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ଅଳିଆ ହଟିବାକୁ ସମସ୍ତଙ୍କ ଉଦ୍ୟମ ଦରକାର । || Mahapanchayat
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GET THESE OVERPOWERED GUNS EARLY IN STARFIELD - Starfield Best Weapons
GET THESE OVERPOWERED GUNS EARLY IN STARFIELD - Starfield Best Weapons ✅►Become A MEMBER Of The Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/dpjsc08/join ✅►SUBCRIBE FOR MORE - http://goo.gl/qPP7K ✅►Follow Me On Twitter: https://twitter.com/dpjsc08 ✅►Follow My Instagram: http://instagram.com/ytdpjsc08 ✅►Join My DISCORD - https://discord.gg/ZAc5gGX #starfield #starfieldgame #starfieldtips This is a video explaining how to get some of the most powerful weapons in starfield early. Starfield has some broken weapons that are accessible as soon as you start the game so make sure you go and get these overpowered weapons in starfield ASAP and make the game more fun!
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2023-09-05T18:15:03
2024-02-05T08:36:02
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Welcome back to the channel today. I want to talk about some powerful weapons that you can get early on in the game And they're very very easy to get as well Two of them are in New Atlantis and one of them is in a different city, which we'll talk about But before we get into it make sure you hit that like button Subscribe order that fun YouTube stuff and let's get into it. The very first one we are looking at is the marksman A a 99 rare rifle you can buy this from a shop It comes with seven months and it also has the hitman perk for 15% damage while aiming This is basically a sniper with a silencer on not quite a sniper But it's a single shot long range weapon, which for the most part for a while will be a one-shot kill if you aim for the head And if you combine that with stealth perks with sharpshooter perks things to take people out from long range This is gonna hit like an absolute truck But it also can be used from close range as well if things get on top of you You can actually spam it from the hip and and do a lot of damage It's not quite as good as like an SMG or a shotgun from close range, but it's still viable to use I didn't switch off this weapon for a very long time. It looks okay It looks cool design wise not the best looking gun But when you're using it, you don't care what it looks like because it's a monster It's very easy to get as well So if you head over to the residential district and running this direction you will come to the shop Centaurian arsenal you go in here and you can buy it it varies in price But I believe this is the only weapon that they sell that doesn't change when the inventory changes I can't confirm that but I'm pretty sure that's the case where there's all other weapons in there You can buy they will change on a regular basis and yeah, they have some good white weapons as well But this blue weapon is incredible as you're gonna see right now So I've used this weapon in different ways. I've used it on level ones. I've used it on higher levels I've used it on a single enemy I've used it on a group of enemies and you can see that it is just a Phenomenal weapon even when you're panicking and hit firing and running away You can still do a hell of a lot of damage and that to me just shows how good of a gun it can be I don't even have the stealth and sharpshooter perks But I wish I'd chosen them because I think a gun like this would be absolutely Unbelievable to play with So next up we have this micro gun which is basically a chain gun and this is a weapon You can just steal into Atlantis not get caught for it and you don't even need a stealth perk It's actually ridiculous stealth definitely helps. I do want to say though This purple micro gun is something that I just got last night from a drop And I removed the one that we're gonna steal because it's only a white weapon But it's very good from an early weapons stage This is basically what the gun is but a purple version of it So I'm gonna show you how to get that and then I'll show you some footage of the gun the white gun the white version So if you come to the spaceport and you run in this direction You're gonna come across two little shops here very noticeable coffee shop just here That's where you want to aim towards and we're gonna go down this lift into the well Which is the below area where all the poor people live But also as well you live there at some point because when you get your apartment you actually go live down here When you get off the lift you just want to run straight ahead and turn right and go into this gun weapon shop here. It's Really easy to get you want him to be sitting down like this Sometimes there's other people in the shop and he's walking around just reloading and hope that he's sitting down So all you need to do is just walk up here. So you're you're essentially hidden Crouch go directly behind the box like this now. I don't know whether this is gonna work this time But I'll try it, but I know he's getting up I wonder if I could still get it. But if you are hidden behind this box, you can take things without even being Hot It's really as simple as that if you have the stealth perk It just makes it a little bit more consistent But if you get right behind this box where he can't see you you can just steal stuff There's also stuff in the back as well if you want to go through here and steal things as well I haven't tried stealing these yet because I just don't want to risk getting caught But there's things back here that you can look at and try and steal but this micro gun is phenomenal Let's talk about it. Right. So this weapon is something that you just Absolutely tear people apart with you just drill ammo into people The only downside is is that the ammo that's used in this weapon is Ammo that's used in a lot of weapons So this is more of a fun gun than it is an efficient gun because you will run out of this ammo so fast and You need that ammo for other weapons the 7.77 millimeters I think however when you use this weapon it is so much fun You just see people get deleted. You see monsters just disappear. You just look at them charge it up and Everything's dead. It's so much fun But the ammo part is a problem because you want to save that seven point seven seven for a lot of weapons that you'll be Using but if you if if you've only got this weapon that's using seven point seven seven millimeters Absolutely go ham with this weapon because it is so much fun and so powerful for an early stage gun And the one I just picked up the purple one is even better It gives me the ability to when I kill people they might drop med packs, which is phenomenal in this game So keep an eye out for any micro gun But just go and steal this one because it's very easy to steal You don't even need to stealth and for this last weapon a really good pistol to use against armored enemies and robots and such things We want to go from Alpha Centauri up to the Cheyenne. I believe that's how you pronounce it System it's a single jump very easy to get there You will end up here on the main quest line regardless because the main city Aquila City is here And we're gonna go there and show you where to get the weapon But you probably want to see what the gun is before we show you where it is So this is the elegance pistol and it looks Anominal might be kind of like a hand cannon from destiny to be honest But it is an incredible weapon as you can see it's got a perk called shattering Breakthrough even the strongest armor you can melt elites with this weapon It's got a very small mag But I'm sure you can improve that if you have different mag mods that you may can put on a weapon the fire rate is high So you constantly needing to reload However, this games AI is not particularly the best So you have chances to reload and use this weapon to just drill out the free levels of armor that some enemies have Unbelievable weapon definitely worth getting So here at Aquila City we want to go to the weapon shop and I feel like a lot of these weapon shops in main cities Probably all have an individual blue weapon for you to buy But these ones are the ones that I think are worth it the elegance and the sniper rifle Kind of sniper rifle we saw earlier. We go into Roland arms and we speak to Bell Roland here I've already brought the weapons. Obviously. It's not in the inventory, but this weapon is Utterly insane when it comes to breaking shields And if any enemies are like on top of you and have like a big wide body surface You can just pop this on and drill them and they just drop dead kind of like the micro gun But you constantly having to reload But it's got a very specific type of ammo that you don't see very often at least I haven't seen very often at Moment so you will have an ammo in abundance all the time if you're obviously if you're going around collecting ammo But this weapon for me is just a great open out to just getting down those big big strong enemies with a lot of Armor and then swap into something else to finish them off. It just feels so good to use It's one of my favorite weapons I do wish there's a little bit more Magazine size and I'm probably gonna work up to getting the mods to actually make it a bigger magazine But overall it's incredibly powerful and incredibly fun as are all of these weapons So make sure you are getting them if that helped make sure you hit the like button Subscribe if you're new around here Leave me a comment down below telling me about any other powerful weapons that you think are worth buying or finding early on in the game Thank you for watching. I've been easy now you guys have been awesome
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Perception and Listening
The listening process begins with deciding what to hear and, thanks to perception, each of us will hear whatever it is a little differently. In order to fully understand the role of hearing, we need to factor in impact of the perception process. Let's dig in!
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Something we don't think about a lot when we consider our listening and effective listening skills is perception but it's such a massive part of the entire listening process in terms of How we're choosing what to listen to and what we're going to hear that element of discriminative listening, right? And then how we perceive and shape those things in our own minds is is really significant We're going to talk about perception and how it impacts listening Specifically we've been talking about listening through the hurryer model H-u-r-i-e-r and of course each of those letters represents a word there So you know hearing understanding remembering interpreting evaluating and responding are the different elements involved in the hurryer model Specifically with perception we're going to focus on that element of hearing and over the very first part of this process hearing What are we choosing to listen to how are we interpreting and shaping those sounds really and just you know Just that that whole hearing process as part of the listening process Of course you remember the hurryer model kind of lays out like this with the each of the letters and representing a word that There's different elements that are in there So we have an entirely different video on the hurryer model feel free to check it out But but this is where we're just placing perception within the hearing aspect of The listening process in the hurryer model So the process of perception and there's a process for everything in communication right everything breaks down into a process So perception does have a very specific process We go through different stages when we perceive something and it happens really really quickly So we don't always think about breaking it down in these nice little nuggets But but but this is how it happens really so we start with selection Essentially just deciding what we're going to pay attention to which stimuli are we going to focus on and really Allow our brain to and our senses to really focus on as part of that. So selection. What are we going to pay attention to then organization? How does this fit into our knowledge of the world into the scope of things that we understand of the world and how do we Categorize these things just in kind of a broad sense then selection also does involve of course interpretation How do we make sense of those things and given our frame of reference our culture our background our values our knowledge our history with these things Interpretation plays a major factor and then in many instances. We also get in a negotiation We're we're negotiating the reality of these things with other people and the perception of these things You know with other people our perception their perception we're negotiating that we're really going to focus on the first three stages here The first parts of the process of perception selection organization interpretation in our discussion here To start off though, I'd like to ask you to do a little activity with me Okay, I really just want you to look at this picture and tell me what you see That's it. What are you seeing when you look at this at this picture? Well, you may be noticing a couple of things you hopefully you're seeing at least one thing I mean you may be noticing that there and this is one of those images that actually has a couple of different things going on in it You may be seeing what some people would describe as an older woman like an old old lady Right, maybe a witch or something. She's got a big nose and you're looking at her on profile So you're seeing just the one half of her face It's got like a bonnet on or something like that So you may be seeing that but you may also be seeing an image of a younger woman Well, people describe as a younger woman kind of looking away off into the distance. You're only seeing a part of her face You're not seeing your full face even in profile But she does seem to be younger still kind of old-fashioned or whatever. Maybe you're seeing both That's okay. Whatever you're seeing is fine. There's your nose secret to this I'm not trying to establish whether or not you're a serial killer or something by this Though the point is that That we see different things in this we can't see some people see both things some people see only one Until it's explained to them a little bit But whatever the case you're going through the process perception here So the process of pressure perceptions I said starts with selection. So selection says pay attention to this This is what I want you to focus on and I actually said that and then I directed your attention to this picture So selection had to do with you're paying attention to this picture and to what's going on here You're not paying attention to what's on the TV or what you're trying to read or what you're going to do for dinner Those types of things your attention your focus is right here and on this image that's selection Organization looks at this and says, okay, that's a person, you know for most of us We look at it pretty quickly and say that's a person. That's a face. That's you know, I've seen people before That's what they look like. That's what I'm looking at here. And so we know it's a it's a it's a person It's not a cow. It's not an automobile. It's not, you know picture of a the Amazon Rainforest or anything like that. This is a picture of a person an image of a person We just categorize it generally like okay organizations as this is a person Then we get into Interpretation we start looking at some details here and we start saying okay if you're looking at the older one Again, some people that first of all the fact is she old is she an old woman? And if so is she a witch some people get the kind of the bump on her nose and say well That's that's something witches have right in the stories. They got that bump on her nose So it's clearly she's a witch and so but that's all interpretation based on what you're seeing and what your History is and you know if you've had a lot of experience with witches then maybe you see that or if you're seeing the younger woman You know your interpretation is first of all a that she's younger. We don't know that which I mean That's a personal interpretation and and be that she's old-fashioned We don't really know that I mean she's kind of dressed like that But maybe it's for that she's playing a character in a play or maybe she's going to a festival or something like that Where she's dressed so we don't really know what you know these things But we make interpretations our mind kind of fills in those gaps Based on our experiences based on our knowledge based on our understanding of the world We make interpretations and we and we jump to conclusions about these things as a matter of a course in trying to Move the world along a little faster right and all this happens just like that quickly We go through selection organization interpretation just about as quickly as we can blink or snap our fingers We do all this kind of automatically and without really consciously thinking about it for the most part and we do it Instantaneously almost what we make these really quick judgments and get to these conclusions part of us just a survival instinct It's one of the way you know as as our big core human nature back in the day We would need to immediately identify what's a predator and what's potential prey for us What what's dangerous and what's not what presents an opportunity and what presents a threat? So to we're in the habit of just making these snap decisions and jumping to these conclusions But that's how perception works. We identify what it is. We're gonna pay attention to them We generally categorize it then we start applying interpretation based on our own experiences and things So now we know the process, but how does all this work? Where does all this come from first of all? So let's take a look at some of the influences on Perceptions some of the some of the things that influence our perception of things One of them one of the key factors is access to information. What are you familiar with? What are you aware of in the world? What do you know about those things tend to be less sort of? Frightening for us in a sense, right when we know something about it Then we tend to be less scared of it But when we don't have access to that information then it can be a little more attentive, right if we're used to being around You know weapons for example if you're used to being around guns you have access to that information You've been taught how to properly handle a gun and use a gun and fire a gun and so forth Then you're probably not gonna be as nervous around it with somebody You know if you find yourself in a situation where somebody says hey, this is again You want to go try it out But if you don't then that could be very frightening for you to come across a gun and you have no experience no No information about that previously other than you know what you see in movies and reading books and things that can be scary So access to information will influence our perception of something our physiological Aspects influence these things so there are physiological influence physiological just meaning the body So we're influenced by things that that are related to our body. So for example our senses Influence how we perceive things if if you know and we know that if you have Are somewhat limited in a particular sense Then that will affect your view of the world in the way that you engage with things in the way that you encounter things if you have Limited eyesight or you're blind or you know I'd say I wear contacts and glasses and if I don't have those and I can't see anything that severely in fact Upsets how I perceive the world if I can't see it, you know, but everything's blurry But you know waiting for you know, we're thinking about all of our senses And if one of those is limited or one of them is particularly strong that will affect our perception of a situation Our age we see things differently as we get older And you're not only your knowledge of the world changes your information changes your access to information, but you're you know Our body's change and our senses change and all this kind of stuff It's very different to experience something when you're five as opposed to when you're 75, right? So or even you know, 35 or 55 or anything along those Anything along that route is going to be different for it. So our age affects our perception of things Our health and our fatigue if we are if we are sick or we are Overtired then that will affect our the way we perceive something You know our world kind of shrinks right when we're not feeling well Our world just kind of shrinks down to what's immediately in front of us And when we're tired, we just don't see things as clearly when perceived things differently and so That's a physiological influence on our perception in general our biological cycles Are you a morning person? Are you an evening person our night owl? Right, then that will affect if you're a night owl and it's first thing in the morning And you haven't had your coffee or whatever then your perception is probably not going to be a sharp And the same is true if you're if you're a morning person and it's getting later at night You're probably get your senses are going to be a little more dulled your perception is going to be different So our biological cycles in that regard will affect our perception as well our hunger. Are we hungry? I mean you get hangry right here again You're your perception narrows down to just what is it that's going to get me some food So that can be a significant factor in perception as well And then neuro behavioral challenges if you have add adht Something like that some sort of Neuro behavioral Issue then then that will affect your perception of the world the way you see the world Autism for example is is sort of an extreme example of that But it affects the way we view the world if you have some sort of social anxiety or something like that Then that would affect your perception and the way that you interact and the way that you see things So all of these different kinds of physiological influences that have to do with our body will influence our perception Additionally, we can have some different psychological influences now. We just talked about some add things like that But those are Physiologically based right they are they are physiological They have to do a lot of times with our mind and things but they really have to do with An imbalance in chemicals or something like that So it's it's more of a physiological influence when we talk about psychological influences We're talking about things like our mood You know what our mood just kind of settles in on us. We don't we don't have any specific It's not a triggered thing Sometimes we just kind of wake up on the wrong side of the bed You're in a good mood or you're in a bad mood or whatever That will affect our perception how we view things how we take things right We're going to you know respond very differently depending on our mood Our self concept is a psychological influence that also affects our perception as well Right that that if we feel good about ourselves, then we're going to take something one way And if we don't feel as good about ourselves or if we have doubt about something Within ourselves, then we're going to take a comment or Or when we're confronted with the situation, we're going to handle it very differently than we would otherwise So we have these different psychological influences as well that affect perception And as we cannot underestimate the the role of social influences on perception Right so these are extremely impactful as well things like sex and gender roles our expectations for You know what guys do this and women do that and you can't cross those over right And when we see a woman who's welding or we see a guy who's caring for An infant or something or doing laundry then we look at them we think well that's that can be strange right because our social Roles for sex and gender say well those are kind of you know and that's changing of course But those are different right they make them stand out and it affects our perception of that situation and of that person Occupational roles we spend a lot of time learning about a particular occupation and then actually performing that occupation When we're doing our work right we prepare for these careers and we work in these careers and that affects the way we see the world One classic way to view this is if you have people walking through the woods What would they interpret from that experience? So just to give you an example my I have two brothers One is an educator and one is a pastor and then of course i'm a communication person That's that's my area of study. So if the three of us were walking through the woods What kind of experience might we have just based on those heavy occupational views? So my brother who's an educator may be walking through looking at things saying I wonder what kind of lesson plan I can get out of this or what kind of field trip would be appropriate for the kids If I brought them out here, how could I use this to better? Their education Because that's his mindset. He thinks about things through the view of an educator My brother who's a pastor may be looking at things and thinking about you know, wonderful god's creation Is and how he might be able to use this to to reach people and to Factor it into a sermon for a lesson plan or something. You know those types of things Whereas I'm looking at the at the woods thinking. Okay. This to me is a system It's amazing how this system works and it's interconnected because I think in terms of organizational communication And how this, you know, how this there's this symbiosis and this This interaction between all these things in the system And how can I use that to better my understanding of communication and to to help others improve their communication as well? So I mean our occupational roles play a major Part in the way that we see the world and affects our perception at all times that when we have these occupational roles So anyway another social influences relational roles things change dramatically when you become a parent You see the world in a very different way. First of all when you have you have newborns and children You know toddlers and things everything is a danger, right? I can't I can't express to you that As and when I was younger I saw nothing as a danger I was invincible and so was everybody else, right? But as soon as I became a parent Everything is a danger Every possible thing around your home is dangerous and that's all you can see And that's all you can do is worry about these kids for the next, you know 50 years of your life and and those relational roles Significantly change your perception of the world And so when you're a parent when you would change your view when you're you know, I have a big family Several siblings and I saw that as different than People who were an only child or things it just changes and again not a better or worse thing but just Different our perception of things was different the way we view the world was different So these kinds of relational roles will also influence your perception Finally we have these cultural influences Our culture plays a significant impact in the way we view the world culture affects everything of course, but But the way that we we talk about culture meaning is made up of these symbols Language values and norms and those are all significant impacts in the way we see the world and the way we perceive things So when we have people from different cultures, they will obviously perceive things in a very different way So and now that we know the influence of perception kind of where all this comes When we throw all that in a blender and we come out with our perception of things and how we tend to see things But we also have some common tendencies and perceptions So I want to talk about those for just a second here some things that we tend to do that We need to be cautious of a lot of times I mentioned this before but snap judgments we tend to jump to conclusions We have these snap judgments we see things and it's part of a survival instinct But we got to be careful about not making these snap judgments Or at least allowing for the fact that those snap judgments may not always be a hundred percent correct That we've got to allow for New information to come in and change our judgment change our interpretation of a thing Based on new information and new evidence and that we come across then so we're going to make these snap judgments We got to be careful of that and allow for new information as well We got to be careful not to be overly reliant on first impressions. We tend to cling to these first impressions And and how we perceive people from the first moment we meet them And and maybe accurate in that moment But you know the the moment that you meet somebody is not always The person that they are all the time right for better or for worse than somebody may make a really good impression on you And then over time even though they turn out to be a jerk It takes us a while to get there because our first impression is is so strong We hold onto that so strongly and vice versa when somebody's a real jerk when we meet them Maybe they're just having a bad day and they're really a good person But but we have trouble letting that go because that first time we met them. They were a real jerk We got to be careful with first impressions We tend to be more charitable to others. I'm sorry to ourselves than others So if you did poorly on a test then it's probably because the professor's an idiot and asked poor questions And you know didn't prepare you very well, right somebody else did poorly on a test It's probably because they didn't study as not as much as they needed to If you did well and they didn't you know we just as a natural tendency We tend to be more charitable to ourselves. So we need to be cautious of that and be aware of that We're also influenced by our expectations. This is fact Factors very much into what we would call self-fulfilling prophecy That that kind of what we expect to see our natural biases tend to have us see it that way or tend to Because we expect something to happen a certain way We tend to kind of shape it that way in our mind to perceive it that way So we're influenced by our expectations. We need to be cautious of that We also need to be cautious about not being influenced by the obvious You know just because that's what we saw doesn't mean that's the whole story doesn't mean that's what's happening Sometimes we think about this in terms of you know, the kids on the playground And and there's that there's a you know scuffle going on and by you know by the time the teacher turns around and sees anything They're only seeing that the last student pushed somebody down But they didn't see all the stuff leading up to that. They didn't see the other student who got pushed in their opinion Calling names and pulling hair and pushing themselves and so forth But but that teacher can only go on what they saw really so they're influenced by the obvious So that one student who did the push maybe they only did that one thing and they were the one being bullied or one being whatever But we're influenced by the obvious we're influenced by what we see and what stands out to us the most We also assume others to be like ourselves got to be careful of that not everybody is like us It's a natural inclination to just assume that everybody is like you because of course you're in your right mind And so everybody else who's in the right mind must be the same as you right But not necessarily so we need to be cautious that we don't just make an assumption that everybody else is the same as us So one thing we can do real real simply and this is really important in hearing too in terms of you know If we're not hearing something we're not sure what we're hearing We can we can run what we call a perception check and a perception check is just a really simple way To to identify That what we're hearing is correct and make sure we're hearing things correctly and understanding things correctly It's assertive, but it's not not aggressive. That's important too So when we think about a perception check there are just really three simple steps to this perception check First is to offer a description of the behavior Not an evaluation of the behavior not a complaint about the behavior just a description a fact based description of what is happening Okay, presumably this is a behavior that That that that you had identified as something that wasn't going to happen anymore And it is or something like that But you're just providing a description of the behavior in a factual sense Then you're going to offer two possible interpretations of that behavior And it's important that there be two of them because first of all that opens the door to say to the other person You know, even if it's not either of these two things that you're open to You know, I'm not sure what's going on here. I need you to explain it to me I need more information So it just isn't made like a statement of fact as though you know what's going on and the other person is wrong and so forth That would be more aggressive But this is assertive You're identifying something that's happening that you need to follow up on and you're offering two possible interpretations And identifying those as but also opening the door then because there are two to say You know, it could be these things it could be something else. I don't know And then finally just a request for clarification to say what's happening. What's going on here Well, can you explain this for me or to me? Can you help me out with this? So if we take the example of you know, if you have two neighbors, right? You have neighbors and one neighbor has A shrub that keeps growing over you from bushes that they keep letting grow over a tree or something They keep letting grow over the fence across the yard or whatever And so maybe this is something you've talked about with your neighbor before I need you to if you And they've agreed. Yeah, I'll maintain that and I'll keep it from You know affecting your yard by coming through the fence or over the fence or whatever and I'll help with I'll help you with that But then it starts to happen again, you know, it's it's happened now a couple times and it's happening again So you want to address it with the with the neighbor, but you don't want to be aggressive You got to live with this person next to this person, right? So you don't want to be overly aggressive, but you want to really get this fixed and find out what's happening So you might go to that person and run a perception check you might say to them in a description of the behavior Hey, you know, I you know if you recall we talked a few months ago about you know, maintaining the the Plants and the bushes and the trees and things on either side of our fence so that it doesn't go over in the other person's yard And creating a problem there and we talked about that and we had both agreed to do that in the past But it's have I see this is happening again. So that's the description of the behavior Right, you're not saying hey jerk get your plant off on my fence and so forth. You're just describing This is what happened in the past. This is what we agreed to and now this is factually What's happening now, right? So you're just laying out the facts Then you're going to offer two possible interpretations and say I just I didn't know if you'd forgotten that We had that conversation or if I didn't know if you'd just been really busy and haven't been able to do that I'm able to maintain that so I just want and then I request for clarification I just wanted to check in with you to see what was happening with that With that that plant or that bush or that tree or whatever And it opens up that dialogue though really it opens it up in an assertive way But not in an aggressive way the other person feels trapped in a corner and And so forth. So hopefully it opens up that dialogue so that you can start that conversation And then continue to work towards a solution That's it. That's a simple perception check and I know it sounds really kind of simple and silly, but it actually works It's very effective in these types of situations. So if you're in a situation where You actually don't know what's happening and you need to check your perception in that regard or You want to bring up a sensitive topic but not Be aggressive about it because that can more often lead to conflict than anything else, right? And that's not going to be necessarily beneficial. So you want to come to some sort of assertive Reasonable solution to this a perception check can be a great way to do that. It can be a great way to do that But in any case Perception is such a massive part of the hearing process and the listening process overall When we have these stimuli come in through selection, we're selecting we're discriminatively listening We're paying attention to this Then we go through the perception process when we hear these things that the at the first thing we do Is trying to organize and interpret this information. And so that's why we're including this in the hearing aspect of the hurryer model because It really does happen at the very very initial outset Of the listening process along with this So I hope you can see how perception fits in here with listening overall and particularly with hearing If you have questions about perception about hearing about listening about any of this Please feel free to email me. I'd love to hear from you there in the meantime I hope that you will give great consideration to your own perception The way that your perception affects these different things and and plays a role in the listening process So the better that we understand that the closer we are to becoming a more effective listener
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Kubeadm Deep Dive - Rohit Anand, NEC & Paco Xu, Dao Cloud
Kubeadm Deep Dive - Rohit Anand, NEC & Paco Xu, Dao Cloud This session will provide and update on the latest doings in the kubeadm project. What is the current state of the project and what is coming up next for it. Kubeadm is a subproject of SIG Cluster Lifecycle, one of the largest groups in the Kubernetes project. It is one of the most used tools for creating Kubernetes clusters and is the official node bootstrapper that is included in the Kubernetes release. It is the tool that is used by higher level projects like Minikube, Kubespray, Cluster API, kind and others. Kubeadm is actively maintained by a cross company team dedicated to keep the tool stable and generally available.
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introduce ourselves. Pako, please go ahead. I'm Pako Xu from China and I work for the cloud. I have been contributing to the Kubernetes community for several years and my focus is on QVDM and also Stake Node. My name is Rohit and I'm technical lead at NEC. I mainly work on SCL QVDM since 2017. Let's get started. So, as of today is QVDM introductions and some recent updates about QVDM and how to contribute to QVDM. So, QVDM is a node build scrapper. Someone or something should provide the machine. QVDM creates a Kubernetes node on the machine so QVDM doesn't going to provision a machine for you. You need to provision machine for yourself but beforehand you need to install a cubelet and container runtimes on the machine and you also need to install the CRI and CNI over the machines and it's kind of agonistic to infrastructures CNI CSI as well as CSI. Now, what the QVDM is good for? If you want to try Kubernetes possibly for the first time you can use QVDM to install Kubernetes cluster. It's a way for existing user to automate the setting of a cluster and test their application and it's a building block in other ecosystem or installer tools with the largest scope. Now, QVDM is a part of C cluster life cycle and the objective of C cluster life cycle is to simplify creation, configuration, upgrade, downgrade and tear down of Kubernetes cluster and their components. Now we would like to thank all our contributors who have been contributing to QVDM in the recent two years and QVDM is GA now so we would like to thank all our contributors. Without their effort it would not have been possible. Now, the basic QVDM workflow I start with initializing the cluster and the first control pane node. So you just need to fire a few commands. So in the beginning you need to find QVDM in it so you just create the control pane node and the output of the QVDM in it you just need to paste on the walker node where you can attach the walker node to your cluster but after installing the QVDM and Kubernetes you just need to apply the CNI so you can apply any CNI like Calico, Veeve, Flannel, etc. And you also need to apply CNI for your code DNS to work. So code DNS will not work until you apply the CNI. So what QVDM deploys? So on the control pane nodes it deploys the Kube Proxy, Kube API server, Kube CDular, controller manager, etc. code DNS and as I said we also need to install CNI plugin as well. On the walker node we need to install the Kube Proxy as well as we need to install the CNI plugins. So coming to the QVDM workflow we need to check for the level upgrades if you want to upgrade your Kubernetes cluster. So you need to run the QVDM upgrade plan. It will fetch you the version you need to upgrade to. Then after fetching the version you need to upgrade the first control pane node to the cluster and then you can run QVDM upgrade apply to the version it faced, the version you want to upgrade to and the third step is upgrading the rest of the node using QVDM upgrade node command. So QVDM scope is simple and extensible. So QVDM is divided into various phases. So you can run the preflight phase, you can run the certificate generation phase, you can run the you can say bar control phase. So it's highly extensible solution. So who uses QVDM? So there are a bunch of users who are using QVDM. So some of them are mini-cube, kind and the cluster API also uses QVDM as a node bootstrap. Now it's part of composable solution. So what do we mean by composable solution is that C class life cycle is designed in a such a way that it manages the full life cycle of the cluster. So we have a bunch of project in the C class life cycle on 20 plus and few of them project are ATCD ADM. So ATCD ADM is a project which create the ATCD instances. It is same as QVDM cabinet and QVDM join. So you can run the ATCD ADM in it and ATCD ADM join to create ATCD clusters. And top of that we have QVDM. And we have cluster add-ons which are critical for running Kubernetes clusters like code DNS, Qproxy, etc. And on top of that we have declarative approach to create Kubernetes cluster using cluster API. And we have cluster provisionals as well like cluster API provider for AWS, GCP, Azure and other cluster provisionals like cops and Q spray. And we have component config to manage the flags. So if you want to specify any setting on the components you can manage the flag using component config. And we have image builder. So it's used for building virtual images. Now Pako will talk about QVDM highlights. What do you Pako? Here I will talk about QVDM highlights. So this project is not that active because we want to keep it simple and keep it stable. So it is not updated frequently. So here we involved caps and features since 2022. Maybe more than a year we have downed those features. So the first one is about Qubelet config map. At first it used the version Qubelet config map. And later we find that there's a problem because when you upgrade you get an old version Qubelet config. And after you upgrade several times there's many Qubelet config maps but some are not cleaned up. Now we change the strategy. We use on version Qubelet config map. So this would be much simpler. And the next is about the master node rule because we have renamed that to control plan. And during this long process we started the deprecation at version 1.20. And then we have tried to handle those master labels at first and later we have removed the tent from the node. After we removed the tent for one release and we started to remove the toleration for the master node. Now in latest version there's no master node rule now. But for some other applications you should try to the same process to fit this. And the next is about security. Currently we are running control plan as non-route. But this is not default. It's the alpha feature. There's a reason that Stig node is working on user names with this support for Qubelet. So we are waiting for that feature and I will elaborate more in the following slides. The next is about the Qubetium customization with patches. So there are some updates recently about we added the support for the Qubelet configuration so we can specify some node for node. Every node there may be some different configurations. The last one is just merged in the last release. We used the UC learning mode in 1.27. It is currently an alpha feature. You can avoid it. Then when you join a new control plan it is the stiffer. The first one is about security. Currently the security is very important and this feature is added since 1.22. We use the security contextualized user to make all the control plan pods to run as non-route. Here is the list. We run everything in non-route. Besides in Stig node we did run Qubelet. We can run Qubelet in username space since 1.14. This is just running the Qubelet binary in non-route in username space. Another thing about it is running all pods in username space. This is also alpha. Currently it is active working. We need more feedbacks from the Stig node side. After this is graduated to beta I think this can be involved by default in Qubelet. The non-route control plan pods is not needed. We kept it alpha. If you want this non-route now you can use that. If you want root less in the future I think this Stig node working on username space is a better choice. Next is about ETCD. ETCD has announced a new feature in version 3.4. They added a learner mode. ETCD can join as a learner and then promote it to a voting member. When it is a learner it did not vote. So it just kept catch-ups with other followers, leaders to make it the data log and then when it can promote we can promote it to a voting member. That's what we did in the last read cycle. Currently we support it and it is more safe. If your ETCD have more data and the network or the disk is not that fast there may be some risks if you join using it before we. The next is patches. This is about the extensible of Qubetium. Since 1.22 we add the support for Qubetium API server controller manager and scheduler. Those things we can do some patches. Here's an example. You can see here. Here's an example to patch ETCD. Jason, we add a notation. This is a patch to Jason. You can patch like this to your static ports. Now, since version 1.25 we can support patch Qubelet configurations. The Qubelet configuration is in YAML so you can patch some things in your locally. The configuration is like you can specify specific directory when you are in it or join. You can put those patch files in the directory. Then the Qubetium will respect the patch. Here's something about Qubetium configuration updates since 1.10. There are many feature updates. This is about the history of Qubetium configurations. Currently, there's only version 1, beta 3. Something is working process for reset configuration and upgrade configuration that is candidate for the next version. Version 1, beta 4. Here we mentioned that the roadmap, most things are very stable and simple. The configuration is a big part. We will have some updates in the configuration. As I mentioned, the upgrade configuration and reset configuration API types may be added, but this is still in discussion because your users may upgrade with some flex, reset with some flex, but those flex cannot be saved in config maps now. Some users want this so they can do it using a config file. The next is about Qubout Reader. This is an initial idea. We have a prototype in Qubetium project at first, but then we removed it because there's no feedback at the time. But the discussion is still open and we need more feedback for this. Later, there's a personal project demo. First, we talk about the Qubetium configuration. There are some candidates for new versions that users have raised. The first one is about skipping add-on image pooling because some users use the skip face flex. They can skip the add-on install. For example, they don't want Cardiath or they don't want a Qubetium proxy, so they want to skip that image pooling as well. Currently, Qubetium don't support that, but this also can be done later. The upgrade and reset configuration I have mentioned and the next is about customized environments for control plan. Now, we support extra arguments and extra volumes for APS server, for example. Later, we may support custom environment because some tuning or some other needs. The next is about controlling the time-outs. Because many users use edge or some slow devices, so the time-outs is different and they want to change the time-outs, but currently it is not easy to do that. The last one is about allow multi-time times. This is a special case because some APS server or control manager, they support to apply multi-times of lag, but we currently save it in key-value style, so it is hard to do that. We have to change the API, but this is also in discussion as this is very special cases, only several special cases. So now we talk about the current candidates and if you have any needs, you can add to this issue, comments on this issue to let us know if there are any features requests we can do. The version 1 beta 4 may be introduced in the next redis cycle. We will discuss on this in later meetings of Kruvedem as well. This is about Kruvedem operator. The link here is a personal project of mine and I have tested it to... This is an amazing feature. I think we can upgrade cross versions. Currently, Kubernetes only is about you can upgrade from a version to next version. You cannot cross versions. So this operator helps you do that, but it indeed just upgrades the cluster to the next version and when it's down, it can trigger another job to upgrade to next version. So this may make it automatic. And Kruvedem operator is the focus on the day 2 of Kruvedem clusters. So it mainly features cluster upgrade, reconfigurations and renew and some upgrades. And also the drive run is a big feature of it. So before you upgrade, you can run this to get the plan or something from the operator side, get every node drive run result. I think this will help. And here's a comparison about current Kruvedem related things. I think Kruvedem is the focus on the node. It is like a node operator and it is very simple and extensible. It is focused on the node. And it's binary and so you can use it to manage the cluster on node. Then the next is Kruvedem array. It is more like some OS operator. It uses Ansible and it can support bare mental and most cloud. Because it uses Ansible, so it is free to control those nodes. It can control the binaries. That is why some users choose Kruvedem array in bare mental. And the cluster API is a cluster operator, I think. It uses community style APIs. It is declarative APIs and the patterns to automate cluster lifecycle management. So currently cluster API is very hot because you can manage multi-clusters here and the upgrade it uses is to delete the older version node and just join a new one, a new version with new version. So it don't need to upgrade it on the node because it can touch the infrastructure. The next is, sorry, I can mention the Kruvedem operator now. It is focused on the data of Kruvedem and it cannot touch, it is using POD. It is operator so it is hard to touch the system D part. So when you want to do some upgrade, there would be some limitations here. I think that is why Kruvedem operator is not that appropriate, I think. Because if you want to, you can touch the infrastructure. Maybe there are some other good choice and if you just do it manually, you can use Kruvedem directly. If you have Ansible, you can do it with Ansible. But Kruvedem operator is like other operators just did something in POD. So there are so many limitations. So it can do some mix-offs utterly but not that good enough, I think. So this needs some feedback. If you are suffered to maintain a cluster with Kruvedem directly, I think it will help. Next, I also involved COPS and Kruvedem. COPS is like Kubernetes ops and it can generate telephones. That is very attracting people and Kruvedem is based on Kruvedem. It is like an operator for Kruvedem. It wants to make it now Ansible, just there it is. So how many of you have contributed to Kruvedem in the past? So you can raise your hand. Yeah, quite a few, no problem. So we love new contributors and as you can see, Kruvedem is here now and we have some beta projects and alpha projects. So we love new contributors. As you can see, here is a Kruvedem contributor guideline by Lubamir. You can watch this video on YouTube and you can navigate to our community phase, look for good first issue and or help wanted issues. So maintainers will help you in the issues. And you can also help with non-code contribution with docs and testing. You can attend our Zoom meetings and ask questions. Introduce yourself on Kubernetes Slack. Attend on watch new contributor sessions of Sieg Contrabex and chop wood and carry water, be kind. Everyone knows their place at the table. So here are a bunch of help wanted issues. You can pick any of them or either good first issue. So thank you so much everyone for joining the talk. And here is some frequently asked questions. So the most recent update is that kats.gcr.io redirects to registry.kats.io. So traffic from older kats.gcr.io registry will be redirected to registry.kats.io with the eventual goal of sunsetting kats.gcr.io. So thank you everyone for joining this talk. If anyone has any question, can... So we have bunch of issues in the QVDM project. So issues are in separate repository but QVDM codes it integrated with K by K code. So it's under the part of K by K. Yes, there's also QVDM office time hour and also state meeting. You can attend if you have any questions.
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The 21 Convention 2008- Video 6 Super Zebra
Conquer inner trauma and Become the Ultimate Alpha Male with the Complex PTSD Masterclass. Save $100 now https://21university.com/pages/cptsd-masterclass --~-- Subscribe on Youtube: http://t21c.com/W5AZ1g Subscribe by e-mail: http://www.the21convention.com Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/beachmuscles Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/BxLz/
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Yeah, we're about to go out, take care of this stuff, in the field, right? You know, when Dream asked me to do this convention or make a speech, I was kind of like, man, there's going to be a lot of good people talking here. And, you know, how can I give value to these guys? Something they can use, you know? I don't want to be like, hey man, you got to attract the girl, and then after you attract the girl, yeah, then you got to comfort her, or something like that, you know? It's my new Zebra M4 model, right? No, no, I remember when I was first starting out, the biggest thing for me was like the complete disconnect between the really good guy and then me, who wasn't very good. I just couldn't see like, these guys would come up here and speak, and I'd be like, damn man, that guy has it, his game is tight. But like, me, I can't see myself doing that. Like, he tells these crazy stories, right? And I'm like, I can't do that. Okay, man, man, no. You know, it's scary, right? It's scary going out. And so, you know, I figured I wanted to talk about how you can get a set of like mental habits, a set of, you know, taking action and stuff like that every day that you can apply. That'll help you just, you know, take the stuff that you learned from speakers today, from forums, from books, stuff like that, and then how you can apply it so you actually see results. Because a little background on myself, I found the community, I'm 21 now. I found the community when I was 14. That's just a long time, right? It's like six, seven years. When I was 14, my parents kicked me out of my house and they sent me to live in France to... I'm dreaming it doesn't like French people. To, you know, to learn French or whatever. I don't know, they wanted me to become a better person or to grow. And this is, I was 14 at the time. They sent me out. And this is the first time that I went out. I was like, whoa, women, like alcohol, awesome parties. And I was like, lights everywhere. It was going crazy, right? And I meet this girl. She's 16. And I fall in love, right? The summer flame. And she's being nice to me, right? And I feel like the Pimp of the World because, you know, chicks is into me, right? She's saying hi to me. Obviously, she likes me. And I end up going for it, right? And making the move, starting making out with her. And she's like, oh, yeah. Yeah, cool. And I just, I gotta go, but I'll see you tomorrow, right? Okay. I'm like, yeah, yeah, awesome. Yeah, I got this girl. Cool. Like in my head, I was like, yeah, this is down. And I end up telling everybody that we hooked up and we made out. Yeah, let me tell you, she wasn't all that into me. She was very friendly to me. We were friends. And I ended up looking like a douchebag in front of everyone. All right? It was pretty painful because I built myself up. Like, yeah, I'm just like player, awesome. I can get where I want. And then all of a sudden, all these people are just like giggling about me behind my back. And I was like, damn, it hurt. It hurt a lot. And that's when I decided, you know what? Like having no control over your emotions like this, like somebody else being able to completely crush you on this sort of emotional level, that's complete crap. And I will have none of it. So I go home. And like so many of you guys, I am guessing, I Google, you know, whatever, pick up. Good with women's seduction. And I find all this amazing material. I start reading it and reading it. And eventually everything just took care of itself. And I got good with women. And do you guys think that's how it actually happened, that I found this stuff and then all of a sudden, poof, I got good with women? No. Hell no. Hell no. That's not how it went down. Oh God, no. I started reading. I started reading a lot. It did make all the negative feelings go away. Because I felt like I'm in control of this now. Like I got this. I know how women think. I know how it works. That's cool. Yeah, I got this. But yet I didn't have a girl. And I didn't do any approaches. And yeah, I'd sprinkle in some like cocky funny lines every now and then in school and stuff like that. But that was about as far as I would push it. And yeah, you know, I was 14 all the way through high school. Every now and then I would get lucky. I got a girlfriend. The girl I lost my virginity to, she was like 23 and I was like 17. Completely the right place at the right time. Like let me tell you. But that even like that fueled my like raging ego even more. I was like, I can get anybody. I know this stuff. Like look at the girl I'm with right now. So finally senior year of high school, right? Same thing again. Fall in love with the girl. And this time, this time I know what's up. And to be honest, this time this girl really did like me. She was into me. And that's what made it so much more painful when I completely like blew this whole opportunity with her. All a senior year basically. I kept going back and forth, back and forth with her. You know, I would push you out and I would go for it in like a real weird way and it just never worked out. And then I realized, you know what? I hadn't learned anything all these years. I had nothing to show for it. So finally I flew back to Europe, you know, Sweden. And for the first time, you know, me and my friend, we would bounce these like ideas off each other. But like, yeah, man, did you read this stuff? Yeah, I read that. That's cool, man. We could use that and then we'd like go play World of Warcraft. You guys know what I'm talking about, right? And now everybody here on the field all the time. So I never actually met somebody that knew this stuff. And what ended up happening, you know, my most like important purpose in the community was like, what's a cool name I can have on the forum? Like Dark Thunderbolt Man or something like that. You know, and that's actually, people ask me how, why like zebra with the hell? At some point I was like, who gives a shit about a name? Like let's just pick something. And I looked at it like an advertising sign, it was like a zebra there. And I was like zebra, I'll post on that. I went to Sweden, I went to pick up someone kind of like this. And for the first time I saw a guy that had this handled. Like the picture in my head, I was like, that's who I want to be. No more bullshit, none of this. I'm going to take care of this for real this time. You know, like you say this a lot to yourself, right? But this time actually for whatever reason, you know, it clicked for me. I was like, damn, there it is right in front of me. I can obtain it now I know what it looks like. And I went home and I sat down and I just realized, damn, I have no idea of what to do next. Like that cool, that guy, the really cool guy, I knew what he looked like. I knew I wanted to be him. But I just had no idea what to do. And so, you know, after a lot of trial and error, obviously like anybody that's been through this, I found at least the like three most important areas for me. And I'm going to share this stuff with you. And then hopefully you guys won't have to like rack your brains really finding out about this stuff. And a lot of this stuff I think you probably heard before, but it's like the basic stuff that you really have to get done. And until you fix this, like nothing else is going to work. So basically the first thing that I feel is really important to take care of. And I don't want to call this intergame. I don't really think it's intergame. I think I was never a guy that like, I didn't really have discipline or anything like that. So if I can't take care of other stuff in my life, how can I ever like fix this area in my life? So I had to like get my shit straight with habits and stuff like that. And the three things that you really like have to get down is leverage. Leverage on yourself. And I'll explain that in a little bit. The second one is goals, which I'm sure you guys are all excited to hear about, right? And then just getting conscious of all this stuff. So leverage, what is that? You got to know exactly why you want to do this. Why are you here? Like why are you out in the field when you get blown out or when you see a really scary set? Why are you going to go into it? Like what's, what do you want to like, do you want to be alone for the rest of your life? Like do you want other people having control over your feelings like that? Your emotions being a roller coaster? You got to make it clear why you're in this game or this field of practice. Why do you want to get good with women? Until you have like a crystal clear image in your head what you're moving away from. I think if you're just ambiguous about it, like oh I don't like not having like a girl. You know, I don't know. I don't know why I'm doing this. Until you have a crystal clear image in your head why you want to do this, it's going to be so much harder for you to, you know, achieve your goals or whatever, get the girl, go out into the field, do whatever you have to do to push yourself outside of your comfort zone because when push comes to pull or whatever, you know, your brain is going to be like why are you doing this? Just go home, go home, sit down, take a nap and if you don't have any like really good answer to come back with then you're just going to go home. You're going to give up, right? So get leverage. This is something I found that like the guys that really went from shit to like the best, they all had leverage on themselves. Remember last year, Dream told us about like one of his nights when he just like got blown out left to right and he was like a mental wreck and he went to the gym and he pumped himself like really hard and he was just like destroyed. Well that's his leverage. You remember that like he had those negative emotions and he knew like fuck that. I don't want to feel this anymore. I got to get this handled.
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Melissa Armo | The Stock Swoosh | TD AmeriTrade Network
Chipmakers Hit Unequally Amid Chip Shortage As the global semiconductor shortage continues to weigh on various sectors and industries, some of the chip stocks themselves are faring better than others. That's why Melissa Armo suggests traders enter the semi space on a per-company basis rather than with an index that lumps many chipmakers together. Armo sees a difficult road ahead for the group going into the second half of the year, a lot of which will stem from supply chain issues including labor shortages. Go to www.TheStockSwoosh.com and request a free trading room trial Like me - http://Facebook.com/TheStockSwoosh e-mail me - Info@TheStockSwoosh.com Tweet me - @TheStockSwoosh Neither Swoosh nor its affiliates provide investment advisory services, nor are registered investment advisers or broker-dealers and do not purport to tell or suggest which securities or currencies you should buy or sell for yourself regarding your specific investment objectives. The independent contractors, employees or affiliates of Swoosh may hold positions in the stocks, options, currencies or industries discussed in this publication. You understand and acknowledge that there is a very high degree of risk involved in trading securities, options and/or currencies. Swoosh and all affiliates of the Swoosh assume no responsibility or liability for your trading and investment results. It should not be assumed that the methods, techniques, or indicators presented in this publication will be profitable or that they will not result in losses. Past results related to trading ideas or systems published by Swoosh are not indicative of future returns related to such system or idea, and are not indicative of future returns which may be realized by you. In addition, the indicators, strategies, columns, articles and all other features of Swoosh's products are provided for informational and educational purposes only and should not be construed as investment advice. #stockswoosh #melissaarmo #nyse #wallstreet #stockmarket #investing #daytrader #daytrading #investor
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sectors and could continue as uncertainty about the Delta virus rises. Now to discuss what this means for markets and semiconductors, I'd like to welcome in Melissa Armo. She's founder, owner of the stock Swoosh LLC. Melissa, welcome to your market overtime to help us close out the week and the week that was. But why don't we start off with what areas the market are being hit by this chip shortage that we've just been hearing more and more in the financial headlines? Well, it's really depending on your picks. Some of the stocks in this sector have been doing very well. For example, Nvidia today had a gap up. It made brand new all-time highs. That stock, since it split, has been kind of basing out. It finally is getting a lift again. So that's something that looks like a good long. But then there's other stocks, something like new. That doesn't look very good. That looks lower. TSM looks lower too. So it really depends on the individual company which one you pick. I wouldn't necessarily just across the board be going along all of these things and holding them. Some of these may drop off and sell off before they lift again. Got it. All right. So within this space, the semiconductor space, what's your general outlook going here into the second half of 2021? I think it's going to be difficult, mainly because of what you were stating earlier, reference to the Delta variant and COVID. And really just what's happening right now is ports. Supplies are coming into ports. And this is across the board. Not just in this is everything that's happening right now. And then we don't have enough ships. We don't have enough dock workers. We don't have enough drivers. There's not enough truck drivers. There is actually a shortage in supply chain across the United States. And this is one of the reasons we've been seeing inflation in certain products and services as well is because we don't have enough drivers. Some of the drivers are on unemployment because they make more unemployment because the extra stimulus. Some of the drivers are failing the drug test right now. In order to get a CDO license, you have to pass the drug test. I think they do it like every six to eight weeks. And because marijuana now is legal in many states, some of these, but you can't drive. If you don't pass the test, they're not passing the test. Then they got to be off until they pass the test again. There are so many issues right now with truck drivers. It's one of the reasons you're seeing a higher cost. This continued inflation, you're going to continue to see this. The shortage is due to the lack of people that are working in many of these different industries, whether it's the ports, whether it's the drivers, and it's a problem. And until we get back to normal, which means not necessarily full employment, but a lot, a lot lower numbers in unemployment than we've been seeing. I don't think we're going to see really better prices and things. Well, you're absolutely right about this chip shortage becoming a bigger and bigger issue. We were just talking today about, I think was it Ford had something like 60,000 trucks ready to go outside the manufacturing plant, but they can't move them without the chips, the semi-chips. So this is really starting to have some trickle down effect throughout the entire economy. Can I just ask you, are there any companies that have been able to successfully navigate this lack of chip supply? Well, nothing really comes to mind. Again, I look at the technicals. I'm really not finding the fundamentals of what these companies are doing per se. We're at the end of earnings season. The next earnings season doesn't start until the fall. So I would really be very careful of any new positions you take between now and then for two reasons. One, we still have the Delta variant. And two, we have this conflict going on right now overseas. I heard you talking about the previous guests about the market rallying today and trying to recover from yesterday. But the fact is the market gap down yesterday and rally, that isn't really necessarily a great setup. We were also down this morning in the pre-market before we recovered. That's not exactly what you want to see for a long position. I know we're not close to the highs. But the fact is what's happening right now overseas could collapse this market. And so whether you look at a company, whether you think it's strong, whether you think it's good, whether you think everything looks fabulous, even if it's not an earnings season right now, I will be extremely careful about taking new positions long, going into this conflict that we're having right now in the Middle East. This could collapse the market. I really was thinking the possibility of another shutdown could happen. And Nicole and I were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. I said 50-50 because if the cases keep rising, then the administration may be concerned and do another partial or temporary shutdown. Now we have the Middle East conflict. Anything can happen with this. There's thousands of people that are Americans that are stuck over there. If we had some type of war conflict, this market is not going to hang on. We've had a beautiful run up. You can look at the fundamentals of these companies, study them if that's what you do. I look at the technicals. Like I said, Nvidia is my top pick to go long. But even still, it was a good long today for a day trade. It was a good long today if you did a call on it. But to hold something long right now overnight is like the tip. It's almost like we feel like we're teetering, teetering, even though we rallied in the market, even though we're rallying in some of these things. When you look at the banks, the banks don't look good. When you look at Amazon, it's hanging on by a cliff since the earnings. Some of these things that majorly, majorly move the market are not really at the highs. They're not really acting like they should. And part of this, again, is the fear factor of what's happening right now with some of these conflicts overseas. Okay. Well, some interesting things for our long-term investors to keep in mind and watch as things play out here over the next couple of weeks. Thanks again. That was Melissa Armell, founder, owner of the Stock Swoosh LLC.
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Beef Patties: Easy & Healthy Iftar Recipes To Prepare & Freeze Ahead of Ramadan
This Ramadan, let’s resolve to spend less time in the kitchen and more time in worship. Learn how to prepare and freeze these simple recipes for use in the holy month. March 20: Beef patties (Galawati Kebab): https://youtu.be/ZQSLoD5n4UU March 27: Beef samosa: https://youtu.be/v56McSWQZeQ April 3: Chicken spring rolls April 10: Meat balls (koftay) - Full recipes posted at http://mcceastbay.org/recipes - More Sr. Aalia: http://mcceastbay.org/aalia Sr. Aalia Muzaffar is on a lifelong journey to cook wholesome and tasty food for her loved ones. She shares her passion virtually leading into this holy month by demonstrating Iftar meals that are nutritious and delicious, but also quick and freezable so you can spend less time in the kitchen and more time on your spiritual development this Ramadan. Sr. Aalia video blogs about her favorite recipes on her YouTube channel Aalia’s Kitchen at http://mcceastbay.org/aalia-kitchen She loves to teach simple recipes and techniques to community members who are reticent about trying their hand in the kitchen. New video released 1 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. on Saturdays leading into Ramadan '21. Watch live at http://mceastbay.org/live This demonstration was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California. on March 20, 2021. More MCC East Bay: Events & Activities: http://www.mcceastbay.org/calendar Weekly Updates: http://www.mcceastbay.org/newsletter Support MCC: https://www.mcceastbay.org/sadaqa Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MCCPleasanton Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcceastbay
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Assalam-o-Alaikum my dear viewers, I hope you all are doing fine with the grace of Allah Subhanu Wa Ta'ala. Welcome to Aliyaz Kitchen. As all of you know that Ramadan is just a month away. So we are making especially those recipes which you can make earlier and freeze them. So you will save a lot of time and you can do more Ibadah during Ramadan time. Our today's recipe is Galawati Kabab or Chicken or Beef Patties. You can say. So let's start our ingredients now. So Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim. Here our ingredients now. So first of all this is 1 pound minced beef, oil for frying, 1 egg, 1 teaspoon turmeric powder, 1 tablespoon poppy seeds, 1 tablespoon sesame seeds, 1 teaspoon garam masala powder, 1 teaspoon meat tenderizer, 3 tablespoons chopped mint, 2 green chillies, 2 tablespoons soya sauce, 2 tablespoons roasted gram flour, 1 tablespoon Kashmiri chilli powder, salt and chillies are according to your own taste. 1 teaspoon salt, 4 tablespoons chopped cilantro, this is fried onions. What I did that I took just 2 medium sized onions and I just deep fried them. 1 tablespoon garlic paste, 1 tablespoon ginger paste. So let's start our recipe now. So this recipe is so simple and easy to make. So our first step is that we are adding this cilantro in here. First we will chop these are already chopped. If you are making in food processor, so then you don't need to chop it because it will be chopped already in the food processor. So now we are adding fried onions, Bismillah. Now we are adding this mint, 3 tablespoons mint and now here is the case. Now we are adding all ingredients now, salt, chilli powder, Kashmiri chilli powder. Don't forget this is Kashmiri chilli powder. If you are using regular chilli powder, so don't add that much. You can use 1 teaspoon of regular chilli powder. But if you are using Kashmiri chilli powder, so then you can add easily 1 tablespoon chilli powder and this is 1 tablespoon roasted gram flour. But I dare just roasted in a dry pan, I didn't add any oil or anything. So here is soya sauce, 2 tablespoons of soya sauce. Here is our ginger garlic paste, 1 tablespoon of ginger paste, 1 tablespoon of garlic paste. Here is all our spices, 1 teaspoon of turmeric, Bismillah. Now 1 tablespoon of poppy seeds, 1 tablespoon of sesame seeds, Bismillah. 1 teaspoon of garam masala powder and 1 teaspoon of meat tenderizer. Here are our 2 green chillies, so we will add it, everything will be mixed. As you can see, everything, all the masalas and all the green things are mixed now. Now we will add meat in it, Bismillah. And now we will close it, so this is done, Bismillah. Now we will take this out, as you can see this is very well mixed. You don't need to do anything, machine will do it for you. If you don't have food processor then you can mix by hand, that's fine. So we will take it out, Bismillah. We just take it out, all the meat from the food processor. Now we are adding 1 egg, Bismillah. This is large 1 egg. So we will marinate this meat for at least 3 hours or it's best if you will marinate it for overnight, okay. So we will marinate it for 3 hours. This is our last step and that is frying. So Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem and we are shallow frying now, so it is approximately half cup. So this is our marinated beef. Now we will make kebabs. First of all, so just apply 1-2 drops of oil on your ham. So your kebabs will be very smooth, Bismillah. So just take it, just around shape because these are greasy, so you can see these are very smooth. For example, you took like this, made a ball, make sure that your hands are washed and clean. You can see these are so smooth. Our burner was already on and we will fry these kebabs on medium to high flame. So as you can see these are frying, Bismillah. Because we add egg and gram flour, so this finding is so good. I'm sure you will love this recipe and you will love these kebabs and it is very easy to make and you can easily freeze them, fry them during sehri and dinner whenever you want. So now we will take these out. So let me tell you how we can freeze them for Ramadan. This is the baking tray and now you can put the plastic on top of it or we are using wax paper and now just make kebabs, put oil in your hands 2-3 drops and then make kebabs and keep them in a single layer like this. Keep them in a single layer and then you can put again another plastic wrap or another wax paper layer and then you can put another layer of kebabs on top of it and then just freeze it. Once it will get freeze, so then you can take it out and you can put it in the Ziploc bags. Let me tell you the air fryer method too, how we can air fry them. So just make kebabs. So for example, here are our 2 kebabs and we will air fry them, keep them. You don't need to spray oil or anything like that and I will put them in for 13 minutes on 400 degree Fahrenheit in Gormir band. This is Emerald Life so I will keep them for 15 minutes on 400 Fahrenheit. In the meantime our kebabs are air frying. So here are the kebabs which I freeze earlier to show you. So they are all freeze. Now we will just put it in the back and just mention it that these are Kebabs, that's it. Or you can at this stage you can put them in any box also, any plastic box which you can keep it in the fridge safely. So you can freeze them and use it during the Ramadan. As you know these kebabs are just done now. You can see, perfect, right. You can see the traces of oil. Even though we did not mix any single drop of oil during our meat marination. So here is our shallow fried kebabs and these are our air fried kebabs. There is no difference as you can see. And we will garnish it with some chopped onions. So here is the time for tasting the kebabs. And here is our chief guest Abdul Basit who will taste these kebabs. Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. How was the kebabs? Let me know. It was good. Thank you Abdul Basit. So the kids have proved. I hope and I am sure inshallah you will love these kebabs. Please try it at home and let me know how is your experience. Take care and see you next week at the same time. Asalaamu alaikum.
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"They're More Likely to Get Me Killed"
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Now, between us, the Secret Service that covers me here, fine and devoted and dedicated group. But just honestly, Mike, I wouldn't have this repeated to anybody. My judgment is that they're more likely to get me killed than they are to protect me. They're just not heavy thinkers. They just like the average cop. And they don't plan. Hoover's one that's put me in a... He doesn't object to my shaking hands with his high school kids or people along the fence at Bellin's Montana. But he does object to my riding down the street in a car that's not bulletproof, because that's where people hide. It's not likely that an assassin is going to be in with a bunch of high school bands. But it is that he gets in an upstairs window. Yet they had the stuff on Oswald, but they didn't give it the Secret Service. So what we're going to do if it's all right to work out, I'm going to meet with them about, I guess, Wednesday or Thursday. Maybe Wednesday. I got to go to the sack base with this NATO man tomorrow. And I'm going to call Dylan and them in and make Dylan the chairman of it. And then have him try to get McCone to see that everything that comes in from any foreign country is very carefully handled. Get Bundy, take that from the President's viewpoint, and kind of not be a super detective, but let him be the intelligence man for the White House Secret Service. And then pull the Treasury and the Attorney General together on how to coordinate those two groups of people. Thank you.
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The synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) using continuous flow chemi... | RTCL.TV
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Flow chemistry is a powerful tool used to streamline chemical processes and improve efficiency. It has enabled the development of new routes to commercially relevant drug compounds, resulting in faster and more reliable production. Flow chemistry can be applied at various scales, from micro to mesoscale, allowing for greater flexibility and control over reaction conditions. This article was authored by Marcus Bowman and E.N.R. Baxendale.
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Finance Committee Meeting - February 23, 2015
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to say, after the increase of reception support is to pay a part-time contractor, say the COA found they needed a more consistent level of support. Oh, sorry, where are you? I'm at Council on Aging at the very end on the second page. Okay. So you have the second sentence, the increase in reception support is to pay a part-time contractor. That's good. And then could the next sentence be the Council found they needed a more consistent level of support? Needed a more consistent. Okay. Are there any other corrections, David? Just on the rental buildings. Okay, so across off Turkey Hill and put in Mount Gilboa. Okay, Christina. Okay. Hey, John. Okay, is there any other? Any other corrections? Okay, do I have a motion? Second? Okay, any other corrections or discussion? All those in favor of approving the minutes is corrected. We say aye. Opposed? Okay. And now our favorite topic. Snow and ice. Um, everybody should have the handout. So Andrew, could you tell us what's happened? Sure. It is continued the snow at a record day since we will ask for you. I think two weeks ago. The request tonight is to request authorization to deficit spend an additional $500,000 on top of the $750,000 that we requested last time we were before the finance committee, which would bring our total authorization to deficit spend the $1.25 million in addition to the $771,000 that was appropriated in the FY 2015 budget. So I draw your attention to the memo to the town manager from the Public Works Director Mike Rademacher. He summarizes the number of snow and ice events we've had this year. We're up to a total of 2515, which were snow events, 10, which were ice in an approximately 95 inch snowfall. So he's broken this memo with two pieces expended today. So those are receipts we've actually processed associated with snow removal. And then additionally, some more recent costs that we've incurred, but may not have had the final final cost as a result of the work just being completed in the past day or so. And that's in the bottom half of the memo. So what I can tell you is over the past several weeks, we've utilized all the resources available to the town of Arlington, including all of our town resources and assets. We've worked with several contractors to help with snow removal, street widening, moving snow out of town to our snow or to our snowfield. Last week, specifically, we utilize two contractors to do a pretty significant snow removal effort of snow from rooftops, the biggest concern being the Odyssey Middle School. Those efforts are continuing. They were to give school today, they'll meet the Fox Library tomorrow. So that's ongoing. We've also will begin the process of moving snow from the rez out to a location of the contractor's choosing. So when you take the cost that we incurred in a process and what we're anticipating, the total expenditure to date is approximately 1.7 million. With the authorization approved tonight, that'll give us about another $300,000 in room to basically pay any cost that continues to come in, or in the event we have another storm or ice event in the future. So I don't know if you want to go into detail about what the different financing plans could be. We talked about them last time in addition to the appropriation, we set aside in long range plan $500,000 to raise on the next year tax rate, raise the deficit. Some years we utilize it last year we utilized all 500,000. It's assumed we'd do the same this year at least the 500,000 that's set aside. And then come back to the finance committee as the winner draws to a close and make a request for what I imagine be reserve funds. So I'm happy to answer any questions. But that's what we are today. First of all, I think for the amount of employees we have with doing the good job. And I don't want this to sound like I don't think we're doing it. But I need to understand a few things. And the first one, he gave us data February 4 to tell manager we had six of the 16 events we called in, we contract this probably for a total of about 234,700. Today's February 23. We called in so far eight of the 25 events, which was two more. We call them in two more times since February 4. But the two more times we added up 207,000. We almost spent the same amount of money for two events that we spent on sex. I think it has to do I know it has to do more with the duration. We were keeping contract is overnight going 24 hours around the clock. We're in the other events, the time in which we utilize them was much shorter. Does that with that? That also include the cleanup with that 441,000? Absolutely. That's that's total. Total. That's total. Okay, the other the other question is going back to February 4. We spent 131 125 for repairs. That kind of bothers me a little. To me, that's a that's a big number for two storms on repairs. I have a concern with that. And I know you can't answer that. But that would be my concern. And the other question is, the school buildings, does that fall under the school budget or DPW? So it's a there's a few components to the answer. They have staff that they have in their own budget. custodial support and maintenance staff that all their overtime has been paid or a good portion of it's been paid through the school budget. We're gonna have a conversation with the school department with regard to the snow removal from the roofs. Well, that's that's my question. Why is the DPW taken 100 grand when it's to be out of the school budget would be my so we know it's a very fair question. School school was on break last week. We had to get the job going. So for the purpose of tonight, we put it in our cost accounting, but there's gonna be a conversation with the school department leadership. Just go. I mean, those are questions that I okay, so just on that school, so the removal from school roofs under normal circumstances that might be taken from the school budget for these purposes right now, you've just incorporated it in the general correct. Okay. Other questions. Well, we have we have an historically charges of snow and ice and raise it through this, but rather addressed that within the individual public safety budget so fire and police will also have a cost associated with this. Okay, any other questions team? Yeah. Um, so I guess I have a few. So I see I know what we started with I know we added I know what we're adding and how much we have left. So let's pretend for a second doesn't snow again, right? It seems like a funny thought. But for the money we're appropriating. What's the what's the ongoing? What's the forward looking strategy here? Right. So what I mean by that let me just let's just go for the last couple weeks. Week before school vacation, it snowed on a Sunday Monday, something like that. We've gotten hit repeatedly. So I understand dpw probably spent a lot of time focusing on clearing up the schools get in the back operational doing some different things. So we're all sort of live a lot of people are living with these sort of I don't even call them single laid road. They're like car length roads where you pull off into a driveway if someone's coming the other direction or back up like 100 yards, right? So let's say it doesn't stop. You're getting this money. Now, is the plan to get trying to widen the roads or is but we had to point where it's you're living with this until it melts. No, not at all. So in the immediate future, we're going to continue and overnight, at least a one night overnight widening of Mass Ave. That's the best time to widen Mass Ave. And then the plan is to regroup this week and come up with a plan that will make very public for how we're going to go about widening roads. But what does that what does that mean? So let me let me explain. We had a big we had we had a big storm the week before school vacation. Okay. And I understand you have to school back in order all that. There were no kids in the last week. Right. So the concept that we had to focus on the schools last week is out. So now we so if there was anything that was going to happen in terms of widening or planning that would have started last week. And I have to be honest and look, I'm not trying to be up here, but I am going to be up here. Because it's kind of tough. I'm sure everybody else deals with this, right? You live in an eight road where you shovel because not enough lane in front of my house don't apply a snow blower. And a lot of times you hear the same things you hear, you know, oh, the town run out of money. Oh, the town know what they're doing. Oh, what are we doing here? And so from a from a governance standpoint, you feel like you're kind of backed into a corner. So since we didn't school last week, where are we going for the money that you want? So, so let me respond a little bit what our plan was. We identified priority priority areas being areas in and around schools, work beginning at schools, working outward to ensure that people will be able to get to school safely when school resumed. Additionally, the police department went street by street intersection by intersection listing the priority areas fire department went street by street listing priority streets on a scale from one to four. One being needing immediate attention for needing the least attention with regard to that scale. And we focus our efforts based on that as well. We realized really quickly that we weren't to be able to widen every street in a in a Thai fashion that would be acceptable to every resident of Arlington. But what we tried to do is target around schools with the police and fire have identified as priority priority areas. Okay. So now we're here today. Right. And I don't think we've got to all the priority areas yet. So we're going to continue to target those. And once we get through those come up with a plan for how we move you know, it's a resource. So it's fair to say there is not a plane. Besides widening around schools. There's no plan to widen the streets in the town at the moment. I would disagree. I think you just said in areas identified by the Arlington Police Department and the Arlington County Department that present a public safety fair enough, fair enough. Okay, so just make sure we're on the same page. Areas around schools, areas identified by the police or fire is representing a public safety, which I think you've probably learned when it comes to when the JRM trucks couldn't get down the street would be my my guess. That's kind of the tipping point at that point. But that's where we are. Okay, so we give you this money. And that's what we're that's that's about it at the moment. We haven't figured the rest out yet. That's the plan and we'll be working figure out what we'll do in the following weeks. And when that plan put together, we made public like we've tried to be very open with our public communications through the beginning of this, providing daily updates. So as we proceed to the town, our plan won't be hidden from anyone. Our plan won't be hidden. We'll make public with the plan. Okay, the only other thing I would say because I know we were talking about clearing the roofs and the schools and things like that. Could everybody speak up a little bit? This thing is noisy. And I think I'm getting down. So I mean, look, I understand you said you want to have some discussion to school. But the one thing I would sort of beg of you here is, we're at the point where flexibility in a school budget is difficult to gain, right? Because the majority of their costs are teachers. And once the costs are locked in on September 1, it's tough to to pull them out. So I understand you might have some some discussions with them. But it I think outside of any type of surpluses they might have here or there money, they might not spend it's going to be it's a tough a school budget, a tough place to take money out of. I mean, on the town budget, you have that backward lever that you can overspend the budget. I mean, if they're, you know, teachers make up the majority of the budget, the only option you have is very limited at this point. I mean, they're not things we want to talk about. Right. And I think that's the plan. Have a conversation and see if there's an opportunity to cut here. And we'll see. I mean, we haven't had an opportunity to have that meeting. Okay, and then obviously, and then the last thing I'm just gonna say this is lasting on the schools because it was a pet peeve mind several years ago is we're all in this together, right? I mean, I never liked the days of school versus town. When we talked about the town as a set the school is a separate weird government that didn't really exist. I don't know whose children they were educated, but it didn't appeal like they were the Arlington Children. So we're all together in this, right? I mean, it comes to that stuff. Okay, right? I guess if you're going to follow up on the schools. Let me ask this question. And I think I already know I hope I know the answer to this. Who's plowing the school parking lots in general? Anyway, on a general basis, is it DPW or is it the school hire their own contractor? The school doesn't hire their own contractors typically. So what they deploy is their equipment can only fight snow, you know, certain certain certain depth. So they'll deploy their custodial staff to generally do roof work sidewalk work. And then they generally deploy takeoffs with clouds. Some of these storms have been far too great in nature for their equipment. So then DPWs come in and help with it. I would hope that's actually I would have hoped that it was DPW to begin with. I think this is just an extraordinary time period. And you know, we just all selected up in the towns responsible for the town's responsible for the school's town's responsible for maintaining everything we have. Second topic that goes piggyback with the snow. And that is parking. What is the what is the thought of the town manager as to what's going to happen with the parking if you're not going to be removing the snow from any other area other than mass up in the foreseeable future? So the goal is to lift the band incrementally as fast as we possibly can. So in the foreseeable future, we're going to be widening roads every single day. And what we put together that you'll see on the town website, which predominantly one color right now, where the band's in effect, it's different color where it's not. But what we will be doing through the town website, only it's not realistic to send a message of 5000 people every time we open the road is keep a list of when roads and the goal is to the opening roads. I don't know, you know, I live over on Warren Street near the fire fire station. And the other morning as a fire engine tried to get through. And it didn't. The firemen were out directing traffic trying to get things going every which way. And there was an ambulance following them. And I'm sure glad that I wasn't the one having the heart attack that they were chasing because they they had another 10 minutes just to get through that. So I mean, I would think that maybe if the town would be following this one side of the road parking and get some signs. So there's some organization between it. Okay, are there any other questions? Okay, the manager has requested an additional $500,000 of spending authority for a total of $1,250,000. Now, this is not a final thing. We'll figure out some time in late March, maybe early April. Exactly how much we're going to take from the reserve fund in this. So but this basically gives them authority to to spend to this level. So they're looking for additional $500,000. We have a motion. Second. Okay, any discussion? Okay, all those in favor of an additional $500,000 and spending authority for snow and ice removal, please say aye. Opposed. Okay. Now, sort of. Well, actually, we're late. I'll bring that up later. Okay, well, thank you very much. Okay, water bodies. How many people do you have? Seven. One person, one person over here. Can we pass this mic down? I'm sorry. Can this mic travel? Yeah, it can pick people up pretty much across. Okay, great. You should have a hand out from Gloria. Gloria, do you have an extra handout? I have one here. Okay, this hearing is on the article 34 for water bodies that we've had. This is yours? Yeah. Here, I can use this one. Thank you. Okay, this order goes on 34 requests for appropriation for water bodies. I'm Jane Howard, one of the members of the spy pond committee. And I am the name attached to the Warren article. We have other sponsors, but we weren't all able to meet formally to get the vote. So I'd like to introduce the rest of the people here. This is Brad, Barbara, who's the chair of spy pond committee. And you know, Teresa Benedictus from public works, and Joey Gushko from planning and Nathaniel Stevens from the conservation commission also a sponsor. Bill I camp from spy pond and Martin Google from the reservoir committee. And now you'll hear from Brad Garver, who is the chair of spy pond committee. And then also from Teresa. Okay, just so you don't have to keep moving. Okay, so I'm Brad Barbara, a co chair with Steve Ritchie of the spy pond committee. And we've got we came to you last year and decided just we wanted just to do a little preamble. You have it right here describing what we do. The Arlington water bodies, the big ones, as you know, are spy pond and mystic flames. We have but the river we have but L. Y. Brooke Hills pond mill broke. There's a number of other smaller water bodies. And the reservoir very important. Thank you. And and there's a bunch of quite a lot of organizations that are involved in it. And we have representatives, the conservation commission is very much interested in water bodies. The reservoir committee. This the last few years we've had a fairly severe problem with water chestnuts, which is something that sort of there had been problems a while several a number of years ago, we weren't paying attention to it. And all of a sudden we had a think it was a $20,000 a year problem with it. And it's still still not cleaned up completely. It's not as bad as it was before though. All of these water bodies take care. They just simply you can't just let them go. You let them go on the water becomes quite quite quite ugly. It fills up with vegetation on things love to grow in it. There's lots of nutrients of all kinds that have been building up over 100 years now. And you know, even in the time like five years ago, it was pretty much a green mat across behind Elizabeth Island. And what we worked out is a pretty good scheme. And that's what's down in the schedule there. In late spring, that's the time to treat aquatic plants. And we're using two separate separate treatments, a very effective, what's called a systemic treatment. The brand name is sonar. And what it does is it attacks Eurasian millfoil, which is a predominant invasive plant that's in spy pond. And it goes after it goes after the plant itself. And it's actually a fairly involved process. We dropped the water level a little bit. We monitor how much of the sonar is in the water. If it drops down over the course of the summer, a little bit extra is added in. And then that is effective for about three years. And then what we need to do is after typically in the spring, evaluate where we were where we are, and add and do a spot treatment with a different herbicide that is not systemic. But we'll keep out. You don't want a lot of vegetation in the in the body of water, because it makes it unusable. And you don't want it all to be dying out midway through the summer, because that's part of what brings on an algae blue. This year, we were, we were lucky, we didn't actually have to use any any herbicide at all. And we had no real algae problems this year. And then the the in the summertime, the water chestnuts that's a mechanical process. The idea is to get rid of the seeds so that they don't there's not a lot of seeds to sprout for the next year. We need to watch for algae blooms. And that's a you really just have to you know, if it gets bad, there's a number of treatments that you can use to knock the algae down. We've had a fairly rather successful program to manage frag mites. Those are those tall reeds. They used to we used to have about an acre and a half of very solid frag mites and they went up to 12 feet high and up to 100 feet deep. And that's now quite under control every three years, my guess, we'll need to just keep it from getting out a hand again. And then most important that my biggest worry is what we don't know about. And and that's a matter of we need to have qualified people check for check for new invasives. There's all kinds of invasive plants and animals that can get into water bodies, just like the water chestnuts. We don't want to have that happen. Again, we'd rather have caught we would have been much easier if we'd caught the water chestnut problem when it first started, as opposed to when it was in full full love. In working with the other groups, one of the particularly important we're hoping to make it have a have a larger role in the water bodies fund is the conservation Commission. They're interested in in, you know, they have they have a fair amount of regulatory oversight, but they're also interested in making the whole town work better as far as the water bodies go. And and so they're actually just starting a a survey, you know, a study of their own of the water bodies and what the ongoing needs are. So with that, unless are there any questions? We will be here and I can go over it. And what I'd like to do is turn it over to Teresa to go over the numbers. Okay. Okay, thank you. Hopefully you all got a updated spreadsheet. And it's a little bit, a little bit jazzed up from last year, one of your members gave it the once over and made it a little more user friendly. But it's essentially the same information that we've been presenting for several years now. So the most important part is on the to look at is on the page water bodies program analysis, the sort of first block of information, you can see the monies that we've been spending from FY 10 forward, what we're looking to possibly expend in the current budget that we're in FY 15. And then the three year look ahead that we've been presenting for a few years now. So we're asking for this FY 16 for 40,000 same amount as we got this current fiscal year. And we have it broken out to intending to spend between spy, the res and Hills for a total of this coming year, FY 16 of $50,000 between the three water bodies. If you look on the backside, you can see the page to sorry, you can see the more detailed exactly what the programs were thinking of doing at the three in particular this coming year. Sorry. And one thing I need to mention in the FY 15 projected the second block down, I didn't update the spent to date column. We have spent 10,750 on water chestnuts at the reservoir, we spent that this past summer. And we might have some additional this spring. But at least we spent the 10,750 and I don't think we'll spend any more on water chestnuts in FY 15 for this fiscal year. For the upcoming, as I said, we're asking for 40. But we're actually we have a budget of $50,000 as broken out here yet we're putting aside our second amount of $12,000 for sonar treatment that we're expecting to spend in FY 17 at spy. Then we're asking for 10,000 for the if we would need to do a treatment of reward 8,000 for water chestnuts at at the res we're hoping that in this coming year that we won't have to do mechanical harvesting like we've been doing for a few years, and that it'll be a lesser expenditure this coming summer algae treatment, generally at spy but we've been been lucky for a couple of years on that. And we're actually asking for a little bit of a beefed up on this line here says water quality testing plant ID and survey. We want to look more thoroughly at the water bodies and get a better idea to see if we're doing the right thing. Are we missing anything to include any other water bodies, you know, within our program. So we did bump that line up within our budget, but we still stuck with the asking for 40,000. And then we have FY 17 and 18. Pretty much think what you'd be expecting to be seeing in coming in coming fiscal year. So I think we're doing a good job within our funds, keeping an eye on the water bodies, spreading the monies around and seeing good results, particularly at spy. And we're I guess we're hopeful that we really have gotten the reds under control, in particular with the water chest nuts and that this year, things will look better. But we'll we'll see when the when and if the ice melts, we'll see what we have. Okay, are there any questions? Christine? Yeah, I'm aware of the population mission is a very aggressive and trying to get anti up. I'm not sure. Good job in holding their feet to them. So thank you for that. My questions. You said that all of the water bodies in town take care. But what you said laid out for us is only to be spent on spy on reds. And those are set projects that we have in the queue other than as I mentioned, we're asking for a little bit extra in the last line item of FY 16, where it says water quality testing plant ID and survey, we want to look around at all of them and see just to make sure should we be doing anything you know, beyond what's being done at Hills? Is there an issue that we should look at at MacLennan? You know, just to be a little more thorough and make sure we're not missing anything are, you know, caught unawares. There hasn't been any type of survey done on the other water bodies. Yeah, we have people visit on there's no but not been made the then I have some my right you guys check it out by. Yeah, it's upper mystic. There's an individual group of homeowners who do some papers and treatment there. The Conservation Commission is currently studying the other water bodies that collecting information. Mystical River Watershed Association has some information about some water bodies but not others. There's different sources for information. So we're collecting that and we're collecting as much as we can do. But there's going to be a point where we're going to need professional services to come in and do like plant ID do or more formal surveys so we can find out what management needs to be done. And that's what the line item is that Teresa was just referencing. So the work that the Conservation Commission has been doing or will it is doing is in progress. Yeah, is separate from this request. You're funding it from their prior work was separate. But if they need like said to get some professional services that would fall in this budget. I want to make sure I understand it. So far no money has ever come out of the water body fund ever. To survey any of the other water bodies. We've we've we've done surveys but they've only from the fund has been the res spy. Yeah, right. So we've got a lot of outside monies that wasn't in this budget for saying different grants and things through the years but not from this budget. And in this 15,000 that you're requesting for survey. You're representing that that would be for all of the water bodies. Right. I just broke. I didn't add another column to the spreadsheet for like miscellaneous and I just kind of write that I just want to I ran I picked the numbers 10 therefore they're one day no no magic to it. Now, in addition to this fund, the DPW also supports work at catch basin and storm grid. Yeah, and associated with this type of work. Yes. Do you know how much on a really basis adds adds to take care of the why buy one or the take care of the wife, these three water bodies. If you would, it's hard to quantify because I feel like probably the most useful thing we do is catch basin cleaning. And it's it's for all of them. And it's generally on our own staff time. So we're now sending the truck out to do that work. It's, you know, what I put a number on it, you know, anywhere from maybe 10,000 to 25, maybe depending on particular circumstances. When you, for example, when you go out and pull the water chest, does the DPW is all of the work covered by this one? No, I've done it different ways through the years. At this point, like when we've sent them, we've sent them to Lexington. Sometimes that came out of public works, this budget that was maybe things like five grand for the disposal part. I didn't charge the fund for that. This last couple of years, we we were letting the stuff dewater right on site on the spillway. And it becomes so dry that we can bring it back to the yard on Grove Street, and then put it in with other similar material. And we have it properly disposed of comes out of the highway budget. Maybe that's down, it's like 2000. So I'm just trying to find ways to spend the least amount of money. And then also, if it's in keeping with other expenses, it gets charged on the operating side of things and not to this account. And like, I get a little like, sometimes we'll have flyers for storm drain things or different printed materials and stuff. I just charge it off to highway. I think it would muddy the the detail in this spreadsheet and make it more top to keep track of. So I just charge it on the operating budget. Just easier to keep track of it that way. Okay, are there other questions? Are you finished Christine? Other other questions on the program? Just just a one response to Christine's comments. We do most of the fun to his tar is has been used for spy pond and the reservoirs. And that's really not my accident. Those are the two water bodies in town that that have the most people involved. It's their very public bodies of water. I'm sure all of you have been to one or the other or both multiple times in the course of a year. One of the great successes. In the last couple years, in particular, this year just past has been the Arlington Belmont crew, which in conditions of the pond has been in the very recent past would not have been able to to row on the pond. They just simply vegetation and rowing to just do not go well together. And they had a they were out there. I don't know how many times a week. Oh, so she's in it. Oh, five days a week. And it's a very team group. And they've been quite successful. That's great. Can we get them to pick up water chestnuts? In it, certainly. Okay, other questions? Great. Look, so the 15,000 study. It's for all of the water body study all the water body. Yes. Anybody else? Christine? So when when would you have a report as to the condition of the other much dependent on the works being done by members of the Conservation Commission? And I've been as the chairman, I've been pushing them along to complete the work as a sub working group of the Conservation Commission. But like many of you, you know, they're volunteers doing the best they can, the time they have. I would hope that we'd have something later this later this year, mid summer. Would it be realistic to have something by this time next year? I would certainly hope so. So that if and when you come back for more money next year, we have an awareness of what else is going on in town. Yeah, that's that's that's that's the plan. Okay, we'll write that down. Anybody else? Okay, well, I'd like to thank all of you for coming. We appreciate your appreciate your input your time. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, the next group is the Board of Assessors for article 23. Come up here, we've got less of space now. Chairman. I'm kept in the chairman's board of assessors and with with me is Paul Cheney, who's the new director of assessing. This is Paul's first visit to the finance committee. And first visit to make him his request. Basically, this is our tri annual request that we make every three years. Because the ZOR requires more certifications in the third year than they would in the other two. So I believe three years ago, we had a contract for $8,000. This year, we're with Paul and quad really, we're hoping to keep it down under 50. So we're only requested 50 this year. All can go through the details of what we think we'll get by that month. Thank you, Chairman. Again, I'm Paul Cheney, director of assessments. Our estimate so far, we really want to focus on the commercial industrial properties this year. And we're anticipating that it costs me about $25,000. We also want to do the personal property, which is all the businesses in town. We're budgeting five to 10,000 for that. And for the residential, we'll need a full field review of the town. And that'll be anywhere from 10 to 15,000 come out to $50,000, which is what we're requesting. Okay. Are there any questions? John? That I am not sure of. No one's ever made me aware of it. And I'd only be guessing that we'll have to get that value. I mean, typically it's in several tens of thousands of dollars. Yes, but three years ago, we hit a pretty hard, I think. So I'd like to get information. We paid the consultant $80,000 three years ago. And I think that might have been 50 plus $30 from one dollar for another year. But I'd rather get you the real information on that thing. Is this residential, the 10 to 15,000 residential? How many this is physical inspection? No, that doesn't, they would, excuse me, they would do a canvas of the neighborhoods of the outside of all the properties. It'd be most I'd say three quarters of the gap. It's a quality. It's a quality review process rather than an actual full inspection. Correct. Yeah. So after the our in health staff have done their analysis and work, then they would come in and do a quality review, part of which would be to test test some some actual locations. So it isn't a it isn't a full listing and measuring, as we would call it. It's a it's a quality review testing process. Okay, this will be for fiscal 16 or fiscal 17. 16 16 16. Okay. Alan and then John, you're budgeting roughly twice as much for commercial evaluation of residential. Is that a change from prior practice? We've always used the consultant to do commercial because we have such a limited amount of commercial that we don't have a lot of comparables in town. So that the consultants have the availability of that information from neighboring towns rather, so they're more qualified to do it than we are. So I think it's more only 400 parcels together with there are such different types of commercial that we've always used the consultant of the commercial. So in terms of the budget, that's more or less the same thing was done three years ago. Yes. Yes. Okay, John. I understand you correctly. You said for the residential, what you'll do is you'll sample a few places and that would you go inside some places and not this particular time for the field review was just an outside review of all the properties to check, you know, the grades that are consistent on particular street, the story heights, and then it was being treated fairly within particular neighborhoods. It's just an outside review. Okay, you're a camp. What are they looking at? They're looking for consistency in the data that say a ranch is consistent with the ranch next door, that all the grades and say if you have a C grade on one ranch, you'd want to see grade on the ranch next to it. It's being treated. Everything in the neighborhoods are being treated out fairly. And if there's a two story height on our building, and it's the same way next door, they want to make sure that that's a two story counting. That is two stories too. And you also check the property records to see what has been added. Yes. Yes. That is done by the assessors themselves. This was not a potter. The company that's done on a daily basis. We received the permits from the building department. I believe we've never received them electronically. And one of the duties of our data collectors to go out and view those and put and make sure they get in the system. Part of what the consultant would do would be to audit that function and make sure that it's been done properly. That's that's what this review Thank you. Okay. So what is the next time you have to go inside the properties and fiscal fiscal 19? Okay, any other questions? Okay, so could you get that data back on on money is left over from prior authorizations? If you could send it to Gloria by email and show email it to the rest of us. Okay. Okay, well, thank you very much for calling. Are they here? So this would be article 35. Okay, so article 35 appropriation for the Harry Barber Community Service Program requesting $7500. So could one of you please give an overview and sure, I'll give introductions and then I'll pass it off to Susan. So as you know, my name is Christine Bonjour. No, I'm the Health and Human Services Director here in Arlington. I have I have here with me Susan carp who is the Council on Aging Director and Patty Brennan who is the office manager in the office and will be taking over some of my duties this upcoming time for my budgets. So I'm going to pass it to Susan to talk a little bit about the program and to give you an update as to where we're at this year. In this move? In this be moved or do I? Good evening. Can you hear me all? Yes. All right. Thank you for having me. As Christine said, I'm Susan carp and I'm the executive director of the Council on Aging. One of my roles is to manage the Harry Barber Program. If I could just have a quick show of hands of how many people are familiar with a senior work off program that's a part of mass general laws. All right. So very briefly Arlington doesn't have the senior work off program for real estate tax abatements. In 1980s 1997, excuse me, the town of Arlington adopted a program called the Harry Barber Community Service Program. Harry Barber is in looking at the room. Probably many of you remember him as a community advocate, spending a lot of his time in different areas and as an honor to him as a tribute to him created this program to help other seniors. This program is fashioned a lot after the senior work off program where there is a dollar amount that set Arlington has set $750 per person. In fiscal 15, the finance committee approved $7500, which represents 10 individuals working for $750. We use minimum wage as a gauge. So for fiscal 15, that was 93.75 hours. To date, so that would be through this month, we have six individuals that are placed. We have three that are active resumes, if you will, and they're going to be placed within the next three weeks, which actually leaves just one opening. So we've gone from in the past of having five individuals, now all the way up to 10. So what does that mean? That means that it is a program that gains recognition. You have individuals in Arlington that are actively engaged. So these are retired individuals. There are income guidelines. So it is a demonstrated financial need. They are committed to working and being a part of the town. And at the end of the 93.75 hours, they get a check for $750. I will say I think that last year when I was here presenting, there was a member that had asked if we had placed applications at the assessor's office. And at the time I said no, we turned around the next day and placed a number of applications and I believe that has helped increase the visibility. So I was very grateful that that recommendation had come forward and we actually put it together. So we're from the the Council on Aging Board from the from my department, we say, you know, thank you very much. It's a very, it's a very good program. It really reaches out, it engages the seniors in Arlington, gives the extra pocket money for fuel, for food, for medical insurance, for for prescriptions. It's, and it also helps real estate taxes, but this is not just for the homeowners for the renter and for the homeowner. Are there any questions? One question. Some 50 divided by 93.75 is $8 an hour. That's correct. Isn't the minimum wage in Massachusetts $9? Not yet. Okay. In fiscal 15, it was 93.75. Yeah. So this year, I'm not at because we were level funded. I didn't ask for an additional amount. So the amount of hours will be less. You're going to ask me that I think it's 83. Okay, so it's for level employment. Why weren't you asking for a little bit more to compensate for the increase of minimum wage? Well, I think I was afraid of being turned down. Next year, I will though. Thank you for that recommendation. That was a question. It wasn't a Okay, there are many other questions. Okay, well, thank you very much for coming. Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, well, why don't we take a look at these? The water bodies request was for $40,000. at all of our water bodies and then figures out what needs to be done. It's become a general maintenance fund for three water bodies that subsidize on top of the 40,000 by the DPW. And I feel like I'm not saying that we shouldn't do work on the water bodies. I'm just saying that I think it should be treated as any other maintenance program that the town has, like the athletic fields that should just be included in the DPW budget and budgeted transparent, transparently so we can see what's going on and voted that way. And I'm also concerned that Despite the number of years that we've been funding this, and the number of years I've been raising this question, no money at all has been spent on the other water bodies. No money at all has been spent on any of the other water bodies from this fund. And I'm bothered by that because I think it's one of the reasons I'm concerned about that, because I know, for example, in the climate, fragmented have been a problem each year gets worse and worse and worse. And there's been no effort to address that at all. And I know when the time comes, it's gonna be more expensive to deal with it. Then then it was my first reason, the issue of why isn't some of this money I'm sorry, with this noise, I am really having trouble with each other water body. Were you concerned? I know that I know that there have been fragmented there and they've been getting worse. And I know when the town eventually gets around to doing something there, it's gonna be more expensive than it was. I could have addressed it using funds from here. But this seems to be a funds, especially designed for three free water bodies. And that's it. So for all those reasons and other reasons, I haven't expressed them. I'm gonna vote against finding this. Mr. further discussion. John. Christine, why did you ask a lot of questions when they were here? Excuse me. I did. She did. I didn't. I didn't catch it that way. You understand what I'm saying? I would have been more educational for me if you said it just like that. You know, you were too easy on the one. I think you should really ask those specific ones. Why isn't that we have fragmented? Well, I raised that question last year. And I think a year before. Okay, I feel like this is a this is we ask questions to get the information. I don't have pontificate and lecture. I would have asked more questions. Okay, can and then when we allocate the funds like this particular case, can we specifically allocate certain funds for a certain area? In words, Christine says they do nothing at the other water bodies for example, for example, see we're going to give you 40,000 10,000 as much go to other water bodies. Are we able to do something like that? Well, I think we probably do anything we want. Keep in mind that this is only part of the money they have. They're also rolling was a 20 or 27,000 from prior years. Now maybe you accomplish what what is the concern of some members of this committee is that you know, we do the appropriation and then we can and furthermore, the finance committee specifically requests that that requirement park water body be included in the project for the next year or something like that. We could we could add that. Or we could say for example, they think this is was a three different water bodies here that you should work on. No, there are three that there have only been working on and there are others have been ignored. Well, can we say something like, you know, the money portion of the money allocated to water bodies other than these three other than these three. Before you can please say something has to go to the other water bodies. Just to clarify, I'm curious that I know the water body up into the current part. But my understanding is that upper and lower mystic lakes are under the control of conservation recreation, the state agency. So I'm not sure what are the water bodies? Wasn't Hillspond? Yes. Hillspond is included. So the other one so we could add some language to that effect. To require them to bring that in for the next appropriation. So we're given a fair warning, you know, we want to know what's going to happen with this bond, or we won't do an appropriation next year, or something, you know, we don't have to specifically lay it out like that. But we could require that pond to be brought into this program beginning in the next round of appropriations. We can work out the wording. If that's what the committee, if that's what the committee wants. Dean. So I am very sympathetic to what Christine said, because it was interesting before she started speaking, I knew what she was going to say, because she has done it year after year after year. And only the only twist, right is when you finished, actually, I was waiting for trial usually mentioned, but not in Iraq's park. And he didn't mention it. So it kind of threw me off a little, like, I don't have normal questions. I don't have the sheets with me. And so, but I'm also sort of being balanced, because I do think they do a good job on the on the water bodies that they're that they're managing. I think, and I think at the end, we voted the majority of the vote appropriate for 2000, we move on to next year. And it kind of keeps this puts back same place next year, right? Um, I think the simpler thing to do might just be to not vote on it right now and ask them to come back, you know, they got a week, come back, let's talk in a week, like, you're the exact things we need to know about here are concerns. And before we appropriate it, we just want you to answer it. Because I don't think they're, you know, I understand your frustration, right? The two sides to everything. And Christine frustration, I would actually vote against it just in a sign of solidarity that she's been beating her head against the wall for this for years. But I also know that I don't think they're maliciously doing this, right on their two dots sides to these stories. So I think the fair thing might be to just say, look, you know, we've asked you a few years about a bmc, like to your thoughts on it, get some discussions. If your if the answer is you don't have enough money to do it, and you feel like asking for $50,000 or $55,000 was too much or you're not comfortable with that. That's fine. Just tell us. But I don't think I guess I don't feel like we have to debate it and vote it tonight. And give me a week. Let's get their answers and have some judgment. Let's say a week from tonight. Okay, Peter. I didn't go over tonight. But the fragmati's work on spy pond was funded by by contributions, not by the town appropriation. Has there been any effort to raise funds for McClellan and pond for fragmati? I think there's a difference in the type of water body. It's five pond you have a butters who are living right there with the clinic and you don't have that the pond is in in in the back of the park itself. So you don't have the same. The homeowners don't have the same same stakeholders. Exactly. They don't they have the same motivation for funding fragmati's removal program. But in any event, if this is to protect all of our water bodies, it doesn't matter whether it would be nice if private people contributed. But if you want to protect the water bodies, we have to we have to our attitude has to be. This is something we as a town want to do. Not only do this if there's enough private stakeholders who want to make sure they have a nice view of spy pond in their home. Could I just add something? Sure. The is true. Christine that that the people with late frontage and spy pond with major contributors, but there were lots of others that contributed to the fragmati's effort. Okay, so the issue has been raised and currently has some support here about what's being done with the recline in pond. Is there a name for that pond? You know, okay, the pond of recline. The question is, you know, how do you want to deal with unfortunately, the warrant article itself says $40,000. Now, how many times I tell people not to put the dollar amount warrant. So we could just, you know, seems to me go ahead and pass it as is. We could pass it with the warrant article reading. And furthermore, you know, that McLeod and pond show, you know, shall be studied for the next year or something like that. We could add it as a comment that the finance committee expects that. Or I don't think we're going to vote it down. I don't hear any sympathy to voting it down. Or we can follow on Dean's comment is have them come back and specifically address that issue. Yeah, they don't want to come back. I mean, they can just ask some questions, get some answers. Think whenever here, they had said, I believe they're going to be doing some survey. So I think if you ask them to come back, I think all they're going to say is what we're going to do a survey on all the water bodies. So we can't tell you what has to be done, what should be done, what we plan on doing until they have the survey. So the survey won't take place until this year. So I don't see any sense of bringing them back and tell us what they're going to do because they can't tell you that. There's been no survey yet. And do have plans for a survey. I'm hoping to survey is on all the water bodies. At least that was the impression that I got. It's about all the water bodies. John, I'm sorry, Alan, I'd like to sort of support deans in the form of requesting before we take a vote requesting a policy statement or something back from the committee asking what are the criteria for selecting appropriation of money allocation of money among the water bodies. I don't think any of us have an expertise to make judgments about where to how much to spend where for different things. They have a lot more expertise than we do. But I think it would be fair to ask, how do you make those selections? You know, do you have a written policy for saying, you spend this money here, we see this plan, we spend money, or whatever. Ask for that policy or explanation before we think about it. Right. It is greatly a protest. But I, again, as I said before, I'm not saying that we shouldn't be spending money for our water bodies. I'm saying that I would be I would feel more comfortable if if I knew that all of the water bodies were being attended to. And I, I don't understand at this point in time why we have a separate warrant article for this type of work. Because this is now a maintenance program. And so I saw it. Yes, it's a protest. But also I feel like there are Would you feel better, for example, if we were to increase the need to help you budget by $40,000 in terms of this article down? I actually would. I would. The problem there is, though, is the whole carryover situation because a budget disappears at the end of the fiscal year. A warrant article like this can carry over from here. I think that's the explanation they would give would give to this on that. I was going to mention that. The argument for having money in the warrant was that some years you don't have to spend it in another years. They need to spend the money before town meeting would actually pass that budget. But I don't think that we lose the money for being in a budget. There are ways like revolving funds, other mechanisms to keep the money available for future use. And candidly, I long thought that this was mostly funds that were spent on by Pond. Right. The concern I share with Christine, it seems like it's working. It seems like the process is growing and they've got like a good hold that doesn't seem hard to get your arms around a whole thing. Good luck. I've always left over money from DPW for the highways in there. It's nice to smooth it out. But it's hard to get a true accounting of it. And now in addition to what we're spending now, which isn't all that much in the scheme of things, perhaps, but in addition, we have a survey. So more work is going to be done. They just sort of don't see a cap on it. See it kind of growing and warping. But that's kind of vague and not really specific. But that's the direction I see I'm getting the feeling. Well, we put the cap on the town meeting was the cap on it, but they decide what to appropriate on that. So, okay, so, um, you know, we've got the program, we can sleep on it. I think we sort of beating it around now. Would somebody like to make a motion and let's see how people feel? Yeah, I mean, so I'll make a motion to table it until we, you know, we can ask our follow questions and get our answers. And the reason I'm going to do in the comment on me, I really, you know, I hear all the arguments about passing in and putting a qualifier on it and things like that. But I don't think we're anywhere near the point when you do that, you're kind of like picking a fight, right with a group. And I don't think we're at the I don't feel like I'm at the point of wanting to pick a fight with a bunch of volunteers that I'm quite that will quite fond of. I mean, I don't think we're quite there yet. It's not like we asked every question and they stonewalled us to that. So I think we just table it, get some more answers. And then if we do in a week or two, put a comment on it about the ponds and things like that, at least we hopefully most likely, I think we're going to do a joint comment with which we all agree on, we're all the same page over there. I just don't feel like we're, you know, I think tabling it as the way to go versus starting to fight. Okay, then I think what I would recommend is that we put together the questions. And since the committee of the size forum to do that, I would recommend that anybody who has a question that they would like answered on this program, should email it to Gloria, Gloria just put all the questions in one format, send it around. And then if that's fine, we'll send it on to the on to the committee. And if we need to get them back, that's one thing, if they're able to answer all the questions, you know, we can email them out, they could fit in their answers right below. But I think that that's what we need to do. So if people have specific questions, they would like to present, even though the glory or glory put them together in a one word document, let me take a look at it, and then we'll send it off and get the answers back. So with that, we'll lay this upon the table for now. Okay, let's do the cessers. Okay, the assessors were before us article 23. Okay, now, you heard the presentation, they have to leave this every three years. One question was was left by was put forth as far as the balance is left. So, Travis, you want to sort of take a table to get that back. We have to have a meeting with anybody. I mean, I sort of vaguely remember that $20,000. Okay, we'll be meeting with them soon. Okay. Okay, then let's leave this on the table for now. And Harry Barber, which is 35. Okay, we're all pretty familiar with the Harry Barber program. I still remember what the what you got bowl work. That's right. Okay, what was the will the committee on the Harry Barber program move favorable action. Second second. Okay, is there any questions? Okay, all those? Okay, motion to make a second on the Harry Barber program. Any discussion? All those in favor, please say aye. Okay, that's done. Okay, now, one thing I just like to mention on snow and ice. This is not to be discussed here. dress only now what we probably have a discussion on it later. And this is regards to the snow and ice. And the recommendation of the manager's budget for you notice he only went up 2.95% could have gone up three and a quarter. And so he allocated that, or he recommended that that go into open for the fun there. I've been thinking this for a while. And I talked about him about this with him. And it seems to me, we've got the other deficit, which is snow and ice. You know, I'll bet, you know, we're going to approach $2 million this year, on the expenditure of snow and ice. And that's not counting some big, you know, the marked storms often come much heavier and wetter than than the earlier the season. And I'm wondering, you know, we're only going to get through this reasonably well, because of the Charlie's recommendation to go to $1 million in the reserve fund, and are constantly bumping up the snow and ice to the 771,000. So I mean, I think the manager said that he recommended that the balance between 2.95, the three and a quarter going to OPEP because a lot of this was set up because we've usually done 7% a year in the increase in health insurance. And this year, because of they adjusted that down to like 5.62%, or something like that, in the long term plan. And the reason is that that's sort of been the average for the last five years, not counting the big dip. And he felt that if we're keeping health insurance down, we should use that surplus to go into OPEP, which is a perfectly reasonable point of view. On the other hand, we're having some big snow and ice deficits and some big storms. And I'm not sure whether it's going to, you know, go back to normal, whatever that is. Because we've had deficits every year for the last four or five years. And especially when we have to start taking it out of town. So I don't think we have to discuss this now, but we get to public works budget. I think we should just think about it now and discuss do we want to put that balance of money? I don't know how much it is going to be a couple hundred thousand. Do we want to put that in the OPEP, which is a, and I've been a big supporter of OPEP to help get that up there, or do we want to put some more money in snow and ice? So we're not constantly having these, these every year deficit. So think about it and we'll discuss it more when we, when we get into we'll get into public works. Okay, I've got a couple of other things here. Detail for legal expenses. So everybody should get that. That's Peter, right? So this is from you. Yes. Okay. And this is a this is the detail breakdown. Just oh, there's conservation commission. Yes, the there are two years covered there. The current year up to today, up to now, I mean, and last year, I forget, which is on top of it said, I should say there. Yeah, 14 is on top. Now, how much was the appropriation? I'm trying to permit me for expenses. I've been missing it here. But what year? For 14? It's probably the same as it is this year. Okay, so I think that the request for information was a breakdown on how the expenses are, you know, have been have been allocated 135,000 135. Okay. Um, this is a bargain. Okay, does anybody have any questions for Peter on this one? Any more? Okay, just remind us what the settlement was in 2014. They have the big numbers on 2014. What's the story behind these numbers? That's that's Boris Kaufman. Okay, does anybody have any other questions? If you come up with some more questions, you know, give Peter a call. Okay, so that's there. And then the other one, which I think is also up here on the conservation fees comparison. Christine reminded us last time that when the administrator of the conservation commission was increased from the city, I forget exactly what from a half time to three quarters time or something, the planning department promised or the redevelopment board that find far that they would raise fees to offset that to some extent, they have raised fees as of this last month, after considerable study, considering what other towns charge and the concern with the people will not try to avoid it. They also realigned the category. So they don't all match. But what is now is supposed to be better aligned to the Does anybody have any questions for Peter on the? So I guess the question is the answer is yes, they have raised on for to see how how it works out before increasing the offset. Okay, so any questions? Okay. Thank you, Peter for getting that information. So probably at the budget revenue task force on everything was fairly smoothly on Senator Donnelly's office had represented in their city, probably many of you know, said that expect level funding, because of the problems the state's having now anyway, healthcare forces even a bigger problem for the state than it is for for cities and towns. I don't think anything else particularly exciting. The manager recommend or mentioned that March 4th is when they hope to get updated health insurance numbers. So I don't think we'll see the health insurance budget or the insurance budget for at least until after that. On there. And so I think that's it right now. So budgets Okay, so why don't everybody go back into health and services. 147 actually 149. One of the questions was about medical supplies, which is so the reason it was 957 in 2014 is because they had a grant to provide those medical supplies that grant went away. And so between 2015 and 2016, they needed to replenish a lot of those supplies. That is about the question about the Human Rights Commission, we're going to defer to the town we had to explain. We had a question on the next page about how to run in salary. So she is paid, I said that she was in, you know, one of the TV that she's paid from some other funds and the other funds are what she has paid are the vaccinations fund, the little more Robin's house fund, and the town hall fund. Does reflect work performance in those areas. Very market. What were the other vaccinations? Vaccination fund with more Robin's. Vaccination. Yes. Vaccination with a more Robin's house. What's the service? So it is part of her job, we wait to whatever purpose those funds must serve. Yes. Well, is the vaccination fund a regular revolving fund? Must be fund number 4124. So I'm sorry, is it a revolving? Yes. Vaccination is a revolving fund. I know that you always give them your insurance information. Okay, yes. So she wrote her work is divided from three revolving funds to reflect work performance in those areas. Okay, so I think that answers the questions from Health and Human Services budget. Okay, do you have any additional questions? I think those are the there are other questions you have, but they were for other budgets within Health and Human Services. Good job. Any other questions on this budget? Okay, so you're recommending as presented? Yes. Right motion. So moved. Second. Okay, moved and seconded. Is there any further discussion or further questions? Okay, moved and seconded for 372, 474. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, the next budget is veterans, we did approve it, but you had questions about the percentages of 100% reimbursement and 75% reimbursement. Unfortunately, 100% reimbursement is a very small amount of this. So in 2016, only about 20,000 of that 360 will be 100% reverse. That's only 6%. The rest of it, the 340,000 will be 75% reimbursement. Okay, were there any other Oh, and then the other question was in last year, how much is 100% reverse? It was probably only 10,000 per house. Okay, and I think we voted we approve that budget. Yeah, I'm going to whether the 730 that they'll be coming before us for a reserve fund transfer for about $140,000 for that. Okay. Next. Okay, Council on aging. We did approve that, but you had asked questions about the social worker and the geriatric nurse. So Gloria August is paid to 0.5 for paid by the town and 0.46 paid from the EOE a grant, which is the Executive Office of elder affairs. The geriatric nurse clinician is 0.17 from paid by the town of 0.43 paid from the EOE a grant. So she works 21 hours. And then Shapiro is the part time social worker and his part time. Okay, Alan, do we have do we have those footnoted last year? Well, we just said was these positions are partially funded by state and other Okay, that was the only question that from that budget and we had. Okay, any questions on that? The Shapiro's part time? Yes. So what you see there in the budget is what there is. There's no other funding, no other hour. Okay. All right. So if you want, we can go to the library and we can do some of the enterprise phones. Okay, so the library is just before Health and Human Services on page 145. So Gloria sent you all new pages. Now, none of the numbers changed. It's just that the the line item descriptions were odd. So that you've been corrected. So that's why you have a new page. So the bottom lines are changed. You can't read it. No, everything is the same. Only the labels on the you know, the line item labels are changed. Oh, I see. Okay, so we can cut page to take this little section here Yes, that's what you could So anyway, some of the things I wanted to point out under the salaries that differential is for the 680 union that for working at night. And if you look at 2016, overtime has to do with the $10,000 and extra $10,000 for Saturday hours. As we had up till now or up till next year, the library was not open on Saturday. So there are many months. Yes. So there were times that you could not access the library from Friday evening until Monday morning, which, you know, when you have kids at home, the library would be a good place to go. And then the Friends of the Fox offset is we've always talked about it. But now they decided to show it in the budget. So instead of it coming up and being shown in the general fund, they're actually showing you the offset of the donations from the Friends of the Fox. That's to keep the Fox library open some Fridays and Saturdays. So they did put motion detector lights in to reduce the energy costs. The 5236, the other contracted services, it's both the cleaning of the library and the dues to the Minuteman library system. Okay, we did put it not yet, but they did put in into the budget, a technology library. Okay, that's that 2020. So is that the only new position? Yes, we did that because of there was only one, you know, half a person doing actually, so there's actually was, they did a nice presentation which I can send to you all, but they talked about all the technology they have put into that library and still they only had that one person to work on it. But they have a laptop vending project. They have their RFID project. They have to manage the whole back end of the Minuteman library system. 24 laptops that people can borrow library on a very high use of laptops in the library. So I sort of asked about that in general, the library turning into a quite a nice description I thought about the fact that the library is always traditionally served intellectually, the people that have. And there is this new way in which people can learn that you like and read et cetera, in addition to holding books, so the largest branching though, you know, after I thought about it, it seems quite appropriate to change it seems to be as though the library is going in the right direction, doing the right kind of thing, serving the way it always has traditionally. Yeah. Another thing that almost floored was a circulation of this library is night in the state. The ninth in the state in terms of post circulation, which given the large cities, et cetera, and that's rather spectacular myself. And fifth and children's programming, but has some of the lowest weekend hours of any of the libraries in the state. Okay, so are you recommending the as presented? I am. Okay, one question. The, you know, at one point, the trustees or the friends or I forget who they were soliciting donations for Sunday hours. That was probably the friends. And do you know, they still do that? They still do that. No, they're not reflected as an offset because that is so diminished over time. They, they can't really count on that. That's for the big library, the Fox library has a separate one just for the Fox and those hours, but the Sunday hours, the donations have dropped off significantly. They did pretty well for a couple of years there. But that's hard to keep up to have Sunday hours just come from donations. Are there additional questions? Okay, Dean, then Paul, then when I might have missed it. Sorry if I did. But does this appropriation maintain all relevant certifications of the library? Yes, it does. They did ask that question. So they're all good with that. And then john, I would say get to the side comments as you brought it up. Um, I would say I'm quite stunned. I agree with you in your comment of how relevant the library has made itself up to me because I, I, well, my wife started taking my two kids. I couldn't really go library. But oh, it is an amazingly relevant institution in town. The jewel in the town of my family. They have, I mean, they have, I'm sorry, they have all kinds of programming and programming for elders and for adults and tweens and whatever. So they I mean, they're really trying to get everybody involved. elders adults. Well, they're specific programs for that. They're getting out. Okay, Paul. What is the status of the RFID project? They're still there in whatever phase was a phase one that they were in. So they they do have it. That's part of why they need the technology person to get it moving forward. And so I I remember everything you said about that. Let me see less than a year to be open running. Right. Yeah, it's my understanding. Okay. Your set when So the summer hours, you know, that's going to be full day or just three hours in the afternoon? What did she say? It's not going to be a full day. I don't remember what the hours were. What was your question? They were as a way to check in and out the books that would be RFID enabled. So that the library doesn't have to check every lunch, you can just run a whole group through and then they can be shelved in the right place. And so it would take up a lot less time of shelving and collecting them out of the bin or whatever. Okay, are there any other questions for the library? No, no, you mentioned the laptops. Is that a laptop that gets home down? Or Okay, so you can take a laptop to a desk, use it, and then you have to check it back in again. Okay, it's like a vending machine. Is any of these wandered off? They didn't say that. Sure. They would have if they if they had a laptop should be coming obsolete now. Um, okay, there are any other questions. Okay, actually, but they did say they're only the second library in the whole US that has that laptop. I wonder if there's something we don't. Okay, so I have a motion. So move. Second. Second. Okay, motions were made and seconded for 2,000,217, 065. Um, any further discussion? All those in favor, we say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, unanimous. 223. Okay, what would you like to do now? Okay, we could do the Council on Aging Transportation, which is page 193 in the enterprise funds. Right. So on I'm paid this, I didn't have anything to point out on page 195 on page 196. That line item on the Friends of Council on Aging donations, there probably will not be enough. And the medical escort fees are fees that are collected from the clients when they have their certain volunteers have been trained to be medical escort so they can take people from Arlington to their doctor's appointments. But mindful of whatever their issues are getting there and being there. And also there will probably be less CDBG money available. Like the same. Right, but they're thinking that there might be. Yes, Chuck. So Mark, Mark, does this mean there's going to be a deficit in the enterprise funds? Well, I don't know. She didn't think so. It's going to be the way she was the way that she and the town manager worked it out. I thought you just said that the donations were going to be there. Well, they dropped it to zero. Right. And then made up for it with getting some escort. The only concerns that CDBG might try, they're already running. They're already running a deficit. Do you have the because the last line of their revenue is a transfer from retained earnings to plug the debt to plug the deficit. Do you have a fund balance from last year? No, I don't. I forgot to ask her again. I will get that for this one. Okay, anybody everybody on the enterprise funds? Oh, could you and the audits I assume are up on the website? Yeah, it's 112,000. Their fund balance. Is that from the audit? Yeah. Okay. 112, unrestricted. Yep. What I'd like to do is get them from both the audits and from the controller, because sometimes they're a little different on that. So I'm sorry, Dean, was that 112 even? One of unrestricted balance, they have 112,354. 354. Yep, as of June 30. And that's from the audit. Great. Thank you. Alright, so okay, are there one? Well, it is a bit concerning that they're continuing to rely on transfer for retained earnings, because it's only under 12 left. They're out in a couple of years. So is there a plan to bring it to balance? How to answer that? With this fund done with AYCC, we depend on having money from the town. Right, that would be a request for appropriation. Well, when you call it transfer, well, we used to say transfer from other funds or something like that. So you sort of have a twin challenge there, you've got community development block grant, gosh, you know, we don't know what's going to happen. Yeah. And then like, go ahead and say as you've got 112,000 and fund balance now, which we're using 30. So three or four more years and that's gone in the 2014 actual transfer from retained earnings was 68,000, so it's unclear to me that the 30,000 actually would be okay. Could you repeat that one more time? If you look at the actuals from 2014, the transfer from retained earnings was 68,000, so I'm a little skeptical that 30,000 is actually going to be enough. Well, part of they part partly made up for that with the donations. And I asked them, do they really think they're going to get those gifts and donations? And she said yes. I'm sure. Could you repeat that again? Yes, there was a lot that from the transfer retained earnings, there's less money from that because it's being compensated for by gifts and donations. And I asked her $20,000 was a realistic amount for gifts and donations. And she said yes, based on what happened last year. Okay, are there any questions? Other question? Maybe just comment. Maybe that's something like what happened with AYCC is going to happen. Funding for this organization may happen. Somehow, depending on some new way of other funding for the county should continue. Okay, it's a good question for the manager. Gloria, could you add that to the list for the manager? It was a question, I guess, of the long term viability of the Council on Aging Transportation program. And when you add that to the long list, could you email it to me just so we're on the same page? Okay, thanks. Wouldn't some of the present preservation fund cover this? I'm sorry. The new preservation preservation. Got it. I don't think it had three things. And one was housing. Housing, open space and historic preservation. So you don't always we use a historic bus. Yeah, I think it I'd like to know why you look if you look at the transfer from retained earnings. So we have 112,000 in material earnings, then there's 50,000 in 68,000 that had been previously transferred out of that fund. What were we doing that created that big campaign earnings and what's different? Are you asking why some difference now? In other words, there's 112,054 something. Yeah, in the in the fund. And recently in the last several years, there's been 123,000, 153,000 probably transferred out. So there's a huge amount of money in the fund at some point. What, what were we doing that created that surplus in the fund? And why aren't we doing it now? One thing that could possibly be if you remember a couple of years ago, a taxi company was doing a tremendous amount of work driving and never submitted any bills. And I've never heard of any submission since then. So they could have built up a big fund from that. And I'm just guessing it would be useful to find out. Okay, I'll ask. Are there any other questions I should ask about that one? Okay, it sounds like a bunch of questions on this. Should we put off voting on it until we get everything here? These are not, you know, these are not small questions on that. So okay, why don't we, why don't we table this? And if you could come back to us with especially how that Charlie's question, you know, how did build up so big? It's not like they're producing big surpluses each year. Okay. And what other Okay, so we can do use services. The next budget. Do you want to see? Yeah, 201. Right. So if you look at line item 5230, the administrative fees. In 2013, it was 14,182. It's gone down significantly because they're paying any HR vendor to process the insurance plans electronically. I'm sorry, which Oh, 523. Yes, the professional licenses. We asked about how why that number was varying. The 800 for 2016 is a truer number of how many licenses they really need to buy for the people who are working in AYCC. The otherwise unclassified is actually supplies for the clients. It's printing, it's the gala, it's the phones. And then on the next page 202, page 202. It looks like line item 4389 disappeared, but actually, 89 and 90 were combined into one. So that 288,000 number is actually combination 4389 and 43090. Which was the money from the schools 4387? Yes. And then the transfer from other funds is the money from the town. What's that again? The transfer from other funds is the money from the town. The line item 4972. Transfer from other funds is what? The town, the money from the town. So she has done a really good job about getting the counseling and getting insurance companies to pay. Compared to previous years, the amount of money that the town is providing is so much less. On top of that, they are providing a valuable service that is hard to find anywhere else. Okay, now you think the gifts and donations is realistic? Yeah, I asked her about that too. And she said yes, that the gala they do does bring in a good amount of money. Okay, more than 2014. And that's four times what they brought in. I don't remember, but yes, they do believe so. She was pretty calm. Okay, you got a poll. Do you have any rough numbers as how their number of clients they handle and how their services have gone up? I didn't ask that. But I want to know the number of clients and what just want to get some senses to their business. Yes, yes. I mean, so much so that people from other towns want to get involved. But they can't always take them because they have so many clients here. Okay, other question. So when the grant did you know if they combined the two gifts and donation lines in 2016? Ah, yes, they did. And the case for the donation, was that the position funded by higher up? That I don't know. Oh, sorry, what was that? The position the higher up church does like this misgala every year. And then A Y C C position. I don't know. And then they would have to hire more people, more case workers. No, I remember the years on plan, like that was curious. But the town's providing not enough. If you like, it was successful, both in increasing the number of people in town as well as yeah, same, same action, better difference. Right. And having the claims coded correctly, so that they are getting okay, any other questions? Okay, well, number, I don't think these have something directly to do with the quality or the budget themselves, they're informational. So if you can get those back to us on Wednesday, that'd be great. Okay, so are you recommending I'm sorry, they just want one follow up question because I'm sort of comparing back and forth it isn't something I'd like to the answer to is um, I think these don't these last two enterprise funds, we have actually, you know, we talk about the OPM, we talk about it, we're not considering it. I think they're, they don't fund into it. But I actually think their budgets that they present actually have it in not that is it like on because they're either a cruel basis enterprise funds, I actually think they show when they show their deficit the cost of OPEC. Can you just ask them if they've got them that if that's in their actuals in the prior two years? I think they're showing a cruel cost of their unfunded OPEC. They're not paying funding into it, but it's a little different on the town side. I know that the enterprise funds I think except for AYC do contribute to like health insurance. I don't. Is there a particular line item you're looking at? Is there a particular line item? I was looking at the budget. Yeah, I'm looking for well, they have a yeah, the line that says other post employment benefits obligation on their on their on the audit financials, then all the numbers tie up when I go back and forth. So they've got to be it seems like they're probably buried in one of these lines. So it's just sort of if anything, it's a slightly different basis of accounting than we're using for the town side. So I was just trying to figure out that they were doing what kind of money we're talking. I don't know. 12 grand. I don't know. That's just because the liability they're showing is 117,000 as a liability, which is part of that larger $80 million thing we have. Yeah. So, okay. Oh, no, I think his question is, is someplace in here is they're buried a contribution? Right. No, I'll ask that. I'm just asking. They're not making it. I think they're just expensing it in the budget. They're showing us. They're showing what the liability would be. But not. It's not an enterprise fund is in a cruel budget. Yes, they book it as a liability. It's in a cruel. But I'm just wondering if it was in these looks like it might be. I don't see any place where it would be. But ask the questions. There are any contributions from any of any place in here towards OPEP. But see, we have to appropriate the money in the warrant article. And there's we don't do it. You know, we have the we have the general appropriation to know that we've been doing all along. No, I'm not saying they're appropriating it. I'm saying that they're, they're just showing that I think they're showing the budget on a cool basis. So they're not paying for it. They're just just like the town doesn't the town when you the town doesn't we just omit it from our budget presentation. When you get to the town's financials, it's still there. We just on our for our purposes, pretend it's not there. Which is what we talked about at the last week. Perhaps you could ask Andrew I can I can if there's any connection, don't worry about it. I'll email just the high rock and the client and the balance. Okay. Okay, so I think we can go ahead. Are there any other questions? So do I have a motion on the budget presented? Budget moved and seconded produces a surplus year of 6,101. So pluses are great. Okay, any further discussion or questions? Okay, all those in favor, please say aye. Post unanimous. Okay, any others? Okay. Okay, who else has buckets? Paul, most of our meeting with the higher chief talking about the current fiscal year. This is as of now, it looks like they're going to be overspending their budget. Primarily, because of retirement buyouts, $179,000. The secondary thing is that they've spent $30,000 on snow related expenses. This includes bringing in extra people to plow the fire stations. They brought in during storms, they brought in extra manning, because if they have to go with a medical call, they need people to shovel out the walkway into the house so that they can get in and help the people in the houses. So they got them the extra people there. And also the mechanics for both police and fire are in the fire budget. And they had to spend overtime on mechanics during storms, for instance, to change tires. As of now, the chief said that the worst case of their deficit would be 131,000. He's anticipating that it won't actually be that much. Part of it, one way that that number will be lowered is that it's based on a the overtime numbers for the rest of the year are based on the historical numbers. And he has two firefighters that just recently started and five more firefighters that are coming will be starting next month. So he believes that his overtime for the rest of the year will be less than what they've done historically. And the other way that he thinks the deficit will be reduced is that of the $179,000 buyout, he thinks that about maybe about $50,000 maybe a little more will get pushed into next fiscal year, just because of when the pay periods happen there. One person leaving in June or retiring in June, he'll get some of his buyout this fiscal year and some next fiscal year just because of the way the pay stuff works. So I guess the working number he has right now is is really no more than $80,000 deficit. So I think 80,000 is sort of a max. down to it now. He's probably down to $80,000 now. Right. Yeah, so 80,000 is the max and then 50,000 is what he's hoping for. I sent an email off to Andrew at the manager asking whether they anticipated they can at this point, covering this with money from other budgets or whether they will ask for reserve money transfer for this. Okay. The other thing I asked in my email was, if we're pushing about $50,000 of buyouts from this fiscal year to next fiscal year, are we going to have the money in FY 16 budget to pay for? And then the longer term, we seem to get these fire department IO big buyouts every few years. And once again, we don't really have a mechanism of place in the budget to sort of smooth that out or prove it or whatever it needs to be done so that we don't get these big chunks every few years. He did say he has a chart that part of the reason like this, this one big buyout this year is there still are these firefighters who back in the 90s, there was deferred compensation because of a budget crunch, they talk about the 7% or 2% or so they can have a big chunk of deferred compensation that they get when they retire and that the number of deferred compensation people going down slowly over time. And he also said that for the first time now, the newer firefighters have a cap on how many sick days they can carry over to retirement. And so they're now are more with the cap than there were without the cap. So the sizes of the buyouts should go down slowly as some people retire. Get the rent they have five people that were left for the 7% buyout. One of them is coming off this year. So you'll be down to four people on the buyout. But he's kind of humorous, because he's very optimistic. Like Paul said, we're down to 80%. And they say if everything works out well, we go down to 50%. But if all works out well, 50,000 for all works out well, we could balance. So he's got a three scenarios there. It's very positive outlook. Aggressive management. That's what we want. And bear in mind also that 7% is times three goes to 21%. But we can't have too many more 7%ers left. No. And I don't want that'll help. Yeah. Okay. So now looking at the FY 16 budget. It's you can see that the bottom line is actually a decrease of 34% of the biggest change that leads to that is the difference in the offset to look at why 5190 the salary numbers. This is the offset of what from the ambulance revolving fun. I know I asked last year of the manager, the chief of the manager, why it was the first three years, the three years you see here, 2013, 2015, which I think were the first three years of using the ambulance fund is an offset. The numbers didn't change. And at the urgency, they actually did an analysis of really what the what it is costing them personnel to do the ambulance and came up with a more realistic ambulance fund offset. And that's the $166,000 number in the 2016 the miscellaneous increases in the salary items. Generally, they're a combination of what the collective bargaining agreement says, doing some more careful and accurate accounting of what the expenses really are, how much they're doing for holiday pay, how much they have to do for vacation, double time, etc. expense numbers, saving money on the gas, sorry, that I neglected to ask with $1,100 increase in otherwise unclassified. And of course, the personnel staffing it will be the same as is in the current So overall, the budget now they get a DMT differential 102 miles, right? It's 51, 5117 on the first page. I guess it's probably the overwhelming percentage of firefighters are now EMTs. Yeah, they all are. Yeah. Good. Good job. Shouldn't the salary request that by million three 1575, shouldn't that equal the total of the salaries on the pages, but it doesn't by my total of up I get 451892, which is more than that, but if you take the the bottom number on page 133 for the 4997, right? And then take the number on page 134, the 3184 30. Oh, I see. Right. Okay. The longevity, right? Thank you. Other questions? Okay, are you recommending? Oh, grant? No, no vacancies. Okay, they right at this moment, they have no vacancies. They have six. That's right. No, they have no vacancies. Oh, this moment. Except that they have there. There's a captain who's retired that they haven't done the promotion of the ladder yet. So there's one fewer captain and one additional firefighter. And they're going to be promoting a ladder with these retirements, trust the expression for three vacancies as of July. And they go into the fall, start the whole process of building those vacancies. Okay, John, the retirement. So those are the personnel that shown as with the name and slash, right? Is that an impending retirement? Other questions? So are you recommending as presented? Yes. Okay, do I have a motion? So moved. Second. Okay, moved and seconded for 6,000,682,980. 60. 60. Seconded. Are there any further discussion or questions? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Anonymous? 223. Okay. What one other note just because the budget is also the town's emergency management person took talk told us about the calls he was getting from different states and organizations to come in and help with our snow removal and things like between MIMA, the state of New York and the state of Vermont. We got some of our snow removal for free. What, Vermont doesn't have enough snow? It's on it takes on back. Okay. Okay, now, I think I'm sorry, Charlie. Okay, it's getting towards 10. Now on Wednesday, we have no hearings scheduled. Okay. What budgets do I have? We'll be ready for Wednesday. I guess we're taking Wednesday off. Okay, so Wednesday's meeting is canceled. Gloria, could you contact anybody who wasn't here? Now, next Monday, Minuteman will be here. That usually, of course, we could have a lot to discuss with Minuteman. Gloria, could you call Steve to Corsi and ask? We'd like to get the email, the budget emailed to us, you know, ahead of time. And secondly, will they be presenting on the building program? We'd really like to have budget materials emailed to us, you know, say by Friday at the latest. And are they also going to present to us on the budget building program? Okay. What budgets, you know, we really like to see if we can get a lot of budgets in because I don't have much else for next Monday and Tuesday. We've just gotten Minuteman and a planning director possibly coming in on Wednesday. So please, if we can get more budgets in. Okay, sorry. Okay, that'd be good. So, Gloria, for posting next week, put in Minuteman, obviously, and then budget presentations. And for Wednesday, what is the planning director coming in for? Do you remember? Oh, that's right, the master plan. And put in budget presentations and post both of those. Are there any other questions? Media adjourned Wednesdays.
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हम जों के फाथ में मुगभ्स्ह� TO ऐस बुरनकिओर से बी केर नहीं और पोल Weekal Party était used up on income tax ख़िज Seni clogarya ओज़ी leaving of良poke कर की शि Burton Republican Party any Socats तुस्गच तैंटींकं से बी क्ही के नहींटी. ज़ो हँसार सतरा अप्चान्वे का अप्टीदाल उराजी के ताईम का और अंदिसशो चोडान्वे पचान्वे का चीटरां केसेजी का समे और केवल एक महना पहले चूनाव के भोशना होने से पहले ये काम शूरू की आद जाता तीस्रा कुन्तमः पनिश्मेंत देकिए कि कितना बड़ा पनिश्मेंत क्या हमारे सिरव 0.07% पूरा एक सो निनानवे करूड का कैश में हमारे अपने एंपीज ने अपनी तनखा दी उसकी बजे से 0.07% की अन्निमित्ता की बजे से 106% की पनिश्मेंत की हमारे उपर लगाए रहे थी हम लों कियोपर लगाएगी है हि ए्क कुन्तम हम लोग लों दे मारत्र थीस दिन लेड हम लोगों लेए आखाउंग शबเ मिथ करे यें कम तक्स अक टर रहे खफ में है ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ॐ ौ औब दोस सो ौत ॐ याडूब रूपेका, ौजद सो दशतसं गरोड का 25 ौर्ड का 210.25 २ोड का लिन माख कर दी आगे है. ौझूज फाँजैं कि सग्षिन । । । 107% का हमारा total account में से cash के अंदल लिया गया जी कहां का नहीं 115 crore dope forcefully हमारे bank account से income tax officers नहीं bank managers के पात में जाकर के सरकार को transfer करा दिया गया वो हमारे पास में नहीं है 115 crore dope आप bank managers को जाकर के तरीके से दरा कर के धमका कर के income tax officers नहीं हमारे account से income tax department और सरकार को वापस तान्सुर करा दिया मैंने बताया जैसे पिछले पाच अपते से एक महने से भी जाडा हम अपने पैसे जो हमारे workers नहीं करते करे हैं हम इसका उसका इस्तमाल नहीं कर रहे हैं कर पारे हैं, ये कहां की democraise है, ये कहां का लुक्तंत रहे है हमारा total जो है 14,40,000 बनता है, जो 0.07% हैं तो सिरब 14,40,000 जो हमारा 0.07% है उसकी बजे से हमारे को वर 210 करो डुपे से भी अदिक का हमारे उपर लियन माक कर के, हमारी पनल्ती लगाई गे तो आप सोचे, 14,40,000 के बड़े 210 करो डुपे की पनल्ती हमारे उपर लगाई गे ये कहां का लुक्तंतर है शुक्रिया आजे माकन जी आखेर मैं मैं राहुल गाडिजी से कुजारिष करोगा कि वो आप संबोदिक करे ये detail साप को अंगरे सी में आब ये आजे माकन जी देगे आजी आली है, देगी आजादिक मोगो आजादिक मैं अगर वो बगणा्या डेपा है है ट़ान का लाई कोई मैं भी घरनावेख्या जादिक है, बैनकी नगंगी वेख्या अवनी वेख्या वरे रगाई के, उढ़ानी एक चलते, जरज़ वरके सिरताउन दो भी उसे ठाशी thanch cash cash creatures pertaining to 2017-18, which is 7 years back on that basis income tax has served us notice for 210 crores 25 lakh rupees that amount of lien was marked against the congress party in all our accounts तो आहे दें सया देखादा देखादा के लगीत वुग। आप दोग बहुत से असक्टी कोऊद और क्योसे.. जो सार यह गगगर देखादाले ये वी देखादा घेखादा। वी वो लग सिक्छा अल्नोंग, बहुत निया बढुप कर जदा, यी भीृ ताश्वेआड चाट्तोरी औयाना कि सही दिंःनांने वंईत लास्ग से धिब इंबा Bratwell那 । ं और क्या खicit त brokerн कगा, वि ता कि मुना कि स़न बली के चाूतःग गचार मजार केacıकाईस केकाईसकि कगे आतालगे क्स कार комна़। ॐ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ ौ stratég hai sub mission of income tax returns maximum penalty of 10-thousand rupees but on the contrary Wat penalty of 2000 21010 crore rupis against the violation of just 14 like 40 thousand which we deposited in cash and 30 days delay So the quantum of punishment is totally un matched with with the tension small small optimization sort of mistake you may say or small kind of thing which has been done in 7 Hours 17 years back if it is done to a business, the business will be crippled. This is what has been done to the congress party one month back. All our bank accounts have been frozen. We can do no campaign work. We cannot support our workers. We cannot support our candidates. Our leaders cannot fly from one part of the country to the other. Forget fly, they can't take a railway train. And this has been done literally two months before the election campaign. Why has it been done? One notice comes from the 90s. Another notice comes from six, seven years ago. Quantum amount, 14 lakh rupees. And punishment, our entire financial identity. What's interesting to me is that there are institutions in this country that are supposed to protect the democratic framework. There are the courts in the country. There is the election commission in the country. And nothing is happening. The election commission has not even said, wait a minute, you have frozen the bank account of one of the biggest political parties, largest opposition in the country. And already our ability to fight the election has been damaged. We've already lost a month. As Makanji said, we are unable to get slots for advertising. We are unable to put ads in newspapers. And so what sort of a democracy is this? This is a criminal action on the congress party. And it's a criminal action done by the prime minister and the home minister. It's very clear. This type of activity does not happen without them in today's India. And so the idea that India is a democracy, this is a lie. There's no democracy in India today. The idea that India is the world's largest democracy is a lie. It's a complete lie. 20% of India votes for us. And we are not able to pay two rupees for anything. And it has been orchestrated to cripple us in the elections. Even if our bank accounts are unfrozen today, huge amount of damage has been done to Indian democracy. And no court is saying anything. No election commission is saying anything. No institution is saying anything. Media is not saying anything. Ridiculous. And it's your duty. And I'm not just speaking to the media. It is the duty of all the institutions of this country. It is the duty of the people of this country. You are being robbed of your most important asset. You are being robbed of your constitution. You are being robbed of your democratic structure. You are being robbed of the entire architecture. And everybody is just quiet. I can say it in Hindi. One month ago, all the bank accounts of the Congress party were frozen. You thought to freeze a family bank account, freeze a personal bank account, freeze a business bank account, freeze any organization bank account. What would have happened? It's completely gone. If you freeze a family bank account, then you die of hunger. That is being done with the Congress party. One month ago, and no institution, no Indian institution, no court, no election commission, have even said anything. Everybody is watching the drama. 20% of the people of India vote for the Congress party. We represent 20% of the people. And today we cannot buy a railway ticket. Today we cannot send our leader from one city to another city. We cannot put an advertisement. And why? 14 lakh rupees, 7 years ago, 14 lakh rupees is the issue. And 200 crore rupees is fine. And all the bank accounts are frozen. Do you want to show me the income tax? Sorry, what? 200 crores. When the income tax act is clear, it says that you will get more than 10,000 rupees fine. So this is India's income tax. This is a criminal action against the Congress party and against India's income tax. And this criminal action is being done by the Prime Minister of India. My request is that the Indian institutions, who consider themselves Indian institutions, protect democracy, protect the income tax, the courts of India, the election commission of India, they should do something about it. And to say that India is the biggest democracy in the world, it is a lie. There is no democracy here. Because the opposition party has closed its bank accounts. And no one is saying anything for a month. Mr. Kesari has noticed from the time. There is a strange situation. Everyone is watching. And every institution has its role. There is the role of the courts, the role of the election commission. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Rahul. Sathiyo, Congress Adhyaksh Ji, Sonia Ji, Rahul Ji, and the other important committee, have come here to meet you. They have to go back to that committee. Your questions will answer our questions. I thank Congress Adhyaksh, Sonia Ji and Rahul Ji. Thank you. No, one second. Look, one second. Look, please understand. This is not freezing of the Congress Party's bank accounts. This is the freezing of Indian democracy. That is what is happening here. Okay. So, we are unable as the biggest opposition party. We are unable to take any action. There is no action we are able to take. We cannot send our leaders anywhere. We cannot book advertisements. We cannot do anything. What else is it, if it is not an assault on democracy? Thank you.
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Principal Square Roots
In this video, we explain how to compute the square root of a negative real number. This is lecture 16 (part 4/5) of the lecture series offered by Dr. Andrew Misseldine for the course Math 1050 - College Algebra at Southern Utah University. A transcript of this lecture can be found at Dr. Misseldine's website or through his Google Drive at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uDsIoP-05v4uKK-dQx37Wrhq4ZdFtTX8/view This lecture is based upon general college algebra curriculum and not based upon an individual textbook. With that said, this lecture series is influenced by many great college algebra textbook on the market, namely Sullivan's, Stewart's, OpenStax's, McKeague's, Stitz-Zeager's, and many others. Please post any questions you might have below in the comment field and Dr. Misseldine (or other commenters) can answer them for you. Please also subscribe for further updates.
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So in this lecture, we've talked a lot about complex numbers. Now let's kind of focus on square roots in general, because when I see these complex numbers with the number i, we talk about the square root of negative 1, but what about the square roots of other negative numbers? Because, for example, if we have some positive number capital N right here, how does one take the square root of negative N? Well, there's always two square roots. So let's first talk about the principal square root for which this, by this, we'll denote the square root of negative N right here. When you take the square root of a negative number, its principal square root we'll just call this i times the square root of N. Or if you want to, you can put the i in the back. Sometimes you get a little bit confused if you draw your little radical sign too far. So generally speaking, I would put it in the front, but when you take the square root of negative N, this just means i times the square root of N. And since I recall is the square root of negative 1, the idea here is the square root of negative N, you can factor it as the square root of negative 1 and the square root of N giving us i square root of N. So in order for the square root to be multiplicative, even for negative numbers, we define it the way we do. And notice, of course, that when you square this number, you're gonna end up with an i squared times the square root of N squared, where i squared is negative 1, and then the square root of N, or as in the positive number, the square root of N is already a real number, you get N, and thus you end up with a negative N. So this number is a square root of negative N. It's the principal square root. There's always two square roots, so you're gonna get this one right here, but then if you take the negative square root, that's the other one right there. The principal one is what we refer to as the positive one. So as we're trying to calculate these square roots, we get things like the following. What is the square root of negative 1? Well, that would just be i, as we were referring to it earlier, nothing fancy there. But then if we come down to here like the square root of negative 4, well, this would mean i times the square root of 4, which the square root of 4 is 2, 2 times 2 is 4, and so the square root of negative 4 is what we refer to as 2i. Then if you look at, for example, the square root of negative 8, well, the first thing to do when you take the negative square root is always pull out an i, and then we have to calculate the square root of 8, which the square root of 8 itself is not a perfect square, but it is 4 times 2, 4 is a perfect square, and so we can take the square root of 4, which is 2, that does leave a square root of 2 behind, and I would probably write this as 2i times the square root of 2, and so that's how I like to write these things. I always, if there's any whole number coefficients or even decimal coefficients, put those in front. If there's an i, then put it between the coefficient and the radical, then anything else that can't be simplified with the radical without a numerical approximation, you'll leave that inside of the square root. So 2i square root of 2.
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Philip Hay
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And we play Pockville a couple of years over there, and they got us. And they got us because I thought we got tired and they were in better shape than we were and they executed their offense better than we did. And the mental part of the game is always a big key. So one, we gotta be in shape, we're gonna have to play hard. And mentally, we'll have to certainly be ready to play as they have another good football team this year. I think anytime Belford and Pockville play, it's a big game. It's a county game. You've got a city school and the county school. And we just had some great games in the past. And I think the fact that we're both coming off a state championship might add a little bit of zest to it. So yeah, it'll be a big game and hopefully the weather will be good. Should be a great crowd on hand.
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3. An Integrated Investigation of a Lost Valley in Doggerland by Martin Bates
Conference Lost Frontiers and Drowned Landscapes in Britain and Beyond 2021 Lecture 3. An Integrated Investigation of a Lost Valley in Doggerland: Geomorphology and Landscape History by Martin Bates. University of Wales Trinity St. David. This recording took place at the Society's apartments in Burlington House, Piccadilly. The Society of Antiquaries has recorded this content, with permission of the speaker(s), and made it available on YouTube and through it's website at www.sal.org.uk.
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Thank you, Jeff. Why isn't that? There we go. Okay, good morning everybody. What I'm going to be talking to today is the core material and what we do with the cause and how we provide the cause to, to the rest of the specialists and to give you a sort of flavor within the context of the Southern River Valley which Simon has previously talked about. I'm a bit like a ringmaster here I just gather everybody else's data and parcel it up and do things with it and interpret it so this is based on, this talk is based on lots of people's work but I would like to point out John Whitaker who whose role is crucial in the, the approach that we've adopted and you'll see how this works in due course. I'm not being able to move forward. Okay, so I'm going to talk about the landscapes why landscapes I just like those quotes by Crawford about the intellectual delights of working on past geographies. I just thought I'd share those with you. But I'm really talking about this area here this is the Southern River Valley that Simon was talking about he showed you seismic line across the mouth of the valley here. And it's this area here and all the cause that's really from the focus of my talk today. So, here we are in these blue dots here are the cause and the location of the cause in the Southern River Valley between these postulated and moraines of the ice. During the last cold stage and of course we're off the East Anglian coast here. And just outside this white zone where we don't have any data that Mark was referring to before. So these are our cause we got 33 sample locations. Approximately some of these core locations have more than one core, they've been replicated. But we've got 33 sample locations. The cause that we're talking about range from a meter in length to up to five meters in length. Some of them, like core 38 over here goes straight into till others fully penetrate the Holocene some don't get to the bottom of the Holocene and some are in bedrock. So they vary in terms of what's in them and how long a record they preserve. And I should think about 50% of those 33 cores have sequences in them that have been used for the environmental reconstruction of this area. Now just to show you how big an area we're talking about because I think it's quite difficult very often to think about the scale and scope of some of these landscapes where they're buried down beneath the sea. So what I've just done here is superimposed a map of the Lower Thames on to our Southern River Valley. So here you can see the northernmost cause here's the mouth of River Valley here and this is the Lower Thames from Central London and the houses of Parliament down to the areas that's swinging out into the more open estuary. So we're dealing with a valley that's about that length and I think that's quite important because when we think about the number of data points about the number of lines of information that we're trying to use to reconstruct this landscape. We need to bear in mind the sort of scale of the landscape that we're talking about. It's also worth pointing out that while in a situation like the Lower Thames we're dealing with a River Valley where most of our sequences along the main River Valley are used to reconstruct the main processes that have been going on in that landscape. Sometimes the little tributary valleys are also equally if not more important. So for example in the Lower Thames the absolute this tiny little insignificant valley here preserves a really important record of environmental change both during the Holocene and back into the Pleistocene. So when we're thinking about niches and locations in which humans might be doing things we need to bear in mind the different scales that we're working at. The other thing to bear in mind. Again I'm using an example from the Lower Thames here from the Dartford Bridge out towards the estuary. This is an attempt to reconstruct the early Holocene landscape beneath the flood plain based on 880 data points. It's still difficult even without high resolution of data and we've got 33 data points in our landscape, but of course we also have the seismic data which we don't have in the Lower Thames. So these are all just things to ponder and think about when we're trying to reconstruct these sorts of landscapes. So the model we're using for this landscape is that of a tide dominated estuary as in this model by Dalrymple where we have marine dominated and a meandering river dominated parts of the estuary and where we go from tidal channels through mud flat salt marsh into freshwater wetland and that just gives you the sort of sense of how we begin to think about this landscape and how it's operating. So in a sort of long profile through the river and this has become important later on we move from open estuarine marine conditions through brackish tidal mud flats into a tidal river and into the freshwater river. And these are obviously all associated with their own unique assemblages of plants and animals and also sediment types as indicated there. And those are not an exhaustive list of the types of sediments we'd find in those areas of course. So when we've been looking at the doggaland cores and we've been working on them we can find in this landscape, all of these sorts of environments of deposition and associated sedimentary sequences and you can see that the cause core numbers down here not all of these are hastened to add come from the southern river, but majority of them do. What we don't see, apart from freshwater marsh sequences peak deposits here are what I would call true terrestrial deposits. We don't see colluvium, we haven't seen anything in any of our cores that resembles the sort of colluvial sequences that you'd find either in the Lake Glacier or in the Holocene. And we don't see well developed paleosols in any of these locations even where we're drilling on the the tail where you'd expect potentially a paleosol to be developed, we don't see these. And this is perhaps not surprising because the the cores have been located away from those sorts of situations in many cases to get the big picture story. Let me show you what the sort of sequences might look like in if we were to able to see them on an open section on the seabed. This is the sort of basal peak that we see in the Thames and this is the sort of peak that we see in a number of our cores in the southern elsewhere. So basing again the sort of anticipated sequences that we might find in our system on the sort of model for southern England this is the sort of model that I would use for for the lower reaches of many of our river valley showing the relationship between the late Pleistocene gravels and the solid flexion deposits on the valley sides that the alluvium the Australian Louvin with intercalated pates and then the colluvium so again this is the sort of model that we have in our mind and we're thinking about these. And of course we need to think about the controls on the on these processes and things like tectonic movements sediment input and output sea level rise and fall and biogenic K alongside climate change are all important to consider when we're trying to interpret our sedimentary sequences. So what happens to the cause when they come back off the boat. The cause are recovered. They were taken to the university in Warwick, where we spent a long time in a very small room and dressed in white suits and masks and gloves, not very comfortable also under red light to cut the cause because we wanted to be able to use the cause for both sedating and paleo environmental and geological and DNA analysis so the cause of split in the red under red light half the core was wrapped in black plastic that went off to stored in in in Lampeter in the core store here that you can see. It was bought for the project and then OSL dating being done at St Andrews the other half of the core after splitting under red light was taken into the it will turn the lights on we were able to sample for DNA. The cause went back to Lampeter. We undertook the recording of photography and rapid assessment of the samples and rangefinder dating and I'll talk about the rapid assessment in a minute. That provided the information from primary deposit model and the litho stratigraphic environmental synthesis. That's the sort of level I'm talking about today. It then went the cause also went through primary assessments for pollen for diatoms and things. The analysis followed highlight high resolution radiocarbon dating. We've also done a geochemical core scanning which you'll hear about this afternoon, and then the final phase once everybody done whatever they wanted to do with the cause. They were chopped up for plant macrophosal beetle and mollusk analysis. And that there is still core material available at the core, the core store is still full of many of these sequences so we do retain the possibility of additional works which we didn't anticipate at the outset of this project so anybody's got any wacky ideas or interesting ideas to do with the cause then there may well be material out there for you. So we went to the core materials we looked at we would take samples through the major stratigraphic units, assess for the preservation of all sorts of material plant material ostrichods forums diatoms mollusks small mama remains, etc. So we got a quick look see as to what's there John Whitaker did this this is his work. He used the forums and the ostrichods divided into groups based on different environmental tolerances to characterize the deep positional environment of each of the major stratigraphic units. And here's his, his table here, we're also able to identify species present which might be cold climate things which might be warm climate things which might be reworked from the Pleistocene, etc. So here's health 19 stigraphy and this rapid assessment and the subdivision of that cause and then that information is used by the rest of the polyenvironmental team to decide where and what to sample. So, here we are, here's the Southern Valley I've divided into Valley mouth, the outer valley the inner valley and an inner basin and what I call the saddle here. These are the sort of main gym orthological parts of this valley and each area has its own relatively unique set of sequences. Here you can see the elevation the top of the cause not the bottom of the cause from the inner basin down to the valley mouth broadly declining as one might expect an elevation down valley sequence and oddity down here. I constructed a series of transects across across the valleys here show the profiles the modern day profiles of the valley. And so you can see here, here's the inner basin around about minus 26 meters here's the saddle and the inner valley here's getting the inner basin, and then we move down the system. And this in the valley mouth is approximately where Simon showed that seismic section briefly and I can see I'm running up against time. A few of the results this is the sequence of course across the valley mouth here in this sort of direction here and you can see on the, on the West side here cause very thin we're onto bedrock chalk interesting bedrock chalk outcropping very close to the surface down here. Across the rest of the area, we see cause that are dominated by sand fashies that are producing dates of between 80,000 and about 35,000 on a number of cause across this area. So putting these back in the Pleistocene in isotope stage four and three. So there's the correlation of those all showing the same fashies. Here's John's rapid microfossil assessment and you can see, these are outer estuarine environments. They've got cool and cold climate forums and forum species in here suggesting that these are cold climate things and here are the dates from 83 to 35,000 in here. There's also note over here. It says Azolla Azolla is a reworked plant remain that outcrops normally in marine isotope stage nine and 11 sequences so this is reworking in into the into these cold climate marine sequences showing that somewhere over here are exposed middle Pleistocene sediments. And we've got Holocene material on the top there. The cause that I've been talking about have been correlated with the brown bank formation or they may perhaps be dog a bank formation. This is the is a sea level curve for the last 120,000 years, and the isotope stages here. This is the outcrop of our sediments in this box here. These are the dates for those sediments. So they're occurring in as I say mainly an isotope stage three and going into isotope stage two. If those dates are correct. Then those deposits should be down here. So this suggests that at least in the valley mouth, we might be looking at some quite considerable uplift during the late Pleistocene early Holocene or some of these sediment sequences. Moving in and up the valley. We're now the last sequences I showed you are here we're now going into the outer valley. We have a series of cause running up to 31 a here where we have an outer estrange fascis forums and ostracods in here outer estrange going to brackish and returning to outer estrange suggesting perhaps some sort of marine temporary regression in the middle of this call here. But as we move up to 51 and 31. The marine fascis are replaced by tidal river fascis and freshwater fascis. So we think flooding starts here about 13 and a half thousand years ago. The flooding starts here marine flooding about 9000 years ago or 10,000 years ago sorry. And a similar sorts of dates here so we've got a package in the lower valley of the, the valley flooding by 13,000 years ago possible slight regression in here, we've got a tidal river running in this part of the valley until around about 10,000 years from freshwater to about 9.2,000 years ago so beginning to build up the picture of what's happening in the lower valley. As we move into the inner valley. There's a sudden shift and jump in elevation of the sequences and in the in the fascis so we see brackish mud flats now developing in this part we don't have any dates on this yet. Up to here we've got brackish conditions, starting around about 9,400 years ago in here, sat on top of a nice peach sequence that goes back to about 13 and a half thousand 13,000 years ago. And finally up here 34 this is on what I call the saddle which is up here, which is a sequence of Pete's that runs from about 14,000 years ago to about 9,000 years ago contains some really interesting pollen plus some interesting fish remains from from the base of the sequence here. And this is some sort of perched water table feature high high up relatively high up on the valley sides. So that's just showing that the sequence of all of those long profiles from the mouth over here up to the saddle in here. We've also got a sequence of course from this inner base and this is where the the tsunami core came from here in 01. Interestingly, in this part of the, the, the sequence we've got a lot more salt marsh we don't see much salt marsh told developed in the main part of the valley so so this basins working slightly differently. So going back to my original model here, which we use from Southern England. We can modify that in the red box is really where most of our course come from. And we see the late Pleist seeing gravels we see tidal freshwater river deposits, we see possibly basal Pete deposits in places. Estuarine alluvium and then subtitle flats, we're not seeing anything out towards the edge of the valley here. So, this is one of the areas we need to start looking in the future if we get an opportunity to go back. There are anomalies in this landscape and with the cause core 39 is anomalous. It looks from all intents and purposes as very similar to many of our sequences with freshwater river deposits cold climate forums ostracods rather in the base here going up into brackish marine deposits. The only problem with this core is it's down here. It's considerably lower in elevation than anything else. The dates suggest it's flooding from the freshwater into the brackish around about the same time as the flooding in parts of the inner valley. So, what's going on here is there's some sort of barrier that has has has prevented this flooding at an early date this you know we do we are dealing with tunnel valleys but something must have kept the water out the marine waters out from this. So we need to think about potential barriers in this landscape. So, in conclusion, this is the first time I think that an area in doggiland of a single value has been looked at in detail, mostly previously you know isolated cause have been looked at here we've targeted something in detail and this is unique. The valley systems are complex we've got perched water bog systems river valley estuary coastal embayment, all of which are enticing to mesolithic people. We've identified that there are subtle differences in patterns of sedimentation that occur in these landscapes. We have a lot of problems. Undoubtedly, there are this potential uplift in the valley mouth. We don't understand the valley mouth geomorphology fully yet. We've got issues of localised geomorphology at a scale, commensurate with that of thinking about the archaeology and particularly zoning the areas into the valley into areas of archaeological potentials. And we do have evidence of recycling of older material into younger sediments. The azolar is a very good example of that. What does the future hold. Well, the work we've done is a good start. We now need to look at cross valley profiles and the margins of sequences to see if we can find these more terrestrial deposits that I was talking about that we're missing. We need to better understand the mouth of the valley. It's interesting we've got chalk bedrock here because you know that's going to supply a source of raw material for tooling up for late Pleistocene and early Holocene humans. We need to think about the role of barriers, maybe beach barriers or other forms of barriers may control and may play in controlling patterns of sedimentation. And I also think we need to look at these smaller and potentially tributary barriers in which unique sequences may be preserved. So that's it. Thank you. And again, thank you to all the people who've collaborated with this and sorry if I've mangled your words and your interpretations. Very good. Thank you, Martin. Thank you again for keeping the time. We have one question in the chat box from John Adams. Is there evidence in the plant and tree life of human influence occupation crops, even to which if I may, I will amplify. Do you have any evidence in those calls of anthropogenic influence or even archaeological material? We don't have archaeological material in the cause. We've obviously not sieved everything because in order to genuinely rule that out, we'd have to, you know, sieve the whole core, but certainly in the cutting of the cause we haven't seen anything. In terms of the plants and the pollen, I will defer that question until you've listened to Ben after coffee because Ben's in a far better position to comment on that sort of thing with me. I think one of the things to point out is the majority of these cause are coming from situations where we might not expect to find certainly in situ evidence for human activity. The majority of the cause, you know, coming from intertidal and subtitle sand and mud flats are not going to be the places you'd necessarily expect it to find archaeology. Obviously the 34, which is a terrestrial deposits in what I would define as terrestrial. Again, it's a pretty wet marshy environment. So this is why I think we need to target the valley sides and really see if we can pick up some of these colluvial sequences and paleosols. It did surprise me, we didn't find any paleosols and any truly sort of dry land situations. So I'm not sure whether that answers the question fully or whether it's, but in part that answers your question. We have a comment that was added to the chat here by Ben Geary, who's giving a paper a little later who says that the next paper will touch on evidence for human impact or not. So stay tuned for that. We have one more question time for it from Chantal Connally. Do we know if any British rivers feed into this one, just thinking of the predominant riverine distribution of early metabolic sites and some of the patterns in East Anglia? I think Chantal, in this case, this river is entirely within Doggerland. The headwaters are probably somewhere in the vicinity of the inner basin. We don't quite know how, well I don't quite understand how the river relates to that. The rivers that might enter the coastal embayment to the southwest of where we're working might well drain parts of East Anglia, but not directly into the southern rivers that we've been looking at. It's entirely contained in Doggerland. Okay. Two questions have just been added. I think we can take them. Anthony Firth is asking one of them three questions. They're coming in thick and fast. Trevor Fulton asks about whether Doggerland was covered by an ice dam lake, and do you see lacustrine clay deposits from that? In all the causes we've got, there are no clearly lacustrine deposits. There are sediments that could have formed in the entry points to lakes, but we don't find fine grained lake deposits that are clearly lacustrine. I don't know is the answer to that, but that doesn't mean they're not there. It just means that our cause haven't sampled them. Okay, well that probably leads into the other two questions I've got here. Anthony Firth asks, are there indications of query extensive erosion in your sequences, which might have a bearing on understanding the present of archaeological material? Well, there are cut and fill sequences in the freshwater, sand and gravel sequences, yes. The tops of the peats might be eroded, but again, you know, I would come back to, I don't think we're in the cause of not being taken in the places where we're likely to see that sort of activity in a big way on the edge of, you know, on the dry land wetland interface where you might have expected archaeology to be in the first place and secondly, for it to be subsequently eroded. Okay, that sort of is followed up by this final question. The last one we'll take from Katrina Duel Anderson who says concerning the terrestrial deposits that you want to locate, what are the chances for their preservation in general? Good question, to which I'm not sure. We don't know, they're obviously going to be patchy, they're obviously going to be relatively thin and we haven't targeted any of the previous survey to look for them primarily because we didn't have the high resolution data that we now have. And of course, the coring program was set up earlier in the project. I would be surprised if there aren't places, particularly perhaps in some of these smaller streams feeding into the river valley where we don't get those sorts of situations, but ask me again in five years time if we've got funding and I might be able to answer that.
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The effect of position on the precision of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and corre... | RTCL.TV
### Keywords ### #Caninenutrition #Felinenutrition #Bodycomposition #Fatpercentage #Leanbodymass #RTCLTV #shorts ### Article Attribution ### Title: The effect of position on the precision of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and correlation with body condition score in dogs and cats Authors: Charlotte R. Bjørnvad, Mie E. Nielsen, Susanna E. M. Hansen ,and Dorte H. Nielsen Publisher: Cambridge University Press DOI: 10.1017/jns.2017.16 DOAJ URL: https://doaj.org/article/49add7ec4ccb4f32bed3748d618f37ff Source URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2048679017000167/type/journal_article ### Image Attribution ### We used stable diffusion to programmatically generate the background images. Viewer discretion is advised. ### Channels ### YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@medicinertcltv Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@medicine_rtcl_tv ### Video Timestamps ### 0:00:00 - Summary 0:00:19 - Title 0:00:25 - End
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The study concluded that dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry, DEXA, can be used to measure body composition in dogs and cats, regardless of their positioning. However, it was noted that DEXA measurements of bone mineral density, BMD, were slightly higher when the animals were placed in dorsal recumbency compared to ventral recumbency. This article was authored by Charlotte Abienbad, Mia E. Nielsen, Susanna E. M. Hansen, and others.
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Tony Cote - Cote First Nation
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I'm from the Cody First Nation and my name is Tony Cody. I'm 72 years old and a Korea War veteran. Can you tell me a battalion or regiment? I was with the 81st Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery. How were you enlisted in the Army for? I was in the Army for six years. I was 17 years old. Were you involved in active duty or peacekeeping? I was in both. I went into active duty in Korea in 1953. Seeing action there, participated in action in Korea from 1953-54. I was 14 months in Korea. And as for peacekeeping, I went to Germany in 1955-57. That was a peacekeeping role there. Do you join the Army? I think I admired when the Second World War veterans first came home, or when they went to war in the early 40s and then they came home in 45. I used to admire them coming home and hearing some of their stories and whatnot. I always thought, well, I should give it a try. If I ever get a chance to join the Canadian Armed Forces, I said I'll join the Canadian Army. I did in 1952. It was very challenging. It was an experience. And I learned how to be independent. I had learned how to be on my own, look after myself, and be able to integrate into the white system. I came out of a residential school where we were all segregated and we were kind of timid and wasn't very, very forceful in trying to explain yourself and whatnot. But you learned leadership discipline and everything like that in the Canadian Army. On reserve prior to or at the time of signing up? I just come right off the reserve. Just a young kid coming off the reserve. What was that like? I came off the reserve when the reserve life was quite hard at that time from the time that I was going to school. I was in the residential school and then I got out of the residential school and tried to make a living on the reserve. And employment was very, very scarce on reserves at that time. You got seasonal work. You worked for farmers. You worked at harvest time. If you got lucky, you got a job in town, but they were very scarce. So somebody had to do something and I didn't have that much of an education. I had a sub-centered level of education from the residential school. So I thought I'd give the armed forces a try and I succeeded in being accepted to go into the Canadian Army. What was the experience like for you to go from a reserve setting to another environment like to a foreign country? It's really something different. Even when you first get into your first, where you take your boot camp or basic training in Camp Shiloh was where I took my basic training in April of 1952. And it was all together different. The way of life was different. You had to act like a soldier and start training to be a soldier in uniform and in a strict discipline. But it was not as tough as it used to be at the residential school. Residential school was tougher, so there's nothing for me to be in the Army to take all that crap of discipline and regimentation and getting direction from the NCOs, the sergeants and corpos and the lieutenant. It was easy in Canada when I first started. It was just nothing, but it was kind of funny really. When I went to Korea, it was all together different lifestyle there. The people were poor. I thought we came from a very poor background, but when we got to Korea, I realized those people were very poor. There were children running on the streets along the troop train begging for food and everything like that and hardly any clothes on them. Five, six-year-old kids there begging for food and they were starving. What their country was at war and their houses were being demolished, had been demolished by bombs or tiller shells and everything else like that. I used to wonder, I wonder where those poor kids sleep at night. But as soon as the troop train would come along, they'd all appear. They would all appear with their hands sticking out and begging for food, water, whatever that. The troops used to carry sea rations. We had sea rations in our packs and whatnot, and we would send or throw the food that we had in our sea rations to them and they would all make a mad dash. The city of Seoul, which is the capital city of South Korea, that was totally demolished by bombs from the Americans and the Russians, Chinese airplanes and whatnot. And you see people going around, starving, hardly any clothes on and really looking for food and begging here and there. It's really tough to see people in that kind of, in that stage where they have absolutely nothing to eat and hardly any clothes at all. It made me think, it made me really think. I used to think it was poor from where I came from. Then I realized that here in Canada we are very lucky. We are very fortunate, even though the Indians at that time were also considered to be very, very poor. But after seeing the situation in Korea when I arrived there, in March of 1953, then I realized that we are much better off than the Canadian Indian people are much better off than the South Koreans in Korea. Have you applied for veterans' benefits or services from Veterans Affairs? Yeah, I did. When I got my release I did apply, but I was one of the veterans that didn't really get anything. Other veterans got all kinds of benefits, post-war benefits, what we call post-war benefits. Same situation as our First World War and Second World War veterans from the Reserves. I don't know why they treated us different, and I'll say that we went and fought with our white brothers side by side. We did the same thing as they did. We were assigned to the same kind of dangerous duties. We did everything that they did. We dug trenches, we shared trenches with them, and some of us got taken prisoners of war, some of us got wounded, some of us got taken prisoners of war, and then when most of the Indian veterans got their discharge, they were treated altogether different. Even though they said that there would be post-war benefits and payments after you donned the uniform off, it didn't turn out that way. A lot of the veterans and I was one of them that didn't get anything. All I got from my first stint in the Army was $110, and it was called the Re-establishment Grant of $110, and that's all I ever got. I wanted to pursue a higher level of education. The New Veterans Affairs had monies funding for white veterans where a lot of them went back to university, went back to college.
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Boys & Girls Club of the Bemidji Area Common Ground 912 PREVIEW
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2018-02-28T22:26:39
2024-02-05T16:24:44
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When children are involved in a garden program like this year after year, I see leadership skills being developed within these kids and also confidence in, I know how to do this. And then those children that develop those leadership skills are then mentoring the younger kids who are coming into the program. And our goal is to keep that flow going well until kids are into adulthood and know how to grow their own food and share their own food. This is also about access. Providing an opportunity to children that might not already have that opportunity takes a lot of effort to have a garden and a lot of time and a lot of patience. Well, my favorite part of the garden is because you feel really, really proud once you know you helped plant something and I like how you help get food so you can help the community. So people who can't have enough money to buy food, you could like give them to them. You make friends too and you have lots of laughs.
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Slush Science Pitching Finals 2017: Torill Kornfeldt
Slush loves science and wants to bring startups and science closer to each other. One initiative taken together with KasKas Media is an annual Science Pitching Competition for scientists. Finals were held on Central Stage at Slush 2017. -- In 2017, Slush brought together 20,000 attendees, including 2,600 startups, 1,500 investors and 600 journalists from over 130 countries. The cold and dark Helsinki welcomed these tech-heads to a week long celebration, including Slush Music, new Slush Y verticals, and hundreds of side-events and activities around the city. Slush 2018 takes place on 4.–5.12.2018 Slush 2017 in pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/slushmedia/albums Website: http://www.slush.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/slushHQ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/slushHQ Instagram: http://instagram.com/SlushHQ Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/company/slush Slush Music: http://music.slush.org Slush Tokyo: http://tokyo.slush.org Slush Shanghai: http://shanghai.slush.org Slush Singapore: http://singapore.slush.org Intro videos by: VAU (http://vau.company) VELI.fx / Veli Creative (http://velicreative.fi) Slush is a non-profit event organized by a community of entrepreneurs, investors, students and festival organizers. Slush has grown from a 300-person event to become the leading event of its kind in the world. The philosophy behind it has remained the same: to help the next generation of great, world-conquering companies forward.
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2017-12-07T20:08:50
2024-02-05T08:34:11
648
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to be here. So about two years ago, I traveled to Yakutsk when I was doing research for my latest book. And even if I were traveling in the summer, and it's quite warm in Yakutsk in the middle of the summer, the ground is always frozen. It's permafrost. And this, of course, has been used by locals for centuries, for thousands of years, because if you dig into the ground, you have your own freezer, so you can store food there and make sure everything stays fresh. But in Yakutsk, they've taken this one step further. So they made a tourist attraction. So they've dug in these long, long tunnels and they filled them with ice sculptures and fairy lights and some tinkly music and you could drink vodka out of ice glass shots and things like that. And they had this amazing mounted mammoth. So while I was there, one of the guides was like, come on, come on, come on, walk with me. And he didn't speak very good English, but he led me away from the lights and down this tunnel to the side with no sort of tinkly music and no other tourists. And then I was a bit like, yeah, what could possibly go wrong here? This is good. And then he opened up a door into a room in the ice and here was this. So this is an actual head of a mammoth. This is the best preserved head of a male mammoth that has ever been found and it was huge. I couldn't reach between the tusks of it, it was huge and you can see there's still some hair on top of the head and you can see the wrinkles and the skin and this room, it sort of smelled like an attic or a cellar, kind of musty and old, but it wasn't unpleasant. It was actually kind of a nice smell, sort of like when you visit relatives who really like to collect old stuff, kind of like that smell. And that smell was actually the only thing telling me that this is an animal that have been dead for 20,000 years. And I think the mammoth and the imagination of the mammoth is one of the reasons why the current attempts to revive mammoths have gained so much attention because when you see something like this, you kind of think that something that is so magnificent, it cannot be completely gone, we cannot have lost this species. And the fact is that using this kind of bodies and especially frozen bones, researchers have been able to analyze the DNA of mammoths almost as well as they've analyzed the DNA of elephants living today. And they've used this data to find the genes that make the mammoth a mammoth. So find the genes for fat, find the genes for the wall, find the genes for the long tusks and so on. And right now, a researcher in the US called George Church is using a technique called CRISPR to take these genes and put them into elephant cells. So he tries to mammothify an elephant, give elephants mammoth traits. So far, these are only cells in Petri dishes, there are no mammoths running around the world. But the fact that we can now have 20,000 year old genes alive and functioning in cells today is really amazing. The mammoth sort of stands on one end of the current attempts to recreate species. But I want to tell you about an animal that is sort of on the other end of things. So in 2015, I also visited Nola in San Diego. When I visited her, Nola was one of the four remaining individuals of the northern white rhino. And she died a few months later in 2015. So now there are only three individuals left of this species. The reason why there's a few of them is poachers, habitat loss and poachers. The other three have armed guards around them at all times and for various reasons, they cannot reproduce. So this is a species that is gone. This is a species that is lost. There will never, ever be a northern white rhino baby born in a natural way again. But in San Diego, when Nola lived, there is also the San Diego frozen zoo. So this is a collection of frozen cells, alive cells from threatened animals around the world. And they have 12 samples of cells from the northern white rhino. 12 samples from 12 individuals who are not very closely related. And this means that perhaps this species can be reborn by cloning. Researchers could take these 12 cells, these 12 individuals and clone them. And there's a closely related species that could act as a surrogate mother. So this is a species that is lost to us when it comes to normal conservation. But new genetic technology might provide another way of saving it. And this, I think, is one of the most exciting parts of the emerging genetic technology and the attempts to revive extinct species is that they provide a completely new toolbox to conservationists who are trying to save the species that we are losing today. These two are actually not the only species that are being recreated as we speak. There are about 10 species around the world being recreated, and this is just a small nod to let you know that, yes, one of those are dinosaurs. It's a very interesting project that I won't have that much time to go into right now. But I would encourage all of you to Google chickenosaurus when you have the time. But there are about 10 species that researchers are trying to recreate. And when you see these projects, you sort of have to ask yourself, what is the reason for doing this? What is the value of a recreated species? Most of these projects, the researchers are trying to create animals that can be let out into nature again, that can be rewilded, and that can have a part in the ecosystem. This is actually from Turkey in eastern Siberia, and this is the area where the mammoth is going to live once it is recreated, if they manage to do it. And this is also an area where researchers are trying to recreate the ecosystem where the mammoth lived. So they're trying to recreate the ecosystem step, which was extremely rich in species, was extremely rich in biodiversity, and also in total number of animals. And I think that one of the really valuable things about trying to recreate extinct species is that it can give us some hope. We live in a time right now where things look really, really bleak when it comes to the environment, and it is very easy to lose hope and to feel that all is lost. And to recreate an extinct species will never be easy. It will never really replace what we have lost, and for most species, it won't even be possible. But at least for some species, it can be a way for us to start correcting at least some of the faults we've done. And the other really big value that I see is kind of like the moon landing. I kind of like to watch this project and think of the moon landing because there wasn't really anything on the moon that we needed. There wasn't a reasonable good reason for going to the moon. It didn't cure the sick. It didn't feed the hungry. It didn't aid the elderly. And it was, from the outset, just looked like money badly spent. Now, we know that the moon landing has more than paid for itself when it comes to all of the applications and research that it has led to. And I think I want to look at these projects in the same way. Whether or not they succeed, whether or not if they succeed, if we as a society decide that we want mammoths again and we want them released in the wild again, I think that we are going to learn so much from these kind of projects. And I think in the same way that as the true value of the moon landing was looking ahead to future unknown, I think the true value in these projects lay in embarking on a scientific journey, in doing scientific projects without knowing if they're going to succeed or not, without knowing if you're going to reach your destination or not. But it is a destination that can give us all some more hope for the future. So thank you so much.
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Cultural Days - Closing event - 20 February 2016
Closing event: Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo” Albert Marshall Theatre Group Director and theatre manager Albert Marshall is also one of Malta’s most important contemporary authors.
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2016-03-21T16:44:06
2024-02-05T16:37:28
297
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Just tell me! Don't bother Mia! I'm late for my daughter's graduation and now I can't find the graduation dress. Oh, you've got plenty of time! Don't you hear the bank playing? Oh, they were just warming up! Sarah, free now! Where is my dress? Blance. Oh, not ready. I had to make 14 graduation dresses. A promise is a promise. An excuse is just an excuse. I've got to get to the high school! I've got to get to the big part when I'm loud! How are we going to the American League of Parade into all ears? I'm there, there, there. It is her! If you're not there yet, I'm going to report you to the Chamber of Commerce and get your license revoked. License? What places are you talking about? They've got no license. You hear that, basically? Sure, you ain't got no license! She don't even got no license! How? Let's teach her again. I can't teach you, sir. I can't teach you. Go and talk to her. No, Rosa. No, I'll talk to you, sorry. No, no, no. Don't be afraid. No. I've got to get to the high school. I'm not going to upset Rosa. No, no, no. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter any body could have a Rosa. Rosa, you're going to drive me crazy. How won't you not to remember? You're a young girl. Fifteen. Fifteen is too young. Come on. You've got to hold some of it back until you grow up. I've been growing for two years. No, no. That ain't what I... You're growing enough to get married. And have a baby. Rosa, I've got to get going. Do you want me to scream? Oh, I know. I know. You don't want me. Cabernet. Cabernet, cabernet, cabernet. Cabernet, cabernet, cabernet. I just came down on the 30th edition of the European Cultural Base of the European Center. During the past few months the people of Frankfurt and visitors have had many opportunities to enjoy vibrant halls. Before concluding my brief address I feel it is my duty to thank every single person who has been involved in bringing our program to life. We are pleased to pass the patent of the Cultural Days to Germany and wish the Deutsche Bundesbank the best of luck for the program. Thank you. The World's Bank has been entrusted for the task of organizing this year's Cultural Days which will begin in October. Germany will be both a guest and a host of the Cultural Days. And Frankfurt, a vibrant melting pot of cultural diversity which aptly represents the European Union's motto United Diversity is a particularly appropriate venue.
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Using Multiple Audio Tracks In OBS, Audacity and Kdenlive
Are you a video content creator or a podcaster? Are you wanting to record your audio sources as individual separate tracks? I will show you how to do this using OBS. Also, I will show you how Audacity and Kdenlive handle files with multiple audio tracks. WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? 💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube 💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=derek%40distrotube%2ecom&lc=US&item_name=DistroTube&no_note=0&currency_code=USD&bn=PP%2dDonationsBF%3abtn_donateCC_LG%2egif%3aNonHostedGuest 🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi 👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube SOCIAL PLATFORMS: 🗨️ Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@distrotube 💬 IRC: irc://freenode #distrotube 👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/ 📽️ LBRY: https://lbry.tv/$/invite/@DistroTube:2 DT ON THE WEB: 🕸️ Website: http://distrotube.com/ 🐿️ Gopherhole: gopher://distro.tube 📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1 FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I USE: 🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/dis872 📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/ 🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org 🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/ 🔊 Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/ 💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/ Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!
