply to us just reading the proposal on its face and to avoid that I think you'd have to redefine what a district is as you said a water and sewer district say and then allow the provide something that from the from legislation that allows us to do that right that that's respected our definition of respect respect because not otherwise defined so that's I think that that whole question of what's an area what's a district how you define it is merit some further discussion the other thing is once you do that presumably the parcels that would be conservation PUDs would not be in that district because they do allow for some residential development and the conservation PUDs right now allow over the whole parcel between 1.2 and 1.8 because it's between 4 and 6 on 30% I think this statute would say you know you can't do that you need between 4 and 6 on the entire thing not between 1.2 1.8 on the entire thing so I think I think even defining the district would still override our conservation PUDs so I think that's probably also a merit some discussion next point I wrote down is TDR so our we are TDRs work right now as you know is you know you get kind of 1.2 TDRs per acre I think that maybe with some discussion in case you mentioned well you should make it for or something but that would that would like seriously change the whole TDR framework first would just create a whole mess of new density would probably be unfair to the old folks it had only 1.2 I think we raise a host of constitutional issues honestly between those two sets of folks and that that to me just feels like a complete mess to change the framework you know midway midway through those are my major points okay thank you Michael Michael metag I was interested in what Tim had to say Tim's rant rather I have similar feelings but we don't have a defined sewer service area in our ordinance but many towns around us do so I'm worried why would we ask why don't we just do it why would we ask if we're allowed to do it when it seems based on on my understanding that there are towns around Vermont that have sewer service areas defined service and if we could do that we could define it in a way that would solve this problem and the other thing is I mean I like to sort of keep things simple but it sounds like the legislature is telling us that every district in South Burlington has a minimum density of four units per acre that's what it sounds like to me and that's that's a terrible state of affairs for us so let's define a sewer service area the way we want to protect everything that we want to protect okay thank you I feel like this is just the thought just came to me I feel like the developers I feel like that's the opposite situation of I have the developers felt when we were developing the LDRs that we passed last February well the all the developers somehow got in charge of the legislature proposing the legislation to override the LDRs that we went through but so much work to put together the first place it's really ironic I think it's really interesting and it begs a whole nother list of questions that I have but I will go do it today thank you they began working on it last August yeah well I guess I would ask you what you would like to see done with it because if you're giving me guidance are you asking the planning commission to give you additional guidance or to give me additional guidance I just want to be really clear on that point certainly happy for them to discuss but they have independent authority to also communicate to the legislature we've been asked to come with a voice from the city so if you gave it to the planning commission would you like them to come back to you with additional ideas well I think we get too many cooks and you know I think we need to have one very clear voice that represents the city we certainly can have the land trust or individuals who have specific ideas to go to the legislature they're always free to to do that but I think it would make more sense to have a one strong voice from the city and I frankly think it ought to be you with our guidance what I heard Paul say is if the planning commission reads this memo and wishes to provide feedback would that go to us and I would just say yes I mean this is a public document I don't see why they couldn't yeah I don't mind getting more feedback but I also know the planning commission has a lot of work some of which he identified in the memo as addressing some of this so but I'm fine to have the planning commission look at it and if they have some great ideas and you can discuss and then direct and just one note to what commissioner Chalmick said if it turns out that a municipality has to more clearly define its zoning districts that's certainly something that we could do it's not written in stone that the secue is a single district we could divide it into the districts that are appropriate I didn't raise it in here because I think that that authority remains in place it may be an action item that the city would want to or need to look into but I don't I don't think it the bill in and of itself doesn't restrict our ability to do something like that I don't think if that became a important step for the city okay is that Roseanne do you want to say some words yes thank you you know my views on this and when I first heard about this the bills my immediate concern was how this would override and destroy some of the great work the city has done to protect our rural lands I feel even more concerned about it but I tell you as I was listening to Paul go through all this and as you're discussing I felt like I was in a planning commission meeting and I feel like the legislator is turning in I mean they are doing zoning and to do zoning for an entire state city by city is totally inappropriate and I mean what what Tim said and what what Megan echoed is also getting my attention and that is this is so inappropriate to have people in my pillow your make land use regulations for the state when zoning is one of the things that our city has the legitimate authority to do but they're taking that away from us if they if they do it now for this then what's to say next year they might decide to do take another crack at zoning it is such an exception of the city's responsibility to take care of our people and our land in our city and I really urge the council to push back on the general I general approach that for whatever reason Montpelier is doing and this thing certainly is the developers dream and the way it's written it sure seems like it's been written by developers because this would really benefit them and really would harm all of the efforts that we have made another municipality to preserve our rural lands and to take away that from a city I think is is egregious and I really really urge our city to speak out in general terms against this approach which could be continued into next you know into future years to take over you know take away the the rights of the city to determine how we how we develop and how we preserve our land so that would be my recommendation to go in with strong opposition to that and I hope you do and thank you Tim and thank you Megan and thank you Helen for for for for voicing those issues too and Paul and everybody there Sarah just echoing what Roseanne said this isn't a technical kind of wording that I can propose but I'm just so repelled by the idea that a committee of the legislature honestly thinks that one size fits all I mean this will could turn into a Vermont that we absolutely don't recognize you know the the small village of 200 people is quite a different animal from the city of Burlington or the city of South Burlington I mean that's just my gut reaction that they're trying to do something statewide that absolutely negates all the distinctives in local communities and and they're all across the board I mean I think there's probably many many communities in Vermont who haven't got a clue what's going on in this bill and there'd be different issues for them than there are for us but they might be equally valid and one that I've put forward before is historic centers take a town like Manchester or or Woodstock just as an example those historic 250 300 year villages should not have the same treatment as a small small village fork in the road or the city of Burlington it just doesn't make any sense that's all I can't be I can't be more more precise about it it's from the heart thank you okay well we'll certainly be continuing to discuss this and we look forward to maybe what the Planning Commission what thoughts they might have to share with you Paul and new stuff that you come up with I mean especially what you were talking about earlier you know do we have it just a hundred feet from the street do we I mean do we take away all opportunity of building housing I mean really looking at ways to to protect those natural resource protection areas I feel comfortable at this point that I've got council's direction as to your intent but to councillor Coda's point the bill is going to change a hundred times between now and in the end so if you're comfortable with the guidance that you've given I think that I'm fairly comfortable in both what I can talk with the legislature about and when the point comes back to saying council I'd like your feedback again on this because something has changed substantially and of course if you choose to you can invite me to any of your meetings coming forward as well if you've got thoughts that you'd like to bring forward thank you yeah could we just know your your steps what are you gonna are you gonna be writing to the legislature the committee this week next week it would be my intent to reach out to the some some committee this week I received a note I think councillors received a note yesterday that feedback after today maybe to another committee so it may not be economic development housing in general affairs but I will learn the status of that tomorrow and see if it's to this committee or to the next natural resources I guess is next would likely be next but I with this new bill having been this new draft coming out today it's probably not out of this committee yet so maybe feedback would go to this committee on these general principles and then onwards and continued okay so that would be this week yes the bills move pretty quickly so it would be my intent to first provide this feedback this week first bite at the apple okay okay Michael one last comment and then we need to move on this is not the end no just a point that if we're going to have if Planning Commission is going to look at these this memo and the recommendations there and we'd like to get that to you whatever the Planning Commission commentary or recommendation is give it to you before Paul has to go down to Montpelier again so that so that he has the benefit of whatever it is there might be nothing well I think your consideration as the Planning Commission will help Paul because he knows what we have said so I think well my understanding to be clear was that Council Commission would talk to you yes yes and also just timing wise just to be respectful for everybody crossover date is likely around when you have your next meeting so it'll be out of the Senate by the time I want Paul to go now I think the earlier the better and then he'll go again was what I heard him say yes I'm for you for the record I did watch some of the proceedings and it horrified me to see members of the committee trying to do Paul's job on the fly and they had no clue what they're doing absolutely no idea yeah me agree that's why I want to go ASAP all righty okay moving on then to item 11 approving thank you very much Paul and and thank you Planning Commission members approve the purchase of 1270 Wilson Road so Alana's gonna take this you receive and Colin and Colin sorry yeah this is very exciting there's one they go left good evening we're here just to present the city has the opportunity and summarized in our memo to purchase 1270 Wilson Road which is essentially it used to be a travel agency it's a triangular parcel near where Alice franchise fries is and Midas Drive and Alana's been working diligently on for years and as is the city in trying to acquire this property it's better long-standing goal to acquire this to to better improve the the traffic infrastructure of that area I think the only thing I would add is that in looking through files there was actually a letter from 1978 which had a nice little diagram of the improvement alignment of the garden Street White Street and Midas Drive meeting at one point as opposed to in three points and I guess I would just also add that the property owner Alana and the team have been working with property owner for many years and the property owner this fall after meeting with Alana and Andrew came forward and was willing to be an active seller in this deal as opposed to go through an eminent domain process which I think is very beneficial to all of us so the general idea would be that we we have the opportunity to purchase this property through negotiations with with the owner the property is right now currently not being used it's vacated by the current tenant and so that's why the property owner reached out to us because he knew we had a long-term interest we were able to negotiate a purchase price that fit in with with our expectations and the idea would be that we would move to remove the building from the from the property and create an intersection at this place that would better align the intersection of all all all the four streets that are three streets that are currently there yes can I say a real basic question one this really doesn't work without without that space right to create that that connection between Market Street and Williston Road we need that that piece of land in order for it to work safely and effectively so we can make the connection to Market Street without the parcel what the parcel does for us is it adds traffic capacity to the overall transportation grid so this was heavily studied with traffic studies during the environmental assessment for Market Street which looked at the impact of adding all of the buildings on Market Street and Garden Street to the downtown and what what would happen at Dorset and Williston Road and so this improvement was one of the significant improvements that that that that assessment I don't know if the word required is too strong or not as part of the mitigation for the impact of city center so as part of the federal action this was one of the mitigation strategies got it thank you what is the relationship between this purchase and the pending tiff bond vote so Garden Street the Williston Road intersection project includes this intersection so it would be the funding for this project so if for some reason the voters didn't pass that tiff bond vote is this a purchase that would be delayed or are we giving our authorization to make the purchase after the bond vote if the bond vote passes no this would be so so this project as with all of our tiff projects there is ongoing investment in the projects in which means that the city is carrying costs on these projects to to develop the design and and this would be a right-of-way purchase which would be part of the planning and preparation for the actual project if the bond vote did not pass we believe this is still a project that the city would seek funding for from some other source other source because it is a significant enough improvement and has enough both local and regional benefit going forward thanks and just to follow up if you approve this purchase we're scheduled to close tomorrow we'd get the keys tomorrow so well it might even be demolished before the bond vote you get your demo permanent waiting along along with the pizza I'll just say as someone who goes through this intersection from time to time because the bus avoids it is that it's an unsafe oh it is its intersection yeah so regardless we need to make this a better yeah a better intersection okay are you ready for the vote I guess I would take a motion motion so I'll move to approve the purchase of 1270 Williston Road second any further discussion all in favor one one just component I would just recommend that you authorize Jesse Baker to sign any necessary documentation to to make the sale go through right so I'll modify the motion to add that we are approving Jesse Baker to sign the documents for this for the sale now second half of the city my half the city and that's seconded any further discussion now okay all in favor say aye so that passes for zero thank you thank you that was a long time coming oh item 12 receive a recommendation to apply for a safer staffing for adequate fire and emergency response grant and possibly approve it we have chief Locke a safer grant and not like an unsafe grant something like that you know yes we love acronyms sure good evening I'll just tee it up we're looking for authorization the grant period opened earlier this week so safer is been a federal grant program modeled after the cops grant if you're familiar with the cops grant for the last 20 years or so ironically it does sunset this year and without federal legislation to re-enact it will this will be the last year the safer grant and in the fire at grant and so it's been a very goofy time in national politics to try to get anything done and we but we thought we would get this reauthorized so we are this is you know very much a great program that allows for the retention and hiring and retention of firefighters as well as recruitment and retention in volunteer agencies and so as you probably know back in the early mid-2000s South Burlington did receive a grant to hire six firefighters to the safer program and back then it was a way that you could they would pay a percentage of the salary that would go down over the the years and at that time it was over five years and you'd be a hundred percent the first year and eighty then sixty and forty and go down so that the community would would pick up those costs over time the last few years it has been a hundred percent for three years and no in no match for the local community and no longer a requirement that you retain the staff at the conclusion so though there used to be a requirement that you would retain them so they're they're doing everything they can to try to get communities to to be able to make this work for them and in one of the priorities lately and certainly going back the last couple years is the the rehire of laid-off firefighters we saw that a lot in the at certain economic times certainly this year not so much on the national front we're not seeing community struggle like they were just around the pre the pandemic time so what my what I'm requesting authorization to do is to apply for the grant and we brought this to you in advance because of the liability that you'd be signing up for if awarded now if awarded we would come back to you for another bite at the apple or to confirm that you still that you want to accept the grant and so what we're proposing to do is to apply for three firefighters one per shift in the model what the priorities for safer are is to find ways to get to 15 firefighters on scene within 10 minutes and 20 seconds and the reason for that is there are certain critical tasks that have to have has to happen in a timely fashion and and these are national standards that say that you should be able to accomplish these tasks in a given amount of time we have eight firefighters currently on staff hopefully with the passage of the bond passage of the ballot initiative about the budget next week next week and a half we will go to 10 firefighters on duty we have now asked the air guard to respond automatically on any reported structure fire so that gets us 13 to 14 and so one one additional position per shift gets us 15 which is our which is our goal right and the highest these grants are the highest priority is given to communities that can get to 15 with at least amount of dollars and so really we are ripe I believe forgetting there by adding one body per shift and in what is and I spoke about this to you a little bit during my budget presentation the the we are getting to the size community where we need to have I'm going to call it on duty chief or shift commander working 24 7 who is the conductor of the orchestra during the day or during that 24-hour tour right now and it happened this tonight just before I came over here both of my officers were in the back of ambulance is going to the hospital so I have two two officers on both are paramedics both were needed on two different calls so there I don't have there was not an officer on duty on the in the city and so another call comes in I have some very competent you know senior firefighters they're going to step up but we are reaching the call saturation in the complexity of calls where we need to have a shift supervisor someone dedicated to running the running the orchestra and deploying resources going on high level calls managing the day to day activities without being stuck on a medical to be quite honest without being stuck on a medical call where their their services could be used much better doing other things and so Burlington currently is the only community that has a dedicated MSA duty chief on every day and and they certainly are had a dedicated duty chief when they are running 4500 calls like what we have what we have reached we're reaching that capacity we've reached that point where our call volume in the complexity of our day to day operations require true on duty supervision 24-7 where we have a shift supervisor not just them riding on the right frenzy of the fire truck trying to multitask and that really is evident on when there's high complex incidents they reach tax tax saturation very quickly because they're both trying to do individual tasks that they should not have to be doing because there's no one else to do them so this would allow us to get there it's I would expect if we were awarded the grant we would know they expect they expect awards to be notified by September of this year September 23 there's a 180 day grace period to to hire the people so if if if we hypothetically we would be able to start them around January 1 of 24 with and then you would end up with a three-year 100 percent everything except for all all this all the contractually obligate guided expenses are covered so basically once we once we out up at them with uniforms and do their physicals everything but overtime is covered and we're going to be paying the overtime whether they work that position or something someone else so it covers it for three years the decision is again then the decision could be made if the community cannot afford it in 27 that you could either lay them off or or those positions most likely we would do it out through through attrition right but there would be a natural runway out of this and I think the other one is we come back to you in September saying we've been awarded it and how would you like to handle us so I think your approval tonight is to kind of set the stage but it also you know signifies that you want to move in this direction that you're comfortable with a grant concept and plus it's quite a lot of work to get there and I don't to be quite honest want to spend two weeks worth of work because it's due it's due March 15th March 17th is the grant closes I'm away next weekend vacation and then I'm going to you know this will be my priority to get this done in order to to to to get a good grant application in but didn't want to surprise you with this and certainly consultation the manager want to make sure that we had your blessing before we moved too far with us well I think it's a great idea so I would be very positive about you going forward in 2027 we'll see where we are with the budget absolutely I just had a couple questions so you are saying adding additional firefighter to each shift is an opportunity to remove the shift commander from serving as the company officer so if the safer grant would give us exactly how many firefighters so adding one so we would apply for three firefighters they really don't care how you deploy them we would explain that so we would go to a minimum staffing of 11 on duty with by adding a body another body per shift so we're currently at eight and again I mean I'm saying this in anticipation that the budget is going to pass so in January of 24 when we hire the six for the second ambulance that gets us to 10 and then this position would get us to 11 if the stars aligned budget passes get the grant we could hire not start nine at one time in September in January of 24 that's the that's how this could all work out it's always easier to start a group of people together than it is um ones these twosies okay and this would free up people to become the shift commander kind of the orchestra director that you described yes so what we yes it would it's going to require us to have some conversations with labor because right now the captains are in a collective bargaining agreement so right now the organization is extremely flat with so with the exception of deputy chief francis and I were the only two not in the not in the labor union so yes so right now the captain the shift commander is writing so we call him a company officer they're writing the right front seat making tactical decisions and because that they're pulled out of they're going on calls every day that they that I'd rather have them not go on but I need to have but because they're only three people on the truck they got to go okay all right so there would be three of those shift commanders and they'd each have like an eight hour shift to cover the 24 hours we they work a 24 on 48 off okay wow yeah so 24 hours on so every so there's shift one two three then they rotate one two three so you work every third day 24 hours yeah yeah but even a shift commander okay all right and I'm sorry to sound like such a nitwit but how does this combine with your duties so I I ask need help so again as a very level organization and something we've talked about I ask and rely on the captains to do many administrative tasks so one of them let's just say overseas our uniforms and you why you think uniforms could be or should be a rather easy aspect but you order so one person's in charge of ordering uniforms for 20 for 30 people and making sure that everyone has the right components and so they're doing those duties every third day because they only they only work every third day so you're waiting a call back from a vendor those types of things so many administrative tasks now are managed out to the captains who would who then are running out during the day to run call run calls run a bunch of calls and so they're trying to get get their paperwork done their run reports done and do these administrative tasks no I mean your duties not the not the captain's duties but so how do they interact what your duties are I'd like oh that's a different question because I I guess I considered you to be the orchestra director so I orchestra I'm the director of the orchestra when it comes to the fire department not the day-to-day operations and I say that meaning emergency how how the day is handled from training to what you know where we're gonna train on today how we're going to respond to this call almost all those things are managed by the captain my duties when I need to all step in but that's what they truly are that's what their true strengths are my duties are much more about people budgets and politics to be quite you know and all those all the things that come to all the things with it come running a six million dollar business so everything from hiring discipline policy development for your request you know that that is the day-to-day grind of of career fire chief okay I learned something thank you if I if I can just add one point I think to me the advantage of having another commander in that 24-hour shift is right now in any one of those 24-hour shifts but for weekends the chief is only actually present for eight hours so when you think about developing the leadership of the department and you think about who that person is that a new firefighter is going to trust to go to with a challenge or a problem or a technical need or information need the chief's only there for a very small portion of the shifts that that individual is working through the week so how do you develop that leadership in the layers of the department so you know at two o'clock in the morning when somebody's been to a you know sorry it's late at night a dead baby called there's somebody there to support that office that new firefighter from a position of leadership and those right now the captains kind of do that but they also might be off on another call or off doing something else in the way the hierarchy and the fire service are those new firefighters are not going to come straight to me they're going to go to that position they go to that position right that's seen as their immediate supervisor they're seen as all those they're they that's where the relationship is you know it comes to me at a very different level okay any other questions or comments so it looks like just doing a google search downloading the safer grants of the last eight years over the 2,300 grants that FEMA has given only the alberg volunteer fire department which got $55,000 two years ago was the only vermont fire department to get a safer grant we got one in 2008 when i was first elected to city council is that the last one yeah so you know so in wilson turned it wilson got authorized in the early 2000s for six firefighters in the town turned it down so it's not something in fact i've never i'll say this in my my 16 years of fire chief i've never applied for safer i never applied for people you know there's another grant that they use for equipment and i've done a bunch of those but people are just one of those things that you know one communities don't often hire people and so it's it's much less it's just much in it's much less active yeah okay that was my question is there anything about vermont that makes it we've only gotten one grant in eight years now i just i don't think most most communities just don't aren't hiring people okay so a motion to um apply for this grant i make a motion that we recommend that the chief apply for a safer grant second all in favor i thank you thank you thanks for staying around okay um oh the shared um the policies and strategies yes so i'm gonna line by line through these um the so honestly i give you this report as a check in on us and make sure we're all kind of aligned and pulling in the same direction to provide you a resource for when constituents come and ask you what's going on on a project you can search this document have the easy accessible answer so obviously i'm not going to walk light by line but there is actually one update that came in after we published this report which is on the being the umal one so the umal property owners have um officially closed on purchasing the sears properties oh they did last week okay so that is a i mean i guess that's cool i mean is that good it is very good i think it's very good it means that they have more complete site control and can use the property more to maximize the development potential so that includes the um parking the sears and then the entire place yes no so i'll store the garage and the sears okay yeah i believe the garage was part of the original purpose or purchase but i could be wrong on that it's it's they now have control over the entire mall footprint and the sears auto shop at the front but we but not the building next to the hanaford no and the building next to the hanaford what they don't what they don't have no they have the they own the hanaford land that has a master lease on it yeah and the hillsons they own the hillsons building the the party city yep they own that building that goes back away well there used to be ten or tennis courts there too so i was just remembering the other day that uh i was at the old sears where market 32 is now which used to be also the uh there was a video 2000 store there before that and but because they were getting ready to close in 97 and move to the um mall so i went there and bought a couple of things with my son who was too i remember it very clearly so okay so did that we did so that's that's the real only kind of emergent update i wanted to give to you otherwise this is just i don't need action was just to receive this report can they they're great reading you know they really do bring you up to um speed and um i appreciate the organization and the fact that people are actually doing stuff you know in a very organized way and it's all on a piece of paper we can read okay um it's already other business i have about four things i want to bring up i'd like to start with dog parks please okay i see a lot of people at that dog park yep and if you didn't notice there is a what are my wife's sculptures is on a tree within the the dog park and it's up very high with this little solar um oh i didn't know that solar panel and it lights up at night and it glows and it's in the shape of a moth if you haven't seen it oh pretty oh cool within that there's one tree within the dog park because the fence got extended around it and up high out of reach is this like this this thing so i've never there at night with your dog we might see it no it's closed at night it has to be a sunny oh then forget it but it has to have been a sunny day tib because you brought that up i will also mention that the masonry is almost done at the pump station um so we are going to need a reinstallation at some point okay good to know and that'll be planted uh my wife is working diligently on the latest incarnation of a v-trans public art permit process document it's probably longer than you having to submit one for a new traffic signal well i i do have a question though i was curious when the orientation for the south burlington neighbors who are eligible for the airport's noise mitigation funds will happen will begin because those have already begun i believe right well i don't know if they've begun but i you know do you know i don't know that's we that's we need to prioritize that we have not prioritized that with comp plan planning and ldr updates and budget but paul and i talk about it regularly if that's the next thing on the list so i will bump that up thank you for asking okay i would just note that i think betty militia wrote a very strong comment on the neighborhood you know the facebook neighborhood whatever about really asking um dog owners who use the park to pick up poop and um you know how important that was and i do take my dog very occasionally and it's it's really important especially when we think about you know we're talking about potentially another dog park um or at least we've identified there's a need for one whether we can actually build it or whenever we can't do um you know i would just encourage anyone who listens into this if you have a dog as she suggested at the new dog park since they seemingly relieve themselves on the outer edge if before you leave if you just take a little walk around the fence and pick up what you see maybe just one or two um that would be helpful and i i noticed that they have moved the bin um and i i think that i think there's the um bags are so you can access them from the inside of the um park which is nice because sometimes you go there and you forget to bring one and you can just walk across and get one and and dump it you don't have to be carrying and go into the entranceway and i did have a second comment oh i'm sorry that's okay pardon me but consider lenses with which city decisions are made climate equity fiscal affordability sustainability and others i think that that should also be moved up because that's really interming of determining you know how we move policy forward i think that that's a policy i mean that comes with strategic planning and i think it's hopefully a part of the comp plan discussion to when the comp plan draft comes together for the planning commission for the council that's thought there that it's linked to the comp plan okay well thank you matt thank you oh i'll be back that's right yeah we'll hear we'll hear from him and about him anyway so um motion to adjourn so moved second all in favor okay
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Today's tip comes to us from Instagram user @kristenkutayart who came up with a brilliant way of using her leftover resin run-off ... she repurposes them as beautiful, one of a kind gift tags!!
You can even write a message on them with marker or acrylic paint markers ... or use a dry erase marker so you can make an easy change in case someone ends up on your naughty list at the last minute 😜
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Video Friday, with Art Resin. Hello, everybody! David and Rebecca have been very busy, so they asked me to do today's Video Friday. And it is Friday, December 1st, the beginning of the month of, you know what, Hanukkah! So, we have a wonderful Video Friday tip today, a tip from Kristen Kutay Art. I hope I said that correctly on the Instagram. And she said that she uses her extra resin runoff drips from her projects, and uses those individual pieces as gift tags, or even decorations for the gifts that she will give out this Christmas, slash Hanukkah, slash Ramadan, slash anything else. Because I'm Santa for everyone! A happy Video Friday, and good use of the tip. That sounded dirty, but I'm Santa, so nothing's dirty coming out of my mouth. Have a wonderful weekend, buh-bye. Video Friday, with Art Resin.
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Well, Bitcoin's really taken off, and some might call this a surge, but I've got to tell you, there is some volatility ahead for this week. But the question then is, what is the reason for the surge and what is going on? Well, there's a couple of on-chain data. Just if you didn't know, that Bitcoin in circulation over 50% hasn't moved in two years. This is a report from Glass Note, it was tweeted out from Andrew Pompliano. And he says the exact same thing, you know, one out of every two Bitcoin in circulation has not moved in the last two years. And he states, we've hit a new all-time high of 53% today. And I got to tell you, I don't know if people are just expecting things to go up or if they're waiting to sell or what it is, but I mean, almost half of people not moving their Bitcoin, I think is a positive sign. But if we really break it down even further than that, we can see that this is from into the block. There is a report called Holder's Composition by Time Health. Now, we took a look at two years, but if you look at for a one year plus, almost 70% of people have not moved their Bitcoin in a year or more. Now, one in 12 months is 23%. Less than a month is 8%. But the big shocking thing that I can take a look at is holders making money at the current price. What does this mean? It means that the people that are in the money, three quarters of people are in the money, meaning that they could sell right now and they would be profitable. Out of the money is 22%. And then, of course, right in the center or right at the money is 3%. There is something to be said that if you've got 75% of people who are in the money, which means that they should sell or could sell, but they are holding 53% for two years or more, 69% or one year or more, it says to me that I think we've got a lot of room, or at least some room to run here for the price to go up. Because when there's supply and demand, when people aren't selling, but there's a lot more demand, what happens? Usually the price goes up. On top of that, there's also the positive news that addresses with a balance of more than one Bitcoin is also hit at all time high. We're actually, let me just blow this up real quick so you can see a little bit better, address one balance of one Bitcoin all time high. We're at 993,000 of wallet addresses with more than one Bitcoin or almost a million right now. So that means one million wallets have one Bitcoin, which would be one million Bitcoin. And it is true that you can have multiple people, maybe if you have 10, 20, 1,000 Bitcoin, you have multiple wallets. It is true that you could have more than one and it's a little bit skewed. But I got to tell you, if you just take a look at the timeframe as far as what is going on, as far as more than one Bitcoin, it's only been going up. So I see that at positive news. And then lastly, of course, we can see that there's been quite a surge in the price today. Now, it doesn't mean that we can't see some more volatility. We're at 27, under 28,000 just yesterday. And now we're almost hitting a 30,000. So that to me is positive news. Let me know what you think about that in the comment section. But again, there is some volatility coming up. And it's volatility could be good depends on which way you look at it. Just so you know that this week, we've got the CPI numbers, the Shanghai upgrade for Ethereum, and the FOMC meeting. Now, me personally, I don't think that people are going to sell en masse all their Ethereum for the Shanghai upgrade, which happens on April 12th. But just be ready for a little bit of a swing. Now, there's a report out that's not the majority of people are in profit from the people who had staked their Ethereum before. So to me, I think that it could be volatile, but I don't see a major, major dump where Ethereum goes to like $100 or whatever people are talking about. That I think to me is just ridiculous. But it could be wrong. Thursday, we've got PPI numbers and Friday, the all important earnings reports comes out. And I got to tell you, if earnings comes out, and it's very bearish, where industries don't hit their reports or how much they think it's going to be, and the stock market NASDAQ S&P 500 starts to wane and go down, but yet Bitcoin and crypto remains the same, I think that'll be a very telling of what's going to happen for the rest of the year. So just expect some volatility coming up. Let me know what you think where things are going. I personally will play it either way. I might just hold off on some DCAs to see what the FOMC meeting are, what the PPI numbers are and QO and earnings are, and maybe just hold off for that day just to see what the news is. And if the market goes down, well, then I buy or if the news comes out and it's very bullish, well, then I immediately buy. So just depends on which way you want to say it. And then lastly, just to go over some, because we talked about some good stuff, let's talk about some some funds, some fear and certainty and doubt. And there was a article that just came out from the New York Times, which talked about how damaging Bitcoin mining is and how much electricity we use. This is from Bitcoin Archive, and they state that the article implies that the ability of Bitcoin miners to switch off when demand is high like in Texas during a snowstorm is market manipulation. Look, right a blockchain here in Texas, they made a deal with the electrical grid and said, look, if you don't want us to mine Bitcoin for a specific amount of time, just tell us to shut off and just pay us a little money and we'll shut off the rig so you can power all the houses here in Texas. And they've done that quite swimmingly. It's worked out pretty well for both parties. So it's not market manipulation that that New York Times talks about something completely different. And the article itself, I was going to go over it, but I refuse to pay for the New York Times I just do. But here's what it's going to talk about in the article. I read snippets of it from little postings. Really what it says is that Bitcoin is an abomination and we really shouldn't be using it because it costs so much for electrical use. This is an article I linked in the description. Bitcoin doesn't waste energy. Yes, it does cost a lot and does take a lot of energy to use the platform or mine Bitcoin, actually 9 million per day or 3 billion per year. But how is how it's justified? A significant portion of Bitcoin's energy consumption is generated from renewable resources. Bitcoin consumes energy that is otherwise wasted, such as flares, which gas and those type of things, which otherwise would just be a waste. Bitcoin consumes all the energy that the free market will bear at a free market rate. And the nature of Bitcoin energy demand will improve the efficiency of energy grids. And this was a gentleman, Troy Cross. He's a Bitcoin OG. And this was actually told to me by Beardy. So shout out to Beardy where Troy says, look, the article in New York Times, food waste emissions equals 57 Bitcoin networks. And he says, food waste causes 8% of global carbon emissions compared to Bitcoin's 0.14. Let's end food waste. Then Troy also tweets out this, the New York Time piece I'm mining is packed with misinformation. But the most staggering thing is that it doesn't attempt to ascribe to the reader what Bitcoin actually does worldwide. This is intentional. If you understand Bitcoin's value, then of course you think it's a waste of energy. So to keep this very simple, this is for maybe if you're new to the channel, new to crypto, and you haven't seen this before, maybe your name is Elizabeth Warren, Senator of Massachusetts. This is how to explain Bitcoin in a nutshell. It's very simple. Bitcoin is money. Money is a tool. It helps people store value and conduct exchange. Here's the story of value. $20 in 1980 would only get you a cart full of groceries, which is pretty good, actually. One Bitcoin in 2011 would have gotten you the same thing. Fast forward 10 years later or 20 years later for the dollar, you're getting half of what you would have gotten. And 2021, one Bitcoin, it got you a very nice $69,000 car. Now, if we extrapolate that to 2030 or in 2022, $20 can get you squat for just go to the grocery store right now. 20 or one Bitcoin in 2030, who knows, might buy a, I have no idea, mansion. It's anybody's guess. But as far as store of value, that's what Bitcoin does. As far as conduct exchange, I can buy anything right now online. I can pay for things right now with Bitcoin, all types of things. So that is money. On top of that, it's scarce, only $21 million, and the belief is only growing. So when everybody was frightened and calling you, when the banks were failing, and trust me, I know they were calling you, going, worship of my money. I don't know what's going on because I hear about these banks failing. Well, guess what? That's when Bitcoin works. So all the money that's for electricity and things like that, that is what it's all about. So let me know what you think about that in the comment section. Then just to finish up, finish up, there is taxes coming up for Americans on April 18th. And there was a good piece from Coin Ledger. And I don't know if you knew this, but you can gift crypto to people, members of your family, up to $12,000. And that is, that eliminates your tax obligation. Just in case you were wondering. And what I want to do was, I want to bring on David Kemmerer. He is the co-founder of Coin Ledger, just to follow up on what's going on with Coin Ledger so you can make your taxes easy. So let's just jump in. This is the final push. I just want to make this quick and easy, a little quick update. So of course, Coin Ledger, people know about it, has been talking about it forever, used it the last two years, very easy. If you haven't caught me, David, and the resident tax attorney, we did a live stream. We talked about everything you need to know as far as taxes and crypto. I'm going to link that in the description. But what I want to talk about real quick is, for those people who are doing their taxes this week and this weekend, I had a personal story in my CPA. I had a contact attorney that said, hey, what do you want from me for all my information? Because I'm using a new CPA. And I said, I got CSV files. I've got IRS forms. And I've also got tax filing software for everything I do with crypto. And then she just said, yeah, just give me the CSV and IRS forms. And I was like, well, good thing they're here. So David, talk to us about that real quick for people who are filing this weekend. Yeah. So here we're in Coin Ledger. You can see this is your account. And depending on what type of activity you have, we'll report everything for you. So for you, Robbie, you'll download that CSV income report and that capital gains report, and then send over the IRS 8949 and schedule D to your CPA. And they will know exactly what to do with those types of forms. And so snag those, send them over and you're on your way. Yeah, perfect. Thanks for making it easy because I'm tired of like doing everything on like spreadsheets and stuff like that. And then, you know, that's what we're trying to be in the business of is abstract away all the complexity and make it simple for people and not have to think about it. Exactly. And a couple of things you guys just did an update with XRP and with ADA. Yep, we launched XRP integration. So you know, if you're trading or if you're holding that within your ledger or anywhere, you can pull all of those transactions into Coin Ledger automatically now. Same with Cardano. And we have a bunch more queued up to continue rolling out. Perfect. And then there was one more thing that caught my attention. I know a lot of people have worthless NFTs and you guys roll out this service where you could sell them for tax loss. But then you also talked about doing it for, and you said rug pulled, rug pulled fungible tokens for the same thing. Just quickly explain to us how that works. Yeah, what we're thinking about is, you know, we built essentially the smart contract that will allow anyone to send an NFT and receive a small amount of Ethereum in return. And that's, you know, essentially a trade where you're realizing the loss on your NFT. We could do the same thing for fungible tokens. So we've, the reason we thought about this is we've been requested by, by a lot of folks is, you know, maybe they're holding a whole bunch of tokens that I've gone to zero, they were rug pulled, but they actually don't have a simple way to dispose of those tokens to effectuate, you know, and realize a tax loss. And so we could essentially trade with that person, again, a small amount of ETH, then they can realize that whole amount of losses, which, you know, depending on how you're investing could be thousands of dollars. So similar to the NFT thing, but we could essentially be the ones who are buying that and thus helping people realize losses and save a bunch of money on their taxes. So if anyone would like that, you should drop us a comment, I'd be fascinated to learn if that's somewhere we should spend our time. Yeah, I like that. I mean, there's a lot of fungible tokens that we've got rug pulled, so I can see that, especially with the NFTs. And then lastly, this caught my attention, one of your tweets, I think you just put this out a couple of days ago, the 10 ways to legally reduce your crypto taxes and the other things that we know, invest for the long term, harvest your losses, do things when, as far as donations, but this one, number five, give crypto gifts. Gifting crypto is tax-free. You don't have any tax obligation unless you've gifted more than 12,060 over your lifetime. In addition, receiving a crypto gift is not considered a taxable event. So here's my question, if you got gains and you wanted to, I don't know, maybe I want to give something to my wife. Could I do that? Or maybe I want to give something to my niece. Could I gift her some crypto? Wife is complexity because it's like that y'all are filing a joint tax return, thus your income. So that would be tougher. But yeah, your niece, that's a great example. You can gift assets, cryptocurrency being one of them, tax-free up to that threshold. And so they aren't realizing taxable income and you aren't realizing the gains on the appreciated assets. So it is one of the best ways. Again, if you have someone who you want to gift, that is tax-free. Okay, everybody. So great information. And lastly, where we get out of here, there's a link in the description and it looks just like this. Again, I show you how to use the tax software, how easy it is. From the time that I started up, the time that I finished takes about 30 minutes to send it over to my CPA. And of course, she asked for some different things than I'll be able to. But David, that is it. Anything else we missed before we go into this terrible season of filing our taxes? Final week. No, I appreciate always having me on. And for anyone who needs help, just chat our customer support team. We'll be quite busy over the next week and we'll be firing back responses real fast. So just let us know if we can help in any ways. And again, thanks for having me on. Thanks everybody. All right, David. Thanks so much. Ray, let's jump back. All right, David. Thanks so much for stopping by. We appreciate it. Interesting stuff. Again, coin ledger links in the description. But that's it for today. So look, do you like today's video? Give it a thumbs up. Consider subscribing. Everything we talk about is time sensitive. Again, crypto angel assets is not a set it and forget it. It's pretty important that you stay up to date with these things. So it might behoove you to subscribe. That's it for today. Thanks much for stopping by. I appreciate you. And I'll see you on the next one.