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2020-08-07T18:04:35
2024-02-05T07:46:15
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Are you a content creator? Do you create video content on platforms like YouTube and on library? Do you do audio only podcasting? If you do this sort of content creation, one of the things that you probably want to do is you want to record your audio tracks as multiple separate audio tracks. And this makes editing your audio much easier when you have everything as a separate track. But many people struggle on a how to record multiple audio tracks and be how do you go about editing those multiple audio tracks? What kind of software do you use to do this sort of thing? So today I wanted to show you how I record and edit audio tracks using free software, things like OBS, Audacity, and Caden Live. So let's start with recording multiple separate audio tracks using OBS. I'm assuming especially if you're a video content creator you're probably gonna do all your recording using OBS, the open broadcaster software which is the gold standard when it comes to that kind of software. It is free and open source software. It is also free as in free of charge. So let me open up OBS and if you go to File and go to Settings and open up the settings inside OBS. On the left hand column you have various tabs. One of them is audio. Click on that. Now this audio screen here that you're seeing would be the devices that you see down here in the audio mixer. You say I have desktop audio and then I have microphone, auxiliary. So I only have two sources here in the audio mixer because I have desktop audio set to the controller on my computer. Then I have the mic audio set to my mixer that you see on the server rack behind me. You could add other audio sources if you needed to. Most people are just gonna have to the desktop audio and the microphone audio but you could have multiple inputs especially. I could have you know a second audio interface somewhere plugged into some other microphones and then I would need of course add that and it would appear down here in the audio mixer portion of the interface here. Once you have all of this set to your liking what you need to do then is go to Output and in Output make sure you're in the advanced mode and you're gonna see various tabs streaming recording audio replay buffer. Now there's nothing to do in the streaming tab as far as separating your audio into multiple tracks because streaming you're not really capturing that audio yourself. Streaming is you're sending that signal the video and the audio to some service like YouTube or Twitch. So there's nothing to do on this tab but the recording tab is the one where you can separate that audio into multiple tracks. The first thing you need to do is make sure that your recording format is set to some format that can handle separate audio tracks. MP4 is the most common video format people record in and MP4 handles having multiple audio tracks just fine so if you choose MP4 you should be good and then what you need to do is tick on however many separate audio tracks you want. You can have up to six. I chose three and I chose three because that is the number of sources I have down here in the audio mixer. I have one and then I have two and then you always need a third one which would be the mix of all the other sources in your audio mixer. I hope that makes sense so if you had three things down here in the audio mixer maybe you had two different interfaces picking up your microphones plus the desktop audio so you had three things down here you want to create four tracks. For me I'm just doing the two sources here so I created three tracks and if I wanted to name them I could go to the audio tab and give them proper names instead of just one two or three really one here is the main mix which is a combination of the desktop audio and my mic auxiliary audio. Two I believe I have set to the mic and then three is going to be the desktop audio. Anyway I'm gonna cancel all of this because it's already been set and once you have all of that set what you need to do is go to the cog wheel down here either one it doesn't really matter for any of your sources down here go to the cog wheel right click on it and choose advanced audio properties and the window is not quite wide enough for you to see all the tracks here again up to six tracks here in OBS but the first thing you want to do is however many sources you have as far as your audio mixer they're gonna be in this list and then you choose which tracks you want them to record to. One track needs to have everything so it needs to be the main mix so if you have five things in this list what I would do is I would put all of them on track one so that's a mix of everything and then after that I would go and add each one to its own separate track so you desktop audio it records to track one which is the main mix and then it also records to track three and track three is only going to be the desktop audio I won't put any other source on that that way if I ever need to edit you know scrub or clean up the desktop audio I have yet on a track by itself nothing else is on it the same thing with Mike auxiliary it records to track one which is again the main mix is a combination of all the audio sources but it also is on a track by itself on track to I won't put anything else on track to that track is strictly for my microphone audio so if I ever need to go and just clean up the microphone audio not the desktop audio or anything else that's you might be plugged in just the microphone it's on its own separate track so now that I have my computer's desktop audio separate from my microphone audio let's do a test recording and let me show you this in action so gonna open up an audio player here and I'm gonna play a song so I'm gonna go ahead and start the desktop audio here and I'll let that play for a minute and then I'm gonna talk over it yeah this is distro to guys record and edit multiple audio tracks using free software watch DT on YouTube and library follow DT on mastodon support DT's work over on patreon alright let me kill that stop recording now let's see if our separate audio tracks work so I'm gonna switch back to the desktop to check to see if this worked what you could do is open up a audio player that allows you to select between the multiple tracks on a multi-track clip so that mp4 that I had just recorded was this one right here if I open it in VLC so now that I have my computer's desktop audio separate from my my passport a little bit so we get the desktop audio this is distro to guys and the mic audio now everything is mixed together by default audio players the way they work is they always play track one that's why when we went into the OBS settings I told you to put everything on a main mix on track one is when you open something in a standard audio player like VLC it's always going to default to track one so really you should just put everything on track one but then you do have the other tracks available if I go into the audio tab here and go to audio track you see by default it is set to one but we could check out track two and now if I start this playing again so now that I have my computer's desktop mic audio what if I fast forward to explain no music right yeah because there was no music on track two there was no desktop audio I go back and I choose track three you know Mike is not working the microphone audio is not on track three but the desktop audio the music track is on audio track three so now let's talk about editing these tracks so now that we have the multi-track audio how do you edit it well probably the most common free and open-source audio editor on the planet is audacity so let me open up audacity and then let me import something into audacity that again we have multiple audio tracks so all of these have the three audio tracks all these MP4s I'm recording and when you drag it into audacity you get this pop-up window and this pop-up window it has three things in it why does it have three things it's because that mp4 that I'm trying to open in audacity has three audio tracks which one do we want to take a look at I just use this first one this is track one this is the mix of everything so it's going to be the microphone it's going to be the desktop audio music it's going to have everything in it but if instead of that one I drag it and import it again I choose the second thing in the list this is track two this is just the mic no desktop audio no music but if I wanted to I could go back and import it and choose track three and this is the desktop audio that is that music track that I played halfway through that clip now typically if I'm working on something like this what I would do is I would grab that audio and import it and I would choose all the individual audio tracks so not the first one not the main mix because that's difficult to work on because everything's together I would choose tracks two and tracks three together and hit OK and now I have the microphone audio up here and down here I have the desktop audio the music playing and I could edit them without really affecting the other one because they're you know on separate tracks for example in this section of the mp4 clip that I imported I am speaking this is me speaking on the microphone but you notice during that time there's also some desktop audio playing so that's the music track playing what if my microphone audio I'm barely audible because the music maybe is too loud well what I could do is because these are separate tracks now if they were one track I couldn't do this but because they are separate tracks I can go in here and I could adjust the volume of this in audacity I could go into effects and I could do amplify and you know if I wanted to I could drop the peak amplitude and you know lower the volume lower the gain quite a bit on that track there and if I wanted to I could go up here and do something completely different I can do a completely different effect because it's a separate audio track maybe I could do the amplify effect but instead of decreasing the volume maybe increase the volume to the microphone so that is the beauty of having these on separate tracks and let me go ahead and close out of audacity the last thing I want to show you guys is let me open up my video editor of choice which is Kaden live of course it's free and open source software as well how does Kaden live handle audio that has multiple separate tracks well let's import an mp4 and check it out so if I drag it to the timeline by default what you see is just one-way form here so kind of like most audio players default to just using track one Kaden live does the same thing by default this waveform this audio waveform is track one but what you can do is highlight that clip so just click on it make sure it's you know highlighted you can see the bright green now and then go to clip properties and if you go down to audio stream you have a drop-down menu here of all the audio tracks so remember I recorded three audio tracks and we have one which is set by default and that's the main mix of both the mic and the desktop audio then we have two which is just the mic audio and then we have three which is the desktop audio only so if I go to two this should be the microphone audio but no desktop audio so let me go to a section of the clip where there will be some desktop audio so if I start playing go ahead and start the desktop audio here okay so the microphone works but gonna let that there's no music playing see then I'm gonna talk over it every time there's just music and no microphone the music's not there too guys record knit it all right so that was just track 2 there so let me highlight that clip again go to track 3 and now no microphone and we should have the music though so there's no mic here's the music and I'm speaking on the mic but nothing's happening speaking on the mic again nothing's happening so you can preview the individual audio tracks in Caden live just highlight the clip go to clip properties go to audio stream and just choose what you need from the drop-down now before I go I need to thank a few special people I need to thank the producers of this episode I need to thank Michael Gabe Nate Corbinian Mitchell entropy UK John Devin Arch 55 30 Chris Chuck DJ Donnie Dylan George Lewis Omri Paul Robert Sean Tobias and Willie these guys they are my highest tiered patrons over on patreon without these guys you wouldn't know how to record and edit multiple audio tracks using free software like OBS Caden live and Audacity you wouldn't know about it the show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen all these names you see on the screen these are all my supporters over on patreon because there are no corporate sponsors here at distro tube this show is supported by you guys the community you'd like to support my work you'll find DT over on patreon alright guys peace
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2022 Topps Chrome Baseball Jumbo HTA 4 Box Break #17 - PICK YOUR TEAM
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What's going on everyone Sam here late in sports cards. We are doing in 2022 tops Chrome baseball jumbo HTA four box break number 17 Pick your team style gonna read off the list of teams and names next to me We've got Adam C with the Cubs white Sox angels and Orioles. Thank you there Adam Alexandra's S with the rays Barry S with the Braves athletics David D's got the pirates Don L Dodgers Nationals Dustin H Cardinals Ed B. Metz Yankees. Thank you so much Ed Evan C with the Royals Hank B at Red Sox Jeremy S reds. Thank you, Jeremy John F Are John F mariners Joshua K Blue Jays Kyle C with the Phillies Kyle P with the Padres. Thank you, Kyle Matthew K's got the Marlins Michael M Astros Mike P has got the Donbeck's Guardians Rockies Giants really appreciate that mark Russell G's got the Brewers Tom B with the Tigers and then Willis T has got the Rangers and the twins So give me one second guys and we'll get started. Thank you so much. Let's do it We also got four silver packs that we're breaking with this We have another break of this coming right up after tops Chrome number 18 jumbo four box break pick your team style Gonna have to pull some fire out of this man That's what I'm hoping tops chrome when it hits man, it hits hard chiseled Don't we got a greenie out of your Molina going to the Cardinals that's 64 out of 99 on the green way Tim Anderson and Carlos correct 77 at teen the spots to go breaking next Top scroll PYC the other eight of the other four boxes That I've got right here next to me Seager Clayton Kershaw there you go Dodgers on the prism got a refractor auto Ronnie Dawson going to the Astros That's 302 out of 499 There you go at Houston grads each town refractor John Lester on the back there What's up Wow, look at this guy God does not play by the rules. That's all I know Not the only way Read that murder's rookie Nolan are not we got Luke Voigt going to the Yankees on the blue raywaves 97 out of 150 there you go Ed congrats on the Luke Voigt. That's sick man Luke Voigt and Tim Anderson Padre legend now Luke Voigt You know what I started doing that. I think it's gonna make a huge difference. I'm officially doing the hot teen honey Probably for from my voice it's made your first purchase on the site zesty. Let's go. Let's go Welcome in man zesty Italian that is Jared Kalnick and Matt Olson on the refractor It's just that's what it's solid musicians and stuff. Yeah. Oh, yeah It is it has helped my voice is still hurting today Yeah, when I saw you guys on Sunday, it was it was like on fire I guess so Gavin sheets on the refractor rookie there you go white socks congrats on that one nice refractor rookie It welcome to the addiction. Yeah honestly Yeah, I'll see you neighbors man That would be awesome You've got pink Tim Anderson going to the white socks to 70 out of 399 south side Sharon Durand rookie and John means refractor Very just a very low on the buccaneers right now. Yeah, that was pretty bad Shane Boz on the prism rookie GP realm you too. I mean you're talking about you just lost to a team that was Basically on a fire sale. Yeah starting tanking PJ Walker. He's like You know not a very good like not a start third straighter Yeah, he's a good backup and he's slung it all over the place. Oh, Neil Cruz rookie Brian Burns look great on defense their past rusher. I know he's one of the guys that they are not like willing to get rid of Got Trevor Lorna that is twins. We've got Ivan Castillo. There you go Congrats on that one Kyle picking up an auto for yourself go Kyle and Byron buckson refractor Yeah, Packers what the heck happened to the Packers what is going on with the Packers? Yeah, I Don't know man. You know what it is. It's like It's there. They're they have no threats on offense outside There's a wander rookie outside of their running game like they have no good wide receivers Brandon Marsh rookie Hey, it sounds good. Dang appreciate you, buddy Thanks sports car baby. Yeah, not having Adams that I think that's obviously gonna be the biggest issue there But I think the defense isn't as good as people thought it was gonna be There's a lot of guys on that defense had not taken the next step They lost it area Smith in the offseason, you know, he was their heart of their past rust essentially So now you're putting all of your eggs in the basket with Rashaun Gary Patrick Wisdom that's going to the Cubs Congrats cubbies And Connor Wong refractor rookie Someone took the hometown Tigers from you Yeah, Tigers are a good team in this man. You're looking for Torx, which is big Joe Ryan rookie woodruff. Yeah, we've got Trey Mancini And then we've got Spencer Strider. There you go Atlanta. Congrats Braves, man I am a Spencer Strider magnet out of top scrim on believable Kyle talker Yeah, yeah, I mean he's still he's still great, you know But I think it's just I think it's tough when they have such a lack of offensive weapons like there's just there's no playmakers there Louise Heal, Jaren Durand There's legitimately no playmakers at the receiving position That's Matt Olson 121 out of 350. We've got Tyler Gilbert going to the Diamondbacks and refractor Peter Lonzo. There you go again, Ed I thought they were gonna be yeah, so much better. Yeah, I thought Matt Ryan does Ryan's Yeah, he does he's not a good he's just not he's just old he's washed like he's not serviceable anymore Yeah, it's just not not a good move getting him and they're really just going through like old washed up quarterbacks Or like guys who aren't that good I know Jaren Durand, but I mean they kind of screwed Andrew lookal by not protecting You know But no, I get that like that's tough Yeah, same I did too. I mean they were pretty much like no brainer like everybody was like they're the lock to win the AFC So Chris Bryant, that's Glenn Otto going to the Rangers. There you go Right no for sure Jim like he's trying Christian. He's he's borderline his stats are borderline Doesn't have the accolades for it. I don't believe But he is yeah, it's time for him to to give it up Hang him up Maddie got a gold wave coming up here. No, he watches the stream Brandon Marsh see what the gold wave is good luck here everyone Connor Wong. We've got Cedric Mullins go into the Orioles 17 out of 50 Congrats on that get better Elon. Yeah, thanks for we're always here whether you're sick healthy Absolutely, get better buddy Nelson Cruz. Yeah, get better man for sure for sure Keep me updated on the next one See what we're rocking with Bets that pop It's an old sin got auto tray amber J. That's going to the Reds. There you go, since he Grads on that reds. We've got Goldy on the refractor for the cards 16 to go on the next one guys 16 at so go and We get breaking on it GD Martinez going to the Red Sox and now to a refractor Yeah, I'm trying to think I who else surprised me The bangles look very good. I will I will give credit where credit is due You know, I think we're over blowing it a little bit more because it's they played the Falcons But they look like they're kind of jealous. Yeah, they look max crannick on the green there you go pirates 92 out of 99 rookie Brandon Marsh rookie and Zach Wheeler Chase took a little stinger Might have buddy might have been one of those come back in kind of things I don't think it's gonna be I like I don't think it's gonna be a Affecting injury I guess is the way to put that There's Luba and Joey bought over fracter Uh, how's the mic Donald says the mic keeps coming in and out are you guys? Um Pull it down. Yeah, pull it closer to me a little bit. How's that? That's not a little bit better guys That'll happen. So it might just be your iPad Donald that will happen on occasion It's fine. I'm on worms and okay Pete Alonzo on the prism there you go Ed and Luis Garcia refractor Tim Anderson we got Brian de la Cruz on the Marlins rookie out of there you go Miami Miami's a good zoom in this one, too They got a boatload of hits and refractor Patrick wisdom It's a Cal Raleigh rookie big dumper Got a gold Fernando Tates, Jr. 41 out of 50. There you go Kyle congrats man That's awesome Little bit of a color match to there obviously is like golds are like goldish yellows their secondary. That's awesome. There it is man. Congrats Take some gold tautis action. There's a tapia refractor rookie auto Chas McCormick 9 out of 499 starting center fielder for those astros Very nice hit there Houston. I like bone on the second year refractor. Who else impressed slash did not impress me. Oh The Patriots did not impress me last night. I think they could be in trouble man after that Yeah Tyler Gilbert, there's an Ian Hap and Jigula, Mehue. There are they're one of our division rivals Andrew. That's why Yeah, I do not like You're not like the bangles Nothing good to say about the bangles Shit there you go Elon. He called it. He called it Rosarena set beer Nolan Aronato and Ryan McMahon All right, I'll do it for box two A bunch of orders coming in appreciate you guys See what we got on our next one here refresh 15 to go now on our next break guys 15 to go On number 18 Between it. Thanks, sir. We'll get on to box number three Lester I think he Unless they're on the Cardinals this year was that his this year's last season or do you retire this year? trying to think I Feel like he might have retired at the end of last year But there's like guys like Ryan Zimmerman's in this guys like Who else is there Zimmerman? Buster Posey has cards in this too. So there's a couple of like guys who retired last year who are still in the product There's a large new bar Brandon March rookie. I think we're due for a super. I hope so man green auto Kyle Muller not auto Green rookie 63 out of 99. There you go Braves Braves doing well out of that one in now trout and refractor Trevor story Team results, there we go. Oh, I hope so man. I think we are due for a super though Definitely do for a super definitely definitely definitely Curtis Terry Rodolfo Castro Joey Gallo, we've got angels is gonna be Jansen junk on the rookie rookie auto I should say going to the angels Grats on that one L.A. and Blake snow gold coming up. Yeah, we got a true gold coming up. It looks like true gold Goldie junk is his last name. Yeah, Jansen junk great name for a picture Christian Yelich. We've got Spencer Strider Boom congrats Braves There you go Atlanta Barry s Dude, I told you this is a third gold Strider auto. I thought really yeah What's up, how many to go to 50? Yeah, still though that will be odds dude That's huge 15 out of 50. There you go. Congrats again, Barry Strider magnet, baby Jared Walsh There he is there's Barry Barry you've got two Spencer Strider auto is coming your way now to Not just that one very you're killing it with that brave spot. I have to say Killing it with that brave spot. That is Kevin Gaussman and Whoopie bets on the refractor for the Dodgers that is awesome dude Pulled nothing but Spencer Strider Brown Spencer Strider and Christian Watson those are my guys Oh, yeah, Gavin sheets Trevor Rogers on the second year for the Marlins a Raleigh Flavor tropical. Yeah, not a fan. No, I'm Carlson. There's an Austin Riley 19 out of 199 getting some nice color coming your way to Barry got Freddie Freeman. That is one Soto on the refractor I don't believe that's the variation That is not the variation and Jackson co-ar That's the only way to spend a sick day at home Absolutely Absolutely is Andre Jackson Rookie with all Bruhan for the race Prism Zach Lothar and Lord's Gurriel It'll it'll have a different serial number on the bottom and you're like and with three different numbers and then they're always refractors as well Get some purple auto-action coming up here now. That's gonna be Corbin burns purple We've got Teosca Hernandez very nice blue jays nine out of 250 Congrats blue jays And Joe Adele refractor 14 to go guys breaking next we're chipping away. We are chipping away a Lot of good teams still left there value-wise teams are all on sale as well You know some of the higher and mid-end teams definitely are Got Vidal Bruhan Ryan Mountcastle Yeah, a lot of good color in this box is sure Absolutely Absolutely, absolutely always love pulling colored autos. It's always one thing For sure for sure So I think we got a blue coming up now to Peter Lonzo blue Alex Wells for the Orioles at the eight out of 150 Congrats Baltimore There you go For the ooze cold Calhoun on the refractor Rangers No, you got four solar backs to Pull out of there, man. There's no Neil Cruz ripping. That's Pirates That's how fun. So we're like everything stuff together in this box This packet at least I should say Rizzo Magtrow we got Josh Lowe Alex Kierlov going to the twins. That's 176 out of 250 Nice Kierlov, Casey Meyes, Prism and Zac Pop refractor rookie Nice way to end that and that pack but nice last three cards All right, it's a Tian That's Josiah Gray prism rookie. We've got auto Brendan Woodruff on the auto going to the brew crew There you go brewers nice one there and Jacob the grom refractor All right, that'll do it for box three. We're on the box for good luck here everyone Again guys 14 to go on the next one. A lot of good teams still left definitely some good value in there Yeah, definitely recommend checking it out Definitely would recommend checking that out Poshcrum's a lot of fun. We get 20 autos a break sometimes more depending on when the silver what happens in the silver packs And those can get a little crazy Those can get a little bit wild for sure. I mean we've seen it firsthand with our own eyes here How crazy they can get? Wonder Franco rookie there you go raise and refractor Max Muncie Dodgers That's Tyler McGill on the negative. There you go. Ed nice one there Love pulling these these negatives, especially when they're rookies. That's awesome. Jacob the grom. We've got purple speckle Louise heel 152 out of 299 there's some closer mojo for you there Ed. Congrats, buddy One of the Yankees top prospects right now and refractor rookie Tony since he on for the Reds. There you go, Jeremy Jordan Alvarez going to the Astros. We got refractor Joe Musgrove 65 out of 499 nice that for you there Kyle Take that for sure. He didn't generate you not too bad one of the Padres Probably their second guy. There's an O'Neill cruise pirates. That is John Carlos Stanton going to the inks and refractor Hoy Park Just shut us out in game 3. I know honestly At least you guys took the series though. It's all that matters at the end of the day Josep Ray Jake Myers refractor rookie Yeah, I mean he one-hit shut us. Yeah, true true that that's a little bit of a Gut punch when you get one hit shot at least he didn't strike out 30 times in two games like the Yankees Wander rookie Stupid tiktok Matt beer leg on the prison rookie. We've got all over our taiga. That's going out to the angels Nice one there refractor Harrison Bader One of the few Yankees that was able to hit he was Stop Zosie So is a Siri Showhead and Ian Hap base back there. Oh What's up Nick? Nick the quick slick Nick This heel Wander rookie. We've got pink speckle Emmanuel Rivera 103 out of 350 Royals. We've got large new bar on the prison rookie and DJ Yeah, probably as of right now. I would say Steve Probably that gold strider Very nice card though for sure Big fan 17 times in one game you're striking out I say a can of falafel why oh gotcha November I thought that starts November I was saying in November. Oh Start now. I thought you said we can't shave them off until November. I was like wait a second Gabriel or I is that's going to the Guardians There you go Cleveland and Willie Castro Yeah, that's that's not good right now literally what a billion Red Sox also Yeah, Matt Manning on the prism and refractor Brandon belt last pack of the the boxes guys and we got our silver pack still to do Have a good one Nick Jonathan India blue air and judge 101 out of 150 two off a Jersey number. There you go. Ed nice one there, man We've got prism Luba Followed by a Andre Jackson on the a rookie auto for the Dodgers and refractor rookie Jake Burger All right, that'll do it for those. Let's do some silver packs Then guys with every single one of these top stone breaks we do we always include the silver packs Josiah Gray refractor Brandon belt Come on, baby. Time for something crazy Burns refractor Willie Castro Wells Freddie Freeman CJ Abrams, there you go Kyle. Let's go buddy. Congrats On the base image variation Let's go Congrats, man Dude, that's awesome. I love these things. Let's go Kyle. Congrats, man. Congrats Kyle. Whoo And Blake Snell and we've got Tyler Gilbert They look who's Kershaw and Minoa that'll do it for the break guys do a quick recap here Yeah, Andre Jackson Dodgers Gabriel Ryan's Guardians all the Ortega angels Joe Musgrove Padres. Yeah Oh, yeah, another Abrams short friend Brendan Woodruff dodge our brewers Jansen chunk angels Chas McCormick Astros Brian De La Cruz Marlins Trey Amber J. Rhett's flannado rangers Spencer Strider Braves Patrick Wisdom Cubs Ivan Castillo Padres Ronnie Dawson Astros. We had our colored stuff Louis seal purple to 250 Yankees Teosca Hernandez blue jays purple blue Alex Wells for the Orioles blue Luke Voight Yankees. That's gold Cedric Mullins auto for the Orioles gold Tatis then we had Short print image variation CJ Abrams going out to Kyle with the Padres Congrats Kyle and Then we had a gold Spencer Strider auto for the Braves. That is 15 out of 50 my third one of these I've pulled That'll do it for the break guys. Thanks again for hopping in and the fill next up. We got another one of these Let's get it sold out Congrats again guys
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Opposition Parties Protest, Demand Release of J&K Leaders
Opposition parties including Congress, Trinamool Congress (TMC), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Samajwadi Party and the Left staged a protest at Jantar Mantar on Thursday, demanding the release of the political leaders under detention in Jammu and Kashmir.
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یہ ایک تھے نیکے مکہ مندری تھے اتل بہاری واجبہ کے جنو نے کہا کہ کشمیریت انسانیت اور جبنوریت کے آدھار پر کشمیریت کے سوانسیہ کی حل کرے ہی آج وہی جنووریت یعنے جنتند کا دجیہ آڑا گئے وہی اپنی انسانیت کا قتلِ حام ہوا جانج کشمیر کے اندر اور کشمیریت کی اسول ان کی جو رواز ہے ان کی جو پرمپرہ ہے ان کی جو سمجھ ہیں اس سب کو کسل دیا گیا تو آج جو کشمیر کے ساتھ کر رہے ہیں یہ ایک بہت بڑا سنکیت اور ایک بہت بڑا کترہ ہے دیش کی جنتندل کے لیے دیش کی اس سبیدھان کے لیے دیش کے اندر درم پیقسہ کے لیے اور یہ پورا ایک بڑی ساجش کا ایک انگ ہے ساجش کا انگ ہے اسے ہے کہ آج سبیدھان کے وستہ کو اُلٹھ کر جو آرسز کی جو درشکون ہے بارت کو ایک ہندو راشت کے روپ میں بھدلتا ہے تب یہ سبیدھان کو چل نہیں سکتی اس کو نہیں چلا سکتے یہ سبیدھان ہوتے بے تو یہ سبیدھان کو ہی ختم کرو یہ ہے بڑی ساجش واجبی صاحب نے کہا کشمیر دیش کا اٹوٹ اند ہے آج موڈی صاحب کہرے ہیں کشمیر اٹوٹ انگے زمین کے آدھار کو کشمیری آوام دیش کے اٹوٹ اندر نہیں ہیں اس آوام کو درکنار کر کے آج جو بھی اگر تا گئی یہ گھر کھلکلی یہ ایک جندوان کے خلافی نہیں دھکنی پیشتا ہے کھلافی نہیں لیکن سبیدھان کے اوپر ایک کٹوٹ حملہ جمین کشمیر لیماندس سیٹ آٹھیکر 370 کمتنیٹ بھی بات اپ کنسٹیوشر آٹھیکر 370 بات اپ کنسٹیوشر پیجیٹی آرگیوز اٹوٹ سبیدھان کیا ہے اٹوٹ سبیدھان کیا ہے ہمزاری ہے از کمتنیٹ کیا ہے دکنٹر ا'mبیٹ کے قر34 کرا بھی جاتا ہے کیونکہ کنٹیوشٹر آمنمنٹی ہوئی کسی چھے کہ ہوئی باس کسی اٹاٹ کی قر34 ہی بھی مبادر کری ہے کسی چھے گا کیا گای ہے امیسر موڈی اور گورمنٹ کیا ہے لطفا ہے ، حمیت عموانترے ،acial سیدہ عموانترے ، سنگ مضمہ لاکھتی ہے ، لطف دور گفرتي روپگوی لطف 就ہر کا سبجانے میں کس میرے ہی دنیا دارنے تو کیا جلوی میں سیکھا ہوں ، لطف آگا ہے ، ب Hastا ، سف لطف دارنہ ، وہی کیا؟ کیا بنا ہے؟ بیٹنشن میں یہ بتانا پڑتا ہے کہ what to prevent اب کیا prevent کر رہا ہے؟ کیا تستویج؟ کیا ساکش ہے؟ کہ تین چار بھٹپورنوکی منتری اور ہمارے نیتہ پردپس راجہ سبھا کے ایک بار کشمیر کے ایرپورٹ سے لٹائے جاتے ہیں دوسری بار جموک کے ایرپورٹ سے لٹائے جاتے ہیں اور آپ چاہتے ہو کہ آپ کے اورکسٹر میں شامیل ہوکے کہیں all is well سب سامانی ہے all is normal اگر normal کا مطلب یہ ہے تو میں اگرہ کروں گا سکتا پڑتیستان سے تکشتنری بدلوا دیجیے کیا ہم نے normal اور normalی کو جو آج تک سمجھا ہے یہ بھائیوہ ہے یہ اب normal ہے اس کو وہی normal سمجھ سکتا ہے جو پیتھالوجیکل جم こ Jub initiative اگرенсی ای کہ ، تو ان کے ایرپورٹ سے'm کشمیر flowers اسی رہا ہمارے درکاریوں کے سالات کے لئے ایک درکار پارٹی اور پردیکر پارٹی اور ایک کنٹری میں معادلی آئے ہیں انہوں نے ایک کچھ ایک منصح ہے ایک ایک کچھ کچھ کچھ پارٹی کھونے اور ان پارٹی ایک کچھ کچھ کچھ کچھ کچھ کچھ کچھ کچھ کھونے یہ سب سے تھی ہارو بطلہ افتے محمد ایسی بھافتے ساتھ ہندہ سرکار بلایا ہے اوہ بادہ کئی کی وہ تل چھوڑ تھی انکی اوہ بیٹا چاہتے ہیں اوہ اوہ خوبتی شاہب ہوں ہماری پارٹی کے حمدنسٹر رہے ہیں کونسا دیس اور کونسی دیس کی سمشیاں کے بارے میں کیوں ہم سوچتے وہ نہیں سوچتے آپ نے کہتے ٹھالیو آپ نے از کام کو کیا وہاں جیل فلا بنا دیا جیل کھانے میں تی ایک تالہ ہوتا لیکن آپ نے تو جیل کھانے اچھا بنائے گے ہر جگہ بندوں کھڑی کر دی ہر جگہ گل کھڑی کر دی آپ نے فوج جو ہے وہ چپے چپے تو لگا دی کہہ رہے ناربل سی اس گورمنٹ سے میں تین سوال کرنا چاہتا ہوں رو جانا یہ کہتے ہیں ہماراں وہاں سے لے کے جنبو کسمید تھی سوال کرنا چاہتا ہوں کہ کسمید میں بے کوئی دورمنٹ تھی سب دورمنٹ سی ہے تو پھر نیٹا نظرمنٹ کیوں کیا آپ ہاں بھاگو کپٹلہ صاحب سے سانتی کو خدران کیا وہ تیررسٹ ہیں کیا وہ انٹی نیسٹنل ہیں کیا وہ انٹی سوال علیمنٹس کی کتاگری میں آتے کیا امار صاحب بھی اسی سرینی میں آتے ہیں جو انگو نظرمنٹ کیا ہوا اور سب سے مہد پون بات یہ کہ کلتا ہے جن کے ساتھ مل کر آپ نے سرکار بنائی جن نے مکتمنٹی بنایا مہروع مکتی جی کو کیا وہ انٹی نیسٹنل یا سماتبروضی تک ہوا ہمارا آج کا مکتا اگر میں اگر میں مکتا ہوں ہمیں ایک پوری لیکن ہوں مکتا ہوں جو نظرمنٹ سی ہے ممتا ہی نے اپنے بات رکھی ہے آج کا مکتا ایکی ہے جمو اور کشفیر ہمارا ایک ارطون جنگ ہے اس دیہاں سے جمو اور کشفیر کی لوگ ہمارے بابا باتا پیٹا بھائی پہ ہے اس حق سے وہ ہمارے ہے وہ ہمارے ساتھنار ہے وہ ہمارے بھائی ہے وہ ہمارے بہنے ہیں وہ ہمارے بھاتا ہے یہ وہ تقیف میں ہے تو یہ ہمارا فرط باہتا ہے اگر انے ہمارے برسی سے دو کام کیا ہمارے برسی اپنے برسی کے لئے ایک بہت سے دیئے جو خوبصورت میں کوئی بیائی کرئے اس خوبصورت میں ایک حراریہ جانسی ہے سنگرombا شرد اپنے مکتا جو کشفیر اور کشفیر اور بہت کشفہ جانسی کا حق ہے اسی بہت عقین جیسی اور لاقع کجا لیکن today the government is trying to say everything is normal in kushmir how can you talk about normalcy on the basis of the strength and the repressive measures of the army and the paramilitary forces
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I FINALLY GOT ROLLERBLADES!
➡️SHOP OUR FAVORITE JUMP ROPES! ENTER CODE "DOTHETHING" To Save 10% ► http://www.crossrope.com/zendudefitness212 ➡️GET THE JRD90 WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM ► https://offer.jumpropedudes.com/jrd90 SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL ► http://bit.ly/2SlQNl1 Today I got rollerblades, met some friends, and bladed around this afternoon to #dothething. TURN ON POST NOTIFICATIONS AND RECEIVE NEW VIDEOS FIRST Follow The Jump Rope Dudes: FITPLAN APP ► https://fitplan.app.link/JRDFitplan WHOOP TEAM ► https://join.whoop.com/jumpropedudes (team code "COMM-JUMPRP") INSTAGRAM ► http://bit.ly/2E6reBH FACEBOOK ► http://bit.ly/2E58dPQ SPOTIFY ► https://spoti.fi/2E49CGn BRANDON'S YT CHANNEL ► http://bit.ly/BrandonYT DAN'S YT CHANNEL ► http://bit.ly/YTDaniel Music: http://share.epidemicsound.com/pzM8d
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I implore all of you. I don't know. I just said implore. I never use that word. I don't even know what that means Today I'm finally gonna go get roller skates. I'm really excited. So why don't you come with me and get some roller skates? Joe So I took a Uber to a bus stop to then go buy some roller blades and skate home. That's what you call diversifying your All right, so my friend's here where she's getting here I don't know how much of this I'm gonna be able to film because it's not in the best area So I shouldn't have my big big camera out. We're in the taxi. Hello, Geraldine. This is my friend who is helping me get Las patinas Patinas Roller blades roller blades the roller blades they have been Obtained now. It's time to put them on and cruise all over the city the guy at the counter was like do you want any wrist guards or Things for your knees and I was like no brow because I am danger ass I also like to live dangerously actually He didn't he didn't ask me that I probably should get some knee shin guards and knee Savers because I'm definitely prone to accidents. Check out this girl's kicks. No Screw is just fresh Head to toe. All right now. We're getting some kind of Yogurt and granola thing. It's a yogurt and granola thing. You wouldn't understand. You just don't get it. We're cheese Yogurt, you know, that's what they do in Colombia. I got skates on my feet All right, send you the shit. See you later It's a free I feel so free. I love it So I just found this roller skating rink. Actually, I didn't find it She found it because it's right behind where you buy skates. Look at this. It's a full rink. All right, let's do a quick tour What's up ladies and gentlemen, I feel I feel really amped up this week has been insanely insanely busy and Brandon and I are totally maxed out. However, the point I wanted to make in this vlog was that I Want to talk about finding something to do that you are obsessed with Someone posed a question the other day when we got done with our ayahuasca trip and they were like dude How can you edit a video like you just got done done doing ayahuasca? How are you in the state of mind to edit a video and my immediate answer and reaction was I'm obsessed. I am obsessed with this community like I Wake up every single morning and the first thing that I do All the people who are really into like personal development and morning routines would be like dude. That's so bad for you, man I wake up every morning and I immediately look at all my notifications from YouTube from Facebook from our community Like my world basically revolves just around our little community. Well growing communities and the reason why I think it's good To be obsessed rather than just oh, yeah I love what I do is because It gives me any way the kind of like hardcore purpose that I crave in my life. I'm someone who I Don't want to just love what I do. I don't want to like, you know be like, oh, yeah It's so great every blah blah blah like I want to be like dude I can't sleep like I can't wake up and not do this and for me That's Making videos regarding fitness and how to be healthy and doing it in an entertaining way So that is my obsession. I implore all of you I don't know. I just said implore. I never use that word. I don't know what that means I Suggest that all of you guys Do the same thing find something that you are obsessed with and do that as much as possible I got a little emotional yesterday because I was just thinking about Zendu fitness and Zendu fitness has only been around for a little bit more than a year and For those of you guys, you know, like I don't want to sound on this vlog I want to give you guys the unfiltered version of what my life is and I feel like sometimes on YouTube and other places on the Internet You don't get that so for example last year when we started our business I think a lot of people just assumed like all these guys like are doing really well They have a presence. They have a business like they figured it out. They must be so lucky Yeah, last year was not easy Okay, last year was easily the best year of my life hands down I think I think both Brandon and I can look at each other like yeah That's best year ever but Oh my god business-wise it was tough like starting a business Getting hard like there was just there were just days where we're just making content And we didn't know if our YouTube channel was gonna grow We didn't know if we're gonna be able to sell jump ropes like we didn't know What people wanted we just kept producing content that we really love and we and helped us and Thought maybe it would help other people We are gonna have a million YouTube subscribers We're just literally gonna do whatever it takes like I don't care if we work every single day for the next five years We're gonna get to a million so we've always had that confidence in ourselves But you do still kind of have this thing of like Okay, well, we might be able to grow a successful YouTube channel, but how are we gonna make money? how's this business going to survive and Fast forward a year later till now. We're not killing it. We're not making millions of dollars But we have hit a point in our business that we're like, oh my goodness Like we have we've created a sustainable business that we now is growing so fast that we need to hire people and You know, it's gaining enough momentum that this is a real Tangible business that could potentially last for a long time. So I am first of all just so I'm trying not to swear as much on this vlog, but whatever I'm so grateful like I You know, I didn't have a terrible life before this like I had a great job with a great software company in a great city I lived in New York. I lived in Austin before that. I lived in DC like I had a good life, but To be at the point that I am now after taking such a huge risk is So gratifying and I say that because there's so many people there's so many of you out there who have a passion I know this because people tell me it all the time we get hit up. We get contacted all the time Random friends I meet they say this all the time. There are so many people who have amazing talents and They want to do something about it, but they're so afraid to start This isn't to say everyone should quit their job and start their own business You can still have a regular job, but start a passion that might make you Supplemental income or to provide you supplemental happiness that makes your overall life better, but more of the story is guys Just do something that you're obsessed with and stop caring what other people think at the end of the day Like it doesn't matter if you feel good doing it then your life is gonna be better Trying to get some work done. It's like state state. I've been slacking on the fruit water day Because I haven't I haven't been to Brandon's and he's the one who usually has the fruit water. So today Athletic greens water athletic greens water Also, Zambia nation someone commented on our video yesterday yesterday's video was the three supplements that we take every day And they're like is this a product promotion video and I was thinking myself like yeah It is promotion. We are promoting the products. Of course. We're promoting products And of course we want to make money off them like I took athletic greens way before we started promoting it So like yeah, of course, I want to get athletic greens for free and yeah I want athletic greens to pay me to do that like I never understood when people get bitter about stuff like that like You know, I don't know Maybe you really like maybe you really like DeWalt buzz saws because you go to Home Depot a lot and You know if DeWalt called you up and they're like, hey Rick You've been making a lot of nice houses lately We want to buy all your souls for you and all you have to do is make a YouTube video that says I use DeWalt souls every day Then you know, that's awesome Then you get to make money and still continue to use what you love So when people are like, well, this is a paid endorsement or you guys get like free product for promoting these products And my answer is like hell. Yeah, of course Tyler's dead. You killed Tyler Murphy. Why'd you do that? That's also a lesson anyone looking to start a company or a brand and you want to promote products that you already use and truly believe in Don't let people discourage you from doing it. You shamelessly promote those products. Use them. Love them Make money off them holler at your boy
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Parliament Security Breach News : ऐसे BJP सांसद Pratap Simha के पास पर अंदर गए थे घुसपैठिये| News18
BJP सांसद प्रताप सिम्हा ने बताया आरोपियों को क्यों दिए विजिटर्स पास? - संसद की सुरक्षा में चूक का मामला (Parliament Security Breach) तूल पकड़ता जा रहा है. गृह मंत्रालय (Home Ministry) ने कमिटी बनाकर इस मामले की जांच के आदेश दे दिए हैं. इस बीच लोकसभा की विजिटर गैलरी से सदन में कूद कर कलर स्मोग फेंकने वाले युवकों का विजिटर पास बनवाने वाले बीजेपी सांसद प्रताप सिम्हा ने अपनी सफाई दी है. BJP MP Pratap Simha told why visitors passes were given to the accused? - The matter of lapse in security of Parliament (Parliament Security Breach) is gaining momentum. The Home Ministry has formed a committee and ordered an investigation into this matter. Meanwhile, BJP MP Pratap Simha, who got visitor passes made for the youth who threw color smog by jumping into the House from the visitor's gallery of the Lok Sabha, has given his clarification. #securitybreach #PratapSimha #parliamentattack #kolkatanews #lalitjha #breakingnews#sagarsharma #parliamentsecuritybreach #loksabhasecuritybreach #news18punjab Find Latest News, Top Headline And breaking news Watch your favorite newspapers News18 Punjab Himachal Haryana websites. For All Live Coverage, Exclusive And Latest News Update, Watch The LIVE TV Of News18 Punjab/Haryana/Himachal, Catch The Latest News LIVE News 18 Punjab/Haryana/Himachal is an exclusive news channel on YouTube which streams news related to Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Nation and the World. Along with the news, the channel also has debates on contemporary topics and shows on special series which are interesting and informative. News18 ਪੰਜਾਬ/हरियाणा/हिमाचल एक क्षेत्रीय न्यूज़ चैनल है जिसपर ਪੰਜਾਬ, हरियाणा, हिमाचल, देश एवं विदेश की खबरें प्रकाशित की जाती हैं | समाचारों क साथ-साथ इस चैनल पर समकालीन विषयों पर वाद-विवाद एवं विशेष सीरीज भी प्रकाशित होती हैं जो की काफी रोचक एवं सूचनापूर्ण हैं |n18oc_National Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/1IMIp73 For Latest news and updates, log on to: https://bit.ly/2Cx91Ok Follow Us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/News18Haryana https://twitter.com/News18Himachal https://twitter.com/News18Punjab Like Us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/News18Haryana/ https://www.facebook.com/News18Himachal/ https://www.facebook.com/News18Punjab
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तेरा दिसमबर को संसत केंदर जो कुज भी हूँआ, उसने अप संसत को एक चच्चा कविष्या बना दिया है. खास तो और पर संसत की सुरक्षा को लेकर कटरीके की बाते हो रही हैं. कि जो सुरक्षा गेरा ता है मल्टी लेविल था. तो ब्यक्ती आखिर अंदर कैसे पूँझते हो और उतनी बढ़ी ही माखत उनकी और से कैसे की जा सकती है. और कोई स्मोग क्राकर लेकर आखिर अंदर संसत के कैसे पूँँज सकता है. बढ़ सारे सवाल है, जाज जिन्सी आलाट है, लगातार काम हो रहा है, कारवाई चल रही है, और उनसे पुच्ताज भी की जारे है. इस दोरान आपने बढ़ सारी खबरे सूनी होंगी, बढ़ सारे आतिकल सापने पडे होंगे, बढ़ साजेशी केसे रचते है, देखे हर चीस के पीचे है कानी होती है, इसके पीचे भी एक कानी है, कानी क्या है, आब आप सूनी है, ये कानी शुरू होती है, लक्बाग आज से देड़ दो साल पहले, जब ये तमाम लोग आपस में मिले, मनुरंजन, नीलम, आमोल, ललेट, सागर, ये सब मिलते है, फैस्बुक के जर ये, फैस्बुक पर एक पेज है, भगगत सिंग नाम से, भगगत सिंग, फान पेज से तमाम आरोपी जुडे होते, यही पर इसी पलाट्फोंपे इनकी मुलाकात होती है, 2020 ये निती, ये अप आमने सामने एक तुसे से मुलाकात करने, फिर ये सब है आरोपी मुलाकात करते मैसुर में, और मैसुर में ये ये निती पहली मुलाकात भी थी, मनुरंजन. मनुरंजन ॐ अरानजन ॐ आर ज़िमदारी दीगे ती ज़े अंदर जागर संसध की रेकी करेगी।। और अस नहीं काम कब कहा इसी साड जालूँँ धेस में मारज में। स़न्सध की बार की रयकी लिध़ी पहां पहां को, नहीं को सू� wh bracket यह क ही देए को सथ Jeegaगी न और और ऑस ध़ा, की बार की जीर हगी जा सरत की ऍेखी कीनके, वो सी और उस को समच centres का टियiscoon ई�你有 गो़ कस्त की गी कि कुडी according to him क pods, nahi ghali rahe lata lata और स enzyme visters, और सागर क touch ghali सागर क ordinari बहायकि ड़े guyin Architect say chops कमन सागर All उया बी अखातर नहीं bादवे। उया विस玉कic आई यह स्थस路 बार than आख औस एक इत कीनि得 ह rehab आप उछहir यहंगे台 दिल्ली में आतें है दल्ली पाँचते हैं और सभी आरोपी फिर מ�ट्रो शतेशन पर मिलते हैं मेट्रो शतेशन से हि प�वरी कहनी श्रू होती है जब ठीम्या की मौलाकात भाँचती है दुज्सध्सम्पर को सागर, निलम, अमोल। ये तमाम लोग गुरुग्राम पहुझते हैं और दस दसमबर की राद को लगबग ललिद भी गुरुग्राम पहुझत जाता हैं मनो रंजन 11 दसमबर की सुभा को गुरुग्राम पहुझता है यानी सब प्लान करते हैं कि वो गुरुग्राम में आप मिलेंगे दिल्ली के बाद अगला प़ाव होता है, गुरू ग्राम, तो गुरू ग्राम में इन सब की मुलाकात होती है, तीन दिन तक यारो पी वही पर रुखे, गुरू ग्राम मेही तेहरे, वही पर विचार विमर्षिन का हुवा, पूरी प्लानिंग बहाँप बनी, पास रिए पास हासल करने के इनुने दो दिन का समेर रख्खा हूँवा तुछी इंको पता था की पास हासल करने में वक्ल लक चकता है, उसके ले किसी सानसध से नको सफारिष करनी पडगे गी।, और चोडा दिसमपर को, सागर ने पास हासल के, फिर नीलम और मनुरंजन ललित और आमोल काप से इंट्या गेट पूँचे, इंट्या गेट पूँचने के बाद, तमाम आरोपीू ने आदे गड़े तक वहाँप बेट्ख बी की है, सागर वेडिया बाची प्रत कि लोग ने की, था की कोई थुक नहो जाए, यह संसचध की नद यह और और बाहत जाए, उसके बाड़ उन्धिया गेट पर ही ये टाए हूँँँ, कि सागर और मनुरंजन को अंडर भेजा जाएगा. तो यहाँसे प्लाशनिएग सेध होती एक आंडर कों रहेग हो भार कों रहेग आए सागर लॉ वरी और मनूरंजन् दोनो अंडर रहेटे है मनूर वरी थो है जो ने यहनर, संसत की लेची की ती हो बाहर की भी वैगनूसे यहनर जूते भी लाया हूँवा हो आखु तो सोचे किस तरीके से पुरा प्लान इंहूने यापर सेट किया जूता वही है जो लखना उसे आप यह नहीं अंदर सागर ने शप्रे चपा कर रखका हूँा आपा इसी के अंदर वो कलर समोग था इसी के अंदर से वो निकालता है जैसे ही वेल में निचे कुछता है और उसके बाद कै यसारी डेसको कोपानता हूँा अगे बरता है तब ही आचानक से जब साण सद उसको गेर लेते हैं वो समोगस पे निकालता है प्षिडक देता है एस तरीके से रहा है पुरा प्लान आप में आप शैड किया दे. और आचानक से मुलाकात होती है. पुरी फ्लाने ना महने पहले ही बनाली गय ती. जब देसमबर की तारी क ताए की गगे गगे ती. लेकिं कि वाज जल्दी मिल गय है. तो 13 असम्वर को ही नहीं पूरी साजच को अन्जाम देतिया
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What Causes Brain Fog?
Do you find it hard to think clearly or remember simple things? Are you at a loss for words or find it difficult to concentrate? If so, you may be suffering from …. BRAIN FOG Instead of suffering while you wait for the “fog” to clear…look at these 6 causes for brain fog so you can keep your head clear going forward! Lack of Sleep - The brain needs sleep to recuperate. So, when sleep is regularly interrupted or when one suffers from a sleep disorder, they are more likely to experience brain fog in the morning upon waking. For some, a simple cup of coffee is enough to clear away the fog, but for those who suffer from serious sleep deprivation, the fog can stay for quite some time. Neurological Disorders - Certain neurological disorders have brain fog as side effects of the condition. These include fibromyalgia, lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome and multiple sclerosis. Stress - Stress negatively effects the body in many ways, including causing brain fatigue. While this is common during times of severe stress, such as when a loved one passes, normal everyday stress should not cause it. If one starts experiencing brain fog from normal everyday stress, this may be an underlying sign of another problem. Menopause - When women go through menopause, they sometimes experience brain fog due to fluctuating hormones. As the hormones become regulated, the symptoms of brain fog tend to disappear. Nutritional Deficiencies - Strong brain function relies on proper levels of magnesium, vitamin B12, and amino acids in the body. When these nutrients are deficient or the body is dehydrated, brain fog can occur. Side Effects of Medications - Certain medications, such as those for high blood pressure, pain management and allergy relief, can cause mental confusion as a side effect. This can occur with any type of medication, both prescribed and over-the-counter. If you have any questions or would like to speak to our registered nurse about options that may be available to help clear your foggy brain, please call, visit or email us and one of our knowledgeable staff members will be happy to assist you! Phone (888) 245-5000 email: info@professionalsupplementcenter.com www.professionalsupplementcenter.com Check out our blog for more interesting health articles at:http://blog.professionalsupplementcenter.com/ Receive exclusive SALE info when you sign up for our Good Health news letter: http://www.professionalsupplementcenter.com/ThankYouSignup.aspx Check out Daily Deals on High Quality Vitamins and Supplements here: http://www.professionalsupplementcenter.com/Daily-Deals.htm Our resident nurse specializes in optimizing one's health through the proper use of high quality vitamins and supplements. If you have questions or need advice on which vitamins and supplements are right for you, follow the link below to our free Ask The Nurse feature: http://www.professionalsupplementcenter.com/AskTheNurse.aspx ** Subscribe ** Don't forget to subscribe to our channel for more reviews on the best rated, professional grade, vitamin and supplement products offered at www.ProfessionalSupplementCenter.com ALWAYS GUARANTEED FREE SHIPPING on ANY and ALL orders! #HealthLife
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Do you find it hard to think clearly or remember simple things? Are you at a loss for words or find it difficult to concentrate? If so, you may be suffering from brain fog. Instead of suffering while you wait for the fog to clear, look at these six causes of brain fog so you can keep your head clear going forward. Lack of sleep. The brain needs sleep to recuperate. So when sleep is regularly interrupted or when one suffers from sleep disorder, you are more likely to experience brain fog in the morning upon waking. For those who suffer from serious sleep deprivation, the fog can stay for quite some time. Neurological disorders. Certain neurological disorders have brain fog as side effects. These include fibromyalgia, lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome, and multiple sclerosis. Stress. Stress negatively affects the body in many ways, including causing brain fatigue. If one starts experiencing brain fog from normal everyday stress, this may be an underlying sign of another problem. Menopause. When women go through menopause, they sometimes experience brain fog due to fluctuating hormones. As the hormones become regulated, the symptoms of brain fog tend to disappear. Nutritional deficiencies. Strong brain function relies on magnesium, vitamin B12, and amino acids. When these nutrients are deficient, or the body is dehydrated, brain fog can occur. Certain medications such as those for high blood pressure, pain management, and allergy relief can cause mental confusion as a side effect. This can occur with any type of medication, both prescribed and over-the-counter. If you have any questions, I would like to speak to a registered nurse about options that may help clear your foggy brain. Please call, visit, or email us, and one of our knowledgeable staff members will be happy to assist you.
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The “Big 3” Niches you need to be publishing in... if you don’t want to fail
How 3,072+ Everyday People Are Boosting Their Income In Their Spare Time… With The Free Audible App Watch the free video presentation here: https://www.go.publishing.com/go?utm_source=google&utm_medium=ytadsdescription&el=ytadsdescription
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2019-04-12T13:00:11
2024-02-08T16:55:48
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Are you ready bro? Yes. Let's go. Let's go. Okay, ready? You go first. Oh, fuck! I love Kennel Publishing! Alright, good. Are you ready for the video? I see Charlotte smiling. Alright, alright, it's going, it's fucking going. Welcome to this video and this one we're talking all about niches. Niches and Kennel Publishing which you should be publishing in which you should not be publishing in based on our Kennel Publishing experience. I've been publishing since 2016 I'm sitting here by the pool, by our Bali villa all paid for by book royalties. So we do know a thing or two about publishing. We've been doing it for a while published over a hundred books. About 200 now. I want to do a certain credibility in the beginning I think that's enough. But the point is like, we have a lot of experience with all these niches. I want to start off with a big fat disclaimer about niches like good ones versus bad ones. In my opinion there aren't, there are bad niches but with that said I think almost 99% of all niches are profitable. There are more profitable and less profitable but almost all of them are profitable to an extent. Let's take a step back and define what a niche is because a lot of people don't know. So there is a difference between a niche and a keyword. So a keyword is basically what a book is about is the topic of the book while a niche is like a book category a category that your book would fall under. Niche and category is the same thing Amazon calls it categories but most publishers call it niches. Can we give an analogy here? So let's say books were food. So if you were to compare book niches to food then there would be a different niche. It would be Japanese food, Mexican food. We'll do this but I think most people know what a niche and keyword is. But then within the niche of Japanese food you have sushi. Sushi would be a keyword. This is just an excuse to talk about food. So what? It's a good example. So that's the difference between niches and keywords. Keywords are more specific and I want to say I think there are a lot of shitty keywords. See that's what you were saying before. There can be worse niches but there's no niche that you can't find something good in. Like I would say Indian food is probably a bad worse niche of food. Me, my opinion. Maybe we could talk about food in the comments section. But there is some good Indian food somewhere in there. Some chicken is a good keyword with an Indian food. So let's go into the computer. Right now we're here in the Kindle bestseller store. Let me disclaimer the nonfiction part of the bestseller store. No fiction today. We will make a future video talking about nonfiction versus fiction. This video is all about nonfiction. If you've not published a book you want to know if you should do nonfiction or fiction you should definitely do nonfiction. Fiction is not for inexperienced people who have never published a book before. You can make a shitload of money with fiction but with no experience it's tough. It's very tough. We tried it in the beginning when we were not as experienced. Not the point of the video. So let me just show you guys how to get there. Kindle bestsellers search in google here. Click on this link wait for it to load go to Kindle ebooks wait for it to load again wait a little bit more for it to load. So the internet is not working very well plus it's starting to rain a little bit so we're just going to move this party. Why are you fucking expensive for this shit? Vogue, the wire is stuck in the table. Just bring the table. Just bring the table. No, no, no. But we will move inside out of the rain and wait until the internet works. I'm going to move this one. So we're at a new location now and before we hop into the computer I want to talk about what is it that we look for in our favorite niches. So the number one thing that I want in a niche that I'm publishing in is high demand. Like high, high, high demand. Like the very highest, right? There are three niches that we have in mind that have higher demand than any other ones out there. The big three, right? So let's tell those three are. They are business and money slash business and investing. It's called most things on Amazon. Two self-help and then three health, fitness and dieting. So these are the three niches that have by far more demand than any other niche and this is where you're going to find most of the most profitable keywords. About 80% of the best and most profitable keywords are 20% of the categories. So this, like many other things, follows the 80-20 principle also known as the Pareto principle where 80% of things come from 20% of things. That's how I like to explain it. But yeah, the reason why these three carry the majority of the best keywords is because these three categories solve the biggest problems that humans are faced with. Well, that's why they have the highest demand. That is why they have the highest demand. And those problems being people's health, which is solved within the health and fitness category, wealth, which is solved with the business and money category, and then love and happiness which would fall under self-help. So that is why. Just to give you some context as to why and not just do this. Giving you an explanation behind it. Let's actually go into the computer now and show you what these big three niches actually look like. So these are the 19 categories provided by Amazon Fiction. So this is what you could consider the 19 niches within Kindle Publishing. And right here, business and money, health and fitness, and self-help. We see the three we're talking about. So now let's just open them up and look inside of each of them. Business and money, self-help, health and fitness. So underneath business and money will be about 20 more sub-categories. Things like entrepreneurship and small business, finance, investing, marketing and sales, personal finance, real estate. There's probably no, there's not probably there is hundreds and hundreds of really high demand keywords that people are just throwing money at to learn about. And now looking at self-help, here we have about 10 additional sub-categories. Things like stress management, spirituality, self-esteem, personal transformation, motivation, memory improvement, I guess falls under self-help, happiness, creativity. Self-help is probably the most umbrella term of them all. There are so many things that fall under self-help. Anything that just helps you get better. Improves yourself as a person, improves your life, like personality, emotions, stuff like that, right? Confidence, confidence, all that stuff. And then the last one is health, fitness and dieting. And then there's a lot of random ones like addiction and recovery that those are not that bad. Not as high demand. Like health, fitness and dieting is primarily carried by diet and weight loss. And personal health, nutrition, those are all related. Yeah. But diet and weight loss will have a bunch of the best selling books within health and fitness. Now I'll say of the three niches, diet probably has the most competition at the moment, right? So I personally, I don't know about you, I personally prefer business and investing and self-help. Agreed. But diet and health is still a great niche because of how high demand it is. So actually when I got started with publishing back in 2016, I was only doing health and diet and fitness. I had like 30 books on different diets. And that alone brought me to around $10,000 a month in publishing royalties without even audio books. Just e-books and paperback books. But a lot of them actually changed since. So now I would say where we publish our most books in is now definitely business and money. Yeah. I think the reason is just that most, it seems like most other self-polishers have also been focusing on a diet niche. I guess it's a bit easier, and you know the demand is there. So I just kind of prefer to avoid that. For now, that's not to say it's not good at all. That's just a personal thing. I also know much more about the business and investing niche. That's basically all there is to say. These are our favorite and definitely the best publishing niche to get in right now. We got to hit with the magic emoji. Magic emoji. We're talking about it. What the hell is it going to be? Oh, this one. This one. This one. This one. This one. Why? Why? That's why. That's why. Right there. So that's the end of the video. Thanks for watching. Comment, like, subscribe. All that goes to your free training in the description. That's what it is. And let us know what else you guys want to see.
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The T in GPT: Transformers for Cultural Heritage Work
Although commercial large language models such as ChatGPT have captured the public imagination, the math underlying these conversational systems has important implications for libraries in key areas such as speech-to-text, image description, and handwriting recognition. Collections previously isolated from text-mining practices now stand at the cusp of becoming computationally tractable. Also, in an era of increased attention to accessibility requirements, providing textual proxies of audio-visual and image-based content can lessen legal exposure. The session will consider applications of transformers-based artificial intelligence models in an international perspective, with a focus on what they enable and what changes they imply for digital libraries. Peter Leonard, Stanford University Learn more: https://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/past-meetings/spring-2024 Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Presented at Spring 2024 Membership Meeting March 25–26, 2024 *Subscribe to our channel*: https://www.youtube.com/c/cnivideo?sub_confirmation=1 *Stay connected with us* Website: https://www.cni.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cni.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/cni_org/ Mastadon: https://mastodon.social/@cni LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/coalition-for-networked-information/ Subscribe to our listserv CNI-ANNOUNCE: https://www.cni.org/resources/follow-cni/cni-announce
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2024-04-17T17:18:35
2024-04-19T03:57:54
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My name is Peter Leonard, I'm a work at Stanford University Libraries and I'm really excited to be speaking here today about something that I think is connected with what we're all reading about in the newspaper and what our students are talking about, our faculty, our librarians are talking about. But I'm only going to talk about one of the letters in chat GPT. I'm going to talk about the T, which of course, as most of us know, stands for Transformers. And what I'm really thought about in motivating this talk was thinking about all the excitement that all our patrons and our colleagues and maybe even our donor boards have brought to us around chat GPT. They've asked us questions like, why didn't the libraries invent chat GPT? How can we chat with a library? What are you guys doing? There's all this excitement, apparently chat GPT can write all of our papers, it can do all of our homework. But I do think alongside that wonderful service from the for-profit company OpenAI, there's so many other interesting things out there that are freely downloadable, that are transparent about how they were trained, that are retrainable by us or our colleagues on campus to do things that commercial models can't do. And frankly, things that we can run on our own computers, stuff like $900 MacBook Airs or $1,500 Workstations. There's a universe out there that doesn't really get talked about in New York Times headlines. So that's where I want to go. The current moment AI in AI, it's impossible to talk about it without talking about Transformers. And the math is way above my head. But I think one of the things that's sort of interesting is to think about how often this initial gets used. We all know it's a part of GPT, chat GPT, but it's also a part of the acronym for BERT and for Vision Transformers and many other cryptic acronyms we'll see throughout the rest of this talk. And the notion here is that this is kind of the next evolution in architectures, not specific networks, but network architectures. It takes us away from some of the previous ideas around recurrent neural networks and convolutional neural networks and tries to pay attention to many things at once. And we'll see that notion of attention in, of course, the most important paper that was published, attention is all your need, which sort of talks about moving away from local patches and trying to look at the whole thing at once. So when I talk about the whole thing at once, it could be a 30-second snippet of my voice recorded as a wave file or an entire line that I write with my hand or maybe a frame of a movie. The notion why Transformers are so powerful is they seem to be better at getting at some of the really complex relationships between audio and text or maybe image and text or other things we'll see. We found Transformers first in the space of machine translation where their particular characteristics seem to be good for certain things, but it's exciting to see how we're talking about Transformers not just in the domain of machine translation, but in a lot of other domains that I think were relevant for us in the glam sector. You can think of this if you're a faculty member or a graduate student researcher as being both mainly being in how we get complex forms of non-textual data into textual form, so that might be sound or pictures of handwriting or something or film frames, but also Transformers extend into the next phase and sort of TDM, so we'll see a little bit of that with BERT topic. For in the library space, we might say that Transformer models help us get some of our non-textual data into a place where we can do named entity recognition, we can put them into RDF tuples, but they also extend a little bit into that work itself. So we're going to talk about six ways in which Transformers I think are having an impact in the glam sector. We're going to talk about voice to text with whisper, we're going to talk about handwriting recognition, we're going to talk about doing topic modeling on embeddings as opposed to real words. We're going to explore text to image network with Clip. We're going to think about the notion of a conversation with an archive, which is something which has come up recently is still kind of I would say in the research domain. And finally, the notion of multimodal conversations engaging across the barriers of text and image and sound. And I'm guessing that perhaps of all the people in this room, whisper might be the one that most people have heard of. Can you raise your hand if you've used whisper or have heard of whisper? That's the one that's got a lot of purchase. It's a great tool. It is freely downloadable from OpenAI. So despite all my talking about OpenAI and their chat GPT product, it's amazing that they have open sourced and made available the whisper weights. There are many different types of weights that you can download for whisper, which is a speech to text model. There's versions you can run on an Android phone and there's versions you can run on a very expensive Nvidia GPU and you can make that decision based on performance or multi-lingual or accuracy or speed. It's probably trained in about 680 to 700,000 hours of text. It was probably trained on YouTube captions. That's the best guess. It seems to not necessarily do so well according to artificial benchmarks, but it seems to do really well in the real world. It's basically this encoder-decoder transformer. There will be no tests on these network architecture diagrams. The only thing I want to point out is how interesting that so much of our analysis nowadays happens to images. That strange blue and green square on the bottom left of this diagram is a mel spectrogram. Our tools for analyzing image data, in this case in ping form, have become so sophisticated that we turn everything that we're looking at, including sound, into a ping file and they just analyze that. When we talk about whisper, and I'm sure this probably mirrors a lot of the experience of the people in your room, you can look at artificial benchmarks or you can look against how it does against real humans. On the left here is an oral history from Stanford Libraries, which is transcribed by a real human as part of that oral history project. Really important human labor, domain expertise, bringing a kind of editorial judgment to this long-standing oral history project. On the right is whisper, and I think it's really debatable, which one is quote-unquote better. At the point of like, whisper is in some cases actually capturing more, such as the fact that the person said okay at a certain point in time. It doesn't get the particular abbreviations for Stanford's campus buildings, but that's okay. It's not just English as we know that whisper supports, and so that's an important, I think, intervention into what can often feel like an English-only situation with deep learning models. It's probably too small to see, but you can see everything from Spanish to Polish down to Galician and Arabic there. It's not every language that is spoken, of course, is on this list, but there are really interesting critical interventions that GLAM and other memory institutions are doing into the whisper models, and they can do those interventions because the weights are freely downloadable. So at the National Library of Norway, they're retraining the Finnish weights for the Sami language, the indigenous language in Northern Scandinavia, and those of you who have a linguistics background will know that that's the right move, that Finnish and Sami are both part of the Finnauguric language, so you can take advantage of the fact that Finnish is there and retrain it for a less commonly resourced language such as Sami. We have some of the Nuremberg transcripts at Stanford, human-generated German on the left, whisper large, doing German on the right. Some of this is actual punctuation differences rather than actual meaningful differences in whisper. So I think that's probably the tool that a lot of folks are already using. I know I've spoken with a lot of colleagues in other different institutions, and they're already deploying whisper at least in an experimental phase, making sure that it integrates well with their workflows and doesn't lose them quality. I will say that the most recent versions of whisper and specifically the acceleration with TensorRT can lead you doing like an hour of oral history in about two minutes, which is really stunning when you think about our backlog. One area in which I don't think transformers have had as much impact and they will soon is in the area of handwriting recognition. Primarily with the TROCR model. A lot of, raise your hand if you've ever used transcribous, the sort of EU funded Austrian, great. I love transcribous, transcribous is amazing in earlier versions of transcribous. Does anybody know how many pages of ground truth you needed? It's like 80 pages, right? So which was great unless you had an 81 page journal that you were trying to transcribe and then it was kind of depressing to have that requirement. What's interesting about TROCR and other transformers based HDR models is that they are a zero shot. They could work on handwriting that we've seen before. So you need zero pages of ground truth rather than 80 pages. And there's a lot of interesting papers out there that talk about this that say that this is a really interesting model that can be fine tuned but doesn't necessarily have to be fine tuned. The weights which are available from Microsoft, believe it or not, are freely downloadable. You can get them yourself and train them on a corpus in a particular hand. But what's kind of interesting is you may not need to. This is a letter from the founder of Leland Stanford Junior University, Jane Stanford, writing to a senator. And I can tell you that this had never been, it's not part of the training data for TROCR. So what we do is we take this line by line, we feed it into a GPU and we use the TROCR weights and we get basically a great record of what she wrote. This lines that she was writing on this piece of paper, I'm not even sure they're grammatical. I think she lost her train of thought because of the top of a new page. But it literally is to what is necessary to be done to ensure the success of the University of the Future. Zero shot on top of a hand it had never seen before. It's not only English, the model weights are English, but you can adapt it to other languages by sort of force aligning if you have a training dataset that you'd like to do. And a colleague of mine from Stanford Libraries has done this. And this is not the only transformer based HDR model. There's an interesting model or approach from the National Archives of Sweden called Saturn. Again, transformers, you see the T in there. They're trained on millions of documents. Interestingly, the Swedes found that they first wanted to release three models, one for each century, like I think 17th, 18th, 19th century. They found that performance was better when they combined all models together and released one meta-model. This is a letter written by Sweden's most famous author, August Strindberg. It's really hard to read. But it's not a problem. It basically says, I've read your horrible novel, is what August Strindberg is writing and that is actually what it gets. Let's move on from these two first models, which were basically taking human speech and human handwriting and trying to move those into the world of Unicode. And let's do something which is different, which is topic modeling. How many folks in the room have done topic modeling or have heard of topic modeling before? Yes, wonderful digital humanities technique that we borrowed from information retrieval. And then BERT topic. Have people heard of BERT topic? Kind of an interesting variation on that concept. For those of you who are familiar with word embedding models or vector space models, this essentially does topic modeling based on the word embeddings, not the words themselves, which is a really different strategy than what we would do with a tool like mallet with latent Dirichlet allocation. Really BERT topic motivates its work as a method of clustering and is because of that, BERT topic assumes the documents can only belong to one topic, which is a huge shift from how we would do kind of LDA work, mallet work. But because of that, because of that simplified assumption that documents only belong to one topic, it might actually be useful for those of us involved in cataloging or trying to think about subject headings or other forms of description. Because that's a modern software approach, all of this is, almost all of this is GPU accelerated. And really the key thing that BERT topic brings, although it has this entire structure in which you can swap out different parts, is that it brings sentence transformers to the model, to the party, which are amazing for short abstracts or tweets. They're not so great for modernist novels. And so you just like with traditional topic modeling, you have to think about chunking or breaking your document up. This is a approach on about 5,000 journal articles, and we can see this actually live, in which we created the embeddings, reduce their dimensionality with a UMAP, and then cluster them. And so what we get here is essentially areas of topics in the Journal of Scandinavian Studies. And you can see that there's topics here of articles around EU integration. Should Sweden join the NATO? Should it join the European Union? It's very close to other issues of European integration involving Vidcon chiseling, who had certain ideas about how Norway should join Germany. So you can see these topics are all here. We're not limited to two dimensions. We can compress down to three dimensions, and there we see other topics existing in kind of a three-dimensional space. You would see that there's kind of something about Strinberg and Bergman kind of in the same space, both in the sort of play and movie area. So that's BERT topic, and what I want to think about next is, I've just described how we might use transformers to model or create topic models of abstracts or academic work, but the really good question is, for us in libraries and museums, a lot of the stuff we have isn't text. We have at Stanford, we have like 150,000 negatives taken by Andy Warhol, or we have oil paintings in the Yale Center for British Art. And for that, we really need to think beyond text. We need to think about linked text-image networks. We would do this in the past with convolutional neural networks, which are sort of ways of describing cat-dog-vagle-monana on your phone. What's different about CLIP is that it is essentially a linked semantic space between linguistic tokens and pixel distributions. So CLIP is actually behind. It's one of the very important components inside Dahli, which is that thing which lets you type a picture of an avocado armchair or like an astronaut riding a horse. That's the generative AI side of it. This is not generative, this is sort of analytic. And so CLIP are essentially a vision transformer glued to a causal language model from sort of the GPT2 generation. But here's what's interesting about CLIP. If you think about these visual features and you think about a linguistic space, CLIP essentially unifies and projects these into identically sized latent spaces. Latent space here just means a high dimensional space of possibility in which you can go in a million different directions. So consider this notion of having a linked pixel in linguistic space. What can you do with that? One thing you can do is you can say, show me where the cat is in this picture. Here I'm not gonna draw a box or label the cat like I would with something like an ImageNet solver, a convolutional neural network. Instead I'm gonna show the activations in the pixels for the word the cat. That's not so far, that's not very interesting as what we can do with ImageNet. What's more exciting is to think about the word formal in a linguistic sense. Where does that express itself in a pixel sense? And as I've chosen an image which I know is gonna react, it's a white male in a suit. But the point is is that it still generates that interesting heat map around the word formal, not suit, not executive, but formal. This means that I can take an image such as this, I think it's a music professor in the bottom left and I can say well what is musicological about this? And you'll see that the heat map shows the keyboard and the speaker, that's music. But I can also say what's DJ-ish about this picture in a clip model? And you'll see that it actually focuses on its mixer board. Like that's what distinguishes a musicologist from a DJ in this case. So you could use clip to find cats as I showed earlier but I don't think that's actually the most interesting way to do it. I think what you really wanna do is to think about the notion of what clip enables and that's really kind of evocative search. What I mean by evocative search is here a screenshot from these are the FSAOWI pictures, the sort of 1930s New Deal photographs. And what I've done is I've mapped them all into clip and I've said give me images of a journey through the air. See the first image is like the wing of an airplane, the second one is a parish trooper I guess. There's a guy in a crane, there's a zeppelin, there's a kid on a swing at the bottom left. These are all journeys through the air. They're way more sophisticated than like airplane or parachute. So we call this sort of evocative search. You might be looking for something like furry friends and you might get chickens and dogs and things like that. You also might have to remember that what you're searching for can be interpreted in many different ways. So if I type a happy family together, I get humans but I also get ducklings and pigs and stuff like that. We have a live demo of this on actually some of Andy Warhol's photography and one of the things I like to do is to think about like words like speed. So here are images that score highly for the word speed in Andy Warhol's photography. It's not car, it's not like windshield, it's speed. Another one is the word love. And I think this is all very interesting, right? Like that's love in a way. There's love. I should be a little careful with Warhol. It gets a little NSFW. But there's a lot of forms of that in the image. I want to stop talking about Clip by saying one point which is that just because you have a network which contains a linked textual embedding and a pixel embedding does not mean that you escape the problem's bias. In fact, you have twice the bias. You have the visual bias and the textual bias. Although one of the things I think is kind of interesting to talk about is the ways that actually could be used to our advantage. So here, does anybody recognize the hungled characters here? This is for Bibimbap, the delicious rice dish. And we looked for Bibimbap using a multi-lingual Clip network. So it understands many different languages, many different writing systems. But we've only given it photos from Norway in the 19th century and there are no pictures of Bibimbap in Norway in the 19th century. But what triggers highly for Bibimbap in this very white European collection are either the kind of dulcet stone pops, the pots that you might find Bibimbap in or other notions of cooking, right? So we've given it this artificial example where we know it won't find anything. But what it triggers on is still sort of pixel distributions which are representative of the notion of Bibimbap in this multi-lingual model. I have not tried yet the word for opera in Han characters in a large collection of images from San Francisco's Chinatown. And the reason I mention opera here is that a lot of the pictures are actually of Cantonese opera. I don't performers and people in costumes. I don't think they will trigger highly for the English word opera because they don't look like Western opera. I'm curious if they will trigger for the word in Chinese for opera, I don't know yet. So we've got all of these interesting textual proxies for things that we thought would be very expensive or impossible to translate into textual form. We've looked at Whisper which takes audio in terms of the text. We've looked at TR, OCR and Saturn which try to take handwriting and put them into text. We even looked at the way that certain text image networks can sort of allow you to explore a collection that is totally uncatalog, undescribed textually. And this begs the question of can we actually have conversations with archives if we have all this textual data? And I think there's two points I want to make first before answering that question. The first one is that of course, language models are not knowledge models. And when we deal with chat GBT or when you have students or professors or whatever colleagues talking to you about chat GBT, that's a distinction that often gets elided. It's so good at giving us like vegetarian Indian food recipes that we start to forget that it's not a knowledge model, it's a language model. And linked with this problem is the notion that large language models often know the shape of the probable answer. And in many cases we'll hallucinate in order to fill that curve. So these are some problems when we think about what does it mean to have a conversation with an archive mediated by a large language model. But given that, it is something that a lot of people are working on. And nowadays, although the paper came out in 2020, I think people have only recently started using the phrase retrieval augmented generation or RAG. And there's a bunch of ways to do this before people started talking about RAG. There was a great tool, private GPT built on lang chain, lang chain continues to be a really important piece of middleware. If you're running a Windows PC within an NVIDIA board, you can actually download a tool called chat with a RTX, which allows you to do essentially retrieval augmented generation. So there are ways of doing this. And what I would recommend would be to use an open source large language model, such as Vakuna or Alpaca or Mistral. And then of course what you really want to do is you want to connect that large language model, preferably an open source one, to a corpus or a sub corpus, an archive that you or your memory institution has participated in the curation of or you think sort of represents a viewpoint or a collection or a time or a place that is meaningful. What you want to do is use certain layers of the LLM to do the question answering, but you want the facts, the answers to come from your corpus, not from like 14 year olds writing Reddit and Wikipedia. So what we have in Stanford is a really interesting collection of Silicon Valley history. And I took about 34,000 documents with about 15 million words and all of these documents were written between 1987 and 1997. And I wanted to have a conversation with those documents, not with the base model, but with the archive. So what we want to do is essentially create a chat GPT that was frozen in time between 1987 and 1997. And the best question to answer that, to ask that archive would be, will Apple be able to compete with Microsoft? This is what everybody was writing about. And the answer is it's not clear in 1997 if Apple will be able to compete with Microsoft. Microsoft has all this significant advantage in terms of market share and resources, which may make it difficult for Apple to compete. And that is actually exactly the right answer for 1996, 1997. But I've heard that Apple's hiring a new CEO. So how will that new CEO do? Well, Gil Emilio did a lot of great work at National Semiconductor. Spoiler, Gil Emilio did not save Apple, but he did hire Steve Jobs, which played an important role. So this proves that we are talking with 87 to 97. We are not talking to the base model. And this is kind of a weird, I mean, these two examples are kind of weird, but I think there are some examples in our corpora in which there's more knowledge in the archive than there is in Reddit and Wikipedia. And one of that example might be around 87. The hottest thing in graphic design was Bezier Curves and Illustrator. And these were famously difficult to figure out. John Mornock had to ship a VHS tape in the box of Adobe Illustrator, explaining how to use control points. And so what we can do with one of these sort of lang chain or sort of retrieval augmented generation models is we can ask it to give us information from the collection and then cite its work, tell us what articles it's using to explain Bezier Curves. The way it's captured, this very interesting interface is correct as a user of Adobe Illustrator. And more importantly, it's citing its work. It's saying, here's an article in December 87. Here's an article in February 88. It's exactly when people would have been talking about Bezier Curves. So that's the notion of retrieving sourced information from an archive rather than the base model, which was trained sort of on the open web. But you might say our collections include way more than old dusty computer articles. We have films, we have photographs, we have paintings. So how can we get these conversations into a multimodal situation where we're actually able to interrogate way more than just the textual proxy? And for that, we have to turn to multimodal networks. There's a lot of these out there. I've just seen in the last like three months an incredible explosion in multimodal networks. I've chosen one from the Alibaba Group, which is based in mainland China. But there are many different models you can choose. This one works in English. And there are some interesting technical tricks that it uses in order to basically understand text and image, sort of the tasks of image comprehension. And it's easier for me to show this to you than to tell you about it. Does anybody recognize this picture? This is the former president of Stanford who left his post, let's say. And one of the reasons he left his post was that he was accused of research misconduct by a student journalist, Theo Baker. And without passing judgment on what did not happen, he's no longer the president. And this was a famous picture of him as he was trying to exit a context where he was being asked questions by the student journalist. So we asked the M-Blog-Awa model, what is the attitude of this man? What's going on in this picture? It says it appears to be in a hurry. And his posture and the way he's walking indicate that he is focused on his destination and trying to reach it as quickly as possible. And this is true because the student journalist is behind him, trying to ask him a question. Does anybody recognize these people? These are former Apple executives. That's John Scully in the middle and that is Michael Spindler to his right. But what if we talk to this multimodal network without letting on that these are executives? And what if we ask the question that most of us have in our mind right now is pretend these people are starting in a region deaf metal band, what would their band name and their album title be? And so what this M-Blog-Awa model comes up with is that they're the forsaken executives and the first album is Echoes of the Boardroom. And the theme is corporate power and the potential destruction that it can cause. Now here's what's interesting. This was my real prompt. I didn't say what are these executives' first album called. It was able to read this picture and understand that they were executives and then construct the joke. Our art librarian, Lindsay King, at Stanford had a bunch of really interesting work that I think just came in that she acquired and she asked the multimodal model, well, I might somebody be interested in looking at this picture. And the model comes back and says it's a unique and creative representation of a woman playing tennis, that's true. It's done in a black and white style, not true, although it's not like a full photograph, so I'm forgiving it that. Talking about timelessness and elegance, it does mention that it's a dynamic pose, that it's holding a tennis racket and it appears to be the middle of a swing. It can evoke emotions. I mean, some of this is LLM cruft. You can all recognize the way chat GPT talks nowadays. But the point is it can see the picture and it can interpret it. This is a still from a 1971 film called Walk About. And I wasn't sure what the model was gonna say about this film. I could have said a bunch of stuff that would have been horrible. But I'm glad it only said this. It said that it was surprising to see a boy dressed in the sort of public school uniform in the desert, because this is unexpected. And that, I think, shows us the power of these multimodal models. They're able to find what's interesting or contradictory or unexpected in images. And I think my last example from Mplug Owl is this, and I apologize for the video quality. I was so happy this worked. I just, like an idiot, took a picture with my phone of a screen. What you're seeing is actually a video from Kareli Schneemann, who was a very important artist working from the 60s and 70s all the way through when she passed away. Schneemann's archives are at Stanford University. And this is a film. It's MP4, you can see at the top. It's a clip of a kind of installation art, a piece of conceptual art that Schneemann did and that we have a video of. And I didn't capture my prompt, but I think I said, what is happening in this movie? And it said that it doesn't get it 100% right, but it talks about a wooden horse bridle hanging from a wall. It has a leash attached, which is dangling. The horse bridle is surrounded by colored lines. It's done an amazing job of comprehending what is not an object like a cat. It's not an object like a skateboard or a bagel or a banana. It's able to kind of capture what's going on in this, even if it is using 100% of the right terminology. And it sort of ends by talking about the overall atmosphere as artistic, which I think is interesting. So in this talk, we've explored a whole bunch of ways that transformers can be useful for cultural heritage work, taking voice into Unicode text, taking manuscripts into Unicode text, doing topic modeling on embeddings, not the words, and using it all with GPU acceleration with BERT topic. We've talked about these text-to-image networks, which create these dual spaces of linguistic tokens and pixel distributions, what you can do with that. We've talked about the notion of conversing with an archive, using certain layers of the LLM for the conversational power, but then drawing the facts from an archive that we maintain. And then finally, we've sort of investigated this current state of the art in multimodal conversations with some of these multimodal models. And I think I want to end just by prompting some questions here. Thinking about, as a field of folks in the academic, in the library, in the museum space, what the right balance is between closed and hosted models versus open and locally modifiable models. Whenever we paste text into the free tier of chat GPT, what are we doing versus when we're devoting resources to, for example, training a speech-to-text model for an under-resourced language that we hold the recordings in the textual transcriptions of. This question then of should we actually be producing and not merely consuming large models, whether they're visual or multimodal or textual. The, I think, provocational question of should I be able to search Warhol's photography by typing the word love? Is that something that we want to allow? What could go wrong with that? But how, what would we gain by letting people type those types of abstruse questions into the search box? This question of once we get all this text out of the oral histories and the video recordings and the manuscripts, how will that change LLMs? If much of women's writing wasn't sort of printed, except in very rare cases until the late 19th, early 20th century, what do we gain by digitizing letters written by women and how will their language inflect LLMs? The future of image description in this world of evocative search, when not everything maybe needs a caption, and then finally, how far are we away from a world where we can just say, show me every scene in a Bergman film where there's reconciliation. That's actually a null set, but you could imagine other examples in the filmic tradition in which we can sort of query for these things and have them appear on our screen. And with that, I'll stop. Hi, Lisa Hinchliff at the University of Illinois. That was a really, really phenomenal, succinct overview. I'm curious, as you're thinking through the outputs that you're seeing here, is at what point do we sort of ask ourselves as well to what degree, if these things are being output, should they be also sort of captured, if you will, even one might say published, what is our role, or do you have thoughts, let's put it that way, about the role of, basically, you're pulling stuff out of an archive, you're creating something new. Is that an ephemeral object? Is that a moment that is just for the person in conversation with the archive? Or is there something that's about sort of like the republishing, the extending the archive in some way with that? Yeah, that's a great question. I sort of hopped right to the end user, but I could imagine if you were a curator or a librarian or an archivist who had accessioned or described or helped to purchase or whatever a large visual collection or textual collection, these tools would have curatorial function as well. At the Beinecke Library many years ago, I think Nancy Kool curated an exhibit on blue, just everything blue from the Beinecke, that expertly chosen, you know, albums called kind of blue and blue things. And you could tackle that through a whole bunch of non-machine learning AI nowadays. But I think that notion of it becomes really powerful when there's somebody using this who isn't new to Warhol's photography, but who's seen a lot of Warhol's photography, what would she or he gain from that interface? And could those then make their way into, for example, spotlight exhibit or something like that? Thank you for this fantastic talk and showing us a little bit of, I guess I wanted to say the future except for you're showing it up to us, so it's already there. The question that I have is around the idea of prompt engineering and sort of acquiring these archives and these collections in all the different formats that we have. And you showed some fantastic examples and I'm actually curious about your success rate because you showed the successes but you didn't show or at least I don't recall you showing anything where you're like, I tried a prompt and it completely failed. So I'm just curious if you can talk a little bit about how you fared getting to this point that led to this great talk. Thank you. That's a great question. I purposely, when I first prompted on the Apple executives, I said, these executives are starting a band and it gave me a really funny answer and I thought, wait a minute, I just told it they were executives. Can I go back and not tell it that they're executives? And I was happy that that worked. One thing I think that unifies the commercial non-downloadable closed source bottles of chat GPT and the open source models such as the Kuna is that they are non reproducible, non deterministic, totally stochastic. So you have this cherry picking effect where you're going to pick the response that you want to show. That's kind of like the XKCD comic we saw in today's keynote. I do think you're right about prompt engineering and there have been archives that I've made mistakes in asking questions of. You get not wrong, but partial answers when you imply a monolithic answer to a question. What was the response to historical event? And the fact is there are probably thousands of responses to a historical event, 9-11, assassination of Martin Luther King. So asking an archive like that, it's a great example of how it knows that it needs to say something about an outpouring of grief and sorrow and then that's not wrong. But if we prompt it differently and to say what were some of the varying responses to the 9-11 attacks? What were some responses from folks who didn't feel like their perspectives were reflected in the media? This also I think requires us to think about how comprehensive our archives are. How much are they representing voices that maybe weren't part of CNN or C-SPAN or something like that? But I do think that the best way to learn how to prompt this stuff is to try it on collections that people in this room know and maybe have spent a career building because then you have the best chance of figuring out is this actually giving me something new or is it just producing a probable answer? Carol, yeah. Hi, Peter. Can you hear me okay? Yes. Yeah, great. Thank you so much. As always, great to hear what you're up to. I have a question and it's really coming out of what we've seen around sort of the fury around AI, the, I don't know, the real desire for people to attribute meaning to LLMs, right? How, that real? And so as you're working through these, you're thinking about sort of, you know, people accessing this material, accessing collections. So we're thinking about user experience. We're thinking about people coming in to these collections and maybe getting it in through evocative, as you mentioned, search, which I don't know if it's yours or not, but that's a great term. And so my question is how do you envision knowing what we've just been through with LLMs? How do you envision kind of framing these kinds of searches for educational purposes, research purposes? So sort of how do we imbue this with the literacy, the information literacy that I think all of us endorse, right? It's a great question around that user expectations and the fact that people, on one hand people haven't had a chance to build up a set of expectations around LLMs, except on the other hand they have because they've been using it to do their homework or write their grant reports or stuff like that. But I agree as memory institutions as the glam sector, we have a higher standard to meet. There are all sorts of defective experiences in searching large cultural catalogs. I remember when I was at Yale and they were building the terrific Luxe product, the search across all Yale collections from natural science to British art, they were thinking about those questions. What happens if I type the words African American into the search and I only get pictures of enslaved people? That's not a great user experience. What are the ways that metadata can be used to remediate that experience at the same time not falsifying the historical record? I don't know and I think that it comes back to that issue around double bias problems in text to image networks. And then if you think double bias is a problem in which you have a multilingual model and what are you going to do about that? I think that it is an opportunity to explore and perhaps engage with stakeholders across many different dimensions, linguistic and cultural and socioeconomic, about how these things might work. And the only thing worse than the situation we find ourselves in now where we haven't explored that is a world in which vendors lock down that experience and it becomes even or more opaque than it is now. I don't want to hold anybody back from coffee so I'll stop there. Thank you.
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Keynote - Real World WebRTC by Eric Schoffstall at jQuery Conf 2015
WebRTC provides APIs for webcam access and P2P video/voice/data that finally give us the power to create a new calibre of web applications. However, WebRTC is not a shining unicorn just yet - there are complications when it comes to browser support, supporting mobile devices, supporting networks that can't do P2P, and more that need to be overcome. In this talk I will show you how to create a real world, stable, and highly scalable WebRTC application as well as review some of the basics behind how WebRTC works under the hood. Included: fun demos, real production code, horror stories from our WebRTC company. More details: http://confengine.com/jquery-conf-2015/proposal/1287 Conference Website: http://jqueryconf.in
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My name is Contra. I build things, do open source, and create companies in San Francisco. You're probably familiar with a project that I made called Gulp. It's a build system. I think it was in some of the talks earlier. But I'm not here to talk about that. I'm here to talk about WebRTC in the real world. So I have a ton of stuff to burn through. Let's hold off on questions until the end. Sound good? So over the last few years, I've shipped real products utilizing WebRTC as a core technology. It wasn't easy, but through the struggles, pitfalls, and pain, I learned how to harness this powerful technology and create real things for real people. I wanna teach these lessons I've learned so that you can skip the struggle and get straight to building things that matter. So before we dive down, we should do a quick recap of where WebRTC came from and what it's all about. It all started in 2010 with Google acquiring the rights to a bunch of new video codecs. The most notable acquisition from these purchases was a company called On2, which owned the VP8 codec. It's the codec behind WebM. Almost immediately after this acquisition, Google released the source code under a BSD license so anybody could use it without worrying about lawyers. This was a huge charity offering for the open web which had been struggling to secure a stable codec everyone could rally behind since the video tag was added. A year later, Google released the initial code and idea behind WebRTC. The reception was kind of like, eh, this looks pretty cool, but nobody really saw the practical implications of the technology. It was kind of just demo tech. Six months after the code release, we saw the first browser WebRTC implementation in Chrome 23. This triggered a huge uptake in people toying with the new APIs because now any web developer could build something without having to mess around enabling experimental flags and about config. And for the next two years, the WebRTC specification evolved and the code evolved with it. Things broke constantly, releases were plagued with bugs, browsers crashed, many tiers were shed, mostly by me. This was a dark time to be building things on WebRTC. During this phase, I was working on a Skype competitor that used WebRTC and spent sleepless nights figuring out why Chrome on Android couldn't call Firefox on Mac or why Chrome on Windows and Chrome on Android calling each other caused a segmentation fault and both browsers just crashed. So I think really it was just way too early to build something real on top of WebRTC and a lot of people got burned by this. But in 2013, Firefox became the first browser outside of Chrome to add WebRTC functionality. And then following that, summer of 2013 saw a huge wave of WebRTC releases. In that summer we got Firefox, Chrome for Android and Firefox for Android all running WebRTC. So as of this talk, there's currently somewhere around 1.7 billion devices with WebRTC running. That's Android phones, iPhones, computers, web browsers, all that stuff. But by 2018, that number is gonna grow to over four billion devices, which is insane. That's more fucking devices than there are people on this planet almost. But that includes watches, TVs, cars, tablets, consoles, phones, your pants are probably gonna run WebRTC. This might have WebRTC on it soon. We're gonna have stuff all around us that has the exact same experience as you would get with Chrome on the desktop. So in 2010, it was an idea. In 2013, it was an experiment. But now in 2015, it's a reality. With over 300 companies building with WebRTC across numerous devices, it's safe to say that this isn't going anywhere. It works, it's interoperable, and it's here to stay. And with those assurances, let's look at what features ended up in WebRTC. And I'm not gonna bore you by deep diving on every little detail of the specification. So I'll do like a thousand foot view of the system as a whole. The first thing is the ability to access any attached video and audio devices as streams of data in the browser. The API for this is called GetUserMedia, but it's commonly abbreviated as gum, G-U-M. Using the first option, you specify which streams you need. So in this example, we're saying we just want the video by using video true. And in this one, we're saying we just want the microphone, so no video, audio true. Requesting both the audio and video is pretty obvious given the last two examples, audio true, video true. So GetUserMedia is governed by the same permissions model as geolocation, which means it prompts the user to allow access when you call the function. Depending on what you ask for, the message in this little modal will change and the user has the ability to select which camera or microphone they wanna use. And once you get the stream back, you toss it into a video tag by setting it as the source attribute. Your camera is now streaming into a DOM element, which means you can use it in conjunction with all of the other web goodies that are out there. So this is a project I made that turns your live camera stream into a kaleidoscope, randomizes effects using CSS filters, then lays it over a music video. The result is a really kind of trippy experience where you become a generative component of this 16-year-old Swedish rapper's music video. If you're gonna play around with it, make sure you mute your microphone or whatever on your computer. It's gonna get really loud because it auto-plays audio. But you can see that that's me in the camera feed if that loops. And yeah, that was a fun thing that you can do with the camera stuff. So any CSS filters transforms whatever. The video DOM element works just as you would expect it to. And most importantly, WebRTC gives us the ability to communicate directly with other people without going through central servers. And the API for doing this is Pure Connection, which is where things start to get a little more complicated. There's a bit of a song and dance involved when it comes to getting two people talking with each other. One person starts off by creating an offer. In this code, we create a Pure Connection instance, create an offer, then we send that to the other person somehow. The offer message contains information that tells the other person how to talk directly with this user. And when the other person receives the offer, they create a new Pure Connection, set their camera stream on it, then create an answer response. Again, the message tells the other person how to communicate directly. Once the offer and answer messages have been exchanged by a signaling server, both parties have sufficient information to connect to each other directly. Now if you want people to have a channel for arbitrary data, not just video and audio, you can create this thing called a data channel in the Pure Connection prior to sending the offer. And with a data channel between the two peers, you're able to send strings and array buffers exactly like a web socket, but without going through a central server. And data channels give us a unique ability to configure the transport settings via SCTP for each channel. So for example, in a multiplayer game, you might want user chat messages to be on a reliable channel so they never get lost. But player movement messages can go on a lower latency, unreliable channel because it doesn't matter if a player movement packet gets lost. There's another one right behind it. And you can tween to compensate for those lost movement points. So you get your movement packets a lot faster and with lower overhead. And with strong encryption being mandatory and not configurable, WebRTC is by far the most secure voice solution on the market. There's no way to disable the encryption, so all connections in WebRTC are always encrypted end to end. The usage of unencrypted communication is completely forbidden by the specification, so your private audio calls and data channel messages are safe from snooping. All of this made possible thanks to DTLS SRTP, which ensures the RTP flow stays encrypted via a fingerprint included in the signaling process. So even when the signaling isn't encrypted, peers can still trust each other. We'll do questions at the end. Sorry. So in the code examples earlier, there was a to-do note in the function for actually passing the answer and offer messages between the peers. And this is where a signaling server comes in. But this is where WebRTC ends and we're left to implement our own mechanism for communication. So typically you would set up a WebSocket connection to a central server and that server will exchange the signaling message between users and that's all code that you have to write yourself. So on the product end, pretty much any existing VoIP product is fair game to disrupt by creating a better leaner version using WebRTC. Also unlocked though are new problems that traditional VoIP stacks were never able really to solve. So for conference calling, WebRTC eliminates problems like lag and bandwidth usage, so it's an ideal solution. A great example of this is Taki, which provides a simple video conferencing solution. And using WebRTC, they get excellent bandwidth negotiation. So as users join the call, let's say you have 10 users and then you add another five, you're gonna start to tax the bandwidth on your computer. So what actually happens is the audio and video quality automatically adjusts to compensate for that. So based on network load, it'll degrade or go back to HD. Maybe some other computer joins your network and they are downloading a movie or something. Your video quality will degrade gracefully without just dropping. So if you go to this link right here, you'll join a peer to peer conference call with everybody in the room. So if you wanna talk to anybody else during the conference, you can use this. And for a simple chat, current solutions send messages through a server that's possibly thousands of miles away, even though you might be talking to your friend who's located in the same neighborhood as you. But with WebRTC, we can send messages directly between people without having to bounce all over the world. So we get low latency, secure communications. This website right here, RTC copy, is one of many of these simple demo chat sites that popped up with WebRTC. So if you go to this link, you'll have an encrypted chat with everybody at the conference. And I think it has file sharing and stuff built in, which is pretty cool. And that leads us to file sharing, which as ridiculous as it sounds, we still can't do in this day and age easily. So if you had to send a 700 megabyte file to a non-technical friend right now, how would you do it? Anybody? FedEx thumb drive drop box? So it's simpler, and this is the standard conversation you'll have when discussing that problem. The simpler solution, a lot of the times it's just to put it on a USB drive and mail it to somebody or give it to them in person. That's easier than it is to guide somebody in like setting up FTP or going and figuring out how to add them to your drop box or whatever file sharing stuff. It gets really technical. So WebRTC completely solves that problem once and for all, I hope. So it's as simple as dragging a file into the browser and then you just share a link with your friend. When they open that link up, the file gets streamed directly from your computer to theirs without any central servers being in the middle. So that means you never have to wait for anything to upload. And the speeds are like super fast, like you just won't believe how fast it is. You don't need to worry about your sensitive stuff laying around in like a drop box folder that has like a public permission set to it or something for like your secret like social security documents or whatever. It just goes straight from you to them, completely encrypted and safe from snooping. And now some cool stuff. With WebRTC, we ditched the whole idea of a central server for delivering messages. So we now have the ability to create these mesh topologies in the browser using WebRTC's Pure Connection API. A cool example of a partial mesh is this project called WebTorrent by Feros. It's an implementation of BitTorrent in pure JavaScript using data channels. So instead of downloading a file like a movie or a Creative Commons Zero movie, you toss, instead of getting that from a central server, you toss the hash of the file into this mesh and discover people who have that file available to send to you. And then once you're in contact with those people, you get little chunks off of them. And then at the end, you just take all those chunks and put them together and you have a finished file and you never had to download anything from a central server. So we can apply that to content delivery, CDNs. Why download static assets from a web server far away when somebody in your neighborhood has the same stuff already downloaded and cached? So there is a project that does this and it's called Pure CDN. And this means less load on your servers, less money spent on bandwidth, and faster speeds for your users who come to your web application. So earlier this year when there were less web RTC capable devices, you could expect to save around 60% on bandwidth. So I'm assuming that that number has grown quite a bit since then. Any browser supporting web RTC will just download the assets off of somebody close to them. Otherwise it'll fall back to a normal CDN and then that person will become available to download off of. So imagine if something like YouTube or Netflix used this for delivering their content, like the days of buffering YouTube videos would be gone. Removing a central server provides massive improvements for Twitch-based synchronous multiplayer games as well, where milliseconds really matter when it comes to message processing. So using purely WebGL and web RTC, Mozilla made this demo game that has no central server controlling the game state. Players can connect and fight each other all powered by peer-to-peer communication. I'm about to show the URL, but the conference Wi-Fi is most likely going to fall over because there is 60 megabytes of game assets to download. So if anybody has something to an email to send, you might want to do it now. That's the URL, whole Wi-Fi goes down. Feel free to open it up and play around with it right now if you want to fight other people who are in the room. If you're able to get it to load, otherwise you might want to wait until later. So that's a few industries web RTC is going to change up, but what are some new problems that web RTC allows us to solve? A product I'm working on right now is a video dating platform based around web RTC. So this is something I've been working on for the last couple of months. It's called Charmed, and we're currently in a closed beta. If you would like to try it out, you can talk to me afterwards and I'll hook you up with an invite if you want to be a tester. But it's got the same mechanics as Tinder for filtering out people based on physical attraction. You either swipe right or you swipe left. In this screen we use get user media to let people record a three second video for their profile photo. So instead of making a snap judgment based on a low res, like crappy still photo that they probably edited, you kind of get more of a window into their personality before deciding how you're swipe. So in testing, it's been really interesting to watch our users like at first they're like, oh, it's kind of weird that I have to record a video, but after a while they start getting really creative with it. Like they'll set up the camera, it counts down from three, and they'll set up this whole thing where they'll like jump in from out of frame, or they'll like pop up, or they'll like do some weird thing, and it's just a fun, interesting way to kind of show your personality in your photo. And instead of messaging back and forth for a week, we let you cut right to the chase and figure out if you have chemistry with the person by doing a 90 second virtual date. This is a video of me dating myself. If you like each other after your date, you can exchange offline contact info, and then you go on a date in real life. If you don't like each other, you never hear from them again, they're just gone. Simple as that, no more Tinder stalkers. So for this product, WebRTC was a great fit because the virtual date is supposed to be like you're sitting across from the other person at a cafe. We needed extremely low latency HD calls to make it feel like you're really there. So for dating, humans need subtle body language to figure out chemistry, that's just how we work. Like what happens when I say this, like what do their eyes do, or like what's the tone of their voice when they say this? So by going with WebRTC, we get fantastic video even on like the most unreliable crappy networks. I think one time during testing, I was on a glacier in Patagonia on a satellite network, and I called somebody who was in a McDonald's in Montana, and the call went through and it worked, and I could see them and they could hear me, it was, it just worked. So I think that that definitely put Skype to shame because you can't even load Skype on a network like that. It's like loading contacts, and then it just doesn't even work. So the fact that I was able to get this working in that like extreme edge case just really goes to show how great the bandwidth estimation technology is. So while WebRTC does have a lot of promise, there are some problems you're gonna face when you try to ship real things for real people. The first one is browser support. So most of the bugs for Chrome were cleared up in the past two years. It's probably the most stable and best implementation of WebRTC, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. As of this talk, there's 449 acknowledged bugs open on the Chrome issue tracker for WebRTC, and this number can be a little bit deceiving because I don't know if you can read from back there, but most of these are like enhancements to something. They're not actual, like this is broken, we need to fix this. It's like, hey, on Mac, if we use this codec, we get better performance for this certain case on this network. So they're not showstopper bugs by any means. For the most part, they're enhancements, but there are some real bugs like this one. On 53% of Windows laptops that were tested, the microphone level was half of what it was supposed to be due to a bug in the analog gain system. So this means if a Windows person gets on a conference call, nobody will be able to hear them and people will start talking over them. So imagine the type of like weird chemistry that could create in a company. Like let's say the Windows guy gets on a call and nobody listens to him, so he feels like nobody values his opinion and then quits his job. That's something that could happen. So there's like real ramifications for bugs like this. Like people would just start talking over him in the call and he would get pissed off and like quit the call and then his boss is like, why'd you quit the call? Chrome is still missing some of the features that are defined in the spec, but their approach when it comes to implementing things has generally been like do the whole thing at once and do it right the first time versus like incrementally increasing their coverage. So they're typically not in progress for too long. So the ones that are partially implemented are probably gonna be done very soon. So Firefox lagged behind Chrome for a while. I mean Chrome had the first WebRTC implementation. They came up with WebRTC. Obviously they're gonna have like the best WebRTC stack, but recently Firefox put in a ton of work. They actually are beating Chrome in terms of WebRTC spec coverage. So they have more WebRTC implemented than Chrome does now and that's pretty big. There's still a lot of stuff in progress. So Firefox has a different kind of strategy in their development. They are more of like incremental with their stuff, but for the most part, like all of the major chunks are working and even all of the stuff that's partially implemented like works good enough, like except for a couple of edge cases that are mandated by the specification. Now coming to Opera, they had a couple of problems implementing WebRTC, but recently, and I'm sure you know why, all of the Opera bugs have mysteriously disappeared because Opera is Chrome now basically. They're using Chrome's Blink rendering engine. So Opera and Chrome have the exact same WebRTC implementation. Opera lags behind in updating Blink sometimes, but for the most part, you can expect Opera's WebRTC to work exactly like Chrome's. And continuing down the line, we get to Safari. Safari is where things get complicated. This is the current state of WebRTC on Safari. Apple has not announced an intent to implement any of WebRTC, and as per usual has given no indication of what they plan to do. They haven't said whether they like it, what they don't like about it, nothing just completely silent. But last year, they joined the WebRTC working group and that maybe means something, but who knows, they never said anything about it. They're in the working group. I don't know, nothing new. This is the only emoji I could find that explains how I feel about this, and I think how most people feel about this. Safari on desktop might only be 10 to 15% of the market share, but on mobile, Safari is 45% of WebTraffic. And that controls, Safari controls the rendering on iOS with an iron fist. So even if you have Chrome on an iPhone, it's not real Chrome, it's Safari. It's just a wrapper around Safari's web view due to the way that iOS works. So we don't really have any way to get WebRTC on iOS yet. And I just have to say, it's disappointing that the most used mobile browser has refused to implement this widely accepted specification. A lot of people are really pissed right now. I don't know if you can tell, but I'm pretty pissed about this. I'm hopeful that they'll feel bad about being the only one left out of the party and they'll rectify this soon. No comment, maybe. So lastly, Internet Explorer. This one, they actually kind of have a reason for not implementing WebRTC. So when the spec was announced, implementations were already underway in Chrome. So Microsoft kind of just like waited it out, waited for the spec to get more fleshed out before they did a full audit. And after they did their review, they released this competing spec called ORTC, which radically simplifies the API and messaging flow. A lot of people were like, what, they're not gonna do WebRTC, they're gonna make their own stupid thing and people were just like really mad about it, I was mad about it. But after a while it was like, people actually read the spec and were like, you know what, they actually make a lot of sense. Like WebRTC is kind of messed up in a few ways. So over time people realized this and warmed up to ORTC. And recently Chrome and Internet Explorer announced WebRTC 1.1, which has a new set of changes to the spec and it incorporates like all of the good stuff from ORTC. So you can probably expect that to be implemented soon in Internet Explorer. And this is good that we were able to have like spec, competing spec, and then they converged versus like both teams just running with their own thing. So it's good that we're able to rally behind WebRTC 1.1. Across the whole spec, this is compatibility and features for WebRTC. So it's mostly red and yellow, but if you look at the top seven rows, oh, well, it's completely yellow on this. I promise some of those are green on my screen. The top seven rows are green. If you look here, this projector is all yellow though. So you'll just have to trust me. But yeah, the top seven rows are like the core meat of WebRTC, all the features, like the big ones that you need to get done. All the other ones are like nice to have in my opinion. So you can build stuff using the top seven today. Compared to networking, browser support is a piece of cake. So in all of our WebRTC products, networking has consistently been the primary struggle. Getting peer-to-peer calls to connect across weird networks is a really difficult problem to solve. The root of all these problems is NAT. And NAT is short for network address translation, and it's an essential tool for slowing down global IP address exhaustion. It's basically the reason why we haven't run out of IPs already. So instead of every device in your house having its own IP address, your router has an IP, and then all of your stuff sits behind that, and then you have like an internal address that's assigned by the router. But this means PC1 can use a web browser to access a server on the internet, but a device on the internet can't use a browser to access a server on PC1. So this behavior basically breaks the whole idea behind WebRTC, which is setting up a direct line of communication between two devices over the internet. So every device in somebody's house is almost always going to be behind a home router. So this NAT situation is like 90% of the people will come into your website. So what do we do in this situation? PC1 and PC2 need direct communication for WebRTC to work correctly. We have an extremely common network situation where that isn't possible. Now the primary workaround for this situation is called STUN, which is a tongue twister that stands for Session Traversal Utilities for NAT, which is a recursive acronym because there's nested acronyms. So STUN is a mechanism that basically allows a device behind a NAT to get the real origin IP and port that they want to be reached at. When PC1 wants to allow connections from PC2, it'll first ask a STUN server, hey, who am I? And like, how did I talk to you? It's the equivalent of calling somebody's phone number and then saying, hey, what's my phone number? So the STUN server then responds with PC1's real IP and origin port. This information gets passed to PC2 as a part of the signaling process that we talked about earlier. So now PC2 knows how to get around PC1's NAT and talk to it directly. So then the next step, PC2 does the exact same thing, contact the STUN server, get my info, then send it to PC1. So now PC1 and PC2 can talk to each other directly. STUN is going to solve the NAT problem for like 90% of the people that are having trouble with this. Plus Google and Mozilla operate public STUN servers for you to use so you don't have to spin up your own STUN system. They have public ones available. You can just drop their STUN server info into the pure connection config object and it'll just work for 90% of the people, which is most of the time. For the other 10% of users, typically people on corporate networks, things get a little complicated and we have to use this other strategy called TURN. So in those 10% of cases where STUN failed and we weren't able to traverse the NAT, there's just no way to set up a direct line of communication between these two people. So we use this thing called the TURN server which acts as a relay between the two people. So all of the calling data goes through this TURN server. This costs a lot of money to run. It's a lot of bandwidth, it's huge pain to scale. So you're not gonna find any public TURN servers available. So you basically have to set up your own, manage it and scale it out based on the number of calls that you're routing and how much bandwidth you're using. And once you've tackled networking and browser support, you're gonna have a couple of small problems with hardware and these are always the really weird ones because there's like millions of really crappy webcams on the market and they've been flooding the market for like 20 years, like really cheap $5 webcams you can buy at a gas station. So you're gonna have trouble with those. And hardware acceleration is a big one. So in 2011, Google released the Intellectual Property for hardware accelerating VP8, that codec we talked about earlier, to the hardware chip vendors. So they were pretty quick to announce like hey, we're gonna build this NVIDIA Intel AMD ARM and like all the big ones came out and were like yeah, we're gonna do this. I'm not sure what the current number is right now, like how many people have actually implemented hardware acceleration, but I think that pretty much any non-Apple device made recently is gonna have hardware acceleration of VP8. And that takes us back to Apple again. So they don't support hardware acceleration of VP8 at all and probably won't for a while. So on Apple devices, you're gonna get better CPU usage and battery life if you're using H.264, which is hardware accelerated on those platforms. There's one problem with that though. Chrome doesn't support H.264. So you can't have Chrome on OSX, call an iOS device and use H.264 even though technically both devices have hardware acceleration and the codec available. Chrome announced last year that it was coming soon but nothing happened. So that was January of last year. I wouldn't hold out for that coming anytime soon. So I think for now you just have to be okay with hardware acceleration not working great. Another problem on OSX is where the camera randomly disappears. I don't know if anybody's ever had this happen. Your camera just vanishes and you have to restart your computer. And I actually have a solution for this. So yeah, when you get user media as a web application to grab the camera, you'll just get an error back immediately that says, hey, the user declined to give you a camera. It's confusing for the end user because they don't even get a prompt. It just immediately, they'll get a tiny little icon they won't even see in the corner that says webcam blocked. So they have no idea their operating system has basically betrayed them by losing their webcam that's like in their laptop. It didn't become unplugged. It's in the laptop and it's super confusing as a web application because you don't know if they actually declined to give you the camera or if they just didn't have a camera. So your error message that you show them is like, please give us your camera. And they're like, you never even asked. So it becomes really confusing. And the only way to fix this is to either restart your computer or you can open the terminal and kill this process on OSX called VDC Assistant. Now you really can't expect your users to do this. They have no idea what's going on. If you're like, go to the terminal and run this. They're like, what's the terminal? So this is just like a massive problem for us right now. And I'm hoping that they fix it in an upcoming release but until then it's kind of a massive source of headaches. So we checked out some of the cool stuff we can build. I ruined it by showing all of the problems that you're gonna have when you're building stuff. But now is when I do the fun part and reveal all of the solutions to those problems because they are for the most part all solvable. So if you're planning on building anything with WebRTC you should probably get like a pen and paper handy to take down some of these links or I'll tweet the slides afterwards or something. The first one is simple peer. So instead of using peer connection directly, taking a photo, that's a good idea. It's pen and paper, it's a waste of paper. So anyways, this module is simple peer. You don't use peer connection directly, you use this. It's an abstraction over the WebRTC APIs that makes it simpler to use and handles a lot of the problems and gotchas you'll have when you're doing stuff across browsers. So you never have to really worry about spec changes or like weird incompatibilities or race conditions when it comes to message processing. It just works no matter what or what browser it runs on or whether you're using like a crazy weird WebRTC implementation that should just work. For solving browser support, and this is my favorite one, we get this library called adapter.js which provides a native extension for Safari and Internet Explorer that implements a spec compliant WebRTC subset of APIs. So it's a really crazy undertaking. I don't know who wrote these, but like kudos to them. People on Internet Explorer are already used to installing crap anytime they go to a website so they won't care. Safari users will just click it anyways. They probably don't care anyways. But yeah, this is like huge and we use this on the dating site and it was seriously like require adapter.js and now it just works on Safari and Internet Explorer with like one line of code. We haven't had any problems with it and interestingly enough the video on Safari is actually clearer than the video on Chrome so whoever wrote this did a really good job with that. And for mobile support, Android, Chrome WebView already supports WebRTC. It's the same WebRTC you can expect from the desktop version, but for iOS where the WebView will not have WebRTC for like the near future, somebody made a Cordova plugin that implements all of WebRTC, more of WebRTC than Chrome actually, which is another huge thing. So it's pretty new, gained a lot of traction. A lot of people are using this now so it's proven to be like pretty stable, pretty usable. So using Cordova, this plugin and adapter.js, you can write a WebRTC application that runs across all devices, browsers and operating systems with the same code base. So you don't have to do any crazy crap to get stuff to run in different situations, it just works. And for those network problems, we use this module called Free Ice, which is a public list of open stun and turn servers to help with natural reversal. There's no turn servers on the list yet because nobody has offered to host a public turn server because it costs real money, but there are like 80 stun servers on there. So based on if you're in India or something, you'll probably get a stun server in India or if you're in California, it'll probably give you a stun server in California. So you always get like whatever the best stun server is for your location. So you pretty much should never have to run your own stun server. For those 10% cases where we do have to use turn, there's this great open source turn server implementation that is like super easy to set up. So this is the repo for the turn server, but if you Google a bit, you'll find Docker containers and droplets and whatever Heroku doodads to spin up that'll just give you like a one click to get it running type of install. Oh, I should also mention some guy at Google wrote a project that auto scales it too. It's like one click install and auto scale and like do everything on Google App Engine, I think. So definitely Google for that or I'll give a link, I'll tweet a link later. But yeah, that's like super cool because it's just free infrastructure set up pretty much. No DevOps. An exclusive for jQuery India, I want to announce a project I've been working on. This is the project that powers all of our WebRTC applications we've made in the last few years, including the dating website. It's called Wildfire and it's a WebRTC platform that provides the best experience across devices out of any solution so far. Now Wildfire consists of a front end library that gives you a simple API for doing cross-platform WebRTC and a highly scalable API and signaling server for managing call state and user authorization. This URL is private right now but I'm gonna be opening it soon. I just have to finish polishing the docs. I was working on it right before I got on stage. But just wait, I'll tweet when it comes out but this'll be up in the next couple of days, I promise. And accompanying that is React Wildfire which is a set of components that use Wildfire under the hood. So imagine a component just called call. You can just drop in peer-to-peer calling and data in your React application by adding like two lines of code and it works perfectly across platforms. So this whole suite of tools is just aiming to make it dead simple to add in all of these cool new features. And with that release, thank you for having me. If you wanna discuss any of the work I do, here's all of that info. And now I will open for questions. Anyone? Rebroadcasting lets you do a partial mesh for video. So to solve the conference calling problem of like how do you have a conference call with 100 people in it? You just don't have enough bandwidth for it. So to solve that, rebroadcasting basically lets you take a peer connection coming from somebody else and use that as a peer connection coming from you to rebroadcast somebody else's stream so that you can do a partial mesh where like, okay, I'm connected to these 10 people. These people are only connected to 10 people and they all kind of share each other's streams to broadcast those. The encryption stuff in WebRTC is different from HTTPS. So it's not comparable. Can you repeat that? It's a DTLS, SRTP. I would look up the documentation on that. Cool, well, thanks for having me. If anybody wants to hang out, grab a drink, go skateboarding, ask me questions about stuff. Come find me. Thanks.
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35C3 - Compromising online accounts by cracking voicemail systems - traduction française
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9383-compromising_online_accounts_by_cracking_voicemail_systems Voicemail systems can be compromised by leveraging old weaknesses and top of current technology. The impact goes way beyond having your messages exposed. Voicemail systems have been with us since the 80s. They played a big role in the earlier hacking scene and re-reading those zines, articles and tutorials paints an interesting picture. Not much has changed. Not in the technology nor in some of the attack vectors. Can we leverage the last 30 years innovations to compromise voicemail systems? And what is the real impact today of pwning these? In this talk I will cover voicemail systems, it's security and how we can use oldskool techniques and new ones on top of current technology to compromise them. I will discuss the impact of gaining unauthorized access to voicemail systems and introduce a new tool that automates the process Martin Vigo https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events/9383.html
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Alors, on va commencer la prochaine conférence avec Martin Vigo, qui est Product Security Libre à Research Lab et il est responsable de sécurité mobile, l'identité et l'authentification. Alors, il aide les gens à concevoir et sécuriser des systèmes et les applications et il a de bosser sur des sujets comme casser les gestionnaires de mot de passe ou exploiter le FaceTime d'Apple pour créer un espion, un programme espion. Alors, beaucoup d'applaudissements pour la présentation de Martin. Bonjour. Ok. Merci d'être là avec moi. Je suis très content de vous présenter ça aujourd'hui. C'est la deuxième fois que je viens à la conférence. Je suis super excité. La dernière, j'étais avec vous là et aujourd'hui, je suis ici. Ça, c'est moi. Ça, c'est moi à 9 ans avec un Amstrad CPC. Donc, qui a eu cette machine avant ? Il n'y a qu'une seule main qui s'est levée. Il y a été vendu en Europe, je crois. Je jouais à un jeu. Je n'ai pas eu le nom, je suis désolé. Si vous aimez les abandonnoirs, en tout cas, vous pouvez le retrouver. C'était vraiment un des meilleurs jeux du monde. Comme toute recherche, il faut d'abord regarder ce qui a été fait par le passé. On peut apprendre sur beaucoup de ce qui a été fait par le passé. Moi, je suis remonté jusque dans les années 80 pour comprendre comment les free-kers de la début de la scène à cœur, comment est-ce qu'ils faisaient pour hacker les systèmes de messagerie vocale. Je peux vous résumer ce que j'ai appris en cinq paragraphs. Alors, voilà des choses que j'ai eu de magazine Frac, par exemple. Alors, comment hacker des répondeurs téléphoniques. Le paragraphe que j'ai extrait, c'est qu'on peut entrer des combinaisons à deux chiffres jusqu'à ce qu'on trouve sur la bonne. La façon la plus facile de faire ça, c'est le fait que ces machines ne cherchent pas à trouver, ne gardent pas les mauvaises réponses, mais ne cherchent que à trouver les bonnes. Donc si on rentre par exemple un, deux, trois, quatre pour un pin de deux chiffres, il ne va pas gérer un, deux, trois et quatre, il va gérer un et deux, mais aussi deux et trois. Donc en gros, il n'en garde que deux à la fois. En fait, pour hacker les machines de répondeurs, des choses des années 80 à 90, il y a une séquence qui permet de couvrir absolument toute la séquence à deux chiffres. Donc on peut entrer d'un coup une combinaison qui permet de tester toutes les spaces de clés. J'ai aussi appris d'un tutoriel à l'époque qui avait des mots de passe par défaut à l'époque qu'elle surprise. Mais aussi on a des temps à faire des erreurs aussi quand on est humain et qu'on crée des codes. Donc on fait les 1, 1, 1, 9, 9, 9, 9, etc. Et un autre truc que j'ai appris des années 90, c'est que c'était une façon de, le fait que certaines lignes utilisent, vous préviennent qu'ils vont vous faire payer de certaine manière. Désolé pour le délai. C'était ce qui permettait entre autres de faire par exemple des appels à distance où on était, où les autres nous appelaient et on ne payait pas l'appel en sortant. Dans les années 80, on avait des pins par défaut, des pins communs, des pins qu'on pouvait bruteforcer. On peut te forcer, pardon. Concernant la sécurité des systèmes de message aujourd'hui, j'ai regardé la sécurité des fournisseurs américains et également allemands puisqu'on est aujourd'hui en Allemagne. Donc tous les fournisseurs américains ont des pins à quatre chiffres et pour la plupart d'entre eux, ce sont tout simplement les quatre derniers chiffres de votre numéro de téléphone. Concernant l'Allemagne, par exemple, pour Vodafone, ce sont les quatre derniers numéros de votre numéro de client. Pour Telecom, ça pourrait être par exemple les quatre derniers numéros de votre numéro de carte. Pour O2, on a un pin par défaut qui serait 8705. La sécurité des messages réunis aujourd'hui concernant les pins. J'ai consulté des recherches qui ont été faites en 2012 et ceux qui ressortent cette recherche. En essayant les 20 pins les plus communs, un fort pourcentage de chances de tomber sur le bon. C'était à peu près 22%. C'est à dire qu'une personne sur quatre, on aura le bon pin. Donc beaucoup de pins commencent par... Il y en a beaucoup de pins aussi qui commandent par un 9, qui en a un qui commence par ça dans la pièce. Allez, levez les bras. On a une naissance, n'est-ce pas ? C'est assez commun de choisir si on a une naissance pour le faire. Pour les gens qui sont dans les années dans le 20e siècle, c'est assez classique de choisir ça. Concernant les mot de passe brute forceable, que ce soit pour les États-Unis ou l'Allemagne, on peut essayer plusieurs pieds à la fois et les combiner. Et on n'a même pas besoin d'attendre un message d'erreur, on peut les combiner. On peut par exemple essayer trois pins à la fois, enfin la suite. Et on peut profiter de ça. Donc avec tout ce que j'ai appris des années 80, et après avoir vérifié que c'était encore un problème actuel, j'ai développé un outil qui permet de profiter de ça. Donc ça utilise les API de Twilio, qui permettent d'interagir programmatiquement avec des appels téléphoniques. On peut, c'est bon marché, on peut par exemple pour 40 dollars environ, tester l'entièreté des combinaisons à quatre chiffres. Et pour cinq dollars, on a 50% de chance de tomber sur un bon pin à quatre chiffres. Si je veux trouver le mot de passe de quelqu'un, ça serait difficile, mais si je veux chercher dans toute la salle, ça me permettra d'avoir pas mal de bonnes utilisés. Je ne vais pas demander à qui est sur O2, parce que vous savez maintenant qu'on peut assez facilement savoir quel est le dernier. Et bon, donc ceci est un outil automatisé, qui permet de faire un outil automatisé, qui permet de faire un outil automatisé, et qui permet de faire un outil automatisé, qui permet de faire un outil automatisé, qui permet de faire un outil automatisé, qui permet de trouver assez rapidement. Il y a quelques paramètres à gérer, mais dans l'ensemble, ça permet d'aller très vite. J'utilise les données de data génétique, donc ils me donnent des idées sur quelles sont les pins les plus utilisés. Mais la chose la plus importante ici, c'est la détection. Mais parce qu'ils pensaient si, pour que je puisse tester, il faut d'abord que je vous appelle et que ça arrive sur votre épondeur. Donc ça est le plus dur. En tout cas, ça pose une question là. Ce que je voulais faire beaucoup d'appels, et ces différents pins, comment est-ce que je peux interagir avec votre épondeur sans forcément directement vous appeler-vous ? J'ai essayé trois appels simultanément, et donc le troisième est directement au répondeur, mais ça marche pas très bien. On peut aussi utiliser d'autres techniques, par exemple, Twitter, quand les gens aiment bien Twitter, qui vont aller dans un avion, prendre sur un voyage, on peut le savoir, parce qu'on sait qu'ils seront hors réseau. C'est une application dans laquelle l'appel ira directement sur le répondeur. On peut utiliser les bases données DHLR, donc les réseaux mobiles, pour savoir les cartes, les numéros qui sont plus utilisées, mais les cartes sims qui sont plus utilisées, mais les numéros sont encore existants. Et il y a d'autres services qui permettent de savoir s'il y a un téléphone qui est connecté à une cellule en temps réel, on peut également utiliser ça. Il y a d'autres types de SMS, les SMS qui ont des priorités plus élevées et qui s'affichent sur un écran, mais on a aussi un retour pour savoir si l'SMS a été affiée à l'écran, donc ça permet de savoir si le téléphone est dans le réseau. Mais je voulais une méthode sans faille. Donc, j'ai trouvé une solution, plutôt que de vous appeler vous. J'appelle un de ces services qui est affiché ici, et ensuite j'appelle j'entre le numéro de la victime pour avoir directement le répondant de la victime. Et donc ça permet d'arriver directement à l'entrée du PIN. Alors aux États-Unis, c'est un peu un secret que j'ai trouvé en cherchant Google, mais en Allemagne ça a l'air de mon secret entre les codes régionaux et les différentes choses. Ça me permet d'aller directement sur le répondeur en fait. Qui savait ça quand en Allemagne on pouvait faire ça directement ? Ok, c'est ce que je pensais, c'est qu'ici c'est pas vraiment quelque chose dont les gens se fichent. En Allemagne, c'est beaucoup utilisé pour laisser des messages directement de la part de Spammer, des gens qui veulent faire des arnaques, etc. Donc voicemailcracker utilise ces numéros dérobés pour appeler de manière non indétectée. Je sais pas si on vous appelait, aux États-Unis, c'est super pratique. Parce que quand je vais lancer plein d'appels la ligne devient surutilisée même quand elle est en ligne. Alors que ces systèmes-là comme ils sont censés être utilisés par tout le monde, ces numéros-là ne sont pas débordés. Et donc je peux vraiment faire des dizaines des appels et ça n'échoue jamais. Mais vous savez, certains des fournisseurs d'accès mettent des protections contre des attaques brute-force. Et j'ai regardé les fontes sur allemand, par exemple Vodafone ils remettent le pin de 6 chiffres à 0. Donc en fait je peux essayer d'envoyer plein de numéros de CSMS à votre téléphone mais ça ne fonctionnera pas. Je pense que c'est une méthode assez efficace d'ailleurs contre le brute-force. Deutsche Telecom empêche après 6 appels par rapport à l'identification de la plan, on empêche d'accès. Donc ça bloque aussi. Ça se connecte directement au service client et j'ai entendu quelqu'un me parler au téléphone en allemand et mon allemand est pas très bon. Je voulais être capable de contourner ce problème. Donc je vais regarder pour Telecom. J'imagine que ça bloque, je pensais que ça a bloqué l'identifiant de la pleine. Mais avec Twilio en fait on peut appeler, on peut choisir, on peut acheter des identifiants. Donc en fait c'est assez simple, c'est très simple de faire de la randomisation, d'utiliser des numéros aléatoires et contourner la protection contre le brute-force. Donc vos smellcrackers gèrent également le fait de rendre aléatoire l'identifiant de la plan. Donc première démo. Donc comme vous pouvez le voir à gauche ici on a le téléphone de la victime et à droite le outil. Donc on va utiliser avec l'option brute-force qui me permet de brute-forcer le code pin. Avec des options différentes telles que le fournisseur où on va mettre une charge utile adaptée à ce fournisseur. Donc dans ce cas on utilise un numéro dérobé parce que c'est plus efficace. Donc dans ce cas j'ai utilisé le choix des pins les plus fréquemment utilisés. Donc comme on peut le voir l'outil teste 3 pins à la fois et comment pensez-vous que je détecte si le pin que j'ai essayé était correcte des idées ? Des connexions raccrochées en fait je peux regarder la durée de l'appel parce qu'en fait si le pin est si le pin est mauvais l'appel est directement raccroché et ça met toujours la même durée. J'ai pas besoin de traiter du son par la suite ou quoi j'ai juste besoin de la durée de l'appel et si ça dure plus longtemps que d'habitude c'est que le pin était le bon. Donc là on sait que un des pins affichés était le bon et ensuite pour savoir lequel est le bon on les essaie un par un tout simplement et celui qui prend plus longtemps qu'il devrait c'est le bon puisque et donc on se rend compte que le pin c'est 1983 et donc qu'est-ce que ça fait, qu'est-ce que je fais qu'est-ce que je fais ici et bien en fait qui qui les gens généralement s'en fichent un peu du pin de leur répondeur, si je vous demande ici qui même connaît son numéro les gens s'en fichent un peu pourquoi nous on s'en fiche ces présentations incroyables à vous parler mais en fait on s'en fiche mais on a une porte ouverte pour parler de ce problème donc on se fiche qu'on ne connaît pas généralement la majorité des gens ne se rend pas compte qu'on peut en fait remettre à zéro un mot de passe par un appel téléphonique, on sait qu'on peut le faire par email, parfois peut-être les gens savent par SMS mais les gens ne savent pas en général ne savent pas que on peut le faire par la voie en fait il y a cette possibilité qui est offerte parce que certaines personnes disent qu'ils ne pourraient pas pouvoir ressort des SMS et donc c'est quelque chose qu'on va essayer de prendre qu'on va utiliser à notre avantage parce que ça veut dire que si je vais sur un service que je mets votre nom, votre numéro de téléphone et que j'ai un appel et que je peux récupérer votre appel sur le répondeur je peux remettre à zéro mot de passe et je sais que vous allez pas répondre au téléphone et je sais qu'avec l'accès avec le boutique G vous allez pas avoir accès à votre mot de passe donc moi je vais pouvoir enregistrer la voie qui va dire le code qui permet de remettre à zéro votre compte et après ça je pourrai avoir accès à votre compte alors à quoi ressemble le vecteur d'attaque on brute force le on brute force le numéro en utilisant des numéros des robés alors il faut être sûr que le vrai l'appel légitime lui aille bien sur le répondeur il faut être sûr que la victime soit pas connectée sur une émette que j'ai décrit avant on commence le remise à zéro du mot de passe avec la fonction et après ça on écoute le message écouté, le message enregistré et après c'est la partie où on fait du profit petite démonstration sur comment craquer WhatsApp alors à gauche c'est mon numéro avec mes groupes privés et à droite je suis juste sur un émulateur android que j'ai installé et j'ai installé le paquet qui convient donc vous allez voir, à votre gauche la victime à droite, mon émulateur pour faire mon attaque vous allez voir que je vais utiliser mon outil avec le PLO de message donc dans ce cas, qu'est-ce que je fais ? je mets le téléphone de la victime en mode avion donc il était en ligne et j'ai réussi à le détecter d'une façon ou d'une autre WhatsApp vous envoie WhatsApp vous envoie un message pour vérifier que vous voulez rejoindre le groupe et si vous ne répondez pas dans une minute, ça vous donne une option pour appeler, c'est exactement ce sur quoi j'ai cliqué donc maintenant WhatsApp à paix la victime qui est en mode avion parce qu'il est dans un avion ou quelque part en du réseau et j'utilise voice mail cracker avec l'option message pour automatiquement récupérer le dernier message pour avec l'outil il va me fournir ça et la dernière option qu'on pourrait voir c'est le pin puisqu'on l'a déjà eu avant donc là on le récupère on va voir, c'est une démo enregistrée mais ça devrait fonctionner maintenant on a eu URL pour le message on écoute nous au message votre numéro 3619 et voilà c'est aussi simple et là on vient de prendre control du WhatsApp de la personne je vais un peu plus vite pour vous montrer mais c'est l'idée merci, merci je vais quand même montrer du doigt le fait que le système de sécurité de WhatsApp est bien fait notamment vous pourriez pas voir les messages reçus précédemment mais par contre vous pourriez voir ceux qui seront reçus par la suite et la vérité c'est que des researchers parlent de ça et en fait il y a encore des choses qui ont été faites il y a eu des choses en le passé qui montraient que ça fonctionnait pas complètement il y a encore des choses qu'on peut faire donc quand on reçoit un téléphone un appel qui vous donne un code temporaire ça ne vous en fait en vrai ça vous le donne pas directement il faut entrer des quets des touches sur le téléphone voilà, parfois il faut toucher il faut appuyer sur une touche particulière pour obtenir le message parfois par exemple Apple vous demande d'entrer un code spécifique pour avoir le mot de passe il faut d'abord entrer un pin pour après ça avoir accéder à la remise à zéro de son pin donc je vais vous demander de l'aide ici est-ce qu'on peut ici choisir un mode de protection qui permet d'éviter ce genre d'attaques le premier mode c'est le premier indice c'est alors vous êtes peut-être familier de cet objet des real cap and crunch on monte aux années 80 et ce sifflé était utilisé qui permettait de générer une fréquence particulière qui se trouvait être la bonne pour générer des appels téléphoniques gratuits à l'international dans les années 80, une tête de fricking de l'époque et la deuxième chose quand j'ai fait la checklist j'en ai sauté une donc je me suis demandé comment est-ce qu'on peut j'ai sauté le message d'accueil comment est-ce qu'on pourrait utiliser ça est-ce que quelqu'un l'idée on peut enregistrer on peut enregistrer des fréquences de touch de téléphone comme message d'accueil on pourrait utiliser ça c'est exactement ça qu'on va faire on va enregistrer comme message d'accueil les touches d'etmf que le système expect attend comme entrée et ça marche à chaque fois est-ce qu'il est vraiment excellent pour nous tous qui comprennent et qui apprécient la technologie comme ça et qui sautent cette approche et je suis demandé comment cette approche il me disait bah il faut entrer une code et ça vous envoie un mot de passe c'est pas vraiment vrai il faut fournir un son spécifique qui est celui que le système attend et c'est pas tout à fait la même chose qu'il faut appuyer sur une touche parce que si je dis il faut appuyer sur une touche ça veut dire qu'il faut physiquement avoir accès à la touche si vous dis il faut fournir un son ça ne demande pas effectivement un accès un accès physique à la machine c'est pour ça que le fait les hackers sont tellement cool et donc on peut faire une nouvelle attaque nous avons un état supplémentaire qui nous permet de capter le message qui on a reçu de Paypal et notre outil permet de faire ça plus facilement que avec Paypal à la gauche on a le mécanisme de brute force et à 7 fois à la droite nous avons un code pour le compte on va changer le mode pass on va choisir l'option de appeler avec un code temporaire par contre Paypal, cette fois ils vont nous mettre un code sur l'écran qu'on doit taper dans notre téléphone ici on utilise l'option greeting ça nous permet de entrer en payload un message qu'on arrive à enregistrer qui est 6 5 3 5 c'est très simple pour ce démon et je rentre 6 3 5 3 cet outil maintenant on va connecter à la système de la boîte vocal interagir avec la système et enregistrer les codes d'etmf selon notre code et l'enregistrer comme nouveau message vocal Paypal va maintenant rappeler suite à ma demande et ils vont pouvoir compromettre le compte de Paypal on arrive à remettre un autre mode pass qui a noir à ce fois, merci alors je vous ai montré quelques services vulnérables mais j'ai pas beaucoup de temps du coup on va aller un peu plus vite et on va regarder les top son services il y a Paypal Instagram Snapchat Netflix, eBay, LinkedIn, Facebook il y a les notifications de 2 facteurs pour la plupart des services majeurs et on arrive à utiliser le numéro de téléphone pour s'enregistrer sur beaucoup de services, par exemple WhatsApp ou autres services similaires ou Twilio par exemple c'est un service qui est vraiment cool et c'est possible de capturer un numéro de téléphone pour envoyer des messages à votre part d'une manière légitime parce que vous avez capturé le numéro Google Voice aussi c'est possible de authentifier votre numéro de téléphone par notre méthode de triche et il y a des autres services j'ai regardé des autres services j'ai trouvé à San Francisco c'est très commun quand les personnes veulent rentrer dans votre maison avec un système d'intercom ils arrivent à taper sur votre nom pour sonner chez vous il y a beaucoup de bureaux qui utilisent cette technique aujourd'hui pour les personnes qui arrivent qui part à la place d'avoir un système statique ça travaille en téléphone ma chose préférée c'est de parler par rapport au consentement on pense par rapport aux avocats on pense par rapport à ces questions difficiles et moi j'ai trouvé ce service qui s'appelle Location Smart qui n'existe plus il était récemment dans les journaux parce que Brian Krebs a écrit un article vraiment excellent qui parlait de ce qu'il faisait mais maintenant je vais vous faire écouter ce que Location Smart explique dans notre vidéo YouTube l'écran que vous voyez là c'est une démo qu'on a sur notre site c'est locationsmart.com ça travaille par nom par mobile ça me demande ma permission on m'a appelé mon téléphone et ensuite ça me localise oui je vais accepter je vais cliquer sur localiser l'écran maintenant montre que ça va appeler mon téléphone pour avoir ma permission jolie sonnerie bienvenue aussi service locationsmart appuyer sur 1 ou dit oui pour appuyer sur 2 dit répéter bravo vous avez accepté la localisation comme vous pouvez voir ce site web il y avait une démo gratuite qui permettait de rentrer un numéro de téléphone et on reçoit un téléphone on appelle et après ça on accepte en appuyant sur 1 pour que d'autres gens puissent vous localiser donc je vais vérifier avec eux on peut continuer à vous suivre jusqu'à 30 jours en temps réel maintenant vous savez pourquoi il n'existe plus open source le chez libre open source et c'était avec l'autorisation des fournisseurs c'était pas un truc vraiment à la rache je voulais libérer le code pour que vous puissiez essayer et tester mon code et l'améliorer les retours et qu'on améliore les services de répondeur pour qu'on les améliore mais je ne voulais pas fournir un outil qui marche directement et que n'importe qui puisse utiliser les gens qui commencent à brûleforcer les pins de gens qui avaient les mauvaises intentions donc j'ai enlevé l'option brûleforce ça permet maintenant juste de tester sur son téléphone ça teste les différentes options le message d'accueil les différents services sont pour le téléphone mais je ne vous donnerai pas le code pour faire le brûleforce pour les autres mais je vous laisserai le faire vous même si vous voulez maintenant les recommandations ok je sais ce que vous dites mais quelqu'un vient avec toute cette paranoïa et vous dit toujours mais personne va m'attaquer moi je n'ai rien à cacher je n'ai rien de ce type là je vais vous donner des raisons pour lesquels vous devriez quand même en avoir quelque chose à faire et pourquoi vous devriez faire mieux est-ce que les fondateurs vont mettre des pins par défaut ? oui est-ce que le test de ces pins est rapide automatisé ? oui est-ce que la mise à jour des messages d'accueil possible ? est-ce que leur récupérer les messages à distance autorisés ? oui est-ce qu'il y a des descriptions de la voix vers le texte donc ça permet d'avoir d'écouter vos messages, de les transférer en texte oui ça c'est aussi vrai est-ce qu'on peut automatiser le fait de compromettre un accord en compte ? ben oui évidemment maintenant on peut utiliser tous les outils qu'on a là il y a plein de choses qu'on peut faire en disant les API par exemple ça va juste prendre un certain temps mais ça va forcément arriver à un moment où toutes ces étapes là ce qu'on fait de manière automatisée est simple et que les gens commencent à essayer différents numéros téléphones jusqu'à automatiquement compromettre des services comme WhatsApp, comme PayPal etc on peut faire on peut compromettre beaucoup de téléphones de services et de téléphones sans rien faire donc ne pas utiliser les appels automatisés pour des raisons de sécurité si c'est possible détecter quand le répondeur répond et les échecs à ce niveau là alors on espère que les opérateurs vont bannir les tonnes DTMF ce sont des messages qui sont envoyés par votre téléphone éliminer les accès à la forme de login vous ne voudrez pas avoir accès à votre boîte vocale sans avoir votre propre téléphone alors désactiver le voicemail par défaut ce sera une autre recommandation pour les opérateurs peut-être on peut apprendre à partir des opérateurs des opérateurs allemands il ne faut pas accepter multiple pins à la même temps il ne faut pas autoriser plusieurs appels à la même temps des recommandations pour vous vous pouvez désactiver la boîte vocale pour vous-même mais il y a des backdoor qui permet de réactiver ces boîtes vocales sans votre consentement il faut utiliser le pin le plus compliqué possible et il faut éviter de donner votre propre téléphone à des services en ligne ou peut-être utiliser des services comme Google Voice qui vont permettre de vous avoir un autre numéro de téléphone que vous pouvez utiliser avec certains sites moi j'aimerais bien finir mon talk avec un slide qui nous donne une bonne idée de ce qui se passe et l'idée c'est que l'attaque contre les boîtes vocales est un très grand problème et on a beaucoup des choses à faire pour résoudre ça parce que ça peut être utilisé pour exploiter certaines choses merci beaucoup merci Martin on a le temps pour quelques questions donc s'il y a des gens qui ont des questions sur internet sur des questions mettez vous, faites la cuillère les microphones peut-être commencer et on prendra une question d'internet après oui alors j'ai une question vous avez mentionné que le téléphone devait être hors ligne on vous disait que la ligne devait être occupée disons que j'ai déjà appelé la victime et la donc la ligne est occupée et donc à ce moment là le répondeur m'entraverait en jeu si vous voulez faire un appel et quelqu'un d'autre faire un appel d'autre d'autre ça pourrait marcher je l'ai essayé ce serait pas trop difficile mais si il y a deux appels ça reste de vous prévenir qu'un deuxième appel qui arrive vous aurez une notification c'est ça que je voulais dire avec le d'envoyer plein d'appels c'est une des limites mais c'est possible par rapport à ce que vous dites de faire ça question d'internet est-ce que les appels pour remettre un zéro les mots de passons commencent pas à parler immédiatement c'est pas la suite si les appels qui remettent un zéro les mots de passons se mettent à parler directement ils ne peuvent pas étudier ça on croit que ça a la question alors quelque chose sur le fait de pouvoir enregistrer la durée du message on a pas tout eu mais en tout cas il dit qu'on peut toujours utiliser les tonalités d'ETMF dans le message d'accueil vous avez parlé de la façon dont vous avez appris en lisant comment ça s'appelle comment je l'ai trou c'est la meilleure question qui est question de même pour les appels c'est pas la conséquence mais c'est le plus important le plus important c'est que vous devez vous prendre les appels Comment je les trouve ? C'est la meilleure question que j'ai jamais eu, comment trouver les zines de l'époque ? J'adore cette question parce que vous aussi, vous voulez apprendre comment faire ça, donc j'adore ça. Alors le site de frac est la meilleure ressource qu'on peut utiliser, je pense tout le monde sera d'accord. Alors, cherchez juste frac magazine et vous trouverez beaucoup beaucoup de choses intéressantes à apprendre dans leur contenu. Et il y en a d'autres ? Oui, moi j'aime beaucoup Twitter pour avoir les nouvelles sur la sécurité, donc c'est assez à jour. J'ai la version 140 caractères et je peux voir si je suis intéressé, après ça je peux aller par plus loin. Mais vous pouvez chercher, il y a d'autres gens de la sécurité, vous pouvez faire une recherche, meilleure personne à suivre en ce terme sécurité, j'en braine, crêpes, il y a d'autres gens, comme ça. Et vous verrez, il y a aussi des blogs spécialisés, des choses comme ça. Merci. Merci. Bonjour. Pour moi la solution est évidente. Est-ce que je pourrais facilement adapter votre script pour automatiquement... Pour moi la solution évidente c'est d'éjectiver ma messagerie, mais est-ce qu'on peut faire ça pour les proches ? Est-ce qu'on peut automatiser ? On peut automatiser pour éteindre le pin. Je ne sais pas si c'est possible. Pour éteindre la répondeur de proches, je n'ai pas testé ça. Il faudrait probablement appeler le service client, mais c'est une très bonne question, c'est extrêmement bien. Si on peut l'éteindre, on doit pouvoir simplement pouvoir l'allumer, on pourrait éteindre le répondeur de ses proches. Est-ce que Twilio vous a banni ? J'ai eu quelques mails, mais ils ont été très cool avec. J'aurais expliqué d'où je venais, comment j'approchais la question, ce que je faisais. J'aurais donné tout le monde d'entité et je n'ai pas caché quoi que ce soit. J'ai dû payer en fait pas mal de sous, finalement, à cause de tous les appels que je passais pour la recherche. Donc je ne l'ai rien caché du tout. Ils ont détecté que je faisais beaucoup d'appels. Donc au volume, il y a de la détection. Mais Twilio n'est pas le seul service qui fait ça et on peut pas sculer d'un service à l'autre, mais c'est passé le temps entre lequel on utilise un même service, ce genre de choses-là. Vous avez parlé de rester non détectés en utilisant ces numéros dérobés. En Allemagne, si quelqu'un accède à votre boîte mail, vous recevez un SMS. Mais ça doit être possible de désactiver ça. Est-ce que vous êtes intéressé à cette question ? Non, je n'ai pas regardé ça spécialement, mais c'est vrai qu'on reçoit un SMS en Allemagne quand on a un appel. Je me demande ce que j'ai essayé, moi, du côté allemand. Je recevais un message quand quelqu'un m'avait laissé un message. Je crois que vous vous parlez de quand il y a eu un appel manqué. Ça, je suis pas certain. Ce que j'aimerais savoir, c'est ce souvenir qu'on peut faire ça quand la personne est hors ligne ou sur un voyage. Donc ça, c'est une bonne façon pour lancer son attack parce qu'elle aura pas les choses à temps. Mais on peut juste bien calculer son moment pour lancer l'attaque et par le moment où elle aura les SMS, il sera de toute façon trop tard. Merci. Dans certains cas, on peut activer ce qui s'appelle la messagerie visuelle. Est-ce que ça va en bloquer votre appel ? Non, en fait, non, je crois pas. J'ai lu d'un chercheur australien et il a vu que ça utilise derrière de l'IMAP, donc le protocole mail, pour certains infondisseurs, il a été capable de lancer des attaques bruts de force parce que l'authentification était avec le même pin que quand on se connecte par la voie, par le téléphone. Mais il a trouvé un fournisseur qui était vulnérable en utilisant le protocole de messagerie visuelle. Et j'ai suivi ces étapes pour voir si ça valait la peine d'en parler ici. J'ai pas trouvé que c'était vulnérable, mais ça veut pas dire que ce n'est pas le cas, mais j'ai pas trouvé que ça valait la peine d'en parler ici. Une dernière question ? Quelles sont vos recommandations envers les fournisseurs américains pour se protéger ? J'ai mis une diapo pour en parler. Je crois que le plus important, vraiment, c'est de regarder ce que font les fournisseurs allemands. Vraiment, j'aime bien ce qu'ils font. Je trouve qu'il y a des choses très sensées qu'ils font. Vous envoyez des SMS pour prévenir que quelqu'un, si quelqu'un vous a testé six fois le mauvais pin, remettra zéro. On a un accès physique à quelque chose de physiquement verrouillé. On pourrait utiliser ça. Mais on pourrait essayer d'avoir accès à ça, mais bon, ça serait plus vraiment une attaque à distance. En tout cas, vraiment clairement détecter les attaques par brute force et les arrêter, les éteindre. On sait que les identifiants d'appel, les colorides, ça ne marche pas très bien parce que j'ai été capable de m'en servir. On peut même, normalement, détecter sur le d'appel des téléphones. On peut détecter si c'est un téléphone réel ou virtuel. Donc on pourrait utiliser ça. Ça peut être un drapeau rouge dans l'affaire. Mais j'imagine qu'un gouvernement pourrait utiliser ça. Il y a l'option de... On peut essayer après ça. Oui, quand on est un gouvernement, on peut avoir accès à 3300 téléphones et des discarts aussi, mais on peut faire les appels depuis des vrais téléphones, etc. Ah oui, et puis il y a toujours l'attaque par le message de bienvenue du répondeur. Merci, Martine. Je n'ai jamais fourni aucun numéro de téléphone à des services en ligne et maintenant je sais pourquoi. Merci encore. Et merci en tout cas d'avoir suivi cette traduction en français qui était parfois un petit peu difficile.
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Th, 01.14.21 // 1Box (fotl) RT #2 // 2016-17 Panini Immaculate Basketball (NBA)
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2021-01-15T01:49:17
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Hi everyone, happy Thursday. Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com coming at you with a really nice one box break. 2016-17, Panini and Maca basketball first off the line. FOTL, one box, random team break number two. This is the, yeah, this is the first time they've done first off the line. This is Panini's first venture into that. Some nice stuff in there too, like that Kobe, RIP. And there's some bonus parallels in here as well, so that's a lot of fun. Let's do it. Let's roll it and randomize it. Names and teams, five and a three, eight times each. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. After eight, we got Takumi Abe, down to Ryan Carlson, who won a spot in that mosaic pack break. I appreciate everybody, no matter how you got in, whether you bought spots into the pack or whether you bought spots straight up, I appreciate it. All right, five and a three, eight times for the teams. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eighth and final time. Memphis Grizzlies, all the way down to the Golden State Warriors. And so you really need to pay attention to what's on the schedule and what I say. I just answered that question. All right, Takumi with the Grizzlies, Robert with the Knicks, Kevin with the Magic, Josh with the Mavs, Louis with the Nets, Robert with the T-Wolves, Roy with the Kings, Matthew with the Clippers, Michael with the Pelicans, Ryan with the Thunder, Takumi with the Cavs, Louis with the Trailblazers, and the Wizards, Ryan Carlson with the Bucks, Frank with the Sons. Ching with the Hornets, Matthew with the Spurs, Matthew Parsons with the Jazz, Ryan with the Hawks, Aaron with the Pacers, Robert with the Pistons, Adam with the Nuggets, Josh with the Celtics, Jack with the Raptors, Robert with the Rockets, Louie with the Bulls and the Heat, Steve Virch with the Sixers, Narc with my Lakers, our Lakers maybe, Ryan Carlson with the Golden State Warriors. So let's put all this on one page right here. Let's sort by column B by team. And while you're considering and trade out your own risk and think about your 2016 NBA draft class. I kind of forgotten what's in there. 2016, our Lakers, Narc says nice, go Lakers. Oh yeah, this is the Ben Simmons, Brandon Ingram draft class, Jalen Brown, Buddy Heal, Jamal Murray, Thonmaker, Demontus of Bonus, among others. Pascal Siakams in this class, Malcolm Brogdon, et cetera, et cetera. So while you're considering trades, let me flip away from that screen for a second. And there it is, back in, I don't think they put first off the line in cases anymore. They're all loose boxes nowadays, but back when they first did it, it was a case. Good luck. A team only sucks if they don't hit, Frank Hiller. There's the boss man out there. Yeah, he's around, he's around. Yeah. All right, let me select that die right there. That's the one. So you can see on the top screen right there, here's one, two, three, four, five. So let's just number these. And five. And I'll just roll the die. One, two, three, four, five will select the box. If I roll a six, we'll just roll it again. It's gonna be box two. So that's the one right there. If you wanna run this back, check out jaspyscasebrakes.com. Let's flip back here. Looks like Hiller says what's up. Looks like no trades. So trade window closed. There you go Ansel, thank you. I would have answered all your questions. TWC, trade window closed. Let's print, let's rip. The chase for the Raptors would be Pascal Siakam. Which would be a pretty nice hit actually. There it is, 1617 immaculate. The first off the line. Yeah, you saw the first off the line stickers right there too. Just a quick little one box break, but ton of value in here if you get the right player obviously. Go bigger, go home. Scared money, don't make money. All those, all the cliches. High risk, high reward. We'll use this blank card to hide some of the hits here. And I think the out of five card is usually the last one here. Uh oh, a redemption. Now that redemption might be expired, but Panini's pretty good about honoring expired redemption, so don't fret too much. Right, on top here we've got Kemba Walker. 52 out of 99. And once again there's the final printout right there, so that Kemba will go to Qing and the Hornets. And a product like first off the line immaculate. You know, even base cards could have some value too, especially for the rookies. Ooh, wow. Lebron James, big relic there, 11 out of 18. That's awesome. Cavaliers edition going to Takumi Abe. Team Logo, so part of the logo at some point. Remember, Lebron James, his autographs are exclusive to Upper Deck. So consequently these Panini, the Panini cards, anything that says Lebron on it, or any relic of his, does well. Game worn material right there. Pretty awesome, congrats. Next up is Thaddeus Young for the Pacers. Modern Marks autograph, 52 out of 99. Aaron with Indiana, Pacers moving Oladipo. In fact, Rockets are on TV right now. The New Look Rockets. Next up is Olegor Julius Randall, 23 out of 50. Shadowbox autograph, kinda wish we wouldn't, didn't let Julius Randall go, but it had to be done. That'll go to the Lakers. That's gonna go to Narek and our Lakers. I think he's doing well out there in New York. The redemption is gonna be celebration signatures. Jay Crowder. Jay Crowder was a Celtic in 2016. Yeah, he was a Boston Celtic in 2016. So that goes to Boston and that will be for Josh Proust. I should get a free top loader out of this too. All right, yeah, it expired last year. But again, Panini is pretty good about honoring expired redemption. So one way or another, you'll get that. There should be a hit and then the Emerald card, 69. Nice, out of 99, Jeremy Linn, Brooklyn Nets. That goes to Louis. There you go, and the last one here is two out of five. It's Carl Anthony Towns. Nice. I think maybe, is that second year Carl Anthony Towns? That goes to Minnesota. Robert Runkle. Robert, all aboard the Big Hit Express. Woo-hoo. There you go, ladies and gentlemen. Pretty fun break right there. 16-17 immaculate basketball, first off the line. So you got those exclusives, like the out of five Emerald and a bunch of nice hits. They loaded these boxes up. So check it out on Jaspy's casebreaks.com for the next one. A spiller and a bunch of straight up spots. So however you want to try to get in, make it happen. I'm Joe. I'll break that with you next time. Bye-bye.
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CRISPR Development Makes Stem Cells "Invisible" to Immune System Without Immunosuppressants
Gene editing can make stem cells invisible to the immune system, making it possible to carry out cell therapy transplants without suppressing the patients’ immune response. Scientists in the US and Germany used immune engineering to develop universal cell products that could be used in all transplant patients. The idea is to create stem cells that evade the immune system; these hypoimmune stem cells are then used to generate cells of the desired type that can be transplanted into any patient without the need for immunosuppression, since the cells won’t elicit an immune response. They used CRISPR-Cas9 to knock out two genes involved in the major histocompatibility complex, which is used for self/non-self discrimination. They also increased the expression of a protein that acts as a “don’t eat me” signal to protect cells from macrophages. Together, these changes made the stem cells look less foreign and avoid clearance by macrophages. The team then differentiated endothelial cells and cardiomyocytes from the engineered stem cells, and they used these to treat three different diseases in mice. Cell therapy treatments using the hypoimmune cells were effective in rescuing hindlimbs from vascular blockage, preventing lung damage in an engineered mouse model, and maintaining heart function following a myocardial infarction. Immunosuppression poses obvious risks to a patient, and generating custom cells for transplant therapy is often prohibitively expensive. The development of universal donor cells that can be used as therapeutics could bring the cost down significantly, making cellular therapeutics available to many more patients in a much safer way. SOURCES AND FURTHER READING ⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺ Engineering Cells to Avoid Immune Detection in Transplants: https://www.lifespan.io/news/engineering-cells-to-avoid-immune-detection-in-transplants/ “Hypoimmune induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cell therapeutics treat cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases in immunocompetent allogeneic mice” paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/28/e2022091118 LSN episode on Intellia Therapeutics’ clinical trial of NTLA-2001 - https://youtu.be/WKOPTfGqMPA LSN episode on CRISPR switching genes on and off - https://youtu.be/WPabduXB7eg Science to Save the World video on CRISPR Designer Babies - https://youtu.be/Avi66PtJOOA LIKE WHAT WE DO? ⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺ If you’d like to help us run this show and/or help Lifespan.io end age-related diseases, you can become a Lifespan Hero: https://lifespan.io/hero. Your support means the world to us! FOLLOW US EVERYWHERE ⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺ Website: https://www.lifespan.io/lifespan%20news/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifespan.io/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifespanio Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifespanio Discord: https://discord.gg/HwTX7gR FOOTAGE, IMAGES, AND MUSIC CREDITS ⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺ Stock photos: Shutterstock.com Stock footage: Videoblocks.com Music: "Elastic Vibe" by Ziv Moran ⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺ #CRISPR #GeneEditing #StemCells
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2021-08-16T17:26:08
2024-02-05T08:23:08
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A lot of people frequently ask me what I think about CRISPR-Cas9 and when I think it will be ready for widespread therapeutic use in humans. My answer is CRISPR is super excited and promising biotech, but I don't know when it will be ready for widespread therapeutic use in humans, but I hope soon. Gene editing can make stem cells invisible to the immune system, making it possible to carry out cell therapy transplants without suppressing the patient's immune response. Scientists in the US and Germany used immune engineering to develop universal cell products that could be used in all transplant patients. The idea is to create stem cells that evade the immune system. These hypoimmune stem cells are then used to generate cells of the desired type that can be transplanted into any patient without the need for immunosuppression, since the cells won't elicit an immune response. They used CRISPR-Cas9 to knock out two genes involved in the major histocompatibility complex, which is used for self-non-self discrimination. They also increased the expression of a protein that acts as a don't-eat-me signal to protect cells from macrophages. Together, these changes made the stem cells look less foreign and avoid clearance by macrophages. The team then differentiated endothelial cells and cardiomyocytes from the engineered stem cells, and they used these to treat three different diseases in mice. Cell therapy treatments using the hypoimmune cells were effective in rescuing hind limbs from vascular blockage, preventing lung damage in an engineered mouse model and maintaining heart function following the myocardial infarction. This is an exciting advancement for CRISPR, but I still don't know when CRISPR is going to be ready for therapeutic use in humans. What's your best guess? Let us know what you think in the comments. Immunosuppression poses obvious risk to a patient, and generating custom cells for transplant therapy is often prohibitively expensive. The development of universal donor cells that can be used as therapeutics could bring the cost down significantly, making cellular therapeutics available to many more patients in a much safer way. For more on CRISPR, you can watch our recent episode on using CRISPR to turn genes on and off, or the new episode of Science to Save the World on CRISPR-edited babies from links in this video's description. Lifespend.io's fourth annual Ending Age-related diseases conference is August 19-22, 2021. Go to Lifespend.io to secure your ticket if you haven't already. As always, there will be a link in the video description, along with a link to this paper. If you found this video valuable, then please consider sharing it. Thanks and we'll see you in the next video.
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Accessibility
Panel session from the 2017 Boston Accessibility Conference that includes: IBM, MIT, Open Access Technologies, Rendever, Aira and the Massachusetts Association of the Blind. Discussion focused on the potential of AI technologies to enhance and extend the independence, quality of life, and experiences of people with physical or cognitive impairments. Learn more at www.ibm.com/able
[ "accessibility", "AI", "artificial intelligence", "ibm", "boston accessibility", "machine learning", "disabilities", "inclusion", "MIT", "Open Access Technologies", "Rendever", "Aira and the Massachusetts Association of the Blind" ]
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Welcome again, and so my name is Roy. So I'm the director for IBM's accessibility research team and such a great honor to be here with you and also with the distinguished panel here and so the panel this panel is about the impact of artificial intelligence on the sensibility and What I'll do is I will give a short introduction and then we'll let the panelists introduce themselves before we dive into the discussions And I hope to leave about five ten minutes at the end the four questions So Peter when how much time do we have one hour? Okay, we have one hour. It's 10 30 now So I like to begin with you know accessibility. What does accessibility mean in technology, right? This is about reinventing the relationship between humans and technology to ensure that people with all abilities Have equal sex access to to technology and to information So I would say we're in a time Where accessibility is more important and full of opportunities than ever largely driven by three Areas three drivers, right? I wouldn't is essentially the Emergence of technology new technologies at record pace and many of you work in the technology field I don't need to say too much the second is the demand for accessibility has been increasing and Today we're talking about a 1.2 billion people with disabilities in this world And as the Asian Democrats shift is happening quickly that number is going to increase much faster Many of you probably already realize and we're at the tipping point where people 65 and older is Exceeding the population of young children five and younger for the first time in human history and among the You know the aging population people 60 and older 40% of them have at least one disability and many of them acquire over time multiple disabilities in coupled with Chronic diseases, that's a second driving force the third one. I like to add it is because I mean I would say More than ever people actually have the empathy Passion into the asthma accessibility because I just came from Grace Harper conference I was so touched by these young students their commitment and also they are Awareness about accessibility. I ended up with a stack of resumes for people want to work in accessibility research area So extremely exciting. So these are the three, you know driving forces reshaping the landscape of accessibility So that's essentially a short introduction of the topic and so now I like to have our distinguished panel To introduce themselves. How about we start a start with you sassy My name is sassy outwater, right and I am the director of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired and My background is in UX user experience and I specialize in intersectionality disability and society and Technology and how those three things enter play with one another The social ramifications of using AI within user experience and within assistive technology, especially in the areas of instruction The Massachusetts Association for the Blind and the Visually Impaired just recently launched the Vibrant program Which specifically teaches seniors and those who are aging with vision loss to use assistive technology and The UX implications of this are huge and we're just now diving into all of it But AI is becoming one of the most important tools that we have to work with seniors with Vision loss and other disabilities, especially when multiple disabilities intersect. I have a mic I'm sujeet sujeet Kanaganti I'm the CTO at Ira. I have various Technological background right from robotics industrial automation networking cloud. I've been in the Hardware and software space for a while And now I'm with the Ira building Ira product I've been leading Ira for the past two years building the product right from its scratch and now leading Implementing AI in the Ira product itself to bring Greater services to the visually impaired Tom Hi, I'm Tom Newman. I'm the chief technical officer at Reddendever We are providing a virtual reality solution to senior living communities in order to help improve quality of life My background is in software development and computer science Well, good morning. Yeah, still morning. I'm Will Walker. I'm vice president of product at a company called open access technologies We focus on accessible content My past has been around developing new technologies for screen reading and for accessibility I was involved in the Early access of the API based approach to screen reading that got rid of virtual buffers that led to Various things such as the Linux accessibility product where we led the Orca screen reader, which is one of the best screen readers for Linux available today And so I come to this space with that kind of background and perspective Good morning. My name is Michael Altman. I'm director of research at the MIT libraries I'm a reformed computer scientist and then a reformed quantitative social scientist and now an information scientist My my research has focused on things like the role of information communication technology and politics and and the way that people participate in developing information and now focuses on Scully communication and how we managed and disseminate knowledge and in the university and through research I'm new to accessibility formally, although I've had an interest in accessibility technologies for for a couple decades for family reasons, but we last few years we've started to look at Learning and the the elements of learning and online systems and how that affects people with learning disabilities and We have a new very exploratory project on looking at library and information systems and what design principles make them more inclusive and accessible I Would have to say what an impressive panel you would all agree with me, right? And so yeah Let's waste no time to pick their brains. So I like to start with AI, right? Artificial intelligence, that's the main topic. It's it's a buzzword and exactly a month ago I BM announced two hundred forty million dollars of investment over the next ten years to have a joint AI lab with MIT and As you can imagine many tech companies are making huge investment in in AI So we're like to you know get your view because you've been accessibility for a long time and also AI is Is a new emerging thing. So what's your view in terms of AI and machine learning? How would they impact accessibility? Sure I'm gonna go back to some of the early work we did with which I call the API based approach to accessibility and What that enabled people to do and this was back in the early 90s and in mid 90s and so on It enabled screen readers to get inside the running application Okay, and it provided very compelling access to applications the screen reader no longer had to guess what was inside there It could clear the application directly I'm very proud of that work by the same time I think it's time to move on and it's potentially time to get rid of that and the problem that it led to Was that in order to get this API based approach Accessibility to work it required cooperation from the people writing the GUI toolkits and the people writing the applications And you'll see that with aria today. Okay, you'll see the Accessibility guidelines people have to implement the toolkit. They have to implement the API And what that causes is a big lag So new technology comes out and there's an accessibility lag between the time that technology comes out and it's made accessible Okay, so what I see is a potential here, and I'm not saying it's it's gonna come true But what I see as a potential is that artificial intelligence can now start getting rid of the need for an API to dig inside the application it can actually infer and and Determine what's being presented on the screen by artificial intelligence And do you have some examples of you know product and services already taken advantage of AI and also from your Development experience years of development experience how AI can be woven into The technology development process Well, let me let me say how I can imagine it would be okay So I think Kiyoko's talk was very very wonderful about real-world accessibility, and I think that's beautiful and wonderful and valid We're still gonna be sitting behind screens of glass that are presenting Information to us. Okay, so I can imagine now When the new cool kid comes along five years from now that says he's got a brand new technology And all that brand new technology is is another way to draw a push button on the screen Okay I think what we can do is have artificial intelligence be the thing to recognize This is a push button and they can help guide the user through the interface and not only be able to guide the user through Small pieces of the interface like individual components as a push button This is a checkbox but also be able to provide summarization of what's being presented to them on the screen Yeah, thank you very insightful very insightful now Let's also take a look at the reason we actually develop these new technology in AI is really to improve people's life Right, and we have some of the panelists like entrepreneur and working in on gadgets working on platforms Right to inform people's life And so I like to pose a question to you a suggest Tom and also sassy and how can digital and AI? Innovation enhance independence and improve quality of life And especially we're talking about the aging population 90% of those people say they want to age in place They want to age in their own home and they want to live independently So like to get your view about AI and digital Technology can enhance and improve people's quality of life who'd like to go first. Okay. Sure. I could go first So we use virtual reality with the aging population to do exactly that to try and improve their quality of life and the reality is that for a lot of people physical travel is difficult and rare and we can use VR to Open up the world for them again We can take people to places They may have always wanted to go but didn't have a chance to visit For example, we can take them on a tour of Paris or to the top of Mount Everest We can bring them back to places that are important to them like their child at home they can walk the streets of the neighborhood they grew up in and we can also let them be there for important moments in the lives of family members so they can attend say the granddaughter's wedding taking place on another continent and a lot of people think of VR as sort of inherently isolating but we've made it a Social experience you can do all of these things together and I actually think VR has a lot of potential to Bring people together. It allows you to have a sense of presence with someone You can sort of feel as if you are actually in the same space as another person who might be on the other side of the world Which I think can can make a huge difference for people Actually, I was sharing with him that thing I eat my father's in his 80s and now in his bed He know can no longer move and he actually always want to go Disney when Disney first opened in share I was asking Tom. Can you you know? Can you give me that kind of give my father that kind of experience, right? He's he's dreaming about it. Thank you Tom and And in sassy and suggest would you like to add? Yeah, sure. We at Ira. We provide We develop services for the visually impaired So what we do is like connect the visually impaired with a human in the loop like a sighted person Who is sitting behind a computer at a remote location be it anywhere in the U.S. as of now What we do is we equip the Visually impaired with a pair of smart glasses and do a live video streaming from the user space to a agent or I'd agent what we call sitting behind the computer and having the first point of video from the first point of view and Will be Hey, John. Yeah Yeah, John as of now is wearing ira smart glasses and he's an ira explorer Probably John. I think will you able to do a demo? But yeah, that's a last call in the last minute call, but we'll see But okay. Yeah, so what we do is like we connect the users to remote agents and remote agents will be able to relay information through the video that's coming in from the smart glasses and it they're like ample scenarios where user needs information from a Set person and they can rely on our service Say take the case of going for a shopping user wants to do his own shopping independently Isn't he wants to go to a grocery store pick up the items like brownies, whatever he likes the specific ones I rise and will be able to help using the video feed that is coming in Say user is traveling is it an airport? He needs to clear the check-in go to the gate I rise and will be able to again help the person in real time and AI is also playing a role in making this more accessible Both on the agent side and also on the user side on the agent side. We do provide more Enriched information to the agent so that agent need not search For that information specifically based on the need but it pops up automatically So that it becomes faster for agent to provide other relay the information and from user point of view There are a lot of other capabilities being added Which is like identifying Persons in front of them detecting their emotions like we use a lot of available AI technologies to bring this accessibility to the users Be it IBM Watson. We are which we are trying and there are other providers In space of like facial recognition or image recognition or object recognition. We also enabling the system To have a voice-based interaction where user can interact with the system using speech and System will be able to provide the information and if in case it unable to Find that information it can automatically connect to an agent and agent can relay that information Thank you and sassy. Would you like to provide a your view? Yeah, so For the aging population you have physical disability and cognitive disability in the intersections in pretty unique places that don't Often happen in the rest of the population and you see AI stepping in whether it be from a neurological point of view Tom brought up a very valuable tool that helps recover from dementia and stroke memory loss triggering Memory and cognition skills through the use of sensory input is a valuable use of AI And when combined with EEG monitoring and functional magnetic resonance imaging you can be looking at what the brain if the person say with dementia is is going through and the virtual reality can respond to that using AI algorithms and can Continue to feed a person a certain experience or memory or something that is triggering a sensory response Turning into a memory response or an envisioned response of a future event and it gives neurologists a whole new viewpoint of dementia and Brain recovery and traumatic brain injury. This is used a lot with At least from the research standard right now with veterans That have TBI traumatic brain injury and is a valuable tool for Neurological recovery for Patients who have lost the ability to speak or the lost the ability to move certain parts of their body memory experiences can trigger You know the beginnings of nerve Responses in limbs things like that So there's a whole bunch of research in the medical side of disability that especially intersects with seniors and the other piece of AI that intersects here is what will touched on with screen readers for the blind and low vision population we see a lot of Screen reader lag from accessibility and a senior comes in and they want the same experience that they had a year ago as a Fully-sighted individual now they've lost a significant amount of vision and can't have that experience or they haven't used technology and they're entering into that Space now that they need to rely on technology to Do things that their vision used to accomplish for them And there's a lot of emotions that get brought up with that experience anger frustration fear sorrow and and AI I Call it the smart screen reader theory. It's not Completely in practice yet, but certain certain spaces. You're starting to see screen readers Do that inference process that will was talking about where they can look at a web page or an app And infer things that the coder maybe didn't get in there correctly from accessibility guideline perspective so the screen reader is now Evolving away from the traditional screen reader model and turning into something that can infer context and infer action based on what it's seeing and I think this is brilliant because it's starting to eliminate that accessibility lag that we've Traditionally dealt with and that need for somebody to remember to include me in the process of creating an app or a website and That is a huge Benefit for seniors because they're going to be included in more and more and feel less and less isolated And can continue to feel like they can still thrive without having to go into skilled nursing thus reducing you know Medicare costs and AI can be used to monitor homes to Interface with caregiving professionals so that seniors can stay in their homes longer and thrive and use autonomy and choice to continue to Self-direct your care later and later in life Well, thank you. And so we touched how new technology special AI can impact people's lives What about culture because I mean this group of people here We are all here to cultivate an inclusive and diversity culture, which is extremely important so like to also hear your view in terms of The panelists in terms of how AI and also need these new technology can really cultivate The inclusive and also the diversity culture So I have one I think really good example of how this can be possible. So Google has very recently released headphones that can Translate in real time to 40 different languages Which makes it easier to travel to communicate and to understand one another and I really think that's incredible progress One other example is that virtual reality is being used in empathy training So the basic idea being that you can see what it's like to be in another person's shoes You can experience a scenario from their perspective or even the ability to virtually see where they're actually from is powerful I think yeah So he says he that's a great example to him like even for the hearing impaired the speech to Text translation the AI system that's involved behind the technology. It will help them Go to any person and even talk to a person who is not Conversant with the sign language that way he can interact with more people and It I rather we do Have agents which are like diversified spread across and we bring in like multiple kinds of people with connect to the agents That also kind of makes them include inclusive using their technology Facial recognition is a huge part of this conversation, especially for the deaf blind community because the blind population can rely on hearing somebody's voice For most of our social interactions and the deaf community can use Just looking across the room But if you are deaf-blind and you walk into a conference space like this and you're trying to identify somebody you are pretty much reliant on them identifying themselves to you So facial recognition is a huge as that begins to improve and evolve will will continue to become a huge defining moment for deaf-blind, especially in employment situations The other thing that I see and I'm doing kind of my panel on this later this afternoon or my workshop on Assistive technology and AI where they intersect as far as social and diversity needs with regards to ethics and with regards to inclusivity in best accessibility practices, so where do we say That web developers are responsible for continuing to code using WCAG to standards and You know making things accessible and where do we say oh the AI can pick up? Facebook is a classic example of this where Facebook is launching this AI tool to describe photos But it can't capture everything and it's taught to filter and identify certain parts of a picture I always call it the Facebook beard quandary Facebook likes to identify people with beards, so you'll hear picture Two people standing beard feet outdoor water Just these list of random Adjectives and and nouns and you're going okay, so there's a beard and some feet in this picture and some what I don't what It's helpful to an extent, but we're not there yet And we're reliant on the filters that are built into that AI so we're going to later this afternoon I'll get really in depth as to how that can affect real life situations for a disabled person Yeah, thank you says he I think you also heard I mean from Chiakos talk this morning and some of the facial Recognitions already there. She demoed right? It's awesome So now let's take into of some specific technology area Werewolves and robots and where do you see the kind of role they will play in accessibility and some can be controversial like a robot Right, it's it's new, but wearables already here So like to hear hear the panelists view about you know specifically on wearables and robots Sure, so I think there are already a few things on the market in terms of robotics that can help make life a little bit Easier you can have a robot to clean your floors mow your lawn. There are some things coming out that can cook for you Which is is interesting. It's great, and I think we're seeing Robots that can do more and more of what a human caregiver would do and I think for the most part This is is great robots are infinitely patient. There's no feeling of burden. They're available 24 7 365 I do have one actual concern in this space, which is that the truth is for a lot of people a Good portion of their human interaction is with their caregiver and as Robots do more and more we may see the sum total of human interaction for some of these people decline Yeah, we still have to charge them I Get the the savior complex I call it I get approached Monthly or more by people who have designed the latest wearable that will help blind people see Which I think is a valuable contribution in and of itself to research and understanding But devalues a the travel skills that are innate in a blind or low vision person be the power of a mobility tool So there are wearables from t-shirts to helmets with lasers to Different belts with different haptic feedback There's all these different pieces of technology, and I think collectively they do represent Advance means in what we can learn from our environment, but they are not going to cure my blindness as of yet They would have to do eyeball transplants to do that and they're not going to Replace a mobility tool in any healthy context yet Maybe we'll get there in five or ten years But it's not like we need a cure saving we need enhancements So I think as we move forward in designing AI, how can we enhance until we get to the point where we can be talking about a cure or a Device that can replace the robo guide dog or the robo cane or something We're not there yet, and I think we need to be cognizant of that, which is why I love era. I rescue me because It combines human centered assistance and autonomy with enhanced mobility function and doesn't replace a cane Or a guide dog or any other travel skills and tools it enhances, and that's where we need to be focused I also want to jump in a little bit in that I think AI offers us the opportunity to start addressing new disability populations Okay, so we had a lot of focus on blindness here But I think there's also people with pervasive development of disabilities people with autism people of Aspergers That can benefit from this technology Not only because it's because it's getting smarter because it's getting smaller and more portable and easier to manage Okay, so for example people with autism may have trouble Understanding normal visual cues okay normal social cues from people And I've seen research of this was like maybe 20 years ago or 15 years ago Where somebody came up with a big headset for a person with autism to wear that went over their head and it was on their chest And it gave them the Some some feedback about what somebody was thinking are they happy are they sad are they angry are they bored now? Anybody that knows somebody with autism would say this is absolutely nonsense because they have such sensory Disabilities that come along with that are sensory issues. I'm not gonna wear a helmet But we're now 15 years beyond that and things are smaller faster and smarter And I think it may be time to start looking at how to address new disability segments Yeah, as we'll say it in the space of like autism robots can definitely help interact with children Like and enhance their communication skills and make them understand better Robots can also help elderly As Tom said they can be a good companion, but it's still not there. So they need to be more reliable And in terms of wearable, I would say yeah, there is some momentum like a lot of wearable devices now Monitor elderly people and can provide alerts and feedback and even in the space of like hearing impaired Yeah, we can do and I would be integration into the various devices and provide a haptic feedback to the hearing impaired So that way a lot of information will be accessible Anybody else like to add All right, if not actually, I mean, let's take a look at we already looked at how new technology will benefit people and Cultivate help us cultivate a new culture, right? But on the other hand as anything new technology always face the adoption and so now also let's take a look at it Micah maybe pick your brain now because you haven't talked too much yet And so, you know what factors and both technological and and societal do you see it's going to either accelerate or hinder Adoption of new AI because I mean when talk about, you know, if you look at our population the millennials the young kids sitting here No problem with digital but your grandparents probably are not a comfortable with the smartphone even right let alone robots and AI and And actually quite interesting when I was at the the mobile water Congress and some people even talk about they fear about AI Are we going to controlled by aliens and so so like to hear you about your view in terms of adoption and you know What can accelerate such a new technology and what could it be barriers? I'll step back from AI particularly and just look at at technologies in general and look globally if you look at the The possible beneficiaries of of this technology and others they're all over the world and Most of them have cell phones and most of them don't have Computers they're far more. They're more have cell phones than have toilets And far more by orders of magnitude than there are our libraries though We like to help so thinking about Thing you know in a technical sense thinking that things that are accessible to people Well over the world where connectivity may be intermittent where they may be running on Previous generations of devices that will certainly increase diffusion institutional factors like Government support for that sort of dissemination to people who who who need the technologies but are not Not in the wealthy industrial countries, but even within countries things like Intellectual property so are these are these technologies open our can we Can we build on them? Are they standardized and we heard about AI as a sort of a way to eliminate standards and that's great at bridges where we're no standards are available But it also builds on so many standards for for information communication for even even for the electricity to plug in your system so you need a whole set and to be able to build on and Finally, I think empowerment is a key in in diffusing technologies Supporting people's ability not just to you know ingest information but to communicate to communicate with each other to then To collaborate to produce things together to advocate and to collect information on their life experience and their needs And and I guess I'd end with one is that the more valuable we can make these technologies to everyone the faster this is going to be Diffused and when we we're increasingly looking at things like autism or HDA ADHD not as binary disabilities, but as characteristics on a spectrum of In which we we all have Different characteristics to these degrees and the extent to which we can have our Systems adapt to us We in my research we look at the building blocks of root learning You know everybody when they learn they have to get things into memory long-term memory into short-term memory And have the right level arousal have the the right cognitive load pay attention These are all building blocks that we can start to detect and adapt to they may differ in different populations I'm paying attention with my eyes other people may pay attention in different ways But they they are all things that if our systems adapt to them, we will learn better. We will communicate better Anybody like to add go ahead. Yeah, I would like to echo the the reliability part like yeah The systems needs to be more reliable. We cannot have an AI wheelchair climbing a stair Steer stair stair stairways and then tripping off and there needs to be more standards and interoperability So that AI as in standalone doesn't kind of work It needs to be integrated to a lot of their systems So these needs to be proper standardization and interoperability within these systems and number three definitely the government regulations Like if you have to have support for autonomous cars that are going on roads Then we need to have proper regulations and it might take a while for it to come out And I think IBM is already working towards that Yeah, that's one of the key factor I would just like to add one thing So there's a bit of a virtuous circle in AI development and AI needs a lot of data to do a good job and In order for AI to be adopted rapidly it needs to do its job very well And I think it would be very helpful if a lot of the larger organizations that are accumulating huge amounts of data Would be willing to share it because that helps people Innovate it helps them compete and we end up with more and better systems faster Yeah, totally agree I think and people sharing data is a very important aspect because now they were saying the data is a new natural resources Everybody want to hold on to that resources, right? I think Tom touched such a good point How can we essentially make people more open-minded? share the data and I think where you also like to add something I do have one and it's Related to it. What's the risk of AI is it's the risk of what if it doesn't work, okay? And I think anybody in here doing work right now on accessibility And you're doing mainstream product. Don't stop right? Don't say I'm just gonna wait for the AI guys to solve the problem That's a huge risk. It's a huge danger. Okay, so anybody coming into the space and doing AI research keep going All right, we want it. We want it really bad, but don't depend upon it being The magic the silver bullet. Yeah, I would say good point as it comes to the innovators dilemma You have new things coming out Do I stop working on the current stuff continue work on it because it's gonna take a while for AI to be mature And so this essentially also touched another point in terms of you know AI Do you see any of the downside when it comes to AI and robotics and for accessibility? Because I think we need to be aware of that as there are a lot of benefits But like everything else right you always have the you know flip side and What are the flip potential flip sides and how do we prepare for that? building on what will said I Call it bring your own ramp So if a wheelchair user went to a restaurant and there was no ramp to get into the restaurant You can't look at them and say oh you're supposed to bring your own You can't carry equipment Constantly with you that would bridge accessibility gaps in every situation So it goes directly back to what will is saying we look at the digital and the technological space and we're as AI advances more and more and this touches back to what I made in my last point You know we can't substitute good accessibility guideline best practices With AI at this point we have to keep doing both So I see the pitfall being that companies are releasing AI and they're saying okay So now that this thing is out in the world functioning. We don't have to continue to Uphold accessibility standards. We can just let the AI do it and we can take the people who were on our team doing Accessibility and put them towards something else now. So you see accessibility fall off in some pretty significant ways When AI steps in in some companies and in some situations and we need to be hyper vigilant on that because people lose out In some pretty significant ways. I've seen this in the financial sector. I've seen this in Social media certainly I've seen it in educational environments And it's really detrimental because you start making these huge advances in accessibility best practices and Implementation of them and then you release a tool that's supposed to automate it and do it for you and people turn their attention away and Across the disabled disability population. It doesn't matter what disability it is Someone's gonna get it someone's gonna suffer for it. So we cannot do that yet. We're not at that point yet. I See several of them just tried in the jump in I was only going to say really that I think there is a risk in Being too dependent too quickly as you say I think you know We're making incredible progress and in computer vision, especially and some tools can actually If they make mistakes be dangerous. So if an object is misidentified, you could hurt yourself if Street isn't a street. It's a hole. That's the problem. So I Think we will get there, but we need to be careful about timelines Just like Pepsi for beer, right exactly Yeah, Pepsi for beer is good But if it is something else if it is a one person to another person, it will be a tricky situation Yeah, definitely that way we are thinking towards having human in the loop Till the technology is like kind of mature enough and say it's like 100% foolproof Which might take years and a lot of innovation Goes into that and definitely I would request the youngsters who are working on the technology to be at par on that and Make it more mature So I'll quote Melvin the historian Melvin Cranburg whose first law of technology was that Technology is neither good nor evil neither is it neutral and and what it means is that Technology is disruptive and the more powerful the technology the more potentially disruptive. This is AI is really powerful and if we Look at the the potential Although, you know, we're not techno utopians. We know that The telegraph didn't usher in world peace neither did the radio to telegraph. I mean telephone Etc. Etc. The last 200 years of technology have been Incredibly impactful in terms of our our well-being range of choices information. We have in health, but There are all sorts of systemic effects if we're relying on AI We're relying on AI to make decisions for us not right now. They're simple decisions They're going to be increasingly complex. Who governs that? How do we how do we understand what those are? Who's accountable for it? What happens if it we it makes a decision that? In retrospect causes you to do something that hurts someone We we have we need to make AI governable We also need to make sure that the impacts are equitable Of course the results are going to go first to to to people who have money and resources to use this technology But we need to make sure that we continue to think of the impact on the rest of the world And all of this information this data that we put into it. We need to manage that. This is I study information privacy and Even with a little bit of information you can learn a lot and with the AI translator translating everything You can you can learn everything about someone and so could your neighbors and the government So how do we make sure that people have autonomy over their their information that's collected and that it's it's secure So that that embedded device doesn't leak your All your conversations that you've ever had I think you bring up a really valuable point about autonomy Seeing AI was launched recently by Microsoft and I decided to take it for a test drive Literally, I was sitting in the passenger seat of the car sticking my phone to the window Taking pictures when we pulled up at stop lights going I never knew what was on that corner I just drove by it And I never stopped to think about it. I never You kind of Glance at it in your imagination, but it's never a real-world experience and suddenly what was going on in the streets around me outside of a car Went from something that I could only imagine to an actual experience that I could partake in and I had that autonomy to choose that But you run into situations, especially in my work with seniors where you see people being Made to feel like they have to use technology when they would rather use person-centered care They would rather have a volunteer or care personal care attendant or an Ira agent or something person with a human touch Now I'm never going to have the experience of getting into a car getting cut off by a truck in front of me and flipping the driver off If AI comes to fruition to the point where I can drive which it will because that's just my life goal um then I Will be able to get into a car, but it will be driving itself And probably at that point in society no cars will cut each other off because AI will be doing all of the Navigation driving and accidents will go down and people will be happy and there will be no such thing as road rage And that's history in progress Lives change people change things change Technology is leading that change and you're right. It's neither good nor evil, but it's definitely driven by Motive money gain knowledge greed Hope there's so many ways that you know technology can be applied in society that we have to keep the ethics front and center We have to keep the implications of technology at the forefront of our consciousness as we develop it because It's only as good as its creator and all of our biases and all of our filters are collected in this technology and used All right, thank you such a good discussion and I also Peter's reminding me We're running out of time and so before we wrap up and I think we would definitely want to hear from the panelists about their View of the future because I mean we not only want to know what's going on today But a very important how do we imagine tomorrow right the future? So I think I'd like to invite a panelist to share their view in terms of where do you see the greatest opportunities for AI? technology and accessibility Whoever want to volunteer to go for us is fine Yeah, from my point of view like if I were to put in my context of Ira, I Need AI to be in the edge devices like running a seeing AI in Smartphone because smartphones are powerful enough think back like around Six ten years back when the iPhone got released. It's not that powerful enough, but now we can run Seeing AI in your iPhones in your Samsung devices. They're like powerful, but all other Variable technologies also needs to be like more powerful for running AI at the edge That's one futuristic thing which I am expecting Thank you, Suji is and anybody I mean the rest of panelists also you have your tend to talk about your your view about a future I'll just say just a few words because I tend to be short. I think independence and equality Okay, are the most important things to strive for Tom sassy and Micah Yeah, sure I mean, I think there there are some great things on the horizon and I think self-driving cars are a perfect example I think you know, we're seeing incredible progress in some of the foundational technologies like computer vision And we're starting to see databases of data built up to the point where These algorithms can identify a huge number of objects in the world and can also understand Human language and help us communicate. So I think there's a bright future ahead of us Anybody who knows me knows Kind of one of the stories that led me into working in user experience and accessibility and it was tampons I Needed to go to the store and get tampons and when you go in and you say may I have a female assistant Help me and the female assistant tells you I'm busy. There's a guy over there. He'll help you And you're like, no, I need a female and they're like, no I'm busy and the guy turns out to be a teenage kid who's working a summer job and really bored And suddenly he has to help this blind lady go get tampons and I didn't know blind ladies You know needed stuff like that So he yells out to the entire store the brand of tampon that I want to type and where are they and he's yelling at His boss and his boss is yelling back and I'm like, okay Mordification now I can pull out One of four or five apps or devices walk into the store Quietly say to the device what I need hold it up to the store shelf pick up what I need and leave with no human Help so when you ask me what the future is you come already there Assistive technology and AI are already a daily part of my life and it's only going to increase I'm always going to be a disabled person comfortable in my own skin Because I have a piece of assistive technology in my hand helping me where my body cannot and that's just going to increase as AI evolves Go ahead And by saying it's it's hard to make predictions, especially about the future but there are again positive and negative forces I think on the The positive side there are so many ways that it can can help people now and the potential for Introducing this earlier and earlier in people's lives one of the the things that we've come to understand is how much Learning at early stages affects people's entire life course and how much that can be affected by by what we call disability and so where we have technologies that can affect Adapt to learning It will benefit everyone, but will particularly benefit people more equitably and on the on the Not so positive side. We need to manage the governance ethics security and privacy to to prevent others from Using this for their own purposes Thank you Mike any other comments All right, let's give our panelists a round of applause What I believe we have five minutes for questions, right? Do we have and if you have additional questions we can always you know ask the panelists or myself during the lunch break? And so I see Raise hand over there. I mean do we have Mike hand over? Yeah, there was one question over there This is Brian Charleston and I am the head of technology at the Carroll Center for the blind I've been teaching blind and visually impaired people to use technology for the past God help me 33 years so My question is and it's something that keeps literally keeps me up at night and that is the digital divide has not gone away My life is filled with technology, but it does not describe the lives of The 70% of people with disabilities who are unemployed and can't afford any of it and the programs That continue to fund virtually everything except services for older people So the question is Do you think AI is going to drive down the cost of accessibility? Do you think the system is ready to accept that? AI and things associated with access technology are just as important as The pharmacopia that we're fed on a daily basis Yes, I think that AI is stepping in for instruction Acquisition I think eventually we need to be looking at technology as medical I think how we do that falls under the governance of AI and technology as a whole and so it's a conversation and a policy change Will it happen immediately? No, but it's definitely a conversation It needs to be forefront in all of our minds and we need to be pushing for it as Brian said This is a huge gap in service We are the ones who have to step up and deal with it And I hate to put that burden on us But we've looked at the government for 70 plus years asking them to do it hasn't happened. We've got to do it Yeah, definitely AI is going to bring down a lot of these costs Even at AIRA we always encounter this question of like why the service is costly and We are working with government agencies on bringing on this cost But the same time there is a person sitting behind a computer and who is working Who is always people are costly So we are relying on AI technologies to bring down that cost by offloading some of the agent tasks so that it becomes more affordable and From business perspective also there are some initiatives that are happening to get this funded by organizations or By the government itself via insurance so that it becomes more affordable and Adding AI technology is also going to bring down the cost but I this is my card also add that as We Use AI to develop things that adapt to everyone and they become integrated into consumer technology You have less of the pathology of medicalized technology that is Orders of magnitude more expensive than perhaps it should be so having had experience with voice transcription systems and trying to obtain devices That were labeled as medical devices versus now they're built into the smartphones and the Marginal costs have dropped not just because the technology change but because it's been integrated and and labeled into something everybody has My name is Narayan Bhatia and I'm echoing further on this Seen cost to the seniors. So I will leave that person item there, but I'll pursue something else I live in a retirement community Where the average age is 86 and the median age is 89 at that age group people have multiple Disabilities they cannot see well. They cannot hear well. They cannot walk well Will the AI at least put a filter ahead of it saying can you hear well before they start using the screen reader? because the person cannot read well and So the disabled multiple disabilities in the senior set is an important issue along with the cost of how do you introduce any of the AI related Solutions to them. That's just my comment. Yeah More and more sensory input. That's the population that I specialize in training and working with and the answer is The more types of sensory feedback that we can give for output and input of information and the more that AI can customize and Use that information and get to know the person that it's working with The thing that we're seeing right now is You know iPhone technology is the thing that everybody wants to learn But it's becoming so complicated because they keep cramming features in and cramming features in So we keep coming back to them and saying give us the ability to filter features out Give us the ability to customize accessibility even more More more more customization is what's needed to make I AI be able to function with this population to a degree where it can help to bring down costs keep people at home and comfortable and autonomous and shift the care from a medicalized model to a social rehabilitation model where possible Yes, and I think I agree with you says the personalization is really the next frontier when it comes to accessibility It is not really one category is how can you personalize for individuals need? Any other comment? I just had one thing to add with respect to cost AI is software It isn't a physical product with the same level of intrinsic cost so Smartphones are becoming ubiquitous as was mentioned earlier. There are more people who have smartphones today than have a toilet and It'll be in large part up to the people who create these Intelligent systems to figure out what kind of pricing model works But the truth is a lot of access to Intelligent systems today is is free and I hope it continues to be for example Siri is free Google Assistant is free and I hope that many new technologies will be as well Yeah, I know there are more questions among audience So we do have to break for lunch and so I mean if you have questions as I said It will be there on the fifth floor and we'll continue to answer questions there So now let's give them another round of applause and we wrap up here
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From Hollywood, it's time now for John Lund as Johnny Dollar. Dollar, my name's Younger, Lieutenant Walt Younger. I'm with the Marigold Police. Marigold Police? I guess maybe you never even heard of my little town, about 50 miles to the north. Oh, oh yeah, sure. I understand you're a pretty good friend of Joe Hickey's, Mr. Dollar. Joe Hickey? Yeah, I know Joe. He used to do a little work for me now and then. That all? Oh yeah, why? Joe was killed last night, Mr. Dollar. Shot to death. Found his body this morning. I'm sorry to hear that, Mr. Younger. Anything I can do? If you could get away for a couple of hours, come on up here, we'd sure appreciate it. Sure, I'll come up, Mr. Younger. John Lund, in a transcribed adventure of the man with the action-packed Xpensikov. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Here's to Lee, Johnny Dollar. Xpensikov, submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Chief of Police, Marigold, Connecticut. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Marigold matter. Xpensikov, item one, two dollars, bus fare and incidentals, Hartford to Marigold. Which turned out to be a little village settled in a sloping valley that was quiet and clean with fresh snow. A local citizen in Galash's and sheepskin jacket told me that the building that looked like a bookshop was the police station. And sure enough it was. And two men who looked like anything, the policeman greeted me. Hello, Mr. Dollar. I'm Walt Younger. I talk to you on the phone. And I'd get here. Sergeant Cherry. Mr. Dollar? Sergeant... Have a chair. Hi. Nice of you to meet Mr. Dollar. What's about Joe Hickey? Well, sir. He's been murdered. We don't know why or who did it. How well did you know him, Mr. Dollar? Oh, he did some legwork for me when he lived in Hartford. I see. Here. This was on him. It's for you. What? We found it on his body. Go ahead. Open it. What did you say? Hi, Johnny. How are you? Good, I hope. I'm in the loan business up here now. You ought to come to see me. Besides, there are some funny things going on. And I could use some help from you for a change. Could you come up and give me a hand? Regards, Joe Hickey. They did yesterday. I guess you never got to mail it. Yeah. Why don't you hear from him last? Oh, it must be two years anyway. Any idea of why anybody didn't kill him? No, none at all, Sergeant. Well, neither we, Mr. Dollar. But we want to talk to you before anybody. With that letter and all, it looked like a pretty good place to start. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm not more helpful than it. Wish I were. Would you like to be? Yeah, I would. Cherry and I are the only cops on the Marigold Force outside of four kids we got in uniform. We've never had a murder here, Mr. Dollar. We don't have a lot of facilities for this kind of thing in my little town. Well, if that letter had been mailed, I'd probably be here right now anyway, Mr. Younger. Hickey was a nice little guy. I'd like to help. Sergeant Cherry stayed at the station while Lieutenant Younger and I drove out in the cold, crisp day to the scene of the murder. Abandoned the road about a mile out of town. Found his car parked over there. Passed by, saw it and reported it. Uh-huh. I figure he drove out with whoever killed him. Could he have met the killer here? Well, no prints in that snow there. Of course, snow is awful dry and the wind blowing. Tracks could be covered too. Wind enough to cover a gunshot, you think? I think so, yeah. What did you find on him? Everything. It wasn't robbery or something else. Maybe revenge. How's that? Well, I don't know, Mr. Dollar. Joe Hickey was in the loan business. He might have made some enemies. Can you think of any offhand? No. Not yet. Can you? No. Any old wound over in Hartford? Not that I know of. Well, it's came in at close range. He must have trusted whoever did it. Where's the body? The morgue. Waiting for an autopsy. Now, if I was a big city force, I'd have all that done already. And I'd have a lot of questions to ask a lot of people. But I don't have anything yet. Kind of like to peek around first and see just what kind of questions I want to ask when I do ask him. Well, maybe that's the best way, Lieutenant. Who saw him last? His wife. I talked to her. Ever met her? Once or twice, yeah. How'd you like to meet her again? Particularly, but I had a feeling that old Walt Younger wanted me to. He waited for me in the car as I went in to see Joe Hickey's widow. She'd aged a bit since my days, but not too much. It was sweet of you to come all the way out here, Johnny. I'm glad you're here. Nice to see you again, Pat. I'm sorry, the circumstances are what they are. Johnny, I can talk to you, can't I? I sure, Pat. What is it? I feel so awful. Jonah hadn't been exactly hitting it off lately. I've been thinking of divorcing him for some time. Uh-huh. Would he give you one? Well, no, not exactly. Oh, stop it, Johnny. Don't look at me like you're a policeman or something. You don't think I had anything to do with killing him, do you? I didn't say that. Well, you looked at him. Well, I didn't mean to. Just that I haven't seen him for a couple of years and all of a sudden he's been murdered. So I'm here asking about it. Johnny, he was my husband. And a second ago, you were telling me you were thinking of divorcing him. Did you love him? I didn't love him. I didn't hate him. Don't, Johnny, not to me. Where were you last night, Pat? Well, he was out being killed. Here, alone? He left about eight o'clock and said he had some business to attend to. He never came back. Anybody call you? Anybody drop in and see you, Pat? No. But he happened to tell you why he was sending for me. No. Do you imagine that? No. Johnny. What? I've done nothing wrong. I'm sorry, Pat. I didn't think you'd mind the questions from me. Well, I do. Somebody's going to have to ask him sooner or later. I'd rather it wasn't you. I thought you were my friend. I am. And I was Joe's friend. Please go. Okay. That didn't take long. Not very pleasant, huh? No. Murder never is. Come on. Get in. Am I doing your dirty work for you? Look at us. Well, now it all depends on how you look at it. For me or for him, either one, this stuff's got to be done. Only so many people in this town and one of them killed him. Left in there in the corner. One of them killed him. Left in there in the cold snow. I'd like to know who it is. Yeah, so would I. Well, what now? You just talked to the nearest again. Last one seemed alive. I was hoping you'd map out the next move. Who do you work with? He had a girl helping him in the office. Maybe she can help us. Maybe she can. Vivian Asher. And like most of the people in town, was frightened about it and didn't want to talk too much about it. What? I said, can you think of anybody who might have wanted to kill Joe Hickey? Everyone makes friends and enemies. Tell me about his enemies. You'll find that out for yourself, Mr. Dollar. You worked with him. You were around him all the time. Did you overhear anybody? No. No, I didn't. Did you know that he was worried about some situation here and that he'd written to me? No. Yes. Anything else? Don't be ridiculous. Hmm. How long did you work for him? Two years. Did he treat you well? Fine. We got along fine. And incidentally, I didn't kill him. I was at the Shamrock Grill last night from about eight until one. People saw me there. You're pretty efficient, after all. I try to be. I wish you'd loosened up on those people in town he didn't get along with. It would help a lot. All right. What? I'll go through each file. Anyone there I can recall him arguing with or not getting along with, I'll make a note. Fair enough. Fair enough. I can't guarantee it'll be a complete list. I'd appreciate anything. I'll be back in an hour. I could think of a lot more questions I wanted to ask you, but I was more anxious to see what kind of list she'd get up for me. And it was pretty impressive. About 35 names and addresses. Lieutenant Younger took one half and I took the other. After two hours of plotting through the snowy streets of Marigold and interviewing a dozen people, I was convinced that all 35 hated Joe Hickey because he'd been pressing them for loan payments. An occupational hazard, I guess. But I was also convinced that none of them hated him enough to kill him. However, when I chanced into the shamrock barn grill, I met a man who was not on my list. Jim Teal's the name. Sure, I knew Joe Hickey. What about him? Trying to find out who killed him. Oh, yeah? You don't seem much interested, Mr. Teal. Why should I be? He was a bum when he was alive, being dead doesn't make him any better. Yeah, you've got a point there. But why was he a bum when he was alive? Lousy shock. That's what he was, a thief. He steal from you? He tried to. Yeah, when was this? Why, just last week. He came to me with a paper and said that I owed him a car. He said I had to pay it or he'd take my car away from me. I told him he was crazy. Well, if you owed him the money, he wasn't stealing. You don't get it, fella. I didn't owe him any money, not a dime. What? I paid off that loan months ago. You were just trying to pull something that's off. Other people tell you the same thing. I've talked to quite a few others. None of them have told me anything like this. Then you haven't talked to enough people. What did you do when he tried to repossess your car? I told him to get away and I take care of him. And what happened? I hit him. I remember Joe, he was about 140. Dripping wet. What are you, 180? 87, mister. And it was all my pleasure. Yeah. Especially when he came back a couple of hours later. He told me it was all a mistake. Imagine that squirt. Doing his best to beat me out of some money. Then coming back and apologizing for it when he couldn't get away with it. Ever occur to you that he had made a mistake? What loan company makes a mistake? Invented bookkeeping. Mr. Teal Glower, in a few long seconds, chewed on a toothpick and let me know more of what he thought of Joe Hickey as a person. Afraid I wasn't listening too closely to what he had to say because I was still thinking of what he'd already said. About the matter of bookkeeping. I decided I'd like to talk to Vivian Asher once more. Oh, yeah. I remember, Mr. Hickey did argue with him. He wasn't on the list you gave me. Well, I told you it wouldn't be complete. I'm sorry. Okay. Did you think of any others? No. Would it be possible for me to see the file on Jim Teal? Why? I'd like to know what it was all about. I can tell you. Well, tell me that. I made a mistake. And Mr. Hickey thought it was a collection. That's all. When he came back to the office, I told him about it. Doesn't it seem reasonable that such a thing could happen? Yeah. Or doesn't that policeman's mind of yours think that people can be human beings? I'm no policeman, Vivian. Do you have a search warrant? I suppose I can get one. Well, why don't you do that, Mr. Dollar? Yeah. Why don't I? Hello, Sergeant Cherry. Is Lieutenant Younger back yet? Not just yet. Can I help you? Yeah. Can you give me a search warrant for Hickey's loan company? You run across something, Mr. Dollar? No. No. You run across something, Mr. Dollar? Maybe. Then we'll have to call Frank Pretorius. He's the county attorney. It might take till tomorrow morning. Oh. We're not incorporated here, you know. Not very fast. Well, never mind. Look, I picked up this ash tray in Vivian Asher's office. There's some good prints of hers on it. Can you wire them out when you go over to the county seat? Sure. I don't know. Just checking. Somehow I think that she might have a background. Really? After Sergeant Cherry left, I found myself holding down the desk in the Marigold police station. A light snow began to fall and in an hour, the whole town was wearing a new blanket of white. Lieutenant Younger stomped in, reported no luck, to revisit the murder scene with him. I said I would, and we drove out there once more. Warms up when it begins to snow. Ever notice? I've been thinking about it all day, Mr. Dollar. Somebody made a real mistake. How's that? They didn't expect Joe Hickey's body to be found till spring. Look, we found it right there. But if he'd fallen down over there, we'd have to go through 20 feet of snow before winter was over. Seems logical. I think maybe we'll find out a lot when they dig those bullets out of him. If we ever get him dug out, things in my little town must seem awful slow to you, Mr. Dollar. We're still trying to sober up the doctor so he can play car in the... Ain't that awful? Well, if we... Lieutenant Younger, I didn't know who was shooting or from where, but I did know that somewhere along the line among those people in town, Lieutenant Younger or I had already talked to the killer of Joe Hickey. We'll return to yours truly, Johnny Dollar, in just a moment. Now with our star, John Lund, we bring you the second act of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Whoever fired at us did it from the road that ran above the small ledge we were standing on. Neither one of us was armed, and there was nothing to do but stay close to the ground. When I heard a car sliding away down the road, I figured it was safe to get up. Lieutenant Younger was crumpled in the snow, his blood staining it. But he was still alive. I got one in the leg and one in the shoulder. Yeah. I better get a tourniquet on that leg. Take my belt. I'll have my tie will do. This isn't a very safe part of the country to be in, is it? How's that? Fine as a fiddle. You think you can make it back to the car? Give me a little help. One good thing about this... What's that? Exhibit A is in my leg. I have carried him up the path through the road and put him in the car. He didn't talk much the whole 50 miles to Hartford, or I turned him over to the medics and the emergency ward. After that I returned to Marigold. There was a look at, search warrant or not. I didn't have too much trouble getting inside with a ring of pasties. However, I didn't find much in the files that seemed important. When I jimmied open a locked drawer in Vivian Asher's desk, I came upon a good reason why she refused to let me look around. I dropped by her house to see her. What do you want at this hour? I know it's a hardship, Vivian, but it's a hard case. All right. I've been floundering around here for almost two days, not knowing what I was doing or where I was going. Somebody tried to kill Lieutenant Younger tonight. They nearly made the grade. They came off of close to killing me. He's out of the picture for the moment. I'm going to do things my way. As a matter of fact, I already have. Let's start with Teal. You forgot to tell me about him, didn't you? I'm not a walking file cabinet. Did you forget on purpose? Take a look at these. You were in my desk. Yeah, I sure was. What right did you have? Why are you after me this way? I'm after some truth. This is about $8,000 worth of delinquent loans, all recommended by you. What do they have to do with Hickey's death? Nothing. Absolutely nothing that I know of. And why did you hide him? Because I... Oh, I don't know who killed Mr. Hickey. I don't know what delinquent loans have to do with it. All I know is I got scared and hid all the loans that I recommended. Go on. Mr. Hickey started letting me write loans last year. I... I guess I made some mistakes. Yeah, I guess you did. What do you want me to say? No matter what it is, you'll make something terrible out of it. You're all alike. You want to chase people and frighten them and make them lie just to get away from you. There's a handful of papers that make me look stupid. My boss has been murdered and the police can make anything out of those papers. So that's why you had him locked up? That's why. You can believe it or not. Well... I'll let you know what I believe later on. Why don't you get out of here? Why don't you get out of here and leave me alone? I got out of there, but I didn't leave her alone. Instead, I stepped around to the side of the house to the dining room window as she told her troubles to an unidentified party over the phone. When she hung up, I moved around to the front of the house and took a plan across the street. Nothing happened. About midnight, she turned out the lights and went to bed. The next morning, I began to interview names at random from the loan applications I'd taken from her desk. After four interviews, I quit because all four parties involved vehemently denied being delinquent and kept to prove it. I spent an hour walking, talking to myself. Then I went back to the station with even fewer ideas as to how and why Joe Hickey had been killed. Gosh, where you been, Mr. Donner? Oh, I'm getting some things done. What's that? Just came in. Vivian Asher. Oh? How's it look? Not good. She's from Kansas City. Right here. 1940 and 41. Six arrests. Conviction in 42 for car theft. Two years. Another conviction in 45 for shoplifting. Six months. And then this, she still wanted. What for? Grand larceny. Denver police. It's pretty hard to believe, huh? She's lived here at least two years. Like straight as an arrow? Well, not exactly straight. You find something? Yeah. She's been writing loans delinquent and pocketing the payments for a long time now. You suppose Hickey caught her and she shot him? Yeah, probably that's it. Well, I guess there's nothing else to do but pick her up. I guess not. You mind holding it down here? I'd like to go with you, Cherry. Okay, Mr. Dollar. No, I wouldn't. No, sir. She's been acting up quite a bit. Hickey dead. Wald all shot up. No, no, she's home. How do you know? Cars in the garage. Oh, that gun you crazy fool! Let's go home, you dollar! What? I just saved your life and I want to know about him and about you. Come on. Hickey's been in Denver. He recognized me here and said he'd send me back. I didn't write down all the collections on those loans. I gave the money to him. How about Joe? Come on, I want it now. Cherry killed Mr. Hickey. Mr. Hickey found out what I was doing and where the money was going. I only wanted to live here and be left alone. Get your coat. I'm taking in. A check with the Denver police revealed that Cherry had been on the force there for a short time. Thenman discharged for conduct unbecoming an officer. A ballistic expert in Hartford matched slugs from Hickey's body and Wald Younger's leg. Both sets came from Cherry's 38th service revolver. He was arraigned and booked on suspicion of murder. The Vivian Asher named it as his accomplice on a charge of grand theft. Spencer gun item two. His item one. Fair back to Hartford. Total? Four dollars, even. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The dollar stars John Lund in the title role and was written by E. Jack Newman with music by Eddie Dunstetter. John Lund can currently be seen in the Universal International Picture just across the street. Featured in tonight's cast were Harley Bear, Howard Culver, Vivi Janus, Virginia Gregg and Jim Nusser. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar transcribed in Hollywood by Jaime Delvalle. This is Dan Coverly inviting you to join us next week at this time when John Lund returns as, yours truly, Johnny Dollar. If you like your thrills to be real, your adventures to be true to life, gangbusters is the show for you. Every Saturday night, most of the same CBS radio stations bring you the centraling drama that names, names, places and dates in the nation's battle against crime. Often time, the police official originally involved in the case narrates the story. Full of action, bravery and realistic excitement, gangbusters brings you new thrills straight out of life every Saturday night on CBS Radio. America now listens to 105 million radio sets and listens most to the CBS Radio Network.
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reached the oldest person of the year. The jury had a tough time deciding on this. There was lots of up and down inspires, emails up and down and there was a neck to neck competition and finally there's a joint award which is being given. Let's find out who.
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Lourdes | Émile Zola | Religious Fiction | Soundbook | English | 6/12
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Section 11 of Lourdes. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please contact LibriVox.org. Lourdes by Émile Zola. Translated by Ernest Visitelli. The third day. One. Bed and board. At seven o'clock on the morning of that fine, bright, warm August Sunday, Michel de Gelsain was already up and dressed in one of the two little rooms which he had fortunately been able to secure on the third floor of the hotel of the apparitions. He had gone to bed at eleven o'clock the night before and had awoke feeling quite fresh and gay. As soon as he was dressed he entered the adjoining room which Pierre occupied, but the young priest who had not returned to the hotel until past one in the morning with his blood heated by insomnia had been unable to doze off until daybreak and was now still slumbering. His cassock flung across a chair. His other garments scattered here and there, testified to his great weariness and agitation of mind. Come, come, you lazybones, cried Monsieur de Gelsain Gailly. Can't you hear the bells ringing? Pierre awoke with a start, quite surprised to find himself in that little hotel room into which the sunlight was streaming. All the joyous peals of the bells, the music of the chiming happy town, moreover, came in through the window which he had left open. We shall never have time to get to the hospital before eight o'clock to fetch Marie, resumed Monsieur de Gelsain, for we must have some breakfast, eh? Of course, make haste and order two cups of chocolate. I will get up at once. I shan't be long, replied Pierre. In spite of the fatigue which had already stiffened his joints, he sprang out of bed as soon as he was alone and made all haste with his toilet. However, he still had his head in the washing-basin, ducking it into the fresh, cool water when Monsieur de Gelsain, who was unable to remain alone, came back again. I've given the order, said he, they will bring it up. Ah, what a curious place this hotel is. You have, of course, seen the landlord, Master Magiste, clad in white from head to foot and looking so dignified in his office. The place is crammed, it appears. They have never had so many people before. So it is no wonder that there should be such a fearful noise. I was woke up three times during the night. People kept on talking in the room next to mine. And you, did you sleep well? No, indeed, answered Pierre. I was tired to death, but I couldn't close my eyes. No doubt it was the uproar you speak of that prevented me. In his turn he then began to talk of the thin partitions and the manner in which the house had been crammed with people until it seemed as though the floors and the walls would collapse with the strain. The place had been shaking all night long. Every now and then people suddenly rushed along the passages, heavy footfalls resounded, gruff voices ascended, nobody knew whence. Without speaking of all the moaning and coughing, the frightful coughing which seemed to re-echo from every wall. Throughout the night people evidently came in and went out, got up and laid down again, paying no attention to the hour in the disorder in which they lived, amid shocks of passion which made them hurry to their devotional exercises as to pleasure parties. And Marie, how was she when you left her last night? Monsieur de Gertain suddenly inquired. A great deal better, replied Pierre. She had an attack of extreme discouragement, but all her courage and faith returned to her at last. A pause followed, and then the girl's father resumed with his tranquil optimism. Oh, I am not anxious. Things will go on all right, you'll see. For my own part I am delighted. I had asked the virgin to grant me her protection in my affairs. You know, my great invention of navigable balloons. Well, suppose I told you that she has already shown me her favour. Yes, indeed. Yesterday evening while I was talking with Abidiel Mroz, he told me that at Toulouse he would no doubt be able to find a person to finance me. One of his friends, in fact, who was extremely wealthy and takes great interest in mechanics. And in this I at once saw the hand of God. Monsieur de Gertain began laughing with his childish laugh. And then he added, That Abidiel Mroz is a charming man. I shall see this afternoon if there is any means of my accompanying him on an excursion to the Cirque de Gavarni at small cost. Pierre, who wished to pay everything, the hotel bill and all the rest, at once encouraged him in this idea. Of course, said he, you ought not to miss this opportunity to visit the mountains since you have so great a wish to do so. Your daughter will be very happy to know that you are pleased. Their talk, however, was now interrupted by a servant girl bringing the two cups of chocolate with a couple of rolls on a metal tray covered with a napkin. She left the door open as she entered the room so that a glimpse was obtained of some portion of the passage. Ah, they are already doing my neighbour's room, exclaimed Monsieur de Gertain. He is a married man, isn't he? His wife is with him. The servant looked astonished. Oh no, she replied, he is quite alone. Quite alone? Why, I heard people talking in his room this morning. You must be mistaken, Monsieur, said the servant. He has just gone out after giving orders that his room was to be tidied up at once. And then, while taking the cups of chocolate off the tray and placing them on the table, she continued, Oh, he is a very respectable gentleman. Last year he was able to have one of the little pavilions which Monsieur Majesté lets out to visitors in the lane by the side of the hotel. But this year he applied too late and had to content himself with that room which greatly worried him, for it isn't a large one, though there is a big cupboard in it. As he doesn't care to eat with everybody he takes his meals there and he orders good wine and the best of everything, I can tell you. That explains it all, replied Monsieur de Gersaint gaily. He dined too well last night and I must have heard him talking in his sleep. Pierre had been listening somewhat inquisitively to all this chatter. And on this side, my side, said he, isn't there a gentleman with two ladies and a little boy who walks about with a crutch? Yes, Monsieur Labis, I know them. The aunt Madame Ches took one of the two rooms for herself and Monsieur and Madame Vigneron with their son Gustave have had to content themselves with the other one. This is the second year they have come to Lourdes. They are very respectable people too. Pierre nodded. During the night he had fancied he could recognize the voice of Monsieur Vigneron whom the heat doubtless had incommodered. However, the servant was now thoroughly started and she began to enumerate the other persons whose rooms were reached by the same passage. On the left hand there was a priest then a mother with three daughters and then an old married couple whilst on the right lodged another gentleman who was all alone, a young lady too who was unaccompanied and then a family party which included five young children. The hotel was crowded to its garretts. The servants had had to give up their rooms the previous evening and lie in a heap in the wash house. During the night also some camp bedsteads had even been set up on the landings and one honourable ecclesiastic for lack of other accommodation was managed to sleep on a billiard table. When the girl had retired and the two men had drunk their chocolate Monsieur de Gersin went back into his own room to wash his hands again for he was very careful of his person and Pierre who remained alone felt attracted by the gay sunlight and stepped for a moment onto the narrow balcony outside his window. Each of the third floor rooms on this side of the hotel was provided with a similar balcony having a carved wood balustrade. However the young priest's surprise was very great for he had scarcely stepped outside when he suddenly saw a woman protrude her head over the balcony next to him out of the room occupied by the gentleman whom Monsieur de Gersin and the servant had been speaking of and this woman he had recognised it was Madame Volmar there was no mistaking her long face with its delicate drawn features its magnificent large eyes those braziers over which a veil a dimming moiré seemed to pass at times. She gave a start of terror on perceiving him and he extremely ill at ease grieved that he should have frightened her made all haste to withdraw into his apartment a sudden light had dawned upon him and he now understood and could picture everything so this was why she had not been seen at the hospital where little Madame des Agnes was always asking for her standing motionless his heart upset Pierre fell into a deep reverie reflecting on the life led by this woman whom he knew that torturing conjugal life in Paris between a fierce mother-in-law and a married husband and then those three days of complete liberty spent at Lourdes that brief bonfire of passion to which she had hastened under the sacrilegious pretext of serving the divinity tears whose cause he could not even explain tears that ascended from the very depths of his being from his own voluntary chastity welled into his eyes amidst the feeling of intense sorrow which came over him well are you ready joyously called Monsieur de Gersin with his grey jacket buttoned up and his hands gloved yes yes let us go replied Pierre turning aside and pretending to look for his hat so that he might wipe his eyes then they went out and on crossing the threshold heard on their left hand an unctuous voice which they recognized it was that of Monsieur Vigneron who was loudly repeating the morning prayers a moment afterwards came a meeting which interested them they were walking down the passage when they were passed by a middle aged, thick set looking gentleman wearing carefully trimmed whiskers he bent his back and passed so rapidly that they were unable to distinguish his features but they noticed that he was carrying a carefully made parcel and immediately afterwards he slipped a key into the lock of the room adjoining Monsieur de Gersin's and opening the door disappeared noiselessly like a shadow Monsieur de Gersin had glanced around ah my neighbour said he has been to market and has brought back some delicacies no doubt Pierre pretended not to hear for his companion was so light-minded that he did not care to trust him with a secret which was not his own besides a feeling of uneasiness was returning to him a kind of chased terror at the thought that the world and the flesh were there taking their revenge amidst all the mystical enthusiasm which he could feel around him they reached the hospital just as the patients were being brought out to be carried to the grotto and they found that Marie had slept well and was very gay she kissed her father and scolded him when she learned that he had not yet decided on his trip to Gavarni she should really be displeased with him she said if he did not go still with the same restful smiling expression she added that she did not expect to be cured that day and then assuming an air of mystery she begged Pierre to obtain permission for her to spend the following night before the grotto this was a favour of which all the sufferers ardently coveted but which only a few favoured ones with difficulty secured after protesting anxious as he felt with regard to the effect which a night spent in the open air might have upon her health the young priest seeing how unhappy she had suddenly become at last promised that he would make the application doubtless she imagined that she would only obtain a hearing from the virgin when they were alone together in the slumbering peacefulness of the night that morning indeed she felt so lost among the innumerable patients who were heaped together in front of the grotto that already at ten o'clock she asked to be taken back to the hospital complaining that the bright light tired her eyes and when her father and the priest had again installed her in the Saint Honoreen ward she gave them their liberty for the remainder of the day no don't come to fetch me she said I shall not go back to the grotto this afternoon it would be useless but you will come for me this evening at nine o'clock won't you Pierre it is agreed you have given me your word he repeated that he would endeavor to secure the requisite permission and that if necessary he would apply to Father Foulcard in person then till this evening darling said Monsieur de Gersin kissing his daughter and he and Pierre went off together leaving her lying on her bed with an absorbed expression on her features as her large smiling eyes wandered away into space it was barely half past ten when they got back to the hotel of the apparitions but Monsieur de Gersin whom the fine weather delighted talked of having Déjeuner at once so that he might the sooner start upon a ramble through Lourdes first of all however he wished to go up to his room and Pierre following him they met with quite a drama on their way the door of the room occupied by the Vigneron's was wide open and little Gustave could be seen lying on the sofa which served as his bed he was livid a moment previously he had suddenly fainted and this had made the father and mother imagine that the end had come Madame Vigneron was crouching on a chair still stupefied by her fright whilst Monsieur Vigneron rushed about the room thrusting everything aside in order that he might prepare a glass of sugar water to which he added a few drops of some elixir this draft he exclaimed would set the lad right again but all the same it was incomprehensible the boy was still strong and to think that he should have fainted like that and have turned as white as a chicken speaking in this wise Monsieur Vigneron glanced at Madame Chez the aunt who was standing in front of the sofa looking in good health that morning and his hands shook yet more violently at the covert idea that if that stupid attack had carried off his son they would no longer have inherited the aunt's fortune he was quite beside himself at this thought and eagerly opening the boy's mouth he compelled him to swallow the entire contents of the glass then however when he heard Gustave sigh and saw him open his eyes again his fatherly good nature reappeared and he shed tears and called the lad his dear little fellow but on Madame Chez's drawing near to offer some assistance Gustave repulsed her with a sudden gesture of hatred as though he understood how this woman's money unconsciously perverted his parents who after all were worthy folks greatly offended the old lady turned on her heel and seated herself in a corner whilst the father and mother at last freed from their anxiety returned thanks to the Blessed Virgin for having preserved their darling who smiled at them with his intelligent and infinitely sorrowful smile knowing and understanding everything as he did and no longer having any taste for life although he was not fifteen Can we be of any help to you? asked Pierre in an obliging way No, no, I thank you gentlemen replied Monsieur Vigneron coming for a moment into the passage but oh we did have a fright think of it an only son who was so dear to us too all around them the approach of the designee hour was now throwing the house into commotion every door was banging and the passages and the staircase resounded with the constant pitter-patter of feet three big girls passed by raising a current of air with the sweep of their skirts some little children were crying in a neighbouring room then there were old people who seemed quite scared and distracted priests who, forgetting their calling they cast their cassocks with both hands so that they might run the faster to the dining room from the top to the bottom of the house one could feel the floors shaking under the excessive weight of all the people who were packed inside the hotel oh I hope that it is all over now and that the Blessed Virgin will cure him repeated Monsieur Vigneron before allowing his neighbours to retire we are going downstairs for I must confess that all this has made me feel faint I need something to eat, I am terribly hungry when Pierre and Monsieur de Gersin had last left their rooms and went downstairs they found to their annoyance that there was not the smallest table-corner vacant in the large dining room a most extraordinary mob had assembled there and the few seats that were still unoccupied were reserved a waiter informed them that the room never emptied between ten and one o'clock such was the rush of appetite sharpened by the keen mountaineer so they had to resign themselves to wait requesting the waiter to warn them as soon as there should be a couple of vacant places then scarcely knowing what to do with themselves they went to walk about the hotel porch whence there was a view of the street along which the townsfolk in their Sunday best streamed without a pause all at once however the landlord of the hotel of the apparitions Master Magiste in person appeared before them clad in white from head to foot and with a great show of politeness he inquired if the gentleman would like to wait in the drawing room he was a start man of five and forty and strove to bear the burden of his name in a right royal fashion bald and clean shaven with round blue eyes in a waxy face displaying three super-posed chins he always deported himself with much dignity he had come from Nivelle with the sisters who managed the orphan asylum and was married to a dusky little woman a native of Lourdes in less than fifteen years they had made their hotel one of the most substantial and best patronised establishments in the town of recent times moreover they had started a business in religious articles installed in a large shop on the left of the hotel porch and managed by a young niece under Madame Magiste's supervision you can wait in the drawing room gentlemen again suggested the hotel keeper whom Pierre's cask rendered very attentive they replied however that they preferred to walk about and wait in the open air and there upon Magiste would not leave them but deigned to chat with them for a moment as he was wont to do with those of his customers whom he desired to honour the conversation turned at first on the procession which would take place that night and which promised to be a superb spectacle as the weather was so fine there were more than 50,000 strangers gathered together in Lourdes that day for visitors had come in from all the neighbouring bathing stations this explained the crush at the table d'haut possibly the town would run short of bread as had been the case the previous year you saw what a scramble there is concluded Magiste we really don't know how to manage it isn't my fault I assure you if you were kept waiting for a short time at this moment however a postman arrived with a large batch of newspapers and letters which he deposited on a table in the office he had kept one letter in his hand and inquired of the landlord have you a Madame Mars here Madame Mars, Madame Mars repeated the hotel keeper no no certainly not Pierre had heard both question and answer and a drawing near he exclaimed I know of a Madame Mars who must be lodging with the sisters of the immaculate conception the blue sisters as people call them here I think the postman thanked him for the information and went off but a somewhat bitter smile had risen to Magiste's lips the blue sisters he muttered oh the blue sisters then darting aside a glance at Pierre's cassock he stopped short as though he feared that he might say too much it his heart was overflowing he would have greatly liked to ease his feelings and this young priest from Paris who looked so liberal minded could not be one of the band as he called all those who discharged functions at the grotto and coined money out of our Lady of Lourdes accordingly little by little he ventured to speak out I am a good Christian I assure you Monsieur Labe he said he in fact we are all good Christians here and I am a regular worshiper and take the sacrament every Easter but really I must say that members of a religious community ought not to keep hotels no no it isn't right and thereupon he ventured all the spite of a tradesman in presence of what he considered to be disloyal competition what not those blue sisters those sisters of the immaculate conception to have confined themselves to their real functions to the manufacture of wafers for sacramental purposes and the repairing and washing of church linen instead of that however they had transformed their convent into a vast hostelry where ladies who came to Lourdes unaccompanied found separate rooms and were able to take their meals either in privacy or in a general dining room everything was certainly very clean very well organized and very inexpensive thanks to the thousand advantages which the sisters enjoyed in fact no hotel at Lourdes did so much business but all the same continued Majesty I ask you if it is proper to think of nuns selling victuals I must tell you that the Lady Superior is really a clever woman and as soon as she saw the stream of fortune rolling in she wanted to keep it all for her own community and resolutely parted from the fathers of the grotto who wanted to lay their hands on it yes Monsieur Labis she even went to Rome and gained her cause there so that now she pockets all the money that her bills bring in think of it nuns yes nuns mon dieu letting furnished rooms and keeping a table d'eau he raised his arms to heaven he was stifling with envy and vexation but as your house is crammed Pierre gently objected as you no longer have either a bed or a plate at anybody's disposal where would you put any additional visitors who might arrive here I should say it once began protesting oh Monsieur Labis said he one can see very well that you don't know the place it's quite true that there is work for all of us and that nobody has reason to complain during the national pilgrimage but that only lasts four or five days and in ordinary times the custom we secure isn't nearly so great for myself thank heaven I am always satisfied my house is well known it occupies the same rank as the hotel of the grotto where two landlords have already made their fortunes but no matter it is vexing to see those blue sisters taking all the cream of the custom for instance the ladies of the bourgeoisie who spend a fortnight and three weeks here at a stretch and that too just in the quiet season when there are not many people here you understand don't you there are people of position who dislike uproar they go by themselves to the grotto and pray their all day long for days together and pay good prices for their accommodation without any higgling Madame Majesté, whom Pierre and Messieurs de Gersin had not noticed leaning over an account book in which she was adding up some figures there upon intervened in a shrill voice we had a customer like that gentlemen who stayed here for two months last year she went to the grotto, came back went there again, took her meals and went to bed and never did we have a word of complaint from her she was always smiling as though to say that she found everything very nice she paid her bill too without even looking at it one regrets people of that kind short, thin, very dark and dressed in black with a little white collar Madame Majesté had risen to her feet and she now began to solicit custom if you would like to buy a few little souvenirs of Lourdes before you leave gentlemen I hope that you will not forget us we have a shop close by where you will find an assortment of all the articles that are most in request as a rule the persons who stay here are kind enough not to deal elsewhere however Majesté was again wagging his head with the air of a good Christian saddened by the scandals of the time certainly said he I don't want to show any disrespect to the Reverend Fathers but it must in all truth be admitted that they are too greedy you must have seen the shop which they have set up near the grotto, that shop which is always crowded and where tapers and articles of piety are sold a bishop declared that it was shameful and that the buyers and sellers ought to be driven out of the temple afresh it is said too that the Fathers run that big shop yonder just across the street which supplies all the petty dealers in the town and according to the reports which circulate they have a finger in all the trade in religious articles and levy a percentage on the millions of chaplets statuettes and medals which are sold every year at Lourdes Majesté had now lowered his voice for his accusations were becoming precise and he ended by trembling somewhat at his imprudence in talking so confidentially to strangers however the expression of Pierre's gentle, attentive face reassured him and so he continued with the passion of a wounded rival resolved to go on to the very end I am willing to admit said he that there is some exaggeration in all this but nonetheless it does religion no good for people to see the Reverend Fathers keeping shops like us tradesmen for my part of course I don't go and ask for a share of the money which they make by their masses or a percentage on the presents which they receive so why should they start selling what I sell our business was a poor one last year owing to them there are already too many of us nowadays everyone at Lourdes sells religious articles to such an extent in fact that there will soon be no butchers or wine merchants left nothing but bread to eat and water to drink ah Monsieur Labé it is no doubt nice to have the Blessed Virgin with us but things are nonetheless very bad at times a person staying at the hotel at that moment disturbed him but he returned just as a young girl came in search of Madame Majesté the damsel who evidently belonged to Lourdes was very pretty, small but plump with beautiful black hair and a round face full of bright gaité that is our niece Apolline resumed Majesté she has been keeping our shop for two years past she is the daughter of one of my wife's brothers who is in poor circumstances she was keeping sheep at Lausanne in the neighbourhood of Bautres when we were struck by her intelligence and nice looks and decided to bring her here and we don't repent having done so for she has a great deal of merit and has become a very good saleswoman a point to which he omitted to refer was that there were rumours current of somewhat flighty conduct on Mademoiselle Apolline's part but she undoubtedly had her value she attracted customers by the power possibly of her large black eyes which smiled so readily during his sojourned Lourdes the previous year Gérard de Père Long had scarcely stirred from the shop she managed and doubtless it was only the matrimonial ideas now flitting through his head that prevented him from returning thither it seemed as though the Abbey de Irmoires had taken his place for this gallant ecclesiastic brought a great many ladies to make purchases at the repository ah you are speaking of Apolline said Madame Majesté at that moment coming back from the shop have you noticed one thing about her gentlemen her extraordinary likeness to Bernadette there on the wall yonder is a photograph of Bernadette when she was 18 years old Pierre and Monsieur de Gersin drew near to examine the portrait whilst Majesté exclaimed Bernadette yes certainly she was rather like Apolline but not nearly so nice she looked so sad and poor he would doubtless have gone on chattering but just then the waiter appeared and announced that there was at last a little table vacant Monsieur de Gersin had twice gone to glance inside the dining room for he was eager to have his déjeuner and spend the remainder of that fine Sunday out of doors so he now hastened away without paying any further attention to Majesté who remarked with an amiable smile that the gentleman had not had so very long to wait after all to reach the table mentioned by the waiter the architect and Pierre had to cross the dining room from end to end it was a long apartment a painted a light oak colour an oily yellow which was already peeling away in places and soiled with stains in others he realised that rapid wear and tear went on here amidst the continual scramble of the big eaters who sat down at table the only ornaments were a gilt a zinc clock and a couple of meagre candelabra on the mantelpiece Gipure curtains moreover hung at the five large windows looking on to the street which was flooded with sunshine some of the ardent arrow like rays penetrating into the room although the blinds had been lowered and in the middle of the apartment some 40 persons were packed together at the table d'haut which was scarcely 11 yards in length and did not supply proper accommodation for more than 30 people whilst at the little table standing against the walls upon either side another 40 persons sat close together hustled by the three waiters each time that they went by you had scarcely reached the threshold deafened by the extraordinary uproar the noise of voices and the clatter of forks and plates and it seemed too as if you were entering a damp oven for a warm steamy mist laden with a suffocating smell of victuals assailed to the face Pierre at first failed to distinguish anything but when he was installed at the little table a garden table which had been brought indoors for the occasion and on which there was scarcely room for two covers he felt quite upset at the sight presented by the table d'haut which is glanced now inflated from end to end people had been eating at it for an hour already two sets of customers had followed one upon the other and the covers were strewn about in higgledy biggledy fashion on the cloth were numerous stains of wine and sauce and there was even no symmetry in the arrangement of the glass fruit stands which formed the only decorations of the table then one's astonishment increased at the sight of the motley mob that was seated there huge priests, scraggie girls mothers overflowing with superfluous fat gentlemen with red faces and families ranged in rows and displaying all the pitiable increasing ugliness of successive generations all these people were perspiring greedily swallowing seated slant wise lacking room to move their arms and unable even to use their hands deftly and amidst this display of appetite increased tenfold by fatigue and of eager haste to fill one's stomach in order to return to the grotto more quickly there was a corpulent ecclesiastic who in no wise hurried but ate of every dish with prudent slowness crunching his food with a ceaseless dignified movement of the jaws Vistra exclaimed Monsieur de Gelsin it is by no means cool in here all the same I shall be glad of something to eat for I've felt a sinking in the stomach ever since I have been at Lord and you are you hungry yes yes I shall eat replied Pierre though truth to tell he felt quite upset the menu was a copious one there was salmon an omelet mutton cutlets with mashed potatoes stewed kidneys cauliflower cold meats and apricot tarts everything cooked too much and swimming in sauce which but for its grittiness would have been flavourless however there was some fairly fine fruit on the glass stands particularly some peaches and besides the people did not seem at all difficult to please they apparently had no pallets for there was no sign of nausea hemmed in between an old priest and a dirty full bearded man a girl of delicate build who looked very pretty with her soft eyes and silken skin was eating some kidneys with an expression of absolute beatitude although the so-called sauce in which they swam was simply grayish water hum resumed even Monsieur de Gelsin this salmon is not so bad add a little salt to it you'll find it all right Pierre made up his mind to eat for after all he must take sustenance for strength's sake at a little table close by however he had just caught sight of Madame Vigneron, Madame Chez who sat face to face apparently waiting and indeed Monsieur Vigneron his son Gustave soon appeared the latter still pale and leaning more heavily than usual on his crutch sit down next to your aunt said his father I will take the chair beside your mother but just then he perceived his two neighbours and stepping up to them he added oh he is now all right again I have been rubbing him with some odor cologne and by and by he will be able to take his bath at the piscina there upon Monsieur Vigneron sat down and began to devour but what an awful fright he had had he again began talking of it aloud despite himself so intense had been his terror at the thought that the lad might go off before his aunt the latter related that whilst she was kneeling at the grotto the day before she had experienced a sudden feeling of relief in fact she flattered herself that she was cured of her heart complaint and began giving precise particulars to which her brother in law listened with dilated eyes full of involuntary anxiety most certainly he was a good natured man he had never desired anybody's death only he felt indignant at the idea that the virgin might cure this old woman and forget his son who was so young talking and eating he had got to the cutlets and was swallowing the mashed potatoes by the forkful when he fancied he could detect that Madame Chers was sulking with her nephew Gustave he suddenly inquired have you asked your aunt's forgiveness the lad quite astonished began staring at his father with his large clear eyes yes added Monsieur Vigneron you behaved very badly you pushed her back just now when she wanted to help you to sit up Madame Chers said nothing the dignified heir whilst Gustave who without any show of appetite was finishing the noir of his cutlet which had been cut into small pieces remained with his eyes lowered on his plate this time obstinately refusing to make the sorry show of affection which was demanded of him come Gustave resumed his father be a good boy you know how kind your aunt is and all that she had tends to do for you but no he would not yield at that moment indeed he really hated that woman who did not die quickly enough who polluted the affection of his parents to such a point that when he saw them surround him with attentions he no longer knew whether it were himself or the inheritance which his life represented that they wished to save however Madame Vigneron so dignified in her demeanor came to her husband's help you really grieve me Gustave Chershi ask your aunt's forgiveness or you will make me quite angry with you there upon he gave way what was the use of resisting was it not better that his parents should obtain that money would he not himself die later on so as to suit the family convenience he was aware of all this he understood everything even when not a word was spoken so keen was the sense of hearing with which suffering had endowed him that he even heard the other's thoughts I beg your pardon aunt he said for not having behaved well to you just now then two big tears rolled down from his eyes whilst he smiled with the air of a tender-hearted man who has seen too much of life and can no longer be deceived by anything Madame Chershi at once kissed him and told him that she was not at all angry and the Vigneron's delight in living was displayed in all candour if the kidneys are not up to much Monsieur de Gershan now said to Pierre here at all events are some cauliflower with a good flavour the formidable mastication was still going on around them Pierre had never seen such an amount of eating amidst such perspiration in an atmosphere as stifling as that of a wash house full of hot steam the odour of the victual seemed to thicken into a kind of smoke you had to shout to make yourself heard for everybody was talking in loud tones and the scared waiters raised a fearful clatter in changing the plates and forks not to mention the noise of all the jaw crunching a mill-like grinding which was distinctly audible what most hurt the feelings of the young priest however was the extraordinary promiscuity of the table dote at which men and women, young girls and ecclesiastics were packed together in chance order and satisfied their hunger like a pack of hounds snapping at awful in all haste baskets of bread went round and were promptly emptied and there was a perfect massacre of cold meats all the remnants of the victuals of the day before leg of mutton, veal and ham encompassed by a fallen mass of transparent jelly which quivered like soft glue they had all eaten too much already but these vians seemed to wet their appetites afresh as though the idea had come to them that nothing whatever ought to be left the fat priest in the middle of the table who had shown himself such a capital knife and fork was now lingering over the fruit having just got to his third peach a huge one which he slowly peeled and swallowed in slices with an air of compunction all at once however the whole room was thrown into agitation a waiter had come in and begun distributing the letters which madame majeste had finished sorting hello exclaimed a monsieur vigneron a letter for me this is surprising I did not give my address to anybody then at a sudden recollection he added yes I did though this must have come from sauvageur who was filling my place at the ministry he opened the letter his hands began to tremble and suddenly he raised a cry the chief clerk is dead deeply agitated madame vigneron was also unable to bridle her tongue then you will have the appointment this was the secret dream in which they had so long and so fondly indulged the chief clerk's death in order that he vigneron assistant chief clerk for ten years past might at last rise to the supreme post the bureaucratic marshal ship and so great was his delight that he cast aside all restraint oh the blessed virgin is certainly protecting me my dear only this morning I again prayed to her and you see she grants my prayer however finding madame shares his eyes fixed upon his own and seeing gustav smile he realized that he ought not to exult in this fashion each member of the family no doubt thought of his or her interests and prayed to the blessed virgin for such personal favours as might be desired and so again putting on his good natured air he resumed I mean that the blessed virgin takes an interest in every one of us and will send us all home well satisfied ah the poor chief I'm sorry for him I shall have to send my card to his widow in spite of all his efforts he could not restrain his exultation and no longer doubted that his most secret desires those which he did not even confess to himself would soon be gratified and so all honour was done to the apricot tarts even gustav being allowed to eat a portion of one it is surprising now remarked Monsieur de Gersaint who had just ordered a cup of coffee it is surprising that one doesn't see more sick people here all these folks seem to me to have first-rate appetites after a close inspection however in addition to gustav who ate no more than a little chicken he ended by finding a man with a goiter seated at the tabledot between two women one of whom certainly suffered from cancer farther on too there was a girl so thin and pale that she must surely be a consumptive and still farther away there was a female idiot who had made her entry leaning on two relatives and with expressionless eyes and lifeless features was now carrying her food to her mouth with a spoon and slobbering over her napkin perhaps there were yet other ailing ones present who could not be distinguished among all those noisy appetites ailing ones whom the journey had braced and who were eating as they had not eaten for a long time past the apricot tarts the cheese the fruits were all engulfed amidst the increasing disorder of the table where at last there only remained the stains of all the wine and sauce which had been spilled upon the cloth it was nearly noon we will go back to the grotto at once eh? said Monsieur Vigneron indeed to the grotto to the grotto were well nigh the only words you now heard the full mouths were eagerly masticating and swallowing in order that they might repeat prayers and hymns again with all speed well as we have the whole afternoon before us declared Monsieur de Gersin I suggest that we should visit the town a little I want to see also if I can get a conveyance for my excursion as my daughter so particularly wishes me to make it Pierre who was stifling was glad indeed to leave the dining room in the porch he was able to breathe again though even there he found a torrent of customers new arrivals who were waiting for places no sooner did one of the little tables become vacant than its possession was eagerly contested whilst the smallest gap at the table was instantly filled up in this wise the assault would continue for less than another hour and again with the different courses of the menu appear in procession to be engulfed amidst the crunching of jaws the stifling heat and the growing nausea end of section 11 section 12 of Lourdes this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please contact LibriVox.org Lourdes by Emile Zola translated by Ernest Visitelli The Third Day 2. The Ordinary when Pierre and Monsieur de Gersin got outside they began walking slowly amidst the ever-growing stream of the Sunday-fied crowd the sky was a bright blue the sun warmed the whole town and there was a festive gaiety in the atmosphere the keen delight that attends those great fairs which bring entire communities into the open air when they had descended the crowded footway of the Avenue de la Grotte had reached the corner of the Plateau de la Merlas they found their way barred by a throng which was slowly flowing backward amidst a block of vehicles and stamping of horses there is no hurry however remarked Monsieur de Gersin my idea is to go as far as the Place du Marcadal in the old town for the servant girl at the hotel told me of a hairdresser there whose brother lets out conveyance as cheaply do you mind going so far? I replied Pierre whatever you like, I'll follow you all right and I'll profit by the opportunity to have a shave they were nearing the Place du Grosère and found themselves in front of the lawn stretching to the garve when an encounter again stopped them Médame des Agneaux and Raymond de Jean-Quière were here chatting gaily with young Gérard de Père Longue both women wore light-coloured gowns seaside dresses as it were and their white silk parasols shone in the bright sunlight they imparted so to say a pretty note to the scene a touch of society chatter blended with the fresh laughter of youth no, no Médame des Agneaux was saying we certainly can't go and visit your ordinary like that at the very moment when all your comrades are eating Gérard however with a very gallant air insisted on their accompanying him turning more particularly towards Raymond whose somewhat massive face was that day brightened by the radiant charm of health but it is a very curious sight I assure you said the young man and you would be very respectfully received trust yourself to me mademoiselle besides we should certainly find Monsieur Berto there and he would be delighted to do you the honours Raymond's smiled her clear eyes plainly saying that she was quite agreeable and just then as Pierre and Monsieur de Gersaint drew near in order to present their respects to the ladies they were made acquainted with the question under discussion the ordinary was a kind of restaurant or table d'oeuvre which the members of the hospitality of our Lady of Salvation the bearers, the hospitalers of the grotto the piscinas and the hospitals had established among themselves with the view of taking their meals together at small cost many of them were not rich for they were recruited among all classes however they had contrived to secure three good meals for a daily payment of three francs a piece and in fact they often had provisions to spare and distributed them among the poor everything was in their own management they purchased their own supplies recruited a cook and a few waiters and did not disdain to lend a hand to themselves in order that everything might be comfortable and orderly it must be very interesting said Monsieur de Gersaint when these explanations had been given him let us go and see it if we are not in the way little madame designeaux thereupon gave her consent well if we are going in a party said she I am quite willing but when this gentleman first proposed to take me in remonde I was afraid that it might not be quite proper then as she began to laugh the others followed her example she had accepted Monsieur de Gersaint's arm and Pierre walked beside her on the other hand experiencing a sudden feeling of sympathy for this gay little woman who was so full of life and so charming with her fair frizzy hair and creamy complexion behind them came remonde leaning upon Gérard's arm and talking to him in the calm young lady who holds the best of principles despite her air of heedless youth and since here was the husband whom she had so often dreamt of she resolved that she would this time secure him, make him beyond all question her own she intoxicated him with the perfume of health and youth which she diffused and at the same time astonished him by her knowledge of housewifely duties and of the manner in which money may be economised even in the most trifling matters for having questioned him with regard to the purchases that he and his comrades made for their ordinary she proceeded to show him that they might have reduced their expenditure still further meantime Monsieur de Gersaint Madame des Agneaux were also chatting together you must be fearfully tired Madame said the architect but with a gesture of revolt and an exclamation of genuine anger she replied oh no indeed last night it is true fatigue quite overcame me at the hospital I sat down and dozed off and the other ladies were good enough to let me sleep on at this the others again began to laugh but still with the same angry air she continued and so I slept like a log until this morning it was disgraceful especially as I had sworn that I would remain up all night then merriment gaining upon her in her turn she suddenly burst into a sonorous laugh displaying her beautiful white teeth oh a pretty nurse I am and no mistake it was poor Madame de Junkière on her legs all the time I tried to coax her to come out with us just now but she preferred to take a little rest Raymond who overheard these words thereupon raised her voice to say yes indeed my poor mamma could no longer keep on her feet it was I who compelled her to lie down telling her that she could go to sleep without any uneasiness for we should get on all right without her so saying the girl gave Gérard a laughing glance he even fancied that he could detect a squeeze of the fresh round arm which was resting on his own as though, indeed, she had wished to express her happiness at being alone with him so that they might settle their own affairs without any interference this quite delighted him and he began to explain that if he had not had de Jonnais with his comrades that day it was because some friends had invited him to join them at the railway station refreshment room at ten o'clock and had not given him his liberty until after the departure of the eleven thirty train ah, the rascals he suddenly resumed do you hear them, Montmoiselle? the little party was now nearing its destination and the uproarious laughter and chatter of youth rang out from a clump of trees which concealed the old zinc and plaster building in which the ordinary was installed Gérard began by taking the visitors into the kitchen a very spacious apartment well fitted up and containing a huge range and an immense table to say nothing of numerous gigantic cauldrons here more over the young man called the attention of his companions to the circumstance that the cook a fat jovial looking man had the red cross pinned on his white jacket being himself a member of the pilgrimage then pushing open a door Gérard invited his friends to enter the common room it was a long apartment containing two rows of plain deal tables and the only other articles of furniture were the numerous rush-seater to tavern chairs with an additional table served as a sideboard the white-washed walls and the flooring of shiny red tiles looked, however, extremely clean amidst this intentional bareness which was similar to that of a monkish refectory but the feature of the place which more particularly struck you as you crossed the threshold was the childish gaiety which rang there for packed together at the tables were 150 hospitalers of all ages eating with splendid appetites laughing, applauding and singing with their mouths full a wondrous fraternity united these men who had flocked to Lourdes from every province of France and who belonged to all classes and represented every degree of fortune many of them knew nothing of one another save that they met here and elbowed one another during three days every year living together like brothers and then going off and remaining in absolute ignorance of each other during the rest of the 12th month nothing could be more charming, however than to meet again at the next pilgrimage united in the same charitable work and to spend a few days of hard labour and a boyish delight in common once more for it all became as it were an outing of a number of big fellows let loose under a lovely sky and well pleased to be able to enjoy themselves and laugh together and even the frugality of the table with the pride of managing things themselves of eating the provisions which they had purchased and cooked added to the general good humour you see, explained Gérard we are not at all inclined to be sad although we have so much hard work to do although we have so much hard work to get through the hospitality numbers more than 300 members but there are only about 150 here at a time for we have had to organise two successive services so that there may always be some of us on duty at the grotto and the hospitals the sight of the little party of visitors assembled on the threshold of the room seemed to have increased the general delight and Bertot, the superintendent of the bearers who was lunching at the head of one of the tables gallantly rose up to receive the ladies but it smells very nice exclaimed Madame des Agneaux in her giddy way won't you invite us to come and taste your cookery tomorrow? oh, we can't ask ladies replied Bertot, laughing but if you gentlemen would like to join us tomorrow we should be extremely pleased to entertain you he had at once noticed the good understanding which prevailed between Gérard and Raymond and seemed delighted at it for he greatly wished his cousin to make this match he laughed pleasantly at the enthusiastic gaiety which the young girl displayed as she began to question him he's not that the Marquis de Salmore Rocbert, she asked who is sitting over yonder between these two young men who look like shop assistants they are in fact the sons of a small stationer at Taub replied Bertot and that is really the Marquis your neighbour of the Rue de Lille the owner of that magnificent mansion one of the richest and most noble men the title in France you see how he is enjoying our mutton stew it was true the millionaire Marquis seemed delighted to be able to board himself for his three francs a day and to sit down at table in genuine democratic fashion by the side of Petit Bourgeois and workmen who would not have dared to accost him in the street was not that chance table symbolical of social communion effected by the joint practice of charity for his part the Marquis was the more hungry that day as he had bathed over 60 patients sufferers from all the most abominable diseases of unhappy humanity at the piscinas that morning and the scene around him seemed like a realisation of the evangelical commonality but doubtless it was so charming and so gay simply because its duration was limited to three days although Monsieur de Gelsin had but lately risen from table his curiosity prompted him to taste the mutton stew and he pronounced it perfect meantime Pierre caught sight of Baron Suir the director of the hospitality walking about between the rows of tables with an air of some importance as though he had allotted himself the task of keeping an eye on everything even on the manner in which his staff fed itself the young priest thereupon remembered the ardent desire which Marie had expressed to spend the night in front of the grotto and it occurred to him that the Baron might be willing to give the necessary authorisation certainly replied the director who had become quite grave whilst listening to Pierre we do sometimes allow it but it is always a very delicate matter you assure me at all events that this young person is not consumptive well since you say that she so much desires it I will mention the matter to Father Foucaud and warn Madame de Jean-Chière so that she may let you take the young lady away he was in reality a very good natured fellow albeit so fond of assuming the air of an indispensable man weighed down by the heaviest responsibilities in his turn he now detained the visitors and gave them full particulars concerning the organisation of the hospitality its members said prayers together every morning two board meetings were held each day and were attended by all the heads of departments as well as by the Reverend Fathers and some of the chaplains all the hospitalers took the sacrament as frequently as possible and moreover there were many complicated tasks to be attended to a prodigious rotation of duties quite a little world to be governed with a firm hand the Baron spoke like a general who each year gains a great victory over the spirit of the age and sending Belto back to finish his déjeuner he insisted on escorting the ladies into the little sanded courtyard which was shaded by some fine trees it is very interesting very interesting repeated Madame de Jean-Chière we are greatly obliged to you for your kindness Monsieur don't mention it, don't mention it Madame answered the Baron it is I who am pleased at having had an opportunity to show you my little army so far Gérald had not quitted Raymond's side but Monsieur de Gersin and Pierre were already exchanging glances suggestive of leave-taking in order that they might repair by themselves to the Place du Mercadal when Madame des Agneaux suddenly remembered that a friend had requested her to send her a bottle of lured water and asked Gérald how she was to execute this commission the young man began to laugh will you again accept me as a guide? said he and by the way, if these gentlemen like to come as well I will show you the place where the bottles are filled corked, packed in cases and then sent off it is a curious sight Monsieur de Gersin immediately consented and all five of them set out again Madame des Agneaux still between the architect and the priest whilst Raymond and Gérald brought up the rear the crowd in the burning sunlight was increasing the Place du Rousseau was now overflowing with an idle, sauntering mob resembling some concourse of sightseers on a day of public rejoicing the bottling and packing shops were situated under one of the arches on the left-hand side of the Place they formed a suite of three apartments of very simple aspect in the first one the bottles were filled in the most ordinary of fashions a little green painted zinc barrel not unlike a watering-kask was dragged by a man from the grotto and the light-coloured bottles were then simply filled at its tap one by one the blouse-clad workman entrusted with the duty exercising no particular watchfulness to prevent the water from overflowing in fact there was quite a puddle of it up on the ground there were no labels on the bottles the little lead and capsules placed over the corks alone bore an inscription and they were coated with a kind of ceruse doubtless to ensure preservation then came two other rooms which formed regular packing shops with carpenters benches, tools and heaps of shavings the boxes most frequently made for one bottle or for two were put together with great care and the bottles were deposited inside them on beds of fine wood pairings the scene reminded one in some degree of the packing halls for flowers at Nice and for preserved fruits at Grasse Géral went on giving explanations with a quiet, satisfied air the water, he said, really comes from the grotto as you can yourself see so that all the foolish jokes which one hears really have no basis and everything is perfectly simple, natural and goes on in the broad daylight I would also point out to you that the fathers don't sell the water as they are accused of doing for instance a bottle of water here costs 20 centine tuppence, which is only the price of the bottle itself if you wish to have it sent to anybody you naturally have to pay for the packing and the carriage and then it costs you one franc and 70 centine one shilling and four pence however you are perfectly at liberty to go to the source and fill the flasks and cans and other receptacles that you may choose to bring with you Pierre reflected that the profits of the reverend fathers in this respect could not be very large ones for their gains were limited to what they made by manufacturing the boxes and supplying the bottles which latter, purchased by the thousand certainly did not cost them so much as 20 centines a piece however Raymond and Madame Desagnos as well as Monsieur de Galcins who had such a lively imagination experienced deep disappointment at the sight of the little green barrel the capsules, sticky with serous and the piles of shavings lying around the benches they had doubtless imagined all sorts of ceremonies the observance of certain rites in bottling the miraculous water priests' investments pronouncing blessings and choir boys singing hymns of praise in pure crystalline voices for his part Pierre in presence of all this vulgar bottling and packing ended by thinking of the active power of faith when one of those bottles reaches some far away sick room and is unpacked there and the sufferer falls upon his knees and so excites himself by contemplating and drinking the pure water that he actually brings about the cure of his ailment there must truly be a most extraordinary plunge into all powerful illusion ah exclaimed Gerard as they came out would you like to see the storehouse where the tapers are kept before going to the offices it is only a couple of steps away and they're not even waiting for their answer he led them to the opposite side of the Place du Rosaire his one desire was to amuse Raymond but in point of fact the aspect of the place where the tapers were stored was even less entertaining than that of the packing rooms which they had just left this storehouse, a kind of deep vault under one of the right hand arches of the Place was divided by timber into a number of spacious compartments in which lay an extraordinary collection of tapers classified according to size the over-plus of all the tapers offered to the grotto was deposited here and such was the number of these superfluous candles that the little conveyance has stationed near the grotto railing ready to receive the pilgrims offerings had to be brought to the storehouse several times a day in order to be emptied there after which they were returned to the grotto and were promptly filled again in theory each taper that was offered was thought to have been burnt at the feet of the Virgin statue but so great was the number of these offerings that although a couple of hundred tapers of all sizes were kept burning by day and night it was impossible to exhaust the supply which went on increasing and increasing there was a rumour that the Fathers could not even find room to store all this wax but had to sell it over and over again and indeed certain friends of the grotto confessed with a touch of pride that the profit on the tapers alone would defray all the expenses of the business the quantity of these votive candles quite stupefied remonde at Madame des Agneaux how many, how many there were the smaller ones costing from 50 centimes to a franc apiece were piled up in fabulous numbers Monsieur de Gersin desirous of getting at the exact figures quite lost himself in the puzzling calculation he attempted as for Pierre it was in silence that he gazed upon this mass of wax destined to be burned in open daylight to the glory of God and although he was by no means a rigid utilitarian and could well understand that some apparent acts of extravagance yield an elusive enjoyment and satisfaction which provides humanity with as much sustenance as bread he could not on the other hand refrain from reflecting on the many benefits which might have been conferred on the poor and the ailing with the money represented by all that wax which would fly away in smoke but come what about that bottle which I am to send off abruptly asked Madame des Agneaux we will go to the office replied Gérard in five minutes everything will be settled they had to cross the Place du Rosal once more and ascend the stone stairway leading to the Basilica the office was up above on the left hand at the corner of the path leading to the Calvary the building was a paltry one a hut of lath and plaster and the rain had reduced to a state of ruin on a board outside was the inscription apply here with reference to masses offerings and brotherhoods forwarding office for Lord Water subscriptions to the annals of OL of Lord how many millions of people must have already passed through this wretched shanty which seemed to date from the innocent days when the foundations of the adjacent Basilica had scarcely been laid the whole party went in eager to see what might be inside but they simply found a wicket at which Madame des Agneaux had to stop in order to give her friend's name and address and when she had paid one franc and seventy centime a small printed receipt was handed to her such as you receive on registering luggage at a railway station as soon as they were outside again Gérard pointed to a large building standing two or three hundred yards away and resumed there that is where the fathers reside but we see nothing of them remarked Pierre this observation so astonished the young man that he remained for a moment without replying it's true he at last said we do not see them but then they give up the custody of everything the grotto and all the rest to the fathers of the assumption during the national pilgrimage Pierre looked at the building which had been pointed out to him and noticed that it was a massive stone pile resembling a fortress the windows were closed and the whole edifice looked lifeless yet everything at Lord came from it and to it also everything returned it seemed in fact to the young priest that he could hear the silent formidable rake stroke which extended over the entire valley which caught hold of all who had come to the spot and placed both the gold and the blood of the throng in the clutches of those reverend fathers however Gérard just then resumed in a low voice but come they do show themselves for here is the reverend superior father cupped about himself an ecclesiastic was indeed just passing a man with the appearance of a peasant a knotty frame and a large head which looked as though carved with a bill hook his opaque eyes were quite expressionless and his face with its worn features had retained a loamy tint a gloomy russet reflection of the earth Monseigneur Laurence had really made a politic selection in confiding the organisation and management of the grotto to those garrison missionaries who were so tenacious and covetous that most parts sons of mountain peasants and passionately attached to the soil however the little party now slowly retraced its steps by way of the plateau de la merlas the broad boulevard which skirts the inclined way on the left hand and leads to the avenue de la grotte it was already past one o'clock but people were still eating their des genes from one to the other end of the overflowing town many of the 50,000 pilgrims and sightseers collected within it had not yet been able to sit down and eat and Pierre who had left the tabledoids still crowded who had just seen the hospitalers squeezing together so gaily at the ordinary found more and more tables at each step he took on all sides people were eating without a pause hereabouts however in the open air on either side of the broad road the hungry ones were humble folk who had rushed upon the tables set up on either footway tables formed on a couple of long boards flanked by two forms and shaded from the sun by narrow linen awnings broth and coffee were sold at these places at a penny the cup the little loaves heaped up in high baskets also cost a penny a piece hanging from the poles which upheld the awnings were sausages, chitterlings and hams some of the open air restaurateurs were frying potatoes and others were concocting more or less savoury messes of inferior meat and onions a pungent smoke, a violent odor rose into the sunlight mingling with the dust which was raised by the continuous tramp of the promenaders rows of people moreover were waiting at each canteen so that each time a party rose from table fresh customers took position of the benches ranged beside the oil cloth covered planks which were so narrow that there was scarcely room for two bowls of soup to be placed side by side and one and all made haste and devoured with the ravenous hunger born of their fatigue that insatiable appetite which so often follows upon great moral shocks in fact when the mind had exhausted itself in prayer when everything physical had been forgotten amidst the mental flight into the legendary heavens the human animal suddenly appeared again asserted itself and began to gorge moreover under that dazzling Sunday sky the scene was like that of a fairfield with all the gluttony of a merry-making community a display of the delight which they felt in living despite the multiplicity of their abominable ailments and the dearth of the miracles they hoped for they eat, they amuse themselves, what else can one expect? remarked Gérard guessing the thoughts of his amiable companions ah poor people, murmured Pierre, they have a perfect right to do so he was greatly touched to see human nature reassert itself in this fashion however when they had got to the lower part of the boulevard near the grotto feelings were hurt at sight of the desperate eagerness displayed by the female vendors of tapers and bouquets who with the rough fierceness of conquerors assailed the passers-by in bands they were mostly young women with bare heads or with kerchiefs tied over their hair and they displayed extraordinary effrontery even the old ones were scarcely more discreet with parcels of tapers under their arms they brandished the one which they offered for sale and even thrust it into the hand of the promenade still madame they called by a taper by a taper it will bring you luck one gentleman who was surrounded and shaken by three of the youngest of these harpies almost lost the skirts of his frock coat in attempting to escape their clutches then the scene began afresh with the bouquets large round bouquets they were carelessly fastened together and looking like cabbages a bouquet madame was the cry a bouquet for the blessed virgin if the lady escaped she heard muttered insults behind her trafficking impudent trafficking pursued the pilgrims to the very outskirts of the grotto trade was not merely triumphantly installed in every one of the shops standing close together and transforming each street into a bazaar but it overran the footways and barred the road with hand-cards full of chaplets, medals, statuettes and religious prints on all sides people were buying almost to the same extent as they ate in order that they might take away with them some souvenir of this holy kermesse and the bright gay note of this commercial eagerness, this scramble of hawkers was supplied by the urchins who rushed about through the crowd crying the journal de la grotte their sharp shrill voices pierced the ear the journal de la grotte this morning's number, two sous, the journal de la grotte amidst the continual pushing which accompanied the eddying of the ever-moving crowd Géral's little party became separated he and Rémond remained behind the others they had begun talking together in low tones with an air of smiling intimacy lost and isolated as they were in the dense crowd and Madame Designure at last had to stop look back and call to them come on or we shall lose one another as they drew near Pierre heard the girl exclaim mamai so very busy, speak to her before we leave and Géral thereupon replied it is understood, you have made me very happy mademoiselle thus the husband had been secured the marriage decided upon during this charming promenade among the sights of Lourdes Rémond had completed her conquest and Géral had at last taken a resolution realising how gay and sensible she was as she walked beside him leaning on his arm Monsieur de Gersin however had raised his eyes and was heard inquiring are not those people up there on that balcony the rich folk who made the journey in the same train as ourselves you know whom I mean, that lady who was so very ill and whose husband and sister accompany her he was alluding to the Dior Lafayse and they indeed were the persons whom he now saw on the balcony of a suite of rooms which they had rented in a new house overlooking the lawns of the rosary they here occupied a first floor furnished with all the luxury that Lourdes could provide carpets, hangings, mirrors and many other things without mentioning a staff of servants dispatched beforehand from Paris as the weather was so fine that afternoon the large armchair on which lay the poor ailing woman had been rolled onto the balcony you could see her there clad in a lace peignoir her husband always correctly attired in a black frock coat stood beside her on her right hand whilst her sister in a delightful pale move gown sat on her left smiling and leaning over every now and then so as to speak to her but apparently receiving no reply Oh! declared little Madame Designaux I have often heard people speak of Madame Jousseau that lady in mauve she is the wife of a diplomatess to neglect her it seems in spite of her rare beauty and last year there was a great deal of talk about her fancy for a young colonel who was well known in Parisian society it is said, however, in catholic salons that her religious principles enabled her to conquer it they all five remained there looking up at the balcony to think, resumed Madame Designaux that her sister, poor woman, was once her living portrait and indeed there was an expression of greater kindliness and more gentle gaiety on Madame Dior Lafay's face and now you see her no different from a dead woman except that she is above instead of underground, with her flesh wasted away reduced to a livid, boneless thing which they scarcely dare to move Oh! the unhappy woman Remorned thereupon assured the others that Madame Dior Lafay, who had been married scarcely two years previously had brought all the jewellery given her on the occasion of her wedding to offer it as a gift to our Lady of Lourdes and Gérard confirmed this assertion saying that the jewellery had been handed over to the treasurer of the Basilica that very morning with a golden lantern studded with gems and a large sum of money destined for the relief of the poor however the blessed virgin could not have been touched as yet for the sufferer's condition seemed, if anything, to be worse from that moment Pierre no longer beheld ought to save that young woman on that handsome balcony that woeful wealthy creature lying there high above the merrymaking throne the lured mob which was feasting and laughing in the Sunday sunshine the two dear ones who were so tenderly watching over her her sister who had forsaken her society triumphs her husband who had forgotten his financial business his millions dispersed throughout the world increased by their irreproachable demeanour the woefulness of the group which they thus formed on high above all other heads and face to face with the lovely valley for Pierre they alone remained and they were exceedingly wealthy and exceedingly wretched however lingering in this wise on the footway with their eyes upturned the five promenades narrowly escaped being knocked down and run over for at every moment fresh vehicles were coming up for the most part land ours drawn by four horses which were driven at a fast trot and whose bells jingled merrily the occupants of these carriages were tourists visitors to the waters of Poe, Barrages and Côtré whom curiosity had attracted to lured and who were delighted with the fine weather and quite inspired by their rapid drive across the mountains they would remain at lured only a few hours after hastening to the grotto and the basilica in seaside costumes they would start off again laughing and well pleased at having seen it all in this wise families in light attire the vans of young women with bright parasols darted hither and thither among the grey neutral-tinted crowd of pilgrims imparting to it in a yet more pronounced manner the aspect of a fair day mob amidst which folks of good society dain to come and amuse themselves all at once madame designeur raised a cry what is it you Beltle? and thereupon she embraced a tall charming brunette who had just alighted from a landau with three other young women the whole party smiling and animated everyone began talking at once and all sorts of merry exclamations rang out in the delight they felt at meeting in this fashion oh, we're at Côtré, my dear, said the tall brunette and as everybody comes here we decided to come all four together and your husband is he here with you? madame designeur began protesting of course not, said she, he is at Truville as you ought to know I shall start to join him on Thursday yes, yes, of course, resumed the tall brunette who, like her friend, seemed to be an amiable giddy creature I was forgetting you are here with the pilgrimage then madame designeur offered to guide her friends promising to show them everything of interest in less than a couple of hours and turning to Raymond who stood by smiling she added come with us, my dear, your mother won't be anxious the ladies and Pierre and Monsieur de Gersaint thereupon exchanged bows and Gérard also took leave tenderly pressing Raymond's hand with his eyes fixed on hers as though to pledge himself definitively the women swiftly departed directing their steps towards the grotto and when Gérard also had gone off returning to his duties Monsieur de Gersaint said to Pierre and the hairdresser on the place du Marc-Cadal I really must go and see him, you will come with me, won't you? of course, I will go wherever you like I am quite at your disposal as Marie does not need us following the pathways between the large lawns which stretch out in front of the rosary they reached the new bridge where they had another encounter this time with Abbey des Renoirs who was acting as guide to two young married ladies who had arrived that morning from Talbot walking between them with the gallant air of a society priest he was showing them Lord and explaining it to them keeping them well away however from its more repugnant features its poor and its ailing folk its odor of low misery must be admitted and well nigh disappeared that fine sun-shiny day at the first word which Monsieur de Gersaint addressed to him with respect to the hiring of a vehicle for the trip to Gavarni the Abbey was seized with a dread lest he should be obliged to leave his pretty lady visitors as you please my dear sir he replied kindly attend to the matter and you are quite right make the cheapest arrangements possible for I shall have two ecclesiastics of small means with me there will be four of us we will know at the hotel this evening at what hour which will start thereupon he again joined his lady friends and led them towards the grotto following the shady path which skirts the Gav a cool sequestered path well suited for lovers' walks feeling somewhat tired Pierre had remained apart from the others leaning against the parapet of the new bridge and now for the first time he was struck by the prodigious number of priests among the crowd he saw all varieties of them swarming across the bridge priests of correct mean who had come with the pilgrimage and who could be recognized by their area of assurance and their clean cassocks poor village priests who were far more timid and badly clothed and who after making sacrifices in order that they might indulge in the journey would return home quite scared and finally there was the whole cloud of unattached ecclesiastics who had come nobody knew whence and who enjoyed such absolute liberty that it was difficult to be sure whether they had even said their mass that morning they doubtless found this liberty very agreeable and thus the greater number of them like Abeday Amwaz had simply come on a holiday excursion free from all duties and happy at being able to live like ordinary men lost unnoticed as they were in the multitude around them and from the young carefully groomed and perfumed priest to the old one in a dirty cassock and shoes down at heel the entire species had its representatives in the throng there were corpulent ones others but moderately fat thin ones, tall ones and short ones some whom faith had brought and whom Arda was consuming some also who simply plied their calling like worthy men and some moreover who were fond of intriguing and were only present in order that they might help the good cause however Pierre was quite surprised to see such a stream of priests pass before him each with his special passion and one and all hurrying to the grotto as one hurries to a duty a belief, a pleasure or a task he noticed one among the number of very short slim dark man with a pronounced Italian accent whose glittering eyes seemed to be taking a plan of lured who looked indeed like one of those spies who come and peer around with a view to conquest and then he observed another one an enormous fellow with a paternal air who was breathing hard through inordinate eating and who paused in front of a poor sick woman and ended by slipping a five franc piece into her hand just then however Monsieur de Gelsain returned we merely have to go down the boulevard and the roue-basse, said he Pierre followed him without answering he had just felt his cassock on his shoulders for the first time that afternoon for never had it seemed so light to him as whilst he was walking about amidst the scramble of the pilgrimage the young fellow was now living in a state of mingled unconsciousness and dizziness ever hoping that faith would fall upon him like a lightning flash in spite of all the vague uneasiness which was growing within him at the sight of the things which he beheld however the spectacle of that ever-swelling stream of priests no longer wounded his heart fraternal feelings towards these unknown colleagues had returned to him how many of them there must be who believed no more than he did himself and yet like himself, honestly fulfilled their mission as guides and consolers this boulevard is a new one, you know, said Monsieur de Gelsain all at once raising his voice the number of houses built during the last twenty years is almost beyond belief there is quite a new town here the La Paca flowed along behind the buildings on their right and their curiosity inducing them to turn into a narrow lane they came upon some strange old structures on the margin of the narrow stream several ancient mills here displayed their wheels among them one which Monseigneur Laurence had given to Bernadette's parents after the apparitions tourists, moreover, were here shown the pretended abode of Bernadette a hovel where the Soubirou family had removed on leaving the Rue des Petits Fourcy and in which the young girl, as she was already boarding with the sisters of Nivelle can have but seldom slept at last by way of the Rue bus Pierre and his companion reached the Place du Marcadal this was a long triangular open space the most animated and luxurious of the squares of the old town the one where the cafes, the chemists, all the finest shops were situated and among the latter one showed conspicuously coloured as it was a lively green adorned with lofty mirrors and surmounted by a broad board bearing in gilt letters the inscription Casabon, hairdresser Monsieur de Gelsin and Pierre went in but there was nobody in the salon and they had to wait a terrible clatter of forks resounded from the adjoining room an ordinary dining room transformed into a table d'hôte in which some twenty people were having des gennées although it was already two o'clock the afternoon was progressing and yet people were still eating from one to the other end of Lourdes like every other householder in the town whatever his religious convictions might be Casabon in the pilgrimage season let his bedrooms surrendered his dining room and sought refuge in his cellar where heaped up with his family he ate and slept although this unventilated hole was no more than three yards square however the passion for trading and money making carried all before it at pilgrimage time the whole population disappeared like that of a conquered city surrendering even the beds of its women and its children to the pilgrims seating them at its tables and supplying them with food is there nobody here called Monsieur de Gelsin after waiting a moment at last a little man made his appearance Casabon himself a type of the knotty but active Pyrenean with a long face prominent cheekbones and a sunburnt complexion spotted here and there with red his big glittering eyes never remained still and the whole of his spare little figure quivered with incessant exuberance of speech and gesture for you, Monsieur, a shave, eh? said he I must beg your pardon for keeping you waiting but my assistant has gone out and I was in there with my borders if you will kindly sit down I will attend to you at once thereupon daining to operate in person Casabon began to stir up the lather and stop the razor he had glanced rather nervously however at the cassock worn by Pierre who without a word had seated himself in a corner and taken up a newspaper in the perusal of which he appeared to be absorbed a short interval of silence followed but it was fraught with suffering for Casabon and whilst lathering his customers chin he began to chatter my borders lingered this morning such a long time at the grotto, Monsieur that they have scarcely sat down to des gennés you can hear them, eh? I was staying with them out of politeness however I owe myself to my customers as well, do I not? one must try to please everybody Monsieur de Gelsin who was also fond of a chat thereupon began to question him you lodge some of the pilgrims I suppose we all lodge some of them Monsieur it is necessary for the town replied the barber and you accompany them to the grotto? at this however Casabon revolted and holding up his razor he answered with an air of dignity never Monsieur, never! for five years past I have not been in that new town which they are building he was still seeking to restrain himself and again glanced at Pierre whose face was hidden by the newspaper the sight of the Red Cross pinned on Monsieur de Gelsin's jacket was also calculated to render him prudent nevertheless his tongue won the victory well Monsieur, opinions are free are they not? said he I respect yours but for my part I don't believe in all that phantasmagoria oh I've never concealed it I was already a republican and a free thinker in the days of the empire there were barely four men of those views in the whole town at that time oh I'm proud of it he had begun to shave Monsieur de Gelsin's left cheek and was quite triumphant from that moment a stream of words poured forth from his mouth a stream which seemed to be inexhaustible to begin with he brought the same charges as Majesté against the fathers of the grotto he reproached them for their dealings in tapers, chaplets, prints and crucifixes for the disloyal manner in which they competed with those who sold those articles as well as with the hotel and lodging housekeepers and he was also rothful with the blue sisters of the immaculate conception for had they not robbed him of two tenants, two old ladies who spent three weeks at Lourdes each year moreover you could divine within him all the slowly accumulated overflowing spite with which the old town regarded the new town that town which had sprung up so quickly on the other side of the castle that rich city with houses as big as palaces neither flowed all the life, all the luxury, all the money of Lourdes so that it was incessantly growing larger and wealthier whilst its elder sister, the poor antique town of the mountains with its narrow grass-grown deserted streets seemed near the point of death nevertheless the struggle still continued the old town seemed determined not to die and by lodging pilgrims and opening shops on her side endeavored to compel her ungrateful junior to grant her a share of the spoils but custom only flowed to the shops which were near the grotto and only the poorer pilgrims were willing to lodge so far away so that the unequal conditions of the struggle intensified the rupture and turned the high town and the low town into two irreconcilable enemies who preyed upon one another amidst continual intrigues ah no they certainly won't see me at their grotto resumed Cazabon with his rageful air what an abusive use they make of that grotto of theirs they serve it up in every fashion to think of such idolatry, such gross superstition in the 19th century just ask them if they have cured a single sufferer belonging to the town during the last twenty years yet there are plenty of infirm people crawling about our streets it was our folk that benefited by the first miracles but it would seem that the miraculous water has long lost all its power so far as we are concerned we are too near it people have to come from a long distance if they wanted to act on them it's really all too stupid why I wouldn't go there even if I were offered a hundred francs Pierre's immobility was doubtless irritating the barber he had now begun to shave Monsieur de Gelsain's rights cheek and he was invading against the fathers of the immaculate conception whose greed for gain was the one cause of all the misunderstanding these fathers who were at home there since they had purchased from the municipality the land on which they desired to build did not even carry out the stipulations of the contract they had signed the clauses in it forbidding all trading such as the sale of the water and of religious articles innumerable actions might have been brought against them but they snapped their fingers and felt themselves so powerful that they no longer allowed a single offering to go to the parish but arranged matters so that the whole harvest of money should be garnered by the grotto and the basilica and all at once Cazabon candidly exclaimed if they were only reasonable if they would only share with us then when Monsieur de Gelsain had washed his face and reseeded himself the hairdresser resumed and if I were to tell you Monsieur what they have done with our poor town forty years ago all the young girls here conducted themselves properly I assure you I remember that in my young days when a young man was wicked he generally had to go elsewhere but times have changed our manners are no longer the same nowadays nearly all the girls content themselves with selling candles and nosegays must have seen them catching hold of the passers-by and thrusting their goods into their hands it is really shameful to see so many bold girls about they make a lot of money acquire lazy habits and instead of working during the winter simply wait for the return of the pilgrimage season and I assure you that the young men don't need to go elsewhere nowadays no indeed and add to all this the suspicious floating element which swells the population as soon as the first fine weather sets in the coachmen, the hawkers, the canteen keepers all the low-class wandering folk reeking with grossness and vice and you can form an idea of the honest new town which they have given us with the crowds that come to their grotto and their basilica greatly struck by these remarks Pierre had let his newspaper fall and began to listen it was now for the first time that he fully realized the difference between the two lords old lords so honest and so pious in its tranquil solitude and new lords corrupted, demoralized by the circulation of so much money by such a great enforced increase of wealth by the ever-growing torrent of strangers sweeping through it by the fatal rotting influence of the conflux of thousands of people the contagion of evil examples and what a terrible result it seemed when one thought of Bernadette the pure candid girl kneeling before the wild primitive grotto when one thought of all the naive faith all the fervent purity of those who had first begun the work had they desired that the whole countryside should be poisoned in this wise by lucre and human filth yet it had sufficed that the nation should flock there for a pestilence to break out seeing that Pierre was listening Casablan made a final threatening gesture as though to sweep away all this poisonous superstition then relapsing into silence he finished cutting Monsieur de Gelsin's hair there you are Monsieur the architect rose and it was only now that he began to speak of the conveyance which he wished to hire at first the hairdresser declined to enter into the matter pretending that they must apply to his brother at the Chant Comain but at last he consented to take the order a pair horse lundau for Gavalny was priced at 50 francs however he was so pleased at having talked so much and so flattered at hearing himself called an honest man that he eventually agreed to charge only 40 francs there were four persons in the party so this would make 10 francs a piece and it was agreed that they should start off at about 2 in the morning so that they might get back to Lourdes at a tolerably early hour on the Monday evening the lundau will be outside the hotel of the apparitions at the appointed time repeated Casablan in his emphatic way you may rely on me Monsieur then he began to listen the clatter of crockery did not cease resounding in the adjoining room people were still eating there with that impulsive veracity which had spread from one to the other end of Lourdes and all at once a voice was heard calling for more bread excuse me hastily resumed Casablan my borders want me and thereupon he rushed away his hands still greasy through fingering the comb the door remained open for a second and on the walls of the dining room Pierre aspired various religious prints and notably a view of the grotto which surprised him in all probability however the hairdresser only hung these engravings there during the pilgrimage season by way of pleasing his borders it was now nearly three o'clock when the young priest and Monsieur de Gersin got outside they were astonished at the loud peeling of bells which was flying through the air the parish church had responded to the first stroke of Vespers chiming at the basilica and now all the convents one after another were contributing to the swelling peels the crystalline notes of the bell of the carmelites mingled with the grave notes of the bell of the immaculate conception and all the joyous bells of the Sisters of Nevers and the Dominicans were jingling together in this wise from morning till evening on fine days of festivity the chimes winged their flight above the house roofs of Lourdes and nothing could have been gayer than that sonorous melody resounding in the broad blue heavens above the gluttonous town which had at last lunched and was now comfortably digesting as it strolled about in the sunlight End of section 12
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Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust (Secondary College and Martin Bacon) update
Secondary College update
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Andrew Daley, who is from Cambridge Meridian Academy's Trust. Andrew, are you there? Yep. Good evening. Okay, over to you. I think my video is working. Can't see myself though. Hello. So good evening everyone. Just got a brief update this evening on the learning community. So which encompasses both the Martin Bacon special special school and North Stowe secondary college. So the secondary college now is fully in year seven so 123 students in year seven and first students in year nine have started their GCSE courses this year. We've got 180 applications or offers applications for September with 120 again due to start being full in September 2022. We are also now in looking at phase two of the build for the secondary college, which will include the post 16 so the post 16 is due to open in 2024. We'll be starting next academic year. So from next September, starting to look at what the curriculum will look like and how those first students who are currently in your nine have just started their GCSEs, what it will look like in terms of their post 16 study. So we are due to have a kickoff meeting with colleagues from South Cams and CCC about the build for the post 16 and the phase two of the secondary college which will be general teaching spaces because a lot of the specialist teachers spaces have already been built with the science and DT on the site. Other updates I might just try just briefly to share my screen, if that's possible, is just to highlight that we have been doing quite a bit of work with South Cams and CCC about the gym, and also the cafe. And how those can be fitted out and be up and running within this year. And so quite excited to look at how we move that forward we've got to look at how we raise the revenue to equip both those areas but clearly working with all partners to take that forward. Then the last element was about the bookings so the bookings are there's lots of things going on lots of clubs and activities going on at the secondary college. And if you go to our website, there's a link for higher our spaces and that takes your page where all of those bookings are managed and you bookings can be made on there. They are available till all evenings through the week till half past nine and on the weekends as well and we are. We've got staffing and post COVID we're out and we're able to do all these exciting things. And we're now able to open those up and looking at who might be involved on on the weekends and using those spaces clubs and clubs and activities so I will stop sharing and that was just a quick whistle stop update but very happy with any questions. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Andrew. Don't have any questions for you. Oh wait a minute. Okay. This is, is there a plan to offer reduced room high rates for north to north Stowe community groups. There are there, there are different rates available through the bookings system for for different groups and certainly local community groups and clubs get a preferential rate. Okay. Thank you. I'm going to wait a few seconds because it takes people a little while just to type the questions in Andrew just. I can see them they're popping up so I'm happy. Oh, you can see them. All right. Yeah. Will there be a separate building for sixth formers that's from Lorraine Calvert. Yep, so yes there will rain there's going to be on a front facing so where currently there's a kind of big grassy area between the Martin Bacon special school and the secondary college that's where the sixth form building will go. So in that space there will be a sick form building that will have some general teaching classrooms and some sick form study spaces and social spaces. There will be some integration in terms of some of the specialist provision like the DT rooms and the science laboratories and some of the performing arts and visual art spaces they will be shared with what is there with the secondary college in terms that specialist space but but there will be specific separate sick form space as well that will be in in that area. Okay, thank you. That is probably the last question for now, if any pop up now. Andrew will leave them take them at the end if that's okay. Yeah, or I'll answer them in the chat happy to do that or answer in the chat whichever. Yeah. Okay. So, oh, hang on. Will the gym be open to the public. Let's take it. Yeah, absolutely. So once it's equipped we're hoping that that will be open on a membership basis. Yeah, I'm pretty, like I say pretty keen to get that up and running just looking at how we can fund the equipment for it. Okay, thank you. Okay, so I will then move on there to
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BET Isotherm - Discussion
The BET model for adsorption gives the same prediction as the Langmuir model, when the pressure is very low. As the pressure approaches the saturated vapor pressure, though, the BET model predicts that an infinite amount of adsorbate will adsorb onto the surface, as the gas condenses.
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We have an expression now for how the adsorbed volume of a gas depends on the pressure for an adsorberation system that obeys the BET model, the Brunauer-Emmett and Teller model. So next goal is to understand what that means, what this equation looks like if we were actually to plot a graph of adsorbed volume versus pressure and how that compares to the Langmuir model. Just as a reminder, this expression contains two constants. This constant K, which is essentially an equilibrium constant for multi-layer adsorption for a molecule from the gas phase adsorbing onto some layers that have been previously adsorbed onto the surface, just increasing the amount of the molecule on the surface. And then C is this ratio when a molecule adsorbs not onto itself but onto the bare substrate, C times K is the equilibrium constant. So that equilibrium constant for this reaction might be greater than or less than this equilibrium constant depending on the size of this C constant. Alright, so let's take a look at this expression and see if we can understand a little bit about it. The first thing that kind of jumps out about this expression is these quantities in the denominator that might cause the expression to blow up. So in particular, if it's the case that Kp is equal to 1, equilibrium constant is just some number. If the pressure is some number that causes K times P to be equal to 1, then this quantity in the denominator will be zero and the adsorption volume will approach infinity. So what does that mean and is that a problem with the model or what does it mean that the adsorbed volume should reach infinity? To make sense out of that, let's think a little harder about what this equilibrium constant K is for this reaction where a gas-phase molecule is adsorbing onto some other molecules of its own type. So that's a lot like a condensed phase, let's say a liquid phase or a solid phase onto which a gas-phase molecule is absorbing, just creating a thicker liquid phase. So once we've thought about it in those terms, that's just a phase change reaction. That's a gas-phase molecule condensing and becoming a liquid-phase molecule. So the equilibrium constant for that reaction products over reactants, if we are not concerned with the fact that this liquid just contains more layers than this liquid does than the liquid in the numerator of this equilibrium constant and the denominator of the equilibrium constant will cancel. The only thing that affects the equilibrium constant is the amount of gas-phase, since that's on the reactant side, it shows up in the denominator. So the equilibrium constant for this reaction is one over the pressure of the gas. In particular, it's one over the pressure of the gas under conditions where this reaction is in equilibrium because we have an equilibrium constant. So it's not just any old pressure, that's the equilibrium saturated vapor pressure of that gas. So P star will write for the vapor pressure. So the equilibrium constant is one over the vapor pressure of this particular adsorbate. So if I use the fact that K is equal to one over P star, the vapor pressure, then when K times P is equal to one, that means P times one over P star is equal to one or pressure is equal to the vapor pressure. So now macroscopically, that does make sense. If I increase the pressure to the point where I'm approaching the vapor pressure, then more and more molecules will adsorb onto the surface until the point where they're stacking up molecules on top of molecules. And by the time I get to the vapor pressure, molecules will be just as happy adsorbed onto the surface as in the gas phase. And if I exceed the vapor pressure, then all the molecules will fall out of the gas phase onto the surface. So what that means is wherever on this graph the vapor pressure is, this curve, whatever it does in between, we haven't discussed yet. But as the pressure increases, the amount of adsorbed species is going to climb, climb, climb, climb, and asymptotically approach infinity as we approach the vapor pressure. That just represents condensation of the gas phase into the liquid phase, molecules adsorbing onto themselves once we reach the vapor pressure. So that's not a problem with this model. That's actually a good prediction that the Langmuir model is unable to produce. The BET model is able to produce the fact that the gas will condense and become a liquid as it approaches the vapor pressure. All right, so, and I guess I'll keep referring back to this expression with the case in it, but we can rewrite this expression if we want the more conventional way of writing the Langmuir isotherm equation. Let's see, I'll put that down at the bottom of the screen. The adsorbed volume of the gas relative to the monolayer volume we can write instead of using these k's, I can write that as c times p over vapor pressure over, and now in the denominator, 1 minus p over vapor pressure. And the longer term is 1 minus p over vapor pressure plus c times p over vapor pressure. So that has removed these k's from the expression, and now I can just write the adsorbed volume as a function of the pressure and the vapor pressure, which is a known quantity, as well as this BET constant called c. All right, so now let's pay a little more attention to what's going on, not at high pressures on this graph, but at lower pressures. So if the pressure is low, in particular, if the pressure is low enough that this kp quantity is not one, not even close to one, it's much smaller than one, I'm going to end up ignoring these kp terms compared to one. Physically what that means, since k is equal to 1 over p star, that means pressure is much, much less than the vapor pressure. So we're not talking about this limit, we're talking about the limit down here at low pressure, so when the pressure is very low compared to the vapor pressure, kp can be ignored compared to one, so this term is small compared to one, this term is also small compared to one, so I can pretend those terms aren't there, and then I can say the adsorbed volume relative to the molar volume is going to look like ckp in the numerator. I can't throw that away because it's not small compared to zero, which would be left if I threw it away. In the denominator, I've just got one times second term in parentheses one plus ckp. So I could, if I take that c and k and I bundle them into a second constant, if I just call that, let's say, k prime times the pressure, so I've just let c times k be equal to k prime, writing it that way makes me realize that's just the Langmuir expression. So constant times pressure over one plus a constant times the pressure, that's exactly the Langmuir expression. So in the limit of low pressures down here on this side of the curve, we're behaving exactly like the Langmuir model predicts we should behave, but when we get to pressures that are too high, we begin to behave a little differently, and the ways we can behave differently are we can exceed one monolayer of coverage, and as we approach the vapor pressure, we'll predict condensation. All right, so that gives us the general shape of this curve. That's what we would get if we plotted this curve. Qualitatively, the way this curve looks is a little bit different for different values of this constant c. In particular, let's take the case where, actually let's start with the opposite case first. Let's take the case where c is less than one. So this is a letter c, and that's a less than sign. When c is less than one, remember what that means is this equilibrium constant is less than this equilibrium constant. So the binding to the surface to create the first layer of adsorption is weaker than the binding of the molecule to itself. The molecule interacts more favorably with itself than it does with the surface. So I'll say that's weak adsorption to surface and stronger adsorption of the molecule to itself. What that's going to look like, the molecule, so again, the graph is going to have the same general shape. But because the molecule adsorbs relatively weakly to the surface, that constant, the rate at which the volume adsorbs at low pressure, that's going to be lower. So it's going to start out increasing relatively slowly. Eventually, as it approaches the vapor pressure, it's going to condense. But basically, that's condensation because it prefers to be in the liquid phase rather than the gas phase. It doesn't have any particularly strong attachment to the surface in particular. So it doesn't adsorb very well to the surface until it just falls out of the gas phase. On the other hand, in the opposite limit, if that constant is bigger than one, that means this equilibrium constant is larger than this equilibrium constant. Binding onto the surface is more favorable than binding of the molecule onto itself. So that's a relatively strong adsorption to the surface. That's a case where the molecule does bind relatively easily to the surface, more easily than it binds to itself. So in the beginning, this looks a lot like Langmuir adsorption. The curve's going to go up. It's going to bend over as if multilayer adsorption were not going to happen. And it couldn't exceed one monolayer of coverage because molecules fall down first and just fill up the surface sites. Once there's very little place to go other than binding onto more molecules of themselves, eventually it will increase across this single monolayer coverage and increase to see condensation when we approach the vapor pressure. And so that's the case when we have relatively strong adsorption to the surface, binds relatively quickly to the surface and then takes a little while after that for the molecules to bind to themselves. So we can get lots of different shapes for these curves depending on the value of C, depending on the value of the vapor pressure. And the BET model is able to capture all this behavior ranging from molecules that exhibit monolayer or near monolayer adsorption at low pressures all the way up to the vapor pressure at which they'll condense and adsorb many layers onto the surface at once.
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Debian on AWS BoF
by James Bromberger At: DebConf13 https://debconf13.debconf.org/ Room: Second talk room Scheduled start: 2013-08-13 10:30:00
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Yeah, James Bromberger who already yesterday talked about how AWS can help Debian will now talk about Debian on AWS And yeah, thank you. Cool. So firstly, this is the both session So that's why I said everyone come forward and we'll try and just discuss because basically so far I've obviously grabbed Ingers as script and we've been generating AMIs and we've been keeping it as base But there's been a couple of ideas that have come up a few of these we've discussed on the mailing list on the Debian cloud list But it'd be great to get some feedback in the room and some ideas back in the room because We don't have an official cloud team on Debian. It's kind of this. We are the cloud team. Thank you. You've come along You're in the group. So I had a bit of an agenda that I wanted to go through a quick Sorry the current status of the AMIs on on AWS and obviously my talk now I'm actually talking as a Debian developer not as a native rest person. I'm completely above the hypervisor here Lifecycle management of those AMIs I deprecated a couple of the old dumb squeeze or this old squeeze release six oh six about two three weeks ago The additions that we've got on there, obviously, there's a base image right now security and then any other items that come up sound cool General nodding cool So current status we have base Debian AMIs in all regions and including gov cloud So I've managed to find someone who was good enough and kind enough to sponsor us taking that image into the Ita restricted gov cloud environment. Obviously, I can't push that there myself I don't have access not being a US citizen and and I guess Jimmy would you like to push the A mind? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah as a politics It only contains Debian main packages plus the SS SSH root resize user data Execute scripts in the root file system. Well, yeah, I said that but no cloud need so we all know this issue right now And we have that question around whether cloud and it should be pulled in from back ports And if we do that whether or not that means we should have back ports in app sources or app sources list D by default We configured for HP dot debbing net. We're not doing a full back to a cloud front of debbing dot net But HP dot debbing net for most regions is actually pointing at cloud front So it's a zero-sum game. And if we as Debbie and want to ever not use cloud front for The CD enter to access packages, then we obviously can change that outside of AWS We also don't have any of the software development kits. So the libraries the boat with it Although Boto is in there. It's an odd. Well, actually it's reasonably up-to-date. I think it's somebody look today We've now also got SDKs for Node.js for Java for Ruby, I think it's about six or seven SDKs that are available. I think Boto may be one of the few ones that are on there There's some older pearl libraries on there some older client tools in fact S3 CMD, I think might have a bug in it that I was Persisting to the maintainer saying we need this sort of three-line patch applied because it's gonna be an issue And so we've got a bunch of questions as to what should actually be in them So let's go through that What do you guys think about Cloud knit how are we gonna handle that? Microphone not working. I think you should I think you should install it But if we install it then we obviously need to maintain it and we need to make sure that it's correct for any security problems that happen As long as it's in backports in backports. Yes So should we package pin it to backports? So it's the only to pin it you just need to install it and as long as it's installed It's going to be upgraded automatically if it's if you have the app source list What if there's anything else in backports that supersedes what's in main? It's not a problem. I don't think it's not a problem. No only upgrade packages that are already installed Okay So if from backports from backports specifically Cool, so what do we need to that just an app sources line and then in the Install script. We just installed back cloud knit. Do we still consider that to be a Debbie an image? Backpots is official now. Yeah, does everyone else agree with that? Yes. Yeah Cool, so we could do that for the next build that we do of the images That actually solves a whole bunch of things and brings us a little bit more uniform And would you guys do the same thing? Maybe if I put it Yeah, okay What? Why do you could you guys switch to cloud in it at some point? What's the what's the blockers for good compute? Right now there are Right now Google computers not willing or Google is not willing to sign the License agreement that you need to sign to submit code to a canonical to include in cloud in it so we would have to have a special we would either have to change that agreement that we have to sign or submit the code in some other way or Or for for Debian So yeah, we're working on getting code out there whether or not canonical takes it though And I think the main question is whether Debian would be okay with having a cloud in it that has code in it That's not in the upstream cloud in it and that might be okay. I should also clarify We'd be very happy for them to take the code, but I mean the default license would of course be their default license of GPL V3 We're happy to take the packages and obviously take patches and be applied to the patch on on package create So that's one option. This is you know, maybe the right right next step for us is to take our Get some changes out for cloud in it to make it support Google compute put it into Debian and then worry about the canonical problem later Yeah, yeah Okay SDKs client tools, etc. Now this becomes an interesting one that obviously the SDKs from all cloud providers Updated pretty regularly new features happen and a lot of users want those features And I think we were talking earlier about things like being able to write to object storage and stuff like that We have a lot of Amazon tools already available. So I mentioned s3 cmd boat. I was already there But do we want to be adding in additional stuff from a vendor repository into the Debian cloud images? My thoughts are potential But then it would be significantly different from Debian Because it's got vendor PPA for one of a better expression of in that base image Not all obviously not all instances that start on the cloud need these tools But the fact that they're installed and not used might not be an issue. What do people here think? so the Personally, I'm happy with the images as they are but they are tools like for example Glacier SDKs to talk to Amazon some cold storage That's not available in in in any of our AMIs right now But do we want that and this is the same question you guys have got with just I would argue that your customers are probably crying for it Whether like whether they say so or not But there's there's two options though Do we put it into the base image or do we make it trivial for them to bootstrap to get to that point that it's available? Will you put that in Debian main? Yes these tools that would that I would like to then do it in main I'll put it to seed and then after 10 days I'll put it to backports and then problem solved. Yeah So we I like backpots. I did we channel everything through backpots yeah my understanding is that's the only way to get the The update rate which we yes, I don't know if everybody else Concurrs, but my impression from the process is that if you want to upgrade your tool upgrade your tools every couple months With new features and functionality you have to go to backports when I these tools I think we should have in main Standard anyway because I know these SDKs are very useful for me for my laptop. They would be old. Yes They would be old. I mean none of us are going to deprecate our API's at a rate that that the The tools that were packaged, you know three years ago I'm going to stop working and not be useful to some degree It might not have the latest greatest thing that the customers are going. Oh, nice shiny toy. We want that Okay, cool It's kind of set of AMI's so we currently have EBS AMI 64 bit and 32 bit power virtualization And we're going to add s3 AMI's as well I started working that about two weeks ago. I hit something and didn't manage to get back to it Couple of interesting questions here. Should we drop 32 bit? We have multi-arch. Yeah. Yeah, Dave. Can we go back just one second back one? That was one second I'll be here all week this I apologize because this sort of breaches into some of the stuff that we're talking about Earlier, which was like how can we copy thing like it was the gcu till problem Can we copy code from other packages and put it into our package? Is that more acceptable and back ports than it would be a main? No Yeah, but but newer versions of packages are by definition of back ports more acceptable Hmm as long as you make sure that when you have back ports included things are relatively coherent and Working if you include back ports and and you pay attention to security fixes. Yes, your team doesn't Yeah Okay So back to the 32 bit question. We have multi-arch support in wheezy Is that good enough that we don't need 32 bit? Images Someone has an opinion. Come on for many work load 64 bits is all right though if you run pearl or PHP the problem is that it takes twice the amount of memory. Yeah, so for some PHP users 32 bits may make sense though. We have also coming soon the X32 architecture which will be a partial architecture that might solve the problem So you we would run in 64 bits Together with some 32 bits user land. Yeah, which still has the eight registers and whatever in see in this So that's a Jesse here a problem. So it's going to happen But like when Jesse is going to be released not before perfect and in so what I would do if I were you would Be keeping 32 bits for Debian until we have Jesse and The X32 partial architecture sound sensible everyone agree There is no guarantee that there will be expert to ingest Yeah, if it happens. Yeah, okay Next one. So EBS HVM images so hardware virtualization Now if you saw my talk yesterday the API for registering images from a block device got updated so that now you can actually register HVM images No Yeah, not anymore Haha, there's a man who had an NDA So No, this is now going to be open and and available to be called from tools now eucalyptus obviously in the last 11 days hasn't implemented that yet Even the AWS EC2 tools haven't implemented that parameter yet as well. Obviously, they all of these will In the goodness of time But it does mean that we'll be able to actually get our WN AMIs up onto the larger instance sizes for example the cluster compute instances and the Graphics instances plus the graphics instances with the Nvidia Tesla cards and whatever else happens in the future with that family So I'm thinking that this is a yes But then the question also becomes should we do that for s3 backed HVM in 32 and 64 bit times 9 regions so I have a question if you do drop 32 bit and if you do Like if you don't keep everything go one of these other permutations Are they all going to be possible for a user who is so motivated to? Continue to create such an image with our method on and run it on your cloud because if so then if we handle most of the cases and make it clear how to do the official equivalent thing with Their use case in a different permutation that seems great for example in Google's cloud We only ship 64-bit images right now, but I believe build a beam cloud support I haven't tested it so much, but the support ought to work for 32 bit I'm not sure about kernel stuff, but we're going to allow arbitrary kernel soon anyway So yeah, I think the script should support it So like all of these things are going to be supported at the infrastructure level Yeah, somebody could still build it even if the community here drops it Yeah, absolutely. I think that the build script that Anders has got Should do all of the permutations that we want Please write patches put them in if there's if there's a permutation that you feel is that you're passionate about No, chat up on the mailing list and we'll talk about how we can do it. I Obviously have created an AWS account specifically for us as the Debian group to work in so I'll give you access to that You can test all of these images and and do anything you want So if you'd like to work on any of this, let me know Okay Life cycle management. I'm sorry. I should ask any other points of of the current images that we're generating I'd like to automate some of it because at the moment the way I'm doing it is I I Have a user data script which I've put into an instance and I put a spot bid in and an instance starts up and It installs The script from github it installs git obviously and then from github it gets the script runs the script and then it Terminates itself when it's so, you know, basically their spot bid is around for about five minutes And I do that times eight regions and they're all built independently locally and Yeah, that's what I need to sort of do that next step and automate that as well anything else we want to do with the The current permutations No, okay So life cycle management And and hopefully you guys will have something on this so I'm 606 I got rid of What two weeks ago or so I gave notice about the beginning of July, so I gave about three weeks notice I think I'd even spoken about it earlier in an earlier post in the Debian cloud mailing list Amis Generally from most vendors change over time A security roll-up means a new AMI which means a new AMI ID and the reason this is important is as we were talking earlier beforehand if it's embedded into an autoscale configuration or a cloud formation template And the AMI is no longer available Then obviously you need to do some maintenance to keep that going in the current way that the cloud formation works I Feel that we should keep 607. I don't think there's any reason to get rid of 607 because you never know in in three four five years time you might come back and say I need to go back to a squeeze image Does everyone feel the same that we should keep these old ones? Yeah So the then the initial next question becomes 7.0 to be other point release Typically at the end of the life cycle of an old stable The release team does a point release. Yes, so eventually your six zero dot seven will get deprecated Form security. Yes, but what if you wanted to start one up? You're desperate to find an AMI or an image to start up 607 in a couple years time given Yes, you know, you're not gonna get any security updates. Yes, but then why would you want 607 and not 609 nine? Yeah, so the lot the ultimate one whether it's eight nine ten whatever comes up We should keep updating to that at that point Yes You should move the sources to archive that the beyond org to be able to still keep updated Installing packages from the older readings, but yeah, you can keep it That's an interesting question though because obviously when the image is generated the sources list talks to the current Look, I guess maybe then does do we need to separate our archive from from the main distribution over time? We've done why have we done so up to now to conserve space to reduce mirror space for our kind mirrors that the take copies Yeah, if SSH key is enabled Here we go microphone coming Since SSHD is enabled by default on image, right? how Sensible is it to keep an image which is? Luckily to get insecure just a few months after it's deprecated by the beyond sorry could you say that once more time? How lucky is it? To have an image which is insecure a few months after the beyond stop providing security updates Well, it depends on how you launch it if you're launching it within a virtual private cloud Where there's no public access to that image then it's a resource for you to use Would you want a 607 publicly facing right now? Well right now it's probably okay, but in four years time You probably don't want to publicly facing but you do still want it launchable inside a virtual private cloud or with a security group That's completely closed because you've got something that you need to do to that image. So Do you have somebody to enforce that? No You you have complete control over whether you make it public-facing or not I think what we should do is we should advise, you know, yes big flashy lights This is an old release You should obviously, you know, launch this in a secure manner I would be against forcing some security Yes Or some security restrictions on all the unsupported images because I can perfectly imagine that Some security researcher for example wants to use this old image as a part of honeypot or yeah part of Even research how many attacks are there on absolutely just because we stop supporting You know squeeze from from security updates doesn't mean people to stop running on the internet So we keep them verbatim as they are good they can't hear you on the stream So Coming to the bottom 7.1 a so for those that didn't see obviously we noticed When just after a couple days after 7.1 came out that we hadn't Re-initialized the ecliptic curve cryptography host key, which is new in 7 With open ssh 6 was that or newer anyone? familiar And so we generated a whole heap of new AMIs and I just went for oh, it needs a new number. We need this out there quickly. Let's make it 7.1 a and obviously that'll become 7 2 when we do the next point release of of wheezy I got rid of the original 7.1 because the time frame between the two was three days four days I got obviously gave it at what two weeks or so. I've noticed before I did that But I haven't got rid of seven zero Should we now following following? Sorry Should web. Yes without the B. So let me let me take another that should we Now it's it's are we from the rule we had here where we said would keep the last point release of old stable Should we also keep the last point release of current stable with some window as we migrate through so it's seven zero now useless Yeah, general consensus Is it confusing to the customers it seems to me I would be if I were trying to figure out which Is I want I mean seven and six I can kind of wrap my absolutely but having both of these to be a Debian insider to figure out The difference between seven point one and seven point zero. I Think I know the biggest number wins But I think I think getting rid of seven zero would make it simpler because less choice is easier to make a choice Yeah, that's another data point from Google We haven't figured out like a proper deprecation lifecycle for prior point releases of six and seven But the I mean the API services, I think all of them right now and and the Web interface list you I think choose all of them But certainly defaults to the newest and the command line GCU till only by default Unless you use certain flags and shows you the newest six and the newest seven. Yeah, only yeah So the two ways that we're distributing these AMIs through marketplace and through our own Amazon web services account The marketplace has been updated to be this six or seven and seven one a That's all you can see you can't see seven zero anymore. However, we've still got seven zero in our own account So what I'm proposing is we we take that away from being marked as public Which is the same process I did for the others I I took away the public share so that nobody could actually launch them and I waited for someone to scream Nobody screamed so two weeks later three weeks later, whatever I removed those AMI so they know we're no longer there Because we will need to do management of this over time There's a large amount of storage being taken up by all of these times eight nine regions now And obviously more to come over time that we're gonna have to to be able to manage this in some some fashion especially if we do ever do some of the next points which are coming up such as Other flavors of Debian that we might want to do or blends potentially So general consensus was drop seven zero. Just just one more check on that. Yeah, cool I have a small comment now, please if you want to keep 60 Last yeah final just because somebody may want to have a honey, but they're why you don't want to have seven point Oh, just if somebody wants to play with it Good question. Ecliptic cups. Yeah. Yeah I think the likelihood is that most people are gonna be more interested in Getting the final version because honey pot isn't the only reason why you want to start up an old version It might be that you have some software that you've found that you need to restore from a backup and you need to take it back to 2010 So I think there's there's more value in in the ultimate old stable versus random other point releases Yeah, cool One of the back please specifically for seven point all yes So the same reason you want to keep to see six point all you may want to say we keep the seven point all forever forever, so some user can Get this one and maybe update update to seven point Let's say at some point with seven point five someone uses seven point zero Updated to seven point two. Yes again, also you mentioned that some people may want to use a backup and restore an application and They're probably not going to want to back up this two weeks after the distribution is deprecated It's probably going to be one year and then they said all dammit. We we don't have that server in house anymore. We want and AWS to restore data and I see where you're coming from but I also would counter that with The changes of from seven zero to seven one a being point releases The compatibility I think we generally keep there because as we said just in the pre discussion is The only changes that are going in there are security fixes and not major features So I don't want to litter us with 20,000 AMIs that we're trying to manage But I do think that that the most useful one is the Ultimate point release from every every release we had so if we could go back to five point What was our last five release anyone? Five ten five ten five oh ten So five oh ten might be useful. Obviously we need now support for the hypervisor in use here Which I don't know if we had a kernel then even that did it so there's interesting things if we wanted to do a Historical project and and if people want to do a historical project if someone here says they want to go and make a bow and a slink and a ham Back on here. Obviously you'd have to do some custom kernel stuff to try and get get support in there But that would be really interesting Maybe And in any case if you need software from an older point release you still have the snapshot that they can Yes, yes gives you every version of every package ever. Mm-hmm. So you can still install from that if you really need it 25 terabytes and growing Cool, okay editions So we've only got base images at the moment when we've put in a hundred percent DFSG compatible software Obviously, it's all done from the script. Everything is covered by the the licensing which we're happy with We said we should pull in cloud and it from back ports for base images. We've kind of agreed on that so far Should we have an image with boat or estuary tools another state of STK's that's kind of repeating what I was talking about before That's that is repeating what I said before isn't it? Yes, moving on security So here we talk about ecc Now when the ecc stuff came out I it was it was two o'clock in the morning for me I was a horizontal at the time and when I woke up at six I saw that somebody had mailed some the security team Which was great. Does anyone here who did that? No, it was great. The security team had been notified and I went right. Okay, so I'll wait for their response Okay, this is taking this I've had breakfast now Hmm, I'll go and start generating these images just in case somebody says yes do it And so I generated the images and they went it's getting up to sort of 11 a.m. Now I Might just start to roll this because we needed to get a fix out there So I don't know what our Relationship should be with security for Debian security whether we should just roll a new release And you're gonna have the same question that comes up as well because we have one or two little extensions like this Now we obviously want to keep these issues to a minimum We've said all along we want minimum changes from a base install What else should we do are we happy with the fact we went to 7.1 a we want some other process in future How are we gonna handle this and this is Jimmy I can see you searching for Mike Like although we didn't have that particular issue do some of the weird Right here right here type You saw that Yeah, right But like even even with Debian images we already had to do a kernel zero-day security fix release There's been a bulletin about this. It's not yeah Definitely You know and I think for things like kernels there are days Then we need to also push the security team And see if they're gonna release a new package of the kernel into the security updates and just pull that into a new Exceptions to a minimum I think right because yes, we should fix this once Anyone else got any other ideas or questions on security with regards to the images I also mentioned earlier about deny hosts or fail to ban since we've got open SSH installed by default And open by default Obviously, there's security groups around to restrict it at launch time Should we have something like Fouter ban or deny host or some other Before that just talking about the dates. Yeah when we have a Debian point release and then just right after we have Security problems that is getting fixed through the security repository then If you're going to release a new image That's not going to be the point release. Do you understand? Yes, it's going to be an intermediate. Yes, so in that case It will be point release plus that update so I think it's very important that we notify our users of that and That we make sure that we all do the same work on all clouds at the same time So that raises another thing is that when our images boot They do not do apt-get update They do not get apt-get upgrade minus dy for all pending security at the point of that launch And the reason for that is because the instance from my point of view is the instance may be launching inside a Network where it's got no access to any archives So a it can't update and be it might not be vulnerable to it because it's running inside a walled garden effectively um Also, we don't install unattended updates by default do we feel we should have unattended updates installed No, I'm getting an open there. Yeah, so our The Google security team is very upset with us in general whenever we don't run unattended updates and whenever we don't Do everything we can to lock down the machine Yeah, and sometimes we fought back when we went to Debian from our previous operating system We thought back a little bit and tried to say hey by the way, maybe Debian should be involved in figuring out what the default policy is but I More I hear you talk and the more I hear our security teams talk I have a feeling that really the cloud's requirements here are just it makes more sense to protect users from vulnerabilities and so forth then to Then it like it makes sense to do something that the rest of Debian is doing even if That makes sense, you know saying so yeah, I feel that the standard for cloud Debian should be definitely different Right, we should be locking it down. We should have the night house We had it in our previous image. We don't have it now in our Debian image We should be disabling root login by default let users override it I saw you had a comment. Can we get the other microphone over there? No, you're okay Someone else got an input on this So I see that there are three parties at play here. There's the cloud vendor There is Debian and there is the user Now the from amazon's point of view we say we operate a shared security environment that obviously everything that the Hypervisor in the physical environment is done is taken care of by by amazon operating system patches the responsibility of the end user I think what what david you were implying there is that how much does Debian want to do on behalf of the user To pre-secure that environment for them in that model um But then that's not just a question for For cloud that's also a question for Debian in general on every other piece of infrastructure we deploy on I just potentially we've just profiled the risk to be lower When it's running on a lab in your home behind your nat Thank you for the water whoever put there um So, uh Other feelings anything else we should do So we like to know our hosts No, I I don't like to discuss policies because we the cloud have a specific need I really think it should be more broad inside Debian So where should we take it to? The discussion tech committee That going too high too big a hammer if you're just installing a new package That's fine. If it's changing the behavior of a package or its default configuration Then I think you should deal with the current maintainer of the package As much as possible and I think it's just install a package. I think we're just saying which packages should be available there Then I'm fine with that. Yeah Okay cool Excellent, uh, yes, please good the contents of deny host who will Put it together But there is a deny host sorry the contents of deny hosts who will put it together the package maintainer It'll populate itself by by um, whatever happens with regards to to access it to the to the host So there's no customizations required that i'm aware of but that includes a fail-to-band construction Effectively that's what deny host does deny hosts and fail-to-band are very similar I'll come from the time that deny host was a static file Uh, it generates doesn't it deny host is generated on uh out logs from Basically, whatever is hitting ssh and you know, it's hitting too many times depending what configuration you've got for deny host If it's hitting, I don't know five times a second or whatever 20 times and it will fail 15 of those for a period of time It will put the ip into deny hosts and it will be banned from accessing it Or is this an overreaction given that we're only doing ssh authentication with keys only Thank you. So there's there's a trade-off there. Okay um Other ideas. Here's the general stuff. What else are we not currently doing for the amis on debian that we should do Yes Come on Thomas. Give it to us. We are only publishing it on amazon Right, we we need a place where we publish all our dbn clouds without Request the need of having a credit card registered on whatever provider I could not test the ami because I don't have an amazon cloud account, right? Um, you're welcome to have a login onto the amazon shared account. I don't want one. You don't want one Okay, well, I still thank you for coming I'm joking. I'm joking. I would like to test my image. So I would like an account But that's a different thing But I think everybody should be able to download it and I think that these cloud images should be On the dbn repository If we consider them official Yeah, so I did start with the first one. I very first started doing this I dumped and g zipped from the snapshot into an s3 bucket. So it was publicly downloadable But that was all manual steps and they didn't get scripted That may end up being More than you want the I mean, maybe you only want the latest version of any of these things, but like I don't know we keep the latest every single version we that's ever been published We have kind of available. We deprecate them and stuff, but they're still there Um It's gigabytes upon gigabytes upon gigabytes of images for sure I don't know if you want that on the public repository Well for the dbn images, by the way, I don't think we like we should actually publicize this via the dbn wiki but like all of the ones that since since the official launch that we have Officially published to the dbn cloud project. I've actually shared publicly in a google cloud storage bucket And what I mean publicly. I mean you could just browse to a vhtp With no Accounts of a is that not good enough and it could also be put in the debian Servers if they want, I mean, it's uh, there's there's they're all freely licensed. It's uh, it's um, they're just tar balls The the google i'm sorry, but the dbn the google infrastructure is not the dbn infrastructure It has to be on the dbn infrastructure to my point of view. I don't mind that but is it of any use there The our images are basically tar balls of raw disk images. So sure yeah So yeah, that's what they are The data. We currently upload all of our images to google cloud storage I don't know if it makes sense, but we can easily give you guys those URLs we can You want some hosted on debian infrastructure as well, but they can go to both places. That's absolutely What i'm saying is like, I don't know if I want to decide the policy of what gets stored on debian servers, but Yeah, they can copy we can make it so that they can copy whatever of those files that they want Or push them because I want I also would love to have Those images Created at the same time as the dbn cds Which is why I think it would be best to have everything built out of the dbn archive Without access to provider because that way we can give the scripts to let's say stave macintyre If he's still doing the cds and then he would create the cloud images And they will be released at the same second when we do a part release Yeah, the only the only concern There is nothing about doing it within debian doing it within debian is good and Our images do not have to be built on the cloud. We're not doing that even but We release more often than the corresponding debian stable release because of various fixes like we've been discussing So It's actually reasonable to release a new image when a debian point release goes out But it's not going to be only then but I think it's great I think it's a fine idea to uh When the when the build happens uploaded to both debian and google cloud stores The second one is required for the adding it but it can go to both places. Sure Okay But my point was not that you guys at google upload it my point is to automate it within the process It's just it's just not just a cd release. It's more frequent. That's all. Hmm. Yeah Cool, we have five minutes left any more questions Any more suggestions any anything at all No, okay I'll throw it open to any questions about amazon or anything at all as opposed to just the amis that we've been doing and the rest of Stuff anybody got any questions they want to ask? No cool Yes, are they are they in a package in main? So no, this this is actually a really good thing. Um the tools The tools I think are universally useful that they should be installable on on no matter which platform because Just because an instance is running on amazon It might want to talk to google storage and vice versa. Uh, one of your images running on google compute might want to talk to s3 Um specifically we might want to take the images and the amis that we've all generated and throw them onto the storage on Each other's clouds and that might alleviate the question of it's not on debian's infrastructure No, but it's on multiple cloud providers and we've we've covered the the infrastructure that way Yeah Yeah, see better thinking No Yes And so I've got the more general idea about generating those images regardless whether they are on debian infrastructure or Google or amazon infrastructure So are we intending to as soon as we have cds? We we want also to have images and yeah possibly many Many formats like am i row these Whatever as google accepts whatever else. I don't know Yeah, I think so if there's a release then we want to on on all of the platforms as quickly as possible Then one of the other questions is at the moment we haven't generated any jesse images Should we start doing that and at what frequency should we start doing that? Uh, and and I had um steve come and asked me uh yesterday. Um, how about getting a cloud image that uses um, uh, system d How about we test yeah, how about we yeah, how about we test both of them and have cloud images for both I mean do we want to use that as a platform? Yeah on on any of the vendors, but obviously we want to generate am is which do this that we can then open up for people to test You have nightly builds for For di why not have night? Yeah We could do You like that idea thomas? Yeah Should do that. Yeah Well, no, we just need to script it We script it it'll happen Yeah, yeah But obviously I would suggest we probably don't push nightly builds through the marketplace because that's going to confuse our New users quite a lot. Wow. I've got devian 7.1 2013. Oh wait 13 12 5206 point something um Cool, so yeah, I think we should start to get some jesse images happening around the place because obviously that's somewhere where we can Fight some bugs and and fix stuff up obviously for the next release Any other questions? No in which case, please do me a favor and take a t-shirt or more Um, there are two boxes here of t-shirts. There is another box of triple extra large in the next room Only because I couldn't carry in here in the time that I had beforehand. Um, I don't want to take them back to australia Thank you everyone for your input. Um, please subscribe to the debian club mailing list Your opinions are of a huge value to amazon to google to all of our us And obviously we want to make debian to be as successful as possible for all of our users no matter how we categorize them Thank you everyone
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A Conversation with Youth - ERASE Bullying
The ERASE Bullying video captures ideas from youth and administrators about how to stop bullying at a school and community level. This video address questions such as; What does a positive, safe school culture mean to you? What are the characteristics of a safe and orderly school? How can students create a safe culture at school and in a community?
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2012-11-09T18:35:12
2024-04-18T17:59:56
63
zqasEKileJM
Safe caring in orderly schools to me would include schools that are seen as a naturally open school system. To have a safe and caring school would mean that everyone is educated. Everyone's pretty much treated the same. More of a family versus just a school. Teaching them how to grow as a person. Bowling is violence and it doesn't benefit anyone in the world. Bowling is anything that makes a person uncomfortable or unsafe. It could be from harassment to physical abuse to emotional abuse. I think it's abusing people to get more power for yourself. Hurting someone mentally, physically. It just makes people feel bad about themselves. It creates a pattern of like unity and just bullying is not accepted here. I have confidence in who you are. I have confidence in what you do. I can look at myself now and say I can stand up to bully you.
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Aarushi P | 21st MRI Course - Papers | MRI of Soft Tissue Tumors
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2022-08-06T17:30:06
2024-02-05T08:15:10
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Good morning everyone. I'm presenting a paper on soft tissue tumors. Soft tissue pathologies encompass a wide spectrum of entities. Patients often present with non-specific clinical findings such as ill-defined soft tissue swelling or discrete palpable mass with or without accompanying tenderness of pain. With equivocal clinical findings, imaging can confirm the presence soft tissue lesion. The objectives of imaging evaluation are detecting the suspected lesion establishing a diagnosis or formulating a differential diagnosis and radiological staging if the lesion is no-plastic. The WHO classification of soft tissue tumors, the soft tissue tumors are divided according to from where they originate and which soft tissue they originate from. They could be adipocytic, fibroblastic or myofibroblastic, so-called fibrohistocytic, intermediate type from the smooth muscles. They could originate from the skeletal muscle. They could have vascular origin, chondroocious or they could be of uncertain differentiation. The most common examples of adipocytic tumors are lipoma, lipomatosis, lipomatosulophonauts, malignant variety being liposarcoma, benign fibroblastic tumors being nodular fasciitis, myositis, osophagants, and the malignant being edal fibrosarcoma or mixofibrosarcoma, so-called fibrohistocytic benign tumors like GCT of the tendon sheath and malignant like pleomorphic fibrosychistocytoma. Arising from the smooth muscle, benign tumors are like angioliumioma, malignant like gliomyosarcoma, skeletal muscles, benign being rhabdomyoma and malignant being rhabdomyosarcoma, vascular of vascular origin benign tumors being like hemangioma and malignant being epitheloid hemangioendotheliomas, chondroocious soft tissue chondromas, and of uncertain differentiation benign tumors like intramuscular mitzomas, thymomas, or malignant like synovial sarcoma, epitheloid sarcoma, pleosal sarcoma of the soft tissue. The aim and objective of this paper is to describe the MRI findings of various soft tissue sarcomas. The material and methods, it is a retrospective cross-sectional evaluation of MRI features in patients with various soft tissue sarcomas who came to the department of radio diagnosis in Krishna Institute of Medical Science, from October 2021 to April 2022. MRI was done for these patients on semen 1.5 tesla MRI with contrast sequences and other specific sequences as and when seemed appropriate. Coming to the first soft tissue sarcoma that we'll be discussing, that is in hemangioma, they are characterized under benign vascular lesions, the other entity being vascular malformations. They are common tumors in infancy and childhood that can occur in any age group. Clinically, hemangiomas can manifest with bluish skin dispellation and a history of size fluctuation. Occasionally, pain may occur following exercise going to the shunting of blood flow away from the surrounding tissue into the hemangioma. The imaging features on plain radiograph, the hemangioma usually shows multiple flabollets on USG, complex mass with inadequate channels, with flabollets and acoustic shadowing, CT, poorly defined region with attenuation similar to muscle and significant post-contrast enhancement and flabollets are noted. On MRI, the lesion is T1 iso to hyper intense to muscle. On T2, it's hyper intense in area with vascular components and post-contrast, which shows prominent post-contrast enhancement. We'll be discussing a case of a 21-year-old man who came with complaints of swelling over his left foot. There are coronal P1 and post-contrast images and axial T1, GRE and post-contrast images provided. Or well, we can see a well-defined altered signal intensity-logulated area in the inter-muscular plane of plantar aspect of the left foot. At the region of the first metatarsal pharyngeal joint extending anteriorly surrounding the interpharyngeal joint. The lesion is hyper intense on T1, hyper intense on T2 and PDFS, showing fluid fluid level in T2. There's no evidence of diffusion restriction. Patchy heterogeneous post-contrast enhancement was noted and few flow voids were noted in the lesion. Pressure erosion, cortices of the first metatarsal and the still end of the first proximal phalanx is noted with altered signal marrow intensity in the form of PDFS hyper intense signal. Later on, this case was biopsic ruling to be a soft-diffusion hemangiomy. Peripheral nerve sheet tumors classified separately as mingogenic tumors by WHO. Benign peripheral nerve sheet tumors include schwannomas and neurofibromas. Benign peripheral nerve sheet tumors are typically iso intense to muscle on T1 and slightly hyper intense to fat on T2 but are non-specific in terms of their signal intensity. Schwannomas and neurofibromas can be difficult to distinguish from each other at imaging. Either tumor can appear as a very defined smooth border fusiform mass that is aligned along the nerve. Occasionally on MR images, a schwannoma can be distinguished from a neurofibroma by its location related to the nerve. The nerve is eccentric to the mass, although within the capsule is a schwannoma and rather than being central or obliterated by a mass, which is seen in neurofibromas. Discussing a case of a 43-year-old male who complains of pain and swelling over the right elbow, the images provided are actually PDFS, dilated, GRD images, and diffusion restriction images, and society post contrast and angio images. In the case of a 43-year-old male, we can see a well-defined, well-encapsulated solid lesion in proximal forearm at the molar aspect just below the elbow in relation with the medial nerve located eccentricly. A thin drum of T1 hyper intensity was noted at the proximal and distal points of the lesion, representing a layer of fat, the split fat side. The lesion appears iso-to-hypo intense on T1, heterogeneously hyper intense on T2 and PDFS, with central hyper intensity on T2 rated images. Post contrast shows heterogeneous enhancement, and the lesion shows no diffusion restriction or blooming on medic sequences. Coming to the third soft tissue tumor, synovium sarcoma, the effective extremities, particularly around the and the majority of the cases. Despite of the name of the lesion, it does not arise from the synovium. It is extra-articular in a location near the knee joint. Adolescents and young adults, around 15 to 40 years of age, are most often affected, does not arise from the synovium, and is seen arising most commonly surrounded in the knee. It features, which shows an refined mass with calcification and marriage within the lesion. However findings are not specific. MRI is the modality of choice. However, immediately findings are not specific. T1 will usually see an iso-to-hypo intense mass to the muscles. T2, mostly hyper intense, and post contrast, we see enhancement, usually prominent, can be diffuse, heterogeneous, or peripheral. Imaging findings that may be useful in diagnosis or synovium sarcoma include seen in T2 rated images of calcification, hemorrhage, and flow flow levels. Triple-signal areas of high, low, and iso-intensity compared to fat on T2 rated images are seen, which could indicate the cystic, hemorrhage, fibroids, and calcification within the lesion. Bone erosion or invasion may be noted. Discussing a case of a 38-year-old man that complains of swelling and pain over the knee, we can see a well-defined, low-gulated, mixed-solid cystic mass lesion in the intra-muscular pain along the medial aspect of right leg extending into the thigh and crossing the knee jump. Signal characteristic view T1 rated heterogeneous is slightly hyper intense, with few bright hyper intense areas within, largely the proteinaceous content due to oil hemorrhage. On PDFS, on PD, and medics sequences, it is heterogeneously hyper intense, with multiple cystic areas showing fluid blood levels within. Looming in dependent portion of cysts on medics sequences is noted. Periligional edema noted in the form of PDFS hyper intensity. On diffusion rated images, the solid component shows areas of diffusion restriction, and on post-contrast, there is heterogeneous enhancement, with few non-enhancing areas within. Diabdomyosarcoma is a malignant tumor with stelaquine muscle cell morphology, is one of the tumors of muscular origin. In general, they are found in young patients yesterday, 45 years of age, with 65% diagnosed under the age of 10 years. Minutes are more effective than feelings. On ultrasound, the lesion is heterogeneous, well-defined adegylamas of low to medium ecogenicity. Synthetic, it shows soft tissue density, some enhancement with contrast, and adjacent bone destruction is seen in 20% of the cases. MRI signal characteristics include the T1 low to intermediate intensity, ISO intents to FJC muscle, T2 hyper intents, promen, flow, or it may be seen particularly in extremity lesions. On post-contrast images, it shows considerable enhancement. Embryology, embryonal diabdomyosarcoma, tend to be malignant, whereas angiolar and pleomorphic types frequently have more areas of necrosis. The latter is associated with haemorrhagic enhancement. Discussing a case, in a biopsy-proven case of ribromyosarcoma, of a 40-year-old male who came with the history of fall, pain, and swelling over the left knee, we can see abnormal marrow infiltrator lesion in the lower end of the femur, in the metaphyseal diaphyseal location, with permeated type of bone destruction, and periostein reaction, and large extra oscule for tissue quality. This results in displaced horizontal fracture of the distilled shaft of femur at the epipyces with displacement of the distilled fracture fragment posteriorly and linearly, which signifies a pathological fracture. It exhibits intermediate signal in P1, weighted and heterogeneously hyper-intensive in PDFS and T2-HB sequences. PDFS hyper-intensity noted in bisectomorous, vastis latralis and medialis, which are suggestive of muscle hematomas, subcutaneous and intermuscular edema was seen around the knee joint, modded to severe joint effusion extending to the supra-patenomous arms, also noted. Ten cases were examined, out of which three were of soft tissue hemangiomas, three of peripheral nerve-shaped tumors, two of synovial sarcomas, and two of rhabdomyosarcomas, of which one of each has been discussed in this paper. In conclusion, ten cases were segregated, some of which different imaging features based on various sequences of P1, P2-FLAG, Bersin and gradient sequences like HEMO phase SWR were taken into consideration, and their imaging characteristics were mentioned in the paper. These are the reference papers from which these points have been taken. Thank you.
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Pathar khana ek majboori ya fir kuch aur?
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2022-06-29T12:30:36
2024-04-23T13:32:47
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तोग ने तूज तूज के रेपी पत्तर और जितनी भी दाए चीजे है अपने पेच में बहर ली हैं और इसको पानी पीने मिना ही नहीं है यब आत है गुज्रात के लिटल रन अप कर्च ती जहांपे कई यह से डोग यह तो पानी की कमी से मर रहे हैं तूज़ा के से मरा हूँँँँँँ पिष्लिप तीन सालो में एसे ही एक सो तेरा डोग्स की मड़ग कर चूगी हैं राज कुमारी जी राज कुमारी जी इस रेगिस्टान से सदे ओर नामग गाव में छोटा सा अनीमरेश्कूँ च्राती है अन आस पास के लोगमी मजध सो उभी अन रेेज्खूँ सो धेंगे ती हैं अप सबाल यहें कि यसरेगिस्टान में जाना खाने को काना ना पिने को पानी आके वुअंँँँँँँ हैं पूइछे कुम इस का जवाब है नमग दिल्ली से दुबने वड़े से रेगिस्टान से मारे देशका एक तिहाई नमक आता है समुद्र से सथटे होनी के विजासे बारिशो में यहां ग्राउन्वोटर बोथ खारा हो जाता है जिल्लिए लोको ने आपे नमक की खेडी करनी होती हो बारिशो के बाद यहां पहचते हैं पम्से ग्राउन्वोटर उपर लाते हैं और जब सूरत की गर्मी से वपानी सुग जाता हैं तो नमक को कथथा गर लेते हैं जब यह लोग यह आपे आते हैं तो अपने प्रिवार के साथ साथ कुछ कुट्तो को भी साथ लेके आते हैं तागी जंगली जानरो से अपनी सुवक्षा गर सकें जब बारिशे शूरो जाती हैं तो यह सारा रेग अच्तान पानी और कीचर से भर जाता है बारिशे शूरो होने से खेहले ही येलोग अपनी प्रिवार साथ बापिस आजातें अपने आने जाने के कचे को बचाने के आपने समांको वही दपन कर आतेंये और पने साथ गvikेगेVPN कुट्तों को वही सुवडाते हैं वूज खुत्ते तो किसी तरा अपने गाव वापेस पूछ जातेंएं पर अदिकाऔच खुत्ते वहीपे पहस्के रहा जातें कहासकर वो वूँइपे पेडाव हुएं बगद से फफ़़े वे खुट्ते दो बूग प्यास और गर्नी से यह भना दम तोड़दे लिए. पुछ महीने बाज जब मुन्सून आता है, और पुरा एलाका पाथ से चेफ उड़ पनी से बभर जाता है, तुब बचेवे पुट्ते भी जिन्दा ही इसी पनी में जबन हो जाते है। मही के पूरे महीने में राज कुमारी जी वहार पे फसेवे डोग्स के रेस्की तब तक तक करती रही, जब तक वहापे बारिष हो जाने के विजासे रस्ता जाने लाएग बचाचा नहीं। अब ना तो में नमक खाना चोर सकते हैं, ना इस कुर्ता को रोक सकते हैं, और इस कुर्ता के शिकार कुछ कुत्तो की में राज कुमारी जी के माद्दम से जरूए कर सकते हैं।
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Collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian
by Jorge O. Castro At: DebConf10 https://debconf10.debconf.org/ Room: Davis Auditorium Scheduled start: 2010-08-02 17:00:00
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2017-11-25T00:48:16
2024-04-24T00:14:30
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OK, so for the last event of the day, we've got George Castro here from your own article. And he's going to talk to us about collaboration between DeWintu and Debbie. So everybody, welcome, George Castro. Thanks, everyone. Just a little bit about myself. This is my third debt conflict. And I'm really glad and honored to be able to speak in front of you today. I want to talk about something that's really near and dear to my heart. If you don't know who I am, I work on the community team. Specifically, I'm a general developer in relations with is our upstream. So our loans are KDs, and Debbie are being our most important upstream. It's important to me that the sort of collaboration between our two products is in a healthy state. So this is going to auto-spa my slides. So if you want to talk about today, since it's between our two projects, it's getting a little bit long. I really want you to talk about the past, unless you want to bring in the discussion at the end. But there's a lot of great stuff that are doing today. So I would really concentrate on that. I want to communicate to you why these things are exciting to me. And also, because we want to work on the future. And of course, the fossil fuel relationship can be a mutual respect of collaboration. So what I exactly do in my collaboration, to me, I think at any point is important to our relationship. There's a lot of things where people use the word collaboration. They don't really explain what exactly they're talking about. That's having new members and developers participating and debuting and participating in that comp. So we can talk about how we can choose that effective projects, how we can work about it together. And collaboration with ODC, I have a bullet here. This is from a fan base where I communicate here that the products are so large that almost 1,000 developing and developing. So it takes to recognize that sometimes you're going to get a package against every issues solved. I think at this point, some people are going to say, which one you get the small amount at that time because all the issues are fixed, right? But Zach, to just talk about it, it's not a good idea. You want to get the consensus that it's not true for entertainment. And it's too difficult, right? A lot of the work we do wouldn't be possible if people didn't like to cooperate with us. So the first thing I want to talk about, which I'm really excited about, is the derivatives front desk. So this was a practice started by me to basically be a one stop shop for derivatives such as I'm going to learn best practices on how to work with Debian. My personal interest is patches and bugs. So in a few slides, I'm going to talk about some of the patches that we found around and bugs that we found laying around. Shouldn't be laying around. But the derivatives front desk gives us a good place where we can start working that process. And it's also a really great place for new contributors to get started. So basically, I want to be Debian and it would be an exception to others. And let me go back, right? So Debian has other derivatives, right? Someone can say, well, I started a Debian derivative and I think it would be a great idea if I did this, right? You can say, well, I remember when George had this really bad idea and it was total fail. So learn from my bad example. And we're seeing great anticipation from Ubuntu and Debian. I think there's a few next sense of folks in there. I don't know if any of them are in there. So, but this is really great because it's you and I can start to get other derivatives here. So I'm really looking forward to seeing the work that goes on in here. And of course, this is on hash Debian dash Ubuntu on Ubuntu. So this is my favorite thing when people ask me, how are things going with Debian with you guys? Are you guys still like hitting each other? I was like, the relationship gets complicated because when you have over a thousand people in one project and I'm not sure exactly how many people we count as Ubuntu developers these days, we've had many to many conversations. There's really no simple answer. People automatically assume that's bad, right? So when they say, how are things going with Debian? It's complicated. They automatically assume that it's like their experience with a boyfriend or girlfriend where it's complicated. But it is many things. So there's pockets of good things. There's pockets of bad things. And I don't think, I think it's a waste of time to try to reach this nirvana state of things are going to rate. No matter what we do, things are always going to be complicated. So we're going to have pockets of good things. And I think the key there is to sustain the ideas and the ways we learn from those good things. And there's pockets of bad things which we can learn and move forward. And of course, help other derivatives not fall into the same mistakes. But this is active work. You can't just kind of assume that, oh, everybody's going to try to do this thing. It takes literally everyone who is involved in the project to try to make sure that that doesn't stagnate and end up being bad. Mythbusting. So this is my second favorite thing is I always tell people, hey, so what are you doing next month? You want to have a beer? I can't. I'm going to DevConf. And they give me this look like when two people go to DevConf or they kill you and display your brief or whatever. And as Zach mentioned this morning, my very first DevConf three years ago, I was a little intimidated. I was like, well, as Zach pointed out this morning, he's reputation that some projects would have. And I was really concerned. I was really scared. I was like, if I wear my Demian T-shirt that I bought five years ago, will somebody think I'm trying to be a poser or what? So people ask me this all the time. So what's it like to go to DevConf? And I was like, man, some of these people are the best drinking buddies I've had in a long time. So I think, and you know, Boutou can have reputation as well. But I think one of the things that we're all starting to become better at is forget the myth and just work on fixing the problem. Within the people I've talked to that started in a Boutou and come to Dev, it doesn't match the myth. So I was just at a sprint and I had a person from our kernel team, he came up and he was like, man, I'm getting into the Demian Maintainer process. He was like really excited. So I love to see things like that. And he was like, you know, I had this preconception in my head that, you know, it's gonna be bad if people are gonna like yell at me and all this kind of stuff. But you know, I find a sponsor who's willing to help me and I'm getting a lot of stuff done. I think that also too, so a lot of this is the internet's fault because they have this view on our projects. So it might be this myth that there are always bad things going on. So when Zach did his little survey because he was attending a UDS and he said, I wanna know what your relationships are with Ubuntu developers, et cetera. And there were a few teams in there that I hadn't heard of because people always concentrate when people make mistakes, right? And usually when people or teams make mistakes, you hear about a lot, but you never hear about some of the teams that are out there that are doing it the right way, right? Maybe some say, you know what, I either carry this patch or I can fix it at Demian. But a lot of people are just out there with their heads down, skating hard, trying to do the right thing. So something I personally try to do is instead of getting involved in these conversations where people are flaming the people who make mistakes, I'm also trying to encourage people who are at least trying to do the right thing to continue. And we're also proud of our contributions. The gentleman, I don't know if he sat out earlier who said, I started with Ubuntu, and now I'm involved in Demian. We're really proud when we see the new list of DD and I recognize the name, or it's somebody who started. Just a quick survey, how many of you like started in Ubuntu and are now contributing to Demian? Well, okay, there's a few, good. So, we also have O2, I'm working with Demian. This is pretty interesting because usually in the Mo2 channel. What's Mo2? Oh, I'm sorry, the members of the universe. So we divide our archive into main, which is basically what we ship on CD. There's universe, which is the rest of Demian, and then all the illegal bits. Moral is the same. So, one of the great things that we're seeing lately is someone joins a channel and they say, hey, I wrote an application and I want to get this in Ubuntu. And one of the very first responses is, have you talked to someone at Demian? And they either say, what's Demian? Or they haven't. So usually that's when we have contributors step up saying, look, if you want to do this the right way, you need to talk to Demian first. So, I'm really happy for that. I think a lot of people think that it's a top down kind of idea, but to see that down at the contributor level with Mo2's, many of whom are now getting more and more familiar with Demian processes is encouraging to me. We're also making active work on pushing patches upstream and to the end. So, this is actually gonna be a little bit of a question, but I'll show you later, I'm doing a lot of work. I'm trying to get patches to be visible both to upstream and to Demian. And I got the launch pad guys to basically write me a little view that all patches sitting in launch pad that have not gone anywhere. And unfortunately, the number was pretty high. It was like 1,200. And this was really discerning to me because we talk about how we wanna lower the barrier, right? And it's like, if you wanna contribute, send a patch, a patch somewhere. And then someone goes sees a talk from Mad Dog, how they get pumped up, get back. They do a little Python patch, patch to launch pad or the BTS. And then it goes into this black hole where the Higgs phone is. So, I created this, I asked them to create a view that showed me these patches. And now we're actively working on getting the number down to zero. And it's not gonna be a zero, but what we can do is fix the processes of what happens when a contributor, or even a computer, contributes a patch. I'll leave you with that a little bit. We're also seeing greater participation by DJs and DMs as a reference. In case you haven't heard, if you're a Devian person, you always have an open invite to come crash the Would You Never Summit. We like to have the points of views of the Devian developers in UDS. So, usually on the Thursday, I always run a session called the Devian Health Check where a lot of people coming in, DDS, people who are Ubuntu developers who are keen on working with Devian, you basically go around the room, it gets a little heated. But you have to have those discussions if you're gonna fix problems, right? And we also discuss about things that we are doing, right? And how we can continue to do that. So, upstream relationships is also something I'm very passionate about. Particularly because it's opportunities to get workflow right off the bat. So, if you have an upstream that shows up and says, hey, I'm interested in getting in Ubuntu because we're server-based upstream and LTS is important to us, that to me is the critical point where we educate that upstream on how the relationship with Devian and Ubuntu works. Like, for example, do you know if you talk to your DD and you have a relationship with them and or your Ubuntu developer that we can minimize deltas between the two releases? Generally, upstreams want to do the right thing. I've never been upstream. It was like, oh, no, Devian, I don't want to be in that. Who says that, right? They want to get their stuff to use it. Okay, right. Generally speaking, the upstreams care. So, okay, let me rephrase it. Upstreams I've talked about that really want to be successful. Oh, boy, and you have to walk in at some point. But generally speaking, they don't know the process, right? I work on this document, wiki.ubuntu.com slash others. And there's basically two sections. The quick and dirty way which involves setting up their own app repositories and PPA stuff. And then there's a long-term, smart way, right way to do things, which means talking to someone at Devian. And we have a lot of contributors who, when an upstream comes up, they say, I have no idea how to talk to Devian. We have people that step up and help start that process. So, and at the end of the day, it's convincing upstreams that it does work. We have this old-school mentality that there's upstream and then there's a line and there's the distribution, right? The software now is getting us sophisticated that you really can't, you can't ever have these islands of, well, you know, I'm an upstream of stuff. That's your problem. You know, we'll have to distro, this won't be your problem, right? We need to start meshing those together because it's becoming more like an operating system than just a distribution. So how am I trying to measure success? I had this awesome idea which ended up being totally horrible where I was like, if I figure out whatever the magic number is of our attribute to Devian, then I can measure that and then I can just measure it grows or doesn't go down. So, thanks to Lucas Newspom it was actually like way smarter than me. We started measuring things like originating to here are that we forwarded that would be interesting to Devian developers. We started asking people to tag their patches that they sent to the industry there. And I think, oh, awesome, 1386. That sounds like a magic-ish number but it's a lot more complicated than that especially when a lot of the Ubuntu developers who are also with Devian say, why would I go through all this mess or just send Devian? And I was like, well, that's so fair. I can't measure it. How am I supposed to come up with my number? Right, and we have Ubuntu user tags where we keep track of all the patches based on leases that we do. So for halfway through a cycle, we say, hey, wait a minute, the numbers are down. So please keep using your tags. Started to measure who's doing the amount of work because I wanted to see a nice mix of people here not just canonical employees or whatever. But again, some people weren't using these tags so it became very difficult for me to try to figure out why I'm even trying to have this magic number when people would just be doing the work directly in Devian. We have a tool called Harvest which looks at upstream bug trackers and their patches and we can do this for multiple distros so we can see if Fedora is carrying a patch and we should do our bugs that are fixed upstream. So if I can gather all that, I can come up and help add to that magic number that will solve all those problems. On the right here, on the QA page, we have links to the bugs that are reported in Ubuntu for that package and we're also showing you the patches, right? Looking good. On our QA pages for Ubuntu, we have the same thing, doing everything to lower the entry to show patches. This is the view of what I was talking about where you can take a URL for any person or any project you have to attack a plus patches at the end. We show you all your patches, right? Amazing, if I could just get upstreams to look at all these pages and we index every distribution, it'll be great. It'll be great. This is how we're doing with Operation CleanSweep, right? So we've at least 2,200 bucks. We've gone through 378 of them. 90 need work. 164 were able to submit direct stream. 51 were able to submit to Debian. These are the ones accepted and accepted by Debian and the rejected ones because I wanted to get a feel for how well are they doing? Are these patches that are sitting in Launchpad worth the effort or are they all prepped? So some really great, right? However, some things just aren't easily measurable. There's no way to, there is no magic number and it took me some time to realize this because I put all this work into thinking that I would solve the world's problems. Ends up, I'm not that smart. So then call it, the highlights are mine here. Blocked this recently where he basically said maintaining grub two and someone basically just emailed me and told me, hey, you're really great since you're a co-maintainer to take care of these issues. This is something I can never measure with a magic number. This is something that involves the personal relationships that we have and that we maintain in free software. So I've come to convene that these numbers and all these great tools that we're making are very useful but we should use these as guides and not just, right? It's like Steve, you're in big trouble. Your numbers are 20% down from last cycle. But what does that mean? And we also know that there's thousands of people out there doing things that might not be measurable. There's people out there who might be introducing people to each other, right? How do you measure that? You really don't. There's the person who stands at a Debbie and Booth for six hours straight and falls over. How do you measure that? You don't compare it to a developer contribution. So these numbers, it's sort of like a Sisyphean task. You guys, the myth story where there's a guy, he got punished by a God and his job was to take a rock all the way up this hill. And at the very top, it will always slip and fall back down and get all depressed. So you would have to do that for eternity. So these tools and things like that are really good to measure but it doesn't replace the kind of discussions that we'll be having at events like this and you just, you know, open those shows over. And at the end of the day, the work on the culture is a better payoff, right? I don't think that sitting there staring at, trying to get this magic number is as important as to say, hello, welcome. Oh, you're a new Bluetooth computer? Let me tell you about the importance about what it's like to work with Debian and why that is. So I think in the long run, it's better to use work on the investments of the people. Sometimes people ask me why why Bluetooth doesn't really have like one person who's the Debian relationship person. And that's because it's every developer's responsibility of the project to be that person. So in the future, there's some interesting challenges here which I think are very important. As Mark showed earlier, with an application, we're starting, canonical, it's starting to last time and it's a project, excuse me. So how do we work this workflow, right? I'm sure some of you saw that, I'm going to be in Debian. What kind of work does that have to do? And a lot of ways, there are things that we've learned here as far as it takes to work with upstreams because we're not, Ayatana, the book, the Unity guys, I'm sorry, are kind of their own upstream and me being on the platform team, we have the same issues. So there are times that we have to distro patch something and then ensure that the patch gets upstream to someone working at my same company. A lot of things that you can learn there as far as workflow goes. And Debian is the hub for derivatives. Tell me if you share this nightmare. Probably not. But you have Debian, let's say as a hub and you have different derivatives based on Debian, right? And we're actively working to ensure that this is working. So I have this, okay, this is a pretty big night. Is that there's someone at this derivative over here who's fixed a bug and maybe they don't know how to get it back. So they set it up and then you have another derivative who might face the same bug and are they looking? Is there a process where they can get the other derivatives that are facing the same problems, right? Because every other day, what we don't want is every derivative fixing the same bug over and over again, it's a waste of effort. So I think what excites me about the derivatives is it's an opportunity for us to figure out a pattern bug workflow so that we can make it efficient for people to make stuff back and forth, right? So you have the hub and things going like this and that. And it's also an opportunity for us to reinforce the color of upstreaming things to Debian so that we're not carrying the big dolphins. These are some people who've done some really interesting work. Without Lucas basically defeating me every time there's an issue in Debian and I wouldn't be here. So I'd like to thank these people with one foot in each project. And there's also a lot of people here who I might not know about or things like that. And that goes back to we should be reinforcing the people who are doing the right thing. So there's too many people to list but we can always never have enough help with people doing this because both of our dynamic projects are very large. Well, there's 29,000 packages this morning, right? You're not gonna catch them all, they're not like Pokemon. So it takes everyone's effort to be able to catch this stuff. So here's some Ubuntu developers who are here. You might recognize some of these names. You just wanna make sure that they're up here. If you're a DD and you're looking to talk to someone. Like I said, I'm one of the people who's at Debian.com address. And I was looking for feedback, good or bad so I can help get the word out on the stuff that people are doing. So I purposely kind of rushed to these slides and I didn't have any slides because I didn't want to bore you, I'm kind of boring. But I wanted to do is open it up for discussion on those of you who have had experience working with Ubuntu, good, bad and just basically leave it open-ended for us to talk about where we go from here. Anybody have any comments? First goal, accomplish, not getting killed, all right. Wow, that's cool, funny. Yes, so in fact, I just wanted to thank you because so I went to UDS to present Debian Views on our collaboration with the Worldways and I asked Jordan to do the same and he was actually scared of getting killed here. And I'm actually very scared. I'm actually very, very happy that you are in the end set to come. And I think this is the way forward not from the interest of Debian, not for the interest of Ubuntu, but in general, it's a result. Yeah, I mean, to me, there seems to be a lot of people who have been working with Ubuntu in the past. So we had our Debian health check at UDS and then I was like, you know, since Debian Conf is in the middle, what a great time for us to sit down again and look at our progress from the issues that he figured out how to assign me work items, which doesn't really help me out a lot, but yeah, you know, the Debian Conf and other conferences where we have strong Debian participation in Ubuntu Faustan, for example. There's no reason people can't get together and do a little pulse check. Ah, she's my favorite. I guess I'll stand for that video. So what were some of those work items and what is progress? I know that you talked about a bunch of things, you talked about some of the metrics, but also how they're not left. I guess like, if you don't want to answer that also after this other question, like what's a recent happy story that's longer than... You can think about that too. Let me address the first one. I think one of the concerns Zach told me in a way is that sometimes I think people lose the fact that we're probably built on Debian and that people say sister projects and stuff, but I don't really know the analogy there, but like I said, it could be very difficult when you have a new year that bought their Ubuntu machine somewhere and they have no concept of Debian. But I don't consider that a bad thing mostly because I think the people that I would like to get to Debian the most are probably the more advanced users, the whole built by experts deal. So someone starts off using Ubuntu and has no clue what Debian is and finds the link that we put in the browser or, you know, the source code and figures out where it is and ends up at least looking at Debian and looking at how to tribute. Then I think that's a user education thing. So I guess I asked about what the goals were and how the progress is and it sounds like there's feedback. It sounds like he said one of the goals is helping people find Debian and one of the things you've done recently is test link in the browser. No, it's actually been there the whole time. It's just very good. Actually, we don't bury the Debian one specifically. Our bookmarks are the kind of nested hidden thing. One of the things the page I'm really proud of is the Debian Ubuntu story on Ubuntu.com that every time I refresh the website someone drops it and a whole bunch of file bugs and I'm going to kill me and then I have to get it back. But yeah, I mean, we've had that there. It's a tough thing to communicate, I think. I think what's important is as long as users are people like us who are aware of where the contributions come from then we need to do a better job recognizing people for that. So one of the tasks was maybe perhaps we should be talking more about some of the things that we get from Debian that are useful. I don't think standing on top of a hill saying we're built on Debian or whatever. I think as long as users understand how things flow is a good way to do it. A lot of it is figuring out how to do it subtly without spanning. Hi, I know of some cases of people forking packages out of like not using the Debian package but or contributing to it but just forking the package. And I've seen that both in users and by multiple, I think. And by some core supported package. I was wondering if there are some criteria by which you can do a fork or avoid a fork. I mean I've even commented that Debian is not a combat, it's no success. Right. Before I ask we smarter than me to answer this question that here's a good anecdotal story. There's two birds with one stone. We had a relationship with an upstream who wasn't very happy with their packaging in Debian but he had a personal relationship with someone in Ubuntu so they were just going to change it. It was an excellent opportunity for Ubuntu developers to say hey, I already have a personal relationship with that upstream and believe this is not the way they're moving and maybe we should try and kind of read from scratch and he did do you have any comments as far as the fork packaging goes? Oh, I'll field that one. Yes. You have been noticed. So in answering this I'm going to refer back to one of your earlier comments about how is the relationship between Debian and Ubuntu, it's complicated. Just as Debian is not this monolithic hive mind where everybody's on the same page about what we should do with packages or how we should interact with Ubuntu and it's a complicated relationship. The reality is that on the Ubuntu site as well it is a community project with a number of developers who each have different opinions and it comes down to personal relationships and trying to hook in and that's something that we should try to do on the Ubuntu site to try to avoid fork wherever possible but you have a disparate group of developers on the Ubuntu site and sometimes people fork for all the usual reasons that forks happen and above all I would hope that not get in the way of the overall health of the Ubuntu Debian relationship. Zak mida is sorry, Zak mida pointed this a plenary earlier that I'd like to refer back to the answer to that question as does any developer decide to apply patches to a package rather than getting their patches upstream and again the answer is as complicated as there is a makes sense upstream for one reason or another. Sometimes upstream is just kind of slow right now sometimes the Debian developer just kind of sucks. The answer is much the same when you go one step down the answer it's a lot easier to look into specific things if there are individual cases you're concerned about and it's kind of a lot easier to have the discussion about those specific reasons because it's just to keep on this thing about forking I was wondering if you could identify a few differences in policy or strategic differences between the Ubuntu project and the Debian project that generate some of the issues over which one considers for instance forking the packaging. Because policy is one issue where you might not be able to reconcile. I'm going to answer to this but before we start I think for a lot of packages particularly what we ship on economic type packages we usually just direct from upstream and I'm just going to actually answer your question. So I'd say the two primary causes of Debian which are unavoidable on our example are number one that Ubuntu is split into a main and reverse so that we try to keep them recommended as complete and that means we have to change the dependencies and recommendations of many packages to stay within them. The other is that we have certain properties such as Firefox that are kept with a different name and when you do again change those to Sorry me again. As I understood the original question packages and forked distinct from packages that have been branched and have changes in the Ubuntu package but still share the overall packaging is that I mean there are different issues there we're always going to have to carry some patches but is that actually your concern or is I was actually referring to both one of them was one of the packages that was branched but basically I never learned about it so Ubuntu shipped an obsolete security vulnerabilities in the universe so after several mails in the end I counted with the security team of Ubuntu to say yeah please there's no reason to do that and the other one was about a non-universe package main package that was created for the KVM ship MT binary for a while My experience I used to be far more critical about the Ubuntu Debian relationship two years ago from my experience I still have one little minor concern and that is what the last time that I got patches from somebody who was immortal the patch was one giant monolithic patch that included changes that had been changed for my conversion and it was a patch against the last time I guess Ubuntu sent or something like that and it was very hard for me to actually apply it because it contained my patches, things had moved on is there a process in Ubuntu for creating say a upstream branch and rebasing patches which is kind of what I came to do with my experience I can make a stab at things like that number one if you get something like that then just push back there's no reason that the burden of trying to unpick that sort of thing should be killed on you and there's almost certainly somebody who just doesn't quite know what they're doing yet but it's far better to educate than to kind of accommodate secondly revision to show practice is very widely as I'm sure you know in Ubuntu just they don't tell me a number of people sorry I got on the back of the camera just realized a number of people do create branches or use quills not as many branches as there are branches but a number of people have approaches and in some cases it just depends on how deeply involved we are with the package it's kind of like in your case the result was probably using we have a submit Debian script which takes the patch if you're supposed to you can see how it goes from there it's kind of trying to encourage people to at least get we'd appreciate it just as much I'm going to go quickly for your feedback here I'm a little bit concerned about some of the sort of default proprietary actions of Canonical for example, apparently there was a great deal of work to get that open sourced I'm a little bit concerned about the cloud software that's currently being developed for example even some of those kind of bills not a deal of priority some of those product practices could you address that a bit yeah, so I'm not I can't comment intelligently on what our plans are for the server side software for Ubuntu 1 currently it is working on here as far as the arm build is there oh, that's Loica oh, Loica is right here this is the guy to talk to I'm not quite sure I understand this I'm not quite sure I understand the problem you're having with the ARM 7 but basically we're doing builds in a very similar way than Debian with a different optimization level why is it done in Debian though? why isn't it done in Debian because Debian cares for all the machines like I don't know open moco phones or NAS devices or things like that while the Ubuntu port was specifically created to target networks so like more higher-end ARM devices which were ARM v7 and so if you go for ARM v4 v5 you kind of lack instructions which make it go much faster actually there is a new Debian port on its way it's not official anything but there is research going on in Debian port for hard float and because our float already has a high requirement on machine square it can run it would probably run quite faster than ARM or soft float which we have right now any other comments? so man first I guess so I noticed that a lot of the questions about branching packages and so forth between the projects a lot of these questions were phrased in terms of what is the policy or what is the process around this what's the overarching standard that governs this but as Steve pointed out with these are two complicated projects made up of lots of different people different behavior, different patterns and we won't always have an ideal for how things work that we can say this is what the policy is but if it helps the official policies don't do anything foolish if you notice anyone not adhering to this official policy the right thing to do is to tell them that you want help working with it if there is the data.buntu.com the hash of data.buntu on our FTC this front desk there are lots of places that you can go to get help with this and please feel free to use the address I mean don't think that I'm going to tattle tail on you at www.buntu.com and then we'll it'll be back the whole point of having the address is to give give dds an avenue where the game brings up without having to resort to flaming people so this is very interesting I just wanted to show you actually you have I never went to buntu but I liked one feature this separation between main and universe it caused when the universe was buried in bugs because transitions weren't synchronized not like in day 1 trying to get ready I wonder if such feature will prevail so we could use buntu as a testbed can you rephrase let's say posix compliance compliance chats main part of buntu was probably transitions to be dash compatible but then universe wasn't and it just transitioned because it was main goal of main and same with python and other stories but I created this feature for us because it's a testbed I wonder how is it working in booms main and universe so I think that's one of the things oh I'm sorry sure your answer will probably be a lot to my ears so as I understand it you're asking about the relative efficiency of making wider engine changes making broad rather than deep changes to packages is that critical transitions from one package version to another which is critical for main also for universe and multiverse which is not supported by canonical but supported by community so with this interaction between canonical and buntu community in terms of transitions so we've been looking at we've actually been looking at flattening like the men and universe separation anyway it was good where it was simple in 2004 when we started buntu it's a bit more complicated neither of all these different derivatives of buntu that are maintained in our archive and doing all kinds of other things but the the guys who maintain sorry the people who maintain universe and multiverse have generally been very organized about doing transitions in a timely fashion there are some things through of course but for the most part they keep very much in top library transitions that need to happen and that kind of thing it's quite impressive sometimes the main difference I think between Ubuntu and Debian there is that in Ubuntu people are officially entitled to make broad changes there are also wide swith packages trade-offs of course is that we have fewer experts in individual packages so there are strengths on either side Stefano's initiative to try to get enemies by debugs I'd hope that things like transitions would be considered there other kinds of broad changes in a little bit more agile in that respect but it's a trade-off between deep efficiency and broad efficiency does that make sense? are you specializing in deep or broad and flat? in there any other comments? so that came up to me about an hour before my talk which is why this is in a slide Medi did I pronounce that right? today I don't really like how patches.ubuntu.com is showing me the patches so I'm working on this and I thought it was it will be useful to show here but it shows a given package that's that fun thing the change log, the links to the pts and the disk from Ubuntu but what he does here which I think is cool is you can do it per file here or if you can click the download so I thought that was very interesting it's really good I think that people are thinking about how to make these tools more efficient and you've all seen the ultimate database right which is really useful when trying to find the magic number say do I'm sorry this is ubuntu.diff.med but this is a slash beta which I don't know if you want people going there yet but no sorry patches accepted any other comments or questions? I feel five minutes too early yes sir so I don't have access of experience interacting and no amount of patch tracking I've got just one question do we actually track how many ubuntu developers have become uploaders in packages because I know that there's several packages in ubuntu that I have adopted in a way in Demi to become part of that maintainer I was curious if there's a relatively active flow of contributors in ubuntu becoming DMs or at least being part of the uploader flag of maintainers packages uncollected legally tamed packages so we are I think we have observed that there is actually a flux of people from ubuntu becoming DM or DD in values ways there is a very interesting master thesis work by Gauden's styling probably around here where you monitor the change in the number of debian news of the first release of ubuntu and the change in the additional developer workflow in debian showing that it's kind of compensating by people coming from ubuntu then we have list of individuals which came from ubuntu join debian look at the listing so we are doing that in an empirical way if you want to enable us to do that more precisely I think you should just settle in something specifically like saying that if you apply for an M coming from ubuntu just use your at ubuntu.com others and then that way we can have some more precise statistics and that way of course actually that's great I have in the ubuntu bug control group on launchpad and if you're a debian developer that's working on a package and then you find a bug in launchpad you go in there and you don't have any help maintainer of that package in debian just kind of hold up me and I'll give you the proper permissions to be able to fix the bug Lucas can you just make that automatic please every time we try something automatic in launchpad it's not a good idea to be honest for me my selfish reason is because that way I have I can talk to that person and I kind of know hey what package are you working on but generally speaking when it comes to things like that we want humans to make the definition yeah so more generally I think but more generally that's what would be great from to be more feedback on how to improve procedures to contribute to ubuntu I'm not talking about everybody coming to develop that but for example many people are interested in pushing specific versions of their packages to ubuntu and currently there's no standard procedure for that and you could install ubuntu dev tool and use weekend request sync for that it's not documented properly and I think people say like an easy way to do that would be really helpful to know what are the things that cause this problem for the dev developer another thing also in the same I feel it would be nice to have as a dev developer a kind of fast track because we're going to develop our permissions for example I'm also involved in an obscene project and I found a kind of going to have to synchronization or to have to synchronization software so it would be great if we could have a kind of fast track as a dev developer but it's pretty recent it's a you have to go to the project of a permission so I just rapidly switching past to the the principle to develop the you do have to go through the thing but for dev developers we make it much more lightweight and all of this is the the different things you're capable of so yes you do have to go through that procedure but it is a fast track in the sense that you don't have to put nearly so much work into it about out of time I just want to leave you with one thought I came into this talk trying to get this discussion that we've been having going and I said I'm not a technical person but I think I've smart enough to know what and link people together so if you're a if you're a DD and you've ever find yourself that you need to talk to someone or you need to find someone in the project feel free to spam me as much as you want my job is to ensure that linkages happen between people even if I don't understand the technical aspects I can get you talking to the real people the minor people might be today or yesterday I think LWN had an article by Rafael Hergel about comparing the membership of that link and it's just a great people here might be just and if you're interested in talking more about the derivatives discussion you're running about when it's not on the schedule but we'll do our best to get it on okay thank you very much for your time
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2-1. Units for Data
Discussion of metric prefixes applied to data. Focuses on the differences between the IEC standard and common usage.