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👍 Watch how to start and use one of Windows tools, Run. We will also have a look at some of its main and most often used commands.
Disk Structure is Corrupted and Unreadable – What Can You Do: https://hetmanrecovery.com/recovery_news/disk-structure-is-corrupted-and-unreadable-what-can-you-do.htm
Find the link to our video about safe booting Windows in the description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZGXA6U4YXQ.
Content:
0:00 - Intro;
0:36 - Ways to start the Run tool
1:55 - Launching programs by entering the application name
2:33 - Opening folders
2:53 - Quick Launch of Windows Administration and Customization Tools
Go to our channel to watch a video about installing two operating systems on one computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0t42N3hEfc.
Find the link to the video on opening Control Panel or restoring it to the Start menu in the description: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdQ_6IDWYN0.
Other videos: #CommandExecute, #Run, #Windows10, #Win+R, #CMD.
Main Windows commands:
Internet Explorer - iexplore
Paint - mspaint
Wordpad - write
ODBC Data Source Administrator - odbcad32
Administrative Tools - control admintools
Backup and Restore - sdclt
Notepad - notepad
Windows Firewall - firewall.cpl
System Restore - rstrui
Log off - logoff
Time and Date - timedate.cpl
Disk defragmentation - dfrgui
Authorization Manager - azman.msc
Windows Task Manager - taskmgr
Driver Verifier Manager - verifier
Device Manager - devmgmt.msc
Shutdown - shutdown /s
Downloads - Downloads
Sticky Notes - StikyNot
Securing the Windows Account Database - syskey
Sound - mmsys.cpl
Recording* - soundrecorder
Game Controllers - joy.cpl
Initialize TPM Security Hardware - TpmInit
Display Color Calibration - dccw
Calculator - calc
Command Prompt - cmd
Windows Features - OptionalFeatures
Microsoft Management Console (MMC) - mmc
System Configuration - msconfig
Local Security Policy - secpol.msc
Local Users and Groups - lusrmgr.msc
Windows Picture Acquisition Wizard - wiaacmgr
Create a Shared Folder Wizard - shrpubw
Add Hardware Drivers Wizard - hdwwiz
Add Hardware Wizard - hdwwiz
Volume Mixer - sndvol
Resource Monitor - resmon
User Account Control Settings - UserAccountControlSettings
Snipping Tool - snippingtool
Shared Folders - fsmgmt.msc
Disk Cleanup - cleanmgr
Control Panel - control
User’s folder - .
Fonts - fonts
File Explorer Options - control folders
Restart - shutdown /r
Printer Migration - PrintBrmUi
Pen and Touch - TabletPC.cpl
Personalization - control desktop
Task Scheduler - control schedtasks
Remote Desktop Connection - mstsc
Users (open this folder) - ..
Check Disk - chkdsk
System File Checker - sfc /scannow
File Signature Verification - sigverif
Windows Explorer - explorer
Programs & Features - appwiz.cpl
Event Viewer - eventvwr.msc
Display Resolution - desk.cpl
Private Character Editor - eudcedit
Local Group Policy Editor - gpedit.msc
Registry Editor - regedit
Fax Cover Page Editor - fxscover
Resultant Set of Policy - rsop.msc
System Information - msinfo32
System Properties - sysdm.cpl
System Properties: Advanced - SystemPropertiesAdvanced
System Properties: System Protection - SystemPropertiesProtection
System Properties: Hardware - SystemPropertiesHardware
System Properties: Remote - SystemPropertiesRemote
iSCSI Initiator Properties - iscsicpl
Internet Properties - inetcpl.cpl
Keyboard Properties - control keyboard
Mouse Properties - control mouse
Certificates - certmgr.msc
Network Connections - ncpa.cpl
System Drive (root) - \
Performance Monitor - perfmon
Indexing Service - ciadv.msc
Services - services.msc
Component Services - dcomcnfg
Program Compatibility Troubleshooter - msdt.exe -id PCWDiagnostic
Create a system repair disc - recdisc
Stored User Names and Passwords - credwiz
DirectX Diagnostic Tool - dxdiag
Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool - msdt
ClearType Text Tuner - cttune
XPS Viewer - xpsrchvw
Problems Steps Recorder - psr
Character Map - charmap
Phone and Modem - telephon.cpl
Windows Remote Assistance - msra
Disk Management - diskmgmt.msc
Computer Management - compmgmt.msc
Print Management - printmanagement.msc
Color Management - colorcpl
Install or uninstall display languages - lpksetup
Devices and Printers - control printers
User Accounts - Netplwiz
Color and Appearance - control color
Windows Mobility Center - mblctr
Security and Maintenance - wscui.cpl
Sync Center - mobsync
Ease of Access - utilman
Encrypting File System (EFS) - rekeywiz
Display Settings (element size) - dpiscaling
On-Screen Keyboard - osk
Magnifier - magnify
Narrator - narrator
Power Options - powercfg.cpl
WMI Control - wmimgmt.msc
Region - intl.cpl
Other videos: #CommandRun, #Run, #Windows10, #Win+R, #CMD.
Playlist: Tuning and Adjusting Windows 10: Restore Points, Resetting Passwords, Backup, Defragmentation, Compatibility Mode - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWfvrWYvsWiIIvLGyaCgBbwreA08y_ycT.
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Hello everybody. In this video, I will tell you how to start and use one of Windows' tools – Run. We will also have a look at some of its main and most often used commands. The tool Run integrated into Windows provides alternative ways to quickly access programs, folders, documents and other system resources. If you know a corresponding command, of course. This tool is often used to tune and use computers, which we often mentioned in our previous videos. There are three ways to start the Run tool. The most popular method for advanced users is to do it by pressing Windows plus R. That is why this tool is often called Win plus R or Windows plus R menu. It is a convenient method, as it works with all versions of Windows. For an average user in Windows 8 or 10, the usual method to start this tool is by right-clicking on the Start Run. You can also start the Run tool with search windows. Click on Search Windows and Enter Run. Click on the shortcut that the system offers and the tool starts. This method works in Windows 7 as well. This tool is easy to use. Start it using one of the described methods and enter the command into the field Open. All commands are in English. For example, you can see the version of the operating system installed on the computer by entering the command WinWareOK. Talking of commands used in the tool Run, there are lots of them. They can help you start programs, open folders, start other Windows tools, as well as go to different settings of your operating system. As a rule, many programs can be started by entering the application name. For example, Opera, Chrome, Excel, and so on. However, not all commands are so easy to guess. For example, to open Word, you should enter the command WinWord. To learn commands to start your applications, use the trial and error method. However, you will find a list containing main commands for Windows PostR tool in the description. The situation with opening folders is about the same. For example, in order to open this PC, enter the command Explorer. The command Percent, AppDataPercent opens the folder with the data of applications installed on this computer. The command Documents opens the folder Documents. The command Downloads opens the folder Downloads. And so on. Still, the main value of this tool is in quick access to administrative tools and settings in Windows. Let's try to enumerate and show the most essential ones. Reggaetit – the most well-known and frequently used command that opens Registry Editor. MS Config – it shows you the system configuration, startup items, and Windows services. This is where you can choose from the three types of starting the operating system – Normal startup, Diagnostic startup, and Selective startup. In the Boot tab, you can select Save Boot options. Add a link to our video about save booting Windows in the description. You can also select the default operating system if you have several systems installed on one computer. Go to our channel to watch a video about installing two operating systems on one computer. The MD – it launches the command prompt. You can watch a video about starting command prompt and its main commands in our channel. GP Edit MSC – this command starts local boot policy editor. It can help you to set up and change a number of settings in your computer, set restrictions for users, prohibit starting or installing programs, turn operating system functions on or off, and do many other things. Access MSC – this command starts a control panel to manage the services of your computer. Control – it opens control panel. This command became popular after the release of Windows 10 creators update, which lost access to control panel from the Start menu. Find a link to the video on opening control panel or a story on it to the Start menu in the description. AppleWiz CPL – quick access to Programs and Features menu, which was also removed from the Start menu in Windows 10 creators update. MS Info 32 – it starts system information akin to VM2 for administrators and advanced users. DXDiag – DirectX diagnostic tool, which will help you to learn your DirectX version as well as the system information, and must help for gamers, and so on. As I have already said, with the Run tool you can start almost any application or open a folder or the Settings menu. That is why there are so many commands for it. I believe I have shown the main commands here. I'd like to remind you once more, but you can find a list containing most of commands for Windows plus R tool in the description. That is all for now. If you found this video useful, click the Like button below and subscribe to our channel to see more. Thank you for watching and good luck.
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The Blinc Group Says Chinese Tariffs Will Cripple The Cannabis Vape Industry
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The Blinc Group Co-Founder Sasha Askenov says that Chinese tariffs will cripple the cannabis vaping industry. He told the Green Market Report that the first wave of tariffs was absorbed, but they can't continue to cut margins and price increases will be passed on to the consumer.
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We hear a lot about Chinese tariffs, but we don't hear about how they can affect the cannabis industry. I had a chance to talk to the Blink Group's Sasha Askenov, and he had some very interesting points to make about how Chinese tariffs could hurt the cannabis vaping industry. The Chinese tariffs could, will, cripple this industry. Simply, we have to understand, so a little bit of a preface, a little bit of history. Most of these products, and most of these source materials are made in China for a reason, because the source materials are not simply not available here, let's talk about vapor products, for example. The source materials are simply not available in the United States. The know-how, the expertise to make and build these products is not available in the United States. It was born and developed over the past over a decade, 15, 20 years in Shenzhen, in China. So, by applying these tariffs in the United States, we're not going to create jobs. All we are going to do is put more pressure on the up-and-coming cannabis and CBD companies, put more pressure on the consumer, put more pressure on the retailer. When the Trump administration speaks about tariffs, they say, well, it's nothing. It's 30 cents. It's 15 cents. But when we're talking about 50 cents added to a product like this at the distributor level, at the importer level, by the time it gets to retail, it's $2, $3 more. And the difference between $29.95 and $34.95 are in life and death. That's a life and death of product and retail. And then think about how this impacts the patients in states like New York. New York is a vape-only state. It's expensive enough as it is. For extractors with 10-15% margin, by the time they get to retail, you're buying a car shirt for $90. And people are already squealing, but patients have nowhere else to go, except from the black market. I mean, is that where this administration wants to drive the buyer? In the case of Blink, we kind of absorb these tariffs, right? So we're making less money because we know that with a product like CBD, which has been explosive at 1999 retail, who make it $24.95, we're dead in the water. We can't sell it for more, so we're going to make less money, so we're going to create less jobs. And that's what these tariffs are doing. When you talk about tariffs, you have to understand, take Colorado. Colorado in 2017 made $247 million in tax revenue, right? Out of that, 25% is vapor products in that year. Now it's much higher. So that's around $61, $62 million. $61, $62 million is good enough to take 10,000 students through school. By crippling our industry, they're going to lose that revenue. We're talking about just the vapor products. By raising those prices to the consumer, we're going to cripple more than the vapor industry. This is where regulation comes back into place, and positive regulation like California heavy metal standards. That's something that's fixing what's broken. That's explaining to people that this is what you put in your body, not the cartridge or the oil. It's the combination of the above, and you have to understand exactly what comes out of it when people stick it into their battery and vape it. And you have to understand that you're not doing any harm. So that was something we've been speaking about since the traditional nicotine days, and the cannabis industry is only beginning to realize and only beginning to act on. And it's wonderful. Regulations are wonderful when they're thought through, when they're well established, and when they're based on the realities of the marketplace that we're in. Raising tariffs is just going to kill us.
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More Nintendo Direct Rumors + BIG Miyamoto Interview | Prime News
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Prime News returns and we have some big stories about Shigeru Miyamoto, more Nintendo Direct rumors, and some magic brewing in the world of Nintendo...
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https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/rumors-suggest-xbox-is-bringing-more-games-to-nintendo-switch-and-playstation-but-whats-the-truth
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/ea-sports-fc-24-and-ps5-delivered-december-growth-uk-monthly-charts
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https://www.1101.com/n/s/miyamoto_shigeru2024/2024-01-08.html
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00:00 - Intro
00:55 - More Xbox Games Coming to Switch!?
03:02 - Nintendo's Financial Report Date!
04:37 - More Nintendo Direct Rumors!
06:53 - Mario Wonder Sales Update!
08:27 - Miyamoto Talks Pikmin & Retirement
Thank you everyone for your continued support!
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Today we got to talk about another Nintendo Direct rumor and more than that though we have some news on Super Mario Wonder sales data for December, which is actually really really exciting and good news for Nintendo. Oh, Microsoft might be bringing even more games over to Nintendo than we thought, right? We were all talking about the Hi-Fi Rush rumors and stuff like that, well now we have a report that shows that even more could be on its way and we get to talk about the origin of the Pikmin franchise because Miyamoto is out there giving an interview. Also by the way, Miyamoto did talk about retirement and why he's never gonna retire basically, so we're gonna talk about that as well. So much to dive into today, I don't know what we're waiting for right now, let's get that energy going and dive into our first story. It looks like Microsoft might be bringing even more games back from their back catalog to other platforms including PlayStation and Nintendo, at least this is according to a brand new report out of Windows Central, let's get to what they had to say. They say there's no smoke without fire. I will say it has been suggested to me from very trusted, proven sources that Microsoft has been exploring, bringing some of its back catalog to other platforms. Although some of the details remain vague, Microsoft has yet to comment and clarify its position on this stuff. And what they mean by vague is they don't know what IPs or what franchises are coming back as a Nintendo fan. We always think about all those old school retro rare games, maybe like coming over to Nintendo, whether it's NSO or something like that, but that does like open up the door for things like, oh, the Master Chief Collection, things like, I saw that there's a lot of possibilities here. One thing is very clear is there's an ongoing conversation online that Microsoft is tarnishing their brand from, you know, big people who are big into the Xbox ecosystem by bringing their games to other platforms. Meanwhile, people on other platforms was like, I don't know what you're talking about. This seems pretty much what we expected from Microsoft. They're in last place. They're not doing well. Maybe they're shifting things or going to streaming services, yada, yada, yada. So honestly, it kind of seems par for the course. They literally bought Activision Blizzard, but they're keeping things that call a duty multi-platform. I'm just throwing out there that I think Microsoft is in the unique position to be a platform holder that does decide to eventually go third party. This could just be a step towards that. I don't really know. Phil Spencer literally said he wants their games everywhere that gamers exist. So if Phil Spencer is talking like that, why are we surprised they're going to deliver on that, right? They're just doing exactly what they said that we're going to do. So what to wait and see for now. This is still a rumor, but it is one that is gaining new heat and new twists and turns almost every day. One thing I want to let you guys know about is Nintendo's big financial report coming up for the holidays. This is one of their most important reports of the year. I would argue this one and then their end of year report are typically the two biggest financial reports that us as Nintendo fans should pay the most attention to. Now this report is dropping on February 6th and will include updates to sales on big games like Mario Wonder and Tears of the Kingdom. Also we'll get our first look at sales for Super Mario RPG. Now that's really, really enticing and really excited to see how well Nintendo performed in October, November and December. But obviously some people are kind of wondering, well, how's the switch going to look as well? Well, a lot of people are thinking the switch should be close to 140 million, if not slightly above 140 million units, which is just insane to even think about. I mean, gosh, we're not that far away from passing the DS. I mean, that is insane, but we'll have to wait and see. Also we need to see how Nintendo's holiday season performed. Is it below projections? Is it at projections? Is Nintendo still projecting just 15 million, which is quite a lot of Nintendo switches to move in its seventh year to end the fiscal year? Are they going to raise their projections, lower their projections? That's all stuff we'll find out. So they tend to do Nintendo Directs around when these reports are happening, not always. But look, there's kind of a history of February Directs happening right around when they do these things. So if the Directs in February, then this could be a good indicator of expectation of either our Direct that week or the following week. Now speaking about Nintendo Directs, we do have a new rumor for you guys because yesterday I mentioned in the video right towards the end, so you might have missed that Zippo is back. If you remember, we did a report about how Zippo had his blog mysteriously deleted out of nowhere at one point in December and nobody really knew what happened. You know, did the Nintendo ninjas finally get him because he said too much? Did, you know, a hater grab him? Did he close down his blog to create some drama? Well, he came back and he basically stated, I don't know what happened. Nintendo wasn't the ones that did it, at least he doesn't think it was. There was definitely a nefarious actor. He had been talking to Blogspot this whole time to get his blog back. I don't really care about any of that stuff because it's not like we can verify any of it. But what's interesting, of course, is he did throw out a new rumor today. And it's about the Nintendo Direct. And yes, this contradicts the rumor we posted yesterday. It's funny when you have rumors coming from multiple places and they don't agree with each other, are either of them correct? Are both of them wrong? And none of these rumors are coming from people like Nate The Hate. So our more reliable leakers out there. So I guess we're just going to sit here and cover this today. Just to make sure we're fully crossing all of our T's and dotting all of our eyes on the rumor mill. And that is because Zippo said the next Nintendo Direct is happening before the end of this month. In fact, he says this will be the final direct that's dedicated to Nintendo Switch and that there's still some surprises up Nintendo's sleeves. But like, this is it. They want to get this direct out now, which could tell you that, yeah, because they might be announcing a system next month or in March. So they might be focusing on that versus Nintendo Direct. Get the direct done early. Like, it does make some sense from a logical perspective. It also makes sense to just run the directs when they typically do right around their financial briefing in February. I don't really know. It's not like I have any sources on this guy. I've tried to talk to a few people. Nobody I know seems to know when the next direct is. So I'm just going to leave it out there like that. We have Tommy Bear knows yesterday. I know. Play on waddledy knows. John Combs. I know. Anyways, he's saying this thing is happening on February 7th. We have Zippo saying it's happening by the end of January. Both of them could be wrong. So just keep that in the back of your minds. I'm just keeping you up to date on the latest happening in the rumor mail. And now let's get back into the rest of the real news out there. Now, earlier, I mentioned that we need to wait for Nintendo's financial briefing to get an update on sales for games like Mario Wonder. But we do have an idea how well it's performing, at least in one territory. And that is the UK. Christopher Dring ran ahead and put out a report on gameindustry.biz talking about the sales for December in the video game industry. In the United Kingdom. And it turns out that Mario Wonder sold more in December than it did during its launch month in October in the UK, which is awesome. This also coincides with the fact that Nintendo Switch saw a 39 percent sales bump from November heading into December. So 39 percent higher than November, which is really, really good. Now, obviously, December is their big sale season. So it's not shocking the sales are higher in December over November, but it is shocking to see Mario Wonder sell better in December than it did during its actual launch month. So that this is just all indications really good. Mario Wonder is sitting at number four on the charts right behind Hogwarts Legacy. And I've note Hogwarts Legacy had kind of fallen off the charts until the Nintendo Switch version came out. So there's a high likelihood a huge chunk of those Hogwarts Legacy sales also happened on Switch. But hey, I'm just throwing it out there. PlayStation 5 was the number one selling system per usual in the UK. So there you go. That's sort of our big update for sales data. Again, we don't have any real numbers because of just like, you know, the MPD or I guess they don't call it the MPD anymore. Whatever, the Stracana, whatever the heck they call it here in the US. Now, they don't give us real numbers anymore. So it's something to chew on, I suppose. Our last story is just a very, very interesting one. We're going to cover two different stories about Shigeru Miyamoto here. The first one we're going to talk about deals with Pikmin. And this is because for a little while now, Shigeru Miyamoto and, yes, Aitoi, the creator of the Earthbound and Mother series, have been doing an interview series, a very, very long interview series over in Japan. And today we got some word from Miyamoto on the origin of Pikmin and just how much he really enjoys the whole Pikmin characters themselves. There's little flowers running around on your screen when you're playing Pikmin 4 or Pikmin Bloom, etc. So let's get into what Miyamoto had to say during this interview. So Miyamoto said he saw a sketch from one of the designers on the team for the original Pikmin game with leaves attached to the head. And he said, this is it. Then Miyamoto said, it's fun to think about how Pikmin drink water, whether it drinks it through its mouth, its head or its roots. Isn't it nice to have a character that you could talk about things like that? So I thought, OK, this is going to bloom in my head. Now, that's some really fun stuff about Pikmin. Pikmin 4 was utterly amazing. And to me, maybe the second best game Nintendo put out this year. Mario Wonder is way up there as well. But Pikmin 4 is a masterpiece. But here's the thing as awesome as it is to hear about the origins of this. One thing that a lot of us want to know is whether or not Miyamoto is ever going to retire. He's getting way up there in age. And while he seems like a Nintendo lifer, we all know at some point even me at YouTube here, you got to just walk away and enjoy what's left of your life. Or at some point, you simply pass on and hopefully there's a life after the current. So let's dive into what Miyamoto had to say about retirement. More than retiring, I'm thinking about the day I fall over. In this day and age, you have to think about things in a five year time span. So I think about who I can pass things on to in case something does happen. I'm really thankful that there is so much energy around the things that have already gone out into the world. They've been cultivated by others. Other people have been raising them, helping them grow. So in that sense, I don't feel too much ownership over them anymore. Now, later on, he does go on to note things like he doesn't think too much is going to change at Nintendo when he eventually passes away. It's kind of dark at what he's getting to. But that's only because he thinks that things have already passed to other developers and other hands already. And it's been like that for long enough that, you know what? Nothing much is really going to change. In fact, what he's really worried about is if long haul, people will even remember his contributions or if they're just going to be like, hey, the only thing we think about with like the Zelda series is Fuji Bayashi and Aji Onuma, or the only people you think about with Mario is, you know, Takahashi and stuff. So it's very interesting to think about his concern that people might not remember who he is. Also, I think Miyamoto doesn't quite understand the legend he is in this industry and how much he means to the whole of gaming. I'm pretty sure Shigeru Miyamoto's name is going to be honored among gaming enthusiasts for decades, hundreds of years, thousands of years. I'm pretty sure his his entire legacy is pretty cemented. But I get it as you get older and you get towards the end. Sometimes you wonder, hey, well, I don't ever plan to retire and I'm trying to put some things in place in case I fall over, which that's sad to think about. It is still something where it Nintendo's in good hands. I think it's just what he's trying to reiterate. Hey, I don't know if I'm even going to be remembered, but Nintendo's in good hands. But I'd like to be remembered while Shigeru Miyamoto, I could tell you right now, at least for the rest of my life here at Nintendo Prime, you'll always be remembered. Just like we talk about Satsura Owada, the late Satsura Owada in very, very fond terms, we're always going to remember you, Shigeru Miyamoto. And that's going to do it for today's episode of Prime News. I hope you really enjoyed it. We didn't go and inject a bunch of comedy in like we have in the past. I really just wanted to straight line get to the news and get that stuff out to you guys. I hope that you had a really good time and you you felt some of the passion and the energy in it all. And if you didn't, I'm sorry, man, it's the first Prime News of the year. Give me a break. All right, guys, we'll get you in the next video.
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How to transition to nutrition-sensitive and sustainable food systems
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Objectives of the webinar:
1) Describe the linkages between nutrition, agriculture and sustainable food systems;
2) Explain the role of education, capacity development and communication strategies to accelerate the transition towards nutrition-sensitive and sustainable food systems;
3) Describe relevant Nutrition-related capacity development activities carried out in the different regions.
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Thank you very much Fabio and welcome, welcome everyone to our international technical webinar. Today we are going to together to cover how to transition to nutrition sensitive and sustainable food systems. Everybody talks about sustainability and sustainable food systems and the webinar today is to try to give us some idea about how we do this transition to nutrition sensitive and sustainable food systems. So let me first introduce myself. I am Christina Petraki and I head the FL E-Learning Academy. So the FL E-Learning Academy has organized this webinar together with Agrinium together with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific. Also with the Future Food Institute and we are extremely pleased today to have also with us the United Nations Scaling Up Nutrition Movement partners. So the webinars that we organize so we organize series of webinars during the year cover the thematic areas of our global challenges and all of these thematic areas are also covered in the courses that the FL E-Learning Academy offers and that will be mentioned to you towards the end of the webinar. So today we are very pleased to have a very rich program with high level experts. So we have with us our colleague from FAO Diazano who is a nutrition officer. We also have with us Leslie Macieca who is the director for research in Macondera University of agricultural science and technology in Zimbabwe. We also have with us Tonde Matsungo who is a senior lecturer in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics University of Zimbabwe and also we are very pleased to have with us also Orelie Zunino who is from SUP agro. So it is a Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences. So without further ado I will give the floor to my colleague Diazano and I wanted to mention that all speakers will have 15 minutes and the participants you can all ask questions using the Q&A tab and we will after the presentation we will have a Q&A session where your questions will be addressed and where there will be a discussion about the questions that have been posed during the presentations. So without any further ado Diazano the floor is yours, you have 15 minutes. Thank you very much. Good afternoon, good morning everybody. Thank you Christina. I hope you are able to see my screen. Yes, we are. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much. I am happy to contribute to this technical webinar with a topic on our experience in capacity building in time of COVID using resources from FLE academy and also FLO toolkit for improving nutrition through agriculture and food system. So what I will be sharing is a work we have done with the support of colleagues from headquarters, from country offices as well as consultants. So for this 15 minutes I will be quickly introducing the topic why is it important to transition to our nutrition sensitive healthy, nutrition sensitive agriculture and food system or the framework of the capacity building initiative in our sub regions. And we will take the specific examples of one blended initiative we have done recently and we will discuss the challenges and lesson learned from this experience so as to inform potentially other activities in the same line. So when we talk about food system, it is important to understand why do we want to transition? What is wrong with the food system? So the recent reports on the state of food and nutrition globally suggests that about 690 million people are still undernourished for children under the age of five. We still have 50 children who are wasted. One out of three adults is overweight so either overweight or obese. Another aspect of our food system, we have about 30 to 40 percent of the food produced globally that are wasted. So while we still have 690 million people undernourished, the world is producing 1.5 times enough food than we needed, right? But another report from FLO, UNICEF and other stakeholders still suggests that we still have 3 billion people who cannot afford a healthy diet in the world. Another aspect of our food system is that one third of the harmful green gas emissions globally is due to our food system. So it is really critical that we try to reduce the negative impact of the food system on the people and on the planet. So now when we talk about food system, we need to transition. I mentioned before that we need to transition to a sustainable food system. It means food systems that are inclusive, that are sustainable, that are environmental friendly, that are resilient, but also that are efficient and most importantly in length with this topic that provide nutritious and safe diet in the world. So for that, what do we need? We need food system champions who can then advocate for system thinking for our food system. It's not a one single program, it's not one project. We need to have a food system thinking. We need to understand what are the performance, what are the trends, what are the impact of the current food system in the diet. We need also to have a multi-stakeholder dialogue. I think this is ongoing now and we need to have an enabling environment for the transformation of our food system. And in language today, Topi, we need to have capacity, what we call multi-level capacity for the transformation to our sustainable food systems. Also, I'm not going to spend much time on this figure. It seems very complex, but I'm not going to spend much time on it. When we talk about food system, what are we talking about? We are talking about a complex and dynamic system. So that includes resources, input, production, transport, a number of activities as well as stakeholders. And the high-level panel of experts of the Committee of Food Security distinguished three elements. The food system drivers, including the biophysical, innovation, political, social, cultural factors, that affect the different components of the food system. We have then the food component, the production, the food supply chain, the food environment, the consumer behavior, the diet, and all this should lead to nutrition and positive nutrition and health outcomes. And these outcomes also have the potential to also affect the other aspects of the food system, not only the drivers. And of course, we have the outcomes of the food systems that are the diet, healthy diet we are looking at. And when we talk about diet, it's not only about the quantity, but it's also about the quality, the diversity, as well as the safety of the diet. So the last element I mentioned about what is needed to transform this food system is about capacity. So one of the mandates of FLO is really to strengthen the capacity of member states to design and implement nutrition-sensitive programs and policies. And in this regard, the organization has developed a capacity development roadmap, which targets three different dimensions, enabling environment, organization level, and individual level capacity. And also consider policy and normative aspect, knowledge for evidence, implementation aspect, as well as partnership and collaboration. And of course, in terms of target, it's target different level of stakeholders, which I'm not going to spend more time on. This is just to provide you the background of the example that we'll be presenting. So in our sub-regional level here, which is a technical app of FLO for Eastern Africa covering nine countries and also a liaison office to Africa Union and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, we also have a nutrition support strategy in which capacity development is a key. So we have started capacity development activities at country level since 2019. Unfortunately, in 2020, it was stopped a little bit and we tried to adapt the contents and start recently. So we do individual capacity strengthening. We also have activities that are strengthening the enabling environment. For example, we support the creation and we are still supporting the running of the Eastern African Parliamentarian Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition under which six national alliances have been established and members are receiving a number of advocacy and capacity building activities on annual basis. We also develop manuals to train and to capacity. We also have thematic guidance for nutrition, mainstreaming both for FLO internal staff as well as member state. We also support with other divisions the development of Food and Nutrition Act or model law to strengthen the food security and nutrition environment. So coming back specifically this year, we have already conducted two workshops using the blended approach, but I will focus mainly on one, the one we did in Eritrea, which was kind of an adaptation of a three to five days workshop. We have to adapt it through a blended model. What do we call blended model? So we had a face-to-face presentation by national stakeholders that focus mainly on the context and on specific topics such as the nutrition context, the national framework and other aspects. We also have virtual live session delivered by different experts from the sub-regional office, from headquarters, from our country offices that building on the toolkit, I will show you later on what's the module we use based on the FLO toolkit for nutrition sensitive agriculture. And we also have self-guided learning, whereby we identify a number of relevant modules from the e-learning academy, which we assign to participants to take at the time they wish. So and we also have a face-to-face group facilitation. So again, this is the theory of change we have for the capacity building, the capacity strengthening in Eritrea. It is built on the framework developed again under the roadmap of FLO. So basically we had a project and under this project, there is a number of nutrition-related activities. And at the inception of this project, it was clearly stated that there need a capacity building not only for this project, but also to be able to design and implement nutrition sensitive program in the fishery sector, in the crop sector, in the livestock sector, and in the environment and livestock resources. So then the participants were at national level, we have a national technical committee, which is a multi-stakeholder body, and at sub-national level, key stakeholders involved in the project. So in terms of capacity assessment, we have a number of discussions. Again, the need was expressed during the inception of the project that this should be one of the first steps to have the implementation of the project. So we expect really to develop a common understanding and vision among stakeholders. And we also expect to develop individual skills and the confidence to implement not only the project, but also to design or the project. So we also have specific output and interventions. I'm not going again to spend much time on this. I think what is important for the topic is what we have done and how. So these are the key modules that really guide the contents. And these are from the toolkit for nutrition sensitive agriculture and food systems that are all available for free on our website. So we have key recommendations, we have design nutrition sensitive agriculture and investment option for interventions and companion for indicators. So for the eLearning Academy, we also identified module we feel are relevant that can be taken online at the time, the participant one. So to be able to manage properly the time, one week before we start, two module were assigned. And this module are extremely comprehensive enough to cover at least 50% of what we want to cover during the training. So these are the one improving nutrition through agriculture and food system and design and monitor nutrition, sensitive agriculture and food system programs. And the other three were then allocated throughout the workshop, most particularly in the afternoon. So in term of the programs, as I mentioned, the week before they have to take these two activities, two modules, and then throughout, they have also to complement the, throughout they have to take some of the modules. So when you go to the eLearning Academy, this is how the design of the first page of the module look like. In Eletria, internet is a big challenge, but the good thing is for us, we have the possibility to download the module, the complete module to download it, to put in a memory stick and to distribute to all participants so that they can take the course at their, at their space in their office. So we did that and, but we have, the eLearning also offers certification for every single module completed. So when they want certification, they can, they then can come back to FL office where there is a reliable internet and then take the digital certification and get certified for the single individual module they have completed. Of course, there were also a complete, another certificate of attendance for the whole. So we download, we distribute, and the good thing is that most of the participants complete the eLearning module, the first two assigned module before they come to the workshop. So, and in terms of structure to ensure that this is virtual, it is online, how do we ensure that people are not too boring? So most of the live session with experts were practically early in the morning when we start maximum two hours, we dealt with the key presentations, life from different experts around the world. And throughout the lunchtime, when needed, we have facilitated group work. We did have few group work that was moved in the afternoon, but most of the afternoon were really dedicated to self-learning, self-guided learning from the eLearning Academy. So what have we learned from this experience is that really the eLearning Academy module have been extremely useful. It's really helped participants to come a little bit more aware of what to recover, and also with some basic knowledge which they didn't have before. And the downloaded version really helped us mitigate the challenge associated to internet connectivity and other aspects. So we felt that it is cost-effective, this approach, because we were about six experts in different areas. So if we needed to have a face-to-face to have all these people there who need to pay for their transportation, the accommodation, DSAs, which will have increased the cost of the training. So of course, it helped us also to leverage the expertise from experts. If it was a face-to-face, all these experts will not be able to travel to Eritrea for sure. So because it was kind of mixed, we were able to have them on site and they were able to contribute. It also required, we also found that it required really a good person who can coordinate in the field, link the external to the internal, and also the person who is in field, if the person is not the lead facilitator, he needs to be prepared brief enough and participate in all steps of the preparation to be sure that they understand the instruction. But for example, the facilitated group work, the key experts are not there to explain the instruction. So the person on site need really to understand this instruction. And we have seen the difference between Eritrea and Somaliland that this is a very critical key aspect. And in Eritrea particularly, at the end of the workshop, they decided to create a technical working group which is now supporting the implementation of the project. In terms of, of course, we did have a number of challenges. For example, we have to respect the social distancing measure. And because the office, the training was, and for example, in FL office that was very small, we have to split them in two rooms and sometime the connection, the technology, all the rooms were not hearing the information at the same pace. Of course, we have some challenges with technology and because of the technology, the distance, it's delay, respecting the time was a bit critical. Also for the group work, so the group work instruction were not designed by the people who were in the field and sometime they have to come back to the different experts waiting to see clarification and go back to the group. There was limited access to computers and of course, internets was a key. Internets issue was a key. And so it's, in term of planning, definitely it's a require more time, additional time for planning, the logistic and many other aspect to be successful. So in summary, based on what I show about the numbers before, if we need to transform our food system, if we don't, we will be having more malnutrition with related health causes. While at the same time we'll have more food loss and harmful gas emission. And we believe that FLO strategies for nutrition and related capacity development roadmap provide really a good opportunity to strengthen capacity of members state and other stakeholders to support the food system transformation to our healthy diets. While the COVID force us really to change the way of operation, it's also challenged us to innovate. And we think that improving this approach, this blended learning approach, can be a good way to address some of the challenges that COVID have shown us. Again, the e-learning academy modules is a very interesting alternative. And the fact that it's one single module that is standalone, you can select whichever you want, based on the objective of your workshop. So we really found that the blended approach for us at least is a very cost effective and alternative way to face to face capacity building in time of COVID. And we still have few capacity building workshop to come and we are hoping really to improve on it to be able to have the same result as face to face learning. Thank you for your attention. Thank you so much, Dia for this wonderful presentation. I think it was particularly useful to learn from your perspective also about these challenges and lesson learned when delivering capacity, developing activities and specific tools at the sub regional level. As you can see, there are about 10 questions are ready for you in the Q&A box. So 11, I invite you to have a look while the other speakers will present. So then when we get to the Q&A moment, you can choose a couple and go ahead with a live answer. Then we will provide answers to all questions. So without any further ado, I now give the floor to Leslie Macheca, Director for Research, Innovation and Technology Transfer at Marundra University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Zimbabwe. He will present about climate change adaptation strategies and the nutrition nexus towards sustainable food systems. So Leslie, over to you. Thank you very much Fabio. Thank you, Dia for the presentation. And greetings to all the participants and everyone who has joined the webinar. Like introduced, my name is Leslie Macheca. I'm with Marundra University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology in Zimbabwe. So I'm going to present on climate change adaptation strategies and nutrition nexus and towards sustainable food systems. So you'll find as we are talking about sustainable food systems, the issue of climate change is one big threat to the sustainable food systems. So I'm going to look especially from the angle of adaptation strategies. The impact of climate change on nutrition, I think that have been discussed a lot but where the gap is is when the different mitigation and adaptation strategies that are put in place, they need to be nutrition sensitive. So my introduction, my presentation is outlined as follows. I'll start with the begon and introduction, climate change and nutrition nexus. I'll talk about a conceptual framework that we are working on. That's which will be the heart of my presentation. Then I'll give a conclusion. So you'll find the issue of climate change, adaptation to climate change and variability is a requirement for future sustainability of food systems. In order to overcome the impact of climate change, we need to adapt and that has an impact on our food systems. And the different strategies have been employed for communities, for them to survive the harsh climate change variabilities. And for example, in Zimbabwe over the past decade, there is an increased frequency of droughts and of late harsh environmental conditions such as floods. So we really need to adapt. And the different adaptation strategies can have positive and negative impact on nutrition outcomes. So that's very key as we are programming, as we are introducing the different intervention strategies, these adaptation strategies, we also need to make sure they do not have a negative impact on nutrition. They should have a positive impact. So we need to customize them to the environment which we are implementing these interventions or the adaptation strategies. So therefore the climate change adaptation strategies should be nutrition sensitive. So in order for us to have also sustainable food systems. Then I want to talk about the climate change and nutrition next to us. So you find climate change has increased, well, except a bit, the existing amount of nutrition problem in Southern Africa. And in Zimbabwe, we actually have your amount of nutrition, under nutrition, over nutrition on all these, even micronutrient efficiency. So climate change partly has contributed to this. And sustainable climate resilience and nutrient sensitive agriculture development is their fundamental and integral to improving nutrition outcomes in the face of climate change. So this is one of the frameworks that I think some colleagues maybe who are in the field of nutrition or who have been following the issue of climate change, factor in nutrition can understand or have knowledge about. So this is one of the frameworks from Terago in 2013 where it gives a comprehensive overview of climate change extremes, variability and influence on nutrition outcomes. Basically how do climate change influence nutrition outcomes? So in this diagram framework will show you that there are three key determinants, also food access, maternal and childcare and training practices and access to health service and environmental health. So all these are affected by climate change. But you'll find there are several of these frameworks, the previous colleague also showcased or talked about another framework also which is used to explain the linkage between climate change and nutrition. But however, as we have been researching or looking into the issue of impact of climate change on nutrition, there is a lack of emphasis on the impact of the different climate change adaptation strategies or the mitigation strategies on nutrition outcomes. So we are just talking about the different climate change adaptation strategies. For example, sometimes replacing, if I give an example Zimbabwe, replacing our maize or seed with small grains like sorghum, finger millet. But besides that, besides looking at a drought tolerant varieties, we should also look if these varieties can contribute to nutrition. So for food systems to be sustainable, it is crucial that adaptation mitigation strategies are nutrition sensitive. So there is need to consider the effect of these adaptation and mitigation strategies on nutrition outcomes. So one of the work we are doing at my university, we are working on a conceptual framework that links climate change, adaptation strategies and nutrition. And also the framework shows different indicators that can be used to assess the impact of climate change adaptation strategies on nutrition outcomes. And they're still under development, but I'll share what we are doing currently. So this is the framework that we have come up with and we are still further developing so that at the end of the day, we'd want to be able to assess the different adaptation strategies being proposed or being implemented to check if they have a positive or negative impact on nutrition outcomes. So as you see, the center of the call of this framework is our food system, agro-food system whereby you're talking about the issue of availability, access, utilization and stability, and including production, processing, distribution and consumption. So we are saying that the food system is affected by the climatic shocks and stresses and there are shifts in average temperature in rainfall conditions, extreme weather events, droughts, floods, storms. Two years ago in Zimbabwe, we have a cyclone, cyclone die, which also caused a lot of havoc, a lot of lives were lost. And even the issue of nutrition, the impact is still being felt. Then to circumvent the issue of these climatic shocks, we need to introduce adaptation strategies, which we are doing, which has been done, looking at the issue of copying, adaptation, adoption, transformation and resilience. I know most development partners are working and building resilience in communities. But however, all the adaptation strategies we implement or we come up with, we need also to conceptualize them to the context in which we are applying them, whereby we're talking about the enabling environment, issue of politics, policies, legislation, norms, even the issue of gender. So every day we should be able to look at the impact of these adaptation strategies using the different nutrition outcomes or indicators proposed. There are many, but these are a few we are suggesting, especially child nutrition, dietary diversity, infant and young children feeding practices, we should be able to assess whether a suggested adaptation strategy is also what its impact on infant and young children feeding practices. I'll give you an example. In Zimbabwe, some work that has been done or the different adoption strategies being introduced, you will find that sometimes because maize is not trial tolerant, youth are getting low because of the droughts. One value chain that is being promoted is the traditional grains. I mean the oatmeal millet, your finger millet, so-called. But if you check that value chain in Zimbabwe, it's not mechanized as yet. So there's a lot of manual labor involved. And you'll find when it comes to small grains, your finger millet, your tail millet, it's the women who are mainly involved and it's hard labor in manual labor. Then it also has an implication on even the feeding, young child children feeding practices because the mother will spend more time in the fields waiting on the small grains. So it's those impact of the different adoption strategies being introduced that we want to look at, that we want to ensure that before we introduce an adoption strategy, we also need to look at its impact on nutrition, its impact on different nutrition outcomes. So that's the framework we have been working on and we are still working on further improving it to become an assessment tool. So in coming up with the conditional framework, that's presented, we used different design principles. Principle number one is the systems approach. I think that has been said that that's why we call it a food system. It's a whole set of different components brought together. So in this program that I presented, we are talking about climate change, food systems and the different strategies and system outputs, different components that we are bringing together that we should not look at each other in isolation but as a food system. Another principle is that of a contingency theory because we are saying a system should match the environment in which it is being introduced. Other institutions, other food strategies introduced in Zimbabwe might not work in another different context, for example, maybe in Mexico or even in Zambia or neighboring country. So before we introduce or we adapt what has been done in other countries, we should also first assess whether that will have a positive contribution to nutrition outcomes in our own circumstance or environment. The other principle is that of system outputs, as I indicated, we need to have measurable for us to be able to assess the impact of an intervention strategy on nutrition outcomes for us to build sustainable food systems. So several indicators have been suggested and also many more can be added. So that's basically what we are working on also from the angle of climate change and nutrition nexus but food systems, it's a complex system which for us to work towards sustainable food systems also need to look at the different adaptation strategies that we are advocating, that we are implementing as in what's the impact on nutrition. Maybe on food security, maybe on production output, it might be a very viable, very good adaptation strategy but what's the impact of the strategy on nutrition outcomes that we should also put that high on the agenda. In conclusion, it should be the issue of the linkage between climate change, adaptation strategy and nutrition security is very much complex. So besides only talking about climate smart adaptations, we should also look at the if they are nutrition sensitive with they have to be nutrient sensitive for us to achieve sustainable food systems. And the conceptual framework I've just presented can be used as a guide in selecting and identifying more suitable climate adaptation strategies given specific contextual environment. And also future week, as I said, we are further developing with concept, conceptual framework I presented into it an assessment tool whereby various indicators and we should be able to assess using that to whether it's suggested right, identified adaptation strategy is nutrition sensitive or has positive nutrition and results in positive nutrition outcomes. So basically that's the way we are doing it but in the university as a way of contributing towards sustainable food systems. I thank you for listening and I'm looking forward to your questions. Thank you. Thank you so much, Leslie. I think it was very important your focus on the principles used in developing this framework for establishing a linkage between climate change, the adaptation strategies and nutrition security. It is indeed a very complex matter and should be translated into a more operative assessment tool. As you will notice, there is quite a few questions also for you in the Q&A box. So start having a look. You can select a few that you can answer live during the Q&A moment later. And you can also start tapping your answer to some of the questions. I now give the floor to our third speaker, Mr. Tonde Matsungo from the University of Zimbabwe. With this presentation on nutrition, agriculture and COVID-19 nexus food systems for healthier diets. Tonde de Flor is yours. You have 15 minutes. Thank you. Thank you. Leslie, can you stop sharing? Yeah, please Leslie, can you stop sharing? Thanks. Thank you. Okay, now you can go ahead and share your screen. Great. Okay, thank you, Leslie and Tia for the presentations and Fabio, thank you for steering the ship. So I'm Tonde Matsungo, a nutritionist practitioner from Zimbabwe. I'm going to take you through this topic where I'm going to be discussing the elephant in the room. It's the world gears towards food systems transformation. The elephant in the room is COVID-19. It's happened starting in Eters hard in 2019 and it's still with us. So I'm going to be looking at this topic and from an agriculture and nutrition lens. So this is the presentation outline, brief background, then I will also briefly zero on to the food system summary, the action tracks and also then share with you pointers of some of the reading materials that you can find online in the evidence that is available, highlighting the impact of COVID-19 on food systems. So I call it an elephant in the room because there's been a lot of disruption brought about by the pandemic. Of course, like what previous speakers have said, it brought its challenges, but it's also brought opportunities. And in the context of the food system summit and the 2030 sustainable development goals agenda, it's also an opportunity in 2021 to review some of the commitments and the reboot, efforts by national governments and organizations towards eliminating hunger in all forms of malnutrition by 2030. So as background, the summit is UN food system summit is going to be happening this year, the big event, they must attend. It's also to have the people summit, solution summit and the broad objective is rightly summarized by the UN special envoy Dr. Agnes Calibata who said in that call, the purpose of the summit is to setting up pathways and finding out new solutions towards an energized efforts towards achieving the SDG agenda by 2030. So it's going to happen under the auspices of the United Nations. So to start with, we also might want to remind each other what a food system is. A food system has several definitions if you look online and in other sources, but I'm pointing you towards this document by this scientific panel titled food systems definition, concepts and application. In that important document, the scientists arrived at a conclusion that in terms of food systems, it needs to at least meet the theory criteria that is outlined there. But as we already know, food systems comprises of a lot of access and food value along the food value chain. But what we're worried about now as we discuss the transformation agenda is to say these food systems also have to be sustainable to make sure that people actually have opportunities and presented that allows them to adopt healthy and nutritious health and active lifestyle. So that's the definition of a food system. This is the schematic outline also from a group of scientists where we see the interaction there of different system, the health system, economic system, climate change that Leslie was talking about is also important. We also have science and innovation, very critical as drivers of this transformation agenda. And I think that's very important that scientists also come to the table and contribute towards generating evidence that ensures that the transformation agenda is proceeding from an informed perspective. And of course, we know a food system is interlocked and also influenced by other systems, automatically also every bearing on nutrition and food security outcome. So this is a global perspective. We know we have many challenges Leslie has already spoken to issues of climate change. And now it's also affecting our efforts to ensure that every household is food secure. Also linked to losses of biodiversity and environmental issues. Nutrition wise, we also have the dual burden of malnutrition still amongst the number one challenge that we also have to address. But then in 2019, 2020, COVID-19 also happened and causes a lot of changes in terms of global focus and efforts to try and address the global or planetary change. The food system in different context can also be a victim or a culprit. We know climate change that Leslie has already spoken to again, a food system can be victims to climate change. And in the context of COVID-19, the disruptions also means that our food systems are also victims to this global pandemic. But in some instances, it can also be a corporate web. For example, it also contributes to increases in the global warming and CO2 emission. So these are the global challenges, but I think in the advent of COVID-19, it's a different book and all together. If we continue with the arguments or the discussion on food systems, yes, many domains, I'm looking at food and agriculture value change. When we're trying to talk about transformation of these food systems to make sure that they are delivering to humanity better nutrition and better health options, we realize that there is an interface at the food security network where all these efforts of trying to transform our food systems to make sure that we deal with elimination of food insecurity. And at the same time, this food system and the food environment also has to be supported for the adoption of health eating, consumption of fruits and vegetables, for example. So yeah, that's the transformation that all organizations globally are also pushing along to make sure that we have the systems responding to societal need. But as Francis had just highlighted, we have to proceed with this transformation agenda, also guided by understanding that we also have differences in terms of how we are going to approach this in different context. I'm happy to say that in preparation for the Global Food Systems Summit, there have been discussions and going on in different contexts, continent-wide and also national dialogues that are going on so that the solutions or recommendations that are going to come up are also context-specific and work in particular environment. So there's been some publication reports that have come out that's also trying to summarize current evidence as it refers to the impact of COVID-19 on food systems. In 2020, the state of the food and nutrition in the world report also then prioritizes the agenda of transforming food systems for affordable and healthier diet. We still keep asking behind at the back of our minds what could be the role or the impact of COVID-19 on the global or planetary efforts to transform our food systems so that they're also healthy. In 2021, again, we had another recent report looking at global report on food crisis, which is also another important to read reports for colleagues. We realized that if you try and summarize what is in that report, they clearly state and outline that in that report that our efforts to achieve the 2030 goals in targets. After the advent of COVID-19, it's greatly been compounded and disrupted and we need to re-energize, re-strategize to make sure that we remain on course to achieve the global nutrition health target. So if you look at that report again as summary, it tells us that about 155 million people from 55 countries were suffering food insecurity, I think beyond above the IPC class three. And if you look at some of the drivers in the tweets from the global nutrition report, we realized, of course, there's climate change, there's conflict, which are disrupting efforts, but there's also now a biggest elephant in the room, also COVID-19, which is having a lot of disruptions on these efforts to attain our nutrition objective. And also it produced a lot of reports, information, trying to synthesize and summarize evidence on the impact of COVID-19 on a local food system. So we realized that a lot of disruptions is special on the availability and access dimensions of food security that is compounding efforts to provide governments to make sure that every household is food secure and that we reduce the prevalence of the prevailing malnutrition in the micronutrient efficient statistic. So yes, Agra has given us that report. Going back to the summit, which has five traits, track number one to number five, which are not really separate entities, but we have to understand that these are interrelated components of food system to interrelated that they cannot be treated alone. So there are action traits one to five. And the first one is one that looks at ensuring that they have access to safe and nutritious food for all. In our food systems, they have to deliver on that and also address the other four objectives. And we still continue to act as we try and synthesize and summarize the global evidence and recommendations towards achieving the 2030 goals in target, COVID-19 still keeps coming up. What is the impact of COVID-19 on these global objectives? So the food system dimensions, six of them, but if you look at this diagram, it tells us that the food access dimension is the one that is usually have been impacted by COVID-19. It's listed in supply chain and also a lot of supply issues that makes also, impossible for also to access safe, healthy and nutritious food option. Agra also is their own conceptual framework which they have summarized. And if you look at it, there's also a lot of interconnections and a reminder that the food system is not existing alone, but it also interacts with other economic, social protection, environment systems to ultimately ever bearing on our objective of ensuring food security for all. So this slide summarizes some of the evidence in African context, it value chain original and also at the various levels. Production has been affected, supply chain has been affected and at the end, we realize that availability and access components of food security has been compromised. And also important, even the diet quality, there's also evidence pointing towards decrease in the diet quality of what people are consuming during the lockdowns in some cities. And in terms of the policy response from governments, most of the policy response in that figure, you realize they were aimed at reducing contamination or transmission of COVID-19 and ignoring some of the important aspects of stimulating food production, for example. So this is the evidence that is coming from the Agra report. We also have the IFP report, which colleagues can also look into. It also is focused on COVID-19 and efforts towards transforming food systems in the context of COVID-19 and other topics. If that report, I think two days ago, there was an Africa virtual launch, that happened, lots of discussions, but the message remains the same. COVID-19 has affected national and global food systems and there's an impact on the efforts by governments and governments are trying to ensure that they deal with issues of food insecurity. And if you look at the most vulnerable, the poor, especially in urban areas, isn't been the mostly affected by COVID-19. And chapter one summarizes some of the transformation elements that have to be focused on, but the message remains the same. The pandemic has disrupted our food systems affecting production, supply chain issues, even up to issues of consumption where it dies, that individuals are also consuming. But in the report, they also point out clearly in the recommendations that we also should take COVID-19 pandemic impacts as an opportunity to also ride on the transformation agenda for our food system. So that's the framework. Ultimately, COVID-19, if no action is taken, is actually leading to increased poverty and food insecurity in governments and partners have to come on board to make sure these are dynamics or dimensions or drivers are dealt with. So it's now even difficult to deal with the problem of poverty that is inherent in Africa, for example, in the context of COVID-19. Sorry, Tony, can you please wrap up a little bit? Otherwise, we have no time for our last speaker, but thank you so much. This is actually very interesting and useful. So this slide talks about the importance of our traditional food systems as we try to build resilience of communities to react to future threats like COVID-19. We need to ride on our traditional indigenous food systems which supplies the nutritious food options that can be utilized. Leslie has already talked to issues of climate change but yes, COVID-19, the underlying message there is that it's the compounding poverty and food insecurity in the world. And this calls for a multi-sectoral response because the problem of non-nutrition. These are the summary points which I have been highlighting. Poverty has been increasing and we need to make sure that in dealing with this threat from the pandemic, we adopt a multi-sectoral systems approach. I think that's the call for action from the Secretary-General of the UN that we need to transform our food systems to deliver on our nutrition objective. So I think with this, I thank you for listening. Thank you so much, Tonde. Sorry for asking you to wrap up a little bit earlier but I think that for all of us, this presentation has been very beneficial since the focus on food systems and the impact of COVID needs an overall rethinking and action on the development agenda, as you said, both at the multinational, international level paying attention to the growing climate change risks as also addressed by Leslie, the inequalities and disruption in food supply chains brought also by lockdowns. So it was very interesting to listen to this presentation. You have some questions in the Q&A. So we won't have much time later for the Q&A. So you can all already start looking at that and select some questions you would like to answer live. I now give the floor to our last speaker of the day from France, Miso Redi Zunino, who is the coordinator of the ANCA chair project at the Agro Paris Tech. So I find the presentation quite interesting and I'm sure it will be the same also for you as it regards the promotion of sustainable food behavior. So why don't leave you have the floor over to you. Your microphone, can you please activate it? Okay, I could see it. Yes, I'll just add a trouble. No problem, no problem. It's okay, it's ongoing. No problem, I can see it now, thanks. Okay, very good, thank you Fabio. So thank you very much and good afternoon everybody. So and thank you for the opportunity to give this presentation, which would be maybe a difference, but also effectively very complementary. So I'm Oreli Zunino and I'm working in Paris in France, more particularly for Agro Paris Tech and more precisely for a project that is called the ANCA chair. And so I will talk to you more particularly about through this presentations about would give you a feedback on the educational program and communication strategies that we are using to actually raise awareness to the citizens and to the consumer about food sustainability and the need to shift to more sustainable system. So you probably all seen those image or those videos of demonstration or climate marches that took place through the past year all over the world, showing that citizens are starting to be more and more concerned about the environmental challenging. And we also have figures that shows that they're encouraging train regarding consumers' willingness to adopt more sustainable food habits. So I put you here some data from France and Europe showing that for instance, 33% of French adults are actually, they're saying in 2017 that they are willing to adopt a more flexitarian diet. Also that according to recent surveys two thirds of European cost consumer were hoping to change their eating habits for environmental reasons. So there is actually really encouraging trends. However, the environmental challenge is very huge and very important. We show it through the other presentation and the need to change is very important. However, we know that food preferences and food choices and eating habits are very hard to change. And while it is known, particularly in the occidental countries that the food sustainability require a shift towards, for instance, to shift to more plant-based protein sources. Implementing those changes in practice is really harmed by several barriers. So you have, of course, the people lifestyle, their social cultural environment or also due to technical and economical barriers. And in most of the time, we observe that there is a gap, a gap between on the one end, the favorable attitudes and knowledge that people have about food sustainability. And on the other end, the actual purchase, the actual consumption and the actual food behavior. So the question here is, how are we succeed to reduce this gap and how we could help consumers to adopt a more sustainable diet? So of course, there is not only one solution on the table to this complex challenge, but education and awareness are levers that we are trying to use and trying to pull to achieve a more sustainable system. And so behind that, there is underlying questions that like the need to foster greater public awareness, like to empower citizens and also to find means and trigger to improve food behavior. So all those questions are on our plate. I would say in Bianca Chair, I would just give you a little bit information about the projects that I'm leading. So Bianca Chair is a non-profit project that is funded in Agrobiotech. So Agrobiotech is a French higher education and research public institute specialized in agronomy, agriculture and food. And my project, so Bianca Chair is also associated with the laboratory of nutrition and eating behavior of Agrobiotech. And so our aim is actually to promote sustainable food consumption and facilitate the shift to healthy sustainable diets by developing and designing innovative and playful scientifically robust program to help consumer daily food choices. So with those programs, we are really trying also to assess the effectiveness and to really foreseeing if it has impact on the food behavior. And for that, we are trying to identify means and trigger to improve awareness. Like it was said by Dia, the importance of the multi-checkholders environment to find solutions. And this is exactly where our project is really about because we are, of course, linked with science, with academic. It's our DNA, I would say, but we also work with business and policy bodies and of course, civil society to really include them. So to probably give you more concrete insight of the type of project that we are actually developing, I wanted to talk to you about a project that we just launched last March and that will end at the end of this month. It's actually a campaign named Je mange pour le futur. So it's a French campaign targeting millennials. So millennials, it's young adults ranging from the age of 18 to 35 years old. And this program aimed to encourage the shift to sustainable diet through entertaining and educational content. And this program was actually broadcasted on Instagram, so the social media. So you have here a bit of an insight of the program that you can find under the name Je mange pour le futur. So it's a program that you really develop end by end with a panel of scientists, researchers that is working in the field of food behavior, nutrition science, and with a team of artists that help us to develop those pedagogical content. So the pitch and the idea of this program is to actually follow these young girls that you can see on the screen, that her name is Sasha. She's a young, fictive influencer. She is actually leading an inquiry to adopt a more sustainable food habits. And so she will share like an influencer would do on Instagram. She will share the results of her inquiry. So it was the idea to use the storytelling levers as a purpose to avoid these subjects of food sustainability. So through this program, I wanted to give you more feedback on what are the ingredients that we use to develop our program communication program and what are the, I think the features that I think are good levers and are quite interesting to have a further information on. The first lever is that I wanted to talk to you about. It's more a methodological point of view, but I think it's very important and maybe done to her, but very, very important to me is to really know your audience when you are developing a communication program to understand their expectations and needs. And also there's also social norms to know, for instance, what are their knowledge about food sustainability, what are their food practices, et cetera. It's very important. And another point is also to implement a collective construction and to concretely involve the subject in the decision-making of the program. So this is what we have been doing through co-design workshop. So one of the features of the program that we develop at the Yonka Chair is to use social media. So it could be a bit surprising, but actually we think that it's an interesting vector and an interesting idea. An interesting vector and an interesting communication shell for several reasons. The first one is that, as I said, for this project, we were targeting millennials and it's an app that is very popular. So the idea is to use an app, a device that is already used by the audience. So to not recreate a platform and to really benefit of this audience. It's also enabled to reach consumer or people that probably are less aware about those questions. So to really raise awareness to numerous amount of people. And also, as you can see, it enables us to use various contents, so pedagogical contents. So for instance, we were using video contents like interview of experts. We were also disseminate information from literatures through infographic or through data. And also through the Instagram program, we have the ability to develop pools. So it's very useful, actually, to have a good image, a good picture, for instance of the food behavior of the communities that is following us. And to have also retrieve information about the knowledge that they have about food sustainability. So on a research point of view, it's really interesting and interesting data to collect. And also in social media, there is the social words. So it's really also very interesting because, of course, this media enable and facilitates peer-to-peer exchange. So it's also on the research point of your very interesting. And another point that we have noticed while we were doing audit and interviews with the panels, with the audience before implementing the program, we actually show that sometimes going through sustainable change or going through food behavior change can be a bit challenging and you can be a bit judged by your entourage, by your family and friends. So being in this program to be... It sounds like they are a bit in a community belonging to a community where the community that is going through the same inquiry and the same question. So it's also a good level to accompany the individuals. Another very important thing that we are really... That are very, very important to us and that really are part of the DNA of the program that we are developing is to do not have an injunctive discourses and to really focus the program on concrete solution. So focusing on positive message where food pleasure is really at core, is really in phases, is really an interesting settlement. We know that particularly in occidental countries, sustainable food could be seen by some consumer, by some things that is more restrictive, less palatable and also more expensive and disruptive in a way because one of the main recommendation, for instance, is to reduce meat. So people have the feeling that they have something in less in their plate. So it's really to show and to send the message that food sustainability could also be an opportunity to rediscover the pleasure of quality, to open to new food and to new taste. And so one of the assets of the program is to also propose concrete solution and daily life solutions, feasible solutions, landmarks. So that's why for instance, we are sharing tips and recipes, particularly to encourage the consumption of pulses or legumes that are not very consumed in France or at least not enough. And also to turn back also to seasonal vegetable that probably people didn't have the ability to cook them or that were not in their food repertoire. So it's also to give them some insight and to give them some advice and not just to deliver the meat, it pulses or it vegetables but to really give them practical advice to apply in their daily life. I will probably skip that if the time is consuming. Also something that I wanted to share with you is that this program will have an assessment because the idea is to see if it has some impacts. So we are actually implementing a longitudinal studies that will give us, for instance, some ideas of do the message that we have been passing through this program has been retained by the audience. Do we observe change in the individual's attitudes towards sustainable food? And do we see actually that this intention are turned into action? So we will expect the results as this fall. And to wrap up, I wanted to share three message that are important. I think is that when you are designing educational program, communication program, I think it's very important to identify the barriers of your audience because it's very important to make those change acceptable. And for that, it's very important to know the audience and to co-design the action. And the third one that I wanted to share something that was a lot of the thing for me lately was that to know that to shift to more, to shift to more sustainable food system cannot solely rely on individual consumer choices. We have to pay attention and have a certain balance while we are developing education program to not put too much burden on the shoulder of the consumer. Of course, their individual acts have, it was said in the literature that it has an important impact on the food carbon. So reducing there to shifting to more sustainable diet is very important. But we can notice sometimes that to put too much emphasis on the individual choices could have also the opposite effect and lead to a rejection of the action and lead also to a sort of a guilty tripping. So it's, I think something that is always interesting to have in mind and to have a balance. So thank you very much for your attention and don't hesitate if you have any question. Excellent, thank you very much Aurelie. The focus on how to adopt more sustainable diets was extremely important and it was interesting to discover the role of anchor chair and to learn more about your mission and through the case study that you presented. Thank you very much. There are a few questions also for you in the Q and A. Unfortunately, we won't have much time for that. We have about 12 minutes until the end of the webinar. So can you stop sharing the screen for a moment? So I will first of all share the list of the related learning courses. Okay, I'm sharing the list. Can you please see it? Can you confirm? Great, so this is the list that I have been writing also in the chat. These are all the follow learning courses available as a global public good in our website. I have been sharing the links also in the chat box, but we will send them to you also via email. So you can check the chat box for the links. I will send once again the link also to the space where we will upload the recording and the various presentations and Q and A. But for the time being, let me go back to Dia as we want to have a first round of answers to the questions. There won't be much time for all of them but you will find all question and answers in the Q and A box that we will prepare afterwards. So, Dia, you can select one question that you want to answer live and then I will ask to Leslie and Orelie to do the same. So we go in the same order with one question then if we have more time, we can do another round. So over to you, Dia. Thank you, thank you so much. I think there was one question from Demery whether or not the e-learning courses are free for all countries. I think, yes, it's wherever you have access to internet, you can download the e-learning courses but the current requirement, I think you need to have a window and there was one question on that which Fabio will respond if we have planned for iOS and other world. So, Ethiopia not in the road map. All the countries are potentially in the road map but we have started a process. In fact, Ethiopia is one of the countries where we are planning to have to one of the second set. There's also on the request from countries as well as opportunities. Over. Thank you so much, Dia, just to add on what you just said. Yes, the courses are actually usable and visible also from a Mac computer, so not just from Windows. So this is just to clarify on this aspect. And with any further ado, I go to Leslie for the question you selected. Fabio. So there's a question from Michael Fredman who was asking whether in Zimbabwe the introduction of orange-flavored sweet potato is a strategy that we are considering. And the answer is yes, in Zimbabwe, through Harvest Plus, they launched on the 13th of April of this year, they launched the orange-flavored sweet potato program. So that's one value chain which contributes positively to nutrition outcomes. And also the variety is drought tolerant. So bio-fortification has been a strategy used in Zimbabwe to circumvent the impact of climate change. And on the other hand, it's another strategy that has positive nutrition outcomes. In Zimbabwe, we have launched previously through Harvest Plus again, they launched orange maize which is a vitamin A bio-fortified. It has excess text. There's also iron-fortified sugar beans. Now the orange-flavored sweet potato. So bio-fortification is one strategy, adaptation strategy that has positive nutritional impact. Thank you. Thanks a lot, Leslie. Tunde, do you want to answer one or two questions? Yes, thank you Fabio. I have a question from Monica Tatza. She was asking about the links between soil and nutrition and also the nutrition indicators for the humans. Yes, so I think the question was whether I agree whether there is a link. I think there's growing evidence that there could be linkages between soil, micronutrient profile, and also the forage of a nutrient profile as well as the micronutrient status of in the habitants of that area. So yes, I agree to that notion but there's still building evidence on that offer. Thank you, Tunde, already. Maybe there is time for one or two answers also from you. Yes, of course, there were a question that I was typing. It was about the program, how do we measure the impact and the results? So I talked about it, but very briefly. Actually, so we are doing a longitudinal study that will actually follow 20 persons. So it's a small panel. 20% so it's mostly a social assessment. And so it's longitudinal, so we will follow them from the beginning of the program during the program and after the program. And it's based mostly on interviews, face-to-face interviews, and also focus group methods that will be used. We also retrieve some information from the platform, from Instagram platform. So we have different statistics, demographic statistic, but also some figures like the number of likes of the posts, like the impressions of the posts, et cetera, et cetera. So Instagram's data also enabled to have some interesting feature to know more, for instance, what type of content was the most efficient, what type of content that received the most comments, et cetera, et cetera. And yeah. Great, thank you, Raleigh. Thank you, speakers, for your excellent presentations and for answering to a few questions. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time for answering to all of them, but let me just reassure the participants that we will provide a detailed Q&A document at the link that I have shared recently in the chat. So there we will upload the comprehensive question and answers document with all questions and answers that have been done during this webinar. So just let me also say that the recording, as I wrote together with the presentation, will also be made available at the same link. Please have a look at the courses that I'm sharing here on the screen and that I will share again with you. Also let me inform you, since there were a couple of questions about this, and it's always asked also in past webinars. Digital badges are granted to learners who take our courses and pass the evaluation with 75% score or higher. Therefore, I invite you just to have a look at the offer of our courses. You can find out more also by navigating through the FAO Learning Academy webpage. You can found out about these links that I shared with you. I take this opportunity also, apart from thanking you all for the participation today. I also want to tell you that on the 26th of May, so Wednesday, 26th of May, we will have another webinar on why develop capacities on risk management in agriculture. This webinar will be co-organized with our colleagues from EFAT, more specifically from PARM and PharmD in EFAT. So we welcome your participation also for this session and for the future ones. I want to thank again, all of you participants for joining this session, our partners of the series for putting us in touch with these academia speakers and an agreement, of course, and future for the Institute and UNS cap for the usual support in our series. So thanks to all of you. Thank you participants for joining us today. We look forward to seeing you again in our future sessions and we will let you know about the material that we will made available in our platform. You will receive an email from us in the next day. So thanks again to all of you and I wish you all a good evening, morning, afternoon in your country since these webinars are global. So thanks to all of you.