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The prefixes for data units, such as bits and bytes, will work a little differently than those that we saw for things like meters and seconds. First of all, we won't have to worry about small units. We can't have fractions of a bit, so we won't have any millibits or nanobytes to worry about. We also won't worry about DECO or HECTO. Instead, we'll focus on the larger powers. But there's some confusion here. In general, we don't use powers of 1,000 now. For example, a kilometer is 1,000 meters. A kilo-second would be 1,000 seconds, but generally when we're working with bits and bytes, we use scales of 1,024. So a kilobyte is 1,024 bytes. A megabyte is 1,024 squared bytes, which would be 1,048,576 bytes. This is the general convention for scales for data units, but it's not completely universal. Storage manufacturers and ISPs have traditionally quoted their products on scales of 1,000. To get around any potential confusion, they usually also have a disclaimer at the bottom of the packaging or the ad saying that, say, 1 gigabyte is 1 billion bytes. Most computers, though, do use the 1,024 to 1 scale. Apple, since 2009, has been the exception here where they do use the 1,001. It doesn't really change how much storage or bandwidth you have, it just changes how you look at it. Devices now seem larger on a 1,001 scale than they do on a 1,024 to 1 scale. But most operating systems have still stuck with the 1,024 to 1. This led the IEC, International Electrotechnical Commission, to come up with some new nomenclature back in 1998. So now instead of having kilobytes as being 1,024 bytes, a kilobyte could be 1,000 bytes as you would expect, but our computers could report a kibby byte being 1,024 bytes. While this system has been around since 1998, it took about 15 years before it started seeing any real use. It's still not terribly common, but you'll see it once in a while. The main distinguishing feature is that they stick this tiny I after the main unit. Now we have a different pronunciation, which is a little bit harder to say, but it's still representing the same concepts that we're used to. For the moment, though, most systems still use 1,024 to 1, and they still describe those as being megabits or terabytes. But we're using a base of 1,024, so we do get some discrepancy when we start getting larger numbers. It's not too big when you're looking at small things like kilobytes or megabytes. Once you start getting larger units like terabytes and petabytes, there can actually be some pretty big discrepancies there.
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Duties Towards The Quran 'Jawami-Al-Kalim'
✔️Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/theallloving 📌To speak about the duties (especially the importance of reciting and understanding) towards The #Quran #MuftiMenk makes mention of a very interesting hadith where Allah’s Apostle Prophet Muhammad (Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam) said, “I have been sent with ‘Jawami-al-Kalim (the shortest expression with the widest meaning).....” as The Quran will bear #witness for us or against us on the day of #Qiyamah (Judgement) in this lecture. Mufti Menk Quotes in this clip “The Quran is the speech of Rabbul izzati al-jalal , Allah (swt) -this Quran is so powerful that, even if you don't understand it and if you repeat its words, it has in it such power because it is the word of Allah that cures all for your diseases and sickness, the sickness of the heart, the spiritual sickness, the social ills, those ills that might be physical as your sickness of every nature because it is the words spoken by Allah (Swt)”. 👉https://wp.me/pazrby-2D ✔️ Our Website: https://theall-loving.com/ **** Profile of The Speaker -------------------------------------- 💓💓💓Ismail Musa Menk was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. He is a student of knowledge trying to disseminate the Deen in the current age. ✆Contact of Mufti Menk ☞Mufti Menk Official Website: https://goo.gl/fwJR75 ☞Facebook: https://goo.gl/451XNl ☞Twitter: https://goo.gl/58Ijqt 📌 Note: This channel is not affiliated with Mufti Menk in any way shape or form. It simply shares reminders from his videos to preach the light of Islam. ✅ Please share this:https://youtu.be/zQLBt7XltFE 🤚PLEASE NOTE: 🚫 This channel doesn't Support & Advocate any unlawful activity towards any individual or community. 🚫 💎This video is created by & for the “The All-Loving”. Feel free to re-upload and share.
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اور اپنے درسیوں کو یہ دیتا ہوں۔ میں سبھا ہوں کہ آپ کو کسی جو مہارہ حدیم ہے۔ یہ ایک مجھے امامی سوچی ہے کہ یہ امامی ہے۔ یہ قرآن ہے۔ قرآن ہے امامی سوچی ہے کہ یہ اللہ کے ساتھ ہے۔ یہ امامی نہیں ہے۔ یہ امامی نہیں ہے۔ ہمارے سلنے کا سیجت کرسکتے ہیں لیکن اس کی روبِ عزتِ و الجلال کے سیجت ہے اللہ سبحانہ و تعالیٰ یہ قرآن ہے جس کے ساتھ ساتھ بہت سمجھتے ہیں کہ لوگ انہوں سے اپنی آنی اور لوگ اپنی صییحوں کو ملی کرے ہیں یہ انہوں کی نشہ دی لگئے ایک ہی ہے کیونکہ اللہ کا نشہ ہے کہ یہ آپ کے سیجت اور سیگنسوں کے سیگنسوں کی جو خیلے کو خواہیت کا خواہیت ہے جو خواہیت ہے جو خانہ کو خواہیت ہے جو خواہیت ہوں۔ جو خواہیت کافی اور جو خواہیت ہے جو ہم کی نیچہ کیا لہذا سبحانہ و عطال کے لئے گی ہے۔ اور یہ حدیث ہے یہ پروفٹ صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم جانتے ہیں ہماری قرآن کی بات ہے۔ وہ ہماری قرآن کی بات ہے لیکن گاہر اوکاہم ہے ہے اور یہ سوچا ہے یہ穿ی ہے جوامی اور قلیم تا بارے میں جوامی اور قلیم یہ بارے میں۔ اس کا وجود میں فرمہ باہر میں فرمہ ہے تھا۔ When the Prophetﷺ نے کہا کہا کہ اللہ کے قلیم کو معاہماہم تا بAMی جوامی اور قلیم اہم کے بہت ہے اور The Prophetﷺ نے کہا کہا کوئی ایک امریکت ہے ہے۔ لوکنس ہی بہت پر ساتھ لکھے گا کہ وہ بہت منتلاعیہ کو مزمرایوں ہوا۔ لہذا پرف plastics اللہ송ہ علیہ وسلم نے ہم نے بہت سے makeup اور حجت تمہارے کی کالیك کے حجت ہے۔ جلost. سوال جیب ہے، حیرت کوئی بھی ہوتا ہے کہ کہ ایسے کے لئے کوران سب geworden آپ سے بھی رکھا ہے اور آپ کو کہتا ہے تو ایسا کوران میں ہے، aisleیسے لوکن سے کوئی رکھا ہے۔ اسی چّالی میں کیا ہوتا ہے؟ ہے۔ میں کہتے ہیں کہ ہم salary کی جو بہت حکم کو لکھتی ہے۔ تمہیں خطرہ خود میں آپ کے انقظائے اورarla یہp اپنے لئے ، اللہ's ورہاں سے مج Leonardo اس کا معلوم ، ویہا مہماری کیا ہے؟ اور اس کے مجھے کیا ہے اور یہاں کے لئے ، آپ کو سرعے پہلوات ہے ، جہاں آپ کے لئے اللہ کو سرعے پ کیا ہے ، آپ پہنائے کے لئے call another but I had enough more than a lot of peace and well that will either come on the day of judgment for me or against me the quran will bear witness for you or against you if you didn't read the quran if there's witness against you you are a stranger who are you you never ever read me and if you read it it will come救 team خاند اور کہا تھاье کہ یہ لوگتا ہوں کättے رو hormones کرو ہوجاتی Flex بھر جانا چاہتے ہوں ممادر آ ["backs x9"] ان میں برشہ ہuko سیکن ٹھہنگ م derechos ق 어�ی небاہم ما ہونگی تگار لیتے ہو۔ آپ آپ میں ایکپی figur ہیں مجھور خیل پائیں funky تو میں میکش شب سجہ کے پوچھرachsen داو ۔ ناہ ناہ ایک اس کے ذریعہ کیا اللہ کیا محطث کیا if you suffer while you are reading the Quran if you are taking too long and it's time consuming but you still make an ever to read it the حقید says you have a double reward double reward why because you are putting in a bigger ever than the guy who's cruising along a man moving in a small vehicle or a rickshaw that is actually going from point 8 to point B deserves the medal when he has 500 کلومٹر آگا than the guy sitting in the Mercedes and cruising. He will get there. He has gotten there. But the one who really deserves the medal is the one who was on the bicycle. The same applies with us. You make a bigger effort, bigger energy. You deserve a medal. You did something that was impossible or difficult. So this is why do not despair. Keep your relation with the Quran such that you make an effort to open it every day influencers گرا Thank youands you beyond going you are insulting. Gone you are insulting. You are insulting. Your relationship with Lean to start the day with Morean In N0ALA Such a beautiful beautiful picture feeling. Allahointed even you that if you start your day in my obedience I will make sure it ends in a Beautiful Way سبحان اللہ حیہ through my beloved Brothers My Sister's This is the primary This is the primary The duty towards the Being We must make sure we read it Recited We must make sure ہم یہ ہے کہ اسے فرموجہ ہے۔ اللہ کہ کہا کہ قرآن کو شیفہ ہے۔ شیفہ ، میں آپ کو کھوٹ کیا کہا ہے۔ کھوٹ ہے prosecut bubble ، کھوٹ اس میں کھوٹ کا فرموجہ ہے۔ بالکلوب ہے جو لوگوں ہیں کہ وہ اللہ ، امی göномترد ، تنزھ سے بحاوری ہے جو knees کیا، حوالید کو جرائیہ سالت ہے، لیکن ان کیا یہ سالت اور سالت ہی ہے کامت ہے کہ اللہ کے افسر ہے ، آپ آپ امنز درمہ چاہتا ہے ، آپ امنز انداران ہی ، آپ آپ آپ کو براہمتر آج سے چاہتے ہیں۔If you don't have the Quran at the ذکر which is the remembrance of Allah which starts with the Quran then you are not going to get the calmness no matter where you search no matter where you look it's not coming it's not going to come why because you are looking in the wrong place جب یہ روح چاہتے ہیں محر اورا بلازے کو خون بیانوں کے پٹلٹسٹیشن کے محر اٹا ہے بس انہوں کا حصولت ہے أيضا ہے ان میں محر اٹا دوسرے آپ کو محر告訴ا آپ اپنے آپ کو کے سلامت سیکتی ہے ان کو اپنے آپ کو سیک لیں لہذا ہم کیا نیکہ مخافناس ہوں ہم یہاں کہا کہ مخافوش اگر ایک محر انہوں کیا ہے کیا یہاں ہم نہیں تاہر جوج 240ا کہا جوجہ ایک مخاف ہم کاناں ایسے بڑے گی سنین کے بارے کے ساتھ میں میرے لیتا ہے. غالب میں ہیں ، چلیے مرکز میں ، مرکز میں ، ایک بارے کے بارے ہے ، ولو لہذا ، اور ہمیں جانتے ہیں کہ میں حلیت ہے اللہ کا سبحانہ والہ ، یہ کر سکتے ہیں ، آپ کے ساتھ ہے ، آپ کم آپ ہوا تو آپ ایک ہی نہیں ہے ، یہ ہے، جب چلك ہے ، 셋ہ جس کے طرف جاتے ہو فى قرآن کی کیا یہ حیرتہ کے لئے جانا ہے۔ کہ ہم جانبار کے حاریت میں سارے پر از کہا اور دیکھے جانا ہوں ، سرائے عبر كاران ہے جزاتی ہے کہ ہمتے آج supplied یہاں ہمیہار گا کہ اس کی مجھے صلیہ رسائٹلری ہے سرائے مجھے صلیہ ہے اس لوگ میں مجھے صلیہ پر یہاں کیا ہے کہ ہمیں سارے مجھے صلیہوں کے ساتھ لیسا ہے۔ یہاں لیکن کیا کہہوں آپ کو مجھے صلیہ کبھی دیکھ سکتا ہے اور یہاں سامنے بھر سے آپ کو مجھے اس کے ساتھ لیکن ہے اسے انہوں کو مجھے صلیہ کبھی ایک آ ہے لیکن دیونے کی طرح کرنے کی آتے ہیں 3 4 5 6 7 might be ایک تعالیے ہوسکتائیں سبحانہ اللہ تجرس میں بہت ایک بہت سوچ دینے ہو سکتا ہے ایک چیزین اس کو پڑھتے ہیں گا اس بہت ہی خوانہ ہے اس کو کچھ گیا آپ ۔وجد انہوں تو یہ سب سے آپ بھویت ہے due ٹھر اوٹ مخلد سب سے دیو لیئے آپ سب سے پر آپ کے ساتھ آپٹی بھی دیو ہونے جب آپ محلے کے لئے آپ کی قلigoہ سنیا میں محلہ پر دیکھو سکتے ہیں مجھے ملیلی کے لیے then it was two years back. It is the calmness of the heart. Allah gave it to you, but my brothers my sisters that is not your only duty to the Qur'an. You have another duty. There is another duty. The first duty is to recite it whether you understand it or not to be able to listen to it to be able to respect it to be able to adopt it to be able to actually let it give you the calmness. It will happen when the Arabic is read because the Arabic is the word لہذا کے لئے آپ کو آگی کرتے ہیں گا یا قرآن کی عمل ہے جب یہ بیوتی позرنہ ہے مجھے pleasant انگ لی۔ آپ جانتے ہیں کہ جب آپ نظروں نے محمد صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم چاہتے ہیں ، آپ Okayا آپ ہوائے کیسے وجہ جو کام ہو رہا ہے تب آپ سمجھ کرسکتے ہیں آپ actually سمجھ کرسکتے ہیں ، اللہ علیہ لہذا یہ ہے ہسے کہا ہے کہ اللہ نے کہا ہے کہ سوریات جے ہوتی ہے آپ تکا کسر لیوی کر سکتے ہیں جو کسر یہ پر ایک لٹر چیزوں ایک لٹر کتی سالوں میں جو کتک مطلع کرتے ہیں سو جو کسر برکھ کیا جو کؤر میں بہت��ہتی ہے لیکن وہ لیکن انہوں نے کہا لیکن وہ اللہ آپ کی مرسی ہے یہ ہمارےپل exponential کے لیکن کم کون کیا وہ خواہ والنےی ہے تو اللہ جگہ آپ کو صفیہ کر دیگھوٹا ہوں ایک More than you can dream of More than you can calculate yourself when you say ایک سوء آپ کا سال ہے جو لیکن ہے کہ لیکن ہمارے پلوان کے ایک طرح آپ کے سوء آپ ایک جیسے اور کمان کے باقی میں کیا اور اس جب میں نے یا بہت ایک اور ایک دوٹی پر باہن رگاد کے بارےپل Som will حفان انکرائد منira ہونے اس طرف اللہ اللہ تع coat اپر مجھ کے سالگوں کو ہے ان کو ہم award 거지 گھر ساربوف تفزیر رسل möchteous اس بڑی کیا ہے کہ وہ ایک ویرے کا حقیقت ہے اور وہ حقیقت ہے لوگ آپ کو سانڈا کرنے کے بارے میں اپنی کھوٹے ہوتا ہے تو اپنی جس آپ کو سانڈا کیا ہے محمد صلالہ علیہ وسلم وَمَا اَتَا کُمٌ رَسُونُ فَقُضُونُ وَمَا نَا کُمْ مَعْنُ فَنْتَوَ اَتَّقُ اللہُ ایک کوئی محطر ہے آپ کو دے لیتے ہیں آپ کو انجلا کیا تو ہے کبھی ہے جو انہوں نے رام شخصیت اور کبھی ہے اور ہمارے شخصیت اور اللہ پیر ہی اور Videos انہوں نے رسول سحورت کو پریرہی ہے ، اسے سنہ ، اینہ podía ، مقام قطارته ہے ، اسے پارت اور مقامج کیوں کو زیادہ ہے ، کہ آپ کو پہلے سکے گا۔ لہذا ہمارے کچھ پہلے تھے انہوں نے کہا تو جو وقت بھی ساتھ ہمارے ساتھ ہمارے قطارت لیا ہے۔ جب کبھی اگر حدیف میں جو مقامج کو ایسا اور صحویت میں جانتے ہیں۔ qualities радиہ طُہصالitudes ہم ایک خاتحات ہے کہ آپ کبھی حدیث کوزے کیا implemented就會 اپنی مح gambling تک پھر ا کرسی ہے جodہchaft کا حدیت کیتہ었어요 اپنہ Tuesday ہے پاہ characterized کہ آپ جانتے ہیں ہوںماassembل فکر Dellی اور ہم Unbelievable ہم اس اگر باچرا پررون سالولہ اڢل اصلم کے ساتھ مشاہ اس جانتا ہے کہ آپ نے منار ott اس کرسی ہے ان ہم پران ایک چال description The meaning of the Quran it is also very very important if someone were to ask you that what is more important to read the Arabic or to read the English or the language I understand the answer is they are both important but of primary value the recitation in Arabic is greater in spirituality اور بچانے کیا میں میں جانتا تھا اور ایک ویڈ آنے کیا کہتا ہے کہ آپ کو اپنے آپ کی بہت اثنان ہے سمجھا ہے۔ the فڑ او the water the فڑ او the blender جو لوگ آپ اور ہے۔ آپ ہم کہتے ہیں اہام ابنہ ابنہ ایک آپ کی مجھے بہت سسمہ ہے یہ بالکسی ہے یہ ماحقا ہے آپ کو آپ کو مجھے میں آپ کو اہمی مجھے پہلے شاریک اس کو natürlich ہوا بہت سکتا ہے تھے جو تواکھ کروں کے لئے کامل کو ساکھ لے کے لئے اطندگیے اکران کیا ہے آپ کو یقی اپنی کی پاس بہت سکتا ہے لیکن پاس بھی پاس بہت مثارہ کیا؟ تو چیزیüyor دوسر سے اپنی کی قریب پاس پاس رکھنا ہے کہ کہ انجا کے ساتھ تہوں سے نام کی تصور پر صرف کیا ہے تو یہاں ملے گا کہ وہ بہت سکتا ہے تھا بہت بہت سکتا ہے ان کے کاملوں کا حد تک انجا راستہ میں ملے گا جب تمہ جو وهنا شاتینہosexual اور بلہانیلی چاہد کر جھیوںکی Knoking قرآنے satisfyت سے سکتے ہیں جانب جو علen Wahulu زندگی سے forہ بڑی کی ہوں کہ ہمارے قرآن کے ساتھ لیکن اس کے ل Train تOULی کےorsہ تو کھر bagsل اپنا ہوسکتے ہوگا دائماavin سیون لگوٹی کی والکامی으면 보이 جانتا ہے سو سکتے ہیں Eis the Quran when it is impossible to read very fast because it's an insult. I can't I cannot do it. اگر پورت مجھا فرما فرما فرمت کلsystem مازال ہے تو کہ آپ یہ ایک لئے مرسلک لیکن بہت مجھے کاف پر مرسلکچا ہے اس کے بارے میں چیار پر اہلی کیا اشترہت ہوں تو اور اللہ بھی کل میں جس کہ ہمارے کیوں اور سارا ہمارے کے بارے میں یہ مجھے کہ سوروں کے بارے میں تک سکتا ہے جو اللہ سبحانہ و عطعالہ آپ کا سلمہ کو بہت سے حفاظیت کرتے ہیں جس کا سب کتے ہیں own through it just because I want to please the public because there is another حدید the Prophet ﷺ says the person who has memorized the Quran on the day of judgment even if you've memorized the portion InshaAllah you will be included in this Allah will call you and tell you اقراء ورتق وررتق كما كنت تو رتلو فرم ذنیا فہن منظیلی کا عندہ آخر ایت انتقاق وہا read and ascend and keep on going up as long as you're reading for indeed your status اور آپ کا مرکہ اور آپ کا عقبہ سامنے میں کوئی پر ہو جاتا ہے کہ آپ کی تھر آپ کو مٹا کرتے ہیں تو حدیث جو تریاں جاتا ہے کہ آپ کو دنیا میں مرکہ دنیا میں بھی ہے جو دینامی میں دنیا میں مرکھتے ہیں۔ یہ ہے۔ ہم انجازہ کیا بہت مرکھتے ہیں۔ کیوں کہ کسی لوگوں کو مرکہ مرکھتے ہیں جو So much lack of trying to please Allah with the recitation that when they arrive on the day of Qiyamah what are they graduate going to do. They will read in an embarrassing way because that's the only way they read in the dunya so therefore Allah says billah the instruction that Allah gave his most beloved محمد صلالحالی عالیہ وسلم اور بھر کی ہمارے کی چاہتے ہیں یہ ہمارے بات ہے اللہ کہ کہا جس کو بہتر연ی کی کرانا کرتا ہے اگر آپ اللہ دسم سے برہی ہوگا جب آپ کے و快اہ ہے کہ اللہ کی بہترینہ میں اگر آپ کو محافظ فروکت ہوں گے like کہ میں کہا کہ کورانی جا کہ آپ کے لئے قویت میں لیا باقاری میں مل قرآن وال خریان و یلعہ�وںی کسی لوگوں ہیں جب وہ خاص کرنے کے لئے because they are insulting it Allah doesn't need you or me we need Allah i must back up my ideas my system my way and i must come closer to Allah through this quran so the biggest gift that we have is the fact that we are the umma of the quran do not underestimate it i call on you my brothers my sisters to replace the cds you have of music with the quran replace it it's not needed put the quran the word of Allah it will have shefa in it when you are listening to quran on a disc or on the radio or anywhere else don't just listen try and read with the recitation you will get a double triple quadruple reward many of us listen to beautiful recycle move your mouth with it say something with it you know some of our children may Allah protect us in some instances they memorize the songs of those who are singing songs across the globe they memorize them but they haven't memorized the words of one surah of the quran it's a fact so don't you think we can change that inshallah we can by the will of Allah we need to strengthen ourselves my brothers and sisters we are the umma of the quran we will meet on the day of qiyama with the nabi of the quran we will meet with the nabi of the quran صل اللہ علیہ وسلم ہم جانتے ہیں ہم جانتے ہیں ہم جانتے ہیں the only time we will get it is if we tried if we tried to follow him if we tried to give respect to what Allah has given it to so we would like the quran to bear witness for us and not against us we would like to bear witness we would like it to bear witness for us and not against us and the last point i remembered just now if you allow me i know i've taken more than the time i thought i would take but it's okay in our houses and our homes sometimes we have verses of the quran that are hung up as decoration you enter the house you see the verse of the quran in big decoration you exiting the house you see this ایطل کرسی big decoration you entered on the right side you see the three quns on big decoration may Allah project us you must be surprised why what's so big what's wrong with it did Allah reveal the quran as a decoration did Allah reveal the quran as an adornment did Allah send down the quran to be able to say it looks nice did Allah send the quran for you to be able to put it on your wall in order to fill the gap that is on the wall and you work past and people say very lovely where did you get it where did i get what why are you insulting the quran اللہ says we have revealed to you in order that you pondered deeply over its verses that's why we revealed it to you آپ کو جانا سکتے ہیں ان کی ورسیوں کیا آپ ایک بہت ہوا업کردی طرح جو آپaucتہ دیئوں کے لئے آپ کی real life چاہتے ہیں۔ اوما ربھر خطاب رضی اللہ ہوں جانا رہا ہے۔دة ورسیوں کی نیزت آپ집 ہو جانتے ہیں۔ ہم یہ ہر ختم پر او ختم او 3 ختم نہیں مجمع کرسی ہے۔ لیکن یہ لئے وہ ہمارے والا کیا اوہ تصور ہے۔ یہ اللہ نیزلی سائن،cakeت بیلہ تظامی ہے۔ مہاری جانتے ہیں؟ لیکن now what should we do because i have it in my house what can i do very simple remedy when you enter the house and you see the beautiful ayatul kursi stop for one moment and read it when you see the three cools on the right wall stop for a moment and read it understand it so you know i read this i read this every other day when we pass we read it's a reminder so if it's up there as a reminder to you to read no problem but if it's up there solely as decoration wallahi we have a problem take it out replace it with something else if you're not going to read and no one is going to read and it's just there solely as decoration think about what i'm telling you think about it it will bear witness against you that same plaque will come and say i was hung on the world no one ever bothered reading me no one did at the time of rasool Allah ﷺ they didn't have books like we have today they had plaques they had little parchment's they used to write on small pieces of wood and skin and you know what they used to read all of that we don't value this so what i'm saying is you have hung it fair enough but read it once in a while read it once you read it someone read it encourage people say you see that cool they say it's very beautiful say yes try and read it a little bit you did your duty do you know they hang the 99 names of Allah okay that is not part of the quran but why did you hang it have you ever read two of the names three of them if every time you enter your house you read two names three names wallahi by the by the time the month ends you are already so close so much to Allah سبحانہ و تعالی may Allah make it easy for us
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Roly Keating muses on the beginnings of the British Library
‘Let’s begin, sort of, at the beginning…’ The British Library’s Chief Executive, Roly Keating, shares memories of the Library’s conception and origins. This short clip was filmed on the 25 June 2018 which marked 20 years since the Library opened its doors at St Pancras. Watch the full speech here: http://bit.ly/2zQ2GeJ
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Let's begin sort of at the beginning. It's often said that this building was was hard won Not easy to achieve and of course that's true But the whole institution was also the result of intense debate a great Hard-fought battle for what kind of institution should get created that act of Parliament 1972 was the result of more decade and a half That really emerged from that great post-war Institution building period that gave us everything in succession from the National Health Service the Arts Council a third program open University the National Theatre and One thing the nation did not have which was a distinct national library But it was born in a very very particular spirit a Determination always to look at the future and this is a theme we'll come back to again It's the theme of the evening not just a commemorative library looking back at heritage but putting collections to work to generate new knowledge and That that sense of youthful forward-looking institution has been with us all the way through we checked which What was in the charts the day it finally opened for business in 19 and appropriately for the organization which is now home of the National Sound Archive And it was born into an extraordinary time of possibility and change within a couple of years These two companies had come into existence and rather like the British Library Nobody knew at the time what they would become and in a sense it was similar for this institution It was sort of almost Invisible and that was partly because it had not it was not so much homeless has had too many homes Of course one of them which is still with us is in the north of England very proudly still 500 staff Employed at Boston Spa in Yorkshire the dead's geographical center of the country the library at the center of the system and 43-acre estate little known to Londoners, but certainly known to everyone in Yorkshire But here in London even here The library had a plethora of locations at least half a dozen I'm sure I'm going to get corrected on this because I'm sure there was smaller collection somewhere That no one's told me about but of course it was centered Emotionally and headquarters and practically at birth in the wonderful British Museum And I know we have colleagues from that institution here tonight and that home Presented itself with opportunities and and challenges It was so deep-rooted that the task of creating something new was all the more difficult for everyone involved and of course the task of synthesis fell to Sandy Wilson Colin singed Wilson and his team and Collaborators some of whom are here tonight. I don't know if MJ is here but many others who were involved in that project are still close friends of this Institution and truly it has to go down in history as one of the most challenging and brilliantly Executed works of synthesis of problem-solving in architectural history
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Make in India, Make for the globe के मंत्र पर बढ़ता भारत अपने सामर्थ्य को और बढ़ा रहा है:PM Modi
PM Modi laid the foundation stone of the C-295 Aircraft Manufacturing Facility in Vadodara, Gujarat. The Prime Minister remarked, "India is moving forward with the mantra of ‘Make in India, Make for the Globe’ and now India is becoming a huge manufacturer of transport aircrafts in the world." Subscribe Now: https://goo.gl/8qsb5E Stay Updated! 🔔 Follow us to stay updated: ► Download the NM App: http://nm4.in/dnldapp ► Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/narendramodi ► Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/narendramodi ► Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/narendramodi #vadodara #iaf #indianairforce #TATA #aatmanirbharbharat #TASL #airbus #c295
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2022-10-30T10:48:38
2024-04-23T01:11:16
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तो हाज भारत को दूनिया का बड़ा मैन्य्जाली आः भनावे डिшा में अम बज़ भड़ा कडच मुभुतहरे है अरत,ierno today is Fortunately refahoing your fighter plane aujourd शब मरअ जा Нेचा और स्रिए भी लिए मरश्या अगर जर देला's नहीं और स्विप्र रही नहीं आरत में बनी दवाया और वैख्सिन भी आज जुन्या में लाक्पो लोगों का जीवन बचार रहीं आरत में बने एलेक्टोनिग गेजेट्स आरत में बने मोबाईल फों आरत में बनी कारें आज कितने ही देशो में चाई हूँई आज में किनिन्टिया में क्ष्ट्ट्ट्ग्लोग कि इस मन्त्रप्र आगे बड़ता रहा बारग आज अपने सामवर्ध को और बड़ा रहा आब भारग प्रास्पोर्ट प्लेन का भी बहुत बड़ा निनमाता बनेगा दान आड़त में इसकी शुर्वात हो रही और मैं वो दिन देख रहा है जब दुनिया के बड़े पैसेंजर प्टिन्स भी आड़त में ही बनेंगे और नब लिखा होँगा पेक पिल अईदिया
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L-shaped association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D with all-cause and cardiovascular m... | RTCL.TV
### Keywords ### #Chronickidneydisease #25hydroxyvitaminD #Mortality #Cardiovasculardiseases #Olderpeople #RTCLTV #shorts ### Article Attribution ### Title: L-shaped association of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in older people with chronic kidney disease: results from the NHANES database prospective cohort study Authors: Rugang Li, Yang Li, Zhongcheng Fan, Zhaoqi Liu, Juhua Lin ,and Min He Publisher: BMC DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-16165-x DOAJ URL: https://doaj.org/article/a772c9de91134143aaf3c5365b411cf6 Source URL: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16165-x ### Image Attribution ### We used stable diffusion to programmatically generate the background images. Viewer discretion is advised. ### Channels ### YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@medicinertcltv Odysee Channel: https://odysee.com/@medicine_rtcl_tv ### Video Timestamps ### 0:00:00 - Summary 0:00:20 - Title 0:00:26 - End
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2023-10-17T10:58:39
2024-04-23T16:57:37
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This study suggests that higher levels of vitamin D are associated with a decreased risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality among older adults with chronic kidney disease. The author suggests that a serum level of 19 mol may be the optimal target for reducing the risk of premature death. This article was authored by Ruggong Lee, Young Lee, Jeng Ching-Fam, and others.
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Four Keys to an Extraordinary Elderhood (Don't Just Age, Engage!)
Engage in Aging. The host for this show is Larry Grimm. Larry discusses goal setting in the four dimensions of humanity experience. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6mNt8XzF6dCBruXz5Sr5g8t Please visit our ThinkTech website at https://thinktechhawaii.com and see our Think Tech Advisories at https://thinktechadvisories.blogspot.com. ThinkTech Hawaii streams live on the Internet from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Hawaii time most weekdays, then we stream our earlier shows all night long. Check us out any time for great content and great community. Our vision is to be a leader in shaping a more vital and thriving Hawaii as the foundation for future generations. Our mission is to be the leading digital media platform raising public awareness and promoting civic engagement in Hawaii.
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2022-02-16T05:02:42
2024-02-05T08:09:24
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and welcome to Think Tech Hawaii's program, Don't Just Age and Gage. I'm your host Larry Grimm. Thank you for joining me again. Every two weeks we have the same title program every Tuesday, second Tuesday, and explore the internal issues of aging. Many of our wonderful programs on Think Tech Hawaii are issue-oriented, socially-oriented, social concerns, and I'm so proud of them. Please take advantage of all those, and this one gets a little more focused on the internal dimensions of aging and what's involved and truly aging in such a way that you have an extraordinary elderhood. Will you age so that you are not a victim of your aging but are engaging in planning your life for an extraordinary elderhood? That's what I'm about. I am a pastor, I've been a Presbyterian minister, I've been involved in chaplaincy work with long-term care and hospice care. I've had a great exposure to people of all different stages and ages, and this stage of life has intrigued me for many, many years, and now that I'm part of that stage of life myself and also have come through wonderful learning experiences in caring for people. I can bring the resources of knowledge and expertise into a coaching relationship. My coaching relationship is entitled, So join a global community for your extraordinary elderhood. Would you bring that up, please, on the website? I would like to invite you to join a global community for your extraordinary elderhood at personalcoachingforlifeandfaith.com. Thank you. Well, the question that's kind of plaguing, interesting to me this morning is, why should I have a coach? Why, at this age and stage of life, could I think I would benefit? Do I think I could benefit from a life coach? And we're going to take on that question today. First of all, I could, of course, tell you that I'm the best that you could possibly find. And that's the reason that you should hire me, but that's not persuasive and certainly not convincing. I want to, first of all, make a distinction between coaching and counseling. People who engage in counseling, and I have done counseling, when I do a counseling program, I'm with my person, my client, to explore the past, their past and enable them to discover the dynamics of the past to find out what are the internal conflicts maybe that they carry in themselves that need to be resolved and how they can resolve those. And that's part of my counseling work. But coaching has to do with life goals, a vision of your life, and action plan to reach those. So that I help you identify goals for your life, figure out an action plan with resources. There's such an abundance of resources available. There certainly are on our island, our island here, but no matter where you're looking and watching from, there's an abundance of resources available for you in your aging stage of life. I call that the elderhood life. You had childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and now you have an elderhood. In that elderhood, there is a transition from adulthood to elderhood, and I teach five spiritual tasks that need to be paid attention in order for that shift in that movement and transition to be effective. We go through five stages, or excuse me, five spiritual tasks, grieving, sorting out stories, forgiving, preparing, and letting go. We do exercises around each of those five spiritual tasks that enable my client to feel freer and resolved on some things. Then the point comes of where we say, okay, what's your life going to look like? Here's this elderhood time, and it can be the most productive, it can be with the most exciting and satisfying time of your life in which you integrate all of that past into one seamless flow of your life story. So that's what coaching is about. And that specifically is what my coaching is about, so that you will have an extraordinary elderhood. The one thing that I don't want people to have feel is that they're elderly. I want them to feel as though they're, I don't want them to feel as though we're victims, they are a victim of aging. Rather empowered to make decisions, make choices about their future, and to work towards those. And that's what we'll look at more closely today. What are the dynamics of our life? I'd like to pull up a graphic that's called Four Key. In every human experience, there are four dimensions. There is a spiritual dimension, the blue, a physical dimension, the green, yellow dimension is relational, and the red is economical. And we'll look at all of those, each of those separately. But generally speaking, coaching, as I said, has to do with your vision and your life goals. What do you want in your elderhood? Who are you now as you enter your elderhood? I'm fond of speaking about my brother. My older brother, when he passed the age of 70, he says that he started thinking the first time he'd done it, started thinking to himself, how, when, and where? And of course, what he was talking about, how, when, and where will I die? These are things that he never thought of before. And the stage theorists, I'm a stage theorist, I like to frame my understanding of things in terms of stages. People as we go through stages have separate issues and separate tasks to fulfill, according to that stage of life. And I maintain that we do that as we enter the elderhood as well. It's a movement from productivity and adulthood, creativity and adulthood, external orientation to an inner orientation and adult and elderhood. We asked that question once and all about, what has it been about for me? What is it that I have enjoyed, achieved? How is it that I've made an impact on this world? What am I going to leave behind? And how is it going to benefit society and my family and everybody that I love? So that's, that's the change. That's the shift in a generalized terms, but becomes different specifically for each person and each client that I have. But I want to look at these four dimensions of the human experience with you and talk about elderhood in terms of these four dimensions of the human experience. Let's bring up that graphic now. The first dimension in the upper left hand quadrant is spiritual. And sometimes in our lives, we encounter our sense of weakness and ironically, or perhaps paradoxically, that weakness also becomes a strength or puts us in touch with our strengths. So the spiritual dimension, which is 25% of our lives, is a way of being internally oriented and conscious of what's going on in our interior life. Okay. The interior life involves emotions. It involves belief systems. It involves a consciousness of the divine, a consciousness of spirit. It involves a relationship with something greater than ourselves and the ways in which we think about and phrase our experience, our reflections, our reflections on those experiences. It's a whole internal perspective. And so what are some of the possible goals that you might choose in elderhood that have to do with the spiritual quadrant? For one, you may decide that you would like help in. One of your goals is to minimize the level of anxiety that you're having. I've been, as I said, a Presbyterian minister in my career. And one of the phrases that I'd love to preach about was Jesus words, don't be anxious about tomorrow. Your father in heaven knows what you need. Anxiety is always so strong for us, especially when we're imagining what's going to happen in the future. And again, when we talk about it that way, we're putting ourselves as a victim in the future that we're going to be subjected somehow to the to the horrors of future that we cannot even imagine at this point. And of course, that shoots our anxiety level up. And the higher our anxiety, perhaps you know this already, but the higher our level of our anxiety, the more cortisol we have, and the more the less we have access to our upper brain to our our neocortex. Now the neocortex is involved in analyzing, evaluating, planning, creative thinking, process problem solving. And the more we have anxiety in our future or anxiety about the past, even or something that we've brought forward into our lives, the less we're able to access that problem solving tool in our minds. So lowering anxiety has a tremendous impact on enabling us to envision the future and to look plan a future and to respond to the events that come before us and the choices that we have to make in the immediacy of our everyday lives. So up in the spiritual upper left quadrant, we may want very much to have that anxiety level reduced. There are other feelings that come along with that. We may find that we have a great deal of grief, so much loss in life, and that the grief is overwhelming also our ability to make decisions. And so you may wish to minimize and lower the dimensions of grief that you feel in your everyday life even. We can work for that. Maybe that some of the anxiety or some of your feelings and emotions are about guilt from the past. So often if we have guilt and regret, we're living in the past, we have anxiety, we're living in the future, it makes it difficult to live, both of those make it difficult to live in the immediacy of the everyday life with all the confidence and the good skills that you have. So those are some of the issues that come up and some of the possible goals, reduce anxiety, manage grief, reduce guilt, manage guilt and feel free to feel excited about the future of our lives. To be a child again, come as a little child and join in the planning of the future for an exciting and really wonderful elderhood. Now the upper right hand corner is what we usually think of aging, it's the physicality. So many of us feel as though we're dragged kicking and screaming into this stage of life by the diminishment of our physical ability. And it may happen that there are our physicality changes for sure. It does not necessarily mean that it's going to be a downhill slide into decrepitude. Although I think our society and our culture believes that and really wants us to think that that is so. I once was looking at a magazine, a yoga book that I had picked up, slipped through the pages and I found a woman who was bent in half in a position that I could hardly imagine even even moving towards myself. This was when I was much younger. And I read and she was actually 97 years old and was bent in half in this position of yoga. She had begun her yoga practice at the age of 70 and she was able to really to rise up in capabilities that she would never have imagined herself capable of doing earlier. So there are things that can be done in this elder stage of life physically that you can plan on and pursue when you have established goals like that. So physicality has to do with everything that we can measure. What do you need to decide about your health? What do you need to know? My coaching is both emotional and that upper left hand quadrant and informational in the upper right hand quadrant. What are some of the things that you need to take care of physically that is a goal for you. You want to reduce weight. You want to strengthen your body. You want to expand your capacity to degree. You want to sleep better. Sleep is so important for the processes of aging. What are the goals that you want to establish with regard to your physicality? Want to do more hiking? Do you want to go out on the surf board and learn to surf? Why not? But it takes some steps and some stages of planning. So when we are working with a live coach we are first identifying what we want. A lot of people don't know and are afraid to ask for what they really want in their lives. Second, making an action plan on how to reach those. When you have a plan you can change course if you need to. You can modify the plan so that it is most helpful and effective. As someone said, if you don't know where you are going you are certainly not going to get there. We have yearnings and longings for our hearts and bodies. We really can have those clearly identified so that we are moving towards those. And as we establish those we feel freer throughout our lives. Throughout from day to day it gives us an opportunity to take advantage of what is in the immediacy and the right now, the here and now. So upper left hand quadrant, facing me, upper left hand quadrant, spirituality in your inner life, upper right hand quadrant, physicality. And as we get closer to our dying physically the more excited and fulfilling life can be. More exciting and fulfilling our lives can be. The bottom right hand corner deals with our cultural norms. I'm sorry, the bottom left hand corner, the yellow, deals with our cultural norms and ourselves. What are the societies that you have been a part of? Where did you get the values that you hold dear? All of us inherit different values. We inherit a belief system from a church, from a religious body, from our cultural setting. From our schools we are taught certain values that we are expected to uphold. In our family life we have certain values that are transmitted to us and shape us as into the people that we are. Well what is, at some point we have to make those our own. We make those our own by, or don't make them our own, by critically analyzing what we want to believe and what works for us in terms of those values. I had one patient, one client whose mother was in the, she just moved her into a facility for her long-term care. And every time she went to visit her mother, her mother would just tell her, why did you do this to me? You're supposed to keep me at home. That's where I belong with you and your home. She was the oldest daughter in the family and she had a cultural background that taught this that the oldest daughter had to take care of them, of the mother aging parent in her home. And she had had her mother in her home and came home at one point the daughter did one day and found her mother on the kitchen floor. She had fallen and could not get up and did not have anybody to call, any way to get any help. She was on the floor for a good part of the day. Well the daughter said that was it. The daughter had to work, the daughter had a husband and children to take care of. So mom moved into a facility and their mom had safety, security. People who took care of her were conscious of her every day, all day long. And so I said, you know, you did, but the daughter felt so guilty, she said. And I said, but you did the thing that was the best for your mother. You gave her the best gift you could, which was a place of security, warmth and provision. But we worked with her guilt and she was able to decide not to feel guilty anymore. And so she took on a different set of values from what her culture had intended her to hold. There's a place where we have, we have to find ourselves within the system of values that we hold, either within it or opt for another one. And part of coaching is to be exposed to others, to have that looked at closely and to make some different choices. The reason that is, is because the lower right hand corner or the red cycle there, part of the cycle is economical, I call it. Now I like the word economical because it comes from the Greek word eikos, the Greek word eikos means household. And so when we talk about economical, we're talking about the whole household of life, how we structure our household, how we come and go, how things look, what, how does the environment reflect our values? How do the things that we engage in reflect our values? If I am value from, if I bought into a cultural value of love my neighbor as I love myself, am I opening myself up to my neighbor? Am I economically moving towards that and caring for one another in that way? And then what way did I join a church? Did I join a service organization? Do I want to be involved in international work, foreign affairs relations? How do we then take our energy and resources of time, energy and money and shape those into activity in the world in which we live? Yeah, so, so what could be more fulfilling than to have an opportunity in your elderhood stage of life to be a part of mentoring program or to read books to children at a local school? There are so many opportunities to then to do this kind of thing at this stage of life. And if you know what goals you're going to reach out for in that area, you know how to make an action plan. And that's what this whole thing is about the human experience and the four keys to unlock your extraordinary elderhood. You work in the four different areas. Now you can work with anybody in these four areas and I maintain that anytime you and I have made a change of our lives to take on something new, to engage in some kind of endeavor that we haven't been involved in already, we have found a coach, either maybe it was something that we read, but we've found some coaching that helps us model our lives and also to make plans in terms of the goals that we want to reach and to follow through with those. And that's the third important piece of of having a coach. And that's accountability. You have an opportunity to check in every week on a one on one online coaching with me and check into the to I check in with you to see how it's going. Have you kept to your goals this week? Did you did you do what you needed to do in order to lose weight in order to get stronger in order to change your physicality? Did you do some meditation to help strengthen your awareness of God? What have you done? Did you worship with the community so that you have a strong relationship and bond of love within a community that you know? So that's so one on one accountability is planning and accountability is the third piece on third piece in coaching. In addition to that, the second thing that we do be you may you may have been very much aware in your own life with the COVID of how isolated and lonely we can feel. So one of the worst things about aging is that we tend to get lonely, tend to get isolated, cut back. Even our children may not be available to us. They may not be visiting us. They may in fact think that we are not really wanting us to be around wanting them to be around. That's not hardly true, but they may find it difficult to visit while they see maybe we're struggling with some physical issues. We're going to work with that. We're going to find out ways that in fact we can get around that with them. But also we develop an online group of about nine elders who are also interested with you and making your adulthood extraordinary. And I call those elder guilds. So we have a weekly online meeting of your elder guild. And what we do is share the best practices for aging. We do that best practices for aging for those of us who are involved in adulthood, but also for those of us who have parents and other friends and family in adulthood. Best practices for caregiving also. And then finally, I have an Elderhood Academy of which you can be a part that has all kinds of opportunities for learning and growing and expanding your understanding of your own life in that Elderhood. So let me show you again my website, the homepage, landing page of my website. Become a part of a global community for your extraordinary Elderhood. Personal coaching for life and faith has all the contact information you need to get in touch with me. And to take on a free opportunity for a short coaching session with me, just so we can get to know each other, you can kind of test me out. And I wish you the very best in your life. I'll be back in two weeks and I wish you a lo-ha.
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How to worldbuild: Magic
That mystical stuff that everyone seems to love. Now share this all over so people see it. Brandon Sanderson's lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXAcA_y3l6M Discord: https://discord.gg/rqYVjAb Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/JamesTullos Twitter: https://twitter.com/ForTullos goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/21076860-james-tullos
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Fantasy settings are known for a lot of different things. Prophecies, swords, dark lords, dragons, but above all of them is magic. Everything from Middle-Earth to the Forgotten Realms to Roshar to Westeros has some sort of magic that the denizens can utilize. Sometimes it's strong, sometimes it's weak, sometimes anyone can use it, sometimes it's rare. Magic, more than anything, sets fantasy apart from other genres and gives it a life of its own. The problem with that is that writers often just take it for granted that magic will be in their setting and so don't put much thought or effort into designing it the way it works or its place in the world. RPGs and video games are particularly bad about this. So I just saw that while editing and I realized I should probably clarify that it's not a huge deal when RPGs and video games do that because their first priority is to make sure the magic works with balanced gameplay and it's not so much a lore thing. Ideally it would be great for lore and gameplay, but if you had to choose one, definitely go with gameplay. Magic doesn't occupy a logical place in many settings. There are just some wizards that wander around doing stuff. It's not uncommon for them to form some sort of political and or military organization that can affect the world, but it is uncommon for them to have a well-thought-out place in society and it's almost as rare for their magic to be well thought out. If you threw magic into the real world, things wouldn't have developed the same. There's no way Europe in the Middle Ages would have been exactly the same plus an occasional wizard and there's no way fantasy worlds would fit this mold either. If you've seen any of my works on Blood Rose Rebellion then you know how vital a proper magic system can be to a setting or to a story. In that series the way the magic works was so incoherent that it created plot holes and made characters look stupid and it was especially frustrating because it would only require some minor tweaking to fix. So let's talk about world-building magic. Part 1. Hard vs. Soft Let's get one thing straight before we start. All magic systems exist on a spectrum from hard to soft. Hard magic is a magic that has a well-defined set of rules that the characters know and understand. This does not necessarily mean it's scientifically based though. Soft magic is magic that has less defined rules and limitations, at least from the perspective of the characters. For example, in Lord of the Rings Gandalf's magical abilities are whatever the plot demands of him. The other characters don't know much about what he can do or how his powers work other than that he can't destroy the ring of power. So this is a very soft system. Most modern fantasy series utilize a hard system, one of the best being Wheel of Time. It's explained what the source of magic is, who can use it, how they can use it, what sorts of limitations it has, what you can use it for, and the dangers involved. The characters don't know everything at the beginning. They discover new aspects to the magic over time. And even by the end of the series they don't know everything, but this is still a very hard system. Like I said though, this is a spectrum. You don't have to choose one side or the other. You can have a system that's fairly hard but with a couple of elements that are never totally explained. Or you can have a soft system that you explain a little bit. There's a lot of room to move around here. Some people have gotten it in their heads that hard magic is inherently superior to soft magic, especially since that's what's popular nowadays. This isn't true at all. Both types have their own strengths and weaknesses that you should consider before you build the magic system. Hard magic helps to make the setting feel more real and three-dimensional. When you explain things in detail it becomes part of the world just as much as the people in it. I assume that if you're watching this then you want to do something similar, and I'd encourage you to just keep an open mind and remember that this isn't the only route to take. Soft magic helps to create a sense of wonder, mystery, or fear around the fantastical elements of the story. When you don't know exactly where the wish granting fireflies come from, they give you a sense of awe. I personally prefer hard magic systems because I'm someone who enjoys being able to pick things apart and understand how they work, but don't take that as an endorsement of hard magic. Whatever you go for is going to depend on what you want to do with the magic and for that matter, why you're building a world in the first place. If you're just world-building for fun, then just go with whatever you think is coolest. If you're writing a story to go with it, then it's a more difficult question. In a traditional story about a young man fighting the Dark Lord and never knowing much about magic, it would probably be better to keep things soft so that the magic feels more wondrous or scary. If you're writing about someone who learns to use magic to save the world, it would be better to go in-depth with it so that the audience understands the limitations and what the characters can and can't do. Otherwise, there will be less tension during things like fight scenes. The point is that you should know what you're doing before you start the final draft. Part 2. What Can It Do? One of the most stereotypical spells that can be cast in fantasy is a fire spell. Need to light a dark room? Make a ball of fire in your hand. Need to warm yourself up? Burn some wood with ease. A horde of enemies coming at you? Just launch a fireball at them for 8d6 damage. Fire, along with other elemental combat spells, are a staple of fantasy at this point. They're simple and easy to understand and they're useful for fighting orcs or whatever. Great. But the more interesting stuff is usually more subtle. Influencing minds, creating small illusions, speaking with the dead, and making surfaces slippery are just a few examples of this. Maybe this is just my opinion, but I enjoy reading about low-key types of magic more than big displays of fire and lightning. They're just so simplistic and overused, at least outside of battles. And this might sound weird, but if you want your magic powers to be more interesting, you should give them limitations. For example, Allomancy in the Mistborn books gives certain people the ability to push and pull on metal, which acts as a sort of telekinesis. But you can only use it on metal and you can only push it away from you or pull it towards you. If you push or pull on something heavy, then you'll move instead. This is weaker than telekinesis, but that forces the characters to use it in more creative ways. To attack, they can throw some coins in the air and push on them to shoot like bullets. To move around, they can throw metal objects on the ground and then jump and push off of it, or they can pull on metal parts of buildings to climb really fast. Allomancy powers are much more interesting, not in spite of them being weaker, but because they're weaker. Another example is how wizards need wands to do most magic in Harry Potter. If they lose their wands or they get broken or if their wands are restrained, then their options become much more limited, adding more tensions to things like action scenes. If the characters are forced to rely more on their wits than on their powers, then they become better characters too. More than that, consider what uses magic has outside of combat. I know that's a big part of most fantasy stories, but people have lives outside of fighting. If magic can heal people, then that has pretty obvious applications in everyday life. Can you cast a spell to perform your household chores for you? What about change your appearance? View the past. Predict the future. I can't give you every possible example for this. Just think of how magic can affect things like the economy, social status, governments, and life in general. Then figure out how that could be incorporated into the rest of the setting. This makes the magic feel more real and three-dimensional as opposed to just some crazy powers that people use to fight. Part three, power source. Where does the energy for spells come from? From inside the spellcaster's body? From some objects that they possess? From nature? From their surroundings? From someone's life force? From some outside source? From seemingly nowhere? There are a million options, and even if the rest of your magic system is standard, you can make it unique by just giving it a different power source. In Mistborn, alimancers swallow metals and burn them up in their stomach, which means that they go back to normal when they run out. Another limitation that makes things more interesting. In The Wheel of Time, the energy source that magic users draw on is infinite. The amount that they can take in at one time is limited, though. If they draw in too much, then they risk severing themselves from the source and being unable to use magic anymore, known as burning out, or they can even kill themselves. So they're limited not only in how long they can use magic, but what kinds they can use. Harry Potter, as much as I like the magic system there, has an issue with this. It's never explained where the power comes from. How do they levitate people without any sort of energy? I don't know, and it's a small thing that bothers me. The series has a soft system, so it's not a huge deal that things like this aren't explained, but if you do a harder system, then don't do that. The default is to just make the energy come from within the character's own body, which can work fine, it just comes across as dull most of the time. The only time I've seen it done well was in Aragon, since mages can give each other energy or store it up in objects for later use. If someone relies on a diamond with energy in it to fight, and then they lose that, they're in trouble. So there's still some depth here which allows it to work, but just making the magic tire people out creates a dissonance since the audience knows that the hero will always have that last burst of energy when the plot demands it. Basically, just consider where the magic comes from and use that as a way to limit the magic user's power. The limitations make for better magic, better characters, and better story. Part 4. How do you learn it? This one is exactly what it says on the tin. What sorts of organizations or institutions exist to teach magic to others and or research it? Are there magic schools filled with adolescents coming to educate themselves? Or just individual wizards taking on apprentices? Or maybe magic is so rare that almost no one knows how it works and everyone is self-taught? Or maybe everyone is just born with their powers and they're all totally different? Before deciding how this works, ask yourself. Is magic hidden and practiced by a secret society? Known but rare? Or known and commonplace? Every single one of these styles of learning is going to be different. A Hogwarts-style school will likely be run by some sort of government and have things like testing and standardized curriculums. This means that everyone will know more or less the same things and have a grasp of the basics, even if they have different areas of knowledge and different skill levels. When people all go through the same education system in the real world, they can all do things like read and basic math, but higher education becomes more specialized. A high school diploma is usually just a general education, but a bachelor's degree will be in something more specific, like business or biology or mathematics. By the time you get to doctorate level, people have degrees in things like the history of the Byzantine Empire or the Venom of Coral Snakes, things that are extremely deep but extraordinarily narrow. Imagine if Hermione went to a post-Hogwarts University where she'd studied magic used to manipulate time and Ron studied... I don't know, how to summon dragons from thin air. They would be able to perform much different types of magic, which means if they ever fought for whatever reason, then they would have very different fighting styles. Of course, a school can only be set up if magic is relatively common and understood. If it's hated by mainstream society, then it would either not exist or be hidden in some way. Then we get to the concept of individual wizards teaching students. If everyone is teaching without government standards or any sort of oversight, then they're all going to have their own styles of doing things. A single wizard probably won't know everything about magic unless you make a relatively shallow system, and so his or her systems will have some blind spots. Even if they don't, they'll probably practice magic in a way that is different from others. Think of how there are different schools of martial arts in the real world that are all different but serve more or less the same purpose. Of course, if you have a system that's built around everyone having unique abilities, then everyone is going to figure out how things work on their own. At that point, how much they can learn depends on their personality and how willing they are to experiment. Being born with the power to slow down time is great, but if you don't know its limits, then it would be hard to use effectively. And remember that how you handle this comes back to the hard versus soft system debate. Educating someone on soft systems will likely be more about how much they don't know and how to be careful when using magic. Speaking of which... Part 5. Costs and Flaws What does magic cost in your setting? This is a question that surprisingly few people consider when starting off. They get caught up in this mindset of, ooh, awesome lightning spear that can talk to frogs and forget that without limits things become boring. So there has to be a cost to magic. It's very common to have the cost of magic just be fatigue. You cast a spell and get tired. I've already covered the issues with this though. Consider some other types of cost that might have to be paid. What if the lightning spear has to be charged up with sunlight after each use? Then the cost would be the time that the characters have to spend charging it. If every time they wanted to shoot lightning they had to sacrifice a dog, then the cost is very high and they'd hesitate to use it. If every time you wanted to cast a spell you had to cut off a finger, then you could only cast it ten times. Just about everything in life requires some sort of sacrifice to acquire. And while that doesn't always hold true in the land of fiction, things that don't have to be earned will usually feel hollow. Without cost, nothing has value. Insert full Metal Alchemist reference here. I don't think you should go out of your way to make magic as inconvenient as possible because at the end of the day, it's there to be cool and you don't want to detract from that. In the end, go with what your gut tells you. Then consider what sorts of issues casting magic causes for people. Like if the cost of magic is shaving off parts of your own soul, maybe your lifespan gets shorter. Maybe if you cast too many spells in a short period of time, then it can cause the land around you to grow poisonous so nothing will grow there anymore. Maybe you can't cast spells on aluminum. Maybe when technology is present, magic becomes weaker. Maybe you can only cast spells on Tuesdays. These are more like flaws, side effects of the magic or things it can't do. There are a ton of ways to do this that make the magic more unique, more interesting, and more limited. Making magic that's just flinging around fireballs is boring. And there are a thousand other places to get that. Settings that have magic that's just a little bit different stand out more. And if you don't want your work to stand out, then why are you even making it? Conclusion. The first question to ask before making a magic system is this. What purpose does the magic serve? You have to know that first, otherwise you're just flailing in the dark. If the purpose is just to be cool, then great, go with whatever you want, whatever makes you happy. But I'm willing to bet that you want to do something different if you're watching this. There's so much more I could have gone into detail with here, like what role magic plays in society or how its users research it. More than most other aspects of world building, this one can go in strange directions and still be justifiable since magic isn't real. So you've got lots of creative room. Now let loose and have fun. In the description I've linked a lecture from Brandon Sanderson where he spends an hour going over many of the same points as me in more detail. He approaches it from more of a storytelling perspective than a world building one, but most of the same points stand and it's useful to get advice from such a skilled author. Thanks to everyone for watching. Including my patrons, Christopher Hawkins, Joseph Pendergraft, and Melanie Austin, plus all the other fine folks whose names are currently scrolling by your eyeballs. If you want to support my channel, then consider donating to my page. If you can't do that, then liking, sharing, and commenting on the video helps it gain visibility. Bye.
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Best TradingView Plan & Market Data Guide (In Less than 3 Minutes)
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2022-10-14T16:33:44
2024-03-04T14:50:33
190
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Today I'll show you guys the difference between the three plants available at trading view. I'll also show you guys which market data package do you need to get into the data if you're looking to become a day trader or just follow the market very closely before we do that just a reminder that all the tools I use today trade are linked in the description. So without further ado, let's jump right in. So the first thing we're going to do is go into product and then we're going to go into pricing. So you have the pro, the pro plus and the premium the pro over here you can get five indicator per chart to chart in one window and all the alerts over here and it seems like there's a lot more into the pro plus, but it's actually pretty much identical. So when you look at this, you can see that you get two chart in one window over here and this one you actually get four and this one you actually get eight. So I'll show you guys the difference when I open up a chart. When you open up trading view normally you have only one window like this. When you get the pro plan, you're going to be able to have two and when you get the pro plus, you're going to be able to get actually four and when you get the premium, you're going to get eight over here that you're able to get in one window. So the next things between all of these plan is the number of layout that you can save. So when you create one like this, you can actually make a copy over here. You can make a copy like this and you can have like a separate layout over here. So that counts for one day out that counts for two layout. When you get the basic plan, if we go back over here, you get five saved layout with the pro plus, you get 10 and with this one, you get unlimited. So the next thing that makes a difference between all of these plan is going to be the historical bars available. Basic, you get 5k, this one, you get 10k, 10k and also 20k over here. So that only means that when you look at this over here, you can go on like a one minute chart and go, you're going to get 20,000 bars. So that means every candle counts as a bar. So you're going to get 20,000 on this one over here, which is the premium. When you get the other one, you're going to get less. You're going to get 10,000 instead of 20,000, which is completely fine. So the next difference is going to be the alert. You can see over here, this one, you get 20, this one, you get 100 and this one, you get 400. Also, the alert duration is a big difference. So two month on this one, two month, two month and this one is unlimited. So you can have something for like a year. And this is good when you're adding some kind of alert to an indicator. So I'll show you guys how you do this. So we go to a daily chart and then we just click on it. We say, add alert and we're going to select crossing and value is going to be example, the 10 EMA and we're going to leave this open ended. So what's going to happen is it's going to alert us when the stock gets back to this level over here. So the next thing we're going to do is look at the available markets. So when you're getting trading view, you're not going to get real time data. Your data is going to be 15 minutes late. So if you're looking to get real time, you're going to need to pick some market data. And if you're looking to trade stock intraday, these are the three that you're going to need NASDAQ, NYSE and also ARCA, you can also add OTC. If you're looking to trade the OTC market, I'm not. So I'm only looking at these three market data package and you can see now it's nine bucks for all of them. So I hope this video is helpful. If it is like and subscribe. Also, let me know what you want to see next in the comment section.
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Vermont State House Special Event - Enrollment Prop 2 and Prop 5 into VT Constitution 12/13/2022
Vermont State House Special Event - Formal Enrollment Proposition 2 and Proposition 5 into Vermont Constitution 12/13/2022
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2022-12-13T20:15:16
2024-02-05T06:09:08
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Good morning everyone I want to thank you all for being here today for this historic occasion as We formally certify the results of the ballot questions and enroll proposition 2 and proposition 5 into Vermont's Constitution We know we can't always look to Washington for solutions Which is why our state Constitution has always been critically important to us It was first drafted in July of 1777 When Vermonters declared we were an independent state They also made sure it wasn't easy to amend this process has Resulted in Vermont's Constitution being one of the oldest and probably the shortest of any state Our founders had the foresight to protect our Constitution from impulse Impat citizenship and that's something Vermonters have felt strongly about ever since I Believe this is how it should be and it makes moments like today even more meaningful We're here to make sure Vermont values are included in our founding document And what what matters most to those of us who call this brave little state home Today Vermont Constitution takes on new meaning as a source of inspiration and law To clearly show the world We believe that everyone has the right to personal autonomy To articulate the words that we truly believe in Freedom and unity In 1777 Vermont's constitutions that bravely into new territory Ensuring that all men are born equally free and independent with certain inherent rights Clearly prohibiting slavery of adult men and women This provision which we amend today was updated in 1924 Proposition to once again modernizes and clarifies this section Aligning it more with the times we live in And I believe this new language Represents the American spirit as well as Vermont's We've made progress But we've got more work to do to build a more inclusive diverse and accepting state It's up to all of us to live up to these shared ideals Proposition 5 also sends a historic message To ensure reproductive health decisions remain where they belong Between a patient and a health care provider totally free from government intervention I Want to express my gratitude to those who worked on this over the past few years Including speaker Kowinsky and pro tem ballot for shepherding this through the legislative process when this conversation began The right to reproductive freedom was considered settled law under the US Constitution This of course Changed over the summer When the US Supreme Court reverse itself and left this Congress and state legislatures to deal with Fortunately You and your colleagues had the foresight to prepare for the action we take today And I thank for monitors in particular for showing up to make your voices heard While Congress remains gridlocked With many states taking actions to limit reproductive rights We voted overwhelmingly in every corner of the state to enshrine these rights for all for months Mending the state Constitution gave her monitors the opportunity to take action on their fundamental rights Which is pretty meaningful When you think about it and with these two measures You made your voices heard So again want to thank you for participating in our democracy and making these historic Changes and I'll now turn it over to speaker Thank you all for joining us here today to share in this historical moments in our moment in our state's history This past November for monitors overwhelmingly voted to update our state Constitution to reflect our values and to protect our rights with two constitutional amendments This was not a short or simple process. It was long. It was rigorous and it was inclusive It was Ruth Gader Ginsburg that said real change and during change happens one step at a time Our country has been through some extremely turbulent times and for my generation To watch long held rights get rolled back has been a wake-up call Seeing how fragile our democracy is Has been a wake-up call Even with all the work we have done to make Vermont a better place Seeing how much racial and social inequality that still exists is jarring. I Believe and I have seen that a majority of us in Vermont have had this wake-up call a wake-up call to get involved To vote and to protect our rights in Vermont we believe health care decisions should be made by an individual and their health care provider Back in 2019. We passed age 57 also known as the Freedom of Choice Act It was an important bill to protect reproductive rights But we knew that amending the state Constitution was the best way we could permanently preserve these rights in November for monitors voted to ratify and amend our Constitution with proposal 5 Which guarantees reproductive liberty for all Vermonters and solidifies our commitment to this fundamental right for years to come The timing is critical Across the country. We are seeing attacks on reproductive liberty in the erosion of reproductive health care services. I Never had a doubt but still it's still I am so Inspired to see that Vermonters resoundedly reflected the importance of this right and the impact it will have in supporting their families Their friends and their community with their vote this past election I hope other states will follow our path and enact laws to protect personal reproductive liberty and allow individuals to make their own health care decisions At the same time we leave no doubt that the content that Vermonters Support writing the wrongs of the past by amending the Vermont Constitution to remove antiquated language Used about our about slavery in our state Constitution the legacy of slavery in our country has resulted in centuries of Systematic racism and removing this language from the Constitution is one step in the right direction As representative Colton said on the house floor Language is powerful and the truth shall set us free. I Am so proud of the work we have done to protect and expand civil rights And I look forward to continuing the work to foster more equitable communities throughout the state No, Vermonter or anyone visiting our state should have any doubt where we stand when it comes to supporting people from all walks of life I remain committed to leading the legislature and passing legislation that protects historically marginalized Populations and gives equal opportunity to all the wonderful services our state has to offer There have been so many people so many people involved to get these amendments passed But I want to make sure to recognize representatives and Pew Coach Christy, Hal Colston, Maxine grad and Sarah Copeland-Hanses for all their hard work to make these Constitutional amendments a reality Additionally, I want to thank our House Majority Leader Emily Long and former speaker of the House, Mitzi Johnson for their commitment And leadership in getting these proposals through the legislative process The Vermont Constitution is our founding legal document. It articulates the values we share as a society And I can think of no better way to show our commitment to personal reproductive liberty and removing antiquated slavery language than the ratification of these constitutional amendments Proposal five and proposal two do more than changing words in a document They protect and preserve Our civil liberties as Vermonters and show the rest of the country that we can work together to create a better tomorrow Thank you. Now have the honor of welcoming to the podium senator back the ballot Good morning. It is wonderful to see all of you here today on this historic day I stand before you as the president pro tem and as a long-time senator But I also stand before you as a long-time history and social studies teacher So before I ran for office, I studied and taught History the stories of people Who made a difference in this country the stories of the people who fought to amend the US Constitution? There are some of the most powerful Compelling stories that I was able to share with my students over the years And I couldn't be more proud to stand before all of you with my colleagues and some of my former colleagues and Advocates who have worked so hard on these two important amendments It takes many hands To make something like this a reality it took many years for us to get to this place and I want to make sure that I acknowledge Folks on the Senate side as well who I don't see in the chamber right now I do see Senator Keisha Rom-Hinsale is here. Thank you so much Ginny Lyons who I don't believe is here Hold your applause. We've got a few more Ginny Lyons and Cummings who has always been a champion on reproductive care and Tim Ash who's not here with us today who was Instrumental when I was majority leader working closely with me and with Senator Lyons to make sure That it passed through the Senate. So if we could acknowledge those senators and Give them their due. I also want to acknowledge Mark Hughes who's here and former senator Debbie Ingram who also worked tirelessly on This incredibly important amendment to finally Abolish slavery from our Constitution. Thank you so much So a lot has been said already about how difficult it is to amend a constitution and all of the work it took to get here and What I really want to talk to you about is that We can continue to be a beacon of light in this country in Vermont. I Am so proud to be able to talk to my incoming class in 118th Congress about the work that we did in Vermont on these two issues and Give them the courage to take up these issues in their home states To be able to stand before you as a Democrat standing with a Republican governor To be standing with my colleague from the other chamber and knowing that we worked so Hard together to make sure we got to this place That's what we need more of in this country. You know it. I know it and to be able to say that both past so resoundingly in Vermont speaks to who we are as a state and how we believe in liberty and freedom and unity So I'm going to pass it over To someone who I know we will all miss in the role of Secretary of State who's done an incredible job Protecting our voting rights for years here in Vermont and expanding those rights to include as many Legal voters as we can here in Vermont Please welcome to the podium Secretary of State Jim condos Thank you and good morning As Vermont's 38th Secretary of State and I serve as the Vermont chief election officer Today is a very special and historic and significant day The Vermont Constitution is the governing document that our brave little state follows Amendments to the Constitution are rare and important occurrences This year Vermont overwhelmingly made clear That our Constitution should reflect our values as a state Those and values include That slavery of all forms is prohibited and that the government has no place Restricting any individual's right to make their own reproductive health decisions The last time the Constitution was amended was over a decade ago in 2010 At that time Vermont decided that 17 year olds who will be 18 by the general election Should be a should have the right to vote in primaries So that they have a say on who will be on the general election ballot in November when they are a legal voter Today we are meeting to complete the procedural requirements in the law to amend our state's Founding document, but also to celebrate the civic nature of Vermont and the people of our Green Mountains It is also an opportunity to reflect our inequities that exist in our society today and that we can come together Democratically to make our state a beacon for equity and justice for all not just for a few I Want to thank the legislature for their hard work taken to put these important amendments before the people of Vermont And I want to thank the governor for his support of this important historic moment Lastly, I want to thank each and every Vermont voter for engaging in our voting process on these amendments Proving that our democracy and our civility is alive and well in our Green Mountain state It's been an honor to preside over this historic day. I thank you for that Now as per state law the governor and I will go down to the table in front And we will I will present the governor with the official results as Ratified by the people of Vermont on prop 2 and prop 5 So that the governor may officially enroll these amendments to our Constitution These are the official Shows for prop to the slavery prohibition the yes votes were 238,466 the no votes were 335 and There were 420 overvotes 22,734 blank votes and the total votes counted overall was 291,955 for proposition 5 The reproductive liberty amendment Yes votes for two hundred and twelve thousand three hundred and twenty three No votes for sixty four thousand two hundred and thirty nine There were fifty three overvotes and fifteen thousand three hundred and forty blank votes for again the total of two hundred and ninety one thousand two hundred and fifty five We actually have these the official documents From the campus that occurred on November 15th one week after the election These were signed by me and the three a member of each of the three major parties the Republicans the Democrats and the Progressives and then we have an Excel spreadsheet that shows the vote totals in each town Across the state of Vermont And I'd like to just one thing when we talked about a resounding vote These two amendments passed in every city and town in the state of Vermont
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People felt attacked when we questioned their personal choice | Triggered public's reaction
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2024-01-10T12:31:07
2024-04-23T13:32:43
503
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अप आप एसकरई जो अगर वहाँ लिएस बना है अप उष्वर देखे खोगा अप अप आप आप पना पोईंट रइएप करने के लिएग उस हील स्टेशन पे जगाएगा, तब उरनर्ज भी आतें सब ज़ोग आतें वाँट्चा जब आप होगा आप इसा होगा एगा। मुदे गजान निक ले दे के अगर भालत में शाखा एक हारी, कम हो रहे है है, तो एसा किव हो रहा है. जिस के लिए मो लोगो पे पुच रहे दे, कि वो खाते है हैं। और अगर कोई उनक थी है। वतने शाँप़ नहीं जान नहीं निकलेदीं कर अगर भारत मेशाखाहारी खम खो रहें तो यासा क्झू क्यूव हो रहाें यह नहीं वह्व सर्ढ हैं... और उगों से नहीं पंच्छ बौच और गगा बाऱ है तो नहीं कैसा महसुस होता है आप मैंसे नूनवेज कुन-कुन-喀ता है आपका नूनवेज क्या काने कारईण है कि मुस्लि में हम लोग क्वराने अप थाई यद अख उज आतिया तो उस में नोरमली हदता है, तो खाना इखने कंपल सरी है। साल में के लिए द आती है? एक भार आता एक साल बाके, तींस थ चोसरट दिं? बाके, तींस चोसर दिं जब मनोता लिया थे। तो दरम कोई कारन नहीं अपके कानेगा को भी खल שלकमत सों से,टेअ, और क्या, आ�你可以ählt क्या क Ostensake. खारी �шьकिоче दाजा कंतो है?! विशसी होन्ने कि अभ्जाते और के लिए स्वा करष के कै Stock Collectorny and oh. एक सètres से chicken onle k near coalition , तो तेश तो फिर पड़के और बटेर वाज़ बटेर गा है, बिलकुल, बिलकुल बशालो को वाबिलकुल मेरा मन है चोँनेगा, बट्फिर वैयद बिच में तेस्ट आजा तो अच्छ मुझे मिल अगता मैं अगर कट्डाव करते होगे देखनो अमें भी आंडर से पता की हम गलत कर रहे है पर फिर भी आप खाते हैं तेस्ट को लिए तेस्ट अगर नाँवेज में अठा, तो तो तो आप खच्छा भी खाप आते है तिस्ट में सेभ बहते है, तो में सेभ खासकता हुँँ सब वाद है, आम सवाद है आप आप आप आप आप बवाद तो फिर नाँवेज की हुँँँँँँँँँँँँँ अपना अपना सोचा आ आपनी अपनी प्टिंकिंगे जिसके दरम में खुलग आम खाओ चिकन खालो खाओ और आम से खाओ वईसा यड़ नीज स्पार्टूनावोका टर्म दानावो का तब नीजा सुथरे एगी दिल तो करना बन न psychiatric ऋदी نہیں हुँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँँ अपनी खाओगो सभाद बदियो चाहे चले ना चले हमारको ज़े बज़ा आगया यार इंग बदन अदल गयाश्ठें शद़क पे गूमते जान्वर की मददत फिर भी आप उनका पेट बरके कर सकते हैं लेकिन सद्को से कही जान्वर लोगों की प्लेटोपे मरते हैं उनकी मदद आप सब उनकी आवाज बनके ही कर सकते हैं तो बोल ते रही है बदल ते रही है
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CLEAN YOUR HOUSE #shorts #peaceful #cleaning
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2023-04-09T04:00:14
2024-04-23T14:31:16
42
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Having a clean house can keep you sane. And by sane, I mean, not losing your frickin' mind over the clutter. When your living space is clean, you're less likely to walk and trip and fall flat on your goddamn face. Plus, when you can actually find things, you can focus on being productive instead of just looking for something. And let's be real, a clean house just looks better. And when your house is decluttered, your mind is decluttered as well. So even though it seems like there's no correlation there, if you have a messy...
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Primer on Islamic Theology, Law & Ethics | Shaykh Dr. Walead Mosaad
Shaykh Walead Muhammad Mosaad gives an overview about Islamic theology, law, and ethics. The full seminar can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/9nHZFr_Nxic More special guests hosted at the MCC: http://mcceastbay.org/guests This talk was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on Friday, November 24, 2017. Biography: Walead Mohammed Mosaad was born in New York City in 1972 and grew up in New York and central New Jersey. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Engineering in 1994. He has also completed degrees from al-Azhar, the University of Liverpool, and has a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter in the UK. Since 1997 he has been studying and teaching the Islamic sciences in the Muslim world as well as Europe and North America. He has been blessed to study with such luminaries as Shaykh Ahmad Taha Rayyan, Shaykh Ali Gomaa, Shaykh Saeed Albouti, Shaykh Kurayyim Rajih, Shaykh Bakri Altarabishi, amongst others. From 2005 to 2011 he worked with the Tabah Foundation in Abu Dhabi as the Cultural and Education Projects manager, where he developed educational initiatives to address the needs of new Muslims, as well as initiatives to foster cross-cultural and interfaith understanding. He has lectured on various topics of interest, including Muslims as minorities, interfaith understanding, and the importance of purification and spirituality in addressing the human condition. He has taught or lectured in the US, Canada, Trinidad, Guyana, the UK, France, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Singapore, Malaysia, Kenya, India, Bahrain, Jordan, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and the UAE. More MCC East Bay: Calendar of Events: http://www.mcceastbay.org/calendar Weekly Updates: http://www.mcceastbay.org/newsletter Support MCC: https://www.mcceastbay.org/sadaqa Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MCCPleasanton Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcceastbay Walead Mohammed Mosaad was born in New York City in 1972 and grew up in New York and central New Jersey. He attended the Rutgers College of Engineering and obtained his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1994. During his university years, he was active in the Islamic Society of Rutgers University for which he served as president. After graduation, he worked as a communications and network engineer in New Jersey and later in New York City. In the summer of 1997, he departed for the Middle East to study Arabic and Islamic sciences. After studying some of the Arabic sciences with a scholar from Dar Al-‘Ulum in Cairo, he enrolled in Mahad Al-Fatah in Damascus. Ustadh Walead then completed a degree in Arabic Language and Literature from Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He has also studied the Islamic sciences, including Quranic exegesis, marriage and divorce law, law of transactions, hadith methodology and commentary, juristic methodology, and spiritual sciences with notable scholars such as Shaykh Bakri Al-Tarabishi a Quranic scholar with the highest Quran ijaza in the world, Ustadh Ali Hamidullah, one of the foremost Arabic grammarians , Shaykh Kurayyim Rajih, the grand shaykh of Quran reciters in Damascus, Shaykh Ahmad Taha Rayyan, the foremost Maliki Shaykh in al-Azhar, and Shaykh Ali Jumua, the grand mufti of Egypt. Additionally, he has been given written authorization, or ijaza, from the current Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shaykh Ali Jumua to transmit and teach the sacred sciences. He also received written authorization to teach Quranic recitation with the highest chain of authorization to the Prophet (SalAllahu wa alayhi wa salam), from Shaykh Bakri al-Tarabishi of Damascus. Upon returning to America, he taught at an Islamic school, served as a Muslim chaplain at Rutgers, and was an associate Imam at Dallas Central Mosque in Richardson, TX. Since 2005, Walead has been working at the Tabah Foundation to tackle problems of global concerns for Muslims. Most notably, he was a key member of the delegation to Denmark following the cartoon crisis, where along with other scholars, he engaged in dialogue with the people of Denmark and the Muslim minority of Denmark. He also oversees dawah projects in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He has participated in deen intensive programs in California at the Zaytuna Institute, New Mexico, South America, and in the UK. He is currently based in the US.
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I would like to thank you all for coming out this evening at MCC and tomorrow as well. We have Dr. Waleed Mus'ad who actually is a dear friend of mine and who is just someone who just asked me a question, you know, are you from, asked me about certain time and I said, yeah, actually, you're right about that time and that's actually what I met Waleed. So this is a 20 plus years and we've known each other and I think about this hadith al-marwa al-deen, al-khalili, al-yandr al-alaman al-khalil, that a person is upon the Deen of his companion and so look to the ones that you take companionship with and I can honestly say that I did, I do and insha'Allah I will continue to benefit, masha'Allah, from Dr. Waleed Mus'ad. So currently he is serving as the director of Muslim Student Life at Lehi University. He is a scholar of the Islamic tradition. He received his PhD from University of Exeter in the UK in Arab and Islamic studies and was also classically trained in Azha University in Cairo, Egypt. He is also a visiting professor at the Bayan-Klamat College of Theology and he has traveled extensively throughout the Muslim world as well as Europe and the Far East delivering lectures on various topics of interest including Muslims as minorities, interfaith understanding and the importance of purification and spirituality in addressing the human condition. So al-hamdulillah wa-l-tawfiqa wa-bawah subhanahu wa-ta'ala. We welcome, masha'Allah, our esteemed guest and beloved brother and teacher Dr. Waleed Mus'ad. As-salamu alaikum. Wa-bawah al-sawaat wa-dawah al-taslimat. So first I'd like to thank the U.N.C.C. and C.Dawood for producing and for inviting us to deliver a short introduction tonight and hopefully we will begin with Dr. Waleed Mus'ad the seminar tomorrow and this particular seminar I developed perhaps four or five years ago and I had intended with it to equip the student of knowledge and also the person who wants to sort of get a deeper understanding about the way that we practice this then and the matter that we learn it and the matter that it was transmitted and in the matter that we articulated the way that we talk about it because I think it's not really much of an exaggeration of what you say that over the past several decades we have experienced a number of crises went after the next political crises, economic crises obviously many of us have come from countries that were affected by war, affected by colonialism and the Muslim institutions that were in these places while they may still be standing today as institutions they were greatly affected by what has gone on over the past several decades and it's unfortunate that for you know this morning we're greeted with news from Egypt that this despicable crime was carried out and more likely than not in the name of Islam what people claim to be not just Muslim but somehow furthering the cause of what they think to be Islam by slogering people on the cream jomah in a masjid that has nothing to do with anything so there's many questions that can be raised one of them we will hide if we get to this point and how is it that we are reading the same Qur'an to my knowledge there's no Qilaf there's no difference of opinion even between Sunni and Shira or the other different sects about the masjid of Qur'an about the text of the Qur'an everyone is agreed about that. Sunni Muslims are agreed about the hadith in as much as we respect the hadith companions of al-Bukhari and muslim, Abu Dawood, al-Tirmidhi, al-Nisa'i, al-Namaja, al-Mu'ata, al-Malik, so forth so how is it then that the sources of what we call the primary sources where we learn our Islam from are the same and we'll agree about it but somehow we are coming with vastly different conclusions about what what it says what it means and how to go about practicing it so we know definitely that the Deen of Islam as taught by the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ is something that was not just meant for the particular people of his time of 7th century Arabia nor was it meant only for Arabs or people who speak the Arabic language nor was it meant only for the pre-modern era and somehow in modernity it's now become irrelevant and passe and antiquity so as believers we believe in all those things but yet I think we often struggle to articulate why we believe in all those things and when confronted with certain pointed arguments and questions we might be at a loss for words to to to provide an answer I think that would be applicable to the situation that we find ourselves in and I believe the method by which we can go about not just practicing the Deen in a more enlightened way but also being firmly grounded in the Deen and firmly grounded in the particular circumstances that we all face and we may think that Islam or the articulation of Islam how it was taught and transmitted it's kind of been the same for the past 13950 years and only in the last 100 years or so or 50 years or so has it changed and that's actually not the case it has been undergoing a consistent what you would call renewal based upon the Hadith of the Prophet SAW that every 100 years or so Allah He will send someone who will renew every century every 100 years or so the Deen for people so it's not the Deen itself that needs to be renewed right here we have to understand it metaphorically that it is the practice and transmission and learning and the human element of the Deen that needs renewal and every generation of Muslims have recognized this and they have taken steps to do it and it began very early on you know it's not something as I said that happened in the past 50 years but even from the time of the Sahaba right they were hesitant to do things and institute things that the Prophet SAW did not directly ask them to do but nevertheless they realized there was a need so perhaps the first example of that would be the compilation of the Quran so during the time of the Prophet SAW many of the Sahaba had the Quran memorized and they actually only probably a few of the Sahaba actually kind of had their own personal mushaf some of the senior companions like say the Ali and the Missarud say the Allah but the best majority of them either had it memorized or they had fragments of it and it was not there was not what we would call an authorized copy that was distributed to everybody like we have today and so during the Fidaf of Abu Bakr 60, Radiullah Rahim in one of the battles of Al-Augamallah he noticed that 70 of the Khufl, 70 of the memorizers of the Quran were martyred and he began to recognize that purely relying on the human element to preserve the text of the Quran why are you talking about the understanding of it but the very text of the Quran might be in parallel so he decided that we need to have almost half we need to have an authorized copy and he first went to Umar Radiullah and said I think we need to do this and Umar was hesitant he said Prophet SAW didn't do that in an institute this time the thing that you're talking about what was Abu Bakr's response by Allah it is good it is needed right and that is one of the principles of the deen if something is good and it serves the interest of the umma and it's not contravening the sharia then that's something that is after discretion of the muslims to do and that's what they did and Abu Bakr Siddit assigned some of the senior companions to do it people like Zaid Mithabit was assigned to do that you have to give me an authorized and so this was done initially during the time of Abu Bakr Siddit it was done a second time in the time of Sayyidina Ahmed ibn Affan so they recognized that there had to be some documentation it wasn't just in the Quran it was not until the time of Umar ibn Abdul Aziz we're talking some hundred plus years after the Hijrah where Umar ibn Abdul Aziz decided the hadith too needs to be documented needs to be compiled because you have to understand that the Arabs in the ribbon peninsula at the time one of the things that was unique about them and that separated them from the other nations like the Persians and the Byzantines of Europe was that they had a very sophisticated oral tradition and they would memorize the Anseb of their camels they would memorize the the lineages of the camels that they have and they'd know a five six seven eight generations back right but and they'd commit this to memory and they'd also commit the poetry of some of the great poets right and in the annual grand market festival that was called Suq Al Qaq that would happen in Mecca yearly and this was something even before Islam amongst the things that they would sell besides housewares and Tupperware i'm just giving a simile they would also have a sort of poetry festival poetry competition where the greatest poets from around the peninsula would come and kind of share their poetry and it even got to the extent that seven of these particular Qasa'il or Odds were referred to as the seven Mu'allaqat the seven seven hanging Odds because they would hang them it was reportedly they would hang them from the the the walls of the Ka'a right amongst them was the Odds of Ibn al-Qaisha, Al-Abd al-Kulthum and Al-Labid al-Mawbiya, Al-Labid became Muslim so all of these you know these seven Odds were memorized so they had a very sophisticated culture in that it was a very oral tradition and very few very few of the Meccans especially and more so of the people of Yathur could read and write some of the Meccans could read and write because they did so for trade but as a rule most people were not literate in the sense they could read and write but they had this very high proficiency in the oral tradition and so that was kind of a cradle or a mehd for the Quran to be received in the Arabian Peninsula and to be preserved in that way because the other umam the other nations didn't have these abilities and of course Sayyidullah al-Lawbiya, Al-Lawbiya, Allah in Fasirah he says as much he said one of the secrets of why the Islam came to the Arabian Peninsula initially and not somewhere else amongst the reasons that they didn't have any theological baggage like the other places but also that they had this highly sophisticated oral culture so even though it was a highly sophisticated oral culture there was a realization that um that would not suffice forever so there had to be documentation so the documenting of the hadith and compiling of it began earnestly in the time of Umar ibn Abdulaziz often referred to as the fifth righteous caliph even though he's from the Umeya who came many years after the last caliph either Sayyid al-Ali or his son Sayyid al-Hassan amongst Khulafah al-Roshidin so as a result these developments took place in not just the the way that the deen was transmitted but also in the way that was articulated right many of the ulum the sciences began to develop during the time of the sahaba there was no such thing as Arabic grammar or any of these other sciences of the Arabic language you know if you told one of the they would have thought what are you talking about talking nonsense this is very grammatical terms that have a specific meaning but back then they were used because they knew the language naturally right it was what they call this something that you know like we speak English naturally without perhaps studying the grammar of it that they had this to the umf degree and they didn't have a need to document these things but the need came later and reportedly it was Sayyid al-Ali we said to Abu Asad al-Nu'ali one of the tabi'in he said uh right right like this that is what happened and say that the word or the part of speech is either an ism or noun or a verb or a preposition and this is how how it began and then these sizes further developed right until a non-Arab right someone whose mother tongue was not Arabic language but nevertheless was referred to as the grammarian and his book was referred to as a the book this of course was Sivaway and Sivaway was a Persian and Sivaway is generally acknowledged as being the greatest if not one of the greatest grammarians of this umma but yet he was a Persian when he came from the Persian Empire his parents his lineage and perhaps the reason that he was so good at it is because he saw that it was in need he didn't have the Arabic now language naturally for example like this teacher Khalid al-Ahmad al-Farahid who was his teacher was an Arab but he was the one row and Qidab Khalid al-Ahmad didn't write a book of Nahul like Sivaway but Sivaway is the one who wrote it and he would say why because there was a need how were the Persians supposed to know the Arabic language and don't have to speak it correctly and so forth unless it was documented and it was um you know articulated in a way so that people for the generations coming after them would understand the reason I'm saying all of this now is because one of the things that you know we often hear maybe not so much but it used to be quite ubiquitous is that we just need to follow Quran and Sunnah and you know we don't need anything else and even though that sounds reasonable right the Prophets who are sitting there have left for you that which if you hold on instead fastly you will not be a stray after me the Quran and the Sunnah that will allow you so not the Sunnah or Sunnah right in another way of term and that sounds reasonable that seems to be what we're saying but how do you actually know about doing that one more I said in the very beginning if you have just the text the Quran and the Hadith and you don't have a human element right that is interpreting it and transmitting and articulating for you there is nothing to prevent you from going astray and you might say oh slow down isn't isn't the Hadith clear yes talk to me come I left for you you right come here there's a human element to it what is the need for this the need for this is history there was a group that appeared at the beginning of some of these Qulafah and they were later referred to as the Khawarij those who seceded those who left the ummah those who left the body of muslims and one of the things about them the Prophet S.A.W. described them right and he said you will be literally your prayer next to their prayer right and your recitation of the Quran with their recitation of their Quran but their recitation of the Quran does that go beyond your throats it's only the right only outwardly they appear to be very pious but inwardly they don't have an understanding and one of the distinguishing features about the khawarij is that they did not have a single sahabi amongst them in other words they didn't have a single person who had seen Rasulullah S.A.W. in other words they did not have Wairith Muhammad they didn't have someone who had seen the Prophet S.A.W. who imbibed his sunnah who was an embodiment of the local legacy of the Prophet S.A.W. they didn't have that so when they read the Quran how did they read the Quran and when they heard about the hadith how did they read the hadith how was to explain to people when the man with the Prophet S.A.W. described he said I am the city of knowledge and Ali is its door said Ali he's on the minbar he's giving the khubba and they heckle him and they stand up and they say right they recite a verse of the Quran in the hope that the judgment the ruling is not for Allah S.A.W. and so they declared him to be a non-Muslim a kathir because he agreed to adjudicate the dispute that he had between himself and one of his provincial governors namely Muawwain Nabi Sufiyan so since he agreed to adjudicate that right and and and try to spare the blood of Muslims and reach an agreement they called him a kathir these were the khawwans they're not that far removed from the time of the Prophet S.A.W. so it's not enough just to have the text of the Quran or just have the text of the hadith you also need to have the other thing that is transmitted along with it which is the way to go about approaching them the way to go about learning them the way to go about transmitting them and each one of these things we have what's called a senate this is a transmitted religion so that means it's dependent upon the human beings who come before us and the ones who come before them for us to receive it faithfully right and Abdullah Nubarak one of the great devein he said very early on in it's not been a deem and without it's not then anyone would say anything right but you have to have Islam and he also said someone who is not using a snack right and said it means to lean on something so someone was not leaning on the human legacy before and he said it's like the person who tries to get up to the second floor but tries to climb the building and doesn't use the stairs so we have a set of stairs there is a way to go about doing it if you go to to and you say to him sheikh i want to learn Quran he might ask you type which kebab do you want to read hafsa al-asim to read warchh al-nafah talool al-nafah he has found 14 other ones he can offer you right and you might be like no what are you talking about i want Quran what is this hafsa al-asim whose hafs i want the Quran of the prophets the Quran of Allah revealed who is this person hafs and who is this other guy hafsim and who is this guy warchh and who is this other guy nafah what are you talking about just give me the Quran he will tell you that there's no Quran for you because the only way you're going to receive the Quran is by one of these kanatical recitations right one of the seven kanatical recitations or one of the ten and there are certain conditions to be a kanatical recitation of the Quran but you might say the mushaf that i have in the masjid doesn't say anything like that none are open to the back open the king fahd medina printing first mushaf and look towards the back and you'll see a list of names and you also see the name of the qiraah and it will say it's approved by these people so what authorizes the qiraah is not because it was printed at the king fahd printing complex in medina what authorizes the qiraah is the names of those people because those people have what's called an ijaza in other words they took from n from someone before them and someone before them someone before them i think the highest ijaza in the world that was 28 people between yourself and the prophets of our senate so they can name those 28 people their ijaza will have those 28 people between them and the prophets of our senate that's what makes them for n authorized not the mushaf they authorized the mushaf they authorized the written version but what really authorized it that they have the senate the ijaza going back to it so our dean there's a very vital essential important human element to it if you go to uh a sheikh can ask him okay i want to learn how to pray i want to learn how to fast i want to learn how to make a case account he might ask you which madham would you like to learn to read uh medic and the sheikh and no no i want i want the prophets way i don't want what is this who's these people you're talking about who's medic the sheikh and the one who's that well if you want to learn it's one of those four it's not another way for you it's those four there's no no door for you why this is the method by which the human element of la asparta has chosen to preserve the way that we practice the dean in terms of in terms of the deeds of those who are held morally and ethically responsible by la asparta why those four there's historical reasons but above and beyond all of that Allah chose these four and when we talk about these four we're not talking about one man we're talking about an institution we're talking about a madrasa right we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people who followed behind them who were constantly re-editing and we're what we call tahrir and tawtiha and tasheer right they were looking at it and fine-tuning it until we get to the point where this is what this is what has been established for the umma for the community so i don't want to make a claim that somehow you're going to learn from another way outside of those four madahm at least from the Sunni perspective it's not possible now i take from the Quran and Sunni directly there's no take from the Quran and Sunni unless you're a mustahd iman you're in the caliber of madiq or shafiq and these people you have to follow one of those why do i have to follow one of those because Allah tells us we have to follow the Quran and Sunni if you don't have the tools to do it by yourself then it becomes obligatory upon you to follow a method by which you can acquire it so i don't want to have this beautiful rule that says that which can only be obtained by something that is obligatory that thing is also obligatory so my goal is to know how to pray how to fast how to pay this again and then the way that's feasible before me is one of the four schools and that's the way that's feasible then there's no other way and i promise you uh shaykh al qawthari actually will understand about this he said those people who think that they're gonna find another way to find the four schools then that's actually a road towards ilhad that is a road actually towards heresy going outside of the deed because once you allow people once we say that it's okay any which way that you want that's no that's no longer authentic that's no longer rationality that's no longer calm and spirituality then it becomes ego and nefs and if you follow your ego is going to take you to the worst place and the worst place is what to be even outside of the so Allah SWT has preserved the deed in this way whether it's in terms of the language the Arabic language by which we understand the Quran and Sunnah whether it's by the four schools of law by the way by which we understand um how to practice the deed whether it's by one of the kebab at by which the Quran was preserved and then there's a myriad of other things the the science of the surah for example looks at how do we interpret the Quran right we have people running around today who are saying outlandish things and interpreting the verses of the Quran in outlandish ways and they may have those three letters after their name phd but that doesn't mean that they have an authority by which to interpret the verses in that particular way right some of them try to cause some confusion amongst muslims and they said your besmala that you recite it's actually an affirmation of the trinity that the christians believe me because when you say Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim in the Arabic language you can have what's called and wow the conjunction between them could be omitted so it's like saying Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim and linguistically speaking that's not impossible because you could say jaya zayn al-amr al-ahmad zayn al-ahmad keen and you could say jaya zayn al-amr al-ahmad and it has the same meaning it's it's it's kind of it's feasible in the language but then why would we not interpret the verse in that particular way well there's another very important concept right this concept of the jama'a of consensus so even though the verse itself may have a probabilistic meaning if however the umma has agreed wala tashtama'a umma tihal al-talil the umma has agreed this is the meaning of it then it's not another meaning right and there are people who are actively working to destroy this consensus and they won't call it consensus they'll call it patriarchy right they'll call it authoritarianism they'll call all different sorts of words except the word that we know it by which is consensus and you know many of our young people who are attending universities and otherwise they are being bombarded by these type of of things that can cause doubt and cause disillusionment and disenfranchisement within the understanding of that so it's important that it for the particular time the circumstances that we're facing now that we're well equipped that we understand not just the dean says one two three but why does it say it this way and how does it say it this way so you know understanding that you know the bedrock foundation of the he of the way that things are articulated why form of that hip why did we develop a theology right why was this thing called in the cadet or this thing of dialectic dialect discourse why were some of the argument of the muslims started to talk about you know the existence of god and the existence of his attributes and his is his name the same as his essence and his his essence the same as existence or as the two different things all of these things were not never talked about during the time of the sahab they were not an issue they were not an issue however circumstances changed and different people began asking these questions and just to tell them well that's just the way it is no longer suffice so you know one of the things that we should take to heart when our own children are grandchildren or friends they start asking questions it no longer suffices for us to say well that's just the way it is that does not satisfy the curiosity it does not satisfy the doubt so we should be at a level of understanding of the dean where we can articulate well this is why the way that it is and that particular concept that we're talking about the thing that they call patriarchy you know there's a historical narrative behind that of where that came from and how that developed and it's completely outside of our particular historical narrative we never had a problem with gender within the islamic understanding that's something that's been inherited from european european civilization and post reformation european civilization one two three right we should be able to at least identify these things because if we're not able to do that then we run the danger of actually misinterpreting much of the dean and attributing things to it that are not from it so what i hope to do inshallah tomorrow in a very short seminar is kind of go over a lot of these conceptual frameworks it sounds a little technical academic it is a little bit on that side but i think we should not be afraid to kind of delve into these type of issues especially you know when when there are people working on very sophisticated levels and have lots of money behind them in the writing books and the putting out articles and our children who go to university are reading these articles and they're being confronted by it and they're going to come home and ask all sorts of questions and wonder why is it this way when it seems like this is the the status quo society this is what so this is what people are saying it should be so why is our dean so different and why is it seemed to always confront you know the status quo and what people accept to be you know issues of freedom and of liberty and understanding and so forth you know and i think we have to be able to to look at our tradition and not just treat it as some sort of ossified inherited thing that we just take for granted and just take the word for it but actually be able to have a critical understanding of it and this is what our progress says we're able to do you know the great imam al-ghazani who's referred to as rujat al-islam the proof of islam because he was able to deal with the the the people who were causing doubt during his particular talk and he read everything that they wrote and he memorized their arguments and then he was able to counter their arguments by using the same terms by using their own words more or less against them and so this is always going to be relevant and there's always going to be mushaq iqeen there's always going to be people who are going to cause doubt as long as the devil and his minions are around then there's always going to be people who are going to try to pull you away from the stand by different ways and different means so um i just wanted to give kind of a short introduction uh hopefully some of you will not be scared off and come back tomorrow to uh to share some of that even though i don't know
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Family History Implementation in the Challenging Setting of Routine Clinical Care - Anastasia Wise
September 10, 2012 - National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research More: http://www.genome.gov/27549923
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Greg, are we connected now? Yes, it's Greg Fierro. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Excellent, I will go on. Okay, we're joined by Greg Fierro, who many of you know until recently was at NHRI in various capacities, and was instrumental in some of the issues and program planning that has led to this concept clearance. And so, and it's the only concept clearance we're talking about this council meeting, and Anastasia Wise will present it to you now. Great. So I'll be presenting to you today a concept clearance on family history implementation in the challenging setting of routine clinical care. As Eric mentioned, Greg Fierro is on the phone with us today and was really instrumental in developing this concept, which has been in development for a couple of years now at NHGRI. It's also been worked on in conjunction with a trans-NIH family history working group, which consists of 18 different NIH institutes as well as the clinical center, and we recently got representation from the Health Resources and Services Administration HRSA as well. This family history initiative is proposed to develop and evaluate methods for the collection and utilization of accurate family history data in the time-pressured setting of practicing clinicians. So we're really looking to take the family history tools that have been developed mostly in more research settings and try and tailor them more for clinical settings where there's more of a time constraint and potentially different information that would be more useful to collect. This would fund two RFAs, both cooperative agreements, one for study investigators and another one for a single coordinating center. And this initiative falls within the strategic plan domain number five, which is improving the effectiveness of health care because we're really looking at this in a clinical setting. Family history is currently a standard part of medical history collection and is frequently utilized within clinical genetic settings, especially for rare diseases. Family history of disease is also the single strongest measure that we currently have for diseases such as corny heart disease that's genomically mediated risk of disease. However, if we look at data from the Emerge Study, and these are the five phase one sites, you can see that whereas all five sites have over 80% collection for diagnoses, only two of the sites collected family history data, and even those two sites, more than 70% of the data was either missing or incomplete. So though we know that family history data is important, electronic health records may help us to collect this data in a more integrated and standard method if we develop better tools for this type of collection. As well as family history may be useful for informing our future interpretation of data within electronic health records such as genomic sequence information. NHGRI has been involved in family history activities for a number of years. We're involved in the My Family Health Portrait Tool that was developed with the U.S. Surgeon Generals Group as well as family history demonstration projects related to the use of the My Family Health Portrait Tool and have supported initiatives and incentives for including family history within electronic health records. NHGRI was also a key player within the State of the Science Family History and Improving Health Conference that was held in 2009, and Greg Farrell was an instrumental part of this. This conference led to 25 different recommendations for research areas in family history and where this needed to go in order to be able to better implement it in clinical settings. And what we've done is trying to distill those down into four key areas for this initiative. The first of these focuses on being able to collect family history information within a clinical setting where you often have time constraints on the clinician's time to be able to collect this data. Therefore, the collection methods need to be practical, efficient, and cost-effective in order to be useful in the clinical setting. We also would like to focus on strategies for integrating patient-entered data from personal health records into the electronic health records. So not just necessarily collecting this information within a clinical setting, but perhaps there are ways for this information to come from the patients themselves in other settings and then get integrated into the health record. Our third point that we pulled out from the recommendations from the State of the Science Conference was related to how and when family history should be collected and utilized in order to optimize health outcomes. This may also relate to which conditions is most conducive to collect family history information on and what questions are the most useful to ask. And then finally, we want to make sure that any family history data that is collected as a part of this initiative is going to be accurate. Overall, family history data has been found to be pretty accurate within a number of studies. In this paper from 2012, we can see the congruence of family history data with a number of separate accuracy measures. They looked at three different common diseases that are related diabetes, hypertension, and overweight and asked individuals both their own personal self-report of whether or not they had any of these three conditions as well as asking about their family history of these three different conditions. They then compared the report from the individual on their family history to self-reports from the relatives of these individuals, their first-degree relatives, and found that in general the report from the individual who was giving the family history and the report from their relatives tended to be pretty congruent with rates around 80 to 90%. They then did physician assessments of both the individual who provided the family history as well as their first-degree relatives and you can see that the congruence between an individual's own self-diagnosis and their physician diagnosis is very similar to that between of their relatives and what they reported as being their relative's risk of disease status. When you're looking at family history, you tend to get an increase in false negatives as you move further out from the individual that you're asking about the family history. So first-degree relatives you tend to end up with less false negatives than when you start working out to second or third-degree relatives. And there's also been some studies that have shown that maternal relatives may be under-reported compared to maternal relatives when you ask about family history. Family history can also capture information both about genomics and the environment. Looking at this study of over 80,000 Swedish adoptees, though, you can see that when you looked at the adoptees and whether or not their adopted parents had coronary heart disease, there wasn't much of an associated risk with the environment of their parents having coronary heart disease. However, when you looked at adoptees who had at least one biological parent who had coronary heart disease, there was an increase in risk associated with having a biological parent who had coronary heart disease in these adoptees. Family history data can also be used to potentially increase the accuracy of risk classification categories. In this study, they looked at individuals and whether or not they were being classified into high cardiovascular disease risk groups. Initially, they did a routine assessment of these individuals for cardiovascular disease risk and then looked at the standard family history information that was already available within their medical records. And as you can see, there's not much of a difference with the routine assessment between the risk assessment using the family history data or without the family history data. However, when they then added in a structured assessment, an additional questionnaire that was asking specific questions about family history information, there was an increase of 5% of the individuals being classified into the high cardiovascular disease risk group. And this is overall 40% more of the patients being classified into that group than were previously classified using the routine assessment. And this is important because individuals that are classified as being at high risk of cardiovascular disease are then recommended for interventions that could prevent disease in the future. There have also been individuals who have been pretty skeptical about whether or not using this sort of genomic technologies in primary care practice or in family history could potentially be useful. This is a quote from Dr. Berg, who was the chair of the State of the Science Conference, who actually upon seeing this study actually thought that it was a great example of how family history could be used and clinically useful in acknowledging risk classifications and potentially shifting patients into more accurate classifications. Family history information can also be used in conjunction with genetic information. As you can see, the population risk of colorectal cancer increases as individuals age. And if you look at family history, that increases individuals risk about double. When you start looking at genetic information, you can see that having greater than 13 risk alleles puts individuals at even greater risk than what was captured using family history information. However, when you combine those two types of data, you find that there is a subgroup of individuals that are at even higher risk. This can be seen as you start looking at individuals with more and more risk alleles, that the pattern continues, and it seems like both the genetic information and the family history information are both adding unique information to this risk calculation. Overall, we've seen that family history information can be collected accurately. It can be used to find information on genomics, and it can be used in conjunction with genomic information to provide additional information to risk calculations. So the overall goal of this initiative is to take current family history approaches that were typically developed in research settings and try and develop them into more streamlined methods that could be used in routine clinical settings such as primary care. We have three specific goals. They'd be to develop these streamlined methods that would all be electronic methods that can be put into electronic health record systems to then develop and evaluate risk algorithms using these streamlined methods. And finally, to work on increasing the efficiency and interoperability of the family history data, both its collection and its use within the electronic health record system. We would expect that these studies would compare their risk algorithms to either more extensive family history approaches or their current standard clinical practice, that they would evaluate the acceptability and the added value that the family history information brought to their risk assessment and do this both within the context of their standard algorithm and their new algorithm that they're developing. That they would provide information on their data sharing plans and informed consent procedures, meet current standards for electronic health records, and make sure that they are going to be both inter- and intraoperable so that the electronic health record systems can speak to multiple systems both within that electronic health record system and between electronic health record systems. And finally, that they would work to harmonize with other related research standards for data collections such as the Phoenix measures that are developed by NHGRI. Examples of applications and some of these studies might include incorporating family history data with other clinical information or genomic information that's currently to be found in their electronic health record systems. They could work on developing strategies for the entry of the family history data into the electronic health record system as this best to be done by the patient themselves, by relatives, by the clinician. Look at the economics and efficiency of family history collection as well as developing complementary personal health record interfaces that would allow the patient themselves to be able to see this data and interact with it. They could also look at LC issues such as patient perceptions of sharing family history data within the family and with clinicians, as well as more research-oriented questions such as the association of genomic variants with specific phenotypes that you might find in the family history data. As we mentioned previously, there is a trans-NIH family history working group that was involved in the development of this concept. This is an NHGRI-led working group that has been recommending ways to take the recommendations from the State of the Science Conference and recommended the development of this initiative. They provided feedback on this concept and two of the key points that they wanted to have highlighted was that they really felt it was important not just to focus on developing the tools for family history collection but to have easy ways for clinicians to be able to use and interpret the family history data that in order for this to become useful in clinical practice, it needed to go a step beyond just collecting the data to providing back information that could be used for clinical care. And also, they highlighted that interoperability of electronic health records is really key in order to be able to make tools useful in multiple different clinical settings. There are multiple ICs that are enthusiastic about the development of this initiative, but they can't commit funds until they see a draft of the RFA. Overall, we would anticipate funding four to six investigator awards and one coordinating center for this initiative, which would have NHGRA committing roughly four million dollars per year for four years for a total of 16 million dollars. And we would encourage the participation of other NIH ICs and especially those that have been enthusiastic about this from the Trans-NIH Family History Working Group. And with that, I will take any questions. Ms. Stasia, all the things where you said that things that might be able to be done with these did not include figuring out how to collect that family history more accurately, did it? Or maybe that was embedded in there. It seems like that's a problem still, right? It's not obvious that the way that most people do it is the best way? Yeah, we would expect that any study that came into this would be doing some sort of measurement to be able to determine that they were collecting the data accurately and could focus on that. That's definitely part of one of the main goals is to make sure that it's accurate collection. Okay, and can I ask another question? Maybe this is broader than just this one, but when you come up with these ideas and you make these concept clearances, how do you think about a budget? You want four to six or four to five or whatever. I have no idea how much it would cost to do this. I mean, is it five million dollars a piece or fifty, you know, five hundred thousand dollars a piece? What do you do to do those estimates? I guess it's not really calculating. It might estimate costs based off of the personnel and supplies that would be necessary in order to conduct an average project that would be responsive to the initiative that we're developing. So in this case, we considered the fact that you would need bioinformatics support to be able to develop the system for being able to collect the family history data and integrate it into your electronic health record system, as well as nursing and clinician support to be able to potentially collect the information and determine how accurate it is. And then based off of that calculation for how many support personnel and supplies that you would need, we get a rough estimate as to what each center would cost. We add in, you know, approximate amounts for, you know, indirect costs and that sort of thing, and that's how we get an approximate number. So for this being four million dollars per year, that with four to six sites, that's, you know, approximately a million dollars, each a little less. Counting on other, the ICs are the other intramural programs. I mean, not intramural, the other NIH institutes. Is that what ICs mean? I'll just forget. So that, if that, if there was a lot of interest and that came in, would that cut the amount that you would need to spend down, or you would just add to it? It could potentially cut the amount down. Okay. The other thing, I think this is something that I think will, maybe it's for a closed session, I don't know. But in general, how do you deal with, what if it was half that amount? Could you still do the initiative? And not this particular one, but I think in general, that's one of the things to be thinking about, because not that we hope that that happens, but it could, I guess, that there could be cuts. So would you lose the program? Part of this is prioritization overall. But the other question is whether you can do an initiative with, you know, different amounts and, you know, with a grantee the answer is always no, of course not, but at least we have to think about it. And I think we would need to make sure that we do still have multiple sites and the coordinating site or component to this initiative, because it is important to make sure that it's being done in multiple different types of clinical settings, along with multiple different patient populations, in order to make sure that you're developing tools that are going to be applicable across a wide variety of clinical settings. So you were going just where my question was going to go. So is the assumption here that there exists or will exist a single set of methods or approaches that work from oncology to cardiovascular to rare diseases all well? We are not assuming that there is, you know, a priority going to be one set of particular methods that are going to work. An investigator who's coming in with an application could choose to look at multiple different diseases and see if a similar set of questions work for all of them. He will choose to focus on a particular disease or phenotype and work on developing a set of questions that work particularly well for that particular condition. So you'd become comfortable with that one. I would chime in. It's Greg Furrow just to say that, hopefully there's not much phone delay here. I apologize if there is, but I would just anticipate that there would not be a one-size-fits-all tool that there would probably be several types of tools that would need to be developed depending on the clinical setting. Primary care obviously has considerably different needs for an oncology clinic in terms of what level of granularity they might need to get, but it certainly would be nice to have a suite of tools that was developed that had some degree of interoperability so that data that was collected in a primary care setting could be foundational for the oncology environment. John, did that answer your question fully? That's exactly what I would have assumed as well, and I'm pleased to see that that's the direction you'd take it to try and get something interoperable but not assume that there's a one-size-fits-all. Yeah, so I believe that this is something that should be done, but I'm curious why it would be done at NHGRI instead of something like a common phone because it seems to me it's something that applies NIH-wide. So that's one question. The other one is what's proposed here is say maybe four projects or something. I feel like that's just the beginning and how do you see this truly being implemented on a nation-wide basis so it really has the impact and the effectiveness that it should? Okay, so I can start with the why NHGRI question. So NHGRI has been involved in family history initiatives for a number of years now, so we actually do have a group of expertise here at the institute that has been involved in the area for a while, as well as we're disease agnostics, so if we're trying to develop tools that are going to be able to be applied across genomic medicine or integrated with genomic tools in the future, it does fit within our goals to be able to work within this area to develop family history, electronic medical record tools, and we do have experience with programs such as eMERGE with working with electronic health records. In part... In part that it would be different for different diseases. So we are trying to partner with other NIHICs, potentially to get additional funding for this initiative. If they came in with particular conditions that they were interested in funding, that might mean that their particular dollars would go towards a particular disease phenotype, but we're really interested in trying to get something that's going to be a little bit more agnostic and making sure that this is something that's going to be applicable across a wide variety of different phenotypes. And then your other question was related to where do we see this going in the future? Lamentation, so it truly has the impact and effectiveness that it could. So this is really designed more as a small pilot study to try and start developing these types of tools, which is something that NHGRI does have a lot of experience and is developing tools for genomic type applications. And in the future, this might be something that could then partner up with some of our other initiatives, potentially looking at applying some of this information with genomic sequence data, or moving in that direction and integrating with some of our future genomic medicine initiatives. But right now we're really trying to get the information on how do we collect this data and what additional information does it add? How do we do this effectively? I would just add too that I think that, I think it's a great fit for an NHGRI because it complements well the highly technical genomic information. It really integrates that very nicely and I think there's a lot of expertise here and the community of people who traditionally are funded by NHGRI will be exactly the community I think that can really tackle this. The other thing that I would just add is that it's also highly dependent to make this work, I think, on synthesizing it with the EMR, with the electronic medical record. And so I think highlighting that is really good and it's the kind of thing that a lot of that NHGRI has expertise in as well. Thank you. Jill? Maybe I missed this in the presentation but can you just say a word about what the state of the art is here? I mean, presumably, there are a lot of commercial efforts in electronic medical records also and presumably some of them have to deal with family history and I'm just wondering what the state of the art is. So there are some family history tools that have been developed. A number of them were developed specifically in more of a research type context so a lot of them take a long period of time to be able to fill out which might work if you have a patient who's able to be able to fill things out ahead of time and bring information in but you still need to be able to have that be integrated into the electronic health records and have information that can be fed back to your clinician in a format that's going to be useful for clinical care. So these tools are targeted at the patient and the patient entry? We're not specifying where the data entry has to be. It could be patient entry, it could be clinician entry. It could be that you're actually having multiple relatives enter data into the same system. Let's add a little bit again on the state of the art. There are as a result of the stage two meaningful use criteria, menu criteria that just got put forward regarding family history collection a variety of vendors I think that are looking at that and beginning to sort of reassess their capabilities and their commercial EHR platforms. There's a couple of features that I think will be difficult unless there's sort of a governmental effort in this area to ensure or happen. One is interoperability, which of course has been a conundrum for all aspects of EHR work. But the other is the interpretation component. Though the vendors may improve on the ability to gather structured or allow gathering of structured family history information they're unlikely to do much in the way of investment and the validation side of the way the data is collected, the user interface for example in terms of the accuracy information and they're also unlikely, at least the larger vendors in the near future I think are unlikely to work on developing and validating interpretive tools that would allow the clinician to make some clinical decisions and certainly I suspect they're a long way off from thinking about well how would you know if data integrate with this? And so this effort I think might stimulate some work along those lines with a little initial public type investment. I was going to ask whether it's possible to expand this to include a collaboration with the VA, a collaboration with the Department of Defense or whether SBIR as a funding mechanism might be thought of. I'm using an electronic medical record right now and it's okay for collecting the information it's actually quite somewhat clunky to get the information in. It will not generate a pedigree despite the fact that there are perfectly good programs that could do that. I think something that would encourage the vendors to get their act together and provide what people need would be an important thing that you guys could try to do. And we can definitely try to reach out to those groups. That's actually how we ended up with HRSA being involved is they were working on some work looking at pediatric settings and integrating some family history information and so they're interested in what we're doing with this initiative and we can definitely reach out to other groups as well. So I think one of the things that's potentially likely to distinguish this approach from a lot of the others that have been taken is a lot of them have been really one-off operations where somebody in their own silo develops a family history tool that they think works well for them. They put it out there and then the history is that there's not much adoption. I mean I think that's the history of family history tools. And I think what I would hope comes out of this is something a little different. Because it's a consortium and because there's going to be lots of at least four or five groups sitting around the table thinking about this hopefully ultimately doing their own thing but converging a little bit in the course of this that there might actually be a product that now gets a little bit more adoption. I think that's the real thing that I see is different here is to actually have a consortium that works together on this. I'm hopeful given the history that NHGRI has with consortiums actually being successful and producing good stuff that would be a key distinction that this project would bring that all of the other family history tool projects that have been out there have not been as successful because they lack that consortial approach. If you don't have Epic and Cerner at the table then I think it's going to follow the same fate that Rex just described. These guys are very widespread and the electronic medical record I use because of my medical center is Epic. And getting them to change anything is rather difficult without encouragement. I think it's an opportunity to have them at the table but just like we heard in the Genomic Medicine meetings and I'm sorry the Emerge meetings with them they're looking I think to us to try to tell them what that needs to look like and then once this group has come together and put some constraints around what that looks like they can find a way to actually build a tool or integrate it. Is this group their customer base? Because that's who they have to hear it from. We would hope that the applicants to this group would be clinicians who are going to be using the family history data which should be the groups who will be using those Epic and electronic health record systems that would be their clients. Groups like Kaiser Northern California which uses Epic. I mean you need big groups. And we have engaged those groups with some of our other initiatives. They won't pay attention unless a big group bangs on their door. Any further questions? So I understand the intent and I think I understand the intent and the plan to have this be clinically very useful. Is it also the case that it seems to me that it could be the case that from an NHGRI research perspective this could also be extremely useful because it seems to me the way the technology is moving the way everything is moving in a small number of years looking out say you know three to five years I can imagine NHGRI wanting to do pretty large studies and as some of the discussion earlier without this type of information collected efficiently you wouldn't be able to do that. Is it also... Yes and we would hope that this would feed into future initiatives and research here. We need a vote. Oh normally you do that. You want me to do that. So we need a vote. Which means we need a motion. I knew that. Is there a motion about this concept clearance? Second. All in favor? Any opposed? A couple of three. Okay. Abstain. Okay. Passes. Alright. Thank you. Very much. Yes sir. And we have a few minutes before David Page is going to join. So Greg you're still on. Do you have anything else you want to add? No thank you very much. Thanks for joining us. Bye bye. So I can... We can start. As soon as the computer is ready. Go ahead and disconnect. What? Disconnect from the phone or leave that on. No leave it on because I assume that's how David's coming in. Yeah we have somebody else who's dialing in in about 10 minutes. Let's confirm that. Oh by the way I can answer while we're waiting for the computer to reboot because I have to give a few slides to set up our next discussion. I did get some information. Our communications team got a little bit more information to answer Bob Nussbaum's question before relating to Lucia Hindorf's issue about what can we access in terms of IP information. But we can get city-state information about what's coming in and we can get some analyses about whether it's a government or private entities and I bet you educational entities are maybe not. But so I think we can get those kinds of demographics. We don't get to any sort of more specific information than that. So maybe what Bob you heard the answer from NCBI was that they are limited in what they can get can't get to specific people or a whole lot of demographic information. But that's consistent with what we can at least know. I know I've seen information about what countries and at least then the breakdown of government or otherwise.
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Lecture 45 : Rank, weight and weight vector.
Rank, weight and weight vector.
[ "su(2)", "su(3)", "diagonal generator", "rank", "weight", "weight vector", "weight diagram" ]
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I have just given you a comparison between SU 2 and SU 3. So, SU 2 had 3 generators one of them is diagonal, SU 3 will have 8 generators the lowest non-trivial dimensions of those generators has to be 3 cross 3. Inside that the SU 2 algebra should sit in. So, you still have one diagonal generator which is coming from the SU 2, because this part is sitting inside that and you also have one more which you can construct. So, there are two diagonal generators for SU 3 I did find out lambda 8 I just said I want to construct with integers put on it real numbers and in such a way that the traces 0 and Hermitian what does the multiple basis can do? You should not increase just arbitrarily high numbers I want the numbers to also be low you are saying I will put 150 yeah not that way you have to put in with lower number of integers to start with and see whether you can construct with lower integers I do not think you can do any other thing can you try it out overall negative sign is not a new one. Relative numbers if you can put something else, but they have to be integers because they are some things which is capturing for me some kind of quantum numbers in some fundamental units and I want them to be integer. If you put in this constraint and you do not want to the way you are saying as I will put 500, 500 is minus something right, but then you can still see that there will be just a 500 scaling factor out of it. Scaling factor is unimportant what you have to get is a non-trivial. So, you have only two diagonal generators in that sense and the number of diagonal generators for the Lie Algebra is what we call it as a, this is what we call it as a rank of the Lie Algebras ok, rank of the group is also another way of saying. So, if I say a rank of the group is 2 then you should know that the Lie Algebras should have two diagonal generators. What does that also mean? If I write a state in the case of SU 3 just like I wrote it for SU 2, I should be able to write the eigenvalue corresponding to lambda 3, let me call it as M 3, eigenvalue corresponding to lambda 8 ok. And you will have some analog of the Casimir operator, let me not try to say what it is, but definitely the magnetic quantum number will have two values depending on lambda 3 acts it will give you M 3 right, lambda 3 will give you M 3 times M 3 M 8, lambda 8 will give you M 8 times M 3 M 3, do you agree? This is the slight variant it starts happening once you go to the states in the case of SU 3. So, many times this M 3 and M 8 together they write this as a is denoted as a M vector. So, it is M 3 and M 8 are the two components of the M vector ok. So, if you operate lambda 3 on the M vector it pulls out the first component, if lambda 8 acts on the M vector it is a two dimensional vector you get the second component, this is a short hand notation of vector and this is what we call it as a weight vector is called as a weight vector. What happens in SU 2? SU 2 it is just a one component vector because it is only picking up one of the diagonal generator it has only one diagonal generator. So, that is one component vector, if you had two diagonal generator the weight vector will be two components, if there are three diagonal generators you will have weight vectors to be three components. So, this is the formal notation the first non-trivial group is SU 3 where you will start seeing that you can represent the analog of your magnetic quantum number by your magnetic vector where the first component will be like your magnetic quantum number because that is the lambda 3 eigenvalue. The second component will be like the new diagonal generator for SU 3 ok. Diagonal generator because the diagonal generators commutative bracket will be 0 right because they are diagonal you can show that lambda 3 lambda 8 is 0. So, which means you can write a state to be a simultaneous eigenstates of both lambda 3 and lambda 8 and I am compactly trying to write the lambda 3 lambda 8 eigenvalues as a two component vector ok. So, this is just a two component vector weight vector belonging to SU 2 ok belongs to SU 2 the two components. So, let me come to the things which I am saying on the slide here. So, number of diagonal generators is called rank SU 2 has rank 1 Z component of J is diagonal and hence we can write the simultaneous eigenstates of Casimir operator and J z in the case of SU 2. There is an analog of Casimir operators, but let me not get into it for SU 3 again you can construct bilinears here also. You can take lambda 1 square lambda 2 square up to lambda 8 square and you can show it to be commuting with lambda 3 and lambda 8, but I am just going to confine myself to the magnetic one ok. So, recall your SU 2 algebra where for comfort you define raising and lowering operators which is Hermitian conjugates of each other. So, if a J 1 is Hermitian, J 2 is Hermitian, but J 1 plus i J 2 is not Hermitian, but J 1 plus i J 2 the Hermitian conjugate of it is J 1 minus i J 2 these things you know and we could rewrite the same algebra which I wrote in the beginning for J x J y J z right. You can rewrite it in terms of J plus J minus and you know this is a closed algebra again all this equations together. There is some slight probably a different in notation from quantum mechanics there is a 1 over root 2 here some books follow without a root 2, but then you will get a twice J 3 and so on. So, that is a matter of normalization ok. This is the normalization I am following and J 3 anyway I have said that J 3 will give you I am suppressing the h cross I am putting h cross to be 1. So, this gives you some m which is some value which could be half odd integers in the case of SU 2 right. So, spin j spin half it is half if it is spin 1 it is 1. So, it could be integers or half integers and then the ladder operation will take you from that is why the definition of a ladder operation you can prove all these things using this algebra. I am sure you would have done it as a quantum mechanics course here I am just trying to give you the final result which you have learnt. Basically, if you take this magnetic quantum number m the plus raising operator will take it to m plus 1 minus will take the magnetic quantum number m to m minus 2 ok. So, there are operators which helps you to go from one state with magnetic quantum number m to m plus 1 or m minus 2 and then this coefficients also can be determined purely from this algebra and they turn out to be related to J minus m J plus m ok. So, this is something which you all know not when you derive this. My only requirement is that I want you to understand the fact that you had a diagonal generator and then the remaining generators you made it into a complex conjugates of each other ok which are off diagonal, but you try to make it into a complex conjugates. So, this is the theme which is very important in root k ok. So, let me try and say for the SU 3 algebra whatever I said for SU 2 there are 8 generators the explicit form you do not need to memorize you can write it down on a sheet you know to see that lambda 1, lambda 2, lambda 3 is diagonal and similarly lambda 8 is diagonal. These coefficients are you know put on purpose to take care of some of the quantum numbers which are seen experimented ok just like I wrote for the poly matrices half h cross just to take care that the experimental value of the J z quantum number is half h cross or minus half h cross. Similarly these coefficients come because of some experimental detail, but as of now even if you keep this to be you know some kind of a constant these are the 8 matrices where lambda 8 and lambda 3 are diagonal matrices. So, the rank of the SU 3 algebra is 2. So, I have confined to SU 2 and SU 3, but whatever I am saying for SU 2 and SU 3 goes systematically to SU 4, SU 5 and so on. I hope you appreciate that fact. So, the SU 4 you will have how many generators somebody 15 generators ok you can check it out 1, 5 generators 15 of them and then how many diagonal will be 3 of them. So, you will always have for any SU n n square minus 1 generator and you will have n minus 1 diagonal generator. So, the rank of the SU n will be n minus 1 ok. So, just like I wrote the up spin and the down spin ok. So, I am going to do this here for you. The lower dimension which I am going to write is called sometimes as a defining representations of fundamental representation. So, let me put both the cases here SU 2, SU 3 you can have states which is up spin which you denote it as 1, 0 and down spin which you denote it as 0, 1 and this is also equal to m equal to half I am suppressing h cross this is equal to m equal to minus half this is SU 3. SU 3 you will have m 1 vector which is which I am going to denote it as what is m 1 vector the two components of the m 1 it has two components. First component will be the eigenvalue of lambda 3, second component will be the eigenvalue of lambda 8 ok. Here this m was an eigenvalue of j z alone or sigma z. Now, it will be that it is a simultaneous eigenvalue of lambda 3 and lambda 8 clear. So, m 1, m 2 this is what I am calling it as mu 1 in the slide I am calling it as mu 1. Let me just follow the nodes which I have mu 1, mu 2 and mu 3 ok. Now, try to find operating your lambda 3 by 2 on mu 1 do that matrix what will that give you are you all with me mu 1 denotes 1, 0, 0. So, the mu 1 on the mu 1 if you operate this I am going to use lambda 3 by 2. So, you will get a half just a convention this is because of SU 2 sits in that and I am looking at the fundamental representation which should also have the same half eigenvalue that is the reason. In fact, all the generators I will scale it like that this is just a overall scale should not really matter. What is this going to be lambda 8 I wrote somewhere, but then there was also this convention of putting a normalization here let us follow the normalization. So, tell me what happens here that will give you. So, what is the mu 1 vector explicitly is that ok. So, this is nothing, but half it is half root 3 is what I get right, but this is just a matter of normalization we fix the normalization and we will get going. What I am trying to give you the fact is that formally I am writing it as a weight vector they express it two components of the weight vectors are the eigenvalues of lambda 3 and lambda 8 up to some normalization. If you use that then you define your mu 1 vector to be this ok. So, this is all I am trying to get any questions on this it is fine. So, one way of seeing is that if you square this you do get 1 plus 1 plus 4 which is 6 right. So, I have to put a root 6 and then I also have another half coming up. So, there is some reason which is put in we will come to it or another way of saying is I want to get my proton charge to be plus 1. You understand what I am saying if I want the proton or an electron, electron of course is fundamental it is not going to be a composite which is going to be by tensor product. If I want my proton charge to be convention with my experimental evidence, I need to fiddle around with this normalization constant and Gell-Mann has put in this ok. So, I am not doing anything ok. This is still ok. So, the three basis states of the lowest non-trivial representation of SU 3 algebra which is called also as a defining representations ok. All these things which I am writing are sometimes called in the literature as fundamental or defining. So, fundamental or defining that is the lowest non-trivial representation for SU 2 it is 2 cross 2 SU 3 it is 3 cross ok. So, let me just try to say what I am trying to put in here. This lambda is analog of your quadratic Casimir will come to it at some point. Mu 1 is bold phase here which refers to two component vector in this context and explicitly the corresponding basis state in the three dimensional vector space which I take is just the usual 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 and 0 0 1. Corresponding to this you try and find out what are the Eigen values of lambda 3 by 2 and lambda 8 by 2 and you can show that the mu 1 vector is nothing, but half thumb or root 3 by 6 which I have explained it now, but you can show mu 2 will be minus half a minus half is coming because of this and root 3 by 6 and the last one mu 3 has 0 as the first component and the second component is 0. So, this is minus 2 by 3 by half. So, it is minus 1 by root 3. So, that is what we get as minus root 3 by 3. So, these are the analog of your magnetic quantum number in the case of spin half particle the magnetic quantum number there are two values minus half or plus half or my down state and up state. Now, you have three fundamental states ok. There are three fundamental states and this is what he attributed to saying that nature has three fundamental quarks. He called it as u quark just like this is called as up spin and down spin. He called it as u quark which is also up quark, down quark and strange quark each one is a is that clear? So, there are three fundamental states of SU 3 which is attributed to and the corresponding values are going to give you something which is physical will come to it, but there are two diagonal elements. So, you will have two eigenvalues which is put together which is called as a weight weight ok. So, I have drawn it also for as a diagram the three fundamental states this blob the circle is what we call it as a up quark state another one is called as a down quark. Basically it is a coordinate in the weight vector space ok. Weight vectors has two components that is why I am drawing a two dimensional plane. If it was SU 2 what is the situation? SU 2 does not have the second one. So, this one is not there and only half and minus half the second component will not be there. Is this clear? So, it is a weight vector concept clear that you as you increase the number of diagonal generators that weight weight weight vector diagram will become three dimensional four dimensional so on, but at least algebraically I can write down the plotting I could do this way definitely for SU 3 in a two dimensional plane. The axis are the H 1 eigenvalues and the H 2 eigenvalues and H 1 and H 2 I am calling lambda 3 by 2 as H 1 and lambda 8 by 2 I am calling it as H 2 ok this is the notation yeah. So, see the thing is most of your protons and neutrons were conventional then they started seeing new particles and they wanted to give some name to it and then they said oh it will involve some new exotic particles and they probably called it. So, that brings me to a summary of what I want to say for the SU 3 just like you had J plus and J minus, J plus and J minus the role is what if I do a J minus on this the M quantum number shifts by one unit plus or minus one unit depending on whether I do J plus or J minus you all know that. So, I am going to call that as some kind of a shift which is just a single number one and J plus and J minus I will call it as plus or minus on this is a single number in the case of SU. In a case of SU 3 what should J plus J minus do? It should take from here to here or here to here and you know that this is a weight vector I would like to write that as a plus or minus corresponding number which is a two component vector or in other words when this acts on mu 1. So, let us do that. So, if you have J plus minus on let me do a J minus J minus alpha on M will give you M minus alpha is that clear? Now, I am going to say that E minus alpha on mu 1 is going to give me a single number is promoted to a two component vector for SU 3 and then these operations there we just wrote J plus minus because it was just increasing or decreasing by one we did not even need to put up last one, but in general here it could be a non trivial vector which will take you from mu 1 to mu 1 minus alpha and this should be some definite one of these three states because J minus on this will give you this. Similarly, J minus on that should give you one of those states I will come to it, but this is the formal ladder operator notation where the weight vector decreases by some unit and what is this vector we need to figure it out two component. How many alphas are there is what? There are remaining how many generators are there? Out of 8 lambda 3 and lambda 8 are diagonal, the other generators are 6 of them are there. Now, I have to make just like I take J 1 and J 2 which was remaining I made J 1 plus or minus I J 2. Now, out of the 6 I have to take lambda 1 plus or minus I lambda 2, lambda 4 plus or minus I lambda 5, then you will have lambda 6 plus or minus I lambda 7. So, there will be three such ladder operators going only in this direction, clear? You can only go in this direction. If you are here with plus half the ladder operation J minus takes you to minus half, but now SU 3 you saw that there are three states. You can have one ladder operation this way which is the conventional SU 2 1 which takes you from half to minus half. So, you can see that this vector alpha has to be 1 comma 0, understand? So, this decreases by 1, but the other one remains the same. The root 3 by 6 there could be another ladder operation which is going this way which is your alpha let me call it as alpha 1 this is alpha 2 and another one which can go this way which is alpha 3. So, one of them here is going to be the corresponding E plus or minus alpha 1 is nothing, but lambda 1 plus or minus I lambda 2. This will turn out to be E plus or minus alpha 2 will turn out to be proportional to lambda 3 sorry lambda 3 is not there lambda 4 plus or minus I lambda 5 and one more which is the does not involve lambda 3 and lambda 8, but the remaining 6 generators will form Hermitian concept and it is very beautiful seeing it in that. Is this clear? We will come to it I will repeat it again, but I am not going to redo the lambda 2 and lambda 3 what I did here, but do not forget this there is one more week next Thursday only, but this is what we will continue from. How to do this and then generate for a generally algebra how people look at these things. So, these are also in some sense some kind of a vector and this vector generates for you to go from one weight vector to another weight vector. So, the one which generates for that is called as a root vector. So, this is what we call it as a root vector. I explain today weight vector. I am also saying that to go from one weight to another the ladder operation or this Hermitian conjugate operators which are raising and lowering operators can be constructed for SU 3 and there will be 3 of them and they are going to be given by these root vector. So, I have to give you what is the root vector, what is the weight vector and then you can play around in doing all the matrix representations and so on.
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DAY 5 | VLUNE
It's DAY 5 of VLUNE!!!!!! This is my 2nd VLUNE series. To watch more VLUNE action, check out this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cJLuROq0ss&list=PLya8SD_xNpquUSmLUz3e3lGUu_UiCEiHp Watch RYAN here! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMV7GtY-P5F86wlghxsX-WA THIS POST MAY CONTAIN AFFILIATE LINKS. I may receive a small commission if you purchase something mentioned in this post. This helps support me and my channel, and Doyle's kibble budget. So, thank you so much! Favorite Daughter Shop (my ETSY shop) https://www.etsy.com/shop/FavoriteDaughterShop use code: FDE10VIDEOS 10% off when you spend $25.00 or more! 1st time Erin Condren customers, use this link to get $10 off your 1st purchase. An email will be sent to you with a coupon code! https://www.erincondren.com/referral/invite/emilygoldsberry0109 Erin Condren website - find all the goodies here! (affiliate link) http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?B=995504&U=1346451&M=71368&urllink= Here are some of my favorite things... Paper Mate InkJoy Gel Pens (affiliate link) https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B019QBOG3U/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B019QBOG3U&linkCode=am2&tag=favorit0d-20&linkId=5e81ed0e55e5648b62a0b71900a4a6ce Pilot Ultra Fine Point Permanent Marker (affiliate link) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00079YOSS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00079YOSS&linkCode=as2&tag=favorit0d-20&linkId=43b03b5a7d2fc99f98e9c80d6a2ef0f8 Un Do Adhesive Remover (affiliate link) https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B003TZQPTS/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003TZQPTS&linkCode=am2&tag=favorit0d-20&linkId=71b5d532537b89a2d6932630f0ac7362 Camera I Use (affiliate link) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NEWYE12/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00NEWYE12&linkCode=as2&tag=favorit0d-20&linkId=0550b0ee8fd0da64c6c1c06442e5c40d Tripod I Use (affiliate link) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ONSZPI/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B002ONSZPI&linkCode=as2&tag=favorit0d-20&linkId=5f592aa11caee04f31377defdbc48afe If you'd like to send me some snail mail, here is the address: Favorite Daughter Emily 12527 Central Avenue NE #322 Blaine, MN 55434 ***** LET'S BE INTERNET FRIENDS ***** My BLOG http://favoritedaughteremily.blogspot.com/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/favoritedaughteremily Instagram http://instagram.com/favoritedaughteremily Pinterest http://www.pinterest.com/FavDaughterEm/ Twitter https://twitter.com/fav_daughter_em Email favorite.daughter.emily@gmail.com ***** FOLLOW MY DOG ***** YouTube - DOYLE THE SHIBA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_nMtX0jGy8No7_UEJrcICQ/feed Facebook - DOYLE THE SHIBA https://www.facebook.com/pages/Doyle-the-Shiba/238727852964979 This is not a sponsored video. All opinions are 100% my own and products sent to me for consideration will be noted with an asterisks (*) This post may contain affiliate links. ENJOY, COMMENT, LIKE & SUBSCRIBE!
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well good morning my friends and welcome to another day of the vlog i got out of the shower a little bit ago my hair's still kind of drying and um yeah hi i still need to edit my video from yesterday footage is still in the camera here but i did stay up for i don't know like an hour and a half two hours after i saw you guys and did a bunch of listings so if you're interested i'll put up in a card my shop or something and down below but yeah there's a bunch of new listings which is awesome so i got everything done in a couple of categories let me look here so i finished food i finished animal and i finished my seasonal i still have to work on my floral decorative and then functional so i'm going to work on my floral and decorative probably today but i do want to film a plan with me so i think i'm going to do that first and kind of prioritize once i get this footage edited from yesterday and um then i'll hopefully have that up tomorrow for you guys so i know i've been really slacking on the plan with me's and let me tell you why um the plan with me's are something that i actually really enjoy filming but since i'm not working like a traditional job right now my days are kind of just like i don't necessarily know what i'm gonna do every day but i do kind of have like bigger goals in mind for the entire week if that makes sense so it's just really hard because it's just you know i'm not working like nine to five on tuesday or you know six to noon or something like i'm not working so um the things that i am putting in are kind of like already set or whatever so i do actually have some fun stuff happening this week and um i figured i would share because i don't know i don't know how you guys feel about the plan with me's but i do really enjoy them but you know it's just kind of a progressive plan i guess i don't know anyway well i think i am going to import the footage right now into my computer and then set up my plan with me and then go from there so yeah that's that's what's gonna happen today but let's see doyle what's up doyle he's being a strange one today but somebody this guy over here he has a vet appointment today at 4 30 i believe it is so yep we're gonna go do that he doesn't know that yet but we are gonna go do that and um i was saying in yesterday's vlog that i might run to well did i say this i don't know if i said it or not um that i may go to michaels um i do have a few things i need to pick up that was like an online order but i don't know if i'm gonna do that tonight or if i'm gonna do it tomorrow tomorrow i've really got like no plans so what is going on that's not how you sit on the couch homeboy weirdo um but i'm just i'm not sure what i want to do with any of that so i don't know i think maybe i'll put it in the planner for tomorrow and then if it does get done today that's great but um i'm guessing i'm guessing it's gonna be a tomorrow situation so anyway that's what's going on here but i just wanted to give you an update as to like what i did last night and all that good stuff so i'm gonna edit now and um then i'll film the plan with me so you guys will hopefully see that tomorrow and then i just posted my june month view i'll put it up in a card for you guys if you want to watch it so um that was up this morning so i will check with you guys when things get more interesting well hey i'm at my post office here with the doggo hi buddy i just dropped all of my um all your orders in the block the blocks the blue box over there um they get the mail at 5 p.m so it's about 4 15 doyle's got his vet appointment at 4 30 so i figured i would just leave a few minutes early and um don't mind like the really fuzzy windows um but i left it open in my car on because i just needed to walk over there so of course the air conditioning is on and everything so don't worry about doyle he's fine but he like wedged his face that's not really big enough to do anything with he's like he was like that's just hilarious i don't know i would have taken my camera out there but there's like a ton of people on this road it's actually our main street so there's lots of businesses and stuff like that and it's kind of towards the end of the day so people are like migrating outside and there's like a couple of you know barn grills and stuff like that too so anyway i just thought it was really funny but we're gonna go to the vet now and uh doyle is not gonna be excited about that are you but hey what do you think did you want to go to the vet you want to go to he doesn't know what i'm saying so we're at the vet's office and doyle all he wants to do is just leave he does not want to be here i'm sorry bud i'm sorry i'm surprised he hasn't started screaming yet but he's got a few different things that we need to do today and plus i need to get his seizure medication refilled and all that good stuff i'm sorry doyle i know once a year bud once a year it's okay buddy oh look at that sad dog doyle look at that sad pupper i know i'm sorry buddy look i got you checked out make sure you're still sad so doyle survived his vet visit but um we tried several times to get a like blood sample from him and it didn't work and he's just way too amped up now clearly because um he doesn't like open his mouth or pant unless he's like really really stressed out so he's a little bit of a stress case at the moment but i did get these uh pills from the vet to give him the day of me bringing him back for his blood panel so that's going to be on friday evening i'll come back and uh get his little stinky blood drawn but he did get his vaccination that he needed um and all that good stuff but yeah that's that's unfortunately what is happening so anyway got to come back on friday but hopefully those it's like an anti anxiety medication hopefully that will help but um all right we're gonna go home and um i'm sure he's gonna be down for the count because he's way too excited about life right now all right i'll see you guys in a bit haha well i am home with mr doyle he is upstairs um so let's go find him see what he's doing i had to i had to change my shirt because my other shirt was riddled with puppy hair so yeah like i was making dinner and there was doyle fur like flying and i couldn't get it off of my shirt because it was just so bad so i'm like i know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna change my shirt that's what's gonna happen oh doyle somebody somebody's all pooped out oh poor doidy hi buddy how's it going how's it going over here huh you're doing better now he did get a shot i think i said that he did get a shot but um they weren't able to draw his little baby blood he was getting too riled up so going back on friday whoa whoa yeah so anyway that's what's going on here oh struggle is real guys um my plan with me is done and i need to edit all that footage oh doyle so anyway i need to edit all that footage which um i'm gonna do tonight i'm gonna actually do that after i close out the vlog here but um i need to tell you guys about somebody and you guys all need to check out this dude's video and subscribe to his channel and all that good stuff so there's a guy his name is ryan see i think it's celak is how you say it he is a minnesota planner guy and he just made his first youtube video i'm gonna link it down below i'll put it up in a card to leave my video and go check out his it's about 20 minutes it's a plan with me and he did awesome like he looks like so professional like it seems like he's been doing it forever maybe he's just been watching a lot of youtube videos i don't know but some people are like not very natural on camera and others are and i know he wasn't like showing his face or anything but he did so good so here's what his info looks like currently i just subscribed so anyway he's got five subscribers now i think i was the second subscriber but um go subscribe to his channel he said in his video that he might be doing like day in the life and he's following Dave Ramsey so if you like my content you're probably gonna love his and i think it'd be cool to see like from a guy's perspective the planning world and stuff like that so anyway go check his channel out for sure i already put his links or not links but i put his information on instagram so i don't know you can check him out there too but yeah i just thought that was really cool i didn't know that he i knew i knew he was a planner because he's been following me and um he actually purchased something from me when i did my like big d-stache and all that good stuff too so um like i knew of him but i didn't know like i just thought it was just a subscriber like i didn't know that he did youtube videos but he just filmed his first youtube video so anyway and um cool that he's in minnesota just like me so um but i'm gonna close out the vlog here i thank you guys so much for hanging out and watching today i really appreciate it if you love my content and you'll want to see more of this hot mess express feel free to give the video a thumbs up also subscribe you can hit the bell notifications as well and it'll be notified when i do a new video um i am doing the vlogs which are going up daily however they're not they're gonna get they're gonna be not so daily vlogs at the end of the month because i will be having no internet access on a cruise ship in alaska so yeah or going to alaska i should say but yeah that's it for me i thank you guys so much for hanging out and i will see y'all in the next video bye guys well folks it's time to kick it old school
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City of Santa Rosa Council Meeting May 9, 2023
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Good afternoon. I'd like to ask the interpreter currently on the Spanish channel to commence translation of the meeting for those just joining the meeting live translation in Spanish is available and members of the public or staff wishing to listen in Spanish can join the Spanish channel by clicking on the Interpretation icon in the zoom toolbar. It looks like a glow. Once you join the Spanish channel We recommend you shut off the main audio. So you only hear the Spanish translation interpreter. Will you please restate this in Spanish? Bienvenidos a esta reunión para los que recién se unen Y desean escuchar esta reunión en español lo pueden hacer para unirse pueden hacer click en el icono de Interpretación que ahora parece en la barra de herramientas de zoom parece un como un globo terragio Una vez de una canal también se recomienda que apague su audio primario para que solamente se escuche la interpretación al español. Mucha gracias. Welcome everyone to our May 9th 2023 Santa Rosa City Council meeting. It is now 1201 and we will be starting our meeting. Welcome Madam Madam City Attorney is coming down. Welcome Madam City Attorney and welcome Madam Madam City Manager and fellow council members sing a quorum Madam City Clerk may you please call the roll. Thank you Mayor. Council Member Stapp. Here. Council Member Rogers. Council Member Okrepke. Here. Council Member Fleming. Here. Council Member Alvarez. Vice Mayor McDonald. Here. Mayor Rogers. Present. Let the record show that all council members are present with the exception of Council Member Chris Rogers and Council Member Alvarez and I would like to through the mayor ask Council Member Fleming to make the statement regarding participating via AB 2449 remote participation. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. I'm requesting to participate remotely for reasons of child care. Very first child. Can you please read through the statement that was provided regarding participation remotely on members of the public with you in the room over 18 and the additional statement. Yes. Hold on. Let me hold that up the statement please. I request to attend this meeting remotely under AB 2449 applying to just cause provision in order to provide child care. I will participate both audio and video turned on throughout the meeting. In this room I am accompanied by nobody over the age of 18. Thank you Council Member. Thank you. Okay. So we have no closed session items today so we will go on to item three and that is our study sessions. I would like to remind everyone that public comment will be taken on this item tomorrow May 10th after all departments have had their opportunity to make their presentations. So if you would like to make a public comment please know that it will not be heard until tomorrow. Madam City Manager take it away. Thank you Mayor. Item 3.1 is a review of physical year 2023-2024 operations and maintenance and capital improvement budget. I'll turn it over to Budget Director Veronica Connor. Thank you. Good afternoon Mayor and City Council Members. My name is Veronica Connor and I'm here to introduce our sorry here to introduce our fiscal year 23-24 budget study session item. This is our opportunity to present a deep dive into our fiscal year 23-24 proposed budget. We're looking for feedback from Council, questions from Council before we return in June with a proposed budget for adoption. So today I'm going to turn it over shortly to both Marrakesha Smith and Alan Alton for some opening comments. We'll then come back to me for a citywide budget overview and a general fund budget overview as well as a staffing summary. And today we're hoping to get through all of our administrative department budgets as well as information technology and housing and community services. And tomorrow we will come back here to go through Fire Department, Police Department, Planning and Economic Development, Parks and Recreation, TBW, Water as well as our Capital Improvement Program. And with that I'll hand it off to our City Manager. Thank you. So good afternoon Mayor and Members of Council. So today we present to you the fiscal year 2023-24 Operations and Maintenance budget and Capital Improvement budget. So I would like to thank the directors and their team, the budget team who had a hand in curating all of these long hours and to all the staff members who participated in this process. I don't want to paint a gloomy picture, but I want you to understand the narrative. So we are embarking on a challenging year. Revenues are beginning to level off. A couple of things I want you to think about is MOUs. Our MOUs are going to be opening this budget cycle. We need to prepare to bring back one-time funded projects back into the general fund and we have a few major projects that we have committed to completing. So staff have been asked to maintain a flat budget in light of the upcoming financial projections. Budgets have been prepared in a manner where we can best problem solve for our residents and our businesses. Adjustments are welcome and we are prepared to provide you with additional information as requested. Alan and I have developed a formalized process to respond to your questions regarding the budget. Today and tomorrow staff will capture the questions from the study sessions and you may also send additional questions to myself, Alan or Veronica. We will incorporate those questions into a master document and send those back out to you. We will respond to all questions and provide sufficient responses prior to the final budget adoption in June. So we want to thank you for your support. Again, we're here for feedback and we want you to take a deep dive as the department is going to their analysis. A couple of questions that I would like to get some clarification on is do you want to ask questions throughout the process or would you like to wait to the end of the presentation to answer your questions? Ask your questions, excuse me. I think we'll give council members the opportunity to ask questions after each department has given their presentation. Okay, great. And again, if we do not have the response at this time, we will compile a document and send those back out to you. So thank you and I will turn it over to Chief Financial Officer Alton. Thank you. Thank you. Mayor Rogers and the rest of City Council. So what I'd like to do in my comments is just take you through our process and let you know kind of where we are both now and looking ahead. So from a process standpoint, every year we assess what resources we have to build a budget. We try to understand the revenues that are available and when I'm saying this, I'm speaking primarily about the general fund. So just to make that clear, we've embarked on a goal to be as realistic as possible in our revenues to provide the resources to put together a budget that meets the needs of the community and the council. So we start with a first pass and then we have many other passes as we go through. We study what is, what trends we have and what we hear in the general economy. I guess the way that I could say this is the economy in general right now is unpredictable. There are data points that would lead you to think that we are headed to the deepest pit possible and then others that show that we're booming. So what we try to do is minimize the noise of that. Take it, use it to kind of inform where we're headed, but we look mostly at where our trends are within Santa Rosa itself. So in general, Santa Rosa, what we see, we're moving rather steadily, but we are, as the city manager pointed out, we are starting to level off, especially in our sales tax. So where we had a lot of growth from a sales tax standpoint a couple years ago, we're not seeing that anymore. We do think that our, that we are faring a little bit better here locally than what the national or even state trends are. And that's typical for us. We tend to outperform those trends, but so, but we are seeing a definite leveling. We're also seeing the same thing with property tax. And I bring those two up because they make up almost half of our general fund revenues. And so those are the things that we look at for developing our budget as a whole. We are seeing positive signs still as we come out of COVID. Travel and hospitality industry from a revenue standpoint is doing well. And we're seeing that and we hope that that that continues. We're actually forecasting that to continue. So as I noted, their state and local trend or national trends, we employ a sales tax consultant to help us look at not only what we're, what we have done in terms of our sales tax. Categories, general retail, transportation, those types of taxes or sales taxes. But we also, what they do is they tend to then fold in what more of the state and the national impacts and they build a forecast off of that. So Veronica later on, we'll talk about our five-year forecast. But what we're doing with sales tax really with that is we're veering slightly away from our consultants. We're being a little bit more optimistic than they are in terms of how Santa Rosa is going to grow. That said, even with that approach to revenues, a realistic approach to our expenditures as well, we are going to propose a budget that has a deficit of two and a half million dollars. And what you're going to see on our long-range forecast is that that deficit will grow as it goes out in the later years. And I don't want to steal too much of Veronica's thunder when it comes to that, but basically we have our best guests on revenues, our known costs, and the bottom line is our expenditures are outpacing our revenues. So those are, that's what we're faced with. So we do have some mitigation tools that we can use. So we have, like I said, known costs, we have a pension stabilization fund. That's something that we set up that is helping us to address our unfunded liability for our pension costs. And that will be able to provide more relief to general fund operations instead of having that cost come directly out of there. It doesn't, in the far ends of our UAL mountain, if you will, it doesn't mitigate all of it, but it does do quite a bit for that. We also have what we've put aside with PG&E settlement funds is a fiscal stability reserve. And the reason why we set that up was because we knew that we were going to come back into a deficit situation. What this is, it's money that allows us to provide short-term relief to the general fund to be able to correct the imbalance. And the idea would be is that we correct that and then get back to a long-term balance budget. Right now, there's, after using the amount for this year, there's about $24 million, $24.8 million of fiscal stability reserves remaining. Which sounds like a lot, but those go away very, very quickly. So what you'll be seeing in the coming years is a different general fund budget coming to you. There are stuff that we need to deal with after the passage of this one of how to correct that imbalance for the 23-24 or the 24-25 year and going forward. Especially as many of those funding programs potentially come back into the general fund. So somebody had to be the doom and gloom on this, I guess that was, I drew that short straw. But that's where we are and with that, unless you have any questions for me, I'll turn it over to Veronica and she'll move through the operating budget. I think we can continue. Thank you. All right, so as we lean into this budget today, we're going to start at a very high level. We're going to start with the city-wide numbers, focus in then on general fund and then finally on the staffing level. And before we turn it over to departments, I'll be happy to answer any questions. So looking at our city-wide resources, this includes all funds, all departments, all entities. And city-wide this year for fiscal year 23-24, we are budgeting about 503.2 million of revenues. The first line up there for general fund, we're budgeting 201.9 million and we're going to talk about the general fund in detail in the next section. So I'm not going to speak about that one here. Our enterprise funds down below, this includes mostly our water funds but also our Bennett Valley Golf Course, parking, transit, stormwater. And we are looking at about 182 million dollars with the revenue in our enterprise funds this year. Most of that increase of 7.1 million occurs in our water funds. Water is anticipating a rebound of water usage after the drought and this is also in line with their rate model. Our special revenue funds, we're looking at 37.5 million dollars with the revenue and we're seeing a small decrease year over year. This isn't a true decrease. Back in fiscal year 22-23 we had a one-time appropriation for ARPA funds. Part of our ARPA appropriations were done with the annual budget so there was a one-time revenue appropriation last year which makes it look like there's a small decrease when in actuality things are increasing steadily in all of our special revenue funds. Which includes things like our public safety special tax which was previously measure O. It also includes our gas tax, capital facilities fees, things of that nature. Other funds is mostly debt service. This also includes our special assessment districts and these are staying year over year, pretty steady, no significant changes. Our housing authority will stand out to you with a year over year increase of 43% that year over year change of 21 million. Most of that 20.7 million is a round eight state infill infrastructure grant that will be coming our way. So you'll see that on the expenditure side too. We see the revenue get appropriated here as well as the expenditure which lends to a pretty significant year over year jump. And then finally our successor agency every year we have a debt service payment so we see the revenue come in and the expenditures go out and that stays steady year over year. So all told 503.2 million citywide in revenues. And then staying at the citywide level this slide details the expenditures. And I'll point out to begin with that that total line down near the bottom 534 million this compared to our revenues on the previous slide. This suggests about a $34 million deficit or just under 34 million. This is planned spending of reserves in many of our funds including enterprise funds and water so this isn't a dire financial situation. What happens is sometimes there's unspent appropriations or unspent fund balance that we appropriate at the budget cycle to spend. And you'll see more of this in the talk of enterprise funds in the department sections. So the first line item our general fund again we're going to discuss that one in detail in the next section. Our enterprise operating expenditures are increasing by 5.3% mostly due to staffing costs salary and benefits and all of our water funds and enterprise funds. Our enterprise CIP this is mostly our water CIP projects that are appropriated which have remaining steady with just a 2.2% increase. Our non enterprise CIP has a little bit more of a jump of 5.6 million. These are all of our CIP projects that are funded from various funding sources such as gas tax and capital facilities fees. We made an effort this year to appropriate anything that was in fund balance that had not been appropriated trying to get these put into specific projects. And you'll hear more about this too in our capital improvement program section tomorrow. Our special revenue funds have a pretty significant increase in appropriations in fiscal year 23-24. You'll see the 45.7% increase. This is a big percentage increase but not a very high dollar amount at 7.5 million and can really be explained with two different funds. One in our police public safety special tax fund they are using about 2.5 million dollars of their reserves to purchase a Roseland substation. And then the other one is we are appropriating 4 million dollars in our ARPA fund reserves for homeless services. ARPA funds are temporarily paying for homeless services and they did so in fiscal year 22-23 as well but we didn't appropriate that with the budget cycle. So we're seeing kind of a one-time spike that isn't consistent year to year. Other funds as I mentioned this is mostly debt service a little bit of special assessment and our expenditures are staying pretty flat. And the housing authority you'll see here again that big jump in expenditures which is due to that state infill infrastructure grant. And that is if I didn't mention it before it is specifically set aside for six affordable housing projects that I'm sure housing will be happy to talk about more in their department section. So all in our total budget is for 534 million and when you split that out between the capital improvement program and our operations our O&M budget is about 460 million and just our capital improvement program only 74.9 million. And this pie chart is just a visual of the table we just looked at on the previous slide. It just shows the different segments of all of our different funds within the city. So the general fund 38 percent is our largest fund that's why we dedicate a whole section to talking about it. And our enterprise operating funds follow behind and that is again mostly our water enterprise funds and our CIP funds both enterprise and non-enterprise make up about 14 percent. And then we have housing authority at 14 percent and special revenue and other funds making up the rest of that. So moving on from the city wide we're going to focus in on just the general fund now. So as Alan mentioned in his comments just a few slides ago we are proposing to you today a budget that has a deficit of two and a half million dollars. So our total revenues and transfers in for the general fund are budgeted at 204.2 million which are just shy of our total expenditures and transfers out at 206.7 million. And we're proposing that that two and a half million dollar deficit be spent out of our fiscal stability reserves. So back when we received PG&E settlement funds council made the decision to set aside 40 million dollars of that for fiscal stability reasons. Alan mentioned we did appropriate 10 million of that last year for our pension stabilization trust. We also spent 2.7 million of that in an effort to get all of our fire apparatus and engines into the replacement plan and we needed a significant upfront investment. So if we were to use this two and a half million dollars out of these fiscal stability funds that will bring us down to 24.8 million. And again these are completely set aside from our general fund reserves that we have to have by policy. So this is a separate separate thing and we're hoping that this can sustain us through this year. So looking at our general fund resources this is a pie chart that shows the different revenues that the general fund has that come in by category. Sales tax and property tax are the largest sources of revenue in the general fund. They make up over 50 percent. We also have intergovernmental interest in other at 3 percent. That's just a small piece. Our recreation revenues are 1 percent although we are seeing them recover quite well in the coming years. Interfund charges. This is revenue that we receive from other funds such as our enterprise funds that pay for the administration costs in the general fund. Permits fines and charges at 7 percent. That is a lot of our pet revenues. Other taxes consists of a few big ticket items such as our transient occupancy tax our cannabis business tax franchise fees business license. And then we have vehicle license fees at seven and a half million and our utility users tax. So this financial table is the same information as what was on the previous pie chart. It's just in numerical form instead of a visual of a pie chart and we're going to go over some of the year over year changes in some of these big categories. So I mentioned property tax and sales tax these two take up or make up over 50 percent of the resources in the whole general fund property tax. We see will be increasing by about 4.6 percent year over year. Worth noting is that property tax has various categories rolled into property tax. The biggest one is the property tax that homeowners pay. And that category we're only seeing about a three and a half percent increase year over year. But there are other smaller categories such as supplemental property tax personal property tax that are increasing at much higher rates which kind of bring that percentage change up sales tax. Alan mentioned a few slides back. We're starting to see level off. We have seen significant growth coming out of COVID and our consultants are predicting a much more conservative outlook in fiscal year 2023. We have gone away a little bit from sticking with the exact consultant numbers. We want to be a little more optimistic. We don't want to hold back resources for the general fund. We want to be as realistic as we can to make sure we can fund our operations here. But we are still predicting about a one point six percent increase or about a million point two year over year. Worth noting too is that that twenty two twenty three number that we adopted we are expecting to come in just a little bit shy. We don't think we're going to hit that number. So when we see a year over year increase budget to budget it may differ from actual to budget. Utility users tax revenue has been increasing. A lot of the revenues in here are based on PG&E and energy costs. So as those costs go up our UUT goes up as well. Vehicle license fees are increasing by a million dollars year over year. This is in line with just past trends. Permits fines and charges. Again most of this is our PED revenues. This also includes fines and forfeitures and various smaller fees associated with our fire department. And that one and a half million dollar increase is mostly associated with our PED revenues. We're trying to bring budget up in line with what actual revenue we see coming in. Interfund charges I mentioned is revenue we see from other funds paying the administrative costs of the general fund. And that is all done through an outside consultant that works on our cost allocation plan. And recreation revenues we have increasing at seven point one percent as things are recovering from COVID. And then the final line in our governmental interest and other this is our miscellaneous line item. It shows a drop the reason being in fiscal year twenty two twenty three we had a one time grant that was appropriated with the annual budget. It was not repeated this current year. So it shows a decrease but our regular funding sources in this line item have stayed have stayed stable. In addition to revenues coming into the general fund we also have some transfers in. This is a little different. It's just resources coming from other funds that come directly to our general fund. Our special revenue funds every year contribute just a little over two million dollars. This is mostly from Measure M and gas tax they contribute to the general fund to help assist in some of the administrative costs associated with those capital improvements. They also contribute to the improvement program costs special assessment districts also contribute a small amount for administrative costs. And our parking fund transfers a small amount in for the downtown community benefit district. So all in we have two point three million dollars of transfers in from other funds and that has stayed steady with the previous year. So switching gears from revenues and transfers in that's all the resources we have available to appropriate. We're now looking at the expenditure side of the general fund. We're looking at where we are putting all of our resources and this pie chart is pretty clear that most of those resources go straight to salary and benefits. I always like to give the reminder that in the general fund we are very people heavy with public safety and administration. The majority of our costs go to pay for the people here. And on the right hand side of that slide are all of our various services and supplies categories such as professional services vehicles supplies utilities etc. So this financial table is just a breakdown of the previous pie chart which gives us a little more detail of what we're looking at. As I mentioned salaries and benefits are the largest expenditure in the general fund. They make up about seventy six percent overall salaries are increasing by two point three million year over year. All bargaining units are slated for a two point five percent cost of living increase. And we also account for any merit or step increases that we think will be coming this way. Benefits are actually increasing at a higher percentage than salaries. This is a trend that we've been seeing happen for several years now that benefits are just at a steadier pace than salaries year over year. The biggest contributors this year for benefits are mainly in our retirement costs which are a function of salaries not necessarily our UAL but just our normal retirement. We've also seen big increases in workers comp as well as health care. Our professional services increased by six point three percent just under a million dollars. Although half of that five hundred thousand dollars of that nine hundred thousand dollar increases a one time appropriation for labor negotiations. We're going to be going into negotiations this coming fiscal year. So five hundred thousand of that had to be appropriated for consultant costs. Vehicle expenses is going to be a recurring theme in all the department budgets. We're seeing significant cost increases associated with parts. There's been a 15 percent markup on parts but also a good chunk of this increase has to do with our fire department bringing their equipment into the replacement program. So in future years we won't see this continued year over year spike. There's one year we're kind of stepping up to a new level of appropriations and from there it will likely continue to increase but not at such a dramatic level. Our operational supplies have been held flat. Utilities we were expecting to see a big jump in PG&E costs this year. But to the department's credit they all made a big effort to keep their budgets realistic examine them closely didn't just spike their budgets in association or just in direct relation to what they believe energy costs will be. So we do see a four hundred thousand dollar increase there. Our IT costs that is our cost allocation plan for IT department. Most of those increases come from the salaries and benefits costs for our IT staff. And our liability and property insurance we're seeing a significant jump in the general fund. A few things are going on in this line item. One we have fire and earthquake insurance which is just a small piece and that one stayed pretty steady it only increased by about eight thousand dollars or three percent. The majority of this increase comes from our liability and auto insurance. So the city is self insured but we do purchase reinsurance through a JPA and a few things are happening as I mentioned one is the JPA is increased increasing the confidence level from 80 percent to 85 percent which affects our premium. Another factor is that our premium is based on payroll so as payroll increases our premium also increases. And then finally there's just been due to the overall outstanding losses within the JPA not necessarily due to the city's losses but overall they have had to increase our premiums as well. So a few of these factors have all come together for that pretty significant hike in our liability insurance. Other miscellaneous has stayed flat in our capital outlay. Well that's a pretty small dollar amount. It has decreased that just says that we don't have any planned spending in twenty three twenty four of additional vehicles or additional equipment. And then finally our O&M projects have increased by just four point eight percent. So still looking at general fund expenditures this is the same pool of money same pie. We're just looking at it now by department instead of by category. And the takeaway here is that our largest two departments in the general fund are police and fire. We also have Parks and Recreation TPW. Santa Rosa water and HCS have very small portions that are funded by the general fund. So they're barely visible here but our administration departments PED and non-departmental make up all the various departments in the general fund. And again this table is the financial format of the pie chart we just saw. Same pot of money still two hundred point three million dollars worth of proposed expenditures. I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about the departments because they will each have their own section to really dive into these numbers. But I will highlight some of the big changes we're looking at in housing and community services. We see a big drop and even though that's a big percentage it's a very small dollar amount. And it's just because in the current year HCS has been able to secure a grant to pay for some of their tenant and landlord services costs. So we'll see that expenditure budget return next year likely in fire. In fire we see a seven point four percent increase. Mostly again you'll hear about it probably be repeated a few times their apparatus and engines have been put into the replacement program. So we're seeing this increase in their budget this one time. It won't happen continually year after year after this. You'll see some big swings in Park and Parks and Recreation and Transportation and Public Works. We're going to talk about this later in a slide too that there was a reorg that took place this year. The Parks programs were moved into the previously named Recreation and Community Engagement Department. And Community Engagement moved into one of our administration departments. So we're seeing some big spikes in some departments and big drops in the others. And we will talk about more of those in the department sections of that reorg. And Santa Rosa water did increase by 14 percent mostly due to a staffing change. We added an FTE who was partially funded by the general fund partially funded by the enterprise funds. And then non-departmental is always one that sticks out because it's a negative and a little challenging to understand. But I'll do my best to try to explain this one. And again we will revisit it later on. But what non-departmental has in it is various expenditures that just don't belong with any one department and they don't rightfully belong in any of these other categories. So we've created a non-departmental category. And the largest expenditure in there is an offset for our administrative cost plan. So on that top line item, administration, that includes finance, HR, city council, city manager, a lot of our administrative departments. And a lot of the costs in those departments are spent supporting all of the departments below it. Housing and community services, fire, planning and economic development, etc. So in order to fully capture the costs of these departments, our consultants have put together assigned costs for administration in each one of these. So in police there's a little bit of administration costs and fire a bit of administration costs, etc. And to avoid double counting, we have to put a negative amount in non-departmental. So that's why you'll see a big negative amount in there because it's offsetting costs that have been double counted. And that negative amount grows every year because our budget grows every year with salaries and benefits. So while it was 8.9 million last year, 9.6 this year, that negative amount is getting larger in accordance with our general fund budget getting larger. So not the easiest concept and it does stand out, but we're happy to help with that one if we can. And then finally, in addition to expenditures, the general fund always also has transfers out. So these are just direct transfers to other funds. This year the general fund is more proposing a transfer of about 200,000 to the Bennett Valley Golf Course. We think we're going to have to do this probably fiscal year 23-24 and 24-25 while the golf course is getting its operations up and running. The general fund every year also transfers some funds to the CIP projects. I had mentioned a few slides back, there was a one-time grant that was appropriated in 22-23. You'll see that in the CIP line. 22-23 was a $5.3 million transfer. This year it's dropped down. That was just a function of receiving a grant. The revenue came in and the expenditures went out. So this year we are only transferring 2 million to CIP projects. The general fund every year funds about 1.2 million for ADA projects. We also receive money from the county every year for Rosalind Pavement. We get 600,000 about, so that comes in through revenues and just goes right back out into a project key. The general fund transfers is going to transfer 1.3 million to the parking fund to pay for parking violation operations. We receive the violation revenue in the general fund and then we transfer out the funds to pay for that operation as well. Real property transfer tax is revenue received in the general fund and by council policy we are required to transfer out a portion of this every year to affordable housing and homeless services. We are seeing a decrease in real property transfer tax due to the housing market slowing. While we haven't seen home prices drop we are seeing the number of home sales start to slow and real property transfer tax is a function of both of those. So as that is decreasing our revenue budget is decreasing so the amount that's transferred out decreases as well. And then finally Ms. Elanious the general fund does transfer funds out for our courthouse square debt service, our art and lieu fund and various other small items. So continuing our discussion of general fund expenditures our public safety special tax which is in a special revenue fund for police fire and violence prevention has a provision that every year we have to maintain a certain level of funding within police fire and violence prevention in the general fund. So this slide just shows that we are staying in line with what is required. Our general fund department costs exceed that baseline calculation so all three of those departments have met that requirement. Real property transfer tax I just mentioned a couple slides back. We like to remind council every year where we are with this policy council passed a policy a few years back requiring increasing amounts of our PTT every year to go to affordable housing and homeless services. This year we're at 50% so next year we'll be 55% and so forth until we reach 100%. And as I have mentioned too for the current year for fiscal year 22, 23 and 23, 24 ARPA funds are paying for homeless services. So at the moment all our PTT that's transferred out is going to affordable housing that may shift in future years as ARPA funds expired but for 23, 24 all those funds are going to affordable housing. And then to touch base again about the reorg that's happening this year that you'll be seeing more in the department slides just to give you an overview. So the regional parks and Bennett Valley golf course operations from our TPW department were moved into department nine. Department nine used to be called recreation and community engagement but now we are calling it parks and recreation. The move of those two operations all the parks and Bennett Valley golf course that includes about 31 FTEs and about 9.6 million in O and M budget and 5.4 million in capital projects. So it's a pretty significant move and you'll see these swings in the department section. We also added a director of parks and recreation. And then finally the community engagement section that used to be in recreation and community engagement is now in our community zero department or communications and intergovernmental relations department. So we've done some shifting around. And then to conclude our general fund section we have our forecast for you are five year forecast. A version of this was shown at council goal setting couple months back and it's been revised since then. So now our first column fiscal year twenty three twenty four is the budget we're proposing to you today with a two and a half million dollar deficit. And the takeaway from this slide is that as the years go on that deficit grows our revenues are not keeping pace with our expenditures. And just a couple things to point out between fiscal year twenty four twenty five and twenty five twenty six you'll see a jump in the transfers out. This signifies when our ARPA funds expire and the general fund starts paying for homeless services once more. We did try to build into this model anything that we are aware council has agreed to. There's a number of things out there that are not yet decided on such as any contribution from the general fund for the Herna Avenue hub. Safe parking when ARPA funds expire for safe parking anything that has been discussed but not fully decided on we have not put in here. We also have not put in a recession as Alan mentioned there's been various judgment calls on whether or not a recession is going to happen. If so how bad so we are not being overly conservative by assuming a recession will be taking place. We have not put in any staffing growth and most importantly we haven't put in any assumptions for cost of living increases beyond fiscal year twenty three twenty four all bargaining units are out of contract at that point. So starting in fiscal year twenty four twenty five and on we only have a one percent assumption for step and merit increases for staff and with salaries and benefits being such a significant part of our general fund expenditures. If and when those bargaining units are all back in contract we will know what those colas will be in the out years and we'll add them in and we are without a doubt going to see those deficits exacerbated. So this concludes our portion of the general fund discussion. I'm going to take you through our staffing summary and after that I'll be happy to answer any questions. This is just the last piece of the citywide and general fund view of what's happening in our next year's budget. So overall this is our authorized FTE staffing summary at a very high level. This slide you will see many departments with no staffing changes. That's not necessarily true. There's quite a bit of staffing changes in the next slide. This slide just shows that they all net to zero. So the total headcount for most of these departments hasn't changed. And same with on this slide you'll see in the recreation and TPW departments there's those big swings of FTEs. That's a result of that reorg that we mentioned. And again while there may be small changes in some of these departments we'll get into the details of what is actually happening behind those numbers in the next section. But all told the citywide headcount for fiscal year 2324 is 1285.5 full time equivalents. That's up from 7 from the previous year. So breaking that down now in between general fund and non-general fund. We're first going to look at the general fund staffing changes. And I just want to mention before we see a lot of these changes that any elimination of a position here are all vacant. We are not eliminating filled positions. And budget is kind of a time when the departments really want to evaluate the positions that they have any vacancies and say maybe this isn't what we need for our operations. We'd be better served with something else so it's a time to sort of do some shifting around and moving. And we did make a big concerted effort then in a lot of these changes to keep them budget neutral. Given the condition of the general fund and some departments even if there was a budget differential we're willing to cut their services and supplies budget to make up for it. We did our best to only add the most critical positions and to keep everything else cost neutral. So in the city manager's office a senior admin was eliminated in favor of an admin analyst. In the city attorney's office we added an assistant city attorney. And in finance we eliminated an accountant auditor in order to add a payroll supervisor. And in the fire department a limited term building plans examiner was eliminated in order to add a limited term community outreach specialist. In planning and economic development a code enforcement officer was added. There was a limited term senior planner that was grant funded and that term expires that position is being eliminated. And then a senior admin assistant was eliminated in order to add an admin analyst. In parks and recreation we added a director in order to direct this newly formed department. And we eliminated a senior admin to senior admin assistants added a recreation specialist and an assistant parks planner. And I will note that assistant parks planner is paid for by a park development impact fees. So even though it's in the general fund the general fund isn't actually funding it. And then you'll see the reorg moves to FTEs were moved out of parks and recreation to zero and 31 FTEs were moved in from TPW for a net change of 30 FTEs. And on the other side of that reorg we see parks we see TPW giving up 31 FTEs which moved into parks and rec police eliminated a police technician in order to add a field and evidence tech. And in water a quality control associate was added this one is in their stormwater function so it's paid for partially by the enterprise funds and partially by the general fund. And in communications and intergovernmental relations this is also part of that reorg to community engagement staff were brought into this department. So all in the general fund saw an increase of three positions and one of them as I mentioned is funded by park development impact fees and one of them is partially funded by stormwater enterprise funds. So really it's the general fund is picking up the cost of just one and a half FTEs. And now we're going to just look at the detail of the non general fund position changes. So these are all of our various enterprise fund etc. positions. In the risk management internal service fund they eliminated a senior admin and an analyst in order to add to human resources technicians. In finance a parking enforcement officer just a half time one was eliminated and we added a half time parking operations aid that half time addition is in addition to an existing half time one. So now that is one full parking operations aid and we eliminated a parking program coordinator in order to add a parking supervisor. And the water enterprise funds utility system supervisor was added a wastewater operations supervisor. And a skilled maintenance worker was eliminated. In I.T. an I.T. supervisor was added a technology application specialist was added and this one is being paid for specifically by our planning and economic development department and they're having this position added to assist them with their technology needs. A senior I.T. tech was added and an I.T. section manager was eliminated. This is a net change of two and I do want to mention that I.T. has kind of a multi year plan going to reorganize some of their positions and they do anticipate being able to eliminate an existing position next year. Once all these positions are filled. And then finally and measure our public safety tax the police department will be adding a police sergeant funded by those special sales tax funds. So all in within the non general fund we're adding four positions. And then finally the human resources department does review reclassification requests of filled positions. We were just looking at all the vacant eliminations and additions. There will be three filled position reclassifications going through with this budget. One in the general fund where a street maintenance superintendent is being reclassed to a park maintenance superintendent. One in the enterprise fund where a water quality supervisor is being reclassed to a water quality manager. And one in the internal service fund in I.T. where an I.T. section manager is being reclassed to an I.T. deputy director. And that brings me through the whole city wide and general fund section. I'm happy to take any questions before we pass it off to departments. Looking at council are there any questions. No no no. Council member Fleming do you have any questions. I do not. Vice mayor McDonald. Thank you mayor. I just have a couple of questions for you. Of the RPTT attacks. What does the policy say and define how that 50% is broken up between homeless services. And affordable housing right now. So it doesn't the policy does not stipulate what portion has to go to homeless services and what portion has to go to affordable housing that's at the discretion of the department. Which has allowed some flexibility for this time when ARPA funds have paid for homeless services and allows funding to go elsewhere. I'm not sure if you covered this yet or if it's in the next part of the presentation but I saw the purge rate was an increase of about 5.7%. Are you going to go through that for us Alan later in the presentation. We actually aren't touching on the purge rate later in the presentation. So our UAL costs this year have actually stayed pretty flat. Our normal retirement costs have increased and as I mentioned they are a function of our salary costs. So we usually see our normal retirement costs increase with what our salary costs increase by and go ahead. Yeah. Are you. That was that was right. I was just going to add on that that with the UAL what we're seeing for this year for 2324 is the result of the strong purse performance in the stock market a few years ago. So so that's why it's sort of dipped a little bit and then next year in 2425 that's when we feel the the hit from the losses that they took and we go we go up. So we have a little bit of a lag and then we start that that mountain of a UAL costs. Can you tell me what the current rate is for purge for us. Like the percentage. I'll be great if you can get that back to us and can you tell me what UAL stands for. You got it. It's the unfunded actuarial liability. So that's our additional costs on top of our normal retirement. Thanks council member Roger. But you can't whisper to me I won't hear you. So I just want to do one more question. You talked about park impact fees and that they're funding one of the department or a person with that. Can you tell us what what those can be used for. And I don't know if that's the only specific fund or if there's other funds that we maybe have in the city that we can use for specific purposes. I'm not clear on that or how will we find that information out. So yeah I can't unfortunately get too much into the detail off the top of my head but I can tell you our park development impact fees. We have four different zones. We collect impact fees on development that occurs there and I don't know can't speak to the regulations around what it can be spent on. But for this purpose there is one assistant parks planner that will be added that will be funded by those. We're happy to follow up with more information at a later time. Just more out of curiosity on that for me just to hear that we have some funds and just always curious what we can use them for if they're specific. Yeah actually I think that position is being funded by by Measure M as opposed to the park development fees. So a little bit broader of a of a grant there. I think that just about covers it. Oh one more sorry about that of the two point five million dollar deficit. Can you tell me what percentage that is of the overall fund or is it just out of the general fund. If it was like a one percent of the general fund deficit or how do you calculate that two point five. So if it is two point five million of a general fund I'm sorry you're asking what the percentage of all of our general fund reserves are of the general fund. So of the deficit does that come straight from the general fund as a deficit or is it a combination of CIP budget and general fund. It will come entirely from the general fund reserves. Okay so if I am calculating it would be about a one point one percent of the general fund. Of a two hundred million dollar budget about if that's the calculation you're looking at yeah about one percent. I think if I'm calculating it right I'm just kind of curious how we're targeting I mean a one percent deficit. Of that large of a budget is actually it's not terrible. It's amazing so although it paints a picture as we still have a deficit I do want to keep in mind that's a very small in the general sense of talking about a large budget like we have. Any additional questions from council members. I had a couple of questions. One would be the two hundred thousand that is going to the Bennett Valley golf course is that a loan or are we is that we're just giving that. That's a subsidy so it's not a loan we do not expect to receive that back. Perfect I just wanted to clarify. And then the second question is well I guess I can ask that a different. The Bennett Valley golf course still does have a loan out to parks correct that at some point we hope the enterprise fund will be self sustaining. And then we'll go back to look at recovering those funds. Yes. Thank you vice mayor McDonald. Sorry I'm looking through my notes. You said that as far as our liability insurance on the cars that it went up with the payroll increase. That's interesting to me that concept because what I've known around insurance and liability is the more that we actually pay staff. There usually is a reduction in specifically workers compensation rates so I'm curious how they would increase our risk management if we actually are paying our employees. More or how the JPA is actually figuring that out for us. That's that's not consistent with what I've seen in the past in business models. So I'll have to defer to our risk manager to get to that level of technical expertise. But yeah my understanding was that premiums are loosely based on payroll. It's one of the many factors that goes into it. It's not the only factor obviously but that's one of that as payroll increases as does our premium. Thank you. Any additional questions from council. Seeing none on behalf of council we'd like to thank you very much for the presentation and I'll hand it back over to our city manager. Thank you Veronica if you could call the next department up. Sure so as I mentioned today we plan to get through our administrative departments as well as IT and housing. And so first up we have city council and city manager will just do back to back. So you will see a lot of new faces this budget cycle so some of those are due to promotions and hiring of staff. So we'd like to welcome all of our new employees who this is their first budget cycle and know that they've done a good job at helping us prepare for this day. Good afternoon Mayor Rogers and council members. I am Cindy Benziara and I will be presenting the city council and the city manager office budgets. All city council programs are funded by the general fund. The city council budget is nine hundred and thirty four thousand one hundred and seventy dollars which is a decrease of forty point nine percent. The council members salaries and benefits increase seventy one thousand dollars due to the salary increase approved by council on December 14th two thousand twenty two. There are no elections this budget cycle so there has been a decrease of six hundred and thirteen thousand dollars and community promotions funding allocation of one hundred and five thousand dollars has moved over to the planning and economic department. That concludes city council. Are there any questions? Are there any questions from council? Seeing none. Okay so we'll move on to the city manager's office. The city manager's budget is three million twenty nine thousand seven hundred and seventy five dollars which is a decrease of fifty five point nine percent. Next slide please. The clerk's office is flat for this year. The homeless services, CIP and the ONM projects have moved to housing and community services. And the general administration has increased by one hundred twenty eight thousand for adding the administrative analyst position and deleting the senior admin to offset that cost plus nineteen thousand in IT costs. The changes again are the to that fund the addition of one full time administrative analyst offset by the elimination of the senior admin assistant and the homeless services moving to housing and community services. The accomplishments for the city manager's office this year have engaged in more than one hundred stakeholder meetings discussing the needs of our community. We have launched clean Santa Rosa and augment quality of life services. The next event will be May 12th in district four. We've adopted the project labor agreement which is close to completion. It's currently with the city attorney's office and will be implemented by July one. The employee appreciation awards we want to thank city council for your support on this. They were halted during covid they have now been restarted during the fall or excuse me this spring and have gone forward to recognize all the employees over the last three years. We've hosted developer roundtables as we work toward the council goals for housing for all and we will be holding additional roundtables for the capital improvement projects. The challenges of this coming year will be the recruitment and retention which is not unique to the city of Santa Rosa or private businesses. This is true for many jurisdictions. We have also long term budget stability during this budget cycle we will begin the city negotiations and contracts as well as renewing programs that are currently being paid for by one time funding. Sources and we'll continue to focus on our quality of life issues. That's it. Do you have any questions regarding the city manager budget. Are there any questions from council. I just have one one note. Is that all right for the mayor. Yes. Yes council member for me. Thank you. I just wanted to go to the adoption of project labor agreement. It sounds like the council adopts policies in the city manager implements them. So I just wanted to clarify is the city manager adopting the ordinance or is the manager planning to implement the ordinance. So thank you council member Fleming that would be implement but we just wanted to point it out because we knew how critical project labor agreements have been. It's been a discussion for some time so we will make certain that wording is changed on the slide. So it's a future plan implementations. It will be accomplished. Excellent. Thank you so much. Council member Rogers. My apologies. I know you said it but I didn't catch it. The CIP and O and M projects being moved. Yes. What were those projects. So we can discuss those when housing and community services comes up. So we will go through that when Megan comes up and gives her presentation that includes homelessness. OK. That's that's what I was looking for. I thought it might but we'll talk about it then. Thank you. Are there any additional questions from council. Seeing none. Thank you very much for your presentation. Madam city manager. Yes. So the city man the city attorney's office will present next. Thank you. Thank you and good afternoon. Madam mayor and council members city attorney's office budget. Next slide please. I need to work from here. Can we get some assistance at the table. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Our budget isn't is funded entirely by from the general fund. It's all general fund monies. I do want to note that we do recover attorney's fees in some of our cases particularly in code enforcement but in some others as well. For example in the PG&E litigation we did recover our attorney's fees. All of those proceeds do go back into the general fund. Similarly we do also recover monies sometimes in our litigation when the city is a plaintiff and those monies also go straight into the general fund. So our total budget for this year is four point three million dollars a little bit more than that. The change is four hundred and eleven thousand seven hundred and forty nine. That reflects two elements. One is our standard merit and step increases our colas and increases in the cost of benefits. And then the more significant change is the addition of one assistant city attorney. Our costs for I.T. have decreased by about five thousand dollars. So it's an overall increase of four eleven seven forty nine. Next slide. So again our general fund change is the addition of one full time assistant city attorney. The cost totals two hundred and thirty one thousand in salaried benefits. We are that additional assistant city attorney is needed to address essential city needs. We have a very lean team and the needs of the city far outstrip the resources we have. So the new assistant we do anticipate that they will provide needed assistance for increased real estate services. Also provide support for the city wide contract review to address some concerns that have have arisen. And then we also recognize both from departments and from a couple of council members a desire to have increased support and services for code enforcement. And with the new addition of the assistant city attorney we do expect to be able to do some realignment to address that that request as well. Next slide. We've had a very busy year this past year. We led the charter review process worked very closely with you the council also with the charter review committee meeting every other week for many many months. And also working closely with the city clerk of course the result was a couple of successful ballot measures as well as other proposals that have been brought to council for future consideration. We had a heavy litigation load this past year. We've been successful in resolving a number of key matters at little or no cost to the city. We also provided substantial support and engagement in the 2020 redistricting or the redistricting following the 2020 census and also in the election process both for the district elections and for the city's ballot measure to extend a measure. Next slide. We also provided extensive legal support for a number of high priority department initiatives. I won't read them all but yes the extension of former measure O now measure H the gas station ban short term rental ordinance and quite a few others. We also focused on neighborhood safety pursuing and successfully abating several drug houses establishing receiverships for properties that were in serious decline. Animal control efforts and code enforcement and related ordinances in connection with those so really a focus on quality of life and neighborhood safety. In relation to that we also did a lot of work and have partnered with the housing community services team on homeless issues as well. Challenges are biggest challenge this year will be that it will be a year of transitions as you know that we have facing both the retirement of both the city attorney and the chief assistant city attorney. So there'll be some new leadership some fresh ideas and I would expect some potential realignments particularly with the addition of the new assistant city attorney and all of that is towards maintaining enhanced and enhancing. High quality legal services excellence in legal services. Second biggest challenge is our continuing litigation we have several cases that are very significant will be very time consuming they involve serious personal injury and civil rights and also we have a construction claims a large construction claims litigation that will be going to trial we expect this year. Those will keep our litigation team very busy throughout the year. And then finally we continue to have as I mentioned a very lean office and department legal needs outstrip I mean the departments not our department but the department the needs of other departments for legal services does outstrip what our resources are. But as I said before with the addition of the new ACA we do anticipate some realignments so that process will be going forward this year as well. And happy to answer any questions. Looking at council for any questions. Council member Ocrack. Thank you. Thank you. So you said multiple times that the needs of the city for legal services not just the city attorney's office but the needs of the city out outstrip I believe is with your term the. The resources that are available and then you also said that you run a very lean department you're only adding one person but then when you describe that one individual's responsibilities is about four different things. So I guess my question would be because I've heard this from community members and you touched on it a bit yourself would be would it be possible to add an additional assistant city attorney specifically to go after fines and civil penalties. I know you can't budget it to be revenue neutral that's not responsible. But with the goal of at least in a year to two years it being a revenue neutral position basically being the work they do to bring in fines offsets the cost of them as an employee. Is that a possibility. We've we've been looking at that we're looking at in our within our office a number of avenues to increase our own revenues to bring more money into the city to help fund our services. In terms of a position being revenue to neutral. It's very difficult to do and I know there's a particular interest in pursuing litigation and code enforcement and fines and penalties. We are able in that context to to gains additional revenues in the past our general approach in code enforcement is to gain compliance rather than looking for cost recovery cost recovery. Yes we try to do that but really the focus is on compliance. We're talking about trying to shift that a little bit maybe be a little bit more stronger in our pursuit of recovery. My experience here and in other jurisdictions is that it's really difficult for that position to end up being fully revenue neutral. Can we increase those revenues. Yes but can it be 100% revenue neutral. That's doubtful. We are looking at other avenues as well in terms of getting our our resources than the our costs incorporated into some of the city's fees to be able to recoup that way. We'll also be exploring some other avenues to to enhance our our ability to to recoup costs. Okay I appreciate that and I am all for you know compliance before being punitive but I think when anybody violates a code of ordinance of some sort you know it's not to quote one of my favorite movies be nice until it's time to not be nice. And I think having that tool in our toolkit so to speak is something that could be beneficial. And I don't know if there could be maybe a temporary or a pilot program if you will for that kind of a position but I'd be interested in seeing something like that. And I'd be happy to explore that as well. Thanks. Council Member Rogers. Thank you Mayor. First is a point of clarification. Is that a Roadhouse reference. I just wanted to make sure. So Sue as much as I hate that you're retiring you are. Talk to me a little bit about as you were coming in as a city attorney you're talking about a reorg that might happen within the department. How this position if we approve it will be in the middle of June. The new city attorney is anticipated to be here in August. So they'd be coming in either right in the middle of an anticipated reorganization or would at least have the tools to potentially further that. Talk to me a little bit about the timing. Sure. And you are right. There's going to be a delay between the time I leave and the time a new city attorney is able to step in. Or so you claim. Yes. And what I would do I wouldn't given that we're going to be facing that transition. I don't think it's right for me to make any substantial changes in our office. I think the new city attorney has to be able to weigh in and shape how they would like that to be. I want to clarify too when I talk about realignment I'm not talking about a complete rehaul overhaul of our office or reorganization of our office. It's really about aligning how our resources are set. We currently have two sections one that is primarily litigation although they also do advice work and ordinance work. And then there are other teams primarily transactional although they'll also get involved in some litigation now and then as well. So how that gets shaped and how this position I think it's very important for us to develop the real estate expertise in house to address a lot of the efforts that are going forward now. All the surfacing properties but even going forward beyond that I anticipate a growing need for that expertise within our office. To be able to have additional support for contract review contract processing. I think we'll address some of the concerns that we hear sometimes from departments. We're also very strongly looking at some streamlining of contracting processing even with our existing resources. So does that give us any room for that individual to also take on some of the litigation. I'm not sure but we have we have a current vacant chief position depending on who takes that position and what their areas of expertise are. If that person has litigation background that may open up additional litigation resources. There are a lot of pieces to the puzzle. So I would like to before I leave start at least the recruitment for the new position assuming it is approved by council so that we have that in the works. We have already started the chief recruitment. I have determined at this point that I will not make the appointment but we will have people ready to go for the new person who comes in. So what I would like to do is to be able to have it set up so that the new person who comes in the new city attorney I would work with them. I will give them my recommendation but they are free to make their own choice. So yes some realignments and I don't want to scare my department because what I'm talking about is tweaks not an overhaul of our of our of our department. So that's really helpful. I'm just looking at it from a budget perspective that if we're budgeting over two hundred thousand two hundred thirty one thousand for the position. The likelihood is that it's not going to be filled until a little bit later in the year. So there may be some cost savings that come back to the city and turn back after that. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Are there any additional questions from council members saying none. Thank you very much for your presentation. Thank you. We'll have communications and intergovernmental relations. Good afternoon Mayor and City Council. I'll be going over the communications and intergovernmental relations budget. Can you can you introduce your name for the record. Yes. Lawn Peterson director of communications and intergovernmental relations. As I mentioned I'll be going over the communications and intergovernmental relations office budget. In this case moving forward this year we did see an increase in thirty three percent in the transition of community engagement into. Thank you. Into the our our our department. Currently we had eight and with the other two staff members were a total of 10 for the new department. Total it's one point nine percent of the total budget being proposed. Thank you. As I mentioned the changes you'll see it's three hundred and thirty seven thousand in salaries for those two positions plus forty four thousand increase in some services as well as other elements that are making that transition of the thirty three percent increase. Going over some accomplishments for our department we have the education that led to the reeducate reauthorization of the city's public safety special tax. We secured more than fifty three million in federal and state funds through a legislative program adopted the twenty twenty three state and federal legislative platform. We secured and successfully launched the civic ready public safety messaging notification platform that replaced Nixle. And we also established a strategic citywide grants team to increase efficiency and go after additional funding to offset budgets. Thanks Helen. Some challenges that we have and opportunities we're looking to redesign the city's website to improve the ability to find information and quickly engage with city staff and services. This is a big deal for us. I think that you know that the big picture vision is we're looking to refresh the look and feel apply best practices to our website and make it really easy to find information. Why we kicked off this project and we expect to launch at the end of November. We are currently and actively solving issues throughout our website looking for content that's outdated. We're developing a race to make sure that departments and as well as our team understand their responsibility to keep those pages updated. And so we're continually looking at that. In addition to that we're also with their alignment of the engagement department. We're looking to reimagine what Sarah looks like in the merging of that. And really it's a better alignment of resources for both events and communications and engagement. And also just getting organized within this team. We've already seen some great progress in that effort. The last part here and this is a global piece is the retention and recruitment for staffing. So we've been working with HR on a we're hiring campaign and we'll continually move forward with that to try to solve some of our staffing issues which HR will talk about. And with that that concludes my presentation. Happy to answer any questions. Looking to counsel for questions but before I do I just want to give kudos to your team for pulling off Cinco de Mayo in a very short time and it was very successful. So thank you very much. Any additional questions. I just just real quick I just want to highlight that was a citywide effort. There was a lot of things going on that week and while I was involved it definitely is a team effort. Daryl and his his group Jason water TPW. There was a lot of people out there doing a lot of stuff all evening. Super awesome event was really happy to participate and see so many people come out after the rain and during so. Thank you for that line because I did not know all the departments that were helping out. So thank you very much. Lots of big team effort on this one for sure. Councilmember Rogers. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So Lon talked to me a little bit about the reorganization and moving community engagement into zero specifically the deputy director of community engagement position. Who are they going to direct? Because as I understand it it's a fairly lean department. And then to how is this going to be integrated into the rest of the work that the department does. The great question. The department is a small department. And I'm currently working with the city manager to restructure the senior engagement position to more of a manager level based on like the structure throughout the city. So it's consistent as we're doing the climate comp and class study. But I think the intent is given that as much to your point it is a small department. We already have a director within the department. So it was and this position would oversee the one coordinator position as a part of the team within zero. How this works better is that we've always supported engagement with our communications efforts. And so this really just aligns what we were already doing in a much more unified way. In addition to what community engagement was doing like on the front end and theirs. Sierra was also doing engagement. I think even when I got here I was like well what's the difference. I think a lot of it it's a lot of the same things like they have surveys and they were doing that. We have a survey program. We're doing it. Some of our coordinators are doing as much like a community outreach like TPW is an example. I'm constantly working with that team getting out in the public doing public meetings and things like that. And so it's really kind of I mean barring the department name engagement. We did a lot of engagement. I think there's a lot of similarities and we're trying to move them over and we've already seen a lot of improvements. It's really helpful from its staffing perspective. Hence the event that we just pulled off. I think it was it was it was that's an example of how those alignments are really more beneficial to the city as a whole for sure. I'm mostly just asking because at my time on council this position started with the public really asking for an executive level position around community engagement. That was the director position that then became a deputy director position. It's now being moved again. It's always felt a little bit listless in terms of has a great intent with not a strategic plan around it and not a lot of support for the department. And so having the Ciro office be stood up I think within the last two years always felt a little bit duplicate the duplicative I suppose indeed. And so I guess my question really is is there a need for a deputy director of community engagement given the new construct or are we keeping that title for that position because it's a legacy position. I we are intending to make it a manager position given the structure within the department as there's already director as myself. I'm taking over cab personally. I work with chair weeks on the current agenda. And so I think the intent is that to not have two directors in the department. So it'll just be me and doing some of those higher level things in coordination with the city manager's office and council direction. Anything to add. OK. Thank you. You're welcome. Vice mayor McDonald. Thank you for the presentation. And I agree it makes sense to combine those. I think previously office of community engagement was in HR. If I was if I'm correct was that the department it was sort of under under the city manager was under city manager's office. So on this three hundred thirty seven thousand dollar budget. That's just moving that from that department over to your department. Isn't that correct. It's not an additional correct fine going out. OK. Yes. We came in flat on our budget for zero. And it was just the addition of those things plus other expenses that it makes sense to me with everything that we're doing with engagement that it has to have the communication component. So it makes sense to me that we're doing this realignment whatever you need to define as far as management or director positions that would be up to you and city manager obviously. But I do think this is a smart move for us just as far as getting the word out about what we're doing and making sure that we have that communication tool in place. So thank you. I just want to clarify that three hundred thirty seven thousand. Thank you. Seeing no additional questions. Thank you very much for the presentation. I've been raising my hand. Councilmember Fleming. Yeah. I just had a question for Mr. Peterson around community engagement around bringing community engagement into zero. And if we've heard any positive negative neutral supportive or otherwise feedback around the change. I'm sorry. I kind of didn't hear half of that. First thing have I heard any positive. Did you conduct any community outreach about moving community engagement into zero. And if so what did you learn. We did not do any outreach on that. Okay. Thank you. Yeah I think you know from a strategic standpoint I think it's the best practice to align resources. And I think it's consistent with most cities throughout the state. To have those those functions integrated as working in collaboration together. All right. Thanks for the information. Thank you. All right. Seeing no additional questions. Thank you very much for the presentation. Thank you. Before we move on I would just like to request that councilmember Fleming that you actually put up your zoom hand. So when I look over I can see the zoom hand and you don't have to raise your own hand. That would be helpful. Thank you so much. Yes ma'am. Madam city. Oh. Madam city manager. Thank you. So human resources will be next. Good afternoon. My rogers members of the council. I'm Dominique Blankey. I am the interim human resources director and also your risk manager. All right. So human resources is comprised of two funds. We have general fund and then we have an internal service service fund for risk management. So going over just a screenshot of HR the general fund there was a change of about 33%. And the risk management fund was about a change in 10%. So some of these general fund changes is more for the professional services. The union contracts are opening up this fiscal year. So we allotted some funds toward labor negotiations as we do not have a current labor negotiator. So we had to set aside funds for that. And in addition to that we also have two separate ongoing contracts for $70,000 for other legal needs for employment questions and investigations. In addition we also added about $60,000 and that's to help pay for the employment award ceremony, the employee service awards and the employee appreciation lunch that we put on. And then we're going to move on to the risk management programs. So I'm going to kind of take these ones line item by line item. The risk management like I said it's an internal service fund. So some of these have multiple programs within them. So the administrative staff and supply section there was a change in about 184,000 or 9.4% increase. That goes towards salaries, benefits and the addition of us eliminating a risk management analyst and our senior administrative analyst and then adding two human resources technicians. And those two technicians report more under the benefits. The city health plan. So this is comprised of the city health plans and Teamsters health plans. So the Kaiser plans are EPOs or PPOs and the HMOs. Those saw a slight increase throughout depending on which plans and which programs. In addition to this the renewals for our medical plans are on calendar year versus fiscal year. So we kind of have to project out. So depending on the plans we build a 5% kind of buffer in there or 9% depending on the volatility of the plans. Typically the medical ones for the PERS health we bring in a 9%. But again they also follow the union contract. So what contributions are made by the employee versus what the city is making. And then we go down to the workers compensation line item. There was a slight increase of about 9% or 481,000. So the workers compensation fund is comprised of or how we fund that is based off of the actuary that we receive on claims expected to be paid. In addition to that there's also the GPA so the third party administration administration fees that we pay for that program. And then also that is based off of our self-insured retention as well. I think we have like one self-insured retention head under that which is 500,000. In addition to that the dental and vision we did reduce that for the costing of that went down and then also so we didn't have to assess the apartments because that risk management balance fund supported that. So we were able to reduce that to give some a little bit of a less benefits to the employees or the cost of that to the departments. The benefits still stay the same. Other employee benefits are sort of lumped together. So that's your short-term disability, your long-term disability, and a life, accidental death and dismemberment. All those services are rolled into those. So we saw a slight increase of 9% which dollar-wise it was about $71,000. The liability insurance fund that also saw a slight increase that is made up of two different JPAs and third party administrators. So we have CalTIP which is for our transit authority. So that's one of them. And then the other one is for our liability which is slip, trip, and falls. And that's an increase due to based off of the pool itself. We used to be get redistributions out of our excess but that has, the trending is not there anymore. We could potentially be looking at assessments. So this year they moved from a 80% competency to an 85% competency. So there was that 5% that the JPA members had to bring up in premium. On top of that, there is a base number that they do for the calculation in excess insurance. So the excess insurance basically as a function of payroll. So as your payroll goes up, they charge you, you know, per sense on $100 a payroll. So as our payroll goes up, typically our premium also increases. So that's kind of where we're seeing that difference in the funding of that $640,000. And then our earthquake insurance did remain flat this year. And then property fire insurance, we saw a minimal increase of $8,000 on that. So it's a total risk management fund program change of a 10% overall. All right. So human resources accomplishments. To date we've had 158 new hires and 77 temps. We've done 105 recruitments. We are looking at our managing our workers comp in a different way. So we've been really working hard on having that one-on-one conversation with the employees and really doing reach out. We've looked at safety. We are assessing all the injuries. We're going back to the departments. We're holding meetings. We're looking at trending. We're really trying to contain those costs at a lower level and really get involved in those. Thank you. So with that said, we successfully hired two risk management analysts. One to oversee the workers comp program and another as a safety officer within the city. And those are kind of, well, the safety officer is a new position for the city. It's the risk management analysts, but they're overall safety wide for the city, which is new. We've completed several of the DOT commercial driver program enhancements. We've done comprehensive grant funding, traffic control, training for water parks and TBW. And we've utilized creative recruitment techniques such as bus wraps and tartar getting ads and brochures. And we've partnered with Lawn's team too for outreach on those positions that we're recruiting for. We also implemented a new benefits enrollment system online, which 90% of our staff utilize this year. We transitioned our new stipend benefit administrator for the city wide stipends. We had a huge turnout for our benefits fair this year. That was the most we've seen around 750 employees. We've done a training needs assessment completed organizational wide and we're moving towards implementing those. We also have that three year training plan that came out of that as well. We're looking at HR training and organizational development site. We're looking at a redesign there. And new employee welcome is redesigned and streamlined as well. We went down from three days. I think now we're down to a day and a half and we're looking to eventually make that completely online. And then we're also providing monthly learning aids to the departments. Thank you. Always are the challenges, and again, you'll hear it everywhere, is attracting qualified candidates and then retaining them. Staffing shortages have impacted everybody and we're trying to get back to restoring essential services and quicker response times. Significance requests for coaching and training assistance throughout the organization. And then obviously insurance challenges due to the state of the overall insurance market. It's a hard market right now. We're seeing increases everywhere, even within other JPAs. So I know it's not just us. That is it. Do you guys have any questions? Looking at council to see if there's any questions. Council member step. Just curious how many vacancies over the course of the past year. So I know that we're currently at like a 9.8% vacancy rate, which is about 125 employees. That's total vacancies. How many employees left? I suppose I'm asking retired or otherwise transferred out. I would have to get that number. I don't have that handy. Okay. Thank you. Council member Rogers. Thanks mayor. Talk to me a little bit about the equity priorities that we have and how they're being implemented through the human resources, staffing and budget. So the equity, sorry, I'm not. Can you repeat your question? Yeah, so the council's focus on equity inclusion. We obviously be created a position two years ago. We're actually being integrated into the budget and in the staffing plan that's being presented for the department. Okay. So we are working, thank you. So we are working on recruiting the DEI coordinator position. I believe we are hoping to make an offer at the end of this month. We are also still working with the collaborative and that person's going to head up those initiatives within the department and citywide and kind of do the kickoff for that. And so that's kind of where we're out there. And so we'll be integrating, I assume, some of the recommendations from seed in our structures and practices moving forward once that plan is developed and implemented. Correct, yeah. I'm looking over those policies and procedures, yeah, through the DEI and rewriting and yeah, it's a whole body of work. Excellent. And then the 500,000 that's being allocated for the labor negotiations contractors. One of the things that I've heard every single time we've done bargaining since I've been involved in the city is that our outside contractors drive up the cost of the negotiations because they're paid hourly or based on the scope. When I see a figure that says 500,000, that tells me we're either anticipating a really difficult negotiation or that we're anticipating it will be really expensive to bring in a consultant. So my question is, why not just bring somebody in house? This is one of the few areas where I see contracts that make a lot more sense to me to hire somebody who is solely dedicated to that issue and would still be significantly cheaper than what we're budgeting and you get rid of that accusation from folks that, you know, half a million dollars is oftentimes a lot more than the amount that we're off from our bargaining units when we first sit down at the table. Correct. And so we are looking at, like I said, hiring the deputy director, which is also the labor negotiator within the city. Currently that is vacant for the labor negotiation side. So this is more of an earmark to save that. And of course we are trying to recruit for that position and get that person here. But since the contracts are opening up, we wanted to be prepared and not, you know, chasing the ball at that point. Just in case kind of as a backup plan and this can help offset between, like I said, where we end up between the labor negotiator starting and if the contracts are opening up. Because you have to have time to facilitate those relationships with the bargaining units. And also they may need legal advice. So that's kind of what that contract is in place for, an earmarking. Okay. So the intention is not to both hire somebody whose job is going to be partially at least to lead these negotiations and then also bring out outside counsel? It's probably going to be a hybrid because I think we're going to find that position labor negotiator. I'm not sure how long that's going to take us to fill. That's a hard positions to fill. And like again, we don't want to be behind the ball. And so this is more of a precursor and a marker so that we have the backup should we need it. And then if they need it as well. Okay. I'll just say it gives me a little bit of heartburn to see half a million dollars for a consultant when we have a position that's supposed to do this also. I get it if it's difficult to hire. Yeah. And then also the chief assistant city attorney is also for the labor and the unions for their advice and having that position vacant as well. We have no one to really lean on at this point. Councilman real quick. Yeah, just one quick question. So the risk analyst you hired or the risk specialist you hired for safety. Do they have any sort of certifications like a certified safety management specialist or any sort of OSHA certification? Yes. They have a time. Yes. I have like seven or eight. It was a long list. Yes. Vice mayor McDonald. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. My question is around the HR training and organizational development, the redesign as well as a new employee welcome and redesign. During goal setting and development we talked a lot about how long it was taking from us from the beginning to the end where we actually get somebody in the seat is part of the redesign and some of the funds that are maybe being designated for that. Is that going to help shorten that window from I believe it's between 90 and 120 days from the time we start that process to make sure that we're actually getting folks in the city and in the fold quicker. Yeah, correct. That was kind of some of the harbors that you would get a new employee finally in the seat and they would be gone for three days right for their new employee orientation. So now we've gotten that down to a day and a half and then the goal is to get it down to maybe half day and it all be remote so that throughout their three months probationary period they can get all that training that they mandatory that they do need. I think maybe my question is a little different than my understanding was that from the time we started the process of interviews to actually getting them in a seat not just during that probationary period. Do we have anything going towards that in this budget to help shorten that timeframe so that we don't have folks coming in they're ready to work for us and then they sit at home for three months until we actually can get them out out working. Yeah, so we are looking at that our background person or company that we're looking at that contracts going up so we're looking at alternative that tends to be kind of the sticking point is background is taking a little bit too long even though we're trying to initiate and get things back quicker. So we're going to be looking at different background checking services and try to streamline that and make that a little bit quicker for a turnaround because that can take anywhere from two to three weeks. And so that's really what's hurting as I think we've really worked on trying to do efficiencies within the department from you know interviews to offer letters to the background initiating the background. So we're really looking at processes that way and so we're hoping to improve that with a different background provider. Thank you and thank you for your efforts and I appreciate the redesign of how to onboard folks and making it more streamlined so that we can get them actually doing their job as opposed to taking classes from us and organizing organizational information. So thank you. Thank you. Any additional questions from Council? Seeing none, thank you very much for the presentation and welcome to your new position. Thank you. Madam City Manager. Thank you. Our next department will be Finance. Good afternoon, Mayor and members of the Council. This is Alan Alton, the Chief Financial Officer and I will go through this. The finance department by fund, we're made up of two main funds and then two smaller ones. The general fund makes up the bulk of our budget. We came in flat through that and I'll go into that a little bit more in the upcoming slide. The large decrease in the parking fund has to do with deferring projects and I will go into that as well. This just provides you a nice overview of this. We have our pooled investment fund that these are charges for our investment manager that manages our investment portfolio. They manage about $560 million of that portfolio. So these are the costs for that service. And then we have ongoing debt service that we are retiring related to the old redevelopment agency. So if we're looking by program and this mixes funds but we can go through here. So the general administration and I'll hit on the more larger changes here. So far, like I said, our successor agency, those are debt service. The parking services. So this is part of our parking fund and that's the ONM part of it. We kind of break it up into two. So we have the enforcement side and the ONM side. So what we did with the parking services ONM is we held our costs down as low as possible as we've talked about here before. And I'll get to a slide in the future about it. But the parking enterprise fund is challenged to say the least. Still recovering from the COVID pandemic and the changes in parking attitudes and in the downtown. So what we are trying to do, we have a philosophy of trying to hold our costs down as much as possible. And where projects are not needed, we defer those off to another year or we move money from already existing appropriated projects into hit critical needs. So we're kind of doing the everything we can to keep our costs as low as possible in that fund. Financial services makes up of finance reporting and budget and AP and those types of areas. We went down there. That's a net reduction that includes the deletion of an accountant auditor. In order for us to add a payroll supervisor. So what we looked internally was we knew that we needed a payroll supervisor while it's a small group. It's one where the payroll manager really needs to be separate from the actual line group. And it works better to have a supervisor do the direct management of our payroll specialists. Which frees up the payroll manager to do compliance work, labor costing, all of those types of things that really take a lot of the time away from supervisory work. We tried doing having one person do both. It did not work, so we've rectified that. And in order to add that position, we then looked at our accounting and budget area and found that we could move some operations around tasks around and free up an accountant position to be able to eliminate that to offset the costs. Our purchasing and area grew due to just salary and benefits costs increases revenue. So this is what remains of the revenue division. I think in the budget for next year, you won't even see a line item from them. They'll be absorbed up into our administration group. Last year, we did a reorganization where we moved all the water funded operations to the water department. It made more sense to have the actual paying department directly oversee that group instead of going through finance as kind of a go between. What remains is a small group that manages all of our accounts receivable. Basically, any general fund revenue that comes through the city goes through them. So they are what's remaining. The reason why this line item decrease is that when we did the reorganization, we anticipated that there would be more of a need for them to charge time to the water billing group to cover for them. And it turns out that we did not need to do that, so we're decreasing that budget now. And then payroll and benefits, you'll see that we have added the position. That's why that went up and CIP and ONM projects, those are specifically the parking projects that I mentioned before. So this just summarizes what I went through on the other slide and then going into our accomplishments. So, you know, compliance is very important for us. You know, we are happy with the fact that we have produced a clean audit for fiscal year 22. We are also able to manage the quarterly submission of our expenditure reporting with Treasury for our ARPA costs. This has turned out to be a challenging effort to say the least. And I'll get to that in a minute. But to be able to meet those deadlines, it is a cross the city effort with the different program managers. And I want to recognize that they do a lot of work of trying to get the information together. And then we sit down and try to navigate a U.S. Treasury portal that is not fun. But we make that happen. We've also, we've talked a lot about the 115. Those funds have been invested. They are actually, our earnings have been positive there. That's a function of the time when we were able to transfer the money in. So we were, we actually were able to get that fund started when toward the trough of the market correction and have been able to see some gains in that. So we actually are positive in that area. And like we've mentioned before, our goal is to utilize that to maintain the principle that we have, especially in the general fund, but we also set one up in the water fund as well, of maintain their principle and be able to use earnings and interest to offset UAL mitigation or UAL costs going up in the future. We implemented an electronic W2 process. This was the help from our payroll folks and our IT department, which will be hopefully a result in less work for our payroll folks of stuffing W2s and also be more convenient for city staff in general. And then we were able to fill 16 open positions and eight of those we did through internal promotion. So that's also part of our goal is to try to develop from within and poach from other departments wherever possible, which we have done. So moving into our challenges in the finance side. So as I alluded to before, grant management both from the Cal OES side and ARPA and CDBG, all the other ones, but definitely what has come out of the recovery process from the Tubbs Fire is something that has morphed and grown over time. When we had the Tubbs Fire, we had a consultant Ernst and Young help us through that initial process and without them, I don't think we would have been able to do nearly the amount of work that we're currently doing now. And it resulted in a lot of money coming back to the city, which was desperately needed because we spent a lot through that disaster. But over time, there are more hazard mitigation grant programs that come along with those disasters. CDBG was able to carve funds out for our Fire Station 5 rebuild. All of this adds layer to essentially one person in my department that does the grant management through this. They work with all the other departments, but there is essentially one person that has that responsibility of ensuring that we meet our deadlines, get everything in correctly, have all of that information documented and ready for the audits that we will get at some point. So I think internally what we're looking at is how do we develop the infrastructure from a personnel standpoint to be able to manage all those grants. And that kind of goes into the next point here of the continuity of the resources there. Like I said, I started during the Tubbs Fire working on this along with Jose Morales, who is dutifully taking notes behind me. We started that program. He did the lion's share of the work from the finance side. And he has now moved into a different position. We've hired a new person behind him. There are going to be other folks that have either left the city through retirements or will leave the city through retirements before the Tubbs FEMA projects are concluded. And definitely before any external audits happen after that. So being able to figure out a way to have that continuity of staff, internal staff resources is something that we are working on. Jose and team has come up with good procedures, manuals, things like that. Just the basic stuff, but things that really didn't exist. We were kind of flying by the seat of our pants, especially when E&Y left. And to be able to kind of keep all of that documentation there, we are doing a good job presently. But I do think it's a challenge going forward. I do think we're understaffed in that area. Or that we need to look at it a little bit differently in how we do that grant management. And those are things that we need to figure out again. I'll be the first one to tell you. The last thing I want to do is add staff if I can't offset it with some other costs. There are sometimes potentials to offset admin costs with some of these grants. So those are things that we could look at. But other than that, we would want to focus with our internal staff resources that we have and maybe change the duties around to be able to be more efficient, I guess, would be the word. And then the other thing that we need to do is the need for automation in my department, particularly in process improvement. There are a number of things that we do that I remember when I came here almost 25 years ago. We were still doing it the exact same way. A lot of it is paper centric. And we know we need to change that. It takes some time for us to be able to identify it, understand new processes, figure out ways to either automate or make it more efficient, but also cost effective at the same time. So these are some kind of ongoing things that we have. But just initially diving into it, you know, it means pulling people away from their normal assignments to think about how to do those assignments differently when they're really challenged to actually complete the assignments that they're trying to do. So, you know, that's where me and my leadership team kind of come in to try to figure this stuff out. But these are on our short term plans for doing things differently in the department. And moving on to parking. So we're providing a fund summary for you here. And I think Veronica mentioned earlier how some of the enterprise funds are drawing down from their reserves. This is an example of that. So again, this is where we are in the parking enterprise is to understand what the new normal for our revenue is. And right now it's not meeting up with our expenditures. So we are running a deficit. It is considerably lower than the deficit that we ran last year. But again, a lot of that is because we figured out a way to be more cost effective with the expenditures that we are currently doing, meaning shed certain expenditures that we don't need to do, but also to move uncritical needs out. And so I know that at some point we're going to have to do those. The things that are not critical are going to become critical, but we'll figure that out as we get going. Our main thing that we want to do is figure out what the right amount of revenue is and then develop our expenditure budget around for that. Our reserves, or we don't have a reserve on here, and I'm going off the top of my head, but I would guess that it's probably around four-ish million dollars. We will know that more in October. But I have a little bit of room to play there, not a lot. Right now, as we try to stabilize that fund and then come up with new ways of providing that service to the community, we are doing studies to try to figure out what are the best ways of running a parking operation in Santa Rosa, especially post-COVID. Those are things that we will continue to do. And next year, hopefully, we'll be getting closer to a more balanced budget in that area. And then, so for our highlights in the parking fund, we've been working with the Downtown Action Organization to try to provide clear and consistent parking rates. This is something that we've heard loud and clear from them. So some of the things that we've done is that we made the free parking from Small Business Saturday to New Year's Day free going forward. So that is now a permanent, as opposed to a temporary program that we would reevaluate on an annual basis. And we also made the first-hour free in all of our parking garages. And that's also something that helps provide less confusion to folks of not knowing where the garages that have the first-hour free and who don't. So now they all do, and hopefully, we'll result in more parking in those garages. We've, I've mentioned that deferring the non-critical projects to save money and again to try to build reserves wherever possible. We did reorganize our supervisory structure within the department. So we used to have a coordinator that really was the second in command and there wasn't a lot of redundancy or backup for that. So we've gone to a more normal supervisory model that has an operations and a maintenance supervisor that allows to provide some backup and redundancy in the department. And we feel that it's a cost savings and an efficiency booster. And then we did some changes with our parking enforcement officer of eliminating a .5 officer and increasing a .5 parking operations aid to be a full-time FTE. And we felt that that was a better use of those resources. So with that, that should be the end of my deal. And before I go into non-departmental, I'm happy to answer any questions that you have. Thanks, Alan. How many FTEs are we devoting to grants management right now? Well, it's a decentralized process. So in my department, I would count myself. So it's really probably one, really, and then one transitioning away. So it's one. And then in other departments, they'll have program managers that will manage either all of their FEMA grants or will have special... They typically go by project for the FEMA grants and also for the ARPA grants. So there may be multiple or all under one, but that's something that I can get back to you. Has the work that Scott and Lana have been doing on additional government grants, has that been affecting the time from your department? No. No. And that's actually really good work. And I think that that's part of the area where we can help with some of the grant management part of incorporating that management part or at least the communication within there could help with that. Look, every grant that comes in is important. And we need to go for those because as I've mentioned before, we have finite resources, right? So we need the grant resources coming in. But they do come in at a cost of the ability to manage those grants and to do the paperwork around there. So these are things that I think that we can... I would want to look internally to try to figure out the best way of doing that grants management and to be able to absorb those costs that come in from getting the additional grants. If that makes sense. It does. I'm just glad you highlighted the issue because it's a critical back end piece and especially as the city does more and more work in the space we're going to need to figure out how to manage it. So thanks for bringing it out. You mentioned automation as well. Am I correctly inferring that we're talking mainly about additional software packages? I'm looking at that, yeah. So currently right now we do a lot of... And I'm focusing more on our... In the remaining revenue groups or revenue and collections section. So we do a lot of that work that's heavily... It's quite the administrative burden. And I know that there is technology that's out there that could ease that burden both for our staff and potentially for the customers that need to pay into it. So those are the things that we're looking at. It's just finding that they're pretty expensive. And so it's whittling that cost down to make it make sense. And to go along with what our current staffing is now and what our future staffing may be in a couple years. I'm glad you're looking at those options. They're needed. I just wanted to shine a spotlight on Brian and his team because they're going to end up in his lap. And I'm assuming we'll be hearing about those in his presentation. But it's necessary to look at those. Final question for me. What's an example of a non-critical parking project? That's a good question. So if we have... Let's say that there is an overlay of a lot or something that we will put money into but we don't need to do right away. We're either building money up for it. That would be clearly one of those. We could push that out, extend the life of the lot or just deal with the lot longer that way. Anything that is critical that comes to like say garage elevators or any of the structural components of a garage those are the things that we act on right away. But it does take us a while to build up money for those but those are the things that we try not to defer off at all. There are other things that may be some software items that we've looked at and there that maybe don't work as well as what we thought. So we shed those and either do it internally or try to find a better package. So it's those types of things. We go through a pretty extensive review of what we can do either through our own maintenance staff or our own ops staff and what we can and then the critical versus again those things that we can push off a year or so. Understood. Thank you. Council Member O'Reilly. Thank you very much. Council Member Stapps told my question about the deferred projects but I will take this opportunity to commend you on the positions filled internally. I think that succession planning and providing an opportunity for upward mobility within our organization is something that is should be of the highest priority for all departments and I just want to commend you for that because while it's not a silver bolt to solve our hiring woes it is something that another tool that we can use to help mitigate a slowdown of our government. So thank you for that. Vice Mayor McDonald. Thank you Mayor. Thanks Alan. I do have a couple different questions since we're talking about the deferred maintenance. Have we done any cost analysis on the things that we're deferring to say well if we pushed off a year or two is it actually going to cost us more in the end. So and I know that that's typical around some of the things we have pushed off around streets and roads and those types of things and specifically our facilities. So in your department is only the parking garages that you're deferring those maintenance programs with or is it other departments as well. So what I'm just talking about here is strictly with parking and so I yes we that all goes into to the analysis right. And you're right by by holding off a project there's a good chance that we're going to by the time we finally get around to doing it we're going to increase the cost of it but it may also allow us to do other things at that point and it's worth that extra cost. So that kind of all goes through it. For example you know we're scheduled to resurface lot 10 which is the one that's behind it's off of Fifth Street behind Russian River Brewery. So you know we there are opportunities for us to put in electric chargers there electric vehicle chargers. And it's going to take us more time and this is actually one where we've already have the money budgeted for it. So this isn't deferring for a cost savings but this is deferring for potentially having a better grower lot at the long run if we're able to have EV chargers or at least the infrastructure and to be able to put up EV chargers in there after the fact but that takes time and so it moves it out. So yes I would imagine by the time we are we we are ready to go with that we've probably increased the cost as I know yeah we've increased the cost of that by you know an amount and but we are also looking for different types of grants that might be able to come in and and fill that gap that's there or we take the hit in the reserves but hopefully our we've been able to hold cost down in the meantime that has built up our reserves and our revenues start coming in as they were post COVID or pre COVID and that helps bring up our reserves and so all of those things go into that analysis for us to be able to make those types of decisions. So yes we put a lot of effort into that and what makes sense and what doesn't. Thank you and then I know we talked about grants a little bit and I appreciate councilmember steps questions around that. My questions are do you think there's grants that are available to us but because we don't have a staff member that's specifically looking at them from a perspective of all the different parts of the of our organization. I mean wouldn't it be of us to think about having somebody specific on staff that could help not only support the current person that's there but actually be looking for those grants that are available. Right so I mean my focus is primarily on the back end of those grants and how to manage them after we get them so but I believe under the grants committee that we have now that Scott and Lon are working with. We work with a somebody that helps us a consultant that helps us put grants together or some of them to help write those and I know that in the departments they have very qualified subject matter experts that their job is to write grants and to go out and find as much money that can to come into the city so I think from that standpoint we're in pretty good shape my concern was more in the back end of the management process the reporting process not necessarily management. I think that's important as well sometimes you can have a grant for $25,000 and it sounds great but by the time you have staff that actually does all the reporting on it it costs us almost as much because of the management of it. And then the last question I have is under the O and M part of your budget expenditures. What does that stand for exactly? Is that operating and maintaining? It's operations and maintenance. Okay and is that including staff costs? Yes in the case of... Is this in the finance department? I'm sorry I didn't hear exactly. So I'm just wondering if that included the cost of staff and that O and M expenditures? So if it's an O and M project it could but it's mostly just a short term project that is going there if it is O and M as a part of the... Slide 72. Page 72. Oh okay that helps. Yes so those are staff costs I'm sorry yes those are absolutely staff costs. So I'm clear the staff costs are outweighing the revenues and transfers in? Yeah so you're on this page we have our O and M expenditures so that's going to be our salaries, benefits, services and supplies. So all of that comes out to the 5.2 million dollars sorry 5.6 million dollars and then correct the revenue amount that's coming in is 5.2 so the delta ends up being our deficit that we have. So it also could surface and supplies? It's the O and M expenditures I just kind of it's one line that's covering salaries, benefits and all of our services and supplies so those are any contracts, operating supplies, ENR costs, all of those types of non-salary related costs that go to operations. Okay I'm just trying to see is it actually costing us more to operate the parking than it is to actually get the money in from the parking. So that's where I was trying to see is what part of it is salary and benefits and what part of it is actually maintaining our parking garages and the parking areas. Right so the revenue that comes in through this these are all through our parking permits, our parking, our metered parking all of that and that's the revenue that comes in that should support all of the how the business operates and how we maintain all of our infrastructure. So if we don't have enough revenue to support all of our infrastructure and run the program then yeah that's it's not going to last long. So that's the challenge right so then what options do we have at that point? What we are doing is consciously drawing down reserves holding our costs down as much as possible. Drawing down our reserves in order to plug the gap with the hope that parking will return to a level that better supported the operations. If that doesn't happen then we need to look at what our options are after that which is either figuring out how to raise our revenue or cutting our expenditures. Are there any additional questions from council members? Seeing none would you like to continue? Okay this is me again I think I can go through this one way quicker than the last one sorry about that. We have a non-departmental so Veronica and actually Dominique have kind of hit on a lot of these. Non-departmental is an area in the in our budget system that isn't owned by anyone department so it's just out there and we pay a lot of costs that benefit the city as a whole out of it. So in this case we have an overall decrease that is driven by our general fund cost admin that Veronica talked about a little bit before and then we have our pension obligation bond, our fire station capital lease that's fire station five, yes it burned down but we still need to pay the payments on it and then our courthouse square capital lease. Then we have all of our programs that go into this of our general fund insurance and contract services so our general fund insurance that includes both fire and earthquake insurance. Those increase a very small amount but our liability and our auto insurance which did go up more that was what both Veronica and Dominique discussed with the $600,000 increase. Contract services those are appropriations for our sales tax revenue consultant and an audit cost through there that is supported largely by additional sales tax revenue that comes in that more than covers the cost of the audit or of the contract cost. We have our LAFCO payment in there as well. We have payment for the Sonoma County Transportation Authority debt service that I mentioned in the other slide and then our general fund cost allocation, plan cost and again Veronica went into that. We do have our animal shelter payment that's in here. We do expect that increase to go up in 23-24. We budgeted rather conservatively for this but we do expect an increase there. Then we have our county admin fee which is fee for two Sonoma County in connection with property tax allocation and collection and we've increased that to go along with our past trends and then we have our non-program expenditure. This is kind of a catch-all but what that catch-all includes is where we put our vacancy credit. That vacancy credit is about $3 million which represents about 2% of general fund salary and benefits. For the general fund changes, we kind of went over this a lot. Again, increases for the general funds portion of liability firing earthquake insurance, $1.1 million decrease in general fund administration which really just is a negative amount to go along with the positive numbers that are in the other departments. It's an offset. It comes to a zero in our expenditure budget but it's just a way of showing the cost-borne for general admin activities and non-general fund departments. We had to have an offsetting negative somewhere otherwise we would have an over-inflicted budget and then we had $500,000 decrease in non-program salaries and that's again increasing our vacancy credit going from $2.5 million to $3 million. Again, another negative number that we have there. And with that, happy to answer any questions. Are there any questions from Council? Seeing none, thank you very much for that presentation. We'll now hear from Information Technology. Good afternoon, Mayor Rogers, Vice Mayor McDonald and the rest of the Council. I appreciate being here. My name is Brian Tickner. I'm the Chief Information Officer for the City and here to present the Information Technology Budget. So IT is an internal service fund which basically means that we recuperate 100% of our costs by charging out to the departments through what's called an IT cost allocation plan. And we have within IT two funds. One's what we call the Information Technology Fund which is our core services around IT infrastructure, software and support. And then our Technology Replacement Fund which is focused specifically on replacements of PCs, laptops and Windows tablets basically. This year we have about an 8.2% increase that we're proposing and this year goes into some of those details that breaks us down by program. So within IT administration, we have about a $102,000 increase. Of that, 18,000 is made up of liability and auto insurance increases. 79,000 is in overall city overhead. That's IT's portion of the city overhead that's all put into the admin key there. And then the remaining 5,000 is around salaries and benefits. For media services and IT GIS services, those increases are all salaries and benefits as well. In IT development, that's our software application services group. So that's a rather large number there, 419,000. What that's made up of is, so our group there is software programmers and application support specialists. We have about 75 in-house developed programs as well as 32 third party softwares like our financial system, our HR payroll, permitting system, our water billing system, those kinds of systems. So of those 32 systems there, we pay in the neighborhood of just over $2 million for support and maintenance and ongoing subscription costs. 226,000 of that $419,000 increases in that area this year. But of the 226,000, 205,000 is specifically around city works, which is our work order system that's recently gone live over a year now. Those costs we've been paying for the last three years is a city, but in the past they've been paid for either by the water department or the water department pooling money from the other departments and paying that. Starting with this budget year, we've pulled all that into the IT cost allocation plan so that it can be more properly allocated. So that 205 of that increases, once again, money we've been paying, but it's now in the IT budget. The remaining 165,000 is around salaries and benefits, including the proposed addition of one new position that I'll talk about in the next slide. IT customer support is also going up, and that is also around salaries and benefits that I'll talk about in the next slide. And then our PC replacement program is salaries and benefits. And then for us, the ONM projects there reflected the 23,179 increases specific to PC costs, the costs of PCs for the replacement program. So that does not include salaries, benefits or anything like that. That's specifically for equipment, and that's about 2%. So I mentioned some position changes coming up. So we have about $456,000 of our increases related to salaries and benefits. Some are around step increases and colas and benefit increases, but others are what we are looking to do as part of a mini reorganization of the department. So I've been appointed the IT CIO for just over a year now. And so during that time, we've really kept a prior position. I was in IT section manager's position vacant so that we could really analyze the organization of the department and figure out what we thought was best going forward. And for that, what we would like to do is eliminate the vacant IT section manager position and add a senior IT tech that we will assign to our help desk. We currently have one person assigned to our help desk that we'll see later. We have close to 11,000 tickets coming in last year. And so we'd like to allocate that as a second level, second tier person for our help desk to help support our city better. And then we have a one FTE IT supervisor that is conditional upon an internal promotion. So earlier Veronica mentioned kind of a multi-year process for this. Part of why the salaries would go up is we want, what we want to do is have a promotional opportunity that would promote somebody into a new position as an IT supervisor, and then we would eliminate their position that they were in. And then we would have that position oversee our application specialists that are supporting these 32 software applications. With that elimination we would basically, so at one point we'd never be using the two salaries. So whoever's in that position now would be using it and then once they're promoted we'd eliminate that other position. And so we would recuperate that and then eliminate the position officially after that to save the funds. We will however, so that's around the reorganization. In addition to that, we have proposed adding one technology application specialist that would be reporting into PED on a daily basis but still part of our IT team. We have one, what's called a TAS in PED today. But due to the volume of work that PED has and the number of technologies they use and are continuing to deploy out and the demands of our public that's using their services, we really need an additional support specialist there and so we're proposing adding a position for that and then I've already discussed the 226 increase in the software. As far as accomplishments go, this past year we did complete the development of a four-year IT strategic plan that aligns with council goals. There's six areas of focus there. We have it around digital services, security that includes physical security as well as cyber security. Around hybrid services, support and maintenance personnel and process as well as governance and accountability. The second item there, we deployed and enhanced online services for internal staff in the community. Some examples there is the My Santa Rosa app that has been live for just over a year now both on the app as well as reporting online. We have over 3,000 issues reported by the public through that application in actually the first 10 months of its use. We have map-based tools that assist with homelessness for our internal staff to view as well as public-facing maps for that. We've also expanded online tools for permit applications and are doing some electronic plan review now both fire as well as planning economic development. We also referred earlier the third bullet point, nearly 10,000 or sorry, nearly 11,000, 10,980 to be specific internal service requests this last year from our employees looking for assistance on various technology issues. We've also spent a lot of time hardening our cybersecurity measures and completing a cybersecurity assessment. We've rolled out in that regard multi-factor authentication citywide. We've upgraded our firewalls. We've upgraded our remote access technologies. We've continued to provide citywide training and we do phishing testing for citywide as well to phishing campaigns to help hone skills and improve our skills there in that area. We also have completed the cybersecurity assessment which is provided as a roadmap and we're currently working on a plan to address the items that have come out of that. The next item we spent about a year ago now but we upgraded this city council chambers for public meetings and broadcasts. We've added some new cameras and some of the monitors here. The broadcast equipment that's down in the media room as well as adding automated closed captioning that's saving us tens of thousands of dollars a year and we're still honing the accuracy there but it is saving us a lot of money as well as offering Spanish translation services so now we're able to broadcast in basically in English as well as a Spanish language that includes captioning at the same time both to YouTube as well as our public TV channels. And then we've also enhanced our in-house built service request system for emergency operation center use which saves us about $22,000 a year there. As far as challenges go, I mentioned cybersecurity it's you know it's really a global issue that continues to expand and become more sophisticated. We spent a lot of time and effort there and we know that we will continue to focus areas there focus our efforts on that. We also as far as challenges go really balancing support and maintenance with new IT projects and so the demand for IT services continues to increase you know to the tune we mentioned you know the 11,000 service request that's up 2,000 from the prior year which is also up 2,000 from the year before that and so part of that I think is coming out of COVID but a lot of it is continuing to increase and we're on pace to probably do could be more than 2,000 this upcoming year as far as an increase goes and then we also are asked to work on a lot of IT related projects which is great that's what we're here for but it's really that same staff that's addressing these 10,000, 11,000 tickets in addition to what last year was 32 new IT projects that could range anywhere from 40 hours to six months worth of work really depending on the scope and what's involved or if it's a full new implementation something like the city work system or some other large systems take you know years plus and then finally the emerging technologies and regulations as far as challenges go we have in addition to regulations that we also that are imposed upon the departments a lot of times we need to improve our technologies to adhere or to conform to those regulations so we have some things like upcoming solar automated solar permit issuances that we have to have live by September working with pet on that we have initiatives around tracking of waste for waste material for construction projects there's some initiatives around email address requirements and website and things like that so in addition to working on these regulations we also have emerging technologies coming out at the same time that we need to stay current on while we're also continuing to support our older technologies or the ones that we implemented previously to try to maximize our investments there and get the most out of those so really we're we're trying to kind of balance all those at the same time which frankly makes IT kind of exciting too but it is a challenge those are the slides I had are there any questions looking at council for any questions council members that have questions not a question so much as a few words of thanks Brian first for advocating so strongly for the IT department no one ever pays attention to IT speaking as someone formerly in the industry so I'm glad you came out here and spoke forcefully it's a difficult job in a complex environment like this with all the applications you have to maintain all the different departments but thank you for focusing specifically on cybersecurity that's something that almost every business doesn't pay enough attention to so I'm glad you really made that a focus of your remarks again just a good work thank you thank you yeah we definitely have a lot of plans in the future we're working on there as well so I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for the phishing emails they definitely keep me on my toes and a little paranoid I may add but at least I'm learning what they are and also to say sorry that I'm probably like a thousand of the additional two thousand of the tickets that are put in but we do have everything working correctly now so thank you very much and thank you very much for the presentation thank you councilman vice mayor McDonald thank you mayor I just have a question on the new IT person that you'll be hiring will that help support those eleven thousand requests that are coming in and as Mayor Rogers thank you for a thousand of her request I probably have the other nine thousand so so thank you your staff is always really professional and extremely patient for those of us who maybe aren't from an IT background so I appreciate that and then that was my main thing was wanting to make sure that those tickets were being handled because we know when somebody can't work whether it's remotely or in office if they had that problem that that needs to be taken care of just to clarify there so we have one gentleman who works the help desk that's his full-time job he isn't necessarily completing eleven thousand tickets but he's the one responsible for making sure that he'll complete roughly half of those and then the other portion goes to the rest of the staff in IT to address and so it's really a full team effort there but what we're expecting to happen as we add this tier two person is that a lot of those tickets instead of pulling our staff from working on the projects that they're working on to go do a support ticket it'll get escalated to a tier two person that can hopefully address say at least another half of those tickets and so we're hoping to add some efficiencies internally by with that position and thank you for making us a little bit more automated and looking at ways that we can do that to streamline our process thank you for all that work thanks alright seeing no additional questions again thank you very much for the presentation our last presentation of the day is from housing and community services good afternoon I'm Megan Bassenger director of housing and community services and with me is Kate Goldfine our administrative services officer so we're going to start with Kate walking through the first couple of slides and then I'll resume the presentation yes good afternoon mayor and council members the 2324 housing and community services budget is 80.4 million the vast majority of that is federal funding and we also have a state grant as Veronica noted earlier HCS has a very small general fund presence it's just two programs that Megan will discuss shortly mobile home rent stabilization fund increased up to $264,000 and that's due to more administrative funding for that program the homeless services operations fund was in the city manager's office last year and the 301 nearly 302,000 there represents the portion of outside agencies who fund a portion of Sam Jones Hall operations our homeless shelter operations we also have ARPA federal stimulus funding of 4.1 million that was also in the city manager's office last year and has moved to housing and community services there are three programs within that homeless programs our existing ongoing programs homeless services administration and the secure family fund youth immigration attorney administration for housing and community services is a little under 1.6 million it is nearly flat and is mostly comprised of citywide overhead and the tiny reduction you see there was just a tiny reduction in our overhead our rental assistance budget is at 41.4 million that is 100 percent federally funded for our housing voucher programs HUD has increased both our rental assistance allowance and our admin allowance due to expected expenditure increases and then finally the housing trust budget is at 32.6 million that is much higher than normal that is made up of 15 different funding sources that are federal, local and state the vast majority of that increase is the 20.7 million IIG grant infill infrastructure state grant that Veronica discussed earlier and that's offset by reduced funding in a few other areas okay many HCS programs correspond to the funds table so I'm going to discuss the differences here and then answer any questions in this slide community services programs is one program that is our tenant landlord services legal aid contract which is being partly funded by one time grant money which Megan will discuss in a moment the biggest difference between this slide and the first slide is the housing trust and CIP and O&M projects so that 20.7 million infill infrastructure grant is budgeted in an O&M project which is nearly the which is the reason for the giant increase there and then in the housing trust the second line the reduction there is because we have less funding available this year primarily from loan repayments and fiscal year 2223 was a particularly high year for loan repayments 2324 is more of a normal year and now I will turn it back over to Megan to discuss program we have the secure family funds grant 50,000 of this comes from the general fund and the remaining 60,000 comes from the CDBG CARES Act which is a COVID resource that was allocated to the city and this will be the final trancha funding that we are able to put towards I'm sorry I jumped to legal aid to the legal aid contract so there is the secure family fund at 50,000 and then legal aid which is a combination of CARES Act and then the general fund resource as Kate touched on we have an increase in the mobile home fund these are the fees that are collected as a result of the mobile home grant control ordinance so each space is charged a monthly fee this goes into a fund to assist with administration of the program as you may recall we have a fairly robust fund balance and that has been the result of staff vacancies and then a limited administrative needs with the changes to the ordinance and increased inquiries from the mobile home population we've had much more administrative demand for the program in the past nearly six months for the homeless services operation as Kate noted we have 301,000 this comes from the community foundation which has made annual contributions to the operation of Sam Jones hall homeless shelter since it opened in 2005 and this is also coupled with funding from the county of Sonoma as council member Rogers asked during the city manager's budget there was a $350,000 line item that was shown there and that was a result of funding that was put towards rehab needs at Sam Jones hall so we have a project that we are anticipating that we'll replace the roof and do additional work at the facility was open in 2005 and is in need of some rehabilitation and then finally on this slide we have the ARPA funds Veronica noted that we shifted our fiscal year our administrative and programmatic needs from the general fund and real property transfer tax to ARPA so we have our service contracts and then administration of the program coming out of this fund next as Kate noted we have a very minor reduction in housing administration and this is essentially the general clearing house for the various expenses of the department because we have so many funds that we are charging into at the federal state level we put them all into one location and then to be them to the appropriate programs we also have an increase in our rental assistance program we're anticipating $41.4 million in the upcoming fiscal year this is the funding that is used to provide housing assistance to over 2,000 households on a monthly basis so this is the rental assistance that's made directly to landlords in our community this is the administrative funding to support the staff that performs this program and then as was noted by Veronica's presentation and Kate the most noteworthy funding increase for housing and community services is in the housing trust earlier in the year we were we being the city were awarded $20.7 million in IIG which is infill infrastructure for six projects located within downtown Santa Rosa and then improvements to Martin Luther King Park so these funds will be applied to those projects when they begin construction and we've also had a decrease in our loan repayment we had one particular project that had a significant pay down but we've also seen the projects have reduced cash flow so our loan repayment this year is down about a million dollars and then finally the change to the housing trust is a reallocation of staff time rent control ordinance now to touch on some of the accomplishments in housing and community services in this current year our homeless services team implemented the citywide encampment team this is a proactive group of city staff from various departments that work to address the impacts of encampments throughout the city council adopted the homeless strategic plan back in November and we are working on the first year implementation plan this is a five year strategic plan to help the city guide our homeless services decisions in March we also completed the first year of service for the safe parking program this provides 50 spaces at a city facility on the west side of Santa Rosa year to date we've served over 148 people 87 have exited and we've had about a 23% housing rate so I think it's a fairly successful program that we are able to stand up for the community and then another noteworthy accomplishment that again touches on the coordination between city departments is in prior years we switched from a paper waiting list system for our housing choice voucher program to electronic so thanks to the IT department and their staffing and programming resources we were able to have over 7200 individuals apply for the housing choice voucher waiting list electronically and that's how we are pivoting the program in the future it's much more efficient for staff and then it's very useful for the potential participants the emergency housing voucher program which is again a program that came out of the COVID era provided the city with 131 vouchers specifically for homeless individuals since this slide was prepared we have leased up 85 individuals and that's currently subs over the course of the program we've served 90 households but for a variety of reasons some have left the program already we have individuals who are still searching for housing units and we continue to receive referrals from the Sonoma County continuum of care so the individuals for this program must be homeless and must be referred to us through a head designated continuum of care some of the most noteworthy efforts that the department and the city have had in the past few years have been the CDBG DR disaster recovery affordable housing projects we have the Linda Tunis senior apartments which were completed this winter this was the first statewide disaster recovery apartment complex it's 26 units in rink and valley and that is in service and serving senior households we have three projects that are currently under construction we have the Caritas homes which is located in downtown Santa Rosa former site of the journeys and mobile home park and that is two phases that will be completing soon we have 93 units and then another 37 I believe that are anticipating a summer completion and then we have the Canary at railroad square which is 129 units over in railroad square that's currently under construction and the fifth and final project is in the process of completing its financing so I'm hopeful that in the coming months we'll see that project begin construction and then the final development accomplishment I'd like to note is the former Bennett Valley senior center so this was a project started back in 2018 between housing and community services and the real estate division to surplus the city site we were able to enter into an ENA and sell it to the developer recently it has started construction as a 60 plus unit affordable housing complex and again this is a compilation of various departments resources and also funding from the renewal enterprise district to get this project moving forward now looking at some of our challenges going forward we continue to work with our housing choice voucher families to identify units and get them leased up right now it's currently about four months from the time of vouchers issued to a time that they're able to lease up I think as we have several hundred units under construction we might see reduced time between issuance and lease up for those households we as noted in the previous slide we have many projects that were able to access our affordable housing resources in the past couple years as we return to a normal funding rate we'll see our housing funds available between five and seven million going forward so we'll need to learn to work within our existing means and look for ways to address our affordable housing needs in advanced projects with fewer resources and then finally as I noted the homeless services division is currently funded by ARPA so when the ARPA funds are exhausted and we shift back to the general fund evaluating our programs and how we continue forward with the current level of service and that impact on the general fund and that concludes our presentation and we'd be happy to answer any questions looking at council to see if there are any questions vice mayor McDonald thank you Megan I just want to actually commend doing your team on the well done work that we've done in the city as far as all of the housing when we were back east and I know I mentioned it before in my comments really we do an exemplary job and so that goes to you and your entire team on everything we're able to do and secure funding from the federal government so I just want to thank you and hope that with that last visit we'll see an increase in funding apparently the grant part is difficult but thanks to Alan and all of you to be able to mitigate doing those grants and those funds I really just want to say thank you thank you very much any additional questions or comments seeing none thank you very much for your presentation and we will we will recess a study session we will recess this study session until tomorrow May 10th at which time we will reconvene at 9am the council will reconvene today for our regular session but see you guys tomorrow or see you guys at 4pm which is the time that we will reconvene thank you so much we will now start our regularly scheduled meeting seeing a quorum Madam City Clerk may you please take the roll thank you Mayor Councilmember Stapp Councilmember Rogers Councilmember Okrepke Councilmember Fleming here Councilmember Alvarez Vice Mayor McDonald Mayor Rogers present oh actually we will now move to item 5 report on a study session oh we will not have a report on this study session moving to item 6 proclamations we have 2 proclamations today we have 6.1 and 6.2 our first will be read by Councilmember Okrepke thank you very much Madam Mayor this is a very important proclamation because it is something that is very important to our community it is for May being affordable housing month so whereas affordable housing is good for business people and the quality of life in the City of Santa Rosa and whereas our community thrives when all families have a place to call home and whereas the City of Santa Rosa and Housing Authority of the City of Santa Rosa have made affordable housing an important goal to be achieved by providing barriers to the construction and rehabilitation process and whereas an adequate supply of housing types is necessary throughout the City in order to meet the needs of all economic segments of the City's population as well as all demographic segments of the City of Santa Rosa's residents and whereas the City of Santa Rosa is committed to stable and affordable housing for all its residents and whereas affordable housing month is a time to recommit to our mission and justice in housing and whereas our thriving community is encouraged to build local support and recognize affordable housing month which supports the sharing of best practices opportunities and solutions to provide affordable housing that is the right of all individuals now therefore be it resolved that I, Natalie Rogers, Mayor of the City of Santa Rosa on behalf of the entire City Council do hereby proclaim the month of May 2023 to be affordable housing month and City Council supports citywide efforts in developing and sustaining affordable housing for the residents of Santa Rosa Thank you Council Member Okrepke I would like to invite the representatives that are here to receive this proclamation to the podium to make a public comment if you would like Good afternoon Mayor Rogers and members of Council I'm Megan Bassinger the Director of Housing and Community Services and with me is Jeff Owen the Chair of the Housing Authority we would just like to thank the Council for acknowledging affordable housing month and recognize the efforts of our staff in the Home of Services Division our Rental Assistance Division and our Housing Trust for the efforts that they undergo on a daily basis to make sure that the citizens of Santa Rosa have adequate access to affordable housing and to follow up with Megan Jeff Owen the Chair of the Housing Authority the City of Santa Rosa, Madam Mayor and the rest of the Council thank you for the proclamation and how important this is and what Megan does in her department is to do an excellent job in trying to meet the needs of the community as well as meeting the city's reading numbers for the year and moving forward there's been a lot of progress as you drive around town and see a lot of construction going on right now and how many units are being provided more than any I've seen in 30 years I've lived in the city of Santa Rosa so thank you very much Thank you Madam City Clerk can you please facilitate a public comment on item 6.1 if you are in the chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card please make your way to the podium if you are participating via Zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period the first public comment will be from Dwayne DeWitt I'm from the Sonoma County Housing Advocacy Group I wanted to thank you folks and thank Mr. Ores and the staff for working on these efforts for more affordable housing in not just Santa Rosa but the greater community around it one of the things that's most important to keep in mind that for over 50 years since Santa Rosa's had a housing authority that residential rental housing has been the most important and strongest need it hasn't been met and I congratulate these folks because they're looking to get funding and doing the things they can to bring that funding in what's really important though is you elected leaders when you make these proclamations and you state to staff this is something that's important to you that you have some oversight on it you probably don't know the past history but the housing advocacy group came together over 25 years ago because the housing wasn't getting done even though the housing authority was getting funding one of the things that happens is when residential rental housing is planned along the way it gets switched over to being ownership and that doesn't help our rental stock this has happened on a number of projects including recently and one of the things that in the past was most problematic is there would not be a covenant put in place to keep the housing affordable that was built as a matter of fact at Bellevue Ranch those developers were able to put off their 62 units of affordable rental units that had been approved switch them over to be taken on by the city of Santa Rosa to provide them that was done with Burbank Housing and it was switched into ownership self-help build and then there weren't any long-term requirements put in there to keep it affordable so I applaud you the Sonoma County Housing Advocacy Group applauded you again but it really needs to come from you folks directing staff the city manager the director of the housing authority the homeless services people that residential rental is what's really going to solve your housing crisis which later in this meeting you're going to again say there's a homeless crisis so if you want to help those folks they got to have places to rent and please make that your primary goal especially when you give out proclamations and that'll be a wonderful thing thank you again for all your hard work and I think the term they use for it is covenants that you have to put those into writing shall and must those words must be used thank you thank you seeing no one else in the chamber wishing to provide public comment there are no hands being raised via zoom and there were no pre-recorded public comments mayor so we have no additional public comment Megan and Jeff would you like no can we invite you down to take a picture with the council I see some other staff that work really really hard and diligently with our unhoused population as well as getting people housed so if they can come down to this would be awesome thank you so much thank you we will now move to our second proclamation which will be read by councilmember rogers thank you mayor so our proclamation is for bike to work month and day whereas the bicycle is a healthy convenient financially and environmentally sound form of transportation and an excellent tool for recreation and enjoyment of santa rosa's scenic beauty local attractions and friendly neighborhoods and whereas santa rosa's streets and trails attract bicyclists each year providing economic health transportation tourism and scenic benefits and whereas creating a bicycling friendly community has been shown to improve citizens health well-being and quality of life grow the economy attract tourism improving safety supporting student learning reducing pollution congestion and wear and tear on our streets and roads and whereas since 2001 the sonoma county bicycle coalition has been promoting bicycling for transportation and recreation through education encouragement and advocacy and whereas the sonoma county bicycle coalition the league of American bicyclists the metropolitan transportation commission and jurisdictions throughout the bay area will be promoting bicycling during the month of may 2023 and whereas throughout the month of may the residents of santa rosa and its visitors can experience the joys of bicycling through free education programs challenges and events organized by these groups therefore be it resolved that natalie rogers mayor of the city of santa rosa on behalf of the entire city council do hereby proclaim may 2023 as bike to work month and day and recognize the sonoma county bicycle coalition and commends the institution for its contributions to the community thank you so much council member rogers i would like to invite the representatives that will be receiving this proclamation comment at the podium at this time after that comment or those comments are made madam city clerk can you please facilitate public comment thank you i'm eris weaver the executive director of the sonoma county bicycle coalition i think a very fitting that when i read the agenda for today's meeting that both housing and bicycling were on the same agenda because transportation and housing and our land use decisions are so inextricably twined there are so many ways so many things one can say about why bicycling is good for you for the planet but i think what we don't talk about often enough is the fact that bicycling just makes people happy the other day on my commute home i was cataloging all the moments of joy that i had experienced that day in my 20 mile round trip from startling a rabbit on the side of pedaloom a hell road just inside the city limits to riding the three blocks from crooks coffee to my office with a cup of coffee in my hand which makes me inexplicably happy for no good reason and my route at the end to i make sure that i end on one of the creek paths because the trees and the ducks and people walking their dogs reduce any stress i may have acquired from my work day or from bicycling on pedaloom a hell road i experienced the joy on my daily commute do you if not go to bikecinema.org and check out all the different activities that we are doing throughout the month to help encourage people to give it a try and we will help you find the joy thank you thank you we are now taking public comment on item 6.2 if you are in the chamber and would like to comment but i have not yet provided a speaker card please make your way to the podium waiting via zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period may or i see no hands being raised via zoom and no one approaching the podium in the council chamber and we receive no advance public comments on this item thank you i would like to invite you down to take a picture with the council and i heard some cheering so if you are here for this proclamation you can come on down too thank you we will move to item 7 madam city manager thank you mayor item 7.1 is a community empowerment plan update good afternoon madam mayor, madam vice mayor and members of the council, i am daniel gardunio violence prevention program manager just a couple of quick updates for you regarding the community empowerment plan first one is synco de mayo so as you all have probably heard we hosted the synco de mayo event on friday may 5th in roseland it was a fantastic event very well attended despite the rain i am estimating at least 2,000 people throughout the course of the 4-5 hours that we were out there violence prevention was joined by several different departments including the city manager's office communications, recreation, water transportation and public works senator was the police department and fire and i also want to give a huge shout out to our finance team who helped us with last minute payments the day before the event making this event possible for us we were also joined by 13 community partners who were out there tabling with us and the mary lou lowrider patrol car we also had 3 bands and a parade with dancing horses it was a really beautiful event we have plenty of pictures that we are working on getting together so we will hopefully be able to show those to you and hopefully we can do the same next year with a little bit more time to plan next update is regarding the cruising ordinance i will be back here on May 23rd with the repeal of santa rosa's cruising ordinance and just to give you a bit of a background on this the state legislature just recently passed ab 436 which removes authorization from local jurisdictions to enact anti-cruising ordinances and also lifts the prohibition on lowrider vehicles and state law so that will help move that along when we bring it to council finally our community engagement coordinator position is now vacant but we are in the process of recruiting for that position applications can be found at srcity.org and the deadline to apply is May 25th and that is my update thank you Madam city clerk may you please public comment we are now taking public comment on item 7.1 if you are in the council chamber it would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period the first public comment will be provided by dwing-duit dwing-duit i'm from roseland mcgardenio a month ago i was here to talk about how there was difficulties with graffiti in our areas and she pointed me to the right person to be able to get paint and supplies so that we could have people in the community doing their own graffiti removal if you will as a matter of fact at a veterans meeting we were talking with some people and we came up with an acronym for it graffiti removal veterans in neighborhoods and these are the guys that used to be cruising back in the day before it got outlawed here in santa rosa so we'll be grooving we'll be picking up some graffiti type things and now we'll be cruising too with that in mind i think you should be able to put single to mile down here at courthouse square now it's big enough it's an event we should be right in the center of town it should be the kind of thing where everybody gets to share in this with plenty of planning and really making it a really wide and big event once it gets too big for courthouse square we go to the fairgrounds i want this thing to grow to be one of the biggest things happening and with that in mind it's really something you didn't know about back in the day about the cruising ordinance but i think we should relate it to you santa rosa was one of the first to prohibit cruising 50, well 45 years ago basically because young people would come downtown here and they would cruise on 4th street up and down it was called tulen in 4th street and they would cruise on mendicino avenue after they said no cruising on 4th street over to mendicino after it went bad there on mendicino and the ordinances are passed the signs are up guess where those folks came to roseland and we were ok with it because sabastopol road it brings business and you know you folks want to revitalize downtown you should be looking into this because now this weekend monster truck shows going on over at the fairgrounds lots of people like those things after that you got lots of things going on with car shows peggy sue first you got veterans vietnam veterans and am vets putting on a car show so i know you want to do a switch over and get people riding in the electric you know and do their thing and people on bicycles you got taco tuesday for bicycle cruisers so that's a good thing but keep in mind there's a lot of people that still like to drive their cars and there what would you call that historical now as a matter of fact it's an antique car and it's a car so it's a part of our heritage let's embrace it and enjoy it thank you again to mrs. for helping us with graffiti removal thank you mr. no hands raised via zoom there are no additional people making their way to the podiums and there was no advance public comment received mayor thank you eight city manager and city attorneys report thank you mayor have no updates this evening and thank you madam mayor i also have no updates this afternoon thank you thank you item nine statements of extension by council members vice mayor thank you mayor i'll be abstaining from item 16.1 please item 10 council members reports are there any council members that would like to report out council member stat oh hold on vice mayor mcdonnell may you please state why it is that you will be abstaining from 16.1 yes thank you for that this is new to me so item 16.1 that subdivision is going in near my mother's house and since i'm part owner in that house now due to her passing i need to abstain from that thank you council members stat just a few quick updates from committee meetings the last two weeks back on the 27th of april there was a meeting of the ag and open space advisory committee with the main item of business being the fuel management up on settle mountain then later that week there was excuse me monday the following week there was a meeting of the WACTAC the water advisory committee i sat in on behalf of the mayor with thanks to jennifer burr for her assistance and the main items from that the main news from that meeting was first of all a very positive report about water supply conditions in the county as everyone is aware our reservoirs are full and we're feeling good about our water conditions there was an update on the cinema county water local hazard mitigation plan update all the work that's being done especially in the riparian areas to make them more resilient to various kinds of ecological disasters that can occur drought earthquake et cetera and perhaps most pertinent to this committee our mayor rogers was nominated to be nominated to the planning forum for the planning committee for the russian river water forum i hope you're aware of that mayor that your name was up but it was unanimous that you're the vice chair of that new very important committee as it looks at the potter dam project and all the water issues up in the southern part of mendicino northern part of cinema county that's going to be an interesting committee to serve on thank you for doing that then on friday last week it was a busy day there was the generation housing summit where there was a large contingent from the city including many in this room who were there for the part two of that it was a four hour four hour conference focused on how we do more with housing in this area and again it was nice to see so many faces from the city and then after that or the day after that it was synco to mile and again as daniel gave the summary that was just a fantastic event it was a lot of fun to be there on that day also last friday it was the barrel auction for cinema county vintners and i mentioned that only because healdsburg mayor ariel kelly did a really nice job with her proclamation at that event and i was glad for her in healdsburg but i also want to make sure that santa rosa is at the table next time around with the cinema county vintners events so we can make that happen in the future and i think i think that's it for me so thank you thank you councilmember alvarez thank you madam mayor i attended posolenight and corazones de culturas the rosa university prep and the rosen creek elementary corazones de culturas hearts of cultures and cultures of hearts and the young adults there were doing were representing different cultures of this world through both cuisine and artifacts so it was very good to see like a worldly view that is being learned in our schools for posolenight it was a little bit more flavorful but i can tell you they had some of the best water that actually could have beat any one of our taco trucks on sabasa road i don't know who made it we did hold the open government task force on the fourth alongside my colleagues both the krepke and fleming and it's the first time that we met for this subcommittee we contemplated the purpose and the direction of the open government subcommittee we agreed that it was best if i met as chair with our mayor to discuss both goals and how we could support her to achieve them whatever she wishes the city center was moving forward the mayor and i have sat and we've agreed that we should be discussing this issue a bit further so we'll meet again once the budget talks have concluded at that point i will schedule an open government meeting hopefully we'll discuss again both the direction of the open government task force lastly, or almost lastly i have to say, was a single arrival event for many years we've been dealing with the fires the pandemic and roselin specifically has not had an opportunity to be itself and this was a reminder of normalcy as we try to figure out what the new norm is and i gotta thank the city of san rosa the countless departments the countless staff members who really produce an event that normally takes an entire year to be able to do this in such a short amount of time rain did not stop the people it's a representation of what single the mile is vibrancy the will to overcome unsurmountable obstacles it was represented that day and i have to thank each and every one of the people that made it possible from our police chief to our sister city manager to daniel who just left us a little bit ago and again the countless amount of staff i know people appreciate it and i'm still hearing about it was raining but it did not matter it was the day in the rain dancing in the rain we could have said right that's probably the song that was missing out of there the repertoire i know today's the ninth and we won't be here for mother's day but nonetheless i'll thank you to all the moms out there who make me not a voice so thank you thank you councilmember alberas councilmember rogersth thank you mayor and councilmember let's also talk because there were a number of things on the open government committee agenda that i think are worthwhile that we can move forward so how about you and i meet to talk about that as well now that i'm no longer on the committee a couple of things that came up over the last two weeks first we had our power meeting this last thursday like most of our regional entities it's budget season so we were able to go through the budget and talk about the programs that scp scp has been standing up the long and the short the spoiler of it is that when utility rates are high makes it a lot easier to budget it just makes it harder on our constituents so we really looked at how do we keep those rates as low as possible still below bundled PG&E service going forward and how do we reinvest in community programs that are going to help us to achieve some clean powers goals we had scpa yesterday again working on our budget which is usually a fairly quick conversation it's four separate budgets actually we mostly talked about a potential meeting that is coming up next week or not a potential meeting a meeting that is coming up next week to discuss the potential for tolling on highway 37 we haven't talked about it a lot around the dais but council members should pay attention to the impact that that conversation is going to have on our community particularly when you look at the commuter patterns that are going across it is both an interim project that's short term as well as a longer term project that we're trying to achieve with 37 to make sure that it doesn't sink as somebody put it pretty succinctly yesterday it's in a marsh the road is sinking while climate change is causing water to rise and so if 37 ends up under water that's a huge impact to our community obviously the initial project is about half of a billion dollars and that's not the long term project which I think is pegged at around ten billion dollars so a lot of work to happen around that they did announce that priority development areas are currently under reconsideration so if the city was interested in either applying for additional priority development areas or changing the lines for our existing ones we have two in the city limits roseland and downtown that now is the time for us to engage on that process and then finally we had the executive director susanne smith announced her retirement it's a huge loss for the organization she was the first employee that they ever hired at scta in 1997 she's been there for 26 years and when we talk about leaving big shoes to fill she literally stood up the agency created rcpa has done a lot for that organization last but not least we had a call for the national league of cities to talk through specific legislation that's working its way through congress most notably is this stalemate or this argument around the debt ceiling national league of cities is working to put together a blog that they should have launched by next week where they look at the current house proposal and the actual impact that it'll have on local communities on our housing priorities on our homelessness priorities I'll make sure that when that goes out we circulate that to council members and make it available to the public as well I think it's really illustrative and then finally just to piggyback on our resolution one of the things we discussed at length yesterday was the love to ride net program that scta has launched or is working with we also here at the city of santa rosa have that program available where folks can compete with one another during bike month to see who bikes most of their trips and encourage one another again it's love to ride net I would encourage council members to sign up the only department right now that signed up is the department of transportation and public works so I signed up as an employee of that so that I could compete with yuri and rachel and I look forward to working with them to make sure that the numbers do the same council member o'crapke thank you very much on April 27th I was able to attend the 2021 employee services awards it's one of the favorite events of mine so far in this capacities to be able to celebrate the milestones that our employees have reached in service to the city as well as celebrate the retirements of so many great people. On May 3rd at lafko sort of a small thing happened with big repercussions we authorized a contract to conduct a disadvantaged unincorporated community or duck inventory and mapping study which is important since other lafko have traditionally hewed closely to a definition of the territories having as few as even 12 registered voters and so with a granular approach we'll be able to have a better idea of what constitutes a duck what ducks are located next to areas of interest for municipalities and with the continuing conversations around annexation by multiple municipalities that are obviously affected by ducks it's important that we have this happen so that we have all of our ducks in a row that's for you other than that the last thing I was able to attend opening day for future leaders of American gridiron which is a youth flag football organization that they play out at SRJC it's children as young as 5 learning the skills of football and socialization and team sports in a flag football environment with little to no contact so it's a great organization for our youth councilmember Fleming thank you mayor one of the benefits of going last is that most of you have said a lot of the things that we've done together and and so I only have a couple of minor updates one is that yesterday the runal enterprise district met and hold on one second please can you turn the sound off of that thank you dear the runal enterprise district met yesterday and I would like to authorize the RFP for filling Michelle Whitman or our current but outgoing executive directors position and if anybody's interested the position can be found on renewalenterprisedistrict.org and I invite you to share that with your networks far and wide so that we have a robust candidate pool and the other thing is this morning the board of supervisors has made a full term as your representative and the representative of the Sonoma County cities to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and I endeavour to be of great service to all of you and your constituents that's all from me thank you councilmember Fleming vice mayor McDonald thank you just a couple of updates thank you mayor I also met with Michelle Whitman and she said she would like to share some fun so that as an alternate I would be updated on what that position entails and so I just want to thank her for all the work that they've been able to do and I know that she's also leaving and moving to a new position and so I appreciate councilmember Fleming actually announcing to us where that information could be found but it was very enlightening and I appreciate that it was called a place at the table it took place in runner park and there was two gentlemen that shared their stories one of them was an immigrant and he was able to get his citizenship and what Catholic Charities has done to support that in their immigration department as well as another gentleman who has been able to get housing through Catholic Charities where they came from being homeless on the street to finding housing at Caritas village and so I just want to say thank you to both of them for sharing their really heartfelt heartwarming stories about what we do and just to say thank you to Catholic Charities for all the work that they do for the community I was really honored to be able to go to that event and I would encourage all of our city council members to go so that you can see the impact of the way that we help fund these programs and how it affects people in our community and then last but not least I also was at the employee service awards dinner and was thrilled to be the Vanna for the night that handed out the certificates and took all the pictures with everyone and was able to speak on behalf of city council so thank you to all of our employees for their dedication to the city and because of all of you you make Santa Rosa a place we love to work and live and play in so thank you thank you I will just say that on 4 27 Corazon de Cultura Cultura that I was also able to attend that event and speak to Rosalind University High School students about success and what success looks like and how it is constantly developing for all of us and so they just have to find out what it looks like for them because I did not have the answer but I did give them a few pointers so that was a lot of fun to experience their booths I do want to point out that our community engagement is a wonderful job at taking the children to make sure that they had everything they needed for their booths and also providing lunch for them so thank you very much to that team later on that day I was able to attend the long term financial policy and audit subcommittee special meeting where we were provided with a presentation for the third quarter financial update and long range to what we were presented a little earlier in our study session and last but not least I actually saved the best for last April 3rd through May 6th 2023 will be or was the 54th annual professional municipal clerks week so I would just like to acknowledge Dina Manis here our permanent Madam City Clerk welcome her and thank her for everything that she does thank you Mayor so with that we will move on to item 11 and that will be oh we did not we didn't do public comment we didn't do public comment so Dina you made me so excited I almost tried to give you a break so you didn't have to do public comment Madam City Clerk may you please conduct public comment thank you Mayor we are now taking public comment on item 10 if you are in the council chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period I see no hands being raised via zoom no one making their way to the podiums alright thank you now we will move on to item 11 and we have one set of minutes for approval that would be two sets of minutes for approval that would be March 9th and 10th 2023 council are there any corrections seeing none Madam City Clerk can you please facilitate public comment on 11.1 thank you we are now taking public comments on item 11.1 if you are in council chamber would like to make a comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have 3 minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period Mayor I see no one moving towards the podium in council chamber and no hands being raised on this item additionally we had no advanced public comments thank you item 12 Madam City Clerk can you please read the consent items thank you Mayor item 12.1 resolution state of good repair program authorization to apply for the annual formula allocation and project approval item 12.2 resolution transportation development act article 4 in state transit assistance annual formula allocation claims submittal item 12.3 resolution split bid award issuance of blanket purchase orders for chemicals for city swimming pools to NOR systems international LLC and SCP distributors LLC DBA Lincoln aquatics item 12.4 resolution support for senate bill 55 umberg and item 12.5 resolution extension of proclamation of local homeless emergency thank you councilor are there any questions seeing none vice mayor mcdonald you can make the motion we'll take public comment thank you I move items 12.1 through 12.5 Madam City Clerk may you please conduct public comment can I get the second oh second thank you we are now taking public comments on item 12 the consent calendar in council chamber and would like to comment but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star 9 you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period the first public comment from council chamber will be dwayne dewitt please go ahead mr. dewitt thank you my name is dwayne dewitt I'm from the sonoma county housing advocacy group at discussions on sunday the local congregation it was discussed about how church parking lots could be something utilized in a positive manner not just for safe parking but for tiny homes one of the things that gets talked about often is how you need to have a spot to lay your head at night where you're dry and you're warm to be able to get out of the funk of being homeless right now tiny homes are actually available through national organizations such as amazon for under $5,000 and one of the dilemmas that we've faced here locally is the costs to get a small structure together for people who are in need you have a safe parking situation that the city is doing over by the city utility yard and that's working and the county has a spot a tent city over by the county services buildings and that's working these types of activities work making a proclamation and saying we have the emergency has been a positive thing because that at least keeps people aware that this problem is not being solved but I'm hoping that you folks will take on the faith based community there are a number of large churches that have really big parking lots and those parking lots only get used on Sunday or maybe another day of the week when they have an event the idea of safe parking should be embraced by a number of faiths I personally deal with Christianity and that's one of the Christian tenants is that you are going to reach out and help your neighbor so it was just mentioned earlier what a great job Catholic Charities is doing and Caritas is coming forward and that's with public money so we've got a public private partnership in a way going forward these models could go forward and help solve this homeless problem keep in mind there's a number of intractable situations where people still stay on the street so it's this dilemma if you will about those long term homeless that don't want to be in an institutionalized setting per se but they will take their own tent or their own tiny home someplace maybe to park a car also so this is something that you folks could have discussions with the faith based communities and solve some of these issues thank you for the proclamation thank you seeing no additional people in council chamber wishing to provide public comment on consent there are no hands being raised via zoom and there were no pre-recorded public comments mayor thank you we have a motion made by vice mayor mcdonnell in a second by councilmember okrepe madam city clerk can you please call the vote councilmember step councilmember rogers councilmember okrepe councilmember fleming councilmember alvarez vice mayor mcdonnell mayor rogers let the record show that the consent calendar passed unanimously being as though it is not five o'clock we will take a short break until five o'clock at which time we will have our first public comment on non-agenda matters thank you it is five o'clock and we will be resuming our meeting madam city clerk okay I'll call the roll the first let's see here councilmember step councilmember rogers councilmember okrepe councilmember fleming councilmember alvarez vice mayor mcdonnell mayor rogers let the record show all councilmembers are present thank you go to item 16 which is our written communications and then go back up to item 13 item 16 is a written communication on stone bridge subdivision phase one and the information is provided madam city clerk can you please conduct public comment we are now taking public comment on item 16.1 if you are in council chamber and would like to comment on 16.1 but have not provided a speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period may I am seeing no one approach the podium for 16.1 there are no hands being raised and no advance comments on this item thank you now we will proceed with item 13 our public comment on non-agenda matters this will be our sole opportunity for the public to give comment on non-agenda matters so madam city clerk can you please conduct public comment thank you mayor we are now taking public comments on item 13 non-agenda matters this is a time when any person may address the council on matters not listed on this agenda but which are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the council if you have not provided your speaker card or your name please make your way to the podium if you are participating via zoom please raise your hand or dial star nine again you will have three minutes and a countdown timer will alert at the end of that period the first public comment will be from alexa forester followed by dwayne dwitt please go ahead alexa thanks good evening is this on can you hear me okay thank you city council I'm alexa forester mom jc instructor I'm alexa forester we have recognizes Santa Rosa tomorrow you will meet your budget proposals for the upcoming year including transportation and public works and as you do I hope you will keep in mind that a significant portion of Santa Rosa residents want protected and connected bike routes unfortunately not everyone who cares about this issue can be present at meetings like these so today I bring you some of their represented. It was hung in Bertolini Hall for two hours during our fifth annual climate action night a few weeks ago. Obviously I'm not going to read all of these post-it notes to you. I am going to email you a picture with transcribed notes on them so you can read them at your leisure later. But tonight I just want to share a handful of these comments so you can get a sense of what people are saying. Zeke Baker says quote I ride my bike with my three young kids ages seven seven and nine. We have had many close calls with motorists. For safety survival and a better future we need bike-friendly city a bike-friendly city now. A student Hannah says I would love to bike everywhere but a huge concern of mine is safety. Sustainable alternatives to driving a car are only possible if they are accessible and safe. We need better bike infrastructure. Another student Nima writes dear Santa Rosa City council members I want more bikeable paths so that kids and people who can't drive can have a sustainable mode of transportation. Thank you. D banger writes bikeable cities are healthier more attractive places to live and visit less congested with traffic and more community-oriented. Sylvia Langen wrote I like to have a safe I'd like to have a safe path to ride bikes with my son. And finally from an unsigned anonymous commenter one of my favorites. Come on Santa Rosa I'm trying a bike here. In short when you consider how to spend funds in the coming year and beyond I hope you will remember that thousands of Santa Rosans want to use bikes for transportation but they are waiting for you the city to provide the streetscape that will make traveling by bike less scary and more safe. Please prioritize investments in low stress bike infrastructure in the coming years and beyond. Thank you. Thank you the next public comment will be provided by Dwayne DeWitt followed by Micah Reyes. Hello my name is Dwayne DeWitt I'm from Roseland and I'm glad that you've taken on the new approach of having public comments at 5 p.m. there was a long time where they were at 4 and it precluded a lot of people being able to participate. I don't know if you've had the opportunity to look back in the records but in the 1990s the Sonoma County grand jury released a report it was basically pointing out that most public meetings of governmental agencies, jurisdictional agencies and other types of bodies were being held at times and places inconvenient to the public to be able to participate. For the longest time these situations were ignored until the shooting of Andy Lopez and then after that occurred there was a push to have an open government task force due to some situations that occurred here at City Hall. I'm very glad that it was mentioned earlier in reports that the open government task force will be staying alive and that there's a new approach. I'm hoping that one of the things you'll do is go back through and make sure and underline a lot of the recommendations that were made. As a participant at the meetings in the original hearings at that time one of the things discussed was that you folks elected officials would reach out more to the community to actually represent the community find out what community members wanted. Now I see a lot of young people here and I'm hoping they're going to stand up and talk about what they want so that us older folks now known as elders in some communities can actually help to do things that they would like for their future. The taxes that are being paid now need to make it better for them in the future. I stopped riding a bicycle because it got so unsafe here and that's not the way I'd like it to be. These folks need to be safe. I can see what they're talking about. Tomorrow during the public comment on the budget I'll put in comments about that. One of the things that I'm hoping through all of this that goes on here in these meetings is that you elected officials reach out not just to what you call your stakeholders. Those are people who got money in the game if you will and they're trying to get money from you but reach out to these young people and hear what it is that's going to make life better for them. What they would like to see in open government. I believe you're doing it with having these hybrid meetings. Please keep them going keep the zoom happening and in person for sure. Step on up folks. Thank you Mr. DeWitt. The next public comment will be from Micah followed by Isabella. And Isabella if you can go to the other podium so we'll just rotate. Thank you. My name is Micah Reyes. Thank you for the opportunity to speak here. I've never participated in a city council meeting before so this is certainly exciting. So I'm here as a SRJC student that is asking the city to invest in low stress bike infrastructure. I think it's important because I want people to be able to make decisions that are beneficial for our local environment as well as their personal health and I don't view this as something that is particularly financially or labor intensive so it doesn't seem like very high risk to me. Consistent exercise though in terms of our personal health is really important and can radically reduce the risk of heart disease high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes which I do have members of my immediate family who do suffer from. And I think it is pretty hard for people to make these kind of decisions about their personal health when they have to compromise their safety to be able to do so. So once again I think it's important for decisions regarding health to be promoted by our cities schools as well as importantly to this our infrastructure. Thank you. Thank you Micah. The next public comment will be from Isabella followed by Bernadette and when you do approach the mic and the podiums and it is your turn to speak please make sure you come pretty close to the microphone so we can hear you in council chamber and for the public record recording. Thank you. Please go ahead Isabella. Bella I am a student at the SRJC and I'm here today to show my support for the city investing and making the streets of Santa Rosa safe for bikers. This would result in less traffic and healthy residents. I have two younger siblings who love to ride their bike but they feel restrained to you know the park and they you know ask ask us if they can go on the streets and we just you know they're unable to. This would benefit our children and also the many bikers who already reside in Sonoma County. Thank you. Thank you Isabella. The next public comment will be provided by Bernadette followed by Nancy. Code enforcement is a joke. For 16 months the non-hosted STR next to me advertised it was six veterans and booked the hotel to the maximum capacity. According to the assessor's record it's a four-bever home. My neighbors and I went back and forth with the city's code enforcement during the same 16 months period that the city was assisting the applicant and despite numerous complaints by neighbors for noise disruption at all hours of the night over occupancy by overnight guests and building code violations this operator in good standing was allowed to do whatever they please with little to no penalty. They were coached to resubmit plans after 16 months even though they provided false and misleading statements on their application. They were awarded a non-hosted STR permit. It is absolute insanity to live next to a non-hosted short-term rental and call the hotline call the managers and basically manage the hotel. If we call the police they tell us to call the hotline. If we call the hotline we wait for a call back. If we call the manager they alert the guests that the neighbors are complaining and we get yelled at, cursed at, flipped off. Is any of that a violation? I can assure you it is not. The neighbors call for over occupancy. We call for cars racing up and down the street looking for the hotel for noise and disruptions but we are told that none of these things can be proven so they are not a violation. At the city planning meeting a host stated that he was has successfully hosted over 600 guests at his STR. How would any of you feel if this was a house next to you and your family with six absolute strangers coming and going? The city of Santa Rosa needs to eliminate non-hosted STRs from residential zoning. We are not NIMBs. We are residents that do not want non- conforming transient housing next to us. Why are we the members of the community that send our kids to school here, volunteer, donate and vote here, forced to live next to transient occupancy hotels? The only truth in tourism is investors of these STRs have many options to change their business models into full-time housing or to 1031 exchange into like properties in commercial zoning. When did the needs of a few override the needs of the many? Thank you for your time. Thank you. The next public comment will be from Nancy followed by Jose. Thank you. Mary Rogers and the council members. Thank you for opportunity to address this afternoon. My name is Nancy Wong. Me and my family living Santa Rosa for 46 years. I hope you won't consider me say that I'm speaking actually it's not my for myself for benefit of over 2,000 resident of Santa Rosa who respond to the two city survey on the short-term rentals. Speaking to my neighbors I'm drawing from our responsible for this survey. This overwhelming concern draw down our responsibility. Nobody I believe that including each of you nobody wants to live next to the non-hosting short-term rentals. The resident of Santa Rosa do not support the non-host short-term rental with our resident neighborhoods and more especially we ask when we short-term rentals allow the two-third of our answer we have close to 40% against the non-host only 15% they say it's okay. The one thing I really like to see is why our city council we allow the non-hosted short-term rental in the residential area. You made our residential toxic every weekend we are nervous because we don't know who's gonna show off this short-term rentals house party destroy the the peace the neighborhood we cannot go out anymore particularly for myself I work under the city council advisor for 12 years I had to go out to reach all this the neighbors we had to know each other now turn to our residential for the non-hosted short-term hotel I think it we should limit non-hosting short rentals please consider a I don't want our over thousand some residents in the Rosa to feel toxic to living in our own residential area please remove all the non-host short rental all the residential area move to the commercial area thank you thank you the next public comment will be from Jose thank you city council for allowing us to offer our information in our opinion which is in las gracias ayuntamiento por permitir nuestra información you have heard claims about how much of an economic benefit short-term rentals are for our local economy let's examine that claim surveys have shown that up to 98% of the visitors who utilize non-hosted short-term rentals will still visit the same area even if they were unable to stay in a short-term rental that is consistent with common sense which says most people decide where they wish to go and then decide on which accommodations they will use not the other way around other surveys have shown that the existence of short-term rentals do not in in none of themselves increase the amount of tourism in our area they only serve as an alternate form of transient accommodations they take business away from the more traditional lodging facilities such as hotels motels and resorts so even if we had a no short-term rentals the vast majority of visitors would still eat at our restaurants tour and tour and visit our wineries and shop in our retail stores in short they wouldn't do the same things they came here to do in the first place even if there's they were staying in one of our hotels motels or resorts so eliminating a short-term rental would not significantly impact the economic benefit of tourism on the other hand it would add another economic benefit eliminating a short-term rental would make that home available to house permanent residents either through a long-term lease or home ownership that family would come with its own set of economic benefits for our community they would work in our community attend our schools volunteer and contribute to our local charities vote in our local elections and utilize all those services used by permanent residents and not by visitors such as grocery stores dry cleaners hardware stores car washes gas stations CPAs and attorneys taking these factors into account we would argue that greater economic benefit to our community would come from allowing all our visitors to make use of those traditional accommodations that do not create a burden on our residential areas and allowing all short-term rentals to revert to their original purpose providing housing for permanent residents this can be accomplished by eliminating all non hosted short-term rentals from our residential neighborhoods we implore you to make this decision for the economic betterment of our community again thank you for listening muchísimas gracias thank you see no one else in council chamber wishing to provide public comment on non-agenda matters there are no hands being raised via zoom and there were no prerecorded public comments mayor thank you seeing no additional items on the agenda we will now adjourn the meeting see you all tomorrow for the completion of our study session thank you so much
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Example Problem - HVAC (1) - Simple Heating
"Moist air enters a duct at 10 C, 80% relative humidity, and a volumetric flow rate of 150 m^3/min. The mixture is heated as it flows through the duct and exits at 30 C. No moisture is added or removed, and the mixture pressure remains approximately constant at 1 atm. Determine: a) The mass flow rate of dry air through the duct (kg dry air/s) b) The total rate of heat transfer into the duct (kW) c) The relative humidity at the exit (%)" PDF of Chapter 12 notes: https://sdsu.box.com/s/yh3fgsnztnbughqgnrxgeq0vu0qhhs5p
[ "Thermo", "Thermodynamics", "HVAC", "Example Problem", "Psychrometric Chart" ]
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Moist air enters a duct at 10 degrees Celsius, 80% relative humidity, and a volumetric flow rate of 150 cubic meters per minute. The mixture is heated as it flows through the duct and exits at 30 degrees Celsius. No moisture is added nor removed, and the mixture pressure remains approximately constant at one atmosphere. Determine first the mass flow rate of dry air through the duct, the total rate of heat transfer into the duct, and the relative humidity at the exit. So I will begin to model this, and I will recognize that I have what's called a simple heating process. When I say simple heating, I'm referring to the fact that we are adding heat and not adding or removing any water. All we are doing is adding heat. I'm going to call the inlet, stay one, the outlet stay two. I know the temperature and relative humidity at the inlet. T1 is 10 degrees Celsius. T1 is 80%, and I know the volumetric flow rate. Quick question for you is that the volumetric flow rate of the dry air, the atmospheric air, or the water vapor. Secret to question, the answer is yes, it is all of them. Because when we're modeling psychrometric behavior, we are using Dalton's law to approximate the behavior of our air and water vapor mix together. Dalton's law assumes that all of the species in the mixture occupy the same volume. Therefore, the volumetric flow rate of the atmospheric air is 150 cubic meters per minute. The volumetric flow rate of the dry air is also 150 cubic meters per minute. And the volumetric flow rate of water vapor is 150 cubic meters per minute. At state 2, I know that the temperature is 30 degrees Celsius. And I need two independent intensive psychrometric properties to fully define my state point from which I can look up anything else. And the other state point comes from our mass balance. Just like in the adiabatic saturation chamber, I can set up a mass balance on just the dry air, just the water vapor, or the atmospheric air as a whole. The atmospheric air, generally speaking, isn't very useful. So if I set up a mass balance on the dry air, I recognize that I have steady state operation of an open system with one inlet and one outlet. Therefore, m.a1 is going to equal m.a2, which I'm just going to call m.a. If I set up a mass balance on the water, I can say that the entering water has to leave again. The only opportunity for water to enter is as water vapor at state 1. The only opportunity for water vapor to exit is as water vapor at state 2. So the mass flow rate of dry air doesn't change, and the mass flow rate of water vapor doesn't change. That means the humidity ratio doesn't change. So the other psychrometric property is the fact that m.a2 is equal to m.a1. I like to visualize these processes on the psychrometric chart. I think that that is the easiest way to kind of keep track of what's happening in your head. And on the psychrometric chart, heating represents movement to the right. Cooling represents movement to the left. Those are horizontal processes. Humidification is vertical movement up, or vertical displacement up. Dehumidification is vertical displacement down. So if I have a process where heat is added and nothing else, no water is added, no moisture is removed, I have a horizontal line going to the right. If I have a cooling process, I'm going to go left until I reach 100% relative humidity, at which point I would follow the 100% relative humidity line down until I reach my desired temperature. The fact that there's some vertical displacement in the downward direction implies that dehumidification would occur. We would be removing water from the air. If I have a heating process with humidification, that's going to be movement to the right and movement up. And just like when we analyze projectile motion, it is usually more useful for us to model the horizontal component and the vertical component separately, even though they actually don't behave separately in the real process. So now let's set up an energy balance. We have studied the operation of an open system with one inlet and one outlet. There are no opportunities for work and heat transfer is only in the inward direction. Furthermore, I'm neglecting changes in kinetic and potential energy. So this is going to simplify all the way down to just m dot h in plus q dot in is equal to m dot h out. So if I account for the enthalpy of the atmospheric air as it enters, I'm going to write that as m dot a1 h1. Why did I write m dot a1? Because the specific enthalpy of the atmospheric air is defined per unit mass of dry air. So to write it as a total energy term, I have to multiply the specific enthalpy of the atmospheric air by the mass of the dry air. Same goes for state 2. I can write the total energy leaving at state 2 as m dot a2 times h2. Since the mass flow rate of dry air is the same, I can factor that out and write that as m dot a times h2 minus h1. So quick question. We have a heating process of air. Can we just plug in cp of air times t2 minus t1? I mean, that's what we did in thermal 1, right? We can't because we have to account for how much energy it takes to increase the temperature of the water as well. And even though there's not much water, the water has a higher heat capacity, which means that we have to account for the energy increase and not just neglect it. That's the whole reason that we are modeling this as atmospheric air instead of just dry air. So we need to determine m dot a and we need to look up h1 and h2. So using my two independent intensive psychrometric properties t1 and phi1, I can determine omega1 and h1. I can either use the calculations for that or the psychrometric chart. And then using t2 and omega1, we can determine h2. Again, I can use the equations for that or the psychrometric chart. I'm going to assume that it's okay for me to use the psychrometric chart as a lookup because I have a pressure of one atmosphere and because that'll get us close enough for the purposes of this analysis. But don't get too comfortable with the psychrometric chart. It's useful. It'll help us work through more example problems. But you still need to know how to calculate these psychrometric properties by hand. So from my mass flow rate of dry air, I'm going to take the volumetric flow rate of dry air and divide it by the specific volume of dry air. The total volume of dry air is going to be the same as the total volume of the atmospheric air, which is just 150 cubic meters per minute. And the specific volume of the dry air is going to be what I get when I look up the specific volume of the atmospheric air because that's expressed per unit mass of dry air. So I can add to my list of lookups specific volume at state 1. That will give me enough information to determine m.a1, which gives me m.a, which allows me to determine the total rate of heat transfer in. So T1 of 10 degrees Celsius and a phi 1 of 80% relative humidity. That's going to occur right about here. Highlight those numbers. 80% 10 degrees Celsius. And we are heating to 30 degrees Celsius by a direct horizontal process until we encounter the 30 degrees Celsius line. So at state 1, I can look up my specific volume first just because that happens to be a direct line. So I know that's 0.81 cubic meters per kilogram of dry air. H1 is going to be about 26-ish. And the humidity ratio at state 1 is going to be... I'll follow that all the way to the right. It's going to be 6.1, 6.2. I mean, this is 6. This is 7. This is 6.5. This would be 6.25. So maybe 6.125. So 6.125. That's going to be grams of water per kilogram of dry air. And at state 2, we want the specific enthalpy. So I'm going to follow that back right about here-ish. I'll say that's 42, 44, 46, maybe 47. Let's call that about 47 kilojoules per kilogram. So plugging in my specific volume of 0.81. Again, that's cubic meters of atmospheric air per kilogram of dry air which is equivalent to cubic meters of dry air per kilogram of dry air. These cubic meters are going to cancel leaving me with kilograms per minute. And let's convert that to kilograms per second. Calculator, if you would please. It's 150 divided by 0.81 times 60. And we get 3.086 kilograms of dry air per second. And then armed with that mass flow rate, we can multiply by the difference in specific enthalpy. 0.8642 kilograms of dry air per second. Multiply by 47-ish minus 26-ish kilojoules per kilogram of dry air. Kilograms of dry air cancels leaving me with kilojoules per second, which is a kilowatt. So if I take 3.08642, that very accurate number, and multiply by about 47 minus about 26, I get 64.8. So this heating process would draw about 64.8 kilowatts. So that gives me the answer to part A and B. The last thing I wanted to know was the relative humidity at the exit. Let me pose that to you as a question. Is the relative humidity at the exit the same? Is it still 80%? It is not. The humidity ratio doesn't change because the mass of water and the mass of air don't change. But remember that the relative humidity is the proportion of water that's in the air to how much water the air can hold. Even though the water that's in the air doesn't change, the amount of water that the air can hold does change. As the air is heated up, it can hold more water, which means that the relative humidity is going to drop. I can see that on the psychometric chart. As I go to the right horizontally, I'm dropping my relative humidity. From the chart, I can see my relative humidity at state 2 is going to be about... What do you think, 23%? Let's call it that. Arbitrary precision B2 is about 23%.
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Do Hot Dogs Reduce Lifespan? The Truth About the Michigan Food Health Study
It’s been all over the news and all over the internet - “eating a hot dog will take 36 minutes off your life”. But what's the truth about this study? The source for all of these articles is a University of Michigan study, which was recently published in the journal Nature Food. While hot dogs made the headlines, the study itself was far more broad. Researchers ranked 5,853 foods based on their impact on both human health and the environment. This resulted in what investigators called the Health Nutritional Index, or HENI, which attempted to quantify the health effects of various foods based on how many minutes eating a standard serving would increase or lower life expectancy. The range ran from losing 71 minutes of life for each serving of corned beef with tomato sauce and onion, in which the processed meat overpowered the benefits of the tomato and onion, to gaining 82 minutes of life per serving of sardines with tomato-based sauce. The researchers then factored in the environmental impact of the foods, taking into account , production, processing, preparation, waste, and more. Ultimately, the researchers were left with three categories of foods. The green category contains foods that were deemed beneficial to human health, and of low impact to the environment. This primarily featured plant-based foods including many nuts, fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains, and some seafood. On the other end of the spectrum, we have the red zone foods with severe negative health or environmental impact. Foods in this category included beef, pork, lamb, cheese-based foods, and sugar-sweetened beverages. In the middle was the amber zone, featuring foods that didn’t meet the red or green criteria. This consisted of most poultry, dairy products, cooked grains such as rice, and greenhouse vegetables. Obviously these numbers are much more of a general guide to which foods should be eaten or avoided. If these numbers were entirely accurate, competitive eaters such as Joey Chestnut, who has the record for eating 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes, might seriously reconsider attempting to defend his title. On the other hand, if sardines in tomato sauce really increased your healthy lifespan by 82 minutes, you could theoretically live forever by eating 18 cans of them a day. We do not recommend this. Clearly there are many other variables at play, and nutritional needs vary from person to person. The researchers conclude by pointing to the fact that their findings demonstrate that “small, targeted substitutions offer a feasible and powerful strategy to achieve significant health and environmental benefits, without requiring dramatic dietary shifts at once” and that this this approach, if broadly adopted, “could lead to personalized diet solutions where the consumer identifies trade-offs and substitutions they are willing to make (for example, less processed meat and more seafood).” They also say that they hope their work inspires and empowers a transition towards healthy and environmentally sustainable diets. This research, and the development of the Health Nutritional Index, gives us new insight into the impact of our food. As this work progresses, more data-points and factors could be included, improving our understanding and enabling us to make more informed decisions. SOURCES AND FURTHER READING ⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺ “Small Changes in Diet Could Help You Live Healthier, More Sustainably” - https://sph.umich.edu/news/2021posts/small-changes-in-diet-could-help-you-live-healthier-more-sustainably.html “Small targeted dietary changes can yield substantial gains for human health and the environment” Paper - https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00343-4 Select Hot Dog Articles - https://www.deseret.com/u-s-world/2021/8/25/22641283/utah-mitt-romney-hot-dog-study https://torontosun.com/health/diet-fitness/study-says-eating-a-hot-dog-shortens-your-lifespan-by-36-minutes https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/3380003/bad-news-apparently-every-hot-dog-you-eat-takes-35-minutes-off-your-life https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/health/hot-dog-could-shorten-life-trnd-wellness-scn/index.html LIKE WHAT WE DO? ⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺ If you’d like to help us run this show and/or help Lifespan.io end age-related diseases, you can become a Lifespan Hero: https://lifespan.io/hero. Your support means the world to us! FOLLOW US EVERYWHERE Website: https://www.lifespan.io/lifespan%20news/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifespan.io/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lifespanio Twitter: https://twitter.com/lifespanio Discord: https://discord.gg/HwTX7gR FOOTAGE, IMAGES, AND MUSIC CREDITS ⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺ Stock photos: Shutterstock.com Stock footage: Videoblocks.com Music: "Elastic Vibe" by Ziv Moran PRODUCTION CREDITS ⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺⎺ Host, Editor, Writer - Ryan O’Shea Art - Mattijs Vonk Executive Producer - Keith Comito #HotDogs #HotDog #Health #Longevity #Diet
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It's been all over the news and all over the internet. Eating a hotdog takes 36 minutes off your life. But what does the study actually say? And what does it mean for you? Well, it's actually more optimistic than you might think. The source for all of these articles is a University of Michigan study, which was recently published in the journal Nature Food. While hotdogs made the headlines, the study itself was far more broad. Researchers ranked 5,853 different foods based on their impact on both human health and the environment. This resulted in what investigators called the Health Nutritional Index, which attempted to quantify the health effects of various foods based on how many minutes eating a standard serving would increase or lower life expectancy. The range ran from losing 71 minutes of life for each serving of corned beef with tomato sauce and onion, in which the processed meat overpowered the benefits of the tomato and onion, to gaining 82 minutes of life per serving of sardines with tomato-based sauce. The researchers then factored in the environmental impact of the foods, taking into account production, processing, preparation, waste, and more. Ultimately, the researchers ended up with three categories of foods. The green category contains foods that were deemed beneficial to human health and of low impact to the environment. This primarily featured plant-based foods, including many nuts, fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains. Some seafood also made the cut. On the other end of the spectrum, we have the red-zone foods, with extreme negative health or environmental impact. Foods in this category included beef, pork, lamb, cheese-based foods, and sugar-sweetened beverages. In the middle was the amber zone, featuring foods that didn't meet the red or green criteria. This consisted of most poultry, dairy products, cooked grains such as rice, and greenhouse vegetables. Now obviously, these numbers are much more of a general guide as to which food should be eaten or avoided. If these numbers were entirely accurate, competitive eaters such as Joey Chestnut, who has the record for eating 76 hot dogs in 10 minutes, might seriously reconsider attempting to defend his title. On the other hand, if sardines in tomato sauce really increased your healthy lifespan by 82 minutes, you could theoretically live forever by eating 18 cans of them a day. We do not recommend this. Clearly, there are many other variables at play, and nutritional needs vary from person to person. So what's the takeaway here? The researchers conclude by pointing to the fact that their findings demonstrate that small, targeted substitutions offer a feasible and powerful strategy to achieve significant health and environmental benefits without requiring dramatic dietary shifts at once, and that this approach, if broadly accepted, could lead to personalized diet solutions where the consumer identifies trade-offs and substitutions they are willing to make, for example, less processed meat and more seafood. They also say that they hope their work inspires a transition to more healthy and environmentally sustainable diets. We agree. This research and the developments of the Health Nutritional Index gives us new insight into the impact of our food. As this work progresses, more data points and factors could be included, improving our understanding and enabling us to make more informed decisions. Make sure to subscribe so that we can keep you updated, and we'll see you in the next episode of Lifespan News.
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Globalising The Tudors
Globalising the Tudors Talk with Jerry Brotton, Matthew Dimmock and Lauren Working Part of Tudors Now!, a public event series convened by Christina Faraday Event recorded on 8 June 2023 More information: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/past/globalising-the-tudors-814
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These are the fourth event in the Poor Mellon Centre Public Events Series, Tudas Now. It's my pleasure to welcome you this evening, that art history is increasingly attending to the global dimensions of objects and their material histories. rydym yn ei cael ei gael i ddweud y bydd eich cyfnod o'r ffordd hyn y ffordd o'r gwirionedd ymwylliant cyntafol yng ngyfaint o'r ffordd a'r cyfnodol. Rydym yn ymdill wedi'u gweld i ynglynigol Cymru yn y newid yn y newid, ac i'r sír i'r ddiplymu'r rhaglenol yma ar y Ffyrdd Autulwr ac i'r ffantysg ymddill cyd-gryffydd yn cyfnodol. Mae cyfnodd yn ddwy'n Lloron ymddindol, Matthew Dymaeg, a Jerry Brotten. Lauren is a lecturer in Renaissance Studies at the University of York. Her research explores how English colonialism influenced taste and politics in 17th century London and she's written on a diverse range of subjects, including civility and intoxication, female travellers, and the colonial gaze. Her first book, The Making of an Imperial Policy, Civility, and America in the Jakobien Metropolis, jointly won the Royal Historical Society Whitfield Prize in 2021 Mae eich gwneud rydych chi'n meddwl i'r ddweudio'r amserion ffordd a gwneud yr edrych ar y bydd y gwneud hynny yn Llyfrgell, ac ar gyfer y Llyfrgellion Cyngor yn Llyfrgellai Cyngor. Efallai efallai yn cymdeithasol i'r gallu galei ym MŽeddol a'r BBC Radio 3, Yngyrch Gwyllys Gweithwyr. Mat Dimwch efallai efallai eich profesiad yr ydym yn ddwyloedd yr unedig, ac yw'r ddwyloedd ydym yn yr ystafell mae'r ddwyloedd. Y llwyddiad yw yw'r cyflwyno cyflwyno ar gyfer y cyflwno ymweld yng ngyflwng Llywodraeth yn cael ei ddweud y llwyddiad o'r cyflwyno, meathologiad ym Mhwyd, Elisabeth i globalism ymweld, ac ymgweld ymweld y cyflwno gyfweld ymweld ymweld. With Andrew Hadfield, hi'n edrych bod hefyd yn edrych ar yr edrych yma o Amersyn, Savages ac Maciavel, ychydig i'ch gydig i'r cyflwyno cwrsio ff矿 yn ynglyn â'r 1550 ac 1630. ac yn ystod y cwmwylliant y bydd y cyfnodd yng nghymru a'r ysgolwyr John Davies yn ymgyrchio'r cyfrifysgol. Jerry Broughton yw y profiad rhonaeson yr ac yn ymgyrchio Llywodraeth Cwmwylliant. Mae'n cyfrifysgol yn gweithio'r ysgolwyr yn ymgyrchio'r ysgolwyr yw 9 ymgyrchio'r ymgeisio yn yw 20 ymgyrchio. Mae'n gwybod ymgyrchio'r rhonaeson ar y Llywodraeth Cwmwylliant, The Renaissance Bazaar from the Silk Road to Michelangelo, The Sail of the Lake King's Goods, Charles I and his art collection, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, and the prize-winning New York Times bestseller, A History of the World in 12 Maps. He is also a broadcaster having presented more than 10 BBC television and radio series, including Maps, Power, Plunder and Possession for BBC Four, one direction for BBC Radio Four, presumably not about the boy... OK, and Blood and Bronze, and We Are the Tudors both for BBC Radio Three. He has curated a number of exhibitions, including Penelope's Labour, Weaving Words and Images for the Venice Biennale in 2011, and Talking Maps for the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 2019 to 2020. His book, This Orient Isle, Elizabethan England and the Islamic World, was a Radio Four book of the week, a Waterstones non-fiction book of the year, and winner of the Historical Writers Association Prize for Non-Fiction. He's currently writing another book on the four points of the compass and a global history of discovery. So I can't think of three better overachievers to discuss globalising the Tudors with us this evening, and I'm delighted that they're able to join us. So the format will be... They will each speak for about 10 minutes on a single object to get us going and thinking about some of these themes. Then we'll move to a round table discussion before opening questions to the floor. So if Lauren would like to take the stand. Thank you so much, Christina. It's such a pleasure to be here and take part in this series, which I've really been enjoying, kind of listening in on so far. So I'll just turn to my image. So on the 18th of June, 1912, Workman tore down a timber frame building in Sheepside, not far from St Paul's Cathedral. The building sat on a 17th century site, and as these workmen demolished the floor, they struck a casket revealing a glimmer of gems. They had stumbled upon what is now referred to as the Cheap Side Horde, which has been called the greatest single collection of Elizabethan and early steward jewelry in the world. This collection contains hundreds of dazzling pieces of Tudor workmanship, enamel chains, amethysts, anemerald watch, cameos, Indian and Persian stones, and even beads from Africa and Argentina. So in the 10 minutes I have, or nine minutes and 50 seconds, I want to talk about one of those objects, and that's this small sparkly emerald pin shaped like a parrot. So parrots were considered to be symbols of erotic love. The choice of gemstone might be significant here, as the colour green could signify new love or perhaps jealous love. The parrot has been drilled for setting into a jewel, so it was probably meant to be worn on the body, perhaps pinned to a sleeve or bodys. In addition to the connections with unsentimental or lecherous love, parrots were also beginning to appear more frequently as objects of curiosity and status in Tudor England. There is an instance of a man being brought to his local justice of peace to answer for stealing a neighbour's parrot. In March 1596, Queen Elizabeth's Secretary of State wrote to Sir John Gilbert, announcing that her Majesty should like a parrot of his, only to be met by Gilbert's protest that he had never actually owned one. The parrot, Elizabeth's Secretary sternly wrote, shall be delivered. There are several accent portraits with parrots in them, kind of starting around this time, although they become a bit more frequent in the early 17th century, so there's one of an African grey parrot accompanying an Elizabethan woman, and then there are several more that I've come across of green and red parrots from Central and South America, including recently coming across a miniature from the early 17th century of a child holding a parrot by an anonymous artist. In the decades that follow, they become a bit more ubiquitous, so paintings such as Van Dyck's portrait of the Earl of Denby includes a very flashy multi-coloured parrot flying across one of the corners. Following on the trail of this emerald, I began searching for other mentions of emeralds in Tudor London. Privy purse expenditures in 1529 included a hefty £66 to Lady Kerry upon an emerald, and in 1530 to Christopher the milliner for 154 pearls and an emerald valued at £80. Gifts at Henry VIII's court included a crimson velvet doublet with emeralds in 1534. In 1545, an English secretary transcribed intelligence from Spain, writing that with regard to the ships that the English have captured of those gallies which left for the Mediterranean for the Atlantic, I wish to speak especially of the ship called San Salvador from Santa Domingo, the emeralds you will have sold. 50 years later, in 1593, English intelligence about Spanish cargos included reports of large chests full of pearls and emeralds, and one loose emerald that accompanied bars of silver sent by the viceroy of Peru. A report of Francis Drake's activities around the Strait of Magellan included intercepting Spanish ships that contained emeralds. Captain Francis, the account goes, and his people came to Puerto San Domingo and found a great crucifix of gold and emeralds which they had taken out of that ship alongside bars of silver plundering them. So in London, little emerald objects like this one entered into the world of artisanal craft, gift giving, and illicit trafficking. A lady Frank in Westminster asked the lapidary John Crithlow to cut her a small emerald, but Crithlow complained that he received of her lady for cutting the same stone not worth much more than their cutting cost. In addition to showing how skilled artisans learn to cut emeralds and mount jewelry such as this, we get a glimpse of the demand by women for these jewels. Crithlow had asked to cut one of these stones into an emerald ring, but to take special care in the cutting since it had already cost the lady 10 pounds. For one illegal East India Company sailor who had stolen the cargo of a ship, the safest place to store his most valuable stolen emerald, which he reported to be seven inches in length, was among some old shoes under some stairs in a house in Hockley in the Hole in Clarkinwell Green. When several East India Company agents went in search of the gem, they found the emerald at a Susan Brady's house and again kind of giving us the sense that women are kind of handling these objects kind of beyond the court as well. So emeralds could be located in the household pockets and jeweler shops of Tudor London, but where were they sourced from? So the emeralds, all the emeralds from the cheapside horde, were analyzed and curators found that the pieces all came from the mountainous district of Chivore in the province of Muzo 65 miles to the northwest of Bogota, Colombia. In the mid-16th century, as married the first marriage to Philip II of Spain encouraged England's connections to Spain's imperial reach, the Spanish extracted these blue-green emeralds from the mountains of South America, finding stones ranging from the size of a finger or thumb, as kind of reported by the East India Company agent to crumbs and grains. By the end of Elizabeth's reign, travel literature described the great store of excellent emeralds in diverse parts of the Indies, where it could be found the land of the emeralds which grow in stones like unto crystal. So this seemingly innocuous little object directly links the Americas and, by extension, the enslaved Muzo Indians who worked in the mines to English consumption and self-fashioning. In a manuscript known as the Jewel House of Gems, William Heath recorded how in the West Indies there are great store of mines of all sorts, such as in the realms of Peru and metals, especially gold and silver. In truth, Heath wrote, the Spanish had no knowledge of Potosí nor of the wealth of the mountains of Bolivia until an Indian called Gualpa from a province of Cusco going one day to hunt for venison was forced to lay hold unto a branch which issued from a vein of a silver mine. Finding pieces of metal, he carried it to Porco to trial the metal by fire. It is a fearful thing, Heath continued, and breeds an amazement to think upon it that so great is the desire of silver and wealth that for the gain thereof men endure many pains. Truly it is not without reason that Pliny said, we enter even into the bowels of the earth and go hunting after riches even to the place of the damned. In the English translation of the very popular account that kind of fueled the Spanish black legend Bartholomew de Las Casas' short account of the destruction of the Indies, Las Casas had written of how the Spanish and western South America in the region that is now Bolivia and Peru found those countries very fertile and full of people whereas abundance of precious stones especially emeralds. The conquerors were extremely cruel, they shed human blood without any scruple or remorse. The goods these people had in their possession, he wrote, was the motive that violently prompted the Europeans to persecute and destroy them. The English are very quick to be critical of Spain's method of imperial expansion, but they have fewer qualms about reaping the benefits of global travel. So to me this object is fascinating for a number of reasons. Firstly, I mean it's beautiful, it's a small pleasing object, it showcases the skill of the artisan who turned a stone into a playful piece of art to wear close to the body. The parrot motif building on medieval imagery might indicate carnal love, perhaps it's a love token, but it contains a certain resonance too with tutor exploration and the growing fascination for birds and feathered artifacts from Central and South America. The stone connects the hands of indigenous peoples to the lives, fashions and bodies of the tutors and to other trades and industries such as silver mining. It also connects us to different European ports from whence many American goods flowed before arriving in London from Seville and other other European cities and it conjures a time as the author Edward Galliano wrote when you could build a silver bridge from Potosita Madrid from what was mined there and one back with the bones of those that died taking it out. So an object like this one opens us up to a world of ships and shipwrecks where emerald jewels sank into the Pacific seabeds after hurricanes in the Florida Keys and East India Company merchants smuggling treasure perloined in the Americas and trafficked in Asia. It sheds light on stories and travel literature about Spanish crucifixes and Anglo-Spanish rivalries and the material culture of Aztec and Incan elites and moving forward as I continue to kind of look into this area I hope such emeralds might also continue to uncover more stories about resistance to the imperial project as well. After all it took Spain many decades of conflict to overpower the Muzo and Chippcha people who had mined emeralds for centuries before European travel. Thank you. Thank you Christina again and to my fellow panellists and it's very good to be back at the Paul Mellon Centre. I'm very pleased to be here and I will move on to my chosen object. So for me this remarkable object is a useful crystallisation and perhaps a kind of culmination of a series of Tudor engagements with the global. It's the only surviving example of its kind and it is as you can see a letter from Queen Elizabeth I. I mean her name starts and finishes the document. Interestingly it's signed unusually in the Italian style, Elisabeth Regina. And it's written again I think as you can hopefully see to the Emperor of Cataire and dispatched with the experienced Devonshire Sea captain Captain George Weymuth and his crew on May 1, 1602. Cataire was a kind of mirage, a kind of fantasy region imagined to the north of China sort of blending Cathay and China, Cataire, Cathire and a place with which China is often elided or connected and before Weymuth ships left on their long voyage to East Asia on the last day of April, this copy was held aloft and read aloud to the assembled members of the new East India Company in London. Before it was then carefully folded away with translations in Italian, Latin and Portuguese into a protective tin, the tin still survives amazingly, alongside what's described as a garnish of English trading goods. So different types of cloth, night caps, gloves and shoes, mirrors, locks, keys, hinges, bolts, maps, books, all designed to showcase English technical ingenuity and all of this was packed away to withstand the trials of potentially more than a year at sea before they would reach their destination. Hopefully you can tell from the reproduction that the letter is as visually stunning now I think as it was when it was initially completed and it's certainly intended to be visually stunning. It's a substantial parchment document, it's about half a metre across half a metre high and features again as you can see an elaborate banner border in red with swirls of gold foliage, limbed by a man called William Seger who was the Noroy King of Arms and seems to have been something of a specialist in these kinds of letters. He did other letters to China and other decorative letters to other potentates and the letter cost the East India Company the princely sum of six pounds, 13 shillings and forpants to decorate. Of course the Queen never paid for the decoration of her letters. From these banners again you can see at the bottom right and left hang pearls items which I think aren't there by accident. They hold their value in the global marketplace and were therefore useful even if only depicted when you're trying to establish a kind of mutually comprehendible iconography of magnificence. The use of coloured inks in the lettering, gold, red and brown here with an accentuated golden M for each use of the word Majesty is a device I think learnt from the letters that were moving between London and Istanbul from the Anglo-Ottoman correspondence in which in which Elizabeth had received letters in blue, crimson, gold and scarlet inks written on paper dusted with powdered gold. So here the English Queen and her court are attempting to intervene in global imperial spheres and are finding an iconography in which they can do so. Something similar but perhaps slightly less extravagant in terms of decorative scheme can be seen in the surviving letters from Elizabeth to Tsar Ivan IV which are now preserved in the Russian state archives and letters like this of course most of them don't survive because they arrive at their destination and then disappear for one reason or another or they don't arrive at their destination and disappear. But the ones that do survive tend to be extraordinarily decorative like this and there were probably many others reproduced in variant forms in the letters that were sent to India, Ethiopia, Morocco, Persia, the Indonesian kingdoms of Java and Aceh and of course to Istanbul so lots of letters sent out very few survived other than in secretarial copies. This sense of Tudor expansionism of new diplomatic and commercial horizons is also apparent on the level of the letter's content. The letter begins with an expansive opening to the great, mighty and invincible but conspicuously unnamed Emperor of Cathire. It states that the English are a people by nature inclined to great attempts and many years past and sundry times since Elizabeth has tasked her subjects with the finding out of some nearer passage by sea into your Majesty's countries through the north and east parts of the world. Many of these letters have never returned, not being heard of since their departure hence whereas others have been beaten back by the frozen seas and intolerable cold of those climates. All of this tells us that this letter was intended to be carried along the north west passage, a sea route that was speculated to lie over the north of what is now Canada and was imagined to be a kind of corridor that would carry English goods and merchants over the top of the globe into Cathire and to China. In the second half of the 16th century in particular it promised to be England's superhighway to global prominence. Indeed in the letter Elizabeth notes that Weymouth leaves with her blessing to find a nearer way of passage between England and eastern Asia than the usual frequented course which involves compassing the greatest part of the world so travelling right the way around the Cape and across the Indian Ocean. The opening up of such a passage could, Elizabeth writes, unite the two monarchs, their countries and their dominions for it would reveal that they were not so far remote or severed as they are estranged and unknown the one to the other. The arrival of this letter then would realise what Elizabeth calls the opportunity of intercourse of traffic or merchandise between the subjects of both our kingdoms. But Elizabeth goes beyond that and hopes for more that through this beginning a mutual league and amity may grow she says. The prospect of an alliance between Cathire, part of what was at least closely connected to China, which of course was the preaminent power in the early modern global economy and England, here the two on the fringes of that economy, is I think quite extraordinary. It shows how the English were willing to cast aside conventional geographies of peripherality and rethink the assumptions that their foremost connections were with Europe and the rest of Christendom. A league and amity with Cathire and ultimately with China, like those already established with Morocco and the Ottoman Empire would offer a further counterbalance to Spain and to Habsburg Catholic dominance. It's also of course a victory for wishful thinking. This was possibly the 12th letter that had been drawn up, decorated and dispatched for Emperors of the East. The letter concludes the very end with a justification of international trade which becomes a maxim for Tudor global thinking and follows the model of the very first English letter sent into the far north and to China, written by her brother Edward VI, 50 years earlier in 1553. This trade would allow the peoples of Asia to be served with the native commodities of these parts and in return we and our subjects would be furnished with things of like service and use. It was this that was understood to be God's plan in the world from an English perspective, that God had spread the natural resources across the globe in such a way that peoples necessarily had to come together to trade and out of such mutual benefit, she writes, amity and friendship may grow between us. Elizabeth looks forward to the receipt of His Majesty's letters to be returned by our said subject and concludes with a tellingly universalist invocation. She commends Your Majesty to the protection of the Eternal God, whose providence, guidance and perseverance preserveeth all kings and kingdoms. But, as you may have already worked out, this letter never arrived, which is why we have it. Indeed no Englishman arrived in China until John Weddell in 1637. Weymuth initially made good progress northward through June of 1602 into the Newfoundland area before the arrival of deep cold on the evening of the 19th of July led his crew to mutiny, tie him up, put him below deck and a storm drove them quickly back to England and the inevitable scrutiny of the courts and company investors. So amidst all those recriminations and the court actions in the aftermath of the failure of the voyage, somehow this letter, which had returned with them, mysteriously ended up in the Lancashire Public Record Office in Preston possibly through the hands of a senior naval commander called Robert Cross and it's there that I've seen it and you can still see it today, a nearly lost icon of late Tudor global ambition. Thank you, Christine. It's brilliant to be doing this. It really is great and especially after what we've just heard, I feel I'm going to be rather traditional. I'm both showing an image which seems very sort of art based in effect if we can just pop it up and is also probably closer, sorry because I'm using that, there you go, is slightly closer to home in terms of what Lauren and Matt have been talking about. So my image is a manuscript depiction of Iosaphir in Istanbul. It's dated 1588. It recently appeared, reappeared, having been miscatalogued in the British Library in manuscripts in the edition manuscript 5234. I didn't find it, Fuchsha Hart or Oxford found it, but we were talking about this and I've sort of picked up and tried to connect it to other stories about the person who is associated with which is what I'm going to talk about. So it's a very large drawing which was made and signed quote by me, Thomas Morgan who says he's a mariner having been above 15 years bound and thrall in the Turkey galleys. You can see across the top that Morgan has emblazoned Elizabeth's motto, Viva Elizabeth, always the same. Across the top of the building's dome is written the great temple called Santa Sophia at Constantinople where the great Turk called Sultan Murat, Dothan habit. So the drawing shows that some of you are probably familiar with Iosaphir set in its gardens with its distinctive dome, two of the four minarets that were added when Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453. I'm interested in it because how do we see it as a piece of art because Morgan was neither an elite traveller nor a draftsman. So there's an interesting question about what its status is and I think in all the objects that we've been looking at as artefacts, material objects. This of course perhaps seems more the former but I'm not so sure. So who was Morgan and what was he trying to achieve by drawing Iosaphir in this way in 1588? We do know a bit about Thomas Morgan already. He's part of the genre of written captivity narratives which some of you working in this area may know. Scholars like Nabil Matat and Roslyn Knutson have worked on already. Roslyn Knutson wrote an article called Elizabethan Documents, Captivity Narratives and the Market for Foreign History Plays in 1996. That great piece provided an appendix of documents drawn from the parish clerk's records of St Botolf Oldgate. Thomas Harridons, who was the clerk of the parish, kept a detailed daybook from 1583 to 1600. That daybook included descriptions of the baptism and deaths of many interesting figures in terms of talking about global lives in Tudor, England. Figures like Mary Phyllis, which people like Miranda Kaufman's written about in her book Black Tudors and her baptism at the same church in 1597. So Harridons is interesting because of the records that he kept. He also kept accounts of collections taken for English captives who were captured by the Turks in Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. Harridons' record of 26 May 1588 gives an account of Thomas Morgan. So I'm now trying to marry up the account that we have from that record with this image that Morgan drew. So just a sort of snapshot of the account from Harridons' records, which says in 26 May 1588 a collection was made for Thomas Morgan, who had been captived by the infidels and infidels has been as replaced Hungarians. So this becomes interesting in terms of who the infidel is. Captive by the infidels, presumably the Turks, not the Hungarians, memorandum that Thomas Morgan in the County of Surrey, who had served a magistina wars in diverse places in the wars in New Haven under Ralph Brown in a ship called the Red Dragon, also in Ireland and in diverse other places. And after that served under Sir William Gorge Knight in Hungary, whereby infidels he was taken prisoner of 15 years, kept bond and thrall in most cruel slavery and bondage until our loving subject, Edward Cottness Squire, most charitably redeemed him from the same in consideration wherever he was licensed by Her Majesty's Letters of Payton to gather the devotions of well-disposed people within the city of London in the town of Norwich. Dated 2 May in the 30th year of Her Majesty's reign, there was gathered for him in our parish church the sum of 16 shilling seven pens, which have been engrossed upon the letters and delivered to his wife. So this is interesting because it gives us a sort of global dimension to a figure like Morgan, a very non-alied traveller, and those connected to it, it seems that his career started as a soldier and a sailor, involved in the ill-fated New Haven or La Hav expedition of 1562 to 1663 in support of the French Huguenots, which of course failed in 1563. He then fights in Ireland, and then he fights against the Turks in Hungary in the late 1560s under Sir William Gorge, who was Vice-Admiral of the Fleet, who also acted as a mercenary in the Pair of the Holy Roman Emperor, maximally in the 2nd. Presumably this is the point at which Morgan was captured and that his captivity extended throughout the 1570s and led into Istanbul where he saw Ayah Sophia. Presumably his captivity lasted this long. What transpired prior to his ransom is unknown. Edward Cotton paid Morgan's ransom. Cotton's interesting because he was a merchant from Southampton with commercial interests in Brazil. The report of his gathering in May 1588 is the last we hear of Morgan, so we know as far as we know. We must assume that it's around this time he draws Ayah Sophia. So, there's an interesting question. When is this object actually created? I guess he doesn't do it in Istanbul and then brings it back home due to the relatively high quality of the finish. So, what compels this relatively modest man, a jobbing soldier held captive for 15 years in Turkey to draw Ayah Sophia? We have written accounts but very few drawings. What else can we glean then from that drawing? So, I'm cheating a little bit by just giving you a few more details here. So, I'm just running you through so you can see we can look back at this in a minute. The inscription on the left suggests that one of Morgan's main interests is in describing religious practice. He offers a vertical narrative. He offers a vertical narrative on the left describing religious practice. Starting with the call to prayer, describing the text next to the left hand minaret. It says these that are here to be seen in pinnacles. So, I do call the people to the church and to that end of try. So, here is throughout there's some attempt I think to describe what Morgan sees in rhyming couplers. You know, one wonders did he write as well as draw this object? It's questionable, we just don't know. Below he also describes what seems to be prayers within the mosque and those that herein do remain to Muhammad they try saying next to the living God that he remains on high. The inscription at the bottom describes Wudu which is the ritual washing before prayers. It says, and those that are here underneath at fountains they do wash believing that their sins they clear and God's do refresh. The figures in the windows, fascinating. Trying to offer some kind of account of a religious or a political hierarchy in labelling the figures in the window. On the ground floor what he calls Jamikas which are presumably Jamiseries wearing their distinctive headgear. And above are Murad's lords and what Morgan calls the high priest. To the right, just going back to the main piece he talks on the right hand side you have an inscription referring and praising Elizabeth. For God confound her secret foes that's an a line which is quite difficult to transcribe and give her still the upper hand above all her enemies. So there's a sense in which there's a celebration there of Elizabeth. Interestingly obviously at the moment which is the high point of the Angler-Ottoman relationship at the time. So who was the image intended for? Was it made as a gift to Cotton for providing the ransom that led to his release? Or was Morgan offering an implicit defence of his captivity? One theological response to the captivity enslavement suffered by the likes of Morgan was to question the motivation for their actions. John Elmer who was Bishop of London wrote in 1582 that it was quote, strange and dangerous that the desire of worldly and transitory things should carry men so far with such kind of traffic which neither our ancestors before is new of nor can be attempted without selling of souls for purchasing of pelf to the great blemish of our religion and the shame of our country. One of those standard arguments about expenditure, the loss of the goods of the country and really something that I think all three papers are implicitly talking about in some ways. So if individuals like Morgan chose to do so to travel in this way then their physical bondage was equally spiritual. A theological trial to be endured by the Christian soul. So was the drawing of Isaphir Morgan's praise of Elizabeth's religious constancy and his own bond and thrall in the Turkish gallids an attempt to justify his own religious travail? If so, is he one of the many dispossessed individuals caught between two different forms of bondage imposed by those in power and authority, one physical, the other spiritual, and neither of his choosing? Is this why he drew? I don't know perhaps, but it still doesn't quite explain who received it then or today. Fantastic, thank you. So I think those were all fantastic, I think that was a fantastic group of objects to start us off because they speak to so many different ways in which the global permeated Tudor society, political, religious but also personal and sort of social in the form of the jewel and then of course the different levels of craftsmanship that that implies as well. So the kind of professional gem cutter or the professional illuminator versus the sort of amateur sketcher. So in terms of breadth I couldn't have asked for better but I wonder if we can think a bit about the field at the moment and what you think are the most exciting developments at the moment, how recent scholarship has shifted our understanding of the Tudor global? I'd have a mic so they're going to do that. Well, yeah, I can start. I think one thing is that thinking about what a global perspective actually means and how we kind of think about connected histories, comparative histories. I suppose thinking about the difficulties perhaps of different languages, kind of understanding our positionality in relation to other cultures and how we navigate that. One thing that I find quite exciting and I know not everyone might but I think the geopolitics and kind of thinking about those political tensions, the kind of power relations behind the production of art is really tantalising and allows us to think about various cultures of making and how they come together. Oh, I'm just going to cough on. Oh, you're going to cough. And then you're going to say something. No, you go ahead. Okay. Well, I'm quite curious about how, is this an ignorant point, I'm wondering how far the analysis of visual culture is playing catch up with a lot of textual studies that's happened over the last 20 years. So the work that's been done in the field of east-west exchange, that's been very textual, the work that both you two have been doing and people have been writing about mercantile exchange ambassadors, people like Harbourn's work and so on and so forth. I'm wondering, I mean your work is engaging with this to some extent. So you also should talk about this in a way. I'm not really sure how much, because when we talk about Tudorart, actually, the other issue is it's a massive elephant in the room. What do we mean when we talk about Tudorart? There is no, because then we get into the interesting question of the global and the local and the national, because having written a book years ago on Charles I's art question, there is no notion of an English tradition around the art. So what I guess you're hearing here is the way, none of us have really looked at what you might call a more traditionally artistic object. My mind was nearest to it. So I think it's interesting that, fully enough, although there's been so much work on material culture and objects, I don't know in terms when we talk about Tudorart. Yes, later, and the European tradition I think is changing and has looked at cross-cultural visual culture, but the Tudor work I'm not so sure. There you go, Matt. No, I think that's exactly right. I was thinking when I was walking over here thinking about this very question about the work that's been going on recently around inventories, but that is, I mean it's not really about Tudorart either, it's about Tudor collections of objects, thinking about Susan Bracken's work, for instance, and the ways in which I think in the last decade or two we've become attuned to different kinds of objects in ways that weren't necessarily the case before. I think there's a wider debate going on. I didn't really want to mention the word, the debate around national trust property and being aware of the kinds of objects that are in collections that wouldn't have necessarily been picked out before, but are suddenly open to questions of provenance and I think those sorts of debates are quite interesting because of the way foreground art objects that wouldn't otherwise have been foregrounded. Yeah, I think I was kind of recently asked if I thought that there was like an imperial aesthetic in the kind of Tudor, Jacobean period and there certainly isn't a kind of imperial or colonial one in the way that we might think about later 17th or of course 18th century work and so it's kind of, is there not one earlier or have we just not thought about how we kind of conceptualize that or talk about it? I guess your book, Elizabethan Globalism, kind of thinks about that a little bit from the perspective of thinking about empire in a way that might encompass colonialism but also encompasses these other ideas about sovereignty and, you know, cross-cultural engagement and other kind of empires in the East. I want to ask you, because of what you've been doing and you know the field in a way better, but, you know, it also connects to what's going on. You know, the notion of the sort of what I call the theological Brexit that happens in the Tudor period, you know, in 1570, Elizabeth's excommunication and really from the 1550s, England is cut off from the continental high traditions artistically, you know, so there's a problem there about exactly how cross-cultural encounter takes place. Is this me? Is this me? It's interesting what you were saying at the end about trying to, you know, you just kind of jump, the Tudors jump into the periphery. They just cut out Europe and I mean that's quite funny because it is, it's very Brexit, it feels very much about the way in which they're related. Yeah, we've got a trade deal with cafes, so, you know. We're good, we're good, you know, absolutely great, but it is easy. And the polar ice is melting so we can get over the north, yes. But we know this, it's not until sort of 6th, 11th, 12th, 13th when you've got people like Arendl and Inigo Jones who are getting to Italy going, we've just missed out on the high renaissance, blimey, look at this stuff, they're bringing practitioners and it's like they've come from outer space. So when you've got that going on to then trace the wider, what we are talking about, the global, which I still don't think we know what you mean when we talk about the global, such a city. I mean, you know, what do we mean by that? It's vaguely international, there are things for the new world. What do we mean by that? You know, we need to give it a bit more heft rather than just sort of muddling around on the edges. But you know, you see in that field in terms of what we traditionally call as Tudorat. So I'd be interested to see what you say about it. Yeah, okay, there's so much there. I think just on that point, yes, I think it's true that Tudorat is playing catch up. I mean, as we saw in the previous round table for those of you who were here or you can watch it later online. It's only relatively recently that people have A, acknowledged that there was any art in Tudor England at all, foreign or otherwise, because prejudice is about the reformation having held firm throughout a lot of the 20th century. And then beyond that, you know, actually thought of asking interesting questions about it. So it's not just a case of antiquarian kind of discovery and listing and, you know, yeah, description. And actually thinking, okay, how does this fit into other theoretical moments? And what else can we say about it? So I think, yes, it's playing catch up, but that's why we're here trying to drag Tudorat history into the 21st century. Something you were saying, Lauren, about this idea of imperial iconography and a phrase that you had, which I wrote down because I liked it so much, mutually comprehensible iconography of magnificence. I think actually when we, I think we do find that at least earlier in the 16th century, but where we find it is in Henry VIII looking to Turkish imperial dress and I mean, there's this portrait of him possibly based on a whole vine, which is of him wearing a Turkish overcoat, effectively. And that kind of, him sort of embracing this reputation that he had as a, you know, the new Turk because he'd had lots of wives. So, you know, I think it struck me as well with your object, that the pearls, but also these sort of so-called arabesque ornaments in the borders, you know, they're writing to what we would think of as China, but they're using Ottoman decorative repertoire to show that they are a sort of generic foreignness or is there something else going on there that it's deemed both exotic in inverted commas but also somehow elaborate, imperial, exciting. Yeah. I'm thinking about Henry VIII parading around the Turkish clothes, which I love. There are plenty of references to it, as we know, that he travels across London, goes to mass, 10s weddings, dresses, the Turk, that famous painting where he's wearing a kind of kaftan. I still can't quite work out in my head whether... I think that's him playing a kind of exotic dress-up, as you were suggesting. Whether there's a kind of political charge there, that he's having himself painted dressed as the Turk to make a political point about, you know, Ottoman-French relations that have begun in the 1530s, about opposition to Habsburg, dominance. So it's a kind of European power play. Or whether it's... I suppose what its meaning is for Henry, I mean, it's something we'll never recover, but what happens when a monarch dresses up as a Turk in the 1530s when there's no direct contact between England and Turkey? Don't look at me. I have no idea what he's doing. I think it's something very different than when, say, Elizabeth I receives a suite of Turkish women's dress as a gift from the Ottoman court. There's suddenly a very different dynamic. Yeah, we knew that from the ambassadors. You know, one of the great contests. I mean, if you've been writing about this, I wrote about this with Lisa Jardin 20 years ago. You know, the context is the failed, it's the collapsed Franco-Ottoman alliance, Franco-Tudor Ottoman alliance, which is about to be signed at that point. That's the assumption that that's what that image shows. So embedded within it, of course, the Turkish carpet, which is there, and certain implicit signs and symbols gives you an indication of that's what happened. The pact falls apart, the painting gets literally shelved, the image that we have of the Moroccan ambassador. I think it's the same moment. It's a moment of what you expect is about to happen, an Anglo-Moroccan alliance, which is about to be signed in late 1600s, early 1601, for various reasons which are not the orientalist arguments of, oh, we can't have a deal with the barbarian, Moroccans is not what's going on, but it does fall apart, so the picture literally gets shelved. The thing with Henry, what is that moment about? Is it just also a power play? It's about... It is an attempt to assimilation, isn't it? I can dress in their clothes, therefore I have more power, but then we know that they're probably two seasons out of date. So actually he's trying to play catch up. You don't really know, but that's how I've always read those moments. You found all that stuff anyway. So when these objects do come to England, whether they are gifted by an emperor, or whether they come by it perhaps slightly more securities routes, how do you think patrons and viewers regarded these objects? Do you think they were aware of their origins, or do you think they had any sort of knowledge about where they came from? How much travels with the object? This is just going to be another... I have no idea. On one hand, I think, and as I kind of wanted to mention a little bit with the emeralds, there is knowledge about where these goods come from. It isn't just like someone's like, oh I had no idea that enslaved people had to collect these pearls. So there is an understanding of those commodity chains and where goods are coming from because there's so much travel knowledge that's circulating. I mean we've devoted our careers to looking at that, but there is a lot of information about where objects are sourced and the kind of consequences of that. I mean there's a great quote, a chaplain, James the first chaplain, so I know I'm cheating by looking slightly but his sermon that's preached at court in the kind of 1610s I think, and he basically says, you know the well-dressed courtier is basically clad in goods that indigenous peoples have had to produce for him, whether or not that's the pearls, the silks, the gold, the silver, the figure of the courtier is kind of created through this patchwork of different kinds of labour and non-European knowledge. But how much is that self-fashioning part of how we read a portrait or a kind of image? It's in the same way that we know that iPhones are created in conditions that we probably don't want to think of. So how much is that self-fashioning part of it? So it's kind of look at the access that I have to these goods even if they come at the expense of other people and how much is that not part of what the viewer is supposed to think about a monarch or a painting when they look at it. I mean I don't know what you think. I was thinking about the number of kind of broad sides against courtiers wearing foreign fashion, barbarian sleeves and so on, Turkish mustachios that go in and out of fashion and they're basically told that they're nothing better than dogs in doublets, which I've always enjoyed as a sort of insult. But for me, I think there's a change over the course of the 16th century but even though it's the course of Elizabeth. I think if we're, I appreciate Jerry's point about what are we talking about when we're talking about the global, but if we think about the 1550s as a key point for England's expansion into new markets with Henry VI and the search for the north-west and northeast passages and beginning to write letters to the Emperor of China as a sort of origin point for that commercial expansion. Then I think the goods that return from that commercial expansion are treated in a very different way than the ones that start to arrive in a sort of bulk trade interaction that develops around about 1600 or the early part of the 17th century. You can see that by the way that they are treated, the way that they're mounted, the way they seem to have been displayed. Robert Cecil, who I've written about, his initial collection of porcelain, the porcelain is taken to an English silversmith and mounted in very specific ways with classical motifs. He seems to have jettisoned all of that when everybody else started to do it and started to focus on acquiring unadorned porcelain as the kind of fashionable, more difficult to get item. So I think there's a sense that as the volumes of trade change, as the roots of trade change, tastes change, and also elite tastes change in reaction to popular tastes, so there's a kind of sequence of complex interconnections there. Sounds good. Well, I suppose for me I'm thinking of the, you know, John Dee scrying mirror, which we now know was from the obsidian minds of Mexico. And the fact that he used that for sort of spiritual purposes or attempted spiritual purposes, the fact that actually in Aztec culture it had associations with the spirit world, it could be a coincidence or something to do with the material suggesting things like that, but it just seems like sometimes, you know, not just the mode of production, but also the cultural value of these things possibly travelled with them. I mean, it would be really interesting to know whether the kind of porcelain that William Sestle valued was actually the hardest to get, or the most valuable, you know, was he buying stuff that they were making for export and not having that understanding. So yeah, I suppose thinking also about cultural value as well as, you know, the mode of production. It's certainly the case that China is a label attached to many things that clearly didn't come from China. So I think, I mean, there's been some arguments that suggest that there's a big, with the cabinets of curiosity which we haven't mentioned yet, and the kinds of collections we're talking about, that there's the kind of beginnings of something like a kind of conno-surship in England in the later part of the 16th century. But it's a conno-surship that's kind of floundering in the dark. They don't really know what it is that they're talking about. They don't really know the provenance of these items certainly in terms of Chinese goods come from captured Portuguese ships. So, you know, you just pay for whatever you can get and then you say, yes, of course this comes from China. Here, see it on display in my drawing room. No, I just wanted to bring in one of my favourite examples, which is a peddler. So a gentleman, a kind of country gentleman, sees a peddler walking around on a summer's evening and he's wearing an Indian hat that he says he... And so the man writes to Robert Cecil again and kind of says, this man has this Indian hat which I think must have been taken from the West Indies in a conflict in the expedition by Francis Drake. So already there's a sense of, OK, this is a valuable object that shouldn't be in the hands of this peddler kind of wandering around the countryside and the Secretary of State should kind of know about this. But the really great thing is that a few weeks later there's another letter that Cecil receives from this man and who kind of says, oh, so about that Indian hat I wrote to you about, it turns out it's not actually from the West Indies, it's from London and it seems to have been made there. So then you kind of get all these other questions of these like knockoffs, you know, that we've been making and then there is that sense of the elite still kind of want access to the real thing. You know, they want the real feathers and the action of the Indian King. They don't want the kind of, you know, imitation object that was made on the cheap side of it. Died pigeon feathers, yeah. Do you reckon Cecil's just therapy gets all these letters going? Not another letter about a global object which I have done and said. Well, wasn't that, there's the shipwreck, the Portuguese shipwreck off the south coast and then he's sort of all the, when Robert Cecil's going down to try and secure the goods on this thing and he said everyone he meets on the way is going down to the south coast of Perfew because they've just crammed their stuff into their pockets. And other orifices of Perfew. Nice. Okay, so we've got imported objects and things coming to England but besides actual physical movement of things from far away to nearby how else might we trace the influence of Tudor exposure to other cultures and material and visual culture? Traditionally though, it's been, well, some of this analysis has been done through carpets and fabrics hasn't it? There was a big vogue quite a long time ago now to identify carpets in Renaissance art and to the extent that you could identify the weave and place them in specific places I think there's a lot of work going on now about fabrics and trying to identify the provenance of particular fabrics or the styles that are being reproduced but it is very hard I think. And as we were saying before the fashion's changed so fast that even when you recognise it in a portrait for example you're still kind of wondering is this meant to be seen as outdated by now? Is this actually produced in the regions that we think it was? But yeah, I think this is something that I've been thinking about with the work I've been doing with the National Portrait Gallery but it's just how you can look at the various objects in a painting but also things like the rugs the jewellery the pearls but also dyes I guess are another useful way through technical analysis and things because when you find something like cochineal dye then you know that's come from Central America and that is a very tangible we can kind of speculate about where various jewels come from but things like the dyes you know there's like a little piece of some beetles that were crushed in South America that are inside a portrait of Titian or something Absolutely and obviously ultramarine as well you know from Afghanistan and the fact that it was from Afghanistan being part of its value that it had this cache of close to Eden so it's a slightly more heavenly pigment than as you write which is just from Germany And golden silver leaf I mean obviously the silver leaf is probably again coming from real context currencies I guess for me the struggle is also how you read absences in things as well so we find lots of goods that are being treasured that are coming from Persia or the Ottoman Empire you don't see indigenous headdresses and kind of tutor art even though they're collecting them so then the question is kind of why not if it's a can you prove a kind of deliberate act of erasure because I do think there's something to be said here about the English conception of civility and the fact that that civility hinges on kind of access to the imperial greatness of kind of Asian territory they also kind of juxtaposing that civility against the supposed kind of savagery of those people that the English are in the process of attempting to colonize at the same time So do you think we can add attitudes towards other cultures in the use and sort of value of the objects themselves well yeah I guess I mean I guess we can all give examples of where we think I guess what Matt was saying about the Henry VIII example mine from when I wrote Orion Isle was discovering is a story of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire has a tapestry called Fides with the first and the first depiction of the Prophet Muhammad from the 1580s and I drove up there once with my kids and I was getting ice cream and I walked in and I went why do you have an embroidery of the Prophet Muhammad here and it's a bit like the Lancashire story that it was in Derbyshire and what you see is an image of Elizabeth with a prostate figure of what seems to be the Prophet Muhammad labelled us so and also with the Al Qurran so with a copy of the Qurran and what seems to be a representation of a mosque in the background now how do you read that do you say this is a representation or a reflection or a response to an Anglo-Islamic relation that we didn't really know about 40-50 years ago but now is very much the centre of the field so we now know that Anglo-Otoman alliance is a very very significant part of Elizabethan foreign policy do we say it's a reflection of that or do we say again it's trying to play games claiming that reform Protestant theology is trying thing over an image of Islam and we know that the narratives or the claims around conversions you know Matt's done more work on this than most people that we know that of all the conversions that were going on it was mainly Protestants who were converting to Islam in the Mediterranean rather than any Muslims who were converting to Anglicanism of which we have one example from the 1580s and that's it so you look at that image and you think again are we seeing a nascent emergence of a sort of Protestant imperial iconography is it more of a response in a confused way to an alliance and what the heck is it doing in Derbyshire and I tend to feel I don't know it's odd I suppose our training and our more conservative history tells us that it's always already a symbol of visual western iconography which is trying thing over a sort of anaconic representation of Islam but maybe what we're hearing and I think what you're doing is saying maybe we need to think much more carefully about what those images are doing these days and I think you'll work more on the new world stuff is perhaps doing that but also you can talk to that as well Thinking about that harbour call image it is, it's an odd it seems almost anomalous and then you realise that there's something very similar in the margins of the English prayer book from that period that's probably elaborating copied into the tapestry and harbour call and then you start to think well why is the image of Prophet Muhammad being crushed by a figure of a female personification of faith in the English prayer book and it opens up a different way of thinking I think about the way in which the Anglo-Otoman relationship worked because we've discussed this many times before on the level of faith as in the letter I was talking about everything becomes in the correspondence everything becomes very universal the eternal God bless you and so on whereas any discussions in England about Islam specifically maintain without question that it is a dominable religion that is infernal and so on and should be crushed and how those two things co-exist in England in the period that you were talking about Jerry the kind of height among the Ottoman relations between say 1580 and the mid 1590s it is very peculiar it comes back to that question about elites and popular culture and the way in which English elites seem to have been able to quite easily negotiate some of these contradictions in ways that a popular culture wasn't allowed to true although this tells a lie to that a little bit because it doesn't have that sort of very anti-Turkish Islamic tradition it's quite descriptive in many ways so it's interesting because from a non-elite figure I gave a version of this and played around with first colonial scholar Gatry Spivak famously in the 80s said can the subaltern speak I was saying can the subaltern draw this is interesting as a non-elite figure and of course an Englishman who is a captive at that point who very much feels that he would be the subaltern at that point the power of the Ottoman polity is very much that he is the subaltern he is the minor figure there so to represent that in this way is kind of interesting because it doesn't give you the sort of the vertuprative account of Islam it's not so again I think that's interesting in terms of these different regimes that we talk about the visual culture who's producing the work and why I still don't know I have no idea why I don't understand this image why I'm so fascinated by it this is a great example because I want to talk recently about kind of sailor's drawings in the 18th century on board kind of East India Company ships and these kind of amateur artists actually just produce so much beautiful artwork and then you kind of think oh that's really annoying that we don't have that for an earlier period but then we actually kind of do in some examples of there and I'm thinking also of the Drake manuscript so a kind of anonymous artist travelled with Francis Drake during his certain navigation in 1577 to 1580 and left behind all these drawings of Flora and Fauna and there's lots of indigenous peoples being depicted in that they're kind of shaking trees to kind of get the birds to fly out of them to collect the feathers that fall down there's a really poignant image of an enslaved African diver who's kind of swimming away from this large kind of man to ray in the water and so it might kind of be quote-unquote bad art from a kind of aesthetic perspective but on the other hand it's kind of opening up so many other perspectives in which we can approach this material. I think that's something we see with the John White drawings as well sort of say you know can this have open speak well it's such a complex issue whether because there were so many different people involved in that obviously the John White drawings were primarily produced from a quote propagandistic perspective to try and persuade investors back home that there was all this stuff that could be you know grabbed but also you've got Thomas Harriet you've got John White himself genuinely curious about these cultures that seems trying to learn the language trying to communicate with the people which adds a big layer of complexity as to what those images really are showing you know is it entirely about sort of getting one over on the natives or is it actually about trying a sort of early ethnographic impulse? I mean the John White drawings are so beautiful. I mean I was lucky enough to kind of see them in person at the British Museum a few years ago with Dr Stephanie Pratt and who's a kind of culture ambassador for the Code Creek Dakota and being there in the room with her and kind of looking at those objects and discussing them and the more you look at them the more you start to see kind of non-European cycles of kind of thinking about you know the kind of circularity of some of the images and the fact that there's almost no European objects in any of you know there's the one image of the girl kind of holding Elizabethan doll but other than that it's almost you know they are portraits and their portraits that in some ways should be sitting alongside other kind of Tudor and early Jacobean portraits Great So if we're thinking then about particularly the west and the way that Tudor explorers were approaching the new world how would what works fit with wider narratives about England's colonial ambitions in this period? What about the new world? Well all these I think So the work I've been doing at the moment Do you mention the book I'm working on? Well I'm not really working on it Well he is the first he goes further north as a European then anyone who has been before gets quite close to the kind of upper reaches of Greenland and he is unusual because he seems absolutely fascinated in Inuit language and returns Richard Hackford in his principle of Inuit vocabulary with kind of rough translations as well as accounts of his voyages he takes three voyages up into that region and later travels to the east and west Indies What struck me when I was thinking about it in the context of our discussion was the way in which moments which we tend to call encounter moments of encounter like Davis arriving at the tip of Greenland calling out to try and bring indigenous peoples in they arrive in canoes they start playing instruments and dancing the English to try and attract the Inuit in and then there's an exchange of goods they give English items and they receive items in return and it's the same tale in every equivalent moment that I've seen certainly for Frobyshire and Davis all of these voyages into the north west all begin with the exchange of goods and the English of course think that they're giving away things of small value and getting things in return of greater value or indeed that these exchanges are a kind of preliminary step towards accessing something of greater value whether it's precious stones or anything else but one of the things that crops up again and again this is a slightly weird digression I admit is a fascination with the canoe as a kind of technical marvel everybody writes about canoes every picture you have about a cabinet of curiosity that has an indigenous canoe again perhaps we're thinking slightly different ways in slightly the wrong way about what we think of as indigenous art and the way in which it was appraised from a kind of European perspective because the things that were collected and valued and brought back wouldn't necessarily fit the normal definition of art and yet were displayed as such and were held as such the first English voyages to West Africa in the 1550s with cargoes of pepper, some gold and ivory that they don't quite know what to do with and they bring back a vast elephant skull huge that takes four men to carry it and they put it on display in Central London and people from all over the city are allowed to come and gape at it and it's not art in the conventional sense is it but it shows something of the way in which objects that were brought from distant locations were displayed understood, thought of used as a way of articulating something about the wider world The question then for me is just are these gifts, are these taken so there's already that story of collecting and I think it's it's very tricky because I think sometimes these objects were gifts and so it's almost too easy to say they were all taken by conquest but it does risk stripping away a sense of agency and cultural value that indigenous peoples are giving to these objects that they want Europeans to have they can be subversive as well Jack Davies at the British Museum he works on this later period but looking at the way that indigenous groups in North America on the west coast for example would carve anti-colonial messages or stories onto canoes that they then gift to put on display so how do we get to that kind of understanding of the function of these these artifacts or these art objects when we don't we have so little written by these peoples we have such little evidence left of the intentions behind them and I think that is a huge obstacle in how we build a global picture of Elizabeth Amarff Do we want to bind to the colonial discourse narrative as well though that's one of the issues because we're so tied to some notion that we have to say this is going to lead to what we see later in the 17th, 18th century and I wonder whether that's true I wonder whether we see too much to a sort of very very limited argument about plantations in the new world and beyond that everything that goes eastwards there's no notion about colonial projects there's nothing there's nothing about what's happening with the Ottomans, with the Barbary States with anything to the east of the Cape of Good Hope which is about plantations or colonial settlement it's purely a new world narrative and even that it's just disastrous so we were doing this in literary studies decades ago people were all the tempest representation of colonialist discourse how Tudor England is always already going to become this great imperial power not really we don't have to buy into that and of course at the moment it's very tricky I think with the culture wars argument that there's a need again to talk about say the issue of slavery and it's really difficult it's not a plug or anything but it's having done a radio series about other Tudors and these kind of questions about the globalised moment in the 16th century in where England was which was nowhere, it was just a spit was just something on the corner so I'm asked about China, it's interesting oh yeah we're making all these claims and nobody knows who we are Chinese or the Turks don't even know we are so I worry about how we made the argument and do we give too much agency to that visual culture that says it's already laying down a story about colonial claims to territory to the sort of subjugation of other peoples and I'm not so sure because until you get really the joint stock companies that start East India Company the Virginia Company really it's a much more of a Jacobian and Caroline moment and I'm so this is the next project presumably nobody talks about this about what's happening in that period in the sort of 1620s, 30s, 40s because then it just gets taken over by civil war narratives and that's the next project but you know it's interesting around how we go Tudors and we ought to extract so much from the Tudors around an early colonial project I'm not so sure we should I think we should be saying this was much more hit-and-miss, it was very contingent there's a kind of hit-and-miss narrative we can extract some of that material from people like Dee from some of Elizabeth's letters Elizabeth writes to Moraddon says you know I'm the great defender of the faith and I own half of the western world and he's like no you're not you're just telling porkies she says she's a defender of the faith in Ireland, France not so much, you know those claims need to be called out as yes it's a claim it's a pretty empty and hollow claim and so I wonder what whether we just put too much on the visual culture to say here is a kind of colonial project which we see emerging maybe not, not so much but we're so enthralled to reading backwards and saying it has to be there and maybe the Tudors are not the moment to look for it well I think that in the 1580s that is and things like John White's drawing so you do get a sense that you're on the cusp of so many different ways and there is a sense even in I mean I find Thomas Harriet's text in which these images are later printed you know really interesting because on one hand they are divided into the commodities we can get from here the commodities that will be useful I mean the word commodity comes up again and again and again and that is you know that is part of the colonial project but as you say I mean there isn't any guarantee that that colonial project will be successful at that point and so the the kind of 60s, 70s 80s it's difficult to kind of get back at them without thinking about what we know from a later period I mean saying that I think there's no getting around the kind of the trauma that indigenous peoples today still kind of associate with that very first moment because they do see that as the kind of moment where you know the intervention really started to come and continued to come after that I think this is interesting what's going on at the moment as well about that suggests that there is no single colonial model that the Spanish had a model the Portuguese had a model the English were working between and around those models but were also coming into contact with the models of what an imperial looks like and there's that recent book on conquistables by Cervantes which suggests that actually when people misunderstand the Spanish colonial model and in fact it's essentially a many evil idea of our trans planet into the new world in which indigenous peoples may have had more rights than they would have had under the Cep a Portuguese model which was more commercially and evangelical oriented sort of swerve in and out of those two potential models whilst also keeping in mind what's the great book by Patricia Seed ceremonies of possession from like the 1990s great book where she says you know all the European powers make different claims and that's why you have a lot of the collisions between them because the Portuguese use mapping and then the Spanish say we don't recognise your claim because we're talking about something completely different hence the collision great book we're all about settling gardens well that is why I think plantation is actually quite useful an important concept and needs to be brought into that discussion of what is empire what is colonialism where do they intersect and when are they different because often country house poetry is about plantation and of course plantation starts with Ireland before it moves elsewhere okay so before we open the floor to questions one last question for the panel which is if Tudorart is playing catch up what would you like to see next you know where should Tudorart go in terms of the hazily defined global it's got to be collaborative work I think we'll all say this that you need to be work well it's then interesting isn't it about the current political situation how difficult it is when I say things like we need to be working with Turkish historians well there are the ones arresting them you talk about trying to work with North Africa scholars as well you try and talk about working with people from the Lebanon it's a real problem but I think we need to have a model more like the social sciences even the sciences because you've all heard this from me before but the notion that we're all taught through the Greco-Roman Latin tradition none of us speak Arabic none of us have Turkish we're not doing that kind of work and we should be because I think until we do that I'm going to say a lot of this work remains Orientalism and until we start having different voices in collaborative work which is crossing languages and different visual cultures which would then perhaps have people from those different cultures oh well actually what I'm seeing with this is something completely different so I think until you get that you're still going to be I think pussy footing around a little bit and that's what I'd like to see but it's really hard to do and it's about research council funding trying to build those kind of networks with scholars who are prepared to do it as well and that's what I'd like to see and I've stopped doing this work now I won't do it anymore because I don't have the languages and I don't have those contacts and contacts within those situations but it's what Edward Said warned us about back in 1978 you know there's a point where it's about representation of others and that's really problematic so that's my slightly polemical thing about where we should be going this work has done a huge amount in the last 30 years massively it's transformed the field but it's very much come from what we might lazily call the west or the Anglo-American tradition rather than taking it seriously about how you do cross cultural work across different cultures yeah on that point money putting the money for your mouth is because you do need to build relationships of trust with the kind of communities you're working with and that doesn't happen overnight and the number of times you come across applications for funding and it's just kind of like the turnaround is very quick it's kind of expectations you're going to have outputs and kind of information within a year or within a couple of years and especially when working with historically invaded or colonised peoples they're not, as you say it's if they want to work with us in the first place and so it takes time to build those trust based relationships that would bring I think greater understanding in conversation and the levels of interpretation that we need I suppose also it's I mean we are talking a little bit about mixed media or the cultural transmission so many times when I was researching my first book I kind of came across an image and I was like oh my gosh this shows that the English are really interested in indigenous peoples there's this kind of woodcut or something and then it always came from like Holland or from Spain it had always been published in like earlier from a different European or colonial power and so it's also do we even understand how images are talking to each other we do a little bit I think with texts and particular iconographies but I think there's a lot more to do about artists and practices processes around printing and kind of studios and the way that the English are speaking to Europeans about these kind of global encounters and then the last thing I would quickly say is I guess thinking a little, continuing to think outside of the canonical as well even just their wonderful Elizabethan paintings in museum collections in the states for example and that are quite unfamiliar to a lot of us because we just kind of look at the ones that are perhaps most easily accessible or the ones that we kind of see because we're in London a way of access to museums in London but I think there's a lot more thinking about objects and things and dyes in portraits and in paintings from the Elizabethan era beyond Henry and Elizabeth and the monarchs that we've kind of speaking about. I completely agree with both though the only thing I'd add would be carrying on the work that's already going on about opening up collections and opening up archives there's still a lot of work to be done with Jerry's written about this far more than I have of accessing collections that should be publicly available that aren't. There's a lot of work in digitisation going on in the National Archive and of course of early modern books that allow us to cover much more material to make connections to material that wasn't possible before but there's still huge archives related to this period that are really uncataloged and unexplored so I think there's a lot more work to be done there too. Yeah and this room I mean just look at the room and think about what we're talking about and you think that will have to change will have to change well you know it's going to be this with feminism you know if Natalie Zemin Day this will talk about this about you know opening up the archive when women were doing that work and of course then the materials look completely different it's about who's doing that work and at the moment you know we would all say that I guess you know when she was basically you know white westerners who'd been doing this work and that that encounter with the archive and who's doing it needs to change well on that note let's do a little bit to diversify and ask the room if there are any questions also online Rachel do you want to start? Actually there's a question that's come up that launches straight off of that point where someone was asking if there are any kind of black early modern historians whose work you could share or reference to I'm just for the interest of the room Just on the panel with Dennis Britton who's done some amazing work on conversion recently I'd highly recommend England's other countrymen and Kim Hall, I mean the work of Kim Hall every time I go back to it I'm just blown away and you know that came out in the mid 90s and it's still kind of it seems like it's only now really that she's being cited in the way that she should be but she's done some really great work on portraiture and thinking about portrait miniatures and the relationship to the sonic form for example Yeah absolutely, I mean Kim Hall's Things of Darkness, I mean you're right it's just becoming our classic book and I think it has led to a new younger generation particularly of black American scholars who are doing this work now I think in the UK that's still developing this and it's why it's interesting because it's a reflection I think of what the culture's about so it's no surprise that there's been much more work done I think recently on Anglo-Islamic work and young British Muslim scholars were starting to do that work and in the states of course the debates and the issues are slightly different and questions about slavery would be much more to the fore I think more recently I think in the UK the humanities and history study of that period particularly is still playing catch up but that's for very specific reasons about politically what's happened really in the last 50-60 years in the UK in contrast to the US Fantastic Any other any questions in the room? Oh yes we have one at the front Thank you It's a more basic question but going back to the image of Iosaphia I wondered if we could interrogate the image a little bit more what are we actually looking at and does it bear any relationship to anything that existed in Istanbul in the contemporary period is it a fantasy image a hybrid indoor outdoor image and the portals with the figures is to some extent however the basic outline and the domed shape of Iosaphia and the gardens are actually relatively accurate so the way in which the figures are being portrayed is clearly Morgan is interested in something else then about imperial hierarchy within the Ottoman court about religious questions so that's a kind of overlay over what is a pretty there's a Melchior Lorwx panorama of Istanbul from the 1550s a more elite image by European, you know, western European traveller around the 1550s so you can map it and relate it I mean he's not a trained draftsman Morgan's not a trained draftsman but there is clearly two things going on there's a basic understanding of the building and a representation of the building and the way in which it's changed after the 1450s when it's turned into a mosque after the city falls to the Turks so there is that sense of a sort of realism there is a representation which it's recognizably Iosaphia but then the figures and clearly what's going on with the representation of hierarchy that's clearly something else that he's interested in as well Were there balconies outside the building or were there an interior feature that it's just sort of more we think so, yeah Is there a Byzantine waltz is that what the cannulation bit around the outside is still be Byzantine, yeah Have you looked at sorry, I'm kind of cheating and asking a question but just kind of albums and kind of album and the quorum and kind of travel books I mean is there some kind of resemblance between the kind of studios that produce songs for that or does this seem quite unique? It seems quite unique, it really sticks out as an image, you know a fuchsia heart threw it up and we all kind of went what on earth is that? and doing that in 1588 just has come out of nowhere Great, and at the back there thank you Hi, so this question is just inspired by you were mentioning I think it was in the 1550s of the elements all of it was a great curiosity to the public and I was wondering what kind of claim you might be willing to stake about that object because it occurred to me that it's maybe on that borderline natural objects and artworks in the sense of being a kind of proto-example of a wunderkammer so I'm wondering what if you could just talk a little bit about that possibility I think it's certainly I've certainly been thinking about it in that context and it's only mentioned in the briefest of sentences in Richard Eden's Decades of the New World which ends with these brief narratives by Eden relating to the first English forages to West Africa and Eden mentions the skull in order to castigate those people who file past it and just gape at it in wonder and he uses the term wonder and it is an item that is wonderful but it's wonderful because of the way it tells us something about God's creation and God's ingenuity and Eden's point is that people should be thinking about God when they see the subject not about far-flung places or just being amazed they should be reflecting on the creation and their part in it so I think it's part of that kind of wunderkammer style of item but for Eden it's a kind of prodigy it's a kind of item that makes us think about God but Eden says that a lot which is what a lot of art is meant to do Richard, another question online? Yes we have got a question asking if there are any more examples of depictions of Muslims at prayer that could be shared or referenced Will the Harvard Hall embroideries and embroidery not in a tapestry also shows an image of a mosque and it seems to show a form of religious observance we know it's a bit of a fantasy probably but we date that to the 1580s there are the more I mean you've looked more at this in terms of the depiction of the Prophet I mean there are more apocryphal images but there are a bit earlier of the Mohammed's Dove and they tend to be a preaching rather than prayer there are accounts but I can't think of any other images there are moments on stage where the posture of prayer is taken up but as I say I can't think of any images from this period and you know we do know that from the from the account books that we have from Henslow and so on we have descriptions of turbans and dress which is connected to that form of observance so that's kind of interesting because what can we do with that in terms of recreation of those moments of performance as Matt said you know post-Tambolene you know Mahler's Tambolene just kind of kick starts an avalanche of representation of figures who are synonymous with Islam and Muslims this work wasn't done because you know people used to say to me when I started it oh we know the word Islam and Muslim doesn't enter the English language until the 16th and 20s yeah true so what are all the synonyms about Turks you know Saracen you know Persian, you know maths and all this kind of work about those terms it's a mis-recognition of what's being seen but it doesn't mean that there's not an account of what's going on and what's going on around the staging is fascinating because it's just a fashion, you know the 1590s it's like everybody writes a Turk play you know Shakespeare is unusual because he says oh everybody else has done that I'm going to do me a Maul play that's what he does with Titus Andronicus so the representation there of religious observance I think is really interesting with those plays like Green Selimus which are representing those forms of worship interesting I think there's more to be said there too performance and visual representation that kind of comes out of that so even just you know women in masks kind of being portrayed in these in paintings where they're wearing their mask costume so again it's that question of what are they trying to say when they're wearing this mask costume are they alluding to kind of the ideas of the mask which are often you know there are Persian masks there are masks that tend to people that think it's called gypsies so what are those power dynamics that are at play in these seemingly kind of fanciful portraits as well and I think you make the point that although although we tend to see somebody in this quasi-Persian dress and think that must be a mask costume actually there may be more in that well they didn't make us back to the Henry the Henry point is that apart from the case of Elizabeth we've got documents that suggest they were sent but there are documents that suggest people are wearing the costumes together and doing the Shirley's of just coming back from being ambassadors in Persia and just kind of running around insisting on keeping the turban on and things and it isn't it that then they're kind of told off and told that they need to get that back and then there's Catholic imagery in that too he has a turban with a little cross on it doesn't it? Does that episode that Jerry mentioned before the one conversion of a Turk to Anglicanism that happens in 1586 and that happens because Drake rescues 100 Turks from the new one from Columbia brings them back to England and they're all put up at the government's expense in somewhere next to the river just outside of the city and then one person agrees to convert and comes in and they celebrate to go back to Turkey on the company ships so all of those people must have been worshipping in full public view and there's just main to tell us about them and they come back via Cartagena and they go back via Rhona can they pick up Manteon and Vanchesi? I mean it's extraordinary so you've got a boat full of Reformed Protestants, Turks and indigenous Americans it's just mad extraordinary to talk about a global moment I know but also speaking about art that we can't talk about I mean I think that's the voyage where is it possibly the voyage where Tom's Harriet says he loses his diary and his drawings in a storm and you just think like oh no what would those have contained considering how kind of sympathetic and interested he is in kind of native cultures Absolutely I think time for one more question does anyone else want this very keen question at the back of the room then? I've actually got three Any evidence of where the parrot was carved how secure is the knowledge of the distance to China? Do they actually know it's shorter? And would the artist know that that used to be a Christian church? Yes I imagine he would have known that they would have known the Byzantine tradition with the script Orthodox So one done So the idea of distances is it's still a kind of imprecise art in terms of Tudor mapping and Gerry knows more about this than I do but 1592 Emery Mullanew produces the first English globe which I think is the basis for some of these more outlandish ideas because they look at the globe Here's the north sea area we can go over here and here is Cathire and China which is misleading of course because all of that polar region is covered in thick ice so there's no way they were ever going to get through it So the idea that they can shorten the passage by going north was impossible either north, east or north west there were English travellers who had made it Anthony Jenkinson's the most famous one had made it through Persia and later on when English ships start to travel to Japan and China in the 17th century they obviously have a much clearer idea of what's possible than what's not but at this point I think in the 1590s it's still a little hazy In terms of the parrot no idea is the answer So it could have kind of gone to Europe first there's a couple other pieces a watch that's very intricately carved and that may have been carved in possibly Switzerland or Germany before coming and emeralds were also very fashionable in Asia as well and often the English specify that they want an emerald from Asia even though that emerald would have come from South America first So tracing it is fairly impossible but there were a growing number of artisans in late Elizabethan England who would have known how to carve emeralds as well as whether or not they were European migrants themselves Fantastic Discussion can continue for those of us in the room over drinks next door shortly but I'd just like to ask you to join me in thanking our panellists once again Thank you
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MOOCs, what makes 'good'? #altmoocsig
Presentation by Helena Gillespie for 'No way back? Exploring the impact, data and potential of MOOCs' conference held on the 6th November 2013 at the University of Southampton. This one day conference was about current MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) research, experience and development. A key focus of the event was on exploring the impact of MOOCs, how data is created, used and analysed and to consider the potential of MOOCs in education. Organised by ALT's Special Interest Group for MOOCs, the conference brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss, discover and define the evolving MOOC landscape. https://www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=83
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Yn gyflaeniad hynny'n gan hynny yn dweud hynny i fynd y bydd y cwmffrin yma, ond yna y gallwn ni ydy o'n gweithio ar gyfer y cyfan, a bod hyn yn awdd i'r rhywbeth yma wedi gyffredin... yn chi'n bwysig i gweithio beth oedd yn gallu ymddi'n cwmffrin, bo'r bydd yna bod hyn yn aeloddoddoddoddoddoddodd. Ac i bob amesyn rwy'n iawn ei wneud yn ymddwydiadur, amdano'n gweithio felly dy ran gweithio'r gweithio gylio'r gweithio, Ac rwy'n credu'n cael ei rhaid oedd y gallu gwbl i'r cyfnwyr yn ymddechrau felemerol, ac mae'n gweithio ar gyfer gael gwbl i'r cyfnwyr yn eu gallu gwledig i'w argyffredinol. Mae gweithio ar ymarferio fod sy'n cael ei gilydd. Manchurais o'ch gweithio'r mewn y gwahanol sferfynol, ac oeddwn i dda i'w gwybod i fod yn ei ddweud eich bod gwahanol, a rydyn ni'n ddweud am lath o ymgyr spinell ymgyrchiaethau? Yda't ychydig o dda i'r cei, ac efallai'n teimlo i'n yrhyw tu? Fydde nhw'n dod iddyn nhw helpu fel ydych chi ddeg sy'n rydyn ni i ddysgu'r hoffi, oedd o'r ddi'r hoffi o'r hoffi oma oherwydd? Ynd yn eu ddweud o ddweud, ac mae chi'n meddwl. Felly, rwy'n gwybod i'n meddwl i'ch eu wedi adulturau yma, y gallwn Helinica Lesby, yw y Llew Cymru a'r Potato, mae'n amhwy perfnogiad yma ar fy ngwneud o'r ffordd, yr ysgol iawn clywio ac'r leais yn ei wneud eich ffenediadol yn yn fan ychydigol i'w teimlo i'r meddwl. Ychydigol i amddwn yn y ffenedigol i chi gwell i'r meddwl i'r wych, is kind of those other two hats, because I specialise in learning technology, in teaching about the technology, but I also have an organisational managerial role within the university, because the fact that I wore all those two hats that meant the price-chanceller came and knocked on my door just before I was off on my Christmas holidays last year and said, Ah, just the woman, I've got a job for you. And I sort of picked myself up off the floor in surprise that we were going to do something quite so incredibly cutting edge. One of the things that I said was, yes, I'm going to do this, and I'm going to find out as much as I can. And when people say, okay, what's U.E.A.'s motivation, okay, we think this might be good marketing. We think this is good forward planning. It could be interesting for us educationally, but we are in this to find out as much as we can. And for me, that's kind of a major motivation. And so you've had a couple of minutes now. I just wondered if anybody would now like to tell me if there's anything that they would like to, and if there's questions they would like me to try to answer with the data that I have in my head on the data that I've brought with me. Is there anything specific that people would like me to concentrate on? I don't think we've done this to any users, but any people that have taken part in the groups can feel that. Okay, so you really want to know about what we're marketing. I think that can probably answer that in some extent. So you want some data about that sort of, yeah, okay. Okay, anything else? What were the motivations of the people who signed up for your MOOCs? Okay, you want me to get inside the Vice-Chancellor's head? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, the participants. I can definitely answer that. The learners. Okay, I know we're supposed to call them participants, but no motivation, okay. I've got quite a bit to say about that because I'm really interested in it. What are the impacts of doing the course for the learners? Okay, so what are they getting out of it? Okay, so motivation and the learner outcomes, okay. Fins of the edge of it is the level of design, development and delivery. What challenges have they had to do? Fins of the top, and don't be about that. I don't have survey data about that, but I can talk a little bit about that. Are there hotspots in learner activities? So there's a whole landscape of teams that have made up the MOOC. Where are hotspots? From a project management perspective, what's the idea of MOOC team? And so then how does that translate into something for costs? Okay. Yeah, I'm happy to talk about costs actually. So I have this image of you, you know, with the cave leading the MOOC team, and who are your two gentlemen beside you. Yeah, and do you know what? I was just to say something about that. The only thing that has made it happen is the willingness of everybody in this team, including very significantly, people at FutureLearn, to behave like sensible, rational, reasonable human beings under the most enormous pressure. And I should say that while you're in the room, really, because I know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about Matthew and Matt in particular, but also Darl Maes and Rowley and the other people who have, you know, but the MOOC team is really important. So I will talk about the MOOC team and talk a little bit about the costs and about some fluff around that as well. I've built my pager, so I better start talking and answering questions. If I run out of time, then you can buttonhole me later and I'm happy to share the things that I've got. So I started off by planning this talk around some questions. Okay, so let's address the first question with maybe what we know about MOOC learners, and we might wrap up some of that. So your question was, are we converting this to sign-ups? My answer is it's too soon to say. We're in week four, we're running a 10-week MOOC. And in any case, I don't think that's what we were trying to do with the Secret Power of Brands. What we were trying to do with the Secret Power of Brands was to see how global we could make this. Now, the great thing about Secret Power of Brands was that the medium is the message for the Secret Power of Brands and that brands are a global phenomenon and actually the richness of what's happened on the MOOC has been supported by the global nature of the learners. I was actually really very excited at 5.30 on the morning of the 14th of October when I woke up. I actually woke up. And this is one of those kind of moments. It went live at 1 in the morning on the 14th and I actually woke up at that moment. I'm not going to look, I'm not going to look. I always, you know, divorce pending. But I woke up and I looked. And it was just like a magic moment because there were people already on there, real live students on there. All of them, you know, in fine zones, tiny ahead of us and so on. So what we were trying to do with brands was to see how global we could make this. Well, here's your answer. So all the bits coloured in blue have people registered on the Secret Power of Brands. Looks like we're not touching Greenland at the moment. And our African reach is restricted. But pretty much everywhere else is coloured in. I'll be able to answer your question better once we're finished with our next move, which is preparing for uni. And apart from thinking that preparing students at university is very important and our Vice Chancellor was recently saying quite a bit about that in a times higher and how we should get better at it, one of the things that we're trying to do with preparing for uni is to use it as a marketing tool. And so I think probably in six months' time I will be able to tell you whether we think that preparing for uni has actually impacted on undergraduate bundle six. So it's different courses for courses. I'm going to go on and actually answer the next question as well with the same slide because I've got another diagram here and I'm not sure that you can read this as clearly as I'd hope you would. Forgive me if I just read this to you and you can have this. Obviously we'll publish these slides. So this data comes from the pre-course survey. I've got more data from the answer but more data than I had time to deal with at the moment. So what is the major motivation for what our learners thought they wanted to get out of the course? The first thing is that they wanted to learn new things which I guess you can take as a given and that's almost 100% of them said they wanted to learn new things. So that's good. And then we've got a group of things which come in sort of around the 50% mark. So about half of the people who responded to the pre-course survey about half of those said that these were significant factors. So they wanted to try out future learn or moves. And I don't underestimate the power of nosiness. We're hoping to draw in and make use of some of that news. But this comes back to my... I'm rapidly turning into an amateur internet sociologist and I've become very interested in the way that people behave online and I read a really interesting article recently and said that basically lurking is okay. But we have this kind of thing that we say, oh, the completion rates, they're not so good. But actually I said, forget about it, it's not face to face, that's not the point. Actually lurking on a MOOC is a perfectly sensible and valid thing to do. And so if you're out there lurking on our MOOC, and I will be lurking on your MOOC, so everybody in the future and community I am convinced is lurking on everybody else's MOOC. So I'm validating that point. I'm saying lurking is okay. But this was an interesting one. This is where it got interesting for me, that's the next one. So people who wanted to add a fresh perspective to their current work. Now that is really interesting for me. So half the people are coming along, bringing something they know about this topic already and wanting to kind of augment it using our MOOC. So for me that's really important. And then we've also got things like chat learning online, improved career prospects, learn flexibly, supplement existing studies, action, and find out more about university. Actually comes in very less than 10% of our people who responded to this. And there were thousands who responded to this and wanted to find out more about university. I'm hoping that when we come to do preparing for uni and we have the same stats for preparing for uni, we'll have different responses. And that's where things start to get interesting. Cos that's when we can start to take this kind of thing, this helosic thing that we're calling MOOCs at the moment and sort of channel it down the channels that we wanted to channel down. OK. So what's the educator experience? I don't know if I've got any data on that. Let me go back to my first slide and see if there's a question that kind of matches that. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'm going to roll that up with answering the next question. With a question at the bottom, which is sort of relating to costs. So we've just entered what I'm calling at UEA, MOOC phase two. MOOC phase one was actually just getting to the point where we launched a course. And the qualification for joining in with MOOC phase one was no closed doors, OK? So we didn't try at any point during the first phase to deal with anybody who wasn't completely bought in and enthusiastic about it. Because frankly it was hard enough work as it was just trying to understand everything and do everything and make the whole project work out without having to deal with people's resistance. So it's not that I want to exclude academic colleagues. We couldn't deal with them in that first phase. Phase two at the moment is to do it and find out as much as you can about why it might be useful phase. And then when we get to phase three, which is begin to target what we do more closely, then I might get to the point where I have to knock on some of those doors that maybe are not so subscribed to us. And we talked already about areas in which universities are world class and we go to MOOC in those areas. So the UVA that would be creative writing, American studies, environmental and so on. And we're not making in those areas at the moment. But I know you need to go knock on some of those doors. And I don't know whether they're going to be into my clothes. But that's really when I'm going to have to do that. But I guess the thing that the educator experience is that it has been a significant learning curve. Because you sort of have to forget almost everything that you know about how you teach and start from basics. Because you're dealing not just with a different media, but different sorts of learning resources and different tools and so on. And so people have to be kind of comfortable with that. And they also have to be comfortable with not knowing and being a bit unsure and feeling a bit dangerous. And it did feel, it did in early October, that was really dangerous. But it's okay now. Because it's running and it's fine. And we're getting great degrees of feedback. So that's okay. But I didn't feel like I took a risk at the time. I'm going to jump around down to the ideal MOOC team. So our MOOC team is me and Simon Lancaster, who is a national team. I'm very tech savvy, some of you might really know Simon. And he describes himself as my right-hand man. And I think it's more of a kind of partnership. And so we're sort of leading the project. We report directly to the provides chancellor. And within our team we have, I guess we have a group of about eight academics. You are MOOC-y or preparing to MOOC. Oh yes, it is a verb. I think we've definitely verbed that one. So we've got our group. And then also in that team we have a learning technologist. And we also have somebody from the library. Because I don't know whether you know the future or the group of future non-librarians have set themselves up as a little group. And they're talking about the implications of this for learning resources, which is really interesting. And so that's our group. And then also we have a person I've described as UBA's man who can, which is our, we call him our course content creator. And he's the person who does the day-to-day stuff. He's called Ross and he's marvellous, for many reasons, because he's really low maintenance. He said, Ross, can you just go and do something? You just go and do something. For that reason we respect him and we love him. So we have the kind of management and then we have the academics and then I guess we have some administrative people as well. But what we do is we sit round the table once a month. And I think the sitting round the table once a month is actually really cool. We have an online area where we share things and all of that kind of stuff as well. But actually we sit round the table once a month and we just say, how's it going for you? And that's how we managed to stay safe. Because it is a very good learning curve. I'm going to move on to costs now. And I've deliberately got this picture here because this is not a snip from our website. This is a snip from the website of Wolf Olives, who are a large brand management company. They've done some big stuff. They've been to the Olympics. They've got a really big reputation. This is Professor Robert Jones. He's our lead educator. And the great thing about Robert Jones is he works for Wolf Olives and he works for UEA. And what that enabled us to do was to put those two things together to harness the power and the resource of Wolf Olives and what we can do at UEA in terms of education and bring those two things together. And there is no conflict of interest there. There is power in higher education in making these collaborations. Moots give us the power to do that collaboration. I'm not really a fan of saying, oh, well it's real-world higher education because I don't like the idea that universities are not the real world. I'm very kind of allergic to that idea. But what it does is it gives us that opportunity to really kind of link up in very demonstrable ways with other places. The other plans we've got, we're linking up with other companies, we're linking up with subject associations. We head to... Oh, it's just fantastic. And there's people knocking on the door. I was like, oh, I can't believe we've done this. And then everybody starts crying. We start to congratulate one another. It was kind of pathetic. Anyway, we got very excited about that point. And then I understand the amount of traffic that's kind of left all down. But what we do see here is a spike. And that's where Robert sent his first email. So we do know, so you can take this, we do know that emails generate traffic to the site. So we've started doing two. The other thing Robert's doing is he's doing a little video message. So that doesn't mean everybody has to do that. But because Robert spends his life going in interesting places, so he's done one for me now. Here I am in New Yorkshire, I'm in Copenhagen. It's just quite interesting to do that. Actually, you find the video messages are really good at creating educated presence where educated presence doesn't really exist. But what we do know is that, you know, we have this kind of pattern which is quite a lot of engagement going on in terms of learners and then drops off a bit in the night because we don't have so many people from those time zones. And then it picks up and picks up. If we send an email, we get a spike. Going forward with this data, we are still maintaining it until week four. So we're not seeing, although we've seen significant drop-off on day one, as you would expect, we're not seeing significant drop-off going forward. We've changed pace on the move now, and they're doing it at what they think they're doing. They've recently created it. They've got to make something. So that's quite interesting. The last thing I just want to add in, because it's something that I'm interested in, about the learners, I don't know how many of you know Clay Scherke's book, Cognitive Surplus. I think it's... I love it. I just love it. It's one of those things I just said. I'm going to say, yes, but I just want to, as a sort of conclusion, just sort of share a little bit of Clay Scherke's ideas. And this is really, in turn, learner motivations and unwindings of great. So he's got this idea that there is a spectrum of collaboration. So note of it that you don't know, Cognitive Surplus is the word that Clay Scherke implies to the one trillion hours per year he estimates that the global internet population has that they're disposable. So it's not time that they're working or whatever. So there are one trillion hours a year that are out there for us to do something with. And he's terribly keen that we should do something collaborative and positive with those. And he thinks that there are basically all the points on the sharing spectrum. Now the first thing, the first aspect of it is personal sharing. And this is sharing that doesn't really matter whether it has an audience. It's just something that I've done. His favourite example of that is that Clay has a cheeseburger website. If you're familiar with lolcats. So cute pictures of cats with badly spelled captions. People post them and then they get onto Facebook. And some people love them and some people hate them. And they look a really matter if anybody else doesn't see your lolcat. You just feel satisfied in doing it yourself. And there's no necessarily intrinsic background in that. But that's the sort of personal sharing. And then there's what he calls communal sharing. OK. And he describes that as sharing to meet the needs of the people in the group. So the website is like meetup.com where the benefit is definitely for the group that is essentially equal in group. OK. The third source is public sharing. Which is where things are created by a group. But they have benefits to lots of people. And his example of that is that people have created the programming language of Hatchey. So the group do it but it has wider public benefit. Whereas for here the benefit is just this group and here the benefit. And then the kind of... The most valuable sort of sharing as far as genes comes in is civic sharing. And that's what brings together all of these things. And that's where a group of people do something which then has wider benefit for everybody. So a really good example of that is Ushahibi. Which is the website that was created by people trying to globally, geographically map events. It started off in disputed elections in Kenya but it's used for all sorts of things. And that's where the benefit of something that a group of people have done that's centenate enabled actually benefits everybody. And my question to you just as I finish really is where do we put milk participants on this scale? Is this just something that people are doing themselves or for the group? Is there a wider benefit? I would really like to think that actually that if we get really really good at this what we can do is we can actually move to become a school of civic sharing where actually what happens on moves is that the global understanding and knowledge and interest and engagement is actually fostered through this kind of media. And then I think maybe in terms of my own perspective we will have achieved a women's union.