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Last Minute DIY Holiday Treats | Chocolate Reindeer Pretzels | Christmas Party Ideas
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Please enjoy this #Buzzfeed Nifty Chocolate Reindeer Pretzels DIY
Where you told to bring dessert last minute to a holiday party? Well, no need to worry. This DIY holiday treat is not only delicious but it's simple and easy to make in a matter of minutes. Want to see how I made this delicious Christmas DIY treat, then keep watching. It will surely be a hit at your Christmas party! I hope you enjoy!
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So the first thing we're going to do is pre-heat our oven to 7, no it's just Janine welcome back to my channel thank you so much for tuning in unfortunately this is not going to be a hair video or hair tutorial for you guys today but I am going to be doing a quick little treat or snack and keeping with the holiday season so as you know Christmas is just right around the corner so I want to share with you guys something I found online from nifty if you don't know who nifty is look them up on Facebook also on YouTube they do a lot of recipes quick and easy simple recipes that anybody can do for the most part so one of the recipes that came up was their reindeer pretzels so I wanted to recreate this this little treat that they did for the holidays because I thought it was super cute super easy and it's something that anybody can do you can get your kids involved your grandkids involved love one's friends and I'm sure to be a hit at any holiday get-together event or party the best thing about this recipe is it includes two of my favorite things sweet and salty I love the combination of sweet and salty so this is perfect for me I love sweet and salty treats this is also the time of year where people get really creative or at least try to find some creative things that they can bring to their holiday parties and get-togethers so I want to show you all this very quick and easy recipe which is only three ingredients is pretzels M&Ms and chocolate that's that's pretty much it so I'm just going to show you really quickly how I'm going to recreate this holiday treat so the first thing we're going to do is start with our wax paper and we're just going to line a sheet pan with the wax paper and we're just going to sit this to the side for now over here we have chocolate covered caramels aka rollo's then we have our red M&Ms which will be for the nose and we have our pretzels and as you can see this is very cheap because it just says pretzel no brand name pretzel alright so we're going to start by unwrapping these rollo's before I eat any more of them now we're going to preheat the oven to 170 until the chocolates are slightly melted all right so the pretzels are fresh out of the oven and the chocolate is slightly melted so now we're going to take our M&Ms as the nose and we're just going to place them right on top of the chocolate alright so we're just going to once again take these little red M&Ms and just place them on top of the nose and just press them down whoop I think I went down too far just try to do this as far not too firm but just lightly now the last thing we're going to do is take the remaining pretzels that we have left over and we're just going to break these in half which is a little difficult but these are going to be the antlers so we'll put two of them here and we're just going to do these for each one just break them in half and we're just going to they don't have to be perfect either because there's no way you can break these things up perfectly so what we're going to do is we're going to put these in the refrigerator and just allow the chocolate to harden so that way to hold the antlers on really good and that's pretty much it so the pretzels are nice and chill and we're just going to transfer and we're just going to transfer our reindeer onto a nice Christmas platter just be very careful not to break them and there you go we have our reindeer's just in time for the Christmas Eve party just in time for your Christmas Day party but just in time for the festivities and you can just sit these anywhere and I'm sure that they would definitely be an eye-catcher at your holiday party never mind the hair because I got to do my hair I have not done my hair yet it's supposed to be wash day Sunday but today has just been a long day and I've been ripping and running all day and I have just not had time to get to it but I'm going to get to above for the holidays before Christmas because I'm not gonna you know ring in Christmas for new years with my head looking like this so but never mind that I just want to put that in here just just for your FYI so just want to show you all this video just very quickly and I hope you enjoyed I hope you would like to give it a try and try for your holiday event if you're having a holiday event or if you just want to just snack on something for the holidays this is a nice little treat that you can make very simple and easy so I just want to show that to you and I hope you enjoy it so I will see you guys on the next video and to give you a little hint about what the next video is going to be try to guess but anyway I will see you guys on the next video if you like this video that I did on this little holiday treat please give this video a thumbs up please comment subscribe and don't forget to click the notification bell so you'll be notified of the next video that's coming it's just Janine I will see you guys on the next video bye guys
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The Sexiest Part of Your Body - Seema Anand StoryTelling
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One baby step at a time….
We are so conditioned to hating different parts of ourselves based on the standards that have been laid down by society.
Positive mental attitudes and self love are wonderful but they don’t start from nowhere. It all has to begin with you and from within you.
In the Kama Shastras they believed that every part of the body was an erogenous zone, every part of you was worth loving and every part of you was capable of feeling the love - it just depended on how you treated it!
Let’s make this your slightly belated New Years resolution.
Start your real “self love” journey today. Fall in love with yourself and then watch the world change around you.
Quote from Bhanudatta’s Rasmanjari 3.4. (English translation by Sheldon Pollock, Clay Sanskrit Library)
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Your half closed eyes, your smiles and your glances are enough to bring the whole world into the palm of your hand. So what can you be speaking here, cruel lady, by revealing a sight that is of the rarest beauty, your underarm? Did you have a thing that you would actually be reading poetry about the beauty of your underarm and that too written by one of the most famous Sanskrit poets of all times? Actually, in ancient times the underarm was considered to be the sexiest part of a woman's body and I know that you're all at this point going, oh, but that is the real problem, not the underarm, but that we think that most of our body is either ugly or disgusting. We literally only like on average about 5% of ourselves the rest we have a problem with and just think, how can you ever learn to love anyone if you cannot even begin to like yourself? So we're going to break that cycle. True self-love starts today and it starts with the underarm and if you're still going ugh because you think this is also sweaty and horrible, come on, get real. A little bit of soap and water will fix that instantly, so freshen up and then go figure out why the kamasutra says that this part of you is so sexy.
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SCP-285 | A Hack Job (SCP Orientation)
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SCP Orientation is an archive of files of the SCP Foundation.
Today we will be studying Item number SCP-285: A Hack Job, Object class: Euclid.
SCP-285 is an anomalous humanoid entity with no defined shape or internal structure, the exception being SCP-285-A (an Ethernet port, which allows access to SCP-285's internal database), which consistently manifests itself on the object's back. SCP-285's body changes sporadically, with no pattern among the alterations; despite the trauma SCP-285 incurs as a result of this bodily mutation, it will not at any point display signs of homeostatic distress. Subject claims it cannot control these changes. These changes include, but are not limited to:
Loss and growth of new limbs.
Variable size and shape of body parts.
Loss and growth of height and mass
When SCP-285-A is accessed by a computer capable of wired connections between networks, various files are capable of being accessed. These files (SCP-285-B) contain various text files, audio files, cognito-hazards, and videos. Approx. 90% of all files have been corrupted.
Proceed to begin your training.
This video is derived from https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-285 and released under Creative Commons Sharealike 3.0. Contributor: Deleted Account (Rewrite author)
Voice Over Artist: Greg Katerman; Twitter: @DatGreyMind
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Item number SCP-285 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-285 is to be kept in a level 3 humanoid containment chamber on Site 43's B-Wing. SCP-285 is to be given basic amenities. Following SCP-285's recent cooperation with the Foundation, SCP-285 has allowed exactly two hours of free-roaming Site 43's botanical gardens, with supervision by at least one guard if it so chooses. Personnel are not to discuss SCP-285's past with POI-6938 without approval of Site 43's director. If this occurs, authorized technical staff are to manually remove the information from SCP-285-B via use of SCP-285-A. SCP-285-B instances are not to be edited without the permission of the administrator of Site 43's technical staff. SCP-285 is to never be given its full abilities back under any circumstances. Description SCP-285 is an anomalous humanoid entity with no defined shape or internal structure, the exception being SCP-285-A, which consistently manifests itself on the object's back. SCP-285's body changes sporadically, with no pattern among the alterations. Despite the trauma SCP-285 incurs as a result of this bodily mutation, it will not at any point display signs of homeostatic distress. Subject claims it cannot control these changes. These changes include, but are not limited to, loss in growth of new limbs, variable size and shape of body parts, loss in growth of height and mass. SCP-285-A appears to be an Ethernet port, which allows access to SCP-285's internal database. When accessed by a computer capable of wired connections between networks, various files are capable of being accessed. These files, SCP-285-B, contain various text files, audio files, cognitive hazards, and videos. 90% of all files have been corrupted. The cause of this corruption is currently unknown. Additionally, SCP-285 is only capable of accessing files that were formed within its own database. Investigations into SCP-285-B and its contents reveal that editing of SCP-285-B could cause external changes on SCP-285's body and psychological state. To what extent this is possible without causing permanent damage to SCP-285 is currently unknown. It is believed that POI-6938 used this ability to evade GOI-102, unusual incidence unit, through consistent use of editing SCP-285's facial structure and body type, along with editing and thomacological-based offense capabilities to defend against GOI-102 agents. Recovery SCP-285 was recovered following an attempted arrest involving itself and an unknown individual, currently believed to be SCP-285's creator in Las Vegas, Nevada. SCP-285 and the unknown individual, POI-6938, were initially pulled over for speeding before the officer discovered that POI-6938 had attacked a federal building in California. This federal building was later revealed to have been under the direct control of GOI-102 and was used as a prison for anomalous humanoids. The attack by POI-6938 and SCP-285 ended in the deaths of 34 GOI-102 personnel and the release of roughly 70% of the prison population. The officer attempted to arrest SCP-285 in POI-6938, but was attacked by SCP-285. POI-6938 then escaped, leaving SCP-285 with the officer. SCP-285 was then arrested and put into GOI-102 custody before eventually being given over to the foundation, following an anomalous trade of information between GOI-102 and the foundation. Both local law enforcement and federal agents were unable to locate POI-6938. Anomalous pathways located in Nevada are currently being investigated with joint foundation UIU task forces. Interview Log Interviewer Dr. Henderson Subject SCP-285 Begin Log Dr. Henderson What is your purpose? SCP-285 I don't know Dr. Henderson How do you not know? SCP-285 I just don't know. I have an idea of why it was created, but I'm not too sure. Dr. Henderson Well, tell me why you think you were created. SCP-285 Well, to entertain kids. Originally, I think. Although, my purpose was probably altered for lack of a better word. Dr. Henderson How do you think you were altered? SCP-285 It's hard to explain. I remember some things perfectly, but others I can't even think of. I think he was mad and he wanted to hurt someone. And he used me to help hurt them. I hope he didn't succeed. Dr. Henderson Why do you not want him to succeed? SCP-285 I don't want to hurt anyone. Dr. Henderson Then why did you attack that officer? SCP-285 pauses. SCP-285 I just did as I was told. But I think that's the only time he ever made me hurt someone. At least, I think he did. Dr. Henderson Why do you think your creator put these various files onto you? SCP-285 Insurance, I guess. Dr. Henderson Explain. SCP-285 You see, I remember my, uh, database for lack of a better word. Being biological in nature. My brain taps forehead. Contains all the information in my database. Even if I can't access anything he put on me. Or anything he didn't want me to see. Dr. Henderson So, if your brain were to be damaged, or if you were to die. All the files within your database would disappear. SCP-285 Not disappear as much as just become corrupted. But, yes, that's the idea. He wanted to make sure that if I was to get captured by the UIU or whatever it was called. That they wouldn't have been able to read my files. He really hated those guys. Maybe that's what made him mad in the first place. I remember whenever I brought it up, he'd get angry. And yell at me a lot. I cried a little. Not a lot. He hates when I cry. It's not my fault that he created me to cry. Dr. Henderson Did he bring anything up that would maybe have explained why he was so angry? SCP-285 No. But the way he sounded, it was like the end of the world to him. That's why he created me, I think. Why he altered me. He wanted to use me as something, as a weapon, I guess. Whatever it was, he wanted to hurt the UIU. He used to go on and on about how they were evil and deserved to be destroyed because they took everything from him and how they all need to die. It was scary. Dr. Henderson Well, the UIU is not evil. I can say that with confidence. SCP-285 How, though? He told me they kidnapped and murdered innocent people who'd done nothing but exist. Told me how they made being alive hell for him and his friends and family. I've never had a family, but that must hurt, right? Dr. Henderson Whatever your creator told you, it was inaccurate to reality. SCP-285 If you say so, Dr. I trust you more than him, anyways. Dr. Henderson Why do you think your creator left you behind? SCP-285 He was done with me. Dr. Henderson How was he done with you? SCP-285 He had done what he wanted to do, whatever it was. I guess I was just one more loose end. Dr. Henderson If you truly were a loose end, as you described, why did he not kill you himself? SCP-285 I think he was, and after uploading all the files into my database, he was gonna do that. But he got interrupted, and he panicked, and he had just hoped that the cop would just finish me off. Glad he didn't do that, you know? I like living, better than whatever I was before. Dr. Henderson Why do you think you wanted to get rid of all the files in your database? SCP-285 Something was there, something about some other people. He did something to them. Stole something real important to them. I think he was a part of them at one point, but left. Maybe I was a part of them too, I don't know. But I know that whatever group it was, he didn't want them coming after him. Or finding me. Dr. Henderson Do you remember the name of this group? SCP-285 I don't know, man. I remember him talking about some f***ing stoners, but that's pretty much it. End log Addendum 285.1 The following collection of documents are filed in chronological order based off of documents from SCP-285's internal database and GOI-102 related documents. The purpose of this collection is to provide a possible time frame regarding SCP-285's creation and POI-698's overall motive and goal. Document A The following document was a deleted audio file, believed to be addressed as SCP-285's original owners. Data corrupted. I don't give a damn what Blunt thinks or says. I need him. Without him, I wouldn't have gotten this far. The damn feds are crawling all over the damn place. And this guy is the only thing keeping them away from me. If anything, you should be glad he's around. Better for them to be mined to oblivion than just killed, right? Man, you really gave this guy some sweet powers. You sure this guy was meant to be a kitty thing? I thought we were meant to be pacifists or something. Not that I'm complaining. You know, that's the one thing I've always hated about you two. You're too damn soft. You don't ever fight back. You just sit on your ass and make jokes and do nothing. Yeah, it was fun what we did. For a while at any rate. Then Jordan got taken. You two wouldn't understand what it's like to have to take care of someone. Look after someone. Do some real shitty things to protect the ones that you love. Data corrupted. And every damn time I tried asking you and the others about what we should do about Jordan. About how the Ravens took it. Remember what you fucking said, Jude. He got what he deserved? Well, I remember that. Data corrupted. Maybe we need a couple of terrorists in the world. To knock the man a peg or two down. Data corrupted. Document B. Document currently believed to be in reference to Jordan from Document A. UIU file. 2016-982. Codename. Marrymaker. Summary. Suspect capable of performing high-class thomatology and minor reality warping. Possible connections to the Serpent's Hand. An anomalous terrorist organization. And is primarily active in Southern California and Nevada. Possible member of the secretive location known as the library. The main base of the Serpent's Hand. Name. Unknown. But has consistently given out the first name Jordan. Irregularity cross-reference. Human. Magician. Terrorist. American. Serpent's Hand. Physical description. Note. Subject to consistent changes. Sex. Male. Height. 72 inches. Weight and build. 189 pounds. Large. Race. White. Hair. Brown. Eyes. Blue. Identifying attributes. Tattoos depicting a hand strangling an American eagle. Hammer smashing a five-pointed star. And several hands tugging at a logo. With three arrows pointing inwards. Capabilities. Suspect is capable of performing offensive thomatic spells. These spells include fire-based projectiles. Sentient flesh-based creations formed from his own epidermis. And capable of forming ways. These ways are not permanent and are incredibly unstable. In all cases, ways produced by the suspect are incapable of transporting him at long distances. These ways also cause temporary physical and mental effects to the suspect. Suspect suffers from vomiting and nausea after forming ways. Purpose and motive. Primarily motivated by hatred of organizations or agencies responsible for preserving and maintaining consensus reality. Along with curbing activity in the anomalous community. Believes that the only way anomalous humans can continue to exist is by the destruction of any and all normalcy agencies. Willing to cooperate with any group or person as long as this primary motive is maintained. Modus operandi. Suspect often works with terrorist organizations. Specifically the Serpent's Hand. Various anarchist sects. And, on one occasion, with a currently unidentified anomalous terrorist group. Its cooperation is often in tandem with the organization's opposition to normalcy agencies. Behavior. Behaves with very little remorse or empathy towards non-anomalous entities. Exhibits unwillingness to socialize with other people. Both anomalous and non-anomalous. Document C. The following document was recovered inside of SCP-285's memory files. Originally a video, but only the audio was recovered. Audio begins with the sound of a car driving down a road. A male voice can be heard talking, identified as POI-6938. POI-6938. They're f***ing animals. All of them. They beat us. Abuse us. Make us follow their rules. Which always f***ing put us at a disadvantage. And they expect us not to fight back. It's horrible. SCP-285 does not speak. POI-6938. Well, me and you will show them. We're gonna get Jordan back. And then him and me and you are gonna take this world. Right, Hacks? SCP-285 does not respond. POI-6938. Right, Hacks? SCP-285. Yes, yes, sir. POI-6938. That's more like it. Now get ready. Some feds are up ahead. This place should be where they keep the prisoner lists and s*** it. And hand me that mask. Just cause you don't need one doesn't mean I don't. The car slows down to a halt. With the two car doors opening and slamming closed. Faint talking can be heard. Along with the sound of a door opening and closing. Audio cuts out for 31 minutes. Before beginning once again. Vomiting noises can be heard. As someone is yelling. POI-6938. God f***ing dammit. You f***ed up. Can't you do anything right? SCP-285. Sorry. Alright, I just can't. SCP-285 is cut off by vomiting. POI-6938. Dammit blunt. Why did he have to make you so much of a pansy? SCP-285. Oh god, I can't do this. It hurts. POI-6938. I'd expect so. They made me put that feature in. SCP-285. They? POI-6938. Yeah, the f***ing stoners. Blame them for what's going on. When someone like me or some other person feels bad for killing someone. It's like five times as painful for you. Increased empathy and the like. I would have made you like me, but they just had to be... Vomiting noises begins again. SCP-285. Get it out of me. Help me. Make me a sociopath or something. I can't. I won't do this for the rest of my life. POI-6938. I can't. It's a built-in thing they made me put in you. I'd have to kill you to remove it. Or some better get used to it, Hacks. Thankfully, it wasn't too useless. We got what we needed. Go and get some rest or whatever. SCP-285. Yes, sir. End video. Document D. The following phone call is believed to be between POI-6938 and POI-6939. Jordan. After they'd escaped the correctional facility where Jordan had originally been placed. POI-6938. Hey, dude. You there? Jordan. Yes, I am. What happened? POI-6938. F*** if I know, man. Our, uh, mutual friends did something to Hacks. Jordan. What do you mean did something to it? POI-6938. I can't mess with his files now. Without possibly killing him at any rate. Jordan. And? POI-6938. Which means he's a liability. They know his face. And he doesn't have any of the fancy stuff he used to have. Now he just sorta... changes at random. He's too dangerous. Jordan. What do we do? POI-6938. We, uh, do what we need to. Jordan. Of course. Where will it be? POI-6938. Outside of Vegas. I'll meet you at Salt Lake. Jordan. Alright. Just be careful. Alright? POI-6938. You know I am, brother. Love you. Jordan. Love you too. Addendum 285.2. The following document was discovered inside of a sealed envelope. Addressed to Site 43 staff. Dear janitors slash ravens. I know this type of thing isn't our usual style. But we as a group decided that this situation couldn't be considered normal by any stretch of the imagination. We know you have hacks. And we know what happened to him. Including what happened with Ken and Jordan. And what they planned on doing to him. How we know this is not important. But what is important is what we learned from it. Then we just want to say one thing to everyone involved. We're sorry. We're sorry we trusted a monster who we thought was our friend. We're sorry that we couldn't stop him in time. We're sorry that we couldn't prevent what you went through hacks. I and the rest of the group went to say that we never wanted this to end this way. For hacks. For you janitors. Or for the ravens. Who didn't deserve what happened to them. We just wanted to bring happiness to children with your powers. We just wanted to mock you and the ravens. We didn't mean for this. We never intended for things to end like this. We're so, so sorry. Signed. Gamers against weed. P.S. don't worry about Ken or Jordan. We've dealt with them. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation. Go watch SCP-284. The twins. Right now. Or for the complete course. Watch this playlist.