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Real Solutions to Gentrification Townhall #5: Judit Vega
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My name is Houdi Vega and I work for the City of San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. I'm not an academic but my day-to-day is managing a program that we are doing community organizing in at-risk connection neighborhoods. So we're really going to see first hand from certain neighborhoods what's happening on the ground, what people are struggling with. The Health Department didn't really think that an official stance on the effects of gentrification as far as we're able to help but this National Disease Control does. And so they know nationally that there are effects that on at-risk or local communities can have disastrous effects such as dealing with access to healthy food, access to public space and recreation and also access to transportation, affordable housing. We're really looking at it through kind of a health and good lens. We know that in San Antonio we have tremendous health disparities. Of course I can be seeing one of our largest but asthma, diabetes, obesity. And all of this is where the compound and people have to be displaced and moved into another neighborhood. They aren't able to access the same mental health. Mental health is huge. You should hear in our neighborhoods and other people who effectively use their support system and are already vulnerable. There's just tremendous effects on this health and on their ability to afford healthy food and medication and also access healthcare. So I guess I didn't really come very prepared today. I'm sorry, I was going to put up here. But basically we really would like, in working with community, what we share a lot is that they are the last informed. They are the last asked. And this is of course historical in that in San Antonio like in most of the nation, the rights of the impoverished and the rights of those who are at risk are really considered last in making policy decisions. So when we really tried so much in these neighborhoods in Oregon and it's been a tremendous difficulty at first because people have never been asked. They are so used to having decisions made for them. But I, this is a feedback that there's not even a language and has kind of been a better language as to what do you really want both to show to see and of course to get in line and everyone just wants a decent life to be able to afford to live, to live a healthy and healthy life for the family and the community. And so from our perspective we really just like to see health and taking into consideration when making these policy decisions to displace people and also to remind the politicians in the room that there are tremendous costs at risk as far as health is concerned in particular. In San Antonio we have possibly one of the highest amputation, diabetic amputation rates. If you can imagine an amputation and this is very personal to me because some of those are amputations but imagine an amputation whose on a fixed income who is going to effectively lose their house or they can't afford their taxes. This is tremendous, tremendous impact on their whole family, not just that person that they care to take groups, if they can take their son or children. And the costs are just tremendous and without that support system and without that access to care that person might have another amputation and maybe get out the analysis. I think the health costs are tremendous and we have started and the health department could have started to really kind of quantify all those health costs but it's just so compounded by displacing a lot of people and I'm asking that we consider that as well when we're trying to think about the future of our city and the economic solvency of our city because we're being crippled in terms of health costs. Thank you.
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NNELS Cloudshelf Reader Tutorial for Screen Reader Users
Full transcript below. Tutorial demonstrating ebook reading, using Cloudshelf Reader, Version 1.0.1 on iOS, for screen reader users. *** Transcript: Cloudshelf has an easy-to-understand interface, with features that are well-designed and completely accessible. Books can be copied to Cloudshelf right from the NNELS repository, or even imported from Dropbox. It supports both text and audiobooks, but because there is no read-aloud feature, pre-recorded titles are particularly easy to read. Daisy books aren't supported, though, and navigation by page is not possible. Here, we have opened the NNELS website in Safari on our iPad. NNELS offers "The Marrow Thieves" in several formats, but the EPUB edition will work best in Cloudshelf. When we press Download EPUB, we're asked where to store the book. You may need to press More first, but we're going to select "Open in Cloudshelf". "The Marrow Thieves" is now open in Cloudshelf, showing up in the reading pane. To start reading, all we need to do is press Play, found at the top of the screen towards the right. Reading is paused by pressing the same button, now called Pause. The play button is part of a toolbar with several other options. To navigate to a new chapter, press Menu, found at the left of the tool bar. Tap Table of Contents, swipe through the list that appears, and tap the chapter you want to read. To read a different book, simply press Home, located just to the right of Menu. This takes you to the main screen of the app, where all your books are shown. When you're finished reading a title, press Options, found at the top-right of the screen, then choose Covers View. Double-tap and hold the book until the Delete button appears in the Book Info window, then tap it. Now, swipe through the list of books until you come to the title you wish to read. You can then tap the title to open it, or swipe over to "Book Information" to learn more about it. To find text in your book, just tap Search, found to the right of the Play button. Type the text you wish to find, press Search, then tap the result you want. Add Bookmark is found at the far right of the tool bar. Once pressed, you are given the option of adding a tag or note to your bookmark. When you're ready, press Done to add the bookmark. Bookmarks are reviewed by tapping Menu, then Marks and Notes. Swipe through the list of bookmarks, and tap the one you want. In addition to pre-recorded narration, this book also contains text. We can thus swipe down with two fingers to ask Voiceover to read the current chapter out loud. The toolbar at the bottom of the screen lets you flip through the book by page. Previous and Next buttons are positioned to either side of the sliding percentage bar. The current page number is also shown directly below this tool bar, at the very bottom of the screen. Cloudshelf is a good choice for audio novels in EPUB format. It has a clean and stable interface that is quick to learn and easy to use. *** The National Network for Equitable Library Service (NNELS) is a Canadian digital public library of books in accessible formats for people who need them. Learn more at http://nnels.ca.
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Welcome to a tutorial of Cloud Shelf, version 1.0.1 on iOS. This video was created with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program, disability component. The opinions and interpretations in this video are those of the creator, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Government of Canada. It was produced with site of the assistance. Cloud Shelf has an easy to understand interface with features that are well designed and completely accessible. Books can be copied to Cloud Shelf right from the Nels repository or even imported from Dropbox. It supports both text and audio books, but because there is no read-aloud feature, pre-recorded titles are particularly easy to read. Daisy Books aren't supported though, and navigation by page is not possible. Here, we have opened the Nels website in Safari on our iPad. Nels offers the Mero Thieves in several formats, but the EPUB edition will work best in Cloud Shelf. When we press download EPUB, we're asked where to store the book. You may need to press more first, but we're going to select open in Cloud Shelf. The Mero Thieves is now open in Cloud Shelf, showing up in the reading pane. To start reading, all we need to do is press play, found at the top of the screen, towards the right. Franchi's coming to story. Mitch was smiling so big his back teeth shown in the soft light of the solar-powered lamp we had scavenged from someone's shed. Reading is paused by pressing the same button, now called pause. The play button is part of the toolbar with several other options. To navigate to a new chapter, press menu, found at the left of the toolbar. Tap table of contents, swipe through the list that appears, and tap the chapter you want to read. To read a different book, simply press home, located just to the right of menu. This takes you to the main screen of the app where all your books are shown. When you're finished reading a title, press options, found at the top right of the screen, then choose covers view. Double tap and hold the book until the delete option appears in the book info window. Then tap it. Now swipe through the list of books until you come to the title you wish to read. You can then tap the title to open it or swipe over to book information to learn more about it. To find text in your book, just tap search, found to the right of the play button. Type the text you wish to find, press search, then tap the result you want. Add bookmark is found at the far right of the toolbar. Once pressed, you're given the option of adding a tag or note to your bookmark. When you're ready, press done to add the bookmark. Bookmarks are reviewed by tapping menu, then marks and notes. Swipe through the list of bookmarks and tap the one you want. In addition to pre-recorded narration, this book also contains text. We can thus swipe down with two fingers to ask voiceover to read the current chapter out loud. I wanted to take my arms off the trunk and fold them to my chest like a mummy, loosen my thighs from their grip and fall in a backward swan dive to the bottom. The toolbar at the bottom of the screen lets you flip through the book by page. Previous and next buttons are positioned to either side of the sliding percentage bar. The current page number is also shown directly below this toolbar at the very bottom of the screen. Cloud Shelf is a good choice for audio novels in EPUB format. It has a clean and stable interface that is quick to learn and easy to use.
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Mark 1:29-39 | Everyone Is Looking For You | 8.1.2021
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Let's begin our study mark chapter 1 verses 29. We'll start at verse 29 or read verses 29 through 31. We'll get into our study. Oh Yeah, one last thing. I forgot to read this I'll just read it all married engaged in dating couples are invited to join us for our couples conference on Friday evening August 20th from 7 to 9 and then on Saturday August 21st from 8 30 to 1 PM Our conference will include teachings From Jason and Christie Duff. They're going to be Jason's going to be doing teaching They're going to do a workshop also they're from the Garden Fellowship as well as Larry Powers and Workshops will be available child care is not provided The cost is $20 a couple and you can register online or stop by the gazebo after services to register and registration is open through August 15th if you're married Engaged a dating couple these these are the kinds of things that you want to be involved in so I invite you to be part of that again That's in August and it's from the 20th. It's on the 20th and the 21st All right. Here we are mark chapter 1 verse 29 and Reading to verse 31 Now as soon as they had come out of the synagogue they entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John But Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever and they told him About her at once so he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up and Immediately the fever left her and she served them So let's begin this we're looking at a healing that the Lord Jesus Christ performed and and in order to introduce that Let me give you a little background a little development so we can see this in some context We need to remember as you read your Bible that when Adam fell The once perfect world was immediately changed God's intention was that man would enjoy his presence forever But this has changed when Adam disobeyed and took of that forbidden fruit You see when sin entered into the world death entered also into the world Romans 5 12 says therefore just as sin entered the world through one man and Death through sin in this way death came to all people because all sinned When it says because all sinned we need to know that Adam was what has been called the federal head of humanity And what happened is he passed on to all human beings his own nature is fallen nature It's a nature that we all possess and that's the reason why there's so much evil on planet earth It isn't simply the environment that produces sin and sinners Adam was in the perfect environment yet. He's still sin As we see in revelation when Jesus rules in the Millennium people will still die At the end of Jesus's thousand year reign on earth Satan will be released from his prison He'll deceive nations. He'll gather an army. He'll launch a final assault on believers And we saw when we studied revelation recently in chapter 20 verse 9 How it says they went up from the breath of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city and fire Came down from God out of heaven and devoured them And we saw that those are the last living unbelievers and they were going to be dealt with and will be dealt with immediately But even under perfect conditions man still sins We have a nature a Nature that is a sinful nature that needs to be redeemed and So with sin came sickness and obviously sickness leads to death Sickness and suffering serve as reminders that we live in a broken world And Romans 822 it says we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time Well, the short length of our lives reminds us that one day we will die Psalm 39 verse 5 says you indeed have made my days as hand breaths. My lifetime is nothing before you Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath and then he said sela Think about that That should serve as motivation this knowledge that We will one day die out of serve as a motivation for us to be prepared for its Inevitability and Psalm 90 verse 10 it says our days may come to 70 years or 80 if our strength endures yet The best of them are but trouble and sorrow for they quickly pass And we fly away So that's why Jesus came to earth to save people from God's wrath in First Thessalonians 5 verse 9 God didn't appoint us to wrath but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ Because it's appointed unto men to die and after this judgment Jesus came in order that we might be saved that we would not enter into a time of judgment that would Eventuate in God pouring his wrath out on us as unrepentant sinners And so Jesus came he came preaching He came teaching and He also came to bring deliverance from the enemy as well as healing of the sick And that was a preview of when he would rule and reign on planet earth under his rule Satan will be bound forever Sickness will no longer exist and That's being shown to us We see that when we just saw last time together that he had delivered a man who was demon possessed and now It's going to be revealed to us as he heals Peter's mother-in-law So it says in verse 29 as soon as they had come out of the synagogue They entered the house of Simon and Andrew with James and John and so On the same day that Jesus delivered the demonized man. He went into Simon's house the synagogue service had ended Most likely it would end around noon The first four men that he had called would have attended that service with him They had heard his teaching and they had seen what he had done when he had delivered this man who was demon possessed And so notice how they're entering the house of Simon and Andrew this this house was located near to the synagogue It was very large. It was large enough to house Peter his wife Andrew his family Peter's mother-in-law. We've been there many times in this area. It's called Capernaum and They have on the site of what they believe was the traditional site at least of Peter's Peter's home. They have a church there that you can actually go and look at if you want to we don't ever enter in We just stand on the outside and see it looks like a spaceship to be honest with you But we've been there many times and it was a good-sized plot And and so it was actually more than just a house if you're thinking in terms of homes and all in Peter's home It was more like a complex one writer said that it would have had an inner court with a millstone for grinding It had hand presses for oil the stairway to upper-level rooms for family to live in it had access to the roof We know that Peter and his brother and friends were successful businessmen. They lived well They operated a business. They had more than one boat. They had employees I gave them finances to own a good-sized home in Capernaum. And so Jesus went to Simon's house Undoubtedly he went after synagogue for a meal And maybe that Simon had another motivation for having Jesus come to his home because it says in verse 30 Simon's wife's mother lay sick with a fever. They told him about her at once Well Luke being a physician like to give more details and so in the gospel of Luke chapter 4 It says in verse 38 that she had a very high fever and the word fever and the way they described it would give us Insight that it was due to an infection that she had He also went on in Luke 4 38 to say that they made a request of him concerning her Well, since she was in his home, Peter had hoped that Jesus he had he was in his home Peter had hoped that Jesus would bring healing to her. She was very sick She was unable to get out of bed It was difficult for her because it would have been ungracious for her not to greet the gas She's unable to come to him And that would have grieved her so what does it say? Well in verse 31 It says he came and took her by the hand and lifted her up Immediately the fever left her and she served Again Luke tells us in chapter 4 verse 39 he stood over her and rebuked the fever and It left her immediately. She rose and served them that word rebuked when it says he stood over and rebuked It means to forbid or admonish We had seen earlier that Jesus had rebuked an unclean spirit when he delivered this demon-possessed man And now he speaks in similar manner to a fever and the illness departs Later on we're going to see how Jesus rebukes the wind in the sea that threatened to swamp a boat He was in in mark 34 chapter 4 It says he arose and rebuked the wind said to the sea peace be still the wind ceased and there was a great calm So whenever Jesus rebuked something the effects were immediate. He healed her completely immediately and without asking for a financial contribution Now I want to close this section with two thoughts and this is something I think is practical enough to bring up The first thing is the obvious thing Simon was married Jesus healed his mother-in-law His marriage continued around 25 years past the ministry of Jesus. How do we know that first Corinthians chapter 9 verse 5? Paul said have we not power to lead about a sister a wife as well as other apostles as other apostles and as the brethren of the Lord and Cephas Cephas was the apostle Peter and we know that first Corinthians was written 25 years later It was written in 8056 That means it's not necessary for a minister to be unmarried He could wish that he wasn't married, but it's not necessary for a minister to be unmarried Sometimes we think that you're more spiritual if you're a salivate or an unmarried person Salibacy can be a spiritual decision that is made to serve God completely in Matthew 19 verse 12 Jesus said some men are salivate from birth Some are salivate because they've been made that way by others But still others are salivate because they have made themselves that way for the sake of the kingdom of heaven Let anyone accept this who can the apostle Peter Was a married man? Jesus healed his mother-in-law and his marriage continued at least 25 years later Into history a second thing after being touched by Jesus. She immediately served him She used her restored health to be abused and service to him as well as to other people So we need to remember that we've been saved to serve We serve Jesus and we serve those who are in need in Galatians 6 verse 10 It says therefore as we have opportunity Let us do good to all people especially those who belong to the family of believers So you've been saved not just to enjoy life on your own You've been saved to serve the Lord. You know that you've been saved I've been saved we've been saved to serve God and to serve one another to do good Because when people see the good they can glorify our God in heaven That's why Jesus said let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your father and heaven And so one of the traits that I think the church needs to remind itself of that demonstrates that we're saved It's by the kind of life that we live It's a very important thing for us to love one another and love those who were unsaved. It's very important One of the reasons why I think that when you're on Facebook or in social media be aware of that Because there's a lot of rebuking that goes on I see it on I'm not always on Facebook by the way But I do go on on occasion and and I read Advice being given or anger that's being presented and all kinds of weirdness sometimes advices and and We can be unkind to one another be kind be kind to one another. That's a very important thing to do You know, we've been saved to serve the Lord and and and that's an earmark of salvation Someone once said unless a man's faith saves him out of selfishness and into service It will certainly never save him out of hell and into heaven So when the Lord had saved us it's in order to serve him and to serve others And then there's somebody one time I was in Mexico and he approached me and he said, do you know why? Why Peter denied Jesus and I said no he said because Jesus healed his mother-in-law Now I'm not sure whether that's true or not, but I'll just throw that out to you. I'm sorry Now at verse 32 had eveninged when the Sun had set They brought to him all who were sick and those who were demon possessed and the whole city was gathered together at the door Then he healed many who were sick with various diseases and cast out many demons and he did not allow the demons to speak because They knew him So people began taking notice of this young rabbi from Nazareth his teaching his preaching His healing ministry is attracting attention After delivering the demon possessed man his fame began to grow around Galilee He healed Peter's mother-in-law people began to hear of this The Sabbath day has ended The people are now beginning to flow out of their houses You see they they would remain in their homes or close by their homes are in the day until Sabbath ended and So now because Sabbath is over they can they can now pour out of their homes and they'll do that when you go to Israel And it's Shabbat. It's Sabbath when you go to Israel Sabbaths usually starts around dusk on Friday and then concludes at dusk on Saturday and Jerusalem we were normally in Jerusalem on Shabbat and When you're there everything shuts down almost every single thing is shut down. There's nothing you do It's a rest day for us Because everything is shut down But after the Shabbat is ended after Sabbath is ended you'll see people coming out of their houses They go into different places we go to a place called Ben Yuta Street where there's a there's a dining and shopping and things And we'll go there and you'll see all the young people a lot of people will come out and they begin to congregate No, they've been doing that for thousands of years or 2,000 years at least since the time of Christ and before that And so they're now able to come out of the house now They're able to go and mingle amongst the people but what they're doing is they're coming to see Jesus Christ Now they waited For Jesus for the Shabbat to be over so that they can seek him out and why is that why would they wait even though There's one who's healing. Why would they wait until it was officially over? Well, it's because they're afraid of their religious leaders The leaders had believed the healing on the Sabbath. It was called physical labor Later on in its ministry on the Sabbath Jesus healed a man who had been born blind Jesus healed him instantly, but the authorities when he did that were outraged about it They said this this man can't be from God. He doesn't keep the Sabbath And so what they did is they sought out his parents and they questioned the parents about him They were sure that the man had not been blind So they asked do you have any proof that this one here is your son and that he was blind And it says in John chapter 9 verses 20 through 23 the parents responded by saying we know he's our son And we know he was born blind But how he can see now or who opened his eyes? We don't know ask him. He's of age He'll speak for himself And John goes on to say his parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders Who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was messiah would be put out of the synagogue And that's why his parents said he's of age ask him They were so concerned because their life was tied up in the life of israel's religion And for them to be ex-communicated to be kicked out of the synagogue Was to put their soul in jeopardy And they weren't willing to do that They were so committed to what they believed in everything that they were part of That they said you have to ask my son ask him. He's of age He can speak for himself because they were afraid that they would be ex-communicated removed from the synagogue And that shows the value that they had other religious beliefs They didn't want to give the impression that they were Sabbath breakers Well, that's taking place here in mark chapter one the same kind of thing But notice in verse 33 it says the whole city was gathered together at the door Now scholars estimate that the population at that time of that city was around 1500 So when it says that the whole city is speaking it's speaking of a good amount that's gathered at peter's door The people were in need they were anxious for christ to bring healing to them They gathered the sick and those they need they brought them to simon's house And they desired jesus to touch them to set them free and that's what friends and that's what family do By the way is you gather your friends and you bring them to the lord You speak to them you share with them one of the things that i think is very important that we need to remember Is to be people who have such a solid walk with god that we can be in evidence of his grace and secondly That we should be those who witness or share our faith or at least Invite people that they might be able to hear the good news of the gospel of jesus christ That's what god has called us to do and that's what they were doing We can do that ourselves you can email somebody you can send them a text message You can you can share on social media you can make a phone call But the most important thing in the best way I think that you can have somebody that talk to them about the lord and and bring the fellowship if you You will issue a personal invitation and and that's what they were doing They were bringing people and and this is because jesus took personal interest in each one of them And the bible tells us he ministered to each one of them and look for verse 40 It says when the sun was setting all those who had any that were sick with various diseases brought them to him And he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them That's because he's compassionate He's approachable. He's loving He's welcoming There was nothing about christ that would keep people from wanting to come to him There was nothing about him that was intimidating only to the unrighteous could he be intimidating just upon glance or awareness But when these people were sick they had no hesitation They would bring their sick people to jesus christ and he took time and he ministered to every one of them And what he did is he began to reveal his authority and his power He demonstrated his power over sins of facts, which is illness As well as the devil, which is spiritual And those works anticipated the cross which bruised satan's head and broke sins power Though we still suffer and ultimately die death does not have final victory Hebrews chapter 2 verses 14 and 15 says since the children have flesh and blood he too shared in their humanity So that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death That is the devil and Free those listen to what it says and free those who all their lives are held in slavery by their fear of death their fear of death In first chrithians 15 verse 54 paul said when this corruptible has put on in corruption This mortal has put on immortality Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written death is swallowed up in victory You know 40 years of Passing this church over 40 years of ministry I've I've seen And quite a number of saints go home to be with jesus And the ones that I knew I didn't know every one of the people in our fellowship who've gone on to be with the lord But in a short period of time even you know, not that long ago We saw quite a number of people pass on into eternity And that's hard. It's never easy It's it's never easy. I've I've officiated at many funerals First funeral that I can remember doing I was around 28 years old and I my very first funeral I ever officiated at was was uh for for a man who was a um A pedophile I I remember the second funeral I ever did was for a man who Committed suicide. I mean One of the other ones was was um officiating over a funeral of a Of a stillborn baby And the pain that each one of the family members had In so many varying degrees I've seen a lot of Of pain over the years. I've seen a lot of hurt And I can tell you this that that's There's never it's never an easy service. It's never easy To perform a service. I I was honored to be able to Perform the service for both my dad and my mom. It's never easy to stand up behind a Pulpit and and talk about what that person meant to others. It's never easy But I can tell you what makes it makes it Bearable is when I have been able to say this person knew jesus christ And to comfort the family To say to the family. It's not It's not goodbye It's I'll see you later Because we have that that hope in us I was asked how was it that you were able to perform the funeral for your father my father's Homegoing was so sudden and and unexpected. How are you able to do that? Because my father when he went home to be the lord, you know, I he died on a thursday I introduced a guest speaker that we had for a thursday night Uh men study that we had at that time I introduced him. I said i've got to go home. My father just passed my dad just died So I went from the hospital My sister rebecca showed up at the hospital I'm sorry at the airport I was waiting at the airport My sister comes in from new mexico. She walks in I had to greet her with the news our dad just daddy just died Then I went in on thursday that night I drove directly from the airport to introduce our guest speaker. I mentioned my father went home to be with the lord That's saturday. We had a servant saturday. I did the servant saturday sunday. I did three services The next wednesday I buried my father and performed a wedding How did you do that? Because of the comfort of the lord because I know where my dad is I didn't lose my father He's with my savior when you have that hope When you have that hope you're able to do things people don't understand But that that that's that's that's how it is guys That's why christ came And jesus came and people had this desire for their sick ones and jesus came to heal them because sickness is tied up with the fall And so he came to demonstrate that he is here. He has a power to he has a power over the devil He has a power over sickness. He's demonstrating this and he's he's helping people and he's healing those who are sick with various diseases Because there's not a single disease that was beyond his power to heal in jeremiah 32 27 It says i'm the lord the god of all mankind is anything too hard for me In psalm 103 verse 3 bless the lord. Oh my soul who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases And so sometimes we don't ask for healing Sometimes we ask not But james said you have not because you asked not And so the wisest thing we can do is ask the lord god you're the you're the god who is able There's nothing too hard for you and i ask in jesus name and if he should heal them bless you lord If not then we have the ultimate healing and we're with him anyway And so it's a win-win anywhere that i look at it and so As he's doing this notice what happens it says in verse 34 He healed many who were sick with various diseases Meaning there were many people there. He cast out many demons and he didn't allow the demons to speak because They knew him so once again. He doesn't need demons to proclaim who he is He doesn't want the people associating his ministry with the witness of satan And so he tells them to be quiet verse 35 now In the morning having risen a long time before daylight He went out and departed to a solitary place and there he prayed and simon and those Who are with them searched for him when they found him they said to him everyone's looking for you But he said to them let us go into the next towns that i may preach there also because for this purpose I have come forth and he was preaching in their synagogues throughout all galilee and casting out demons Now the previous day think about it for a moment The previous day was filled with events and even though he was fatigued because it was an all day kind of thing He rises the scripture says he rises up early to pray He could have ministered healings to hundreds of people. He would have been exhausted But he rose up he rose up before the sun rose and he prayed And so his authority was demonstrated by his works, but his supply of power came through prayer He did the will of his father. He was in constant communion with his father and his message and his miracles were through his father In john 1410 he said do you not believe that i am in the father and the father and me the words that i speak to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the father who dwells in me does the works So he said what the father wanted said and he did what the father desired done And because of this communion with his father was of utmost importance now prayer is the habit of his life And we see many instances of jesus praying We saw that he was praying when he was baptized luke 321 He prayed when he chose the 12 luke chapter 6 He prayed when he fed the 5000 matthew 14 He prayed before his transfiguration in luke chapter nine He prayed at his friend lazarus's tomb in john nine He prayed in the garden of gethsemane in matthew 26 and he even prayed on the cross His life was filled with prayer and his life in minister We were so filled with prayer that it left a lasting impression on his men when you read your bible You might find this interesting his men never asked him certain things that you would think that they would ask They never asked jesus for example to teach them how to preach They never said lord, can you give me a Teaching on how to go out and teach it. Can you can you teach me how to study the bible? They didn't ask him Now these are things that that they they could have obviously watched him as he would preach and they watched him As he would his heart was prepared to give god's message But the only thing you'll ever see in the new testament that they ever asked jesus to teach them to do And this is interesting to me is they said teach us how to pray Teach us to pray In luke 11 verse 1 one day jesus was praying in a certain place when he finished one of his disciples said to him Lord teach us to pray just as john taught his disciples We see that there's a connection with the things that you're doing and the things that you're saying With your prayer life. Listen, we need to learn to pray We need to be a people of prayer so many times people will say well, you know when you've got nothing else left to pray No, the first thing we should do is pray And see what the lord will do God answers prayer doesn't he God answers prayer and sometimes oh, no, he does. Oh, yes god answers prayer God is a god he says you have not because you asked on call him to me and i will answer these show the great and mighty things Without no, it's not Jesus taught us to pray lord teach us to pray and he said pray in this manner our father will art in heaven hallowed be thy name jesus taught us to pray Why because jesus had constant communion with his father and he wants his his Followers to have the same we speak to the lord like it says paul says pray without ceasing We can have a communication with god We don't have to offer sacrifices Any longer they're already offered for us when jesus gave up his life for us He laid his body down for us when he shed his blood on the cross for us when when we were born again Through his resurrection and power of the holy spirit We now have access to the throne whom of god and we don't have to go through a lot of different hoops And we don't have to go through fei checks and all to get in to see this We just get on our knees or we speak to and we're driving i pray a lot when i'm driving and we and we can say god My son god My mom god My daughter god my grandchild god my friend god my wife god my husband god help me god help me What a privilege you have What a privilege i have to come before the throne of god with boldness And to step in with prayer and faith and say god I'm not sure what you want to do. I don't even know how to pray. Sometimes I can only make groanings Sometimes I don't know exactly what to pray lord But I do know this Whatever it is that needs to be done. You're already aware of it Because you already know my need before I even ask And lord, there's times that I don't even know what I need other than I need your help some way And i'm asking you now in jesus name To please answer this prayer And they watched him They would watch him rise up early And they'd see him find a solitary place And jesus would speak to his father communing with him And basically god saying this is what the father saying this is what you're going to be doing today And he teaches us how to pray And what happens is he becomes a pattern to us And so as this is taking place verse 36 simon and those who were with them searched for him And when they found him they said to him everyone's looking for you And so there he is looking for him And they found him What happens is simon must have awakened and he found that jesus is gone They're still at his house and perhaps some in the city had come early to see jesus and simon looked for jesus He's not in the home He discovers that he's not there and he goes and he looks from now He's not alone because there's no doubt that andrew james and john Would have gone with him in search of christ In luke 442 it says when it was day he departed and went into a deserted place and the crowd sawed him And came to him and tried to keep him from leaving them Well, they found him verse 37 And notice it says everyone is looking for you So those from the city accompanying peter and the men Well, they're largely unbelievers They're not looking for messiah They're looking for free health care That's true, huh? That's what they're looking for free health care And that's not unusual by the way because we have needs we have physical needs And they remind me of the 5000 that jesus fed And and after feeding the 5000 that was just the men not including the women and children They saw him out and jesus was able to see obviously right through them in john chapter 6 verse 26 it says that Jesus answered them and said most assuredly i say to you you seek me not because you saw the signs But because you ate of the loaves and were filled you want your physical needs met and you see that i can do that So whether it's in healing or whether it's in meals. That's what you want free from me But their interest was not in his message In his miracles as their interests They weren't hungry for the things that mattered they weren't hungry for salvation They were hungry for health And in the end the city largely rejected him in spite of his ministry to them As a matter of fact Jesus ultimately curses the city of capernaum for their unbelief In matthew 11 23 and 24. He says it. He says you capernaum will be lifted to the heavens. No You'll go down to hades For the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in sodom It would have remained to this day That i tell you that it will be more bearable for sodom on the day of judgment than for you You wanted what i could give you You wanted health. You knew that i was a miracle worker. You needed to be released from the power of demons I get that i understand that but you really didn't want when i came to offer you There are a lot of people to this day who only want what they can get from them in the physical But they don't want what is spiritual So notice verse 37 Peter said everyone's looking for you capitalize on your popularity. These are exciting times You've got something going something good here Him being a marketer. He was a businessman. Look at all the crowds. Give them what they want but notice He said in verse 38 let us go into the next towns that i may preach there also because for this purpose I have come forth And he was preaching in their synagogues throughout all galilee and casting out demons so we're going to close By considering what jesus did After prayer he knew what he was to do Now he has cast out demons. He's healed all manner of sickness But he didn't say i have come to cast out demons and to heal He said i need to preach because this is my message People can be delivered from demons and healed from illness and still perish And he's saying i've come to preach the kingdom of god to man And i'm not confined to one city Jesus came to call sinners to repentance and to seek and to save the lost Because they could be perfectly healthy free of demons and still go to hell In matthew chapter 5 verse 29 the second portion of that scripture says it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish Than for your whole body to be cast into hell We're living in a time and i'll close with a couple of thoughts about this I was asked recently in one of our Facebook kinds of things that that we do What's the importance of preaching Preaching the word of god is the only way that people are going to be saved God could have aligned the stars to say jesus saves in such a way that they look up and they say jesus saves I better get saved, but he didn't It's the foolishness of the message says preach It's the gospel message whereby god is speaking to man and saying this is your lost condition and this is the solution And so how can somebody believe that they don't hear and how can they hear if somebody is in scent? And so what god has done is god has given to us a message a message of salvation Our salvation isn't going to come in the way that it seems right now many people think that it may I think what we need to do and and help me I Help me done. I I hope I can make this clear because this i'm just speaking from my heart right now and maybe I Maybe I shouldn't I'm greatly concerned with the churches today That seem to forget the preaching of the gospel is the only Only way somebody hearing and receiving it's the only way that they can be saved I mean we look through the book of revelation and we see that over and over again Even angels are preaching the everlasting gospel. There are two witnesses preaching the gospel There's a word of god that's going forth and that's the only thing that transitions people from from hell into heaven It's the only thing that transfers your your life to to walking in the way that you are and transfers it over into the Walk of light it comes through the gospel guys. That's how you got saved It didn't come because somebody somebody impressed you with their eloquence It didn't come because somebody told you certain things about What you should you should do to make this this world a better place It came through the gospel of jesus christ when when I was 70 years 70 i'm 70 now when I was 20 years old 50 years ago when I was 20 years old Now we were living in crazy times some of you read about it in your history books Others of you lived through it and and you know what I mean. There were crazy times. We had riots We had conditions on the earth that people are saying are terrible, you know, but for us it wasn't global warming for us It was global freezing That's interesting how that message changed from from freezing to warming, but it does we had pestilences We had wars. We were going through the vietnam war We had protests. We had riots. We had the whole nine yards. We had so much And there was so much despair and there was so much hopelessness and drugs were crazy and rampant and violence was growing We had similar things then that we do now What has been what has been is now what we see the writer of ecclesiastia said there's really nothing new under the sun And that's true. There were rebellious people. There were broken marriages. There were hurts. There were abortions There were it was there You know, I lived in a time when when the musician stopped entertaining and began to think of themselves as preachers And so you had groups like crossbeast stills nashing young who felt that it was their job and obligation To tell us how to vote. We had guys like john lennon who stayed in bed You know with his his wife yoko to to give peace a chance and things like that I grew up with that stuff. I heard that stuff. That's what we grew up with You know, there's no hope without dope is what we used to say I used to think that that what I could do I thought maybe we ought to do this is go and get as much acid as I could drop it in a In the water so that when people drinking they drip out and everything would change I actually thought that we could get people right with by using drugs We lived in a crazy time guys a crazy time violence anger assassinations Martin Luther king jr. John f. Kennedy robert kennedy We saw it all It was hopeless angry. There were crowds in the streets There were there are songs that were written about that for what it's worth by the buffalo springfield and others You know, there's something happening here. What it is ain't exactly clear this man with the gun over there telling me I got to be aware it's time to stop But that was that was our message that I grew up with that and guess what it was hopeless It was hopeless. We couldn't elect righteousness We had to be changed and that comes through the gospel of jesus christ. That's how it happened. Forgive me That is the burden of my heart We're so busy trying to get people into Puse because people saying I don't want to go to church anymore. So we make it entertaining. It's not entertaining It is soul saving it is soul Transforming it gives you hope it gives you peace you have a relationship with god Your life is transformed because you read the word of god and you say god buy your power. I'll do this I want to be kind. I want to be good. I want to be pure. I want to be loving. I want this god Help me And he does through the power of the holy spirit. That's why in this church I will never veer from teaching you the word of god. That's why Because that's how your life is changed That's how it's changed It isn't changed by going to starbucks drinkings of coffee and complaining It isn't changed by doing the facebook things, you know, you're taking the shot. You're a demon You're gonna have some kind and it's crazy the people are saying oh, you're gonna get the mark of the beast We went through the book revelation. It's a voluntary thing. The mark is already on your heart Oh, you're gonna get some kind of poison And this is the stuff that people are buying into and then getting mad at other people for not possessing or believing Gotta stop that The thing that matters Is the truth And not just words called truth the truth of the gospel that sets you free from the bondage of sin Put your feet on the right path instruct you on the way to live Wherewithal shall a man Young man cleans his ways by taking heed there to according to thy word Thy word have I hid in mine a heart that I might not sin against you How can my life be pure take heed to the word of god? How can I be set free Jesus said the truth will set you free How can I have power to live? Jesus said you shall receive power after that the holy spirit has come upon you You shall be witnesses to me and jerusalem and judaeus america unto the other most parts of the earth How can I be how can I be free? I I have the power through the holy spirit And I have the word of god that guides my footsteps and I have the ability to commune with god himself And say father in jesus name. I ask you help me to live a life that not only counts but counts for other people I don't want it to be just about me lord I wanted to be about you and people knowing you because the only way to transform this nation Isn't to look back at the history and say there used to be christians here. It's to be christians now That's how to change the nation not to look at our history But to look to the future and to be that present right now. That's what I'm sorry I didn't prepare these things, but that's on my heart I just want us as a church To not forget that we're a church That we are an organization a community of those who are like-minded. We love christ and we want to serve you And we want our friends and we want our families to know him too Doesn't matter who's the president in the end it matters who's your savior and that's jesus christ and that's With that of course what we do is we do our civic responsibilities. That's what we do We should be aware of the times that we're living in of course We should we ought to vote accordingly because people want to a battle in order to secure for me the right to go to a ballot box So I don't disrespect the the veterans and those who lay down their lives for us so that we would have the freedom to vote And when christians don't vote well, we get the government that we deserve So we ought to be aware of what's going on but at the end At the end It's the gospel that changes lives Not more laws Not more rules It's the gospel And if we hold fast to that our lives show it in the way that we live And they will know you the long to me jesus said by your love That you have one for another By your love that you have for me By your love that you have For those who don't know me Not that I can win an argument Not that I can convince somebody that this is right or that is right This is wrong But that I can by the spirits power be a transformed vessel a vessel of honor That can take this living word Present it to people And watch god heal them Watch god put broken marriages back together Watch god take the the the son and the father that were so at at odds And because of the gospel Bring a healing To teach us the value one another To teach us that there's one race the human race and we ought to love one another Not because your culture is mine Or your skin color is mine But because god created you in his image And he created me in his image And so at a certain point the only color that matters is red The color of the blood of christ that washes us from all our sin And I can look to A person of a different ethnicity or a different Racial background And I can say to them it doesn't matter I respect and I honor and your the things that you value I I respect with you But I don't put your values above mine because the value I want to have Is the value of the kingdom Of the kingdom of god that we together that we may disagree about certain things. That's okay. Human beings do that But in the in the end the essential thing is that we both love the same god through the same saviour Jesus christ And walk in the same spirit and because of that we'll have unity in christ And we can do that and be a model to a world that is so out of control And they can say you know what there's peace amongst those people. They're not fighting They're not devouring one another. They're loving one another. That's a place I need because I already have tension in the world But that place has peace. Where'd you get your peace from? I got peace through god through jesus christ who gave me my sins Important to me his holy spirit and gave me a hope for the future And I just trust him and I know that through it all through it all God is going to be victorious. He already is and he's given me victory What is the number one lesson i've learned people have asked you've been with the lord a long time You're an older man now What's the number one lesson you have learned pastor davin that is this it all works out in the end God is in control and i'm just going to trust you That's how it works It works And so until that point i'm going to learn to love one another the way scripture says To care for one another respect one another honor one another pray for one another Encourage one another exhort one another. There's so many one another scriptures in the new testament I want to learn to do those things Because in the end again jesus said i didn't come To just one place I have other cities that i need to go to to tell them the kingdom of god Is at hand Follow me that's what jesus did And we need to tell the world the kingdom of god is at hand follow jesus Father we ask that you would work within us to that point That lord we we would We would learn to put the main thing In its proper place to keep the main thing the main thing And father we can be so distracted by so many Voices that are calling to us for attention fix this do that believe this So lord i ask that this church would be settled in you not complacent and not apathetic But just settled That we would stand firm in you And I pray for unity of your spirit That this church would keep you the center of our attention I just ask that because it brings glory to you and even as our eyes or close our heads or perhaps there are some right now The holy spirit is speaking you need to get right with him. You may be watching online Maybe in an overflow But the holy spirit is speaking you need to you need prayer you need to get right with the lord god is speaking to you I want to pray for you before we close And if you need prayer would you raise your hand right now and allow me to do that Father you see these hands that are going up in this place in jesus name I ask that you would reach down and touch each person whose hand is raised to you I ask lord that your holy spirit would influt us That lord that we would serve you that we would walk in your in your power and for those perhaps who don't even Have a relationship and are saying god i need you now i pray that you would fill them fill their soul And lord awaken them to you So right now we yield our lives to you we yield to you We ask that your hand would be upon us and we give you praise for this lord And we will serve you and we give you all thanks now Because lord i know you're going to answer this prayer bless you Thank you You can put your hands down and jesus i pray you'd keep moving in all of us in your name amen
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The Kingdom of God and Kingdom Building | Lecture 24: BC215-KOG&KB-20231030
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Just before we went for a break, we were looking at how God prepares us even as he gives us his dream and his vision and we looked at the preparation process in the lives of Moses, Paul, Joseph, David, and Jeremiah. So we see that during the preparation period, it's actually a waiting time for the execution of the fulfillment or the dream, the vision that God has for us but during this waiting time, waiting time is not idle time. You know, when you wait, you're just sitting and waiting for the train or for your interview or you're waiting for your turn to come. You're just idle but it does not mean that you're not doing anything when you're waiting and in a preparation process. During the preparation process, you should be actively involved. What should you be actively involved doing? Getting yourself prepared for what God wants you to be prepared in, okay? So getting actively involved in the preparation process and what God was assigning you to do so you know that this is God's plan and purpose so you go and roll for courses, you get yourself prepared, your personal life, you get into order, your family life, management, time management plan you have. You look at various aspects and you get yourself ready. Look at one example we can look at is during Joseph's waiting time, you know, we see that he served with excellence, right? Whether he was in Potiphar's house or whether he was in the prison, he was serving. He did his work very diligently, sincerely and that is why God caused Pharaoh and that is why God caused the jailer to look at Joseph. Not because God had chosen him, God had a plan and purpose and so he was, you know, divinely orchestrating things. What if Joseph had thrown a tantrum saying, hey, I'm not slave material, I'm not a slave son, I've never swept, I've never swabbed, I've never cleaned in my life, I'm not going to do this, I'm just going to sit here and when Pharaoh came into the house, he would just pretend as if to say he's cleaning. Now God looked at Joseph's attitude, of course the Bible does not say it but we know it because when we look at the internal factors, God looks at our attitudes and our motives, why we are doing what we are doing and that is why God also brought him to that place of fulfillment of his dream or to sort of delay things and also we know that David was tempted but he did not give into temptation. That's another aspect that we need to keep in mind. So we see even Moses when he was in the wilderness, what was he doing? He was not just sitting down idle, he got married, he had children, he also was taking care of his father-in-law's sheep. So David during his time when he was running away from King Saul, he was engaging in warfare, he led his 400 men, he was training his men up, he was engaging in warfare, he was positioning himself as a leader, as a confident leader so that his men could believe and trust in him and also remember when we learned in the publication, I think it was Code of Honor I think or receiving God's guidance, the second lesson, we learned how David inquired of God, at various instances he inquired of God, how important it is for us to inquire of God. We also see Paul during his waiting time, he preached, he taught in synagogues, even though he was persecuted, his life was threatened, he did not run away and hide, he was preaching, he was teaching, he also received revelations which he wrote down. So every season is actually a preparation process for the next season of life, so we need to be in a constant state of learning, of growing and maturing in the things of God even in the practical aspects. The fifth one is that the unfolding of God-given vision may differ from our expectation. I'm sure that when David was anointed as king, he would never have thought that he is going to be running away to save his own life and he is going to be like a restless wanderer, protecting his own life and staying in the wilderness rather than being a king. So during those times, what do we learn from David's life? When God imparts dreams and visions and gives us his heavenly goals and destinies, don't let go even if the journey towards them is difficult and hard and there's hardships and difficulties and it is not how you envisioned it, how not how you expected it, it's longer than you thought it would take. You need to stay the course and you will see the vision fulfilled. So that is about David's life. What about Joseph's life? Joseph, he never thought he would be sold away as a slave by his own brothers and he would be falsely accused by Potiphar's wife, end up in prison but all of that elevated him to be the prime minister of Egypt. What about Moses? He never imagined that him acting and taking justice in his own hand and being fair and being just by protecting his brother would rest in him being in the wilderness for the next 40 years and being a restless wanderer. So even as we go through various challenges and difficulties or when God gives us a vision, we can be very excited but when we go through problems and difficulties, don't think that it's not God's vision or plan for your life. Stay the course, see his vision to see his vision fulfilled because what God is about to unfold through our lives is not dependent on who we are, what we are, what skills we have, but it is God's glory that is going to be revealed in and through us. Even as we are weak vessels, even as we might be frail, even as we have our own limitations, our own difficulties, sometimes we might be so foolish, so weak, you know despised by the world nothing but God will fulfill his dream and vision and plan for our lives. The sixth one is the Kairos moment for a God given vision gets delayed when attempted by self, like what Prince asked his question. So we see 40 years it delayed in Moses's life. So can there be delays in our life? Yes because we are all human, right? We all make mistakes but what do we do when we make those mistakes? There can be delays, there can be disappointments, there can be detours, they can bring a lot of discouragement but we need to hold on. What should we do? First thing when we make a mistake is what do we do? We repent, we ask God for forgiveness and when we ask that God is greater than our mistakes and there's nothing that is too complicated for him, nothing that he can't resolve. Look at what the psalmist says when he found his feet in a net, when he was trapped in his own temptation and his weakness. What did he say? He says, my eyes are ever towards the Lord. So when you are caught up in a net, in a mess, you're tempted, you're falling in temptation, you're ended up in a failure. What do you do? Your eyes should be upon the Lord. Sometimes our problems can end us up in a mighty pit where we can't get ourselves out, we can't pull ourselves out because of repeated mistakes that we are making. Look at what the psalmist says. He says, I waited patiently for the Lord. He heard my cry and he pulled me out of the horrible pit. So God, when we make mistakes, when we go back to him, he's a God who restores. He's a restorer of our lives, our souls, our time. What he can do in 10 years, he can do it in one year. Jesus, just three years, he did the ministry. For Paul, he started in the age of 50, just did wonderful ministry later on. So God can accelerate things. What takes many years to accomplish? God can fulfill in a much shorter time. All the years, the locus that we think God can restore. So what should we do? When we make mistakes, we ask for forgiveness. We don't live in the past. We don't live in our mistakes. We move ahead. We learn from our mistakes. We become wiser and we continue to pursue God's plan, vision for our lives, the plan that he has put into our lives. The seventh one is we have 11 to go. So we have the seventh one. The God given vision may not be understood by everyone. Now, for more in the life of Moses, we read in Acts 7, verse 23, that God put in his heart when he was 40 years old to lead the people of Israel. But we see that when Moses tried to help his own brother, Hebrew brother, they could not understand. His own people could not see God's hand. They could not see the purpose why Moses was in leadership, why he was in Pharaoh's palace, why he was raised up in Pharaoh's palace. People did not understand, but we see that also in Paul's life, when Paul became a believer, he encountered Jesus. There are many from the church who were still doubtful and suspicious of Paul. They did not want to do anything with Paul. So we see that Paul spent a lot of time alone. Look at what he says in Galatians chapter 5, verse 16. He says, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood. So sometimes when God births a vision, a plan, and a dream, we might have to just keep that within ourselves, pray about it, spend time understanding it. Don't immediately confer with flesh and blood. And God given vision does not necessarily mean that it needs to have the approval of God. I mean, sorry, approval of people. It should have the approval of God, but sometimes people will not approve of it. They might not understand it, but you can still hold on to it, but God will send people who will help you, counsel you, guide you, show you the way and help you to execute the plan and the vision that God has for your life. Point eight, a God given vision will face demonic opposition. So in the case of Nehemiah, it was not easy for Nehemiah, right? When he went to build the walls of Jerusalem, was it easy for him? No, if you read the book of Nehemiah, he faced a lot of problems and difficulties. The Arabs, they tried to try to do things where they could accuse him, they could trap him. Even Jesus, the Pharisees and Sadducees, tried to ask him various tricky questions that they could trap him. But we see that in respect of that, Nehemiah was able to fulfill God's plan and purpose. So we know that when God gives us a plan and purpose, a devil is not happy with the authorization you get from heaven to build God's kingdom. He will do whatever it takes to oppose, to hinder, to divert us away from the work of the kingdom. So how can Satan divert our attention? He can distract us. He can get us to do things that are good but not seemingly good that is going to fulfill or birth God's plan and vision through our life. So we need to be very, very careful. Sometimes Satan can very subtly lead us to do good things but those good things are not going to really help us to fulfill God's plan and vision. So that is a distraction. And what does distraction do? It breaks our vision, it breaks our focus. It results in wasted time and energy and resources. Doing a good thing but will not help us fulfill God's purpose, a distraction. Now for example, God has called you to raise up, you know, be a pastor for a church, okay. He's called you to be a pastor, okay. So you can do that but then also you're somebody who loves business. You love business, you like to do engage in business. So maybe you can get distracted in, you were already running a business when God called you to be into full-time ministry, a specific call to be a pastor to leave your business. But because of your love for that, you can seem to go back to doing it so that you can think that, hey, through this business, I can, you know, get a place for my church. I can raise a building. I can support myself. I can support my family but there's nothing wrong in doing that. We learned we can do it if you're struggling financially. But if you're not and you're in a place but because you love business, you want to go there, that can be a distraction. It can lead you away from what God has called you to do. So sometimes you can be doing good things but then you can be doing the wrong things at the wrong time in the wrong place, okay. Or sometimes you can say God wants you to start a church here in Bangalore City but you get an opportunity to go to the US to work with another pastor or leader and you say maybe God is using and you're excited to go to the US. You're looking at it as an opportunity to go to US but you're saying that it's a good thing God is actually preparing me to be under the leadership of another pastor so I can learn. But is God really taking you there for a preparation time or is God saying hey I want you to be here and start your work. So you need to discern or you need to discern whether you you start the son or you want you get an opportunity to go to the US to study something. You know study another course a Bible college course but God is saying I want you to decide. So for me my distraction was you know when I was in full-time ministry you know my sisters they live in the US they used to spend so much of money buying all of those you know the forms and everything for schools to get me into counseling because I was interested in counseling. I was interested in counseling God did not have me as think of me as a counselor okay. So they had spent quite a lot of dollars in buying all of those booklets and you know all of those handbooks from various colleges and I wasted everything. And even now when I meet some of my my classmates in Bible college they're shocked that I've never done a PhD I never even done sorry I never did an MPH I never landed up doing a PhD and they were wondering why I was just stuck up with only a BD and I and they told me you have even the opportunities your sisters live in the US and I told them God had never led me to do another course not to do an MPH not to do a PhD but always to be in the ministry and I never looked at those counseling courses. So that can also could have been like a distraction I could have easily gotten and I could have gone to the US and lived there and continued into counseling but that was not God what God wanted for my life okay. So there's diversions you know demonic opposition can bring diversions and these can be like you know these diversions can be huge gaps or distance that can that Satan can bring in our mission that he has for us okay and you know sometimes even disputes internal disputes that we have people we are the vision bearer people God brings in people sometimes we bring in the wrong people we need to be very careful and they can cause a lot of strife and dispute and we can find ourselves fighting against them okay disputes and strife and you know even with our own family even with our spouse children they can be dispute so you know all of these things can be very subtle ways that God brings and when you have people like that in your team who come in and they're trying you know they're trying to bring in disputes and strife don't fight them you know I've learned from managing teams with the children's church and catalyst I've learned not to fight with people you know I know what they're doing behind my back but I know and I say God I don't have the time and the energy to fight them and fighting them is going to be a wastage of my time and energy and it's going to bring about this unity I just want to maintain unity and I've just prayed about it and I've seen how God just removes them so beautiful God will fight your battles you let him fight it is his kingdom it's not my kingdom it's not my ministry I'm just here to serve I'm just here to do things right in the way God wants me to do things that is right that is to keep unity in the team I keep unity I I'm nice to them but I still know what they're doing and how they're trying to bring in this unity and I've just seen how beautifully God just takes them away he just fights your battle okay and the other thing is discouragement you know Satan can bring that very easily when we get discouraged we just want to drop everything run move away we just want to leave you know sometimes it is very very difficult discouragement is something difficult is very difficult to encourage yourself because you keep oscillating between encouragement discouragement encouragement discouragement sometimes it's so fed up you just want to leave everything and run okay I remember at one point of time in my ministry I wanted to just leave not ministry and run but I wanted to leave that place where I was ministry and God was taking me to the life of Paul as a missionary and the difficulties and the challenges he faced and at the end of that one week I said okay God you know I'm going to go back in this same ministry and I'm going to minister there even though things are challenging and difficult for me and then after one day I saw things you know I get back to discouragement and I said God I'm not going back and that's when God gave me one line which was like a punch line punched me on my face says ministry is not a matter of convenience it's a command it's not your convenience I want to go back I don't want to go back it's not your convenience it's a command God saying go back and I know that at the right time God took me away from that place and let me somewhere else so you know even when we are discouraged we need to learn to strengthen ourselves in the Lord our God that is what David did remember when he came back and he saw all of his wife the wife children all of his 400 men's wives and children all his property everything that belonged to him taken away his men and he were crying and mourning and his men were thinking of killing David and what did David do he strengthened himself in the Lord his God you know what did he what he would have done by strengthening himself he would have just worshiped God he would have loved God he would have shown God love somehow he strengthened himself so it's very important for us in our ministry to you know be connected to to God to be strengthened okay then the ninth thing is a God given vision is always bigger than the individual okay so we see that even in Nehemiah's life the building of the wall was a very big vision okay but we see that Nehemiah says that he when he went to Jerusalem he never shared with anyone what was in his heart he kept it as a secret he surveyed the entire place but when the right time came he told his people okay look at what he says in Nehemiah chapter 2 verses 18 he says let us rise up and build then they set their hands to this good work so he says come let us rise up and build the walls of Jerusalem okay so the right time he tells the people and they all come in and they pitch in and they work even if you look at the life of Paul we see that Paul was not an Nehemiah myself man you know I'm the apostle I'm great I know everything you know I don't need anyone but we see that he had many people who were working along with him and he called them at various names he called them as fellow workers you know partners fellow helpers fellow laborers fellow servants fellow prisoners and he always at the end of his letters he always mentions people who are with him in the ministry okay so you know sometimes you know we all want big vision to give us a big dream big goal big plan and purpose which is very good but we need to have big hearts why big hearts because the big vision requires a big heart which means it requires other people to come alongside to help you sometimes we don't want other people to come alongside because we think they will rob us of our the fame the name and the applause that we need to get okay so we need to connect with people bring the right people into our vision okay and even as they come into our vision you know we need to celebrate them we need to encourage them we need to build them up also as well and we need to you know share the vision with the right kind of people in the right panel so that they can step in and even as some of them come in we need to celebrate some some who don't want to step into our vision we shouldn't be angry with them okay we should not get upset with them we should not do away with the allies is because god did not you know have plan and purpose for them to be in our vision okay whenever somebody steps into the two projects i handle and they want to leave i always thank them and bless them and send them because it's not my project it's not what i'm doing it's god's kingdom it is his church his work that i'm doing and if he's taking them away god will bring somebody else and god has purpose something else for them so release them and send them no use of fighting okay but we need to be cautious and wise who we need to share and who we need to invite if you don't be cautious if you're not smart that can create the most problem for you okay people kingdom building is all about building people but also people can be the greatest hindrance and barrier and can also destroy your peace of mind so much so that your health issues are you know so come to a place where you can't even do ministry anymore okay two more points tenth one is other people find and fulfill their lives calling by participating in your god given vision god will bring other people into your vision you need to be wise to choose the right people but even as they come in don't use them okay make use of their skills and their ability don't use them for your own benefits for your own privileges for your own fame and name okay acknowledge them keep their interests in mind also okay and they collaborate with you give them the rightful place and the due honor that they also require okay the leavened one is even as god gives us dreams and visions it's all interlinked with each other okay it's interlinked with others dreams and vision in the body of christ so we are all having our dreams and visions that god has given but it is all for the purpose of building and enhancing his kingdom the church okay so we need to partner with each other and build god's kingdom not saying that i do it in isolation that is wrong but build together partner with others and we will fulfill what god has called us to do okay any questions on this lesson chapter four online students any questions you all have Rin is looking at how much more we have to cover well look at it it's a nightmare for me myself i'm just praying that i'll be able to finish it in time sorry yeah yes i'm just sticking to what is there in the notes i'm not doing anything extra yeah pastor i have one question pastor can you hear me yes jack in very clearly please go ahead so pastor when we when god brings in people and you know that god calling is there in their lives and we try to encourage them and bring them up but we see that sometimes they are not they get discouraged and they actually don't see where god sees them so at that point in time how much can we as people or like encourage them or we know for sure that you know god has a calling for them but uh you know i don't know like how to say because they they are willing but they get discouraged so easily so at that point in time do we just pray for them and leave them alone or should we keep a i mean like continual touch with them or like how do we deal with such people pastor yeah good question thank you jack in so there's an extent to where we can journey with people you know we can't we can't come to a place where we can think for them make them do what we want i think even god does that with our own lives right he's given us the free will to choose the moral free will to choose you know so he tells us what is right and wrong but then he says hey if you want to choose this you choose you go your own way i will let you go your own way okay so that is even god dealing with us you know the way he deals with us he tells us what is right and wrong we he's given us various parameters he's given us his word the holy spirit he's given us our conscience nature roman chapter one says nature even talks about the divine attributes the godhead so we are without any excuse but he says in roman chapter one irrespective of that people have chosen license of the truth they have given exchange of glory of god the glory of man made things and so what does god says i give them up you know i've i've given them up i let them go their own way so what we can do with for people is to an extent we can journey with them helping them but if we see them you know coming back to the same place we're self pretty you know and all of those things there's nothing more we can really do rather than just pray for them and you know ask god to work and the holy spirit to work in their lives because ultimately it's not our words it's not we are gives us skill and our charisma so holy spirit working in them so if the holies they're not listening to the holy spirit then you know they can't even listen to us so we just pray and leave them and i think you know god will orchestrate situations in life where they will learn through those situations and you know ultimately listen to the what the holy spirit is saying yes did that help yeah okay thank you jack in that was a good question we told about god gives people in our life like we need our people like god places some people in our life to fulfill the purpose or so like if uh if that relationship was broken like if uh god attached it to people like like to be a successor for someone or help them in their vision and if because of their heart attitudes or because of their behavior their relationship got broken and they got separated so so is it like god find some other person or god restores would god find someone else yes he would find somebody else to bring that person in god always would want to restore that person the holy spirit will continue to work though they're not yielding and hard-hearted and stubborn and they're not willing to listen to holy holy spirit and god would let them be but he still would want to restore their lives yes he is a restorer he doesn't want anyone to perish yes okay any other questions okay there are no more questions we'll move on to chapter five okay we look at kingdom builders lifestyle okay um oh as kingdom builders sometimes we are so caught up in building god's kingdom that we forget that god is more interested in our character in our lives and who we are then what we are doing okay so who we are and the life we live as kingdom builders is more important to god than what we are doing okay so we're going to look at three main areas godly characters spiritual maturity and stewardship okay um what is um character character is basically your attitudes your nature your behavior your temperaments your personality okay your who you are as a person okay um and it is not who you really are before people but who are you in the secret quiet uh okay in your own quiet space okay and your character is revealed through your actions your behavior to your conduct okay um and your actions and your reactions actually reveal your character your actions and your reactions in difficult and unexpected circumstances actually reveal who you are as a person it reveals your nature your character your temperament your um uh you know your disposition your personality it reveals who you are especially when you how you react um to in difficult and unexpected circumstances okay your secret choices also reveal your character your words attitudes and decisions also reveal your character your value systems what influences you also reveals your character so let's look at an example of Joseph okay now we know that Joseph served faithfully for 11 years in Potiphar's house but we see that you know he had a very difficult time there and he was tempted by Pharaoh's sorry Potiphar's wife okay but we see in spite of the repeated temptations what was Joseph's stand he had the power to say no and why do you think he had the power to say no fear of God and because he had a strong model character his character was no this is not right okay we see that in verse eight okay he refused uh and said to his master's wife look my master does not know what is with me in the house but he has committed all that he has to my hands okay your conscience will also keep you accountable to God when no one is watching I love verse nine you know um when when Joseph says how can I sin against God I when I read this the first time in my life I just it just I stuck with me and saying but this young man you know um in when repeatedly facing this temptation in the face of temptation thought about how can I sin against God and I was looking at my own lifetimes when I have sin have I ever thought man and I if I do this sin it is going to grieve the heart of God it is going to break the heart of God I think and if we think that we will never do we really love God we will never do that whatever it is okay so he had um um his conscience you know uh uh towards God conscience towards his master kept him accountable even when nobody was watching okay and he was he had the ability to say no because he had a strong character you know without having a strong character you can say not say no to anyone and everyone's difficult you need to have a strong character okay and a strong character cannot be weakened and will not give in to continual temptation okay so we see here that he was continually tempted but he he did not give in to his temptation okay so how his character developed we look at um another example in the bible that of Daniel okay now we see that Daniel when he was very young okay he in his early teens he was taken to Babylon as a captive but he was taken to the palace okay and in this palace there were 10 10 uh Israelite boys who were from royal families were chosen who were to be taught everything about the Babylonian language science math everything and the end of three years you know they were supposed to be given food from the king's table everything end of three years Pharaoh is going to give them a test and then he's going to choose officials from his from these 10 uh Israelite boys all young teenage boys and when they were served food from the king's table you know this is another example that has stuck in my life you say no uh what did Daniel and his three friends do Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego they decided they will not eat that the food from the king's table you know I was thinking what would I would have done you know I would have said hey you know this is a king's order I can't disobey the king's order I will die you know you're living in the palace you have to eat the king's food um you know and it's good food and all of those things okay but here they said we don't want this food why because it was not according to the standards of uh the Israelites what God had asked them to eat and I was thinking even in the area of food where some of us would think no should we honor God with food you know we should honor God in other things what we watch we should in watch say thoughts all of those things in an area like food so we see that even in a simple thing like food Daniel and his three friends wanted to honor God when they were just teens you know teens the teenage years they just want to eat and eat and eat and eat and indulge in a lot of food you know but here are these three young men so you know what do we learn that character is developed at a very early age when you stand by your convictions and we see that God honored Daniel and his friends and they were they were able to answer all the questions that the king asked and king thought they were too super brilliant they were not just super brilliant but God gave them the wisdom God honored them for honoring him and I think God even looks at us when the way we honor him in a simple thing like food you know and I'm thinking God will also honor us in the way we dress the way we conduct ourselves no simple things in every area of our lives God wants us to honor him okay and it's never too early to start you know developing a godly character okay we also see that our characters influenced by our friends so we see Daniel you know Daniel and his three friends they decided they will not eat from the kings the food but the other six guys they said hey let's enjoy let's feast you know come on belt it you know enjoy but these Daniel and his three friends they resolved in their heart they will not define themselves by eating that king's food so a character also is influenced by our companions the friends that we have okay and a character is built over time through discipline and practice and we see this in the life of Daniel you know when the when the king gave the order for the next 40 days nobody should pray to any other god what does Daniel do as was his custom in his early days it says you know Daniel chapter six verse 10 you know now when Daniel knew the writing he went home in his upper room opened the windows to a Jerusalem bent down his knees three times a day and pray and gave thanks as was his custom since his early days so you know to get children to practice things from a very early days is something that they will not forget becomes a practice okay so he in spite of that order he went and did what was his ritual what was his custom okay and strong moral character is strengthened through adversity even through challenges even through difficulties look at what Romans chapter five verse three and four says can somebody read that these Romans chapter five verse three and four Romans chapter five verse three and four and not only that but we also glory in tribulations knowing that tribulations produce perseverance and perseverance character and character hope amen okay so we should what did she say we should glory in tribulation that means we should you know praise god we should be worshiping we should be happy when we are going through what tribulations you know something very difficult for us to do why because tribulation produces perseverance and perseverance character and character hope okay now why is character very very important okay we see that godly character is a prerequisite for kingdom ministry okay if we look at first Timothy chapter three verses five one to fifteen Paul is actually writing to young Timothy who he leaves there in the church and he's saying you know at Ephesus and he's saying you know I wanted to choose good leaders and he's saying choose bishops and so what is he saying the choose bishops who are godly who pray five times a day who fast huh he's saying that who read the Bible the Torah you know they're always in the church is he saying that no what is he saying he's talking about that there should be husband or one wife temperate sober minded good behavior hospitable not given to wine not violent not greedy for money gentle not quarrelsome not covetous you know able to rule their own house take care of their own children you know not puffed up with pride so he's just not you must be reverent not double tongue not given too much wine not greedy for money look at all that it's all talking about basic moral character you know your attitudes your behavior he's not saying hey there should be someone fasting five times a day uh they should be knowing the Torah they should be you know doing this they should be doing that not spiritual rituals so to say but talking about lifestyle okay so you know uh and he says likewise deacons you know what deacons what deacons help us like administrators in the church and look at the look at the list what he says for them in verses 11 to verse 15 I just want all of you to quietly read that for yourself verses 11 to 15 in first Timothy chapter 3 verses chapter 1 verses 11 to 15 and look at what Paul is writing to Titus you know who he left at Crete to oversee the churches at Crete he's saying you know I want you to choose the right people for leadership in the church and look at what he's telling them just read verses 6 to verse 9 for yourselves again please so important sorry yes Titus 1 5 to 9 so read first in Titus 1 5 to 9 and also first Timothy chapter 1 verses 11 to 15 so he's not talking here about how anointed how gifted how much they can speak in tongues you know they're flowing in all the gifts of the spirit which is the ministry office they're called to but he's talking about their lifestyle right he's talking about their character so in kingdom building God is looking more for not just our anointing because he can pour the anointing he can pour but if he pours in a vessel that is not having a good character the anointing will be wasted it will ruin and break the hearts of many that is what is happening around the world look at what Jesus says in Matthew chapter 9 verse 17 can somebody read that please Matthew chapter 9 verse 17 Matthew chapter 9 verse something not do they put new wine into old skins or else a wine skins break and the wine is spilled and the wine skin are ruined but they put new wine into new wine skin and both are preserved we learn this amen we learn this in ministers foundation right the anointing is the wine a character is the wine skin if the character is weak the wine skin is weak what will happen the wine will break and burst and wine will be wasted the same way if our character is weak the anointing will be wasted okay and we also learned in the ministers foundation in that publication you know your gift can take you where your character cannot see you if you don't have the good character you might be the most gifted anointed person but it can you know you can't stay too long it will not hold you there so we need strength of character to help us you know to the great heights that God takes us or brings us into okay we stop here we just have one more minute any questions any questions okay so you can you can be the most you can like you can be a very gifted person in in some area okay you can have all the skills the gifts that is required for that ministry whether it's worship or you know youth ministry or children's ministry but if you don't have a your character your character in the sense you are you know you're a gospel loudmouthed you you know you lose your patience you can't handle people you're very bossy you're very dominating you're very rude you know you are not somebody who's I me myself everything has to be about me you know and all of those things then what is the point of your gifting it you can't last long in that ministry in that place nobody would want you people will be rebelling against you there'll be striped there'll be disunity there'll be you know a break disorder and so you have you're a very gifted person but your character is not able to hold that gifting then there's no place nobody would want to work with a boss like that right nobody would want to work with a team leader ministry leader a pastor with with this kind of an attitude who's talking down bossing you know dominating not patient bringing about division gossiping behind people not living a honorable and holy lifestyle you can see through people right and it's not going to hold your gifting nobody would want to even come and pray for ask you to pray or you know you know even you won't even want to go to a church and listen to such a pastor or you won't even want to serve under such a ministry leader or a team leader so you can be the best gifted person but if you don't have your character your gifts cannot hold you you know in that place of position and authority okay okay thank you everyone for joining class we'll continue next week okay some important things we learned today hope you can implement that and practice even as we are in the process of kingdom building okay thank you have a blessed day and a blessed week everybody God bless
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BTC crash: Why did it happen? Macro analysis, SOL, IOST | The Market Report w/ Sam Bankman-Fried
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Welcome to the market report with coin telegraph. We are back at it again and have some juicy juicy topics to be diving into this week Absolute chaos in the markets and we also have a huge guest sandbag been freed that you do not want to miss I am your host Benton and we were joined again by a resident experts Jordan Fineseth and yashu goa Jordan has used his background in psychology and human behavior to spot emerging trends in the crypto markets and yashu Is a financial analyst who has been covering the crypto industry since 2014 prior to his career in journalism yashu was a security analyst at Premier Shield and a copyright at App and technology. What is up guys? How we doing this week crazy crazy crazy markets? I know while charts we have so much So much to get into Bitcoin the dump the pump back up the markets just going sideways now I don't even know where to start but we have a lot lined up We're gonna break things down get started with our markets pro segments And then we're gonna get into all of the other segments experts and we're gonna have our huge guests Make sure you stay tuned if you haven't like and subscribe our channel. We're here every Thursday 12 p.m. Smash that subscribe button make sure you turn on those notifications So you know when we're going live and we have the biggest guests in the game So let's go right into our markets news this week Danila. Let's run it So guys Bitcoin talk is here. Who's selling? What happened this week giant flash? Crap crash And we saw like reminisce of like March 2020 We saw the huge dump a lot of people on social meter We're buzzing about this saying the market crash because of manipulation Jordan. What happened this week? What's your take on why Bitcoin crashed? Why a Bitcoin crash again? Like there's lots of different TA out there and all stuff that this is why I did No, no, it seems like it was part of a natural market cycle We were getting hot and heavy prices had run up quite a bit since the they bottomed out What was around July 20th? I think it was a healthy correction in my opinion. What do you think? Well, I do think that we had plenty of catalysts behind this you know new dump and one of the the primary ones I actually noticed was from China and Somehow it rippled through the US dollar market and to the gold market and to the Bitcoin market There's a there's like a plenty of chart based evidence to prove that thing. So I'm gonna show you guys later Yeah, I think we're gonna dive into some of that stuff But I noticed a lot of other outlets all coin daily was citing conflict between Coinbase and the sec Crypto banter was calling crash of the biggest manipulation in crypto history I think there there was a lot of stars aligning here between countries institutions whales and there was some manipulation Happening whether we can connect those dots or not. I think time will kind of tell us Extremely weird kind of stuff happening though inside of that BitBoy was calling for manipulation as well Was any of this like you both kind of said this was like a natural cycle When do we have these types of corrections? What's stopping it from sliding even lower? Beyond 42k is that retailers or institutions kind of jumping in and setting that support level at that 42k mark? Yashu, what do you think? Well, like always we are excessively Leveraged, you know when we are betting on our you know upside positions So even a small movement in the market, maybe it's not that small enough But even a five-person downside movement it can just trigger a long liquidation event So we might we just have to like you know de-exilate a bit when it comes to really leveraging the positions And that's how we can de-risk ourselves from you know facing such crashes I mean in March 2020 some said that we almost crashed to zero because because of bitmix. So These kinds of events are you know Becoming the part and parcel of our Bitcoin life altogether I mean the same kind of crashes we have seen in February and May but we are always bouncing back because you know sense prevails And sense comes from those retail investors you were talking about who bought the dip and now I think they are sitting on a very good profit So congratulations guys. Yeah, there's a lot of over leverage in the market It seems like every time this gets over levy was almost back up to where it was earlier in the year And every time that happens they come out and just dump it on the market I think and you go back way just at 2018 2019 when they cracked on my CO's if you noticed all these exchanges launch their derivative projects because that's how they make money now They don't make as much money as they used to launch a new projects or even just from trading fees So they launched derivative platforms so they can short or like liquidate people and that's what happens And this is like it's crypto is still is still not this like well established Global thing where it like it can't be manipulated inside as such and it does and I don't know I just think that that's all part of the game that we go through and if you look at how quick the whole market has bounced back I'm sure Bitcoin still kind of struggling but a lot of the altcoins are starting to take off. I'm bullish now This is a good sign for me. I Also want to note though like who was selling and we know this was kind of a little bit of of that derivatives market Where it was getting overheated and we're talking about this healthy cleanse It's a data appears to show that it was not hoblers who are selling It was some big whales in the market who just accumulated their their Bitcoin most recently So Yashu, what are your thoughts in regards to actually who cascaded the sell-off? Well on chain data showed that Most of them majority of them were like new holders. They were not even holder They just entered the market and they just saw an opportunity in this old off We cannot actually call them veils or you know, any kind of serious institutions But my guess is that all of these people they were very much like exposed to the gold market as well at the same time because there was a slight correlation between What happened with Bitcoin in the gold market at the same time the crash was very very You know middle like so. Yeah, there is no point of guessing but they would actually short term holders definitely Yeah, I had friends and people calling me that I had gotten into crypto like so what's going on? How did this happen some to me? Yeah, the people that aren't really Used to cryptocurrency and the volatility that exists might be the ones that are more kind of like dumping things that the Things are going really south Yeah, I do want to kind of circle back here to that to that manipulation. Is it possible that that countries were doing this? Manipulating we had the news of El Salvador releasing that they are now accepting Bitcoin as legal tender Is was their manipulation of the market? Yes or no, Yashu. What do you think? We have seen similar crashes in the past and I we cannot just go back You know to the same point all over again. That's it was manipulated. It happens I mean we have seen it before and it was not much of a big crash You know after this much value you have seen since July 20 There has to be some profit-taking and because of that profit-taking there has to be some liquidations Against the people who were betting on on a higher Bitcoin prices. So what's there to guess? I mean, I think manipulation is just a rant if you have the reserve currency Or you like something like the IMF that controlled the monetary system of the world Would you kind of want to like slap the hand of a maybe a rogue country that did something you didn't like? Or I don't know. I like I don't see it as just a country I see this like we're in the midst of a financial shit like a paradigm shift And it's not just gonna go easily the people that used to have all the control They still have most of the control are not gonna let that control go. So, yeah Like there was there's been every market on our planet is manipulated if you ask me like I don't see anything That's not so this is all part of the game and just so happens on the day that El Salvador was like We accept Bitcoin is legal tender the market tanks. Hmm. Yeah, and back when Elon Musk was like, you know what? Bitcoin mining is bad. It's in like a week later. China shut down its coal mining like yeah, there's no no There's no collusion here. There's no coordination. No, I Think that countries have a vested interest and there's a lot of people going after Bitcoin And I think countries were partly behind this whether it be China whether it be countries in South America who may be starting to shift To a Bitcoin reserve currency I think there's a lot of people who want to start trying to get in cheap and those are going to be countries This was the first dominant. We see in El Salvador We now see the Ukraine taking steps to adopt Bitcoin You're starting to see it more and more of these countries start to chip away at that US dollar standard And I think countries are gonna start kind of teaming up and especially those that feel like they have been left out of the traditional system And so I think that's partly This this kind of movement that we've seen but as we've seen though with with the Overleverage that's definitely a part of it It's just a lot of things are kind of starting to line up and this is part of that that natural cycle So very interesting stuff happening this week in in the markets We're gonna start to dive into a little bit about that golden US dollar which I want to roll into next So let's go right into Yahshu's expert segment for this week so Right, I'll just begin. I should always wait for my turn before speaking So I actually the reason I was telling you guys that it might not have been a manipulation Is a simple correlation between Bitcoin and gold and the US dollar index So I'm going to share a screen with you guys so that I can just like present this thing just a moment And here we go So if one sees the screen they can they can see that Bitcoin market was more or less reacting to the price performances of its top safe heaven rider I mean gold in the US dollar that was very much, you know Like instrumental in driving the Bitcoin prices downward if you if you focus on these big red candles and Ali chart So there's a green and red candles, you know that belong to Bitcoin the black and white one. They are gold and These blue and yellow ones. They are US dollar So you see that's about this this red candle, you know that arrives at 10 a.m EST so Bitcoin faulted this time about 20 percent gold falls by about 8 percent at the same time US dollar Index rises about, you know, 3.0 point 3 7 percent. So this is the first first trigger You know that we are looking at that all all of this, you know market crashes. They were entirely correlated So there was something macroeconomic happening, you know, so that's one thing I really wanted to flash out that what started it Meanwhile, like like I discussed in the previous section that there was a long liquidation event triggered by this You know small this basically minor correction and it turned into be a bigger correction. So which is why we were looking at Crypto price crash at the first place But we really have to see that why the US dollar was rising So this route out manipulation though because like to me this kind of looks like when the market dump the crypto market dumps All the dumps in the stable coins go up though I think our world financial markets are so inter correlated now because I know everybody's shoving their their money into these assets trying to get out of these Fiat that are losing money that yeah when any asset starts falling everybody rushes to the stable coins to the dollar So it does rise, but I don't know like that doesn't necessarily rule out speculate or manipulation in my opinion Well, you might be right about it, but see I really have to define one thing that people are exposed sometime a portfolio is Completely completely exposed to do different asset at the same time. Maybe it can be a portfolio or it can be You know golden bit gone portfolio or a bond for you again So again, you feel you start losing money in one asset you try to offset that loss by selling some other asset that is sitting on a good profit So that is how you protect your money, you know, you you just turn back to cash So which is our why I believe it's not actually some kind of manipulation. It's simply a market reaction and I mean if that answers well, I mean I Would like to judge me tell that why it was happening because There was a there was an article I read on Bloomberg which actually noted that China's annual interest expense Right now is greater than the yearly increase, you know, and it's not nominal gross domestic product So therefore we are looking at a potentially potential inflationary shock in China right now And which is why we are seeing some, you know, real growth concerns there and The foreign investor as a result is putting now money in the US markets So it is pushing the US real wheels and US dollar index price higher So that's one one thing. I mean and whoever they are I mean, they could also be putting money in the golden Bitcoin market. They can But probably they are, you know, as we speak here, they are buying Bitcoin But this week's action show that how far Bitcoin has come in so much that it's price declines are matching steps with traditional assets like gold Do you think I'm sorry, you think this is going to be more short-term pullback or what do you think it's going to be up ahead for Bitcoin? The best thing about this correction was, you know, the buy the knife strategy by retail investors I mean, we have seen it before it fell to 42k somebody or an army of retail investors Just jumped in and bought it they don't want the price to go down because they know that what they are facing ahead in the market and Which is why I would like to actually discuss that what can prompt people to stay invested in Bitcoin That is the uncertainty a very very scary fundamental in the form of what Janet Yellen the US Treasury Secretary said You know told the lawmaker and I would like to actually press on that with your permission that She said that she won lawmakers about a potential financial Armageddon. By the way Just a moment Yeah, and I'm again it sounds ominous that sounds dark and ominous Yeah, dark and ominous. So basically what what she's saying I mean, you really have to listen to this one because it's interesting. It goes interesting She said that the US Treasury will run out of cash by next month by October 22 Maybe they will run out of cash. So as a result federal reserve of federal government the US government They won't be able to respect their debts. I mean, that is the warning that is coming from Janet Yellen herself If that isn't a case for Bitcoin, I don't know what is Exactly because because you I mean we viewers also need to understand that what what is happening exactly in short of federal You know German default basically would be an economic catastrophic Because you know what it does it actually increases the interest rates and because of that the stock market also suffer They go down all the retirement account you look at you know They also take a beating the value of the US dollar erodes and the financial reputation of the country One of the you know, I'm not actually the one the only superpower right now You know the financial reputation of the United States which also drops hard so basically Yellen tells congressmen in a letter that They are basically wasting time, you know big ring hoping each other That should not be happening. They should raise the debt ceiling and the time They are wasting in you know by just doing some really political Catfide they are actually pushing US to the brink of a financial disaster So why why why would one stay invested in the US if they really like default on their debts It could this be worse than 2008 like is that is that kind of what I'm hearing Well, I really don't know because in 2008 we were looking at a house market collapse basically altogether and this time we have a debt collapse more likely because We are already sitting on a 29 trillion dollar debt. Yes, it's gonna be Yes, it's gonna be worse. This is a global bad like China China's biggest One of China's biggest companies is going bankrupt ever grand. They're the largest property holders They're the largest foreign property holder in Australia and the United States What's that gonna do the property market in the United States in Australia if they go bankrupt? Like this is like we've been we've been living on borrowed time probably since 2008 and Like politicians have been kicking the can down the road not actually offering any kind of solutions to changing our world And now we just printed how many trillions for six trillion since the start of COVID and we're acting like We can keep doing this. No that chart is starting to go parabolic It's the same as crypto charts go parabolic and that voice inside and he's like Jordan takes a profit That's happening. It's not a good parabolic Jordan is absolutely right, you know, because even if they raise the debt I mean imagine they just take the chance and they really raise the debt ceiling, you know, okay They can now borrow more Even then we are looking at a good prospect for adoption for Bitcoin because man They are you're just creating a very big debt bubble because of that and it's Person on the world is starting to realize like all these central banks are just printing money We have to work We have to dig stuff out of the ground and create things and they're just printing money And people in countries, especially you're not outside. It was like we're out of that game man It's this old this is just a start to like a whole transformation and it's gonna be painful Exactly and it is already painful guys. I mean because US Treasury it has already said that they're running out of cash It simply means that they will they would have to sell their investments already I mean they these guys invest in some place they have They pay the retirement account the social security benefits They have to cut down everything and how would it impact the you know, normal man I mean, where would he go after such a drastic thing happens? He will have to find some safe haven. I mean if Bitcoin is the solution. Yeah, go there if defa if any anything It defies the solution. Yeah, go there But you need to get out of that system altogether because what they are doing is like they playing chickens with each other and Putting the entire financial market the global financial market at risk because of the default things And I think People like the SEC is cracking down on defi and you know, so I was like they're like don't let people escape the system Stay on the sinking boat like no It's gonna be an arduous six months to a year, you know I had to see kind of what shakes out here But I mean you highlight some some dark and ominous points like we talked about earlier I mean that's scary to think about but I think it is reassuring that with the solution sitting there in front of our face It's Bitcoin. It's defi. It's all of the systems and framework being built in front of us right now that I think could possibly be That solution for for our future So I think there's light at the end of the tunnel, but that is a dark picture that you paint yashu So I appreciate you walking us through that in showing us those correlations of what could possibly happen ahead Scary times, but if you haven't liked and subscribe make sure you do that now Our coin telegraph channel is here on YouTube work live the market report 12 p.m. Thursdays So let's roll this over to Jordan segment I know he's gonna be talking about some defi today because he is our resident defi expert So let's jump right in Yeah, so we got some of that bad news out of the way Let's jump into crypto and see like there's news if you can go ahead and share my screen to neil One of the hot uh projects for everybody if you've been paying attention has been Solana I mean it's up over 200 dollars now And that it's really starting to bring back this discussion of is it Solana the aetherium killer And a lot of people are really starting to compare the two and even i'm like for the future price target of here at 500 dollars is I think the Solana um Circulating supplies about 292 million compared to about 117 million for aetherium So that's if it kind of reaches the same parity, but what's really attracting people To Solana is it's growing defi and nft marketplace or uh ecosystems That have have they exploded on aetherium But if anybody that's been trying to use aetherium lately knows Like it's really expensive to transact on aetherium if you got people in other countries like uh, venezuela Or anywhere where even a five to ten dollar fee can feed your family for a week That's not really feasible for them to be using aetherium And I think Solana has really kind of stepped up to the plate here a lot of it's also because of the people that back I know we're going to be talking with sam a little bit later and um ftx the the exchange that he runs Has been a big backer of Solana. They just launched the nft marketplace for Solana So they're selling nfts that sell on Solana I can pull that up here. Yeah, there is so jordan while you're pulling that up I I want to break this down for our viewers today Uh, why is Solana's ecosystem? Absolutely surging you mentioned nfts you mentioned defi But like what makes it different than some of these other blockchains like binance smart chain or phantom Uh that we've also seen grow in polygon. What makes it different? And why is this absolutely skyrocketing right now? well, uh, a lot of it is the low fees I think it's like it's really super low even lower than binance Binance uh came along. It's connected a lot with it's just the older world and binance got a lot of its own A lot of people have concerns about the binance smart change whether it's it's controlled. Is it decentralized lots of different things? I think the just the general public feel about Solana is a lot more positive Doesn't have the back history that binance does and it's it's super fast like And cheap. I don't know if anybody's ever if you've jumped on Solana and try to use it even compared to the binance smart chain or anything it's quick and that's like The first thing I really looked for after I got in the crypto everybody gets in the crypto You buy a bitcoin you like you try and send it you're like this hour long wait ain't working for me So you move on to something to maybe like a light corner did uh ripple those kinds of things But then you're like man another legacy they're getting boring now Solana's launching defi It's launching nft is it's launching defi nft ease with the game fight like the yeah I think game fight just just raised 4.1 million. So it's it's captured the the the nft and defi energy and and solves the problem of high fees on um, ethereum So I think that's but it was surging when bitcoin was dropping like is is that just money moving over from different chains Or like, you know, what are you kind of seeing? Why was that surging when bitcoin was dropping? That's really good marketing man. Like talk about releasing good and announcements and catching a wave right at the right times like it When when the market's dumping But one coin starting to move then people are like let's show if I've watched it so many times It's where the whole market is dumping, but there'd be like three coins that are just like shooting up And it's like people either they go to stablecoins or they go into an altcoin And right now it's actually they're actually choosing altcoins that have a long term validity and like strong use case That have like they're it's going to go up in value in the future So why not catch it now on the dip and people I think uh took advantage of that and along with like multiple good Big announcements coming out of both solana and ftx But jordan, don't you think that uh, solana is also facing stiff competition not only for from ethereum But also from other competing chains like cardano. Yeah, what do you think that how much how much they must have? Yeah, I think cardano is gonna get bogged here, but right now you can't jump on cardano and do d5 I'm sorry like if the capabilities will be there right now. Solana has like first mover advantage and this current bull run as far as like catching the the the hype of what's happening on ethereum, but offering a better a better environment for people to do it Like I try my argument that Jordan is you see chains you see chains with low transactions and fast speeds Like that's nothing new to the d5 space. So it's like for me It's like are these chains just doing a much better job of marketing themselves And that's why they're getting in front of more people and more audiences Or they do it are they focusing on education how to get people set up on their chain Like what is the secret sauce a lot of it? It's all of those things in the really strong community You'd be amazed at how much like word of mouth and like good market go back to 2018 or 2017 Good marketing to ask Justin's son like what does good marketing do for your project? You know part of it's that you got a really hyped up a community People love Sam which he's a cool awesome dude Like I think that even just having a good figurehead is like at the top of this Brings new energy like people are going to support him over a cz in my opinion kind of a thing You know because if he's in that like that benefits the project, but it's It's they've been doing like the right steps this whole time Like I haven't seen a whole lot that I haven't appreciated from Solana over last year That has it has made me kind of had any kind of negative feelings towards the project and that goes a long way with people Where do you see Solana going in the next six months to a year? If you had a price target, what are you kind of looking at for the asset itself? I don't think five six hundred dollars is unreasonable. Again, if it's Ethereum's 117 Solana's 292 that's like two and a half times So I take the ethereum price divided by two and a half if they can keep reach parity with Ethereum and and keep building its momentum. It could easily get up to that like a To a multiple of the ethereum price So even a thousand dollars isn't without a ring like again We're head what we were just talking about like the world's economy is crashing There's gonna people actually start onboarding into cryptocurrencies Solana is going to be one of those top projects We're not we're not going to be investing in train cars people are going to be investing in train tracks And Solana is a really good train track but Jordan I was looking at Solana's technical indicators and I happened to come across RSI which was like completely completely overbought And I I'm actually I know that it can actually go up because of all the promises it's doing right now But at the same time for for investor who want to enter the market When is the next step according to you in Solana markets? When the next what sorry next step Oh, it could happen right now man. It's gone up again. It's the one of them I wouldn't I personally would not be jump dumping a whole bunch of new money into Solana right now Just because it's gone parabolic like All time high do not buy And even the other one corner like Algran Like it's it's it's being chosen by El Salvador to host a lot of its actual blockchain stuff But it's at a new all-time high too. These are really like all the algorithms and other good solid layer one blockchain Pure proof of stake low transaction speed fees, but they're at all-time highs now So I wouldn't I wouldn't personally recommend buying any of those like the dip will come But once it does, I don't know. Maybe the dip for Solana was when bitcoin just took a shit like this past week I the one thing that gets me with Solana is is uh token supply I mean right now it's sitting at number six in regards to to market cap Uh, the token supply is almost double of finance And ethereum, so I there's a lot more circulating supply and there's actually supply I believe that hasn't hit the market yet So I I do think there's a little bit of that ceiling below 500 Um in in my opinion, I feel like when it comes to that supply demand aspect I don't know if Solana has a burn mechanism. Is that something jordan you you have information about? I don't know. I mean you say that don't have it off the top of my head But it's something I could look into and again, that's all I love about the beauty of this It doesn't mean like if you if you as a person that's in the community see that as a valuable thing That's something that could be added in the future Just the same way that it's been added with ethereum with the the london upgrade and eip 1559 And the new burning mechanism that that was why they added that because People had a lot of concerns about the emission rate of ethereum and inflation and all that stuff So those are all things that can be addressed later on in the future But right now it's about building that ecosystem and building the community behind it But yeah, the the price will eventually cap out and have a pullback And I also want to note like there's there's a difference between you know buying the asset As a play or an investment versus actually utilizing that asset inside of their ecosystem to get around and navigate through those d5 protocols So there is a use case for Solana It's not just buying to hold that asset That's one direction you could go but you could also use it and utilize it for gas fees getting in and out of pools Or whatever kind of ecosystem buying nfts those kind of things It sounds like on their platform So i'm always a big fan of projects that have use cases for their tokens Um, especially inside of d5 ecosystems, but awesome awesome If you want to you want to close out the segment one last thing It's also the staking mechanism the staking mechanisms are the ones that are doing the best already have launched staking mechanisms full like Finance smart chain doesn't have an easy to stake Solana does auger and does Cardano does so Good stuff Well, if you haven't like and subscribe that youtube channel for cointel graph We're here thursday's 12 o'clock p.m. Make sure you are tuning in We're going to shift over to our markets pro segment. So let's go ahead and dive right in All right, breaking news is what moves the crypto market and the news quake service by ct Markets pro helps traders stay on top of important news news quakes are automated alerts that instantly notify users when market moving events happen We are going to look at a chart today in particular radium I don't know if you guys have heard of this particular token But this was yet another case of binance staking announcement Anytime you're seeing those announcements staking announcements Exchange listing announcements our platform markets pro is able to catch it and it was able to catch radium Which had a super surge after that news quake? You see there on the lower side of this chart You'll see that red circle that is going to indicate when that news quake happened and that white line is the price line In that middle yellow and green line is the vortex where we see what happens after a news quake that price line Absolutely just went parabolic and that's the power of the news quake So when it comes to markets pro that news quake feature is super super awesome to keep track of But I do want to move over to the next token that we're going to be highlighting this week, which is iost We're going to be looking at the vortex score for this particular token And for those of you who are not familiar with the vortex score It is a comparison between its current market condition and the social conditions of those in the past A high score for a vortex score means that judging from historical data the assets current outlook is bullish for the next 12 to 72 hours So a vortex score of 80 or higher is considered confidently bullish So on this chart you see for iost that first red circle in the middle of the chart is that vortex score hitting at 80 You will see nearly days later and hours later that price line of the white line actually surged up after that So that high score of 80 or higher that 12 to 72 hour window is typically when we will see a little bit of price action According to uh historical data So that score has been in the green zone and like I said that vortex score anytime it's green You just love to see it So it took that iost price from 0.5 cents all the way up to eight cents So that historical data has been clearly instructive here Uh, so super awesome stuff for their markets pro platform If you haven't checked it out make sure you do you want to make sure that you are staying in tune with the markets And the markets pro platform is the best way to do that Uh, so we are super excited for our special guest here And uh, I know we have sam bankman fread coming on next So make sure you like and subscribe our youtube channel for coin telegraph Let's jump right into our interview with the man the myth legend sam bankman fread All right, we have sam bankman fread who is a pioneer in the decentralized finance space And he was named forbs 30 under 30 in 2021 runs ftx a global Cryptocurrency exchange specializing in derivatives that he began in 2019 Ftx is one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges and routinely has daily trading volume in the tens of billions of dollars He also manages 2.5 billion dollars of assets through almeida research the quantitative crypto trading firm He founded in 2017 Welcome sam. We are super excited to have you on the show today. How are you? Doing well. Thanks for having me Yeah, awesome stuff. I I know I have been seeing ftx just absolutely everywhere man You guys are crushing it with the marketing from mlb to celebrities athletes all that kind of stuff Uh, I want to start things off here like where is your team heading next with with kind of the marketing? I'm absolutely loving this Yeah, I mean You know what what we're really looking for are what are the things that can Reach tens of millions of people without diluting our brand and you know, we're really excited about the partnerships You know with with tom brady. Good. Good luck tonight With with stuff curry with um, you know the miami heat with major league baseball tsm um, and you know, I think that we're gonna keep you know on the lookout for um I for things that can really move the needle there. Um, you know, I also think that I we've we've done a lot already in that space and you know, we're in a fortunate position to be able to um, but I in the end Endorsements can only get you so much in the end. It's it's all going to come down to our product and our execution How much has fdx spent on on your marketing this year so far? I It's probably gonna end up somewhere between 15 100 million. Um, you know, it depends on exactly what ends up coming through But that's going to be the ballpark and and of course those numbers seem, you know Big compared to what even you know, we were thinking about a year ago, but um You know, we're in a fortunate position where it's not not that big compared to Uh, you know, what our our budget's gonna look like this year. So Good deal. Well, I want to do kind of roll over to the the markets and I know we saw limited chaos this week So I'm curious to hear your take of of what you saw happening in the markets and why we saw that that bitcoin dip this week Yeah, totally. I mean, I think it's a classic thing where like I you know There's a ton of bullishness in this space. There has been for a while We sort of recovered sentiment, um, you know from I from the crash back in may And I you know what you started to see was all the signs of people getting leveraged along again The space getting really long the space getting bullish. Um premiums going up usd bar rates going up sentiment very positive and You know, I think that an important point to make about that um Is that sometimes that just leads to more Runups like sometimes there's just a straightforward effect where when people are bullish things go up But there's also sometimes an effect where if things start to go down You get some liquidations, you know, you get some margin calls. You get some people cashing out and de-risking Um, you get some of the hot air leaving this space. Um That's what we saw over the last few days Open interest is down a lot. You know, I think it's probably five billion or so um of liquidations and You know, I think that that was what drove, you know, two thirds or so of that that that decline um But I think another thing to note is if you sort of look at like march 12th And then, you know, may 19th of last year may 19th of this year, and then you look the last few days each time, um like Each time that happens It's a lot less of a shit show for the space and I think for people who are around in 2020 um You know, I It was a really scary moment for the space When when markets crashed when bitcoin went below 4k That's really really different than how it felt You know a few months ago in may You know, and I think it felt like a lot of cooling off in this space, but it's still a lot of hope Um, and I think now you look at, you know, the sort of crash a couple days ago Frankly, oh, we're already halfway back up and you know, I think market sentiment is already fairly positive again Um, I think each time the liquidity and crypto markets has gotten deeper Um, the hot air has gotten less overheated and it's been more sustained in flows. Um, and so I do think that it's been I You know a healthy trend for markets So do you suspect that we'll see more of these kind of shakeouts? Like before the end of the year or before kind of bitcoin kind of keeps going up You know, we're always going to see these time again Like you can't go up if you don't go down you can't go down if you don't go up like there's there's always going to be both movements and um, You know, I think it's important to keep in mind that like bitcoin is up like what it's like up 200% on the year or something like that um Whenever you see an asset with that level of up moves, you're gonna see 20 down moves Um, if not, you just have an implausible price graph, which is just like a straight line up And and what happens what you know if people are expecting that is you get people buying an anticipation of the future Uh, the future increases. Um, you get sort of speculation And that can be good for market health and efficiency because it can realize price movements earlier Uh, but it also means that there's a bit of a speculative bubble bubble that that can cause a mini crash They come hand in hand with each other. Um, and it comes hand in hand with trying to have efficient markets Yeah, I want to kind of shift this over to like the altcoin world And I am curious to hear your take in regards to maybe some uh, some altcoins that you feel have the highest potential Are you looking at ethereum uh to continue its surge and and could we potentially see a flip in the future of bitcoin? you know anything could happen and Um, I would be surprised if there is that flip but but it's not impossible. Um, I think that like if it were to happen Like if you came and told me look sam Two years from now ethereum had a higher market cap. Um, then then bitcoin predict what happened Um, I think my prediction would be that there is massive institutional inflows You know, my prediction would be that what happened, you know over the last year um was uh That you know institutions really got involved um in in buying ethereum for the first time and uh, And I think that could have massive impact on on token prices Uh, you know, of course you could see a crash as well. Like, you know, I don't want to say that will happen, but If it does go up, I think that's likely to be the cause If we were talking about solana in their ecosystem earlier, uh, is that an ecosystem? You've had your eye on it and what are you most bullish about in the development of that that ecosystem? Yeah, I mean, I I've been, you know, serve a fanboy of the project Uh for a while. I think that it's really exciting And I I think that it's sort of is um, you know, I I think it's basically The only uh one of the only blockchains That is really trying hard Um to scale as much as it can um and and to get to the point where I it can support just massive massive operations on it almost no other blockchain is even trying I think the world is starting to come alive that I think its institutions are starting to Um, I come alive that and I think that the crypto community is, you know, as well I serve one a you know, I don't know about price predictions. Obviously. I you know Was fairly bullish on it. It's up a lot. I'm still really bullish on the project um, I don't know what the right price is for it and um, you know, a lot of that's gonna have to do is crypto sentiment overall Sure And so like what areas of defy are you most interested in and why? I think that like One piece is just building really great user experiences across all products. It just hasn't happened enough um I think that like a second thing um, is I starting to see real existing businesses back end into defy um Businesses that were not natively decentralized start to use it. Um as I show that it's not just cool But it can in fact be better Than existing other off opportunities for some businesses. We haven't seen that much of that yet, but it could happen Um, and then I think you know, I think social networking is something that hasn't really made its way on chain yet I know we've seen a few kind of attempts at it and I think a few people are working on it Um, but uh, but I think that's something else where there's a lot of ground left to cover But it's a pretty natural thing And so like what would be your vision for the future of defy and and how that could coexist with a traditional finance system Or mesh with that traditional finance system You know It's a really complicated question and I don't think anyone knows the answer I think that you'll hear some people who give the answer like, you know defy is about to flip banks That's not about to happen. Maybe it'll happen at some point in the future. We're not we're not close to that point There's a lot of progress that needs to be made. Um, and I think that um You know, you'll get other people who will sort of speak confidently about the future of the regulatory landscape for um, I You know for for defy and I think that's also not not right because The real answer is is we don't know Is that that's sort of a really important open question for the future of the industry? That just you know is going to take time to resolve Um, so so I I don't know the answer for sure and and and that's my strongest belief is that I don't know um, but um You know, I think sort of outside of that like, um I what are the things I think I you know Are are going to be the biggest touch points figuring out how custody works figuring out how institutions can get comfortable Storing assets on defy figuring out what uh, a ml regime it fits into um and um You know figuring out what happens When you have part of the world on a blockchain based system and part of the world On a non-blocking based system. How'd you interface between the two of those and I think you know Stable points are sort of one attempted an answer there. Um, but it's not the only possible answer It's so early in your career you made a name for yourself by doing a lot of arbitrage trading Can you kind of break that down for our audience who maybe are not as experienced with that and how did you get so good at doing that? Yeah, so one of the interesting things is um, how easy it is sometimes to spot an arbitrage Um, you just see two markets for the same coin trading at different prices And it's like, yeah, what if you like buy on the low end and sell on the high one? You know uh Do you make money? And in theory the answer is yes, right and and sometimes you see that in crypto You'll see two exchanges same token different prices. That's an arbitrage opportunity And then you can ask like, okay. Well, if it's that simple Why is never and do it? Why are these opportunities still exist? And the answer is anyone who's really tried to do large-sized trades On quick time sales in the crypto ecosystem globally as quickly learned how difficult that is Operationally and it's gotten easier over time and that's coincided with efficient with you know more efficient markets but I But you know the number of problems that run into from you know withdrawal limits jurisdictional limits banking issues exchange issues deposit withdrawal issues It is like the problems compound really quickly and it can be operationally quite difficult um Just to kind of like send assets to an exchange buy a token there Send it to another exchange sell it there send those assets back sent it back to the first exchange I gotta jump in with the questions sam if I may. Yeah, uh, how do you actually Like spot these opportunities because it it sounds like a pretty like humane task I mean, uh, if you get any if you just keep looking at different computers Do you have like a special tools you have created to a quantitative computing tools? Maybe to sport certain arbitrage opportunity and how legal is that? I mean in some countries I have heard heard that arbitrage trading is kind of like an illegal thing How do you answer that? Can you name one of those countries? Oh, well, I can't really but I will get back to you about it, but yes So there's some like things that might be helpful for doing some arbitrage is that might be restricted to some jurisdictions Short selling is an example of one where in some countries it is difficult or impossible to short sell some assets They speaking even outside of the crypto regime. This is often true. Um, um arbitrage does not tend to be outlawed It's sort of is the fundamental principle of providing liquidity in markets. Um, um, but I you know Putting that aside for a second. Um, you know, I don't I I mean, I I'm not sort of actively running. Um, I'll I'll only any more I if you know step down as CEO there and focusing on ftx but um, you know, I can talk about what you know, what what it was like and I think that like What's the sort of you stupid simple version of this, right? Just pull up coin gecko, right? Like I don't know pull it up typing your favorite token Right, like click on like the markets tab And it'll tell you what it thinks the price of each asset is Right on each exchange and just feel like are those the same number, you know And like right now if you type in bitcoin and sort of I'm doing this as we speak You know and you click it on the markets. What you're gonna see is uh, I It sometimes it's um, I It's I has bad data. Um, but when the data is correct, you're going to see every market pricing. This is basically the same price Um, uh, which is you know about 47 200 right now um And there's some variations here but that variation is mostly because I think coin gecko doesn't really know how to price your own so um, but um If you put that aside for a sec, um It used to be that if you type that in you would you see wildly different prices and and part of the point is that this really is part of an answer to like What what a scheme could look like there, you know to be able to to identify arbitrage opportunities, um Literally just pull up coin market cap or coin gecko pull up the page for a token and see on which markets you get different prices Um, and it being a little bit glib here But but it is really true that even something that simple can get you some of the way there Um, and then what sort of a more sophisticated tool? Well, you can build something that alerts you when there's a difference, you know You can build something that highlights when there's a difference. You could build an automated trading system That actually does those trades based on on those prices. Um, but I you know, I think that like I A lot of the tools that you might want to use there are actually surprisingly straightforward and simple And rather than being like incredibly complex mathematical formulas, it's sort of like alert This price is bigger than this price. They're for the same asset Can I go maybe get your opinion on the like the growing nft space? I know you guys just launched the nft marketplace for the solana and in my opinion It's it's almost attracting more people than defi is so I don't know I just seems like one of the biggest things that the whole crypto industry guys going for it What's your opinion on nfts? Yeah, um I think that like the amount of excitement we've seen for nfts not just from people in the crypto ecosystem but you know more generally um from Businesses all across the world is unbelievably strong um, it's Like it's just like it's something that we've almost never seen for this quickly. Um It's not um, this is not just a bubble internal crypto if it's a bubble. It's a global bubble. Um And I think that there's a huge amount of long-term interest in them I think that there are a lot of areas where they make a ton of sense. I think ticketing is one obvious example um I will also say that I personally am really really bad at judging aesthetics It's just like it is not what I'm good at. I don't know what pictures are pretty. I I don't know And so like what when I try and say like what's a good nft? I'm sort of like dude. I'm not the target audience here And we we have a lot of other people on our team who I think are better at that but um Uh, but but I think that's sort of the the goal of the platform that we built rather than trying to Decide which nfts are good and which are bad. It's to be a platform You know, that's in the end what we're best at is building platforms. Um, and and you know our nft marketplace It's a place where anyone can mint nfts anyone can list their nfts Anyone can deposit and withdraw nfts between Ethereum and Solana cross-chain um, and you know, we just want to be uh, we want to be facilitating that and um making it really easy for people to uh to distribute their work I was wondering how you guys are gonna like one up yourselves with this marketing thing You got Steph Curry. Are we going to see like space ftx next or something? You're going to do your own space space brand What we'll we'll see I I'm going to take us into the fire round where we have a couple fun questions kind of get to the no usvf Uh, so let's kind of jump right into this So I have one question here and it's if you had a superpower. What would it be? Oh boy, I mean can I make up anything like you can anything That'd be pretty powerful. I don't know Um, yeah, why not? All right, and when was the last time you didn't look at a computer screen for more than 24 hours? Oh, oh boy. I mean There's a mobile screen So like sometimes I travel and like when I'm traveling like I'll use my my my you know phone But but I sometimes won't use the computer for a day So so I guess my answer would be you know three months ago when I was sort of last traveling Okay, and now what would it take for you not to look at a computer screen or a mobile device for more than 24 hours? I mean, you know, it would be painful, but I could do it like I think it just Meetings maybe is the answer like if I had some incredibly important in-person meetings for a day I could imagine it'd be a little weird if I weren't checking like slack in between meetings Right, but like I could do it wouldn't be the end of the world Yeah Uh that with ftsc's recent marketing blitz. Uh, do you have a favorite sports team? I grew up watching the san francisco giants. Um, and I gotta say I've gotten lucky as fuck this year with that You know what? Yeah, how they have the best record in the league Very good. And last question and fire out. What is your favorite planet and why? Uh Fair enough. I mean, we're all here so it makes sense. Yeah Good deal. Uh, well, no, we appreciate you joining for today's show. Uh, sam awesome getting to know you and chatting with you about your insights regarding the market We would love to have you back in the future and we appreciate you joining Thanks, sir All right. Take care same All right, that was fun getting to know svf the man the myth legend of ftx Uh, his name's in the space. It was it was super fun to chat with him But uh, we are going to get into our questions from the audience today We're gonna get you guys involved. Give us your burning questions. We want to know what they are We want to answer them anything goes answer all the questions that we got Uh, we let's let's uh go ahead and get started here All right, folks Tons of questions are flooding in Uh, let's see. Can you quickly pump salt? No Wrong question. Uh, all right, let's see. Uh, give us your questions guys. Uh, let's see what we got out there today. Uh No shot you have the most Do you guys have any questions? Well, we're waiting I just like to like read like Again, NFTs are the biggest thing on the planet right now Look up a google searching. Can even compare it to maybe even big when I need to look up that one I know it's bigger than d5 NFTs They're they're the thing that's bringing the mass adoption All right, I got one question here, uh, let's see we have what is the next salana I will let uh, jordan jump in here first Well, I'm gonna go with the algorithm right now just because it seems to be really hot uh next salana I haven't been too impressed with the avalanche when I've used it Yeah, I've I've kind of liked the algorithm since it first launched a long time ago and they they've put some like They're starting to launch some cbd Cs and kind of host those So I think that that's a good one to watch in my opinion Yashu, do you have a uh, a next chain that could top salana Ethereum, of course I mean despite okay, I'm gonna get a hit mailed again But despite all the drama that there's gonna be an ethereum killer Why do we forget that ethereum is still the largest chain available? It has it has mousstrapped the markets and it is also developing. It is also building its product So let's not forget that ethereum is still in the game So I think ethereum and salana are pretty much uh You know two really good projects and yeah, they In the in the previous session. I also said there is enough space for everybody So there is no next stop previous. They can just coexist together based on what they're offering Yeah, the way this is all developing ethereum's like we're gonna we're gonna scale we're gonna scale for how long now and like I think all these networks They haven't figured out the magic blockchain bullet yet that can host 7 billion people So it's gonna have to be a mixture of networks Probably for like decades until we get this all figured out I think if we're talking highest upside potential I have heard a lot of chatter about phantom chain. So I think they're relatively new in the space Uh, we've seen polygon around for a while. We've seen bsc around for a while I know they just had their one-year anniversary I would say if there is a next chain, uh, and i'm a betting man I would probably take a look at at phantom as possibly being that chain I was playing around with a lot of their Their projects on that chain last night actually and I really like the ui and and feel of what they have going on Um, let's move on to our next question here What should you guys prefer invest or trading? Yasha, I'll kick this one off with you uh, yeah Well invest actually i'm a i'm more sort of an investor. I like to play it safe and Trading really comes to me when it really has to be, you know buying the dips I mean, I I'm I'm always looking for some good support levels and uh, so I read charts and I invest And based on what I actually want in my real life, you know to pay for my rents and everything I trade accordingly because I want to live free for the rest of my life So my goal is to make thousand dollars trading every month And that's it. So trading comes later, but yeah, I'm more sort of an investor Yeah, I'm focused on investing too. There's a like a psychological principle If you give a person an option to pick a thing and they just have one option They like this thing But if you give them like three different choices to choose from they'll pick one and later on they'll be like Oh, I should have gotten a different one Like they'll be less happy with their choice giving more options And that's kind of like what trading is for me like you can go and you buy it Like yeah, I got a good and the price dips you're like, no I went down And it's such a like psychological game to actually trade Daily that I'd say 95 percent of people should stay out of that game and just invest That's just my personal opinion like trading is maybe if I'm trying to get some side income or instead of going to the casino I'm like, let's go to the let's go to the market but Like investing long from harrowing dollar cost averaging It's my way all the way man DC a I will die on this hill dollar cost average start with investing Dollar cost averaging is your best friend trading is playing with fire. It is a fight for survival The way that I see it when you get involved with trading and yes, it could be an absolute thrill ride sometimes But it can absolutely be a huge bloodbath This is not financial advice. Just want to also reiterate that but if you are interested in exploring getting involved with crypto I would look into dollar cost averaging So our next question from the audience is from cal toro And how do we pick the right NFTs? Jordan, I'll just kick this one off with you That's a good quick. I don't talk to my editor. He's the one that likes NFTs That's the one one area cryptos. I'll get in there now NFTs. I start staring at all these things on open sea I'm like my half my brain falls asleep and I'm like now Like I I did that's just not my game. What do you think? Oh, well Like I said in the previous session actually because I'm a dino collector myself So I can really understand that when you're collecting something it should be very unique You know or it should come with a certain offer or from somebody who's quite famous So you cannot just go into the market and buy an NFT from some random dude who's not famous enough Or who's not known enough that is not a collection If you really want to buy an NFT it has to be From a very good artist somebody who's known So this thing will always have value or it should belong to some some grand value You know like harry potter maybe if Harry Potter reads this card. I'll buy next day for sure But it should be it should be You should be able to sell it later, you know because you're also like investing in a way like baseball cards So you you should always buy an NFT when you know that you can sell it later at a good price in your tough times Yeah, and this game if it's not a famous person or famous artist if it's one of these newer projects Look for a rare the more rare it is the more likely it's going to worth value in the future if it goes up in value at all I know that's one thing you look for the rare things Certain unique features or things that it's hardly any of because that's just again written in the scarcity aspect of it Seems like the scarcity thing is what's biggest in the NFT game I the way that I see NFTs is like art. It's it's very Subjective and granted like, you know, I think a lot of people are in it to make money and buy low and sell high But for some people out there, they just like art and it's like if something looks cool and you like it It's like and you're into collectible stuff, you know, it's it's very subjective So I think it's it's a challenging question from Cal Toro To pick the right NFT because I don't think there is a right NFT for one Like broad sweeping kind of statement there. So let's give one more question for the q&a segment today from the audience Let's see. What else do we have here from? looks like we had one from gh crypto guy that i'm trying to find here in the comment section We have so many people today just asking tons of questions. It's so hard to go through this We appreciate everyone for uh for chime in here and last question is another NFT question gh crypto guy chimes in and says what NFTs are you minting? Are you guys minting NFTs? Not currently I was looking at a few things Actually, I think every more is one I was just looking at and this isn't for angel vice. This is just me Searching around the NFT game. I'm like, oh, that one looks interesting. How about you? Yes, you? Man, I don't have money to mint NFTs really and uh Yeah, when you're on the theory, yeah Definitely not but uh, but personally I'm actually trying to mint this uh mean collection You know, I've made it after my friend my best friend So I just wanted to make fun of him. So on his birthday. I'm just gonna release an NFT. That is the plan. Don't tell him But but I hope it's cheaper So let's see Good deal I've used to mint a lot of NFTs on rareable. Uh, I've got it. I got out of the NFT game a while back I was on that fad last summer. So I think I was an early adopter and kind of like fizzled out But I haven't really been paying attention to FTS much But anyways, that's gonna wrap up our our questions and answers from our community today Guys, do we have any closing thoughts for today's show? What do we have cooking in your heads? Jordan kick us off with your closing thoughts Nothing has changed in my perspective on crypto Especially now that even with this recent dip like as yashu was talking about and if you go search the world's economy is kind of like It's not looking so hot Like people are starting to not dig the fiat currencies that they're just printing left and right And cryptos are think they're about to come into their own I don't think we're quite ready to onboard the whole population. But We're we're as ready as we can be at this point because things are about to get a little little bumpy Would I would like to add that? Yeah, I would like to say that we had plenty of healthy correction this week throughout the you know top token brass But for the people who still wants to buy solana, I would like to say please try to wait for the dip Again, this is not a financial advice, but please try to wait for the dip because When I was looking at the chart, it's like completely completely overbought So I still see her, you know top out risk. So just watch your back. That's all The buy the dips and dollar cost average. I'll leave you with those thoughts Guys, this was an awesome show. It's super excited for next week. We appreciate sam bankman free joining us today from ftx Super awesome day. I hope you guys have an awesome one. Thank you for tuning in and make sure you like and subscribe Smash the notification button so you know when we are on it's thursday to 12 p.m. Eastern. Thanks for joining us until next time over and out
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Nando Pappalardo: Da Freelance a Founder di una delle imprese di maggior successo nell’ecosiste...
Il nostro sistema educativo é strutturato per creare persone che imparano a lavorare per il denaro. Ad un certo punto della mia vita un netto cambio di visione mi ha permesso di vedere il mondo del lavoro in modo differente. Questa nuova visione mi ha consentito in poco tempo di creare dei sistemi intelligenti che oggi fanno lavorare il denaro per me. Presentation slides: https://www.slideshare.net/nandopappalardo/da-freelance-a-founder-di-una-delle-imprese-di-maggior-successo-nellecosistema-wordpress WPTV link: https://wordpress.tv/2019/04/15/nando-pappalardo-da-freelance-a-founder-di-una-delle-imprese-di-maggior-successo-nellecosistema-wordpress/
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Buongiorno a tutti, con questo talk voglio parlare di un'esperienza mia personale che nel corso degli anni ho vissuto, esperienza iniziata nel 2007-2008 fino ai giorni di oggi. Il nucleo è che oggi la formazione nella nostra scuola all'università, scuola superiori, viene fatta in un modo che crea persone che sono pronti ad essere degli ottimi dipendenti di aziende. Non c'è la cultura imprenditoriale, nessuno ti spiega come fare impresa davvero, neanche all'università di economia le più nominate e prestigiosi che abbiamo in Italia, non ti spiegano assolutamente realmente come fare impresa. Il risultato è che i migliori ingegneri informatici che escono dalle università sono pronti a lavorare per qualsiasi. Io ho i migliori ingegneri informatici di Catania che sono pronti a lavorare per la mia impresa, piuttosto che magari fare loro imprese in qualche modo. Questo sia in Italia, io adesso mi sono trasferito a Tenerife in Spagna ed è la stessa identica cosa anche lì in Spagna. I migliori ingegneri informatici di Tenerife sono pronti a firmare un contratto quasi col sangue a tempo indeterminato con un'azienda, la prima che gli dà lavoro. Perché parlare di questo cambiamento, di questa visione che mi ha permesso di vedere un mondo del lavoro completamente diverso? Perché spesso ci sono molte persone che potrebbero fare questo, hanno le capacità per fare questo, hanno le competenze. Non è che tutti possono fare questo, non tutti siamo imprenditori, però c'è tanta gente che potrebbe farlo, ma se non sai come, se non vedi come, se non hai la visione è impossibile, resti li bloccato tra i quello che ti è stato insegnato di fare. Bene, mi presento brevemente, Nando Papalardo, sono fondatore di iTunes, un'impresa che sviluppa plugin per HuCommerce. HuCommerce è un plugin che trasforma WordPress in un e-commerce. Il e-commerce oggi più utilizzato al mondo, circa il 40% dei siti e-commerce sui internet sono sviluppati con HuCommerce. Abbiamo iniziato nel 2011 insieme alle mie compagnie come Freelance, di questo vi parlo. Oggi ho 30 dipendenti, 120.000 clienti sparsi in tutto il mondo. Memorizzate questo numero che dopo ci ritorneremo su questo 120.000 clienti, fatturiamo 2,5 milioni di dollari all'anno e abbiamo una crescita del 70% circa l'anno. Tutto questo è iniziato quasi per gioco. Come nasce l'idea di questo intervento? Lo scorso anno, sempre una occasione del World Camp Roma, sono stato in Sicilia prima alcuni giorni, sono passato dalla Sicilia e ogni volta che torno in Sicilia con i miei ex compagni di classe, ci riuniamo, facciamo una cena, è rimasto un ottimo rapporto, nonostante siano passati 30 anni. Qui siamo tutti insieme. Si parlava scherzando durante la serata, mi prendevano un po' in giro, i ragazzi, perché l'imprenditore tra di loro è quello che è riuscito ad avere un po' più di successo nella vita. Scherzando, mi ha detto che fai un sacco di soldi, fatturi tanto, perché non ci fai un bel regalo di Natale ciascuno, ci regali un assegno da 10.000 euro ciascuno? Per te non è niente, invece noi è tutta la sera scherzando così, abbiamo sempre voluto bene, quando eravamo a scuola tu eri il mio migliore amico, ci hanno provate in tutti i modi. Da lì ho approfittato di questa serata di scherzi, tutta la sera siamo andati avanti così scherzando così, ho approfittato di questa serata per trasmettere un messaggio che secondo me era molto molto più valido di regalare 10.000 euro a ciascuno di loro, perché io ho detto se vi regalaste 10.000 euro a ciascuno di voi, questi 10.000 euro oggi la avete tra tre mesi sono finiti e siete di nuovo allo stesso identico punto, come quando c'è un barbone fuori dal supermercato e chiediamo anche se gli dai 100 euro non hai cambiato assolutamente alla sua vita. Io ho detto quello che vi posso dare che è molto più valido dei 10.000 euro, vale molto molto molto di più, è cercare di trasmettervi il cambio di visione che ho avuto io. Questo cambio di visione mi ha permesso di vedere un mondo che prima non vedevo, cioè oggi vedo tutt'altro tipo di mondo del business, lo vedo in modo completamente diverso e me ne rendo conto quando parlo con qualcuno, parlo con mia moglie, a volte ci confrontiamo, mia moglie rimasta quasi con la mentalità da freelance nonostante quello che abbiamo fatto. Mi rendo conto che le cose che mi dice lei io vedo tutt'altro, vedo tutt'altro, cercherò di spiegarvi oggi con questo intervento. Una piccola premessa, 2007, come vi dicevo tutto è iniziato più o meno da qui, questa è Sara, la mia compagna, ha iniziato insieme a me, Freelance, lei disegnava template e io li mettevo in codice. Perché questa foto è perché se guardate bene dietro di lei c'è una cassa di cartone e sopra un televisore, non avevamo i soldi neanche per comprarci un mobile per reggere il televisore, neanche i comodini erano delle scatole di cartone. Vi avevamo in una fitta in una casa dove la doccia era in cucina da mezzo metro quadro, non c'era il bidet, l'acqua fredda senza acqua calda, una cassa tremenda però eravamo felicissimi insieme. Quindi questo intervento non vuole parlare di soldi, di denaro perché la felicità la si può avere anche senza un centesimo in tasca come nel 2007. La mia felicità del 2007 rispetto alla mia felicità di oggi del 2018 con i milioni di euro fatturati e identica non è cambiata, assolutamente. Quello che ho guadagnato è tutt'altro e lo vedremo. Vi parlo del cambio di visione attraverso il mio percorso. Noi abbiamo iniziato come freelance con un blog, Iori Inspiration Web. Alcuni, chi lo conosco ormai fermo da anni, abbiamo iniziato nel 2009, per alcuni anni 2009, 10, 11, 2012 è stato un punto di riferimento in Italia per il web design questo blog. Il successo del blog perché? Perché condidevamo tutto, non avevamo nessuna paura a condividere quello che sapevamo, quindi tutto quello che apprendevamo, che apprendevamo tantissimo, studiavamo un po' dappertutto, sperimentavamo in prima linea e quello che conoscevamo condiviso sul blog disponibile a tutti in modo del tutto gratuito. Questo ha permesso al blog di prendere una visibilità incredibile. Fino a cui lavoravamo come freelance con il cliente. Praticamente il nostro tempo veniva scambiato con un singolo cliente per volta. Il cliente veniva da me, come facciamo un po' tutti, mi chiedeva un progetto, facevamo l'analisi, faceva il progetto, quindi il mio tempo, il tempo della mia compagna, ha dedicato escusivamente a questa persona. Primo cambio di visione, se riesci a dedicare lo stesso tempo, lo stesso tempo con lo stesso identico quasi lavoro, non a una sola persona, ma nello stesso momento con lo stesso tempo riesce a raggiungere milioni di persone, cambia completamente tutto. Se scegliamo un business dove non posso raggiungere milioni di persone, sarò sempre, sempre bloccato, avrò un limite, fino ad un certo punto potrò arrivare, e il limite è il mio tempo. Il mio tempo sarà solo dedicato a x numero di persone o i miei spazi. Se faccio un ristorante avrò 50 tavoli dove posso far sedere le persone, 100 tavoli dove posso far sedere le persone. Se faccio una catena di ristoranti, non ho più limite. Guardate che si tratta solo di un cambio di visione perché non è che fare una catena di ristorante rispetto a fare un ristorante che ha successo è tanto differente, come nel nostro settore idem, se se identica cosa, fare un sito internet per un cliente o creare un template per migliaia di clienti, il lavoro è praticamente quasi identico, semplicemente devi avere questa visione. Mi ricordo nel 2009-2010 quando abbiamo iniziato, la gente aveva paura che con WordPress tutti oggi potevano fare un sito internet, perché sempre c'è scariche, stalli, chiunque, il cuggino, il classico cuggino, può fare il sito internet, avevano paura che i si rubasse il lavoro, ma non vedevano che dietro si stava creando una nuova realtà incredibile con nuovi modelli di business immensi. Noi, su Team Forest, con un template sviluppato in due settimane, abbiamo fatturato 500 mila dollari, cioè roba prima era incredibile da fare, il fatturato di una vita intera di un lavoratore dipendente fatto con due settimane di lavoro. Quanti di voi conoscono Team Forest? Buona parte, per chi non lo conosce, Team Forest è un marketplace, un e-commerce dove il proprietario a Team Forest si occupa di gestire tutto e fa pubblicare dei prodotti a tantissimi autori esterni, l'autore si deve preoccupare solo di caricare il proprio prodotto. Al marketing, le distribuzioni, i clienti gestisci a tutto il marketplace. Team Forest è il più grande marketplace al mondo per la vendita di template per WordPress. Noi abbiamo iniziato, diciamo quasi per gioco, cercando di sfruttare questo cambio di visione. Quindi il primo era, abbiamo detto, raggiungere milioni di clienti, anziché andare a sviluppare il sito, l'e-commerce per il cliente finale. Io lo vendevo 5.000 euro, nel 2011 un buon e-commerce fatto un cliente finale. Bene, ma era il mio tempo, un mese di lavoro fatto solo per quel cliente. Io sviluppavo un e-commerce, un template e lo facevo sempre in un mese, anzi a volta anche meno, perché quando non c'è il cliente sei molto più veloce, fai esattamente quello che vuoi tu, non vai dietro alle mille cose, alle mille richieste del cliente. E quel template è venduto a 50 dollari, non 5.000 euro, 50 dollari, niente, lo regalavo praticamente. Il template era regalato, ma ne vendevo 10.000 copie di quel template. Io fatturavo 500.000 dollari utilizzando lo stesso identico tempo. Qui vedete alcuni ingressi di Team Forest, 2.012, quindi diciamo agli inizi di Team Forest. Messe qualche template su Team Forest, iniziamo un primo mese 21.179, secondo mese 24.000 dollari di fatturato, 21.000, 30.000, 39.000, 43.000, 40.000, ed è così, a crescere sempre di più. Totale fatturato su Team Forest, ad oggi 3 milioni è passata di fatturato. Il tempo, questo è mio padre, sono delle foto fatte, sono le ultime foto che mi congo mio padre, fatte poco prima che morisse. Un giorno scopriamo che mio padre ha un cancro a polmone, 60 anni, 58 anni, 60 è morto, 58 anni. Quando scopriamo questo, in intera vita lavorando mio padre, un giorno, in una delle ultime chiacchiate che ci siamo fatte, perché ovviamente sapeva cosa aveva, e qual era la strada dove stava andando, che presto non ci sarebbe più stato, mi disse se potessi tornare indietro, passerei molto molto molto più tempo con te, con voi, con i miei figli, con la famiglia. E come mio padre ho passato tanto tempo, per tanti anni abbiamo lavorato insieme, quindi non è stato neanche un padre di quelli poco presenti, abbiamo passato tanto tempo insieme, ma quando ti tolgono una delle cose più cari che hai a disposizione e che non vediamo, tutti i giorni non vediamo, la diamo per scontata, ti rendi conto di quanto è prezioso, ti rendi conto di quanto è prezioso. Ed è questo il concetto di cui voglio parlare oggi, vi dicevo non sono i soldi a dare la felicità, ma i soldi, il denaro, può darvi molto molto più tempo per fare le cose che realmente sono importanti, perché cresciamo con questa cultura di 40 ore e settimanali di lavoro, lo diamo quasi per scontato come se fosse normale, perché ci insegnano così come vi dicevo, l'università a scuola ci si insegna questo, ma è tutto tempo completamente buttato via, soprattutto se fate dei lavori come la maggior parte delle persone che non vi piacciono, semplicemente per avere uno stipendio è sopravvivere. Tempo della vostra vita è buttato via, un terzo della vostra vita buttato via. Timothy Ferris, non so se qualcuno di voi lo ha letto quanto l'hanno letto qui, scrive che si può lavorare quattro ore alla settimana e guadagnare molto molto molto di più di quello che si fa lavorando 40 ore a settimana. Io questo lo sperimentato in prima persona, ancora prima di leggere il libro di Timothy, l'ho letto dopo due tre anni che lo sperimentavo, quando fu il problema di mio padre mi sono ritrovato a fare non più di quattro ore a settimana per forza maggiore, non volevo, non stavo cercando questo, non l'avevo neanche visto questo che si potesse fare, ma forza maggiore dovevo stare dietro mio padre, sono il fratello maggiore nella famiglia, quindi quello che andava dietro alle operazioni, chemioterapia, radioterapia, viaggi della speranza, per cui non avevo più il tempo né fisicamente di lavorare e principalmente la testa era da tutt'altra parte, mi rendevo conto che il lavoro non me ne fregava assolutamente nulla in quel momento, non andavo a letto pensando qual è la strategia migliore per fatturare domani 50% in più, andavo a letto pensando quello che stava succedendo a mio padre che a presto non ci sarebbe più stato. Cosa faccio? Inizio ad assumere un ragazzo, gli spiego come sviluppare i template lui passo le mie competenze, un'altra delle cose che molti temono, molti imprenditori o molti lavoratori autonomi restano piccolini perché hanno paura che il passaggio delle competenze possa creare nuovi competitor poi viene fregato il lavoro, quando stavo facendo questo, mio padre questa mentalità mi diceva stai attento poi ti fregono il lavoro poi così assolutamente, come vi dicevo non tutti abbiamo le stesse competenze, non è che perché ti trasmetto il come sviluppare un template dopo tu mi diventa un imprenditore semplicemente si tratta di tutt'altro quindi anche qui non ho avuto la paura di trasmettere le competenze ho formato un ragazzo questo ragazzo sviluppava i template per me e io dedicavo veramente allo supervisionavo il suo lavoro Sara disegnava i template, il ragazzo sviluppava e io supervisionavo, non facevo più di 4 ore a settimana e quel numero che avete visto prima 20 mila 30 mila 40 mila al mese io li guetagnavo facendo 4 ore a settimana è esattamente quello che dice timoti io l'ho fatto e voglio darvi un messaggio ancora più importante molto più importante perché questa visione sono riuscito a veder a vederla a scoprirla poco a poco leggendo formandovi con libri più o meno del genere corsi più o meno che parlano di questi argomenti generalmente questo tipo di corsi questo tipo di libri hanno il 99% dei commenti distruttivi che gran cavolata 4 ore a settimana è impossibile la gente neanche l'ho letto il libro è commenta è quasi sempre così è quasi sempre così quindi non lasciatevi influenzare dal commento negativo sperimentate leggete provate mettete in pratica vedete se funziona se funziona bene se non funziona niente avete impiegato due tre giorni della vostra vita a leggere un libro che non è andato bene non fa dato nulla non fa lasciato nulla secondo cambio di visione anche questa è una cosa importantissima ovviamente il fatturato cresceva il mercato c'era avevamo bisogno di sviluppare più template e io continuavo ad assumere più persone mi sono fermato una due tre quattro poi iniziava a vendere c'era bisogno del supporto quindi sempre più persone sempre più persone fino ad arrivare a dieci persone sono arrivati a dieci persone e lì ho toccato il mio limite perché tutto continuava a passare sempre sotto di me io supervisionava come dicevo prima supervisionare una persona una cosa supervisionarne dieci mi portava via tutto il giorno quindi ero di nuovo immerso dentro il lavoro pienamente otto ore al giorno ed ero io il collo di bottiglia della mia azienda della mia azienda se avessi dovuto assumere l'undicesima persona in quel momento l'azienda sarebbe scoppiata già bloccavo tutto io già c'erano ragazzi che facevano un task che gli è stato assegnato lo completavano aspettavano la mia supervisione e aspettavano una settimana magari della per la mia supervisione e quindi per una settimana io bloccavo quel ragazzo così con dieci quindi il mercato mi chiedeva persone in più avrei fatturato in più se avessi avuto delle persone in più che sviluppavano però se io l'assumevo per come era organizzato il mio lavoro non non ce l'avrei fatta avrei fatto ancora più danno quindi mi sono reso conto che dovevo creare un qualcosa che funzionasse senza la mia presenza dovevo assolutamente cambiare l'organizzazione aziendale della mia impresa tempi avevo letto robert chiosaki i quadranti del cash flow un libro che mi ha aiutato ad allargare questa visione robert parlava che un vero imprenditore non è come facevo io in colmo poi vera anche 50 dipendenti ma non sei un imprenditore se tutto passa attraverso di te un vero imprenditore è colui che può andarsene via dalla sua azienda per un anno due anni ritornare quanto torna non la trova che fallida l'azienda la trova che è cresciuta ha creato dei sistemi automatici che funzionano senza la sua presenza questo è il secondo campo di visione creare dei sistemi automatici che funzionano senza la vostra presenza non l'ho fatto dall'oggi a domani io non sono un altro imprenditore era un freelance mi mancava assolutamente la cultura imprenditoriale ho cercato un'azienda che si occupasse di organizzazione aziendale abbiamo fatto due anni di consulenza pagavo ogni mese 2000 euro di consulenza e in questi due anni abbiamo completamente ristrutturato l'organizzazione della mia azienda abbiamo applicato un sistema organizzativo si chiama olagra si molto innovativo in silicon valley s'usa tantissimo un sistema dove non esistono capi ciascuno il capo di sé stesso anche qui la gente il mio commercialista il consulente del lavoro ma sei pazzo i ragazzi così senza senza nessun capo la l'azienda fallirà dopo tre mesi sono passati tre anni dall'ora l'azienda è chiusa di cinque volte cinque volte io sono andato via dall'italia nel 2015 in italia ho lasciato 15 ragazzi qui ce ne sono alcuni dicendo qualcuno ho lasciato 15 ragazzi che sono da soli in ufficio da tre anni l'azienda è passata da fatturare mezzo milione nel 2015 a fatturare 2 milione e mezzo oggi nel 2018 che è chiusa di cinque volte senza la mia presenza però dipendo ancora d'envato ancora qui c'è un altro limite sono ancora su market place non mi sono spostato con un nostro sito con un nostre commerce vendo template su envato il denaro arriva il 90% del fatturato 95% arriva da lì e anche qui è qualcosa che non ti dà il piano controllo su sulla tua parte dell'impresa cioè noi tutta impresa dipendiamo da invato se domani invato dice non voglio più autor italiani sul mio market place io sono per strada io e i miei ragazzi per cui questo non può andare oppure i prezzi prezzi oggi magari forse invato li fa scegliere agli autori ma quando vendevamo noi si invato i prezzi li decideva invato oppure se il template pubblicarlo meno lo decideva invato anche questo io facevo un template 2 mesi tra mesi di sviluppo con 4 o 5 ragazzi magari alla fine era questo il tempo che ci voleva per sviluppare un template e invato mi diceva no questo non va bene ed era tutto tempo buttato via per cui non potevo più dipendere da invato avevo bisogno di prendere il controllo completo del mio business altra decisione importantissima vado via da invato quando ne parlo con i miei ragazzi perché il 95% del fatturato veniva da lì parlo con i miei ragazzi io facciamo un nostro e come se proviamo a vendere per conto nostro mi hanno preso quasi per pazzo oggi 2018 abbiamo fatto nel 2015 questo il 99,99,99% del fatturato dei 2,000 e mezzo che fatturiamo viene tutto dal nostri commerce ci siamo completamente liberati da invato su invato sono rimasti di template che continuano a vendere ma danno pochissimo ormai perché non vendiamo più su invato praticamente non mettiamo più nuovi prodotti e grazie a questo ho guadagnato il controllo non solo che invato poteva decidere della mia vita in qualsiasi momento ma anche avere il controllo completo su su altre variabili su altre dinamiche che io chiamo avere il controllo del sistema vi spiego ancora meglio prezzi se io aumento decido di aumentare i prezzi del 10% sul miei commerce posso in base alla qualità dei miei prodotti in base a quanti competitor ci sono sul mercato a come si muove la concorrenza posso aumentare del 10% il fatturato del 10% i guadagni se tutto precede mantenendo le ss 20 su team forest questo era impossibile di realizzare perché i prezzi lo decidevate in forest quindi per un'azienda che fattura 2 milione e mezzo incrementare il 10% del fatturato immaginate che di che numeri si parlano sembrano piccole cavolate faccio 10% per fare un esempio potrebbe essere il 5 il 3 il 2 è quello che volete voi quando si parla di grandi cifre comunque le percentuali sono grosse e si parla di percentuali che un lavoratore dipendendo normale potrebbe guadagnare in una intera vita probabilmente mentre qui con un piccolo cambio che fai da l'oggi al domani li ottieni in un anno traffico anche questo mi permette di aumentare il fatturato o gli commerce ha una percentuale di conversione ogni 100 persone 2 acquistano il 2% di conversione bene se persone arrivano 3 mila al giorno se ne faccio arrivare a 4 mila o 6 mila raddoppio il fatturato anche su questo pieno controllo inizio a fare delle campagne di marketing inizio a muovermi in mille modi col marketing per portare quanto più traffico possibile sul mio commerce più traffico arriva più aumentano le vendite controllo completo anche su questo sul market place il traffico lo porto su un altro sito lo porto su team forest su team forest ci sono dieci miei template e 45 mila template di altri competitor quando porto il traffico sul mio sito li porta al 100% nella mia impresa tasso di conversione idem su team forest la piattaforma è quella non posso fare nulla io sul mio commerce posso fare mille cose aumentare il tasso di conversione come migliorando l'usabilità delle commerce facendo un processo di checkout molto semplice facendo app sell portare i clienti a ricomprare la seconda la terza volta hai un migliaio di manovre che puoi fare o il controllo completo terzo cambio di visione avere il controllo completo del del tuo business non dipendere da altri altra cosa importante sempre ti denaro che crea denaro il mottibulatore il valore patrimoniale il quando creiamo un'impresa e l'impresa di tipo automatico automatico intendo che non dipende più da te da tua persona perché fin quando sei un autonomo anche se c'è i 50 dipendenti dicevamo se tutti dipendono se tutto il lavoro dipendete non è non è vera impresa non è una vera impresa e non ha nessun valore se invece l'impresa procede in modo automatico senza la tua presenza stai creando un valore patrimonio c'è quell'impresa un valore facebook a un valore amazon a un valore apple a un valore la mia impresa a un valore che è paragonata questi colossi è niente ma se ha un valore da 10 milioni io contemporaneamente a fatturare ogni mese centinaia di migliaia di euro ho creato da zero un salvadanaio che vale x milioni se oggi dovessi vendere la mia azienda trasformerei questa cosa virtuale in denaro fisico come un immobile non si vede ma c'è e vi parlo di questo perché perché un'azienda vale nel nostro settore più o meno c'è un moltiplicatore calcolare il moltiplicatore si fanno mille ci sono mille variabili che andranno in gioco ma il questo moltiplicatore nel nostro settore in campo digitava da 8 a 10 volte l'utile netto dell'azienda 8 a 10 volte 10 12 volte l'utile netto dell'azienda commerce un esempio di questo perché è vincito commerce un commerce nel 2015 è stata acquisita da automatic bu commerce è un plugin open source free completamente gratuito automatic l'acquisito per 30 milioni di dollari la cifra non è ufficiale però si parla di questo 30 milioni di dollari un software open source costo zero praticamente potevano fare un forco dall'oggio al domani perché era un'azienda che fatturava il modo automatico aveva 30 dipendenti 50 dipendenti quando è stata acquisita acquisito anche tutti dipendenti acquisito tutto il know how che aveva ho teams si chiamava ho team su commerce l'impresa che gestivo commerce bene vado a chiudere sono partito dalla della cena con i miei ex compagni di classe alla fine quando ho provato a spiegare questo cambio di visione uno di loro un ragazzo di loro che ha un panificio mi ha detto hai avuto fortuna però perché hai questa passione per l'informatica quindi si è stato fortunato un po questo a me mi ha subito dimostrato che non aveva assolutamente capito quasi nulla di quello che io ho detto perché io ho portato il mio esempio che è in ambito informatico ma proprio per citare il suo esempio che c'ha un panificio dove lavorano il panificio era del padre passate i figli sono tre fratelli lavorano tutte e tre sabato domenica guadagnano però massacrate di lavoro anche loro come mio padre io ho fatto l'esempio di granier in spagna granier è una catena incredibile di panifici non ha nulla che a vedere con l'informatica questo cambio di visione quando vi dico del cambio di visione vi dico che oggi mia moglie mi dice c'è l'asilo montessore dove mandiamo i nostri bimbe a santa cruz che non non è non è non applica lo stile montessore non è fatto bene perché facciamo noi un asilo quando mi dice una cosa del genere io non quello non è business io vedo una catena di asili non un asilo oppure mi dice perché non facciamo una lavanderia perché ho portato le cose li lavanderia le avano malissimo non c'è una sola lavanderia che funziona bene tutta santa cruz se ne facendo quando facciamo le cose ci mettiamo al 100% diciamo tutto cerchiamo di curare tutti i dettagli se la facciamo noi qui ma io non vedo una lavanderia non può più essere un business per me una vedo una catena di lavanderia cioè dopo cambia completamente la visione non può più vedere un business di quel tipo dove hai dei limiti fisici enormi questa la catena di graniera ispagna del panificio quindi non ha nulla che vedere con l'informatica quello di cui vi ho parlato io formazione prima del campo di visione prima di avere questo campo di visione i miei libri che leggevo erano tutti libri tecnici erano sviluppatore per cui css usabilità php mai sequel dopo il cambio di visione nel 2011 ho smesso di sviluppare a mio malinguora perché mi piaceva tantissimo sviluppare dovevo scegliere ho l'imprintitoro sviluppare per fare l'imprintitore dovevo formarmi da zero a partire da come fare la prima elementare la seconda elementare del selementare ho scelto quella strada ho iniziato da lì e queste sono le letture che ho iniziato a fare dopo il il mio cambio di visione come vedete è cambiata completamente proprio la mentalità non guardo più il codice non guardo più le cose tecniche questo lo lascio fare ai miei ragazzi sono loro che si formano su queste cose questa è quella a cui prepara la la nostra università qui alcuni libri tra tutti quelli che ho letto alcuni di crescita imprenditoriale altri di crescita personale spirituale altre sono delle biografie di grandi imprenditori se andate a vedere leggervi le biografie di grandi imprenditori io ho imparato tantissimo da questo letto la biografia di Steve Jobs vedete che quasi tutti gli imprenditori hanno le stesse caratteristiche sono quasi tutti fatte con la formina se riuscite a sviluppare quelle caratteristiche ce l'avete fatta ripeto non è una cosa per tutti bisogna avere caratteristiche di leadership di comunicazione bisogna non arrendersi al primo colpo dicono che edison ha fallito 10 mila volte prima di far funzionare la lampadina se si fosse fermato ad una delle 9.999 volte che ha fallito non avremmo la lampadina hanno tutti questa caratteristica gli imprenditori cadono si rialzano cadono si rialzano mcdonald ho fatto dei corsi con arveger il milan are mind anche questo sempre più o meno sulla sullo stesso tipo di mentalità e niente per finire cito cosè muica ex presidente dell'uruguai che dice che non vediamo qui al mondo per lavorare ma per vivere e come ho avuto l'esperienza purtroppo io con mio padre di vita 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MGC Meeting 10.11.18
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Good morning. We'll call to order public meeting 253 up first approval of the minutes commissioner Stebbins sure madam chair the Minutes from the September 27 2018 meeting are in your packet. I Went through these already, but I noticed that just a small error under 12-1 for the Northeast Center for Trades women equity update they talk about the trades women Tuesdays Being offered by Boston and Springfield is really offered in Boston and Springfield the municipalities really Don't offer those but that's the location, but other than that. I would move that we approve the minutes subject to any other In material errors or grammatical changes My second bet any discussion all in favor hi 4-0 Executive director McGregian your administrative update. Yes. Good morning commissioners. Good morning. I I have just a housekeeping agenda items Some leftover items from end of year stuff that we will get to At the next meeting I think will be the year-end financial closeout Whether I think Our CIFO will be able to be there, but if not, we'll get a substitute and get that done We should get that off the books and I know Commissioner Zuniga is also working on the annual report. So we'll keep on we'll keep on those two things for today's agenda just a couple of adjustments item number four is off there was a Last-minute hiccup with that. So that is off and On item number five one of our presenters is has a is stuck a little bit of traffic So we're going to move director Griffin up and adjust and we might have to take a short break just So we can get to item number five when our folks are here. So that is all I have We do have one other item though under my That I will turn over to the commission to formalize I think in action that they Took last meeting. Okay So that item that the executive director is referring to is the confirmation of the interim chair Well, I would like to move Because I started that motion actually two weeks ago and was told that That item was not on the agenda as a vote. It is now as a vote It is perhaps a formality, but it's an affirmation of the conversation we had Two weeks ago to designate you as chair of the Commission Commissioner Cameron on an interim basis. So I would move that the Commission Designate Commissioner gale Cameron as the interim chair of the Commission until such time as the governor Designates the permanent chair of the Commission as it's as is his or her statutory obligation second You doubling down Is there any discussion before we close the vote and I suspect I should abstain from this vote. So all in favor Three zero again, I just I thank you for your confidence. We are working on an interim basis We all realize that we will continue to work collaboratively as we always have With staff and among the four of us. So You know, I'm very confident in our work We have important work going forward and we will get it done. So thank you all Thank you Moving on now. We'll move to Workforce supplier and diversity development director Griffin Congratulations interim chair Cameron. Thank you So I'm here to Present information on the Encore Boston Harbor vendor plan We have put the plan up for public comment and I just wanted to give a little background for both you and our listeners here today Licenses are all required to submit an affirmative action program for equal opportunity for minority women and veteran business Enterprises for the provision of goods and services procured by the gaming establishment as per license condition 11 the plan shall include a robust public events and outreach component to those businesses and Also in accordance with them chapter 23 K 21 the affirmative marketing program shall identify specific goals for the utilization of Minority business enterprises women business enterprises and veteran business enterprises Pursuant to license condition 16 on core Boston Harbor Shall submit a plan to identify local vendors as well in conjunction With a vendor advisory team Identified by the Commission so No action is expected from the Commission today Commission staff have posted this plan And it will be up for public comment until 3 p.m. On Friday, October 19th Encore Boston Harbor representatives are Currently scheduled to present the plan to the Commission for vote on Thursday, October 26th, so I I also Wanted to mention that that the public outreach portion of the plan is taking place on core has Already had three vendor fairs that focus on various Purchasing items and today going on today from 10 until 12 In Somerville at the holiday Inn maintenance services and This is everything from locksmithing pest control painting water treatment window washing Carpentry All of those vendor types are expected to To go to the vendor fair today and then next Wednesday. There's another vendor fair focused on hotel operations Retail and transportation over in Cambridge at the Royal Sinesta So again on our website we welcome public comments on the plan and any questions I Had just to quick question a quick point Have you I know it's up for public comment have we Specifically invited members of the vendor advisory team through email or what have you to go and review the plan and offer their comments? Yes, I sent the plan out to about 30 or so Representatives from various business groups that we've worked within the past some that we haven't and waiting for them to respond okay, and Just a note. I I see that we asked for this back on June 22nd They need to to respond within 90 days and it looks like they they came in just under the wire Yes, they came in within the allotted time period required by by law and and They have also Submitted a revision based on staff comments. So the the plan that is posted Has some changes to the original and we anticipate based on Feedback from public comments that they may want to you know, take those into consideration as well So will we be talking about those changes and updates Or highlights at that October 26th meeting that you that you mentioned So I'll ask on core Let me back up. I will feed the public comments as they come into on core and We will ask on core to submit a Clean version and a track change version should they want to make changes and you'll vote on that Okay, but we had seen a version of this document before right Just reading it recently and I it just rang a little familiar which is you know, actually the the version in your packet is the revised version and I'll just say that they increased their Their goals and they made other non material changes to You know, but I think the The positive and the most material as they increase their goals for Minority and women own businesses So So the next time they'll be interpresent and we'll be able to ask some questions at that time. Sure. Yes David Granada and and other on core folks will be into to Present the plan and give you background and and also update you on their efforts to outreach to local and diverse vendors Great anything else If they're making changes how far in advance at the I think it's Thursday the 25th how far in advance of that meeting We would be able to see any revisions I think we can We can work it out so that you see Maybe most of the revisions unless there's a late-breaking. That's why we posted the plan early. We're hoping to get And that's why we're talking about it today to get many of the revisions or or Suggestions early But we'll make sure you get As early as possible Thank You director Do Great, and then I really just wanted to give you a general update last last night well actually Many of us were in Springfield at 2 o'clock in the afternoon We had our access and opportunity committee meeting and MGM was at their last meeting presenting their final diversity statistics regarding both workforce and and supplier diversity and It was a great meeting Almost bittersweet some folks actually Expressing that they're going to miss this meeting which I couldn't have imagined when we began these meetings Some years ago You know as commissioner Stebbins pointed out in his remarks that these meetings started and they they weren't always Maybe there was a little bit of what did you say commissioner contentious? They were a little contentious. Yes But I Just wanted to say that MGM surpassed all of their goals for both workforce and supplier diversity and The other things that I took note of was in terms of their construction workforce 71% of those workers of those trades people were from Massachusetts and as you know how close MGM is to the Connecticut line in New York. I think that was pretty significant 55% of the trades people were from Western Massachusetts 35% from Springfield, so pretty significant And Later that evening MGM had a construction closeout event where they Celebrated and and gave awards to Vendors and and suppliers who exceeded goals and And really acknowledged the hard work Tony Gladney vice president of national diversity relations for MGM International made the trip and and gave some remarks in addition to local leadership commissioner Stebbins represented the commission and commended MGM on the intentionality and in the hard work that really took place to accomplish these Significant achievements and and one thing I just wanted to say was that MGM closed the event with a charge to keep the intentional focus on diverse workforce on Other construction projects in the region to ensure that these workers Are these trades people actually have work to go to and I thought that was that was great so Any Comments from the commissioners who were in attendance Yeah, no, I think I think you captured it. Well, let me just mention a couple of things. I Did have I have had the opportunity to attend those AOC meetings sporadically not as much as Commissioner Stebbins or chair Crosby when he was here but Looking back into the trajectory. I remember the early Struggle with just the reporting format the you know the the the need for example that This group really needed to see By vendor by trade For the period cumulative all the rest of it that was critical to the functioning of the of the of the of the committee and And I think the most critical part which was said You know two days ago, and I'm sure others will mention it was really your involvement your steering of these committee in in this very Very good Amicable but firm way at times to keep it moving to keep the discussion on point Because I do remember I think it's not it's not hard to imagine Sometimes the conversations would veer off into Particulars that are really not relevant to that conversation. So keeping it productive Keeping it on on time Etc. I was really a testament to your great efforts, and I just wanted to mention that up front another thing I'll mention also is As we look back on on these and I was looking at the slides and hearing some of the stories The the personal stories are really wonderful Some of them are anecdotal, but they really represent that What goes on in these in this effort? So I think as we continued to Operate on on on now on anchor only We really ought to start compiling Anecdotes and eventually a report That incorporates and this is some some some of the things are comments that that were made a couple of days ago to Report on the best practices. What made it work the tactics that that were Often came, you know from one month to the next and followed up on Because I think the the overall story can be very well summarized With anecdotes and best practices into something that is really an important an important legacy So I would encourage us to start thinking about those that you know, they are there. I saw a slide I remember I remembered the event of the two parents to the two fathers with daughters in You know each of them separate but each each father had been a union member and they had their own daughter there You know anecdotes like that are really powerful And I it's it's some of the things that we need to be thinking about compiling and ultimately putting in that report Thank you. I appreciate your remarks. I Think one of the great things that happened at every AOC meeting were in addition to reviewing the statistics MGM reminded us by showing us a video of either a tradesperson or You know a business owner talking about how this project impacted them and where they were before the project and and That was a great reminder that these statistics represent real people and and the impact that this project and and These projects have had on their lives is significant. So thank you Yeah, I would just like to add was both events were Very gratifying to see the results and to see everybody, you know agreeing that The AOC had really come around to be more of a team than necessarily just a committee But I picking up on commissioner Zuniga's point Jill did not start off as our chair The wonderful Ron Marla was sitting in that position until he had an incredible opportunity In had to had to leave so we say that Jill kind of got catapulted into that seat and landed perfectly and I've learned a lot just from Attending those meetings with her to your point seeing how she guides and directs a meeting and keeps everybody on focus and on task. It was It was impressive. So congrats. I certainly remember those early meetings as Maybe a personal challenge and professional Yeah, I would like to echo that I also got to attend only sporadically but But I always think that community leaders are looking to see what's real and who is going through the motions And I think that they got a chance to see with your leadership And I did see you grow in that role as well and and that's always nice to see But they want to make sure that that this isn't someone just mailing it in and I think that they got to see that firsthand With the efforts of a licensee and and with your leadership. So really job. Well done. Great. Thank you. Thank you Okay All right. Thank you very much. Next we have research and responsible gaming Director Vanderlinden and team Do you need any time to set up mark or anything like that? Good morning commissioners. Good morning I Am joined here with Dr. Rachel Volberg whom you're very familiar with over over the past several Years and the excellent work that she does. I'm also joined by Dr. Henry Rensky Who I I don't You came in and presented the baseline But Not quite as familiar but face. So I wanted to just start off and welcome Dr. Rensky And just a brief introduction so that you know kind of the degree and level of expertise that's that comes To the report that he will be presenting on the real estate Follow-up report for a plane bill in the surrounding communities So dr. Rensky is an associate professor of regional planning At UMass he teaches courses and quantitative methods geographic information systems or GIS Spatial analysis and state and local development policy His research focuses on the understanding the technical and social forces driving regional economic Competitiveness and transformation in building upon knowledge to improve the effectiveness of economic development policy Clearly the the right person At the table to to lead this specific project As we take a look at what are the impacts of opening up a casino on the on the regional real estate market The report that we will that that dr. Rensky and dr. Volberg will present today focuses on the initial impacts of Plain Ridge Park casino on the residential commercial and Industrial real estate markets for a plane bill in the surrounding communities in 2016 dr. Rensky was before the Commission and presented the baseline studies That that largely focused on the period of between around 2008 and 2015 So the period of time Before Plain Ridge Park casino opened up We're all very interested in on an understanding what these true impacts are and in the variety of different ways that We look at at what potential impacts are of opening up casinos It's a it's an interest of this commission and it was an initial mandate or directive of of the expanded gaming act so With that I will turn it over to to dr. Rensky to present One of the the first follow-up reports that we have examining casino impacts Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Oh, that's Much better. I'm naturally loud anyway, so Probably good to move this further for me First of all, I'd like to acknowledge You know the the contributions of my colleagues at the Donahue Institute who you know We basically work together on this and so even though while I'm here presenting Especially my own colleague Tom's peak who has done a lot of work and Rebecca Loveland who has also been kind of Instrumental and helping develop this report I'll I'm gonna go over. I think what I think are the main points from the report and Try my best to answer your questions about the report And I'll try to be brief So the general purpose of this study as it was introduced was that in the past we've done baseline reports Which all really kind of took us to the point before the actual opening of In the case of Plainville the expanded gaming facility But kind of went over the history of real estate trends in each of the the different study areas and then kind of stopped Right before you got to the impacts So this is the first report from the three study areas where we actually had some data After the not only the licensing but the in the opening Now the report generally follows the President that we set in the baseline reports and that we kind of divide things into You know focus on residential and then and then a secret section on commercial industrial Most of our analysis is based upon the analysis of secondary data and we try to use Publicly available secondary data For most of the indicators when we can that's not always possible Sometimes the data is proprietary and we don't have much of a choice But we we lean towards the public data so that you know other people can you know You know we can provide the data to other people and that they can they can Follow follow with what we did We've also done some stakeholder interviews this time so to kind of you know after we've done some of our preliminary data Analysis go in and ground truth our results by actually talking to You know really kind of community leaders and people that understand the real estate market in Plainville and around Plainville our general approach I Call it kind of a before after a comparative approach So we try to track trends that were established before Not just the opening of the casino, but the licensing of the casino So before the award was licensed to try to establish like what was the trend in the real estate market before any of this happened and then You know mark note the time of the opening The time of the licensing the time of the opening and then kind of see what happened after for as long as we can and then we also try to compare that to the Surrounding communities as officially designated because you know there might be spillover impacts in those communities that we expect But then to the broader region for which we don't really we expect that to kind of almost act as Comparison group because the larger region is so much larger. We don't really expect the impacts in the larger region to be quite as You know as a parent so it kind of Somewhat follows the same real estate conditions, but shouldn't see as much of an impact so it does provide a little bit of a way for us to benchmark the effects of the casino versus what else is going on in the broader real estate market and We and we use the state as well the state trends and I wouldn't be an academic if I didn't have a slide of caveats Usually the slides at the end this time I put it in the beginning Just in case I you know bore you a little bit along the way But these are very important because you know we're talking about very complicated markets It's not it's you we're not doing Experimentation in the laboratory sense where you can kind of hold everything else constant in a lab you know that but what we try to do is really our best job of You know identifying the effects that we can see but also with a certain degree of I think of modesty and caution I think it's kind of our approach You know part of the reason why the report that we're doing now is that it's our first opportunity to look at after data and You know some of this public data. It takes a couple years for them to produce it You know, so that's one of my big caveats You know be nice to have more data and look at more time But we try to use the most recent data that we possibly could given what indicators we're looking at Plainville in particular. We're talking like a relatively small real estate market You know Especially when you get into certain types of submarkets like multi-using how multi-unit housing not a lot of that in Plainville, right? Not even a lot of single-family residential in and right around the site of Plain Ridge So so just be aware that some of the some of the trends that we look at end up being a little bit volatile because This is what we call small data problems And then another point that is very important So I'm gonna I'm gonna come back to this at the end Because I think it's almost worthwhile as a point of discussion is that it gets very difficult to distinguish the Plain Ridge Park Casino impacts from those of other activities around the area of which there's been a lot going on in the last Few years right before even the opening of Plain Ridge Park If you see my little map there just within like a six miles pro flies distance of Plain Ridge Park as I'm sure you all are Aware we have you know the rent them village outlets You know to the west, you know You've got Gillette Stadium and Patriot Place within within six miles to the north It's basically the next exit right and then you've got the Xfinity Center But we used to call brief widths right just down the roads from that all of these things combined, you know Make it very difficult to truly separate out You know one particular amenity like Plain Ridge Park from what's going on in the broader region So, you know again, you know, it's a caveat, but it's the reality of of you know development in that area So what are some of the main findings? Well, we you know, I've You know to kind of get to the punchline. We don't really find a lot of Dramatic difference going on in and around Plainville and the different real estate markets after the opening of Casino And and this kind of goes across almost all of the different indicators So we're not you know, so to kind of start with home sales, right? So we look at single family, then we also look at multi unit sales and we look at both the number and the value of the sales and this this graphic here is really showing the number and The darkest blue line the one that's the most volatile. That's Plainville. That's the host community and then that the slightly Less dark line. That's the surrounding communities and that we benchmarked that to the region and the state And so what we're basically seeing here is that yes There was an increase in home sales that happened after the license was awarded and it's petered out a little bit sense but still increasing but this is Consistent with trends in the area before the casino opened and fairly closely matches trends in the broader area So, you know, did the casino have an influence? It may have But it wasn't such a dramatic influence that it's really beyond what we might just expect looking at historical trends in Plainville and other areas around there Condominium sales is also a you know separate out single family from condominium sales There's really not enough multi unit in Plainville to look at separately Condo sales were seeing something very similar things, you know sales have been growing but sales have been growing You know statewide as well, and especially in that that that region of the state Dr. Rensky, yes Can I just pause for a minute on the on the first one or two slides? and This is a point you made so But I want to make sure I understand it The the y-axis is percent change, right Um, it's sort of it's basically if you divide every year by the starting year So it's not quite I'm being a statistician here. It's not quite percentage change But it's it's a way to measure Kind of the year year to year change that allows you to compare areas that are fundamentally different sizes Okay, that's what I was going to because the small data He's always on on top as you go down, you know, plain rich first then region then state Are we up? Even though your point is that the trends are similar. Are we simply observing? the small data big data caveat that you Yeah, that's earlier. Yeah, that's certainly a problem when you have When you have a small baseline any Change that you have over that that is relative to the base Yep, right ends up it's it's not that it's erroneous because it's it's not erroneous, but You're having a little bit of growth over a small base makes it look like it's really fast growth. Yes and and You know, that's not necessarily why the Plainville line is always above The base, you know, it could have been that the base for Plainville was a down year You know, but at the same time it's more of the trend kind of that you want to keep in mind not necessarily who's above what Now there's some other measures though Like sales price right price is already naturally indexed that kind of controls for the size of the different area And that will be like the next series of slides. So on price. It is much more comparable in the levels Okay, yeah, when I get to that I'll point it out. But that that's an excellent point Honestly, I think I just talked about that exact same thing last week in my quantitative methods class for planners. So We're probably at that level that Think we missed that They're doing homework right now, that's what I I want to assume So, okay condominium sales, I think you know what we're seeing is again You know the general trend in the study area and the state and plain plain Ridge I'm plain Ridge Plainville. Sorry is in the surrounding communities is one of an upward trend But it's not yet what you're not seeing in that is this big spike of activity that keeps going up after either the licensing Or after the opening and that's really what we're looking for And we're not seeing it, right? Or if you think that maybe it had negative impact in some cases Like you would want to see like a very noticeable, you know downward trend associated that you don't see in the comparison areas We're not seeing either of those things, right? I'm not really seeing either of those things When I look at the prices. So this is an example of what I was talking about, right? This is kind of the median price of home sales You know during the historical period right adjusted for inflation So so these are comparable, right? So when I see that right now Plainville You know in the most recent period that we had data for you the median single-family home price was slightly less than The surrounding communities but pretty close. Well, what I'm really looking for is the trend So I see a little bit of an upward bump in the surrounding communities slight increase in Plain Ridge, but not enough to actually be very conclusive that it's that you know, it was really the influence of of Plain Ridge Park Like independently of other things going on in the region Hondo sales I actually see a little bit more of a bump and so that and so we looked at this and I do a statistical model in the report you know for this for these sales value indicators and Controlling for a number of other things and whereas I in the statistical model, which I don't talk about in this this report I do try to control for your differences and the characteristics of the housing stock You know the before and after trends a number of other factors and I find a Very modest and what we kind of consider borderline statistical significance in condos An increase after the opening, but it's very small and it's It's so close to the border of what we can eventually think of statistical significance that I don't I Don't think of it as being An extremely strong indicator I think is the way that I would honestly require it but there could have been a bump and And this is in the surrounding communities not in Plainville itself And then so we looked at some of the other reports that our colleagues have been doing and it might be that you know, there is a Fairly small, but we're talking about a small market number of employees That moved to the region It wasn't a huge bump because most of the people are commuting in from other places or already lived there So there could have been like a slight increase in demand for housing in the condominium market in particular as a result We think of more of like employees may be moving to Plain Ridge, but again, it's not the kind of thing where We can have a lot of confidence in it, but there was there was a bump And that was just in condos. Yeah, and this is sales not necessarily new construction, right? Right, not new construction and not rentals, which I haven't gone to yet But this is in the sales price of condos and there there was you know, a fairly substantial Actually, actually, I think that was a rental development that that went in along that street But there are very few condos doctor. Did you make that point when you opened? Yeah, there there's enough to do statistical analysis of them. Okay, but not you know, it's not um There are condos in the area, right? But but it's not a huge condo market either So that what that does is creates more volatility. Yes, and makes it harder to distinguish whether or not it's a true effect From a statistics perspective. Yeah, but not so small that I wouldn't even run the tests. It was so small I wouldn't even have done it So looking at rents and I have some particular caveats of rents because the the rental data as we explain in the Baseline report that we get is proprietary and My miss out on and it's from online people online reporting rents, which is known to be somewhat biased in favor of Larger rental units as opposed to you know, I'm renting out. I'm an individual renting out my house Right those people often don't Go through the online Rental websites and so the data that we have is basically straight from web and it's going to be biased in favor of the larger rental markets But larger rental development. Sorry But even so we think that it still provides a good indicator of what's going on in the overall market even though it might not be the perfect Indicator of everything going on in the market. So even though it's not perfect. We actually think it has some value And is that bias on on the reflect in the actual Rent, yeah, the prices tend to be higher tend to be higher. Yeah, yeah But again, you know what we're mainly looking for is is the change over time Because that bias would have existed at least for a certain span of history in that data Yeah, I can talk about this a little bit more later on if you want I don't want to take up too much of your time going into That kind of nuanced technical stuff unless you really want me to But so so what we're seeing here again is you know, we have rising rents, but they really coincide with the area trends So hard to hard to pin on Plain Ridge But certainly not but what we're not seeing is a decline in rental prices. That's for certain Um Building permits building permits is another indicator and especially because we're looking at residential building permits is another indicator That just be very very volatile, you know in a town like Plainville or its neighboring communities You know, you might have one big development that goes up for permitting and that just spikes the data and and and So so it's hard to it's hard to really kind of separate this out You can actually see that in the historical data for Plain Ridge But but we'd aren't seeing a lot going on as far as like this kind of sustained increase in permanent permitting activity In Plainville or in its neighboring communities or at least not to the extent that it's without precedent in the larger area Same thing really goes with the value of the permits that people are proposing there's a slight bump in in In the surrounding communities, but we also see a slight bump in the larger region When I say larger region, it's really the You know the I'm sorry the names of the counties are slipping my mind at this point. Do you remember? Yeah Norfolk and Bristol. Thank you, Rachel That that's what our benchmark larger region is So now turning to kind of the commercial market and you know, there are there is new Kind of commercial and I believe a slightly mixed use development going in in and around the park I think diagonally like across the park Right, but again, you know our focus is whether or not You know this this kind of development going on in the region is really due to the park itself Which is a point I'm going to come up Come up with a little bit later So this first indicator is commercial Rentable building area and so here you see this big spike after the licensing and as far as we can tell a lot of that is actually from the construction of that the expansion of the the plane ridge itself so the expansion leads to a one-time spike in You know the amount of commercial building area that's that's rentable that's on the market and you know, it's it's Been slightly increasing ever since but really that spike, you know We went back and looked and that was actually due to some construction related to the park It might not be all of it. There might be some other but certainly the park was included in that But what what kind of space is this kind of warehouse for materials for example or what? Well, this would be commercial commercial, right? So that would include the I assume that the gaming floor is considered on a commercial building Thank you You know in Warehousing would probably be considered under industrial But I would have to ask my my colleague Thomas because he's the one that really did the deep dive into the okay into the The commercial data, but I can write that down. No, no, I thank you. I think you answered the question Yeah, I believe that that's commercial But this would be from tax receipts. I mean I say from From town tax receipts, you know, this data is actually one of the proprietary sources again That I believe is based upon real estate listings okay and That's from the That's co-star data. Yeah Yeah, and they have a number of different barometer So so it's not the online rental data even though that's the same basic source They have a number of different products that they offer and they track you know what they say is kind of Real estate commercial and industrial real estate inventory and you can you can pin that down at pretty small levels. Okay, so So industrial I we did look at industrial Rentable building area in the report, but I have to tell you that there's so little industrial in and around Plainville I would take it with a grain of salt Just any indicator about industrial so we do report it because we think it's important and that's actually where I think, you know probably, you know manufacturing real And warehousing is one that I'm not quite sure of because it really depends on how they define it So I'll have to ask my colleague about that, but we don't really see You know, there is some there's some slight growth and you know rentable building area of industrial, but again, you know Those are large properties one goes off the market and it can make the whole thing jump or one goes on the market They've making a whole thing jump Vacancy rates are interesting so Plainville historically has had really low commercial vacancy rates and We do see But because it's a relatively small market it does tend to be volatile here, you know We're comparing Plainville with surrounding communities in the state as a whole You know vacancy rates in the state as a whole has been going down as the economy has improved Plainville is always much lower than the state now it did take a jump up in commercial vacancy rates in the period after the opening of Plainville, but we'll but rather than But it seems to have gone down since so rather than an indicator of kind of the real estate market Worsening is probably more of an indication of some of the new development that's been going on in that area Leading to a temporary increase in commercial vacancies But then as new people move into the commercial space as they start leasing that space then it goes down So really what we need is a little bit more data to You know over time to see whether or not that's really kind of a trend versus a spike And like I said, there is new commercial development going in, you know right at that same interchange Interchange around where Plainville is and so that could have put a lot of new activity on the market But then as from what I've here, it's actually been leasing pretty fast That's one of the things that we got out from from our interviews with stakeholders I Have a little bit of that later on The lease rates, you know Still so far a little evidence of a sustained rise or drop in commercial lease rates This one I'm splitting out commercial into office commercial versus non-office commercial But but not really seeing a lot There is kind of a drop again in the non-office Commercial space that happens after the opening of Plain Ridge. But again, that could be due to new space coming on the market And you know creating a little bit of a you know temporary excess of supply over demand But we expect that you know if there is you know kind of sustained increase in demand that That those prices will eventually kind of go back to what their original trend was But you know, we need a little bit more data to really To really say that with with authority Okay, so to kind of get to the conclusions As exciting as they are, you know, we haven't really seen much evidence that the Plain Ridge Park casino At least thus far has had had a huge impact on The residential real estate market so so but it's not to say that it hasn't had an impact But right now we feel the most confident describing as kind of a limited direct impact Now You know we have some some you know from our stakeholder interviews We you know, we have some quotes that seem to kind of support what we're finding the secondary data You know generally speaking this one kind of stands out I don't think the casino is big enough to have had an impact on the real estate market There wasn't a large enough influx of employees to drive up the prices or make residences scarce And I think the whole market has been trending up Dot dot dot difficult to attribute to Plain Ridge and that's that you know that That testimony is what we're seeing in the data At least thus far now I say thus far very deliberately because you know the way that these developments work Is that you know while we're looking for like these spikes really the larger idea is to follow trends over time and You know if you know Real estate markets don't usually change hugely dramatically overnight you know areas become more attractive over time as you know as you know maybe new commercial activity moves into an area and There was a lot from the testimony that talked about the influence of the casinos on the fiscal condition of Plainville in particular and how they were able to Kind of keep you know keep tax rates where they were while really investing in the community and some of these valued what we call residential amenities that You know families and other people that move to an area. That's what they like right, but those are long-term impacts Those take a long time before you really start seeing the influence of that On a real estate market, especially a residential real estate market So, you know we continue to track things but what we can say in this report is that we didn't see like this big spike Either up or down after the initial opening and you know for some of these indicators again It's only been a year, you know two years of data. So You know, we'll have to see we'll keep we'll keep watching Commercial yes, there has been new commercial development in the area. That's very very true right in and around that that interchange but It's hard to attribute purely to the expansion of Plain Ridge Park You know, there's there's the development that's kind of diagonally I think across the street from the park That's You know, I believe that that's that there's a couple new hotels that are coming online in that area a lot of new commercial Activity new retail restaurants and I believe there might even be some new housing in some of those developments But but I get that from the the the testimonies not from my own investigation So so yeah, we can say that there's new activity going on in the area for sure But again, it's hard to say that it's caused by Plain Ridge Park Casino in isolation of a lot of other things going on in the area the quotation that seems to kind of Match what we're saying here is the one that you know, we've had a new influx of new businesses, but I have to be careful to call it Causality, so this is not my words. This is the words of the person that we're speaking to Because they felt that we are ripe for new business and growth because we're one of the least expensive communities in the area And we had land to develop so it's natural that they were looking And that it's the only clover leaf on 495 that hadn't been developed extensively yet So so there was kind of a feeling that while the casino might have accelerated activity in the area It was kind of primed to happen And I think that that's probably a fair description of what we've seen so far You guys I'm sorry. Yeah, you mentioned a hotel or two. Yeah I can see where it be hard to attribute other commercial businesses But with a hotel is that is that more of a reason to think or you just don't have any data to support that? I don't and this is gonna get me to my final point. I think that it probably is influenced by it However, there's a lot of stuff going on in that area. Like I said within six miles span Any of those could be the types of development that would attract new Overnight lodging activity into the area and certainly the park contributes to that right But whether or not the whether or not somebody would be wanting to put in a hotel in absence of the park or Not put in a hotel in the absence of the park. That's that's that's harder to say Right. So so there's there's a difference between something contributing and it seems to me And that's kind of what we're going to talk about here that the Plain Ridge Park Casino is really What's really going on in this area? Right is that it's evolving into being a regional entertainment complex a regional live entertainment complex and the park is Complementary to those other activities going on in the area, right? It's complementary to Patriot place It's complementary to the Xfinity Center. It's complementary to you know The malls in the area and the outlet centers these things you know in isolation of one another, you know, they might not They they might not make a huge difference in and of themselves, but together they become a Magnet at least if not for attracting more people to the area But at least for kind of making them stick around longer and maybe spending a little bit more money and maybe Staying overnight in the hotel So so so I'm being very careful You know and and I think that the quote that that that matches what I'm seeing going on is that You know the casino is situated between Rentham and Patriot place It provides a nice loop for people looking at for something to do in terms of well What do we do after the mall or what do we do after the Patriots game? These things are complementary right and and it's and it's the agglomeration of attractions which really starts attracting more people You know then you know unless you have a monumental single development, right? That it's really the confluence of these things together like the whole ends up being more than the sum of the parts In a lot of ways and so I know you wanted to say something Well it maybe we're getting at this, but it's it's common for a casino to develop that has an accompanying hotel And that's not the case with Plain Ridge Park Casino And so in the absence of of the hotel that would be on site Would you see additional lodging developed in in and around the area the causality? Yeah, I hear the point that that's really difficult to to determine, but but perhaps that There was an opportunity or a need a demand for that type of Amenity that that wasn't on-site at PPC And I don't know if there's anything that you wanted to add from the interviews that might Yeah, I think this this quote from the chairman of the board of health is is an important one He really made the point I Do want to emphasize though that the quotes that we have from our from our stakeholder interviews Those were obtained without those people ever seeing the data so Those were those were conversations that we had with with you know people who were knowledgeable about Real estate conditions and about conditions in general in their town of Plainville But they hadn't seen these data so it was really interesting to sort of see that triangulation that sort of you know What the data were telling us being complimented by what the what the key informants were telling us And the other just point that I wanted to make is that Although this this report is focused on Plainville and surrounding communities, but as with a lot of our Reports that have been coming out recently This is also sort of a template for what we're planning to do For Springfield and and surrounding communities and then forever and surrounding communities And so I think it would be helpful to us If you have any feedback about you know other things or additional things that that you think would be valuable to include In that template going forward Well, I think the one thing that you did include were more the stakeholder comments And I think that's a critical piece because it's it's not only the numbers What are people feeling and thinking that's really important and that's we we already have the we have the approved protocol to do that in Springfield, which is the next community that we're looking at and You know, so we felt that it added a lot of value Not and that the interviews cover a lot more than just the real estate market So it's something that's really contributing to the broader the broader initiative Yeah Well in terms of format, I have a couple of other points later But in terms of format and scope, I think it's great. I think I read with interest the whole report in a prior life I was involved in real estate myself And and I think you heed all the all the important notes You know the sub markets the region and the state as a controlling Factory it's very interesting to see I actually remember Early on the the testimony when when we were doing the host community and surrounding community hearings Besides the usual concerns about traffic and problem gambling The question when it came to the real estate market was almost At odds depending on who was who was talking about it. They somebody would say Prices are going to come down because I'm I'm going to move as soon as the casino comes in because I don't I don't like it and others would say a lot of people will come in because you know, there's going to be more Economic activity or jobs or what have you? And in my mind, I always thought well aren't those two offsetting in some way if they happen they would they would What what we would see it would be almost like a similar activity And I'm I'm not seeing that that's the case here. I'd like your notion of Comparing it and I'm looking at the trends which is which is important But I think it's it's great to corroborate what What I thought early on Yeah, I you know there's You know when we're using aggregate data, you know, which which we have even at the town level You know, it's possible that at a smaller scale You could have neighborhoods that are negatively impacted and neighborhoods that are positively impacted And they could end up balancing out Now, you know one of the things that it might be difficult to do with Plainville because it is a small market But that we do have the capacity to do if I feel like the data is good enough And I did some of this in the baseline report I do a little bit of this in this report is utilize some of the Spatial data that we have available to us to try to You know look at smaller scales because if you had negative impacts You would expect them to kind of be Especially in the residential market, you would expect those to be of the places that are very close Right and that if there was broader positive impacts those might be more community wide Because they're probably having more to do with you know people being attracted to the larger region as a scene as having, you know, the You know the town's investing in in favored amenities or you know investing in the school is investing in you know It's other things so so you might be able to get a little bit of leverage over that but it You again you kind of need a lot of activity going on to really tease that out But you know that that is hypothetically possible That you could have but you know what we're looking at is community-wide on net Yeah, and and just as a another point on that is that you know these these impacts Often end up being very localized and kind of depend on a lot of other things right so I did a I did a study in North Carolina a long time ago now and And there was a you know and you know of a what we'll just say is like you know what the kind of Commercial activity that a lot of people would think was just ubiquitously bad Right, but that this particular activity tended to locate in areas that were nowhere close to residential areas So even if they did hypothetically have a bad impact you weren't actually seeing it in the data because Nobody lived around them anyway, right? So so so you have to keep in mind and so here what we're talking about is Plain Ridge is very close to the intersection Okay, and I haven't worked on any traffic reports But I can tell you that if most of the traffic is such of a nature that it's coming You know basically on and off the main highways and not really circulating in any of the residential neighborhoods That's gonna mute a negative impact of traffic at least you know on on the The property values in those neighborhoods now again, I haven't done anything with traffic So but I'm just telling you what I know from past experience Yeah, I think that that point is well taken other than I have been involved with some of the traffic studies and It's interesting because the local police chiefs think Some of the traffic is dispersed because of ways because of Because of traffic apps that push people away from the traffic say on 495 and out into some of the Communities so that was an interesting piece that I don't think had to be considered before around these projects and Your point about local positives You know we all toured not too long ago the brand new town hall and public safety building which are amazing and Talking to public officials who who were around That day and for the groundbreaking for me They were really pleased that some of the negatives they thought might happen Hadn't necessarily happen, but yet the monies to build these two new facilities Were available so those were some of the comments from both elected and appointed folks out in the area there a couple of Questions doctrine. Thanks for this presentation Is is there anything to attribute or anything in the data that shows What's a unique situation that There was essentially gaming already there. There was an existing horse track Obviously not the level of activity, but is there anything that May not have adjusted the numbers that much just based on the fact that here was an existing facility and as we looked down The line to additional research. We're going to be talking about brand new facilities Is there anything that showed? PPC was there or a version of it or horse racing was there and nothing really changed once The facility got expanded is there anything to take into account for that or does it show up anywhere? Well, what you're saying is absolutely right, right? So it's a very different situation if you have You know, I mean it was a pretty substantial expansion, but we can still consider kind of an incremental expansion versus You know of a relatively modest Facility right in the gaming world right compared to you know, MGM for example, you know in Springfield And so it will be a very different situation. So we it would be very hard to Look at what's going on in plain in and around plain Ridge or in in and around Plainville, sorry and And say this is what we expect to happen elsewhere. They're very different markets. I mean just very different markets and and you know and the size of the development matters and The context in which it happens matters, you know, all of these things are very different So so what you said there is absolutely correct and it's it's a different situation when you have you know an incremental expansion then You know an entirely new facility being put in That's true. So, you know part of the part of the economic context of the area The baseline right already includes Plain Ridge right the historical plane baseline include Plain Ridge So, you know, it's not it's so and you can't take that out of the economy Right. So really what we're trying to measure is whether or not just this expansion piece has has shifted the line and we haven't seen a huge shift in the line and But there's so much going on in the region and you know, the economy as a whole the real estate market, you know It's it's it's it's a it's a pretty swift market as right So so but we don't see that kind of real You know, you can't mistake it type of of Solid impact and so because you know trying to try to err on the side of being cautious You know, but you know on the other hand what we're one thing that I can say fairly honestly is that There's no net negative impact in the region because the trend is still going up right and That's important to it's important to because a lot of people have those negative expectations But like I said, you know, don't you know, you know, but but we'll have to we'll understand Springfield when we Understand Springfield, you know and understanding Plain Plainville You know, it's a different situation. Yeah, you know I do want to pick up on that larger point about the region in conjunction with Patriot Place or the the rent them outlets or The concert the concert place I'm reminded of the economic development white paper that that you let the effort and in terms of writing commissioner and one of the proposals from that region was to Try to advise to the legislature about the importance about thinking of these as a as a regional destination perhaps the thought about transportation a loop for example, I remember that was one of the The town manager and the town from Foxboro were sort of trying to collaborate on Because themselves they're they're saying this could be a situation that together we could leverage towards again get somebody to stay longer or Or come do two things as opposed to one and has that positive economic economic impact So it's also in the minds of at least some local people and they're also thinking about it in terms of asking for additional investment, you know Not not in this case only from the from the licensee, but from other sources. Yeah, um, you know, and while it's you know, I can't say that I'm you know, I guess I'm okay, but you know, but Tourism, you know is is just one of many areas that I've done work And then there's other people that I think are much more kind of experts on tourism Tourism-based economic development. I think is what I would want to say But one thing that I think It's pretty well established in the literature is that you know, it's really kind of these this chaining of Activities that draws see what you really want with the casino really to get positive economic impacts Is what you really want is people from further away because the closer that people are the more likely it is that they probably would have Spent money in the region anyway, right? So what you really want to do is draw and that draw is Really contingent upon having a variety of different complementary activities together You this really comes out in among the people that do heritage-based Tourism, you know that you you it's it's it's rare just to have one particular Activity be such a draw that it pulls in people from further away But if you can chain activities together it not only pulls in more people But it pulls in more people that tend to be from further away and they tend to stick around longer and spend more So but you know, but but it's a very dynamic You know, it's not like this happens in isolation because you're also competing against other types of draws But that's the general notion Yeah, is it is it fair to say at a couple of your slides you say that it's tough to really nail down How much of PPC is having an impact is it fair to say that the evidence is also there that PPC isn't necessarily having a harm under some of the data and statistics you pull up That's how I interpret it, but it's hard for me to pull that out strictly from the data So because you could have a situation where the market might be better than it actually is And we wouldn't know that counterfactual So I'm kind of but when I look at this data and I look at the historical trends and then I compare it to the other regions The things are kind of where I would expect them to be Both up and down even if it wasn't for the expansion, right? So so I don't think that it's certainly not having net harm right my interpretation of it is is that if it is having harm, it's very isolated but You know it doesn't from the From looking at all the evidence as a whole and bringing together all these different pieces and combining that with our stakeholder interviews We have no reason to think that it's been harmful to the market Right. I hope that answers your question. No, I'm not trying to be evasive. I'm just trying to you know Be careful. I'm being careful as a scholar. What we really talk about is like what it actually means to measure impact You know versus contribution Right and impact is something that you can very definitively pin on a specific source Whereas a contribution is I think what's going on more of here where it's you know, like I said You know to measure impact you have to be able to separate out the individual pieces and Here you can't truly separate out the individual pieces from the whole because there's so much else going on That'll be a challenge with any of the Developments to be quite honest. Okay. I what I think is interesting and Rachel you touched on this is thinking about We're going to need somewhat of a different approach with Springfield You know already since they're opening there are stories of potential new hotel developments So, you know something that comes to mind is when you think of that category of stakeholder interviews you want to do is Reaching out and talking to those developers. I mean they've got a presented case to whatever Financial institution they're using to get a loan for their development I'm sure they'd be happy to tell you the development is being driven by any number of different reasons Springfield I think is also unique obviously not only the urban setting but the size of the community and you can start pulling data by zip codes because there are multiple zip codes and in Springfield as opposed to just one in Plainville, but Yeah, I think having a conversation about that going forward, you know talking with our community mitigation folks as well as to Think of what the scope of that study will be because it'll be it'll be different Well, there'll be more data and I look forward to that for sure, but I think the The format and the variables that you've studied and the sub markets to the extent that you can Are very helpful Thank you all for having thank you all for having me We're on to commissioners updates You're not finished I'm not done The the last item I have is it's a gaming research update So for the past couple years, I've been working closely with the public health trust fund executive committee and As a standard report, I've provided Just a general research update. What's what's been released in the last couple months. What's kind of on the on the horizon and What what has been done? What's under our belt and what's already been published? And that was particularly helpful, especially since that was a group that only met periodically Basically quarterly and so it was a good way to keep track of kind of where the where the research activities are That this and it dawned on me that this would probably be a great sort of memo or report that I could produce for the commission as well Just to provide a quick snapshot of where things stand You know, you you have if we take it and so it's broken down by so in the last quarter it provides a very brief summary of Of reports and studies that have been released it then moves into a List of Activities or reports that are on the near horizon and provides an update about What that will provide for us as well as a rough timeline of when when you should be seeing it I also provide a list of deliverables for this fiscal year Perhaps we don't have a specific date when that will be provided or where it will be and some of the details are missing But I think it's worth listing listing that for you and then finally I have research Deliverables that have been released from 2014 through July of 2018 broken up by social economic Public safety Evaluation and then a list of publications where where has the work that has been funded by the MGC been published in different academic journals I Hope you find this helpful. I'm definitely open to changing changing it up or adding or Or making it more brief than than what it currently is But you know when it's it's a great activity for me to To kind of roll this all up into one and to actually see where where things stand and in what we're focusing on in the near future If I could just if I wanted to get your thoughts on this and then there is one specific piece that That was released in the last couple months. It's the Sigma magic Backsheets that were delivered to the the Commission on September 24th and Rachel and I wanted to have a discussion about those back sheets with you So before we do that if you have any thoughts about this memo specifically Well, I do and I'm a little biased because I'm a lot more closer than perhaps a couple of my fellow commissioners On these but I think this is this is great. I think we've talked a little bit about The notion also at the public health trust fund executive committee that We have so much research going on that at times our own research sort of drowns a little bit The prior fine findings or or what have you and it's important to always summarize What we've done the most relevant and of course the the most up-to-date And I think this memo does it really quite well You know with all those objectives in mind I also think and I know you're gonna talk about this the fact sheets It's something that we've been discussing quite a bit at the gaming research advisory committee as well And I think they are also fantastic I like that there they can be visual they get to the point and they can be freestanding for any one of the topics I think there's a lot of information in these two Documents that go directly into our annual report When it comes to all of the work that we have been doing at research and responsible gaming Which has been something in my mind as of late because I'm We're at that time of the year when we have are putting that together, and I appreciate any Any help that these these reports can provide and and helping helping me with my section of that annual report You know this it was such a good reminder of how much work we're actually doing Which is really kind of amazing when you see it all pointed out this way. I was wondering if In going through this exercise of kind of correlating everything Where there's some things you you looked at and said hmm Seems like we're focusing more here than here. There's a little changes I think might be necessary or might be worth talking as a group about Yeah, you know, I mean in terms of the the balance of the types of research that we're doing breaking it down between looking at economic economic studies versus social studies versus Evaluation I'm I am pleased with that. I think Probably more important than this is this process that we're going to develop a strategic plan for the overall research agenda Where we're working with Judith Glenn? Of strategic science and she's spoken with with each one of you. She's and she's Met with most of the public health trust fund executive committee and then other other key stakeholders That to me has been in a really important process to just kind of take a step back Ask ourselves. How do we maximize? The the research agenda both in terms of what its impact is and and make it as efficient as as we possibly can A couple things that I think where I think that That's kind of coming to the surface through that process And I think that maybe you see you could see it reflected in here if you take a close look One is is shifting some of the focus of our research agenda to community-driven research We have some very large research projects very good research projects incredibly high-quality researchers Sitting with me at the table But I think that that getting down deep into the weeds with some of the research that we're doing partnering with with local communities to Assess Impacts of opening casinos. I think that that will probably end up being a direction that that we go Another piece and and I think the fact sheets are a perfect example of this is yeah, we have a lot of research out there But it's only as good as is how frequently or how it's how it's being used and so Exploring ways in which we can we can make this useful to a variety of different people and whether it's useful for us for this for our annual report useful for legislators useful for For local community leaders to to get a better understanding of what some of the impacts are We need to translate. It's a process called knowledge translation But we need to to really try to take our research to that next level and boil it down and Deliver it in ways that makes sense. So the fact sheets are a great example of that the the mass at a glance Interactive Portal that that Rachel and her team have been working on as an example of that but there's probably more and I think that that Looking at this this memo and the breadth of research that's been done We can do we can certainly do more to make sure that it's it's being used and it's being it's useful Yeah, critical step. Yeah, definitely using it effectively. Yeah, and commissioner I know from our conversations that that's what that's what's really Resonated true for you as well as that let's make it useful Yeah, absolutely. I mean the researchers will always Include their methods their methodology the disclosures, etc But what's most useful to bodies like us or the public health trust one or really the public are The insights the takeaways The what next or what now now that we learn this What what follows and that's I know part of the efforts in doing these knowledge translation Which includes other research types that are not doing the research To try to articulate and communicate You know those those insights. It's an ongoing effort. Yeah, one of the reasons we got the buy-in from Police chiefs and now this is two different jurisdictions is that real-time information which can be extremely useful to them and their communities When I spoke we went through a knowledge translation process with the game sense evaluation So the compendium of four evaluations, so it was pretty dense and it was led by Dr. Michael wall from Carlton University in Toronto, and he boiled it down. It's the it's the so what now what? You know take any research project so what and now what now do you do with it? That's that was Succinct and true to me If I could if we could just focus briefly on the on the fact sheets that Rachel and her team have have developed What a couple points on this they they They spent a lot of time Kind of taking specific reports that have been produced over the past few years and Doing exactly that the the so what so take it taking it and making sure that it's boiled down into to no more than one page We took these once we had drafts these reports we We discussed them during the gaming research advisory committee And received it. There was additional feedback that was provided that was integrated and with Rachel And that's what that's what you have before you now These are just examples. I really think that I really like these I would love to see us continue down this path of these fact sheets that would come out under on a fairly regular basis but but the So it gives us the so what but the now what I would would love to get your thoughts on how you could see us using these Who they should be delivered to who possibly mechanisms that we should use to share those Any time you can capsulate with nice graphics It's so easy to read and really makes the point quickly about what is happening. So I love the fact sheets and Have to think about how to use them more effectively Yeah, we we actually had a few days ago when we were preparing for Henry's presentation we had a meeting with Mark and Elaine and I was actually Quite surprised Elaine was so enthusiastic about things that could be done with the fact sheets And it seems to me that It it would be really valuable to be able to continue to consult with her about you know, maybe some kind of You know focused effort on getting Awareness of the fact sheets out. There's basically there's ten fact sheets at this point the first two were produced two years ago and Provide an overview of the expanded gaming act itself and then of our two or of our social and economic impact study The the new fact sheets, there's eight of them Seven of them focus on the social and economic Impact components that we've been doing over the years and the last one is actually the first sort of Synopsis of the main results from our cohort study So it it's a really nice little package to sort of say hey, this is what we've been doing for the last five years into ten pages Which is not a scholarly way to go But it's a really important way to share information with people But I think it would be helpful to us as a research team to sort of you know sit down with Elaine and and think about you know Where do we think these fact sheets might be the most valuable? And who would be interested in the kind of information that we have to offer? Yeah, I'm thinking other regulators. It's I've You know spent a number of different gaming conferences and it is something Other regulators are interested in the work that we're doing the research, right? And this is a great way to Explain it use it in a presentation Be able to hand it out so it's easily understood the work we're doing So I can see that as one area that will help rather than me sitting there talking about the work and You know trying to explain these are just So easily understood and really make the point I Actually, also I get excited about the so what part I'm thinking of the G pack and the Legislature as audiences as well because after all a lot of these is meant to go back to them and ultimately provide recommendations if any for legislative action For example, but just just the update of what what we're doing is is is important. I I my excitement is comes when when when we get insights like There's there's a particular finding and I'm thinking there's high Gambling participation that came from the baseline study and then elsewhere We see that there's little awareness of educational campaigns. So when you put those together You know that then then the focus should be the call to action is there should be an emphasis into Educational resources and connecting, you know people and and what have you because not only that that's happening prior to the introduction of casinos And we're also going to see what happens Further hence in other words that the call for mitigation the What we have as a resource in the public health trust fund or even in in other other other areas like mitigation Communication or or the casinos themselves the triangulation of data that leaves the policy makers with The insight of this is there for what we need to be thinking about or do more of or start doing Whatever the case may be Yeah, I you know, I'm picking up and just point mark made about, you know, some of the some of the research kind of getting more Locally focused and locally driven, you know, two great places for these fact sheets are With community-based organizations Again, I'm using Springfield as an example But Springfield consists of a number of neighborhood organizations some close proximity to a casino some kind of Outliers, but a lot of these community groups were Involved in the referendum on one side or the other have a specific interest in what the impact is on the community and to give them kind of just Quick information and fresh snapshots as to what gaming is meeting in Massachusetts already I would look to target those groups. You know, I'm reminded of the patron survey that you're doing You know, the whole tourism and hospitality community around these facilities would probably love to see what's driving people to the region or what Other things they're thinking of doing while they're in the region. So, I mean, that's just another great Entity or a group of entities that would benefit from seeing that type of research Yeah, great We think of anything else will let you know along the way. I feel that Rachel probably spent more time in her car than actually sitting We're around as long as you Thank you both. Thank you. Again, very informative. Thank you So I think now we're on to Commissioner updates anything I think Jill covered it. It was a great Event out at MGM and I was glad Commissioner Brian commissioners We missed you, but I'm sorry. I could not make that event. It was It's very gratifying to see the results and see the just positive vibe from trades people contractors and Kudos to the team at MGM for the work they did Anything else? Do we have a motion? I move to adjourn So moved Thank you. All in favor aye. All in favor aye
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David MacIver: Emotions, what's up with those?