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All right y'all we just arrived to Ontario, California for the Burbank card show We're getting ready to walk into the show make some deals see what we can find and hopefully make some new friends We'll see y'all soon You Really hyped to get some David Ortiz. Let's go first deal of the day So that's what I What's up everyone? We're here at the Burbank card show. We're at David extraordinary cards table So extraordinary first deal of the day of the Burbank card show. We picked up this amazing lot We've got one of ones. We've got rookie autos We've got old players. We've got Hall of Famers Everything we could want Dave's always looking out for us. We appreciate this deal You first of any deals in person for the whole week ends. I'll keep it going We just picked up these two cards from Fractor Coleman. Make sure you check them out on Instagram Always has he one of the biggest Herbert collectors in the industry Easy deals away great guy Waiting cards give them a follow We're here at Burbank third deal of the day We just got a nice lot picked up from Jordan headlined by a Steph Curry Spectra out of 49 9 5 10 be on the lookout for that one in an almanac Appreciate it. Thanks guys Thank you. Just picked up one more lot. We appreciate the quick and easy deal all the dealers that we've interacted with so far super Willing to work with us not being firm on their stickers love to see it many deals to come In Bap a boom picked up from Eddie always looking for kabooms can't ever go wrong with a case hit I All right, y'all we just finished up an insane lot purchase here with grand slam sports cards My two favorite pickups from this lot have to be the CJ 2k Exquisite RPA and just Sean Jackson on the exquisite RPA I'm hoping to find more cards like this throughout the show today What's up y'all we're at the Burbank card show and the last clip you saw me talking about Shaquille O'Neal's nicknames. I was wrong. He's not the big cactus But he is the big Aristotle talk about an iconic card the notable nicknames from national treasures We just finished another nice lot pickup Mostly basketball here, but you can never go wrong With a gold mosaic PSA 10 of one of the best running backs What's up everyone I'm here with Luke he traveled all the way from England to the Burbank card show We're excited to pick up some soccer cards from them. It's not our first deal. We've made we've made some huge deals in the past You'll have to hear about So yeah, the first time I met Lane was at the Atlantic City show and I actually picked up a one-of-one Ronaldo from him This is one I picked up today. So it's just nice nice that we've picked up more one-of-one Ronaldo's Like I say me and Lane did our first big one-of-one Ronaldo back at the Atlantic City National and now we've just done a deal for some more soccer All right, y'all so we finished the deal with Luke I just wanted to highlight a few of my favorite cards from that lot So first up we got the PSA 9 messy from his first World Cup card Then we got the Kaboom KDV again, you're seeing a trend we can never go wrong with Kabooms Out of 25 Julian Alvarez one of the best young stars in the game And in out of five Airling Holland PSA 10 those were my favorite four pickups from that lot from Luke So this one here, I'm gonna be highs we do I need like fifteen hundred They're all in that box Old-school one-of-one niggie triple threads. Yeah, we got to go with this Go have a good year gonna balance. I think so 375 oh Top's finest Buster Posey Letterman rookie autos These are just the auto grade as a 10 So you're not grading the card here, but they are guaranteeing a 10 auto's on this Letterman rookie Wow Roughly where you almost 375 yep We'll do both co-fax is the co-fax for as well I'll go with that co-host to that's just a discussing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah the Parker's number to 10. Yeah, let's do that What's up everyone we're here with strike zone from Penaluma, California We just pulled out this gigantic lot of cards We're gonna get to work pricing it making sure we come up with a number that works for both of us We're excited to add all of these cards to future almanacs and building relationships here at the Burbank card show It's a whole thing. Yeah, once you take that as my whole set That's the set. What's the total right there? This one seems closer So the reason why is the center, right? So it's I feel so you have to look at I feel that's what people want to see Right, so if you tell me that that one right here, then I can switch them 150 100 110 800 Sweet ass card It doesn't get much better than that to 25 to 25 so 450 All right, everyone we cannot thank John enough for taking the time to work out this massive deal with us here at the Burbank card show We bought about a hundred cards from John our first ever deal with him and we can't wait to make more deals Thanks very much So we came to Burbank with the goal to fill up one Zion case We're about seven deals into the day our first day at the show and we already almost got a full case We might be able to build more almanacs than we thought Who's the race car driver? Yeah Is it bad if I don't know who Tom? What's up everyone? We are at the Burbank card show funny enough We traveled all the way to California to do a deal with someone from our backyard We got Bryant from Tampa card shop and we just picked up this really nice lot off of them You never know who you're gonna find all the way out in California What's up everyone? We have been hunting for dynasty patch autos all day today We finally found a booth with some and Jeremy hooked us up with a massive deal on this dynasty lot Let's see which ones. He's happy and sad to let go of I mean, I'm sad to miss out on any of these This soda with Jackie Robinson patches about the nastiest thing I've seen a long time I'll miss them all Mickey hudge we got Hoffords galore These are these are my babies Day one at the Burbank card show was all that it was hyped up to be Dealers were getting their tables bought out from them. We were lucky to be able to pick up a lot of nice cards Here's my five favorite from day one First up Tyrese maxi psa 10 variation It's rare to find these in a psa 10 then Dishon Jackson Exquisite patch auto with the psa 10 auto grade another super rare find One of the best hitters in my lifetime. Maybe in all of baseball the machine Albert Pujols on the rookie auto with a clean auto as well still sealed 2018 dynasty rookie patch auto Rafael Devers one of the most underrated players in baseball Let's see what the red sox do this year and last but not least The man that has lived lived up to all of his hype Bryce Harper Bowman rookie auto true gem Theoretically, this is his first bowman auto. Hope you all like these five pickups We cannot wait to see what day two has in store for us
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Day 1 - Toolkit Implementation (Parallel Session) - DHIS2 Asia-Pacific Regional Conference Nov. 2023
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My name is Yuri Rogachev. I'm a DHS2 implementer consultant at the HISP UIO based in Norway, originally from Russia. I'm very happy to be here and I will share some insights and hopefully provide some background for discussion on the standard based toolkits. The topic of today's discussion is to review how these standard based toolkits can be used to support the implementations in such health programs as HIV, TB, malaria and others. I would like to from the start reformulate that because it's not only that the standards based toolkits can support the implementations, but the real implementations can support our work on toolkits and make it easier and more accessible and more adaptable for you. So that is the main idea of this. What we'll look at today, we will try to define what are the DHS2 standards based toolkits. I'll give you some examples. We'll talk about some implementation considerations and then we'll end up with the discussions where people from HISPs will be able to maybe reflect on that. So let's start. It's not a mistake. I was considering should I remove this or not. No, I won't. In every presentation that I've been talking about DHS2, somehow this way or another the topic of Lego was mentioned. Either in the context of the whole DHS2 is a Lego and then we provide the metadata packages or toolkits. This is the guidance or maybe that is Lego plastic bags. What you can see here is where we don't want to go, the Lego disaster. And I think that's a part of what we are working on. So let me give you my interpretation of the Lego metaphor here. So when I started as an implementer at the UIO, I thought, great, I have the Lego set for myself. I'll build a toolkit or package on TB surveillance with the guidance from the WHO. And then sometime later I saw that it was implemented in some countries. I said, what did you do with this? It doesn't look like what we've done. And this, well, we had to. I said, why? Well, there are many things. I guess you understand there's the legislation. There's different donors, implementation considerations that make you change. There's sets of indicators and whatnot. And that's when I realized that I knew my job maybe on 5%, 10% of what I had to do. But that improved me, helped me improve. And I think that that was my personal journey. And I think that we as a implementation team working with the different packages and toolkits, we are improving our strategies to make it easier for you. So let's define the implementation toolkit. It's a Lego set consisting of guidance documents. So the design guides, the guidance on how to use those toolkits, the implementation suggestions, and then also documents on Android optimization, and so on. Then it gives you a demo instance, a database that you can use to demonstrate a certain package to the donors, to the ministry, to the authorities. It has a metadata package. So we're talking about the JSON file with the configuration. And then it can have some integration tools and guidance on what to do with the package, training and capacity building materials, and sometimes custom apps. So all that makes an implementation toolkit. And we have together with our partners with WHO, with UNICEF, with other partners. And donors have been working on the implementation toolkits on HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, community health information systems, vaccination, immunization, maternity and mother and child health, COVID, then we have the non-communicable diseases, neglected tropical diseases, rehabilitation, and other areas. And this is only public health, then there's also the logistics, and then there's also the education, agriculture, climate, whatever. A more technical component of the metadata toolkit is the package, so the file that you import into the DHS to instance. This is one of the main components, but not the main ones. With the minimal requirements from our team, we have agreed that the minimum we can provide or the minimum that the toolkit may contain is the guidance, documentations, and some sort of demo. A metadata package is something that is already more materialized, that's something that you will have to work with to adapt it. And so I'll look into that and explain what that is. So a metadata package is a logical grouping of metadata objects that can be exported and imported into DHS to instances, and all of that is compiled into a JSON file. It contains a common metadata library, and that has been an achievement that came several years back, making sure that the installation of the import of the JSON files becomes easier and that you're reusing some metadata that makes it possible for you to keep your instances more harmonized. That you don't have two attributes for sex or two attributes for date of birth and so on, but you keep it all one. A metadata package can have dashboards with dependencies or indicators, legends, and the guidance, the instructions on how to map your existing metadata to that that we provide you with. It can, depending whether it's aggregate or tracker, it can have data sets with dependencies and it can have tracker one or several with dependencies included for you to analyze and to work with. And on the screenshot here, you can see our new downloads page that you can access from dhs2.org, where our toolkits and packages are organized by health area, and very soon we'll be adding educational domain there. So now let's look at the examples of these toolkits, and I will start from something that is more overarching and quite new, and we'll talk about the health facility profile. So a health facility profile is a toolkit that is meant to collect and analyze semi-permanent facility data in dhs2 for staffing, services, equipment, and infrastructure. So what kind of data does it have? It collects data about services provided, the basic staff numbers by cater, the bed availability, for example, equipment, and infrastructure, availability of services, internet computers, and so on and so forth. What's the source of the data? Where is it collected? It can be done through health facility assessments, health facility surveys, and facility self-reporting. Frequency can be done on a six-monthly basis annually or ad hoc as needed. It's a tracker data model, so the data entry can happen at any time, not necessarily based on a period, for example, in the event of a health emergency. And what's the purpose? It is to provide the policy makers and planners information on the availability and accessibility of various health care services. One of the reasons I took this as an example is also that this product is, it requires adaptation because you may be using dhs2 for certain areas and therefore you might want to include only certain services or certain equipment and so on. So you'll have to customize it, but the baseline, the skeleton is there, the dashboards are there, so it's the matter of having implementers that know what to do. And our role as the global team is to work with HISPs if they're present in the region, to work together with them on adaptation of these products, and also work directly with the countries in the regions where we don't have HISP representations and not only support them in this one direction, but as I said in the beginning, get the feedback on what is needed from our side to make these toolkits and packages more adaptable. Again, the health facility profile, as you can see, all the data that is collected there on the availability of services, staff, analysis of the preparedness of the services, the availability of key equipment, the infrastructure, all that can be analyzed separately, but it can also be used integrated into your HMIS system. When I looked at the configuration of the standard health facility profile, I saw various denominators for the basic HMIS system that can be taken out of a program like that. And this product, it's relatively new, it's already flexible and modular, so it's set up for local adaptation and then provides the analytics tools, so point three and four and guidance to how to adapt this package, this toolkit to your local demand. Another example, tuberculosis, so what does the tuberculosis toolkit have? The one that we provide guidance for and materials, so we have full HMIS module with WHO recommended indicators on case notification, outcomes, drug-resistant, TBHIV, comorbidities, TB prevention and laboratory and contact tracing. In addition to that, we have facility reporting of essential TB stock items to complement your logistics systems. We have a tracker for TB case surveillance and the linkage of case records with the lab results. We have a module on TB drug resistance survey, a program that has been taken about many times by many countries and even by me, even though I've been developing the global module, we've been working on and supporting the implementation of TB drug-resistance surveillance in Central Asia and we had to adopt it. We have a module on TB prevention on the contact tracing and the household contact tracing tracker, something that is coming up now in the end of the year. TB is a large, very broad program and it's very complex because an enrollment in a TB program can take up to two years, so one of the reasons I'm bringing up the example of TB here is that it's used in many countries and it's still a burden in many countries and there it requires many types of adaptations. Not only technical, but the package has to be translated, the materials have to be translated, the staff have to be trained. You have to, based on the current systems in place, you have to understand is there need for data analytics or standard analytics or do you need to start with some custom reporting forms to first comply with the requirements from the government and so on and so forth. So it is very difficult to come up with a global package, but we are trying and not only that, but we're constantly updating the toolkits that we work on, either well because we find more optimal ways to do that or because some requirements changed. In the example of TB, the new guidelines are underway and so we're working together with WHO currently on implementing those guidelines in the existing package so that you don't have to take it all apart or start from scratch. So that's again how this work is important and how important it is to take maybe a glance at the package before you design something new and I will just take you back to the beginning. I was shocked at first when I saw a real implementation in the country that looked completely different and the same I saw the people at WHO, the headquarters that helped us design those modules, they came back from country missions and said, but that's not the package we designed together, why this effort and it takes time to explain to the people to the stakeholders about the complexity of that process. So HIV, another big topic and also new guidelines that have been published this year including the new DAC, so the digital accelerated that and so what we have here is the HIV core HMIS module. So for the cascade analysis of newly diagnosed people with HIV, the RT retention, viral load suppression, we have the prevention indicators and integration of the STI indicators. At the same time, we have the stock items so the stock management for HIV, we have an HIV case surveillance module for longitudinal data collection and the person-centered monitoring and the new module that will be released in the summer 2023, this is the module on HIV prevention. And the way we are releasing modules now, sometimes we start with version 0.1 because we want to start the process of implementation of filing prior to the publication. And so if we together with our partners identify pilot regions, pilot countries before, we are very happy when it happens so that they start. And so the HIV prevention work, it has started in the PAHO region and we have three steps in publishing this module. So first was the PAHO version of the HIV prevention module. There was a subset of the package that was developed for one country in the region of Costa Rica. And then based on that and the experiences plus the new guidelines, the global HIV package will be available soon. And because we are learning and we are working on that process of making the steps easier, when the HIV prevention module was in the making, we have reviewed the HIV case surveillance to make sure that it complies with the same kind of principles and becomes easy for countries to have kickoff with the pilot with testing and so on. Immunization, here we have a variety of components within the toolkit. We have the API program, so the expanded program on immunization. We have triangulation dashboards where data comes from three packages. One is the EPI standard for HMIS, the integrated disease surveillance package, and the case-based tracker for vaccine-preventable diseases. So it can be implemented as is and you will have to search for the data elements in your HMIS systems. It can be taken when you implement all three of these packages. We have the electronic immunization registering, so for case-based data we have templates for real-time monitoring of vaccination campaigns. You see it's not specified, is it COVID or is it something else? Because we have seen that we could take the experience of the COVID vaccination campaigns that were held during the pandemic and translate that to the future campaigns and make it easier and and adaptable. Again, the module on the EPI logistics and then adverse events following immunization and some apps developed for the for the program that are also available for you to to utilize. Malaria, the HMIS module on service delivery, on data quality, facility reporting with surveillance for elimination settings with case notification investigation and classifications and then an array of entomology and vector control modules available. There are other toolkits that I will not go into details. You can visit our sites. You can also contact us at any time, contact me during this conference. I would be very happy to show you some of this work to guide you to the demos. But the examples worth mentioning here is rehabilitation, a quite new module also for the for the WHO. They have been developing the guidance for that and the indicators. So we have toolkits that contains 15 WHO indicators, six proposed data sets for data collection and seven dashboards. And what you see in the screenshot, I will share the presentation later. You can have a look at it. What's on the left, you can you can see the three indicators from WHO and in the right part you see the DHS two indicators that have been set up to report on those WHO indicators. So when we're making this module, we we had a clear understanding that the countries might take three or five indicators out of the 15 provided. So we had to make sure that the side that implements the package can actually take it apart and without really going through too many efforts. And now based on those indicators, we are working on the rehabilitation tracker, adding additional indicators to help the facility managers to plan their work. A lot of work is being done on NTDs. So we have burden data set and dashboards, plus the possibility of integrating that with the IDSR packages. We have been working on simple entity stocks, so neglected tropical diseases. And you see the human resources part. And then if I go back a few slides to the health facility profile, this is where that data could already come from and be mapped to. So sometimes it is very important for you and for us to look at the tool kits that we provide in an entity to see what could be combined one with the other. And the current work is being done on human rabies surveillance. And here we are also dealing with a, I don't know, unique or in that sense tracker that in one hand provides the, covers the indicators for surveillance, but on the other hand may be served as a decision-making tool in the country where it's implemented, if adapted in a certain way. And because we are working on the surveillance part, we provide guidelines on how that can be done because knowing from the countries and from the WHO, very often the cases of rabies, they're being treated or attended at the facility where you don't have the specialists who know much about rabies. So they will have then the decision-making or the suggestions coming from the program itself to help them guide them through the necessary steps. So that will also be available by the end of the year, but we are starting together with the donors and the partners work with the pilot regions. And I think here in Asia specifically to identify who would like to try start piloting. So to the summary, what are the DHS2 implementation toolkits that we have talked about? They aim to improve data quality analysis and use in national systems. They incorporate the collaboration process between UIO and WHO UNICEF and other organizations for the data analysis standards. They are modular and customizable and they're becoming more modular and customizable as we work more together with you. They're available for many core health programs and they're designed in an integrated way. The localization and the adaptation of these toolkits needs to be based on country assessment, context and national priorities. That's your part. And they, of course, provide guidance and examples, but do not aim at replacing local design. So if I built that Lego car that I think is cool, doesn't necessarily mean that you find it cool. But you understand what I mean. I talked about it before. So the considerations, it's not only about customizing the packages that we produce, but the adapting and the implementing of those packages means sometimes adding additional budget lines. So you need readiness assessments. You need to customize the process itself. You need to plan the implementation and get the technical support and you need to train the teams. Also the end user training for the new modules, the dashboard or the data analysis trainings. Again, a lot of these materials are part of the toolkits, so you do not need to reinvent the wheel, but maybe localization translation is needed. For the new tracker implementations, this is a specific topic. We have a tracker budget guidance, so that needs to be addressed when considering the implementations. And then it's not a one-off implementation like it happens sometimes when you think, okay, I started and that's it. You need to, some costs will be recurring because of the upgrades, updates, the training refreshments and so on. And of course the upgrades to the systems and review of the data and metadata quality is very useful and needs to be considered. So I think, I have, do we have time? I think we're not too late for discussion, so I would like to hear from the, maybe starting from the HISPs about their feedback on the process of how these standard toolkits help them to implement in the countries and open it for the broader discussion and questions. Thank you. Yes, please. So the objective of the toolkit, and I think that's one of the main ones from our side is to improve data quality and provide the team or the implementing party with tools for analysis and the use of that data. And even in this aspect, not all the implementations are mature enough for this. I can give you examples where people want, let's say, statistic data only because that's required by the government and they don't have the capacity to look into analytics tools, but still adopting part of the toolkit will help them to replace the burden of, you know, manual aggregation and then in a stepwise approach address the data use questions and so on. So that's number one. And number two, the toolkit is a collection of resources, basically. It has the design guidance on the packages, it has the overview of different components that you can implement within one health area. So let's say data quality, dashboards, trackers, aggregate packages, and it contains different resources, whether you want to start by reporting aggregated data or whether you have enough capacity to start with the individual case-based data in DHS2. So that makes it a toolkit. So the collection of resources that are available for you at any time to study, to present to the ministry, and to consider using. Yes, so let's say you start with a simple data set with aggregated data where periodically the data will be collected. How it's aggregated, whether the people doing it on paper or in registers, that's one question. You have that. The second step maybe is to build some visualizations or adapt the visualizations that are coming with the toolkit to analyze the data. So the dashboards based on the data you've entered. Then the step after that would be to plug in a tracker where the individual-based data will be automatically aggregated and filling those aggregate data sets that you implemented in step one. And therefore making the data granularity even more clear. And there can be several steps in between, but that's kind of what I hope I've managed to answer. Adnan, would you like to come here? Yeah. I don't know if that microphone works, but you can. But actually, Adnan, sorry. I remember we are recording the session and the microphone is sitting in the computer. So. But I mean, I guess we are the only hits apart from Indonesia who have been using tracker over here. And Mina is also there, but I don't know if you've used any packages. While Yuri was talking, I just kind of recalled when we met for the first time, he was there online and he was presenting this TB and HIV tracker. And at that time, I mean, we had this Gates Foundation project coming into digitized case-based TB tracker. So when I saw the tracker, I was very happy and I said that my whole work is done because I got all the configurations, I got all the dashboards, I've got everything. So I guess it was like this. So we got the early release and we just installed it onto a dummy server. We started working and then we changed that tracker a lot to an extent that I and Ula were working in the office and we practically broke it. And then we had to contact Yuri again. Yuri, I mean, we broke the tracker, there's something issue. So no matter how close your configurations or your data flows are, these trackers, these packages are very good and can be used as a reference material because they do make your life easy. You will get all of the data flow by just clicking a few buttons and the tracker is installed, the packages are drawn and you can simply show the government that this is the data flow that you're following. And the data flow usually is the same. The reason is because UIO is a WHO-collaborating organization. So Yuri, there's Boston, Brando, all of them sit with WHO very closely, work with them and make those workflows work for you. So Yuri also presented about this health facility profile. I guess we were the first country to use a TB tracker, WHO TB tracker package. We were the first country to use nutrition aggregate module package. And I guess we will be the first country to use the health facility profile package as well. But this time, I'm not keeping my core size. So we'll be doing a lot of configuration according to set the tracker according to the country context. So you get a card, but you need to put in the fuel and necessary parts just to make it run. So I guess that's what I wanted to say because I mean, these packages are really good when we talk about baseline configuration when you get all of these really good data flows going in. And we also learned a lot while implementing this tracker that how these program indicators are working, we had to change them according to the country context. But this helped us a lot. And secondly, the good thing about these packages is that they follow our standard. So like we have this WHO aggregate TB package, which only collects aggregate data. And then we have this WHO cracker TB package, which is a more kind of a case-based system. But if you want to do case-based to aggregate because you do need aggregate reporting at your end, and that can be easily done because the standard they are following is the same. So this is also something that helps you a lot while you're implementing. So yeah, thank you. Thank you. I'll just add a comment to what you said. And yes, these two kits, these packages, they follow standards. This does not stop countries or individual organizations to develop their own trackers. But I think knowing the steps that we have taken and learning from our experience will also help you to develop your own material in a way that you will not be regretting it in the future when you have to change, add or remove our things. So the standards we include in our toolkits are also helpful for any individual developments. So for the global portfolio, we have our donors, we have the organizations that we work with. And so together with them, we have the calendar of releases we plan ahead for the next year. What are we going to work with them? So that is being on the global level of the global fund, the WHO and us. But then you have exactly like you're saying, if you have the local requirement. And I have just had the conversation with a WHO country office and they said, well, what do you have on your agenda for the upcoming releases? Because we would like to work on that. I said, well, but why does it stop you? Why do you need to be chained to all the global work? You can also try to define your local demands. Oh, the donors, they react better if they see some global components in that surely. But if you have a hispin place or if you have the local implementers that can work on the requirements that you have and build those trackers, we can support you through that. So you can first of all contact us. And if we might help you identify countries or maybe players that have already gone that through that path and find some resources that you can use to get you started, we have a community of users where you can also try to give it a start. And that's how things get started. And maybe from that we can also think of something more global. So and sorry, and you, where are you from? Well, you know, some people think we are doing that. Yes. And then we have to say that we can, but should we? You can cross question. Can you develop? Yeah. Yes. And there's also another component. I think you should also I would always recommend a stepwise approach to that. Okay. So the first may be that just, you know, studying the demo and the guidance. The second would be to demo it to the to the country, to the implementation partners and then consider where to begin. Because sometimes you can just throw the resources and say, oh, let's translate everything first. And then you realize how through the way, no, those dashboards are not needed for us. And then you've spent the resources on that already. And translation is maybe not the major part of that, but still that happens. So you maybe say, okay, let's let's, when it comes to tracker, let's look at the data entry. How can it be worked? And then if it works with a standard configuration, you can try to pilot it in the standard configuration and see what data you still need, what is not needed. Because even with the country needs, you might at a certain point identify that you're building such a complex thing that you might not really need. And then you can say, okay, let's park that for the phase two, for the phase three, and start with the basics. Because it's much easier to extend than, you know, to have the whole giant to the, you know, monster that you will not be able to take apart after. So, yeah. So I guess if there are no more questions, we can close the session. And thank you very much for listening and taking part in that.
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Title: Integrating I(I)/I(III) catalysis in reaction cascade design enables the synthesis of gem-difluorinated tetralins from cyclobutanols
Authors: Joel Häfliger, Louise Ruyet, Nico Stübke, Constantin G. Daniliuc ,and Ryan Gilmour
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38957-w
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This new method allows researchers to create novel gem-difluorinated isosteres from one, three, dirocyclobutanols in a single operation. It involves an acid-catalyzed unmasking fluorination sequence followed by an IIIIIII cycle and a phenonium ion rearrangement to form a one, three, three trifluoride. Finally, ACSP3F bond activation event with hydrogen fluoride enables the formation of the difluorinated tetraline scaffold. This article was offered by Joel Hafliga, Louise Ruyet, Niko Stubka, and others.
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Forget Winning & Try FINISHING Instead | Andy Elliott
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You know there's a there's a guy you guys probably all see him pushing right here, right? Let me just say this come here real quick. Come on. All right, man number one. I know you're breathing, but look This is what a life change looks like. Okay. Yeah, this is what a life change looks like and how I can identify it It's cuz I've been there. It's ugly. Remember I said it was ugly Okay, it's out of breath. It's it's it's I wanted to quit a hundred times and I didn't it's a You fell down and you weren't down for the ten count and at nine you got back up guys If you think winning isn't about felling you're so wrong Winning has everything to do with felling Making bad choices is the only way you can start making good choices Look, you know who I have mad respect for for anybody that has the courage to really change their life That's why I got mad respect for look the story of the guy that's parents gave him at all That's cool. It just wasn't mine So don't look for that story. I look for people that have been through the sewer That literally have had addictions have had massive problems We're the least likely to make it and then somehow again saw lots. They decided They're gonna get a piece and they decided to stay relentless and not quit and winning started to recognize the things that they were doing Then they started to win Way he worked today. Listen. You got a family, right? Okay, you run a store, right? Guys, he runs a very very successful store Listen guys, and I want to say something to you Some of you out here your salespeople and you're thinking that we just train salespeople. That's what we do. We train winners Okay, we train winners. I don't care what your title is call me the janitor show me the money Can you be the best in the world at what you do? Are you creasing your value every day, right? Are you so good that you make your competition want to quit? Like it. I'm not even gonna do it anymore. It's too good. I'm out. That's that I won. I mean it But long story short he works for an owner. He runs his whole store this guy on his ground He's a savage. Am I right? This sells people mad respect for this guy. This guy knows the car business better than anybody else He knows how to make massive money. He knows how to scale a store Guess what? Everybody's got a hole You feel me? His hole is he needs to be healthy for his family Okay, his goal isn't to make a lot of money and died 22 years too young So his wife married someone else spend the money and they raised their kids. What do we do? What are we doing all this work for? What do we want all this for? To give it over to someone else because you didn't take care of yourself No ways and I see it I see it everywhere because you guys are working most of the time for people that are one-dimensional We explain what that means. I want you to make a lot of money and that's all they tell you So you give up everything else in your life your family your health, right? Your self-love you give it all up just to make the dollar and then when you get it You realize you're empty inside and the only next win you can get is a five-second deposit of a check in the bank account Okay, I've been there guys when I sold cars. I was depositing $50,000 plus take-home checks as a GM $200,000 plus take-home checks after taxes I'd go home and I would just look at my wife cold. I Was like man, how do I know to tell you guys to take care of the people that matter in your life? Because I didn't at one point How do I know not to get out of shape because I was you at one point and a guy broke me He broke me and he took my soul And I think him every day of my life for taking my soul Because it's the person I am today and if I wouldn't be this guy you wouldn't be here with me That's my deal You're doing for you right for self-gain and to get some things in your life that you want that you always Want to prove to everybody you had it or prove to yourself But it's really about you proving to everybody else in the people that you really you know I maybe that look up to you or that will look up to the future that that they can have it too because you did it You know I'm saying it's kind of bigger than just us right now Okay, and some of you don't really thinking about that when I was in my 20s. I mean I wasn't thinking about that I was like dude. I want to make some money. You know what I mean? I want to deposit one of those big checks Cool take care of yourself. Okay now look when I watched him push through that was great Some of you guys in here. You're a really good shape and you're rocking a roller Here's the goal. Just never quit. Okay, never freaking quit and I'll tell you this There's got to be a belief that you have in yourself to stay in the cells industry when you're staying in great shape That belief can be there. It's really hard when you don't love yourself to believe in yourself. Would you agree? Yeah, I mean I'm just telling you I mean how hard is it to sit down and tell somebody that you do something You really don't believe in yourself that they should do it It's not going to happen there is a belief and you got to take care of yourself to be able to maintain and increase that belief every day Okay, so it's all about self-training weekend. It's all about closing. It's all about us getting life what we want But it's also about us staying healthy and actually remembering that look We want to be able to be uncomfortable now while we're healthy instead of being uncomfortable later under the lights when we're unhealthy Okay, listen, you don't think it's gonna happen. It could happen just like that Okay, there's people today in wheelchairs that give anything to do this work out with you Okay, they can't all right, so I'm just telling you be grateful for it So if you're suffering right now good, and guess what if you'll keep doing it 90 days from now, you won't suffer It's the truth. You'll have to keep doing harder To get like this. Okay, and you'll get addicted to it
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Top Seeds SHOCK UPSET at Miami Open 2021 | Tennis News
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The Miami Open 2021 continues to surprise with big names in both the men and women's draw falling before the second week. Zverev, Kenin, Dimitrov, Pliskova and Halep and the biggest names so far to lose before the business end of the tournament.
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What's going on everybody welcome back to some breaking news and we have more seeds losing at the Miami open some big names some Grand Slam Champions are out of the Miami open. Let's go straight to the list starting on the men's side We have number three seed Alexander's verov He lost in the second round number eight seed got fine also lost number nine seed Dmitrov number ten seed for Nini Ojalia seem the 11th seed he lost as well 13th seed Garin He's out 14 seed Hashinov is out and also the 15th seed Alex Diminor He lost in the second round as well going over to the women's side now and some big names are out Simone Halop she withdrew from her third round match number three seed of course the number four seed Kenan She also lost plush cover the number six seed She is also out Kiki Burton's the tenth seed is out the 11th seed Benchich 13th seed an Australian open finalist Jen Brady she's out 15 seed French open champion of last year is also out Sveontech and the 17 seed Conta Also out of the tournament so big names are falling at the Miami open and we're only about halfway through the tournament There's still another week to go quarter finals semi-finals finals are still up for grabs some massive names They're gonna be missing. Let me know down the comments below. What's the biggest upset so far this tournament for you For me It's got to be Zverev and Kenan because Zverev was coming off the Acapulco title and Kenan She was the best player of last year and just hasn't really gotten into that form this year Let me know down in the comments below. What's your biggest upset the Miami open? We're about halfway through and big names are starting to fall
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Manuela van Prooijen: How to develop a “shitty client” radar for your WordPress business
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When you started your web design company you fantasized about doing all day the one thing you love most: creating beautiful websites, writing code and making the internet a better place. Fast forward a few years: you love and appreciate most of your customers.
However, every once in a while you get a client that drives you bananas! Shitty clients can drain your creativity, make your life difficult and take a lot of your time. They are every business owner’s nightmare and almost everyone in the web development has an outrageous “client from hell” story to tell.
That’s why we need to develop a “shitty client radar” for pre-screening purposes and learn how to respectfully ‘fire’ a not-so-nice client. Over the years I have worked with many great clients, but some were just beyond reasonable. I have developed a set of tactics which prevented me from ending up in potentially toxic situations.
In this talk I am going to share some of my tactics and get you starting on developing your own “shitty client radar” for your WordPress business.