About four years ago I realised I was miserable and that I should probably do something about that, so I did what any self-respecting nerd would do and read a tonne of books to figure out how emotions worked (I did also go to therapy, but the books were more useful). Life isn't perfect now, but it's a lot better despite the ongoing war and pandemic. I'm going to give you an overview of some of the things I've learned. It will be a mix of theory (what even are emotions?) and practical advice for understanding and engaging with your emotions better, with a pointer towards further reading that will help you act on this advice better. https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/160-emotions-whats-up-with-those
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So thanks for coming everyone. I am indeed going to be talking to you about emotions and what's up with those Which is something that no one ever told me until I had to figure a lot of it out And so hopefully I can save some of you the pain I Thought I would just start right in with a worked example worked example I'm surrounded by spiders for some reason just as well. Visually provoking some strong emotions. No This is my actual worked example, but they weren't kidding about the spiders Which is This talk itself. I was procrastinating all right in this talk. I'm like wondering to you you might have experience of procrastination I know this is like a rare experience, but But I think most people who procrastinate like they have the wrong idea about Procrastination how it works like procrastination isn't something you're doing because like you're lazy It's not some weird mysterious thing going on That you're where you're just like self-sabotaging for no good reason procrastination is mostly just like you don't want to do the thing On some level and that was very much my experience here. Like once I pinned this down I was like I had original plan for this talk and Like I was procrastinating because on some level just like this is a bad plan David You don't want to give this talk this way like what's wrong like something's wrong here and I Despite my claims to be emotionally aware it did take me a couple of weeks to finally pin down what this was So I'm talking through this like there's a strong fear. I wasn't qualified for this talk like I'm just some guy This isn't my this isn't my background like I'm a computer scientist. I am or a software developer I didn't even finish my computer science PhD but like There's definitely some part of me going like no don't get this talk It's not you're not your field and this is like a reasonable concern, right? Like there are definitely talks which if I was going to come up and give you a talk about cell biology I really hope I would be having like this feeling of I'm not qualified to give this talk because I don't know a thing about cell biology I'll ask the biology in GCSE But I am actually qualified to give this talk like I'm not like I have been working on this on my own and with other people for Like most of five years now. I've written about us extensively I'm not telling you this to like show up my credentials like I'm just saying that This feeling that I'm not qualified to give this talk. It's pointing at something But it's not pointing at like I actually can't give this talk There is a problem like which is that they're This taught another I am qualified to give this talk in so far as anyone is qualified to give this talk and also nobody is qualified to give this talk if it was the type of talk I was originally conceiving of because There's a wave engaging with all of this material like from the therapy literature from the psychology literature Which is that basically if you read it and you believe what they are saying You're gonna go wrong because everyone is talking really confidently about how emotions work out here this is like the one theory that fits everything and It were and they tend to work really well for the subset of people they worked really well for and really badly for The subject of people they didn't work really well for Which is it sounds tautological, but I mean like there are people in both groups And I've known a lot of people Sort of in the course of trying to learn about all this who have basically been Messed up because they've gone to all in on some particular theory that wasn't working well for them and so at this point I've got like This starts to be like okay. I'm no longer procrastinating for a mysterious reason I'm procrastinating for a very good reason that I'm about to do that. I was going to do a bad plan So there's a very simple answer to the question like what did they take me to seriously? Let's make sure you don't hardly by giving a worked example about how bad I'm a giving this talk, but more importantly I want to sort of get go in like giving you some Guidelines on how to seriously take this talk I'm pretty sure almost all the things I might be saying to you are useful like this has helped me This has helped other people. I know I'm not going to just be spouting a bunch of nonsense that you can't know that won't help at all Some of the things I say might even be true it's I think like Most of what I'm saying is going to be approximately true and It certainly isn't stuff I've made up like it's based on a whole bunch of different and reading and practice and so on But it's definitely not completely right and I can't necessarily tell you which bits are and aren't right This is just how I currently understand it It is how I currently understand it again like based on all sorts of other work But this is the sort of the bits I've since the size together that work well for me and people like me so Like if you two are a highly analytical nerd who likes thinking about things too much I think we might have one or two of us here Then this should probably be more useful to you than a lot of like the therapy literature If you are very if you think about things very differently, you might want to like a try a different approach This is mostly stuff. I wish someone had told me much earlier than they did Unfortunately, it's gonna be very high level every because I only have half an hour And so I can't like take you through a detailed therapeutic breakthrough in which you like get to the bottom of any emotional problems You may have but like it's sort of I'm trying to point to in the direction of like where I Think healthy emotional brushing lives and like give you some guidelines on how to get there But yeah, I actually you do actually have to do the work if you want to use any of this Like you're not gonna come out of this suddenly like I'm going man emotion snakes. It makes sense now Yeah, so this is stuff I figured out in the last five years or so I got to my mid 30s and went and started a PhD and Was as traditional in the PhD miserable? Went and decided to fix this Sorry, I'm speeding through this slide a bit more to get to the interesting bits, but the I did also go to therapy For me personally the books were useful if you find a great therapist then the therapist will be more probably more useful But this is the path I took Things got better partly because I quit my PhD. It's one of the advantages of being emotionally more emotionally aware is that you can tell when what you're doing is a bad idea and I turned out the PhD wasn't for me And now it's now and I'm gonna tell you about Okay, so we turn to the question like emotions. What's up? What's up with this? I'm now just going to tell you what's up with this So the first thing was like emotions They are fundamental. They start with labeling behaviors like The reason there is an emotion called anger is not because you can feel angry. It's because you can behave angrily It's it's not that you can't feel anger, but the description starts with it starts with the externally visible behavior When you feel it when you're feeling an emotion That is basically saying you want to behave that way in some that on some level Like it may not in the sense that you totally endorse feeling like that feeling that way but Some part of you is going anger anger would be good now or fear fear would be good now like this And this is like the procrastination. It wasn't that I didn't want to write the talk, but some part of me didn't want to write the talk This is because it thinks it's a good idea I think one of the easy traps to fall into is basically going emotions are irrational things They're happening for no good reason that's not true Like almost all the time when you're experiencing some strong emotion It's because like some part of you is like this is a good idea Like this is this is the thing that I need to do right now in order to get what I need That doesn't mean it's right like sometimes An emotion is telling you something useful and important and true and sometimes it's just to get confused like your emotions are you and If any of you are infallible like please come talk to me afterwards because I'd love to know how you did But I'm certainly not When it's wrong and this is like one of the important bits is like you can change this you can Basically go. Oh, right. This is the emotion. I'm feeling right now. I don't need to be feeling an emotion I can feel another emotion And when it's right, you can like improve on your behavior. You don't have to ignore the emotion You and you can Go you could basically go. Oh, right. That's useful information. I'll act on it Like I didn't fix my problems with procrastination on the talk I basically like making the emotion go away I fixed my problems with procrastination on the talk by going ah, this emotion is telling me useful information Let me do something about that Here's another worked example in for the other category of problem again, this one might be slightly relatable Which is help I'm at a festival cool. Lots of full of lots of cool people. I don't know any of you and I should say this isn't a current one for me This one I fit this one out is something that I more or less fixed a couple of years ago, but It's still useful to go through You would presumably like to talk to people at the school festival like we're all here to socialize but Many of you don't know that would be awful. Like can you imagine just going up to someone and saying hi? this is I'm David like the worst right and like what why why is it awful and the This is the sort of that like the core concern I find I or I found is that like you're gonna go up to someone You're gonna make it weird. You're gonna be like fumble. You're going to In some way screw up and But like why is that bad like people make mistakes and And it's not necessarily the end of the world I know it sometimes feels that way, but it isn't I promise But for me like it feels like oh no everyone's gonna laugh at me Everyone's gonna like no I'm one of the weird kids everyone's gonna there's gonna be all sorts of social consequences for this I Don't know if you've noticed but this isn't so this isn't a school like we're not a bunch of food in the word case We're not most of us. We're not gonna see anyone here again unless we really want to the social dynamics are totally different This is very much like a for me for me a school reaction It is a like I'm gonna be seeing this person every day for the next four years And they're gonna laugh at me with all their friends and so on But that's not where we are we're like we're all the weird kids here. Everyone's fine Like Things are basically going to be fine. There will be almost no major social repercussions first growing this up if and when we do and So maybe this isn't so bad. Maybe you can just go up and talk to people and like that's basically okay and For me the going through this sort of thought process genuinely does change the emotional response Like it doesn't suddenly make the emotion go away. I don't suddenly go. Yes, go and being awkward. That sounds great I love being awkward but The sting of it does less and and every time you do this the it does get better And for me personally like it's embarrassing how often this isn't a school is the key emotional revelation revelation I need Because we and I apologize to anyone here who is still in school because I know there are some children in the audience For for you school situations are the learn to do it better rather than they learn to not be in it to recognize the emotional difference But for me like a lot of your sort of patterns of emotional reaction are laid down in childhood If when sort of therapists talk about like small tea trauma Like what they generally actually mean is this is an emotional pattern that you have learned when you were younger and no longer applies to your current situation It's like it's a bad emotional lesson And For some people those come from families for some people those come from school. I'm a school person. My family was great but but school not so much and like Recognizing that this is the sort of shape of the reaction emotional reaction you're having and Noticing the ways in which your current environment is different from where that reaction was learned Really sort of starts to shift your emotions in like a more like situationally appropriate direction Um, I'm just gonna go through like the points of the theory in detail now and Like the first one is just like emotions label behavior This is I think the more counterintuitive most counterintuitive part of my claims because like everyone is very much used to thinking of Emotions as various sort of internal things like the emotions are what you're feeling not what you're doing and It's worth through the labor now Elaborate on like why this is backwards in terms of where emotions come from as a concept The basic answer is like you can tell that emotions are an external thing because there are a lot of words When we have lots of words for things it's because you can point to them If you think about trying to explain pain to someone It's incredibly hard to explain your pain like the current pain you're experiencing because pain is not a shared reference like I can't say it's like it's like this and then Stata beer or whatever like that's considered antisocial so So you end up with very fuzzy references and similarly like flavors are much harder to describe than things you can look at because Like with a thing you can look at you can just point you can say look it's the thing I'm pointing at with flavor like What you're currently tasting you can maybe show you can show the food, but um, it's It's harder and so the more in the share in the shared world things are the more we have words for them and we have a lot of words for emotions and Also like as descriptions, they're clearly made up like it's this does not say that emotions aren't real things but like Where are the boundaries of an emotion are like emotions blur into each other like they're just descriptive words for general patterns of things The word the metaphor I usually like to use is that emotions are like colors and like anger irritation Annoyance are no more real things than like red fuchsia magenta like they They are descriptive Words for observed things, but they just They just they're just sort of described broad regions of the ends of space oops, I thought I have a more point there and so like Often I think what people get hung up on when trying to describe emotions is Like am I feeling angry am I feeling grumpy am I feeling like one of these different fine-grained words and like often The question is about as useful as there's a hot dog a sandwich it's like the thing you were trying to understand when you try to understand your emotions is your behavior and emotional words are Useful labels that those but not necessarily like very clear cut distinctions And Obviously like there is an internal counterparts to emotions. This isn't if your behavioral theory like but You can feel like you can behave angry, but you angrily, but you can also feel angry I keep using angry as an example because it's a really easy example But the same thing applies to any other emotion like similarly you can behave afraid and you can feel afraid Some emotions easier to see what the behavior is like than others, but there's usually an external counterpart and that external part and The way this usually works is that basically the emotion you are currently feeling is the behavior that comes naturally to you so When you feel angry It's very easy to act angrily and it's very hard not about what it's hard not to act Angrily you can you can control your behavior, but if you sort of naturally let yourself do gravitate to a To sorry if you do the behavior that comes naturally like what will come out is anger You will sort of your voice will raise you will sort of take an aggressive aggressive posture, etc and Importantly, this happens even where you're not aware of your emotions I mean, I'm sure like most of us have encountered someone angrily shouting. I'm not angry Or like someone going no, I'm completely calm while their hands are shaking on stage or something and like there is when When like the part of you that is handling these emotions is doing its thing even if it is Even if you're not consciously aware of it doing us thing And in fact most like when you're not aware of your emotions It's very it's even harder to not act on them because if you don't know you're angry You can't withhold withdraw from being angry if you don't know you're anxious you can't take steps to do it like because of the fact that Emotions is doing what comes naturally you have to notice that like what that you could do otherwise and If you want to essentially say, okay, I'm angry, but I don't have to behave angrily Okay, I'm afraid but I can do it anyway. It like it really helps to have that bit where you say I'm angry. I'm afraid When I say you feel emotions I like what I really mean is like literally you feel emotions There's a common experience that people have like assuming that Everyone is using metaphors. I got to experience this with visualization for example Like I don't visualize and so I assume everyone who said they had pictures in the head was using a metaphor I know that they just have pictures in their head and this is the same thing with feeling emotions like When people say you feel your emotions like they are literally talking about physical feelings in your body Like when you feel angry like your skin flushes when you feel afraid you might feel sort of tight-knit here It's not necessarily the same physical sensations. I think there's a lot of commonality, but the If you are currently bad at Noticing what your emotions are the thing you need to do is start paying attention to physical sensations that map to those behaviors There are some subtleties to this and Like not all emotions are like super obvious physically, but if you're not paying attention to physicality of it That is where you need to start The general sense you see acts as this is called inter-reception. It's some it basically is just The way we are aware of internal feelings It's like when you notice you have an upset stomach when you notice that something is hurting that's inter-reception And this is also what you will you use to actually like learn what you're feeling and what emotions are experiencing Sorry, I said this one already, but yeah, like basically The way to notice what emotions you're experiencing is to pay attention to these physical changes and sort of learn to Identify them and recognize them And this is just something you can get better at I will provide a reference to a Book to an annoyingly named therapy technique called focusing later Which is essentially just the skill of getting skilled at inter-reception in order to understand your emotions it's um like it's easier for some people than others, but it's It is just a learnable skill I mean talking about parts like part of me wants this part of me wants and I believe that and This is from this is another therapy thing But it is also just like literally like part of the normal language like people say this sort of thing all the time and It's once you start sort of paying attention feelings like it's really annoying because like the A lot of the things people say about parts sound on tentacle until they sound obvious And like the most nonsensical sounding one is it is useful thinking of these parts as people in their own right Like it's useful imagining like there is a little version inside you that is angry you or their oh and Is currently the bit going no I want to shout I want to do this This isn't literally true probably like some some people experience it is more literally true than others Like I've I've had experiences and sort of doing work with parts and feelings where I know where Like the best way I can describe it is that the part informed me that yes It had a name and this as I say this feels ridiculous until it seems obvious But like don't worry too much by the literalness of it The way I think is most useful in fact is you know the thing that people say if I'm a different person when I'm with my family With them for when I'm with my friends or in this context like your parts are Those different different people like they're different versions of you and those different versions of you are all Simultaneously present and just come out when in situations Needs them and you can access sort of like the feeling of what it would be like to be that version of you you've independently of those situations by just basically poking after with interception and Again, I will provide a reference to a book afterwards for sort of doing parts work but But this but this is what I mean when I say a part I mean like a version of you that you can access in some circumstance Like say feeling an emotion is a strategic choice like the part that the part of you doesn't feel an emotion because like just for the laws, I mean it might if the emotion is humor, but Like it has learned at some point that this is a useful reaction like When I'm scared of screwing up by introducing myself to people That was a legitimate fear back in school like it wasn't that I made up in my own head that No, that that things could go badly wrong. There were actually circumstances in which things could go badly wrong and I learned that in that reaction And yeah, I got ahead of my slides again, and yeah, so so these emotional responses are learned from experience That doesn't mean they're right and it doesn't mean they're right either because like they've over learned them They've learned them in the situation where it doesn't apply It also just it's also just like sometimes they're wrong because like sometimes we're wrong it's Certainly I've learned emotional responses But in response to things that existed entirely in my head at the time and don't actually make sense even in retrospect But like usually they are more right than wrong But most importantly you should probably take it seriously regardless of whether it's right or wrong like one of the reasons why it's useful to Think of emotion of parts as people in their own right is this teaches you how to treat your emotions if Like if a friend of yours is current comes to you and it's just like I'm really afraid of this scenario happening You don't go. Oh, yeah, you don't need to be afraid of that. It's some Nothing's wrong. You're worried for nothing. You're ever reacting like it fuels about as bad when you treat a part like that as it does when someone else roots you like that and so I'm going in and sort of taking these reactions as seriously and treating them as like in principle likely to be right even but Not necessarily completely right is the way to go Sorry, I'm just gonna skim through this. I have slightly missed timed everything Yeah, so one of these sort of important things to access within to reception is like the sense of what feels true it's when you Like when you say something out loud pay attention to the sense of like, ah, is that right? Is that or is it more like this? and so you can basically gain more actual access to a lot of this information by saying things like Part of me believes this part of me wants to do that. I'm seeing like how the feeling changes how the feeling responds And exercises sometimes get people to do is just go around saying like obviously nonsensical things and seeing like what the feeling of like Oh, that's not right is like The population of the UK is 400 million population UK is not flagrantly just to clarify this this guy is pink like Noticing the instantaneous reaction basically, you know, that's not right and correcting from that and you can Do this with emotions as well. You and you see you can see this if you go through some of my work to examples like Trying to pay attention to where the feeling is coming from what it means and honing it home in on a true version And Using this you can sort of take these emotional beliefs these reactions like I should be angry or should be sad and go Like why where is this coming from? Does this still make sense in context and No and What are the emotionally salient differences? It is hard to do this in the moment Usually I find this is better in advance of the thing. I'm worried about or doing essentially a post-mortem of going So that's how this felt. Was that right? Could I have done this differently? But I think like all this actually starts with not like trying to change your emotional responses But basically just learning to treat them as useful information And asking like what do you want to do and then actually doing it? You can I think those of us who are bad at emotions I guess I would pass dense from Sometimes past tense for me Often is very time you just override the emotion and go no, this is what I've got to do But paying attention to these feelings and going okay, how do I take this into account where this is like what what should I do based on that? What I want to do is The first start Often this is pretty quick what would make this feel safer like if some part of us is worried about things going horribly wrong You can just make plans to stop things from going horribly wrong and Yeah So yeah, basically just don't treat your emotions automatically wrong. It's very easy to do that and like Don't and will tend to not help But don't treat them so badly right either like go in with sort of open curiosity and go maybe What's up? What's up with that like? and either and either act on it or Try to it doesn't You have to be prepared to like take it into account with and Act accordingly But you don't have to do sort of a naive thing just because you're angry doesn't mean you have to shout dick And it can mean you calmly explain to someone why what they did was wrong And you're gonna get this wrong It's impossible to get this right all the time because getting it right all the time is essentially acting perfectly in all situations And nobody does that But every time These things come up you can do better for the next time Yeah and so basically what I want you to take away from this is to Integrate your emotions better into your life try to learn to understand them and try to Feel better every time things go wrong Feel better in future Here are some for some further reading I've written an article about this which has some overlap with us talks it elaborates in some bits and this is out some others These are two books. I do recommend I'm sorry. These books are quite woob All of the best books on therapy are a bit strange and you do need to go in taking them not even less or differently seriously than you would me but certainly not too seriously and I wish you all the best of luck Thank you very much, and I will be around for questions afterwards
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Dalhousie Convocation Video
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I am Deep Saini, Dalhousie University's President and Vice-Chancellor and I am so delighted to be celebrating our Class of 2020. This brings convocation ceremonies were to be my first as Dalhousie University's President. So I share your disappointment at not being able to be together here in person as we had planned. Although we are celebrating your graduation in this unusual untraditional way, I hope your educational achievements will still bring you a sense of great accomplishment. You're completing your degree in these unique circumstances so you have great reasons to be extremely proud. Convocation marks the culmination of years of hard work, the end of an important journey and the beginning of another. So please take time to mark this incredible milestone in your careers. Though you're leaving Dalhousie for your next chapter, Dalhousie does not leave you. Your instructors, your peers, your fellow alumni around the world, we all stand beside you rooting for you, excited to see what you would do next. Together, we are Dal. We are inspired by you and we are proud to have you as part of our community. So on behalf of all of us at Dalhousie, let me say congratulations. We wish you all the best as you begin your next adventure. As Chair of the Dalhousie Senate, it gives me great pleasure to congratulate all of our graduates. You've worked hard to turn the page on this crucial chapter in your educational journey. I encourage you to celebrate this milestone creatively. I also want to honor your accomplishments by marking the occasion with the traditional conferring of degrees. To make it all official, I now have the great pleasure of presenting all Spring 2020 graduates to you, Mr. Chancellor, so that you may confer degrees on those candidates whose names have been approved by Senate. By virtue of the authority vested in me and in Dalhousie University, I admit to their respective degrees and diplomas with all the rights, privileges and responsibilities appertaining thereto those candidates who have fulfilled the requirements of that degree and whose names have been approved by Senate. Admito vos agrado. Please accept my sincere congratulations on this incredible milestone. Class of 2020, I wish you the very best and I can't wait to see what you accomplish in the future. Hello everybody, all you members of the Class of 2020, it's Camille Cameron here, the Dean of Law, coming to you live from the Weldon Law Building. This is an opportunity for us to say virtually what unfortunately, due to circumstances, we haven't been able to say this year in person. It's a warm congratulations to every one of you. First to the law students, congratulations. You've made it. You've reached the end of three years. You're no longer law students. You're now law graduates. That's quite an achievement. You're leaving with a fantastic legal education and I'm confident you're going to do great things with it. And of course, to every member of the Class of 2020 graduating from Dalhousie, undergraduate and graduate, congratulations to you. You've done it. What a great achievement. We're very, very proud of you. Now all of you go out and do something fantastic with that great education you've received here. And as the signs in back of us say, congratulations. We're so proud of you. My name is Marty Leonard and I'm the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie. And on behalf of everyone at FGS, I want to wish each and every one of you our sincere congratulations on having been awarded your degree. It's truly a significant achievement. And I also want to mention that it's beyond my wildest imagination that I'd be speaking to you remotely rather than giving you a hug or a handshake on the stage of convocation. But nonetheless, it doesn't dampen my feeling at all that I'm so proud of all of you and excited for what the future holds. And maybe with some luck, we will meet on the stage of convocation. So congratulations again and all the best to you from FGS. My name is Brian Johnston and I am the President of the Dalhousie Alumni Association. Let me be the first to acknowledge that as your degree is conferred, you officially become part of a Dalhousie Alumni Network of more than 150,000 people worldwide. This is a tremendous asset and I hope you take advantage of the connection to the broader Dal community. We invite you to get involved and to stay involved. Congratulations again and welcome to the Dalhousie Alumni family. As Dalhousie's Provost and Vice President academic, let me also say congratulations to our Spring 2020 graduates. And I want to encourage all of you to return to campus at some point in the future for a future convocation. We are all really excited to get to see you walk across the stage in person with us. Last, I encourage you to share your celebratory messages, photos and videos with us on the social media channels available at dal.ca. We want to see how you celebrate it. So once more graduates, let me tell you, we are all so proud of your accomplishments. We are Dal. We are Dal. We are Dal.
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Research Data Management Policies the tale of one institute’s journey to ratification – Mary McDerb
OpenAIRE presents an OpenAIREplus workshop in conjunction with The Nordbib Conference 2012 Copenhagen, June 11-13, 2012 (Linking Open Access publications to data – policy development and implementation)
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Roeddwn i'r ysglaenio vaen nhoc o'r ysglaenio gyda'r Llyfrgell Llyfrgell Rydynnef ac E'r Llyfrgell Llyfrgell Rydynnef a'r Eidl Llyfrgell Ryfyn i gyfle i ysglaenio'r Ysglaenio Plyfrgell Ryfyn, o ddim yn rhan yn y sglaenio gyflym yn y llyfrgell. Felly, rwy'n gyd yn gweithio i ni'n meddwl o'r ystyried o Manchester. Felly, rwy'n gweithio i gyd yn gweithio'r problemau ar yn ymwneud, ac yn ymhyggurau'r ddatatau yma, sy'n gweithio o Manchester. Rwy'n gweithio i ni'n meddwl o'r ysgolodau sy'n gweithio am yr oedd yn gyffredinol yng Nghymru 16. May. Felly, mae'n rhoi'n gweithio i ni i'r prys. Felly, dwi'n gweithio i'r ffactorion o'r 2010 o Manchester. We've got four faculties, engineering physical sciences, medical and human sciences, as well as humanities and life sciences, of which there are 20 schools and hundreds of specialist research groups. We've got 5,000 plus research staff and 3,500 plus postgraduate students, all of which are doing research, working with data and it's the wider problem of what we've got to handle. In total, £279.4 million of external research funding was brought in in 2010, which means we have a big responsibility to these guys that are funding us to manage the data. Research data management in Manchester. Prior to any of our projects, we have had an institutional scholarly repository called e-scholar for journals and publishing papers, et cetera, and thesis. In 2009, we were funded by JISC for a project called Madden, which is Manchester Data Management. The reason why we went forward with this was basically, as Mark referred to, issues in the UK where things like Climate Gate, Freedom of Information Act, and it raised the awareness of institutions of, you know, the problems in managing research data. Also, funders change it, well, the policy updates that Mark referred to as well. EPSRC in particular that Mark referred to have issued that universities should have a path for developing a framework for research data management later next year. And then something in place by 2015. So they're actually saying you as an institution should have some sort of framework for research data management. So that's another reason. OK, wasted resources. You've got scientists that are actually creating data at instruments, doing their research, keeping it to themselves. Well, really, these instruments that they're using are very expensive, yeah? So we want to save on money that way. But also it's public money, yeah? And that's wasting public money, yeah? And also, you know, as Mark pointed out as well, I've got to mention Mark a lot in this as one of our funders. We've got responsibility to the public, OK? And also there's the risk of data loss. So Madden, our initial project, which was actually working on creating a data management system for just a few users. We didn't try to tackle the whole university at this stage. We worked with the life sciences and medical and human sciences, a couple of groups at each. And we did a user requirements analysis only to find out what we already can and you to a point. And that was our data management throughout these groups was ad hoc, inconsistent, you know. It was dependent on the user group how they actually handled their data. Multiple copies of data all around the place on laptops and USB sticks on external hard drives at home. Wherever you think about it, you know, it was difficult to track down which was the right version. You know, after a certain period of time, it goes very cloudy. You've got, you know, if it's not managed properly. And that's mentioned USB discs, external hard drives laptops, even large service somewhere. You know, it was a problem of where the actual data was actually being stored and transferred. So fragmented and decentralized storage, which was a nightmare. And of course, you know, just by having your data on an external disk drive is not back up. You know, it's not something that you can rely on. You know, as it was referred to, my background is scientific visualisation. I know how many times, you know, people's external hard drives have been fried, you know, when they've even plugged them into one of our visualisation systems. You know, you just, you need something that has proper service background with regards to backup, etc. And also, because of all this kind of approach by the actual groups to keep things to themselves, it was a limited means of disseminating. Not everybody, and if people were trying to, when I started my PhD, a little story, I went looking for a really large data set to visualise. Something that would be free on the open market that I'd be able to take and work with. And it was so difficult. I mean, this is ten years ago, but it was so difficult to actually get somebody to share data with you, yeah? Why should I have to go out and recreate data if I'm just trying to do an experiment such as, you know, how do I parallelise big data? Anyway, so that's a bit of a sidetrack there. So, limited means of disseminating. And, of course, there was no archiving policies to support long-term curation, or the retention needs of our funders. Normally, one of the approaches is just to store the data under a desk on the PC or on hard drives. So, that is not complying with the funders. So, Madden brought about a simple software solution that allowed the researchers to handle their projects, their research data. It linked up with our research office systems, so that in the data management planning exercise, we cut down the duplication of input of data, such as, you know, who my collaborators are, where my data is going to be stored. You know, who can I share this data with? Ethics issues, you know, has it been signed off, et cetera. So, anything that you could think of data management planning was involved. And it also gave us a platform for compliance. But this, as I said, this was only for life sciences and the medical and human sciences. And this project was funded from 2009 to 2011, at which point, at the end of 2011, we were lucky to be funded again by JISC on a project called MISC, which is Madden Inter-Sustainable Service, and is looking at creating a research data management infrastructure service for the University of Manchester. In setting up this project, we got 250K from JISC to support the project team. You will notice that the 750K from the main university, most of that, apart from 245,000, which was for storage, was, and remember, this is a transition project. It's not the service. The service will require a hell of a lot more money for storage and, you know, staff input, et cetera. But the rest of the money that was put towards this project was for staff time. In building up what, working towards a service and research data management infrastructure, we had to involve a lot of people from across the university. IT services people, in particular storage and infrastructure services, the library, the research librarians, are going to be helping teaching about research data management. The research support services are the research offices. We've got a percentage of time, about 27 research business managers, to work with the researchers to do their data management planning, et cetera. So that's just a small example. And of course, there's a steering group and, as well, a technical architecture group which are all about delivering the service. OK, so one of the main outputs of MIS will be, is the policy. And as I said, it was ratified on the 16th of May. And when we started looking at doing this policy, which was really a bit before the project took off, we started looking around and thinking, where do we start on writing a policy? We've got the RCUK common principles which Mark put up. And that is something that, you know, we thought was really important and would be a starting point. But as well as that, we've got all the other individual funders policies external to the RCUK councils. We've got European councils. We've got charities, et cetera. We've also got our own University of Manchester policies. And one thing that you don't want to do in writing the policies to have your policies contradicting each other. So an awareness of what is actually happening in your institution is very important on what policies. And we've got thousands at Manchester. That got part of the money that we did buy in time of a person or somebody that was a policy maker. The Digital Creation Centre again in the UK is a fantastic point of contact. It has a list of policies that have already been ratified. In particular, Edinburgh's policy was very useful and a point for us to start from. They were, I think, the first in the UK. Yeah. Well, Kevin, that was the first in the UK, weren't they, too? Oh, OK. That's why I was very wary of saying that to actually publish a policy. It was a good example for a lot of us universities who are actually involved in the GISC Research Data Management. One thing I should advise is that if you are going to have a policy, have an academic champion that's really good at going out and buying in support for your policy. We started very early on before the project about, say, about September in moving towards a policy last year. The policy has been ratified in May. We didn't expect it to go through that fast. So now we've got another issue on our project in that we've got to have an interim service that we are going ahead with. And when you are writing the policy as well, you want something that's simple and clear for the people to read. You don't want something that's like a political agenda. You want to make it easy to understand because it's so easy to misinterpret things that are legally written in legal terms. OK, so sneak preview. So in writing the policy, what was necessary was clear ownership and responsibilities. Now, Mark, as I mentioned before, talked about the NERC policy and the UPSRC policy and who the owner should fall upon for being responsible. What Manchester has taken is a shared approach. So the university will support its researchers. By the way, the policy is 12 points behind it. It's a lot of procedures and guidance that has to be written and is currently being written before we actually make people do things from September. So we want to make it sound as if it's not a stick. It's a nice, easy place to work in. Easy to put it out for the researchers. OK, so the first point is we adopted the RCUK common principles. We've also said that we will take into account any other research data management requirements. So we're thinking about policies from funding bodies as they come about. This policy is not a fixed thing, by the way. It is something that will be reviewed continuously in the movement and the growth of the funding, the funders policies as well. OK, what we do also say, talk about, is intellectual property rights. So there was a question in the previous talk about who owns the intellectual property rights. At Manchester, our IPR policy says for staff the university owns the IPR. PhD students who are paying are a different kettle of fish. This is where we actually had our first stumbling point and where you have to involve your university lawyers and make sure what you're actually going to put in is the correct wording. This is where I talk about legal wording being not the way to go, but we need to simply put out that, again, if you're a PhD student, less agreed otherwise, you work with the Research Data Management Service at the University. As well as that, PhD students are funded by Research Councils. As been said before in the talks, it's public money. So they haven't owned this anyway to share their data and to manage their data accordingly. Also one thing to be very aware of is multi-partner collaboration. We talked before about data being stored in many different places and ownership of data being a bit muddy. For us, we said that it was the responsibility of the PI in using the data management plan to actually state any of these details about the research data, who owns it or if they don't own it, what you allow to do with it, licensing, sharing, etc. So going on to data management planning, we've said that every research project should have a data management plan, which must be maintained throughout the project lifecycle. We see it as a live document. Now the thing is with data management planning can be hundreds of questions for a researcher to fill in. So what we're doing as part of the research data management service is integrating the data management planning with working practices. By working with the research office and the research office systems, we're taking data that's filled in when a researcher fills in a research application and filling out the data management plan. Again, when they fill in an ethics form, ethics comes with the ethics system into the data management plan. It's the building up of work processes to make the research's life easier, because what you don't want, and one of the feedback messages from our consultation of the policy was, oh gosh, this sounds very bureaucratic. Do we have to do this? Yes, we have to make it easier for the PI. Again, we've put the responsibility of the PI, of doing the data management plan and the PI. Where can data be stored? OK, so we're going to create this service at Manchester, which has some central storage. However, we are very aware that research funded by councils such as NERC have their own repositories. So what we actually say, well, OK, if you've got access to another repository that you have to use because your funder says so or you're using because of your community, as long as, in our procedures and guidelines, it's a recommended and approved repository, that's fine, just as long as you state where the actual data is in the data management plan. And, as Mark said, it would be very expensive to hold everything. It's very expensive for universities, especially when funding charities like the Wellcome Trusted, you have to keep data for 20 years, from the last time it was actually touched. How can we afford that? I mean, one of the concerns of the university is overheads. So if we are thinking of costing in the retention of data for a 20-year period, our competitiveness goes out the window. Right, so going back onto the policy, the next point seven is about metadata. All relevant data, by the way, notice we've got specific terms because, again, what would be good would be a checklist which we could give to our scientists, which Mark's NERC is looking at. That tells them what they have to store because another question that came out of our consultation was what data do I have to store, everything? Or, you know, can you give us some guidelines? That's going to be in our procedures and guidelines anyway. So it's going to be very interesting to hear more about the actual checklist that Mark was referring to. So, yes, we require the researchers to create metadata that describes the data so that, you know, in reuse, people can understand, you know, what this data is, how it could be reused, you know, what variables were applied to the data and producing it, et cetera. And also, we see several levels of metadata. It's not just about how the data is created or acquired, but how can it be discovered easier and to make reuse relevant. Okay, so retention periods, that doesn't need much saying. We've stipulated that, you know, the data has to be kept according to the funder's guide and the University of Manchester guidelines. We have our own guidelines as well, which is amazing how many people don't actually know that researchers don't actually know what their university requires or them to do, but they know what the funder requires them to do. Openness and Publishing, again, you'll notice that a lot of the keywords we're using are the RCUK given keywords. So, to make data openly available to other researchers, but also by protecting our own research is by saying, of course, you're going to want to have the impact on your research, so there'll be a limited period of privileged access to ensure that we get the research done that we want to. But also, if data is made openly available to ensure that compliance with ethical approvals, rights of the data subjects, anonymisation of data, the Data Protection Act in the UK, and also all the IPR issues, et cetera, are maintained. And also, we protect our researchers in the medical human sciences, those that cannot make their research data available. But we also protect ourselves as well as an institution saying, well, maybe you might want to share with some specified users who, you know, may be needed to verify the integrity of the research, and in doing so, you must think of the confidentiality. And also that we realise that published research may only require some of this information. So we're kind of like trying to say, tread carefully. And of course, we haven't got a stick anymore. We did have a stick at point 12, but that was complained about, which said, you know, this could be a case of research misconduct if you don't follow this policy. But we've got this softly, softly gentle reminder and saying that, remember we've got a university code of good research practice here. And, you know, it's an overarching framework for this policy. And hint, hint, that means if you don't really abide by this policy, it is research misconduct. If they read that into it, I suppose. So, as I said, it was ratified on the 16th of May. The ratification path was, it was quiet, quieter than I thought it would be. It went out to several university groups, first of all, the university research group and research support group who were the main guys who kind of like decide upon whether it's a good thing to do and made most of the comments. Then it went out to a consultation consultation in March of this year. One thing in that that I should point out to people in actually setting it out to consultation at such a wide university, there's going to be communication path breakdown and you must have some sort of backup plan on how, if it does break down, you know, you've still got to keep your path going, your policy going through the system because otherwise, if we hadn't got to the planning resource committee on the Senate Board of Governors, it would be next year because over the summer it goes really quiet at UK universities and we wouldn't be able to get all these guys together to improve our policy. So, you have to have backup plan for the communication. Consultation period, as I mentioned, brought up the bureaucracy of it all. So, making us aware of, you know, what other, what researchers were actually doing and how difficult this could make it for them and it's all good, good advice that came through and we're working with specific users now to ensure that fed back into the consultation period. And that was the main gist of the policy. Yeah, it's still a work, it's still a work in practice because we've got to write the procedures and guidance so it's not public yet but it should be by September. Yeah. Okay, thank you. Thank you.
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Scream 5 | Sidney Prescott's Life 10 Years Later + Trailer Runtime
Scream 5 will update us on the lives of Sidney Prescott, Dewey Riley, and Gale Weathers. Trusted insider ViewerAnon has disclosed potential life circumstances for them. Life without Ghostface has been better to some more than others. Scream 5's trailer has been rated and the runtime for it was revealed. Art By: Samuel Shin - https://www.samuelshin.com/about.html If you enjoyed the video, please give it a thumbs up and share it on all social media platforms! Leave comments down below regarding your thoughts and movies you would like me to watch and review in the future. Links to my social media accounts will be down below (Follow my pages if you want to stay up to date on my thoughts before I post videos). Please Like, Share, and Subscribe! ---TURN ON POST NOTIFICATIONS ---Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/CriticalOverlord ---Twitter: https://twitter.com/CriticalOverlo3 ---Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/criticaloverlord/ ---Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CriticalOverlord/
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What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload here We're gonna be talking about screen 5 today gonna talk about where Sydney Gale and Dewey are supposedly adding their lives 10 years on from the Vince of screen 4 if you don't want to know this don't even want bother watching this video But we're gonna talk about it here today because these honestly are things that I would consider to be very Small something that I feel would be potentially shown in the upcoming trailer. So We're gonna talk about where these OG characters are at now as it relates to screen 5 This is coming to us courtesy of a viewer and on and again another He's a trusted insider when it comes to things that relate to movies upcoming movies seen a lot of movies already They haven't even been released yet Like so he says so where are Sid Gale and Dewey 10 years after screen 4 Dewey and Gale are divorced she got a show in New York and he couldn't handle it there He's no longer sheriff but lives in Woodsboro and watches her show every morning Sid is married with two young children now the one screenshot. I'm not gonna be showing it showing here is who is sheriff he tweeted that the person who is sheriff is Judy Hicks Judy Hicks is the sheriff of Woodsboro now. So just to go off of what we now see there Once the one thing I want to say is congratulations to Gale Who has her own show now? That's a very big deal for her since we know that in screen 4 She was wanting to revitalize her quote-unquote tarnished brand So it's nice to see that, you know, she is back in her groove We kind of got a little glimpse of that might be where we were going with how She was shown in one of the behind-the-scenes images Wearing a very colorful suit that she had on business casual suit I'll just say not business casual. She she looked amazing. It was like a red suit She had on she looked great. It looked like she was back on her BS Let's just say that up to no good not up to no good But you know it looks like there's a big story and she's on her way to capture that big story for her Now that we know upcoming show that she will have in the film Sidney being married and having kids my my safe bet going along with what Viewer not also commented is that the person she's married to will be Detective Kincaid from scream 3 Which I know would be something I'd be very satisfying to a lot of you I don't think we'll actually hear the name Mark Kincaid. I think what we'll hear is the first name Mark We might even hear Kincaid Just like a one a one name type of deal where we as the audience can decipher and Interpret that as we may and maybe we'll get an official answer in a scream 6 or scream 7 or maybe even later on in the film Where maybe she used the name mark early on where someone asked her about how her husband is doing it They just use the name mark or Later on in the film after using mark the same person could say tell Kincaid I said hi that would be like a nice little subtle way to go ahead and confirm to us I guess the mark that was mentioned earlier is Detective Kincaid from scream 3 and he's the father And husband now of Cindy Prescott since we know that they had a little thing going on Flirtatious, I would just say honestly with the way he would look at her I found the way Kincaid would look at her I kind of felt like this man wants to be good to this moment something about the way he would just look at her I was like this man. He wants to be good to her So it's nice to kind of just hope and pray that that's who she's with As far as like Dewey Dewey Dean No longer sheriff couldn't handle it in New York with Gales new show. I would imagine that also He's just down bad since that image that we saw of him with that Airbnb promo that we know They're gonna be doing for October later on this month We know that we saw him in a specific type of attire now A lot of you have also pointed out to me that attire was also the same attire It looks like he had on in that image that came out from Brian Tyler When he was sharing them working on the score and we saw that little glimpse of Dewey on the screen with the mustache It looks like he's wearing that same attire So what I'm willing to bet is that while he's not sheriff anymore. He's still living in Woodsboro He still watches Gales show, you know, you lose your wife. You lose your business sheriff You're still watching your wife Thrive and you're kind of in the position that she feels like she was in in screen four Well, she felt like she was just watching you thrive as the sheriff I'm willing to bet that he's probably down on his look not in a really good place in life probably has a little bit of a habit whether they be drinking smoking and It honestly would would be fitting and match this type of look I guess that he is going to be going for in the upcoming film I just feel like that's where Dewey will be at honestly these updates. They're not that shocking They're not anything that I would again consider to be overly spoiler-ish The whole other thing that I have to say about spoilers and not wanting to know about this is because I've seen so many people already like in the actual Woodsboro horror film club Facebook group that again, you can go join if you want to That group is public when you go to put out a post. There are no Admin approval wait times that you can just post anything at any point time So when I'm seeing all these people that I and it's not everyone But there are a certain select few and you know who you are the people who don't want spoilers yet you will actively join a group and You see the group is public You should also be seen that you can post whenever you want to post you don't want spoilers yet Something tells you that it's a good idea to join a group where anyone can post anything at any point time without the admins Needing to approve it sure one of the rules is no spoilers allowed But that's not a that should not be a comfort for anyone who's not trying to have anything spoiled Somebody's saying spoilers not allowed doesn't mean that they won't have any Spoilers that won't happen to just pop up on you. They're gonna remove the spoilers, but here's the thing with that group The reason why I think you will not have any pending admin approval post Imagine someone goes out there goes out of their way tries to post something that is a Spoiler, let's just say admin denies it person takes a screenshot of what they got denied Start spreading around is hey look what they denied me putting in the group. This must be this must be true I'm just saying that's the also type of vibe you could give off if as an admin the official screen page denying certain posts I feel like that's the vibe you give off So I just feel like we should all take accountability in the way we have control over what doesn't doesn't pop up on our feeds But the other thing I want to talk about really quick was the film rating or the trailer rating The trailer length will be two minutes and 21 seconds the Alberta film rating site listed this I'll leave a link to that down in the description They rated and said that the trailer runtime will be like two minutes and 21 seconds I've seen a lot of people Saying that that's too long I would think that they're going to do the screen three approach where they're kind of just recapping Maybe to start off showing some old footage from the previous installments and then like quick cuts of the new film Without showing too much for those of you who think Any and everything is a spoiler. I'll just say But I'm very excited on what we now know about the updates of the og trio and where they are in their life Let me know what you guys think of not doing though. Of course, that's sad Let me know what you guys think about this down in the comment section below If how are you of course make sure you subscribe turn on postification and miss video in the description I have links to all my social media accounts my facebook twitter and instagram You can message me there Of course name is any movies news or reviews you would like me to cover in the future with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video
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Doctor Sleep (Movie Review)
Carlin gives a review of the 2019 horror film Doctor Sleep, which was written and directed by Mike Flanagan.
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Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So I Just did a review for the shining that's already available on my channel. So check that out So it's only fitting that I then do a review for dr. Sleep, which was released in 2019 Now I will say up front. I am if you already watched my my shining review video, you'll know this I'm a huge fan of the Stanley Kubrick the shining It's one of my favorite films not just of horror but favorite films in general and I love love love It so partially for that reason I did quite like dr. Sleep, but I didn't like it as much as I wanted to and I think it's for a few reasons for one I Wanted to really love it, but I think part of what kept me from super super loving it was my love of the shining film It's just weird when you take something like that that you love so much and you expand upon that universe It's just gonna feel odd because I've seen that movie a lot of times and literally I just watched that movie again The same day that I watched dr. Sleep. So that's kind of a weird thing. The other thing is I haven't read the books So I didn't read the shining book and I didn't read dr. Sleep by Stephen King, which obviously that's what these movies are based on but from what I understand Mike Flanagan the the man who wrote the script for for dr. Sleep and directed it was really trying to reconcile Differences that there were between the shining book and the shining movie by Kubrick Because that's been a long-standing thing if people don't know where you know There there's this grouping of people who are like the book is so much better And there's a grouping of people who are like the movies so much better and apparently they're very very different And for that reason, you know Stephen King hated Kubrick's the shining so what Flanagan was looking to do was to kind of bring everyone together and Produce a sequel that could kind of reconcile all the differences between the two between the book and the movie and kind of Roll that into an actual sequel that works for both of them So I think first of all, that's an awesome way to do things That's a cool way of kind of bringing some semi divided horror groups back together So I think that's cool, but I haven't read the book so I don't know what the differences were I don't know what was reconciled in it So I think for that reason I don't necessarily appreciate the film as much as I could But like I said, I still quite liked it One of the other things is in general I felt like it was a bit slower than I wanted it to be the pacing was relatively slow and I think that the shining is kind of slow at times but the The overlook hotel looks so interesting and big and grandiose that you get kind of lost in looking around at it There's so much to look at and this film didn't really have that when there were the slower times So it was a little different for that reason that slower pacing kind of felt slower And I didn't like that as much but so anyway, like I said, you know Mike Flanagan wrote the script for this and directed it Obviously based off the Stephen King book Dr. Sleep Other things Mike Flanagan's done if people are not familiar. He did the film Oculus which looked I saw it looked great I didn't really like the film. He did Gerald's game also looked great I actually really liked the film a lot of people don't make it through that So many people I know are like I gave up at the 20 minute mark and I'm like you got to see it through There's a payoff And I feel like Dr. Sleep is kind of that way too like Like I was saying like it was a little bit slow at times But the whole thing felt like the build-up to the very end for the payoff He also did haunting of Hill House, which is on Netflix, which I think is phenomenal That does have a slower pacing to it But it's it works within the story that he was doing and once again looks amazing I think Mike Flanagan as a director is outstanding. His script writing is usually really really good. So I'm a fan I quite like him So obviously the stars you and McGregor. He's the biggest name in it. He was in Shallow grave, which if people have not seen shallow grave before definitely check that out. That is a good film It's kind of a hidden gem Trainspotting obviously everyone knows him from I love trainspotting. I haven't seen the second one But I will at some point and night watch which is also a good one if people have not seen night watch Check that out as well. So the film had a forty five million dollar budget and it actually ended up making seventy two point three million. So a Net positive they did well. They made money Apparently the studio when they finally got funding for Dr. Sleep They were actually also looking to make a prequel called Overlook Hotel. So I Don't know. I feel like if the right person handles something like that I could be open to a prequel to the shining But you know, I just don't know that you need that I feel like it might take too much away because In the shining you just kind of hear the stories of of how Overlook Hotel became the way it did You know was initially on a Native American burial ground and they moved the burial ground to put the the Hotel there and then there was you know, the The axe murders that they talk about by Delbert Grady and all that kind of stuff So it's kind of better to hear those things as opposed to see them because then you kind of see them in flashes Throughout the shining. So I just don't know if we need a prequel But if it's done by the right person and it's done. Well, I'd be open to it They use very recognizable music when they get started with this. Oh real quick. I will say I Usually with newer movies like this. I usually don't do spoilers But for this one I am going to do spoilers because since I did the shining review and that was obviously Spoilers because it's an older film I feel like it's only appropriate that I do spoilers for this as like a companion piece to the shining one So there will be spoilers if you haven't seen Dr. Sleep yet Stop this video watch it then come back to it and you know, you'll hear what I have to say about it But I do recommend watching it So anyway, excuse me, they use extremely recognizable music in the very beginning of this and it made me smile It's the same music that's in the beginning of the shining I love that that type of connection and there are actually a lot of those moments in the film Where it's like the nostalgia for people who love the the the shining film where You know, you'll see things that are super recognizable And I'll kind of bring those up as I go through my notes because there were quite a few that I recognized And I think some of them have a big significance Well a bigger significance than you might realize and that's just me, you know guessing The reshoots that they did of stuff from the shining I think look really good like in the beginning The first one you see is when Danny Torrance is riding on the big wheel through the hotel At first you can't even tell necessarily that it's a reshoot. It just looks It looks crisper and more bright because it you know, it's newer film, but it Intel the Danny kind of turns his head a little bit and looks at the door for 237 You don't realize that it's not the original actor Danny Lloyd You you think that oh, maybe they just like took this and like super cleaned it up It's the same footage like it looks the same Basically until you see that and then you get a bunch of stuff that they kind of reshot Which I think works well and one of my favorite things about the reshoots was the fact that they recast the character of Wendy With a much better actress because I you know if you go back and watch my review for the shining I talk about why I didn't like Shelley Duvall's performance, but I also talk about why I believe her performance may not have been good It may not have all been her fault a lot of it may have come down to Stanley Kubrick and the way he treated her on the set But anyway So one of the moments I really liked in this is when Halloran like it shows the flashback of When Wendy and Danny had gotten away from the overlook and left that behind they moved down to Florida and Danny is still seeing Halloran dick Halloran as like a ghost who comes and you know kind of mentors him talks to him about the shining still and I really like the moment where he was kind of explaining things a little bit and that's where we got that nice little nugget of knowledge about His level Danny's level of the shining being like a super battery for the overlook hotel And so once he got into that hotel things got out of control and it was feeding off his Shining energy that just amplified everything so in my shining review I had a theory about how I thought maybe Jack Torrance had the shining as well because it seemed to be a familial thing since dick Halloran had talked about I think his grandmother having it as well But now that seeing dr. Sleep it makes me think that you know according to this film dr. Sleep that That wasn't actually the case the case was actually just that People who didn't have the shining were able to see What was going on like the shining that the overlook hotel was giving off because it was crazy amplified because it never reached that type of level But it did then because of Danny because Danny just amplified the hell out of it and yeah So I'd like that explanation. I think it works really well And I was satisfied with that as a big fan of the shining. I was satisfied with that. I did like it Danny has the it becomes obvious in this that Danny has the same I'll just I'm just gonna keep calling him Danny by the way He goes by Dan because he wants to kind of I mean that's a Intentional choice in the script because he's trying to feel like he's a different person by changing his name to Dan as opposed to Danny That distance himself from his childhood from all the trauma and from being the person that he was back then and The person that his father called him because a lot of this is about him distancing himself from who his father was But you see in the film that there's the same darkness and they kind of talk about this the same darkness that was in Jack Torrance is in Danny Torrance and that manifests mainly in the film at least early on with the drug use the alcohol and all that type of stuff But it's kind of a dual purpose for him I feel like the the substance abuse for Danny in the film is a combination of him You know already having that that addiction Predisposition because of the genetics from his father and it just being passed down by his father But also I view it as that's his way of trying to Bring things in check with his shining. I feel like that's kind of a way He he dampens the shining for himself and tries to control it and tries to kind of forget it Because you see that he's he's intentionally trying to not deal with things and that's seen with When he keeps going into doors Those moments of like his shining where he's in his head going through doors And it's that the bathroom in room 237 at the overlook and he's running away from it Basically not confronting it and that's one of the big things like well while he's abusing substances he's intentionally avoiding the stuff that he needs to deal with in his life, which is getting a handle on the shining Getting a handle on the trauma that he that he experienced Coming to terms with who his father was and what that his relationship with his father did to him You know He needed to confront and deal with things and he just kept running away from it Which you know obviously in the film he eventually does deal with it, but it you know takes some time Early on I'm not sure I really like the concept of this kind of soul vampire because I mean basically That's what it is like rose the hat and her whole group They're they're soul vampires basically, you know, they're sucking the souls out of people who also have the shining So they can continue to stay young They're not immortal, but you know, there's a very specific difference made there, you know, not immortal, but they can keep themselves younger by doing this and Grandpa Fleck I think is his name is obviously the one that's been Around for a long long time and it's kind of taught people as they go, but when the idea was Was introduced. I just don't think I don't know because I feel like vampires are so overdone And this is just a different version of vampirism and I was just like I don't I just don't know that I really like it and I went back and forth as I was watching the film and I think at the end I still don't really like it that much But I think it's it's okay. It's it's kind of where I'd landed by the end of the film I'm like, it's okay. I would I would have liked if they had Developed the rose the hat and her, you know, actually, I don't even think she needed a group I actually would have preferred it if it was just rose the hat as the bad guy coming after people that would have been more More what I would have liked but you know a lot of people like the way this that they structured it and that's fine It's just the soul vampire thing for me. I don't know just not a fan So the office of the guy This is this is one of those kind of more subtle-ish things except for people who are big fans of the shining or just watched it or both the when Danny starts going to the Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and he meets with the head of it the very first time in his office The office is set up exactly the same as the office at the Overlook Hotel That Jack Torrance goes to in the shining for his job interview So I thought that was a cool connection and I think it's it was it wasn't just intentional from the standpoint of oh we want to give this kind of nod of Do people who like the shining notice this? I think it was very intentional because When Jack Torrance goes into that office and he gets the job That's a turning a very large turning point in his life that is the moment that He steps into a place that will take hold of him and make him super evil and make him do terrible things Now on the other hand when Danny Torrance walks into the office at the AA meeting and it's set up exactly the same That is also a turning point in his life where he stops running. He stops denying What the shining is and how he should be working with it and he Basically goes from rock bottom and starts going upwards So it's these polar opposites and they're both signaled by being in that office and making a commitment So I thought that was really really cool Sorry, I lost my notes because shut down on me. I walk I had talked so long So there's a really good quote that actually comes out of that meeting portion in the office today After the AA meeting where Danny says our beliefs don't make us better people our actions do I thought this is an amazing quote and it's something that I think really applies to real life Because how many times have you met people who say oh, I'm all about this. I believe in this I do this and then their actions say something totally different That's that type type of quote kind of say, you know, you say you're all about this, but don't be a hypocrite I'm not gonna look for the words. You're you're selling to me I'm gonna look for the actions that come after those words and that's the type of person I am in real life. I don't trust people until they show me that what they're saying is What I'm getting so and I think that everyone should kind of you know live that way But great great great quote. So I like when you find out what doctor sleep actually means I think that's a really cool thing. This is the moment where he starts to really realize that The shining that he's viewed as like a terrible burden like he even said that one of the very traumatizing things Is he would see the flies Starting to buzz around people because of the shining and that would make him realize that they're going to die So it traumatized him because he saw it with his mother and then he didn't want to see it And that's when he really turned away from having anything to do with it And then when he gets this job, he's sober. He starts going back to it and realizes This is something I can actually use to help people and that's where he starts helping people transition into death Which is a really cool moment. Plus. I love cats. So I like the fact that the cat was involved too And that's an actual thing by the way there is a nursing home I Saw an I um, I don't I don't know where exactly it is, but a few years ago I saw it on the news there was a nursing home And they have a cat and the cat keeps showing up Into in the rooms of the people who are about to pass within a day or two So I thought that was interesting that they wrap that into it But yeah, I love when they reveal what dr. Sleep means. I think it's cool And it's touching and it's a it's a jumping off point For Danny to really start to realize that there's good in in how he can use the shining So at this point I already saw this coming because obviously this happens big time in the very end It becomes very clear that Abra the character of Abra becomes the new Danny and Danny becomes the new Halloran And this is foreshadowing kind of early on as as the relationship starts to spawn between Danny and Abra through the chalkboard in His apartment or Airbnb or wherever he's living. I guess it's an apartment, but he You know, he's forging that relationship much like Halloran did with him early on in the shining and is trying to become his mentor then But the big difference is he was shutting him out. He was really trying to shut him out He accepted him accepted him as kind of a friend But you didn't accept him as a mentor having to do with the shining whereas Abra was very open to it It's like she was reaching out and looking for a mentor, which is totally opposite of Danny Danny was kind of like pushing it away and by the end, you know, he makes the turn and he listens to kind of what Halloran said to him and You know, he he connects with Abra He helps her out even though he was reluctant in the beginning and he teaches her the best way to use The shining and kind of cultivates that in her and the problem with Danny all along is that he kept refusing the help He didn't want to recognize what good he could do with the shining and how best to deal with it He just didn't want to have anything to do with it And that's why things in his life ended up going so poorly after the overlook hotel until he got a hold of it Which I think was good So it seems that Rose The part where they realize what ability Abra has and there's the idea of well Why don't we bring her into our group and Rose is like, oh, no, she's you know, too powerful for me It seems more like she's saying that because she realizes that if Abra became a part of the group She would not become the alpha in that group anymore because Abra is so Powerful that she would be the most powerful and then by by default become The alpha of the group and rose obviously does not want to miss that or she doesn't want to give that up because She's obviously the one who leads everything and calls all the shots and she likes the power you can tell I Like the concept of the souls from the overlook coming for Danny and the coping strategy that he has in his mind of locking Them in those boxes. Obviously that comes into play big time at the end where he just unlocks them all and lets them loose That's a cool moment. I really like that, but I think it's It's not easy to come up with a concept like that and I'm assuming that was in the doctor sleep book That Stephen King came up with that it always, you know blows my mind how Creative Stephen King is and has been throughout his entire life like his creativity is crazy And when he makes these he comes up with these worlds and he comes up with these concepts and abilities and stuff like this And it's it's just awe-inspiring to me because I'm a creative person and I have creative thoughts But I feel like his creativity is just Beyond like so far beyond and I respect that it's cool I think it's an amazing moment in this film Probably my favorite segment of the film when Abra catches Rose in her mind and flips the tables That was outstanding I didn't see it coming and there are a few moments like that where it's kind of like The double cross going on or someone gets to drop on someone and then you realize oh, no It's actually the opposite because they you know put other things in place precautionary measures to To get the drop on them when they thought that they were getting the drop on them Yeah, those moments were really cool and that moment where where Rose is caught and Abra's mind is Pretty awesome. They did that really well. I did not see a gunfight coming in this film I thought for sure nothing like that would ever happen. It really caught me off guard I mean it worked in the film for you know where the story was going But I just never assumed there would ever be a firefight in it. It was weird So I like the aim that they took of leading Rose to the overlook because she has no idea what it is She has no concept of it She's not aware of it at all, which means she would be in more danger than Abra and Danny when they're walking into it and then obviously Danny at that point knows that you know He makes the hotel stronger and that he could try and sway things a little bit because he has more control over the Shining at that point that he could kind of use it as a weapon against Rose and I really like that concept I thought that was cool The gas station by the way when they're going to the overlook the gas station They stop at before they go on their last little leg of the trip to get to the overlook That's the exact same gas station that Dick Haller and stopped at and got the snow cat when he was on his way To try and save The Torrance family so I really I perked up at that moment, too. I was like that's the same gas station awesome So Danny walking into the rundown overlook hotel is awesome awesome nostalgia I yeah, I love that whole sequence, but it wasn't just for here's nostalgia for everyone who likes the shining it seemed it was also He was walking in the footsteps of his father and that was kind of a way of him Confronting his past confronting the trauma Dealing with it finally when in the beginning of the film He spent so much time running from it and not intentionally not dealing with it And it was killing him obviously because he was doing drugs. He was drinking He was killing himself inside because of the trauma that he wasn't dealing with so I loved him going through the Totally dilapidated overlook for that reason. It was so good. It was meaningful and it looked great The low-level wind sound throughout the hotel Adds a lot to the scenes when he's in it if you notice I mean you might not notice because you're focusing so much on what's going on and the dialogue that happens Especially in the gold room at the bar, but there's a low-level wind sound that's going through the hotel And it adds it adds a lot to it. It makes it a little bit creepy. It made makes it a little bit I don't know. It just it has an awesome ambiance that it increases So Jack Torrance being the bartender is a really cool moment. I really did enjoy that That moment is truly the pinnacle of Dan Danny actually confronting his past and the father's darkness and overcoming it because he you know knocks the booze away when he's being Offered it. That's his final kind of temptation By you know the ghost of his father trying to say follow my path You're here now. This is your moment to do what I did to be me and he obviously chooses the opposite I also think it was cool that they made That they made Jack the bartender because if you remember in the shining Delbert Grady was the caretaker That had axed his family and they talk about all those years ago and when you see his When you see his ghost in the overlook hotel when Jack comes across him in the bathroom Because you know, he spilled the drink on him. He's like, oh, let me clean you up he's basically like a like a bathroom attendant slash bartender, I guess and He doesn't remember who he was and it's the same in dr. Sleep, you know Jack Torrance was the caretaker, but now he shows up as a ghost as the bartender. So instead of trying to Control the property as a caretaker He is controlled by the property as a servant as a bartender And that's exactly what happened with Delbert Grady, too Because he was in that caretaker position and then he's a servant of the hotel when Jack comes across him as a ghost So I thought it was cool that they kind of did the same thing in that sense That's and that's the thing like these these little touches that you won't necessarily pick up on Unless you're you know kind of deep into the shining are really cool. And like I said that that's a really good one So the snowy maze showdown First of all looks very much like the shining so awesome because that still looks amazing and I saw it was cool I thought the way that played out was very nice It looked amazing. It looked great. And I kind of you know, I didn't know where they were gonna go with it I just really didn't That scene recreating Jack and Wendy on the stairs is really cool as well, you know It's um, you know Danny backing up on those same stairs where Wendy had been backing up and rose Instead of it being Jack coming at him. It's Rose coming at him. So that's kind of a throwback to this moment of Peril where they Yeah, they just mirror it from the shining and I thought it was super super cool So Danny because yeah, and then I wrote down truly in the end Danny becomes Halloran and Abra becomes Danny because But different because you know as we all know in the shining Halloran was coming to save Danny and Danny actually is able to save Abra, so it's what the intent was with Halloran going to save Danny But he gets act like axed like as soon as he gets the overlook hotel, which always bothered me So I like that. It's kind of set right in a sense in Dr. Sleep Because you know Danny goes into it and kind of realizes that you know I got to give it my all I may be giving my life But I'm gonna protect Abra because it's basically like him protecting the younger himself, you know and You know writing the wrongs of the past in a sense by doing that Doing what Halloran was trying to do but succeeding at it Halloran died, but he didn't achieve what he was trying to do before he died Abra makes the opposite choice of what Danny did Danny finally listened to Halloran What Halloran said and passed it on to Abra? I'd kind of talked about that before about how you know Danny was kind of Pushing away Halloran's Advice and then he accepts it eventually and passes everything on to Abra like you supposed to So in the very very end when Abra goes into the bathroom I think that that indicates her choice of totally accepting her situation and accepting her shining and showing Not mastery of it, but control over it because in the very beginning We see Danny all the time going into those rooms and it's the it's the bathroom in room 237 And he's trying to run away with it or won't run away with it run away from it Well in the end Abra is going into a bathroom Confidently and that's the showing of the juxtaposition between where Danny was in the beginning and where she is at the end and Her making the exact opposite choice of what Danny was making. She's running full force Headlong into head headstrong into it saying I'm accepting this when he was running away from it So I thought that was cool thing and then just a few things to wrap it up at the end I feel like this film speaks to the trauma passed to children from their flawed parents Who don't deal with their issues? Well, obviously, that's very strongly seen in the shining and carrying over to dr. Sleep with how terrible Jack Torrance is and also to a degree how terrible Wendy was in just letting things happen And not getting her son out of there because she was very clearly in denial And we know that because of the way she explains away the physical abuse that happened to Danny Torrance with you know Jack grabbing him and yanking his arm and hurting his arm So and then the final thing I had down was Danny connecting to his father through drink Speaks to the unhealthy relationships people have with their flawed parents just because they're their parents Obviously Jack tried to kill Danny at one point so he doesn't want to have like a real relationship with him after the fact but He also can't help it and it kind of speaks to that issue of Family is family and you end up having these very unhealthy Relationships because you feel like you have to have relationships with your parents and with family members in general So you fall into these very unhealthy relationships, and that's how I kind of viewed in the film Him being you know jumping into the alcohol and basically living like his father did so Good film. I did like it. It's obviously Not going to hit as high as my rating for the shining If you didn't see my review, I gave the shining five stars. I love love love that film It's amazing, but I will say you know Mike Flanagan did a really good job with this I really would like to read the books at some point to see you know What he did reconcile between the the shining book and the shining movie one day one day because those are long books But um, yeah, I mean it looks really good. I expected that from Mike Flanagan He's a very good director. The music was really well done. The acting was really good I mean so many aspects of it awesome It's just story-wise like I wasn't really feeling the whole soul vampire thing and it did get kind of slow like I said so With five stars in play out of five stars with half stars in play. I'm gonna give it four stars I think it deserves a four star. That's good. I'm down with it Yeah, I liked it. So now's the time where I ask people comment down there Tell me your thoughts on doctor sleep. Tell me your thoughts on the connection between the shining and doctor sleep I'm very interested in that if you have thoughts on it Also, if you you know think I'm off on some of the stuff I said in this or you agree with it You know go ahead and let me know and do me a quick favor Hit that subscribe if you're not already subscribed because that's how I keep encouraged because I'm not making money doing this Or anything it's just a hobby So encourage me with a subscribe and if you've already subscribed encourage me with a thumbs up and let me know You're still watching but thanks everyone for checking this out and until next time keep it brutal
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7th Army Training Command (7ATC) Non-Commissioned Officer Academy's (NCOA)
Instructors at the 7th Army Training Command (7ATC) Non-Commissioned Officer Academy's (NCOA) Basic Leadership Course describe their experiences training soldiers in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Dec. 21, 2022. Defense Now - January 2023 https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe95fdmDwNk9OwmSQeRGsXPe_1qecWqE1 NATO News Updates https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCilumuS3PI9nfrBvTwCFt-g Checkout for more Latest Defense & Technology News Updates. www.defenseflashnews.com Please keep discussions on this channel clean and respectful. Refrain from using racist or sexist slurs as well as personal insults. 7th Army Training Command Non-Commissioned Officer Academy GRAFENWOEHR, BY, GERMANY 12.21.2022 The 7ATC NCOA mission is to train and develop future leaders who are adaptive, disciplined, and ready to lead effectively at the squad and team levels. (U.S. Army video by Spc. Adrian Greenwood) Film Credits: Video by Spc. Adrian Greenwood 7th Army Training Command
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of army life. I have communications specialists. I have tankers. So I am here at the Academy one of the instructors. My primary function here is to facilitate the plan of instruction of the basic leaders course. So there's a lot that goes into the POI itself, but there's also a lot that goes into the soldiering that happens here. So as soon as students arrive we're very hands on with them. We check their gear that they're supposed to bring to ensure that they're able to meet the training needs and then after that we teach them or re-teach them I should say how to do formations back to the army standard. And then of course our role in the classrooms as facilitators. We're not so much teachers. We use a student-centered learning environment so the oneness of all the learning goes away from us the teachers and the responsibility of the actual learning falls on the students. So I think another thing that's really rewarding for me is I get to learn from my students. I'm a 13 Bravo by trade. However I have students from all different walks of army life. I have communications specialists. I have tankers. I have infantrymen. I have medics. I have you name it. They walk through the door and they teach me things about what they do every day and how things run in their world. And it's really cool to see how we all intertwine together. Some challenges to being an instructor sometimes you have to break down students barriers just to get them to open up to share their experiences and be willing to learn some of the unlearn some of the bad habits that they got from their units and to learn what the army is trying to teach them. Getting from that is I get to get a new perspective every cycle. All of these young leaders which is what they are they're not just specialists but they young leaders they bring something new a new perspective a new idea so every cycle brings something different that not only do the students learn but I can also learn as well. As much as we do our best to instill standards and discipline which never want to do is take personality away. So when you get to see so many people just learning how to do the thing right of being an on-commissioned officer they learn you know they see what's happening in their organization things they may agree with may not agree with and when you when you see them so passionate about going back and trying to implement the things they learned here it's really rewarding.
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Media Conference - Taskforce Take Back
Superintendent Jim Keogh held a media conference on Taskforce Take Back on Thursday 13th November.
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At 11 o'clock last night, detectives from the Gold Coast executed a search warrant on a resort here on the Gold Coast. They searched a room and took into custody three men. Police will allege that the three men taken into custody are members of a criminal motorcycle gang. They've been arrested and charged under the new legislation in relation to criminal organisations insofar as more than two of them in a public place. Police will also allege that a sum of money was found approximately $7,700 and that's the subject of additional charges for tainted property and also a quantity of dangerous drugs. The men will appear in Brisbane Magistrates Court today. What's the significance of the arrest? This is the first arrest under the new legislation here in Queensland as far as criminal organisations go. Have you been waiting to use these charges? I don't know if I've been waiting to use the charges. The legislation's been there. They've been well aware of the legislation there and of course police will allege that they disregarded the legislation and moved together in a public place in a group of more than two. Can you elaborate on how you discovered the three men in the same hotel room? Yeah I won't disclose the source of the information but I can indicate that police will allege that two of them belong to the criminal motorcycle gang the Mongols, the third person belonging to the criminal motorcycle gang the things. Whereabouts did they actually meet? In the FOIA. How long was the actual meeting? Was it a chat? Were they drinking together? What were the circumstances? No they were talking together in the FOIA whilst being attended to by an employee of the resort. Was it perhaps as they were checking in or something? That's right. Were they wearing the Mongols caps in the paraphernalia at the time? That's right. Two of them were wearing paraphernalia clearly linked into a criminal motorcycle gang and that will certainly form part of the case insofar as the criminal organisation goes but we'll also look at further charges under the provisions of the liquor act which forbid the wearing of criminal motorcycle gang paraphernalia on licensed premises. Police will allege that that area of the resort is in fact licensed. That's pretty sort of legal. I mean they're just turning their noses up and they'll thought they were doing it aren't they? That's right. It's a very public resort. They obviously had little regard for the law and perhaps we'll pay the penalty. And were these guys locals? Where were they from? Yeah two were from Southport, one from Western Australia. Were they surprised that they had breached? Were they perhaps unaware that that area was licensed? They may be unaware the area was licensed but certainly like I say it was a reasonably popular resort and I think there should have been an expectation that they shouldn't have been doing what they were doing to get caught. What do you think they were there for? Were they staying there for a while? There wasn't a holiday? I mean there was a lot of cash and they're much drugs now? Well I think you could draw a conclusion that it was a business type gathering by the way of the money that was found and certainly people of the like mind as far as criminal motorcycle gang goes. Whilst they don't have anything specific to indicate while they were there I think you could draw your own conclusions. You know three people associating together given that two of them are from one club and one's from another club is there a loophole there potentially that they're all from the same club and that they could associate into club work? No the clubs are clearly listed under the criminal organisations. Can you confirm which resort it was? No. What types of drugs? They haven't been analysed yet. They're just pills at this stage until we get something back from the government analyst. There's a lot of bikies or members of criminal outlaw gangs are going underground and you know moving to other states and sort of staying low. So is it a surprise I guess to you guys that they were in that sort of resort that is quite public and sort of making an appearance like that? Yeah it is a surprise but police will allege that they booked into that resort very early in the morning before there was a lot of people going through the main square of the hotel and of course when the police attended it was 11.30 last night. Can we just clear up who is the member of which club after a 26 year old from Western Australia is he a thinker or a mongrel? The 28 year old is a thinker the 28 year old is a mongrel and the 36 year old mongrel. Can you explain the process now? They'll appear and no doubt make a bail application when they go to Brisbane and from there they'll be either granted bail or reminded in custody pending no doubt a hearing. Is this a message now or do you think this message might actually get through to other criminal motorcycle gang members? I think the message should get through to other criminal motorcycle gang members. Heaven forbid we've certainly put it out there on a number of occasions not simply for major resorts or the glitter strip but also for the suburban hotels indicating that we would be going through the legislation as far as the criminal organizations go. But on this particular occasion they thought perhaps they would fly under the radar. What sort of penalties can they face? Probably not appropriate for me to comment on penalties I'd suggest perhaps is upwards of six months of imprisonment. Do they fall under that banner of 10 years or 15 years potentially as well? Do these charges come under that? They do come under mandatory sentencing which I believe is in excess of six months jar. What do you mean? With the paraphernalia there guys is it only the hats that are logoed or is the logos on our stuff? Look I haven't really looked closely at it certainly the hats display the wording of Mongols. And the other shoes, what would they have been taken to the police to take all these shoes? Look I haven't looked closely at them to see if they do actually display any logo of a criminal motorcycle gang. Given that there are three caps that say Mongols I think causing the process of patching over as the rest of the gang has done. Yeah we're highly likely we're not seeing too many things remaining with the Finks Club as such especially with the younger people. Maybe some of the more senior members may remain with Finks but the rest are patching over to Mongols. Can you confirm the reports that it's as much as 90% of the club? That's what we are hearing here. Always look good.
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Drawbacks of Biological Species Concept II | Principles of Systematics | ZOO511T_Topic024
ZOO511T - Principles of Systematics TOpic024: Drawbacks of Biological Species Concept II Dr. Muhammad Tahir @thevirtualuniversityofpakistan
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प्रुष्पल्स अफ सिस्टम आटिक्स मोड्यूल तुन्ती फोर लास मोड्यूल के अंधर, हम बालोगिकल स्पिष्ष्ट के जो द्राब आख्स थे उसके बारे में दिसकस कर रहे थे, इनही द्राब आख्स को हम अप बालोगिकल स्पिष्ष्ट के अंधर जो खाम्या है, इस में से एक बढ़ी खामि ये है, के ये सिरफ असे अरगजम्स के बारे में हमें पताता है, जो के स्थ्टूली रिएएएएएएगे जब के वहाँ सारे प्लाँव्च और बहाँ सारे अन्मल्स असे है, के ये सेँ ऊटित मगती स्भीषिष कर से है, ये भहां बहुत मुशकल है, टो बालोगिकल स्पिष्ष्ट को वहां अपलाई न ही रही खुड़े है, अप बलजकर श्पिष्ष कंश्ट के अंन्धर हम ने भी देखा था के एक श्पिष्ष के मेंबर्स होते है वो एक रेपभ्व़्ट्टिठ वंड़ ब बाशनाद़ मो आप रहीं। इसका क्या मजलभ है फम नहीं का अथा के एक श्पिष्ष के यो मैंबर्स है वो आपस में इंट्रब्रीट करते है, वो दूसी स्पिष्ष्ष के साथ इंट्रब्रीट नहीं करते है, अगर करते भी है, तो फर्टायल आपस्विंष प्यादा नहीं होते, लेकिन हमारे पास कुछ असी इक्जमपल्स है, और वो ज़ूसी स्पिष्ष आपस में अप्सप्विंष करते है, अखस्विंष भी पाढा करते है, और वो अपस्विंष प्यादा होते है. देखेंं तो इहाआपे ताईगों ताईगों जोे है ये लाईन ख़ाल बनल न्ईख मेल ताइगर के खिलिए लाइंग के खिलिए मेल ख़ाल ख़ाल निख. आप आप यह आप देके union is the amount of chromosomes. तभ आप बज़ादाडे देका यह अत्छेद। if the tiger is 38. आप इसी घोंसे आप भज़ाडे तभ यह पहले लीज कोезд. तभ आप पभज़ाडे तभ और गमीच के चंदादे थी. when they are as miosis. अर हम ये पहले दिसकष कर चुके है, के म्योसिस के नतीजे में, जब गमिज्स बनते है, तो गमिज्स के अंदर क्रोमसोम की तादाद है, वो दिप्लाइड की बजाए है, हैप्लाइड होती है, हाफ होटी है, तो गमिज्स तर बनेगे, आप जब जाएगोट फारमेशिन होती है, ये 19 और 19 दोनो मिलते है, तो इस से जाएगोट बनते है, जाएगोट के अंदर क्रोमसोम की तादाद 38 बनती है, अब जी देखा गया है, क्योंके यहापे कोई अंपेर्ड क्रोमसोम नहीं है, सारे पेर्ड है, तो इसके नेटीजे में जो अस्झ्रिंख पयादा होते है, वो फर्ताल होते है, तो नहीं से अस्झ्रिंख पयादा करते है, बलके इनके अस्झ्रिंग फर्ताल भी होते है, तो यह एकस्छ्छन है, बालोजगल स्पीषिस कुन्सेप्त की देखिनेशन की.
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My Trucking Life | NORTH DAKOTA BEAUTY | #1693
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2019-04-25T22:34:14
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Good morning people of the internet. We just did our pre-trip got our coffee It's already spilt. Oh, that's strong cause that's real coffee. That's a man's coffee. Wow. Whoo I've got a simple breakfast today Protein bar That's my breakfast of choice when I'm in a hurry and they don't got anything good to eat for breakfast And the tiny truck stop that I'm at we're in Tower City, North Dakota Which is between Fargo and Valley City or between Fargo and Jamestown if you're familiar with I-94 in North Dakota. We're headed westbound We're going to go up to Jamestown and then take us 52 and wind our way all the way up to Portal, North Dakota, which is right on the Canadian border. We're going to cross into North portal Saskatchewan, which is on the other side of the border Border was right through the town portal and North portal And from there we're going to go through Saskatchewan up past Moose jaw and then west towards Calgary, Alberta and uh I don't want to talk politics a lot in my in my vlog. So I'll keep this short But Alberta Good for you. Good for you. If you're from Alberta, you know what I'm talking about. Good for you All right, let's uh Let's get going Okie dokie. All right there then. Okay. All right Let's get going I already did everything I did a little It's did a full inspection. I did a little tug test Just to make sure my trailer's not going to fall off I'm always paranoid of that in the mornings because you know, I've heard of these Horror stories of morons in the truck stop parking lots Like pulling other drivers fifth wheel pins. Maybe because they don't like them or just for fun I don't know why they would do that Uh, that's evil And what that does if you're not familiar with trucks when you pull a fifth wheel pin Uh, that unlocks the trailer from the truck So if you have a lot of weight on your trailer, the the trailer will still Sit on your truck and might stay on your truck for a little while because of all the weight And just the friction of the trailer On the truck, right? But as soon as you get on the highway or you go over a big bump That trailer isn't actually attached and it could go flying off the back of your truck And sometimes it has, you know, up to like 50,000 pounds on it He made even more And that could go flying off into traffic or oncoming traffic It's it's scary that people do this but I've never seen it done personally But I've seen you know stuff on facebook where it happened to people so it's it's not common. It's rare But it's still pretty scary to think about so always double check triple check Just to make sure that no one messed with your rig while you were sleeping More often than not people steal your fuel at night and that's annoying too. It feels expensive And you'll find one of your fuel caps not screwed on or something because People are just some people are just plain evil, but Remember they are the minority the the severe minority the absolute overwhelming majority of people are good people You're continuing two kilometers on 994 west So like she said 82 kilometers about 50 miles And we'll be at Jamestown and we're gonna Then join the two lane highway crew and be on two lane highways all the way up until we get to the trans canada Later tonight. I guess that would be at moustach So I've got this load of styrofoam insulation or styrofoam behind me I don't know if it's insulation styrofoam and super light the whole load weighs just over 5,000 pounds But to the truck which is used to pulling a lot more than that Like I'd say up to 50 like I said 50,000 pounds It feels like I have nothing on the trailer behind me. But what I do have is a nice Aerodynamic load compared to other loads the air doesn't catch this as much So my fuel economy has been great yesterday I averaged over the thousand kilometers or so or 600 miles that I drove yesterday. I averaged 27 liters per 100 kilometers, which is almost nine miles per gallon Nine miles per us gallon just so you know Wow That is the best I've ever done with this truck Once again, my theory is being proved true. So the speed that I was going was 60 miles an hour 95 kilometers an hour somewhere in there That's the speed that I feel is comfortable that I'm not holding up traffic a lot I'm on a four lane highway people can easily go around me. I'm not Being a huge obstacle. There's a lot of trucks out there that are already only governed at 60 miles an hour So, you know, I'm part of their little crew, but if I catch up to anyone going slower than me, I've got a lot more Uh that I can do to get around them yet. I'm not stuck behind them So that's something I do in the four lane highways when people can easily get around me and if traffic isn't too heavy remember if you want to do this as well and try this to be considerate and courteous of drivers behind you And uh, if they can't get around you I mean if you're on two lane highway like for the rest of today after these 50 miles We're going to be on a two lane highway on us 52 then it turns into uh highway 39 and Saskatchewan, right 39 yeah, and then it takes you all the way up to try to get on two lane highway If there's people behind me, I'm going to do the speed limit. Okay. I'm not going to be one of those drivers That holds everybody up That that's I know I'm on a two lane highway And you know and when there's a passing lane, I'm actually going to slow down Let them get around me instead of speeding up at the passing lane You guys notice that that's like a trend on two lane highways And I know you americans you guys are blessed and lucky You guys don't have to travel two lanes as much as us because you got these big four lane intersates everywhere Which is awesome In Canada, we have a lot lot more two lane highways like thousands and thousands of miles of just two lane that we have to go and Canadian drivers know this when you are following someone who's going slower than you want to go And you get finally get to where they have a designated passing lane You're like, yes, it's time to pass. Whoo. You pull out to pass them and they speed up Every time And then if you try and honk at them when you finally do get beside them They give you the bird like it's like it's like you're the problem and then They won't let you pass so you got to go back in behind them And then as soon as the passing lane is over they slow right back down I know again not a lot of people do this, but there is a good Number of people to do if you're one of those people Maybe you do it unconsciously try to try to pay attention to your speed when you're when there's people behind you If you're on the two lane highway and and these trucks are right behind you all the time That means they want to go faster than you so try and make it easy for them to get around you because they're not Going to hold you up. They want to go faster than you I understand you want to keep people behind you so that they don't pass you and slow down Don't do that either I feel like I I shouldn't have to talk about this kind of stuff This is sort of a common sense to me Yeah, people want to go faster than me. I make it easy for them to get around me and then they're out of my hair But And then I then I stay going faster than them, right? Don't forget that that's very important part too They let me around them Or if they let me around them because I want to go faster I actually go faster than them so i'm not holding them up now Oh These are the things I have to deal with every day Year after year I can talk about it all I want people won't learn it'll still happen But at least maybe you can have a good attitude about it when you see somebody behind you you can be that good person Try not to speed up when there's a passing lane it's easy to do because it's a wider highway then right I'm just trying to do that All right, you remember that statue I was telling you about it's right here on the right past this sign This is chief's and motel it's right there on the right He's giving the nazi salute Look at him right on main street Carrington, north dakota Picked off youtube for doing that Apparently it's okay. They do it. I couldn't believe that the first time I saw that I had to take a double take on the wait, what? what On main street now, I think that that obviously means something different in the in the native indian culture It means like hello or something like that right, but This is 2019. I think that's pretty much the universal sign for nazis, right? Everybody everybody's all scared of these nazis everywhere nazis over here nazis over there You got a nazi statue right there on main street Oh, well, I always thought it was a little funny. I figured I'd share that with you. I don't know What do you guys think? I'm gonna stop in at kasey's general store right here Hopefully find a nice little us 52 grass area for a Chevy to go out because I Couldn't take them for too much of a walk where we got up because everything was mud I didn't want his feet to get all muddy. So I'm gonna stop here and hopefully find some nice grass It won't be dry because everything's still wet, but hopefully at least won't be mud What is this guy's load? That looks fun. Look at that big barrel Ah, that must have something to do with oil. We are in oil country right now. Look at that thing. That's beautiful. I love to haul something like that Right, uh, it does look kind of muddy here. Yeah, everything is so muddy. You know what? I don't recommend doing this But I'm just gonna nose in just this time so that Oh, this is bumpy So that uh, I can walk Chevy on the grass here and not have to walk through all this mud Just this time I'm gonna leave enough room for the steps there Okay Look at all that grass right there Chevy. Look at all this grass right here No mud good flying jay in my not north dakota here The last flying jay where I can grab fuel before we get to canada. So naturally I'm going to fill up the tanks here I Believe it's about three dollars a gallon here for the diesel fuel. Whereas if you go up to canada, I'm probably gonna pay A lot more than that Let's do the math here one second No reason to waste fuel sitting here waiting Let's see. Uh, let's say it's three dollars a gallon here. That's Let's do in us prices three dollars a gallon Divided by 3.78. So that would be about 79 cents american per liter Three dollars a gallon Whereas in canada right now. It's hard to do it with the conversions. So Maybe I should just do this in canadian canadian, uh one second here Three usd to cad You're not gonna say it. Okay four dollars exactly. So three dollars american equals four dollars canadian So four dollars per gallon divide that by 3.78 So we're paying about a dollar six here per liter And in canada, we're paying at least a dollar 25 a dollar 30. So we're saving quite a bit per liter Uh In us, let's see See how much would that be in us? There 1.3 Cad to usd. It's equals 97 united states cents Okay, so 97 us cents per liter times 3.78 so gas prices in canada When converted to us prices is three dollars and 67 cents per gallon And that's in the cheap part of canada and that's before the carbon tax Now that the carbon taxes here prices are going up in bc It's even higher a lot higher. So we'll see Now that alberta has joined the ranks of people who are against the carbon tax I think that maybe we have stand a good chance at getting it eliminated Because it's a big cash grab that takes money out of our pockets that could go to food to put on my table And it does nothing like i'm not Slowing down driving at all. I still have to deliver my freight I still have to burn the fuel. I have to burn to get the freight from point a to point b There's no alternative for me. I have to do this It's how I put food on the table So it's not really fair to take money out of my pocket when you don't provide me with a viable alternative right Anyways, enough of that This guy should be done fueling soon and then we can get fuel. I'm going to go inside and have a shower after that And then we're in canada hour and a half or so and we'll be in canada I wanted to stop at the gym today in moose jaw But i'm running kind of tight on time. I have to deliver this freight tomorrow as early as possible in Calgary So it looks like maybe we'll go to the gym in Calgary tomorrow. I don't know if you can tell or not, but We just entered the nation of canada On highway 39 like a full day's drive to Calgary. We have seven and a half hours available to us to drive today yet And when the rest will do tomorrow morning And uh, i'm not doing my usual 60 mile an hour anymore I'm doing the full speed limit that I can legally do Because we need to get this load unloaded tomorrow We need to get unloaded tomorrow and get reloaded because I just realized that when I'm filming this this coming friday The day after tomorrow is good friday So Nothing's open. We can't work on good friday Well, I'll be driving but this weekend is easter. So in order for me to get home for easter I have to Get unloaded and reloaded tomorrow and book it home. I have a load that's delivering in winnipeg. I think uh I guess that would be monday easter monday But I hope you guys uh, you guys are watching this after the easter season. I hope you guys had a great easter celebration It's always a a great season it also signifies The beginning of spring For those of you who may not be religious Take it as a nice holiday right before spring to celebrate all the nice weather ahead For me easter has some special significance and if possible, I like to be home for it We've got a slow moving train crossing the road here, do we? Wouldn't it be nice if there was some kind of invention something that we could create or construct? Wouldn't it be nice if she would stop interrupting me What I was trying to say is wouldn't there be wouldn't it just be amazing if we could just construct something so that The train could pass by and we could pass by at the exact same time, you know like Passing over the train or maybe passing under the train. I don't know These are things that uh don't exist out here apparently Dad, why did they stop? I don't know man Train stopped right on the road Just my luck I also had a long wait at the border a really long wait Oh, just started to move again. I had to wait an hour at the border Just to cross when I got to the to the window Less than 30 seconds and I was cleared to go through but I had to wait an hour to get up to the window So it's been a delay after delay today At least I'm on Canadian hours of service now So I have two extra hours to drive But I only have four hours 49 minutes left on my 16 hour day now So we'll get as far as we can and it'll be a short night just stopping for our minimum eight hour requirement requirement requirement And then we'll be off I'm hoping to be able to unload like before noon tomorrow, but it looks like it might be afternoon Which means we're gonna have to rush to get reloaded like rush rush At least my reload isn't too far away from where I'm unloading. So Hopefully it'll all work out Otherwise, I'll be sitting in Calgary until Monday morning. So Friday Saturday Sunday Monday three days I'll be sitting around in Calgary. I mean Calgary is a great place to hang out. It's not like that's A bad thing is that rather spend that time at home, you know, I had to spend last week and hanging out in Wisconsin already. So I'd like to go home, but Trucking, you know, we'll just let trucking decide Beautiful out here though. All the weather is finally finally agreeing Absolutely gorgeous out there that train's moving pretty good now already. Wow That was fast Before we get started, I want to give a quick shout out to transportation nation network I have partnered with them to bring you the best in trucking entertainment and trucking news on the web Go to their website transportation nation.com and you will find that it is your one-stop shop for everything trucking There's a lot of great trucking shows and entertainment there as well I encourage you to go sign up on their website and subscribe to their shows. 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Come on, come on, let's go. Pfft, pfft, pfft. Deep, deep breath. So he takes a deep breath. They're saying prayers in the crowd. Get me an out anyway we can. Whoa, pick off and no way they get him. Look at Sonny's front foot on the pitcher. His front foot, he kind of gets into his position and on that movement, Correa breaks toward the base and I'm guessing there's like a one Mississippi, two Mississippi, three, something like that. And then Vlad, he's like, oh, I gotta get back. And then he has to do a swim move and it's just not gonna work out for him.
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It's DDK and guess what? 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MGT723_Topic104 | Labor Policy
MGT723 - Labor Policy by Mr. Rehan Aziz
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2024-02-08T20:25:17
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और है, चोर्षिय द़ारी पाक्तिस्तानís the course is Labour Policy Pakistan ल़वे ल़ड़ंग के थाईगी। And the topic in hand is ल़ड़्दंगाए काओगगगखगगगगग जब्यक्गे। Lord Dhanning's judicial thoughts अमने जस्टर् स्वान्चु के मुतल्लक बी पडा उनके लिगल तोट्स को भी दिसकिस किया, जस्टर् सदाएतुला को भी पडा अमने जस्टर्स के सी दास गुप्ता को भी पडा ये एक यह इंगलिष जज है, लोट डनिंग ये क्या कैते हैं हैं, अंटर्पतेशन अप लो कुछ भी इन्वसी हो, इस लिए मुख्तलिफ जो लोग जुटीषल तोट्स के जिमन में जो बातें करते हैं, वो आप तक पूंच ना बड़ा जुडुज। लोट डनिंग कनाम आल्पर् तोमसन तोम डनिंग है, मिरालोटी तुवियन अप दे हाईकोट अप जुस्टिस, अंट्राश्वर्ट तो दे किंख्स बंच्टुवियन इन नाइन्टिन फोट्टीप प्वाई. जिस चक्स के मुदलिक बात होगी है, वो बहुत बडे पुर्फाइल का अध्मी है, यहाभर फरीडवक स्पीच के मुदलिक जु लोस्द डनिएñoon ke views हैं, वो बहुत कमाल के वीज है, और आप को पता है, यह सबजग़़ भीज्ग़ा बओर तो वीर्द्भी ऍेम किस्बावाओति का विस्दा है, और yih demokratik right hai. लोग दन्ग केते हैं। प्रीदम अप श्पीच मेन्स नोट अन लिए फ्रीदम ते विव्स विद विज यु बगरी यो आप प्रीदम ते विव्स विज यू व्ये थे दिप्लोर ना ये यो आप खयना चाते है कि लेक है के आज से वूस को सुन्ना जो के आपको प्रसांद नहीं है, आप नको हेट करते हैं, वो भी प्रीडम अप स्पीच का हिसा हैं, what a unique concept as a matter of fact given by Lord Denning as regards freedom of speech, my dear student. लोग देनिंग ये कते हैं, के I have always held that a case in a court of justice should be open for all and for newspapers to report, to Lord Denning my student people say, I am eccentric and frail, well I may be frail in body and hearing, but I hope my state of mind is as alert as ever, it was that I am going to speak my mind as freely as I have ever done. I am a common man and I speak for the common people of England and from the letters I receive the great majority agree with me. देखे कैसी जबरस बात है, ये एक जस्टरस हैंगलेंट के, ये उनका विय। है, के मैं जो भी बाद करता हूँ, वो कोमन आद्मी की बाद करता हूँ, अर मेरे प्फैसले जो हैं, ये कूमन आद्मी की पैसलें है, और उसकी बेत्री की थाई पैसले हैं, तो लेभर लोई is what. तो गर खिर लग ल मेंगषार।, जच्योंब पासे तब रवाद़ि, चवार धित आदबादाने है. सब थी आज़े ग़दानें, गर चवादोंगे लगाड़दाने, पहुपने की कबसाईणे, यह करे कुच यह आटिकलिया जो प्रोवियेंज है फुछ में है तो यह यह दॉटी आप दाज है के, वो, गंस्ट्रक्तट। तास्क इस जिमन में खरे और सही स्पिरेत तो लोग को बहेर लेग कर आई. इस जिमन में लोट डानिग यह भी कैतें है, यह के इंटर्प्टेशन करते हूए, सोचल कंटीशन को मदे नजर रखे, और उस में सप्लिमेंटरी वोड़ जिस्ट्रा के अस्तमाल करे, के जो इंटेंश्चन अप देलाजिस्लिचर है, वो भाहिर लेया है. अप यह अंटर्स्टोट तोपेक, इंटर्चिन ती.
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The Hindu News Analysis | 17th November 2019 | Daily Current Affairs - UPSC Mains - Prelims 2020
Handwritten Notes in PDF Format: https://drive.google.com/open?id=10IyVeGPmzglixZ1cHHI3HeLDrEtkAebB Handwritten Notes convenient for printing: i) Single side per page – https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rCAwnTC2Ws3Qg-UokUv31rCUm9LeKJIo ii) Double side per page – https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Z_6ZHns1zVsKcRK_TJX9hrMTSxLw6lRM Time Stamping of News Articles: 1. Fixing a minimum wage (FAQ) - 0:21 2. ‘Wasteland conversion threatens livelihoods, ecological balance’ - 10:13 3. Long-standing conundrum on the Sun’s atmosphere solved - 22:16 4. What are the surveillance laws in India? (FAQ) - 27:32 5. Practice cum Revision - MCQs - 40:14 Important topics such as #CodeOnWages2019 #WastelandsAtlas2019 #CoronaTemperature #SurveillanceVsPrivacyInIndia are vividly discussed in UPSC Civil Services Exam Perspective with a Special Practice Questions Discussion in the end of the video. For daily ‘The Hindu’ News Analysis - https://youtu.be/IBbNuzKLmcc How to Prepare for Prelims 2020? https://www.shankariasacademy.com/blog-post/civil-service-exams-strategy-works/ Online Courses Link : https://www.shankariasacademy.com/upsc-ias-ips-online-course/ Admissions Chennai - https://www.shankariasacademy.com/upsc-ias-ips-admission/ Bangalore - https://www.shankariasacademy.com/bengaluru/ Trivandrum - https://www.shankariasacademy.com/thiruvananthapuram/
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Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar A.S. Academy, displayed are the list of news articles taken for today's analysis and their page numbers in different editions of the newspaper. The link for the handwritten notes and the time stamping of the discussed articles are provided in the description box and it is also provided in the comment section for the benefit of mobile phone viewers. Now let us move on to the analysis of first news article. This article is with reference to fixing a minimum wage or a floor wage. The syllabus 11 for the analysis of this news article has been highlighted here for your reference. We have known that the Ministry of Labor and Employment has taken several steps to formulate four labor codes and these steps are taken based on the recommendations of Second National Commission on Labor and some of the codes that are drafted are codon wages, codon industrial relations, codon social security and welfare, and codon occupational safety, health and working conditions. See these four codes are aimed at simplifying and rationalizing the various provisions in 44 central legislations with respect to labor. These codes contain provisions relating to wage, social security, safety, health, grievance, redress mechanisms for workers and other labor provisions. Overall, these initiatives or these codes are expected to provide wage security, social security, occupational safety and decent working conditions for the workers. Now this codon wages 2019, it aims to consolidate the laws relating to wages and bonus matters and this codon wages was already enacted by the parliament and it has become an enforceable legislation after receiving the president's assent on 8th August of 2019. Now the remaining three codes, the codon industrial relations, codon social security and welfare and codon occupational safety, health and working conditions, they have not yet become an enforceable legislation because they are at different stages of enactment. Now this codon wages 2019, it aims to regulate the provisions of minimum wages and the provisions of bonuses and also timely payment of wages for all kinds of employees, say for example unskilled employees, semi-skilled employees, skilled employees, highly skilled employees and these provisions has to be adhered by any industry, trade or business or a manufacturer. Now this codon wages has subsumed four central labor laws, they are minimum wages act of 1948, payment of wages act of 1936, payment of bonus act of 1965 and equal remuneration act of 1976 and once code of wages has become an enforceable legislation all the four central acts stands repealed. Now this codon wages is significant because it seeks to fix the statutory floor wage for minimum wages so as to ensure minimum living standards for workers all across the country. Now here when we say floor wage it means a level below which minimum wage should not go. For example if government decides to fix floor wage at say 10,000 per month then the minimum wage for the month should not go below the floor wage. So now there are various consultations being carried out by ministry of labor and employment regarding fixing the national floor wage and as per codon wages recently the ministry has released draft rules to implement the provisions of codon wages and it has asked to give suggestions and feedback by 1st December 2019 and this draft rules that are released recently are called as preliminary draft of central wages rules that are coming under the steps to be taken based on section 67 of codon wages 2019. This code asks this code states that the minimum rate of wages shall be fixed on the day basis keeping in view of certain criteria and these are one the standard working class family includes a spouse and two children apart from the earning worker or in other words an equivalent of three adult consumption units then a net intake of 2700 calories per day for one person then 66 meters cloth for one year for one standard working class family then house rent expenditure to constitute 10 percent of food and clothing expenditure then fuel electricity and other miscellaneous items of expenditure to constitute 20 percent of minimum wage and then expenditure for children education medical requirement recreation and expenditure on contingencies and these things to constitute 25 percent of minimum wages. So this is with respect to minimum wages under the draft rules regarding floor wages the draft rules are saying that in rule 11 that the central advisory board constituted by the central government has to be consulted for fixing base rate of floor wage it has to take into consideration minimum living standards for at least three adult consumption units and it should take care of food needs clothing needs housing needs and other factors considered appropriate by the central government but for floor wages they have not clearly earmarked these are the criteria similar to how we saw for minimum wages in the draft rules under rule three earlier an expert committee was constituted by the labor ministry and this committee in February this year they have recommended a need-based national minimum wage for India and they sought to fix it at rupees 375 for one day so it will come to around close to 10,000 per month to be accurate 9,750 per month here when we say month it refers to 26 working days so 375 into 26 9,750 and in 2015 there was one another recommendation this was from the 7th central pay commission it recommended setting rupees 18,000 per month as minimum pay for government employees so fixing minimum wages or fixing this floor wage would require consideration of various parameters across various sections and across various category of workers also now let's see how this national floor wage will affect the economy as a whole see the minimum wage system in our country has to be designed considering the aim of achieving inclusive growth even this was stressed by one of the economic surveys released recently by the government a statutory national minimum wage or a statutory national floor wage this will have multiple impacts for example it will help to elevate or to lift the wage levels of the workers and it will reduce wage inequality and it will also reduce poverty levels in our country and therefore it will propel inclusive growth and if the wages of the workers increase it means the purchasing power parity of the employees will also increase if the purchasing power parity increases then it will create demand in the economy therefore higher wages or at least a statutory minimum wage or a guaranteed minimum wage will induce consumption led economic growth while at the same time a standard family could maintain its requirements without much trouble now if you see the demands of workers associations after the release of draft rules on november 1 2019 they are saying that there is still lack of clarity with respect to the definition of nine-hour working day whether this nine hour will include leisure time of taking breaks or lunchtime or tea break or not it is still not clear and there is still lack of clarity about upgradation of workers skill whether it is the responsibility of the organization so as to pay for upgradation of skills of workers or it is totally the burden of the workers to upgrade their skill for enriching their skill to benefit company or a factory or whether it is based on contribution from both sides there is still lack of clarity and they are also saying that there is lack of representation for trade unions in the wage fixation committee what is this committee if you see section 8 of code of wages 2019 it talks about fixing minimum rates of wages for the first time under this code of wages 2019 wherein a committee has to be constituted and this committee will hold inquiries and this committee will recommend fixation or revision of minimum wage rates in this committee and there shall be members representing employees but note that the workers or the employees shall be equal in number with respect to the members representing employers and there shall also be independent persons but these persons should not exceed one-third of total members of the committee that is they should not exceed 33 percent of total members of committee now the workers associations are demanding representation for trade unions in this committee now if you see the concerns raised by employers associations they are talking about if we have a statutory minimum floor wage or if the floor wage is higher then that will erode the revenues of a company or a factory or a unit and they have also raised concerns if we increase the wage level it will also lead to inflation because now there will be increased purchasing power parity more people will be chasing towards less number of goods as a result there will be inflation so this is also being highlighted by the employers associations so these are some of the information with respect to the analysis of this news article now the success of the code on wages will be determined by the extent to which the minimum wage is set or the floor wage is set and this floor wage has to be fair and it has to be actually implemented to benefit millions of workers particularly in the unorganized sectors of our country now let us move on to the analysis of next news article this news article is with reference to the recently released the wastelands atlas of india 2019 the syllabus relevant for the analysis of this news article has been highlighted here for your reference first let's see few information with reference to the wastelands atlas of india 2019 see this is the fifth edition of wastelands atlas we already have four editions in the years 2000 2005 2010 and 2011 and this recently released atlas is the fifth edition this atlas is prepared by department of land resources in collaboration with the national remote sensing center here the department of land resources comes under ministry of rural development and the national remote sensing center comes under department of space now this 2019 edition it provides district and statewide distribution of different categories of wastelands area comparing to previous editions this edition has covered those areas that were not covered under previous editions particularly those areas under the erstwhile jammu and kashmir state atlas presents the changes in the wastelands between 2008 9 and 2015 16 the atlas presents the extent and scenario with respect to around 23 categories of wastelands for example a land affected by moderate salinity or moderate alkalinity it is also a wasteland and a land affected by strong alkalinity or strong salinity it is also a wasteland so what is a wasteland what do we refer when we say wasteland see it refers to degraded lands which are currently underutilized and these degraded lands are deteriorating because of absence of or because of lack of appropriate soil and water management strategies or these lands are degrading or being currently underutilized because of natural causes for example flooding or for example permanent water logging and various other reasons so according to this atlas wastelands occupy around approximately 17 percent of the total geographical area of our country for the year 2015 16 and when we compare to the year 2008 9 there is a decrease of wastelands and this decrease of wastelands is to the tune of around 1.45 million hectares that is around some 14,500 square kilometers and the decrease is because much area of wasteland category has been converted to non-wasteland categories since 2008 9 to 2015 16 the news article talks about some of the wastelands that have reduced in terms of their area because of conversion for example dense scrubs waterlogged and marshy land sandy areas degraded pastures in other words degraded grazing land and gullyden ravineous land here when we say dense scrub it refers to very thick vegetation of standard trees or bushes these degraded lands with dense scrub will have shallow and skeletal soils and mostly they have chemically degraded soils when we say marshy land or waterlogged land this is a type of wetland where water covers the ground for a long period of time as a result we cannot utilize this land for various purposes in the wasteland at least these sandy areas are classified into riverine sands coastal sands desert sands and two categories of semi stabilized to two stabilized dunes one greater than 40 meter height than the other 15 to 40 meter height and when we say degraded pastures or degraded grazing land this refers to those lands which are used by cattle for grazing but have become unfit for use and gully and ravines are two extreme forms of soil erosion here gully is a narrow channel when surface water flow increases in response to clearing and excessive use of land in the terminology of wastelands because of clearing and because of excessive use of land when surface water flow increases because of erosion a narrow channel is formed it may be in the form of v-shaped channel this channel is called as a gully and an intricate network of gullies is referred as ravines and there are two categories of ravines medium ravines and deep ravines based on their depth the depth is between 2.5 to 5 meters they are called as medium ravines and deep ravines are those ravines that are more than 5 meters deep and the news article mentions that more than 50 percent of the entire wasteland that has been converted between 2008 9 to 1516 of the converted land 50 percent is in the state of Rajasthan here large areas of scrub and sands they have been converted to cultivable crop land and Rajasthan has also set up solar parks in the wastelands so that the wastelands can be converted to industrial use for the protection of renewable energy a few other states that have seen largest conversion of wastelands are you know Uttar Pradesh Bihar and some other states now see this picture it mentions some of the wasteland categories that have been converted most into productive use between 2008 9 to 1516 so here you can observe that most conversion has taken place in the wasteland category land with dense scrub followed by snow covered or glacial area then sand areas then underutilized or degraded forest and then shifting cultivation and followed by other categories now with respect to conversion of wastelands say for example it could be into a solar parks or it could be into a cultivable crop land there are two opinions mentioned in this news article one from the side of government and other from the side of environmental policy researchers and environmentalist and persons fighting for environmental rights now from the side of government it states that there is an urgent need to improve productivity of existing cultivated lands and we also require additional land for cultivation this is required to feed the entire population of India see our cultivation has to support our population with the limited land resources it is mentioned that we are having more than 16% of world's population but our land area is just 2.4% of world's geographical area and in terms of grazing lands it is said that our country has just 2.5% of world's grazing lands but we have more than 18% of world's cattle population so there is tremendous pressure on land resources so to bring additional land under cultivation the government has been encouraging wasteland conversion at the same time the wastelands can also be utilized for any other productive use those wastelands which have the potential to produce food grains they can be used for cultivation and those wastelands would have potential to generate solar energy they will be converted into solar parks and some wastelands will be just converted to provide vegetation cover here the news article also mentions about the government's target to restore 26 million hectares of degraded land or wasteland by the year 2030 now with respect to restoration earlier we had a target of just 21 million hectares by 2030 but in the recent 14th session of COP to the United Nations Convention to Compact Desertification the prime minister has increased the target to 26 million from 21 million hectares of degraded land we know that the 14th session of COP to UNCCD held in New Delhi in September 2019 now this target of restoration comes under target under bond challenge and also under land degradation neutrality now on 10th September we have discussed about bond challenge land degradation neutrality and few other issues with reference to the developments regarding the 14th COP of UNCCD you may refer the analysis on 10th September for more information now this news article presents a fact that in some areas wastelands conversion is happening unmindfully that is these areas where some conversion has happened impacts the livelihoods of certain communities for example pastoral communities who depend on common grazing land environmental policy researchers saying that the pastoralist communities and there are some communities and nomadic farmers who depend on scrub forest and open scrub land for the purpose of shifting cultivation and with respect to wastelands coming under the category of water logging you know fishermen depend on such marshy waterlogged areas for catching fishes and generating revenue and some of the wastelands protect some unique biodiversity resources and the article mentions that even these locations that come under the classification of wastelands are also converted and that makes the dependent communities at risk and some category of wastelands act as buffer against flood for example marshy areas near the coast or backwaters and some wastelands act as buffer against droughts and pollution so that the impacts of droughts and pollution may not reach the wider population opinions of the researchers is that some of the wastelands have been common areas for centuries so considering them as unproductive is not right these common areas in southern india have been traditionally called as porambok land they are saying that these lands are owned by the community and these lands cannot be bought sold or built on and in karnataka common grazing areas are called as gomal lands and similar characteristics have been played by several village forest pastures and even lands of grand panchayats since the medieval time period so who categorized these lands as wasteland so it was carried out by the british east india company who categorized these common areas as wasteland because they thought these lands produce no tangible revenue that is they literally cannot feel some some revenue being generated out of these lands with the colonial interest we can say that here the revenue they meant is for them that is for the british east india company the news article also mentions some examples from the city of chennai wastelands for example pallikarni marshland or enur creek backwaters these areas have been converted into industrial or you know built up residential and office areas and conversion of these wastelands into industrial areas or residential areas is one of the reason why chennai was affected the most during the 2015 flood situation and the backwaters they protect inland water resources from the salinity of seawater and these backwaters also protect inland water resources or inland from seawater inundation also these marshy lands and backwaters they store water for dry seasons so these lands when they converted for some other use it means the role of these lands as buffers from the environmental viewpoint has been totally neglected so end of the day this article suggests that in those areas which come under present wastelands category under the wasteland at less whichever having bearing on environment or bearing on certain communities these lands should not be converted for other uses and the government has to adopt some standards with respect to conversion of wastelands so these are some of the information with reference to this news article now let's move on to next news article this news article provides answer to the puzzle why the temperature of corona is higher than the temperature of sun's outer surface the syllabus relevant for the analysis of this news article has been highlighted here for your reference first we have to know that sun is classified into three broad zones one is the core then radiative zone then convection zone the surface of the sun is located in convection zone and from the top of convection zone till 250 miles above the surface of the sun that is above the convection zone it is called as photosphere then from 250 miles to 1300 miles is called as chromosphere and the area from 1300 miles to furthermore is called as the corona see this news article is based on a research study which focused on surface temperature of sun and also the atmospheric temperature of the sun here atmospheric temperature of the sun refers to the temperature of the atmosphere of the sun and this research study aimed to find the reason why sun's atmosphere particularly the corona is hotter than its surface the temperature of core of the sun is around 15 million degrees Celsius but if you see the temperature of the photosphere it is just 5700 degrees Celsius but if you see the temperature of corona it is higher than the temperature of the photosphere the temperature starts increasing outside the photosphere and it reaches a value of about one million degrees or even more in some cases in the corona but if you see logically we would expect that when we move away from a hotter body or a hot object the temperature has to steadily decrease because there is no extra source of heat involved but with respect to sun the temperature rises to one million degrees in corona when compared to the sun's surface where temperatures are comparably much lower so this implies that there should be a source that heats up corona many scientists have attempt to solve this puzzle however recently a team of solar physicists they have made observations and have matched it with an analysis that explains the puzzle or the conundrum they are saying that there are solar spicules if you see this picture it looks like tiny hair like projections these jets are called as solar spicules in reality these spicules are having the width of around 200 to 500 kilometers and they shoot up to heights of up to around 5000 kilometer above the solar surface news article mentions that it has been suspected that these spicules act as conduits that is how it can act like a channel that can carry mass and energy from sun's surface to corona by bypassing photosphere that is how these solar spicules act as conduits or channels through which hot plasma from the sun is carried into the corona region here when we say plasma we are referring to a stream of charged particles that are ejected from the upper atmosphere of sun and while carrying out this research scientists have used one principle to arrive at a conclusion and this principle is that objects emit light of different wavelengths when they are at different temperatures that is objects at different temperatures emit light of different wavelengths so using this principle the scientists have observed the temperature changes so now let us see how the scientists were able to observe various changes that are happening at the sun's atmosphere and also in sun's surface scientists were able to do this by the help of solar telescope the telescope used by the research team for their observations is called as good solar telescope and it is said that this is the world's largest solar telescope a telescope which absorbs sun and it is located at big beer solar observatory in california of united states this solar telescope has nasa's interface region imaging spectrograph instrument which is also called as the near infrared spectro polarimeter this instrument can measure optical properties of sunlight or solar light using this instrument in the telescope they were able to observe the spikeules and they even confirmed that the temperature in the corona is higher when compared to sun's surface after carrying out observations of the changes in the spikeules using this good solar telescope they matched these observations with the simultaneous observations from the atmospheric imaging assembly that is located in nasa's solar dynamic observatory spacecraft see this solar dynamic observatory spacecraft of nasa is located in the space it also absorbs sun so from this news article you know the layers of sun's atmosphere and the reason why the corona is having higher temperature compared to the surface of the sun and about good solar telescope and also about the nasa's solar dynamic observatory spacecraft now let us move on to the analysis of next news article now this news article has appeared in the newspaper in the backdrop of recent snooping activities that were carried out on journalists some lawyers you know some persons working for the welfare of oppressed sections and persons working for the development of persons belonging to the schedule cars and schedule tribes and the persons who are human rights defenders and human rights activists so simply we can say the snooping activities were carried out among persons belonging to civil society organizations so the spyware that was used has been allegedly developed by an Israeli technological firm called us the NSO group the name of the spyware is Pegasus and this spyware was introduced into the personal mobile phones of the attacked persons through a vulnerability in whatsapp call feature so the syllabus relevant for the analysis of this news article has been highlighted here for your reference now that the snooping activity has come to light whatsapp and its parent company facebook has filed a lawsuit against the NSO group that is the Israeli cyber intelligence firm for using whatsapp platform to use the malaysian software Pegasus Pegasus is a malware malware is the short form for malaysian software where Pegasus is actually a spyware it is said that once the spyware takes control of your mobile phone it can auto record videos or audios and it can carry out other functions without the knowledge of the user but NSO group claims that it sells the spyware only to governments across the world to fight terror and crime so if we go by the words of NSO group this means that some government agencies only have snooped on the activities of persons of civil society however Indian government has denied purchasing or dealing with Pegasus and it has also asked whatsapp to explain the security breach in the interest of Indian citizens so in this context let's first discuss the status of surveillance in India two important legislations govern surveillance in India one is the Indian telegraph act of 1885 and the other is the information technology act of 2000 the Indian telegraph act deals with interception of calls whereas the information technology act deals with the interception of data see both the legislations permit only the government to conduct surveillance that too under special circumstances so in India surveillance by private players or private actors is an offense and section 43 of information technology act mentions the penalty and compensation for causing damage to a computer system this section 43 mentions that any person who accesses a computer system or who extracts any data from a system or who introduces any virus to the computer steals destroys or deletes any information from a computer system and few other situations if such an activity is carried out without the permission of the owner of the system then the person shall be liable to pay compensation to the affected persons so according to this national legislation the person or the entity which carried out the snooping activity on Indian citizens they have to pay compensation and section 66 deals with the punishment for this the punishment is imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with fine which may extend even to five lakh rupees or with both imprisonment and fine so this is about the person who carries out this activity now what about the person who receives the information from the person who carried out this activity the section 66 capital B of IT act it mentions punishment for dishonestly receiving stolen computer resource or communication so there is imprisonment fine and both imprisonment may extend to the tune of three years now the question is whether these legislations have enough checks and balances against arbitrary surveillance see earlier 1996 supreme court has said that there was a lack of procedural safeguards in the indian telegraph act so in this line the government had later introduced the indian telegraph amendment rules 2007 now these amendment rules introduced one rule called as rule 419 capital A to the indian telegraph rules of 1951 this rule talks about who can issue a direction for interception this can be normally issued only by the union home secretary at the central government and a state home secretary at the level of states and later the government also introduced IT rules in the year 2009 under the information technology act this rules is called as IT procedures and safeguards for interception monitoring and decryption of information rules wherein rule 4 states that competent authority that is secretary of home affairs at the central government or state home secretary may authorize an agency of the government to intercept or monitor or decrypt information for various purposes mentioned in section 69 of IT act know that section 69 empowers central government and state governments to issue directions for monitoring interception decryption of any information that is transmitted received stored through a computer resource which also includes mobile phones so in line with section 69 and in line with rule 4 of IT rules the central government has recently released a notification in December 2018 the ministry involved is ministry of home affairs here the government has authorized 10 security and intelligence agencies for the purposes of interception monitoring and decryption of any information that is generated transmitted received or stored in any computer resource and these institutions are intelligence bureau narcotics control bureau enforcement directorate central board of direct taxes directorate of revenue intelligence central bureau of investigation national investigation agency cabinet secretariat that is the research and analysis wing in the cabinet secretariat then directorate of signal intelligence for the service areas of jammu keshmir northeast and asam and finally the commission of police of tally here we may say that central bureau of investigation is just an investigating body but this notification mentions all these 10 agencies as security and intelligence agencies so this notification was criticized heavily in the civil society and also in the media reports many sections stated that the government is building a surveillance state where the surveillance takes supremacy over the individual rights of citizens with respect to private matters or privacy so what about right to privacy in India what about its status we know that in 2017 the highest court of appeal that is the supreme court gave a verdict in justice ks puttaswamy versus union of india wherein supreme court stated that right to privacy is a fundamental right under article 14 article 19 and article 21 of indian constitution well that is a statement made by the supreme court which becomes a case law according to article 141 of indian constitution the reality or the current ground situation is that there still remains a gray area between right to privacy and the state's concern over the national security in 2017 the government also constituted a data protection committee under the championship of justice b and sri krishna this committee has held a number of public hearings across india and has finally submitted a draft data protection law in the year 2018 but even though they have submitted a draft law for data protection a law on this matter has not yet been enacted by the indian parliament and even there have been some criticisms that the law suggested by justice sri krishna committee also having some loopholes as it does not deal adequately with surveillance reforms one of the very important parameter that is required in whatever law that deals with data protection is the punishment and the responsibility and accountability for a person who is from the government and who is found guilty of misusing the provisions of a data protection law such a provision has to be included in any data protection law for that matter so these are some of the existing mechanisms existing provisions with respect to surveillance in our country now let's discuss the situation in few other countries if you take united states in united states the government has to obtain a warrant from a court of law in case of electronic surveillance the agencies need to submit a cause to justify that a surveillance is required and they have to mention how much time they will be carrying out the surveillance activity and they have also described the nature of conversation that is to be intercepted however even in united states there are few exceptions or emergency circumstances under which a government may proceed without a warrant but recently since 2013 the US government have been heavily criticized by its civil society because of the revelations made by the whistleblower edwards noden who was formerly a contractor of the united states national security agency he leaked certain reports which gave enough information that the US government has been collecting information on millions of its citizens and even some of the foreign nationals and in fact it also has used the legislation called us US patriot act which it enacted after 9-11 2001 attacks this USA patriot act is the short form for uniting and strengthening America by providing appropriate tools required to intercept and obstruct terrorism edwards noden criticized that this legislation has been used by the US government to snoop on its citizens so we can say that in us there is no clear balance between right to privacy and concerns over national security then the article talks about a survey that is conducted by a UK based security firm called us compare it now this firm has surveyed 47 countries to see where governments to identify those countries where the governments are failing to protect privacy that is where the governments are creating surveillance states and the survey has found that only five countries of these 47 countries had adequate safeguards against arbitrary data breach and these five countries are Norway, Ireland, France, Portugal, Denmark so India has to adopt the best practices from these five countries whenever it is to enact a data protection law and in striking a balance between national security concerns and the right to privacy now let's see two three reasons why Norway is called as a country that has adequate safeguards one reason is that it has a law to address data protection issues that is it has a law for data protection then Norway is known for finding companies that are not protecting data of individuals that is if a person's data somehow leaks from a private company that company will be fined enough that they will not be repeating that mistake again then Norway is also known for protecting freedom of speech know that it has been ranked number one in world press freedom index continuously for a period of three years till 2018 similarly there are some provisions why Ireland or France or Portugal or Denmark are called as those countries which have adequate safeguards with respect to protecting privacy against arbitrary data breach however three countries having very weak framework and India features among these countries and also its neighbor China along with Russia the main reason why India could not fare better in this survey is because of absence of a personal data protection legislation to protect its citizens so anyway assume a legislation for personal data protection has to be enacted and a competent authority for data protection has to be appointed so this will ensure right to privacy as a fundamental right to be upheld in letter and spirit of course it will also help the government to strike a balance between right to privacy and national security so these are some of the information with reference to the analysis of this article that appeared in FAQ section this question is with reference to the code on wages 2019 the code seeks to regulate the provisions of minimum wages bonuses and timely payment of wages of which of the following employees unskilled employees semi-skilled employees managers any members of the armed forces of the union now note that the code on wages defines for the provisions under this code employee refers to any person employed on wages who may be a skilled employee or who is employed to do unskilled work manual work operational work supervisory work or managerial work or administrative technical or even clerical work they come under the definition of employee even those persons who work under state government also defined as employee but note that the employee definition according to this code for the provisions under this code does not include any member of armed forces of the union also it does not include an apprentice engaged under the Apprentices Act of 1961 so the correct answer for this question is option b 1 2 and 3 this question is with reference to the wasteland atlas of India 2019 two statements have been given they are asking which of the above statements are incorrect the first statement the total area of wastelands in India has increased in 2015-16 when compared to 2008-9 data they have given exact wrong statement the total area of wastelands in India has decreased in 2015-16 comparing to 2008-9 data so the first statement is incorrect now you can eliminate option b and option d now the second statement it is prepared by the department of land resources in collaboration with the national remote sensing center now this statement is correct it is prepared by department of land resources which comes under ministry of rural development in collaboration with national remote sensing center which comes under department of space second statement is correct answer is asking for which of the statements are incorrect only the first statement is incorrect therefore the correct answer is option a now this question is with reference to the terms spikule and corona the terms spikule and corona recently seen in news are related to which of the following celestial body it's a simple question the answer for this question is option d it is sun and these terms have appeared in newspaper with reference to explaining why in corona that is in the atmosphere of sun has higher temperature compared to the sun's surface the reason told was because of the solar spikules from the sun these solar spikules are like hot springs that emanate from the surface of the sun or act like jets that transfer mass and energy like a channel into the corona so the correct answer for this question is option d now for the given mains practice question you may post your answers in the comment section or you may hand write or you may post the link of the hand written answer sheets after taking a photograph and uploading it to your drive and changing the sharing settings says anyone with the link can view with this we come to the end of today's the hindu news analysis if you like the video click the like button comment share and subscribe to shankaray's academy youtube channel for more updates and content on civil service example preparation
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Sheikha Ieasha Prime gives practical and spiritual insights about sincere and thoughtful Ramadan intentions carrying us into the other 11 months after each Ramadan. - More sessions for Muslimahs: http://mcceastbay.org/women - More Ustadha Prime: http://mcceastbay.org/prime - Hafidha Suzane Derani & Ustadha Dr. Rania Awaad's Receive Ijaza in Ten Recitations of Qur'an: https://youtu.be/YyC5HYcGi0c This talk was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California, on April 15, 2023. Ieasha Prime is the Director of Women’s Programming at Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Virginia and the founder of the DC Muslim Women’s Conference. She converted to Islam more than 20 years ago after being a Youth Ambassador to Morrocco and Senegal. There she developed a thirst for knowledge that would cause her to sit at the feet and learn from some of the top Islamic Scholars of our time. After having participated in several circles of knowledge in the US, Ieasha decided to pursue religious studies abroad. She studied Arabic, and Quran at the Fajr Institute in Cairo, Egypt. Later, she moved to Hadramaut, Yemen and enrolled in Dar al Zahra, an Islamic University for Women. There she studied Aqeedah, Quran, Hadith, Arabic, Jurisprudence (Fiqh), Islamic law, Purification of the Heart and other religious related learning. She has received several scholarly licenses (ijaza). The work that she is most committed to and enjoys have been the development of Islamic programming, Islamic Studies curriculum and Rites of Passage programs for youth and adults. The majority of her life has been as an educator and activist. She is most passionate about combining Islamic studies, cultural art, activism and service for the purpose of training leaders to rise above whatever challenges stand in their way and that of the community they serve. In addition to her full-time work, she is the co-founder and Executive Director of Barakah INC, an organization committed to training Muslim women in traditional Islamic sciences with a focus on modern application. Sister Ieasha is recently known for her participation in the National Women’s March, and the courses she teaches on traditional knowledge, the challenges of race and gender in the Muslim community and Spirituality. Ieasha Prime is a proud wife and mother of three children. More MCC East Bay: Calendar of Events: http://www.mcceastbay.org/calendar Weekly Updates: http://www.mcceastbay.org/newsletter Support MCC: https://www.mcceastbay.org/sadaqa Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MCCPleasanton Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mcceastbay
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Okay, what in the world are you doing here? I'm not kidding. What are you doing here in this much shit at 120 at night? What are you doing here? I'm asking you a sincere question. Why are you doing here? Listening to me girl, I hope you got a better intention Come closer to Allah wa lilahin hamd may Allah grant you that what else are you doing here to learn more? You do that a daytime What are you doing here? All right to do the boogie-woogie is that what don't you tell nobody you came here to do the boogie-woogie I don't know what she's talking about. I don't know her at all Okay, I Want us the reason I asked you that question is because I want us to make like some some Intention some serious ones right because we know the beloved messenger of Allah He told us that every action is by his intention and you will be dealt with according to what you intended which is I Can't tell you the level of mercy from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala that is connected to the hadith like You're gonna give me what I intend Even if it's even if I didn't attain it if I didn't actually reach it But you're gonna give it to me because that's what I intended Subhanallah, so I'm like, okay. Well, that's easy So let's make some intentions. That's less in this moment. I'm gonna call some out You snatch them up put them in your heart All right and root yourself by it So that we know that we're here that we're gonna get the maximum benefit especially in Ramadan Subhanallah may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give us the maximum benefit. All right So we're here by the intention to expose our hearts to the mercy of Allah We're here by the intention to expose our souls to his transformation We're here by the intention to expose our minds to the rectification of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala We're here by the intention of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will heal our hearts that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would remove all of our trauma and Our sadness we're here by the intention of the loss of how to add it would grant us is the comma We're here by the intention to pour our heart out to Allah and for Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to answer our dua We're here by the intention of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would number us amongst those from saw the heen Was only had that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would number us from amongst those who are si'deqeen that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would number us from amongst those that are more going that are near and close to Allah We're here by the intention to the law some time what to add it would grant us an intimacy with him because we see we're Seeking him in the middle of the night We're hereby the intention to seek Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for us and our entire lineage to Yomu Qiyamah. We're hereby the intention to make a means of connection, to be a connection that is strong and steadfast and never breaks for us and our families and our friends and those whom we love and our entire lineage to Yomu Qiyamah. We're hereby the intention that we could be saved from the torment and the grave and the punishment from the Hellfire, even for the blink of an eye. We're hereby the intention that us and our entire lineage and all of our children and those whom we love and our soba would be saved from the fitna of Masih ad-Dajjal. We're hereby the intention to connect to the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam and never break tie with him. We're hereby the intention to be included amongst those who gave a pledge to the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam at the moment of akhaba. Y'a Rabb, be include me with them. We're hereby the intention that Allah swt would number us from the people of Quran. We're hereby the intention that Allah swt would number us amongst those who have vakireen Allahi kathiran. We're hereby the intention that Allah swt would mold and shape us into the servants of his that he's well pleased. We're hereby the intention that Allah swt would love us. We're hereby the intention that Allah swt would grant us and our entire lineage to liyumu qiyama jinnu tofurdul sallala. We're hereby the intention to be with the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam in the dunya and the akhira. We're hereby the intention to be guided by the Prophet in our dreams and our awakened state for our entire lives, us and our entire lineage. We're hereby the intention to seek refuge in Allah like the people of ashab al kath. We're hereby the intention that we can be that we can have a sohbah to strengthen the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. We're hereby the intention that the beloved messenger of Allah alayhi wa sallam would be proud to say that we were from amongst his ummah. We're hereby the intention that Allah swt would grant us the highest levels of success and that we would never fail to dunya and akhira. Allahumma sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen, amen. Please accept all of our intention. We didn't come here for some small. Allah swt talks about those in the Quran who abandoned their beds seeking Allah swt, number that we're from amongst them. So, I'm so honored to be amongst you because there's something that we do together that we can't do alone by ourselves, right? There's something that we bring together. So, why not literally by connecting with each other, right? In this night, we become, we become like a stronger chain, right? We add to the to the barakah of the gathering. It's increased, right? Allah gives us, yeah, He's giving us increase, subhan Allah, subhan Allah, by coming together. And we want to, we want to make sure that we're, we hold firm onto that, right? And so, this minar, I want to talk about some stories in the Quran that you guys are all familiar with, right? You guys all know these stories, subhan Allah. It's just a reminder for inshallah, per chance that it might be a benefit to us. But when we hear these stories, subhan Allah, it's like digging, right? Any time we hear these stories over again, it's like digging. You're doing the same action over and over and over again, right? And for a while it feels like, yes, why are we saying this, reciting the same fact, you have 17 times a day, but then something happens, subhan Allah. And you strike gold, then you strike oil, you find something valuable. It happens in that moment when you've been praying for, you don't know how many years, subhan Allah, a decade, half, you know, more than a decade plus, and you haven't been feeling it. And then one day, subhan Allah, you hit a certain, you get to even. And it hits differently. And your tears began to flow and you realize, I've been doing the same action, but now it's different. And so I'm hoping, by us just reviewing some of these stories of women in the Quran, or even just women that are listed within our tradition, inshaAllah, that we become closer to ourselves and that we know who we are, why Allah subhan Allah created us to begin with. And then what do we have to do with Allah? And what does Allah have to do with us? That's really the question, what does Allah have to do with us? So I want to start off telling you this particular narration. It's like one of my absolute favorite narrations. Well, the beloved messenger of Allah, and he sent out to us, Sam, he's in Isra'at Miraj. He's literally traveling through the heavens with Jibra'el alaihi s-salam, and Isra'at Miraj. And as he's traveling, the Prophet, alaihi s-salam, smells something so beautiful, he can't ignore it. And I want you to imagine this, because the Prophet, alaihi s-salam, when he arrives, right, and he's granted the opening, the literally the skies open up, the Prophet, alaihi s-salam, is greeted by angels up on angels sending salawat. Can you, first of all, we know that the Malaika love good smell. So I just say, so how am I, what the scent must have been like? Right from that, just the smell of the Malaika. Right, the smell of the first heaven and the second heaven and the third heaven. And he sees, seeing subhan Allah of Jannah, what that must have smelled like. But then for the Prophet, salatullah s-salam, to have a smell that exceeded that, that made him stop in his tracks and say, alaihi s-salam, what is that smell? What is that? And he says, oh, this is the smell of the hairdresser of the daughter of Firaum. He doesn't even mention her name. He says, this is the smell of the hairdresser of the daughter of Firaum. First of all, this is like, okay, now I'm really bad at this, so you guys have to help me out. When you're a hairdresser, you're a blue collar worker. Yeah, blue collar worker. I'm not like CEO of a company. You're not like, you know, some high status. You're not coming from like some high status. You're the hairdresser, not a pharaoh's wife, not like the hairdresser of the queen. No, you're the hairdresser of the daughter of Firaum. And so, so Hanama, the hairdresser of the, so the Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, is like, I need to know, like, what is so wonderful and significant about her, that sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, I can smell her, I can smell her while I'm traveling, right through on my journey to meet Allah, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. So tell me, tell me about her. And so he says, well, he begins to narrate to our Prophet, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, that basically one day she's combing the hair of the daughter of Firaum, and she drops the comb. And as she drops the comb, Hanama, she goes on, she picks it up, and she says, Bismillah. And so the daughter turns around and says, what did you say? She said, I said, Bismillah. She said, are you talking about my father? She said, no, no, child. I'm not talking about your father. She says, Allah rabbi wa rabbuq wa rabbil aamin, that Allah is my Lord. And you know, you probably don't know, Allah is your Lord and the Lord of the universe. And so the daughter becomes angry. She's like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell my father what you said. And the hairdresser said in my southern accent, go run, tell that. And so she goes and she tells her father, pompous princess. Daddy, my hairdresser said, Bismillah. And so he says, what? She said, yeah, she's been infected with this religion of Musa. So you know, in father fashion, in tyrannical father fashion, he says, he's got to prove to his daughter, right? Who he is. So he says, well, you go, you tell her to come here. You tell her to report to me. So she comes, right? Here I am. She said, do you believe in the Lord of Musa? She says, Allah rabbi wa rabbuq wa rabbil aamin, talking about speaking truth to power. She's not doing it from like behind a, you know, a screen, typing Facebook, hitting that change button. Oh, but no, she's standing directly in front of him. She knows what he's capable of. She knows all the babies that he's murdered. She knows all the men that he's murdered. And she says, Allah is my Lord and your Lord and the Lord of the universe. And so he says, okay, like I see your boldness. So he says, you know what? I'm not even, in this moment, I'm not even going to address you directly because I see your, you know, how you're presenting yourself. So he orders his soldiers, go bring her entire family and bring them to me. So her husband also worked in the court of Pharaoh. So he brings her husband, they go bring her five children from her home. One of them is an infant baby, like a baby in her arms. And they then, he then orders a cauldron pot to be boiled of oil. Not just water, oil. You know, the difference between water and oil is that when it boils, if it touches you, it's going to stick. So even if you wipe it, it's going to, the skin is going to come with it. So they boil this oil until it's bubbling. And he asked her, say what you've said again. She looks at him and she says, And he looks at her husband and he says, you allowed this? You let this happen? You let her be infected with this religion? And her husband says, And Pharaoh becomes infuriated. He orders his clothes to be ripped off and thrown into this boiling oil. And in front of his wife and his children, they boil him to his bones. And she's standing there watching. I can't imagine. I can't imagine the tears in her eyes or the lump in her. I can't imagine how she must have felt. And then he asked her again. She answered the same way. They started with her oldest child. He asked her again. She responded the same way. He put the next child and the next and the next until she's holding the baby in her arms. And he asked her again. You want to change your mind yet? And at that moment, she looks down at her baby. And of course, with the mother heart, she holds the baby a little bit tighter. And subhanallah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, manifest a miracle in her arms. This is the first child that we know to speak. This child speaks and says, Mama, don't be afraid for you are on sarat al-mustaqim. And literally even in that, even with Pharaoh hearing that, he then becomes more angry, rips the child out of her arm, and then subhanallah boils her, boils the child in this pot. And he asked her again. And she says, I just have one request, bury us in the same grave that we could be together in the Akhirah. I'm not afraid. I know you're only sending me to my Lord. This is a whole level of iman, a whole level of taqwa. And subhanallah, he does the same thing to her. He boils her, all of them alive. And so when the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa sallam hears this, he's just overwhelmed. He's just overwhelmed. And of course then the question becomes, like when he tells the companions, as the question becomes, like, who is she? How does she learn about, like, how does she know the deed? What happens subhanallah? What happens next? You know what happens next? Queen Asiya runs. When she hears the story, she runs the Pharaoh. And she said, did you murder her and her entire family? She's asking him, like, I know that you're cruel. I know that you've done some horrible things, but tell me you didn't do that. And he says, I did. She was talking about this religion of Musa, saying that Allah was her Lord. She said, Allah was my Lord. And he began to laugh. And at that moment, Queen Asiya confesses. Queen Asiya says, Allah rabbi warabbuk. And this is the moment where he literally orders all of her clothes to be ripped off. He drags her by her hair, hangs her off the balcony. And initially the people are screaming, oh Pharaoh, this is the beautiful, the Queen Asiya, the kind, the merciful, the generous, please. And he says, you know what she, you know, you know what she said? And then immediately the people back off and say, oh Pharaoh, he murders her, subhanallah. He literally leaves her first in the desert naked for three days, expecting that the animals would eat her alive. And he sends the soldiers to go find her after three days. And when they find her alive, they literally drag her back by the horse. They drag her back. And when she gets there, and he's like, you're still not dead. So then he orders a horse to be tied on one side of her and another on the other. And he keeps whipping the horse until it's literally separating her limbs and the skin from its bones. She begins to make a dua that's mentioned in the Quran. She says, my lord, build with me, build for me with you a house in Jannah. And she's like, build for me with you a house in Jannah. And subhanallah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala literally shows her in that moment the building her home. She smiles. She smiles. Pharaoh becomes enraged. He says, how dare you? How dare you? I'm torturing you after everything I've done. And you smile? You smile? And she says, and save me from Pharaoh and his evil folks, his evil people who come with me, come with him. And in that moment, subhanallah, he's so angry that she smiled. She makes this dua, like, save me from him, Ya Rabbi. So he then orders a catapult to crush her body. Right before the catapult comes, this catapult to rock a stone, a boulder to crush her, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala removes her soul. Now you might be wondering, why do I tell you this story tonight? Because in these moments, what will you do for Allah? What will you withstand? To say, Allah, I will not deviate from this day. I am, how will you say I'm not concerned about the people? I'm not concerned about their opinion of me. I'm not concerned about my perceived notion of what they might do to me, whether imagined or real. I don't care. What I care about is, what does my Lord think of me? This is what Osa Al-Shamidah was talking to you about when she says, listen, right, whether you look like the, I don't know, America's next top model, I might be aging myself. Totally might be. And truth is, I have no, I've been in Gambia. I have no idea what is current. You know, they have like, what's trending? I have, then is, I don't know. No idea. But no, I don't look like the next top model. I'm not, you know, I'm not concerned or I'm not jealous of, of what they have and what the disbelievers are, I don't care what I'm concerned with is Allah. I'm concerned that I'm going to face my Lord one day. Will my Prophet, Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, smell me coming with a beautiful sense of Allah. You know, at the moment of death, when they remove the soul, when the angel of death comes, he removes the soul. There's a wrapping, a beautiful wrapping that they do for that soul that's either like a beautiful cloth, right? Or it's something that is horrible. And either it's blessed with like the most, the most blessed of smell, right? It has that scent or a putrid smell. And that, when that soul is wrapped and it's going through that first minor judgment, this is how the angels receive it. Either the angels will be receiving that soul, right? Saying Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, who is this beautiful soul? And the Malaika will then chant what the people said about this. This was the one Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, stayed up in MCC and prayed all night, right? This is the one that Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, she was tired, but she came to make zikrabullah. This is the one that Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, no matter how far it was to be in the company and the Suhba of the Muslim in, subhanallah, they, they traveled to it where there was, there was lessons and opportunities to learn to be closer to Allah as we're done, they were willing to make hijra for. They're the ones that subhanallah, they were reading Quran and crying and weeping in the last of the night. They are the ones who were seeking Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. They're the ones who, yes, they were wearing hijab when other people were making fun of them. They are the ones who were concerned about their death when other people were only concerned about how they were going to live their best life. They were concerned about how they were going to die their best death. That's what the angels subhanallah would be saying about this beautiful soul. So when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has us fasting, one of the lessons, one of the lessons even in staying up in the night is about for you to think about your ending, for you to think about, Ya Allah, give me Kostem Khatima. What is the, what is the, what is the beauty? What is the state of my soul? What is the state of my soul? Because our actions only tell us about the condition of our soul. That's what our actions tell us. If we're eager and running to the salah, right, and like, Ya Rabbi, I, I can't wait to talk. What time I gotta break? I, I have to have a conversation with you Ya Rabbi. I just, I want to praise you. I'm just so grateful to you, right? I have so, I just want to say subhanallah, we have these subhanallah I do, but I just can't wait to be an intimate, I'm looking for a moment. I gotta find a place I need to be in an intimate moment with you Ya Rabbi. Or are you the one who's like, okay, I got like 10 more minutes before answer comes in. I'll pray in five. Hey, anallah. Or if it's like, you know what, what I'll do is I'll sleep. Now I'll get up and pray Nisha like three minutes before further. May Allah save us. May Allah save us. I know we're all been there. You're laughing because you know what I'm talking about. May Allah, this is, this is why, honestly, this is why we need that dua. Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta'ala knew our weakness is so well, right, that he gave us like two, he gave us like, he gave us like a really high example, right, like our mother Miriam. Our mother Miriam subhanallah. What, what I, I, I have to, okay, I'll tell you that's okay. So either like this example, like the purest of all women, right, or he's like, listen, at the end of time, I'm going to need you guys to make this dua. Allahumma inda ka'afu wumteh but afuafu afuana. Oh Allah, you love to pardon, so please pardon me. Hey, because Allah knows, Allah knows our state. He knows our condition, right? Ma'sha'Allah ma'sha'Allah wa siddish. I mean, she has big, she has high hopes for us. She has high hemma for us. May Allah bless her. Say, may Allah bless her. Say, amen. She has high hemma for us. I'm saying subhanallah. Yeah, I'm just like, oh Allah, please make me that woman. She's describing. Ya Rabbi, make me that woman. Ya Rabb, Ya Rabb, Ya Rabb. Make me that woman. That's just that we never, when I saw those scattered dots on the screen, I was like, no, no, no. She said that looks like what she said. Subhanallah. It's going to be, what is this? That's your brain? I felt like that was my brain because that was like, the perfect guy was like, oh, that's not me. And I saw that. I was like, yeah, that's my brain. That's my household. That's my car. Oh Allah, make me, oh, you see that? Ma'sha'Allah. The other one looks like the women in the ranks, right? The Muslims honing it down. Oh Allah, make me like that. That's subhanallah. That we're definitely between the hope and yet the fear, right? The hope and the fear. And the truth is, we need, we actually need to keep striving though, to be like those women. Because those women are, we know that they're guaranteed jannah. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wanted those women to be known so well. And there's just some beautiful things about these women that I just, when I think about the mother of Sayyidatina Maryam, the dua that she made. First of all, what I, what I want to talk about is that in, in the case of al-Imran, we actually don't have any details a lot about al-Imran. We actually don't have even one of his dua. We actually don't know his story. And yet Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is actually telling us the story about his daughter and about his wife. I, I, I, for me when in those moments Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying to all women, listen, there's going to come a day when people are going to try to trick you into thinking that your deen doesn't honor women. There's going to come a day when people are going to try to trick you and say, Islam doesn't give women rights. Islam doesn't honor women. That you women are oppressed. You just don't know it. You've somehow digested. What is it that when you have like, you've ingest, not ingested racism, like internal racism, right? They've internalized. So what is it when you've done it for like misogyny, internalized misogyny? Is that right? I feel like it's not, but you know, you know what I'm talking about, right? Basically, when we have like, when we've internalized oppression, implicit bias against women in this case. Yeah, that's all that sounds good, right? Sounding real intellectual right now. Yeah. What is it? Stockholm syndrome. Stockholm syndrome. You guys know about that? I'm a university professor. I don't even know what you're talking about. Okay. That there's, there's, there's a lot of supremacist. They're going, there's going to be a moment, right? There's going to be a moment when they're going, shaitan is going to try to trick you outside you. The shaitan is going to try to make you a renegade from your Dean. That shaitan is going to try to convince you to come out of your clothes. That shaitan is going to tell you that that's empowering to be more available to the male gaze is somehow now more empowering. What? To think about that. There's somehow to be more, you know, to, to actually give him more access. The complete stranger of men, I'm saying. The men who could care less about us. The men who don't know our name. They're just benefiting from you walking down the street. That somehow could be available to them to have, to give them free access makes you more empowered. Come on. The shaitan will try to trick you. And by Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala mentioning these women in the Quran, he's saying, listen, listen, listen, listen. I love you. I love the modest ones amongst you. I love the ones that you think that nobody knows you. I love the ones that subhanAllah have sought refuge in me. I love you for the ones that have sought an intimacy with me and you're alone in your room crying out to your Lord subhanAllah. I love you. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, I'm going, I love you so much that even the secret moments between us, I'm going to make it known to the entire world to the end of time. They're going to be reciting our love story every time they make a khatam of Quran. They're going to recite the love story between me and you. We're going to recite the love story between the mother of Mariam and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. We're going to recite the love story between our beloved mother Mariam and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala. How she was willing to endure subhanAllah that she, she wasn't, women weren't allowed inside the, the seminary at that time. Women were not allowed to study, but her mother had already made that promise to dedicate her child to Allah. So when she gave birth to a, to a female, right? She's Allah giving birth to a female. And Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala says, I know full well where that could have laced a kid with that. And this, the, the language behind this, the grammar behind this is like Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, listen, you thought you were going to give birth to a male, but what I gave you was going to be better than what you expected. And that kid, laced a kid with that. You said, what are you saying? You're just trying to push us up. Okay, well, let's ask the prophet, subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying that. And he says, yalla, subhanahu wa ta'ala, who's more worthy of my love and my honor? What did he say? Your mother. And who after that? Your mother. And who after that? Your mother. And then who? Your father. So three times the prophet, he said, then said that. He said, paradise lies at the foot of who? Our mother. Subhanallah. So I'm not just saying things to make you, you know, to gas you up, as they say. I'm not, I promise you that subhanallah behind this, our mother, Maryam was also willing. She sacrificed a lot. She protested outside of those doors of what we now know as nasir al-Aqsa to enter. And even when she entered, they didn't allow her to like become a student of knowledge. Subhanallah. I'm so proud of our Ustathas who are receiving their Ijazah, subhanallah and Quran. They're following in her footsteps. May Allah continue to ennoble their face and raise their rank. She suffered a lot. Subhanallah. She's a single mother, single mother. Another subhanallah is in the example of our mother Hajjah. I'll tell you, this is the last one I'll mention tonight in Sha'a Allah. We'll close in Dua'a. In the case of our mother Hajjah, you ever have a story in the Quran that makes you like want to dance? Do you have that? No, you're not like me. I know. I'm making you do the boogie, boogie. No, you're not like me. Masha Allah. You guys are like at home, like, oh, you're getting like, you know, your heart shake, your heart quiver. Me, I'm like this. I'm like, this is great. Like, this is great. It's my heritage. I can't open. And so for me, it's the case of our mother Hajjah. The thought that when we go and make Tawaf around the Kaaba, that she's buried there. The fact that the like the most blessing you can get, like inside of the Hijra Ismail, like in that area, that's what she's buried. Right? The fact that subhanallah, this is a woman that literally most people, if you're looking on the outside of it, you're thinking her husband abandoned her. You're thinking that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has just thrown her away, literally in the desert. But subhanallah, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala leaves her in the desert with the child. So many stories of like just a woman and a child. She's alone in the desert subhanallah. And as Ibrahim alayhi s-salam prophet Ibrahim alayhi s-salam is walking away. Where are you going? Where are you going? Did Allah tell you to do this? That has to be Allah. That Allah is sufficient for me and Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will take care of me. He leaves. He leaves. She runs out of water. She runs out of food. I always think about how, how was she when it got dark? You know, we think about like Masha Allah, all the lights from the clock tower in the McDonald's and all the hotels. No, none of that was there. She was literally a woman alone in the desert with a child. And it got dark. I just, it's like, Ya Rabbi, did you send me here to die? Did you send me here to be eaten alive? Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is saying, listen, the seed of iman that's in your heart, they're gonna witness it to the end of time. The seed of iman, the seed of towakum, the seed of takwan that's in your heart. People are going to walk in your footsteps just to complete their faith. That you don't have, we don't complete our Islam of the body even until you walk in the footsteps of Hajj until you make Hajj, until you go and visit her grave. Your iman is not even, you haven't finished it yet. You want to earn benefit? You want to become closer to Allah and go make Umrah? Go walk in her footsteps. Go do that. Literally, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala builds the holiest city in the world around her. The holiest city in the world is built around her in her iman and her takwa and her towakum. There's no secret why that would be the place that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would reveal the final message. There's no secret why that the Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, not only would be born there, not only that the Qur'an would be recited there, subhanallah. But when the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is going to Isra in Me'raj and the angels come and wash his heart, they open his heart and what do they pour inside? Samza, the fruit of her labor, the fruit of her iman. That's what the angels pour into the heart of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam for him to be able to take that journey of ascension, that which remains of her iman. Gets poured into the heart of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. There's something special about that. When the tribe of Jordan comes and they come to her and they say, can we stay here? This is after Zem Zem, after Jibrael comes, splits open the earth for her, which I just want you guys to keep. Like Jibrael comes and descends for her, right? Crocs open the earth for her. Zem Zem flows to sustain her, subhanallah, tribe of Jordan comes and they ask her, can we stay here? And she says, yes, but I control the water. When I love, this is one of those moments when she's just like, what? What? Allah. First of all, how bold are you? Right? You're a woman alone in the desert. There's no man here to protect you. What do you mean? What are you talking about? We're an entire tribe. Woman, we could take you over. But that kind of confidence comes from what? From a woman who knows her Lord. That kind of confidence comes from a woman who knows Allah. I'm that subhanallah, Inna Allah ma'a sabireen. Inna Allah ma'a al-mursaleen. She has jaqeen. She has certainty despite what it looks like. Despite the apparent reality, she has absolute certainty without doubt, without question. My Lord is there for me. My Lord will take care of me. That as long as I remain firm upon surat al-mustaqeem, Allah will never leave me. And so they honor that. They honor it. She controls the water. She controls the water. Allah subhanallah has given each and every one of you a Zem Zem. Watch your Zem Zem. What is your gift? That is a means of healing and nurturing. That is a means of nourishment for those in your family, in your community. And you have to be careful. You have to be careful to guard it. To say there's a gift that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given me. And I can share it with you, but you can't have it. You hear that women? Because I know we give away everything. We do. Subhanallah. I'm actually shocked, laughing at women right now in our society. Why? They even gave up their womanhood. They even gave up their womanhood. Now they're like, wait, hold up, what? I'm a birthing person and you're a woman? Yeah, I said that. Now they wake up, snap. Oh wait, wait, wait, hold up. Hold up. No, no, no, no. So what I'm saying to you, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, and I don't want you to think that, you know, do I have to be a prophet? I want you to listen to these stories. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala is talking about these women in the Quran and the intimate relationship they have. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talks about the relationship he has with Um Musa, with the mother of Musa. Literally, the mother of Musa is talking to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and Allah is responding back to her. She's not in doubt about it. She's not like, am I trembling? Am I hearing things? Stop being emotional. Stop exaggerating. No, she's certain about it. This is what Allah wants me to do and I'm doing it. She's certain about it. Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala again, he's telling us the love story between him and the mother of Musa. That Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has given each and every one of you a unique gift that he tells you when you make mention of me. I'm going to mention you in a gathering better than that. We have so many narrations of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala talking about all he is bragging about his servants. Right bragging about them. Do you see her? It's Allah. She's hungry. She's still fasting. She's thirsty. She's still striving. She got divorced. She feels broken, but she hasn't left this team. That's why Allah, she lost her job because she wanted to wear her hijab. She started her own business. She didn't have anybody else, all of her family turned against her either because she converted to Islam or because she decided like I'm not going to do this or that. I'm going to stick firm to this deen and there's oh my god you're becoming religious fanatic. She's like, yeah, Allah is bragging about you. He's bragging about you to the angels. He literally sent a host of angels right now tonight. There's a summit of angels. I'm not kidding. There is a summit of angels. Okay. And said, I'm looking for this gathering where people are remembering Allah. And he found it. Right. That angel found it in San Francisco and MCC. We're in San Francisco, right? He found it at MCC. And then he branched. He told the other militant, listen, come to what we found it. We found it. So Allah, hey, there's a group of women up all night. They are making, they're making, they're making, they're making du'a. And the angels come and they encircle that gathering with their wings and they make du'a for the people who are in that gathering. And says, none of them leaves that gathering except all their sins are forgiven. And Allah knows what you're saying, but he just wants to like brag about it to the to the munaika. He's like, what are they saying? He's like, Allah, they were saying So what did they ask for? Allah, they were asking for jinnah. Allah knows, but looks how he's asking up. He's like, have they seen it? No, y'all, they haven't seen the jinnah. And what are they seeking refuge from? Y'all, they're asking to seek refuge in you from hellfire. And Allah says, had they seen it? No, y'all, they haven't seen it. Literally, this conversation right is the answer to Allah, what Allah told the munaika in the beginning when he said, I'm going to create, right, the Khalifa of the earth. And they were like, oh, you're going to create someone who's going to spread mischief and going to shed blood. And Allah says, I know what you don't know. So in that later on, when he's saying this conversation to the munaika, you thought that the dunya was going to entice them. You thought they was going to be up in the clouds, turns out they're in the mushroom. You thought they was going to be being watching in Netflix, turns out they're in the masjid, making dhikr, making dua, reading Qur'an. You thought they were going to spin their youth in the street. Turns out they traded in, subhanallah, any of what they were claiming was youth, traded that dunya in for the Akhira. Allah is bragging about you to the angels. And then Allah says, now be my witness that I have forgiven them. Allah is telling the angels, be my witness, I have forgiven them. Then the angels say, but wait, y'all don't be, there's somebody who came. He wasn't a part of the gathering. He just came for some need and they left. He said, well, the nature of that type of gathering is even if they passed by, I would forgive them too. That's the light they shed. That's the Zem Zem they offer as a healing and a mercy and a forgiveness for others. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless us to have the type of iman. That is a light for others in darkness. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us amongst those who he loves. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make us from amongst those that are steadfast and ever deviate. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless us to be from the people of them. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless us to be amongst those that you've granted in monadune. Now to be granted some intimacy with you. Y'all don't be, we ask you by your infinite mercy. Allah give us the complete and perfect faith after which there is no disbelief. Give us certainty and you afterwards there is no doubt and make us firm upon surat al-mustaqeen. Ya Allah we ask that you please by your gentleness and your mercy make our hearts pure for you. Ya Allah Ya Rabbi make our hearts vessels for your light. Ya Rabbi by this month of the Quran. Ya Rabbi teach us the Quran. Grant us the insights into it Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi bless us with its secrets by which we become nearer and closer to you. Ya Allah we ask that you bless us to walk in the footsteps of Sayyidina Muhammad A.S. Ya Rabbi please heal us. Ya Rabbi heal us from all of our trauma. Put us back together after our brokenness. Ya Rabbi fill us after all the loss that we have endured. Ya Rabbi we ask you by your mercy come to our rescue. Ya Rabbi come to our rescue. Ya Rabbi in our relationship with you. Come to our rescue and our deficiency in our being. Ya Rabbi we ask that you come to our rescue and stand between us and our hearts. Stand between us and our nafs. Ya Rabbi by your mercy. Ya Rabbi come between us and our desires. Ya Rabbi come to our rescue from the west west. Ya Rabbi come to our rescue against the shaitan. Ya Rabbi you are the one who grants victory. Ya Rabbi grant us victory. Ya Rabbi number us from amongst those when you said. Ya Rabbi bless me to be from amongst them. Ya Rabbi we ask you by your mercy that you please come to the rescue of these women. Ya Allah come to the rescue of the Muslim women all over the world. Ya Rabbi come to the rescue of Muslim women who are struggling. Ya Rabbi as mothers. Ya Rabbi who are struggling in their marriages. Ya Rabbi come to the rescue of women. Ya Rabbi who are struggling. Ya Rabbi with their children. Ya Rabbi come to the rescue of us. Ya Rabbi that are taking care of our elderly parents and we're becoming weak. Ya Allah Ya Al Qawil Ya Matin Ya Rabbi come to our rescue. Ya Rabbi sometimes in this dunya we get so lost. So confused. Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi sometimes we don't know which direction to go. We have wronged our own selves so we're begging you by your mercy. Ya Rabbi make us firm. Make us steadfast. Ya Rabbi grant us an istiqama from you that you will accept it from us. Ya Rabbi we ask you by your mercy that you will grant us a complete and perfect pardon after which there is no sin in our book. Ya Rabbi no trace of it. Ya Rabbi the stain of our sin. Let it be removed from our own hearts. Be removed from our character. Ya Rabbi and by your gentleness and your mercy remove the stain of our sin and our mistakes from upon the hearts of those that we've wronged. Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi bless those that we've harmed to forgive us. Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi and those that have wronged us place it in our hearts to be able to forgive Ya Al Hamur Rahman for you are the disposer of all affairs. And so we ask you by your infinite mercy. Ya Rabbi take care of all of our affairs. Ya Al Hamur Rahman. Ya Rabbi don't leave us to ourselves even for the blink of an eye. Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi we ask that you please send down your Malaika and every turn, every angle of our life Ya Al Hamur Rahman. We ask that you please organize it for us. Set it right for us Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi we ask that you please protect us from the enemies of you and the enemies of us. Ya Rabbi protect us. Ya Rabbi from the fitna of Masih had the jam us and our children and our entire lineage to Yomo Qiyama. Bless us to have actions and speech and character that brings us near and close to you and take us away from actions and speech that take us away from you. Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi mold and shape us to be people of Taqwa. Mold and shape us to be people. Ya Rabbi of Zikr. Mold and shape us to be Ahl Al Quran. Ya Al Hamur Rahman. Ya Rabbi we ask you by your mercy that if wherever us or our children or our parents or our loved ones or our descendants. Ya Rabbi wherever they may even go astray. Ya Rabbi we ask that you please guide us right. Ya Rabbi wherever they as chaos in our life Ya Assalam. Ya Rabbi grant us harmony and grant us peace. Ya Rabbi wherever we're broken and we're incomplete. Ya Al Jabab please put us back together. Ya Al Hamur Rahman. Ya Rabbi wherever we are in need. Ya Arzaqu Ya Kareem. Ya Rabbi please provide for us in an abundance Ya Rabbi. Ya Rabbi wherever we are ignorant Ya Rabbi please grant us hikmah Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi wherever we are in darkness Ya Noor grant us a light from you Ya Al Hamur Rahman. Ya Rabbi we come to you with every form of sickness. Ya Rabbi we come to you with every deficiency. So we're begging you Ya Rabbi please heal us. Ya Rabbi heal us. Ya Rabbi from the sicknesses of our bodies. Ya Rabbi heal us from the sicknesses of our mind. Ya Rabbi heal us from the sicknesses of our soul. Ya Ar Hamur Rahman. Ya Rabbi we ask you by your mercy that you please heal us externally. Ya Rabbi heal us internally Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi bless us to see with the eye of mercy. Ya Rabbi and remove from us this eye of criticism Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi bless us to be a witness to you and every blink of our eye. Ya Rabbi let us recognize that it is only you Ya Ar Hamur Rahman. Ya Rabbi we ask you by your mercy that you grant us your mercy. Ya Rabbi that you grant us an intimacy with you Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi grant us the best dua and the best answer. Grant us the best life and the best death. Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi have mercy on us when the angel of death comes to take our soul and let the angel of death only take our soul while you're absolutely pleased with us Ya Rabbi. Why we have been granted your complete pardon Ya Allah. Why we have the guarantee of your Jannah Ya Ar Hamur Rahman. Ya Rabbi ask that you have mercy on us when the angel of death comes to take our soul and we breathe our last breath. Ya Rabbi have mercy on us when they wash our bodies. Ya Allah have mercy on us when they lower us into the grave. Ya Rabbi when you lower us into the grave let it be the messenger of Allah. Ya Rabbi don't deprive us of his company. Ya Rabbi don't deprive us of his company. Ya Rabbi please don't deprive us of his company. Ya Rabbi bless us to be near and close to him Ya Rabbi. Ya Rabbi we ask you on the day of resurrection have mercy on us. Let it be the hand of the prophet Salaulah and he will send them that pulls us out of our grave. Let it be next to him that we stand on Ya Rabbi. Ya Rabbi let it be his blessed hand that takes us into Jannah. Let it be his blessed hand that we take a drink from at the hold. Ya Rabbi let it be his blessed hand. Ya Rabbi that we cross the Syrah with. Ya Rabbi we're not worthy of your Jannah but we're too weak for your Hellfire. Ya Rabbi we're not worthy of your Jannah but we are too weak for your reckoning. So we ask you by your gentleness and your mercy and your compassion. Ya Rabbi please grant us a Jannah without reckoning. Ya Allah. Ya Rabbi don't let us be humiliated on Yomu Qiyamah. Ya Rabbi save us from humiliation in this Junior and the Akhira. Us in our entire progeny to Yomu Qiyamah. Ya Rabbi we ask that when the prophet Salaulah and he send them sees us. Ya Rabbi let him beam with light and happiness from seeing us. Ya Rabbi. Ya Rabbi. Ya Rabbi let us enter into Jannah for those in the Allah. Us and all of our righteous ancestors and our parents. Ya Rabbi. Us and our parents. Ya Rabbi and our entire descendants and our progeny to Yomu Qiyamah. Ya Rabbi any of our family members that are not guided. Ya Rabbi guide them right. Whenever Ya Rabbi those who have gone astray. Ya Rabbi bring them back to this Deen. Ya Allah. Wherever they are confused about this Deen. Ya Rabbi give them Yaqeen upon this Deen. Ya Rabbi let the Quran be our guide. Let it be. Ya Rabbi let the Quran testify for us on Yomu Qiyamah and never against us. Ya Rabbi bless our shiukh and our teachers. Ya Rabbi please bless them with the highest states and elevation expansion. Ya Rabbi continue to increase them in knowledge and wisdom and insight. Ya Rabbi bless us to continue to learn and to benefit from them. Ya Rabbi preserve them. Ya Excellent in care. Ya Allah. Allahumma berahmatika thabbit kulubna. Tabbit akdamala adha surat al mustaqima. Ya Rahamur Rahimin. Ya Rabbi Allahumma indaka aafu wun tehibbu aafu wafu aafu anna. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Allah. Ya Rahamur Rahimin. Allahumma salli ala sayyidina wa habibina mounana muhammad. Wa ala aalihi wa sahbihi wa sallam. Wa alhamdulillahi rabbil aalamin. Alhamdulillahi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi wa sahbihi
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W, 12.15.21 // 2021 MOSAIC BASEBALL HOBBY 1-PACK BREAK #15 *RT*
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2021-12-15T23:50:59
2024-04-24T00:06:23
468
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What is up guys? This is Josh for Jaspy's case rigs. We filled up this filler pack right here, a little mosaic baseball. Eight spots are being given away in that dual chrome black case or so it's two cases so 24 boxes I believe. And then we're giving away six or actually five. We got to change that. Yeah that was for the next one but we're only giving away five spots in this filler but we're giving five spots back to you guys so we will go ahead and run the first filler. These will be for those five spots so good luck everybody. Seven times let's run it. Martin what's up? No no go. I was gonna say once I hit the first random I just double-check to make sure we got the right number. Yeah yeah yeah yeah we got just five. Cool yeah yeah good good got to gotta keep it right and we got seven times on this. All right five more times good luck everybody this is for those five spots. Top five gets five more spots in the filler. And seventh final time good luck. Martin wow Martin cleaning up. Wow three of the five spots. Three of the five. So congrats to those guys right there. I'm gonna throw you guys right here. And usually I like to differentiate the winning spots between the regular spots so put that little rooftop symbol next to each name. I love that they have these betting shows on. I know. Alright cool so we got that shout out to Martin picking up three of those spots that's awesome. All right cool so we'll run this randomizer for the actual break. All right let's roll the dice. Four times on the list for the names for the actual break. Good luck everybody. This part this part's not as sweaty so it's fine. All right three and fourth and final time. There we go Steven. And just as a reminder we always do the the giveaway the break giveaway spot at the very end of the video. Yeah yeah yeah. This is this is just third and final dice. This is just for the actual pack break. So we got that. Same dice roll for the teams. All right so four times for the teams. Good luck everybody. Again this is for that single pack break. All right let's get it. Good luck. One, two, three and fourth and final time. Yankees down to the Tigers. That's too big. I'll usually keep it at 12, set that up however you want to. And usually I make that just a... usually I make that just a little bit bigger maybe to 150 125 is fine and then it's just so you can yeah everything on their screen a little more clear. So here are your teams. I'll just kind of scroll through it. It's a quick little pack break so. Yeah for a main break I'll usually read everything off. Yeah absolutely. All right cool. We want to print this out yeah? Yes. I would alphabetize by team first. Cool. He's gonna print out the whole sheet like this. Thank you sir. There you go. Hot off the presses. Absolutely and let's go ahead and switch this over. Got everybody's teams right here. Take a nice good look at it. There you go. And let's let's run this single pack of mosaic. Let's get... see an autograph. Why not? Why not us? Good luck everybody. For whatever reason these mosaic packs look to be difficult. All right good luck. Let's see what we got. Did we got any color? We got like a silver in there. Looks like we got a mosaic. Let's check it out. All right. Will Crow, Ryan Weathers for the Padres, Joey Bart, Jared Oliva, Anthony Rendone, Mike Yastramski, Jesse Winker, Savarino, Miguel Cabrera, Vlad Sr. John Means, Silver Ken Griffey Jr. That's really nice. That's not bad. I like that. Dan Johnson from the Indians mosaic, rookie debut Braylon Marquez, and an eyes on the prize Cody Bellinger bounce back candidate for this year for sure. Absolutely. There we go. So that's the pack break right there. And let's give away those the giveaway spots. So let's go back. Let's go back here. And do you take this order? Mm-hmm. Okay, cool. Let's take this order. There's many layers of randomization. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotta keep it as random as possible. Yeah. All right, cool. So I got all your names here. Again, top eight. Get in that chrome black break. So good luck. Good luck. Good luck. 10 times on the dice and even 10. Let's get it. Good luck. I use the end button if you just want to have it shoot all the way down. Space bar works for two. And just confirming that 10th and final time. Good luck, everybody. Josh, Sean, Martin, Nathan, Martin, Sean, Martin and Jared. Nice. Pick up the spots right there. Congrats. Martin picking up three. One of those was a giveaway spot, too. So congrats, Martin, hot on the randomizations right there. With that Powerball. Absolutely. Yeah, go play the Powerball tonight with Joe. Sponsored by? Sponsored by Powerball. Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, so that was the break and the giveaway. Hope you guys enjoyed and we will catch you guys on the next one. Take it easy.