Presentation slides: https://speakerdeck.com/manuelaweblish/how-to-develop-a-shitty-client-radar-wordcamp-rotterdam-2018
WPTV link: https://wordpress.tv/2018/04/17/manuela-van-prooijen-how-to-develop-a-shitty-client-radar-for-your-wordpress-business/
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Dankjewel Marlijn, natuurlijk heeft niemand hier een schittig kind, we lieven onze kinden, we hadden nooit een nachtmaar. Dus ik ga jullie toevallig nieuwe storen vertellen, toevallig nieuwe storen. Welkom iedereen, ik ben blij dat de ruimte meer mensen hadden geïnteresseerd dan ik het verwacht. Ik kan meer dan 10 mensen komen, dus ja, we zijn klaar voor jezelf. Hoe om een schittig kind te ontwikkelen? Oké, eerst een kleine introductie, een kleine introductie van mij. Mijn moeder hoeft niet te wachten tot de bananen beginnen te doen, dan zie je het voor je eigen partij. Ik ben echt een marketingcoach, een woordpressentrainer, een online marketingcoach. En ik ben hier te vertellen, je hebt een verhaal over een man en broccoli. En je denkt, wat is dit? Oké, oké, we zijn alle... Wie van jou is een bedrijf of een bedrijf? Oké, het is de mevrouw. Je herkent dit, je hebt een netwerk event, een kopje koffie in één hand, je flesche business cards in de andere, en je scannert de ruimte. Je wilt niet om jezelf te leren, je wilt met mensen te verbinden. Nou, dit is een real-life event, dit gebeurt in real-life. Ik eindde in een van die netwerk eventen met mijn flesche business cards. En ik zag iedereen groepen samen. Er waren allemaal mingelingen en ik was er al bij mezelf. En er was nog een sadde persoon in de buurt van de ruimte. Hij was wearing a free Tibet shirt, niet dat ik had iets tegen Tibet. Maar ik kon het niet zien komen. En ik heb mezelf geïnteresseerd en hij had een goede attitude, maar hij smelde als broccoli. En hij had iets in zijn dier. Ik heb geen idee, het was nog niet broccoli, maar vanavond zou ik het refereren als Mr. Broccoli. Oké, Mr. Broccoli, ik begon te praten. Hij was klikking aan naar mij, want hij hoorde dat ik in een webdevelopement was. En hij zei, ja, je bent gewoon de soortige persoon die ik nodig heb. Hij was in een heerlijke, wat je noemt, supplement business. En oké, je ziet het, je ziet het. Ja, broccoli-smelling guy, oké, we weten de types. Ik wil geen stereotype, please, forgive me. Oké, maar hij zei, je bent de soortige persoon die me gaat helpen, want ik wil mijn business expanden, ik wil een webshop hebben en ik wil een communie beginnen. En jij bent gewoon de persoon die me helpt. En money is niet een issue. En ik heb gezegd, oh, alle belles zijn kip. Het was in de tijd dat ik nog gegaan was voor de bux. Niet voor de ideale klijt, maar goed money. Dus, Mr. Broccoli, ik begon te praten en te praten. En ik vond het een beetje fijn. Je weet het gevoel dat je krijgt als je iemand met je meteen met. En dat het gewoon niet goed voelt. Ja? Als je de god vertel je om voor de hielden te gaan en nog niet. Want je ziet die euro-signen in je hoofd. En je zei, oké, het gaat werken. Ik verget het, hij is een idiot, maar ik ga het wel bekijken. At least dit maand. Oké, het moment dat ik hem als klijt vroeg, ik begon dat voor een maand. Hij was heel pushy, heel demandig. En de volgende dag zei hij me, je weet dat project, het moet afgesloten zijn, in twee weken. Oké, en de money was een issue. En in de einde was het een klijt van hel om het te proberen. En ja, hij was proberen al de uur tijdens de eten met 11 uur. Je vergeten het? Nee. Nee? Oké. Maar het klopt heel fijn. Als je niet weet, zet je de boudere, dit zijn de type klijten die je vergeten hebt. Ik denk dat het ook mijn eigen fout is. Oké, na twee weken vroeg met de brokkelige mannen, heb ik gezegd om de menu van de brokkelij te halen. Vergeet het, steek van nu aan. Nee meer brokkelij. Oké. Iedereen brengt een bel, het is zo'n miljoen naar je, dit type klijt. Ja, als je het al voelt, het werkt niet, maar ik ga het nog wel halen. Oké, tijd om dat te veranderen. Ik ga je helpen, en ik ga je met mijn twee-step, een makkelijke proces. Het klopt als een telselsel. En ik kan er wel eens mee werken. Maar het is mijn strategie om het te elimineren, om het niet zo goed te doen, customers. Je weet niet waar je woord van zegt, het is step 1. Oké. Je moet starten te detecteren van een miljoen weg. Je moet het ontwikkelen. Ze hebben het niet op de voordel gereden, maar je moet leren hoe je ze kan herkennen. En step 2. Kijk naar je woorden, hoe je de zin klijt, en hoe je ze kan vieren. Oké, dit is, ik ga je laten zien, niet zo'n fun klijt. En ik wil dit zien. Als je het herkent, ik wil je allemaal zien. Ja, niet je hoofd. Oké. Hier is hij. Popular met alle entreprenuers. Mrs. Freebie. In Duitsburg heb je een hashtag called by the bucket. Wie weet het hashtag? Het betekent, als we naar een bakery gaan, en we zeggen, oh hi baker, provide me a loaf of bread. In exchange, ik kan de link naar je bakery op mijn website of ik kan vertel vrienden en misschien gaan ze met je en je krijgt een soort van inkomst van dat. Dat is wat we kopen by the bucker. Uselige small business owners zijn aanwezig, particulair in de creatieve webdesign business, die gewoon begint te starten, je kan dit doen voor vreemd. Een portfolio. En je krijgt wat inkomst. Kan ik je hand zien? Werken voor vreemd in exchange voor goede inkomst. Nou, het werkt niet zo. Always negotiate a fee, of learn to say no thank you. We find hard, when we just start off. Oké, hier is een ander. Een heel populair. Pay, late pay, whatever. Never pay. Forget to pay the bills. Someone who always has an excuse to not pay the bills on time. Who knows these kinds of clients? Yeah, yeah. And they hurt us, because we need to pay our bills and we need to do our groceries. So this is a way to deal with this type of clients who are not very consistent in paying the invoices. Is have to pay upfront. Who does that? Have clients pay upfront. Yeah. Just mention a percentage. How much do you have? 100%. Also 100%. 30. 55. Why 55? 65. Oké, who doesn't? You have nice pay. Probably good pay. Client pay on time. That's right. How do you clients respond? The first time you ask them to pay upfront? No problem? Oké, I still see a lot of people who do get into trouble. I mean, and it's no good. Oké, hier is de pushy one. Do it now. You got to do it now. This type of person shows up in your doorstep and demands to be helped now. I have an example of a person who did this to me. It was about two years ago, one and a half year ago. I was doing very, very, very important chores in the kitchen like cleaning up the, what do you call it, dishwasher in the office. And all of a sudden I turned around behind me, holding his laptop right in my face. And he said you got to help me now. And I was wondering how did he get in? Debbie knows, he's standing there. To get into our office you had to get through to secure tours. So I was like, flabbergasted but nice as I always was. Was. I said Oké, put your laptop down. He had a problem with contact form 7. It's probably flabbing you all know. We probably all had problems with. Or at least your clients they screwed it up. It's well known for that. And I said well I have no time. I have a group waiting for me. In about 15 minutes I'm starting my group session. Can I get back to you later? And he got so angry. He turned around and you call yourself a professional. En he went out the door infuriated. I was like what is this? The end. Next day I'm looking at Debbie. Do you still remember that we started the office and started harassing our office assistant and he asked for our employees. En he said To this employee, can you please fix this problem. We'll do it off the books. Was she to know about it? Because she probably hates me. And Xavier, it's the employee chat. He said no, I gotta ask my boss I can't do this. No, she hates me. Please do it for me. I'll give you a little black belt. It's off the books. Alright He didn't So as of then we started calling the office after 5 minutes. We put his name in the phone as Mr. Do not Do not answer phone. Mr. Do not answer phone was never answered anymore. But this is like the kind of pushy person that you could experience in your business very extreme. But who's had an experience similar like this that someone demanded to be held now and see hands. Do you want to share? No? Ok. Because it's going to be on TV. No, but it sounds I'm not alone in this. It's not that I'm the troublemaker all the time. We have a shared experience probably. Ok You've got to set clear rules and protect yourself and mention that everything has a price. And if you work on hours in a different fee Who has weekend fees or weekend price? How much extra? That's good. It teaches people a lesson that will really wait until Monday. Ok Here is Mrs. Patay She is what I call energy vampire Mike is not cooperating. Ok, this is the kind of person Who is into graphic design here? Ok Do you work with clients once a month sometimes? Do you recognize that they say I want this one pixel up? Do it back again like it was before 2 pixels to the other side Forget it Let's do it like we had it yesterday No You had a similar experience like this. It's not why you choose a creative business to be confronted with this type of energy suckers With this type of person you've got to know you're in charge you know your job she can give you some sense of direction but you're the one who sets the who does the what do you call it? The Netherlands Who determines what is happening Ok Ok, you're my This person owns an accessory or she owns you and you've got to be available 24-7 for example I'm sure we've all been there Clients sending emails in the middle of the night and calling you at 8, 9 o'clock Why have you not restored it? A sucker as I used to be sometimes I would reply immediately but now I'm like ok it's my agenda and if it's very urgent I will give it priority and otherwise you've got to wait set clear boundaries and don't be available 24-7 I mean Like Mike said charge a different rate and it makes it worthwhile What I do is I hire the virtual assistant she answers all my phones and she sends me emails with all the messages twice a day and I'm not available the whole day and it gives me really really time to do my work very well Ok is there so so rude the rudest thing that ever walked here ok I'm sure everyone experiences rude people in their business not everyone is very polite we run a trading company and we have a program called the web assistant program here are two girls who participated in it and not everyone becomes a client for this program they take either through telephone or person and one person I met her and she I asked for motivation and she said motivation I don't care my boss pays for it what I don't care what you teach me is for free so I was kind of disappointed because it's not a cheap training I only want highly motivated people to participate in this and this was not really that bad but at that time we had a Muslim girl a Muslim girl working for our company and she refused to shake hands with this girl and that drew the straw from me so I said ok you gotta find a trading company that will do business with you cause this is not very polite and she said you don't want to do business well not with everyone sorry so you gotta choose who you work with who is not picky of if someone is rude or not are we picky yes? ok good tell ego her that being a jerk doesn't work don't walk away run highest hill by the way ah Mr. El Chippo dit is de kind of person die altijd vragen die je vraagt ik heb geen probleem met mensen die me zeggen die me niet kunnen overvinden maar ik heb een probleem met mensen die me vertellen dat ik het overchargeerd heb en dat hun neighborhoodkid het in vijf minuten tijden dus ik denk dat we allemaal de waarde van onze werk weten en niet een zel uit te zijn want het is makkelijk om in te geven je denkt dat je deze persoon heel blij bent maar het is niet we zijn de waarde van onze prijs Mr. Noe We Better dat is dus een vriend van El Chippo ja hij heeft altijd gezegd ok gewoon installeren een plug-in 15 minuten hier komt de neighborhoodkid of de zon het betekent vijf minuten dus hij vraagt je als een expert en dat is niet heel heet in een kliënt-relationschip dus een van de dingen is dat ik moet tegelijk zijn over de ronde van veranderen want elke keer een persoon like zal de discussie openen waarom heb je extra tijd en waarom heb je extra tijd of je kunt ze alleen doen zelfs in een basement waarin niemand het nog nooit zet ja ok Mr. Stock dit is een moeilijk een moeilijk persoon als een hele mooie persoon die wordt vergeten door haar vorm- en webdesigner en je voelt sorry en je wilt een goede persoon helpen maar vergeet niet wanneer je over andere mensen gaat dan zal je ook de subjectie van een goede afspraak zijn dus op de bovenkant in deze ronde hebben we veel tevreden met klanten goede klanten die een nummer 10 profiel hebben die ze willen mentionen is er een andere? heb ik al de ok zal ik je aan de mik dat is niet mogelijk ok op de bovenkant ik zou zeggen als de goede persoon als de goede persoon dan is het een andere goede dat is goed en hoe zou je collega's hoe we spelen hoe we spelen hoe we spelen hoe we spelen hoe we spelen hoe we spelen hoe we spelen hoe we spelen hoe we spelen hoe we spelen hoe we spelen hoe we spelen het ook om daaruit te Mammer spelen als we spelen Bridge voor de fre impatient we zijn die cijfers en eigenlijk als een collega , die meer takt Er zal een klijtje zijn die je met je kan meten. Dat is wat je betekent, hè? Ja. Oké. Oké, is er geen hoop? Ja. Ja. Dat is wat je zegt. Als je de probleem wilt zolven, dan heb je de start van het begin. En een van de dingen is, trust je god. De god is dat spushy gevaarlijk dat we hebben. Als we iets doen dat niet goed voelt. De god vertelt je dat een potentieel klijtje is... Oké, ik had het niet gezegd. Als het niet een goed klijtje is, trust je god. Want shit, het is nooit te goud. Dat is... Ja. Als er iemand... heeft gehoord, dan heb je het gezien. Als je het gezien hebt gezien, dan heb je het gezien. Het zou goed zijn om internet te doen over potentieel klijten. Google de klijtje naam. Je vindt vaak... de responsten op post- of social media. Ja, als de toegel van de hoogte is niet wat je voor je kijkt. Of misschien is het een idee om te stoppen met deze ask for references. We doen het niet. Het is heel oud school, maar het werkt nog steeds. En... Je moet vragen waar je met een klijtje werkt. Wat zijn ze echt? Wat soort onderzoek zijn ze voor? Wat soort services? Is het voor low-cost? Of post-focus? Wil je snelheid? Of wil je hoogte? Of een goede service? Of een goede resultaat? Ik denk dat we allemaal de laatste drie willen. En het is beter om te preventeren. En om te realiseren dat een klijtje een klijtje zou zijn voor het eerst. Het zou nooit in deze positie zijn. Dus we moeten deze klijtje educeren. We gaan over mutual expectations. Dat is heel belangrijk. En documenten. Rijt in een agreement. In welke documenten. Hoeveel revisions er in dit project zijn. Hoe zal we payen? Wat zijn de delen? En hoeveel momenten contacten hebben we? Well, sometimes you get to the point that you need to fire a client. Stop working together. Read the contract. But sometimes it's not easy to opt out. What do you do then? It might be an idea to make a financial offer. Or provide details of another provider. Don't just dump a client on someone else that's cruel. And apologize. It's not always their fault. And yeah, move on. And learn from the experience. It's not the end of the world. How can we turn shitty clients into shiny clients? I mean, that's not rocket science either. It sounds so easy. But please try to choose the most enjoyable customers. And don't just say, I love my customers. You got to prove it. And the way we try to show that we care about our customers is we have a page on our website where we have what do you call it, client experiences. We take videos of clients in their own habitat doing whatever they like. And it's not about us. It's about giving this client the full stage. Chantal has experience with this type of video. And it works very well. And it's also a way of saying thank you to the customer. Also show appreciation to customers that you really work nice with. Stop saying, no I cannot do this. Try to help them out as much as you can. And don't argue with clients. Who does it? On the regular base, argue with clients. It's very killing for the relationship. And happy clients are more than welcome to become your ambassadors. And they will bring in other customers. And it's very nice to be flexible towards happy customers. Maybe you will give them more kudos than very stubborn. If a client is undergoing mental stress or something, show that you care. Send a postcard or maybe some flowers. Use the power of referral business. A happy customer will bring on other happy customers. So maybe you can turn that into a system. And this is something on many business owners' rooms. Ask the customers what they really want. Don't just assume because you know best. If you know what's best for the client. And try to stay relevant after finishing a project. Don't go for the short term relationship. Build a longer relationship. And make sure you have products after you finish the project. Ok, I'm within my time. Wonderful.
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Route Recognition by Nathan Hammond @ EmberSF
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"ember",
"emberjs",
"ember.js",
"javascript",
"tomster"
] | 2016-08-09T20:29:43 | 2024-04-23T02:34:43 | 2,343 |
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Today, we're going to talk a little bit about Rout Recognizer. Rout Recognizer is this really, really low-level portion of Ember, and it's incredibly intimidating. It's the foundations of what it is we're building inside of Ember. But here's the thing. When you go start trying to swing at foundations and make changes and make sure that you understand what's going on, you actually are going to feel like you might do this. And then all of a sudden, you have to actually change the height of the columns on one side of the building to kind of counter for it. And then you notice that it continues to sink more as you keep building it. And then it's just a whole can of worms, and it's a really bad situation. And so swinging at foundations is a little intimidating. But we're going to actually walk through how to go through this process so that you have a good sense of what Rout Recognizer is, what we've done inside of Ember. And how to plan for the future so that we don't end up with this because we don't want to have ruins at the end of the day. And so it's not magic. It's actually relatively straightforward and is just involving a little bit of computer science. So for those of you who are terribly scared of that, I dropped out of college. And if I can do this, you can do it. I assure you. So moving on, all we need is a little bit of data. That's basically the only thing that a URL is. It's a bit of data. We have all of this information that we need to put in one location so that when you press refresh, it can pull it right back out of that URL and do something with it. And so inside of Ember, we have some sort of state object. It looks something like this. It can be literally anything you want it to be. But we just need to have some sort of information that says, when you go to this page, draw something on the screen and pull this information out from somewhere. Well, in this case, we're going to pull the information out of some state object. We could actually cheat here and make this really, really easy. What if we just took it and shoved that whole object into the URL? Done. All right, so have a good night. All right, so not actually that quickly. But we're pretty close. We've got a full serialization of our actual state that we wanted to keep track of. And it's in the URL. All we need to actually make that work is these two single lines. That's serialization and deserialization. That is the basic premise in everything that you need to understand about what we're doing inside of Route Recognizer. We need to take some state. We need to serialize it to a URL. Then we need to be able to, once we get that state in the URL, deserialize it back into a object in memory. Fortunately, JavaScript ships with a serializer and a deserializer for you. It's called JSON parse. And JSON stringify because somebody thought that was a great function name. I'm looking at you, Douglas Crockford. So quick, easy, fast, incredibly performant because it delegates down to native code. But you end up with that kind of mess. That's not fun. So let's talk about actually building a URL. So you don't need just data. Turns out we also need a user interface. We need the URL to not look terrible and not have Google yell at us for bad SEO practices and make sure that when you look at it, your eyes don't bleed. Also you're going to run into a character limit eventually. So we want a URL that looks a little bit like that. And if you squint, you can tell that that's actually the same amount of information that was in the previous URL. It's just a hell of a lot shorter. So how would we actually get to this URL from that state object? We have the state object here and it looks like this and we can look at it and we can go, hmm, I can kind of come up with our own little algorithm to do this. We've got this manual deserialization in our head that we immediately start to do when we see that URL. And what we really want to do is take it and build an object in memory. So we say, hmm, everything that exists as a URL gets this name application item first. We'll just make that up. Seems like a fair rule. Then we'll take the first bit of the path and push that onto the array. And then we'll take the last bit of the path and, oh. Look at that. That last bit of the path has an additional piece of information that isn't in the URL. How do you know what to do with it? Turns out in order to actually do this, we need to find some way to save information outside of the deserialization algorithm. Since we're not storing it in the URL, we need to store it somewhere inside of the app's code. So not done yet. Turns out we need data, user interface, custom serialization, and custom deserialization. It wasn't good enough to just actually have this really simplistic algorithm. We needed to dive in a little bit deeper and jump into the next little thing. So let's talk a little bit about serialization. And this will be the last time we talk about serialization because it turns out serialization is pretty damn easy. There. That is effectively the entire serialized algorithm inside of Route Recognizer. Once you actually have a backing data structure, it's really easy to go from this in-memory object to something that is just a string. Because you already understand the object while it's sitting in memory. What you really want is to go through and say, hey, I have this lookup of all of these actual names here. I'll grab it. And while I go through the parent, I just take it and shove it into a single path and go through it. So I'm starting at the leafmost node of the URL in-memory object because we're storing it as a tree. Because if you look at it, it's like a path structure, seems reasonable. So we'll start at the leaf and go, OK, here's this one. What's its parent? OK, what's its parent? What's its parent? What's its parent? Oh, we're done. And so what we do is we just grab the output at each one of these tree nodes. And so it turns out doing serialization is very easy. So we're going to skip past that because this is the much more fun and exciting and complicated portion of the talk. So if you have a drink, now take a few sips. It'll make this go down a lot easier, I promise. So the first thing that you think about when you're doing serialization and deserialization in particular is that looks a hell of a lot like a regular expression. All of these routes, we could build regular expressions for every single one of them. You've got this giant router map inside of your router.js. And you can take it and say, hmm, here's a regular expression that would match this one. And because I know which capturing segment is which, I can actually say, OK, for the user route, I'm going to have this regular expression. And the zero matching segment is going to match to user ID. The one matching segment is going to be matching the account ID, whatever it may match to inside of that regular expression. And you can just use that as a very fancy destructuring for like ES6 destructuring. But the problem with that is you've now got 500 routes in your application. And so you have this long list of regular expressions. And it turns out to be able to tell whether or not you need to transition into a particular route, you can't just test until you find one. And I'll explain why later. But it turns out you actually have to run through and do 500 tests of regular expressions. And also regular expressions inside of JavaScript, when they are parsed, they get semi-compiled, which means that the first boot time is a little bit slower. So now you've got 500 regular expressions that are kind of verbose. And then you have to compile them. And then you have to run through and process all of them immediately on application boot. And you end up having a less than happy experience with regular expressions. But the process for building them is still valuable. And we'll come back to why. So let's talk about what this regular expression might look like. We've got this value for a static segment. So if you're defining your routes and you just have a string in there slash account, and we can just throw that in as the regular expression with actually account appearing inside of that regular expression. Turns out dynamic segments, what it means to be a dynamic segment is any string of text that does not include a slash. That's what a dynamic segment means inside of your router. So anything that does not include a slash, which turns out to be to this matching segment right here. And it must be at least one character long. For globbing segments, turns out what a globbing segment is is nothing more than a regular expression that matches any character and that repeats and is greedy. So it's a greedy regular expression for a glob segment. So these are all of the tools that you can use to do a kind of simplistic version of a route recognizer. You can do a quick iteration over a whole bunch of regular expressions. But it turns out that's really inefficient in space, in time, and it's just not what we want to do. So I misspelled tree there. Actually, I didn't. So sometimes I'm not entirely sure that this comes from this. But my mental model is that this is a retrieval tree, and retrieval is spelled with a T-R-I-E in the center of it. So a radix tree or a prefix tree is your way of indexing into an object. Think of a phone book. You don't go from the very, very beginning page of a phone book and scan forward until you can find Hackman. You don't scan all the way to H, like one at a time. In fact, you might do something that looks a little bit like a binary search. You'd start, you open it up, and that says, mm, m. Let's go back to the left. But you can actually do better. You don't need to do a binary search because you actually know that his last name starts with an H. And so you can actually jump directly to an H. Then you know that the second letter is an A, and you can directly jump to it. Turns out that's what a radix or a prefix tree is really good at. You want to immediately do a lookup on a particular item, and you happen to know how to spell. And so instead of mapping it to the object inside of the tree where you have to do this binary search to get through it, you can actually map nodes to the edges. And so the edge between the root and the first one is an H. And so you can just traverse that edge, and then you end up at the H node. Then you traverse another node, or another edge, named A. And that becomes the next node. And you go H, A, C, K, M, A. And you get all the way through the name. And at the very end, the node that you match is actually the person that you were looking for. And that is what your brain is doing when you're flipping through a phone book, but you just didn't realize it. You are traversing a radix tree. So let's look at our route structure one more time. In this case, we have a route that is users with user ID, new, and edit. And we have a posts route, which has a post ID, new, and edit. Then we've got a 404 route down at the very bottom. Now, if we were to do this character by character, we'd probably end up doing something really dumb. But let's, surprise, there's lots of code on the next slide. So we're looking at this, and we say, OK, what if for doing a radix or prefix tree, instead of doing it character by character, we did it segment by segment? Because we know in a URL and in a actual file system path that you're going to have a consistent prefix for whatever that current folder may be. And so that mental model gives us an opportunity to actually make an optimization to a radix tree, whereas not on a character by character level. So we could actually do something like this. So let's do a quick look at it. We've got a URL, which was slash users slash new, but you can't really tell that, except you say URL.split. And so we say, OK, we've got slash users slash new. And what we want to do is go directly to that particular node. So what we can do is we can iterate through the segments and grab the node, and then we can grab the actual property, which happens to be at that segment name. And so the magic line is line 11. So we go node.children at segments at i. And so that segment started out with users, and then it moved to new. And then we grabbed the child for each one of them that happened to match that particular segment, which means that we end up at the very end with this node ID of three pretty magically, because we didn't actually have to iterate over every single node. We actually only hit two nodes, and we needed to hit both of them to actually reach to the final state. So it turns out our traversal algorithm is O, N, where N is the number of segments. That's pretty damn quick. In fact, there's very little you can do to get better than that. And I say that as a person who read a whole bunch of papers written in the 50s and 60s to talk about this. Turns out computer science hasn't changed much in the past 50 years. Then again, I've got this giant design of a radix tree, but it snuck in a little bit of constraints, and they happen so subtly you may not have even noticed. How do you store routes that have multiple segments? So you said this.route foo, and then you set path to be, hey, comma, Nathan, slash, I, comma, slash, whatever it may be. And you've got this giant long string of a path. And you say, hm, how do I handle these multiple segments in my radix prefix tree? Well, turns out that's a little bit more difficult. Also, we have to match routes at slash boundaries only now. Turns out there's nothing stopping you inside of the existing route recognizer other than a couple of API conventions that would prevent you from having a route match on an arbitrary character. You could say slash me and slash mess and slash messaging are three separate routes with no additional slash in between them if you dive in underneath the hood inside of route recognizer to actually make that change. But it's a reasonable constraint. We don't really care to match on any of those non slash boundaries. That breaks the mental model of what the web actually does. And it's also unclear how to support the behavior of a route that doesn't include a segment. How many of y'all have an index route in your application? That should be everybody. Turns out that route does not actually have a segment. It just has a actual magic something. How the hell do we even match that? It's like an empty string, except there could be even multiple empty strings because you can do a path slash inside of a path slash inside of a path slash. And how do you do that? How would you label an edge as undefined? Or do you label it as an empty string? Or is there actually such thing as a segment that is an empty string? It's kind of unclear what we should do here. And these glob segments, they're actually the real jerk here. All of these first three turns out solvable using a radix approach. I know because I built it. I built this three times. So the glob segments are a real jerk because they don't even stop at slashes. So you now have gone through this. Thank you, Casey. Somebody has to laugh at my bad jokes. So you go through all of this process and you split on the slash and you go, OK, great. I can stop consuming, but glob segments are greedy, which means that you can't just stop there. You have to keep going. You must go farther and deeper into computer science. So this is a non-deterministic finite automata, which is a state machine or a, I'll probably keep saying NFA over and over and over and over. And I'm not talking about the agency that reads your email. So I told you bad jokes. So we're going to talk about NFAs. And a non-deterministic finite automata is actually the underlying data structure slash algorithm that the existing route recognizer is built on top of. It supports matching at arbitrary characters. And in fact, if you use a reasonable regular expression engine, such as the one inside of grep, it uses a non-deterministic finite automata to implement regular expressions. So actually, if you look at the first naive approach that we were thinking about doing, it turns out to be incredibly informative as to what the final result should be. Because we're like, OK, we're going to use this tool, which is built on this underlying data structure and algorithm called NFA. So this NFA allows us to actually deal with all of the problems. What is an NFA? So we have a route called slash users slash new. Let's say we exploded that route into a linked list. And we have each one of these characters split into its own separate state. It's a state for the slash, a state for the you. And we are in this weird situation where, OK, we've got all of these things. And then if we follow it all the way to the end, we know that we've reached slash users slash new. And so we've got a kind of linked list model. Let's add another route to it. Or let's add even more routes, not just one. So we've got a new route called slash us. We've got another route called slash users slash edit. We've got another route called slash posts slash new. And another route called slash posts slash edit. And if you look at it pretty closely, we can say, hm, we've got all of these routes. And we've created a whole bunch of nodes to actually represent them. Unfortunately, each one of these nodes is expensive and requires a lot of work inside of JavaScript in order to create. And so creating a whole bunch of objects is not free. And if you have a 500 route application with significant nesting and long URLs, and also, by the way, your performance degrades the longer your URLs are. So I vote that everybody use single character URLs from this point forward. So that's kind of a mess. So it does, however, give us the ability to do things like this. We've drawn all of these, all of the previous ones. We've got an arrow going only one direction. So we've got this consistent flow from left to right. And that's a state machine that happens to be very simple to model. That's known as a directed acyclic graph, a DAG. But we want to actually support dynamic segments and glob segments. So what if instead of having individual characters stored inside of the state machine, we said, hey, we're gonna match this thing. And you can either go back to where you were previously or you can proceed forward. And when you go back, as long as you actually are matching this thing, and you can look at it and see that's a regular expression, it's defining a character class, as long as we can actually go back and go through it multiple times, we can say, hmm, we now know that this route that is defined on line nine is actually a glob segment. Glob segment, because it takes any character until it can't anymore. If you think about it, that's what it's doing. We go from slash, we grab a character, and then we just keep going over and over and over until there's nothing left in that URL. And if we look over there for the users, the user ID is actually just a not slash. So we can keep going until we actually get back and we say, hmm, there's not a slash here. Oh, we hit a slash, that means everything that we just saw is the user ID. And so those are dynamic and glob segments implemented inside of an NFA. And this is actually exactly how the existing route recognizer is set up and functions underneath the hood. Now we could take that and we could compress it because like I was saying, a lot of objects is really expensive. So we can compress it into this kind of model and I've added parentheses around things. Those happen to correlate with places where you could have stopped. So we had a route called us, we had a route called users, we had a route called posts. And so these are known as accepting states. These are places where if you were traversing a NFA, you could say, okay, I'm done, I matched something, I'm done, I win, what do I win? Well, turns out you win a collision. If I stopped on that S that is at the end of users and posts, how do I know which one it is? I'd either have to have saved off my entire path of traversal, which is expensive and slow, because as I'm doing my traversal, I keep saving things off or I could actually not compress that very well. And it turns out that we have a more significant problem with compressing an NFA because we can't say that this is an accepting state without creating a actual separate route node for every single route. So it seems like, yeah, we could say, hey, slash posts and move that S to the same one that is for users, but we can't. And so we don't end up being able to compress this very well. Now, when you're traversing an NFA, the trick is we want to be able to positively identify every single node that we're going to visit. Turns out we can't just go from top to bottom. Traversing an NFA uses something known as a transition function. So it starts with an original state, we're gonna use the slash over here on line one. And that state actually is just the root state. Then what we're gonna do is we're going to follow every single edge and see if our input, which is the URL, matches that particular state. And if it does, we keep that state and add it to the next set. If it doesn't, we drop that state. And so we over and over say, here's the next set of possible things you could be. Hey, oh, okay, we have a slash users, okay, great. Slash U, yes, great. S, yes, great. E, yes, great. R, yes, we've got that too. S, yes, we're there, we've hit an accepting state, we've hit the end of the input and we trigger a match. And we know for sure that it was the slash users route because there is one node for that route. It's a little more complicated if you have multiple things because you could theoretically end up matching two things at the same time. So at this point, you're starting to put on your glasses every time I get to one of these title slides because now we need rules for resolving ambiguous URLs because we could have a URL that was slash users and another one that was just a glob node down at the very bottom, which would accept all of your 404 stuff. That's not very friendly. So we need to deal with this problem. And so if you've ever written your routes to look like this, this is actually very similar to the router map inside of router.js, but this is the DSL inside of route recognizer. The reason it looks so familiar to you is Ember effectively completely delegates to this nomenclature. So we have this route, which is messaging. We also have one called me and we have one called mess and we have one called messaging up at the top on line four and then we have this other thing where it has mess and then a param. That seems like a pretty significant troll and it's almost like Nathan was trying to be a jerk and come up with the most impossible thing to actually have as a route. Turns out, yeah, Nathan guy's a really big jerk. So on line 10, anybody care to guess which one we're gonna deserialize into? Yeah, I don't know either. It turns out for this case, it is actually going to be four, but that's a really obnoxious thing. How would anyone possibly know when every single one of them seems like it could be a reasonable option? So we need to actually come up with rules. We need to come up with constraints and these constraints are the way that we understand what you're going to try and map. So in Ruby, if we were looking at this and we said messaging, it would turn out to match four again but if I moved line seven to line two, it would match the full messaging item. Why? Because Rails actually does a top to bottom list and just matches them in order, which is fine, but it is really kind of confusing sometimes because if I moved line five up to line four, switch to line four and five, it would match line five instead. So that's really confusing. It's a refactoring hazard. There are all sorts of problems with having just this random in order traversal. We really want to have some sort of specificity. So let's come up with some rules. Somebody wrote this thing called CSS and it has specificity and we should probably kind of steal ideas from that. So what we're going to do is we're going to say, here's a route segment. This slide is totally wrong and this is what I get for doing my presentation just minutes before. So we've got a few constraints that we are going to add into the system. The first constraint is that we must have all of our routes begin and end with the boundary character or the end of the actual route. So in this case, we don't end up with this slash messaging problem because we're guaranteed to have a boundary of a slash. We match based upon specificity as opposed to definition order and we'll talk a little bit more about specificity in a second and turns out the deserializer must affirmatively eliminate every single node in the NFA and we have to say, okay, we know for sure that this route is not going to match. So turns out we've got more that we still have to cover. Putting on glasses in the back of the room over there. We now need to support arbitrarily complex path segments because what happens if we have a route that looks like this? We've now got a collision but they happen to have the same sort of rules. We have a static dynamic and a glob and then we've got another static dynamic and a glob and both of them are going to match and damn it, I don't even know what to do. We have more constraints and so in this case, non-epsilon segment counts trump all other things. I didn't actually mention epsilon segments. Turns out an epsilon segment is an NFA edge where you don't have to consume a character. So you could just stick around and hang out in that particular state forever. That's how we deal with your index routes. That's a trick that NFAs have that's really cool. But if multiple routes match, we're gonna take the one who has the most segments first, then the next tiebreaker is segment waiting and we'll assign, let's say three points to every single static segment, two points to every single dynamic segment and one point to every single glob segment and zero points for epsilon segments. So we just have all of these scores but now we actually have to care about things like order. So instead of saying who remembers that you can actually set 256 classes on an object and have it override an ID. So if you ever get into a really bad situation in your CSS and you need to override an ID, add 256 classes and it will work. And that's because of a integer overflow. And so what happens inside of a browser is they reserve eight bits for each specificity region and so they have the elements, then the classes and then the IDs. Well, we're gonna use that same general strategy except we're going to not have overflow problems. And so we build everything up as a string from left to right. And so we say, okay, the base one in this is a static segment, so that's a three and then we've got a two for a count ID and then one for config string, so that's a 321. And if we look at online seven, that's also a 321. So it still matches. We need to go one step further. So the number of handlers is actually the next tiebreaker. So if we look at this, we have one handler called details on line seven, but if we look at line four, we're now nested three layers deep. And so we actually have three handlers involved on line four. We have company, company account and company account config string. So all three of those are gonna be invoked and so we're gonna use that as the third tiebreaker. And if all else fails, we're going to take the first definition that you used. So we eventually fall back to Ruby, but we, or excuse me, Rails, but we add a few features along the way. Ah, shit. All right, so still more rules. We're adding the constraint that it must be fast. Turns out if we're building this router map client side, it's slow. You have to generate a parser. At runtime, in the user's browser, how many people love their little phone and how fast it is compared to their laptop? It's not quite the same speed. And in fact, route generation on less powerful devices can take up to a entire second just to build the route map. And that happens on application boot because, yeah. Finishing that sentence is less polite. So it must be fast. So what can we do to stop generating that? Well, we could actually serialize it. So we can take this gigantic structure that we've built up. I, underneath the hood, we have a backing data object that we can use to parse all of this. And we can say, okay, here's this application. And it has a child node of whatever particular thing it may be. And then this has a parent of zero. And then we have another one that says parent of six. And so you can look at it and you can actually reconstruct a tree from this serialized information. And it turns out that's a hell of a lot cheaper and a hell of a lot faster. And so underneath the hood, inside of my most recent project, which is Rewriting Route Recognizer, we now use a combination of a radix tree and an NFA. So we use a backing structure that is a radix tree, but we traverse it as if it were an NFA. We use the transition function to identify whether or not there's a particular state. And the real magic here is that glob segments are actually just a circular reference back to themselves that happen to consume slashes. So this sounds really complicated and not really annoying to use. And I would really, really, really hate to disappoint Tom Dale. In fact, I'm pretty sure that that would be terrible. So if you want to try out the new, what I hope will be the new Route Recognizer inside of Ember, I'm so totally getting myself in trouble right now. All tests pass. It works inside of LinkedIn's application as of today. So if it works for us, it works for you, hopefully fingers crossed. And we have a new version of Route Recognizer. It automatically does serialization at build time for you. It replaces your router.map definitions inside of your router.js and then ships all of that across the wire. Magic. So it also is this neat little concept of here's an add-on that is providing some core Ember functionality. That's a really interesting and clever idea and we should probably consider doing that, but that's a talk for a future time. So my name is Nathan Hammond. I work at LinkedIn. We do crazy, ridiculous things like rewrite Route Recognizer for the hell of it and for a 500 millisecond performance win on first boot. And so I'm very grateful for them giving me the time to work on this and thank you all so much.
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GPAC: Support for High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF)
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by Ahmed Rida Sekkat
At: FOSDEM 2018
Room: H.1309 (Van Rijn)
Scheduled start: 2018-02-03 15:00:00+01
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Thank you. Hello everyone. My name is Hamad Rida-Sikat and I will present you a support for high efficiency image format that we made in G-PAC. Okay, so my name is Hamad Rida-Sikat. I work on the G-PAC team and I will present you a support for high efficiency image format in G-PAC. So as usual for those who don't know G-PAC, G-PAC is a multimedia framework, a multi-platform media framework, it's under the LGPL license and it's hosted on Github. Basically, we have two sets of tools, MP4 box, which you may know, it's a worldwide difference for MP4 file manipulations and the second tool, it's MP4 client, which is a player. It's a bit more than a simple video audio player. It's a half way between a player and a browser and here is the presentation that we made before hearing the first theme last year. So what is G-PAC? G-PAC is a new image container format. It's derived from ISO BMFF and with some image specific constructs, boxes, and it may contain individual images, or image sequences, like bursts, or image metadata. It's a codec agnostic originally designed for each EVC, still picture, and officially supports EVC still and G-PAC. It may, we have like a lot of nice features like image transformations, for example rotation mirror or grid overlays. There is also additional image plans like alpha masks. We can add thumbnails, cover images, or hide images. It's, you can also do codec optimizations and we have progressive refinement also. So the design of a HIF container is based on the ISO BMFF construct, which is supported on G-PAC. So for a single image, it's you can store it as an item in the metabooks. And they may, it's also, you can also share properties like transformation rules and data, like parameters set and the tile data with other images. You can also store image sequences as a usual track, is a BMFF track, but with the new handled type called picked. Here we have the different brands and the file extensions. There is a lot of brands. For example, we have each IC for one picture and each EVC for a sequence of pictures and they both support each EVC. So why would you use a HIF? In terms of coding, it's two type better. It's two type better compression than GPEG when it used each EVC and it allows partitioning of a picture into tiles. We have also multiple image in the same file. It's efficient in terms of storage of image bursts and each GR images. It keeps links between a master image and its delivered version and it's extensible format. You can add your own codec if needed and not restricted just to images. You have the possibility to include other media type like text and audio. So here we have some commands that you can use to generate and to extract using MP4 box. So the first command will take the first picture, first image of the each EVC file and create a meta box and add one image item, make it a primary item and add the each IC brand to the output file. The second command will do the same thing, but with for the next idea frame after the given time and add the HEIX brand. And the last one will take the tile, tile each EVC stream and generate one item per tile and one item for the whole, for the entire image. So thank you and if you have, if you need any other information, you can refer to these links and and thank you. Is there any question? Yes, I'm coming. What I wanted to ask if are you happy with the format? Do you think it was something that we all waited for? Well, I I'm an ffmpec developer and we have like let's say four or five different samples and there was a patch and the patch was really huge. I mean, it was far too big for a patch that just supports a new container that just supports a variant of an existing container format and the patch doesn't work on the actual sample files we have. So apparently this format is so so much more complex than anything we have seen so far and this includes mxf that I wonder now why was that necessary or maybe I don't understand it so perhaps you can understand explain it. I don't have a specific explanation, but I just know that there is like a lot of advantages that you can use and that's why we implemented in G-PAC and that's why we added the support in G-PAC. Okay, and so your player, so mp4 client can actually display H-E-I-F images. Yeah, yeah, we have support in the mp4 client, but we still improve it, proven it. Immediately able to support it and nobody is actually working at it so as far as I know and the reason is basically that it seems surprisingly complex for an image format. You can say that, yeah. Okay, thank you. Yeah, I agree with you. Thank you. Another question? It was not that difficult. Last chance for another question? No? Okay, thank you, Ahmed.
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April 24th, 2020 - #EURJPY Breakdown
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The U.S. weekly jobless claims hit $4.4 million, bringing the five-week total to more than $26 million. And the U.S. House said they'll pass nearly $500 billion more in coronavirus relief. The COVID-19 lockdown has led to record contraction in the German economy as well. The U.K. manufacturers reported the quickest falls in output volumes and total new orders since 2009. And the Bank of Japan will discuss unlimited buying of government bonds at its next policy setting meeting. Welcome to the TICML Update, I'm Kiana Daniela, the founder of the INBASTIVA movement. Make sure to subscribe to the TICML YouTube channel and support us by liking and sharing this video with your forex trading friends. On Friday, we'll look at the EU Commission economic forecasts and the U.S. durable goods orders for March. Today I'm looking at the Euro-Yan pair, which finally did the unthinkable. It broke below the key support level of 117 for the first time in three years. Last week, we were wondering if the pair would reverse and form a double-bottom bullish reversal instead. But now, we have a confirmation of a bearish indication, which may have opened doors towards further drops, towards four-year lows of 111. Do you think this was a false breakout? Get over to the comment section and let me know. Of course, trading in the financial markets involves a risk of loss and you should only trade the money that you can afford to lose. If you liked this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to the TICML YouTube channel. I'll get back to you with more updates next week.
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JStar Balla talks being from Sugar Hill, Linking Drake, relationship with DD Osama and Notti, & more
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#talkofthetownshow #coeyproductions #jstarballa
JStar Balla stopped by to discuss many of the highs and lows that he’s faced in the past few months. From losing Notti to losing EDot in a few months, he has also done tremendous things like link up with Drake as shows have been continuously growing and selling out daily. JStar also went on to discuss what it was like performing at Rolling Loud, Sugar Hill being a family, business inspirations, & more. Tune in to hear more about what’s been going on with JStar Balla.
Timestamps
03:00 Growing up in Sugar Hill
05:19 Officially getting into making music
06:26 Coming up with the stage name
07:00 Relationship with DD Osama & Notti
08:10 Having a serious conversation with Notti about music
09:00 Receiving the news of Notti’s passing
10:30 Thoughts on labels
11:59 Sound influence
12:30 Linking with Drake
17:00 Learning of EDot passing
18:57 JStar versatile sound influence
20:54 An average studio session & “Stickin”
21:50 Fan moment
23:18 Adjusting to heightened fame
24:30 Deciding when it’s time to cut ties
25:14 Blogs & pleasedontlack
27:17 King of NY
28:35 Project coming soon?
29:39 Favorite state visited
30:35 Show Preparation
32:18 Rolling Loud
34:22 Business Inspiration
35:33 What you’d be doing outside of music
37:30 Sugarhill supporting each other
39:00 Making a viral song in 10 minutes
42:00 Dissing for clout
Follow Us on IG: https://www.instagram.com/talkofthetownshow/
Website: https://www.talkofthetownshow.com/
Coproduced by @naypexx @taylor.typical @teethecreativee
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Alright, what's up y'all, we got a new episode of Talk of the Town, today we got a special guest, J-Star Baller. You know the fucking vibe. So we gonna do a little icebreaker, get you warmed up. I'm gonna ask you a question and just answer, first thing to come to mind. What's your song? Aries. One word to describe you? Pain. Worst song ever? Amaz? No, anybody. Sheesh. Lollipop. Lil Wayne. Really? That shit is mad pointless. Okay. Okay. Um. Most expensive thing you bought? My watch. What's your favorite song? God damn, my J-Star Baller. Okay. Favorite designer brand? Louis Vuitton. Hardest bar you wrote? So much of them. Give us a bar real quick. I'm sticking, I'm sticking, I'm stepping on rock. I'm solid. Nah, damn. Are you so crazy? I don't write nothing. So I can't even, like, I have nothing to write. I'm sticking. I'm sticking. I'm stepping on rock. I'm solid. Nah, damn. Are you so crazy? I don't write nothing. So I can't even, like, I have to hear one of my songs for me to be able to even. Feel me? That's how real it is. You all right? Maybe Freestyle. All the way. Okay. Um. A celebrity? Damn, you slid in. Damn. Damn. I don't even know. Celebrity? Go crazy. All right. Dream Dog. Okay. Last famous person you text? Famous person? DD Osama. Okay. Favorite album of all time? Carter III. Okay. One. Okay. Best thing about Harlem? Sugarhead. Worst rapper ever? Oh, shit. MC Hammer. Okay. An artist that's overhyped? Damn. They might. 21 Savage. Okay. And what talk of the town ward should you be nominated for this year? The top sticklator of the year. Okay. So for the people that don't know, I guess, tell us what you from. I'm from Sugarhead. Okay. Harlem. Okay. And what was it like growing up over there? Regular shit that goes on the streets. Niggas had a rough. Niggas made a way though. Okay. And so how you got into the music? I always fuck with the music back and forth and shit. I never took it serious until one day I was like, oh fuck it, I'm trying to go into the studio. I'm just gonna cop some equipment, meet no bros, grab some equipment and shit from online. Just made a little studio in my room and shit. And then shit went up after that. We just stuck on that shit. Just recording myself and shit. Making tunes and shit. All right. So around when was this? I'll say like 2019. The end of 2018, 2019. That's when Niggas really, that's how I really took it serious. I'm so serious, serious shit. Okay. So when you was getting the equipment, you was learning how to engineer. You was collecting beats? Yeah. Like my man's, my man's knew how to engineer ready. But I just picked it up from him and shit. Just watch him and shit. Watch him and fuck with this shit. Yo bro, how you do this? How you do that? Shout out to my, shout out to bro, my son Amati. Yeah, bro. I mean I just picked it up from bro after that I just started recording myself. I started recording the bros. Okay. So you recorded something you friends before? Yeah, it's a fact. Okay. My son, my son Jaja, my son Tombi. Okay. My son Bando. Niggas, it's so crazy. There's so many names, bro, like that. Niggas, I ain't took them too much, but Niggas really. Like they come in, they about to drop or what? Oh yeah, that's a fact. Are they dropping? I got a couple of the bros dropping some shit real soon. Okay. Tombi about to drop. I mean Tombi about to drop. A couple of bros about to drop. Okay. So from, so you was practicing in the house, so when did you go to like a real studio, like a fashion studio? It was like, nah, I gotta get it right. Or you always tried to better your equipment or like what? The real reason why I really started my own studio too for real is cause like, I was living in PA and shit in Allentown PA. So the studios out there wasn't really up to par and shit, feel me? So every time that's why I started coming started really fucking with the music. I started coming to New York every week. I come to New York with me every single weekend and shit. But like, I started coming to the New York studios. That's when I was like, oh yeah. This sound, this sound fire. This the sound I've been, I've been looking for a family. Okay. And so, so you was coming here, you was recording out of the studios, then you ended up investing your own equipment. So that was all like research on your own, basically? Yeah, you know the bros always in tune and shit, you're not from the hell and shit. So the bros been doing, I always got bros that do music and shit, you feel me? So the bros always been in tune and shit with the studios and shit. So I just fell right in there. Okay. And your rap name, how'd you come up with that? That's what people been calling you or what? I mean J-Star? Yeah. J-Star? Nah, I mean J-Star came from, I used to get light and shit. I used to dance and shit. Okay. Everybody used to be J-Star, J-Star, J-9. So I just ran, I just ran with that. I think everybody from New York was dancing at one point in time. Yeah, I just stuck to that. I just stuck to that. And then like, you feel me? You know, gang like. And Bulla came later? Yeah, Bulla came later. Okay. And so what's your relationship with Dee Dee and Naughty? Those are my little brothers. So like blood like our family? Yeah. We got the same mother. Okay. All right. And like, so you wanted them to start rapping or how did that start? It's crazy because they ain't really like, Dee Dee ain't really, Dee Dee ain't really, really never really wanted to take it on some crazy, crazy serious shit. It was really like Naughty on some Naughty always following me around trying to try to beg my mom, go to PA, shit like that. Y'all want to go over there? I want to go record with J-Star. I want to record with J-Star. He's pull up and shit. You feel me? He's record him and shit. You feel me? Like, and I said, Dee Dee was like, oh, nah, hold on this shit. That shit sound fire. Like hold on. I said, Dee Dee hopped on and shit. He's just cooking up and shit, you know, cooking up. I was molding on to be there. You know, greatness. Okay. So you, they was recording their first songs with you? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Cool. So you're still like adding your input or are you being more supported? Like how is that now? Yeah, I'm there for everything. I'm there for all the studio sessions, everything. Everything I go on with Dee Dee, I'm there. You feel me? And get into music. Was you worried about them getting into music? Being like, you know how new work is. But I don't think it was that bad around that time though. It wasn't as crazy as it is now. I mean, when they, when I heard Naughty start to start really taking this shit on some, he really wanted to do this shit. I'm like, oh man, you know, I had to, you know, I had to big bro sit down. You know, bro, you know, this is serious, bro. Like, Okay. So you had that talk already? Absolutely. Like, it's my little brother. So, you know, I had to sit down. You know, this shit is just serious, bro. You know, the streets ain't nothing to play with her. Like, you know, he told me he understood everything. I'm like, yo, bro, you're not the end of the day. You only growing up. You're not going to get no smaller. I gotta, I can't be that, I never wanted to be that annoying big brother. You feel me? Yeah. They don't even want to chop it up on me. Yeah. But she was there every step of the way though. So that was always good. So what happened when you, I guess, got the news or when did you hear about it or? I was in PA. And I was on over at corn. I guess, I guess my son corn was with him couple, couple, like couple hours before. My son corn called me a little star. I think something happened. Something happened to Nadia and shit. So, you know, I think a shout out shout out my son corn for you. For you to remember like my son a goofball. Like, so I was like, yo, bro, stop playing me, bro. I'll break you up. I'll stop playing. Yeah. He like, nah, bro, gangsta, bro. He I had in his voice though. He like, he tearing up and shit. So I'm like, yo, bro, like you playing me right now. Like, you know, start out. He banging on me. Call him back. He not answering. I'll call my moms and stuff. Yo, make sure I make sure everything's situated. There's some shit just now, bro. Like, I'm not out there for me. I can't get out there. You feel me? Like, I don't want to live in PA. Like, I'm an hour and 30 minutes away. So I rushed out here right away. And then, um, so do you feel like, do you want to move to New York being that you could be closer to your family? Or do you feel like you being. I'm currently in New York. Okay. But I'm saying like, but that was like more of a reason making you want to come back, right? Absolutely. Do you feel like you also want to keep a situation out there just for them to get away sometimes? Like what do you think? Of course. So you'll be coming back and forth for sure. Yeah. So are you signed though? No, I'm not signed. Okay. Cause y'all are celebrating. Like you had got signed too. So I was like, what's going on? I ain't get signed. I ain't get signed. But it's still a good thing. I know everybody probably acts. I ain't get signed. I ain't get signed. My son did he got signed. All right. Cool. But it's still a good feeling. That's a fact. I'm right there. We step out of the way. Yeah. They're definitely watching. So, um, so how was it? I guess I know labels probably been calling y'all been reaching out. Yeah, they've been, they've been on it for real. Like it just felt a little more secure. Little felt a little more safe, little more secure with Alamo. That's cool. So are you looking at that label? Are you open to whatever? Do you want to sign a deal? Um, right now I'm just chilling for real. Like, um, whatever comes my way. If it's, if it's for me, if it's life changing for me, if I feel like it's for the better, I'll fuck around. I ain't, but I'm just chilling. Like this guy was just chilling because y'all traveling. Y'all doing shit. Yeah. I was just working like we just working this old before this or everything I'm doing now is before the deal. Like, so I ain't really dwelling on the deal. Like, you feel me? Yeah. I should come. I should come. That's pain. You feel me? If not, I shame on nothing. I'm just chilling. Like, you know? Okay. Yeah. But you also, did you drop into? Absolutely. I just dropped God. Yeah. You know the vibes? Yes. You got a little Jersey club vibe on there. Yeah. So like, you fucking with the whole jazzy sound right now? Yeah. I ain't going to lie. I should fire. I'm jacking out. I'm jacking the little switch up in shape. I'm switching it up though. Like they just straight on Jersey time. So you've been hearing that sound because you was in Philly, right? Um, yeah. PA. Yeah. Yeah. When I met PA, we just got out. He's like a own little world out there. Okay. But you probably was hearing it a little bit maybe. Yeah. Yeah. It started spreading down here. Yeah. I ain't going to lie. Yeah. So, um, so like I said, y'all be traveling and stuff. So how was it like linking with Drake and y'all play ball and stuff? Oh man. What happened? First of all, how did the call happen? How did y'all know Drake hit y'all? Cause Drake in tune with all the New York people. So, um, shout out to my son, Brooklyn Johnny. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Um, DD was supposed to go to Miami. We, we, we had already, DD was already supposed to go to Miami. And, um, me and DDOT was like, Oh, fuck it. We're going to tie. We're going to pull up and shit. And, um, my bro, Roy Young, he, um, he DDOT, he like, you know, he like kind of like my manager, um, DDOT manager and shit. For me, so like, um, he really, really made the link. Cause Brooklyn Johnny, Brooklyn Johnny linked us do, do, do raw and shit. And niggas linked up out there and made a movie. I ain't going to lie. Like, and then when, um, Drake, I think it was like his album release party or some shit like that. Um, niggas just say yo, so DD now to pull up. So we pulled up to the spot. I said, embrace this with mad love and shit. Yeah. Like what happened? Like we work in a spot. Yeah. Like how did they welcome y'all? Like what was it? I forgot what spot it was, but we in Miami. So they start walking us in the shit. Brooklyn Johnny come to the door. I think it was, um, Charles who walked to the door. He came to get us. We went to the back. We see 21 Saturday. The first, the first person I saw was 21. I'm like, nah, what the fuck? It's like a 21. I'm just like, it's right here. Like, I'm like, all right. Say no more. It's letting it. So y'all didn't know Drake was there. Y'all just going there. Nah, we knew Drake was dead. We just Drake was nowhere in sight. We a full blown party. You see party next door. Okay. Everybody's dead. We led. We see all the, all the OVO niggas and shit. You see, and Drizzy just came out and shit. He pulled up. Man, um, you know, he gave Didi a hug and shit. He gave me a hug. He gave me a doc and shit. And then he was like, yo, y'all need anything and shit. It was great. I was like shot the Drake. Like, huh? Yeah. And the next day niggas played ball with him and shit. Niggas opened up Miami heat stadium. Stadium? Yeah. I saw y'all. Like I think the Miami heats was out of state and some funny shit. Like they opened the stadium for us. I felt like I wasn't playing the 2k. No lie. I was into the back and shit. And my career, my career coming out the toll bus. That shit was fire. I ain't gonna lie. I shot the Drake word. Okay. All right. So, um, any other like sluggies was hitting y'all and stuff? I know after that probably got crazy. Um, to be honest, um, Didi will be, I mean, like. I mean, hitting you. No, no, no. Yeah. I mean, like to be honest, I'm in soon. Well, a lot of you feel me like everybody for real. But as far as like you mean like specific select celebrity celebrities. No, nobody was just people commenting and sharing our music tapping in like playing our shit. A lot of producers don't start tapping in a lot of like people we met in Miami start tapping in for sure. Yeah. Okay. So, um, so how does your family feel about like you doing music? I mean, for my mom's a little overwhelming and shit. Yeah. Cause we just lost a brother and shit, but she, she learned out. She like, she accepted it. Okay. I'm just trying to make something positive. I saw negative. Okay. I saw a tragic. So what like motivates you to like keep going and keep doing it and stick through? I ain't gonna lie. My little brother really wanted to make it with this shit. Like that was his biggest shit. You feel me? You're always like, always to talk about just making it like I was going to go up. So that, so that should happen. But I'm mentally though, you feel like you okay? I mean, it's not even happening. Also, like we lost E dot this year too. That was crazy. That was crazy. So, um, I know we had a show that day. I guess when the news had happened and I see everybody leave. So like when did, I guess, how was you feeling about that whole situation? I mean, he was at the show using using Jersey. I think I think it was in Clifton, in Jersey. He's at the show and after the show, niggas found out. I was stuck. Like, I felt, I felt numb to it. I felt a little numb to this shit. Like, damn, like four months ago, like, I'm just lost now to you four months ago. I felt like, damn, like, like, eat out really the, eat out really the soul to this shit for like my son really started all this shit for, you feel me? So it was like, I should really hurt like. Yeah, that's, that's the fact. Do you feel like people wait like too late to like start being supportive? That shit happens all the time. Like, I should, that's the way life is for real. Like, that's how I feel about that. Like, but yeah, like in a way, how are you? So do you feel like it's like pressure on y'all to be like strong and like keep pushing through? Cause fans be saying stuff and blogs be posting shit and you got a shot of still filming. Like y'all still in the grieving process basically. Like, do you feel like it's a lot of pressure on y'all to like stay strong and keep pushing? Every single day. This shit a little, this shit a little crazy. It is a lot of pressure. I feel like everybody always, everybody always expecting us to win, win, win. But niggas will be going through shit. Like niggas will be real life shit going on. Like, apart from this music shit for me. We just got to deal with that shit though. That's how I feel about that shit. But on the music tip though, you traveling and stuff like that. I guess who would you say like influence your sound because you don't really sound like them. You got like, you could, you could switch your vibes up. I see you do the drill shit and I heard the little Jersey club shit. So like, who influenced your sound? To be honest, I really don't, I got really like, I don't want y'all to think I'm lying. I really can't name nobody at the top of my head I influence how I sound for real. Like, you feel me? I could definitely name some of my local, some of my local favorite like rappers and shit. Like, I definitely fuck my son Shawnee for real. Shawnee? Shawnee Shawnee. I fuck with... You feel like growing up, who you was listening to? Like, who was, who was they playing? Like, who's, who's on your playlist back in the day? Who's on your playlist now? To be honest, I was listening to Jadakiss. I ain't gonna lie. Okay. I was listening to like 50 cent and shit like that. Okay. You know what I mean? Lil Wayne and shit, Lil Wayne is a problem. Like, I ain't gonna lie. Certain songs you blow my mind, but I ain't gonna lie. My son go crazy. Nah, Lil Wayne's a goat. So do you, do you like try to focus on lyrics more? Do you want to tell a story in your music? Like, what, what, what would be your goal? Like with certain songs, I guess? Because Godday, you telling the story, but you still get to the little party vibe and then some songs... It just comes on the beat. Like, because Godday was like a smooth laid back vibe. Yeah. But when that shit with my son, shout out Lil Na too. Like, Lil Na, that's my producer. He goes crazy. Like, when he turned that switch on that shit, like, he know how to activate me, you know? Cap, like, no freaking, like, my son go play, feel me? It was a calm vibe, but once he turned that jersey, like, nah, hold on, we gotta get crazy, like. So I was like, I gotta turn up. Okay. All right. And what's the vibe? Like, what'd be the vibes in the studio? Like, what could you do a studio session with J-Star? Um, I ain't gonna lie, we be sticking. Define sticking, like, what that mean for the people that don't know? Sticking is whatever you wanted to be. Come on, come on. I'll do that. Like, I'll describe sticking. Like, right now, this Migos got me sticking right now. So it got you active, turned up, like... And, like, the person acting crazy, I ain't gonna lie, you're sticking right now, bro. That's what I'm gonna say, Bucking. So it could mean different things. Yeah, it could really mean whatever. Me and the members, feel me? Me and the members, it could mean whatever you want for real, like. And it's really one of those, if you know, you know. Yeah. Like, don't you think? Okay. Okay. All right, so y'all definitely be, like, really having your own movement for real, I feel like. The shows be crazy. Movie. The shows be crazy. Have you had any, like, crazy fan interaction yet? Holy shit. Tell us a story, tell us a story. So, I think it was Connecticut. We went to CT. And we go to the back stage and shit. After the show, we just, oh, we all sweaty, we all drenched up. And we keep hearing somebody out. We keep hearing people out the window. It's like a mosh pit out one of the side windows. So, it's mad hot. So I just peeked my head out, not knowing that it's a thousand fans outside. And I just peeked my head out to catch some air. And there's literally a mom, like somebody's mother. With a whole tray of pizza. Of L.E.O.'s, it looked like L.E.O.'s pizza. Mad pizza. You're like, J-Star, I want to give you this. I'm like, what? Niggas is, I'm like, yo, niggas is hungry? They're like, fact. I literally, I know, I literally, no, we was like on the third floor. I literally told my security to bring her upstairs. She came upstairs. And she was like, I ain't gonna lie, she was crazy. Okay. So it'd be like, cause I know that's probably crazy, cause it'd be moms, it'd be kids, it'd be little kids, it'd be grown kids. Yeah, so how are you dealing with all of that now? Cause I know you can't go to certain, but you gotta wear ski mask up everywhere now. I mean, I should be, I ain't gonna lie, I should fire. It's fire until it get a little overwhelming for me. A little overwhelming for me a little, like, like, I hold on to shit a little crazy. All right, boom. So how can you tell when somebody is like really being supportive of y'all or people just looking for clout? I can't really, oh, I know everybody who's around me. Like, I know literally everybody who's around me. You can't come around me if I don't know you or if one of my man's man's don't know you, can't even come around. If you're looking for clout, you could probably come to a little function on some once in a while shit if that's the agenda. But I'ma know, like my niggas, my niggas is already sanctioned. Like, I know who my niggas is already, so everything's already, everything. I know who's genuine, I know who's not. Okay. And like, how did you, I guess how, if someone is like doing too much, how do you like decide for like when they doing too much? Like, when is the time for a nigga to lead a circle? Basically. I'ma tell a nigga. I'ma tell a nigga. I'ma definitely warn a nigga. Cause I always believe in second chances, you feel me? Okay. I never really got a lot of second, a lot of chances for me. So I believe in you, you feel me? I ain't gonna tell your bro, I ain't gonna lie to you. I don't like the way this is going on. And if I feel like you playing with me, like not even on some trying to be tough shit, you feel me? I feel like you're playing on some, we had this talk, bro. Yeah. And you feel like we, after the talk, you, after that, you gotta be playing with me. Right. So you gots to get caught off. Okay. Okay. Definitely. So like, so how do you feel about like blogs right now? Yo, please don't lack, suck my dick. Okay. Okay. Where to my dad when I catch him and break your fucking neck? Yeah, I don't know who that is. But like, but like overall though, do you feel like, like... Everybody else I'm jacking. Okay. What makes you say that though? Like they just... They just be captured, like they just be trying to post the most, like the most, like, I don't know. Every other blog page be posting positive shit. You're posting bad shit too. But it seems like please don't like this. Be trying to really catch the motherfucking lack and like, for whatever motherfuckers posting my moms. These motherfuckers just crazy, bro. Like, because it's wild. And that's only crazy. I was, I was saying that more so on the sense that like, you know, like everybody's like, everybody just trying to drop diss tracks now. So like, you know, like people will post that and post y'all like, or do you feel like that's kind of a job or what do you think? I don't really pay attention to the blogs like that. Okay. That's good though. That keep your mind at peace. Shit, fuck it. You don't want to see that, you don't want to see that. I'll barely be on a grand for real. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yes. So like, even fans too, because y'all be all on Tik Tok. Like, after the show though, after the shows, y'all be turning on Tik Tok for like five days. No cap. But I don't even, it's crazy. I don't know how I got 40,000 followers on Tik Tok. I never used it. Like, I don't even use it. You never posted a video? Nah, I did. I do be posting, but I literally just post like, like my, like I post my music videos. Like, you feel me? Like the little snippets on my music videos. I don't ever post like me actually doing shit. Yeah. And my shit like 40K. I don't. Cause y'all be trending on Tik Tok after the show. Tik Tok will be like, I went to DDNM show. And it'll be all y'all. It'll be all y'all. That shit been cool. So people in New York tend to always argue about, oh, who's the king of New York and who got it in New York? What do you have to say? How do you feel about that whole conversation? Sure, man. Whoever want to hold that crown, man. I think it's going to have to earn that shit, man. Okay. That crown, that's a different type of crown right there, right? King of New York is crazy. Okay. So you feel like we don't have one? Or they just not working for it? Or what do you think? I don't feel like we got a king of New York right now. And like, because people ain't doing enough or because there's so much artist here, you can't really pick on, like what do you think? The second thing you said is way too much talent. How you going to be able to save one person in King of New York and the next person probably got some shit that's way better. That don't make no sense. Right. So yeah, it doesn't really have one of those. Yeah, I feel you on that. So I guess, so what keeps you grinding? Are we going to project this year? Like what's going on? Yeah, ain't going to lie. Hell yeah. Got definitely game. Got definitely game with project. Project? Got a title? Nah, I only got a title. I was trying to name a title. I was trying to call it a title last minute. Nah, I don't got a title for you. But before the year ends, maybe next year, top of next year, like how you feeling? Nah, I ain't going to lie. The year about to end in a few, in a few, the year about to end in a few days. So I can't promise. A month and some change. Definitely, a month and some change too much for now. Definitely, I definitely expect a little EP. Okay. A little non song EP, something like that. Okay. And doing collabs lately. You got any sneaky features in the cut? Like what's going on? I don't want to talk about that right now. Okay. But you working on features? Definitely. Okay. So you might be seeing something soon? Absolutely. Go pop outs. Okay. Good pop outs. Okay. So traveling, so where has been, I guess, the latest state y'all traveled to so far? I ain't going to lie. Jersey shoulder is my love. Okay. I did. Snicker, DD crowd surf, then they caught him. Yeah. I wasn't there. That was a movie. That sure was crazy. They jumped in the crowd. They caught them little niggas. That shit was fire. Shit. One day I'm going to catch my eyes. Real soon. Real soon. I guess they're out now. But New Jersey, you feel like? Cause the craziest? Yeah. I ain't going to lie. Jersey was turned out. I fucked with CT too. CT was fire. We got a show coming out too. And December 10th in red in Pennsylvania. Okay. So you going to see what Philly like? Yeah. Red in Pennsylvania. It's going to be a movie. Okay. December 10th, fire. So how are you getting prepared for shows? Like do you be rehearsing? Do you be like? Yeah. Mentally. Yeah, we got rehearsals. We got rehearsals before the show and shit. We just, yeah. We just pick what songs you want to do. Just go, you know. Just rehearse them shit. When it's time, it's time. And it's time to shine. It's time to shine. Okay. So you're going on stage with me? No. No. So you always was ready? I don't know. Yeah. I be around the members in the studio. It's the same shit. A couple, you know. I mean, it's sort of kind of... And I feel like if they come into the shows because they love you already, right? Right. That's how I look at it. Right. And then y'all being sold out like back to that. Everything sold out. Sold out shows. So the first... So you performed at the first show with Edad, right? When I was in Brooklyn? I performed at every show. Every show, right? How did you see, I guess, y'all fans growing? Because you went from Brooklyn to Jersey. Now you're going upstate. How do you see it growing? Is it more people now? Is it more hit-ups now? Shout out to the youth, man. Yeah. Y'all got to show love to the kids. Y'all got to do something for Christmas. Like, what's T? Shout out to the kids, man. Because the kids really be showing my love. Like, it's definitely been like a little... It's definitely been an evolution of the shows. Yeah, because they've been moving. From the first show. Yeah. For the first show, I think it was like 200, like 200 people. And a lot of shows, almost 1,000 people. You feel me? Yeah. It's just growing. Every show is just the capacity of the other places we getting booked for. It's just getting bigger and bigger. So this shit is crazy. Yeah. And then you was also... You went to Roland Laud. Oh, my God. The cap was out. That shit was fire. Yeah, but... We opened up for Nook. She was a movie. Yeah, so people already knew the songs even from Roland Laud too, right? Yeah. So then I see Diddy got booked for LA this year. Yup. So you gonna be performing on that stage? Or we got to wait to see? Or like, what's up? Damn, sneaky. Just know we going to go crazy. Okay. Movie. Roland Laud, California. Okay, okay. So yeah, so what's next for you? We got Roland Laud. Cali. All these shows. We just booked. We booked. Yeah. What's the... How are you feeling right now? Booked and busy? We got Boston. We got PA. We got all these shows. We just busy studio time. Mm-hmm. Just literally working. You know, we just doing this fire studio. These fire interviews like this, you feel? I don't know if you can. I think if I had an award. Yeah, it was about time. I feel like you definitely got to tell your story and let us know what's going on. Yeah, so it's glad to see you talking and doing interviews. Man. Yeah. But how are you mentally? Y'all booked and busy? Keep moving. Y'all keep grinding. They ain't still working on music too. Do you think you want to start a label? You think you want to sign more kids? Because the youth is working with y'all right now. Yeah, I'm definitely... I really... I'm going to start working on my artist. Okay. I got a couple artist. Oh, you do got artist already? Yeah. I got a couple artist. I'm going to start working on my artist. Okay. And just build. Build. Literally. Keep trying to keep everything in house. Build. Just go up. You know, got a lot of artist that's tough. You feel me? Mm-hmm. You know? The world. The world got to see them. Got to see what they talk about. All right. So do you like... So I guess when it comes to business, who's I guess like a good business person to you that you, I guess, look up to? Who does good business you think? I ain't going to lie with Mama Love. Mama Love is always business-orientated. Mm-hmm. She's always into business. Always have own businesses. Yeah. Open the salons and she's like that. Do a lot of shit. And my step-ups too, my step-ups, for me my step-ups go with business until you go with numbers and shit. You feel me? How he like to say? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Okay. My parents for real. Okay. And then do you feel like you're going to prioritize music more or you want to get more into the business side of the music industry? What do you think? Because it seemed like you do a little bit of both. Yeah. That's literally exactly what it is. I'm just like whatever's the task at hand. Okay. That's how I feel about it. Okay. Feel a lot of business that contours my way. You know business contours your way, you got to handle it. Right. You feel me? But for the most part, I'll just be on my music. I'll definitely be on my music shit, you feel me? Okay. I'll be in a stew with the bros cooking up. You feel me? Okay. So if you didn't do music, what do you think you would have did? I would have definitely started my own label. Okay. I'm going to start my own label though. For sure? Yeah. That's a fact. Like 100%. You feel me? In time with, in time do. In time do? Okay. And then like, I guess what, like how do you know, I guess when a person is a star? Because I got a different type of ear. What's it? Because you saw your brothers with stars from when they first started. I got a different type of ear. Is it, is it, is it, is it ear? And you got a certain, you got a certain distinctive, like personality, persona. Okay. Because like, you got to have a certain charisma. You got to have to be a star. There's a certain, there's a certain hunger. You got to have to be a star. Okay. You could be an R. You could be a rapper. Everybody could just be a rapper. You could just wake up and be a rapper. Yeah. To be a star. That shit get, you know, you got to have a certain type of eye. Like I think it's a star right there. Okay. Like when I knew Naughty and Diddy was stars. Like, you feel me? When they just, there's a certain thing about people, you know, like I know my niggas, I know certain of my niggas are stars. I knew Eat Up. When Eat Up, Ben knew Eat Up. I knew when Eat Up, Rest in Peace. I knew he was a star. Like, you feel me? Move. Shout. Free move. You feel me? Free my son, King. Free my son, Corn. I knew King was a star. So really just certain aura, certain energy. Just certain stuff. How are you? Yeah. And then like, all of y'all, I guess from the hill got like lit. Probably like kind of not at the same time, but because Eat Up was in it and King. So like, it seemed like Sugar Hill got a lot of artists that stars. So like, so like, um, I guess do y'all be like helping each other? Like, how do you feel like the support system is out there? We really, we're really a family for writing on a lot. I should really, the hill, the hill, the hill really feel like, I should really family vibes. I should really feel like, heavy on, heavy on that help. One hand, watch the other vibes. You feel me? Like we in the studio and I just booked three hours. And I know bro, I know bro been beasting to record that song that he wrote. And he telling everybody on the block. And I got, I just booked three hours. I'm going to try to finish my song in two hours. So you could try to squeeze that, that little song in the, in the extra hour. You feel me? Yeah. You'd be surprised a lot of hits been made like that. Yeah. I mean, like. Okay. So you got an example. Give us a story of one. I ain't gonna lie. Like I give you example gangsta. We in Pennsylvania. Uh huh. We in still city studios. And my son, I mean, I had just recorded a song called what's the vibes? You feel me? And my, my, my producer was making a beat. So Keem, Keem sleeping. He slumped out. He all the way in PA. He wake up. He like, oh, stop the fuck where I'm at, bro. I say, oh, bro, we over in the stool, bro. What the fuck you talk about, bro? You know, we was coming to PA, bro. He like, oh, shit. How much time we got left? I like, oh, we got like 20 minutes left. So he like, yo, bro, I could cook up real quick. He literally just woke up. I think it just woke up snoring, drooling on. I'm like, yo, bro, I say, bro, we got 20 minutes left. What you about to do with 20 minutes? He like, oh, bro, watch this, bro, please. Okay. So a producer. He like, yo, nah, bro. I want to, you know, you know, producer, he already knew he had already heard from about Keem. So he wanted to do a beat for Keem. So I'm like, yo, bro, we got 20 minutes left. 20 minutes left. He like, yo, bro, I could make a beat. Yo, think of something that's mad New Yorkish, that the first thing company that has New York when you hear it. So nigga said the ice cream, nigga said the ice cream truck. Oh, wow. So I'm like, what the fuck do you mean the ice cream truck? Nigga cooked the beat up in 10 minutes. This nigga Keem recorded that song in 10 minutes. 10 minutes. Okay. He recorded that ice cream, that ice cream song that went viral. Yeah, that's still viral. That's still viral right now. That boy recorded that song in 10 minutes. You know, he put the words together. 10 minutes though. You feel me? But that's another example of one hand watched the other. Like it was on some, you know, I could have packed it. You feel me? Or he could have just been like, yo, start we out. Or we would have got that song later down the line. Y'all would have probably got that song never for real. Because it was just like, it was, it was an in the moment thing. Like the way it played out was like some crazy. Yeah. Because the producer was there at that time. The producer was there at the moment. It was on some like, y'all should was fire. I ain't gonna lie. Yeah. And then DD, no, DDOT made the dance. Yeah. DDOT made the little dance. So he made the dance on purpose? Or like what, like what happened? To be honest, I felt like. Because it's a TikTok. DDOT be sticking. So I feel like he really just made that. He really was just. Dancing, geeking. Dancing. Nigga just made the dance. That shit went viral. That shit went crazy on TikTok. Yeah, that definitely, that definitely went crazy on TikTok. Yeah. Celebrities doing that shit. No, yeah. Real. That shit tough. So like, and then they couldn't now, like, I guess Cardi was, I guess stealing the dance. What do you think? What do you think she was showing love? I don't know. What do you think? I don't really know how to talk. I mean, to be honest, she, she definitely didn't make the dance up. No, she wasn't saying she made it up. She did the dance and she was like, this the little dance y'all be doing. Some shit she's done on Instagram. Yeah. She gave it that little extra push anyways. But that's shout out to you, Cardi. You gave the hell a little more. I ain't. Yeah. That was that little extra push. But I don't really care about if she said this or that. Nigga's know the real. Like, if you know, you know, like, the, the. Nah, fans was going crazy. Blogs going crazy. Everybody was like, yo, she's doing keen dance. Like, they know. Right. They knew. Like, everybody know for real. Like this, you do this. Yeah. You know, that's the move. Look, you know. Yeah. So how have you, I'm soaking the keen lately. How? Yeah. I talk to both the twins. You hear me? Mm-hmm. They be home soon though. Okay. That's good to know. That's good to know. So how do you feel about like, I guess people dissing off a clout? Yo, it's so crazy at this point. I don't even like, there's so many people we don't know. It's like more sleep. Everybody we don't know. Like, it's don't know these people. Okay. So it's not like, it's one, it's a difference. If the people's dissing, it's people that we get, like people that niggas know, niggas don't know these people. Mm-hmm. Like, I don't really want to, I don't really be trying to name Joppa niggas, give niggas clout and shit. You feel me, bro? Yeah. Niggas who made that niggas know, niggas who made that dance, like niggas don't even know them niggas for real. At all. Niggas just fan thought what happened. So what happened? Like, you can start. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Niggas woke up one day. Niggas woke up one day. Niggas got a song. A moment. Like, just mimicking how my brother died. That shit is crazy. I feel like niggas ain't have static, niggas ain't have static with child niggas. Y'all definitely ain't do it. So it's like, that was weird. But niggas be fed, that was for real. Like, and remember I feel like niggas just try to hold on to something. Soon as niggas start dying out, niggas try to hold on to something for dead life. And I feel like that's what they did for real. Yeah. And I feel like, you know, you being older and they being younger, I feel like, you know, you got to like, I guess, not, you got to try to stay out of that stuff. But in the same token, it's like they're still being disrespectful. You know what I mean? Because like y'all got to stay out of jail and keep working and shit like that. Niggas could go do some shit and should have go left. So I guess how do you, I guess stay strong and stuff like that because people was making jokes about it and shit. So like, I ain't going to lie. That goes, that goes to what I said. Like, I, we don't know these people. So it's not like, we can't retaliate. You can't sit there and pull up to a nigga. Yo, you took crazy off. I'm pulling up to your crib. Come downstairs. It's like, you can, but it's like, You don't know them. You don't know them. So it's like, what the fuck? Like, I just, I've learned to, I've learned to, I've learned the beauty of ignorance. Okay. Lately. Okay. I've lasted that. And that's been keeping you at peace for show. Yeah, definitely. Okay. That's good. That's good. And then even still, like when every time Diddy dropped, he goes like trending on YouTube. Like every time. I know the song with that y'all did went trending too, no? Yeah. Brother on the real brotherly love. Yeah. Yeah. I ain't gonna lie. Baby boy, you're a star. He going crazy right now. So it's trending for real. Yeah. So that's, so that's good. How was that feeling finding out you was trending? How'd you know? Yo, how'd you find out that people told you? You just looked it up. Yeah. Like, it's so crazy. My man's, my man's like your star. He called me like your star. You trending number 17 on YouTube right now. I'm like, nah, never. He like, yeah, go look, bro. I'm like, nah, what the fuck? At that point, I'm like, what do you mean? Like on YouTube, like for the whole YouTube? Yeah. On just like. On number 17 on YouTube. He like, yeah, nigga, what else doesn't mean? Like I'm like, oh shit, this shit is real. Okay. And then when I seen it hit numbers, I think it was like number six. What's your accomplishment? Do you guys have any other big accomplishments this year? So far. To be honest, my, my, my engagement on my YouTube is going crazy. Crazy. On my own YouTube. Like my shit is like, everything's going up. My Instagram going up, everything going up. Yeah. So you almost had 100K on the ground. Yeah. Shit going up. So yeah, so definitely a project soon. Rolling out LA soon. That's right. I guess. Tell the people where to find you. Well, any last thing you want to get off your chest? I ain't going to lie. Nigga, you need to stop using the members for clout. I like to catch up. I can see what's going on. Everything for Naughty. Everything for Eat Up. Flacking for Wild Scout. We going crazy. Like, you know, the vibes we had, we had the talk of the town. Talk of the town rolling out. Y'all everywhere. Y'all everywhere. You too. Y'all everywhere. But I guess, tell me where to find you and find the music. Yo, it's your boy J-Star Bully. He found me everywhere. I had J-Star Bully literally everywhere. Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Instagram, Facebook. I don't even fuck with my Facebook. I don't even use Facebook. Facebook too? Facebook too. Everything, J-Star Bully. Thank you.