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Cost of Living is Going Up
Read the room Labor. People are struggling and instead of propping up the wealthy, we should be tackling the cost of living crisis head on.
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2024-02-27T22:16:10
2024-04-18T21:28:25
117
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there is very little separating the old parties anymore. Friendly to big business, backing in more coal and gas, torturing asylum seekers, cutting taxes for the rich. Members of this government are very adept at putting on their serious faces and talking about how people are doing it tough. People aren't doing it tough. They're working two or three jobs just to keep from falling behind. They're dipping deeper into their pockets to pay for so-called public services like public schools and healthcare. They're sacrificing meals so that they can buy their kids clothes. And they're worried that their rent is going to go up $100 next month and they won't have a place to live. And here we have Labor trumpeting its fiscal rectitude while throwing wads of cash at millionaires. Less than half of 1% of the total value of these cuts will go to the poorest 20% of Australians while the wealthiest 20% will bank half of the total value. Ultimately, we'll all pay from this wasteful extravagance. Starving the budget of $318 billion over a decade means the government will have less money to fund the public services that are needed now more than ever. Meanwhile, the people suffering the most during this cost of living crisis get nothing. If you're on income support or you earn less than $18,000, sorry, you're on your own. Labor can afford to give politicians and CEOs a $4,500 annual bonus, but you'll still have to try your luck at the food bank. So next time Labor complains that they just don't have enough money to do the things they really want to do, remember this moment. Remember that they chose to give billions to the rich while services languished, Australians suffered and the inequality gap widened.
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Python on Hardware weekly video 157 #CircuitPython #Python #MicroPython @Adafruit
The wonderful world of Python on hardware! Episode 157 (November 17, 2021). This is our weekly Python video-newsletter-podcast! Ladyada and PT review the Python on hardware news & highlights of the week. The news comes from the Python community, Discord, Adafruit communities and more. It’s part of the comprehensive newsletter we do each week. The video playlist of episodes is here: http://adafru.it/pohepisodes Sign up for the Python on Microcontrollers weekly email newsletter here: https://www.adafruitdaily.com/ Read the newsletters past and present at https://www.adafruitdaily.com/category/circuitpython/ Learn all about CircuitPython here: https://www.circuitpython.org/ https://adafruit.com/circuitpython/ Join us on Discord! https://adafru.it/discord/ Visit the Adafruit shop online, we're open for business - http://www.adafruit.com Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/
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2021-11-18T14:46:45
2024-04-22T18:13:41
311
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Python on hardware news, lady, it is time. Yes, Blinka Blinka. There is so much stuff. We were just talking about how many boards are there on circuitpython.org slash downloads. I'm really glad you asked, it's 248. So when there's 250, what's the 250th anniversary color or jewel? Platinum? I don't know. I mean, most people don't live that long, so I don't think there's like a gift. But we can make some cool graphics. Some of us do. Okay. So let's go over the newsletter, circuitpython.710beta is available. Check out all the things and more. Is there anything in particular that you want to add? People who are interested in async, async.io and concurrency will, well, first off, check the notes. You know, we added C3 support. You know, there's a couple things that made it right after 7.0. But for the most part, we were caught up to 117.0 MicroPython. We have a bunch of graphics and camera stuff that Jebler's added and async.io supports coming. Okay. Make Magazine is now on the Internet Archive, but you can check it out. And by check it out, you reserve one and you get to use it and then you turn it back in. In particular, if you want to check out the issue that you were on, the rise of the Python issue, and then German was on the Cover Make recently. So there's some really good ones. Check it out. We have links to that and more. There was the pie cast over on Tom's hardware. Scott talked about booting CircuitPython on the Raspberry Pi. We have the updates with Visual Studio. This one I sent over to Ann to put in, this is an open source interface prototyping thing. For the folks who are like, you know, you're working on an interface together on something. This is an open source collaborative thing. It's in beta right now. It's called Penpot. A lot of people are designing mobile interfaces with our stuff too. So it's like, well, this is kind of a cool thing. So check it out, you know, open source. And then we have our usual long list of things that you'll be able to make, create, and do with Python on hardware. It's unending. Actually, technically, it is end. It does end. It's no. Look, I'm just going to scroll and scroll. There was like, I'm now burrowing the hole in this trackpad. It's just going on forever and ever and ever. So my highlight of the week this week was a tweet that I thought was kind of interesting. So someone was like, hey, do you have any suggestions for sources for a 12-year-old to get interested in introducing coding? And this person, Thomas, I think, said it best. Just keep it fun. Circuit Playground was developed with teenagers in mind. Adafrit has tons of tutorials and vlogs, maybe start with. And they put the product there. Also, if your niece is looking for a role model, the whole company was built by a pink-haired lady in Manhattan. So one of the things that Nostar's first. Isn't that a green screen? Yeah. You know, if I got a pink screen, it would look like you wouldn't be there. That'd be cool. You know, sometimes on Desk of Lady Eater, when there's something on your screen that's green, it shows through. It's kind of cool. So I emailed the Nostar's folks because I'm like, hey, y'all might want to consider doing a Circuit Python book for kids. So we'll see. I keep emailing them these examples, so we'll see if they do it. But I thought that was neat because sometimes people say the thing that you're thinking even better than you could. And I thought that was cool. And then next up, Trevor is working on PyLeap. I'm going to put the links in the chat right now because you'll be able to get on this demo and this beta and more. So while this video is playing, I'm going to put those links in. And I think our team is going to as well. You can join this right now. Here we go. Hey, this is Trevor. And I'm here to show you our new PyLeap beta. PyLeap basically takes example code from the 8-foot learn system. And you're able to transfer that same example code to your Bluetooth device. Let's see that in action. So first, I'm going to put this into pairing mode. Make sure it's right. There we go. OK. Now we're going to run our first example project. Send over some rainbows, two hours so you can pick up blue fruits. Bam. There we go. Let's send over a blinking example. Let's try. OK. I think I had that on loop. So I put the links in the chat. What I'm going to also do is put them in the other chats. And then let's see if there's any other players. If anyone could help anyone who still needs it, please put them in all the chats. I think I got to all of them. So you could be on the beta and then you could try this out on your own. And with that is Bison on Hardware News this week. Yay, blinker.
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THE HASHIRA ARE HERE !! DEMON SLAYER - Episode 22 AND 23 (REACTION)
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2022-04-20T21:00:22
2024-02-05T07:43:22
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OH MY GOD- HE- OH MY GOD JUST REALIZED IT! Is the madness over? Could I relax now? Or is this show gonna make me die? Because I passed the cemetery the other day, and I slowly caught myself gravitating towards it. Get this video to 15,000 likes, and I'll react to the Demon Slayer movie. Mugen Train. Is Tanjiro Zenitsu and Anosuke like running the train on a demon or something? I'd love to see that. Count me in. Okay! Let's get to the show. Ah... The madness is over. Beautiful. No more demons. I mean, outside my demon. My baby girl. Oh, you can tell he's a Hashira. Just by the way, he looks. He's doing it as braids. But they're like rocks. Guy has red hair. You ain't gotta show his face. You know he's a badass. She doesn't even need to open her mouth to talk. This is main character territory. I already think she's hot. All I hear is her voice, and I see her lips, and I'm ready. Oh, shit. Look at them. Okay, who am I gonna like the most? I think I'm gonna like either the guy on the right, all the way to the right with the two swords, or the guy in the middle with the flaming hair. I think it's gonna be the middle guy. I think I'm gonna love him the most. He just has that look. Who's gonna piss me off the most? I think it's the butterfly bitch in the bottom left. What is a Hashira? They're the gods. Stop speaking so gently. She pisses me off so much. I know you guys might like her, but I fucking hate her. Master of the Mansion. Are we gonna, like, be on the ground the entire episode? Ren Goku! Ooh! I knew I would like it. Look at him. He's shinin'. What the fuck did he just say? We're going to be headed along with the demon. You ain't touchin' the demon. Uzi. Shut up. Okay. Finally. This dude's already crying. Oh, that's literally me. I wouldn't give a fuck what's happening right now. God speaking. Look at them. There's only six of them. Ooh, who's this? Ooh, I like this guy. Ooh, that's a cool design. Oh, you can teach me a lesson, Daddy. Yeah, there he is, Mabo, at Tomioka! Damn, this girl's thirsty, bro. She already has hair dye in her hair, but she's like, come dye my hair white. You know what I mean? All right, so who's the ultimate Hashirara? She wants to blow on your sword. Shut your fucking mouth. We know who you are. Where's the ninth one? They just showed eight. Don't you know? How about you read the fucking book? How about you watch the show and you'll know? Finally, medicine. The medicine girl, I'm waiting. Like, heal them already so we can talk. Thanks. Thanks for the advice. You were just talking about beheading my sister, but, you know, stay hydrated. Not the Nezuko music. Whenever they play this music, I get emotional. Wait, is this snake the ninth Hashirara? Like, is he part? I don't know. He has red eyes. He looks like a main character snake. He's still looking at the clouds. This is literally me. That's a beautiful bird. Exactly. What was that bird? Does it talk? I need to know this. Chanta, where is he? Something interesting has happened. Who are you? A demon. Oh, he looks like number nine. He looks like a badass. Oh, shit. Put that fucking box down. Yo, this girl's wet for everyone. Is this what Mugen trains about? All the Hashirars run the train on her. Oh, she likes it rough. Oh my God. Now she likes the ladies too. Damn, leave someone for me. Get over here right now. Get over here. Only in this show could I watch someone get impaled with a sword through their heart and I don't react in a surprised way. Like, I know they're going to be fine. Oh, shit. No heads. Look at them. You got the Hashirars at disbelief. Hey, come on. Yo, now you got her on you, Tanjiro. Oh, oh, shit. Oh, not them again. They scared the shit out of me. Oh, this is the guy they've showed like twice in the show already. Oh, I want to know why he looks like that. Knowing this show, he has some crazy backstory. Everyone has some crazy backstory. I'm ready. I'm here for it. Oh, they scared the shit out of me. I got to take this hoodie off. I'm dripping balls right now. Hold on. Oh, so he's blind. But he's still probably like Jesus level. So, you know, I guess you don't need eyes in this show. You don't need eyes. Tanjiro just uses his head. All of them change. All their quirks. They disappear when the when the when masters around. You want to offer your greetings to everyone. Stop, stop it. Man, his presence is legendary. Like, I love this. You have all of them bowing down to him. I want to see all of them fight. You're going to do what he says. We know that. We know you'll do whatever anyone says. Honestly, my ex was just like this girl. Oh, I love him. I think he's my favorite. Yeah, these character designs. How is he saying I would smile on his face? It doesn't match up with me. Is he going to read the letter? How? Oh, I forgot. The creepy bitch is going to read it. Oh, I thought they were going to start reading it together. Like, she doesn't like a paper. It just appeared in front of her, too. This is so beautiful, bro. Oracle. Thank you. Take a care of his pupil, his son. Oh, this show is so beautiful. The music, the setup, the. Oh, my God. He. Oh, my God. Just realized that he is taking. Tomioka is taking responsibility for Tajiro. He loves him. No. Oh, fuck. I'm going to turn to that. That crying bitch, Hashira. Beautiful. Oh, man. The chills in my body. Oh, not this music. This is an important scene music. Oh, man, has has has brains. That's what happens when you have eyes. You have more time to think. Yo, this guy looks like he's like he's high off that ganja. Damn, bro. Whatever you take, slide in my way. I just moved and the weed out here is not that great. Oh, now now we are smiling, right? Because you put your place, boy. Oh, shit. Yeah, even he cares. Oh, shit. He didn't even need to say anything. They knew they knew they they they felt the presence of his finger going in front of his mouth. My God, this is incredible. Oh, guys, the music that where this show is going. I love this. And what happened to you? What did the demons do to you, bro? Oh, shit. He's taunting her. This is sick. Oh, my God. Let's go. No. No, no. I feel so bad. Get over here. Oh, you got this baby girl. Come on. Tajro is praying like his life depends on it right now. He's like, let's go, please, baby girl. No, I would be bad too. I think this motherfucker right in front of me. Thank God we're doing the next episode. Oh, my God. Hashara meeting. The animation in a show is always God's here. I'll take it to you hard. Is this his thing? Is he always going to be crying? Mr. Tanjiro whenever they showed his guy. I don't know why I get so emotional. I don't even know him that much. I forgot what her mouth looked like. Look at that. Wow. Tanjiro and Nezuko are fighting as a bloodbath. They're helping each other. I... I love anime. Anime is in my life now. Anime's life. Yeah. I feel like I'm floating. Oh, shit. Just like that. Oh, shit. He's going for the top dog. That's what we do here. In the Komodo family. He says it so gently. I love him. That's how he's laughing right now. This guy's always smiling. Yeah, Tanjiro. Suck their balls. Even the girls. Damn, she got... Don't do it too much. He didn't say stop at all. Yeah. Where are we going now? My heart... is full. Look, look at her. No, no, no. Why are you afraid? She's so cute. Tanjiro. Find you a man like Tanjiro. That'll fight for you no matter what. Stop it! Stop! Walk on your own. Do you know what he's just been through? Do you know? Oh, I... Listen, I hate butterflies now. I don't know, man. She turned me off in butterflies. Whenever I see one now, I fucking flick it away. Watch, Pete is going to be on my ass now. Is a butterfly like an animal? Or... Does Pete protect insects too? Fuck him. Oh, shit. She's the other one from the mountain. Yeah! I was like, where did she go? She's a girl, but she's awesome. What does that mean? What's with these butterflies? Zenitsu's back! All right, those eyes look cute on her too. The Nesco eyes. I'm not going to lie. Every girl is cute in this show. Why? Oh, my God, I missed him. I miss Zenitsu. My favorite character in the show. Look at her, she's so cute! Oh, shit. Oh, that's right. He didn't even know. He didn't even know what Zenitsu just went through. He almost died. He turned into a spider at... Almost. Tanjiro missed everything. He missed Chantaro. If it wasn't for Chantaro, they'd all be dead. He's in his little PJs. He's all depressed. I feel so bad for an Osuke. Like, his confidence, his ego is just down now. I feel so bad for him. Don't laugh! Fuck. Dude, I love Zenitsu, man. I heard people don't like him. I love him. He's like my favorite besides Chantaro. This is going to be the saddest arc ever. Man, everything they've just been through. And that was just the beginning. Like, now the story begins, I feel like. Yeah, let's just put her right in front of the sunlight, Tanjiro. Great. Great! That there's literally shadow right there. Oh, there we go. Okay. Oh my God, I'm gonna cry, man. Y'all could have blocked out her window. If this is her room. Nezuko. She? Oh my God, I want a little Nezuko. I'm gonna adopt a little Nezuko. I need one. I'm not getting a dog or a bird. I'm getting a Nezuko. You think they have them at the adoption center? Oh, you will. You're the main character. Your potential is limitless. Man, I have so many questions. Me too. Like, I felt like I was floating when he was talking. Such a gentle voice. Oh, you're already a grown man, bro. I don't care if you're seven years old in this show. I love how the music stopped while he was saying that. Huh. Really? Literally, the only useful ones are in this room. Or in this territory. This is like, this setup for the show now. Like, everything up to this point was the prelude to the main story. And I love that. I love this guy. He makes me smile, no matter what he says. He can be talking about his dead daughter. I'd still smile. Just, he says it with such happiness and enthusiasm. Damn, man, the music! Oh! I love you. Tomioka. Hell yeah, baby. Say your name too. Oh, okay. Oh, me too. I look forward to all your success. Oh my god. Ooh, that's how you end an episode, bro. Let's go, man. I'm ready to see this fight. I love how this whole season has been kind of like a setup for the main arc. I feel like this was like before the book started. Like, this is a prelude. This gathers everyone in the same place. And now we have an objective. We know what the main objective is. As this past 24 episodes, I believe, it's like setting up Tanjiro to get there. And now we're here. We have a set plan. And now we get the train and get to that. I love the characters. I love the character designs. I love this arc that Inosuke has right now. Like, he's depressed. He doesn't think he's strong enough. So now he has to develop that confidence. As before, the confidence was more like arrogance. But now he's going to develop this respect for other people, knowing that he's not the strongest. And I love that. Zenitsu is still a little bitch, but I love him. I release him the most. And Chanto though is still my number one. When are we going to see him again, huh? I don't know, but I'm ready. I'm ready to see some Hasha reaction. The whole Tomoyoka thing, where Tanjiro was crying because he found out that he put his life on the line for him in Mexico. Beautiful. Beautiful. Anyways, that's going to be it for today, guys. Tell me down below your favorite scene in these two episodes that I reacted to today. Mine was definitely the one that I just mentioned where Tanjiro finds out that Tomoyoka put his, I don't even know his name yet, that he put his life on the line. See you all in tomorrow's video. Goodbye.
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The Lone Ranger - Pioneers
12/16/38, episode 919 This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group at Yahoo and at www.otrr.org -Video Upload powered by https://www.TunesToTube.com
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A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty hyacinth silver, the lone ranger. In the early days of the western United States, when the red man still ruled vast sections of desert and plain, the establishment of settlements with the whites often caused dangerous conflict. But there were those in that pioneer period who believed that Indians and white men could live peaceably in the same great southwest. One of these, the greatest champion of justice ever to ride the plains of western America, was a masked horseman mounted upon a great white charger, a figure who inspired the pioneer of long ago. Return with us to those days when the west was young and the ringing hoofbeats of silver sounded on the outlying trail. The lone ranger rides again. In the eastern bank of the Rojos River, squatted the century old adobe huts of Ororico, home of the superstitious Zunyi Indians. On the western bank lived Dana Sturgis and his small but determined band of pioneers. These men with their families had but a short time before been attracted by the fertile soil and had founded a farming settlement. One day in the new general store operated by Dana and his wife Mabel, the pioneers talked to the strange seldom seen tribe across the Rojos and Eriki, say them engines is called Zunis, not Zunyi Tom, Zunyi, Zunyi, Zunyi, huh? Sure Tom, ain't you ever heard Dana talking about them? There's a wide sound in it just before the eye and them red skins are just as strange as their names. Yeah, I know that, Mrs. Sturgis, because just before Dana went down the river's edge to fish, she was, well, she was saying something about what mighty funny superstitions them engines have. Well Tom, I don't know much about them myself, but I guess Dana does, because he told me this tribe across the river here is an officer. Well, Lordy me, I just now noticed you, mister, were you looking for something special? No thanks, I just dropped in to pass a little time. Riding through this way? Yes, I'll be heading north again soon. Well, make yourself at home here, mister, if you see anything you want, let me know. You say Eric them engines is an offshoot of some real old tribe? Yep, that's what Dana told me. Why hasn't Dana told us this before, if he knows to blame much about them? Why ever since we first settled here, them doby huts across the river has been a mystery? Now, just a minute, Tom, don't get the idea Dana knows all this and know about Zunyi engines. He don't. Well, what did Dana tell you? He said no prospector told him that the original Zunyi is controlled all this land around here, but that the Spaniards came in and tried to drive them out. And did they? No, but they stole plenty from them and made the engines forever plenty mad at sight of any white man. Eric, you ain't telling it all. Well, how's that, mister? The old prospector told Dana about seven cities of gold. Oh, sure, now I remember. The seven cities of Sibala. That's it. It seems the Spanish explorers imagined a lot of that gold business. Yeah, they saw the sun shining on doby huts like the ones we can just see across the rojos here. And thought they was made out of gold. Oh, so that's how it all started, eh? Yep, and I suppose that's why we ain't seen much of them Zunyi's over there, because we ain't never crossed the river to their side. No, Dana's got enough sense not to try it now either. Always say, leave well enough alone. Them redskins don't come over here. You ain't got no business on their side. Oh, shucks. Dana can take care of himself, Mr. Sturgis. He's likely is not busy hauling a nice mess of river fish. Yeah, I hope so. You never can tell about engine. Hey, listen, what's that rumpus? The engine. Look out there on the river. By thunder, you're right. They're coming in canoe. The whole tribe up. Eric, get out of my way. I've got to find Dana. He's down there by the river. Wait a minute. Here comes Bob Force and all the other men. Eric, Tom, get your muckers going. The engines are coming. I can see they is, Bob. But where's Dana? She's a fishin' down at the river, says. Where is he? We don't have time for nothing except to get our muskets. Come on, you fellas. Get ready for a fight. The Red Devils are paddling plenty, plenty. Unnoticed with the pioneers, the stranger had left them at the first cry of danger. Made his way to the Great White Horse, hidden a short distance away. Then astride Silver, the lone ranger raced along a slanting trail toward the river. Come on, Silver. The Indians are attacking the whites. We've got to find a way to stop them. Head for the river. The river, old fellow. Come on, Silver. Resting the summit of the by-trail, the phantom rider shot down the slope to the bank of the Rojos. Lined six across and six deep, the war canoes of the Indians got swiftly over the river. The first flank nearing the western bank in the White Settlement. The lone ranger sighted by a short distance ahead of Silver, another horse and rider, as he shouted at the top of his voice. Oh, oh, Silver, over, over. Dana, Dana. Oh, oh. Keep us up. You bring news? You want to scour both stripping, what? Indians lose big God, Rhonda, from Dobie Temple. A Zuni idol stolen? That's right. Somebody take it last night, and they think it was the white man. That's why they're attacking now. Already, two war canoes up there. Yes. I see them now. They're almost out of sight around that bend. Indians capture one white man. Dana Sturgess. Take him back to Puerto Rico now. We can't wait longer. The first flank of canoes is almost ready to land the warriors. But now I know why the Zunis have come across the river. Now, if a plan that may work, come on, Kimosabe, and hurry. Get them up, Silver. Come on, Silver. Rattle on the river banks. Come on, old fellow. Come on. Kimosabe, those Indians are armed only with bows and arrows, and the whites fire upon them. Dana Sturgess will die. Ride up the bank to the whites. Tell them not to fire at any cost. Come on, Gold. Come on, Silver. The life of a white man depends on you, Tunnel. Come on, Silver. Our plan will only prevent bloodshed. Come on, old fellow. We're running between the red men and the whites. Come on, Silver. Suddenly a single war canoe shot ahead of the others. Nearly touched the river's bank as the Zunyi chiefs took a wreck at the prowl to command his men. You, right now. I'm Tula. Ronda. And high up on the western bank, Eric shattered the command to the pioneers. Raise your mask. Get them out of here. Take aim. But even as he cried these words riding to the midst of the whites, came Tonto. You stop. You not shoot, Mosquit. Wait. What's that? A red skin. A red skin already on outside the river. You not shoot, Indian. You not shoot. Or, Indian. Kill white man. Kill, Dana. Kill him. We know that Zunyi already captured white man. Then what are we waiting for, Eric? Look down at the river. They'll land any second. Tom, Sam, Eric. Come on. Wait. You shoot, Indian. Indian, sure. Kill white man. You wait. Eric. Tom. Maybe this red skin's right. Tom, look. That fell on the big white horse. What's he doing? He's a mask man. And he's riding right along the river bank. Right out in front of them war canoes. The fool. They'll drop him in no time. He ain't a chance. Him have plenty chance. What? Him, friend Tonto. Now, you look. Indian have both. Mara. Him have guns. Indian, you're right. Look. Look at the mask man. We don't have nothing left. Before the amazed eyes of the pioneers bet a phantom figure on a great silver horse that raced before the very prouds of the advancing warcraft, but his bows were sprung, caught, and deadly arrows poised. Another kind of weapon. A white man sys gun roared a language any man could understand as terror struck at the Indian. There's one, old fellow. The chief's canoe and there's another. And another. And there's sinking silver. Turn the tide of battle. Come on, Silver. Keep close to the river's edge. And with the tide of jumble, bouncing war canoes now turned back toward the huts across the Rojo's River, the white men dropped their loaded muskets, hardly able to believe what they had just seen. Eric, Sam, all of you, did you see what the mask man did? He rode right up to them drawed bows, crossed in front of a whole tribe of engine warriors, and scared them out single-handed. The mask man, here he comes. I'm told no one can come. Those of a common family. Mask man, you drove off the engine. How unblazes, Jevitt, do it. Mr. Maskman, I suppose we ought to be up-feared, have you? You look just like an outlaw. Outlaw? But I guess we ain't, not now. I have my own reason for wearing the mask, and I'm not an outlaw. Of course, even if you are, after what you did for us, well, we can forget most anything now. Yeah, but where and thunder did you come from? And how did you ever scare them red devils out so quick? It doesn't matter where I came from. But when I saw that those Indians were armed only with bows and arrows, I had to protect them. Protect them? We thought it was us you was protecting them. It was both the Indians and you I had in mind. But I don't savvy, Mr. Then perhaps you'll understand this. You men were greatly outnumbered. We sure was, Mr. But even if you had opened fire on the Zunis, who know nothing of bullets and powder, their bows and arrows would have been almost useless. Seems like you proved that mask man with only two six guns. Yes, but you men would have aimed to kill. I only sunk their canoes. And if you had killed, that tribe would be your everlasting enemy. I see your point, Mr. But you can't tell us them redskins ain't our enemy right now. Just a minute. Not a one of you is going to cross that river. And why ain't we? You ain't our boss, mask man. But Dana's our leader. Yeah, it was him brung us here first. And I say help Dana. Listen to me, all of you. You want to get Dana back alive? Do just as I say. Are you in league with them redskins? No, but I've learned a few things about them. Have a plan that'll save Dana. And at the same time, weld a lasting peace between you whites and those Zunis. How do you know your plan will work? I don't. But I've good reason to believe it will. And you men are going to do as I say. What makes you think that? Because what you want more than anything else is Dana's sturgis alive. We do, we do, Mr. Miss Minna. I'll do anything to get Dana back. Then listen. And I'll tell you why the Indians attacked you today. You know that? The reason they come after us? Yes. Someone, perhaps white men, perhaps red, has stolen an idol from the Zunis. What? You mean one of the guards they worship? Exactly. But how do you know that? Tonto know that. Tonto tell friends. Indian, you mean you've been over there in the Zuli village? Ah, Tonto know that Ronda, guardian guard of Zuni, gone. Well, sure. Eric, Tom, look at his horse. He's blipping wit. Come swim in the river, don't you see? Well, happy to go on. Well, that's why we must try my plan, to safeguard the life of Dana Sturgis. Don't attack the Indians if you would save him. You think the Indians are holding him as a hostage? I do. Now, Tonto and I are leaving you for the present. We've got work to do. In the meantime, keep guards posted along the river bank, just in case the Zunis come here again looking for their idols. But, Mr. We ain't got their idols. I know that. But the Indians don't. And when we find out where it is, I'm coming back for some of you. Because you people are going to take Ronda back to the Zuni. Get him out of the way. They're going. Look at that white horse that's rambling. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. The curtain falls on the first act of our thrilling Lone Ranger drama. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now, to continue our story, the Mashed Rider and his Indian companions scoured the country across the river, even to the very borders of the Zuni village of Ororico. But no clue to the theft of the idol could be found. Then on the fourth day, the Lone Ranger and Tonto returned to the Western Bank of the Rojos, where we find them picking a slow trail northward along the river's edge. Oh, the Zunis are superstitious. But I'm convinced we're matching our wits against the tribe more clever and superstitious. And I think you're right about them wanting the Zuni idol for their own guardian spirit. Mm. You'll look. There. Tracks, Tonto. The clue we've been looking for. Oh, so long. Oh, Scott. Tonto, look over here. Heavy hoof prints. Too heavy for light Indian ponies. What do you make of them? Maybe them carrying heavy load. The idol, yes. Still, how could horses carry it? Its weight might not be too much, but its size would make it almost impossible to handle with horses. I wonder. Wait. Look at these marks here. Them long marks go way off there. Cut ground. Two parallel lines about three feet apart, leading out of the reeds along the river back and heading inland. Come on, Tonto. Into these reeds. Tonto, think this end our trail. It's here, Kimosabe. Hidden in these reeds. All right. Me, me see. This is what brought the idol up the river. Here it was unloaded onto what was probably a crude sled. Perhaps two poles for the runners. Then horses dragged the sled away. That's why hook print plenty deep. Same way mark goes. Yes. The horses dug the feet in because of the weight they were pulling. But come on, Tonto. You ready now for plan? Yes. The idol will keep. Wherever it is, it's too bulky to hide. When I get back, this well-marked trail will lead us to it. Here's the risk out. Stay there. You want Tonto go now? Yes, Kimosabe. Back across the river. Finding the clue on this side, the pioneer side, changes our plan but little. You can still carry out your part. Tonto know what do. Hurry, Kimosabe. Be ready by daybreak tomorrow. Hail, silver! Southward along the riverbank raced the lone ranger, while Tonto and Scout recross the row host to the Zuni side. Several days had passed since a masked man had left the pioneers. And even as he sped toward their settlement, they became increasingly restless. To Mabel Sturgis, wife of their captive leader, the few days had seemed an eternity. Just look at poor Mabel. She ain't no nerve. Aiden Mabel, listen. Tom and Bob and me and all of us told the masked man we wouldn't go attacking them engines ourselves. You didn't, Eric. You just said... Just said as much as a saying, Mrs. Sturgis. The masked man told us Dana'd be safe as long as we kept ourselves. That's why we're waiting for word from him. Sure. And when he comes back, we're going after that their idol of the redskins in order to save Dana and make peace at the same time. Oh, I'll be blasted. What good's that to Mabel Sturgis when she don't know what's happened to Dana? She's fed up on waiting. Waiting for a masked rider who may or may not be our friend? Well, it's been 10 days. Now he ain't showed up yet. Fellas, part of what Aida says is right. There's no arguing a masked man's been gone a long time. Too long, maybe. You're weakening, Bob. No, I ain't. But listen, it's about five hours till dark. Suppose more for Mabel Sturgis than anything else. We wait till sundown. Then if the masked man don't come, take our boats and go look for Dana. Bob, Bob, you will? You will do that. If Tom and Eric and the rest are willing. Oh, bless you, Bob. Bless you. Listen, fellas, the boats we got could take us all across the river in about three trips. Then we'd have a chance. Yeah, bullets and powder against bows and arrows. The masked man himself said the engines wouldn't have a chance. How about you, Tom? Well, I don't know. Tom Crawford, if you ain't man enough, we'd get out. Wait. Look. Come right toward us. The masked man. Bring in the word we've been waiting for. If it only means I'll get Dana back. The boats are just noble to it. Mask man, what'd you find out? Where's your engine part? Are you ready for us to help you fetch back that blamed idle? Yes, I am ready for you. I want four of your best men. Mr. You can have all of us if it'll bring back Dana's churches. I can use only four, but hurry and pick them. Tom, you and Bob and me are as good as any of us. Sure, and I'll go after Sam for the floor. Choose your best horses. Get guns and ammunition for the long trip ahead of us. And danger when we get there. But success is ours if you all have the courage to follow my plan. Yes, sir. There's the raft I told you about. Mr. This horse of mine couldn't stir another foot. You can all rest your horses here. But I'm going in and out to follow that trail leading west. You mean them two scratch marks there in the ground? Yes. Those marks will lead me to the stolen idle. Well, wait a minute, Mask Man. How do you know that? Never mind how I know. But I expect to find an Indian village not far from the river. More engines? Yes. The thieves who took the idle. Over there in those reeds, you'll find a raft. Huh? It was used to get rummed away from the Zuni tribe. And it's going to be used to take that same precious idle back home. And you ain't even been trying to rescue Dana all this time? I've told you, man, that Dana is safe. Saving him before we return their guardian rumder, but only send them on the warpath again. They'll keep Dana alive until they're convinced their idle won't be returned. But suppose they've already? I've no more time for talk. It'll soon be dark, and I've got to follow this sled trail to its end. Come on, Silver. Oh, what is he? A raft. A sled. Who's that? Never mind, fellas. The Mask Man's trailing down an Indian idle. And we're taking his orders. I don't see over how I know. The deep-rutted, double-lined trail led the masked rider to an Indian village some two miles from the riverbank. Once he was sure of the landmarks surrounding it, he swung Silver about, ready to carry out the rest of his plan. Darkness had fallen when he rejoined the four men near the river. Oh, oh, Silver, come on, folks. Men to your horses, then hurry. I know what you were saying, Mr. I did. Now ride with me. Let's go. Come on, Silver. Back over the same place. Come on, come on, come on. Through the night, under a cloudy sky, the pioneers rode following the Masked Man, until at length not far ahead, they saw the fires of the Indian village. But here, the command from their leader, they reigned in their mounts. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Follow me. Mask Man, you heading for that little patch of light that's coming from that doby hut there? Yes, the temple. Rum does sure to be inside, but there'll be a priest, too, a medicine man. How are we going to pull this stunt without waking up all the engines? The medicine man will make a fuss. We'll handle him. If the idle's our big problem, we can't drag it away. They will make too much noise. It'll have to be carried by hand the full distance back to the raft. Gosh, near two miles. We'll make it somehow, Mask Man. You lead us. We've got to make it back to the river. Our horses are no good to us without the sled these Indians used to bring it here. They can follow like, Mask fellow, after we get that blue and idle back to them. Yes. Now, don't talk anymore. We're getting close to the temple, and the medicine man's chatting half aloud. He's inside, facing lambda. Careful now, but keep on coming. Against the background of an Indian ritual fire, the medicine man knelt. His back to the approaching whites. Beyond the fire squatted the huge head of Rumda, a crude wooden idle but mighty to the superstitious Indian. Then at the very door of the temple, the moon slid from behind a dense cloud. One of the white men, Bob Foster, stumbled over a loose stone and brought the worshiping Indian priest to his feet. Bob sprang forward. I'll fix the fireman. There. That's one painted devil won't bother us. Now, all of you, get a hold of the idle at his base. Go through the doorway. Now, hurry before the village waits. Burying the heavy idle, the masked man and his companions retraced their steps even more quickly than they had come. Hours dragged by, as five weary men charged on. The moon paled. The stars flickered and went out. The sun began to rise golden in the east. At last, they reached the row host. Stumbling feet plowed through modern reeds. A final desperate effort in the Indian idle Rumda was placed upon the route. Mr. Maskman, in my whole life, I never worked so hard or guts a scared all in the same night. How's the dog on the toilet shaking? Listen, the engines from the village. Then we're done for. Come on, climb aboard the raft. Out in the river, we can make a fight for a spell. No, we'd be worse off there than here. The sun's up. We'd be in plain sight. Duck low on these reeds. Maskman, they're getting close, too close. But they've only got bows and arrows, like the Zunis. Fire to stop them, over their heads. That's done it. Look, they're pulling right up. Keep firing. We've got to make sure. Hey, who said Zunis? Look, right behind you, out on the river. There comes them walking up the game. Conjuration, Maskman. Now there's two tribes that can get after us. Oh, no, don't you see? Dane is with them in that lead canoe. What? He's going to land in a minute now. An air saddle from the across and the other side all scouted. Hold fire. Hold fire, men. The attacking Indians are scattering, and our friends are here. My gully, the Maskman's right. Fellas, just look at them red devil's ride, the other way. Turn and tail like scared rabbits. And over here, landing on the bank right now, it's Dana. All right, Dana? Dana Sturges, come here. Come on, it's your wife, glad to see you. Right glad to see you. Over here, Taddo. Moscaf, Moscaf, Moscaf, Moscaf, Moscaf, Moscaf, Moscaf. I knew you would make it, Kimosabe. We had those other Indians stopped, but the sight of Yampo and these war canoes turned them to flight. Say, them canoes full of engines settle matters all right, but who emblazes Yampo? Hm? Me, Yampo. Ah? That's right. Yampo, big chief of Zuni Indian tribe. Neela, Rokat, Lure, Titoho, Ronda. What's that? What kind of lingos is that? Yampo say, pale face save great god of red man. Now, red man, brother to pale face for all times. Say, peace last all time. Well, that's fine as far as these here Zuni's are concerned, but what about the other tribe of red skins? Ruh, mona, mona, Zuni, Sula, Ragnar. Hm? Oh? Don't you fellas worry none about no other engines now? Why, shucks, all Yampo here is a blood brother as the whole bunch of us from now on. Me, Yampo. See? And now I ain't never met up with a mask man yet, but aim to this minute so I can thank him. You're too late, Dana. There he goes now. Well, of all the strange acts and fellas, that fair mask man. Here you have just heard as a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.
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Young Learners Program: 11th Archivist of the United States: Dr. Colleen Shogan
Dr. Colleen Shogan began her tenure as the 11th Archivist of the United States in May 2023. Join us for a lively interview with our new Archivist to understand the role the Archivist plays in keeping records of our country safe, find out how you can help our mission of making records accessible to all, and learn how to become a “citizen archivist.” Dr. Shogan will be interviewed by National Archives Education Specialist Breanne Robertson. For live captioning use: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=25784-NARA-Young.Learners.Program
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2023-10-20T03:42:00
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My name is Dr. Breanne Robertson, and I am an Education Specialist here at the National Archives in Washington, DC. It is my pleasure to welcome you today to the National Archives Young Learners Program. October is National Archives Month. In celebration of Archives Month, we have a very special guest, the 11th Archivist of the United States, Dr. Colleen Shogan. As Archivist of the United States, Dr. Shogan is responsible for leading the National Archives in keeping the records of our country safe and accessible for all, for showing the public how they can become a citizen archivist and helping our mission to improve access to the records that document our American story. Welcome, Dr. Shogan. Thank you for joining us today. How are you? I'm terrific. Very excited to be here today. Well, thank you again for joining us. So, as you know, our Young Learners Program has children of all ages. So, why don't we talk a little bit about what you do for your job? How did you become Archivist of the United States, and when did you start your work? I became Archivist of the United States only about five months ago, so I started the job in May of this year, and you become Archivist of the United States when the President selects you and picks you for the job. We use a term called nominate, and then the Senate, which is one House of Congress, has to vote to confirm you. And so, as soon as the Senate voted to confirm me, then I started the job just a few days later. So, can you tell me a little bit what is an archive? How is it different than, say, a library or a museum? Archives, libraries and museums, they're all very similar to each other. You might be most familiar with a library because you might have a public library card where you can go and check out books, or you might visit the library that's in your school where you can also do research or look at books that you prepare you for your classes. And so, libraries collect books. Museums largely collect artifacts or objects that are relevant to history. You might have been to a museum in a city, for example, you might have been able to see an Egyptian mummy, or maybe you were able to see old clothes that someone wore. And archives are like museums and libraries because we also collect things at archives. At archives, we collect records, really, which document the things that people did in history. And here at the National Archives, this is exactly what it says. It's the archives of the United States. So, we collect the documents and records of United States history. So, for our interview with you today, I should point out that we are sitting in the Archivist Reception Room. So, can you tell me a little bit more about your job? Your office is just down the hall from here. So, why do we have a reception room in this building and how do you use it for your work? So, we have a lot of people that work at the National Archives. We have close to 3,000 people that work in various buildings across the United States for the National Archives. And the reception room is really just a space that I can use where we can hold meetings, we can hold important breakfasts with people that come to visit or lunches. And sometimes in the evenings, when we do special programs here at the archives where people are speaking, then we have a little gathering, a little pre-party here in the Archivist Room. So, can you tell me a little bit more about the building that we're in, the National Archives building? So, the building that we're in, sometimes it's called Archives 1, but it's right on the National Mall, which is right near all the Smithsonian museums and many of the monuments you might be familiar with, the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial. This building was built in 1935, and that was when Franklin Roosevelt was president of the United States. And it's kind of interesting, this building is situated halfway between the White House and the Capitol because that was symbolic, that was done for a reason to show that the National Archives would collect all of the records of government, would be accessible to the president, would also be accessible to Congress. There's a lot of interesting things about this building. One of the interesting things was the first building in Washington, D.C., to have air conditioning. And that's really important because here in Washington, D.C., we have very, very hot summers. And so it was important to have this building air conditioned. Not only for the people, but also for the records that we house here. Yeah, so speaking of records, let's talk about the other very important room that's in this building, the Rotunda. What is the significance of that space, and why should every family who comes to Washington, D.C., visit it? It's really a very special place within this building. It's probably the most important place within this building. It's where we house the three founding documents of the United States. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Bill of Rights. And these are documents from the very beginning of the United States as a democracy. The Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776, and that's viewed as the document that creates the United States because it declares the United States independence from Great Britain. And then the Constitution of the United States outlines our government and outlines our three branches of government, which of course the legislative branch, the executive branch, and the judiciary. And our Bill of Rights outlines some of the rights that we have here in the United States, like our freedom of speech, our right to petition the government, our freedom of assembly, our religion, and those are our first ten amendments to the Constitution. So those three documents together are really our three most important documents in American history, and that's the reason why to come to the National Archives to come and visit those documents and see them for yourself. Okay, so those three documents are really important. But how many documents does the National Archives have in its collection at large? Well, it's in the billions. It's hard to really think about it, but we have 13.5 billion pages of records here at the National Archives, 13.5 billion. We have over 33 billion electronic records or digital records here at the National Archives and over 700,000 objects, things that aren't just pieces of paper or photographs but actual objects. Okay, so I know that you of course are going to feel strongly about this, but tell me why is the National Archives important? Why do we need it to have a National Archives? Well, we need to have a National Archives so that we can understand American history. Not just for the people that live today who are listening to this today, but also for people yet to come, generations to come. And it's our way to preserve history and the way to engage with American history firsthand. So what is the best way then for students, do you think, to engage with our history? What's a good way for them to access our records? It's great if you can come here to visit us at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., but we realize that not everybody can come here and visit us. We also have presidential libraries all across the United States. So even if you're not close to Washington, D.C., you might live near a presidential library. You can engage with the National Archives at one of those museums, which is a lot of fun and learn about the history of a particular president. But even if you can't do that, you can go online to our website, and we have a lot of our records, millions and millions, hundreds of millions of our records online that have been digitized, and you can engage with them and examine them online. You can even look at a lot of the images of our records really close up. You can enlarge them so you can see a lot of the detail, the writing, some of the photographs and images if you want to look at them closer on your computer or on your tablet or even on your mom or dad's phone. So I'm glad you brought up the presidential libraries because the National Archives is across the nation. We have many facilities across our country. So you've been here a few months. Have you had a chance to visit any so far? Yes. So we have 42 locations all across the United States, including the building that we're sitting in today. And as I said, I've been in the job about five months, and I've been to close to 20 sites all across the United States, and I've gone to visit four of our presidential libraries. The presidential libraries of Lyndon Johnson, of Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and Barack Obama. So I have nine more to go, and I'm really excited to start traveling again so I can visit those other presidential libraries. So you've shared some great information with us today. If you don't mind, I have a few questions from students that they've submitted to us. Sure. So this first question comes from Queens, New York. What is the coolest record in the National Archives? Okay, the coolest record in the National Archives. Well, it'd be hard not to say the Declaration of Independence because it is really our foundational document in the United States and it really sets out all the principles that our government is based on. So I would say that's probably our coolest record. All right, so another student has asked, how can I become the archivist of the United States? Well, to become the archivist of the United States, you can do exactly what I did, which is to study hard in school and learn as much as you can about American history because that's really important when you serve in my role, when you're in charge of all these different types of records from all over American history, all the way from 1776 to 2023. You have to know something about American history and so that's something to pay attention to and learn about. All right, so this question comes from a school in Texas. After watching the movie National Treasure, we want to know, is there anything written on the back of the Declaration of Independence? Well, I love the movie National Treasure and every time it's on television, I make sure that I watch it. So I love those characters in that movie. I have had the chance to look at the back of the Declaration of Independence and unfortunately there's not a treasure map on the back of the Declaration of Independence, but there is some writing. It says, Original Declaration of Independence, July 4th, 1776. So there was some writing on the back of it, probably to verify that that was the date that the Declaration was issued. So with that date in mind, it's 2023 now and in a few years the Declaration is actually going to be turning 250 years old, 2026. What plans does the National Archives have to celebrate that? Well, we're going to have a lot of fun because that's going to be our birthday. We're going to celebrate it like our birthday, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration and of course the 250th birthday of the United States. We're going to have the National Archives open as much as possible that summer, in some cases maybe 24 hours so you can come and view the Declaration at midnight or very early in the morning which will be very exciting and we're going to have a lot of programs for kids. We want to have a competition, something maybe a poetry competition where we can have kids all across the country get very involved, learn more about the Declaration of Independence in particular, about the history of the United States and get really creative in expressing themselves about it. That sounds great, can't wait. All right, this question comes from a student in St. Louis. What is the best part of your job? The best part of my job, I'd say there's two things that I really enjoy about my job in particular. One is being able to view all kinds of different records from all across the United States and from all different time periods in American history and seeing new things every day and learning new things every day. So I really enjoy that and the second thing that I enjoy is working with everybody who is employed here at the National Archives because I'm not the only person who works here at the National Archives. We have, as I said before, close to 3,000 other people all across the United States that work at the National Archives and every time I go out and visit a new location I get to meet new and interesting people every day. So that's a very exciting part of my job. Well, so another person, actually this maybe segue is to that exact thing, maybe you've already answered it, but another student did ask what is the best part of your job? What is the best part of my job? Of the work. Of the work, of the work. Well, I get to meet new and interesting people all the time. I think, you know, for me, for someone who's curious about American history, I really think the best part of my job is being able to see American history actually in action. So it's one thing to read about American history if you take, you know, if you're in a history or social studies class, it's one thing to read about the things that happen, it's another thing to actually see what happened, see it in our records, in our letters, in the things that presidents have written over time, that have changed American history, like the Emancipation Proclamation being able to see that, not just see it online, but see it actually in person, that really makes history come alive. So what advice do you have for young women who are interested in history and may want to pursue it? I think it's very important to, once again, you always have to study hard and pay attention in school, but when you're in school and you're learning in all your classes, you know, I mentioned social studies and history, and when you get a little bit older, classes in American government and civics, but it's really important when you're in those classes to ask questions. Ask questions of your teacher when you don't understand something, participate in class, raise your hand and make your voice known, and then when some of your classmates say things that you might not understand or maybe that you don't always agree with, it's also important to question them as well in a polite way, but it's important to make your voice heard. And the more engaged you are, I think when you're in school, when you're in class, the better it will be for you and the more you'll get out of it. Great suggestions. So do you have a favorite document here yet? Well, I think my favorite document, I answered what I think the most important document probably is, which is the Declaration of Independence. One of my favorite documents is an amendment to the Constitution. These are times in which we've changed the Constitution, added new provisions to the Constitution, and in 1920, we added an amendment to the Constitution, which made it guaranteed women the right to vote. It's hard to believe, but before 1920, not all women in the United States had the right to vote in elections for President of the United States or for a member of Congress. And then the 19th Amendment changed that and guaranteed that in all elections women had the right to vote. And I think that was a really important change in American history. Yeah, hard to believe that was only just about 100 years ago. That's right. Okay, I have one final question. This is a question we ask of all of our young women programs. What advice do you, as 11th Archivist of the United States, have for our youth today? Well, I think there's a lot of things that you can do in your free time, especially these days. There's a lot of things that were available that weren't available when I was younger. You can spend time looking on the Internet. You can watch really fun, you know, videos on YouTube. There's a lot of fun programs you can watch on things like Netflix. So there's all kinds of options for things, for entertainment and to spend your time. But one of my suggestions is you can do all of those things and have fun. But another thing that you should think about doing is reading. It's really important to read. And it doesn't even matter so much what you read. Some people like to read, you know, stories that are fiction. Some people like to read history. Some people like to read books about mythology. Some people like to read comic books. It doesn't really even matter what you read, but it's important to get in the habit of reading. And if you do that, you will be very, very successful later on in life. Wonderful. It's good advice. Well, thank you for sharing your time with us today. It's been a pleasure speaking with you. Well, thank you. Yeah, thanks. And we hope that you can join us next month for the Young Learners program to learn about the Tuskegee Airmen with educator and reenactor John W. McCaskill.
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March 2nd, 1PM ET Market Update on TFNN - 2023
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Good morning folks. Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year, 11 am update and a bit of a mixed bag just like yesterday that makes coming from the Dow and the Dow transports. The Dow is up 152 about a half a percent three tens for the trannies are up about 49. The S&P is up four three right now. NDX is down 31. Russell is off 10 points. It's about a half percent move to the downside. The SMI is there trading for about 1% 29 points. Gold is off two bucks. Silver 22 pennies to the downside. Like to recruit is up 48 cents natural gas taking a little bit of a breather. It's down three pennies. 30 year treasures down one point and one tick tradeout at 12205. Let's try to figure out what all that means by taking a look at that nine panel market update chart. You begin with the ES mini. The ES mini today is going to form bar number nine of a TD night out pattern. That suggests that the low should form today or tomorrow with a bounce up into its oscillator and change line. I don't have that on this sheet here. But we'll take a look at that most certainly during the Trader's Ed show. We take a look at spot follow techniques right now. It's positioned in favor of the bulls for the S&P 500. Why? Because prices below its 50 day exponential moving average. The 50 day is a 2078 price right now trading out at 2043. We take a look at the end queue. It too is going to form a TD nine count bottom pattern today. Well of course it depends on its close. But right now that's the position that it's in. It still has to form bar number nine. Out there we'll take a look at those details during the Trader's Ed show. But that is suggesting a move higher as well. The end queue would target around the 12275 area. The US dollar index is traded above the top of its daily profile. The top of that profile, 104.82. If it closes above that today, that's suggesting move up toward test that TD nine count breakdown level or the TD nine threshold level. I should say at 105.32. You close above that. The dollars headed to the moon. Goldilocks has a nice TD nine count bottom pattern with price consolidating with inside its daily profile. Resistance up at 1856. Silver formed a new profile yesterday. It is bullish in structure. Your support look don't have any kind of a bottom pattern. But prices above that 2083 level and another close above that is suggesting to you and I that Silver wants to make a run to 2213. I just wish we had a nice bottoming pattern out there. But take a look at late sweet crude just consolidate with inside its daily profile. That range between 7440 as support and 79 and a quarter 79.244 resistance. Natural gas, even though it's pointing back just a tad strong like bull. If you take a look at the last four or five trading sessions on every pullback, it's not even come close. Maybe one day came close to testing the prior low out there prices above the top of its bullish structure. Daily profile that suggests a much higher price. Folks, stay tuned for the trader said show if you want, but if you have to start Thursdays,
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2011 FORD F250 CREW SHORT LARIAT POWERSTROKE DIESEL WALK AROUND REVIEW 10570 SOLD! SUMMITAUTO.com
This 2011 FORD F250 CREWCAB SHORTBOX 3/4 LARIAT POWERSTROKE DIESEL IN OXFORD WHITE is the vehicle we did walk around review of today. Thank you for checking out this video of this 2011 FORD F250 CREWCAB SHORTBOX 3/4 LARIAT POWERSTROKE DIESEL IN OXFORD WHITE Remember to like, subscribe and share. https://www.summitauto.com/used/Ford/2011-Ford-F250+Super+Duty-5872f75d0a0e0a1720ee2fe3fa0e15f2.htm 920-921-0850 CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE! https://www.youtube.com/summitauto?sub_confirmation=1 STOCK: 10570 PRICE: $33,999 MILES: 69,024 MAKE: FORD MODEL: F250 VIN: 1FT7W2BT0BEB98794 PHONE: 920-921-0850 WEBSITE: www.SUMMITAUTO.com & TRUCKSON41.com LOCATION: FOND DU LAC OSHKOSH WISCONSIN, 54937 TRUCKS ON 41 CLEAN TITLE HISTORY! SOUTHERN TRUCK! 6.7 Liter V8 Powerstroke Turbo Diesel Engine, 400 Horsepower, Full Four Door Crew Cab, Short Box 6 1/2 Foot Shortbox, Lariat Package, 6 Speed Automatic Transmission with Optional Manual Tap Shift, Turn Dial 4x4 Four Wheel Drive 4WD, Power Sunroof Moonroof Sun Roof Moon Roof, Reverse Backup Camera in Rearview Mirror, Non Smoker, Dual Power Air Conditioned Ventilated and Heated Seats, Tan Leather Seats, Bucket Seats, Memory Driver's Seat, Agricover Soft Rollup Tonneau Cover , Full Towing Package with Receiver Trailer Hitch, Wiring and Transmission Cooler Tow Package, Gooseneck Hitch Gooseneck, Factory Brake Controller, Heated Telescopic Tow Power Mirrors with Built-in Directional Signals, Advancetrac with Roll Stability Control Traction Control, 3.31 Gears with Limited Slip Differential, Cooper Discoverer A/T LT275/70 R18 Tires, Factory Painted and Polished Aluminum Rims Premium Wheels, Four Wheel Disc Brakes, Factory Chromed Stepbars, Spray-in Bedliner, Bedrail Covers, Fog Lights, Raise Assist Tailgate, Reverse Sensors, Securicode Driver Side Doorcode Keyless Entry, Vent Shades, Locking Tailgate, Chrome Trimmed Mirrors, Fender Flares, AM / FM Radio Tuner, Sirius/XM Satellite Radio Capabilities Sirius / XM, CD Player, Microsoft SYNC System with Bluetooth, Hands-Free Audio System Blue Tooth, Auxiliary MP3 Jack Portable Audio Connection, USB Jack Portable Audio Connection, Keyless Entry with Factory Remote Start, Power Sliding Rear Window, Adjustable Height Seatbelts, Driver and Passenger Front Air Bags, L.A.T.C.H. Child Safety System, Side Curtain Air Bags SRS Safety Restraint System, Multi-Function Steering Wheel Controls, Compass, Outside Temperature Display and Mileage Display, Dual Multi-Zone Climate Control , Power Adjustable Pedals, Weathertech Floormats, Storage Compartment Under Rear Seats, Woodgrain Dash Trim, Air Conditioning AC, Cruise Control, Power Locks, Power Windows, Automatic Headlights Autolamp, Tilt/Telescope Steering Wheel, 110V / 150W Auxiliary Power Outlet, Oxford White, CLEAN AUTOCHECK! Very very clean inside and out! This is one of the sharpest 2011 Ford F250 crewcab shortbox 3/4 ton diesel trucks we have ever had on our lot! Make your move before this super clean 4wd is gone! Call Now! 1-(920)-921-0850 . Check out our Full inventory at www.SUMMITAUTO.com ! Summit Automotive Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin also Proudly Serving Oshkosh, Madison, Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Appleton, and Waupun is a family owned and operated dealership since 1959. We take great pride in our new and used car and truck center with vehicles to fit everyone's budget. We have ON THE SPOT FINANCING. BAD CREDIT OR GOOD CREDIT, we work with over 20 lenders to get you APPROVED AT THE MOST COMPETITIVE RATES. We provide AIRPORT TRANSPORTATION and NATIONWIDE DELIVERY OPTIONS. We are conveniently located on HWY 41 at EXIT 98, Hwy 151 at Military Rd. Exit . Just Look For The TRUCKS ON 41. Advertised price does not include, tax, title, registration and service fee., STOCK: 10570 PRICE: $33,999 MILES: 69,024 MAKE: FORD MODEL: F250 VIN: 1FT7W2BT0BEB98794 PHONE: 920-921-0850 WEBSITE: www.SUMMITAUTO.com & TRUCKSON41.com LOCATION: FOND DU LAC OSHKOSH WISCONSIN, 54937 TRUCKS ON 41
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2020-04-06T14:44:53
2024-02-05T08:52:05
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This is stock number 10570. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters. Today we are checking out this super clean 2011 Ford F-250 crew cab short box. Lariat. This truck has the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel. It has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck is 100% ready to go. Oxford White is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, or smartphone device, turn them on right now because it's definitely your best way to ensure the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you want to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen, there's a link right to our website. Click that and check us out there. Comes with the painted and polished aluminum alloy rims. Excellent shape. Cooper Discoverer LT27570R18 tires with about half the tread left. Frame and underbody is in really nice condition. This truck came out of Tennessee and Georgia where it's two homes. Front bumper and lower valance are in excellent shape. I didn't see any major dents or dings on that. The front grille is in excellent shape as well. And I didn't see any major dents or dings on the hood. Passengers side fender is in excellent condition. And the passengers side rim, no scuffs or scrapes on there. As you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. We take these HD videos so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the vehicle, hear the vehicle and have confidence in what you're looking at before you even get here. So that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises. And that's why we offer the Summit Auto Fastpass option in the upper right hand part of your screen. A link right to our website where you can apply for financing, get pre-approved, see a payment quote, even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home. So that when you get here there's absolutely no surprises. Look how clean that frame and underbody is. Very, very nice. Has all the remaining factory exhausts. And the lower rockers are all really nice condition. You can see it does have a B&W gooseneck hitch. And the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. This back rim is in nice condition as well. And as we come around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is in excellent shape. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. The tailgate is in nice condition as well. Back up parking sensors, full towing package which includes a receiver hitch, four pin and seven pin wiring. That's where your backup camera is and it is a locking tailgate. It has a vanish roll-up tonneau cover. Pretty nice condition, definitely not brand new, but didn't see any rips or tears on it. This truck has a spray and bed liner and it also has a bed mat in it. And I'd show you underneath there, but I guarantee you there's a gooseneck hitch underneath that mat. Let's see if I can get it over like so. There it is. So that is back there. And you do get the seven pin wiring back here as well. Tailgate shuts nice and solidly. And as you go down this side of the truck, really nice as well. The only thing I know is a couple little dings on that rear quarter there. But other than that, this truck is pretty much perfect on the outside. The rest of the box looks like it's in gray condition. And that back rim is in excellent shape as well. You can see there's your release for that gooseneck hitch. Down the rest of the side of the truck, no dents or dings on the doors. It does have the driver side door code entry, which we have the code for. It has the power scope mirrors. They power fold in and telescope out. Inside the Lariat package gives you the tan leather interior. Both of these front seats are heated and cooled. No rips or tears on the seats. Both these seats are power. We have some nice all-weather floor mats in here as well. Auto headlamps, power pedals, power windows, power locks, and power mirrors. And like I said, they are power scopes. So they do power fold in. And I always like showing both sides to make sure that both sides are working good. And then they also power telescope out like so and in. And once again I always like showing that both sides are functioning properly. As we hop inside the truck here, you can see that this one has 69,350 miles. You get the digital information center, instrument cluster is very nice and clean. It comes with the leather wrapped steering wheel, Bluetooth and radio controls on the right, cruise controls and information center controls on the left. You do get the six-speed automatic transmission, AM FM CD player. I believe this one has serious XM radio capabilities. It does. Turned out four-wheel drive, factory brake controller. They're your climate controls as well as your heated and cooled seat buttons. And it does have dual climate control. You get the sync system for your Bluetooth cell phone as well as an AUGS and USB jack, 12-volt power point and the stability control. Now the backup camera shows up in your mirror right there. And this one does have the power sunroof, side current airbags. You also get your map lights and power sliding rear window and sunroof controls up there as well. Passengers side, seat and format are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears on that. The headliner is in really nice shape too. And we'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we will check out under the hood. Back seats are just as clean as the front seats. No rips or tears back here. Does have that power sliding rear window. Very nice condition. You can get that all-weather format back here as well. Underneath the seats is a lockable storage area and that locks with the ignition key. And then behind the seats you're going to find that it has the factory subwoofer, the child safety tether anchors. And last but not least you get the 110-150 watt plug-in and a 12 volt power point back here as well. Carpeting is in excellent shape and you do get the child safety locks on the back doors as well. Let's take a quick look under the hood. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video you will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around inside out so you can make a smart buying decision. Under the hood we have the 6.7 liter power stroke diesel engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. This truck like I said has been fully safety and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this truck here is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend it from a quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, half tons, three-quarter tons, one tons, you name it we got it go to our website www.summitauto.com. Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summit auto. Remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left. A link to more heavy-duty truck videos like this on your right. If you have not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website click those check us out and we really look forward to helping with this super clean 2011 Ford F-250 Crew Cab Short Box Lariat Power Stroke Diesel. Thanks again.
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Varanasi | The City Of Moksha by Ajil Joy
Documentary film on Varanasi where the freedom from samsara is believed to achieve, the city of moksha, documented by Ajil Joy the Diploma graduate in Photography from Creative Hut Institute of Photography 2017-2018. Direction Cinematography and Edited by Ajil Joy Produced by Creative Hut Institute of Photography Script and voice over Mrinal Bhushan Assistant cinematography Gokul Somarajan, Prajul C.K I am an aspiring travel filmmaker with an eye for unedited visuals. I have dreamed about documenting Varanasi as early as I was infected by the photo bug. Varanasi to many seems a city of mysteries and religious extremism. My aim was to document the city as it is today. My visuals depict an honest reflection of how Varanasi became the core destination for attaining moksha. Three days of capturing Varanasi taught me how a place scenic enough conveys so much message in depth. Creative Hut Institute of Photography National Education And Research Foundation Thekkummattam, Karimpany P.O, Mattakkara Kottayam, Kerala, India - 686564 Call: +91 85 470 44 220 | +91 85 890 54 220 | www.creativehut.org
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2018-06-06T08:56:22
2024-04-18T18:28:23
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बनारस्ती रंगीं सडखें मचलती फीजाएं और गंगा दाद पर उकते सुरी काद्रिस्ते कापी मनुरा मोता है जहांके लोगों की दिन की सुर्वाद गंगा में अस्नां करने के पस्चाए सुरी को अर्ग देकर होती है सुबा होते ही दर सनाव्ष्यों की कडी जुर जासी है, सादूत था पन्ति अपने पुजा में लीन हो जाते है रंगों से ब्रावावाजे तगर, बहुतों को संगीत के रंग से रंग देता है बच्चे, बूरे, और जबाव, गंगा माता की गोड में दोगी लगाते रहते है। ना ही पुछ पाने की पुसी है, ना ही पुछ खोने का जम। ये तो बस अपने ही रंगों में, रंगे रहते है। बनारस के लोग, तब तथा साथना में, अमेंसा तलीज जाते है। गंगा किनारे बसा हुआ ये सहर, गंगा को ही समर्किच है। यहां कूल मिलांकर, बडी-बडी सीडियो से बनी चवरासी गाते है। जहां पर दूर से आईदर सनार ती, अपनी धून में खोए बैरा की, तखा सैलानियो का मेला लगा रहता है। तिस्ताज वियातार, सचाज इचायागवा है। मनिकरनिका गात पर सम्सां, मोख च्ताप्ती के लिए ब्रसिद है। कहते हैं की जिंकी मिलिचवीद को, चहां जलाया जाता है, उने मोख च्मिल जाता है। और स्वरत की प्राप्ती दूती, यहां आपको गली-गली में साथी, अपनी भखती में लिए में रहा है। पस्वों को भी यहां भग्वान का दर्जा लिया जाता है। रमें मी लोग बड़े ही मक्तमाउजी होते है। यहां की गलियों में दोड़ते खिलते बट्चे, गली को हमें साथी जिमित रखते है। बनारास आए, और यहां की लस्सी का अनंद नहीं तो क्या लिए। आलुकी तिख्या और चक्पते पुट्के तो लोग बातो बातो में ही जस्वीस कतम कर जाते है। यहां के करहाई में चक्ते गरंवरं लिप्टी का क्या कहना। और साथ में रसीली जलेविया हों तो चार्चान लगयाती। बनारस के लोग खाने के बहुत सोगीन होतें यहां पर आपको तरह तरह के नास्ते में जाहनेंगी जिनका स्वाथ आप सब्यों तकना वोल्तागी दिन दलते ही, बनारस एक अलग रंज में दल जाता है। और एक उमंग से बहरी ही दस्वास मेंद गाथ के लोग निकल पडती है। दस्वास मेंद गाथ, जो की हर सों गंगा आरती से बूं जुपती है। और यहां आएज में लोग इस बूं से बूं जुपते है। आपसा ही कुच है अपना बनारा।
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Week 8 : Lecture 45
Week 8 : Lecture 45 : Unimolecular decay: RRKM's approach
[ "Unimolecular decay", "RRKM theory", "density of states" ]
2021-03-07T18:41:27
2024-02-05T06:11:41
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So, welcome to module 45 of chemical kinetics and transition state theory. In the last module, we discussed the RRK way of looking at unimolecular decay. We had in two modules ago shown that very naive way of doing unimolecular decay does not matches with experiment exactly. Rice, Ramsberger and Kessel had presented a different model on how to calculate unimolecular rate constant. Today, we are going to do even better. What we had learnt in the last module is that it can do very well, but there are a few parameters that come ad hocly. That we fit so that you get the best match with experiment, but that is not very satisfactory. We should be able to get everything looking at the molecule. I should not rely on experimental data at all. I should be able to calculate everything. So, today we will look at what Marcus had to say about it. So, Marcus again was a brilliant theoretician. He was essentially given this problem that earlier people RRK had solved in late 1920s and it was left like that. Marcus in 50s was given this problem essentially as a starting problem of his postdoc and he was asked let us see what you make of it and this is what Marcus made of it. He basically cracked it in 1 or 2 years, completely gave the final correct answer. So, we will look at what Marcus had to say. Once more let me revise for you what our problem is. So, our problem is we are studying A going to B with the overall rate constant K1. So, rate we have defined to be K1 into concentration of A. Our mechanism is to A going to A star plus A, A star going to B. Within this we have discussed in a couple of modules that we can work out a rate constant of this K1 as this integral. The important point that I want to highlight is that A, A star which is an excited state and B once more A star is not the transition state. So, this is K1, this is K-1 and this is K2. So, the idea here in doing this integration is that we are calculating this K1, K-1 and K2 at a given energy E. So, this is my energy E. So, I see if I was at that energy E, if K1 excited me to that energy E, then my A star has a choice at that energy E to either move forward and become a product or come down and become A again. So, this K1, K-1 and K2 cannot be divorced away from each other. They must be calculated at that given energy E and not individually averaged out. So, with that we had written this formula and in the last module we looked at a way to calculating these numbers K1, K2 and K-1 using the RRK model. So, let us look at what Marcus said. The first thing is calculating K2 that is one big thing that is different. Once more I will really like drawing these pictures. So, let me draw it again. K2 is this one. So, this K2 I am calculating at a constant energy and I have already shown you that RRK model is actually not very good at calculating this constant and energy rate constants. RRKM has to be used which is much more elaborate which makes much fewer assumptions which looks at the molecule much closer and includes all possible vibrations and rotations in a more intrinsic fashion. And with that we calculated a RRKM by this formula where G is the density of states and W is the total number of states. So, this is what we are going to use for K2 of E. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to write this formula. You have to calculate this W and G for each molecule and that is the way it has to be. Each molecule is different. Each molecule has a different bunch of oscillators there. So, it is not a good idea to generalize all molecules as simply a bunch of harmonic oscillators at some frequency W. A more general formula has to be written that must be calculated differently for each molecule. So, that is point 1 number 1 that is which is different from RRK model. The second is K minus 1 where Marcus made no change. It is exactly the same as RRK. We calculate this K minus 1 as the collision theory decay rate constant of losing energy from this highly excited energy E to coming down to the ground state at thermal energy. So, we discussed this in the last module. So, I am not going to elaborate too much in it. The rate constant given by collision theory is here and there are 2 critical assumptions K minus 1 is not a function of energy. It is a function only of temperature. The picture again is that this energy will be close to activation energy which is anyway a large amount of energy. So, small deviations around the activation energy does not matter and if the deviation is too large and the rate constant will anyway be too small. So, again it does not matter. So, for all practical purposes I can calculate this K minus 1 as a constant. The second thing is there is no collision factor here. There is no react all collisions are supposed to be equally reactive and that again the underlying idea is that you are having a very large energy E anyway. And so, if you are colliding the probability of losing energy is always very high. So, all collisions are reactive in that sense. The final picture is K 1 over K minus 1. In RRK we had written a very concrete expression for it. No such expression can be written here. We derive this expression in the last module. This comes from the picture that A and A star if this is K 1 this is K minus 1. So, the K equilibrium is A star by A this is 2A plus A which is equal to K 1 over K minus 1. And this equilibrium constant is nothing but the relative population of A star with respect to A. So, that then can be calculated as the density at energy E into e to the power of minus beta E that is a Boltzmann factor and that is the density. So, this is Boltzmann factor and this is density. So, again to reemphasize our population is a product of 2 numbers of 2 quantities. One which is e to Boltzmann factor that is the overall weight of being at that energy E multiplied by how many states are accessible at that energy. So, it must be a product of those 2. In fact, even if the energy is high, but you just have a lot of states that are accessible at that energy it still makes it more probable. And the denominator is of course the partition function that normalizes this probability or partition function into some factor of H ok, some normalization constant in short. Again, Marcus said do not try to simplify this there is no meaning in this. This G must be calculated for a molecule separately. You cannot generalize it. You cannot say that we have a general formula for all possible molecules that attempt is not going to work. So, for a given reaction, you better calculate G of e separately and we have spent one module on looking and how to calculate this G. So, I am not going to repeat all of that, but again we divide G into rotations and vibrations and we figure out ways on how to calculate rotational G and vibrational G. For vibration we often do sum of states, rotations can be treated classically, all of this was discussed earlier. So, you can go back and have a look at that module again on how to calculate G. But all Marcus is saying is it is upon you how do you calculate this G, how accurate G you want, but I am not going to give you a common prescription for all molecules. That is just a bad way of looking at things. All molecules have their own individual personalities. You do not go ahead and see to bunch all these molecules together. So, that is pretty much R, R, K, M, R sir. Marcus is saying is let us keep things general. You calculate this K1 over K minus 1, I should write R to the present reactant, A remember is a reactant. You calculate this K1 over K minus 1 separately for each molecule. You calculate this K2 separately for each molecule. K minus 1, he did not hinder, he said he will calculate using collision theory and do this integration. So, it is more manual. It is not an easy answer now. R, R, K had given a much more simpler answer, but it is simple answer often has problems. You have this R, R, K answer was ad hoc. We had to figure out what this S is. We have to figure out K dagger experimentally. Here we are saying we will look at each molecule and we will look at it very closely. But we will get that answer right now and we will get it only by theory. We will not return to experimental data. So, what are the required parameters now for R, R, K, M? K minus 1 of course is coming from collision theory. Activation energy can come from experimental data or you can do an electronic structure calculation in these days. Back in Marcus's day that was much harder, but now things are very different. You can askfully ask the computer to get what this activation energy is. W and G comes from the very refined structural information of that particular molecule which usually comprises of frequencies, the vibrational frequencies and moment of inertia. Moment of inertia of course for calculating rotational G and W and frequencies for vibrational G and W. Here we do not return to experiment. So, R, R, K, M is a more general theory compared to R, R, K. R, R, K is actually a special limit of R, R, K, M and I will show that in the next slide. R, R, K is a very specific model of S harmonic oscillators all with the same frequency and S is arbitrary in R, R, K. We choose the S that matches the experiment the best rather than the other way around. R, R, K, M looks at properly at the vibrational and rotational modes. R, R, K requires ad hoc fitting of experimental data. R, R, K, M does not. So, let me just point out one special thing that I said in the last slide, which is that R, R, K is a special case of R, R, K, M. So, let us look at R, R, K, M theory and apply it to the R, R, K model. R, R, K model is no rotations S harmonic oscillators with frequency omega all with the same frequency. So, we have a general prescription now given by this K2 and K1 over K minus 1. So, let us calculate the general prescription for this specific model. K1 over K minus 1 I really do not need to because we already calculated K1 over K minus 1 using this specific formula only when we are deriving R, R, K formula. So, you will end up getting the same formula that we had derived 2 modules ago last module actually I am sorry. So, K1 over K minus 1 was already derived with this formula for this particular model. So, let us not discuss that. Let us look at K2. K2 actually looks very different now. It looks like some W dagger over HDR where K2, R, R, K we showed was equal to this. Are they the same thing written in different languages? Let us find out. W dagger, here we have to be extremely careful. This is a very common mistake that almost everybody makes. W dagger is total number of states excluding reaction coordinate. So, this total number is calculated for 1 degrees of freedom less than the total degrees of freedom. So, let me just write W of E as E to the power of S divided by S factorial into h bar omega to the power of S because all omega i is equal to omega in my specific model of R, R, K. Arbitrarily I call the first mode as a reaction coordinate. You are free to choose the 13th mode as reaction coordinate if 13 is your favorite number. So, this is equal to E to the power of S minus 1, 1 degree of freedom less compared to total. Not even this I have made a mistake. So, let me correct my mistake. It is E minus EA. So, I am calculating W dagger at E minus EA. So, E minus EA to over S minus 1 divided by S factorial h bar I am making the same mistake. I told you everybody makes this mistake. So, do I I am not immune to it either S minus 1 factorial h bar omega to the power of S minus 1. So, instead of using S we must use S minus 1. GR is the same. GR will have all S h bar omega to the power of S. Again this factor will become h bar omega to the power of S. So, I have W and I have G. I have to just divide these two. You get E minus EA divided by E to the power of S minus 1. You already start noticing that we are getting terms similar to this. S minus 1 factorial will cancel when I divide these two. H bar omega will not cancel. I will get h bar omega to the power of S divided by h bar omega to the power of S minus 1. So, I am left with 1 h bar omega. So, I am left with h bar omega divided by H into E minus EA. H bar is nothing but H over 2 pi. So, this is a very neat result we get. Compare these two results. So, when I compare these two results, I get K dagger is equal to omega over 2 pi. So, RRKM is even giving a prescription to RRKM. He is saying you do not have to remember earlier for RRKM we had sent that to calculate K dagger we have to look at experimental data at large pressure or concentration. RRKM comes in and says you do not know what? I can tell you even a better answer the frequency that common frequency that you had chosen. K dagger is nothing but omega over 2 pi. It is a very neat picture and it makes sense as well because omega over 2 pi well is also the frequency of my reaction coordinate. All coordinates have same frequency. So, this is let us say my reaction coordinate. K dagger should represent this frequency somehow. K omega over 2 pi is the number of times I hit the barrier height at per unit second. So, this must appear somehow RRKM shows that it does appear properly. So, I do this general prescription and omega over 2 pi comes very naturally. So, I have given you a big comparison of the three different ways of calculating this unimolecular decay rate constant. The Lindemann version is what was the original model. I look at K 1, K 2 and K minus 1 as a function of temperature. I do not look at them in a correlated fashion. I do my simple kinetics, you study state hypothesis and get my answer. The required input for this of course is K 1, K minus 1 and K 2 that you can calculate in different ways. But we know that this does not matches well with experiment. We have to do better than this. So, RRK in 27 and 28 gave a different prescription that you must integrate over all possible energies. Instead of looking at K 1 and K 2 independently, they are correlated. You calculate them at a given energy and integrate over all possible energies. So, K 1 and K 2 are concerted and that is also true in RRKM. They both start with the same formula. RRK specifically assumes that my molecule consists of S harmonic oscillators with no rotations. And all harmonic oscillators have the same frequency. So, the required parameters for RRK is this S, which is usually given by the best fit. K minus 1 that comes from collision theory. E naught is simply the barrier height that can come either from experiment or electronic structure. And K dagger can either come from high pressure limit or as we understand it, it can be looked at as omega over 2 pi, which is the frequency of the reaction coordinate. RRKM does slightly better. S should not be needed. S is nothing but the total number of vibrational modes. I will remove S, that is my bad. It requires K minus 1, which comes from collision theory. And E naught of course, also is needed, which comes from experimental data or electronic structure calculations. But beyond that, we calculate G and W for RRKM, which requires structural information of reactant and transition state, such as frequencies and moment of inertia, which will typically come from electronic structure calculations. They can also come from experiment if you want. So, RRKM is a more advanced model and is very actively used till today. One point let me just add since we are at the end of it. There is a difference between R, R and K by the way. R and R were Rice and Ramsberger and K Boscassil. R and R calculate this K2 classically. They follow all the same prescription like this, all three of them, R, R and K. But Boscassil was actually the first person to highlight that K2 should be calculated using quantum mechanics and you will get a better answer. But nonetheless, even K, even if he got a better answer, he has to calculate this S rather adopt. It does not matches correctly. So, today we have looked at a comparison of RRKM and RRKM theory. We have looked at how we can RRKM and RRKM both improve over Lindemann and RRKM improve over RRKM. And RRKM is giving the most general prescription. It requires more hard work. You have to look at each molecule separately. RRKM said that there is no easy prescription. Each molecule has its own individual personality and you must calculate its rate constant accordingly. Thank you very much.
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A Landscape Restoration Puzzle: When “Natural” isn't What YOou Thought it Was
Dr. Dorothy Merritts, Department of Earth and Environment at Franklin & Marshall College Study of the processes that change and shape the earth’s surface shows the profound influences that human modification can have on landscapes at a regional scale. Hillsides erode through time and deposit sediment via rivers and streams to the valleys below. Human activity lends an imprint to these deposits that can be difficult to distinguish without careful investigation. Dr. Dorothy Merritts and her research collaborators have unraveled the natural and human processes that have shaped riverine landscapes in the eastern United States – and propose a surprising pre-industrial scenario that explains high sediment loads in the Chesapeake Bay and other water bodies. It also matters to how streams are restored. The webinar will look more deeply at her research and the fascinating story it weaves among geomorphology, ecosystems, and human history.
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Hello and welcome to the board on earth sciences and resources webinar entitled a landscape restoration puzzle when natural isn't what you thought it was My name is Nicholas Rogers. I'm a financial and research associate with the board Our speaker to for today is dr. Dorothy merits a professor in the Department of Earth and Environment at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania Dr. Merritt is a geologist with expertise in streams rivers and other landforms and on the impact of geologic processes Climate change and human activities on the form and history of Earth's surface Dr. Merritt's received her bachelor's in geology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania Her master's in engineering geology from Stanford University and her PhD in geology from the University of Arizona Dr. Merritt's and her research collaborators have done some really exciting work and unraveling the natural and human processes That have shaped riverine landscapes in the eastern United States and they proposed a surprising pre-industrial scenario that explains high sediment loads in the Chesapeake Bay and other water bodies The work also has significant implications on how we restore our streams The webinar today will look more deeply at dr. Merritt's research and a fascinating story It weaves among geomorphology ecosystems and human history Just a few housekeeping items before we get started the audio for today's event will be streamed through your computer speakers We will be taking questions through the Q&A box located in the lower right-hand side of your screen Simply type your question in the box at any time and click send Please note that your question is limited to 256 characters We ask that you leave the box set to send your questions to all panelists This webinar is also being recorded. 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I'm still transferring over here Give me one moment, please So Nick is my desktop and shared there yet with you Thank you so much Nick It's my pleasure to be talking to some unknown number of people I don't know the number eight right off the hand on myself at the moment But I'm really delighted to have a chance to communicate to all of you From my office and some of my crew is here with me my research collaborators Bob Walters here and others and We're excited about sharing the results of all of this work We've been doing for over a decade and it touches upon many different aspects of the earth sciences Including wetlands and their origins and what formation and restoration of streams and wetlands dams and dam removal Anthropogenic impacts on natural systems water quality permafrost permafrost saw climate change and Of course the recent history of human activity and its impact on landscapes so what touched on a number of those and many of things that I'll talk about today are Discussed in publications and on websites and I'll cite those as I go So you can always go look at those publications or websites And at the end of have a list of the the many collaborators that have been fortunate to work with and many students and the many funders to whom We're grateful and landowners Case in point here. This is Great Mars, Pennsylvania and Jim Moore and the Moore family have graciously allowed us to work here And some 60 years ago they allowed Paul Martin the same paleontologist to work there as well So we're building upon his early work from over half a century ago And when you look at this landscape from the air as Here it appears to be very natural in fact it has amazingly high water quality It's a wetland of wet nettle with sedges toxic sedges. It's an Audubon important bird area It's saturated at the surface year round for that reason it has toxic sedges and it's been a marsh a wet nettle for about 11,500 years However, there are things about it that aren't immediately apparent and one of those is that the pond that you saw in the previous view is actually not natural It was made with dynamite by the Moore family in the 50s and Jim Moore tells us that as a boy He watched the organic mud raining down on those cars. You see in the view So the great clear example of the impact of it in Propostine using dynamite to make a pond in a wetland There were efforts even before that to try to drain this wetland that ditch that flows through the view is actually not a natural stream channel It's a human made ditch from the mid 19th century What's intriguing to us is that this is one of the very few examples we know of not buried by historic sediment and That's how we got involved in this work initially We were looking at the historic sediment that is so ubiquitous in the valley bottoms And it buries nearly every valley bottom in the mid-Atmantic Piedmont region and yet it's not here So what we have here is a rare glimpse into what might have been prior to the burial of so many of the valley bottom landscapes Historically, and I'll come back to that later What's also interesting here is that there's something that's a little more natural than we might have thought it was and That is the actual structure of the landscape is very old It dates back to the Pleistocene It dates to cold climate conditions and the bulk of what we were seeing is the result of cold free spa phenomena And on top of that we have a thinned in here of organic sediment That's the wetland down the valley bottom produced by the accumulation of organic matter from plant matter over time And that's a very thin Capping on it a little film from the Holocene the last roughly 11,000 years So there's a much older legacy here And you can see it if you use LiDAR and get a bare earth view as we're doing here with PA LiDAR So we've made a slope shade You can actually see if my arrow is working for all of you on the slopes There are these low-baked features and these are what we sometimes call drool It's it's fractured crushed up rock material generated by rock fracturing during free-slaw times moving down the slopes Moving down and big alluvial fans after the valley bottom probably blocking the valley bottom down here And then there are places where the refermer card slumps like we see throughout the Arctic today often called retrogressive Faw slumps and these various phenomena from permafrost spa then led to Stuffs from the hillside going to the valley bottoms and making a very good Permutable substrate a rubberly substrate on which wetlands to form during Faw and Paul Martin did his coring and trenching out here Which I'll talk about later There's Paul Martin the more family has pictures of him when he was out there He was a young postdoc at the time and he was digging in coring and he published a marvelous paper that I highly recommend you read In which he talked about the shallow course in this marsh Wondered why this marsh was so rare today And it's got some of the first data on pollen and climate change from that pollen record for this region He was the first to show that adjacent to the last full-blade twice margin We didn't have a temperate forest at that time so for 20,000 years ago The rather we had take a tundra and he says in the paper We probably had bare soil affluxion slopes and it's a marvelous insight of his he recognized based on the vegetation What the landscape must have looked like He also did early in a really example of radiocarbon dating He was able to show that this marsh became established somewhere at the end of the last place to see and going to the earlier Holocene Here's an example of permafrost Faw and jello affluxion lobe were cell affluxion lobe formation today and you can see that it moves material of all sides even bolder size down slopes even at very low gradients and That's the stuff we now see throughout the mid-atlantic Piedmont region and in the region Valley in the Valley bottoms as well as on the side slopes And that's what then Holocene what and we're able to form upon once the ground had thawed What we're seeing in lidar then with the bare earth views is the low-baked structure these forms That when they're active there they're moving during times of fall when the active layer is fine They move very slowly a few centimeters a year perhaps down slope But always during times of fall Here's an example of our lidar analysis from central Pennsylvania again a slope shade You can see the fall material from fall moving down the slope into the Valley bottoms in places as many tens of meters thick It's often better developed in one valley side than it on one hill slope side than another given that The aspect and the facing of the Sun But what's neat here is you can also see that going down the main Valley in this Valley within the region Valley It's a shale Valley that there are these large step-like features going down and these are also gel affluxions So even the Valley bottoms themselves acted as hill slopes during these cold times It's the advancing and retreating of the ice sheets that we often are most familiar with and the glacial legacy of that Kind of advancing and retreating But at the same time the last two million years or so We've had advancing retreating permafrost boundaries And that's what we're looking at in this area here in the Atlantic region primarily Pennsylvania, Maryland It's what's the record of that advancing and retreating of frozen ground it might have been over a hundred meters thick in places And we're trying to estimate that So we need to keep in mind then that this is happening over and over for the last Here only I'm only showing 600,000 years, but cold times warm times cold times warm times is the proxy record then For the warm and cold times at the moment we're in a warm period So it's very I'm tempting at times to think that landscapes always look the same But of course it hasn't it's actually been much colder most of the last 600,000 years ago than it is today And note also that there was a very abrupt warm warming circa 18,000 years ago and within that warming period since end of last glacial maximum There have been some brief episodes of rapid warming So here what I'm showing is the position of the last glacial maximum ice sheet with its margin Circa 21,000 18,000 years ago And then I'm showing the works in French and Miller that is a record of where there would have been perhaps Continuous permafrost with some kind of permafrost They can't quite tell from the record they compiled in 2013 It's largely a record of people finding collusion and so forth, but also some other periglacial features But now what I'm showing is today where there was continuous permafrost the darker blue down to an isotherm of about minus 8 degrees Celsius then discontinuous down to about minus 1 degrees Celsius and then sporadic or isolated We'd have to go that far north today to get to a place where there is permafrost And it's all through the news at the moment on what's happening as permafrost falls with modern warming So the mid-Atlantic region is a very good analog or in some ways an analog For how what happened down here farther to the south when this landscape was Had permafrost and then warmed and that permafrost began to retreat or to fall and disappear so that on the previous due to the a line going from north to south and in Anderson Anderson the book written by Anderson Anderson they show along that line from north to south very thick permafrost at about 400 meters too much thinner getting to the zone where it goes from continuous to discontinuous and then sporadic and What we are finding is that this is probably a very good analog for paleo Pennsylvania where there was continuous permafrost and then going into Maryland it becomes discontinuous We're basing that on the landforms that we're studying and mapping and investigating and then going into Virginia We have to go to higher altitudes to get find evidence of permafrost although there is some at higher altitudes So the landscape is a record of that paleo temperature gradient The best modern analog we have found for what this region might have been like is actually Antarctica There are some differences of course, but what's common is that both places were very dry modern-day and our gets very dry in the dry valleys and Paleo Pennsylvania paleo Maryland was very dry and that's based on other people's work Not just our own so it was very windy very dry frozen much of the time And so we don't see on fluvial processes acting in some of the main valleys because they're frozen We do see lots of thermal contraction polygons is cold enough for the ground to crack and that's diagnostic It's a clear indicator of continuous permafrost We see many gel affluxion lobes and benches nivation hollows Etc. A thermocarpons and those we see all of those in Pennsylvania paleo Pennsylvania So now going back and looking at Great Marsh what we should keep in mind is we're looking at a landscape that at the moment is flawed But has been frozen from much of the last two million years probably or at least the last hundred thousand the work of T. C. Hale's Josh Brewing others on Joe Marshall is showing that The time the landscape spends in the frost cracking window down here at minus three to minus eight degrees Celsius Is very important because that affects the intensity of frost cracking so the more time it spends in that window That's the maximum conditions for getting frost cracking and the deeper that that gets the more Shattered material will be produced in Pennsylvania has a lot of shattered material as you'll see in Pennsylvania has some as well So looking here at the work of Joe Marshall what she has done is taking global Climate models and downscaled them and then use them with frost with can't use the temperature to look at frost cracking into estimate frost cracking Intensities you can see the scale board down here from her work So showing frost cracking intensity and degrees Celsius per centimeter It's not over a year and annual year of basis And so using various climate models We can show that in the region we're working But it's likely that given the climate modeling that we would have had conditions for conducive time intense very intense frost cracking And of course the landscape verifies that and supports it because we have many shattered rocks on the slopes You can trace these shattered rocks up to the ridge crest in the forest areas and many previous workers have mapped this colluvian What's new and different now is being able to use LiDAR to actually see the shapes of these Deposits and then to track how they move down slope to look under the trees for example We have some very exciting and new independent evidence that supports that the ground was indeed that was indeed that cold here And that is the existence of thermal contraction polygons But I showed those in the anodic earlier in that previous photograph and a researcher by the name of gal in 2014 published a map in which he showed all these little red dots as places where he had found thermal contraction polygons in New Jersey and Napa less etc and We realized that we would surely have them here because we had seen some of these in outcrops and quarries and other workers had Without sure we could do it if gal did and he was using Google Earth to do it So here's his Google Earth work It was published in his paper in 2014 and he showed that he could find these polygons He could map them and sketch them and at certain times we are he could not so all depends on soil moisture and the dryness of the soil So we began looking at he had done you have to get close down to the earth's surface I'm sure enough we found them very quickly We knew where to look initially because we'd seen evidence of these and others had in outcrops and quarries You can see the polygons along the hillsides here up and over these little mazes like summits This is the shale hills of central, Pennsylvania We got more and more excited began using satellite imagery and we could do an even better job This is the same area looking straight down using satellite imagery What this tells us then is it certainly was very cold minus three to minus eight degrees Celsius may be even colder But it certainly would have had continuous permafrost and it explains then why Bob Walter and I and our colleagues have had a very hard time finding Deposits that we would consider to be truly fluvial in origin and it's because the landscape has been frozen so much as a time Here's a good view then we just found this summer of one of those polygon Boundaries in outcrop along the road cut and what what's exciting to us is that it's filled with sand and the sand tells us then that it was That was Aeolian dust blowing about we've sampled this now and are getting ready to do some OSL work and other work with it It tells us a little bit more about the conditions at the time It tells us also that it was not very wet We would have had ice wedge more typical ice wedge cast instead We just have the cracking of the ground and then the opening of it We're working with Mark Demetros and others on this and it's a really neat new part of our work We find these all the way down to the valley bottoms except that in the valley bottoms as here We often find these darkened swales now They're actually dark because they're moist and we can only see these at certain times of the years and They they're in a loose way connected with these networks with the polygons and cells and They're filled with white silk which we interpret to be a reworked look and on that white silk There's an organic rich layer that has formed and so these were wetlands and throughout the Holocene Although today this area is farmed and I'll show that in a moment. Here's another view of the same area. It's near Carlisle, Pennsylvania You can see that the tributaries and these are not really streams They're just low swales that are moist are all parallel or sub parallel They follow bedrock fractures and then there's this other fracture pattern from the polygons itself Here we are looking at a different time of the year and you can see we can't see that that phenomena which is so remarkable We began wondering about these and wondering why would we have these silk-filled moist swales that are branching and spatially Extensive and interconnected with the polygons And we then came across a paper by Joe Levy and his colleagues from Antarctica again That the dry valley region or Taylor Valley region and we realized that this explains very well what we're seeing Because they're not truly gullies. They're not cut down by flowing water. They're seepage gullies They're seepage from permafrost spa and from the active layer of thawing and water seeping out, snow melting, etc And it brings down some small relatively small amounts of the finer material into the valley bottom where it accumulates So these are widespread we think in this region and can be found now with Google worth another imagery We find all sorts of retrogressive slums as I had mentioned we can find them on the LiDAR as well as the field We find they're more original gullies We've seen evidence that these lakes, permafrost lakes that had dried they're around the state college area and Of course in the Mid-Atlantic Piedmont what we've had begun to realize is that Various types of stens or wet meadows had become ubiquitous then would fall such as Great Marsh So we went back out with Candace Grand III, Chris Bernhardt and others and Aaron Markey our post-pac researcher And we've done some coring and we've done a lot of redid carbon dating You can see here we have a number of cores and we're using them for different purposes All of them have at the top this thick dark organic rich layer This particular layer appears human disturbance and then they all have basically the same strategic be going down And this one in the middle here is one we're looking at for seeds There are some we're looking at the pollen that's Chris Bernhardt's work at the USGS and then of course the dating You can see the dates here on the left this light colored silty layer down here We interpret as loss of some sort in the valley bottom about about 20,000 years old All right, here's some of the seeds we extract. This is a one millimeter square grid They all in the case of Great Marsh and the other black soils organic rich soils that we look at are consistent with wet meadows Wet marshes sometimes we find the submerged aquatic organisms indicating that there were pools of water But always it indicates a low energy environment And much like what we're finding today in the Arctic as permafrost fuzz So in the simple so they can we could take one of these cores and look at it from bottom on the down here in their lower Right to top and we can see these very sharp stratigraphic boundaries And we can bite interpreting the pollen the seeds the radio carbon dates et cetera other things in there Well, these determined is that we essentially had some sort of from a karst pond at the end of last full glacial Last glacial maximum and then a transition which is we refer to as the great far or the big far because we often see some Evidence of erosion at that service or lack of deposition or both then we typically see what we're beginning to realize is a period of warming that we have dated to the timing of the bowling Allerad and it has Wetland formation that had begun and then a period of cooling which correlates to the younger dryest and they have less organic matter and drier conditions it seems and then again warming and wetter conditions and you're really hold a scene and from these cores and our other sites These whole of seen what and remained stable and sustained throughout the whole of seen and in fact They can today retain carbon over that time period. So they're major reservoirs of carbon So we're going then from frozen to solid to warm cold warm for the last 18 19,000 years Looking in more detail Ignoring the human disturbance zone here You can see then that record of carbon accumulation We're using a proxy for it loss on admission, but it's basically showing us a lot of carbon stored in the upper 40 centimeters You can also see here in the middle from the oxygen ice from the oh 18 dated from my and our agreement Excuse me this period of warming here with is the bowling Allerad and then the cooling here, which is the younger dryest and You'll see in a moment that we can pick up evidence of that some of our sites including Great Marsh The pollen data from Chris Bernhardt showing the change from pine to oak and note the hemlock We do actually find hemlock commonly at the very base of the whole of seen wetlands that around 10 11,000 years We actually find small cones from the hemlock Here's a seed work that Aaron Markey and colleagues have done And they won't go into the details of it except to point out that these are all Consistent with a wet nettle with open pools put them again. There's a lot of karex tussig sedges There are many different sedged species So really a remarkably wonderful landscape for 10,000 years or so a little bit longer 1112,000 years And here are the dates over here But notice that we actually had wetland plants before carbon began to accumulate And we're not quite sure yet how to interpret that but that is the record We pick out our our associates are picking out thousands of seeds from this and other sites It's a great record of what was happening locally I'll talk briefly about this abrupt climatic transition right here the bowling all around this Relatively sudden warming from about 12.7 to 14.7 thousand years ago Which we see stratigraphically and we see that during that period of warming there actually was some wetland formation And then you can see here in the plot of depth versus age. Here's a disconformity we have older sediment then right here and Rejects pose right on top of it on this much younger sediment So a disconformity and then starting about the middle end of the bowling all around accumulation that was steady of Organic rich sediment up through the time of modern human disturbance and there was compaction of the wetland That's great much wetland which looks so beautiful was dynamite it and gets that cetera Actually also with a cow pasture for a long time. So there's some compaction in it I want to show you another site now because Great March is not our only site we actually have well over 120 sites and There each one of them is a new record for us There's a lot of similarities, but a few differences from here to there Many of them have sewer lines running through them as this one does a long tiny run in Maryland And this is the boulder the boulders that are used to protect the sewer line And many of them have had no dams and no ponds and have been buried as this one has so this one has had a record of burial of Organic rich sediment and a Pleistocene rubble and a bowling all the rod deposit that and so forth we've been using Geosics and it's determined that in places of up to 10 meters or so of valley still which is all collusion from Material coming off the side slopes and it's quite bouldery in places in fact right over here There are large piles of boulders quartz boulders that a farmer had dragged over there at some time in the past So there's clear evidence that material hadn't moved sediment had moved off these slopes sediment produced by frost shattering into the valley bottom and Gradually filling the bottom and then in places Wetlands form within that substrate. We'll look at a few of those. Here's one right here And then we've done some trenching out here about I think eight or nine trenches by now at this site You can see that we're looking I'll go back and show you where we are here We're looking right along. There's a slope nearby here going that way in the lower left there We're looking at collusion which came off the hill slope in the background and as we condone that slope Which is now buried by historic sediment anthropogenic sediment That's that slope had gradually merged with a wetland which had begun forming at about 11,500 years ago at this location And then it had accumulated organic matter and filled up with time and kept growing and growing and getting thicker and Thicker that that wet soil with wet metal speeds and then something happened that it was buried by historic sediment and what happened then was that European settlers arrived and began clearing the land that was mining in the area charcoaling They were building dams for various purposes. They were manipulating the streams the valley bottom of the wetlands and So you can see that this once Amazing what in which would have looked much like great marsh now is buried by several four or five feet or so of historic clay and silt Which came off the hillside as well There's largely a fine sediment record in contrast to the colluvial record from the Pleistocene which is much coarser and poorly sorted And you can also see with the brick that I've sampled here how amazingly cohesive and organic which this material is Recently we were very fortunate after some flooding to see the oldest wetland We have yet been able to sample so well, which is right down here by Bob Walter and Bill Hillgartner They're done. There's tamping it was exposed during a low water of the time right after some flooding And I'll show a close-up in a moment And what's exciting to us is that under sediments that is mass movement in origin Which came off the slopes in the background and you can see it has low bait shapes to it In fact part of it's blocked behind the bank slump a lot of the banks here are slumping But I'm back here underneath and I'll show a close-up is this organic rich material. It's just under the water It's still at groundwater level. This water level in fact is base flow essentially It is the long-term groundwater table level So that wetland would have been forming from their dating We have multiple dates here at roughly thirteen thousand five hundred to thirteen thousand four hundred years ago During the bowling allurad warm phase and we found oak leaves in it I'm a lot of fed seeds and also a black spruce needle, which is according to Bill Hillgartner consistent with other findings in ecology paleo ecology that show that during this transition from cold to warm during the bowling allurad That you can actually we can actually have both cold and warm species co-existing There's not no modern analog quite like that today We'd have to go much further north to find black spruce But this wetland this early wetland it was forming on top of the pysosine rubble Actually then had within it some cold and warm species Farther downstream along piney round there's a very thick and spectacular exposure much like what we see in the trenches of a Holocene wetland soil, which again is very much like the Great Marsh soil and Which is not buried in the case of Great Marsh And it's formed on this rubble of boulders and so forth from the Pleistocene last glacial maximum and earlier Probably multiple repeated events of this permafrost and permafrost spa And we see every now and then we see this slightly finer lens of rubble Which appears to be associated with maybe some winnowing and some pulses of material coming out of debris flow like flurries Down the valley You can also see here some of this set the seeds were pulling out multiple tusk etched seeds and so forth Potomage eatin so we know that it was a wet meadow Again in this case the ecology With the seeds is very helpful to as much as with Paul for Paul Martin the poem was used would have given a sense of the regional climate But we're looking at local landscapes and local hydrology these wet meadows would have been wet much of the year In fact, they would have had water at the surface throughout the year Why does this matter then to modern streams and to stream restoration today? So I urge you to please look at the website that Kayla Schulte put together for us last year BSR stands for Big Spring Run It's one of our key sites for a restoration experiment that we're doing with NSF funding with many collaborators and Also to look at the website that we've developed with Sophia Gelotti and others of our research team and Noah Snyder For some new NSF funding we have to look at anthropogenic sediment and Anthropocene streams throughout New England and the big Atlantic region and then a paper be published on this a few years ago All right, so why does it matter? It turns out that when people see these deeply in size streams and hide banks and collapsing banks They attribute the problem almost always to whatever they can see happening today in the landscape and that might be cows it might be Urbanization might be the building of Walmart's parking lot and They tend to restore them are often associated with putting boulders along the banks That was more commonly done a few years ago than now fortunately And it can cost quite a bit of money and it doesn't seem to be very successful It's slowing the rate of bank erosion and reducing the amount of fine sediment going into waterways That ultimately might go to the various bays and be impaired water bodies such as the Chesapeake Bay And when we first began working on the origin of the sediment that we saw in the stream banks You can see me back here in the background of Mike Browneson the foreground We were wondering about these various types of deposits This is probably a reworked look right here And we went down to look at some of the sites where a reds woman of Johns Hopkins and Luna Leopold from the USGS and then Berkeley had worked throughout the 50s 60s 70s 80s and 90s and We began to realize that every one of their sites that we went to We could find evidence of a mill and in fact at this site the restoration was called Whitton's Mill Park after it was done And we began to realize that all these places where they could see this record of the story of sediment burying a Holocene wetland and then a deeper Pleistocene rubble layer were associated with some kind of recent human activity that caused Ponding of water or flowing of water and rapid sedimentation And of course there was plenty of sediment coming off the hillside during early land clearing and farming and charcoaling Etc that requires us to think a little differently about landscapes things that happen to be stream banks today Haven't always been and in fact in this particular case nothing here is really truly smoothial and origin It's in fact the base of it was a hillside essentially and then a wetland So we've been recommending that people might want including ourselves And I want to reconsider how we've used things and I use an example now this quote anamorphosis Which we can best illustrate with a painting from Hans Holbein the younger We can see here is there's some object. We don't recognize and if we if we really go to the right and look 90 degrees Along it and get next to it and look right along the painting. We see it's a skull So we have to shift our view we have to view things from a different perspective And instead of saying look at that screen channel and look at the bank erosion Which might be from excess stormwater runoff et cetera rather could it be from a history of land use change and a Periglacial history of rubble formation, et cetera that it is ultimately controlling these trajectories are controlling what's happening in the landscape Not just the most recent few decades or centuries of human impact and There are many classic papers which are quite phenomenal in terms of the detail the observations The writing is beautifully it's beautifully written and they talk about the origin of these valley bottoms as being natural So that this particular surface here was described as a natural ruler floodplain and Luna and red to recognize that they're very common and very typical But and they try to explain it as this meandering thing you can see here Which is Seneca Creek migrating back and forth and depositing rubble on one side as a gravel bar Depositing fine sediment above as an overbank floodplain system and many streams that west or are like that in fact But it doesn't explain in the long term the streams in this region It explains the modern and sized Anthropocene streams, but not ultimately all the rubble down there or even the bulk of the historic sediment Right and so here's an example then of the mill that we actually found evidence of that would existed downstream from where Reds and Luna had done quite a bit of their work along Watts Creek Watts branch So the mill dam was here in the mill building was here This is a painting at the Smithsonian that we were able to go look at and photograph and it was painted by William Henry Holmes It was one of the early associate directors of the Smithsonian So the early work where Reds and Luna had done protections with actually along one of these and size streams where there had been races and so forth What happens when a dam is built in a valley bottom? There are many examples. There were some 16,000 dams in Pennsylvania in the 17 and 1800s state has pretty good records of many thousands of those And when a dam is built you can see one under construction here a base level is the base level is raised There's a higher level to the water surface Which you can also see over here with an older mill and that raised water level and that ponded water that are used to help Turn a wheel in the case of the early mills and later turbines So these are quite charming and they were ubiquitous and we associate them with a kind of bucolic landscape But they're actually industrial that's an industrial landscape and they were associated with a lot of activity and economic Turnover what happens in humorically is a dam is built perhaps where there was a wet meadow as in the case of mid Atlantic Piedmont Valley Bottoms and Sunridge Valley Bottoms The dam is built. There's the ponded water level the incoming sediment is trapped behind that maybe not all but some and it Rises up to that level and we can actually test that using airborne LiDAR So here's a pro that we've made using LiDAR for one example There are many we can see that Harris surface, which is the historic sediment and note that it's not just a horizontal level graded to the dam But there's a sediment wedge buildup that is a new transport slope Mike run us to put together some very nice stuff about this since this PowerPoint will be online You'll be able to you have a copy of you can go and check out this website. He also has On our website he's even showing how you can locate some of the mill dams it used to be in the region We published on this work in 2008 in the cover of science here's a LiDAR derived image showing the various steps in the Valley bottom Associated with the dropping below different dams. So there are multiple dams often today They're the sites of bridges and road crossings and so forth and the modern streams are cut into that historic sediment Which buries tow slope? We were shocked to find how many of these dams existed And they're not usually in the National Infantry of Dam's database that your network of engineers had because they're too old Too small usually, but there are many of them State of Pennsylvania is one of the leaders in the nation of low-head dam removal. Many are unsafe. They're obsolete They're expensive to maintain and this is just the ones we know about These are actual locations in the straight maps and it was Bob who first began going to the straight maps at his local Society and digging these out and plotting them up in GIS and then later Micrones worked with us and many students We were just astonished to see that the milling had affected so much of the waterways Well, we went and checked the laws the early laws We read about the mill ax and then the mill crowding ax We saw that it was actually to be expected because these were ways to make money And it was and there was no other major sources power at that time So of course people would put in as many mills as they could so again This is just the ones we know about here in Pennsylvania in these three counties on The connoisseur and the brandy wine at other rivers We also used 1840 census data and found that there have been 65,000 water powered mills as of that point in time with a very large Concentration right here in the bit Atlantic region with the dot size proportional to the number of mills in a given county at that time And you can see then compared to the glacial limits Where we're located here in the bit Atlantic region and the Chesapeake Bay and it matters because we have a lot of Thoracic sediment which is now washing out of the waterways as these dams breach and and also as the dams breach Streams are generally incising down to that place to see in rubble and exposing these Holocene wetlands And that's giving us outcrops that might not even have even existed 50 years ago As Thomas Jefferson said no neighborhood has no there's no neighborhood without a mill That's the ice margin All right, so you can I'll show you what happens when a dam breaches if it's filled with sediment as these older ones are This is based on the work of Alessandro Contelli at University of Minnesota Get back and get that again So a dam breaches as an experiment and there's a vision a nick point propagates up the valley There's bank erosion down here now and no bank erosion up there Once that drop in base level makes it up through that reservoir that former reservoir We'll then see that there's channel widening going on all along it You can see the bank collapse of this non relatively non cohesive weak material And that's what we have here although in our case there's some cohesion to it You can see the buried black soil. That's the Holocene wetland. It's this big spring where we're now doing that long-term restoration monitoring And so the bank retreat here the bank lateral bank erosion is Not the result of any change in land use the land use here has actually been the same for centuries It's the result of the fact that downstream the mill dam had breached a number of other smaller dams They've been built in the valley had also become obsolete and failed more along with no longer maintained So this allows us to see that black buried soil Like the one of Great March, but the one of Great March is not buried and the modern streams can now pick up some of that Hope Pleistocene gravel and sand and so forth and use it to build some small inset bars There are many efforts to try to plant trees along these unstable banks In the effort to make riparian corridors and there were 3,500 plants here at the big spring run site But by the by the mid 2000s most were gone. There were a dozen a dozen left So we were approached about what to do about this site We recommended a new approach based on our and our interpretation It's a very young stream actually where there used to be a very old wetland. In fact, so we proposed this to the state and EPA We said that in the Pleistocene that valley bottom would have looked much like this frozen with some solid lakes and Then in the whole scene would have looked much like the right a whole of seen wet nettoe And that's based on our thousands of seeds that Ali new beverage extracted and identified with Bill Hill Gortner and Jeff Hartran and So what's the Pleistocene period with tundra to post the whole of team wetland and then it was buried with colonial no pond sediment and Then that was in size as the dam breach and then trees were planted on top of that stack of reservoir sediment and Then it's quite dry actually up on the stack of sediment We proposed just remove that sediment rather than try to stabilize the banks with boulders Let's just remove 20,000 tons of historic sediment So we did that and on the right you see this is the wetland today That is the post restoration wetland and that's the same view these trees are those trees So that's it during restoration Prior to the establishment of all the vegetation and we tried to establish a vegetation week It's very similar to what we have today It looks a bit aggressive to glad there was this Equipment even though it's on a very full of threads that have very low pressure per square inch The guy in the cab actually was getting RTK GPS and was digging down to the level of the black soil based on our survey data This is land studies did the restoration working with us and many others So they simply removed that 20,000 tons of sediment and prior to that We had done eight years of monitoring with the US Geological Survey and other agencies and we're still continuing that Monitoring we selected just like to site because there had been monitoring there in the past But here's an example standing along the screen channel before Restoration and the exact same view after restoration. So all that's been done really is remove sediment lower the banks And then we often are asked where did that sediment go? It ended up by half a stance after a few years outside our backdoor practically near Franklin and Marshall campus It's a Brownfield redevelopment site and they needed top soil good top folks. We seem to have lost audio with Dorothy We're gonna get it back. Just give us a couple minutes. Nick. Can you hear me? I'm being told that there's no audio right now Yeah, Dorothy. We can hear you go ahead Go ahead. All right. Thank you. Should I back up do you think? Yeah, about two slides. I think but all right. Thank you Thanks to my crew can running into tell me All right, so let's get back here. All right back there you guys Yeah, that looks right. All right So before and after restoration all the sediment on the left is now gone There's bank for no longer there to a road and we're actually by the way I should mention we kept track of those erosion rates and There's a sediment now. It's posited nearby in a Brownfield. It's been spread out since then and revegetated So we're doing all these things to try to understand Whether or not we can actually make a shallow vegetated flow system that will be Sustainable and stable much the way the Holocene wetland was and we're trying to enhance hydrologic exchange Hyper re-exchange between service and ground water improve water quality by reducing sediment loads by Increasing hyper re-exchange we're getting de-nextrication and we're monitoring that remote monitoring carbon retention, etc So please check the website to get many more details There's a lengthy report there and many publications that are in the works will be coming out and a lot of updates of data So with the USGS we had a gauge station up here at the Coming into the restoration site which begins right there and then it's restored all the way down to that fence line We have another gauge station over here monitoring what's coming in at this end and then a third at the downstream men monitoring What's leaving the restoration reach so we're keeping track of what's coming in and what's going out and how that's changed with time From eight years prior during the eight years prior to restoration and then ever since and it was restored in 2011 We fly over it repeatedly. We also use a drone We have web cameras that we have used Jim Moore and Bob Johnson Robert Johnson had set up a web camera here and another one up here You can see the end of the restoration reach right there This is not restored and then down here. This is not restored So in the restoration reach there are multiple little channels some of them are hard to see but there are many little Multi-branching channels and it has become a wet meadow system We're fortunate to work with the NASCO with Marianne O'Call and Keith Brendan Hodge and Keith Williams and others and the store zoo here at F&M Who's been doing pieces work on this and post-back work using ground-based lighter a repeat scanning of ground-based lighter To actually try to look at vegetation over time and we're also doing a lot of repeat RTK GPS surveying But with the ground-based lighter what's fascinating is we're able door is actually working on trying to quantify the vegetation And then working with Lara Larson and Danielle Watson as a Berkeley we clip the vegetation We weigh it we compare those estimates of the the volume and mass of vegetation And then we're also monitoring with the USGS and part of door thesis work the amount of carbon accumulating in the soil Because there is some very fine sediment accumulating in this part of the restoration reach with time So it's a really neat way of using ground-based lighter are to assess what's going on And then we've done some flow modeling with our parola at University of Louisville and Ward or both for at land studies What we're doing I won't show the before Restoration flow modeling, but by taking a given flood event we can look then at What happens during a flood we take a given gauge record for a given flood from our USGS gauge stations You can see it out here during a flood and the water spreading out over bank And then we can model that to see how the shear stresses change along the valley when the blues are showing That's very low shear stress is because the water shallow and spread that wide Whereas prior to this if you go check our website, you'll see the previous on restoration modeling We had a deep narrow channel. It was carrying this size gravel so place where the headwaters You can see the drainage divide in the background a place that was headwaters limestone spring many springs Was carrying this size gravel because of deep incision into a storage sediment. So it's remarkable So I'd like to end just by saying that we are really enjoying working on all these projects It's the I was I'm very happy to see that there are so many people who are involved in this work and contributing in so many ways Looking at this plant and animal species that the bog turtles, but they've been bound to work and so forth It's been very rewarding and we look forward to your questions and future communication. You can email us You could check our website, etc. Thank you very much Great. Thanks Dorothy right now. We're going to open it up to questions again. I'll Tell you down in the lower right-hand side of your screen there in the Q&A you can put questions in there And then I'll read them aloud as appropriate Just to get a start I have a my own question You touched on it a little bit in your presentation Dorothy But you talked about all the sediment you removed in your latest project and you're using it now on F&M Can you explain a little bit more about what that is and what you're doing with it? Yes, and as I did mention at the beginning that Bob Walter is here So I'll be looking towards him in case you have any more comments to add to this But we had done a lot of testing Bob's a geotemist and we had done multiple tests one that sediment over many years It's largely silt and we actually think it's largely windblown silt that is a legacy of Glacial activity and post-lacial activity and then that silt which had been worked into the soils on the hillsides Had moved down the slopes during European land clearing and farming and grazing and so forth and ends up in the Valley bottom So the fairly uniform in size and fairly organic rich in fact And so it would be it's a shame to not do something good with it and we've long thought that it could be put to a very high purpose hopefully and There one could put it back on the hillside and that's happened to some restoration sites There are others now like this particular restoration project just not as advanced in terms of the monitoring and the many collaborators But there are others Because it was high quality sediment high quality fine-grain silt It was valuable and it could be used for these sorts of brownfield redevelopment sites But there is the cost of trucking and that is a limiting factor during times of low gas prices That's much easier to do than during times of high gas prices But in this case for this one brownfield redevelopment They were looking for soil and our soil happened to be relatively close by so it was bought along with some other top Soil and then hauled here great, thanks Question from the audience What nutrients have you found in your monitoring and is there a temporary water or sediment quality effect during restoration? yes There are relatively high nitrate levels in the groundwater at the big spring site and In the surface water, they were also picking up in addition to the nitrates relatively high levels of phosphorus And Bob had determined that there is quite a bit of phosphorus in this historic sediment absorbed on to the Particles and clay particles and that during bank erosion it was actually then transported along the surface water during flow events So there were both there was phosphorus there carried along with the particulate matter and then nitrates in solution and The phosphorus is one thing that we think we've been able to reduce quite a bit because it's no longer that the amount That was in the stream banks is no longer there and Bob has done some fingerprinting work with Alan Gellis and others some chemical fingerprinting They've been able to show that in fact there is now Much less of a signal of phosphorus in the the sediment load than there was prior to restoration The nitrates work will take much longer time to resolve we think because we have groundwater wells with EPA and USGS If some 30 I think and we have to be zometers And they're they're still working on all that water quality data to try to determine if there's been a Change post restoration and one of our hopes is it was the increasing carbon retention going on and we know that's happening that there is carbon retention We hope that that will lead to greater denitrification in that wetland valley bottom Places like Great Marsh have some of the highest water quality in the state of Pennsylvania an example of how these wetlands can really do great things for Reducing nutrients reducing nutrient lows below the abnormally high levels in many places today Okay, the next question I have Paul Stacey he's asked I wonder beaver damming on the first order first and second order streams during pre colonial times might have build up big reservoirs of Headwater sediments, and then that was released as beavers were hunted down in that area. What might Is this coincidental with the mill dam construction and rapid filling of those sediments do you have any insights into that? Yes, we do and I'd love to talk more with that person later, too We really like we like the beaver questions and we get them often during talks Well, um, Bill Hull Gardner also is doing some research on this idea colleges. He's at Johns Hopkins We have never found evidence of beaver Except for it may be one case and any of the valley bottoms we've worked in and I mean when I say evidence I mean in the black soils the buried Holocene black soils. We don't find the beaver dams We don't find chewed logs one site we might have and we always wondered about that We're certain that even if they had been there Which we think they might have been that there wouldn't have been large amounts of sediment trap because we need the land Clearing to get the silk released from the hillside that was very stable in the tree covered and grassland covered hillside So that the silk was stable in the Holocene There's no record of a sedimentation in the Holocene in any of these valley bottoms prior to European arrival So that there was no still to accumulate behind a beaver dam We wonder whether there might have been beaver here and one of the ideas that Bill has come up with based on some extensive literature review now is that Where there is evidence of beaver It's usually in headwaters where it's more mountainous headwater streams for example in western Maryland Rather than out in the peat the lowland peed months of Lancaster County, you know parts of Maryland and York County So maybe the beaver didn't like those wet meadows very much for some reason. They're wide They're very maybe they prefer to go off into the side ravines, so we might we might find them over there in the steeper sides would be teres There's no archaeological evidence of them yet that we know of Thanks for the the next question is what time of year did you see that thermal contraction polygons on your Google Earth imagery? Yes, we have well we look usually and it's what Gow did in September August September when it's getting drier and crops have been harvested if they're still crop standing we can't see them and We have found that in a given area we can see them on one field and not on another even at that same time of year and Yet we know they're there in both cases and maybe in another year We can see them in the other field and it has to do them with the timing of cropping we think So that's important and it's and the things that they're growing it seems matter One of my students has been saying in fact that she thinks we need to focus on a certain type of field where they might have had I think she said corn maybe that drives the soil more than soybean I'm not sure but certainly September October, but not every September August September. Excuse me some years We've done maybe the soils wetter The next question is could you speak to the Applicability of the methods and approaches that used in Pennsylvania, Maryland for red for river restoration to other areas in the US that might not have That might have other types of anthropogenic influences not necessarily just dance Yes, what I would say is From what we've learned it's so important to understand the the entire trajectory of landscape development And how it's related to the hydrology in our case That it was a combination of a lot of sediment from frost shattering Moving down the slopes into the valley bottoms and then with saw having high groundwater tables because it's a you know Mid-latitude temperate humid temperate region so groundwater is high and in fact I didn't go into the details But we see different types of wetlands Based on their position with respect to the long-term groundwater table So in another region if there weren't if there hadn't been a high groundwater table and a wet meta That would matter in terms of restoration if there were steeper slopes and greater sediment supplies You know it's coming off the Rockies for example that would matter New England North Carolina though seem to be have many similarities to this region Albeit in New England it was glaciated the going down to North Carolina where it's certainly much warmer And it probably didn't have much permafrost if any except at higher altitudes up in the higher mountainous areas We still see this Carl Wegman's work for example shows that and other people now Dan Richter is working there at Duke and with his colleagues that there is plenty of historic sediment and That if the incision and bank erosion is largely the result of a recent dam breach And if the storage of that sediment is largely the result of a dam that was built sometime in the past Then that would really matter to the restoration approaches So we often say it's important to diagnose the problem correctly to not immediately assume that it's You just stormwater runoff that really to look carefully at the history of that landscape and to try to understand How did the sediment get there in the first place and when and what was this landscape for the last so many thousands of years? And it would be different in each part of the country You know we as we go south in fact we know we're going into the zone of discontinuous permafrost We can tell that geologically and stratigraphically and as we come out of that we get into much more chemically weathered rocks for example So there is a difference although we still see ubiquity of wetland valley bottoms great Next question is you mentioned that this wetland restoration can be more successful than using boulders to protect the bank erosion What about compared to regrading the banks that are planting a riparian buffer? You think this would be unsuccessful in this area? I Wouldn't say unsuccessful and it would depend on the bank heights But when we're close to a dam downstream close to them and dams vary in height of course So some the mean dam height for Lancaster County was about I think it was 12 feet But in other places we've seen dams as high old dams as high as 30 feet So in those places it's it's a lot of grading there's an exam a dam along Gunpowder Falls for example, it's 30 feet high Hoffman dam that would be a lot of grading in that case But in lower in lower dam heights or way up the reservoir way up the valley where it's only a few feet of historic sediment That could work and it might be a cheaper alternative Just to remove some of the sediment and one of the restoration sites We've been to with land studies. They couldn't remove all of the historic sediment due to the cost But they remove some it was more than just grading the banks back They actually removed tried to remove down to a wetland level for a swath down the valley It's been very successful at maintaining a wetland and environment down there but I think in some cases where there's not a lot of historic sediment that Grading back some distance and planting riparian species could be helpful certainly The triage approach will be would be a best I think find a site We've often said if you can if you find a site We have lots of bank erosion There's a possibility of doing what we did here for example and making it a park and so forth One could reduce a lot of sediment loads in that case other places it might be people living there buildings etc. That can't be done Thanks, it looks like that's all the time we have for questions today as you I wanted to thank you Dorothy and For our participants as you sign off the webinar, you'll be reject redirected to our website This is where you'll find the information on today's webinar And we'll be posting the presentations and recording in about a week or so With that I'd like to thank our speaker again. Dr. Dorothy merits and thank you all again for participating This concludes the webinar and have a great day Thank you everybody, and I'll just end with great work one more time to have a happy landscape Good day
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Women's Ice Hockey vs Manhattanville - Play of the Day - Nov 2
Stevenson senior Cierra Siemasko deposits a power play goal to give the Mustangs an early lead against Manahttanville in the team;'s home opener.
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And Stevenson goes on their first power play of the night. Face-off win. Now the Mustangs look to spread it around. Shot right in front. A chance for Samasco because she puts it home. Sierra, Samasco with the power play goal. Only took eight seconds. Mustangs go on top. 1-0 with 9-0-1 to play in the first period.
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President Muhammadu Buhari has called on leaders in West Africa to do all within their powers to ensure that elections are conducted in their countries in an atmosphere of trust, freedom, and transparency. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watch More: https://bit.ly/2KLQxbI Watch PlusTV Africa Lifestyle: https://cutt.ly/tbdOHzQ Watch via our Website: https://plustvafrica.com/live-tv Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PlusTVAfrika/ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/plustvafrica/ Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/PlusTVAfrica Comment on Whatsapp: http://ow.ly/d4kQ50pT4Bt #PlusTVAfrica #News #NewsOnPlusTvAfrica
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President Mohammed Buhari has called on leaders in West Africa to do all within their paths to ensure that elections are conducted in the countries in an atmosphere of trust, freedom and transparency. Buhari, who was speaking in Monrovia, said this, said these was the only way the sub-region could be insulated from the scourge of unconstitutional takeovers that raised hats in three countries recently. According to a statement by a senior special advisor on media and publicity, Darba Shehu, Buhari made this call in a goodwill message to the government and people of Liberia as he joined all the world leaders on the occasion of the 175th Independence Anniversary of the West African Nation. According to the president, democracy and good governance must take dear root in the African continent to sustain peace, stability and development, while leaders must redouble their efforts to guarantee the irreversibility of democracy.
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Improving Performance of Agile Teams using Statistical Analysis by Naresh & Sriram #AgileIndia 2022
Large-scale software development generates a lot of data when teams use tools like Jira or Azure Devops. We could analyze the data with statistical tools and techniques in order to understand how to improve delivery performance. Naresh and Sriram have been attempting this at one of their clients. In this talk, they’ll share the techniques they used and the lessons they have learnt so far. More details: https://confengine.com/conferences/agile-india-2022/proposal/17462 Conference Link: https://2022.agileindia.org
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2022-10-10T04:33:11
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Welcome everyone to today's talk which is about data-informed transformation improving performance of agile team using static analysis by Naresh and Trinam without further delay over to you Naresh and Trinam. Great to see all the familiar names unfortunately we can't see your faces but we can see the names and good to see all of you thanks for joining in. This is going to be a 60 minute session so Shriram and I have been partnering at a client and you know some of this will be based off that and some of this is based on the previous experiences we've had. So we'll kind of try and hit all the key lessons so that it is useful for folks in the journey that we've gone through and it's still an ongoing journey we've not arrived at the destination and I don't think there is a thing called destination in this evolving world. Let me quickly share my slides and get started here. Alright we also want to thank Rakesh who I do see in the audience but Rakesh has been an instrumental part of helping this work so it is kind of a joint presentation between Shriram, Rakesh and myself. Shriram you want to say a couple of words about yourself. Sure am I audible? Yeah. Okay yeah hello everybody I for the last one year or so I have been an independent consultant but prior to that I was with ThoughtWorks for a long time and when I quit ThoughtWorks I was a VP of transformation advisory advising clients on improving the performance of their organizations. In the context of digital transformation but along the topics of you know topics of moving from projects to products, organization design, metrics and those kind of things so there's quite a bit of variety in the kind of consulting I do. And this particular engagement you know I've been working with Narayesh and Rakesh for the last several months and it has gone through you know it has evolved the work has evolved and yes here the context is more around software delivery you know a very like a data informed look at software delivery and trying to extract patterns out of that data and then use that to inform the future of the transformation efforts. So I've enjoyed this journey so far and I'm excited to be sharing our experience so far with all of you. Thank you. Absolutely. Alright thanks Shriram for that introduction let's dive in straight into the topic. We've broken this broadly into three, you know, three sections the first one we'd set some background in the context of what we're trying to do. Then we'll look at some analysis that was actually done and what were the challenges we faced and then finally we'll get into some lessons learned that you know when we applied actual analysis. What did we learn from it and maybe some of the lessons that other folks can apply in their own context. Similarly when we talk about improving performance of organizations as specifically from a delivery software delivery perspective, you know, CXOs would typically talk about hey I want faster delivery. I want more reliable delivery I want friction less delivery which means I want things to seamlessly flow through in the organization and not you know keep getting stuck and you know things like that. So when we look at the common performance improvements objectives, you know, they may be like these three at the top level for a lot of organizations. And we kind of in this presentation will be like break it down a little bit and kind of get into, you know, a few more next levels inside this and how do we then use data to make informed decisions around improving or introducing interventions in as part of the transformation. Again just a disclaimer here that this is, you know, this is for folks involved in the large scale software delivery. I think in our case we are looking at upwards of 40,000 engineers working on things. And so it's a fairly large scale software delivery effort here. And the, I think Shriram had a talk earlier today where he talked about basically the impact on business outcomes and things like that so in this particular talk we've intentionally not going to focus on the business outcome side of things but purely on the developer engineering and delivery side of things, which also I think is a very important area that needs to be dealt into so you know if you miss Shriram's earlier talk it will be recorded available you can have a look at that. So I think just quickly jumping in. Most of you might be either driving some kind of transformation or involved in some kind of a transformation that is why I'm hoping you're part of this session or you've joined this session. So any kind of interventions that one may do when when you go into an organization, or you're trying to basically, you know, transform a team. You know you might look at introducing certain practices like scrums, scrum of scrums, PI planning, you know, several other technical practices listed over here. It's like a menu full of practices at your disposal that you could use as ways to, you know, influence teams and kind of try and introduce some interventions in the ways of working that they have. You know, the question that we asked ourselves is that how do we know what you know what teams could benefit, you know, from these kinds of interventions right. How do we kind of figure that out. Usually, you know, we just expect that everyone will adopt everything and we will assign some kind of fluency or some kind of maturity rating to the teams, and basically get them to check off the boxes, go through a series of training, etc, etc, and like that, unfortunately is the state of transformation in a lot of places. And I think that's a little bit of a disservice in my opinion, because if we don't really have data to back what we are doing and we're not using that as a way to drive certain things, we could just be very what's the word, very, you know, we could just like be very prescriptive about it and we could have this attitude of one size fits all. But we all know that, you know, the very essence of agile is that, you know, one size does not fit all each team has its context and things have to be, you know, as per their specific context and I think we've heard this from Andy stock yesterday as well. And so what happens is typically people start off and then at some point the CXOs will wake up and they will ask, hey, you know, has the, we originally started with, you know, faster delivery or more reliable delivery or fiction less, as this transformation helped us achieve this. And, and people feel like they're caught off guard when such questions are asked, or maybe, you know, even people question how do you even quantify things like this because it's a transformation and so forth. So we want to kind of deep dive a little bit into it in terms of how teams could actually approach this and how they could show to the CXOs that the transformation are in fact, helping achieve the objectives that they are trying to drive from a software delivery perspective. Of course, you know, you require analysis and you need to deep dive to be able to do this but before we jump in, right, let me kind of quickly step back a little bit and just look at what what I would say is the, you know, your overall, you know, from idea to cash or idea to go live right. If you look at the overall thing that's kind of what we call as the lead time right and basically from idea to cash, various stages which would have, you know, some activity some, some work centers and then some weight stages in between. Specifically, you could visualize this but the one that we are specifically interested in this particular talk is this little blue or whatever this color is development box. So let's zoom in into into that a little bit. And basically, see what that is. But also, you know, I know a lot of you might be thinking hey this is, you know, agile software development is not like a linear waterfall kind of a model it should be iterative like these are all intermixed and there are feedback loops going back and forth, which is absolutely right and that's that's how it should be but anyone who's worked in large, you know, software delivery organizations will realize that unfortunately it's it effectively ends up being linear, not necessarily as iterative as you would like. So if we kind of zoom in a little bit and then we'll define couple of more terminologies here just so we're all on the same page is if you zoom into the development thing you will see that, you know, there is some amount of discovery that needs to happen then if the solutioning happens then you do your planning then the actual development and in sprint automation, and then you would have things like, you know, integration testing and other kinds of chaos testing and reliability testing and finally, you have to wait to get into production So that's the that's the area that we're going to double click today and so this entire cycle is what we would call as or anybody would call as the delivery lead time from the discovery to actually up to going live. And even within that if you further zoom in, it's basically once the dev teams are done, right, once the developers are done, till the time it actually goes live is what we call as the change lead time again for folks who've read Dora reports will be familiar with this and that's kind of the area we want to further zoom in today and look at it but you know the question we have is, you know, have these times improved by our interventions, and if they are improved then can we quantify by how much, you know, has those improvements happen. That's the kind of question that we want to answer and be able to answer to the CXO so they understand that the investment they are making in terms of the transformation is actually fruitful, a reasonable ROI for them. So let's first look at the question number one right has these times improved and by how much to be able to answer this question we have two prerequisites. The first prerequisite is basically we need to be able to establish a baseline or some kind of historical data against which you would be able to compare and say whether it's improved or not and if it's improved by how much it is improved. And also when we are doing this we should be aware that we need to do a like to like comparison or like for like comparison right, what do I mean by that is let's take CLT for example the change lead time that we were talking. If you had a certain feature and you could measure the CLT for that then you could say hey the CLT is dependent on the size of the feature right because different sizes features may require different amount of CLT. It may depend on in what kind of release train or release bundle it's actually getting shipped out. How many bugs were found how much the testing time went in and once bugs were found how much effort went in from the dev point of view. So you might say hey here are a few of the factors that influence the CLT. And now I want to compare two features, maybe three months apart. Right, so if you just compared the two features as is without looking at some of these factors in terms of size and in terms of the bugs and so forth. Then it may not be a like for like comparison right so you probably need to normalize the CLT. Again I've just given a simple formula here but it could be something more complicated. But the point here that we're trying to make is, these are the prerequisites these are the things one needs to think about. You know, while trying to answer the first question, which is, have these, you know the time the CLT times and the delivery lead times have they actually improved. You know you should be able to establish a baseline or you need to establish a baseline and you need to have a like for like comparison. I'll jump ahead a little bit and I will talk about the second question which is I think even more interesting as you get into it. Right. How much of the reduction is due to the intervention that we are doing right like you might be introducing a set of practices, and you might want to say okay by introducing these practices how much have I reduced the change lead time. And sometimes that number does not move as quickly as you would like it sometimes takes time. So you might say okay let me kind of decompose that a little bit into and try and understand what all actually, you know, does entail for a CLT to be a certain number and then you might say hey you know the amount of time it takes for integration testing to happen is is one factor that goes in right the amount of time it takes to fix the bugs the amount of time it takes for actually deploying your changes, and the amount of waiting in all this process is where the friction piece that we were talking earlier comes in. So you might say hey I need to be able to look at all of these areas to be able to understand how the CLT is getting impacted. Now, as you start breaking this down one of the things you will realize is that you know then these guys are then further dependent on a few more attributes right a few more factors, and you slowly start seeing a kind of a contribution tree, building out from here. Right, which is basically change lead is dependent on some things and those things are then further dependent on. So if you take the integration testing time, one of the factors that will influence integration testing time is the size of the feature, the extent of automation that you have currently right how available and productive are the testers to work on that particular features testing and so forth again this is not an exhaustive list in fact we have a much larger list of things that can influence and the contribution tree. This is just presented a subset of it is presented here just so you understand the concept right. And then when you start looking at each of these you could think of like hey I can I can introduce I can I can do certain things to improve these things right so you could you could say hey I need to have an initiative to shift left things. Or I need to invest more in terms of test automation I need to hire an upskill people, I need to reduce my back size and so forth right or invest in better test environment fully automated ephemeral environments, etc etc. So you could start saying okay I can, you know, further, you know, introduce these kinds of concepts into the organization to improve some of these factors that influence the CLT. And you could then think of specific practices or techniques that could help with this right like for example if feature size is a factor we can we all know that you know we would like to introduce feature slicing. So from a shift left point of view, of course continuous integration is important but you might also want to do contract testing you might want to do other kinds of things. To reduce the batch size you may also want to introduce practices like independent deployment I think Nilesh and I spoke earlier today about how we using feature hub as ways to influence independent deployment and so forth right. So you can then add the last layer of this contribution tree in terms of several practices that you could introduce to influence this right. So far, I hope everyone's with me in terms of how you start thinking about any kind of a metric and breaking it down into its contribution tree. And of course the question is how much of improvement is due to our intervention, right, and perhaps more importantly, it's not while understanding the historical data and understanding what has been influencing what is the relationship between these factors for this particular organization and for this particular team, what factors play more weightage have a more weightage than something else would be important to understand. But I would argue that, you know, it would be even more important the whole reason you're trying to do this is you want to figure out in future. Where should you invest, where should you focus right what is going to give you the biggest bang for the buck. So you want to know, you know what should be your focus areas in the future based on this data and based on this analysis right like this is kind of where, at least we were headed and we were trying to figure out these questions and unfortunately this is not a there's no silver bullet answer here there is no simple follow the book kind of a recipe unfortunately in this space. So this is where I think we turn to statistical measures and statistical methods and I'd request now Shriram to quickly take over and walk us through this part of the journey. Thank you, nourish me just bring up my screen and turn off this floating controls. Is this visible nourish. Yes, all good. All good. Okay. So yes, what we saw is that there are multiple factors that contribute to the to the metrics that matter at the top of the tree. And because there are multiple factors, you know, this potential to use some statistics to understand the contribution of those factors. Of course, that requires data. And most likely if you are a large scale, you know, if you're a large scale software setup, most likely you're using something like Jira or something like that. And so that becomes the source of data. And, you know, when you're doing statistical analysis you need enough data points right so per team or per portfolio if you're trying to do this you need at least I would say at least 100 data points. So, and let's say let's say you have that data right or you can obtain that data because I think this kind of data it's reasonable to expect that you can obtain it from your systems right like how long did it take after it was marked as development complete from that time how long did it take to go live. What was the feature size you basically total the points of all the stories in that feature. You know, in whichever bundle it was released what was the bundle size of that so you know if one feature was released independently then that's a bundle size of one. If multiple were released together in one bundle, then you'll have a bundle size greater than one. How many bugs were reported in the in after the sprint after the development complete stage so during integration testing or other kinds of testing the latest stages of testing. How long how much how long did it take like how many tests testing days were required to perform that kind of testing and how many developer days were required to fix the bugs that were reported right. If you I think this is I mean again I this might not be readily available from your systems but with some amount of you know custom reporting and data manipulation, you should be able to arrive at this picture. So once you have this picture, what's next, then we can run a statistical analysis in particular that's called as a multiple regression analysis. Now, unfortunately, given the nature of this talk, we expect you to have some knowledge of statistics. We, you know, we don't have the time here to give to explain what all these analysis mean. So, you know, so we're not. This is not like a statistics tutorial. Yeah, so I'm hoping that at least some of you will have some familiarity with this kind of analysis. So, basically what we do over there is we identify the what is the what is the dependent variable, which is CLT is a variable that is dependent on one or more of these factors right we don't know exactly how they are dependent in the case of our teams. But logically, using our experience and our, you know, knowledge of software delivery, we know that the time it takes from development complete to go live would depend on, you know, the size of the feature, the size of the bundle, the number of bugs that were found and the effort it took to test and develop. There is some relationships between these variables itself and we will come to that later. As long as the relationship is not too strong, we can still model them as independent variables. And so, you know, before we get to the results of the analysis, we need to ensure what do we need to ensure to do a proper analysis. One is we have to normalize all the variables all the data ranges they have to be normalized within the same range, so that when you get the output of the regression, the coefficients are comparable. And we have to make sure that there is that there is no multi-colinearity between the independent variables that we are modeling. That is the sort of preparation stage. Once you run the analysis, we have to validate that, you know, before we can interpret the results, we have to validate that it is, it is meaningful. And for that, we use two measures primarily the p values and the adjusted r square in case of multiple regression. It's also referred to as statistical significance and explanatory power. That is one part. Secondly, we also run some predictions and, you know, before that we actually split our data set into a training data set and a test data set. And we kind of develop the model on the training data set. And we run the, we also run it as in prediction mode on the training data set and we observe what the prediction errors are. Then we run the prediction afresh on the test data set. And again, we observe what the errors are. And we make sure that the errors are small and similar in both the cases, right? So if you do all this, you can be reasonably sure that the analysis is on firm ground, right, that it is now worth interpreting. So after, when you do all this, you might sometimes find that, you know, if the, if the statistical significance itself is not there, the p values itself are not great. Then of course, then it kind of throws the whole analysis into question. But sometimes, you know, because we are using our expertise, we are not just trying to correlate random variables, right? We know that these variables influence CLT. So it might often happen that you get good scores for statistical significance. But your model might have poor explanatory power as in the adjusted R square values might be on the, you know, might not be great. So something like 85.85 is considered good, right? But you might have much lower than that. And that if that happens, that indicates that maybe there are other factors that influence CLT, which we have not taken into account. So a typical example of these other factors is wait time. So in most organizations, the way you set up your Gira or Azure DevOps does not allow you to measure wait time, does not allow you to figure out what the wait time was. And therefore, it's unless you make changes to your workflows, you know, wait time is sometimes not available. And although it might be a significant factor that influences the CLT. Another thing is, you know, so far we are assuming all features are more or less the same except for their size and, you know, number of bugs and so on. But it could be that the different domains, features in one domain take much longer to release than features in another domain, right? That might be the case. We are factoring, you know, the development time, test time spent on a feature. But all developers and testers are not the same, right? You might have inexperienced developers and experienced developers and testers and so on skilled developers, less skilled developers and so on. So we are not really factoring their competence into this model because the data again, the data is not readily available. But if your result has, if you come up with a poor result with poor explanatory power, then you might want to consider rerunning the analysis after incorporating these additional variables into the model. So let's say we did all that, we got a meaningful result and let's say the, you know, the usually multiple regression will throw up, multiple linear regression will throw up a result like this where it will say that, you know, CLT is actually a missed intercept here. So there will be some constant plus a few variables, minus a few variables, right? So plus means like as feature size goes up, change lead time goes up. As bundle size goes up, change lead time goes up and so on. And minus means as the number of testers increases or the testing effort increases, CLT goes down. Or as the number of developers increase, actually, I've made a mistake in this thing. This, you know, is not test days. If it's test days, it's a plus, but it should actually be a number of testers. So, you know, so I think of this as a number of tests. If you have more testers, then the CLT will go down, right? So that is roughly how you interpret the positive and negative signs. And then the coefficients, because you've normalized the data ranges to begin with, you, the coefficients are now comparable. And what this equation says is that for the data ranges in their analysis, the highest coefficients, numerically highest, ignore the sign, but the highest coefficients have the greatest influence on the CLT, right? So in this case, the three greatest influencers are bundle size, number of developers, and feature size. Yeah, because that has a, you know, 8.6, 5.5 and 4.6. So that is what this indicates. So what it means is that if you want to reduce CLT, maybe you should focus on these three factors, because these three factors have the highest coefficients, right? So they are, they have the greatest influence on CLT. Now, in this particular case, you know, it's the first is bundle size, second is number of developers, third is feature size, right? Out of this, not everything, increasing number of developers is potentially a management decision or a staffing decision, right? Whereas introducing practices that will reduce feature size or that will reduce bundle size is not necessarily a management decision. You know, the principal engineers on the team or, you know, senior technical people can take this call and try to do something about it. And therefore, this gives us the answer. If you see, basically if it says, okay, the most in our control, what is in our control is say bundle size and feature size, then you can go back to this map and say, okay, so which practice influences bundle size, okay, that's independent deployment, right? And which factor influences feature size, okay, there is, we can do something like feature slicing, right? And that is how we come to know that, you know, for the data and the investigation, right, that, you know, if it belongs to a particular team or a particular portfolio, then we can say that that team or that portfolio will most likely get the greatest benefit from these sort of interventions, right? So that is, that is how, you know, the statistical analysis is helping up, come up with the answer of what we should focus on in the future. But it is a, in a way, it's a prediction. It's a prediction based on the past data, of course, you've run the model on the past data. So it's telling at least that is what the past is telling you, right? But we can verify that once we adopt this recommendation, and we actually, you know, introduce these practices into the teams. Then if those practices are really making an effect, then they should have a trickle up effect on the top of the tree, right? So if this is having an effect, then everything else constant integration times should go down. Similarly, if this is having an effect and everything else constant, wait time should go down, right? So again, after a few months, we can, we can see, did test integration, test time, wait time, decrease for comparable features, right? When I say comparable features, just like what Narish said earlier, you need some sort of a normalization activity to make them comparable. But once you do that, we can, we can answer this question, did it reduce? And similarly, if they reduced, then how much as a result of them reducing, what was the effect at this level, right? How much did that help improve CLT? That is how we verify, verify, you know, the result of our actions. And our actions themselves were based on the result of the regression analysis. So what we've seen essentially is a data informed transformation loop. Like you might have come across, build, measure, learn as the loop to build products, right? Like you build something, you measure its effect with users or in the market and then you learn and then that informs your next round of building functionality, right? Now, when you're talking about transformation initiatives, you're not building something in a transformation. But what you're doing is you're designing interventions. You're saying maybe we should adopt this practice, maybe we should use this technique and so on. And they are interventions, but you could use the same, you know, data informed approach to transformation where it's like you intervene a little, you measure the results of the intervention and then you learn about that. And that helps you decide your next round of interventions, right? And ideally, before you begin this whole process, you might want to baseline like in the metrics that you are interested in CLT, delivery lead time, you know, reliability and so on. You might want to baseline them and then start designing interventions and then keep executing iterations, you know, maybe quarterly iterations of this loop or yeah, because transformation efforts typically they, you know, weekly iterations may be unrealistic, but maybe quarterly iterations, six monthly iterations that kind of because you need time for the data to accumulate and then make inferences from that data. So this was the sample analysis. Now we'll get into the actual analysis, you know, what we actually did for a client and for that again I'll, oh okay. Yeah, for the next few slides I'm going to ask Nareesh to come in and talk about, we did not begin with statistics, we began with the Excel based analysis and I'll let Nareesh speak about the first part of this. Cool, thanks Radham. Just before we jump in, I see there is one question, we'll probably just quickly make sure that we've answered that before we move ahead so there is a question from Shravanan. He's asking why we logically know the CLT contributing factors, how do we know the identified contributors is really contributing to CLT or not. I think that's kind of maybe, you know, you might have asked this slightly before, and that's kind of what Shri Ram actually went through and explained. So hopefully Shravanan that is actually covered. If not, please let us know and we will maybe circle back. Alright, so just wanted to make sure that we've addressed that piece. Yes, okay, cool. Please confirm that it is so cool. Unfortunately we can't see you, but we can still get that feedback. Alright, perfect. So, you know, in the frugal innovation thought process, right, like you want to start with the simplest possible thing and of course a lot of people will look down saying, gee, you're using Excel or whatever but I think it's actually a pretty powerful tool and it can give you a lot of insights and you can actually create on it quite a lot before you decide what you might want to deep dive in, right. So in our case we basically said, hey, we want to understand essentially the impact of CLT, you know, month on month, how is the CLT doing, and how does it compare to the feature velocity if you will, that is being completed. So what we started doing is we basically started plotting this data out in, you know, using simple Excel and we started looking at basically month on month what does our CLT look like and essentially, you know, how does that compare to the features and is there any correlation between the two and, you know, what are the trends looking like. Unfortunately, like you can see from the graph, there is no, at least we couldn't see a direct pattern. One of the thought process was basically as the feature count increases, CLT will also increase was kind of one of the assessment we are at least hypothesis that we had. But the data did not 100% concur to that and we had a lot of things that were not matching that. So we wanted to get a little bit more deeper and try and understand what is going on. So if we quickly move to the next slide. What we what we try to do is two things here one is we basically took for each month we instead of just looking at the CLT as a whole number we started breaking it down into what are the various components that contribute to that CLT right like basically the time the waiting time the SIT time etc right started breaking those and we wanted to see if there was any correlation between them. The other thing also we try to do is instead of looking at it as an absolute number we basically started looking at it from a percentage point of view so relatively we wanted to see if certain phase is actually leading to a larger contribution and what we quickly realized is when you're trying to do these month on month analysis, especially for something like this where your CLT itself is much longer than than any given month you will have the carry over effects and you will have other kinds of things where something would have a delayed effect showing at a later point in time and vice versa. And so you can't really come up with any clear conclusions basis this and so we decided that this month on month view of looking at data is actually not a very is not a right way to do this. And so if we move to the next slide we kind of then pivoted a little bit to instead of now you'll see here in the bottom. These are basically feature IDs so we are looking at for a given feature. What are all the basic contributors to see empty and essentially what is the, you know, like, and then we started laying over like a couple of, you know, influences that we thought for example feature size. Right, or things like bundle size. And what we did see in some cases the orange is the basically SIT. You know, the time it takes in testing right in SIT, or the yellow one that you will see is actually the time it takes for testing in replica environment or you know staging environment. What you could see is in a few cases at least the, if the size of the feature was big, then essentially the time, the testing time, either the SIT time or the replica time put together that was was a big number, but that was a big portion of the So that this sounded very promising to us we said okay this is great right and what we tried to do is we said hey but we also know that just feature size is not the only contributor. There are other contributors so let's start overlaying all those contributors on to this and see if we can easily find some patterns right and hooray you know then we have the answer. Unfortunately when we started doing that things where things became very fuzzy things were no longer as simplistic as saying okay if the feature size is big then the testing time is more. And as experts you can obviously you know relate to that and say yes this makes sense so our data is in fact, you know adhering to our mental model of things, but as you started playing more data, more influences. Those correlations didn't really hold up right and it started becoming too complicated for us to, you know, drive this, and this is the point where I think, again, Sri Ram me and Rakesh said, well, you know, we have outlived the what we could do with Excel and at this point we need to turn to a little bit more statistical tools like R or things like that and again I'll kind of quickly pass it back to Sri Ram to, you know, narrate the story from here what happened. Yeah, thank you. So the next iteration, you know, we started with with statistical analysis so we basically had relatively speaking good quality data for these three variables right we did not they we did not directly have feature size in points or whatever, but we had a proxy metric for that, and then we had a bug count and we had bundle size. So we said like, you know, CLT is a function of these three variables, let's let's do analysis and see how it holds up right. So we split the data into three portfolios because like I said, it's a large scale setup and they were different lines of businesses so here every portfolio corresponds to one line of business. So when we split it up, then you know, in out of in two out of three portfolios, we found that the regression result could explain about 60% of the variation in CLT, which in other words, the adjusted R square was about 0.6. And that's, you know, that's not great, but that's not disappointing either, right, it just means that there are still some more some more variables that influence CLT and so we need that for our next iteration. We want we want to have data on the actual development days and test days. And for that, we are we are in talks with their with the team that manages their processes and tools to introduce to use the capacity management module in Azure DevOps, and also maybe do some lightweight time logging of the actual time it took on on different features, right. I know that's not great but here is the sort of ideally we want to minimize manual data entry, right, but but on the other hand if you want to have sustained budget for your transformation efforts, then at some point you're going to have to show the show the demonstrate results. And if you want to demonstrate results in a, you know, in a somewhat rigorous manner, then you have to do all this and for this you need the data and where will the data come from. Sometimes you can just through through the actions of people, the data is generatable but other times you have to ask for a little bit of data entry discipline, right. So that's what, you know, we are going to do as the next iteration but even so far in whatever we have done so far. Then we've faced quite a few challenges in a lessons learned in the areas of data extraction data availability and data quality. And jointly, you know, I've been thinking and writing about this topic in other contexts as well. So, jointly all these challenges, they're all in some ways they're all measurement challenges the ability to, you know, measure things, and they contribute to measurement debt, which is similar to technical debt or tech debt if you've heard of it, right. So, you know, the tech debt slows things down, right, and it basically reduces the rate of change, and it makes code less maintainable, and so on it has all those negative effects, right. Similarly measurement debt has negative effects measurement that means you can't measure the result of what you're doing, and therefore you can't learn from it, right. But, but it is very common as this is probably even more common than tech debt in most organizations. And so to, if I want to define it a little bit formally, I would say that no organization takes on measurement debt. When it implements initiatives, any kind of initiative change initiative or you know, a new product or a new set of features for a product whatever it is. It's an investment, it represents an investment. So they're investing in the initiative, but they are not investing in the measurement infrastructure that is required, in order to validate the benefits to be delivered, you know, that will be delivered by those initiatives, right. So, if this happens, then you're taking on measurement debt. In our case, in our case, you know, what is the initiative that we're talking about, it's basically the, I'll maybe give you a second to think about this, right. We're talking about like if you invest in some kind of initiative, whether it's a technology initiative, or in this context, it's a transformation initiative, right, you're still investing in it. You may be hiring some coaches, I know, maybe you're, you know, investing in some tooling and so on, they represent investments. So investing in a transformation initiative, but if you don't have the corresponding measurement infrastructure to validate, if it is making a difference, then you're basically shooting blind. And that is the state in, in many organizations, a transformation is a article of faith. We say, oh, we are doing stand-ups, we are doing CICD, we are doing this, right, but we don't know if it's really making a difference. And so it's because we don't have the rigorous measurement practices in place. So measurement debt breaks these loops, right, earlier we talked about the intervene, measure, learn loop. And if that loop is active, it will be great, it will accelerate learning, it will give you, you know, hopefully your transformation will be more fruitful. But if you have measurement debt, you can't measure things, so it kind of breaks this loop. And so you're basically doing one thing after the other in the hope that it is going to make a difference, right, without any means to verify it. So now, you know, that was the little bit of, you know, reflecting on the whole process. Now I want to talk about the specific challenges. Data extraction is something that narration, Rakesh spent a lot of time in and without that effort, none of this would have been possible. But they are most closely familiar with this. So I'll again request an address to talk about this. Cool. I mean, data extraction sounds awesome. You know, with the data extraction comes its own set of challenges, right, the very first one that one can imagine if you're trying to pull all this kind of like lots of these different kinds of data. Unfortunately, most tools don't give you one ready query or API that you can just call and get all of this data. You'd have to be making in our case we were making I think now we are up to about, you know, 10,000, you know, we were about 10,000. Now I think we're close to 100,000 API calls we are making and trying to stitch this data together. And it's not as simple as just stitching the data together. If you click on the next thing, we also in many cases have to perform complex data transformation steps to then aggregate this data and reshape the data to be able to present that. And once we have that, you know, you might think okay you've got it but you know only to realize that you have a very low signal to noise ratio and you need to discard a lot of data and only pick a few important parameters out of the GBs of data that you pull through these API calls. And if you go next, yeah, one of the other challenges that we ran in is that across projects, because no one was originally analyzing this data from this lens, different teams ended up doing things differently, both in terms of their workflows in terms of custom fields that they were using and so forth. And so we had to really dig in and pull out this data and then have a layer of logic on top of it to interpret this data, you know, specific to each project so a lot of you can imagine configuration, sitting saying, you know, for this team what data to be considered as end of, you know, deployment to a certain stage or so forth. And one other thing as this was happening is because I think Sri Ram also explained that you start, you know, influencing how this data is you start introducing certain invention so that intervention so that data itself keeps evolving. And now you have to have custom logic in your extraction, which has to be sensitive to what time period that this data belong to and appropriately massage the data so that you can then make sense out of it. So, again, there were lots of other things but I think these were the few things that top of my mind that I think we had to do deal with in terms of, you know, improving the ability to itself extract the data and get it in the form where we could do analysis on top of it. Thank you, Sri Ram. Thanks. Thanks, Narish. Then moving on to data availability, right, again, like people do capacity planning and you know, from capacity planning you can figure out what is the expected number of developer days and or tester days to be spent on a feature. But that might be different from the actual number of days spent, right, so that is where you know, you'll have to come up with some additional mechanisms to obtain that kind of data. The other one is time spent in various queues we talked about this right most workflows don't model for wait times. And therefore, few if you want to start getting this data then you have to introduce those waiting states into those workflows. And in teams where people multi task on features there, you know, it's it's hard to plan and it's harder to understand what really happened actually right. So that's where a bit of time logging might help like if you see in this table we are saying on on on day number six developers spend 0.5 days on on, you know, on a task or maybe two developers spent a quarter day each on that particular. Story right whatever it is, but you know you might need some of those data collection of that nature to to to get to enough enough data that you can start making interpreting it meaningfully with statistics. There are also quality challenges, where for example, some of the things we were reliant on, when did this state change, right, like if you're calculating CLT, like you know, the start of CLT is dev complete to go live. And there are some other states in between so sometimes we found that the state change dates are missing. And how are they missing? How can they miss? If you have a workflow, then you should not be missing those state change dates, right? Then we realize there is an anti pattern that they are not using the dates based on the state transitions. Instead, they have a whole bunch of custom date fields, which people have to populate. And if they forget to populate or they omit to populate, then we will have this kind of problems. In other cases, we found like bugs are not closed after fixing, or in some cases we were initially puzzled by this that we found that for some bugs, the close date is earlier than the creation date. And then we realize it's because people are cloning the bugs in when they create a new bug report, they are cloning the earlier bug report, earlier bug, and just changing the description. Now, if you clone it like that, and if you are using custom fields for your dates, then the close date also gets cloned, right? And therefore, now the creation date of the new bug is later than the close date. So all these kinds of things we slowly, we had to figure out why when we were doing these kind of things. And this is something that I already referred to that in some cases you need to have some kind of data entry discipline, even though yes, as you know, we've all been, at least narration, I have been developers in the past and we know that developers don't like to do any kind of manual data entry. But that is where if you explain the context and say, you know, in order to continue these efforts, we need budget. In order to get budget, we have to make the case that this is actually resulting in a benefit, right? Otherwise, if you don't have the budget for all these things, then basically, you know, the delivery pressures are still going to be there. And we will just have to, you know, soak up all that pressure and we will not be able to invest in all these interventions, right? So if you explain it like that, it's part of a change management process. Then I think you can get more buying for the data entry discipline. So in a way, it's not necessarily a bad thing. You can look at it as an additional benefit that along the way you are improving data quality and the way work is getting tracked, right? So instead of this is the textbook loop where you just say intervene, measure, learn. But in practice, what we do is we try to measure, then we find that a whole set of challenges. So we either improve the processes or the tooling in order to improve the data quality and then we are now in a position to measure. We learn from that and design our next set of interventions and, you know, that becomes the transformation loop in practice. That's pretty much what we wanted to cover to quickly, you know, summarize our key points in conclusion. Measurement is necessary without measurement, transformation efforts might lose credibility, right? You might get investments for a year or two and after that you might not get any further investments. And, you know, even otherwise measurement is essentially in order to execute if you want to do data-informed transformation loops, intervene, measure, learn kind of loops. But even with measurements in place, it's not straightforward. It's not like A, then B kind of inference, right? So it's not straightforward to demonstrate the impact of our interventions and that is where statistical methods can help. And with the right statistical methods, we can answer what factors are most influential to the metrics that matter. Then we can choose to focus on the interventions that improve those set of factors, right? And if you have sufficient data, this does not have to be done just at a complete organization level. If you have enough data, you can do it on a per team basis or at least on a per portfolio or per line of business basis, right? And when you do this, when we do all of this, you will usually uncover gaps in data quality and availability. And these gaps may be addressed through a continuous improvement of the processes, the workflows and the tooling. That brings us to the end of everything that we wanted to share with you on this topic. Welcome your comments and questions. Cool. Two minutes before time. That's pretty good. I've been trying to address questions along the way, so I have typed out a bunch of questions and responded already. If there are any other questions, happy to take, but I hopefully have answered most of the questions along the way through chat. If there's anything else, let us know. I think there's some confusion around cycle time and lead time. I think I clarified that. I see Pradeep saying that he likes the last chart where we're trying to say, we're saying trying to measure, you know, other than that. I think we've addressed most of these things. Yeah, our objective again, one of the questions was, you know, are we going to share specific insights in terms of the interventions that we did. The objective was not to specifically talk about, you know, this particular team's intervention we did, because that's going to be different for different teams and different organizations. Our objective here was a bit more meta level in some sense and trying to talk about the approach that you might want to take in this context. I see one question is popped in. Tom, thanks for asking the question. Tom is actually the guy who invented software metrics, so it's great to have him here. And I think again, Tom is saying, what about other critical measures like security and usability? Sriram, you want to take a stab at this? What about other measures like security and usability? Well, I guess you could use the same process, right? Like, what is your measure of, at a top level, for example, right? What is the measure of security, right? Somebody might say, you know, based on number of incidents, right, and you might have some sort of weighted score for your incidents, right? And you come up with a, use some kind of weighting logic and say, okay, in the last quarter, our security score was this much, right? So you have a measure at the top and then you try to figure out the contributing factors. What are the, you know, like build a contribution tree like we did for security, right? And figure out what are the low level interventions that ultimately kind of bubble up and make a difference at the top, right? And so basically you can, I think the same kind of method can be applied for other. We just need to figure out what is the metric that matters and how it breaks down into a contribution tree. And we need to have the data to do the regression analysis. Yeah, also, I don't think we are saying that, you know, these things can be, you know, just bolted on at the end. Of course, our objective is to try and build this in, into the whole thought process and improve it. But given you are starting with an organization at a certain point in time, what are the kinds of interventions that you would want to introduce so that eventually these things, let it be security, let it be usability, other critical aspects that influence the product itself is actually baked in, it's weaved in or built in to what people are doing. You know, it could be right from, I think, Tom, you've talked a lot about just improving the quality of, verifying the quality of the requirement itself, right? Is the requirement itself of good quality or not? And so, you know, certainly some of those thought process can be built in, you know, but where do you start with and where do you try to move the needle is, I guess, how we were approaching this saying, you know, how do you build, identify the metric, then build the contribution tree, and then slowly introduce the interventions and keep measuring whether what you're doing is helping you move in the right direction or not. Because all of these things are not going to be overnight change in any organization they will, you know, and every, every intervention will also have side effects. And if we are not measuring holistically, you may be driving off the cliff saying you're going really fast, right, but you might be just driving off the cliff or in the wrong direction. So I think the point here is that how do you establish this kind of a thought process where you can use this continuous learning that comes from measuring the data and being data informed, at least if not data driven. Yes. I hope that answers your question, Tom. I know we're out of time, but we happy to pop into the hangout area and, you know, happy to answer more questions and maybe even show some of the other stuff that we've been doing, if anyone's interested.
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