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Sizdədən çox haş edirəm. Mənim bu 31 yaşında zavın qızıma çilinə çövpəsi var. Ona çox haş edirəm ki, mən çövək edir. Yalvarram, xarquma yalvarram, hər çəsə yalvar. Kanalımıza ulduz, baxşeləyi və müracaət edərək deyir ki, onun 31 yaşlı qızı Zabadova Leila xərsən xəstəliyindən əziyyət seçir. Ana birildir qızının malizəsinə və dərmanlarının alınmasına sək göstərsə də artıq imkanı çatmır onun malizə etdirməyə. Ana üzünü Azərbaycanın imkanlı və mərhəmətli şəxsərinə tutaraq, onun qızının malizəsinə köməlik göstərilməsini xaşa edir. Zabadova Leila xərsən xəstəliyindən əziyyət seçir. Birindir ki, bu xəstəliyindən əlləşirik, bir təlifət çıxabilmirik. Səkçis ximiyalı, bir də əlsebtin iynəsi gəlir, Dürkədə. Çözümüz çatmırənləri almama. Siz dədən çox haş edirəm. Mənim bu 31 yaşında zavan qızıma çilinə çövpəsi var. Ona çox haş edirəm ki, mən köməyiliyim. Mən problemlərmə, həl eləməyəmənə köməyiliyim. Yalvarram, xarquma yalvarram. Hərkəsə yalvarram ki, mən bu ana yalvarram. Onu güləmələ yazınız gəlsin, köməyiliyim. Mən balam televiziyaya çıxandır, işıqlandırın ki, xalqın məkəyə köməyiləsin. Balam vəzəti getirətə püsləşir. Şişlər böyüyüm, qarşısına alabilmirik. Üç aydan çox da iynəsini alıqdurabilmirik. İynələ çox bahadır. Çözümüz çatmır.
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What are the different phases of Covid-19 vaccine development? | Wellcome
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Professor Robin Shattock, Imperial College London, explains more about the different phases of vaccine development, and what a future Covid-19 vaccine might look like.
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Well there are four phases in terms of clinical development of a vaccine. The first phase is actually when you first put a vaccine into volunteers for the first time. That's called phase one and it's usually in small numbers, tens of volunteers. And there you're looking at predominantly the safety of the vaccine. Is it safe? How well is it tolerated? What are the side effects? The second phase is then to move into a few hundred individuals and continue to look at safety and say what kind of immune response does the vaccine induce? If that goes well and it still looks safe then you move into phase three which is looking at how well the vaccine protects against an actual infection. If that's successful and you show that the vaccine works really well and still continues to be safe then you may be able to get a licence for that vaccine and start to roll it out in the wider community. But that's the fourth phase where you still need to track safety for a prolonged period of time, several years. We think that those first vaccines probably may well be more effective against disease preventing people from becoming sick than blocking transmission. Ideally we want a vaccine that's 90% effective. The first vaccines may not get there so we don't know what threshold is required to make a vaccine worthwhile moving out as a public health policy. Making a vaccine for seven billion people has never been done before. I think the logistics of getting a vaccine out to those people that need it is a significant undertaking. It's not going to happen in days, weeks, months. It's more likely to happen over a year or even several years and there may well be a requirement for booster vaccinations even on an annual basis. So this is something where it's going to be a long haul to make sure that everybody's protected against COVID-19 for the foreseeable future.
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Revisiting The Matrix Trilogy + Matrix Resurrections Thoughts
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#TheMatrix #MatrixResurrections #Rant
The Matrix 4 (Matrix: Resurrections) trailer is finally out and I'm incredibly excited. Sure, a part of me is incredibly scared that it will be terrible but as a huge fan of the Matrix franchise, I'm willing to give Lana Wachowski the benefit of the doubt.
In this video I reflect on my Matrix theater experiences, thoughts on the Matrix trilogy and my hopes for Matrix Resurrections. It's a little troubling that Neo looks like John Wick, Lawrence Fishburne is absent and the green coloring is missing but I'm guessing all of these issues will be resolved in the films story. For now, I'm just happy The Matrix is back!
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How freaking awesome is it that the Matrix is finally back, the Matrix 4? I didn't think it would ever come, honestly. After three amazing films, well, after one amazing film and then two other movies, I thought for sure this was a cash cow that were gonna milk dry. That was not the case though. We had the Animatrix, we had a couple video games, there was an online game where Morpheus apparently died, I didn't even know about that but it would explain why he's not in the new trailer or it doesn't explain it. I don't know what's happening in that trailer and that's good. I don't want to know, that's half the charm of the Matrix is figuring things out and puzzling through it with Neo together. Today I wanted to do a relatively quick video just talking about past Matrix memories, what the film franchise means to me, and where I'd like to see it go in the future. Maybe we'll relate. If you're new to the channel, hi, I'm Adam. I don't take things too seriously, but I do love movies and talking about them, so if you are as passionate as I am, maybe take the red pill. See how deep this rabbit hole goes. Sounded sexual. Just subscribe. That's what I'm saying, subscribe. The Matrix came out March 31st, 1999, yeah we're in the late 90s folks, it's gone back a ways and I remember it like it was yesterday. I still remember the marketing for this film and how bizarre the trailers were, showing very little. You had agents doing all sorts of weird body dysmorphia stuff. One dude with shades and a trench coat, dodging bullets. I have no idea what's happening, but I'm all in. I saw this in the theater opening weekend with a bunch of guys, my dad, my brother, cousins, like a bunch of relatives. I don't know, I think it was a fishing trip and we're like, let's go to the movies because screw fishing. The film was insane. We had never witnessed anything so crazy before. It made you think it was complex. But then on top of that, we had phenomenal action, a killer soundtrack, and state-of-the-art technology that would be mimicked and parodied for years to come. I still remember being a kid in the theater in that opening scene when Agent Smith gets out of the car and the cops are like, our men are bringing her down right now and Agent Smith doesn't even look at it and he's just like, no lieutenant, your men are already dead. It's so good, he's so good. But then we jump into that scene greeted to carry on Moss as Trinity. She goes up into the air, the sound effects are insane. She's running on the rooftops, jumping across buildings, the cops are trying to keep up. Oh my God, I loved it. And then of course it ends as all fights end with her going through a telephone. So many freaking cool characters, Trinity, Morpheus, Neil of course, Agent Smith and the other agents, the Oracle, Spoon Boy, and that's just the first movie. Once Neil gets plugged into a simulation that teaches him kung fu, I was basically dead. The movie overwhelmed me with how amazing it was. After the film was done, we had multiple discussions amongst each other about where the movie could go next, if there was a sequel, about what was actually going on in the matrix. I had to explain it to like a dozen people who didn't even get the concept. I would also go on to watch this movie two more times in theaters. I was that invested in the movie. Obviously, I bought a day one on DVD, annoyed the shit out of all my classmates with my nerdy friends as we recreated our favorite scenes from the films, pretending to run sideways on walls in the hallways of the school, randomly going into bullet time during class. Trinity, help. God, we were so annoying. I just know we were. I just know we were. If I could unearth some of the videos we made recreating the matrix fights or just make out our own versions, it would be quite the sight to see. Fortunately for everyone, that footage was lost to the world. The internet wasn't really much of a thing yet. It was taking shape. We had just shitty websites like built on GeoCities and Fire Angel or whatever that was called. Basically, those were the equivalent of WordPress or Wix today. They were sites where you could host images and text and not much more. I remember in computer classes just making multiple word docs full of images from the matrix, just opening up a file and just finding images online that I thought were badass from the film and just putting them in a centralized location so I could go, oh, that's the shot where they're fighting down in the subway and they have the guns and they're like, and you have the trail of the bullet and they're in like a circle. The flame of the gun goes. This is actually really crazy. I looked back and the matrix reloaded and revolutions were released six months apart in theaters. I don't know if that's ever happened before with the film trilogy or franchise. Maybe back to the future two and three. Hang on, I will go back and look just to be accurate. I stand corrected by myself. Back to the future two and three came out six months apart. So matrix is going off of that playbook. The movies were filmed back to back, which is kind of weird for back to the future, not to go on a side tangent, but three seems like the most disjointed of the trilogy. It feels like the ugly duckling in the corner. Whereas one and two feel like one extended film. Anyway, reloaded and revolutions definitely feel like one longer movie as opposed to the first. The first would be The Odd Man Out. And this is where the disappointment starts to kind of fester in. Matrix Reloaded, I think is awesome. I don't think it's as good as the first. It kind of lost some of its style, some of its coolness. I don't know why because there's plenty of cool stuff going on. The film is far less about freeing minds, though, as it is about saving Zion. And Zion sucks. Zion's just absolute shit. Which does lead to some interesting questions. Like, do we really want to be free when this is the world we have to look forward to? There's tons of metaphors, symbolism, biblical references all throughout this thing. It's up its own ass in it, actually, especially by the third. But I saw all of these opening night and I would not change a thing. Even Revolutions, which is definitely a disappointment for me, over the years I've grown, I guess, a little softer on it. I think Matrix Reloaded gets to have the most fun out of the trilogy. It doesn't have to worry about the beginning or end. It can just really focus on doing some wild stuff in the middle. That highway chase that goes on for like 45 minutes is so freaking good. The cameras are going underneath the cars. There's tons of practical effects work at play, believe it or not. But then you also have CG agents jumping on cars and breaking them and blowing them up. You have fucking Morpheus with a Katana and an Uzi. Taking out cars, fighting on the top, fighting on top of a semi-truck, as Neo's trying to rush over and help. Plus there's that burly brawl in the park. Half choreographed with real people, then we switch over to full-on video game. It doesn't age well at all. But we're in the Matrix, so kind of forgivable. Which is another nice thing about this trilogy. Since we're inside of a simulation, actors in real life that have actually died have to be replaced by other actors. Like the Oracle, for instance. She passed away between the filming of two and three. I do wish that Wachowski's knowing that they're inside of a computer program would have gotten a little bit more extreme with it. Instead of replacing the Oracle with another elderly black woman, they maybe could have replaced her with like a white kid or an Indian dude. Like something that's different. To really push home that point for audiences that, oh, I outgrew my shell, I needed to find a new one. There was many years where I was just sour on the third movie and I just didn't like it at all. Now I look back and I see what the Wachowskis were doing. I still would have liked to do the more free-in-mind sort of a thing and less about this whole Zion situation. But the other major storyline with Agent Smith is so cool that I forgive it now. The rain fights, the fact that Smith is a virus and he's ruining the Matrix, taking over everything, and they need to turn to Neo, the chosen one, to help stop him. They kind of make a deal with him that they'll do things better. They'll allow more minds to be opened. They'll let Zion stand. There's some really cool concepts there. And after watching it recently with my daughter for the first time, I got to relive all three movies over again through her eyes. It was such a cool experience. We brought home Chipotle. We're sitting down at lunch, eating, watching the movies, and I'm like half-watching the movie, half-watching her the whole time, just seeing her reaction and her response to things as she's getting blown away like I was in theaters. The first time Agent Smith seals up Neo's mouth, or removing the bog that's in his stomach, not like this. Not like this. How's he gonna be the one if he's dead? Mr. Anderson, we've missed you. Dodge this. Bzzz. I could have a panel on the Matrix and nerd out on it for like 24 hours straight without any breaks. That's how much I adore this trilogy. For good and bad. They did things that were so off the norm from Hollywood blockbusters and they went all in. They didn't sacrifice their vision for what they thought would work better for others. They just said, you know what? This is the course we're taking, whether you like it or not. So now all these years later, seeing the new movie, now directed by just one of the Wachowskis, not having the green filter, not having Neo look how he did before. No, Lawrence Fishburne as Morpheus. I need my fish. I need my fish. But some younger version of him, maybe, or maybe it's his son. Maybe it's just a guy that's cosplaying as him. I don't know. Why does Neo look like John Wick? Why is there no color grading on this thing? I know they say at the end of revolutions, which I just watched a few months back, that they, for the next reboot, the seventh reboot or the 10th, or however many that it's been, they do colorize the matrix more, how it used to be back before the sun was blocked out. They're trying to get it more accurate. So that would explain why we don't have the greens anymore. Now as for Neo's look, I don't know, we can speculate all day long, but it really doesn't amount to a hill of beans, as they say back in the 50s. I'm in touch. I'm in touch. Last time I checked, he also died in the original trilogy, along with Trinity. Morpheus, ironically, was one of the few that survived, and he's not even in this one. My guess is the matrix rebooted. These aren't even the same characters anymore. The computer told us that there's always a one that's going to save humanity, but that's just part of the construct, that's part of the programming. So it's very possible this is just a different version of Neo, and that's a different version of Trinity, completely different characters now. There might be some echoes, there might be some copying over, so that they can find what was once lost, and get those memories back. I don't know, there's all sorts of fun stuff they can do. I'm just gonna wait and see what they come up with, and then I'll bitch afterwards if it's not what I liked, because that's how this works. The matrix is really interesting because you have other properties like Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, that continue to grow and flourish, and people dress up every year for Halloween as these characters. Constant TV shows going on at all times. I mean, Lord of the Rings has a new thing coming out on Amazon Prime, so this stuff's never really dormant or dead. But with the matrix, it kinda was. We had these amazing years of films, four or five really strong years. I'd say the matrix was relevant for a good almost decade, from the late 90s to like 2010. But then it just disappeared. It all changed, once the Fire Nation. And it's mind boggling because technology continues to grow and advance at an alarming rate. The matrix could have easily kept going with these ideas and concepts, but Warner Brothers or the Wachowskis or someone just completely dropped the ball. Whoever has ownership of that IP was just shitting it away. So I'm very happy it's back. There's so much you can do with this. There's so many stories you can tell. Much like Star Wars, they're going back to what they know. They're using Keanu Reeves again, Neo. They're using Karrion Moss again, which for fans like me, that's great. For us old timers that grew up with it, awesome. But I would like them to branch to different stories too because the matrix is massive, it's daunting. Do some other things with this story, with this world. And I'll be there. I think we'll all be there. Thanks for taking the time to listen to me talk about the matrix a little bit, make sure to effortlessly block and then hit that subscribe button. I don't know why you're blocking, but just jab the subscribe if you haven't. Stick around, I do a ton of movie content. Can't wait to talk more about the matrix in the future. And until then, just keep that red pill handy. Oh, you're still here. This is awkward. Hey, since I have you, maybe think about joining me on Patreon at Patreon.com slash Adam Does Movies. You can give $1, $5, $10 every month and say, Adam, you're doing a great job. I love hearing your movie experiences. So you could support me there. That would be awesome. Or right here on YouTube via that join button and become a member. You also get access to an exclusive show I do every month called The Cringe. So you scratch my back, I scratch yours. It's a fair trade.
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Good morning, everybody, Astos here. Welcome back to another video. So in this morning's video, we're going to be talking about a couple of stocks and ETFs that I'm looking to trade today. We're also going to be taking a look at what the stock market futures are looking like with about 30 minutes left to the market open here on April 1st in 2019. And let me tell you guys one thing. The markets are soaring this morning. The futures actually opened up yesterday at 6pm Eastern Standard on Sunday, and they gapped up looking very, very good. And that continued into this morning with the S&P 500 currently up about $20, up about 0.7%. The Nasdaq up about $70, up nearly 1% here in the pre-market hours. And the Dow Jones up about 207 points, up about 0.8% so far. So these futures are telling me that, you know, the bulls are taking over right now and really continuing this uptrend push that we've been talking about and analyzing here in the overall markets, especially in the S&P 500. So just very quickly, guys, one level I'm watching very closely today. And honestly, this morning because with where we're going to open based on the futures, we're going to be right at that level is 2860, which is this resistance on the S&P from back on the 21st of March in 2019. So keep an eye on this level. Are we going to double top here? Are we going to break out of this level to make a new high or high to continue the uptrend and get one step closer to the all-time high? Just keep an eye on those levels in terms of the SPX here. So let's just hop right into it, guys. What am I watching this morning? If you follow me on Twitter, I sent out my watch list about 30 minutes to an hour ago. If you're in the Discord chat, I was talking about it earlier this morning as well. But for all of you that did not see that, let's just talk about it very quickly. So the first one that I am watching is going to be Apple ticker symbol AAPL. And I was talking about this one earlier in the video yesterday. And pretty much I like Apple because we were able to maintain the 185 older resistance as a new support. And we've been able to maintain the 50 simple moving average as a support here as well, which has proven to be a support over the past couple of weeks here on the 184-hour chart. And we noticed a nice gap up this morning as the markets gapped up as well, which is a good sign that Apple wants to continue this push and get one step closer to 195. So if you watched my video yesterday, the top 10 stocks I'm looking to trade in April, this was one of them with an ideal entry point at about 190 to 191 with an initial exit at the resistance here at about 195 to 196. And if we were to break that level, I would potentially add more money there or sell off and add a new position to then get to the next resistance at about $200. So this is actually one that I'm watching this morning. And now that I'm thinking about it off the top of my head, I actually had a subscriber request two stocks for me to talk about in this video. So I'm actually pulling it up on my phone now to talk about them very quickly because I actually didn't talk about them in yesterday's video and I did promise him that I would. So those two are Snap and BA. So let's just take a look at those very, very quickly here in this video. And for those of you guys that don't know, Boeing, yes, this stock has been hammered due to that tragic event where the 737 ended up crashing. It was the second 737 in the span of six months that did tragically crash. The stock went from 450 down to about 360. But now that we're looking at it, it seems like it has some very solid recovery. And the key thing that I'm pointing out here and that I'm seeing based on the 184 hour is we're maintaining old resistances here from back in the end of November, back in the middle towards the end of January as new support levels. This is a very, very good sign right here, guys, that we're recovering. We're looking to push back up and we're looking to honestly get back to the $400 level. So the next thing I'm going to be keeping an eye on here on Boeing is whether or not we're going to get rejected or break out of this next resistance here, which is at $395. So ideally now that we're seeing these candlesticks on Boeing looking a bit overextended, the RSI seems a bit overbought as well, I would like to see a little pullback, maybe back down to $380, maybe back down to $378 before potentially building a position in Boeing. But as of now, I'm adding this one to my watch list because it is looking pretty solid for the recovery. We're also noticing a bullish cross here of the EMA above the 50 simple moving average. And remember, when a smaller timeframe or a quicker reacting moving average is crossing above a slower reacting moving average, in this case is the 50 SMA, the slower moving reacting, yes it is. And the EMA here is the quicker reacting one, that is a very bullish move. And we're seeing that and ever since that cross, we've popped from $370 all the way to $386. So ideally again, like I said, a pullback here would be nice to enter and then ride back up to $395. So I appreciate the call out here on Boeing. It's looking pretty, pretty solid and I am going to add it to my watch list. So the second one very quickly that I want to talk about for my Discord member here is Snapchat ticker symbol SNPA or SNAP rather. And Snapchat, this one's kind of been on a pretty solid recovery itself, right? We noticed how it went from $15 to $5. That's pretty, pretty bad there for Snapchat shareholders. If you were holding through this period, I feel your pain because I am holding some stocks myself like Micron that have been crushed, but not this bad. But anyway, we've recovered nicely. We've noticed how we found the bottom. We saw the bullish cross. We were making higher highs, higher lows, all that stuff. And now it seems like we pushed to a higher high at about $11.65. And now we're pulling back and testing that 50 simple moving average support again. Looking to make the next higher low here. So in terms of SNAP, it does look like it's confirmed the bounce on the 50 simple moving average support. And it seems like it does want to push back up to $11.55, which again is the next resistance. So just keep an eye on that level. It is looking good right now. It seems like it's forming this cup pattern. If we break $11.60, that could be a breakout in SNAP. But I personally think right now is a decent spot to keep an eye on for SNAP and a potential entry right around here. And then maybe adding more money above the break of this resistance could be a good move here in Snapchat. But again, do your own research. That's very, very critical. Don't buy or sell based on my opinion. But the technicals are looking pretty solid here in Snapchat. So what are some other ones that I'm personally watching this morning? We talked about natural gas yesterday in yesterday's video. Let's just hop over here to the not the not the one day one minute. What was it? I think it was the let's just go to the 30 day 90 minute so we can see. Did you guys remember in yesterday's video how I was talking about exactly what's playing out right now? I wanted to see a retest at the 50 simple moving average here on natural gas. Before building a position in D gas. For those of you guys that don't know ticker symbol DGAZ is a bear ETF that trades on the natural gas futures. Whenever natural gas is selling off, D gas is going up. And we notice here over the past couple of trading days, the 50 SMA has been a resistance on natural gas. Every time we've tested it, we've gotten rejected and made a lower low. So that's exactly what I want to see right now. I want to see the confirmation of the rejection at the 50 SMA here before building a position so we can get in at the ideal price on D gas. And really from this point, I want to see a lower low being built so we can profit on D gas, right? So let's see it here this morning. We were talking about yesterday, we want to see a pullback and that's exactly what we're getting. So let's say we retest the 50 SMA, maybe at about 103-104. I think from 103-104 back up to 109, that offers about a 6% margin. I think that's a very attainable trade there in D gas. So keep an eye on that one this morning, guys. And honestly throughout the day, it's looking pretty, pretty solid. And another one that's moving very strongly right now is gold. So it looks like we double bottomed on that 1296, roughly that 1296 area of support which is a good sign that we want to head back up. Remember, a double bottom is a good sign that a bullish pattern could start forming. Like a double top is a sign that a bearish pattern, excuse me, might start forming. So keep an eye on gold this morning as well. And Jnug, which is an ETF that trades on gold, it goes up whenever gold goes up. It's obviously a bullish ETF. This is one that maybe, you know, it could have found its bottom here based on this trend on the 184 hour. Just take a look at this, the low at 830, higher low at 918. Could this be at the next higher low at 980? Let's see this morning and this upcoming week. This could potentially be the next higher low. So that is another one that I'm watching off the top of my head. I think ACB was another one I put in my watch list. And this is one that is struggling and it's playing, fiddling with the resistance at about 930 to 925. And if you guys watched my video yesterday, I was talking about how in terms of ACB, I want to get out, I want to see a break out of this downtrending trend line resistance here and eventually out of the 940 resistance before building a position. So we got out of this downward trend, but it's looking like we're getting rejected by that resistance which is one thing I want to see a break above again before building a position. So until we get into 945, 950, I'm probably not going to be trading ACB. And Tesla is another one this morning that is looking pretty solid. We ended up breaking out of this resistance here. Let's go on the 184 hour. We can see what I'm talking about very quickly before I do end off this video. We topped off at about 279-ish or rather that was the resistance from back in the middle of October. We ended up holding it as a support a couple of days ago. And the fact that we popped above it again now we're in the 280s. This is a good sign in terms of Tesla stock that we want to continue to push up, right? And now we see a clear resistance on Tesla like I've been talking about over the past couple of weeks here at the 180 simple moving average. And pretty much guys, if you were to trade Tesla between the 50 and the 180SMA like I've been calling out in my videos you'd be doing very well right now, right? If you were to get in from 270 up to where we are now you'd be up around 4-5%. Up to the 180SMA would be around a 7% move there. So the big bullish move on Tesla right now would be the break out of this downwards trending line and the break out of the 180SMA. If we were to do that quite frankly guys I think we're going to be headed back to $300 per share very very soon here in terms of Tesla stock. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. This was kind of like a second episode to the top stocks I'm watching in April because we did talk about some that I didn't talk about in yesterday's video so I hope you guys did enjoy it. If you did feel free to go down below and hit that like button. It really does support me and supports the channel's growth in general and if you're new to the channel feel free to consider subscribing. Hit that red button as well as the notification bell so you're notified every time that I do make a video and drop a comment. Let me know what you guys think about these different stocks and if you have time watch some of these other videos that you see on the screen here. Take a look at those. Let me know what you think. There's a bunch of value in there as always. I'll catch you all in the next video if you're in the Discord chat. I'll chat with you guys in there. Good luck today. Have a good one. Peace out.
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In the TEFL review, Matt describes how he was living and working as an English teacher in Japan when his employer asked him to get TEFL certified which he did through an online TEFL course with ITTT. Policy changes around the world mean that many countries now require their English teachers to have at least a 120-hour TEFL/TESOL certificate. ITTT's online courses are a great way to gain certification without having to take time off work.
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